Developer posts and news about this game.
Mountaincore is now free to play on Steam, and also open-sourced under the permissive MIT license at Github ! Two years ago, we were working with a publisher who were on-board to fund and market what became Mountaincore, but unfortunately they decided not to go ahead with publish
2023 was a tumultuous year for Mountaincore - we were made to keep the community in the dark by a publisher which ultimately backed out, scrambled to release the game according to the plan that had been put in place, and ultimately it suffered as a commercial failure. The Mountai
Hi everyone, sorry for a slightly delayed update this month. In fact that’s the main theme of this month’s update unfortunately – the necessity of returning to full-time work has hit me much, much harder than I thought it would, probably also due to the fact I now have a fairly l
- Adjusted chances of creating items from mining (stone is less likely, ore is more likely) and made this moddable - Deconstruction of furniture can now be cancelled - Skeletons will now eventually disappear - Made hops quicker to grow - Reduced the chance of fire from jobs that
- Fix for liquid hauling jobs not working i.e. filling of water barrel - Improvement to furniture that collects items such as kitchen worktop
- Settlers will now hold on to their waterskins for a lot longer - Fix for walls and bridges not being built - Attempted fix for trading chests getting stuck and no longer collecting coins - Hauling items to stockpiles will now default the job to the priority of the target stockp
- Reduced toughness of the undead (though they're still very hard to kill - bring hammers) - Made collection of ammo while in military more important than other goals (i.e. standing on guard) - Dwarves will no longer fight each other to the death because of a stray arrow hitting
- Reduced toughness of the undead (though they're still very hard to kill - bring hammers) - Made collection of ammo while in military more important than other goals (i.e. standing on guard) - Dwarves will no longer fight each other to the death because of a stray arrow hitting
Hi everyone! May was a particularly exciting month because… we launched into Early Access!! I’m very happy with the response from most people so far, lots and lots of you are enjoying it, many YouTube and Twitch streamers have picked up the game and almost all of those enjoyed it
- Attempted fix for weapons sometimes going missing - Disabled exclusive full screen mode on Mac until we can fix the OS-level crash this is causing - Dwarves can no longer drink from the water barrel in a brewery to avoid blocking the production of wort - Note that this change w
- Updated underlying engine library to latest version - This fixes some small issues like being able to launch the browser on Mac - It also means we can have a splash screen! - Settlers can no longer die due to food poisoning (there is still a happiness malus) - Disabled beer tap
- Settlers will now collect a stack of seeds when farming again rather than one seed at once - Reduced happiness malus from going sober - Fix for duplication of bread and rations placed on a feasting hall table - Settlers will no longer use disabled beer tappers - One of the star
- Settlers will now never interrupt a job to move food to the feasting hall - Fix for construction of flooring, walls and roofing not working correctly
- Settlers should now collect items needed to work on jobs before waiting until all other work is completed - Made the main menu background image smaller to reduce memory usage - Fix for a crash when destroying a butchery station
- Reduced repelling force due to many entities in one location to avoid issues in very busy locations - Fix for the game not working in a Turkish locale - Fix for when cauldrons get stuck in transit between kitchen and feasting hall - Fix for a crash due to sorting algorithms mak
- "Add tiles" button when a stockpile is selected will now correctly use that stockpile's (first if several) stockpile group - Adding a stockpile will now use the settings of a stockpile that is being extended rather than what was selected - Note that merging two existing stockpi
- Added a label to export pallets to warn when a production limit has been reached - Updated French translation, with thanks to Crono Natsuga
- Fishing now only has a chance to catch a fish (depending on skill level) rather than always being successful - Ore crushing is now performed by the stonemason rather than blacksmith - Corn and Hemp now grow a little faster - Exposed the colour codes for roofing view to modding
- Corrected weapon rack tags - Prevented placement of rooms over irrigation channels - Removed state file for Asset Editor tool to prevent a crash
- Fix for crashes and other problems with messed up room tiles - Fix for a crash when merchants are paying but all coins are assigned elsewhere - Fix for a crash when a material is lost - Corrected an issue where merchants paying for items could cause extra piles of coins to appe