While the Iron’s Hot (Switch): all the updates (latest: Ver. ???) (2024)

22 January 2024Lite_Agent Bontemps Games, Humble Games, While The Iron's Hot

Hotfix 1

Crafting & Items

• Corrected the stacking mechanic of the Assembly station to better handle large stacks going over the max quantity.
• Corrected the anvil minigame behavior to properly remove blocks of metal that are not connected to the outlined target shape
• Added the possibility to craft the mechanical heart and reduced its price
• Improved the visuals of the Figurehead items

Exploration & Environment

• Added wood logs and iron ores to a chest of the Sorrow Valley to help people stuck in the maze without an axe
• Added the ability to switch directions while climbing a ladder
• Corrected an issue where leaping into a cutscene would sometimes cause the player to slide in the direction of the jump throughout the cutscene
• Corrected the walls of the Lighthouse to avoid the player and the tiny box clipping through them
• Corrected an issue where the lighthouse’s steam effect would be reactivated but remain invisible when removing the valve wheel to complete the second puzzle
• Corrected an issue where giving the Sneaky Note to Sneaky Jeff would later cause the big bat not to attack the player.
• Corrected the boxes clipping through certain raised ground and not being reset when exiting and re-entering the scene
• Corrected an issue where the player could clip through the hole in the bottom floor of the creepy mansion.
• Added a way for the cactuses of the Sorrow Valley’s Maze to regrow.
• Corrected an issue where waking up in the player village would cause the camp to not be reset
• Corrected an issue where camping after the swamp and passing out would return you to the home village without resetting your camp
• Corrected an issue where the camp would disappear when setting it up right in front of the elevator to the snowy area (marked by an arrow)
• Corrected an issue where the Broken Cryptex under the rock pile would not re-appear if left on the ground after destroying the rocks covering it and re-entering the area.

Upgrades & Quests

• Modified the condition to unlock the third level of the mage tower to not create potential blockers with the potions.
• Corrected an issue that prevented Krush (the shipwright missing an arm) from offering his quest.
• Corrected an issue where leaving the wrong item in the Ruined Tower altar would cause the altar to not open when re-entering a scene
• Corrected an issue where repairing the Alembic too early would block the player from progressing the quest

UI, Settings & Localization

• Corrected an issue where button prompts wouldn’t be properly updated when remapping controls with certain controllers
• Corrected the characters’ names displayed in English in the codex and dialogues when playing in Japanese.

Hotfix 2

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.

Nintendo Switch

• Corrected an issue when remapping controls in the settings
• Corrected an issue causing the game to crash at the end of the credits

• Additional notes: none
• Source: Bontemps Games (Steam) / Bontemps Games (Steam) / Bontemps Games (Twitter)