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Morels: The Hunt 2 is Officially Released on Steam!

Officially Released on Steam!

 

We are extremely excited to announce that Morels: The Hunt 2 is officially live and released on steam!

Thank you to everyone who has helped with play testing and for anyone who has decided to purchase and support the game.

If you enjoy playing the game maybe consider leaving a positive review. These are extremely helpful.

Morels: The Hunt 2 Soundtrack and Morels Game Bundle.

The official soundtrack to the game has been released.

 

Morels: The Hunt 1 Update

The update for Morels 1 is also live.
-Footprints where you have been on the map.
-Daily morel counts and daily record.
-Option to turn off spiders and make them bunny balls.
-Sunglasses as a new item. This will lighten dark shaded areas darken the brightness of the sun.
-Music by default will play a playlist starting with that maps song instead of looping the same song.
-Added upper right Main UI to the Horse and ATV UI.
-Fixed Redwood Forest morels location bug.

Thank you for all of your support!

-The Abrams Studios Team

Morels: The Hunt 2 Release Date and Gameplay Trailer!

We are excited to announce Morels: The Hunt 2 will be released on Steam on April 17th of this year. Check out the new gameplay trailer below. Don’t forget to follow the Steam Store Page for the game and wishlist the game. We have also added new screenshots to the store page.

Thank you for all the support!

-The Abrams Studios Team

Morels: The Hunt 2 – Development Update!

We wanted to share some development updates for Morels 2.

These are the 7 new maps.
 



These are the new items available for purchase in the shop.



Hummingbird feeder

– Attracts hummingbirds. This item can be placed anywhere in any map. It will stay there forever unless you pick it up and bring it back to your inventory. There is no quantity limit on this item.

Deer Stand

– Animals will not fear or run away from you while on this stand. This item can be placed anywhere in any map. You can not bring it back into your inventory once you place it down. It will remain forever wherever you place it down at. There is no quantity limit on this item.

Compass

– Adds a compass to your UI.

Headlamp Light Upgrade

– Will make your headlamp much brighter and shine further.

Sunglasses

– Will lighten dark shaded areas and darken the brightness of the sun.

Scuba Tank

– Will allow you to stay underwater for an unlimited amount of time. It will be needed to hunt in the Ocean Islands map.

Animal Minimap Detection

– Shows you an animal location on your minimap.

Mushroom Minimap Detection

– Shows you a location mushrooms have been found on your minimap.

Photo Tasks



– 18 mushrooms besides morels to collect
– 60 Animals to photograph
– 15 Sea Animals to photograph
– 17 Insects to photograph
– 28 Objects to photograph
– 7 New mystery animals

Optional Daily Bonus Tasks





These are just some of the new updates for the game. We look forward to sharing more soon.

Thank you for all the support!

– The Abrams Studios Team

Announcing Morels: The Hunt 2!

Morels: The Hunt 2 is coming to Steam in 2024. This time the hunt is worldwide!

Wishlist the game today! Morels: The Hunt 2 on Steam (steampowered.com)

Morels: The Hunt 2 is a simulation game about mushroom hunting and wildlife photography. Explore a diverse range of locations spanning across the globe. Increase your hunter and photographer levels by collecting a variety of mushrooms, photographing animals, and completing weekly tasks. Experience all new maps, animals, mushrooms, insects and objects to photograph, new shop items, weekly tasks, and more.

Reveal Trailer

Morels: The Hunt – Update and New Trailers

[We are excited to announce that we have just made an update to Morels: The Hunt and it is live now. The new Speed Hunt Mode was not quite ready for release yet so that is not in this update. However, since there were a couple of important bug fixes we wanted to go ahead and get this update out now. We know the Single Season Achievement bug has been an annoying one. We believe this should now be fixed. We hope to release the new Speed Hunt Mode in the next update.

You can view everything about the update Morels Update Information.

To go along with the update we have uploaded some new trailers for the game. You can view the trailers below.

Morels Homestead Creator Mode Update!

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A big thank you to everyone who has played the game. We just released our Creator Mode update for Morels: Homestead on the Quest 2.
 
