The Wandering Village News

Dear Onbu Riders,
You know what day it is today?
It’s The Wandering Village’s first birthday!
I guess that means Onbu is now 1001 years old xD?



In the past year over 1,000,000 players have boarded Onbu and explored the world of The Wandering Village across all platforms.

We’re happy to say that Onbu’s birthday has been celebrated over 5000 times by players, using the new Community Plaza building. That means we CRUSHED our initial goal of 1000 and will be giving away some extra keys on our Discord. Head over to the #giveaway channel and leave a comment there before September 17th to join the raffle for one of 15 Steam/Xbox keys 🙂

If you haven't celebrated Onbu's birthday yet, make sure to check out the recent birthday update:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1121640/view/3668799277515391491

A huge thanks for all your feedback, bug reports, translations, suggestions, fanart and encouraging words in the past year. We’re super happy with how the game is shaping up, but it’s still far from being finished! To see where we’re headed, please check out our recently updated roadmap for the game.

We’re looking forward to the next year with this amazing community!

Cheers & Thanks,
Stray Fawn Studio

Dear Onbu Riders,

I hope you have been enjoying the new birthday update 😀
Later this week, we will present you the winners of our firework competition, which is still running until September 14th on our Discord. We’re amazed by all your creative submissions already, and can’t wait to see what’s more to come!

In the meantime, we have started to work on the next update, planned later this year:
The Villager Update. We are overhauling the way villager happiness works and how it is displayed while trying to also improve villager AI in the process.



We’ve also been working on quite a few other improvements. One of the most significant ones is the improved map generation with which we want to decrease RNG, especially in Novice and Adept difficulty levels, and lower the maximum difficulty in Novice. The new generator will also allow us to preview hundreds of generated worlds in a heartbeat, making it much easier to see whether everything is fair and fun! This involves some bigger changes to the game, and will be coming to the game sometime after the Villager Update.



We speak way too rarely of the game’s music/sound design in these development updates!
All the more reason to do so now, since the game is taking part in the ‘Save & Sound’ Steam event running from September 11 - 21.



Our composer/sound designer NukeTan recorded a behind the scenes video of his creative process. Make sure to tune in and watch it as part of the event on Wednesday at 1PM PDT. To celebrate the occasion, we’re running a 20% discount for our soundtrack and an extra 20% on top for the game’s collectors’ edition which includes our digital artbook.

Thank you for your ongoing support!

Cheers & Thanks,
Stray Fawn Studio

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

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