Heard of the Story? News

[h2]💬 Dialogue[/h2]

• Added a lot of new personality-based dialogue surrounding interests and disinterests rather than just "I like gathering". They will now see these as their favourite three and most hated three activities.
  
• This normal likes and dislikes remain and can still be conveyed about any activity, but these random spiels will no longer show up in the journal. Essentially, things now have to be a villager's important hobby to be marked down
  
• Improved grammar surroundings buildings, experiences, and expectations
  

[h2]🌾 Fields[/h2]

• Improved the visual progression of wheat and flax; there are now five distinct visual stages to each and flax has its own versions as opposed to looking just like wheat in its growing phases
  
• Changed field progression to be based on time rather than the number of nights
  
• Fixed watering effect moving with the player and abruptly stopping
  

[h2]🐞 Others[/h2]

• Added branches to pine tree forests for newly generated worlds
  
• Villagers can now read books and examine things whilst sitting down
  
• Shift and caps lock are now listened to in the previously updated fields of the new adventure screen
  
• Fixed transparency issues when decorating and placing certain things
  
• Fixed villagers getting stuck because of trying to complete goals whilst sitting down
  
• Fixed villagers repeating some long actions right after each other (for example, sitting at a tavern, getting up, and then immediately going for another drink damn drunkards!)
  

[h2]🍂 Seasonal changes[/h2]

• Villagers now make various new season-specific remarks
  
• You will now see a cosy warm drink when visiting the tavern during autumn and winter
  
• Birds will no longer sing during the winter season in forests
  

[h2]🚶Improved start adventure screen[/h2]

• Controller movement is now much better supported
  
• The keyboard is now automatically shown in Steam's Big Picture mode and on the SteamDeck
  
• Added a randomise button for your appearance to the new game screen
  

[h2]🐛 Other improvements and bug fixes[/h2]

• Improved the sleep screen with a loading bar and some other extra cute pieces
  
• Updated the bakery and smithy oven to be more artistically consistent and fix floating issues
  
• Villagers are now able to make remarks while sitting down on decorations too
  
• Added sounds to villager card games
  
• Villagers witnessing a building completion will now feel good from it (depending on their personality)
  
• Fixed smoke instantly hiding after finishing with an oven
  
• Fixed being able to walk through the workshop table during building construction
  

[h2]Sitting[/h2]

• Added the ability for villagers to sit on chairs, benches, and anything sittable :)
  
• You can now sit on the decorations other villagers place
  
• When sitting down, you now sit-up in the same place as you sat down in
  

[h2]Fields[/h2]

• Added a use for watering pots! You can now water fields to increase growth rate (finally giving watering pots a use), and made fields take 4 days to fully grow instead of 3 (if unwatered)
  
• Fixed fields still growing in the winter
  
• Fixed fields not loading at their correct growth phase
  

[h2]Other improvements and fixes[/h2]

• Added villager stories for reading
  
• Improved construction placement and finishing effects
  
• Fixed not being able to craft specific variants and colours in the tailor
  
• Fixed villagers getting stuck in the depths of mines
  
• Fixed villager speech bubble text overflowing when longer than 3 lines
  
• Fixed occasionally not being able to enter your house
  
• Fixed some parts of stories being skipped