Improved DirectX12 support as older Direcx12 cards could not run the game in DirecX12 mode. Older cards may be unable to use nanite even when in DirectX12 mode.
Snow won't cover paths, fields, and orchards so quickly.
Added snow to trees.
Improved performance of the high graphic trees non-nanite.
Game file size from 2.2 GB to 1.9 GB.
Fixed mine preview error visual.
Fixed bowyer job not working correctly.
Significant performance and frame smoothing update.
Large CPU performance improvements. Tested with 600 people + 1000 animals and a large city Previously: 25 Fps Now:60 fps
The most significant improvement has been the consistency in frame times. There was a bit too much happening in individual frames. These have been stretched over extended periods, redoing most villager and animal systems and finding the worst offending events. This is something that could still be improved in the future. This has removed most stutters.
Ram usage was also targeted. There was a glitch that took up 2GB for no reason that was fixed, and other changes have allowed the initial RAM usage to go from 8 GB to 3 GB.
The game size has also been reduced from 4.3 GB to 2.2 GB
RVT system has been dramatically improved. This improves the landscape's visual, removes all of the blurriness while moving around, and removes the need for a constant update of the snow visual. There is still a slight flickering for paths and fields, but it is much better.
There is now a controls popup that will appear at the start of a new game, showing all of the details for camera and map movement.
Greatly improved food collection formula, villagers will now store large amounts of food in their homes if they can.
A few jobs have been changed to allow much more resources to be collected from the warehouse. This will reduce the time workers spend walking around and create more items.
The nearest church will now be shown on the house UI. If no church is displayed, then there is not one within range, and the occupants will not be able to attend church.
Camera movement has significantly been smoothed.
Happiness has been reworked and will take much longer to cause people to leave.
One of the performance and frame smoothing improvements came from having the people list not update itself. It will now only update when opening or when clicking the update button.
Smoother villager movement up close.
Raised max firewood amount that can be selected due to the previous amount not being suitable for populations higher than 200.
Longer free time at night ending at 1 am rather than 12 to give more time for people to go to taverns and collect food and water.
Snow trails. Villagers will now leave trails when moving through deep snow. The trails will get covered up over time. There are also slight interactions with puddles.
Villagers will grab much more water at night to last longer.
Changed to a different snow system.
Added x3 game speed so there is now x0 x1 x2 x3 and x5.
UI no longer opens when constructing or creating paths.
When clicking on a load file, it will highlight what is selected.
Added a movement queue to limit the amount per frame to remove considerable lag from time changes such as 6 am.
Families will appear more often if there are many empty homes.
Reduced the age of incoming families.
Improved pathfinding performance.
Villagers are now more likely to get three traits.
Added four new traits Alcoholic, non Alcoholic, calm and gloomy. These traits will affect Happiness.
Performance improvement for all jobs and buildings.
Small changes:
Report a bug link now on the main menu and is linked to the steam discussions page for bug fixes.
Improved performance when eating food.
Improved farm placement collision.
Improved how the inventory of houses is displayed.
Improved animation speeds.
Improved death system.
Farm orchard and graveyard performance improvements.
Optimized animal management system.
Removed some Lods and build visuals to reduce file size.
Changed wheat harvesting to be a straight-line movement to stop villagers from moving around the crop when harvesting.
Initial animal spawning has been sped up.
Entrances will be visible at night.
Added drop-down selection noise.
Fixed children sleeping outside of their homes.
Fixed issue with meals per person calculations.
Fixed issue with cheese food removal.
Fixed issue where one piece of food was not being eaten.
Fixed path cancellation, not respawning path navigation info.
Fixed issue with health healing calculations, which caused people not to heal on higher difficulties.
Fixed menu audio not being tied to volume.
Fixed happiness calculation issue.
Fixed issue with job removal referencing.
Fixed issue with job reassignment.
Fixed herbalists currently doing info.
Fixed issue with graveyard cost removal from top UI.
Fixed lag with campfire preview.
Fixed tavern preview causing lag.
Fixed river volume not updating right away.
Fixed archer selection highlight changing to red if no one can be recruited.
Fixed a few issues with the path system and its placement.
Fixed right-click movement from taking players out of the border.
Fixed marriage search issues.
Fixed issues with villager UI and camera movement.
Fixed many different UI issues.
Fixed issue with worker task closing.
Fixed door location for large stone house.
Fixed view distance for stairs and floor.
There is currently a fatal error when exiting to the desktop or main menu.
Version 0.6.10
Patch notes 0.6.04
Patch notes 0.6.04
Pasture animal movement now sticks to inside its fences.
Building UI now closes when constructing.
Resource list now opens and closes when clicking its top left button.
Fixed pasture max animal amount delay.
Upcoming
I will start working on redoing villagers and how they do their jobs to improve performance—potentially allowing populations of 1000+. This may take a few weeks to a month.
