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FreeHolder Alpha 8 Hotfix 5 4.1.2022 April Fools! FreeHolder is still alive. Get it? Because y'all thought it was dead? It was funnier in my head. Still, they say good things are worth waiting for. I intend to test that truism to the utmost. Changes -Recipes now display nutrition
Hello everyone, It’s been a long time. Far too long. I don’t like it at all. But unfortunately it has been necessary to take a massive hiatus from working on the game, again, in order to deal with what are ultimately my primary responsibilities to my family and our general situat
FreeHolder Alpha 8 Hotfix 4 5.31.2020 See dev notes below, if you're interested. PLEASE NOTE ***Please note with the changes to map data from altering how bandits function, existing savegames will probably break. Unless you want to see some map tile weirdness for the sake of it,
Hello everyone, My sincere apologies for the lack of updates or communiques this last month. Things have been difficult and I've had to focus my attention and energies on other things besides my beloved game for the previous few weeks. I am pleased to announce, however, that I'm
Hello everyone! Development has been experiencing further delays than I had expected. Good news which is also bad news. The good news is, my wife was reinstated at her teaching job since they got a grant or something to cover the shortfall during these, er, strange times. So that
Hello FreeHolders! Due to several complications arising from the, er, global situation I have been slightly slowed in my ability to work effectively and deliver updates. However, I do plan on having a decent update with bugfixes and a few new features up within a few days. Thank
FreeHolder Alpha 8 Hotfix 3 3.22.2020 See dev notes below, if you're interested. PLEASE NOTE **!!Please note with the changes to pasture data from adding barns, pastures from old saves may be subject to corruption when loaded. Your animals will probably be fine, but you may for e
Hi all, It is my hope that I will get another update out this weekend, most likely tomorrow. Although I am technically home more than I used to be, I ironically have less time to work because my child is not in school, so my ability to work uninterrupted has been, um, impeded. On
FreeHolder Alpha 8 Hotfix 2 3.13.2020 NOTE: Please note, the title screen still says hotfix 1 at the moment. I will update this soon. Rest assured the newest hotfix is live. ***See dev notes below, if you're interested.*** Bugfixes Action Fixes -Excavation and Deep Mining discoun
FreeHolder Alpha 8 Hotfix 1 3.7.2020 Weather Resistance, Disease, and Fatigue I've made some changes, increased some of the difficulty and rebalanced these factors. Please see below for the extended notes on all of this; there's too much text to put it at the top. If you notice a
FreeHolder Alpha 8 2.28.2020 Combat Updated and Upgraded I'm pleased to announce that the large number of upgrades and changes to battle have been completed. I'm so pleased, in fact, that I am announcing that we are now in alpha 8. It's all pretty arbitrary, but I think it's appr
I'm sure some of you are familiar with the car tuning up analogy, where you go in to replace one broken part in the engine, fix it, and then realize it broke because another part wasn't working that well, so you pull it out to tune it up, and then you notice the part under it is
Hello, everyone. I have not had the time or space I had hoped to work this week. I did get some stuff done but mostly aesthetic work and have not finishing coding the interface for it. In service of fixing up the battle system and making it comprehensible I have been working on a
FreeHolder Alpha 7 Hotfix 12 2.15.2020 Mini Fix I did not get as much done at the end of the week as I would have liked. My wife is traveling for work and the baby and I are going with her, so I've had a lot of logistical preparation and housework to take care of to get ready. Th
FreeHolder Alpha 7 Hotfix 11 2.12.2020 Mid-Week Update! Hi all! I've been cranking away at getting flax and linen implemented and have just been so excited to get it to you that I thought I would put it out today. There are a large number of related balance changes, a few small f
FreeHolder Alpha 7 Hotfix 10 2.8.2020 Battle Bugfixes I decided the combat system needed some bugfixing on this round, and made some headway into making it stable and reliable, and hence playable and, hopefully, fun. I did a lot of playtesting and I think the basic mechanics that
FreeHolder Alpha 7 Hotfix 9 2.2.2020 Bonus Hotfix! I managed to get some extra time this weekend and did a number of quick fixes to the code that I figured I could simply post up today. Every bit gets us that much closer to 1.0. Enjoy! Bugfixes Action Fixes -Fixed a bug where hun
FreeHolder Alpha 7 Hotfix 8 1.31.2020 New Tutorials Finally, a small collection of tutorials have been added to the game, with more to come. The question mark button in the upper left now opens a book with several sections outlining some of the early information you'll need to st
Hi everyone! I'm pleased to announce that for the upcoming hotfix we have finally added the basis for what will ultimately be a substantial in-game text tutorial, designed to make the game less incomprehensible for the new player. We currently only have a few at the moment, but i
FreeHolder Alpha 7 Hotfix 7 1.25.2020 Fixes, Fixes, Fixes... I'm getting rid of as many longstanding bugs as I possibly can, and really solidifying and glitch-proofing the core Survival Mode experience, before I push on for the many planned updates and reworking of the midgame, C