While the Iron's Hot - Patch #2

Patch Notes
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a screenshot of While the Iron's Hot showing the main character working at the forge

Happy new year, fellow blacksmith!

We're coming back with another small patch that corrects more community issues and unlocks most of the players currently blocked from progressing due to a bug. Thank you for continuing to be such an awesome community and helping us polish this cozy adventure!

Feel free to join our Discord and reach out to us if you run into anything weird.

Patch Notes

Crafting & Items

  • Corrected an issue where the auto
  • fill of the pin button would sometimes cause the inventory to be seen as full
  • Corrected an issue with item selection in the grindstone station UI

Exploration & Environment

  • Corrected an issue where the Community Service job would not award you any renown
  • Corrected an issue prohibiting the orders delivered through the Sneaky Postal Service from counting towards the achievement tied to the number of orders completed
  • Corrected an issue that would prevent Coral from returning to her spot in the maze and giving the player a lift home
  • Removed the bush causing players to forever be stuck in the Sorrow Valley maze
  • Lessened the amount of energy drained by moving in the swamp without the cart
  • Allowed village merchants to buy more items from the player
  • Additionally, certain merchants (currently the hunter, alchemist and shipwrights merchant) will now let you buy quest items in case you were impacted by save issues

Upgrades & Quests

  • Corrected an issue preventing the quest "Stop the Drought!” from being triggered
  • Corrected an issue preventing the quest “Thumbs-up!” from being triggered
  • Corrected issues impacting the completion of the "Entry not Granted" quest
  • For players stuck with the quest prompting them to go talk to Zosimus, the Alchemist merchant will allow you to buy the scroll you're missing to progress the quest
  • For players stuck with a locked cryptex despite the altar being solved, return to the altar at night to deposit your codex and get the scroll for free
  • Corrected an issue causing certain player's renown to reset to level 1 after reaching max level
  • Corrected an issue where the "Final Stretch" quest would sometimes be triggered too early or too late, blocking some players from fully upgrading the Mage Tower
  • For players impacted by this issue, visit Malima - the Snowy miner's village - to set the quest state to what it should be
  • Corrected an issue where the skills impacting the purchase price of merchant would not be taken into account

Misc.

  • Polished certain UI and action sound effects

Known Issues

  • When crafting 2 or more non-stackable items with only 1 slot available, the inventory is not properly seen as full causing the minigame to progress and the player to lose the resources for all but one of the items crafted
  • Items equipped on adventurers is not being properly saved when closing the game

Specific to Xbox/GamePass players

  • Corrected an issue preventing achievements from being triggered
  • Corrected save issues that could result in blockers
  • Corrected an issue causing certain players to see white prompts instead of the proper button
Written by
Arnaud Planche