- Scoring and game end (in case of victory) moved from midnight to dawn
- In-game manual added
- Pause option added
- ESCape will now cancel the building task menu (the one that opens when you click on a building)
- Various UI improvements
- Fog density reduced somewhat - let me know if it's now good for you or it needs more tuning
- Updated forest graphics, should solve some of the night-time lighting issues
Black Forest
Manual - Gameplay and UI Improvements
New Building! And making the game more accessible.
- Can no longer repair destroyed buildings - you have to demolish the rubble and build a new one
- Fields now grow better (more food) if it rains or they are watered from a well
- Added the well common building
- A few bugfixes
- Added a quick link to the online manual to the start menu because people apparently don't realize there is a manual on Steam
- A basic intro explanation window for those who missed the manual on Steam
- Made it more clear that some buildings are simply not yet available.
- Clicking on monsters now brings up an info panel.
Fixing options and small things
- Audio options fixed (i.e. actually working now)
- Options menu available on the map as well now
- Harvest in fields now depends on the weather
- Bugfixes
Quick Fixes
- Options menu added
- Can now hold Q and E to rotate (not just press once)
- Bugfixes
Improved Gameplay and Features
- Fixed a small placement bug that affected mostly palisades
- Better building menu with proper status info and better visibility for disabled actions
- Families whose home has been destroyed now relocate to an empty home, or pitch a tent when they cannot find one (sleeping in a tent reduces health, so you want to get them back into a proper home ASAP)
- Game now switches to normal speed on nightfall and daybreak
- Fixed several bugs related to day/night transitions
- Raised the monster threat on the test map somewhat, to make it more challenging
- New defensive building: Burning Pile
- Build button tooltips now tell you the construction time of the building
- Added a special event happening in some games between day 8 and day 12
Better Gameplay Update
* Chicken pens now produce eggs (send a peasant to collect them)
* Can no longer start tasks at night.
* A few more model variations
* Game Over screen now correctly displays your score and results.
* A few minor bugfixes
* Personal high-score display added
* Monsters now eat peasants when destroying or seriously damaging a house
* Peasant info panel now correctly displays dead peasants
Early Access is Available (again)
Changes to last internal build:
- Game over conditions added
- Werewolf added (spawning in the later game)
- Steam leaderboard integrated (not yet visible in-game)
- Added two more day songs
- Added new monster: Ent (late game)
- Starting to add animated villagers to construction sites
- More Steam achievements
- All buildings rebalanced (in general, more workers and longer construction times)
- Villager models added so you can see them working
Bugfixes and Fields
- Fixed graphics glitch with the chicken pen
- Fixed new buildings not opening context menu
- Fixed plank walls not showing deconstruction effects
- Fixed fields, which were growing all wrong
- Added camera light at night
- Construction projects now pause during the night
- Game speed controls added
- Fields can now be harvested for food
Closing in on a Playable Version
- Updated online manual and Steam page information
- Fields are now growing
- A number of small UI improvements
- Game now starts at 9 in the morning, not 12 (to give more time on the first day)
- Building up the Context menu for actions on finished buildings
- Implemented action to demolish buildings
- Implemented actions to repair damaged buildings
- First Steam achievements and statistics added
- Added side-poles to walls to make building a proper wall easier
- Added wolf spawners so that there actually are nightly attack waves, at least for testing purposes
- A bunch of bugfixes and general improvements
- Added music (a couple of really great tracks from Kevin MacLeod, filmmusic.io)
Lots of New Features
- Wood House now available
- Wheat Field now available
- Random wolves spawn and attack at night (no effect on anything yet)
- Damaged and ruined states for buildings added
- Monsters can now damage and destroy buildings
- Peasants are generated in the village
- Random name generator (based on real medieval german names) added
- Peasants are correctly added and removed from tasks
- Peasant info display added
- Level selector added
- Hunted down an evasive bug that lead to a Unity crash, making debugging it really tiresome :-)
- Gathering actions implemented
- Peasants now consume food (1 unit per peasant twice a day - at sunrise and sunset)
- Peasants can starve from lack of food