CREATOR MODE: In this mode you will start out your game with $1,000,000. This will allow you to completely focus on building your homestead right away. This mode is for anyone who would like to just focus on building their homestead without having to do things in the game to earn money like forage, harvest crops, metal detect, and take on quests.
 
ACTIVATING CREATOR MODE: You can active Creator Mode by starting a new game and then right after the beginning homestead previews it will ask you if you would like to start your game in Normal Mode or Creator Mode.
TIME CHANGE ITEM: We have a new item that can be purchased at the Misc Vendor under the Misc category. This new Time Change item will allow you to change from Day/Night in an instant. This will be helpful for anyone doing quests or looking for items or creatures that can only be found or completed at certain times of the day.
 
TUTORIAL SKIP BUTTON: We have added a Skip button to the beginning tutorial panels. If you have already played the game and done the tutorials and are just wanting to start a new game, you can now skip through the tutorials if you like.
 
OTHER SMALL FIXES: There are a handful of other small fixes as well like the Grizzly Bear Quest and the Walking Skeleton Quest.
 
We hope you enjoy the update! Please reach out to us at support@morelshomestead.com if you have any issues, questions, or suggestions. Be sure to check your junk mail for replies.
 
-The Abrams Studios Team


Anniversary Update Now Live!

We are extremely excited to announce that our Anniversary Update is now live! We are also running a Special Promotion of 50% Off until Nov 6th to celebrate the anniversary and the update. We want to thank all of our beta testers for helping us out. We hope everyone enjoys the update!

New Trailer

WHAT’S IN THE UPDATE

New Achievements

REPLACED INSIDE CABIN MENU WITH 3D ENVIRONMENT

Environment and Shopping


New Items to Buy

You can now buy a Snorkel to allow you to stay underwater for 2 minutes at a time. Also purchase a Fast Travel Map to allow you to Fast Travel back to you home base at any time from anywhere.

NEW TROPHY ROOM


You now have a trophy room. It has a whiteboard with an overview off all your task completions. It has a display for your Golden Morels. You can change the photos on the walls to any of your photos you’ve taken.

There have been many collectables added to the game that are displayed in this room as well.

Now earn golden mushrooms for the other mushrooms you collect. These are displayed here as well.

UPDATED CAMERA

 

Animal Outline

When in camera mode, the animals will now have an outline when they are in focus. Green means they have not been photographed that day and gray means they have already been photographed. This only applies during daytime hours. We found it a bit too easy if this was also applied during the night.

Quick Capture

We have added the option to quick capture with the camera. No longer do you have to wait until you look at the photo to take a new picture. You can now quickly take many pictures in a row. This should make the whole experience of photographing animals a bit easier. This will be the default method. You can still toggle to look at the photo on.

Moved Photographed Text

We moved the text letting you know what animal you photographed to the bottom right and changed its look a little bit. This way you will still be able to take photos quickly without anything in your view.

UPDATED PICKUP

 

Crosshairs Pickup

We have updated the Crosshairs Pickup Method and made it the default pickup method. There should no longer be any issues of not people able to pickup a mushroom. With this method, you will no longer have to look straight down all the time. This should make the experience much more relaxing and enjoyable. You can switch back to the old pickup method with the green circle guide by turning off Crosshairs Pickup Method in Gameplay under Settings.

SWIMMABLE WATER AND FISH

 

Swim in Water

You can now swim in water. Press the crouch button to dive down and then just look in the direction you want to swim. Toggle crouch again and look up at the surface to swim back up.

Photograph the Fish

You can photograph and get points for the fish.

Objects and Insects

You can now get points for photographing some objects and insects.


MUSHROOMS

 

New Blewit Mushrooms

We have added a new mushroom to hunt. Blewit Mushrooms.

You now can collect all mushrooms, including poisonous mushroom right from the beginning of the game.

 

MUSHROOM MARKERS

 

Now choose from several colors of mushroom markers.

MAP UPDATES

 

Every location in the game has been updated

All maps have been updated with new lighting, some new or updated meshes, dust particle effects, collectables, and more.

STACKABLE INVENTORY

 

You inventory is now stackable.

