Fields of Mistria 1.0 changes: What's new in the full release version?

After exactly two years in early access, shoujo-ified farm sim Fields of Mistria 1.0 is launching. Whether you've been playing consistently all this time or coming back after trying it two years ago, here's what you need to know about what's changing in the full release version of Mistria.

Fields of Mistria 1.0 highlights

Town story complete

Rest your weary hands from all those donation box deliveries. Mistria will finally be fulyl repaired and upgraded after its earthquake thanks to your tireless material gathering.

10 heart events

Mistria launched with just four unlockable friendship hearts per character, adding eight over early access. In the full release, you can unlock a 10 heart cutscene with datable characters.

Marriage & children

Finally, you'll be able to move on from dating your beaus to choosing just one to marry and have children with. Seeing your partner carry your baby around is, frankly, adorable.

New Saturday merchants

Two new merchants join the weekly Saturday Market lineup: Stillwell and Zorel.

Achievements system

Mistria is also getting an achievements system which will reward you retroactively.

Should you start a new save for 1.0?

You don't need to start a new save file for the 1.0 launch and personally I didn't. The biggest changes coming in the launch version of the game are mostly ones being added on to extend the story, so it shouldn't feel weird to play through even if you're in year three or four. I've come back to play Mistria a couple times after its early access updates and story content that's been added has always felt like a pretty natural flow from where I left off.

You also won't need a new save file to get any of the new achievements added to the game. They'll all be earned retroactively based on what you've done in your save so far.

What if you haven't played since the early access launch?

There have been several major updates over the past two years. If you stopped playing early on and are just coming back, here are some features you might not immediately realize were added:

• Shooting Star Festival on Summer 28 that you can invite a date to attend
• Harvest Festival in fall and Animal Festival in winter
• Riding mounts after upgrading Hayden's barn
• You can buy an expansion for your farm property from the carpenter's shop (and home size upgrades too)
• Greenhouses are available, but only after reaching renown level 70
• Apiaries for farming honey are now craftable
• After upgrading the general store you can buy a seed maker to turn crops (or forage) into their seed versions
• Hayden sells an auto-feeder for your barns and coops after you reach ranching level 45

Full 1.0 change list

Via the Fields of Mistria official blog.

[Highlights]

• The Town Repair Questline can now be completed!
• The Town Renown Cap has been raised to 100.
• The Mistril Town Rank Event has been added to the game.
• NPC Heart Level Cap has been raised to 10.
• 10 Heart (Proposal) Events have been added to the game.
• Wedding Events & Marriage have been added to the game.
• Children have been added to the game.
• The “Saturday Market Plaza” Quest has been added to the game.
• The “Repair the Bell Tower” Quest has been added to the game.
• Stillwell & Zorel join the Saturday Market.
• The Museum can now be completed.
• Steam Achievements have been added.
  • Note: Achievements will be retroactively received after loading an existing save, and will populate based on that save data. If you would prefer to start fresh without receiving retroactive achievements, all you will need to do is start a new save file.
• Beta localizations for 7 languages have been added to the game:
  • Chinese (Simplified)
  • Chinese (Traditional)
  • French
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Russian
  • Spanish 

🎮 Gameplay

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• Unlocking Stillwell will allow you to access Mission Quests from his Mission Board at the Saturday Market.
• Unlocking Zorel will allow you to purchase Crystal Resonators and Song Crystals at the Saturday Market. This feature allows customization of the music that plays on your farm and in the rooms of your home.
• The exterior of your house can now be customized from a selection of styles after it’s been fully upgraded.
  • Note: You will receive a letter from Landen after fully upgrading your house, which will unlock this feature in the Carpenter’s Shop.
• 7 new perks have been added to the game, including:
  • Cooking:
    • Espresso Yourself
  • Ranching:
    • Playtime
    • Eggstra
    • Close Bond II
    • True Trust
  • Woodcrafting:
    • Hammer Timing IV
    • Deliberate Debris II
• The “Engagement Ring” item will now become craftable at a Forge after reaching 10 Hearts with an NPC you’re dating. 
  • Note: Elsie will deliver the recipe to you the morning after reaching Heart Level 10. Use the recipe scroll to unlock it.
• “NPC Special Items” received from NPCs 10-Heart (Proposal) Events have been added. 
  • Note: It is possible to view all events and collect all the special items before deciding to proceed with a proposal (if desired), as 10-Heart events can be retriggered with the Engagement Ring until you choose to propose and become engaged.
• Elements of your wedding (such as flower color, cake flavor, and meal served at the reception) can be customized via wedding planning dialogue with your fiance in the days leading up to your wedding.
• The “Mystical Feather” item will now become available via a cutscene in the weeks following your marriage, allowing you to trigger an optional family planning discussion for players who wish to have a child.
• Via the Combat Perk “Friend-Shaped,” all monsters now drop Pet Skins that make your pet take on the appearance of that monster.
• The Big Chicken mount has been added to the game.
• An additional “Friday Night at the Inn” storyline has been added after finishing the Mines Storyline.
• New Requests have been added to the Request Board.
• 2 new Museum Sets and associated rewards have been added.
  • Honey Set
  • Terrarium Treasures Set
• You can now interact with NPCs you are dating, engaged to, or married to, to kiss them.
• Taking an NPC on a date will now increase their heart level more.
• Town Rank Quests have been added to better guide existing progression.
• Museum Wing rooms can now be entered to view your collection.
• The order of popups when donating items to the museum has been updated such that Museum Set Complete popups now appear directly after seeing their respective donated items popup.
• Previously inaccessible cooking recipes are now available in-game.

