Medieval Dynasty News

Hello everyone!

We have a small update just before weekend!

Fixes

• Food in chests becomes spoiled now.*
  
• Extracting stones with a pickaxe now accounts gains to correct technology and skills.
  
• The possibility to get stuck at workbenches when closing the crafting menu using escape has been eliminated.
  
• Hitting rocks with a pickaxe did not always trigger sounds and effects. This is fixed.
  
• Talents for faster extraction, stamina consumption and durability were not working properly. They should now.
  
• Fixed an issue where players could change an item with the mouse wheel or the quickslot menu and then holstering the tool, the character equipped a tool from different slot.
  

Additions

• Added new barn levels – Levels 2 and 3.
  
• Added version display in save slot and labels for save slots.
  

Updates

• Digging up the stump now produces a log.
  
• Items placed in non-player chests now disappear after a season.
  
• Spoiled food is turned to new item ("rot"), it rots after a season.
  
• Fields are fertilized with a new item - Fertilizer, instead of Manure.
  
• Fertilizer is made in a barn from Manure or Rot.
  
• Rock, Iron, Salt, Clay now drop only after draining the deposit durability to 0%.
  
• Talks to the NPCs (related to the quest) at night.
  
• Reduced the number of employees for the barn, depending on stage. The dismissed employees are waiting for new assignments.
  
• Increased animal attack frequency.
  
• Autosave slots number changed to 3.
  

*please see the posting for clarifications.

Trees inside buildings and fields FIXED - Unfortunately, it will only work when loading the game from a save before patch 0.1.1.2. In the case of saves from version 0.1.1.2, you have to delete the trees yourself

More stuff fixed, added and updated. Let us make this quick:

Fixes

• Cave mining now increases the Extraction skill instead of the Crafting skill.
  
• Removing tree stumps now works with a shovel. Stumps should now be gone permanently.
  
• It is impossible to destroy the fence without building at least one module. It is now fixed.
  
• NPCs used to stop working in the field when the player did not watch them. They now have a better work morale.
  
• If a torch burned out, it decreased the health of (an)other torch(es). This is fixed as well.
  
• Fixed the production list in building management showing less items per hour than it produced.
  
• Quests where you could deliver items in parts and had to deliver more than one type of item should work properly now.
  
• Fixed projectiles like spears, bolts and arrows getting stuck in the air after hitting an animal.
  

Additions

• Added build and destroy sounds.
  
• Added the possibility to turn off head bob – Further optimizations to reduce motion sickness are work in progress.
  

Updates

• The size of plants data in the save file has been reduced.
  
• Updated the “Digging with shovel” animation.
  
• Removed crossbow as an item to deliver from Missing Bow quest. Only for new quests, existing ones still require it.
  
• More quests are generated per season.
  

Attention! We added the soundtrack in uncompressed FLAC format to the Digital Supporter Pack! Check it out and enjoy!

PATCH REVERTED - WILL COME BACK ONLINE SHORTLY!!!

A new week brings new fixes and adjustments.

Fixes

• The blacksmith sounds should now fade away with distance.
  
• Fixed the consummation of seeds in an unplowed field.
  
• Fixed collision with the Bird Trap ghost.
  
• Animal Overcrowding and Starving Hunter quests are fixed. Might not be fixed if quest was previously accepted.
  
• Fixed building and furniture ghosts display [Name] in inspector mode.
  
• "Wife's sister living in the player's house" bug. Is fixed now (She returns to her family home).
  
• Talking to Sambor and other "speechless" NPCs should now work properly.
  
• Fixed an issue changing any settings in graphics options applying new values to setting segments in next line.
  
• Tools kept holstering/pulling out during crafting. This issue is fixed.
  
• Unlocking the toolshed in Technology is fixed.
  
• Torch holstering when crafting is fixed.
  
• Fixed workbench tools not showing when switching recipes too quickly.
  
• Pine branches gives extraction instead of survival now.
  
• Items obtained during quests have the wrong durability. Those are now fixed, but only new items. Those are already in the player inventory are not.
  
• Archery Contest quests no longer count arrows that do not hit targets. This is fixed.
  
• If Alwin was removed from the game and fixed via patch, he would not have given his quest story. Alwin now will be available to share his quest with you.
  
• Fur items require Leather as a resource - Fixed
  
• The mouse cursor hides on cancelling key binds. This is fixed.
  
• Some talk points don't have a NPC name in the HUD/Journal - Fixed
  
• Fixed the incorrect animation playing on the barn workbench table for the player.
  
• Tree trunks can no longer removed with fists. Trunks told everyone about the Fight Club!
  

Additions

• Added Field size information.
  

Updates and Balancing

• The fisherman now requires survival skills.
  
• Visibility range of chunks in the field in inspector mode is now decreased.
  
• Increased Dynasty Reputation points gained from generic quests. On loading a savegame the actual season will laod with the old values. After the next season change the new values will kick in.
  
• Lowered Manure cost.
  
• Removed the survival crafting category from the Hunting Lodge.
  
• Added the Archery crafting category for Workshop + added the Torch to wooden tools.
  
• Quest markers are seen above village names.
  
• Completing Uniegost's part II will reset all taxes and debts of players.
  
• Removing tree stumps with a shovel is work in progress. (Trees grow back after 2 years - Permanent removal under development).
  
• Some Polish translation fixes.