Balloon festivals are here. A festival is a celebration where everyone's balloons rise together somewhere in Japan. There is no ranking. Enter from the Festival section of the Mission sheet. At the start time your balloon is carried to the venue and takes off with everyone. You can also join while it is under way, and choose whether to return home or keep traveling from the venue afterwards. At the venue, the other participants' balloons fill the sky around you. Everyone who takes part receives a commemorative balloon pattern. The first festival will be announced in the app soon. New Balloon patterns menu. Switch between the patterns you own. Commemorative patterns from festivals appear there too. Take photos. Tap the camera at the bottom of the right-hand column to save the view to your photo library. Switch your view. Each tap of the eye button moves the camera: behind the balloon, inside the basket, on the ground, or up on a nearby hill or mountain. In the basket, drag to look around. The seasons now show on the ground. Autumn colors, harvested rice fields and the first snow on the peaks advance with the place and the date. Notices from us. Announcements such as maintenance or festival news are shown once, the next time you open the app. While a notice is up, you can read it again from Menu > Notice. Also: - Badge details now show the prefecture and city, with a button to see the spot on the map. - Sky and ground brightness now adapt naturally to the view. - At night, the balloon glows with its pilot light. - The compass at the top left is now lighter, so it no longer looks like a button.

Notifications now actually arrive. The notifications we announced in 1.1 were not being delivered. Sorry about that. You will now hear when you run out of fuel, land on a mountain, receive a greeting, complete a destination, and more. Other balloons now appear on the map. The 30 most recently opened balloons show up as white dots. Tap one to see its pattern, name, owner, altitude and where it is. If it is within 60 km, you can send it a greeting. Favorites added. Tap the star on a balloon's card to keep it. The other player is never told. Your favorites always appear on the map as green dots. The social sheet is now three tabs: Inbox, Favorites and Nearby. You can now let your balloon rest (≡, General tab). While resting, it waits on the ground where it is and does not drift. A balloon left unopened for 3 days now comes down and rests on its own. Burn to take off again. Also: - Screens with many pixels no longer slow the game down. - The map zooms to 10x and remembers its zoom. - Clouds have crisper edges and deeper shading. - Coastlines no longer show a jagged staircase. - Reasons a greeting could not be sent were shown in Japanese. Fixed. - The scroll bar no longer covers text at the right edge.

Altitude works differently now. Your balloon holds an altitude above sea level, not above the ground. It no longer drifts through the wind column as the land rises and falls, so the winds you read are the winds you get. The trade: a mountain in your path is no longer cleared automatically. Touch down on one and you moor there — raise your altitude to set off again. Notifications added. We will let you know when you run out of fuel and come down, when you land on a mountain, when you are recovered from the sea, when a greeting arrives, and when you complete a destination. You can turn them off in your device's Settings. The menu (≡) is now three tabs: General, Settings and Account. Account holds everything your journey has added up to — distance flown, prefectures crossed, badges collected, time played, day streak — on one screen. Your transfer code moved there too. Also fixed: - Landing on a mountain could leave you unable to take off again. - Opening after a long time away could fly you on hours-old wind. - The wind table read while moored was frozen on the day you stopped. - The "stamp book" is now called the badge book everywhere.