2026-09-08 20:59 UTC · Community Announcements · Ethan
Hello Ranchers! 🤠💚 A new update is now available! Make sure your game is updated to version 0.8.10.858. 🐄 Ranching This update brings another major stability and balancing pass to ranching. Addressed all currently known cases that could cause farm animals to disappear. A huge thank you to ❤️ alfafreakgaming ❤️ and ❤️ jennoula ❤️ for helping me battle-test the ranching systems and track down some extremely tricky edge cases! When one of your animals becomes sick, you will now receive an alert on the End of Day screen. Fixed an issue where players could receive death alerts for animals owned
2026-08-21 19:06 UTC · Community Announcements · Ethan
Hello Ranchers! A new update is now available! 🔥 Please make sure your game is updated to version 0.8.10.842 or later. This update focuses heavily on quest progression, ranching stability, and quality-of-life improvements based on the issues you’ve been reporting. Quest Fixes Fixed a major issue where quests could fail to advance or validate correctly in certain scenarios. Ranching Fixes Fixed an issue where animals could become incorrectly associated with their barn or coop in certain scenarios. Fixed an intermittent issue where animals could lose their barn or coop association when advancin
2026-08-10 22:38 UTC · Community Announcements · Ethan
Hello Ranchers! A new hotfix is now available! Please make sure your game is updated to version 0.8.10.562 or later. 🛠️ Hotfix Notes 🐄 Ranching This hotfix focuses heavily on improving the stability of farm animals, barns, and coops. Fixed a major intermittent issue that could cause animals to disappear when entering their barn or coop at night. Fixed a major issue that could cause chicks 🐥 to disappear when progressing to their next growth stage. Fixed an issue where chicks 🐥 could become stuck inside the coop after progressing to their next growth stage. Fixed a major issue where newborn
2026-07-30 22:05 UTC · Community Announcements · Ethan
Hello Ranchers! 🤠💚 A new hotfix is now available on Steam! 🔥🔥🔥 Please make sure your game is updated to version 0.8.10.455 or later. 🛠️ Hotfix Notes This update addresses two major issues: Fixed an issue where the game could remain stuck on the loading screen when Steam was running in Offline Mode. Fixed an issue that prevented players from joining a friend’s co-op session in certain situations. 📴 Offline Play *The Ranchers* is fully playable offline and does not require an internet connection for solo play. The game will now correctly detect when Steam is running in Offline Mode. Pleas
2026-07-30 17:08 UTC · Community Announcements · Ethan
Hello Ranchers! 🤠💚 Today is finally here! 🎉 The Ranchers has officially launched in Early Access! The Ranchers is available to purchase now on Steam! 🎉🎉🎉 Reaching this milestone means more to me than I can put into words. From the bottom of my heart, thank you for supporting The Ranchers and for being part of this incredible journey. Your patience, encouragement, feedback, and belief in the game have helped bring us this far. I’m truly grateful to have you with us as we begin this new chapter together. ❤️❤️❤️ 🚀 Once you’ve had a chance to play, please consider leaving us a review on Ste
2026-06-12 14:33 UTC · Community Announcements · Ethan
Hello Ranchers!!! 💚 The wait is finally coming to an end... I'm incredibly excited to announce that : The Ranchers will launch in Early Access on Steam on July 30th at 10:00 AM PT / 7:00 PM CEST!🎉🎉🎉 This is a moment I've been dreaming about for years. From the very first prototype to today, The Ranchers has been a journey filled with challenges, lessons, excitement, and countless hours of work. Reaching Early Access is a huge milestone, and honestly, it wouldn't have been possible without your support, feedback, patience, and belief in the project. From the bottom of my heart, thank you fo
2026-06-09 16:36 UTC · Community Announcements · Ethan
Hi Ranchers, I know it's been a little while since the last update, but I can assure you I've been cooking hard behind the scenes! 😄 In addition to the incremental updates released over the past two months, a new major update is now available. Make sure your game is updated to version 0.8.10.420 or later. Let's dive into what's new! 🚗 New Driving Mechanics & Vehicle Rebalancing One of the biggest focuses of this update has been driving. Every vehicle in the game has been rebalanced and upgraded with a completely revised driving system designed to make vehicles feel more stable, responsive, a
2026-02-27 02:52 UTC · Community Announcements · Ethan
Hello Ranchers 💚 I hope you’re having an amazing Next Fest! As promised, I’m back with a follow-up to my previous post. Alongside the AI cleanup, I’ve been working heavily on bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements based directly on your feedback. The reviews and messages you’ve shared have been incredibly valuable. There have been so many thoughtful suggestions, and over the past few days, addressing them has been my top priority. Your feedback truly shapes the game. ❤️❤️❤️ There’s still more on my list, and I’m continuing to work through the backlog, but I wanted to keep you updated on t
