Hello Everyone,
Spring is coming and with it, our latest update. We’ll be bringing many new features and Quality of Life improvements for you to experience. This update in particular includes some features that we’ve been wanting to add since stepping into early access. So let’s dive into what’s coming:
Animal Husbandry & Improved Animals
Raise, care for, and obtain a variety of animals with the new Animal Husbandry system! This feature will bring even more depth to managing your settlements. You’ll find new vendors in nearby towns to start and can breed and harvest more as you raise them to adulthood. Plus, we’re enhancing wild animal behaviors and interactions to make them feel more lifelike as well!
New Butchering Interactions
Alongside animal husbandry we're adding a new option to process animals even further with butchering and skinning. You’ll be able to acquire more meat and pelts by bringing the carcass back to your settlement and processing it down. The yield for this can be aided by the butchering bench as well as your hunting skill when used by you or your companions. This ensures that every part of the animal is put to good use when it comes to hunting in Karvenia.
Library & Sitting Behaviors
Build this new structure to give your companions a space for reading the many books you’ve collected along the way. We felt it was important as you get into the latter half of the game to have a more automated process when it comes to training your companions. We’re adding some great settings to customize this feature to your liking and it should save you some tedium when it comes to management. Additionally, characters now have sitting behaviors, adding a touch of realism to their daily lives as they rest or gather around your settlement which are included with this update to reading.
Fishing
Fishing will be coming with this update as well. Cast your line in rivers, lakes, or ponds, and reel in a variety of fish to provide another way to sustain your settlement. This feature has been widely requested internally by our team even before our Early Access launch and we’ve been iterating on a bunch of different ways to make it mechanically interesting as well as immersively satisfying. Challenge your friends and see who can angle the biggest catch!
Additional Decorations
You can now personalize your settlements with even more new decorations! These additions let you further customize your town to make it as stunning as possible. We collected a list of what players wanted to see more of when it comes to customization and are adding a variety of new buildable decorations to the crafting nook. Don’t forget to check them out!
Check The Preview Branch
We’ll be releasing an early iteration of this update in our Preview Branch category on discord very soon. As always, we’re grateful for your support and feedback. It’s your support that allows us to make Bellwright the best it can be.
Until next time,