We just launched the 1.0 version of The Wandering Village 🥳

What changed since Early Access?

• Story Mode: Adding more lore, quests and a story-based end goal to the game.
  
• Ocean and Ruins Biome: New challenges await in the form of new gameplay mechanics, events and scouting locations.
  
• Reworked economy: Improved villager management, a reworked research system and balancing tweaks have increased the game’s depth.
  
• Hostility modifiers: Extra challenges for experienced players.
  
• Gameplay and content expansions: Such as trading, parasites, new buildings, resources, Onbu commands, just to name a few.
  
• Controller and Steam Deck Support
  
• Ported the game to Xbox, PlayStation and Switch
  
• And much more!
  

What’s next?

More news:

• Fixed being able to start a research while another is still active, causing you to lose all invested resources without warning
  
• Fixed inputs not correctly reset after controller change
  
• Fixed wrong glossary descriptions: gamepad alternatives were ignored
  

• Fixed a rare exploit that could lead to Onbu continuing past the location of the story finale
  
• Fixed dialogue in story finale sometimes getting locked up
  
• Fixed parasite egg locations not being selectable prior to the eggs actually being burrowed
  
• Fixed manually placed parasite eggs not being removed by Pest Control workers if marked for harvest
  
• Fixed road visuals not updating correctly after placing construction sites on top and then cancelling them
  
• Fixed VideoPlayer rarely getting stuck at end of video, requiring manual user input to continue
  
• Fixed islands sometimes not being visible on world map in story mode
  
• Fixed one scavenging event outcome showing the wrong notification with unused resource placeholders
  
• Fixed flags on tents and a few other housing types having their icons offset
  

• Added a new, animated start screen!
  
• Replaced story outro dialogue soundtrack
  
• Added puddle sound effect
  
• Removed some UI panels related to Early Access
  
• Changed light and fog settings for story finale
  
• Improved story cutscene backgrounds
  
• Improved story outro
  
• Added optional objective to ||second seed-planting phase during finale|| to make it clear how to get Liquid Weed Killer
  
• Improved visuals for “wandering sporemoths” event
  
• Disabled mipmaps for startscreen UI assets to improve visual appearance
  
• Improvements to research tree zoom-bar layouting for gamepad
  
• Tweaked anchoring for twitch-decision popup
  
• Added one missing localization string
  
• Updated credits
  
• Added a visual hint to pressable elements in story cutscenes to avoid players getting stuck in cutscenes and thinking the game froze
  
• Added animated quest marker to one of the earlier main quest locations
  

• Fixed glyphs not updating correctly when switching device during gameplay
  
• Fixed a bug where carpenters would not fill their own storage
  
• Fixed broken outline shader for Linux
  
• Fixed Onbu clipping through islands in ocean biome
  
• Fixed plants being visibly fully grown on planting
  
• Fixed animal mission objectives not updating when unpinned
  
• Fixed ‘Decision’ tutorial
  
• Fixed resource categories not working during pause
  
• Fixed world map location selection
  
• Fixed texture issues in start screen
  
• Fixed cases where Onbu could get permanently stuck in “already following a command” state. If your save file is already affected, issuing the same command that Onbu last received should fix it
  
• Fixed gamepad navigation order for side display
  
• Fixed gamepad shortcut for story UI
  
• Fixed several issues with right-to-left localization
  
• Fixed resource amounts in top bar not getting refreshed when disabling/enabling buildings while paused
  
• Fixed a potential softlock when triggering any input during story camera transitions
  
• Fixed settings panel showing wrong tab on reopening
  
• Fixed cursor staying hidden when switching from gamepad to mouse while a popup was open
  
• Fixed wrong gamepad glyphs showing for scavenging widget
  
• Fixed elements in side display not being re-translated when switching language
  
• Fixed gamepad navigation issue when opening glossary for the first time
  
• Fixed tutorial widgets not fading out anymore
  
• Fixed animal mission buildings not letting you move in the mission UI when going there via button
  
• Fixed Credits getting skipped automatically after skipping ending cutscene on gamepad (and other cases where hold-to-trigger buttons would trigger immediately if already held when entering a new view)
  

• Reduced scavenging special event probabilities from 20% to 10%
  
• Slightly extended buildable zones on Onbu’s flanks to allow for more consistent placement of Seawater Collector
  

• Improved billboard shader
  
• Improved performance and redesigned credits
  
• Improved performance on worldmap
  
• Improved preformance of topbar UI
  
• Switched out all videos to 720p so they will also work on lower-end PCs
  
• Improved performance of log panel
  
• Many other performance improvements across the board
  

• Fixed an issue where save files could not be loaded if they were created just after completing the “Burial at Sea” sidequest while already scavenged wreckage locations were still visible on the map
  

