Demo Update (0.36.9)

[h3]Greetings, Viceroys![/h3]
We just updated the demo with a new building, improvements, and fixes. We're grateful for all your suggestions and reports!

All the changes will also be included in the Early Access version.

[h2]CHANGELOG[/h2]
Changes marked with ⚡ were inspired by the community.

[h3]Balance[/h3]

⚡ The Rain Mill blueprint is now available from level 1 instead of level 6. This change was mainly implemented to help with Flour availability in the early stages of the game.
⚡ Settler difficulty now requires 12 Reputation Points instead of 14.
⚡ Orders requiring the player to have a specific building or to produce goods in it now also take restored haunted ruins into account.
⚡ Added fertile soil to some starting Glades.
⚡ Removed the Aura of Despair Forest Mystery.
Added Copper Ore as a possible ingredient in two recipes: Pigment and Pack of Building Materials.
Slightly increased the trade value of Copper Bars.
Lowered the speed increase of Paved Roads from 20% to 15%.
Increased the variety of starting Glades.
Lowered the price of the Monastery of the Vigilant Flame Level 1 upgrade from 12 to 10 Food Stockpiles.

[h3]UX/UI improvements[/h3]

⚡ Improved how trade value is shown in the Trading Panel.
- Goods offered by traders now show their full value, including the trader’s margin.
- Resource tooltips in the Trading Panel now also display the price of the entire stack.
- Improved the rounding of trading values and fixed numerous issues.
⚡ Added short descriptions in the Embark View for Settler and Pioneer difficulty levels.
⚡ Added advice messages to all difficulty tooltips. These additional descriptions are meant to help players in deciding which difficulty levels are best suited for them.
⚡ Added a “show all” checkbox in the Recipes Panel. Selecting it will show all recipes in the game, not just the ones the player has access to in a given run.
⚡ Added a reset button to the Recipes Panel.
⚡ Clicking on a produced good in a building now opens the Recipe Panel in “product mode”, instead of “ingredient mode”.
⚡ Improved some aspects of the tutorial experience.
- Changed the wording in the “complete orders” alert.
- Improved objective text in Orders requiring the player to change ingredients in recipes.
- Reshuffled some Cornerstone choices in the tutorial.
- Disabled settings in Woodcutters’ Camps for the duration of the tutorial.
⚡ Improved the wording in the description for the Looming Darkness effect.
⚡ Added an option to change the settings in all Woodcutters’ Camp at once by holding Shift when clicking a checkbox in the building’s UI.
⚡ Rearranged need icons in the species panel. The order is now: basic housing > advanced housing > food > clothing > services.
⚡ Improved the look and readability of some icons.
- Resource Category - trade
- Need - shelter
- Resource - Artifacts
Completed deeds can no longer be claimed during a run. Rewards can only be acquired in the Citadel.
A tooltip with ingredient alternatives is now always shown in the tutorial when hovering over an ingredient slot in a recipe. This tooltip can be enabled in post-tutorial games in the settings menu.
Improved the “i” icon’s shape and readability in numerous places in the UI (to make it clearer that hovering over it gives the player more information).
The resolution dropdown menu will now automatically scroll down to the selected setting instead of starting from the top.

[h3]Bug fixes[/h3]

⚡ Fixed a bug with level up rewards being shifted by one (players unlocked new content one level before it was shown to them).
⚡ Fixed a bug with camp workers gathering high-priority nodes outside of their camp’s radius.
⚡ Fixed a bug with % symbols in certain localizations (predominantly French).
⚡ Fixed an issue with the difficulty selection resetting after selecting the “locked” option in the demo.
⚡ Fixed a bug with workers in the Harvesters’ Camp being called Scavengers.
⚡ Fixed an issue with Citadel Resources found in chests having incorrect labels.
⚡ Fixed an issue with some villagers missing hammers in their hands when constructing new buildings.
⚡ Fixed an issue with the hunger penalty showing an incorrect max. impact value (the max. Impact for this effect is infinite).
⚡ Fixed an issue with missing texts in ruined houses found in Glades.
⚡ Fixed an issue with Wildcards not working correctly if the player obtained them by attacking a trader.
⚡ Fixed a bug with the Lightning Forest Mystery appearing in the Coral Forest biome.
⚡ Fixed a rare bug that allowed players to assign two workers into one worker slot.
⚡ Fixed a bug with woodcutters not delivering goods to the Storage when idle.
⚡ Fixed a bug with traders offering mining perks in biomes where there is no ore.
⚡ Fixed some issues with the French localization.
⚡ Fixed some grammatical errors in tooltip descriptions of species attributes.
⚡ Fixed a bug that allowed players to write letters into a limit text field.
⚡ Fixed an issue with the “salvage ruins found in glades” text being incorrectly localized into Russian.
Fixed an issue with the Trader Assault Popup being too small to fit all looted goods.
Fixed a bug with Forest Mysteries being incorrectly displayed in the biome preview for Settler difficulty.
Fixed a bug with the visual effect around the Hearth (from sacrificing) disappearing after reloading a save.
Fixed some issues with the timing of farming animations.
Fixed multiple issues with incorrect perk rarity.
Fixed an issue with the scaling of the construction cost panel in the Atlas.
Fixed a bug that made it possible to move the camera during the Blightstorm animation in the World Map.
Fixed a bug with Hearth attachments being visible on lower hub levels after reloading a save.

[h3]Other[/h3]

⚡ Replaced multiple crop models and textures in multiple farms. Planted crops should now be easier to distinguish.
⚡ Lowered the volume of the “scribbling” sound effect in tutorial text boxes.
Improved the textures of the Dewberry Bush resource node.
Improved the game’s overall performance and stability, especially when playing in highly developed settlements with a lot of particle effects.
Tuned down the volume of some sounds that play when a popup appears.
Added new languages to the game: Traditional Chinese and Korean.
Improved the Simplified Chinese and Japanese localizations.
Fixed a bug with global production speed bosts showing up in farm UI panels.
Fixed a bug with the Plantation having a one-star recipe for Berries instead of a two-star recipe.

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May the storm be gentle on you,
Eremite Games