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[p]Hey settlers 👋[/p][p]This small update improves how barns handle their animals, adds some helpful tooltips, and includes various quality-of-life and crash fixes. Thanks for your continued support and feedback! 💚[/p][p]
🐄 Barns & Animals[/p]

• [p]Barns now better manage runaway animals[/p]
• [p]Barns have more reserve slots to control population[/p]
• [p]Oldest animals are now prioritized for gutting[/p]
• [p]Products from slaughtered animals now count in production stats[/p]
• [p]Tamed animals are less disturbed by nearby humans or wild animals[/p]
• [p]Improved logic for animal relocation: now tries barns/homes first before sending them to market or center[/p]

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🛏️ UI & Gameplay Improvements[/p]

• [p]Added comfort and sleep tooltips to UI[/p]
• [p]Intro & welcome screen can now be advanced with a mouse click[/p]
• [p]Clarified you can use any button to progress the intro story[/p]
• [p]Better handling of humans/animals when starving and thirsty simultaneously[/p]
• [p]Added aging weaknesses for very old characters:[/p]
• [p]New weakness stage at 80+[/p]
• [p]Final weakness stage at 100+ to avoid immortality 😅[/p]
• [p]Limited central popup messages to 8 to prevent spam when inviting large groups[/p]

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🔧 Bug Fixes[/p]

• [p]Fixed “yummy” spelling[/p]
• [p]Fixed typo in forge upgrade costs[/p]
• [p]Clicking minimap no longer accidentally places roads/buildings[/p]
• [p]Animal selection menu no longer covers the minimap[/p]
• [p]Fixed crash when an animal dies while leaving the map and saving occurs right after[/p]

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[p]Hey settlers 👋[/p][p]This update is a smaller one, but it brings one long-awaited feature: You can now move animals between barns, homes, and even maps! Perfect for reorganizing your herds or giving that chicken a nicer view. 🐓[/p][p]We’ve also made several UI improvements, fixed bugs, and added quality-of-life tweaks.[/p][p]
🐾 New Feature[/p]

• [p]Move animals between barns, homes, and maps![/p]

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✨ Improvements[/p]

• [p]UI: Clearer category highlighting in the construction menu[/p]
• [p]UI: Optional needs are now better color-coded[/p]
• [p]UI: Resource bar now supports up to three columns[/p]
• [p]Text fixes for Japanese localization[/p]
• [p]Default pet is now a cat instead of a raccoon[/p]
• [p]Music: Balanced how often short tracks are repeated[/p]
• [p]“Skip Intro” now skips the welcome screen as well[/p]
• [p]Free animal button now located with other window controls[/p]
• [p]Street/demolish tools remember your selection on new game load[/p]
• [p]Improved map names in Kerzoven-B[/p]
• [p]Faster body heat recovery in ideal temperatures[/p]

[p] 🛠️ Bug Fixes [/p]

• [p]Fixed child showing "died of old age" 😬[/p]
• [p]Resolved storage reset issue on reload[/p]
• [p]Fixed weird gibberish when no worker was available for hire[/p]
• [p]Crashes fixed related to animals dying during interactions[/p]
• [p]Fixed faction wealth being incorrectly initialized by multiple marketplaces[/p]
• [p]Slight storage increase for fireplace, farm & gatherer[/p]

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Let us know how you’re using the new animal moving feature and thank you again for your support and feedback! 💚[/p][p]Steam reviews are always a huge help! 🙏[/p][p]
Team Of Life and Land 🦊[/p]

Hey settlers 👋

Thank you for the continuous feedback! 🥰 We reviewed over 70 musicians and could acquire over one hour of fantastic new music from the talented Loïc Leclair and Yurii Panivan! This provides much greater variety in the music, even during long sessions. 🎶 You can also tame wolves and have them as pets in your homes! Of course, we also fixed various issues and crashes. 🛠️

Patch Notes:

• Added over one hour of new music from Loïc Leclair and Yurii Panivan
• Improved the description for energy reserves.
  
• Made the color indicator for good values in the plant UI better visible and less gray-ish.
  
• Fixed an issue where foxes could not be tamed when they already have a burrow home.
  
• You can now tame wolves and have them as pets.
• Improved the habitat AI when animals are pets.
  
• People can now care more for their pets if they feel lonely.
  
• You get now a flat 5 people event immigration every spring stacking up to two times.
  
• An issue has been fixed where you could not invite people when you had event immigration but the village attractiveness was very low.
  
• Increased the temperature range of the Finn torch and the Windcatcher Tower.
  
• Slightly buffed the temperature values of the Finn Torch and Windcatcher Tower.
  
• The building entry markers are now better visible on snow.
  
• The UI will no longer show quick notifications if the QuickNotificationDuration is set to 0.1s or lower in the settings.
  
• Sheep's wool can now be collected more quickly.
  
  Crashes:
• Fixed a crash that occurred when the user looked at the AI status tooltip while an animal was interacting with another animal that had just died.
  
• Fixed a crash when the user changed the workplace priority at the same time a worker quit the job / died.
  
• Fixed a rare crash when destroying buildings very quickly.
  

Enjoy the new tracks and let us know what your wolf companion is called! 🐺🎶
As always, leaving a Steam review helps us a lot! Thank you! 💚

Team Of Life and Land 🦊

Hey settlers👋

Thank you for all the feedback! This helped us to see what information is missing and what can be understood in which way. With this patch we added a lot of new information about the different systems in the game, more guidelines, tips and additional wiki entries with examples for common questions we’ve received.
We also implemented many new features requested by our players to make the game even more fun and easier to use. Of course we also fixed issues and crashes reported to us.

