Bastide News

[h3]This weeks update:[/h3]

• Pasture placement system has been reworked.
  
  
  
  
• When loading, old pastures will no longer be there.
  
  
• Currently the new pasture placement only allows 4 placement points, this should be increased in the future.
  
  
• Pasture visuals have changed.
  
  
  
  
• Once placement is done you can select where you want your gate.
  
  
• Pasture gate added although it currently does not open or close, that will be done next update.
  
  
• Pasture max size can go just past 50 for chickens, 13 for cows, 25 for sheep and cows.
  
  
• Improved moon lighting transition.
  
  
• Resized rain to make it thinner.
  
  
• Rain occurs less often.
  
  
• Made pigs slightly smaller.
  
  
• Fixed 4 issues with fetching animals.
  
  
• Fixed grave issue where people dying in battle would be marked as dying by starvation.
  
  
• Fixed issues with loading animals.
  
  

[h3]Next week:[/h3]

• Gate open and close.
  
  
• Finish off relationships among peasants.
  
  
• Tweak more lighting.
  
  
• Improve pasture building system.
  
  
• Have people drink outside the tavern.
  
  

[h3]This weeks update:[/h3]

• Added more dynamic weather.
  
  
  
  
• Rain will now build up slowly and will also have to ramp down before ending.
  
  
• Rain amounts will change the sizing and colour of clouds.
  
  
  
  
• Cloud size will affect lighting.
  
  
• Added stars, atmosphere lighting, sunrise and sunset.
  
  
• Added random wind speeds that affect currently only original trees.
  
  
• Changed panning angles to be able to look into the sky.
  
  
• Improvements to ambient lighting.
  
  
• Improved transitions for night and day.
  
  
• New games start at 8am rather than 7am.
  
  
• Rain visual and sound paused when game is paused.
  
  
• Smoothed middle mouse button camera panning.
  
  
• Stopped camera clipping through floor.
  
  
• Reduced reflection of ocean.
  
  
• Larger oceans.
  
  
• Improved weather updating.
  
  
• Fixed rare issue where players were unable to save or load.
  
  
• Fixed moon lighting issue.
  
  
• Fixed camera navigation issue.
  
  
• Fixed weather issue.
  
  
• Fixed rain sizing issue.
  
  
• Fixed rare camera issues.
  
  

[h3]Next week:[/h3]

• Fix a few lighting issues.
  
  
• Improved moon fading and sun rising.
  
  
• Relationships among people this will be for future fights, murders and pregnancy chances or possibly affairs.
  
  
• Add another npc info tab for relationship info.
  
  
• Pasture gate.
  
  
• Improve pasture troughs.
  
  
  

[h3]This weeks update:[/h3]

• Benches added.
  
  
  
  
• You can now destroy cemeteries at the expense of happiness (Amount depends on graves destroyed).
  
  
• Reduced cost of campfire.
  
  
• Improved market worker cancelation.
  
  
• Fixed issue with people not being assigned to their jobs on load.
  
  
• Fixed multiple errors with plot hud.
  
  
• Fixed issue with apiary worker removal.
  
  
• Fixed reference error when loading.
  
  
• Fixed order of notifications.
  
  
• Fixed error with apiary task.
  
  
• Fixed slight farm issue.
  
  
• Fixed refund issue with decorations.
  
  
• Fixed text on tannery hud.
  
  
• Fixed notification scroll direction.
  
  
• Fixed an issue with enemy buildings spawning inside of each other.
  
  
• Fixed issue with herbalist workers.
  
  
• Fixed being unable to click pasture on slopes.
  
  
• Fixed animals making noise while the game is paused.
  
  

[h3]Next week:[/h3]

• Improved dynamic weather affecting lighting.
  
  
• Clouds, fog, mist.
  
  
• Weather will get paused.
  
  
• Wind will change depending on weather.
  
  
• Storm.
  
  
• And possible other weather features.
  
  

[h3]This weeks update:[/h3]

• Herbalist has been added, will grow and harvest herbs.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Rebalanced gatherer to focus more on food and cloth.
  
  
• Changed maps initial spawn of gatherer items.
  
  
• Improvements made to hunter.
  
  
• Improved object selection under mouse.
  
  
• Added multiple more checks to job and housing reassignment.
  
  
• Changed shift speed multiplier due to a fixed issue with standard speed.
  
  
• Improved bakery deletion.
  
  
• Fixed an issue with fight on easy difficulty.
  
  
• Fixed an issue with a certain tree type not growing.
  
  
• Fixed middle mouse button rotation stuttering.
  
  
• Fixed an issue with shift camera movement.
  
  
• Fixed attack amounts save and load.
  
  
• Balanced max attackers.
  
  

[h3]Next week:[/h3]

• Fix attacks instantly ending.
  
  
• Fix more bugs.
  
  
• Option to destroy cemetery.
  
  
• Benches / decorative seating.
  
  

[h3]This weeks update:[/h3]

• Market now builds step by step.
  
  
  
  
• Added the ability to disable event notifications.
  
  
  
  
• The last 50 events can now be seen after clicking a new button at bottom right.
  
  
  
  
• Added a few extra checks to construction to try and avoid extra resources being delivered.
  
  
• Added info tabs to field and plot hud, this is just a small bit of related information. (Information tabs will be added to other buildings over time)
  
  
  
  
• Changed how destroy path, multi rock and tree buttons are positioned.
  
  
• Also changed how destroy path, multi rock and tree buttons highlights display their names.
  
  
• Fixed stockpiles thinking they weren't full when they were causing some bad issues.
  
  
• Fixed market max view distance.
  
  
• Fixed wheat carry animation speed.
  
  
• Fixed sawyer move speed.
  
  
• Improved market performance.
  
  
• Improved performance on wood and stone collection.
  
  
• Fixed an issue with labourer log detection and deletion.
  
  
• Fixed apiary max view distance.
  
  
• Fixed an issue with full stockpiles still trying to allow resources.
  
  
• Fixed orchard not removing grass.
  
  
• Fixed offset on destroy path icon.
  
  
• Fixed sleep animation glitch.
  
  
• Fixed plot hud translation and sizing issues.
  
  
• Increased stockpile plot size to remove gaps.
  
  
• Font improvements to market hud.
  
  
• Potentially fixed an issue with pasture creation.
  
  

[h3]Next week:[/h3]

• Adding herbalists (Due to gatherers not providing enough herbs as they provide multiple resources).
  
  
• Bug fixing.
  
  
• Balances.
  
  
• Fix middle mouse button panning issues.