Black Forest News

Hi everyone!

We're excited to announce that Black Forest is part of the Turn-Based Carnival event on Steam and is available for 20% off until the event ends!

Turn-Based Carnival will be live from November 14th to the 21st to bring together a bunch of exciting games for a delightful experience. Check out the event page here to discover some other amazing games!

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https://store.steampowered.com/app/523070/Black_Forest/

Bugfixes:

• Fixed: Monsters should now always turn around from walls/palisades, etc. again - sorry for that, a previous update messed up some physics calculations
  
• Fixed: Onion field does not show up as a carrot field in the context menu anymore.
  
• Fixed: Mill can be built again (it self-intersected, so it was already red)
  
• Fixed: A few small text issues
  
• Fixed: Hard difficulty levels should now unlock if you won a medium game (it unlocked only on easy)
  
• Fixed: Banner construction now working properly
  
• Fixed: Banner default image should now be correct (a shield, not a flower)
  

Other Changes:

• Small change: Banner no longer requires metal to build
  
• Added: Quick Start / Reference for impatient players
  

New Features:

• Added: Monster discovery panel
  
• Added: An exclusive castle level
  
• New icons
  
• Added: Onion field (small, slow-growing, undemanding)
  
• Added: The banner decoration is now available
  
• Added: Once you have discovered a certain amount of monsters, you can upload your own image and choose your own colour for the banner
  
• Hard and doomed difficulty now need to be unlocked by winning easier maps first
  
• Gameplay change: Walls and gates can now be rebuilt in place by choosing the repair option, even if they have been destroyed.
  
• You can now click on the forest to bring up the gather menu.
  
• New and improved windmill model
  

Bugfixes:

• Fixed: Smithy now correctly uses up 1 wood per spear produced
  
• Fixed: "Rebuild" no longer triggers the intro dialog when loading a save game
  
• Fixed a few small dialog text errors
  
• Fixed: Decorations such as the snowman will no longer be damaged sometimes (and can't be repaired).
  
• Fixed: Improved collision detection precision, so monsters should no longer warp through walls.
  
• Fixed: A few text and spelling errors
  
• Fixed: Gather button and menu now properly disabled at night
  
• Fixed: Story rats appearing properly in "Childrens' Tales"
  
• Fixed: Demolishing a building no longer leads to "x buildings were damaged" steward messages
  
• Fixed: Clicking on the status icons of walls now works properly
  
• Fixed: Dialogs now always show the correct portrait images.
  
• Fixed: Dialogs in the tutorial made more resilient against running over each other
  
• Numerous small bugfixes. In fact, I about halved the number of open issues and the ones remaining are mostly ones I can't reproduce
  

Other Changes:

• A few visual and performance improvements to some maps
  
• Translations: German translation should be complete. If you find anything missing, please file a bug report on the forum.
  
• Translations: Removed unfinished french, spanish and russian languages. They may return if I find someone to complete them.
  
• Updated Unity to 2022.3.10 (latest version)
  
• Small visual improvements to a few buildings, such as the cow pen
  
• Monster action cam should now switch to the stronger monster if one appears while it is showing a weaker monster