v0.12.0 · Build 12 · updated Oct 11, 2026

What changed

From the first walk to the current build: new stories, trades, animals, scenery and performance. Milestones show what changed for the player.

The log, day by day Play build 11

Oct 10The valley in Tripo only, and livelier villagers
Oct 8The valley speaks and shows itself better
Oct 7Favors, seasons and land to buy
Oct 5–Oct 6The campaign crosses the bridge · Playtest night: houses inside and voices
Sep 28The real sea and the whole village
Sep 26Compact valley and Recôncavo flora · Day and night, villagers and two styles
Sep 25Menu and navigation · Valley map at real scale
Sep 23–Sep 24First steps · Opening and scenery

12 milestones

What the player feels is different

10/10/2026

The valley in Tripo only, and livelier villagers

New animations: workers reap, dig, count on their fingers and wave; the traveler jumps, punches and yawns on waking.
Shoreline with a continuous coconut grove and mangrove along both rivers.
One style: the valley is always Tripo, and the visual style option left the settings.
Cleaner HUD: dialogue in the corner, notices at the foot of the screen and the "!" inside the name plate.
Fixes: Pedro no longer freezes the game after the tutorial, and the menu flight no longer goes through the coconut palms.

08/10/2026

the valley speaks and shows itself better

Leaner HUD: two-column clock, smaller quest panel and hand bar, and an arrow around you.
New voices: Pedro, each villager's hints in the voice of whoever says them, and the traveler, who now has a voice of their own.
Settings with an Interface tab, icon tabs and help on every field, and a more readable E prompt.
Name plates that no longer cover faces, and the traveler turns to face the way they walk.
New animations: Pedro practices capoeira, the fisherman fishes and the devout woman prays, each in their own corner.
Ground without straight corners on the sand, the street and the river mouth, an oil-palm grove with leaf litter and trees that block you at the trunk.
Animals: Caramelo walks on all four paws, and peacocks, dogs and goats no longer pop in or vanish all of a sudden.
Test: the tester steps up through levels of difficulty, and F7 hands control back to you.

07/10/2026

Favors, seasons and land to buy

Favors from the villagers: fourteen, one for each, and four story arcs that tie them together.
Nine bridges link villagers and action quests, and every 2D quest is now in the valley.
Traveler's name chosen before the crossing, and Pedro narrates the wrap-up after the invitation is read.
Seasons change the woods and the atmosphere of the valley, and the arrival gains a track, sand and landmarks.
Farming shows the next step: the hoe tills the instant it touches the soil and returns for the harvest.
Zefa's land and the plateau can be bought, and gifts to villagers ask for confirmation.
A larger skill tree that follows the mouse, with support cards and active talents on a key of your choice.
Recipes show their ingredients alongside, and the campfire asks for wood every three dishes.
Forty loose stones around the valley, and field fences stand upright, with a body that blocks the way.
Interface size can now be adjusted for each screen, one by one, in the settings.

06/10/2026

Playtest night: houses inside and voices

Houses open inside, furnished for those who live there, and the farm manor gains a stone staircase and a hall.
Fourteen villagers who used to only wave now speak, and the priest, the guard and Pedro get voices in Portuguese.
The bridge over the great river falls and the building project raises it again; whoever falls into the river returns on the near bank.
Tide rises and falls, and the clock says whether the water is filling or ebbing; the camera no longer goes into the character or the sea.
A music track of its own for each time of day, and sounds for the mallet, sickle, oyster, branch and door.
The jaguar runs and kills in two bites anyone who does not run, and the shark catches anyone who flees by swimming.
Curupira: footprints scramble the map for a minute, and a figure deep in the woods vanishes when you look.
Quests pay XP, the journal shows it in icons and the J tabs get badges for building projects and breath.
Bars explained: the screen dims and the current bar lights up; the footer notice becomes a box in the middle of the screen.
Lines wait their turn, one speech bubble at a time, and food and papers are used with E.

05/10/2026

The campaign crosses the bridge

Arrival in 16 steps: saveiro, villagers, key, house, first field, well, supper, night and invitation.
Great river bridge, Seu Benedito's plateau, goat ridge and arrival at the farm implemented.
Fourteen new villagers with routines, domestic animals, two jaguars and shoals.
Sky, eight ground layers, planted fields and yards, and woodland species patches.
Stamina for effort, breath for swimming and health for damage; adjustable costs in SETTINGS.
Loading without the 19-second freeze, photograph minimap and LTX video lobby.
Standard Build 9 with updates and static Tripothon Build 9B, without in-game updates.

