Fields of Mistria

Fields of Mistria
Developer	NPC Studio
Publisher	NPC Studio
Platform	Microsoft Windows
Release date	August 5th, 2024

Fields of Mistria is a video game of the farming sim genre developed by NPC Studio and published by NPC Studio. It was released in Early Access on Steam on August 5th, 2024.

Steam Description

Start your new life! Build the farm of your dreams as you discover a world brimming with possibilities. Magic, romance, and adventure all await you in this nostalgic farming / life sim RPG!

Gameplay

Customize your character, grow crops, raise a variety of adorable animals, and even breed them to discover rare color variants. Complete over 50 museum sets through fishing, bug catching, farming, mining and archaeology! Explore the depths below Mistria (down to level 80 with more to come) with engaging combat and surprises in store.

Story

Adeline paces back and forth in her office. Eiland enters the room and brings his sister a cup of coffee. Eiland asks how her town revitalization plan is progressing. Adeline answers that she'd cataloged the earthquake's damage, listed necessary repairs, and made plans to replenish the town's emergency stockpile by the end of summer but still need help to see it through. Eiland agrees that, with their mother and father being called away to the Capital, people leaving after the earthquake, they would need to attract someone new to town. Adeline thinks that the old farm south of town. We send a notice to the adventurer's guild in the Capital surely someone out there will agree to aid the town in exchange for land with such potential.

Ari moves into Mistgrove Farm and, after crossing the bridge, they run into Balor who notes that the roads have been a mess since the earthquake and introduces himself. He asks if they are there at Lady Adeline's request, she mentioned someone had taken her up on her offer. Balor says he will walk them the rest of the way as no wagons can get through since the bridge collapsed so he's had to carry what he can on foot.

At Mistgrove Farm, the two meet Lord Eiland. Look who I found at the edge of the forest. Eiland introduces himself. Balor excuses himself for the inn. Eiland begins showing Ari around and the two enter the house, finding Adeline still cleaning. Adeline quickly rushes the two out. Adeline exits the house and introduces herself to Ari, thanking them for answering her request. Adeline then takes the two inside, welcoming Ari to her new home. Adeline gives Ari a bowl of their Vegetable Soup. The siblings say their goodbyes to Ari and plan to meet up the next day so they can start discussing their plans for the town restoration.

The following day is Spring 1st of Year 1. Upon leaving the house, Celine approaches Ari's front door and introduces herself. She gives Ari a Worn Hoe and three bags of Tulip Seeds. Hayden comes from his farm on a horse, introducing himself. Celine scolds Hayden for almost galloping into them. Hayden says he just likes meeting new people as much as Hayden and gives Ari a Worn Watering Can and three bags of Tulip Seeds. The two offer to help Ari learn about their field. Celine tells Ari to go north to meet Adeline in town.

In town, Adeline introduces Ari to the Request Board, where the villagers post their requests. Adeline says that Ari can earn Money, Equipment, and Renown. Adeline gives Ari their first request, to greet 22 townsfolk.

Credits

Andrew Duff - Co-Director, Lead Writer, Game Designer
Claire Belton - Co-Director, Creative Director, Game Designer
Gabe Weiner - Lead Producer, Programmer, Game Designer
Jonathan Spira - Lead Programmer, Game Designer
Alina Sechkin - Lead Pixel Artist & Animator, Game Designer
Hidehito Ikumo - Lead Composer
Ananth Hirsh - Senior Writer
Yuko Ota - Character Design & Environment Concept Artist
Catton Arthur - Additional Composer, Sound Designer
Edward Archibald - Narrative Designer: Dialogue & Cutscene Implementation, NPC Schedule Implementation
Emma Suen-Lewis - Pixel Artist, Data Analyst
Dina Zatzman - Producer, Internal QA, Localization Coordination
Joel Nobles - Programmer
Sarah Podzorski - Social Media & Marketing Manager
Catherine West - Systems Programmer
Kerrie Lake - Pixel Artist

Versions

"Fields of Mistria is currently planned to be in EA for roughly one year with regular content updates planned along the way. We plan for the full version of the game to have complete features, systems, and storylines."

