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DEMO PATCH #43 - FORESTER

Hey everyone!

So finally more buildings and we're starting with the one that a lot of you have requested, the forester who will plant trees.



[h3]Here are the changes for this patch:[/h3]
[h2]NEW[/h2]
🔹FORESTER PROFESSION - A forester will plant trees within an area, and a new tutorial for it.
🔹PRAYER ICONS - some more and new prayer icons.
🔹EDGE PANNING - The screen will pan if the cursor moves to the edge of the screen.

[h2]TWEAKS[/h2]
🔹Enemy camps no longer have environmental objects
🔹Enemy corpses now decay
🔹Enemy corpses can now be picked up
🔹House is removed for now

[h2]FIXES[/h2]
🔹Villagers praying for hurting villagers who left camp or are already dead
🔹Undead would generate faith
🔹Lumberjack and Miner runs straight into enemy camp and dies
🔹Stonemason was invisible when broken
🔹Enemy camps won't drop the General Food item

Please try the new profession and let us know if you think it should be different!

[h3]UPCOMING[/h3]
The next thing we're working on and hopefully will be able to post next week is the Trading, and Trade Post. Try the early test branch if you want to try it now.
After that we're going to be working on the priest, to have more ways to convert the other villages.

[h3]STAY TUNED![/h3]

DEMO PATCH #42.3 - SAVE FIX & QUALITY OF LIFE

Hey everyone

We think that we found all edge cases with the saving bugs, so it should be much more stable now, we also added better readability for the prayers and general Prayer balance

[h3]Here are the changes for this patch:[/h3]
[h2]NEW[/h2]
🔹PRAYERS - More prayers, like reive or wishing someone to get hurt
🔹PRAYER PROGRESSION - you'll now be able to see how close you are to completing a prayer.
🔹PAY ANIMATION - The villagers now have an animation when their prayer is fulfilled

[h2]TWEAKS[/h2]
🔹Pressing ESC now always brings you to the same page of the pause menu
🔹Birds will no longer despawn while on screen
🔹Using UI menus will no longer affect the camera movement
🔹Archers with long-range wouldn't be close enough to fulfill killing prayer
🔹enemies no longer have killing prayer
🔹Villagers are more spread out when praying by the altar and won't shuffle anymore.
🔹Only villagers with low faith will receive a prayer.
🔹Max amount of prayers at a time in the village is set to 5

[h2]FIXES[/h2]
🔹SAVE BUGS - Hopefully, all the bugs causing the save to become corrupt.
🔹The disease could make enemies move backward
🔹Gifts in inventory did not save
🔹Gifts could be given to the dead multiple times
🔹Hotkeys could activate multiple powers at the same time
🔹Characters multiplying endlessly
🔹Enemy camps were not being destroyed correctly, still blocking items from being picked up

Please try it out and let us know if you encounter any more bugs.

[h3]Upcoming:[/h3]
We're going to focus on trading, and then some more buildings like tree planting and priest

DEMO PATCH #42 - TIME CONTROL, MUSIC & PRAYERS

[h3]Hey everyone [/h3]

So another patch is here and we have a lot of fixes to offer but also some juicy tweaks and new stuff!
🔸 42.1 Hotfix

[h3]Here are the changes for this patch:[/h3]
[h2]NEW[/h2]
🔹RACE SELECTION - You can now pick the race you want to start with.
🔹PRAYERS - 7 Prayers, some are dynamic.
🔹UNDEAD ANIMATIONS - New animations for the undead
🔹TIME CONTROL - You can now speed up the game
🔹NEW MUSIC - So new main menu music and daytime music
🔸 TOOLTIPS - Tooltips are now shown in the game.

[h2]TWEAKS[/h2]
🔹ALIGNMENT - We removed alignment for now let us know if it feels better.
🔹We improved the tutorials a bit
🔹Improved performance when having a bunch of undead.
🔹Some visual altar adjustments.
🔹Improved prayer feedback.
🔹Improved Renaming functionality for villagers
🔹Wildlings and enemies now have lifting and interaction audio
🔹Improved visuals for banner to easier see the state.

