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Hollow Woods Update!

Game Master Bee here! I'm the Design Director for Star Stable and I am reaching out today with some information regarding our Hollow Woods balancing update last Friday!

We are thrilled so many of you have enjoyed the Hollow Woods experience so far! We did however notice that some gameplay was being ignored in favor of other gameplay! Wisps and Glyph Puzzles were being ignored for the much more lucrative Runecarving! We are happy you loved the Runecarving but we want the other options to feel rewarding too!

For this, we increased the rewards for Wisps and dramatically increased the rewards for Glyph Puzzles! We also reduced the cost to unlock the first few upgrades, and made it cheaper to unlock Wisps and Runecarving gameplay!

Our original goal was to give players some long term goals that they could spend the next few weeks working on. We were really surprised to see that the initial costs of our upgrades were so low that so many of you could finish the whole thing in just a few days! To accommodate the increased rewards for Glyphs and Wisps, we decided to increased the prices according to collection rates.

We are continuing to listen to feedback and may be making further balancing changes over the coming weeks!

Runecarving got a fix to reduce exploitation, but in doing so we accidentally overtuned the fix so now it's REALLY hard to find them! We will be making an update soon to increased the spawn rate on Runecarving. Thank you all for the ongoing feedback, and for playing Hollow Woods! ^_^

Game Master Bee 

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