The Wandering Village News

• Fixed an issue where players could get locked from making further progress in Story Mode when saving after clearing the strange rubble, but before listening to the incoming dialogue
  
• Automatically fix save files affected by the aforementioned bug - if your file was previously stuck in this state, loading it should allow you to continue with the story
  

• Fixed an issue where Onbu would walk past the final location in Story Mode if it had low trust and started shaking at that exact moment
  
• Fixed an issue where Onbu Discipliner could be used to force Onbu to move beyond the final location in Story Mode for a couple of seconds after reaching it
  

The Wandering Village is such a sweet idea for a city-builder, taking place on the back of a huge walking creature. It's in Early Access with Linux / Steam Deck support and a big new update just arrived.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/city-building-on-the-back-of-a-huge-creature-the-wandering-village-gets-a-big-story-update/

• "Story Mode": Introduces many new characters and a main quest that sheds more light on the past - and future - of the world and its inhabitants, adds over 10 side quests, multiple new soundtracks, new world map locations and an intense final showdown
  
• Added "Food Compostation" research - allowing the Compost Heap to turn food into compost/biogas
  

• Save files will now show an icon representing the corresponding game mode
  
• Updated icons for all game modes
  
• Various fixes for RTL languages in the UI
  
• Completely reworked how the world map is generated - this should hopefully fix a whole category of map-related bugs. Map bugs may still be visible when loading an existing save file, but they should not affect gameplay too much and should fix themselves after a while
  
• Performance improvements across the board
  
• Gamepad: Radial menu resets when using tools and reopening. No direct filters anymore.
  
• Gamepad: Left on the D-Pad now navigates to the sidebar
  
• Gamepad: Reworked and improved navigation for Research window
  
• Gamepad: Improved navigation for Glossary
  
• Show resources in food stand even if it is disabled
  
• Festival section in Onbu command bar shows all available buildings on a single line
  
• Improved readability for difficulty mode entries in Glossary
  
• Updated sound effects (radio tower, clay deposit)
  
• Resources in food stand can now be traded (e.g. for scavenging events)
  
• Improved display of long titles in Glossary
  
• Proper icon for experimental health potion and some other Onbu missions
  
• Removed obsolete popup when building a monument for the first time
  
• Reworked most game systems to use persistent deterministic random number generators. This should make some random effects that should be consistent actually consistent (such as outcomes of scavenging decisions, spawn locations of wild plants etc), and it helps us to reproduce issues more reliably in the future
  
• Ending credits got a makeover and special soundtrack
  
• Gamepad: hide sidebar glyph while menus are open
  
• Gamepad: costs and rewards of scavenging missions can now be navigated
  
• Added missing UI icons for various status effects and horn commands
  

• Fixed Hostility popup not appearing after surviving for 1000km
  
• Fixed UI elements not visible on OpenGL
  
• Fixed some Glossary entries not displaying correctly
  
• Fixed command rejection notifications not always being displayed
  
• Fixed resource category "Knowledge" not being localized
  
• Fixed several cases where tooltips would stick around
  
• Fixed drag-mode persisting when zooming out of village while dragging and then back in again
  
• Fixed loading screen issues
  
• Fixed an issue in villager job distribution
  
• Fixed a potential issue with worldmap models not getting reset properly
  
• Fixed tutorial glyphs for gamepad
  
• Fixed a bug that lead to Onbu’s back turning brown when villagers cleared out storages in some cases
  
• Fixed food stand resoure slots not getting cleared if building was disabled
  
• Fixed toggling of food stand slots not having any effect
  
• Fixed food stands sometimes not getting filled properly
  
• Fixed tutorial sidebar navigation
  
• Fixed an issue where the Worker Management overlay could be used to unassign scavengers from ongoing missions (and other employed workers on missions)
  
• Fixed Worker Management showing sliders that should not be visible after changing language
  
• Fixed an issue where dialogues that focus on a building could toggle the harvest tool when playing on a gamepad
  
• Fixed automatically pressing the Pinned button when glossary was opened through ring menu on gamepad
  
• Fixed not being able to rename villagers
  
• Fixed Credits autoscroll not being interrupted when dragging with mouse
  
• Fixed Credits not being mouse-draggable from every position (e.g. from gaps between text segments)
  
• Fixed an issue in glossary when no tutorial was active
  
• Fixed Onbu movement states that should not be shown being visible in horn command tooltips
  
• Fixed 00:01 remaining time shown for non-postponable decisions
  
• Fixed side display scaling
  

• BileExtractor storage size 50 -> 20
  
• BloodExtractor storage size 20 -> 50
  
• Decrease min. poison/starvation death interval with higher population
  
• Allow feeding Onbu while running
  
• "Sound of Thunder" side quest should now be easier to complete
  
• Reduce max. worker count of Liquefier: 5 → 4
  
• Increase production speed of Onbu Pharmacy and Food Liquefier at max. worker count
  
• Bring berry macarons recipe in line with other recipes of the same tier