28/09/2026

The real sea and the whole village

The sea from the nautical chart: real seabed, clear water, fine foam and waves in sets.
The tide rises and falls (in AJUSTAR), exposing mud, pools and the reef rocks.
You can swim — and a shark prowls the deep part.
The church of Bom Jesus, the rocks, the tropical almond trees and the boats came from photos of the place.
Music by time of day, the great kiskadee by day, and the deep woods became hair-raising.
Minimap, quest arrow, footprints, tree cards and the PERSONAGENS panel.
New loading screen: a painted cover of the valley, by day or by night, and the logo in gilded woodcarving.
The whole menu took on the identity: carved frames on the retábulo altarpiece and the modals, small-caps plaques, compass roses on the selected item, an almanac over the valley and the crossing as cinema.

26/09/2026

Day and night, villagers and two styles

Choose between the Tripo valley and the procedural valley.
The sun rises and sets, and the 1887 street lamps light up.
The woods sing by day and by night; the sea and the creek sound up close.
Seven voiced villagers greet whoever arrives.
Pedro follows the player and narrates the quests.
Sixty-six new pieces arrived from Tripo.

26/09/2026

Compact valley and Recôncavo flora

The valley now uses four meters per unit.
Streets and the square got packed-earth ground.
Mango, jackfruit, cashew and coconut trees arrived from Tripo.
The chapel and the well got their own models.
The woods and the shoreline got species from the Recôncavo.
Well, wayside cross, cart and clothesline arrived from the 2D.

25/09/2026

Valley map at real scale

Walkable streets and rivers follow the drawn map.
The coast and the woods took on new shapes.
The valley uses one meter per unit.
The aerial map got zoom and markers.
Boardwalks lead to the spots over the water.

25/09/2026

Menu and navigation

The menu confirms before quitting.
Sound got a quick control.
HOME returns to the menu.
The opening got new texts.
The 3D got its own changelog.
The menu got a flyover of the valley.
The menu now includes a top-down map.

24/09/2026

Opening and scenery

The crossing got a 3D opening.
The menu got music and narration.
A house and trees expanded the valley.

23/09/2026

First steps

The 3D valley opened for exploration.
The character got animations.
Square, vegetable garden and coast took shape.

October 11

Build #11 released That day's log · Oct 11

Oct 11 Build #11

Oct 11Build 11 closed
Version 0.11.0: a single style, livelier villagers, a new shoreline and a cleaner interface.
Oct 11Package registered
The package of about 1.1 GB goes into the updater; anyone on Build 10 downloads Build 11 once from the site.
Oct 11Version 0.12 under way
The development line goes back to 0.12.0, with the version following the build number.
Oct 11Readable history
The history lines in the menu now fit in the modal.
Oct 11Name plates
The name plate lights up again when the quest marker sits inside it.
Oct 11Test only when available
Without the tester bridge, the Test plate is left out of the menu instead of appearing dimmed.
Oct 11First place in Brazil
At the Tripothon Demo Day in São Paulo, the valley takes the first-place trophy for the region.

October 10

That day's log · Oct 10

Oct 10 A single style, livelier villagers

Oct 10A single style
The valley is always Tripo: the visual style choice is gone from Settings.
Oct 10Coconut grove and mangrove
77 coconut palms along the shore and 203 mangrove trees in the beds of the two rivers, all editable in the scene.
Oct 10Villagers at work
35 more Mixamo animations: reaping, digging, counting on fingers, greeting and pulling the rope.
Oct 10A livelier traveler
Jumps, punches, yawns on waking, gets up off the ground and pants when stamina runs out.
Oct 10Pedro with a full voice
Another 73 of Pedro's lines gain a generated voice in Portuguese.
Oct 10Tests in seconds
The quick tests run in about 15 seconds; the full test suite is saved for before each build.
Oct 10A cleaner interface
Dialogue sits in the corner, notices at the foot of the screen, and the quest marker inside the name plate.
Oct 10A cheaper lookout
The lookout asks for 8 planks, 4 stones and 2 ropes, far fewer than before.

