Rekindling News

Lots of cleanup and quality of life things this update. Main new feature is the addition of fertilizer. Toilets and outhouses will now 'fill up' and can be 'emptied' to produce fertilizer! fertilizer will help in farming!

Full patch notes are below. If you want keep seeing Rekindling grow bigger and better please leave us a Steam review or feedback on the Steam forums or in the Discord it really helps us out a lot :)

• Added Fertilizer
  
• Added 'Fullness' with a bar on toilets and outhouses
  
• Added new job type : Empty
  
• Added new trait: Cheerful
  
• Added new trait: Germaphobe
  
• Changed Alert Texture on left to prevent overflow and give more screen space
  
• Changed Zims will do more damage more quickly to objects
  
• Changed Bruisers will do a LOT more damage to structures
  
• Changed Potatoes now require Fertilizer and grow a lot faster
  
• Fixed Toilets to actually be used instead of just outhouses working
  
• Fixed Bears wolves rabbits and chickens have lost the ability to open doors
  
• Fixed Zims can no longer open doors
  

Main highlight of this update is the scheduler. You can now give your survivors some downtime so they are not unhappy all of the time! With this update you can only set a schedule for the whole colony. However in the near future you will be able change the schedules of each survivor independently. Lots of other minor tweaks to make happiness not be such a killer in the early game and general bug fixes made it in as well!

Full patch notes are below. If you want keep seeing Rekindling grow bigger and better please leave us a Steam review or feedback on the Steam forums or in the Discord it really helps us out a lot :)

• Added Scheduler for survivors
  
• Added New music for the menu
  
• Added another music track for in game
  
• Changed some minor art things with some in game menus
  
• Changed Beer to give more happiness
  
• Changed People to get happier when not working
  
• Changed People will be less unhappy when being hurt (unless your a masochist you get more happiness from it now)
  
• Fixed 5x speed icon being wrong
  
• Fixed Crafting stat not tracking properly
  
• Fixed Regular handyman Achievement not triggering or tracking properly
  
• Fixed Wires not saving with save games
  
• Fixed Power objects not saving if they were on or not after a save
  
• Fixed Hitting backspace when typing a save game name will no longer exit the save menu.
  

(7/4/19)

• Added additional logging for crashes on first game load
  

Lots of small tweaks and fixes made it in from feedback on the forums this week! Keep it coming.
The big feature this week is that there are now two new types of Zims. Woozers and Bruizers. Woozers are small and fast. Bruizers are large, have more health and are slower.

Full patch notes are below. If you want keep seeing Rekindling grow bigger and better please leave us a Steam review or feedback on the Steam forums or in the Discord it really helps us out a lot :)

• Added Two new Zim Variants. Woozers and Bruizers
  
• Added Torches (as a low level light source)
  
• Added Descriptions for some objects in the info tab
  
• Added Alert when people are so unhappy they stop working
  
• Changed some of the cloud texture made them more variable and random
  
• Changed the rock texture to not have dark black corners
  
• Changed rain to work better with zoom.
  
• Changed rain to fade in when it starts
  
• Changed numbers to no longer show on left info alerts
  
• Changed Survivors lose less happiness when being attacked
  
• Changed Survivors can go longer between eating/drinking/pooping
  
• Changed You can now cook food in a bonfire instead of a cooker
  
• Fixed Metal walls showing twice in the build menu
  

Smaller update than usual this week. A BIG thing is in the works that wasn't ready for this weeks update yet (it might be next week ːsteamhappyː) However we have some fixes and Radio Beacons! Radio Beacons will consume power and increase the chance of new survivors arriving to your settlement.

Full patch notes are below. If you want keep seeing Rekindling grow bigger and better please leave us a Steam review or feedback on the Steam forums or in the Discord it really helps us out a lot :)

Added Radio Beacons
Changed: Esc and Backspace will close any open menus.
Changed: Clicking/highlighting survivors will no longer focus them if you are placing a zone or building
Fixed: Tooltips being wonky when changing resolutions.
Fixed: Tutorial Prompts being off when changing resolutions and not restarting.
Fixed: fixed a small lag issue with Survivor pathing.

Lots of stuff in this update. The largest change is with the addition of survivor happiness. Each survivor has different likes and dislikes. If they are too unhappy they will refuse to work until they get back to an acceptable happiness.
Beer, barley and a brewer were also added to help keep everyone happy.

With the new happiness system there are now double the amount of traits (15 in .28 and now 29 in .29)

Full patch notes are below. If you want keep seeing Rekindling grow bigger and better please leave us a Steam review or feedback on the Steam forums or in the Discord it really helps us out a lot :)

• Added Happiness for survivors. If they are not happy they will not work.
  
• Added 14 new traits!
  
• Added a screen to accept or deny new incoming survivors.
  
• Added Beer
  
• Added Barley
  
• Added Barley farms
  
• Added a new survivor state, Drunk.
  
• Added New achievement, Cheers
  
• Changed survivors have two primary traits (one positive and one negative) and two personality ones (one like one dislike)
  
• Changed event focusing is a consistent speed no matter how far.
  
• Changed pathing for survivors, They can go a lot further now.
  
• Changed Harvesting and mining will level up the same rate as other skills
  
• Fixed you can now actually research the nicer beds.
  
• Fixed layering on outhouses
  
• Fixed people doing crafting jobs when crafting is turned off
  
• Fixed massive lag when people are unable to find an object they need