New Engine patch 0.16.5: menu softlock and festival fixes

Direct answer

Fields of Mistria 0.16.5 was a short non-content stability patch. The official notes specifically fixed players getting stuck in menus, including Hayden’s Sell Animals menu, and corrected the Animal Festival in Year 2 and later years.

What the patch confirms

The menu fix is a usability and softlock boundary: it addresses the listed stuck-menu behavior, but it does not prove that every menu or every later version has no softlocks. The Animal Festival fix is similarly specific to the event running correctly in Year 2 and subsequent years.

The notes do not add new crop prices, NPC schedule data, map coordinates, farm footprints, or a new progression table. This page therefore stays a version history reference rather than turning the two fixes into current gameplay rules.

Remaining known issue

The official page continued to call out graphical and performance issues affecting some players, particularly on AMD and Intel integrated GPUs. A current performance report should include the game version, operating system, GPU, resolution, graphics settings, and whether mods are enabled. Do not treat the 0.16.5 note as a guarantee of a fixed frame rate on a specific machine.

How to use this page

Use it when interpreting a 0.16.5-era crash or festival report. For a current issue, compare the installed version with the 1.0.1 and 1.0.2 pages, keep a local save backup, and report an exact reproduction instead of assuming that a historical fix applies to a different build.

Next step

Check the current 1.0.1 and 1.0.2 notes before applying a historical workaround, and attach the version, platform, and reproduction steps to any report.