The Wandering Village

Stray Fawn Studio · Stray Fawn Publishing, WhisperGames

Released: Jul 17, 2025
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Last updated: 13 Sep 2026, 00:58 GMT

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10 Sep 2026Developer post
The Wandering Village Dev-Diary: Keeping Levi Hydrated
Dear Onbu Riders We're making steady progress on the upcoming DLC, The Last Leviathan , and wanted to share more details on what makes Levi unique! Levi's back is dominated by a giant lake . This is how Levi stores water in order to survive on land. But it's also crucial to the s
06 Jun 2026Developer post
The Last Leviathan DLC Reveal
Dear Onbu Riders We’re thrilled to introduce you to the first big gameplay expansion after the 1.0 release! 🎉 The Wandering Village: The Last Leviathan will feature a new giant players can befriend and learn to live on. Levi , a distant relative of Onbu, is a marine creature tha
04 Jun 2026Developer post
1.1.6 Patchnotes
Bugfixes - Fixed bug, where villagers went hungry even if there was enough food - Fixed bug, where farmers would not harvest decayed crops
17 Apr 2026Developer post
The Wandering Village Physical Editions releasing July 30th
Dear Onbu Riders, As you may recall, we teased the physical PlayStation and Nintendo Switch collector's and premium editions of The Wandering Village in collaboration with Serenity Forge in July last year. We’re thrilled to announce that both editions will be released on July 30t
08 Dec 2025Developer post
Lowest Historical Discount & Onbu Skin DLC Release
Dear Onbu Riders, The Wandering Village is featured on Steam this week as a Midweek Madness deal with its highest discount ever, 50% off! View game page Our art team has been busy putting together an Onbu skin DLC, featuring 5 new Onbu skins. The DLC just launched with a 10% disc
08 Dec 2025Developer post
1.1.5 Patchnotes
Changes - Add ability to handle DLC content
24 Nov 2025Developer post
Steam Award Nominations
Dear Onbu Riders It’s that time of the year again: The Steam awards just went live. With Wandering Village finally hitting 1.0 this July, we are now eligible for nominations again 🙂 We would greatly appreciate it if you nominate us! We hope you have been enjoying the game and ar
06 Oct 2025Developer post
1.1.4 Patchnotes
Changes Updated Unity version to apply a security patch
Changes

Updated Unity version to apply a security patch
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29 Sep 2025Developer post
Quality of Life Update
Dear Onbu Rider Thank you all so much for making The Wandering Village’s launch a success! We hope you are having as much fun playing the game as we have working on it ✨ We have been busy listening to your feedback and putting together an update that focuses on improving as many
29 Sep 2025Developer post
Patchnotes 1.1.3
What's New The new search bar allows you to quickly find any technology in the research tree! You can now build the Hauling Post, a rework of the old Worker Post. Workers employed here will pick up stuff from the ground and keep production buildings well stocked. They get a subst
What's New

The new search bar allows you to quickly find any technology in the research tree!
You can now build the Hauling Post, a rework of the old Worker Post. Workers employed here will pick up stuff from the ground and keep production buildings well stocked. They get a substantial boost to movement speed and carry capacity, too.
Story quests and tutorials can now be collapsed into a compact format instead of disappearing completely. This should eliminate issues where players wouldn't find the quests anymore after unpinning them.
We have added 5 additional sandbox options centered on construction and research, allowing you to tailor the game to your preferred playstyle.
Compost on Farm, Herbalist, Mycologist increases yield instead of growth speed. The 'Crop Fertilizer' upgrade further boosts the yield to +2.
Farm/Herbalist/Mycologist/Aquafarm workers can now also harvest crops from the plots of other buildings of the matching type, allowing you to set up some more efficient large farms.
Hold Alt to bring up the worker management overlay, allowing you to assign/unassign workers and lock/unlock buildings with ease! On gamepad, this mode can be found in the radial menu/tools.
Reworked food rationing from a passive system into an active decision. The food management display now allows to set rationing to Auto (the default behaviour from before the update) or to On/Off. While rationing is active, villagers will go hungry and consume 50% of the food, but get very unhappy in the process. This is useful to push through famines or save up some food for the future.
We've reorganized resources into new categories in the top bar. The new 'Essentials' category contains everything you'll always want to keep an eye on. The other categories are designed to be useful in specific situations (such as when extending your farms or caring for Onbu). The goal is to reduce the need to keep the "All" tab open all the time, and thus reduce clutter on the screen. Let us know what you think!
The harvest tool can now filter poisonous fungi and parasites, making it easier to select them.
Misophonia options: a new 'audio_preferences.json' file will be generated in the game's save data folder, which allows you to tweak the volume of every individual sound effect in the game. This feature is only available on PC/Mac/Linux, since it requires direct access to the save folder and a text editor.
We've added several new medium decorations, inspired by our backers.
Balancing

