Hammerting

• Added profession "Farmer", and relevant tool "Rake".
  
• Added profession "Builder", hammers are relevant tools.
  
• Added "Ladle" as the relevant tool for profession "Cook".
  
• Added recipe "Leather", variable in final name with the hide type you made it from "Rat Leather", "Beaver Leather", &c.
  
• Added recipe "Crude Clasp", a metal clasp.
  
• Added recipe "Hauler's Sack", a sack to buff hauling.
  
  
  
  
• When hauling multiple items, dwarves are now limited by 'Weight Capacity', compared against total weight of equipment and inventory.
  
• Wind animations added to most grottos.
  
  
  
  
• Added a section to the outliner with craft buildings. Eventually they will also have an icon on if they are idle etc. Right now it shows health and fuel/feundicity etc.
  
  
  
  
• The profession governing a particular crafting recipe is now displayed on recipes.
  
  
  
  
• New room! The Tailor's Workshop is now For all your fabric- and leatherworking needs.
  
  
  
  
  
• Enemy lairs now spawn enemies when the player explores in their vicinity. Previously they spawned enemies right after map generation. This will also boost performance a bit since it eliminates a bunch of idling ai agents.
  
• Added profession "Tailor"
  
• Added profession "Healer"
  
• Improved the Defeat endgame screen for non-demo scenarios.
  

• Dwarves will now cling to nearby walls when the block underneath them is destroyed.
  
  
  

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• Caves are now animated with some particle effects. (work in progress)
  
  
  
  
• Dynamic portraits (art not final)
  
  
  
  
  
• Added new cave room "Ancient Dwarven Mound"
  
• Skeletons now drop bones, rather than slabs of Granite.
  
• Added Cave Mission "Fountain of Youth", unlocked by Medicine.
  
• Added recipe "Bone Ash", made from bones. Restores Fecundity.
  
• Added recipe "Lime", made from bone ash.
  
• Added recipe "Mortar", made from lime, water, and crushed granite. Useful for later game buildings.
  
• Log book now records new Cave Missions starting.
  
• Log book now records Cave Missions completing.
  
• Players can now rename their dwarves.
  
  
  
  
• More and more particle animations making it's way into the game. For instance, slime dripping in the slimey lair.
  
  
  
  

• Cave missions should now evaluate objectives in parallel where relevant.
  
• Female dwarves will no longer get male dwarf bodies.
  

• Added "Jackpot Mine", cave room
  
• Added "Supply" status bar to Sacred Well and Jackpot mine, limiting the amount that can be produced in them.
  
• Dwarves will now retreat when they are low on health and near an enemy.
  
• We have a new awesome particle system in the engine. Wanna taste some dwarven soup?
  
  
  
  
• Cave Farms now have a "Fecundity" meter, and most recipes in them have Fecundity costs specified. Fecundity restores over time, or with the application of fertilizers. Crushed Granite and Algae are currently fertilizers.
  
• The starting location is no longer at a fixed coordinate on the map, there's some randomness applied.
  

• Added better support for variable number/types of status bars in craft rooms.
  
  
  
  
• Alerts have been tweaked. Fewer shown at the start of the game to make sure new players aren't intimidated.
  
  
  
  
• Improved the logic for choosing production queue entry considering key value costs.
  
  
  
  
• Two patches, one of copper and one of coal, are now guaranteed to spawn somewhere reasonable easy to find, reasonably near the starting entrance.
  
  
  
  
• Added log book entry for Mountain Discoveries. Logbook entries now determine their entry height, rather than use a fixed size.
  

• Combined 'Dwarves Portraits', Overworld missions and Cave missions to one singular list.
  
  
• New Mission "Geological Explorations"
  
• New Mission "Jelly Potluck"
  
• Some more loot, like Slime Balm for example. It's for sensitive skin!
  
  
• New Mission "Frozen Cold"
  
• New Mission "Where Mushrooms Grow"
  
• Ambient cave audio volume is now lowered near buildings and other things that has ambience of their own. As a result, ambience volumes have been tweaked allround.
  
• Grottos, the overworld and its locations, and the entrance cave now also have ambient sounds.
  
• The tooltips for Attributes are slightly improved.
  
• New mission "The First Feast"
  
• New mission "Studies Arcane"
  
• By holding CTRL in the character screen, more information is now displayed, and it is possible to directly change the dwarf's profession priorities.
  
  
• Mission "Reaping Folk, and Sowing"
  
• Added "Sacred Well", Cave Room
  
  
• A sound is now triggered when enough resources have been delivered for an overworld mission, indicating that it is Ready for Delivery.
  
• Added two new sounds to slightly distinguish between plussing and minusing attributes, and better sounds are now triggered for reverting/committing the attribute changes.
  
