The Last Plague: Blight News

Another set of fixes and enhancements, including a quick stockpile placement feature with right mouse!

Fixes:

• Fixed error popup when trying to start a new game when using certain languages/locales on your computer
  
• Fixed hearth furnace fire particle effect size
  
• Fixed scrap wood stockpile floating issue
  
• Fixed preserved food showing "drink" context menu option instead of "eat"
  
• Fixed tooltip for cooking results showing values of the fully contaminated item instead of its current contamination level
  
• Removed task for creating bronze anvil since it is no longer in the game, instead explaining to use a tree stump
  
• Fixed smoke rack contents getting wet in the rain when covered by a roof
  

Other changes:

• Added new right mouse button quick place interaction for stockpiles if you have any items of that stockpile in your inventory, to bypass having first open the UI to move the item in
  
• Reduced thirst cost of preserved items
  
• Added scrap wood recipe for tall items like shovels and paddles
  
• Sorting inventory is blocked when interacting with something, similar to all other inventory actions
  
• Changed sorting for crafting recipes hammer tool selection to prefer stones over flint pieces
  

More fixes and quality of life stuff!

Fixes:

• Fixed planted mushrooms and plants disappearing after a few days even though they are well watered and taken care of. Note that this only applies to mushrooms and plants planted after this update
  
• Add checks against edge cases that could make the stockpiles unresponsive or display the wrong item count
  
• Increased candle wick item collision to prevent it from continuously falling through the terrain
  
• Fixed plank rotation when sawed from felled trees
  

Other changes:

• Crafting list now waits to update the list of recipes until all your queued recipes are done to reduce the chance of accidental clicking on a just reordered recipe
  
• Added a sound and changed the text to red when you don't have space to pick up something to make it more obvious
  
• The shelter building task is moved to after waking up on the second day to reduce the overload of information for new players
  
• Added a hint to explain fast forwarding during crafting
  

Another set of fixes and requested small features. Things are starting to get pretty solid!

Features:

• Added sort button to your main inventory. For now it will always sort largest items at the top to smaller items at the bottom. Will continue to improve later
  

Other Changes:

• Added a cap to tinder and kindling slots for fire pits and other fuel burning structures. Note: only fuel burning structures built after this update will have this feature
  
• Made wind ambient sound much quieter
  
• Made UI button sound quieter and added new sound for main menu buttons
  
• Removed requirement to be close when placing stockpiles or shelter posts as the placing process automatically moves you closer regardless
  
• Added chromatic aberration toggle in graphics settings
  

Fixes:

• Fixed animation getting stuck if crafting a queue of recipes with different animations associated (ex. ripping up dogbane followed by smashing a large stone)
  
• Reworked digging and terrain gathering (ex. dirt or clay) to avoid expensive pathfinding updates that could lead to a full game crash. Please let me know if you still see crashes!
  
• Fixed rain still affecting you and items in caves
  
• Fixed error when assigning subsequent tasks after skipping the main camp set up tutorial task by sleeping early
  
• Fixed missing localization for Quick slot 4 in controls settings
  

Balance:

• Increased tin ore rock generation
  
• Reduced materials required for stick walls and clay tile roof
  

A few bug fixes and enhancements out today in this update. Appreciate your patience as the experience gets more and more polished!

Features:

• New "drop item" key bind that defaults to the G key (unless you've already set it something else). It will drop the off-hand item first if present before the main hand item
  

Fixes:

• Fixed extreme glow coming from objects like sand or bonemeal stockpiles
  
• Fixed the "Add from inventory" button not working properly for certain structures like very tall roofs
  
• Fixed stockpiles getting wet in the rain even when covered by a roof
  
• Fixed clove plant dig up interaction to be L.Ctrl+LMB instead of just LMB
  
• Fixed wolf disappearing when at a certain not too far distance
  
• Fixed invalid "last harvested date" value in the plant UI if you dug up and replanted a wild plant before gathering from it
  
• Fixed plants not growing properly if dug up without gathering first and then being replanted
  
• Fixed fermentation of berry juice taking longer than it takes to decay within a covered jar
  
• Fixed crafting recipes that require containers to mix liquids in not properly refreshing when selecting a different container
  

Other changes:

• Digging up plants will alter the terrain texture below them
  
• Added stockpile support for pine cones and empty pine cones
  
• Mud mortar takes a bit longer to craft
  

Small update to fix a few reported issues, really appreciate the reports!

Fixes:

• Fixed missing quick slot 4 bind option in controls settings
  
• Fixed issue where crafting output items could end up in invalid spots overlapping other items or appear off the edge of the inventory itself
  
• Fixed tiled inventory placement via mouse being off on ultra widescreen displays
  
• Added missing wood stopper crafting recipe
  
• Fixed wrong stack size for bonemeal and hardened bronze items