New Features

• Sugar Cane farming — A brand-new crop that follows the wheat workflow: hoe the soil, plant Sugar Cane Seeds (sold by Ivy, 15 gp), water once, and watch it grow through three stages over one game day of online play. See the Wiki for the full chain.
• Fire Bug harvest — Sugar cane is harvested with fire, not the scythe. Use a Fire Bug on the mature plant: most of the time it ignites and burns for 30 seconds before becoming harvestable. About one in ten times the bug fizzles, burns out in your hand, or even explodes for 5 damage — each outcome shows a clear message. Once the cane has burned down, use a Sickle to receive 1 Bunch of Sugar Cane straight into your inventory.
• Sugar processing chain — Mill a Bunch of Sugar Cane to refine it into Sugar (3 second countdown), then run Sugar through a Distilling Machine to produce a Sugar Cube (sells to Marta, future oven recipes coming). Separately, you can combine a Bunch of Sugar Cane with a Bunch of Wheat directly to craft Sugar Oat — vanilla recipe, instant, no machinery required.
• Sugar Oat — Mount Speed Treat — Use a Sugar Oat directly on your horse or donkey to apply a +5% mount-speed buff for 30 real minutes. Feeding again refreshes the timer. The buff ticks in real time even when you are offline, so use it shortly before your next ride!
• Energized status icon — A new cyan sparkle now appears over horses and donkeys while a Sugar Oat treat is active, so you always know whose boost is running. Priority sits below hungry / sick / ready so you never miss a critical animal alert.

NPC Shops

• Hank — Now also stocks the Sickle (50 gp) and the Fire Bug (25 gp).
• Ivy — Now stocks Sugar Cane Seeds (15 gp).
• Marta — Buys and sells Sugar Cube (base price 40 gp, dynamic economy).

Bug Fixes

• Bull / donkey slaughter cargo loss — Slaughtering a loaded bull or donkey now drops the cargo on the ground instead of vaporizing it. No more accidentally turning your harvest into beef.

Documentation

• Cyclopedia (Ranching tab) — Sugar Cane subsection added under Farming, plus tool list updates.
• Wiki — New Sugar Cane section in the Farming article, plus Sugar Oat cross-reference in Horse Mounts.

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