• Added a sidebar to the Overworld map
  
  

• MSAA option is now exposed in 'Options' menu
  
  
• The dwarf Level Up indicator should now behave a little bit better
  
• Added support for 64x64 cursor icons, to support more modes of DPI scaling
  
• Fixed a broken path to a certain cursor at 256x256px resolution, causing the game to crash
  
• Attribute tooltip is now easier to understand.
  
• Sounds for buying research (or not, due to not having enough money) have been fixed. Also fixed a clicking bug in the UI.
  

• Dwarves' vision range is now by default quite a bit lower, but is now affected by their Explorer level (and Awareness since earlier).
  
• Dwarfs are now a bit better at seeing through the ground (to compensate for their slightly smaller vision radius). This makes it a bit easier to place buildings without having to dig everything out beforehand.
  
• Biomes are now slightly smaller and nearer the starting location.
  
• Lairs will now spawn additional enemy waves while it's being attacked.
  
• Sometimes the dwarves would get an extra attribute point when calculating profession skills. Not any longer
  
• Increased start chest capacity from 48 to 320
  
• Fonts can now be resized and/or condensed on a per-language basis. DE, FR, IT, ES, and RU have had their font sizes slightly reduced so fonts won't overflow text boxes as often
  
• Stone Chests now take up 3x3 tiles instead of 2x2.
  
• Added paragraph endings for all entries in the Book of Tings
  
• Changed the desire icon (going to eat / get payment) in the top right dwarf UI
  
• Extended the money tab. in the top bar
  
• Added Arcane Lore "Tradewind Recipes", unlocking various cooking recipes.
  
• Added Arcane Lore "Cogborne Transmission" & "Mechanized Excavation", moved around several recipes, and enabled more powerful drill types.
  
• Added Arcane Lore "Spear Making", and moved several spear related recipes to it.
  
• Two new options for when the game window loses focus (for example by alt-tabbing).
  
  
  
  
• Added a 'Sell All Items' button to chests
  
  
  
  
• Sell all of a specific item (globally) is now available in the ledger
  
  
  
  
• It's now possible to specify inputs to a recipe explicitly (inputs need to have been crafted prior)
  
  
  
  
  
• Recipes now gives feedback on the selected input straight away
  
  
  
  
• Reworked the look of crafting orders.
  
  
  
  
• Added an option to scale the UI
  
  
  
  
• Changed the selection + mouse-over effect from an outline, to show on the entire object instead. Also gives a boost to weaker graphics cards
  
• Added a small light, that always illuminates each dwarf, to make them easier to spot in dark areas
  
• New option to mute all audio when the window loses focus.
  
  
  
  
• New Cave Mission "An Ancient Omen" requires you to locate the "God of the Forge", located deep beneath the boundless stone. Reward may feel underwhelming, but cool in itself.
  
  
  
  
• New mission "The Rats in the Walls" unlocked when discovering a Rat Hole
  
  
  
  
• Professions are now sorted so that the character's main professions are shown first.
  
  
  
  
• New mission "Mopping the Floors" unlocked when killing a Green Slime
  
  
  
  
• working on lots of different loot and foods that can be found/crafted in the game world.
  
  
  
  
• Added "tier" headers to research screen, and adjusted the spacing somewhat
  

• Dwarves now get XP for each ore mined, not just for the last one in a block.
  
  
  
  
• Crushing, Piercing, and Slashing Damage values now contribute to a weapon's Militia Weapon Skill value. This makes the AI choose the best weapon from a dwarfs toolbelt before going into combat.
  
• Fixed crash when tearing down an elevator platform or mine cart with one or more dwarfs on/in it
  
• Grottos once again extend dwarfs' vision (fix requires starting a new game)
  
• Clicking +/- very fast in a room's production queue will now longer "miss" some clicks. Also it will not crash!
  
• Game now sets working dir when clicking the icon in the tray properly
  
• Dwarves will no longer consume something if it will bring one of their statusbars (e.g. health) to/below zero.
  
• Fixed ugly black border on mouse cursor
  
• Fixed an error when deleting structures, which didn't clean up properly after themselves
  
• Language selection is now supported, many of us are working on additional fixes for it
  
  
  
  
• When dwarves got really low on morale/energy/greed, bonus energy/health/morale was given instead of draining them faster
  
• Progress status bars for building should advance correctly again.
  
• Fixed a bug when a dwarf could see an enemy, start moving towards it, then lose line-of-sight to it and forgetting about it, then resuming its previous task only to see the enemy and starting the entire process over again.
  
