Ale Abbey News

v0.2.1

• Fixed a bug allowing incoming beer styles to be made (and could break the brewery)
  
• Fixed game freeze when moving rooms with no space to place them
  
• Fixed lighting glitch when swapping storage levels
  
• Fixed merchant getting stuck due to offers not updating to the correct barter
  
• Fixed old recipes not deleting if made from an existing one

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Hey brewers!
It’s time for the first major update of Ale Abbey Early Access, featuring many new additions and changes based on your specific requests 🍺

[hr][/hr]As presented in the recent Sneak Peek, you can now enjoy a new market, new ale styles, and many other additions!
You can also swap rooms in your abbey and complete 20 new bishop’s tasks!

To celebrate this milestone, we’re running a special sale: Ale Abbey is 15% off its original price! Perfect if you want to challenge your friends in the holy brewing business 💪

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We'll also be able to celebrate during our participation in the Strategems event, starting on the 21st and ending on the 28th of this month[hr][/hr][h3]Changelog[/h3]
On top of these changes, we’ve also made numerous bug fixes and additions! You can check the complete changelog below.

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[h3]v0.2.0[/h3]
Addition

• Added the new market of Bockheim
• Added 2 new ale styles → Witbier and Dubbel
• Added Swap room features
  
• Added new monks thought
  
• Added new bishop tasks
  
• Added new monastery global bonuses

Changes

• Demolishing or selling a room will sell all the furniture in it at once
  
• Added display of currently stored ingredient amounts when buying from the merchant

Bugfixes

• Added several missing translations
  
• Fixed several bug conditions that allowed to assign a monk to multiple activities, breaking the brewing, the recipe writing, and also the custodians work
  
• Fixed a bug that caused completed orders to corrupt saves when shipped in very specific conditions
  
• Fixed calculations for pantry ingredients usage and display
  
• Fixed wrong calculation on advanced ale styles sales profits
  
• Prevented the loading of empty save slot that might cause game freezing
  
• Fixed several tooltips in the Brewing UI that provided partially wrong information
  
• Fixed some stuck conditions of the ales in production that allowed to sell one tool also during the brewing, causing a successive stuck brewery room

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We hope you enjoy this update! We're glad we were able to release this addendum to the original release before moving on to the next, more ambitious update. The upcoming one has a completely different scope, so stay tuned 👀
If you’re enjoying this update and want to know more about what’s coming next, join us on our Discord 🍻

- The Ale Abbey Team

Hey Brewers!
We're about a week away from the update, it's time to tap into more details
Here is a non exhaustive list of all the addition to come with the Update 1📜

[h2]New additions[/h2][hr][/hr]This update will also grant access to the new market of Bockheim, along with their two favorite (and brand-new) Ale styles!
And to make sure your monks don’t lead too monotonous a life, we’re introducing new Thoughts for them, affecting both their work and happiness.

[hr][/hr]On top of that, you’ll find new tasks from the bishop to fill in order to stay in his grace.

[h2]More to do in the monastery[/h2][hr][/hr]We’ve reworked the Monastery to add new elements that spice up your gameplay, the first being new modifiers!
By completing tasks and quests, you’ll earn temporary blessings (or suffer burdens), which directly impact your stats. So choose wisely and stay alert!



To conclude the list of new features in this update, many of you have been asking for a way to move rooms, and we’ve delivered!
You’ll soon be able to rearrange the rooms in your abbey, allowing for cozy and personalized layouts of your choice.



[h2]And many others[/h2][hr][/hr]On top of everything mentioned above, we’ve also included several other changes based on your feedback!
You can expect more details on these Quality of Life improvements in the release patch notes.

Some changes to better predict the production costs[hr][/hr]

As announced, the first update for the game is planned for later next week. But if you’re looking for more details…
Chapter I of this Early Access will be available on April 17th for everyone to enjoy so don’t miss it! 👀

In the meantime, make sure to join our community on Discord for exclusive previews and the chance to chat with the devs over a virtual pint! 🍻

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- The Ale Abbey Team

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Hey brewers!

We have been thinking of putting together a no-frills tutorial series for Ale Abbey. You know, just the essentials to help you get the most out of your brewing journey. In this first video, we dive into Recipe Creation, covering everything you need to know to make your ales pop!

[hr][/hr]↓ Read more here ↓
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3458477087[hr][/hr]
Be sure to keep an eye on the "guide" tab of Steam for the next one!

- The Ale Abbey Team

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Hey Brewers!

Thank you for all of your feedback and comments on how you would like to see the game evolve. We've been updating the game a lot lately, and it's now time to move onto bigger updates. Here is the roadmap and the next major updates you can expect.

[hr][/hr][h2]Early Access so far[/h2]
As you may have noticed we have had a lot of updates this month, after your numerous feedback we wanted to fix and address everything you sent us (thank you for using the f11 hotkey for feedback as well as our forums).

Over the last month, we have added some important Quality of Life updates that you were asking for, including some key mappings, adjusting the needs and skills of the Fermentines and redesigning the UI to improve your experience.

[h2]The road to the release[/h2]
The Early Access will be divided into 5 different content updates. Each of them will add new major content enriching the journey as you go through it. We're talking tasks improvements and some more unique events and world building. If you have already spent a lot of time on the game, don't worry, new markets and beer styles will be unlocked to further expand your fame and opportunities.

In addition to these content arrivals, you can also expect some quality of life features and other mechanic tweaks based on your current (and upcoming) feedback, cheers to you for helping us shape the game.🍻

Expecting the next update? You won’t have to wait that long… The first content update will be available next month! See you soon for more details🔍

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