• Fixed: Steam integration should work properly again.
  
• Fixed: Onion field uses correct icon for harvest
  
• Fixed: Some monster flag positions on Refugee Camp
  
• Improved visibility of the "harvest in progress" indicator
  
• Reduced log amount
  
• Updated Unity engine and a few assets
  

• New feature: Map editor - currently only 3 maps for trying it out and pretty incomplete. You can make a village with all the buildings in the game, you can NOT at this time make a playable map (with monsters, etc.) - as I said, incomplete, testing, please post feedback to the forum to let me know if it's worth developing further.
  
• Fixed the village log notice when a building is finished (it was using the wrong text field, now the text says "construction of a cow pen finished" instead of "construction of a Cows finished" and similar)
  
• Fixed: Onion field now available in the tutorial
  
• Fixed: Trapper description no longer misleadingly mentions the watchtower
  
• Fixed: Rephrased "safe slaughter" to "sustainable slaughter"
  
• Fixed: The tutorial "hurry up with the food" dialog should no longer appear if you've already completed that quest
  
• Fixed: Requirements display of locked levels is now correctly aligned
  
• Fixed: Buildings built in sandbox mode no longer count towards achievements
  
• Fixed: Graveyard orientation in Refugee Camp map
  
• Visual improvement: Buildings now clear grass and bushes around their location when placed
  
• Watchtowers now show their spotting distance when you build them
  
• Watchtowers have slightly reduced spotting distances now that it's easy to place them correctly
  
• Increased visibility of the bear fireflies
  
• Game will no longer advise you to build a steward if the steward building is disabled (as in the first part of the tutorial)
  
• Added autopaths to Friedmarkt, Karenfang and Hellhafen
  
• Added more text variety and proper translation to monster wound and kill events
  
• Added (german) translations to the building descriptions
  
• Fixed art style of level selector images
  
• Increased grass rendering distance on Refugee Camp map
  

• Fixed: Animal pens' collect icons should now disappear when they are destroyed
  
• Fixed: Orc animations now correctly return to running after attacks
  
• Balance: In "Founding Kroburg":
  
• wood and stone are now gathered faster
  
• slightly more starting food
  
• corrected infrastructure building to smelter (instead of smithy)
  
• Balance: Small changes to monster frequencies and selection in several levels.
  
• Improved forest click detection
  
• Improved pathfinding around gates
  
• Added a few more UI sound effects
  
• Construction sounds now stop when in pause mode
  
• updated achievement images for monster achievements
  
• added another (hidden) achievement
  
• fixed the walking tree achievement (you should properly get it the next time you encounter one)
  

• Fixed: Goblins flaming shots sometimes exploding at their feet
  
• Fixed: Banner context menu now correct
  
• Fixed: Steam no longer thinks under certain (rare) circumstances that you are running the demo when you are running the full version.
  
• Fixed: The maypole in the tutorial now actually gets taken down when the dialog says so.
  
• Small code change to make sure the "Demo" info in the main menu is always visible when you launch the demo, even if you have the full game
  
• Finetuning some difficulties in some levels
  
• Slightly improved a few texts and translations
  

• Fixed: Monsters should now always turn around from walls/palisades, etc. again - sorry for that, a previous update messed up some physics calculations
  
• Fixed: Onion field does not show up as a carrot field in the context menu anymore.
  
• Fixed: Mill can be built again (it self-intersected, so it was already red)
  
• Fixed: A few small text issues
  
• Fixed: Hard difficulty levels should now unlock if you won a medium game (it unlocked only on easy)
  
• Fixed: Banner construction now working properly
  
• Fixed: Banner default image should now be correct (a shield, not a flower)
  

• Small change: Banner no longer requires metal to build
  
• Added: Quick Start / Reference for impatient players
  

• Added: Monster discovery panel
  
• Added: An exclusive castle level
  
• New icons
  
• Added: Onion field (small, slow-growing, undemanding)
  
• Added: The banner decoration is now available
  
• Added: Once you have discovered a certain amount of monsters, you can upload your own image and choose your own colour for the banner
  
• Hard and doomed difficulty now need to be unlocked by winning easier maps first
  
• Gameplay change: Walls and gates can now be rebuilt in place by choosing the repair option, even if they have been destroyed.
  
• You can now click on the forest to bring up the gather menu.
  
• New and improved windmill model
  

• Fixed: Smithy now correctly uses up 1 wood per spear produced
  
• Fixed: "Rebuild" no longer triggers the intro dialog when loading a save game
  
• Fixed a few small dialog text errors
  
• Fixed: Decorations such as the snowman will no longer be damaged sometimes (and can't be repaired).
  
• Fixed: Improved collision detection precision, so monsters should no longer warp through walls.
  
• Fixed: A few text and spelling errors
  
• Fixed: Gather button and menu now properly disabled at night
  
• Fixed: Story rats appearing properly in "Childrens' Tales"
  
• Fixed: Demolishing a building no longer leads to "x buildings were damaged" steward messages
  
• Fixed: Clicking on the status icons of walls now works properly
  
• Fixed: Dialogs now always show the correct portrait images.
  
• Fixed: Dialogs in the tutorial made more resilient against running over each other
  
• Numerous small bugfixes. In fact, I about halved the number of open issues and the ones remaining are mostly ones I can't reproduce
  

• A few visual and performance improvements to some maps
  
• Translations: German translation should be complete. If you find anything missing, please file a bug report on the forum.
  
• Translations: Removed unfinished french, spanish and russian languages. They may return if I find someone to complete them.
  
• Updated Unity to 2022.3.10 (latest version)
  
• Small visual improvements to a few buildings, such as the cow pen
  
• Monster action cam should now switch to the stronger monster if one appears while it is showing a weaker monster
  

Join Our Village and Support Us:

• Expanded from 2 maps to 13 maps - and from one difficulty level to four, for a total of 41 playable levels!
  
• More dangers, 15 monsters to meet instead of 2 - and also added unique behaviours to the various monster types, background information and guards to defend against them!
  
• So many new buildings - when we started this journey two years ago, we had a handful of basic buildings. Now we have workshops, four types of walls, four types of fields, various animal pens and decorations.
  

• Monster Discovery Panel: Uncover the secrets of the forest with the all-new Monster Discovery Panel. Dive deep into the lore of the creatures that haunt your village.
  
• Exclusive Castle Level: Prepare for a new and exclusive castle level that will test your survival skills like never before. Can you withstand the horrors that lurk within?
  
• Onion Field: Tend to your onion field - small, slow-growing, and undemanding. A valuable addition to your resources.
  
• Banner Decoration: Customize your village with the new Banner Decoration. Make your mark on the Black Forest and claim it as your own.
  
• Personalize Your Banner: Once you've discovered a certain number of monsters, you can upload your own image and choose your own colors for the banner. Show off your unique style as you lead your village to survival.
  

• Rebuilding Walls and Gates: Walls and gates can now be rebuilt in place by choosing the repair option, even if they have been destroyed. Reclaim your defenses and fortify your village.
  
• Unlockable Difficulties: To truly test your mettle, harder difficulties such as Hard and Doomed must now be unlocked by conquering easier maps first. The forest demands a greater challenge.
  
• New Icons: A fresh look with new icons that enhance your gaming experience.