Version	Date	Patch Notes
0.13.3	April 14, 2025	New furniture items have been added to the Tabletop Clutter set. These items and recipes can be purchased at Merri’s stall. Additional animal cosmetics have been added to Nora’s Animal Festival booth. 🌼Saturday Market vendors have been updated to always stock recipes. This ensures that the vendors’ recipe inventories are only empty when they have no recipes left to sell. 🌼There is now a toggle option in the Gameplay Settings to disable the Oversleep Penalty after passing out or fainting in the Mines. [New Features] 🎮 Gameplay There is now a Year 2+ variant of the Spring Festival intro scene (Spring 14). 🎨 Art The Pet Dish furniture item has been added to the game. It can be purchased at Hayden’s Shop. Note: The Pet Dish is just decorative and not necessary for pet care. The Fire Sage outfit can now be found in Lava Caves treasure chests. New items have been added to the Lovely Cottage furniture set: Potted Flowers and Iceboxes. Note: Players who have already unlocked the Lovely Cottage furniture set will have these recipes unlocked upon updating the game. 💛 NPCs Additional NPC dialogue has been added. After unlocking Caldarus, the player will receive a birthday letter from him. 🔊 Sound Sound effects have been added for the Purple Mushroom’s goo attack and the Enchantern’s defeat in the Mines. Improved lava rock platform creation sound effects. Improved Water Sprite activation sound effects. [Updates] 🎮 Gameplay Items now magnetize toward the player while the player is in the yawn animation. Renown Rewards for levels 71-90 have been updated. Note: Players who have already achieved these levels will have the new rewards available to pick up in the Renown chest upon updating their game. ✨ QOL 🌼The Crown Request: “Baked Dishes” text has been updated to specify that Baked Main Dishes are required to complete the quest. Additionally, the quest icon has been updated to a Baked Potato, which is a valid item for the quest. The Renown Rewards Chest’s icon is now visible from further away if there are rewards inside of it. 🌼Extra items dropped after cooking at the inn can no longer drop out of reach of the player. 🎨 Art Updated Counter furniture items placement, allowing them to be flush with the north wall of the player’s home. 💛 NPCs Celine and Dozy’s Loves have been changed. Potential Spoilers: For Celine, Spring Galette has been replaced with Temple Flower. For Dozy, Monster Cookie has been replaced by Dog Treat. 🔊 Sound Sound effects in some event cutscenes have been adjusted. Improved monster defeat sounds. Improved wood footstep sound effect. The Beach Cave now has ambience sounds. 🖥️ UI 🌼An “Other” category has been added to the Sets page of the Crafting menu to display all craftable items that are not part of a specific Set. Tool and Place glyphs (ex: [E] Place) now only appear in valid locations where the action can occur. Ex: The planting glyph will only appear when holding a seed near tilled soil. [Bug Fixes] 🎮 Gameplay 🌼Taking damage while catching an insect no longer causes the player to lose the insect. 🌼The player can no longer get stuck inside the General Store if the Upgrade General Store scene is skipped midway through. 🌼Animals can no longer spawn out of bounds on the expanded eastern farm plot. 🌼Pets will no longer work on rainy days if the player loads into the middle of a rainy day. 🌼Barns and Coops no longer have a rare chance of spawning without the Storage Chest. Note: For players who currently don’t have a chest in their Farm Buildings, destroying and rebuilding the building will fix the issue. 🌼Saving and loading back into the same file no longer causes the Request Board requests to refresh. ✨ QOL Extra Legendary fish have been removed from players’ inventories. Note: If the player hasn’t donated the Legendary fish to the Museum, they will not be removed. 🌼Floating items will no longer disappear when the game updates. 🌼Hay no longer shows up in the Mill crafting menu. It now only appears where it is supposed to appear (the Stone Refinery crafting menu). 🌼Buying 1000+ items from a store no longer causes the items to disappear and/or become stuck permanently floating on the ground. 🎨 Art & Visuals Players no longer hold up their held item during the “I overslept…” cutscene. 