October 9

Build #10 released That day's log · Oct 9

Oct 9 Build #10

Oct 9Build 10 closed
The game's history gains October 8 and the build number goes up to 10.
Oct 9Key to the inherited house
Dona Zefa hands over the key, and the door of the inherited house opens only with it.
Oct 9No slowdown in the inherited house
Entering the house at the chest step goes from 3 frames per second to over 100.
Oct 9Moon phases
Eight phases over the days: a bright night at full moon and a very dark one at new moon.
Oct 9Crossing in video
Nine painted clips accompany the narration of the journey from Salvador to the village.
Oct 9E leads the conversation
E opens the dialogue, turns the pages one by one and closes it on the last.
Oct 9Chips on every strike
Each strike knocks chips off the material and gives the screen a short jolt.
Oct 9An updater that explains
If the build is too big or there is not enough space, the game says why and offers the site.

October 8

That day's log · Oct 8

Oct 8 The valley gains voice and clarity

Oct 867 generated lines
Villager hints and the lines of Pedro and the traveler gain a voice in Portuguese; the traveler has a voice of their own.
Oct 8A leaner interface
Clock in two columns, a smaller quest panel and hand bar, and an arrow that circles around the player.
Oct 8Settings with help
The Interface tab is new, the tabs become icons and every field gets a question-mark help button.
Oct 8Ground without hard corners
Sand, street, pasture and river mouth lose their straight-edged rectangles, and the oil-palm grove gains leaf litter under the fronds.
Oct 8Caramelo on four paws
The dog walks on all four paws; peacocks, dogs and goats no longer pop in or vanish all of a sudden.
Oct 8Mixamo animations
Pedro practices capoeira, the fisherman fishes with a rod and the devout woman prays on her knees.
Oct 8Revised lines
A document gathers 1,293 lines, 661 of them spoken in the valley, and five rounds of corrections adjust 83 of them.
Oct 8Test the game
The Test button opens an automatic player that decides by rules and asks for AI help only when it gets stuck.

October 7

That day's log · Oct 7

Oct 7 Favors, seasons and land to buy

Oct 7Fourteen favors
Each villager who used to only greet now has a favor, which opens once they get to know the traveler.
Oct 7Four story arcs
The uncle's tablecloth, the stone behind the altar, the lettered wood and the light on the water link the villagers.
Oct 7All the 2D quests
The second tutorial and chapter 7 arrive in the valley: 52 quest chains and 154 steps.
Oct 7Visible seasons
The woods and the atmosphere change with the calendar's four seasons.
Oct 7Land to buy
Dona Zefa's land and Seu Benedito's plateau have an owner, a price and a boundary on the map.
Oct 7Name and gifts
The traveler chooses their own name before the crossing, and gifts to villagers ask for confirmation.
Oct 7Stones and fences
Forty loose stones around the valley, big stones that call for a steel pickaxe, and field fences standing upright.
Oct 7Automatic player
A test player explores the valley, follows the story and records every step of the playthrough.

October 5–6

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Oct 6 Open houses and new voices

Oct 6Inside the houses
Homes, chapels, the store and the manor open up, furnished for those who live there; the manor has a stone staircase up to the hall.
Oct 6Villagers with voices
Fourteen villagers begin to speak, with text in four languages and a generated voice in Portuguese.
Oct 6The complete social web
Fifteen new villagers join the web, with faith, tastes, topics and lines.
Oct 6River crossed only by the bridge
The great river becomes deep, and the bridge is truly down until the building project raises it.
Oct 6Tide and music
The tide truly rises and falls, each time of day gets its own music track, and the mallet, the sickle and the doors now make sound.
Oct 6Quests pay XP
Each completed step earns experience, and the journal shows the reward in icons.
Oct 6Scares in the woods
A figure deep in the woods and the Curupira's footprints scramble the map for a minute; all of it can be turned off in Settings.
Oct 6Unhurried dialogue
Only one speech bubble appears at a time, the bubble lasts as long as it takes to read, and Pedro waits his turn.

Oct 5 The valley gains paths and life

Oct 5The valley gains paths and life
Pedro leads the arrival from the saveiro. The first fire uses dry branches; the axe comes during the bridge journey. The building site, plateau, boulder and farm trip become part of the 3D campaign.
Oct 5Daily life in the valley
Villagers have journeys, yards and houses; the valley gains new animals, schools of fish, sky and ground. Health, stamina and breath are separate, and action costs can be adjusted under Effort.
Oct 5The experience evolves
The woods drop from 6,234 to 3,117 background trees, with clearings for featured trees. The minimap uses a static image and the menu gains video. Build 9 keeps automatic updates; the Tripothon 9B edition is frozen for judging.

