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- Improved the way personality is interpreted by a villager when they are choosing what to say. Previously, certain speaking styles would be unintentionally much more common than others, now they are more balanced and consistent. Specifically, you’ll see this when villagers are describing their goals, reacting to insults, and responding to other villagers
- Fixed some villager descriptions of goals overflowing
- Fixed some villager personalities getting insulted during trading when they shouldn’t
- Fixed cart item being ‘free’ during trade and also other related issues to the cart
- Fixed being able to see barrels and the cart in mid-air when constructing the mine
- Fixed not being able to craft in the same workspace twice and other related crafting issues
- Fixed a ‘goodbye’ from a previous conversation being able to cause a glitch in a new conversation
- Fixed villagers in the Townsfolk menu strangely wearing only blue clothes
- Fixed mine door having the wrong hint
- Fixed mine windows not lighting up when the building is in use

As always, we are also working on some great new content and improvements for the next big update - stay tuned!

This is primarily a quick patch to address an important issue with the mine:
- Fixed not getting new skill ideas when using the mine

Other bug fixes and improvements:
- Tutorials now auto-complete when you finish the associated tasks which means you no longer have to make them active to tick them off
- The fact a tutorial is active is now indicated with a thicker tutorial tickbox
- Slightly adjusted the icon for the tutorial tickboxes
- Fixed bug where the building and decoration tutorials would be considered complete even if placement was cancelled
- Fixed being able to press the middle mouse button in conversations and building menus to prevent glitches

Finally got around to fixing these long-standing issues:
- Fully fixed villagers getting permanently stuck in your interaction zone if you were nearby when they entered their house
- Fixed sometimes not being able to gather resources because they were locked by other villagers (who then for some reason never ended up gathering them)
- Fixed glitches related to harvesting resources at the same time as other villagers

Other fixes:
- Fixed being able to trade currently equipped tools which led to visual glitches
- Fixed experiences and other information for the action “sit down” being duplicated
- Fixed not being able to pick-up the fountain decoration without restarting
- Fixed villagers not showing all their items for trading if they had less than 12
- Fixed being unable to walk through flax flower decorations

- Nerfed villager-to-villager trading by preventing villagers trading for items they want rather than need. If a villager had no building goal and was particularly motivated, it sometimes led to disruptive behaviour where they would continuously start trades until they’d completely bankrupt themselves
- Fixed villagers requiring a pickaxe to get stones (since some stones are gatherable by hand) and therefore being unable to ever gather stone again if their starting pickaxe was destroyed or traded away
- Fixed pickaxes being equipped when villagers are moving to gather stones by hand
- Fixed villagers sometimes getting perma-stuck gathering mud when they don’t have a shovel
- Fixed house constructions having too short colliders which caused some trouble on hilly terrain
- Fixed some decorations loading in mid-air
- Fixed newly immigrated villagers trying to contribute to already completed buildings
- Fixed newly immigrated villagers trying to use incomplete buildings
- Fixed villagers getting stuck using the tavern or mine under some circumstances

A quick and small patch to fix a few important issues that sometimes caused villagers to get stuck infinitely trading the same item.

Bug fixes:
- Fixed villagers not completing their goal after trading
- Fixed villagers trading items for the exact same items (like a mallet for a mallet)
- Fixed villagers sometimes initiating trading for items other villagers don’t have
- Fixed villagers not crafting a shovel when they need one

This is just one of many polish-focused updates that are going to come over the next few weeks. Hopefully we’ll be able to iron out many more bugs!