update · November 28, 2025
Out and About Summer Update Adds New Area, Cooking, and Quests
Out and About launches its Summer Season update, introducing over 30 plants, 74 recipes, a new lake area, paddle boarding, character Kiano, and extensive quality-of-life adjustments.
Out and About has released its first major seasonal content drop. The Summer Season update expands gameplay significantly with dozens of new plants, recipes, quests, and systemic adjustments.
New Content and Exploration
Players can explore a new lake area with paddle boarding mechanics. The update introduces over 30 summer plants and mushrooms, 74 new unlockable recipes, and 15 new outfit pieces utilizing dyes. Kiano the tailor joins the character roster, accompanied by three new friendship tiers per character yielding approximately 90 new quests. Additionally, 45 community projects, such as town decoration, are now available.
Quality of Life and System Overhauls
Bulk cooking is now enabled, and a third cooking slot unlocks at the start of the summer season. Community projects now unlock the following day rather than immediately. Storefront transactions now accept multiple currencies instead of coins only, and the friendship UI features progress hints. Character cooking bonuses are now functional, F12 screenshots work properly, and Photo Mode saves images to Steam unless the target is a plant identification. Foraging health thresholds have been adjusted from 66 percent to 45 percent for orange indicators, and from 33 percent to 20 percent for red.
Economy Adjustments
Removing trash now yields 25 Curiosity Points instead of a single coin, subject to a daily cap of 1,000 points using sorting mechanics. Costs for nearly all community projects have been rebalanced.
Why this patch matters
The Summer Season update substantially lengthens the game with major content additions and fixes core community complaints regarding cooking and UI clarity.