The Wandering Village News

[h3]We just launched the 1.0 version of The Wandering Village 🥳[/h3]
Our team is super excited and we hope you are too. We can’t believe it’s been 5 years since we first started working on the game!



Check out our new animated trailer created by Trash Studio, a Japanese animation studio:
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There is a 35% discount to celebrate the launch!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1121640/The_Wandering_Village

[h3]What changed since Early Access?[/h3]
Since its Early Access in 2022, the game has received several major updates:

• 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!

[h3]What’s next?[/h3]
Despite 1.0 marking a major milestone for the game, we have already started to address some of the feedback that we received following the recent updates. So stay tuned for the 1.1 Quality of Life & UX update 🙂
Beyond that, we have started to tweak and add some more things related to your interactions and relationship with Onbu. This will be our 1.2 update which we are hoping to release later this year.



[h3]More news:[/h3]
We teamed up with Serenity Forge to create a physical and collector’s edition for Switch + PlayStation which is open for pre-order today at 6PM CEST.



We just launched an Onbu plushie campaign on Makeship.



Along with the release, we're running a Stray Fawn Summer Sale with most of our games being on discount. In case you already own The Wandering Village, you can get discount on our other games via bundles.



Thank you all very much for your continuous support in the past months and years!
We couldn’t have made it here without you ❤️
Stray Fawn Studio

[p]Finally, the little surprise we promised is here!


Animated intro
[/p]

About this Patch
We named this patch v1.0.2 in preparation of the upcoming release. While we will not add any new features for the upcoming release, we do have a little surprise in store for everyone that will be released on July 17th!

Bugfixes

• 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
  

Bugfixes

• 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
  

Improvements

• 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
  

Bugfixes

• 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)
  

Balancing

• 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
  

Performance

• 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