• Fixed an issue where players could get locked from making further progress in Story Mode when saving after clearing the strange rubble, but before listening to the incoming dialogue
  
• Automatically fix save files affected by the aforementioned bug - if your file was previously stuck in this state, loading it should allow you to continue with the story
  

• Fixed an issue where Onbu would walk past the final location in Story Mode if it had low trust and started shaking at that exact moment
  
• Fixed an issue where Onbu Discipliner could be used to force Onbu to move beyond the final location in Story Mode for a couple of seconds after reaching it
  

Patchnotes v0.11.4

What's New

• "Story Mode": Introduces many new characters and a main quest that sheds more light on the past - and future - of the world and its inhabitants, adds over 10 side quests, multiple new soundtracks, new world map locations and an intense final showdown
  
• Added "Food Compostation" research - allowing the Compost Heap to turn food into compost/biogas
  

Improvements

• Save files will now show an icon representing the corresponding game mode
  
• Updated icons for all game modes
  
• Various fixes for RTL languages in the UI
  
• Completely reworked how the world map is generated - this should hopefully fix a whole category of map-related bugs. Map bugs may still be visible when loading an existing save file, but they should not affect gameplay too much and should fix themselves after a while
  
• Performance improvements across the board
  
• Gamepad: Radial menu resets when using tools and reopening. No direct filters anymore.
  
• Gamepad: Left on the D-Pad now navigates to the sidebar
  
• Gamepad: Reworked and improved navigation for Research window
  
• Gamepad: Improved navigation for Glossary
  
• Show resources in food stand even if it is disabled
  
• Festival section in Onbu command bar shows all available buildings on a single line
  
• Improved readability for difficulty mode entries in Glossary
  
• Updated sound effects (radio tower, clay deposit)
  
• Resources in food stand can now be traded (e.g. for scavenging events)
  
• Improved display of long titles in Glossary
  
• Proper icon for experimental health potion and some other Onbu missions
  
• Removed obsolete popup when building a monument for the first time
  
• Reworked most game systems to use persistent deterministic random number generators. This should make some random effects that should be consistent actually consistent (such as outcomes of scavenging decisions, spawn locations of wild plants etc), and it helps us to reproduce issues more reliably in the future
  
• Ending credits got a makeover and special soundtrack
  
• Gamepad: hide sidebar glyph while menus are open
  
• Gamepad: costs and rewards of scavenging missions can now be navigated
  
• Added missing UI icons for various status effects and horn commands
  

Bugfixes

• Fixed Hostility popup not appearing after surviving for 1000km
  
• Fixed UI elements not visible on OpenGL
  
• Fixed some Glossary entries not displaying correctly
  
• Fixed command rejection notifications not always being displayed
  
• Fixed resource category "Knowledge" not being localized
  
• Fixed several cases where tooltips would stick around
  
• Fixed drag-mode persisting when zooming out of village while dragging and then back in again
  
• Fixed loading screen issues
  
• Fixed an issue in villager job distribution
  
• Fixed a potential issue with worldmap models not getting reset properly
  
• Fixed tutorial glyphs for gamepad
  
• Fixed a bug that lead to Onbu’s back turning brown when villagers cleared out storages in some cases
  
• Fixed food stand resoure slots not getting cleared if building was disabled
  
• Fixed toggling of food stand slots not having any effect
  
• Fixed food stands sometimes not getting filled properly
  
• Fixed tutorial sidebar navigation
  
• Fixed an issue where the Worker Management overlay could be used to unassign scavengers from ongoing missions (and other employed workers on missions)
  
• Fixed Worker Management showing sliders that should not be visible after changing language
  
• Fixed an issue where dialogues that focus on a building could toggle the harvest tool when playing on a gamepad
  
• Fixed automatically pressing the Pinned button when glossary was opened through ring menu on gamepad
  
• Fixed not being able to rename villagers
  
• Fixed Credits autoscroll not being interrupted when dragging with mouse
  
• Fixed Credits not being mouse-draggable from every position (e.g. from gaps between text segments)
  
• Fixed an issue in glossary when no tutorial was active
  
• Fixed Onbu movement states that should not be shown being visible in horn command tooltips
  
• Fixed 00:01 remaining time shown for non-postponable decisions
  
• Fixed side display scaling
  

Balancing

• BileExtractor storage size 50 -> 20
  
• BloodExtractor storage size 20 -> 50
  
• Decrease min. poison/starvation death interval with higher population
  
• Allow feeding Onbu while running
  
• "Sound of Thunder" side quest should now be easier to complete
  
• Reduce max. worker count of Liquefier: 5 → 4
  
• Increase production speed of Onbu Pharmacy and Food Liquefier at max. worker count
  
• Bring berry macarons recipe in line with other recipes of the same tier