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Another round of small weekly changes based on some long-standings issues as well as your reports and suggestions. At the same time, we are continuing work on the V0.10 release :)

• Added the ability to rotate your character when starting a new game
  
• Added separate sliders for mouse X and Y sensitivity and renamed them to vertical and horizontal look sensitivities
  
• Added specific crafting icons for carpentry, smithing, baking, and tailoring
  
• Fixed some crafting pages getting filled with random items under some circumstances
  
• Fixed being unable to craft banners and flags properly in the tailor
  
• Fixed mannequin in tailor not showing previews of clothes
  
• Fixed the majority of cases where the skin of characters would clip through their clothes
  
• Fixed villager journal sometimes not aligning dialogue notes correctly when it’s opened for the first time and breaking if it had a goal or interest relating to a cancelled building
  
• Villagers will no longer consider contributions to cancelled buildings as noteworthy achievements
  
• Fixed a villager’s goal not appearing in the villager journal if they share more than one
  
• Fixed wheat and flax field not having blocky previews
  
• Changed the ESC key to prioritise closing the menu settings rather than exiting a house
  
• Improved clarity of the scissors icon
  
• Made the start adventure button in the new game configuration screen a little cooler
  

Whilst working on the next big content and feature update (V0.10), the plan is to continue to release weekly improvements, bug fixes, and quality of life things. If you have any suggestions, we would love to hear them and include them in these updates! The best place to discuss your ideas is in our Discord.

Changes:

• Added functionality to craftable signs: now, when you place them near a building, they will describe the name of that building (since previously, there was no way to keep track of building names after they were built)
  
• Added an extra tutorial step to help explain that you can click on the optional tutorials in your notebook
  
• You can now use a mine cart, even if a villager is on their way to use it (alleviating the issue of mines being hard to use in larger towns)
  
• Villagers now walk outside the cart rail area when they are done with the mine (to stop your cart from ramming into them as often)
  
• Villagers will now pick random seats at campfires and taverns, as opposed to always in the same order
  
• Changed tavern lights to come on only after someone sits down, rather than also if they are on their way
  
• Fixed villagers hitting their tankards with ghosts at taverns
  
• Fixed tools showing through windmill door when crafting
  
• Fixed being able to place houses from workspaces (such as the smithy or windmill) which could cause issues. Now, bookmarks relating to buildings and the town will appear disabled in such situations
  
• Fixed villager / player relocation not happening as soon as a construction was destroyed
  
• Slightly improved relationship icons and made them more consistent
  

The previous stream about a month ago was a lot of fun, so I have wanted to do another one ever since. The arrival of this new update combined with the on-going Steam event presented the perfect time!

As mentioned in the previous update post, the Stream will be 5pm UTC / 10am PT today and will run for about 3 hours. As always, come check it out if you want to watch, ask questions, or just chill :)

Hope to see you there!