Bastide News

Last weeks update failed to start some new games.
This has been fixed, and the weekly update has been re-uploaded.

Update info: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1115450/view/3066381328908455705

[h3]This weeks update:[/h3]

• This update has been reverted and will be re-released around the 30th once issues have been fixed.
  
  
• 3 optional laws have been added to the policy section. Each law has a positive and negative effects.
  
  
  
  
• Law 1: Food rationing. Stops food binging. Less food will be consumed. Usually, food binging would increase happiness.
  
  
• Law 2: Consanguineous Marriage. Marriage between family members is allowed. Provides more options for marriages but children will have reduced intelligence.
  
  
• Law 3: Early adolescence. Children turn into adults at ten rather than thirteen, and children receive less education affecting their intelligence.
  
  
• Stockpiles can enable and disable resources allowed to be stored.
  
  
  
  
• Added shoes and warm shoes to the resource graph.
  
  
• People will no longer marry their uncles/aunties, nieces/nephews or cousins unless consanguineous marriage law is activated.
  
  
• Grid squares and invalid squares are now visible at night.
  
  
• Added mine placement controls and explanation so that new players know where a mine can be valid.
  
  
• Improved night and free time movement.
  
  
• Improved worker movement on some tasks.
  
  
• Enemy home spawning improvements.
  
  
• Adjusted watercolour.
  
  
• NPC hud family list scroll now doesn't affect game zoom amount.
  
  
• No update on the 28th due to being away.
  
  

[h3]Next update (5th of November):[/h3]

• Improve job speed multiplier.
  
  
• Improve stockpile and warehouse notifications.
  
  
• Work on wall snapping and stretching for defensive walls.
  
  
• Fix paused animations for movement being incorrect.
  
  
  

[h3]This weeks update:[/h3]

• Grid system now works with paths and orchards.
  
  
• Grid system now shows occupied squares for most buildings, not 100% accurate yet.
  
  
  
  
• When unable to reach a building that needs construction, labourers will ignore it and attempt to build other structures or do other tasks.
  
  
• Paths collision made thinner to fit inside two squares on the grid system.
  
  
• Added shoes and warm shoes to the market.
  
  
• Initial spawn locations for buildings are now fixed and use the grid system.
  
  
  
  
• Improved farm construction performance.
  
  
• Improved market merchant movement.
  
  
• Improved worker movement on a few tasks.
  
  
• Fixed collision issues with icons above the building, which could block path construction.
  
  
• Fixed animal animation issue that caused them to use their idle animation rather than pause the current walk animation.
  
  
• Fixed campfire, outhouse, and bench destroy font and translation.
  
  
• Fixed bakery plot position.
  
  
• Fixed cheesemonger plot size.
  
  
• Fixed cobbler plot size.
  
  
• Fixed outhouse building instructions not disappearing.
  
  
• Fixed cobblers not being on people hud.
  
  

[h3]Next week:[/h3]

• Add more policies/laws.
  
  
• Stockpiles can enable or disable resources.
  
  
• Fix watercolour
  
  
• Spawn in enemy homes better.
  
  
• Add shoes to the graph.
  
  

[h3]This weeks update:[/h3]

• New animal system performance has dramatically increased CPU performance for all wild animals not being captured or hunted.
  
  
  
  
• All animal-related tasks have been changed to work with the new animal system.
  
  
• Notifications now won't disappear while the game is paused.
  
  
• Improved system for buying clothing, shoes and tools.
  
  
• Improved animal wait times and task cancellations.
  
  
• Animals initiate quicker.
  
  
• Fixed issue with animal hud.
  
  
• Fixed hunter jittering (trying to do multiple tasks at the same time).
  
  
• Fixed hunting chickens giving one wool rather than one meat.
  
  
• Fixed multiple issues with animal hunting.
  
  
• Fixed an issue with animal tracking.
  
  
• Fixed issue with shoes.
  
  

[h3]Next week:[/h3]

• Grid will show occupied squares.
  
  
• Grid system will work with paths, fields, farms and pastures.
  
  
• Add shoes to the market.
  
  
• Improve market merchant.
  
  
• Improve animal animation speed and pausing.
  
  

[h3]This weeks update:[/h3]

• Added cobbler and cheesemonger to flat platform buildings.
  
  
  
  
• Been planning for next week how to reduce animal CPU usage dramatically.
  
  
• Improved villager, enemy and building attack timings, now not frame-based.
  
  
• Added fighting delta time.
  
  
• Improved bow spawning and destruction for the hunter.
  
  
• Reworked hunter timings.
  
  
• Fixed an issue with buying shoes.
  
  
• Fixed an issue with counting shoes.
  
  
• Fixed shoe pricing issue.
  
  
• Fixed back button translation on game settings.
  
  
• Fixed max animals font.
  
  
• Fixed font issue with display settings.
  
  
• Fixed translation issue with graphics settings.
  
  
• Fixed graphics notion fonts.
  
  
• Fixed difficulty and enemies not being set when starting a new game.
  
  
• Fixed mine and decorations rotation when grid mode is on.
  
  
• Fixed building controls disappearing.
  
  

[h3]Next week:[/h3]

• New system for managing pasture and wild animals on the screen will be attempting to limit the number of animal actors.
  
  
• Make notifications time-based not to disappear when the game is paused.
  
  
• Mine construction instructions.
  
  
• Fix hunter jittering.