Moonlight Peaks: the August 21 1.2.6 restores wine, beer, and honey prices — and keeps 1.2.3's nerfs

Little Chicken Game Company posted the 1.2.6 patch notes for Moonlight Peaks last night, Friday, August 21, 2026, at 9:36 PM Paris time (7:36 PM UTC). They run six lines and mainly serve to undo the economic rebalancing delivered the day before by 1.2.3, which came out on Thursday, August 20 at 6:08 PM Paris time. Twenty-seven and a half hours separate the two announcements.

The reversal in one sentence: Red Wine, White Wine, and Beer recipes and prices go back to their pre-1.2.3 state, Honey's sale price and production go up until it yields the same income it did before, and bulk cooking goes from 8 to 25 items with a single minigame per batch.

Let's own it right away: what we wrote yesterday about wine and honey, in our article covering 1.2.3, no longer holds. The nerfs to slow-producing goods and to the beehive were reversed a few hours after that piece was published. Everything else we described there, though, is still in effect — and that's exactly what this article details.

A clarification that applies to every name mentioned here: Moonlight Peaks has no French version. Its Steam page lists six languages — English, German, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese — and French isn't among them. Red Wine, Honey, Firefly Pollinator, Firedrop: these are the labels you see on screen, and there's no official French equivalent.

The studio admits it missed the mark

The text accompanying 1.2.6 is unusually direct for patch notes. Little Chicken writes that the previous day's rebalancing, meant to make several different ways of earning money viable, actually made earning harder and « hurt anyone with a big vineyard ».

It's clear we need to reassess our approach to updating the in-game economy for players at all stages. […] we're fully restoring what you can earn from wine, beer, and honey.

Two points worth noting. The studio wants to rethink its method for touching the economy « for players at all stages » of progression: what it's targeting isn't the price level itself, but the effect a uniform cut has on already-established farms. And the announced restoration is limited to wine, beer, and honey.

Before, during, after: the table line by line

Here's the state of each affected economic item across the three successive versions. The left column corresponds to the situation before August 20, i.e., the game as it ran in 1.1.45 since July 21.

One wording nuance is worth pointing out, because it has concrete consequences. For the three drinks, the notes talk about restoring them « to what they were before patch 1.2.3 »: an exact return to the original setting. For honey, they talk about « matching the revenue from before patch 1.2.3 »: it's the outcome being targeted, not the setting itself. In other words, a beehive won't necessarily produce the same quantity as before August 20; it's the total earned at the end that's meant to return to the same level, via a higher unit price. If you were keeping a precise count of your Honey per night, your old quantity logs are no longer reliable, but your revenue logs are trustworthy again.

The four areas 1.2.6 doesn't touch

This is the useful part for anyone who's already adjusted their routine this week. None of the following lines were reversed: they remain as 1.2.3 left them.

• The Firefly Pollinator keeps its cost and its reduced range. A pollinator still consumes 1 Firedrop every night, and its range stays at 8 instead of 9. Since Firefly Sanctuaries' Firedrop production was also rebalanced without a rollback, this machine's nightly budget is unchanged.
• The barn isn't affected. The spawn frequency of your animals' products and what they sell for both moved together on August 20, and the studio isn't reverting that. This is the item where the gap with pre-patch figures remains the widest.
• House upgrades still cost whatever 1.2.3 decided. The direction of the change was never specified. Check the resource list in the interface before stockpiling materials in your chest.
• Field gathering keeps its new yields. Loot from shaken and chopped trees, loot from dig spots: 1.2.3 revised them, 1.2.6 leaves them as is — including its favorable effects, like tree-shaking now being free of energy cost.

A fifth point, more of a footnote: the Purple Gramophone sold at The Howling Hammer stays at the price raised by 1.2.3.

Bulk cooking: the cap of 8 had never been announced

This is the only spot where 1.2.6 goes further than 1.2.3 instead of rolling it back, and it's also the most interesting one to read closely. The August 20 notes simply stated that cooking could now be done in bulk, like crafting. They mentioned no limit whatsoever. We learn of this limit's existence through 1.2.6's wording: « up to 25 items instead of 8 ». So the cap was eight items, and no one officially knew it.

Second line: the cooking minigame now only plays once per batch. The studio doesn't explicitly describe the previous setup, but the phrase « only once per bulk » leaves little room for doubt about what used to happen. In practice, a batch of twenty-five dishes now launches in a single game sequence.

The combined effect is considerable for a farm that sells cooked dishes: the batch triples in size and the handling time collapses. If you'd given up on batch cooking after trying it on Thursday, now's the time to pick it back up.

Neither 1.2.4 nor 1.2.5 ever existed

The numbering jump is intriguing, and there's nothing to dig for behind it. The game's Steam announcement history goes from 1.2.3 on August 20 to 1.2.6 on August 21 with nothing in between, just as it never had a 1.2.0: the notes published right before 1.2.3 are 1.1.45 from July 21.

Two fixes that unblock situations

1.2.6 also fixes two bugs, unrelated to the economy but both blocking.

• Certain decorations could no longer be picked up, including the Herb Garden and the Cauldron. If you'd placed either one in the wrong spot and given up on moving it, it's movable again.
• Extra copies of a Nokturna card weren't being recognized in the collection preview or in the deckbuilder. Duplicates you'd been accumulating without seeing them show up are back on the count: check your collection before buying more.

What this changes for our two economy guides

Our two early-month features relied on prices predating 1.2.3, and 1.2.6 makes part of them reliable again. The August 11 cooking guide is usable again for its sale prices and margins, with a bonus: the twenty-five-item batch makes its profitability rankings much easier to put into practice. The August 9 animal husbandry guide, though, should still be handled with care: its animal product price tables date from before August 20, and that item wasn't restored. The Bumpkin's case deserves particular caution, since its appeal rests on Keg processing while the value of raw animal products has shifted.

What to do this Saturday, August 22

1. Sell off your wine and beer stock. Prices are back to their pre-August 20 level.
2. Check your Red Wine, White Wine, and Beer recipes. 1.2.6 restores the recipes as much as the prices: ingredient quantities per batch aren't what they were yesterday.
3. Get back into bulk cooking. Twenty-five items per batch and a single minigame: it's the patch's best time-to-money conversion.
4. Don't rebuild anything around the barn. Animal product prices and frequency remain those of 1.2.3, with no published figures: track your own over a few nights before buying an animal.
5. Keep counting your Firedrops. One per pollinator per night, range 8: nothing has changed on this front since Thursday.

One question remains open: the studio announces it's reconsidering how it updates the game's economy, with no timeline or scope given. So there's no guarantee the prices restored yesterday will stay that way. The reference version is 1.2.6 — that's the one to base your calculations on.