MaxWorkerCount for Farm with Farmhands upgrade 5 -> 7
Changed Liquid WeedKiller recipe from using Biogas/Bile to using Salt
Buffed Smoking Hut: production time 200s -> 180s, Salt consumption 5 -> 3
Buffed Seawater Collector: ProductionDuration 50s -> 33.3s
Changed Water Evaporator: buff water throughput: 10 -> 15, nerf salt output: 2 -> 1
Changed RockTrumpet: plant/harvest cycle duration 15.5s -> 20s, Stone yield 2 -> 3 (Stone yield/worker/day: 20 -> 27)
Hunger efficiency (how efficiently hunger is reduced by Onbu Food) caps at 20%, so that too many Tapeworms can't make Onbu starve completely
Removed direct Onbu poisoning from Sporemoths, and considerably buff the food output from their eggs (to be a bit better in terms of food/tile/day than Elefleas)
Fixed new villagers arriving twice as fast as intended. Considerably buffed the base arrival speed so the change isn't too drastic
Changed difficulty modifier segments from 5->10->15->20->25->30 to 15->20->25->30 to remove some of the grind, and allow players to experience a harder difficulty initially
Increases resource cost for all food compostation recipes: 3 -> 5
Food compostation now also allows composting wheat and fish
Improvements

The use of Biogas or Bile can now be toggled individually for the Decontaminator and Pest Control
Crops now show a visual effect, and display warning icons in their detail display, when they're either decomposing because of unsuitable climate or growing slower due to parasites
Show missions in Onbu view as soon as related building is unlocked (rather than requiring players to build it first). Highlight missions unlocked by researching the mission-giver building
Extended the "hostility" display in the top bar to show relevant information for any of the three game modes
Hide hostility modifier info completely in Sandbox Mode if no modifiers were picked
The Berry Gatherer now has plots, giving you more control over where the bushes should be planted
Scavenging locations that could hold a special event in store (and thus override the expected rewards) now mention this specifically
When a parasite egg location overlaps with roads, both the egg location and the roads can now be consistently selected
If a construction site or egg-planting location overlaps with objects that have been de-selected for harvest (and thus permanently block the location), a new "construction site blocked" error flag will now show up
Limit Researcher building count to 1, in order to avoid frustration when building multiple ones and not seeing any benefit. This will not affect existing duplicates of research buildings; you merely cannot build more once you have 1 or more.
Abandoned Encampments will now change to Scavenged Encampments after passing them. This should avoid confusion about whether resources were picked up when passing them
Popup when unlocking a new Onbu skin
The intensity of the poison cloud effect has been considerably toned down, to allow players to still see the village while Onbu is in the middle of a cloud
Improved gamepad navigation in the research tree
Don't show housing info for homeless villagers. Show homeless icon instead of completely hiding the housing icon
Show survey-prompt only once per unique survey
Most notification log entries can now be retranslated when switching language
Show effective growth speed of all plants (also in farms), including modifiers from parasites. Previously, only the temperature was factored in, while Rockgrubs/Sandworms were ignored
All resource-tooltips now show the total amount of that resource that's currently in stock
Added a button to the Radio Tower's detail display to open incoming transmissions
Added a setting to reduce the quality of the ground shader, to better support older hardware
Allowed cancelling placement of parasite eggs while their placement location is still occupied (e.g. when placing them overlapping roads)
Improved hostility modifier selection; the 'Reset' button has been changed into a 'Select/Deselect All' button
Proper icon for the Food Compostation unlock, and improvements to some other icons
Keep showing a just-completed tutorial for a short while
Right-Shift now also works to copy buildings
Generally tightened some UI elements, to make sure important information doesn't get cut off when playing on small screens and/or with enlarged UI scale
Improved layout of the hostility-beaten widget and popup
Aquafarm workers will now carry away excess fish and kelp to ensure the plots do not get blocked by resources anymore
Slightly moved back door of Aquafarm so workers will take more sensible paths
Warning and error icons in top bar now have distinct colors and specific ordering to make them more easily identifiable
Added information about food consumption frequency to food management display
Fixed some layout issues
Performance improvements across the board
Opening the radial menu will always open it in the tools tab for faster usage of tools
Bugfixes

