MCA: Conversations

[1.2.1] - August 25th, 2026

A content-focused update that cleans up broken dialogue, unreachable conversation branches, repeated lines, gendered wording, and Brazilian Portuguese translations.

No gameplay systems were changed.

Fixed Broken Dialogue

• Fixed several conversations showing raw placeholders like %2$s instead of the intended text.
• Fixed season, weather, holiday, gift, and village information failing to appear in dialogue.
• Fixed one conversation trying to display two replies at once.
• Corrected several formatting mistakes across both English and Brazilian Portuguese.

Fixed Repeat Conversations

• Fixed eight topics that could incorrectly give hearts again just for being asked a second time.

• Fixed repeat conversations sometimes falling back to the old one-line dialogue instead of the proper branching system.

• Added missing repeat dialogue for:

  • Relationship happiness.
  • Relationship future.
  • Checking on children.
  • Asking about parents.
  • Seasons.

Re-asking a topic during its cooldown will now consistently give an appropriate "we already talked about this" response instead of another reward.

Improved Dialogue Variety

• Rewrote repeated refusal lines across Life, Dreams, Hopes, Regrets, and Secrets so each topic sounds distinct.
• Reworked 69 dialogue variants that were effectively just alternate wording of the same sentence.
• Fixed one critical-success response being identical to the normal-success response.
• Improved young-villager dialogue so different topics no longer reuse the same responses.

Gender-Neutral Dialogue

Fixed several lines that incorrectly assumed the gender of either the villager or player.

Examples included villagers describing themselves as "a girl", calling the player "handsome", or referring to characters as "he", "she", or "the man" regardless of who was speaking.

These lines are now written to work correctly for any character.

Brazilian Portuguese

• Updated 141 Brazilian Portuguese strings to match the corrected English dialogue.
• Added translations for all new repeat-conversation lines.
• Corrected gender-specific wording independently where needed.
• English and Brazilian Portuguese remain fully synchronized.

Dialogue Polish

• Standardized punctuation across both languages.
• Replaced inconsistent hyphens with proper em dashes.
• Standardized ellipses.
• Fixed several smaller grammar and punctuation issues.

Stability & Testing

Added new automated checks to catch dialogue mistakes before release, including:

• Missing or incorrect placeholders.
• Unused dialogue variables.
• Conversations trying to speak twice at once.
• Duplicate conditions.
• Conflicting conversation conditions.

These checks should prevent the same classes of dialogue problems from returning in future updates.