Bastide News

[h3]This weeks update:[/h3]

• Villagers now have traits that affect their health, speed, intelligence and fighting ability. There are 13 different traits, positive and negative. Each villager can have a maximum of 3 traits.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Villagers will take breaks once per day to eat some food, go for a walk or use an outhouse.
  
  
• Improved free time cancellation.
  
  
• Improved outhouse search cost.
  
  
• Improved night-time roaming.
  
  
• Improved performance from the animal system slightly.
  
  
• Fixed multiple issues with labourers.
  
  
• Fixed wrong text showing for harvesting animal.
  
  
• Fixed issues with villager hud.
  
  
• Fixed issue with bandit camp destruction.
  
  
• Fixed issue with highlighting animals.
  
  
• Fixed issue with walk speed calculations.
  
  

[h3]Next week:[/h3]

• Can visit a church in their break.
  
  
• Can visit the tavern in their break.
  
  
• Start work on criminals.
  
  
• Trait for criminals.
  
  

[h3]This weeks update:[/h3]

• Added a new encyclopedia entry for jobs, provides more info for most jobs, currently half of the jobs done.
  
  
• Bird movement and animation is now affected by game speed.
  
  
• Hover info for tools now displays to the left to avoid the text going off the screen.
  
  
• Improved worker hunting animation timings.
  
  
• Improved cemetery navigation.
  
  
• Adjusted building menu anchoring.
  
  
• Fixed cobbler being unable to create basic shoes.
  
  
• Fixed issue with the cemetery.
  
  

[h3]Next week:[/h3]

• Will start to add stats and traits that affect things such as movement speed, work speed, intelligence and fighting. Traits can be inherited.
  
  
• People will take breaks throughout the day.
  
  
• Set fisherman work location when constructing the building.
  
  
• Balance fields and orchards.
  
  

[h3]This weeks update:[/h3]

• Chandlery has been added. This will allow the creation of candles using animal fat. Candles can then be bought to provide happiness.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Improved worker hunting.
  
  
• Improved pasture worker gate usage.
  
  
• Herbalist is now affected by the weather.
  
  
• Save and load improved for gates.
  
  
• Balanced firewood usage.
  
  
• Fixed issue with stonemason and lumber mill.
  
  
• Fixed worker hunting.
  
  
• Fixed an issue that caused bows to disappear and hunting animations to cancel.
  
  
• Fixed store arrow enable/disable button.
  
  
• Fixed issue with arrows save and load.
  
  
• Fixed issue with fletcher placement snapping.
  
  
• Fixed building issue with fletcher.
  
  
• Fixed cold icon not disappearing.
  
  
• Fixed a few menu issues.
  
  

[h3]Next week:[/h3]

• Fix and improve multiple systems.
  
  
• Move building systems to separate blueprints.
  
  
• Improve encyclopedia.
  
  
• More info.
  
  
• Hover over icons can display text to left when needed.
  
  
  

[h3]This weeks update:[/h3]

• Added fletcher. Creates iron-tipped arrows, increasing archer damage.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Added construction priority.
  
  
• Farmers and orchard workers now grab multiple food before heading to a warehouse.
  
  
• Farm and orchard balancing.
  
  
• Reduce game size by trimming out unused assets and plugins.
  
  
• Improved nighttime movement.
  
  
• Improved orchard movement.
  
  
• Adjusted gatherer hud.
  
  
• Adjusted the amount of storage space taken up by animal fat.
  
  
• Fixed shoes and warm shoes warehouse amounts not being loaded correctly.
  
  
• Fixed stockpile location not being centred to its visual stockpile plots could cause movement issues.
  
  
• Fixed firewood not being consumed.
  
  
• Fixed intro sound not tied to master or music volume.
  
  
  

[h3]Next week:[/h3]

• Chandler.
  
  
• Herbalist changes.
  
  
• Gate save and load improvements.
  
  
• Pasture improvements.
  
  

[h3]This weeks update:[/h3]

• Birds will now fly around the map (Pidgeon, seagulls and crows).
  
  
  
  
• Added more ambient noise. Day and nighttime have separate sounds.
  
  
• Feathers have been added and can be collected by gatherers, won't be used till next week when fletcher is added.
  
  
• Updated UE4 to the latest patch.
  
  
• Reduced performance usage for movement speed updates on peasant NPCs.
  
  
• Changed gatherer hud layout.
  
  
• Removed some unused textures.
  
  
• Improved a few Russian translations.
  
  
• Fixed fat amount not resetting yearly.
  
  

[h3]Next week:[/h3]

• Fletcher.
  
  
• Iron tipped arrows. It will make archers do more damage and give other uses for Iron.
  
  
• Farmers and orchard workers will grab more than 1 item before returning to the warehouse and change production accordingly.
  
  
• Fix birds movement and animations being affected by game speed.