Fixed Decontaminator employees burning down fungi on Mycologist plots
Fixed Mycologist harvesting medium poisonous fungi (less yield)
Fixed Mycologist not harvesting burnt poisonous fungi
Fixed arabic localization issues
Fixed 'An acquired taste' being the only sidequest to force its dialogue
Fixed visual help for research zoom on gamepad not flipping correctly on device change
Fixed UI Scale Issue for Pause and Confirmation Display
Fixed: bring back research recommendation stars, and improve system so that eligible parents of next recommended research get starred if the recommended research itself is still out of reach
Fixed tooltips shown even though they are under a panel
Fixed harvest-balloons scaling with their marked plants when they grow
Fixed: switching from keyboard/mouse to gamepad lets you skip hold buttons
Fixed: changing device also clicks buttons
Fixed: controller-lost-popup not on top of everything
Fixed Farms still thinking they have plots after adding and then removing all their plots, leading to some wrong warning flags
Fixed Horn-Command buttons for commands that don't need research not getting highlighted correctly after unlocking the Hornblower
Fixed a rare case where the game could get stuck during camera transitions in story mode
Fixed some UI elements not getting re-translated upon switching language
Fixed some UI scaling issue
Fixed some instances where gamepad navigation could lose focus when switching input device
Fixed some cases where closing a panel using the gamepad would also close the panel underneath
Fixed layout issue with the building counters in the building menu
Fixed issue with mission button highlights, where hovering over one newly unlocked mission would remove the hover-glow from all others that were unlocked by the same research (e.g. all Onbu Pharmacy commands)
Fixed UI getting re-shown for a split second after the story's final cutscene
Fixed linebreak when status widgets in the top bar displayed three-digit numbers
Fixed Energy health damage kicking in too early (90% exhaustion -> 100% exhaustion)
Fixed vegetation often failing to spawn if initial center location for cluster was badly picked (e.g. in a spot that's completely overbuilt already)
Fixed missing tiles in some restricted regions - building areas for Scavenger Hut, Fishery etc. should now perfectly overlap with regular building areas
Fixed being able to uproot roads with poison plants on them
Fixed foodmanagement selects hidden resources with gamepad
Fixed: decoration bar not properly anchored on some housing types (Flophouse, Boarding House, Commune)
Fixed: jumpy loading screen tips
Fixed: main menu not navigatable after deleting the last savefile in start screen
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19 Aug 2025Developer post
Patchnotes v1.0.4
Bugfixes Fixed exception when Scavenging Trading Display was closed with right-click and then opened again Fixed scavenging buildings dumping their rewards in the middle of the village instead of storing them
Bugfixes

Fixed exception when Scavenging Trading Display was closed with right-click and then opened again
Fixed scavenging buildings dumping their rewards in the middle of the village instead of storing them
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06 Aug 2025Developer post
Patchnotes v1.0.3
Improvements Forcibly show a quest’s side panel when a new transmission is incoming, even if that quest is unpinned Proper world-map visuals for some story-related locations Korean localization improvements Fixed unlocalized side-objective in a certain main story quest Don’t show
Improvements

Forcibly show a quest’s side panel when a new transmission is incoming, even if that quest is unpinned
Proper world-map visuals for some story-related locations
Korean localization improvements
Fixed unlocalized side-objective in a certain main story quest
Don’t show survey prompt when closing the game
Bugfixes