🌼Olric’s Aldarian name on the Elsie Gossip cards is now correct. The fainting sequence at 2 am no longer causes the player to sometimes disappear. Stalagmites in lava pools on Lava Caves Mines levels will no longer have lava rock platforms form on top of them when using the Summon Rain Spell. The player’s sleep animation now consistently plays before dream cutscenes. 🌼The Animal Sprite Statue no longer activates during the End of Day sequence when the camera pans inside a barn/coop. 🌼Pets can no longer appear on seesaws while also being in the player’s hands. 💛 NPCs Caldarus’ heart level now increases at the start of the Fire Seal quest as intended. 🔊 Sound Walking over Blue Sapling’s sap puddles now plays the correct sound effect. Fire pillar sound effects now play from the correct locations. An issue where water sound effects from the beach can layer with phase interference has been fixed. 🖥️ UI The regular-sized tile indicator no longer appears momentarily when planting saplings. 🌼The Main Menu buttons no longer disappear if the player skips watching the Credits. ❌ Crash Fixes 🌼Bringing your Pet to the Summit for the Shooting Star Festival no longer crashes the game. Switching your pet’s Job while holding them and then setting them down no longer crashes the game. Water Sprite Statues activating when they’ve been placed off the expected grid location no longer crashes the game
	March 10, 2025	❤️ Villagers & Romance Caldarus appears! New Elsie gossip (gift hint) mechanic Additional NPC dialogue & schedules ⛏️ Mines & Dungeon Fire Seal Quest unlocks Next Mines Biome unlocks New Spell unlocks New Mines Monsters ⭐ Renown & Town Deep Woods area unlocks Renown level cap raised by 20 levels Additional requests added to the Request Board Additional Museum sets and rewards New Town Repair quest New Festival ⚒️ Skills & Perks Additional Tier 4 Perks 👒 Customization & Cosmetics Farmland expansion added New Furniture and Decor New player and animal Cosmetics 🎀 Misc. Pets “Sprinkler” mechanic “Auto-petter” mechanic In-game time adjustment options Performance optimization … And more!
0.12.4	November 26, 2024	🌼 Deactivated perks can no longer occasionally re-activate. 🌼 The Special Flower Crown can now be obtained as a 1st place Spring Festival prize as intended. (Note: This bug only applies to players who won 1st place after the v.0.12.0 update. The Spring Flower Crown has now been unlocked for those players.) For players who completed the “Restocking Mistria's Food Reserves 2” quest after the v0.12.0 update, the inn now stocks the Twice-Baked Rations food item as intended.
0.12.3	November 22, 2024	Gameplay The starter home’s lower walls now have proper collisions. The Shooting Star Festival furniture recipes are now correctly unlocked (prev. one of the Shooting Star cushions was locked incorrectly). 🎨 Art & Visuals Fixed the placement of Plum Blossoms on the Plum tree. ❌ Crash Fixes Passing out without a bed no longer crashes the game.
0.12.2	November 18, 2024	New Facial Hair cosmetics have been added as well as one additional Hairstyle sold at Vera’s stall. 🌼 Town buildings, bushes, walls, and other assets now display correctly in Winter. 🌼 The player can no longer clip through furniture items placed near the edges of their home’s main room. 🌼 The Big Bell has been moved from the Miscellaneous section to the Functional section of the woodcrafting menu. [Updates] ✨ QOL 🌼 Crown Request text has been updated to specify that in order to complete the request and obtain the rewards, you must talk to Adeline. The [Cancel] and [Buy] buttons in the Home Upgrade purchase menu have been swapped to match the button orientation of other menus. 🎨 Art 🌼 The Tier 6 Fall Chicken’s appearance has been updated, as well as the Chicken Pearl Necklace cosmetic. [Bug Fixes] 🎮 Gameplay 🌼 Legendary fish can no longer be caught more than once. 🌼 Fulfilling the first requirement of a multiple requirement Crown Request no longer completes it. 🌼 Spring Festival stalls no longer disappear when exiting and reentering town. 🌼 Alpaca Wool is now an acceptable shippable item to fulfill the Animal Materials Crown Request. 🌼 Players with saves past year 1 created before the Shooting Star Festival was implemented (v0.12.0) will now receive the Shooting Star Festival furniture recipes via a letter from Josephine on the morning of the Shooting Star Festival. The Tier 4 Farming Perk “Ornamental” is now working as intended for forageables. Manually saving and then viewing the Shooting Star stargazing cutscene no longer causes the player to wake up next to their Journal. Fixed an issue caused by selecting certain integrated graphics cards resulting in a regression in performance for some players. 