- resetting the input configuration to possibly clean out more issues that people might be having
- fixed loading/setting of zoom/move/rotate speed
- added visible version display to main menu
- moved camera speed settings to the input configuration options
- fixed an error in setting the camera speeds
- added code to reset camera speeds to default values if they are out of bounds (e.g. due to old settings which were on a different scale)
Black Forest
small bugfix and cleanup update
4th input bug hotfix
If you still experience issues with input (nothing works, main menu not working, in-game something not working) please include your operating system (windows, mac, linux) in the bug report.
3rd hotfix
2nd Hotfix
Bugfix Update & Configurable Input
Also, you can now configure your hotkeys and change your mouse move/rotate/zoom speeds (instead of just zoom).
- Fixed several save/load issues - ATTENTION, this will break your previous savegames and silently delete the incompatible ones
- Reworked the input handling, so it can be configurable
- Made keyboard shortcuts and controls configurable
- Changed the "ghost" (building placement) shaders to avoid issues with them going black sometimes (the new shader is also more performant, but performance isn't an issue here)
- Houses are now vacated if all family members die
- Increased range of lamps
- Changed the way the camera works to rotate-in-place instead of rotate-around. This should make the camera work much better, especially around the map edges
- Made mouse zoom, move and rotate speeds independently configurable
- Cleaning out a number of unused assets
- Fixed a lot of problems with monster spawns that had crept into the last update
New Bugfixes and New Content
- New building: Smelter - a cheaper alternative to the smithy to get metal (but produces no tools and is more dangerous to operate)
- New monster: Hydra - a terrifying late-game enemy that can tear right through a village if not stopped by massive defenses
- Smithy now also grants a small bonus to metal gathering, depending on the number of smiths assigned
- Fixed: Werewolves should no longer glitch through walls when attacking
- Balance: Food production of cabbage fields slightly reduced
- Added a "task is active" indicator to the context menu
- Fixed: No longer possible to assign more than the maximum number of workers to certain workshop buildings
- Some more code cleanup work
- Fixed: Gamelog was broken on some maps, should be fixed now
- Well now notifies explicitly if all fields are watered
- Tooltips added to options buttons
- Hide UI function added so you can take more beautiful screenshots
- score display on saved games is now correct again
- Fixed a crashbug related to pausing
Large New Year Update
This is a huge update, though most of the changes are behind-the-scenes and invisible to you when you play the game. However, with a large rework of the code, bugs should disappear and new bugs can be found more easily. A lot of beautification was also added, and streamlining of gameplay.
This is a big update and it may break a few things. It almost certainly will break your savegames. Sorry for that, but there was no way around it.
Here is the full changelog, and as always, please post feedback and report any bugs you find to the Steam forum.
- Fixed: Lunchtime was more of a full-out harvest festival using 5x the food it should. That's back to normal now.
- Balance: Slightly increased the range at which fire spooks monsters
- Refactoring the internal event system code to bring more stability (i.e. unrelated things shouldn't fail if something somewhere fails)
- Refactored monster spawning elements, for more stability and fewer bugs
- Refactored monster info display and monster controls, again for easier bugfixing and fewer bugs
- Refactored internal handling of various small components (status icons status, etc.)
- Added monster flags to the maps that were still missing them
- Fixed lights on a couple of the houses that didn't work properly
- Fixed Burning Pile and construction interplay in the rare case that construction isn't finished at nightfall
- Fixed a few peasant log entry texts
- Fixed another save/load game issue that caused the village population to double
- Added a few visual effects (construction of walls, etc.)
- Spiced up the main menu UI
- Spiced up the level start
- Peasants now reset at midnight, just in case (hanging issues, etc.)
- Wetness of fields is now properly averaged over the past 24 hours instead of my previous more naive calculation. The new one is also smarter and faster.
- Reworked the way different types of fields react to wetness
- Reworked wood use for heating in cold weather and properly calculate the temperature dependency of that
- Fixed manual link for animal pens
- Fixed unmanned display icon for market
- Lots of small visual improvements
- Fixed the construction sounds on various buildings
- Improved notifications for gather (and other) tasks
- You can now much more easily assign all (maximum) workers to a task
- Watchtowers and well now have "unmanned" icons
- Threat level and reachable scores increased on all maps
- Repair work now correctly updates the storage display
- Balance: The well does not require metal anymore to be built
- Scroll view on game log finally fixed
- Slightly improved texts for log and notifications
- Big improvement to the night and dawn/dusk issue - should be a lot better now
- Fixed: Prices on the market should no longer go into negative values.
- Fixed peasant info display for dead peasants (not that they care anymore...)
Next Update to contain Breaking Changes
There is a good chance that this update will break savegames. We are still in Early Access, remember. So if you have open games, finish them before downloading the update (or tell your Steam Client to download the update later).
I'm trying hard to not break things, but this time I have changed so many things in the code that I cannot guarantee that savegames from before the update will properly load in the game after the update.
Sorry for that, but the cool things that I've added and the improvements to the code I've made are well worth it.
Quick Bugfixes
- Fixed: Achievements probably work again now
- Fixed: Carrot fields can now be placed
- Fixed: A really stupid bug that caused a dozen different code pieces to fail
New Buildings, Heating, Changes to Scoring and bugfixes
- New building: Windmill
- New field: Carrots
- In cold weather, the villagers now burn wood to heat their homes and you can see smoke coming out the chimneys. If they have no wood to burn, they freeze, just like in tents (tents cannot be heated).
- Scoring change: In addition to living peasants, buildings in the village now also give a few points. Different buildings contribute different amounts and damage is taken into account.
- Fixed a tent placement error on some maps
- refactored some resource-handling code
- another round of minor bugfixes