OTHER NOTABLE UPDATES

– Added 6 new songs to the Acoustic playlist. Found in the game menu under In Game Music.
– Optimized the game. It was very CPU bound before. We have spent some time optimizing the animals and other things to fix help this.
– New, simpler tutorial
– You can now toggle Crouch on or off. No longer do you need to hold it down.
– You can now skip Intro Montages by pressing Enter on the keyboard.
– Updated Minimap Images to be more simple and help save on memory.
– Made Ticks less frequent.
– Fixed numerous bugs.
– Several other small features or fixes.

The new map and new animals did not make it into this update. They will be saved for a future update along with and updated UI and some other new features.

We just want to thank everyone for their support and for the positive reviews. We hope enjoys the new update. Happy Hunting!

-The Abrams Studios Team

Morels Anniversary Update Preview and Beta Testers

Time has really flown by. It’s been a year since the release of Morels: The Hunt, and to celebrate we’re releasing our biggest update ever! Please browse below to see some of the changes on the way. In preparation of the upcoming update we’d love a few volunteers who are interested in early access to this content. We are looking for bug testers to spend some time in game making sure the update is a smooth release. If you’re interested, please respond below or send us a private message and let us know! We’ll be sending out invites to a private discord for bug reporting and a discussion of the beta version of the update.

REPLACED INSIDE CABIN MENU WITH 3D ENVIRONMENT

 

Environment and Shopping


New Items to Buy

You can now buy a Snorkel to allow you to stay underwater for 2 minutes at a time. Also purchase a Fast Travel Map to allow you to Fast Travel back to you home base at any time from anywhere.

NEW TROPHY ROOM


You now have a trophy room. It has a whiteboard with an overview off all your task completions. It has a display for your Golden Morels. You can change the photos on the walls to any of your photos you’ve taken.

There have been many collectables added to the game that are displayed in this room as well.

Now earn golden mushrooms for the other mushrooms you collect. These are displayed here as well.

UPDATED CAMERA

 

Animal Outline

When in camera mode, the animals will now have an outline when they are in focus. Green means they have not been photographed that day and gray means they have already been photographed. This only applies during daytime hours. We found it a bit too easy if this was also applied during the night.

Quick Capture

We have added the option to quick capture with the camera. No longer do you have to wait until you look at the photo to take a new picture. You can now quickly take many pictures in a row. This should make the whole experience of photographing animals a bit easier. This will be the default method. You can still toggle to look at the photo on.

Moved Photographed Text

We moved the text letting you know what animal you photographed to the bottom right and changed its look a little bit. This way you will still be able to take photos quickly without anything in your view.

UPDATED PICKUP

 

Crosshairs Pickup

We have updated the Crosshairs Pickup Method and made it the default pickup method. There should no longer be any issues of not people able to pickup a mushroom. With this method, you will no longer have to look straight down all the time. This should make the experience much more relaxing and enjoyable. You can switch back to the old pickup method with the green circle guide by turning off Crosshairs Pickup Method in Gameplay under Settings.

SWIMMABLE WATER AND FISH

 

Swim in Water

You can now swim in water. Press the crouch button to dive down and then just look in the direction you want to swim. Toggle crouch again and look up at the surface to swim back up.

Photograph the Fish

You can photograph and get points for the fish.

Objects and Insects

You can now get points for photographing some objects and insects.


MUSHROOMS

 

New Blewit Mushrooms

We have added a new mushroom to hunt. Blewit Mushrooms.

You now can collect all mushrooms, including poisonous mushroom right from the beginning of the game.

 

MUSHROOM MARKERS

 

Now choose from several colors of mushroom markers.

MAP UPDATES

 

Every location in the game has been updated

All maps have been updated with new lighting, some new or updated meshes, dust particle effects, collectables, and more.

STACKABLE INVENTORY

 

You inventory is now stable.

