The Wandering Village News

First Birthday Update

Dear Onbu Riders,
We can’t believe it’s been almost one year since The Wandering Village launched into Early Access. To celebrate the game’s upcoming first birthday on September 14th, we just launched a small Birthday Update.

This update introduces the ability to name your Onbu and choose from one of two Onbu skins at the start of the game and adds a new building to host celebrations, among many other small improvements. The full patch notes can be found here:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1121640/view/3668799277514634499

If over 1000 people celebrate Onbu’s birthday before September 15th using the new Community Plaza, we will be giving away 10 game keys (Steam/Xbox) for the game on our Discord.

We’re also hosting a firework contest!
Post a video/gif of your custom-made in-game fireworks in the firework-contest channel on our Discord before September 15th to participate. Winners will receive a The Wandering Village physical artbook and mouse mat signed by the dev team.

We hope you enjoy this little update and we’re looking forward to your feedback
Cheers & Thanks,
Stray Fawn Studio

PS: The game is currently 25% off as part of Steam Strategy Fest

First Birthday Update Patchnotes

Patchnotes 0.4.1

New features

Added Onbu’s birthday festival. Festivals can be organised using the new Community Plaza. Fireworks launched from the Plaza and accompanying Fireworks Launcher decorations raise the morale of Onbu and your villagers.
Added first iteration of Onbu Customization. You can choose the appearance and the name of your Onbu at the start of a new game. This feature will be extended in the future.
Added setting to add a safe zone for the screen border to fix issues when playing on older TVs.
Jungle Flu and Tapeworms can now be cured.

New Buildings

Community plaza
Fireworks launcher

Bugfixes

Fixed bug where a missing resources flag was displayed on Decontaminators with enough resources
Fixed many bugs where the city suddenly disappeared
Fixed bug where a save could not be loaded and all resources were set to 999
Fixed bug where the last surviving villager was forever trapped in the scavenger hut
Fixed bug where achievements related to feeding Onbu with the Trebuchet were not unlocked correctly
Fixed bug where mission with cooldowns, like petting Onbu, could be started at two buildings at the same time
Fixed bugs with wrong letters for the arabic localization
Fixed bug where the village disappeared when placing a road outside of bounds

Improvements

Changed the Village Doctor’s ‘Placebo’ upgrade to not use any herbs at all, lowered mortality rate
Controls setting now allow mouse keys for mapping
Added ability to place housing on top of existing housing and deco on top of existing deco, for example to replace a tent with a hut
Added progress bar to tutorial to see overall progress

Hotfix 0.3.7

Fixed bug where the loading bar was stuck at 90% and the game would not load

The Wandering Village gets a big Ocean Update and you can win a key

The Wandering Village is a wonderful city-builder where you're building on the back of a massive creature. Currently in Early Access, Stray Fawn Studio just released a big watery upgrade.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/07/the-wandering-village-gets-a-big-ocean-update-and-you-can-win-a-key

Ocean Update Out Now!

Dear Onbu Riders,
Our team has been working towards this day for a long time and now it has finally arrived. Today we celebrate the release of our new Ocean Update!

Aside from the new biome, this update features:
- Building upgrades
- Decorations
- Hostility modifier system
- New buildings/events/locations
- Lots of bug fixes, balancing and polishing

Check out the patch notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1121640/view/3667669664002416977
Or the trailer for an overview:[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]

If you don’t own the game yet or have been planning to gift it to a friend, we’re currently running our biggest discount yet at 25% off!

A HUGE thank you to everybody here for all the feedback you’ve given us over the past year, for your help with testing / localisation and for just sticking around in general.
We couldn’t have gotten here without you :)

Our whole team is super happy to keep working on The Wandering Village and we’ve already started development on the next update 💪
Check out our updated development roadmap. We highly recommend you join us over on Discord if you want to stay informed and chat with us and other players about the game.

In other news, we are currently co-organising the Steam Sim Fest together with Auroch Digital. So if you like simulation games, make sure to pay us a visit over there :D

Thanks for checking in and we hope you enjoy the new update!

Cheers & Thanks,
Stray Fawn Studio