Havendock News

Hello!

We’re amazed at how many of you have already supported Havendock. We’d love to hear more from you and get to know you better, so we invite you to participate in one-to-one conversations with us. We’d like you to tell us what you like most about Havendock, what other games you love and most of all: who are you as human beings 😉

Your opinions will be invaluable to the team working on Havendock, and will definitely help make this game even bigger and more successful which is a true mission for all of us.

We have a few small gifts for those of you who will participate, so please leave your contact here to get involved in the process!



https://store.steampowered.com/app/2020710/Havendock/

Hey Settlers!

This is YYZ. I am happy to announce that Havendock now has a publisher, Different Tales! After having several chats with them, I believe they have the game's interest at heart and working with them means we can build a better game for you all!



A few words from our new publisher:

Hey everyone, this is Different Tales, a veteran studio and new dev-friendly publishing label that supports extraordinary games and their communities – that’s you all. :)

We fell in love with Havendock right away, spent hours with it, and honestly it’s incredible how much YYZ has accomplished as a solo creator. We’re joining the project to help in those areas where it is most difficult to work alone, supporting the game’s development and helping build up this amazing community. It’s time to gear up for Early Access early next year!

We’re amazingly happy and excited for this journey. See you all around!


https://store.steampowered.com/app/2020710/Havendock/

The main menu has been redone!
Some QoL was also added.
- In Main Menu, SPACE/ENTER now triggers the Play button
- In Save/Load screen, double clicking a savefile will save/load it



Settlers can now walk around nets and the 3rd net upgrade now costs rope.



New translations have also been added:



A bug regarding storages with multiple of the same item types not being picked up by settlers has also been fixed.

Missing Chinese translations where text appears as squares have also been fixed.

Full changelog:
- Added new Main Menu
- Settlers can now walk on nets
- Nets now cost rope to upgrade
- In Main Menu, SPACE/ENTER now triggers the Play button
- In Save/Load screen, double clicking a savefile will save/load it
- A prompt now appears when exitting the game while playing
- Fixed issue where chicken rafts stop spawning if Zoologist is rescued
- Fixed Chinese characters missing and rendering as squares
- Fixed some missing translations
- Fixed settlers not picking up correctly if storage had multiple of the same item type set

Nets have been added into the game!


They can be unlocked by a new research!

Wrangling a fish.


The game is still being balanced and this is still the first iteration of nets. In the future, nets may break down over time and require maintenance. But for now, they don't do that.

Added first part of experimental Spanish and Chinese (Simplified) Language. (Translations are partial and will gradually be rolled out to more areas of the game over subsequent updates.)

Language can be changed in settings.

A list of other changes & fixes
- Renamed Oxygen Tanks to Diving Tanks
- Multiplayer Start New Game bug fixes
- Lighthouse clickable hitbox height further reduced
- Fixed errors with save system and file deletion not working
- Fixed an error where settlers take food/drinks from the wrong storage, causing negative storage quantities
- Fixed critical error getting stuck at cutscene in new game creation
- Fixed peacock raft dialog incorrectly asking for 1 chicken feed instead of 10
- Fixed medicine/oxygen tanks refill exploit
- Fixed lag in multiplayer

Also, sharing a nicely exaggerated shot of my civilization on fire, due to fire spreading, a new mechanic added in v0.51