• When playing the game in French, it now uses AZERTY keyboard layout instead of QWERTY
  
• Item preciousness now modifies item prices
  
• added an indicator for when the game is in power save mode
  
  
  
  
• Fixed dwarfs sometimes getting stuck in an indecision-loop when hauling repairs to a building or bandages to a hurt friend.
  
• fixed dwarfs sometimes hauling items to a storage chest instead of something more important like a foundry or overworld mission
  
• Fixed dwarfs not properly equipping tools if the tool was dropped and then picked up again
  
• Cleaver Axe Head no longer has a lingering dependency on building a Cookhouse
  
• Main menu that pops up when pressing 'ESC' is now a bit smarter about when to pause/unpause
  
• Fixed various bug with missions giving rewards inconsistent with descriptive texts, missing icons, &c.
  
• Rooms under construction are now disabled in the time between completion of the room, and the removal of the last scaffold.
  
• When a generic production order (in this case Support Beams) gets at least one input (in this case Iron Sheet), the game now lists "Missing X Iron Sheet(s)" instead of "Missing X Metal Sheet(s)"
  
  
  
  
• Attribute leveling and indicators work as intended.
  
• All overworld factions have appropriate descriptive texts.
  
• Tools now generally implement weight and preciousness.
  
• All modifiers for tools and components set to non-zero values.
  
• Missions for the Town of Duskmoon should now give coin, rather than copper ingots. Added trade lore rewards to various missions.
  
• Map panning and Overworld panning now work correctly with UI scaling
  
• Pretty new Team17 Logo in the loading screen
  
  
  
  
• Fixed some mission that would be broken after loading a save game (no savegames were harmed during this process)
  
• Drill UIs should have proper images set.
  
• Most food items should have appropriate drop models.
  
  
  
  
• Massive optimization. Game no longer absolutely tanks your framerate when checking if the CTRL key is being held down.
  
• Buildings now have different sounds for when they are idle and when they are actively used.
  
• Improved tooltips in character screen, to give the player some much needed information when deciding which attribute to level up. (Note: The new UI for profession values only shows up when holding CTRL, to keep clutter down).
  

• Crafting entries can now be paused, and moved up/down the list.
  
  
  
  
• Objects on the ground may now despawn after a while. (Better implementation will follow)
  
• Combatants will now prioritise attacking other combatants rather than buildings. This may fix the "looking in the wrong direction, getting stabby-stabbed in the back" bug.
  
• In-game dwarf portrait, and the character screen, now indicates when a dwarf has leveled up, so that the player knows there are attribute points to assign.
  

• (Re)added names when zoomed out, and added an option to disable it.
  
• Book of Tings tutorial no longer pop up in your face. Instead you get a notification that you can click to open it up.
  

• Some audio triggers added to research screen.
  
• Build and mine commands are now slightly more lenient when it decides if you have explored enough or not. Now, "half-visible" tiles also count as explored.
  

• Profession Levels now increases for production values x3, rather than x1. Base attributes are now 3, rather than 5.
  
• Added a 'Book of Tings' entry for Material Properties. Describing how materials are used and propagated from metals, through tool components, to tools.
  
• Steam trading cards, badges etc added.
  
  
• You can no longer click through the overworld map.
  

• The game will now start if you're using DPI scaling, which we don't have matching cursor sizes for. In this case, you won't get fancy custom cursors.
  
• New fullscreen research screen. Note that the art isn't final yet.
  

• Fix for crash that occurred when enabling debugline rendering.
  
• Fixed a performance issue for building-low-health and building-low-fuel alerts. This was the major bottleneck in mid- to late game bases and got worse for each scaffolding/rail/elevator etc that you built.
  
• Fixed assert/crash that would occasionally occur when using elevators/mine carts: "Error: Why didn't we find a path?" / "Assertion failed: r->_start_node_id == 0"
  
• Fixed some uninitialized memory leading to strange ai decisions (like stashing 0 gold in their dwelling over and over again)
  
• Fixed rare crash that could occur when dwarves or enemies die and a new one spawned after.
  
• Dwarves will no longer attack if the player has disallowed it. They will also be sure to equip a weapon before attacking.
  
• Dwarf portrait UI.
  
• Supports any number of dwarves.
  
• Supports resizing window.
  
• Two different view modes.
  
• Can optionally show names.
  
• Remembers state across saves.
  

• Fixed a bug that gave the three starting dwarfs the same hair and skin color as each other. In addition dwarfs will now keep their hair and skin color when loading a saved game.
  
• Fixed a rare crash when loading save games. Dependencies were not declared correctly leading to a race condition.
  
• Dwarfs will no longer try to haul items if there is no available path from the item to the destination.
  

• Reworked the assign dwelling UI.
  

• Added a scrollbar for the professions tab and a toolbelt section for the character UI.