📚 New Explanations, Help & UI Improvements:

• More info for buildings like: Stonemason, Smelter, Gatherers Shack, Farm, Beehive, Barn, and more,
  

New help views on:

• How to delete things
  
• How pollution & heat work
  
• How to get food
  
• How the marketplace works
  

• Warnings for common marketplace config mistakes
  
• Clearer feedback for work-related problems & specializations
  
• Improved info on why villagers died, how fields/weirs work, and how to increase efficiency
  
• New counter in the construction UI to show how many of a building exist
  
• Many small UI fixes and help text additions across the board
  

🌧️ Balance & Gameplay Tweaks:

• Less flooding in default scenario (less rain, fewer springs)
  
• Root Cellar now uses open dairy as source even if stock is low
  
• Rebalanced marketplace upgrades and dairy upgrade power
  
• Water now washes off dirt in the Lenzburg Castle
  
• Improved survival chances of NPC villages in Kerzoven scenarios
  
• Fishery can now clean their landing stage
  
• Several visual/UI layout adjustments for clarity
  

🐞 Crash Fixes:

Fixed crashes related to:

• Visual updates during agent removal
  
• Cats hunting dead targets
  
• Editor water bodies during startup
  
• Apprentices removed during job search
  
• Rare engine-level multithreading edge cases
  
• Dynamic level timers
  

🧰 Modding Improvements:

• Made critical fields read-only and thread-safe
  
• Defensive copies for mesh batching to avoid engine-level crashes
  
• World timers are now protected
  
• More stability for complex mods interacting with multithreading
  

Once again, thank you for your help and support! your feedback shapes the game every week!
If you play Of Life and Land, we’d love it if you could take a moment to leave a Steam review. It really helps more than you think. 💚

Here are the complete patch notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1733110/view/515211349279639212

Team Of Life and Land 🦊

Here are the complete patch notes for the: 🛠️ Update – Improved UI, Better Explanations & Helpful New Features 30.05.2025

• Added more information about the Stonemason Shop, Smelter, Bloomery, Gatherers Shack, Farm, Forester, Beehive, Barn, Small Cabin and Shrine.
  
• Added a new help view to explain how to delete things, how the pollution works, how the heat works, how to get food and how to buy something from the marketplace.
  
• Balanced the water in the default scenario: Less rain in the mountains. Less springs on the start map = less floods. Moved water drainage in hills. Reduce winter rain on the start map. Made the AI a little more resistant to extinction.
  

• The Root Cellar now also considers the open dairy as a source even if the stock is not that high.
  
• Fixed a missing description for the mountain pass.
  
• Fixed an issue where the trade change event to solve the tutorial was not triggering correctly if it was set as a text without pressing enter.
  
• Improved the weather event data in the default scenario.
  
• Tutorial: Saving the done status for fields and trees as well.
  
• Improved the help UI.
  
• Added warnings to the marketplace trade entry if 'sell over' or 'provide over' is set to 0 and explain what it means in detail.
  
• Improved the wiki trade entry visual.
  
• Added an info hint if no worker could be found to hire in a location. Also added additional help if work specialization is activated in the guild house.
  
• Added an option so that the right mouse button does not deselect construction blueprints.
  
• The road and delete tool in the bottom bar now toggle if they are selected a second time.
  
• Added a counter in the construction UI to see how many instances you already have of this kind on your map.
  
• Explain more how the marketplace storage works and what its limits are.
  
• Added more help text to the cell side constructions on how to remove them again.
  
• Added more help text to the Finn torch on how it works.
  
• Added more info about why someone has died.
  
• Made it more clear on how the weir works.
  
• Made it more clear on how the fields work and how to increase efficiency.
  
• Slightly improved the text margins in the construction UI.
  
• The building range text hint also shows if there is something bad in range like another beehive next to the red building marker.
  
• The building range text hint no longer takes into account targets that would be replaced by the building.
  
• Improvements:
• The fishery can now also clean their landing stage.
  
• Fixed an issue where the weather events could apply to a different map than the starting map.
  
• Kerzoven: Increased gold rewards a bit. Applied to all Kerzoven scenarios.
  
• Improved survival chances for NPC villages in the Kerzoven Scenario. Now it should be quite difficult to get them extinct.
  
• Balanced the market place upgrades.
  
• The water can now wash off the dirt in the Lenzburg castle, keeping it clean.
  
• The camera now preserves the zoom level when you follow something and then select the next target to follow.
  
• Food crates and material places now more often check if they can be safely removed when they are empty.
  
• Added two more entries for the hunters hut.
  
• Made the dairy upgrades much, much stronger.
  
• Crashes:
• Fixed a potential rare crash when the visual update was still going on while an agent was removed.
  
• Fixed a rare potential crash when the cat tried to hunt a target that just died in the same moment as it was inspected.
  
• Fixed a potential rare crash in the dynamic level timer only curing on very specific systems with lots of interrupts.
  
• Fixed a rare issue where the the editor could crash when a water body tried to register at startup in the same time while being replaced with another water body by the user.
  
• Fixed an issue where the game could crash when an apprentice was looking for a job and was removed by the user with the editor tools at the exact same time.
  
• Modding:
• Modding: Ensure the world timers are read only.
  
• Modding: Added a defensive copy to the mesh array builder to prevent a potential rare crash where the engine released the mesh cache while it was batched.
  
• Modding: Made critical fields read-only and added defensive copies in the DynamicObjectBehaviour to ensure it works well with mods editing this area in a multi threaded context.