October 1–4

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Oct 4 A lighter, clearer welcome

Oct 4A lighter, clearer welcome
Portuguese, English and Spanish are selected before loading the scenery. The opening and panels now use the game's visual identity frames and plaques.
Oct 4Daily life in the valley
Builds 7 and 8 record the presentation's evolution. The site also gains Spanish and Simplified Chinese, with the same pages and content.

Oct 3 The valley opens its doors

Oct 3The house becomes a home
The traveler can plant and water in front of the house, sleep and store their finds. Food and materials are prepared at the valley's workbenches.
Oct 3Daily life in the valley
The campaign remains in development: the arrival and tasks have triggers in the world, while the final Matinta confrontation is still part of the planned story.

Oct 2 Five seconds

Oct 2A flyover that never climbs
The menu flight skirts trees and rooftops from the side, always at canopy height.
Oct 2Turns without lag
The camera no longer trails behind its path or cuts corners on the turns.
Oct 2The valley in five seconds
The valley is ready in about 5 seconds instead of 29, in the menu and in the game.
Oct 2A quiet loading screen
The loading screen drops its particles, and music starts only when the menu appears.

Oct 1 Each game in its own home

Oct 1The workshop in sight
The workbench gets a fixed spot at the field's edge and no longer hides behind the house.
Oct 1A home of its own
The 3D valley now lives in its own project, with a history all its own.
Oct 1Failures that speak up
Checks on the opening and controls now count failures and flag when something breaks.
Oct 1A lighter project
Models and sounds are now stored separately, and old tools leave the project.

October 1

That day's log · Sep 30–Oct 1

Sep 30–Oct 1 The village starts asking for things

Sep 30–Oct 1From pier to square
The menu camera flies at 16 meters, looking ahead, in a continuous loop over the village.
Sep 30–Oct 1Six quest chains
The gravedigger, Dona Filó, Dona Zefa, Tonho and Dona Candinha get quests in sequence.
Sep 30–Oct 1Dialogue with choices
Long lines open in a box at the bottom, and the pact asks Yes or No before it is sealed.
Sep 30–Oct 1Cordel and daybreak
Cordels open as paper leaflets, and whoever falls wakes to the new day's card.
Sep 30–Oct 1Fishing, cooking, crafting
Traíra in the river, snook at sea; the fire cooks, the bench saws planks and twists rope.
Sep 30–Oct 1Works in the valley
House, storehouse, lookout, well and pier take works that strengthen the body and stay saved.
Sep 30–Oct 1A quest compass
The minimap becomes a round compass pointing to the quest pinned in the notebook.
Sep 30–Oct 1Backpack and social web
The backpack opens with I, and the social web gains portraits and illustrated gifts.

September 29

That day's log · Sep 29

Sep 29 The great crossing of the systems

Sep 29Health and falling
A health bar on the HUD; whoever falls wakes at the front door at 6 a.m. the next day.
Sep 29Stamina in sight
The stamina bar warns when the body is tired and the stride starts to slow.
Sep 29Fighting the peccary
A peccary in the deep woods signals its lunge before biting; E strikes and V dodges.
Sep 29Three save slots
PLAY offers three slots, and the game saves when you fall, quit or close the window.
Sep 29Quests and trade panel
Quests, cards and the shop counter, with prices that change with the season.
Sep 29Collection in the almanac
Cordels, signs and creatures, with a blank space for what is still to be found.
Sep 29Cordels and the pact
Six cordels across the village and the Caipora's sign, which opens the cards and the pact.

September 28

Build #6 released That day's log · Sep 28

Sep 28 Build #6

Sep 28Tide and shore remade
The tide rises and falls, leaving mud and pools at low water, and the shore foam is finer.
Sep 28A freshwater river
The river gets dark forest water, a slow current and a mouth that carries it on.
Sep 28A shark in deep water
Swim too far out and you are chased, then returned to solid ground.
Sep 28Places from real photos
The Bom Jesus church, rocks, reefs and boats modeled from photos of the place.
Sep 28The Saubara woods
Red mangrove at the river mouth, ingá trees by the river, pitanga in the yards, with cards.
Sep 28A larger village
The square takes the real plaza's triangular shape, and eight new houses line the streets.
Sep 28Music for each hour
Morning, afternoon and night each have their own music, and the deep woods whisper.
Sep 28Chronicle of the Recôncavo
Menu, loading and the opening crossing gain gilded carving and a painted cover.