[h2]FIXES[/h2]
🔹Fixed a bunch of localization errors.
🔹Destroying enemy altar would cause resource duplication if you saved and came back.
🔹Enemy corpses could float around in the air.
🔹Fixed interaction with villagers so its easier to grab items from them.
🔹Shift placing trees would add trees to the center.
🔹Wildlings would not stop when killed by lightning.
🔹Saving undead could cause some issues.
🔹Could not use Raise dead on wildlings,
🔹Items getting stuck on mouse.
🔸Multiplying villager who is leaving base.

The game still has some bugs so please report anything you find and let us know what you think.

[h2]UPCOMING[/h2]
We're gonna add more ways of interacting with the other camps like sending preasts or trading.

DEMO PATCH #41 - BUGFIXES & MORE GIFTS

Hey everyone

We're mainly working on adding stability to the game and also tweaking it based on your feedback before proceeding with adding any new Big stuff.

Here are the changes for this patch:
[h2]NEW[/h2]
🔹GIFTS - 7 new gifts, but I won't write them all there
🔹More effects for powers
🔹You can now assign Undead to banners
🔹Enemy camps now have altars with varying visuals (Preparing for a future update)

[h2]TWEAKS[/h2]
🔹Raising Dead now also has an animation
🔹Poop and water now disappear after some time
🔹Tweaked some follower actions to not generate alignment for improved balance,

[h2]FIXES[/h2]
🔹Infinite Food glitch - output power would stack and multiply bread creation. [LINK]
🔹Wildlings didn't save their prayers.
🔹Prayers now disappear on death
🔹Bug when selecting dead villagers in the gift menu.
🔹Praying "Gloria" didn't always show on a loaded game.
🔹Undead can no longer have prayers.
🔹The banner would get bugged out when followers died.
🔹Grab bug - sometimes grabbing would stop working (related to glitch spike)
🔹Villagers converting at the wrong time, now follow the lines in their faith bar making it more clear when they will join/leave.
🔹Undead will no longer attack the messenger
🔹Undead was not saved.
🔹Undead won't get hungry anymore.
🔹Undead would not trigger lift and fall animations
🔹Localization for tutorials would be the wrong language
🔹Gift tutorial could pop up on buildings.


DEMO PATCH #40 - BUGFIXES & IMPROVEMENTS

Hey everyone!

Build 40.1 has some fixes to bugs but also some nice tweaks.

[h3]Here are the changes for this patch:[/h3]
[h2]NEW[/h2]
🔹New Gift - builders can grab all materials at once.
🔹Calling on the wildlings button is back
🔹You can now see the level of villagers in the villager list.
🔹Tooltips are added in some places for better understanding and cleaner design.

[h2]TWEAKS[/h2]
🔹Villagers now stop when hovered over making it easier to fulfill prayers and interact with them.
🔹More powers generate alignment.
🔹Giftmenu is changed for a better overview and to be more gathered in one place.
🔹The alignment bar is always showing now.
🔹Small faith reactions happen less often now.
🔹Converted enemies now go directly to your base and join your camp instead of being wildlings for a while.
🔹Tweaked what actions give you good/ bad alignment

[h2]FIXES[/h2]
🔹Some performance improvement.
🔹You can now see info on skeletons.
🔹Bonus stats (Sickness, speed boost, etc) are cleared when villagers die
🔹Wildling health no longer shows decimals.
🔹The villager list would glitch around
🔹Alignment could go beyond the bar to the good side, making it seem like bad actions made no difference
🔹Raise dead now also work on enemies.
🔹Enemies would not get converted to your base.
🔹Tutorials showing the wrong Language
🔹Some languages could not be displayed

The game still has some bugs so please report anything you find and let us know what you think.

[h2]UPCOMING:[/h2]
🔹We're focusing on fixing issues first, but then we'll add more gifts, prayers and also some traiding.