Patch notes 0.6.03
Patch notes 0.6.03
Added a building highlight system that works with Nanite enabled.
Improved landscape RVT system.
Fixed hud upgrades not updating correctly.
Fixed cobbler hud issue.
Patch notes 0.6.01 and 0.6.02
Patch notes 0.6.01 and 0.6.02
Fixed pasture selection issue.
Fixed plot hud crash issue.
Improved hud performance.
Fixed house hud people lit issue.
Fixed multiple stockpile hud issues.
Fixed warehouse hud issue.
Improved camera movement detach when following villagers.
Removed den location because it was on the border's edge.
Improved den deletion and spawning.
Update is now available.
The recent update is now available. The update was held up due to a bad crash issue. All spawning and removal of building Huds were redone if you find any problems, please comment on them, and I will try to fix them as soon as possible.
Nanite, Lumen, Virtual shadow maps and Temporal super resolution.
Bastide is currently 35% off in the Steam Base builder sale.
Reverted to the last version while a crash is being fixed.
Nanite allows highly detailed visuals at a much lower performance cost than it would have been. Trees can activate nanite by being set to epic in graphics, but nanite foliage does not perform as well as static buildings. Currently, the building highlight is broken with nanite and will be fixed (It only works with DirectX 12).
Temporal super-resolution, similar to DLSS, allows the resolution to be dropped and upscaled to the set screen resolution. This provides significant performance boosts, and as long as the percentage is not dropped too low, then it usually isn't noticeable (lower than 50% is usually noticeable and doesn't seem to work as well on direct 11).
35 FPS 100% resolution:
60 FPS 50% resolution:
Virtual shadow maps provide much more detailed shadows at a longer distance with a slight performance cost (Shadows can flicker without nanite enabled).
Shadow map:
Virtual shadow map:
Lumen is a cheaper lighting alternative to raytracing but still costly so there is a toned-down version of lumen available.
Bear and wolf caves added around the map, only available in new games. Bears and wolfs will attack anyone near the caves. If all the animals are killed at a cave, no more will spawn.
Changed graphics menu to provide more control and make more customized presets that adjust screen resolution for TSR benefits.
Snow visual will now be forced to update, fixing the blocks of snow not updating without movement.
Orchard trees can now die and must be removed and replanted.
Switched to a better landscape RVT method also increased max RVT resolution.
Simplified landscape material and improved landscape Lods.
Improved far landscape performance.
Can unlock panning in settings looking far into the distance without nanited trees can be pretty costly.
Increased grass texture resolution to reduce blurriness.
Building rubble can now be reconstructed.
Building preview now has an arrow to show where the entrance is.
Weather now changes instantly on load.
Show load screen before loading new map due to stall on load.
Changed screen edge movement zone to be closer to the edge.
Improved tree shadow performance.
Added visual for autosave.
Removed lens flare.
Transition settings applied when opening a new level.
Fixed autosave loading the save name file rather than the autosave.
Fixed pasture workers getting stuck attempting to remove water and fixed the draining of wells with no water being used by the pasture worker.
Fixed trees disappearing in and out of visibility.
Fixed pasture navigation issue.
Fixed school preview stairs position.
Fixed villager shadow flickering on and off.
Fixed a village spawn location too close to the border.
Build list, DirectX12 and 11 options, Navigation improvements and much more.
Build list, DirectX12 and 11 options, Navigation improvements and much more. Version 0.5.07
Added build list to show all current constructions ordered by priority.
Added DirectX 12 and 11 options when opening the game. This is needed for the future addition of Nanite, as it can only be used with DirectX12.
Will say too hilly when trying to construct on hills or mountains.
Added extra collision to the tannery, making it much easier to click.
All building navigation has been redone to be separate from its construction bounds. There should now be better movement around buildings and where paths can be placed.
All build locations have been updated.
Improved pasture animal search system.
Improved child house reassignment.
Adjusted firewood usage to be slightly less.
River volume has been tied to game volume.
Adjusted bakery plot area.
Improved Trello button clicking.
Fixed house upgrade name not updating.
Fixed trees disappearing and appearing.
Fixed multiple people going to chop the same tree.
Fixed translation issue with building controls.
Fixed house type 2 navigation issues.
Fixed church build locations.
Fixed firewood builder position issue.
Fixed animal movement in pastures.
Fixed brewery roof shine.
Fixed orchard pear visual for when pears have been picked from the tree.
Fixed cheesemonger floor issue.
Fixed villagers getting stuck at the market at night when too poor to purchase food.
Fixed a variable issue with the bowyer being stuck at 1.
Fixed issue with bowyer jumping in and out of their job.
Fixed delay on amount of bows ordered when opening hud.
Fixed issue with some buttons being triggered by the keyboard.
