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Research Queue & Evidence Policy

This board shows what the site does not know yet, the smallest useful test, and the evidence needed before a report becomes public guide data.

Baseline
0.8.10.842
Open studies
9
Automatic publishing
Never
Evidence ladder

What each status means

Status describes evidence strength, not how confident a sentence sounds. The full scale, verification workflow and conflict rule live on the methodology page.

Official

Published by the developer or visible as an explicit current-build rule.

Video-observed

Directly visible in video footage, cited with source and timestamp.

Community-confirmed

Two or more independent player reports agree under comparable conditions.

Player-tested

Measured hands-on in a named build, with retained evidence.

Unverified lead

A single-source clue. Useful as a test lead, not a settled fact.

Historical

Older Alpha, Beta or demo information that may no longer apply.

Obsolete

A later build changed or invalidated the earlier result.

Open studies

Current verification queue

These entries are deliberately not separate search pages until a reproducible answer exists.

Official — solved

Roof quest does not recognize the roof

Graduated: support confirmed a stuck quest tracker as a known issue, and the working fixes are published in the roof quest guide. Still unknown: exactly which roof pieces and placement rules count toward the objective's completion condition — submit piece names and counts if you test this.

Published fix
Unverified lead

Furniture cannot be placed inside the house

Need: build number, room ownership state, selected item, placement error and whether the parcel was purchased.

Discussion source
Unverified lead

Power to the Bench does not advance

Need: exact objective, Zesty Metrix screen, power network state and the action that advances or fails to advance it.

Discussion source
Historical lead

Current shop opening hours

A removed 2022 Steam guide lists old schedules, while a later official update says Malcolm's and Angela's shops display hours. Neither proves the current Early Access schedule.

Need: shop name, weekday, observed opening and closing, season and build.

Archived Steam guide
Calendar publication gate

Crop growth, regrow and planting deadlines

A public crop calendar remains on hold because seed-card durations do not prove day-count semantics or the exact season cutoff.

Need on one named current build: readable seed listing, planting date and time, first harvest, second harvest or plant removal, yield, and one season-boundary control. Repeat the full record for at least three crops before publishing planting deadlines.

Open crop evidence
Unverified lead

Animal purchase and upkeep costs

Need: animal type, seller, housing prerequisite, purchase cost, feed consumption and product result.

Test protocol
Unverified lead · Aug 2

Aubergine regrow wording may be unclear

One launch-week player reports that the seed listing implies repeated harvests every seven days, but the plant produced only two harvests.

Need: listing screenshot, planting date, both harvest dates, plant state after harvest two and exact build.

Steam community feed
Official fix · 0.8.10.842

Residual animal disappearance after the hotfix

The official 0.8.10.842 hotfix fixed several known disappearance paths: night entry, chick growth, newborn spawning, loading and animals caught between a building and its doors. The older Aug 2 report is historical evidence, not proof of a current bug.

Need only if it still happens on 0.8.10.842 or later: exact build, before-and-after count, animal age, coop or barn counter, door and fence state, care state, the transition that triggered it, and a screenshot or short clip.

Official hotfix
Unverified lead · Aug 2

Selling surplus electricity is unclear

A player reports remaining grid charges despite positive energy and no payout after ending the contract. No verified sale procedure is available yet.

Need: contract screen, Zesty Metrix values before sleep, next-day statement, connected devices and build.

Steam community feed
Unverified lead · Aug 2

Exterior wall objective does not count windows

One launch-week report says window pieces did not advance a nine-exterior-wall objective. The expected piece types and trigger remain unconfirmed.

Need: exact quest text, blueprint names, placement order, parcel state, count after each piece and build.

Steam community feed
How a report graduates

One observation starts the work

  1. Submit the build, platform, finding, method and source.
  2. We check whether the report is complete and legally usable.
  3. A matching independent observation promotes it to Community-confirmed.
  4. A retained reproduction can promote it to Player-tested.
  5. A later patch can move the record to Historical or Obsolete.