Fixed a rare case where the “Someone wants to talk to you” prompt for side quests would not properly work, and stick around forever after showing the initial dialogue
Fixed Onbu not stopping in final story location if a "Lie Down" command was issued just before issuing the "Go Home" command
Fixed an issue where a scavenging decision would not trigger when being clicked, if the same scavenging team previously visited a sidequest location and the “Someone wants to talk to you” prompt was not yet accepted
Fixed last active tutorial not getting cleared upon completion. Most often, this affected the “Internal Parasites” tutorial
Balancing

increase carry capacity of Onbu Doctor for Onbu Notes from 5 -> 20. This means the Enlightenment mission can be prepared much quicker, making it more useful and easy to time
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24 Jul 2025Developer post
1 Week since Launch - Thank You & Development Update
Dear Onbu Rider It feels like we have only blinked once since The Wandering Village launched into 1.0, but it’s already been a week! Thank you all very much for helping to make the launch a success 🎆 We are trying hard to read through all of your feedback and have started workin
17 Jul 2025Developer post
The Wandering Village 1.0 Release
We just launched the 1.0 version of The Wandering Village 🥳 Our team is super excited and we hope you are too. We can’t believe it’s been 5 years since we first started working on the game! Check out our new animated trailer created by Trash Studio, a Japanese animation studio:
We just launched the 1.0 version of The Wandering Village 🥳
Our team is super excited and we hope you are too. We can’t believe it’s been 5 years since we first started working on the game!
Check out our new animated trailer created by Trash Studio, a Japanese animation studio:
Watch on YouTube
There is a 35% discount to celebrate the launch!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1121640/The_Wandering_Village
What changed since Early Access?
Since its Early Access in 2022, the game has received several major updates:

Story Mode: Adding more lore, quests and a story-based end goal to the game.
Ocean and Ruins Biome: New challenges await in the form of new gameplay mechanics, events and scouting locations.
Reworked economy: Improved villager management, a reworked research system and balancing tweaks have increased the game’s depth.
Hostility modifiers: Extra challenges for experienced players.
Gameplay and content expansions: Such as trading, parasites, new buildings, resources, Onbu commands, just to name a few.
Controller and Steam Deck Support
Ported the game to Xbox, PlayStation and Switch
And much more!
What’s next?
Despite 1.0 marking a major milestone for the game, we have already started to address some of the feedback that we received following the recent updates. So stay tuned for the 1.1 Quality of Life & UX update 🙂
Beyond that, we have started to tweak and add some more things related to your interactions and relationship with Onbu. This will be our 1.2 update which we are hoping to release later this year.
More news:
We teamed up with Serenity Forge to create a physical and collector’s edition for Switch + PlayStation which is open for pre-order today at 6PM CEST.
We just launched an Onbu plushie campaign on Makeship.
Along with the release, we're running a Stray Fawn Summer Sale with most of our games being on discount. In case you already own The Wandering Village, you can get discount on our other games via bundles.
Thank you all very much for your continuous support in the past months and years!
We couldn’t have made it here without you ❤️
Stray Fawn Studio
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17 Jul 2025Developer post
Patchnotes v1.0.2
Finally, the little surprise we promised is here! Animated intro
03 Jul 2025Developer post
Patchnotes v1.0.2
About this Patch We named this patch v1.0.2 in preparation of the upcoming release. While we will not add any new features for the upcoming release, we do have a little surprise in store for everyone that will be released on July 17th! Bugfixes Fixed being able to start a researc
About this Patch
We named this patch v1.0.2 in preparation of the upcoming release. While we will not add any new features for the upcoming release, we do have a little surprise in store for everyone that will be released on July 17th!
Bugfixes

Fixed being able to start a research while another is still active, causing you to lose all invested resources without warning
Fixed inputs not correctly reset after controller change
Fixed wrong glossary descriptions: gamepad alternatives were ignored
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24 Jun 2025Developer post
Patchnotes v0.11.12
Bugfixes Fixed a rare exploit that could lead to Onbu continuing past the location of the story finale Fixed dialogue in story finale sometimes getting locked up Fixed parasite egg locations not being selectable prior to the eggs actually being burrowed Fixed manually placed para
Bugfixes