OTHER NOTABLE UPDATES

– Optimized the game. It was very CPU bound before. We have spent some time optimizing the animals and other things to fix help this.
– New, simpler tutorial
– You can now toggle Crouch on or off. No longer do you need to hold it down.
– You can now skip Intro Montages by pressing Enter on the keyboard or bottom face button on a controller.
– Updated Minimap Images to be more simple and help save on memory.
– Made Ticks less frequent.
– Fixed numerous bugs.
– Several other small features or fixes.

The new map and new animals did not make it into this update. They will be saved for a future update along with some other new features.

We just want to thank everyone for their support and for the positive reviews. We hope everyone will enjoy the update. Happy Hunting!

-The Abrams Studios Team

Morels Summer Update

THE UPDATES

 

  • We have completely reworked the way you detect animals with the photo/camera system. The new detection system should be more accurate and finally fix the wrong animal/dead animal bug.
  • Fixed mouse and gamepad movements to be smoother. This will be especially noticeable on lower end machines.
  • Optimized Texas Ranch.
  • Optimized other maps in various minor ways.
  • Fixed area in Georgia where you could previously get into an unplayble area.
  • Fixed area in Texas that where could get into an unplayble area.
  • Increased chances for chanterelle mushrooms in a couple maps. Players were having a really hard time getting the weekly task for it.
  • We added more tarantulas and scorpions in Texas. We also added a possibility to see them in the Rocky Mountains and Redwood Forest maps.
  • Fixed invert Y when on the ATV.
  • Fixed a few other minor bugs.

We want to thank everyone who has taken the time to play Morels. It really means a lot to us.

Thank you, Enjoy the Update, and Happy Hunting!

-The Abrams Studios Team

Morels Spring Update is Live. 50% OFF SPECIAL PROMOTION!

Our Big Spring Update is live! We are also running a Special Promotion of 50% Off to celebrate the update until March 31st at 10am PST. A discount this big just a few months after launching was not really in our plans. With more people home and having less money from the far reaching effects of COVID-19, we felt this was the right thing to do.

Let’s go over the update. Most of it was already listed in our last post about the update coming soon.

NEW ANIMALS:

We have added several new animals like barn owls, sparrows, snapping turtles, and longhorn cattle. We have also added a new mystery animal for the Redwoods map.

YOUR SEASON AFTER 100 DAYS:

When you finish your season it will bring you back to the main cabin screen. It will then reward you with a bag that allows you to start collecting poisonous mushrooms.

You will also now be able to view stats for any completed season and your career stats. Your game will have unlimited seasons and each season will keep adding to your career totals.

Anything you purchased, points, and your hunter’s manual all get carried over to the next season as well.

MUSHROOM MARKERS:

You can now pickup your markers and they will go back into your inventory.

DIFFICULTY SETTING:

We’ve added a difficulty setting. On Easy there will not be any ticks or poison ivy.

EXPLORATION MODE:

We’ve enabled Exploration Mode from the start of the game. You no longer have to finish a season to try it out. So if you were wanting to try it out but haven’t finished a full season yet you will now be able to. In this mode there are no seasons. You will get 25,000 points to start with, unlock all maps from the very beginning, and allow you to have some fun playing as animals. This mode is for fun and anything you do will not count towards records, unlocking or achievements.

OTHER UPDATES AND FIXES:

– We added a message in the shop that shows if you have already purchased an item.

– There is a message that pops up when you click on Delete Game that asks you to confirm that you want to delete your game instead of just deleting it.

– Fixed the Hunter Level Achievement Bug if you were picking up with the New Look at Method.

– We added an extra check for achievements completed whenever you are at the main cabin menu.

– We are still working on a fix for the dead animal or wrong animal detected bug. Since we still have not been able to reproduce this bug on our end we won’t know for sure if we have fixed it or not. We did some things that should help. If this happens to anyone else and you you are able to reproduce it please let us know how you were able to do it.

We want to thank everyone who has taken the time to play Morels. It really means a lot to us. We will continue to try and make Morels the best game that we can. If you ever have issues or problems with anything don’t hesitate to contact us. You can email your support questions to support@abramsstudios.com. You can also contact us through our website’s contact form. http://www.abramsstudios.com/contact/.

Thank you, Enjoy the Update, and Happy Hunting!

-The Abrams Studios Team

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