Ale Abbey News

Hey brewers!

It's time for the third major update of our early access!
If you enjoy it, feel free to leave us a review on Steam, you'll help us tremendously 🙏

Cheers and happy brewing 🍻

With the age of Ale-ightenment arrives brand new ideas and tasks for your abbey!
Monks have more to brew and decorate with. From the bishop's new tasks to the new opportunities that bring the new city of Dunkelheim, it's time to dive back into the brewing business. Who knows, maybe you'll even win in the new league of Competition 🏆

And if you still haven't tested the game, it will be 34% off its original price during the Tacticon!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2789460/Ale_Abbey__Monastery_Brewery_Tycoon/ [hr][/hr][h3]Changelog[/h3]
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[h2]V0.4.0[/h2]
[h3]Major addition[/h3]

• 3 new Vagaries and 3 new Edicts
  
• 6 new bishop tasks
  
• 8 new unique furniture pieces as rewards for competitions
  
• 1 new judge for competitions
  
• Access to the 2nd League of Competition: The Alchemists
  
• Access to the settlement of Dunkelheim
  
• Access to the Tripel and Bock beer styles

[h3]Other additions[/h3]

• Added visualization of virtues and values used to sort recipes in the brewing UI
  
• Added a furniture info panel accessible via the furniture ring menu
  
• Added hotkey indicators in tooltips for actions
  
• Added waiting icons and progress bars for tasks that haven’t started yet (e.g. due to nighttime, missing ingredients, fermentine walking to the work post)
  
• Added display of the current Abbot/Abbess in the Personnel UI

[h3]Changes[/h3]

• A judge’s dislike now only activates if a recipe contains 5 or more ingredients of the same type
  
• Improved bonus and malus for lagered or unlagered beers in competition style adherence
  
• Improved voting system for competitions with very high results
  
• Brewing orders no longer request quantities that exceed available brewing tools
  
• The Vintage Feast competition special is no longer offered for Lager styles
  
• The Adjunctivity competition special only occurs if at least one Adjunct has been unlocked

[h3]Bugfixes[/h3]

• Several minor UI and refresh issues related to bishop tasks
  
• Tooltip behavior for unplaceable furniture due to quantity limits (e.g. boilers, escritoires)

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Hey brewers!
The new update is basically done and complete! It’s meant to expand on everything that’s been added so far. We know you’ve enjoyed the new features, so there’s even more of it coming your way.

With this update, you’ll have

• More unique tasks given to you by the bishop
  
• More events to shift your game
  
• More furniture to decorate your abbey as you like
  

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And in addition to all that, there are a few special additions:

• The new city of Dunkelheim
  
• A new league of competition (with a new judge!)
• Two new beer styles!
  

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[h3]The update will be released in about 24 hours, right on time for the Tacticon!
See you there![/h3]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2789460/Ale_Abbey__Monastery_Brewery_Tycoon/

[p]v0.3.5[/p][p][/p]

• [p]Fixed massive lag on the minimap and fermentines selection of the recipes book,[/p]
• [p]Fixed the UI being softlocked if an order was successfully negotiated while having the brewing UI open,[/p]
• [p]Fixed a crash that caused by game being loaded with a competition completed but with no results visualized yet,[/p]
• [p]Added progress bar to the some more bishop tasks to show the updated state of the task,[/p]
• [p]Reduced the speed at which the candles light drops,[/p]
• [p]Reduced the speed at which the littering accumulates in the rooms[/p]

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[p]v0.3.4[/p][p][/p][p]Improvements[/p]

• [p]Tooltip now shows brewing and recipe progress even when the game is paused[/p]
• [p]Added tooltip with days and deadlines for competition deliveries[/p]
• [p]Notifications now appear when a delivery is too late[/p]
• [p]Unlock order deliveries for the local lord now display an "in delivery" icon[/p]
• [p]Increased the hitbox of wall lights to make refilling easier[/p]

[p][/p][p]Fixes[/p]

• [p]Fixed misleading messages related to mandatory loans for upkeep[/p]
• [p]Fixed incorrect buttons appearing under the competition jury after the first competition[/p]
• [p]Fixed monk using walk animation instead of stirring when returning to work after sleeping[/p]
• [p]Fixed save corruption caused by specific combinations of saved competitions[/p]
• [p]Fixed the positive special effect of Saison ales not triggering correctly[/p]
• [p]Fixed the Cornucopia of the Farmlands providing access to locked ingredients[/p]
• [p]Fixed untranslated texts in several minor instances[/p]
• [p]Fixed price sliders automatically jumping to maximum due to stuck input[/p]

[p][/p][p]Storage Logic[/p]

• [p]Cold cellars now exclusively store lagering ales; aging and normal ales are stored elsewhere[/p]

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