Spring has arrived in your Viking settlement - and it smells like honey and mead.
This month's update is one we've been quietly buzzing about for a while. The Hearth & Honey Update brings a whole new production chain to the game, centred around beekeeping and brewing mead. It starts with a voyage out to the marsh islands to track down wild beehives and ends with your villagers raising a horn at the newly added taverns, which can now also be upgraded to tier 3.
Alongside the mead system, we've added settlement storage statistics to help you keep better track of your settlement, and hunters can now venture into the mines to take on crawlers.
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Check out the full changelog below!
New Building: Brewery
The brewer is both a maker of mead and a beekeeper. Brewers harvest honey from available Bee Houses and turn it into mead. Apart from honey, he requires empty mead barrels and water.
New Building: Bee House
This structure constantly produces honey once built. It requires a Wild Beehive in order to be constructed. It will, however, lower an area's desirability - these bees sting! Note: Each Bee House can only store one unit of honey and will stop producing honey if it’s full.
New Building: Tavern House (Tier3)
The new Tavern level now allows villagers to drink mead at the tables. The Tavern has a large new mead barrel, which the tavern worker will supply with mead barrels.
As long as there is mead in the large barrel, characters sitting at the table will be able to drink mead while dining.
At the moment, mead is a superior alternative to water as it heals and provides happiness while quenching a character's thirst.
New Resources: Wild Beehive
These can be found on the Marsh Islands hanging from the branches of hollow trees. Bees make their hives in high-up, safe places, so you'll have to figure out a way to bring the hive down.
Be wary that the bees won't stand idly by as you raid their homes! Once you do manage to obtain a beehive, you can bring it to your settlement and build a Bee House. You'll need one Wild Beehive for each Bee House.
New Resource: Honey
Sweet gold made by bees. Provides a bit of sustenance and gives a short stamina buff. Key ingredient for mead. Produced by Bee Houses.
New Items: Mead Barrels and Empty Barrels
The Workshop House (Tier3) can now craft empty barrels to be used by the Brewer. Barrels are reusable, so once crafted, they'll be refilled by the brewer as long as honey and water are available.
New Item: Drinking Horn
You can now craft Drinking Horns, which act as mead containers, allowing you to take your mead to-go! You'll have to fill the horn at a Tavern House drink dispenser (large barrel).
New Warehouse Storages
Honey and barrels each have their own new storages at the warehouse.
New Features: Settlement Storage Statistics
Players can now see how stored items and resources increase or decrease over time, thanks to a new graph interface.
Values are updated every 12 in-game hours and reveal storage trends in your settlement.
This should make it much easier to understand how your settlement and outposts are performing in terms of resource production.
Additionally, a lookback feature will allow you to compare present values to a specific point in time.
Note: The graph is built gradually over the course of the session and will only show the present value at the start of the session, so it needs a bit of time to take additional snapshots.
Crawler Hunting
Hunters can now delve into mines to hunt crawlers.
You'll have to enable this hunting option at the Hunter's Hut and Hunter's House.
Fixes & Features
This update also comes with a host of fixes and improvements, check it out below:
· Added journal entries for Follower, Slambakur and Nidhogg.
· Added Kyckling Pen to settlement structures.
· Added settlement log for villager's previous job when he leaves.
· Fixed a bug causing gamepad tooltips to be ordered incorrectly.
· Fixed a bug causing shadows to initialize incorrectly in main menu.
· Fixed a bug causing the virtual keyboard to close unexpectedly.
· Fixed a bug making it impossible to open the chat again after cancelling the virtual keyboard.
· Fixed an issue with game saves not upgrading correctly between versions in some cases.
· Fixed an issue with the selection outline for cases where upscaling filters are enabled.
· Fixed Cooking Houses, Cheesmaker and Brewery not stockpiling resources correctly.
· Fixed cooks getting stuck adding and removing items to pots.
· Fixed healers not laying down to get healed by another healer.
· Fixed main menu lag caused by the changelog.
· Fixed savegame character preview issues.
· Fixed Task UI sometimes showing more workers assigned to it than the actual count.
· Fixed villagers becoming unable to move after sitting at Tavern.
· Fixed villager menu not opening on gamepad when viewed inside assign page.
· Gamepad navigation improvements.
· Hunters are now able to go into caves and attack baby crawlers, starting at level 15 of proficiency right from the Hunter's Hut, with no special gear requirement.
· Memory footprint optimizations for terrain generation.
· Optimizations for the new terrain material system.
· Removed settlement logs for building enemy structures.
· Smilk can no longer be used to quench hot iron.
· Villagers can use Mead as a healing item and will search for it.
· Villagers no longer ignore the outpost of water wells and collectors.
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