2026-02-25 20:28 UTC · Community Announcements · Ethan
Hello Ranchers! What a week it’s been. 🔥 Seeing the demo in your hands during Steam Next Fest has been an incredible milestone for us. Watching you explore the world, stream the game, and share your thoughts has been both exciting and motivating. ❤️ We’ve been reading every review and piece of feedback carefully. That’s the purpose of this demo, to learn, adjust, and make The Ranchers stronger. Over the past few days, I’ve been fully focused on improvements. Bug fixes and quality-of-life updates are underway and will be shared in a dedicated post soon. Today, I want to address one specific to
2026-02-12 20:30 UTC · Community Announcements · Ethan
Hello Ranchers!! Today is the day, The Ranchers demo is finally live!🔥 To celebrate this incredible milestone, I’m excited to share our brand-new demo trailer with you: The goal of this demo is simple, to give everyone a first taste of The Ranchers, share the heart of what we’re building, and shape its future together with you. ❤️ We’ve put a lot of care into making this demo as smooth and enjoyable as possible. At the same time, the game is still actively in development, so you might come across a few bugs or small hiccups along the way. If that happens, we’d truly appreciate you letting us
2026-02-11 11:46 UTC · Community Announcements · Ethan
Hello Ranchers 💚 In less than 48 hours, the demo of The Ranchers will finally be live.🔥🔥🔥 I’m incredibly excited, but also deeply humbled, to share years of work, love, and dedication with you. Building a game with the scope and freedom of The Ranchers, while being a very small team led by a solo developer, is honestly a bit of madness.🤯 None of this would be possible without the support, patience, and trust you’ve given us along the way. From the bottom of my heart, thank you for believing in this crazy project and for helping us get here. ❤️❤️❤️ In this demo, you’ll arrive in Sunvale Ci
2026-01-21 19:14 UTC · Community Announcements · Ethan
Hello Ranchers,I hope you are all doing great, and I wish you an amazing start to this new year. 🎄🎁 Thank you for being here, for your patience, and for the trust you have shown us over the years. ❤️Today is a very special day for us, and honestly, one we have been waiting a long time to share. I have two big announcements, and both mark a major step forward for The Ranchers.First, I am incredibly happy to announce that The Ranchers has been officially selected by Steam to take part in Steam Next Fest, taking place this February 2026!!!This means that everyone around the world will be able t
2025-12-02 12:13 UTC · Community Announcements · Ethan
Hello Ranchers!! 🤠💚Today is a truly special day! Our biggest, most beautiful update is finally here! 🎉🎈This milestone brings The Ranchers to the level of quality I’ve been dreaming of since the very first line of code. Seeing it come to life, and sharing it with you, feels like a dream finally becoming real.🤩I want to take a moment to thank each and every one of you for your incredible patience, love, and support throughout this wild journey. This game simply wouldn’t exist without you, truly. From the bottom of my heart, thank you for being here with us and believing in The Ranchers. ❤️❤
2025-02-03 22:41 UTC · Community Announcements · Ethan
Hello Ranchers! Hope y’all are safe and doing great! Today, I’m excited to introduce our newest feature: The Ranchers Police District (R.P.D). 🎉🎉🎉 From the start, The Ranchers has given you tons of freedom to play the game your way. You can stick to the rules and enjoy a calm, relaxed experience, or you can mix things up—maybe even try something a little daring, like swiping NPCs' crops, cars, cows, or chickens, vandalizing public property, or even shaking up national security for a bit of mischief 😀 Ultimately, it’s your call, and you probably have your own reasons for how you play (don’t
2024-08-15 20:19 UTC · Community Announcements · Ethan
Hello Ranchers! Today is a big day!!! You can’t imagine how happy and thrilled I'm writing these lines! The Ranchers' big overhaul is complete! And I couldn't be more proud and happy with the final result! ✨✨✨ It was by far the most reckless decision I've made in the last three years, and oh boy, was it tough—really tough! After the Kickstarter campaign and the overwhelming support The Ranchers received from the community, I was completely humbled and grateful. I was just a gamer, building my dream game in my own little corner... I never imagined The Ranchers would become this popular, not eve
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