September 27

That day's log · Sep 27

Sep 27 The sea of the nautical chart

Sep 27A real sea
The seabed follows the nautical chart, and the water's color shifts with true depth.
Sep 27Wading in and swimming
The player wades in, swims where the water passes the chest, and walks back to the sand.
Sep 27A 16:9 world
The world follows the map frame, and the land goes on past it: Bom Jesus is no island.
Sep 27A valley three times faster
Building the valley went from 24 to 8 seconds, without freezing the screen.
Sep 27The sun in its place
The sun rises in the east and follows the real sky over Bom Jesus in late September.
Sep 27Houses facing the street
Each house opens onto the nearest street, as in Bom Jesus, and the streets now curve.
Sep 27Footsteps that sound
Footsteps sound different on grass, earth, sand, wood and water.
Sep 27Livelier villagers
Villagers walk around obstacles, and Pedro gets three greetings in a new voice.

September 26

Build #5 released That day's log · Sep 26

Sep 26 Build #5

Sep 26Two visual styles
Players choose between Tripo models and a valley built entirely from code.
Sep 26Day and night
Sun, moon, sky and mist follow the hour, with a clock on the HUD.
Sep 26Lights of 1887
Oil lamps, lanterns, a bonfire and candles light up at dusk.
Sep 26Sounds of the place
The woods by day and night, the sea at the pier, the creek and the fire sound up close.
Sep 26Seven villagers
Seven villagers with posts for each time of day, speech bubbles and spoken greetings.
Sep 26Pedro as guide
Pedro walks with the player from the pier and narrates the quests before dark.
Sep 26A batch of 66 pieces
Trees, buildings, characters and hand items from Tripo, in Smart Mesh.
Sep 26Light woods, 60 frames
The heavy woods got light, and the valley runs at 60 frames per second.

September 25–26

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Sep 26 The real map becomes ground

Sep 26Walkable distances
The Farm and the Square are now a 220-meter walk apart, not 890.
Sep 26Packed-earth streets
Streets rutted by oxcarts, and a Square of trodden earth and pebbles.
Sep 26Recôncavo flora
Mango, jackfruit, cashew, oil palm, ipê trees and coconut palms leaning along the shore.
Sep 26Pieces of old life
A well, a wayside cross, a cart, a clothesline, a woodpile and a fence join the scene.
Sep 26First Tripo models
Mango, jackfruit, cashew, coconut palm, chapel and well generated in Tripo Studio.

Sep 25 Combat learns to teach

Sep 25The author's map
Streets, rivers, coast and woods follow the author's hand-drawn map, at real scale.
Sep 25The MAP view
The map gains zoom, panning and clickable markers, and opens straight from the menu.
Sep 25A clearer menu
Short actions, a confirmed exit and a button to return from the walk to the menu.
Sep 25Sound in the corner
The main sound control sits in the corner, with clear on and off icons.
Sep 25Flyover at the opening
The menu can show the valley still or in a gentle flyover.
Sep 25A history of its own
The version text in the footer opens the game's history in the center of the screen.
Sep 25Solid ground
Land, streets and rivers are back on camera, and the character no longer falls through.

September 23–24

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Sep 24 Opening, audio and scenery

Sep 24A narrated opening
The crossing opens over the 3D scene, with narration, music and a soundscape.
Sep 24Audio settings of its own
The 3D game's sound preferences are kept apart from the 2D game's saves.
Sep 24Broken Cart House
The house joins the scene with adjusted scale and collision.
Sep 24Brazilwood in the landscape
Brazilwood arrives and paves the way for new models.

Sep 23 First playable walkabout

Sep 23A village to explore
The 3D valley is born with a village to explore on foot and an on-screen panel.
Sep 23Third-person camera
The camera follows the character from behind, with collisions that hold each step.
Sep 23A body in motion
The character idles, walks, runs and performs gestures on command.
Sep 23First decisions
The project's scope and foundations are on record from day one.