🎨 Art & Visuals 🌼 The Paisley Bandana no longer disappears when swimming in certain directions. 🌼 The player no longer clips below Reina’s nightstand. Fixed capitalization issues in certain letters. 💛 NPCs 🌼 Balor and Elsie no longer have a conversation while in separate areas. 🔊 Sound Music in the Mines Entry room no longer stops and restarts at 8pm. ❌ Crash Fixes 🌼 Applying wallpaper no longer crashes the game. 🌼 The Unusual Tree Part 1 scene on Spring 2 no longer crashes the game. Riding the Mistmare no longer occasionally crashes the game. 🌼 Players experiencing a rare crash when starting a game on a new day will now be able to progress.
0.12.0	November 18, 2024	Villagers & Romance: NPC heart progression cap raised from 4 to 6 hearts. 6 Heart events for dateable NPCs. Additional NPC dialogue. Mines & Dungeon: New enemies added. New cosmetic drops from monsters. Town & Renown: Renown level cap raised by 20 levels. Additional renown rewards. Additional board requests. Additional museum content and rewards. A new festival. Skills & Perks: Skill caps raised from lvl 30 to lvl 45. Additional skill perks. Customization & Cosmetics: Additional home upgrades. Additional player and animal cosmetics. Additional furniture and decor.
0.11.7	September 11, 2024	Fields of Mistria patch 0.11.7 fixes some crashes and bugs introduced with the 0.11.6 patch. Thank you to everyone who submitted bug reports to help bring these issues to our attention so we could resolve them quickly. To report a bug, please fill out our form here. v0.11.7 Patch Notes: [Bug Fixes] ❌ Crash Fixes Exiting the Barn or the Coop when an animal is out of bounds no longer occasionally crashes the game. Mild Spoilers: Breaking the Seals in the mines and viewing the cutscene no longer causes the game to crash. Skipping “The Unusual Tree” cutscene no longer causes the camera to get stuck.
0.11.6	September 10, 2024	Fields of Mistria’s v0.11.6 Patch is here! This patch features some QOL updates requested by the community, along with additional crash and bug fixes. As always, Thank you to everyone who’s reported bugs to us. To report a bug, please fill out our form here. Patch notes will feature a 🌼 emoji whenever the change is based on community feedback! v0.11.6 Patch Notes: [Highlights] 🌼 He/She, She/He, They/He, They/She, and It/Its pronoun options have been added. 🌼 Additional hair colors have been added, including white and pastel color options. 🌼 Players can now hold-click to quickly add multiple items (such as seeds) to the cart in shopping menus. 🌼 Players can now hold-click to quickly increase or decrease the number of items to craft in crafting menus. [New Features] Additional eye colors have been added. The following recipes can now be obtained: Quiche, Vegetable Quiche, Pan-Fried Bream, Rosemary Garlic Noodles, Chocolate Cake, Pomegranate Juice, Iced Coffee, and Jasmine Tea. Mild Spoiler: The Mines Wooden Arch decor item and recipe can now be found in the Upper Mines treasure chests (if the perk Reclaimer has been acquired). [Updates] ✨ QOL A Robes and Coats subcategory has been added to the Tops/Body Character Customization UI section. Color swatches have been added to the eye color selection in the Character Customization UI. Mild Spoilers: The Capybara Leaf and Bowler Hat cosmetics are now only available at the Chicken Statue (Prev. available at Hayden’s Shop). Various typo and line fixes. 🎨 Art 🌼 Various armor boot cosmetic animations have been updated. [Bug Fixes] 🎮 Gameplay Unclaimed Renown Rewards no longer carry over to other save files. When the perk “A Day Well Spent” is activated, restoring stamina via stamina orbs no longer undoes the stamina bonus from the perk. ✨ QOL Play time now displays correctly on the Load Game screen. Tesserae coin items can no longer end up in a player’s inventory. Note: Any existing coin items will be removed from the player’s inventory and storage. 💛 NPCs Elsie and Landen no longer have a conversation while in separate rooms. ❌ Crash Fixes A mismatch in an NPC’s database position and actual position no longer crashes the game. A sound effects related crash has been fixed. As always, we encourage you to report any bugs or crashes you encounter via our bug report form here. Thank you so much!