✨ QOL

• 🌼 The player character can now be rotated in the customization menu.
• 🌼 Players can optionally disable the break-up letters and associated follow-up lines that acknowledge the change in status from “Dating” to “Best Friends” that occurs by default after getting engaged (when dating multiple NPCs).
  • Note: this setting will not disable the break-up themselves, and will become available in the gameplay settings menu via the engagement tutorial cutscene.
• 🌼 Players can optionally disable the status change from “Dating” to “Best Friends” that occurs by default post-engagement (when dating multiple NPCs).
  • Note: this setting will disable the break-ups entirely, and will become available in the gameplay settings menu via the engagement tutorial cutscene, but must be toggled prior to confirming an engagement in order to take effect.
• 🌼 Drop rates on items received from Mines treasure chests have been improved.
• 🌼Ritual Chamber and Treasure room spawn rates have been adjusted to be more common.
• 🌼 Your animals will be fed and your crops watered automatically during March’s 8-Heart Event.
• 🌼 The speak interaction now takes priority when multiple interactions overlap near NPCs.
• New Graphics settings have been added to the settings menu, including brightness & saturation sliders and options to better customize the game’s performance on your machine.
• The Birthday selection screen now has a header that says “Select Your Birthday”.

🎨 Art

• Cloud shadows now appear outside on sunny days.
• Ryis’ Hawthorn tree now has an intermediate growth stage.
• The Bathhouse water wheel now animates.
• 🌼Additional UI indicators have been added, including a directional arrow when placing furniture, an arrow icon over Mines ladders, and a talk icon over Caldarus’ Statue.
• New furniture items have been added to the game, including:
  • Monster Set
  • Ornate Set
  • Bonsai Set
  • Dragon Set
  • And more!
• New cosmetics have been added to the game, including:
  • Barrel Hat
  • Wedding Outfits
  • Beetle Mandible Horns
  • Dragonfly Wings
  • And more!

💛 NPCs

• NPC Heart Level Cap has been raised to 10.
• 10 Heart (Proposal) Events have been added. 
• Engagement dialogue has been added.
• Wedding Events have been added.
• Events related to having a child have been added.
• Post-Marriage dialogue and NPC routines have been added.
• New dialogue has been added to the game.

🔊 Sound

• A new winter song has been added.
• 4 existing seasonal songs will now swap to special extended versions after progressing through the game.
• 10 new songs have been added via Song Crystals

[Bug Fixes]

• 🌼 Substantial improvements to performance since the last update.
• 🌼 Fixed early errors on startup which prevented the game from launching on certain old PCs.
• 🌼 Reduced the game's VRAM usage by over 50%, which should help with performance on older machines.
• 🌼Players can no longer walk on water by moving diagonally into corners.
• 🌼The game no longer crashes due to the Pet being in the wrong location while their job is active.
• 🌼Players can no longer earn second place in the Harvest Festival despite turning in a winning amount of Queen berries.
• Hayden’s weathervane now correctly reappears on his barn after you return it during the Find the Weathervane quest.
• Stepping stones on the beach now play stone footstep SFX.
• Certain popups (e.g. unlocking new hairstyles) have been widened to better fit on the screen.
• Repeatedly ringing the Bell no longer raises the Ranching Skill level.
• Placeable forge animations have been restored.
• Rock Stacks can no longer get stuck in an idle animation.
• Flame Spirits no longer get stuck idle after attacking.
• 🌼The game no longer encounters a rare crash when scrolling through the museum menu rapidly.
• Shooting Star Festival-related dialogue can no longer fire past midnight on Summer 27.
• Players can no longer obtain cosmetics from the Chicken Statue for animals they haven’t unlocked yet.
• It is no longer possible to equip armor and miss unlocking its associated cosmetic.
• NPCs eat specific meals where intended during certain cutscenes instead of randomized meals.
• The camera no longer zooms rapidly when tabbing back into the game window during the End of Day pan.
• 🌼NPC sub-icons on Date Photos have been restored.
• 🌼You can no longer get stuck in certain doorways.
• The Flying Tome now appears at the appropriate depth relative to its wind attack VFX.

Lauren has been writing for PC Gamer since she went hunting for the cryptid Dark Souls fashion police in 2017. She joined the PCG staff in 2021, now serving as self-appointed chief cozy games and farmlife sim enjoyer. Her career originally began in game development and she remains fascinated by how games tick in the modding and speedrunning scenes. She likes long fantasy books, longer RPGs, can't stop playing co-op survival crafting games, and has spent a number of hours she refuses to count building houses in The Sims games for over 20 years.