Fixed a rare exploit that could lead to Onbu continuing past the location of the story finale
Fixed dialogue in story finale sometimes getting locked up
Fixed parasite egg locations not being selectable prior to the eggs actually being burrowed
Fixed manually placed parasite eggs not being removed by Pest Control workers if marked for harvest
Fixed road visuals not updating correctly after placing construction sites on top and then cancelling them
Fixed VideoPlayer rarely getting stuck at end of video, requiring manual user input to continue
Fixed islands sometimes not being visible on world map in story mode
Fixed one scavenging event outcome showing the wrong notification with unused resource placeholders
Fixed flags on tents and a few other housing types having their icons offset
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12 Jun 2025Developer post
Patchnotes v0.11.11
Improvements Added a new, animated start screen! Replaced story outro dialogue soundtrack Added puddle sound effect Removed some UI panels related to Early Access Changed light and fog settings for story finale Improved story cutscene backgrounds Improved story outro Added option
Improvements

Added a new, animated start screen!
Replaced story outro dialogue soundtrack
Added puddle sound effect
Removed some UI panels related to Early Access
Changed light and fog settings for story finale
Improved story cutscene backgrounds
Improved story outro
Added optional objective to ||second seed-planting phase during finale|| to make it clear how to get Liquid Weed Killer
Improved visuals for “wandering sporemoths” event
Disabled mipmaps for startscreen UI assets to improve visual appearance
Improvements to research tree zoom-bar layouting for gamepad
Tweaked anchoring for twitch-decision popup
Added one missing localization string
Updated credits
Added a visual hint to pressable elements in story cutscenes to avoid players getting stuck in cutscenes and thinking the game froze
Added animated quest marker to one of the earlier main quest locations
Bugfixes

Fixed glyphs not updating correctly when switching device during gameplay
Fixed a bug where carpenters would not fill their own storage
Fixed broken outline shader for Linux
Fixed Onbu clipping through islands in ocean biome
Fixed plants being visibly fully grown on planting
Fixed animal mission objectives not updating when unpinned
Fixed ‘Decision’ tutorial
Fixed resource categories not working during pause
Fixed world map location selection
Fixed texture issues in start screen
Fixed cases where Onbu could get permanently stuck in “already following a command” state. If your save file is already affected, issuing the same command that Onbu last received should fix it
Fixed gamepad navigation order for side display
Fixed gamepad shortcut for story UI
Fixed several issues with right-to-left localization
Fixed resource amounts in top bar not getting refreshed when disabling/enabling buildings while paused
Fixed a potential softlock when triggering any input during story camera transitions
Fixed settings panel showing wrong tab on reopening
Fixed cursor staying hidden when switching from gamepad to mouse while a popup was open
Fixed wrong gamepad glyphs showing for scavenging widget
Fixed elements in side display not being re-translated when switching language
Fixed gamepad navigation issue when opening glossary for the first time
Fixed tutorial widgets not fading out anymore
Fixed animal mission buildings not letting you move in the mission UI when going there via button
Fixed Credits getting skipped automatically after skipping ending cutscene on gamepad (and other cases where hold-to-trigger buttons would trigger immediately if already held when entering a new view)
Balancing

Reduced scavenging special event probabilities from 20% to 10%
Slightly extended buildable zones on Onbu’s flanks to allow for more consistent placement of Seawater Collector
Performance

Improved billboard shader
Improved performance and redesigned credits
Improved performance on worldmap
Improved preformance of topbar UI
Switched out all videos to 720p so they will also work on lower-end PCs
Improved performance of log panel
Many other performance improvements across the board
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22 May 2025Developer post
Patchnotes v0.11.7
Bugfixes Fixed an issue where save files could not be loaded if they were created just after completing the “Burial at Sea” sidequest while already scavenged wreckage locations were still visible on the map
Bugfixes

Fixed an issue where save files could not be loaded if they were created just after completing the “Burial at Sea” sidequest while already scavenged wreckage locations were still visible on the map
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20 May 2025Developer post
Story Mode Update & 1.0 Launch Date Announcement
Dear Onbu Riders LOTS of news incoming today! TLDR version: - 1.0 release is coming July 17th to Steam, Xbox, Playstation and Switch. - We just released the Story Mode Update. - Our roadmap has been updated. - The game’s price will increase to $29.99 after the current discount. -

Updates & announcements

What's New

We just launched the 1.0 version of The Wandering Village 🥳

What changed since Early Access?

What’s next?

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