0.11.5	August 21, 2024	Fields of Mistria’s v0.11.5 Patch is here! The primary purpose of this patch is to fix the Steam Cloud Save issue that some players are experiencing. The patch also contains some minor bug fixes and additional crash fixes. As always, Thank you to everyone who’s reported bugs to us. To report a bug, please fill out our form here. Patch notes will feature a 🌼 emoji whenever the change is based on community feedback! v0.11.5 Patch Notes: [Highlights] 🌼 Sunflower seeds have been added to the General Store’s stock in the Summer. 🌼 The Orange Crop Sign furniture item has been added to the Fall Crop Sign Set. 🌼 “Pause Audio on Unfocus” toggle added to the Audio Settings. Henrietta now has a birthday gift line. [Updates] 🎮 Gameplay 🌼 Sage can now be found on the beach map in Summer. [Bug Fixes] 🎮 Gameplay Placing a storage chest on a table and destroying it with a pick axe will now cause its content to drop nearby instead of in the corner of the room. 🌼 The Pomegranate Crop Sign furniture item is now properly listed in the Winter Crop Sign Set. ✨ QOL Steam Cloud saving now works properly.* Save files are much less likely to become corrupted if saving is interrupted. Improved game performance during and after a rainy day. 💛 NPCs Luc no longer makes bug-specific comments about non-bug gifts. Townsfolk no longer occasionally disappear on Fridays. 🎨 Art The horn color on the sleeping female cow has been updated. ❌ Crash Fixes Inspecting items in your inventory no longer occasionally crashes the game. Sowing seeds no longer occasionally crashes the game. Collected Items and Notification pop-ups no longer occasionally crash the game. *Additional Notes: Fixing the Steam Cloud Save issue involved changing the format of our saves from a folder of files to one single file. This means you can no longer manually interact with your saves without unpacking them. For those of you who wish to interact with your save files directly, we have publicly released one of our tools to unpack your save and return it to its previous format: https://github.com/NPC-Studio/vaultc
Initial Release	August 5, 2024	🌾 Gameplay Play through the four seasons with unique weather, crops, forage, fish, insects, and more! Raise a variety of adorable animals, and even breed them to discover rare color variants. Give your animals toys to play with, and even dress them up with their own cosmetics! Crafting, Cooking, and Blacksmithing are available with over 600 items to craft! Complete over 50 museum sets through fishing, bug catching, farming, mining, and archaeology! Explore the depths below Mistria (down to level 60 with more to come) with engaging combat and surprises in store. Upgrade your home (with more upgrades to come) and customize it with over 200 available items. Unlock Powerful Magic Spells to aid you in your experience. Check out our website for the full list! 💖 Villagers Meet and befriend 30+ characters, including 10 marriage candidates and 2 special candidates. Raise marriage candidate hearts up to 4 hearts and unlock their unique 2 and 4 heart events. Additional heart level progression and events will be added up to 10 hearts via planned updates. Get to know the villagers' dynamic daily routines that change based on seasons, weather, and special events. Villagers have unique seasonal outfits and special beach outfits for the romanceables. Villagers have a variety of beautiful and expressive animated portraits. 📖 Story Rebuild and revitalize Mistria through a series of main story quests, with future content planned. Raise Mistria’s renown and Star Rank from a lowly Wood Star rank up through Sapphire Star rank (with more ranks on the way via planned updates). Begin to unravel the mysteries of the town’s past and the return of magic power to the land. Enjoy 5,000+ lines of unique character dialogue and dozens of cutscenes. Complete dozens of hand-written requests available daily at the town’s request board, with more on the way.

System Requirements

	Minimum:	Recommended:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system.
OS	Windows 10
Processor	Intel Core2 Duo E6400 or AMD Phenom X2 Dual-Core GP-7730	Ryzen 3 3300X
Memory	6 GB RAM	8 GB RAM
Graphics	NVDIA Ge force GTX 460, 1GB or AMD Radeon R7 240, 1GB	RX 480, 8GB
DirectX	Version 11
Storage	2 GB available space

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External links

• Fields of Mistria on Steam
• Fields of Mistria Official Website
• Fields of Mistria Unofficial Subreddit