Major Update v2.0 (October 12, 2023)

Update 2.0 has arrived, woohoo! Let's waste no time with the change list...

ADDED:

• Dynamic weather system (sun, rain, snow) ☀🌧❄
  
  • Snow pauses Plot production
• Ability to rename islands in a new panel that lists unlocked islands
  
• Ability to see labor in a new panel that lists all workplaces
  
• Buildings:
  
  • Tavern (Tier 4)
    
  • Paddock (Tier 5)
• Animals:
  
  • Chicken
    
• Resources:
  
  • Eggs
    
• New achievement: "Cracking!" Have 100 eggs in storage.
  
• Trade panel now has 2 sections, for consumables and animals
  
• Added visual filters:
  
  • Standard
    
  • Asteroid City
    
  • Calm
    
  • Warm
    
• "Continue" option in the Main Menu to load most recent save
  

CHANGED:

• Changed how objects are highlighted
  
• Camera speeds at low zoom increased
  
• Moonlight colour now has a blue tint and is slightly dimmer
  
• Changed some post-processing effects affecting colour
  
• Thin path is now thinner
  
• Storage Barn collision box is slightly smaller
  

BALANCES:

• Arborist output amount reduced from 15 to 5
  
• Arborist output rate reduced from 20 to 30 seconds
  
• Arborist growth rate increased from 30 to 20 seconds
  
• Arborist can now grow up to 12 trees at a time
  
• Exchange rate of crystal changed from 25 to 50
  
• Exchange rate of metal changed from 5 to 3
  
• Exchange rate of wood changed from 2 to 1
  
• Villager skills now max at 30. A fully trained villager will be 1.5x as fast as a villager with 0 experience in that skill
  
• Villagers will now eat up to 10 units of food when hungry instead of 6
  
• Villagers now gain 3 happiness from being at home instead of 2
  

FIXED:

• [Crash] Fixed game crashing or deleting buildings if using "Repair" on a building not damaged
  
• Quest notifications will no longer show if already in the quest menu
  
• Arborist will no longer spawn
• lots* of trees nearby
  
• Trees will now correctly save/load if they are destroyed
  
• Villagers won't get stuck if a portal they need has moved
  
• Villagers no longer get stuck at certain buildings
  
• Fading effect between scenes now works correctly
  
• Fixed a rare bug where trees couldn't be manually felled, but counted towards a quest and achievements
  
• Fishery placement checks no longer offset
  
• Windowed mode toggle no longer uses Exclusive Full Screen option
  
• Plots will now show assigned villager count on holding 'Alt'
  
• "Notify" sound will no longer immediately play on new game
  
• Village name is now sent to Steam Rich Presence when loading save file
  
• VSync and Windowed toggle now work correctly
  
• Fixed UI camera rendering incorrectly
  
• Airship now docks at mooring with animation
  

UI:

• (Yet another) UI rework
  
• Contextually placed tooltips
  
• New UI sounds
  
• Sharper font
  
• Deleting a save file now requires confirmation
  
• Sliders can now be moved without selecting the handle first
  
• Render scale slider now matches text correctly
  
• Homeless and idle villagers counter now correct on new game
  
• Villager count now includes total housing room (eg. 6/10)
  
• Villager status image in the villager list panel is now updated correctly
  
• You can no longer open the villager list if in build mode
  
• World space UI no longer freezes when game is paused
  

AI:

• Improved accuracy of the Navigation Mesh on Islands
  
• General AI stability improved
  
• Villagers now avoid obstacles in the environment
  
• Villagers will now stop sharing the same positions at certain buildings
  

PERFORMANCE:

• Arborist tree pooling algorithm improved for less memory usage
  
• Tree animations optimized and culled when not visible
  
• Audio and music compression methods updated
  
• Minimap camera optimized
  
• Improved Occlusion Culling
  
• Lamp Posts no longer cast shadows
  
• Removed light source from mine
  

If you experience any bugs please report them on the discussions board or my Discord.

Thanks,
Matt.