Anniversary Update Now Live!

We are extremely excited to announce that our Anniversary Update is now live! We are also running a Special Promotion of 50% Off until Nov 6th to celebrate the anniversary and the update. We want to thank all of our beta testers for helping us out. We hope everyone enjoys the update!

New Trailer

WHAT’S IN THE UPDATE

New Achievements

REPLACED INSIDE CABIN MENU WITH 3D ENVIRONMENT

Environment and Shopping

New Items to Buy

You can now buy a Snorkel to allow you to stay underwater for 2 minutes at a time. Also purchase a Fast Travel Map to allow you to Fast Travel back to you home base at any time from anywhere.

NEW TROPHY ROOM

You now have a trophy room. It has a whiteboard with an overview off all your task completions. It has a display for your Golden Morels. You can change the photos on the walls to any of your photos you’ve taken.

There have been many collectables added to the game that are displayed in this room as well.

Now earn golden mushrooms for the other mushrooms you collect. These are displayed here as well.

UPDATED CAMERA

Animal Outline

When in camera mode, the animals will now have an outline when they are in focus. Green means they have not been photographed that day and gray means they have already been photographed. This only applies during daytime hours. We found it a bit too easy if this was also applied during the night.

Quick Capture

We have added the option to quick capture with the camera. No longer do you have to wait until you look at the photo to take a new picture. You can now quickly take many pictures in a row. This should make the whole experience of photographing animals a bit easier. This will be the default method. You can still toggle to look at the photo on.

Moved Photographed Text

We moved the text letting you know what animal you photographed to the bottom right and changed its look a little bit. This way you will still be able to take photos quickly without anything in your view.

UPDATED PICKUP

Crosshairs Pickup

We have updated the Crosshairs Pickup Method and made it the default pickup method. There should no longer be any issues of not people able to pickup a mushroom. With this method, you will no longer have to look straight down all the time. This should make the experience much more relaxing and enjoyable. You can switch back to the old pickup method with the green circle guide by turning off Crosshairs Pickup Method in Gameplay under Settings.

SWIMMABLE WATER AND FISH

Swim in Water

You can now swim in water. Press the crouch button to dive down and then just look in the direction you want to swim. Toggle crouch again and look up at the surface to swim back up.

Photograph the Fish

You can photograph and get points for the fish.

Objects and Insects

You can now get points for photographing some objects and insects.

MUSHROOMS

New Blewit Mushrooms

We have added a new mushroom to hunt. Blewit Mushrooms.

You now can collect all mushrooms, including poisonous mushroom right from the beginning of the game.

MUSHROOM MARKERS

Now choose from several colors of mushroom markers.

MAP UPDATES

Every location in the game has been updated

All maps have been updated with new lighting, some new or updated meshes, dust particle effects, collectables, and more.

STACKABLE INVENTORY

You inventory is now stackable.

OTHER NOTABLE UPDATES

– Added 6 new songs to the Acoustic playlist. Found in the game menu under In Game Music.
– Optimized the game. It was very CPU bound before. We have spent some time optimizing the animals and other things to fix help this.
– New, simpler tutorial
– You can now toggle Crouch on or off. No longer do you need to hold it down.
– You can now skip Intro Montages by pressing Enter on the keyboard.
– Updated Minimap Images to be more simple and help save on memory.
– Made Ticks less frequent.
– Fixed numerous bugs.
– Several other small features or fixes.

The new map and new animals did not make it into this update. They will be saved for a future update along with and updated UI and some other new features.

We just want to thank everyone for their support and for the positive reviews. We hope enjoys the new update. Happy Hunting!

-The Abrams Studios Team

Morels Spring Update is Live. 50% OFF SPECIAL PROMOTION!

Our Big Spring Update is live! We are also running a Special Promotion of 50% Off to celebrate the update until March 31st at 10am PST. A discount this big just a few months after launching was not really in our plans. With more people home and having less money from the far reaching effects of COVID-19, we felt this was the right thing to do.

Let’s go over the update. Most of it was already listed in our last post about the update coming soon.

NEW ANIMALS:

We have added several new animals like barn owls, sparrows, snapping turtles, and longhorn cattle. We have also added a new mystery animal for the Redwoods map.

YOUR SEASON AFTER 100 DAYS:

When you finish your season it will bring you back to the main cabin screen. It will then reward you with a bag that allows you to start collecting poisonous mushrooms.

You will also now be able to view stats for any completed season and your career stats. Your game will have unlimited seasons and each season will keep adding to your career totals.

Anything you purchased, points, and your hunter’s manual all get carried over to the next season as well.

MUSHROOM MARKERS:

You can now pickup your markers and they will go back into your inventory.

DIFFICULTY SETTING:

We’ve added a difficulty setting. On Easy there will not be any ticks or poison ivy.

EXPLORATION MODE:

We’ve enabled Exploration Mode from the start of the game. You no longer have to finish a season to try it out. So if you were wanting to try it out but haven’t finished a full season yet you will now be able to. In this mode there are no seasons. You will get 25,000 points to start with, unlock all maps from the very beginning, and allow you to have some fun playing as animals. This mode is for fun and anything you do will not count towards records, unlocking or achievements.

OTHER UPDATES AND FIXES:

– We added a message in the shop that shows if you have already purchased an item.

– There is a message that pops up when you click on Delete Game that asks you to confirm that you want to delete your game instead of just deleting it.

– Fixed the Hunter Level Achievement Bug if you were picking up with the New Look at Method.

– We added an extra check for achievements completed whenever you are at the main cabin menu.

– We are still working on a fix for the dead animal or wrong animal detected bug. Since we still have not been able to reproduce this bug on our end we won’t know for sure if we have fixed it or not. We did some things that should help. If this happens to anyone else and you you are able to reproduce it please let us know how you were able to do it.

We want to thank everyone who has taken the time to play Morels. It really means a lot to us. We will continue to try and make Morels the best game that we can. If you ever have issues or problems with anything don’t hesitate to contact us. You can email your support questions to support@abramsstudios.com. You can also contact us through our website’s contact form. http://www.abramsstudios.com/contact/.

Thank you, Enjoy the Update, and Happy Hunting!