Hey Everyone!
My name is Daniel. You might know me from the forums or discord. My main job on Whiskerwood is as a programmer, but I also act as the game director. This means it is my honour and pleasure to say thank you for playing our game!
So many players have checked out our demo -- It has been an incredible half week, far beyond our wildest expectations.
The volume of feedback has been overwhelming but I’m trying to reply to everyone and make tickets for every improvement we can find as a team. Of course any change we make is about making the game better and more special. Everything needs to work towards our vision for Whiskerwood.
I have a couple of big changes I want to call out for this Patch. These are the features players have requested the most and we were able to land in this Update:
Added VSync setting.
Nerfed Admin tax. It now increases at 20% of the prior speed. Aka: it is 80% lower over time.
You can now pan by holding the middle mouse and dragging.
We are in the process of adding a right mouse click and hold to rotate, but for now due to bugs in menus we have mapped this feature to holding Ctrl. Thus holding CTRL and moving the mouse will rotate the camera.
Rewritten whisker path finding. This might have its own bugs, but overall should bring more stability and fewer pathfinding misses.
Fixed farm grown trees disappearing once deposited in the farm building.
Fixed Whiskers not collecting new clothing when Threadborn.
The full change log will be below, but I want to also mention a few important changes we wish to make but which did not finish in time for this patch:
Moving stone dumps still delete any whisker inside.
The terraforming will become an inverted mining tool with zoning and a work camp, replacing the stone dump.
Over capacity Cafes still win in preference over the warehouses. So once you build a single cafe please make sure you build more once it gets full.
Changelog
v0.6.149.0 Demo Patch #1
Features
Make shift + R rotate in opposite direction
Make Middle Mouse hold pan camera
Make Ctrl + mouse orbit camera when held
Update DLSS to latest version
Gameplay
Reduce increase speed of admin tax by 80%
Make whiskers eat food at non-central warehouses
Make logging, forage, mining, farms give full refunds
Reduce how frequently statues drain happiness
Make line must go up quest trigger on a non-pirate day
Replace low-tier with high-tier clothing for high-tier supplies
Make starting pirate cannon ball count 8 not 10
Make high seas only pirate setting disabling in-island pirates and disable the related quests
UI
Fix whisker background behind icon not having uniform radius
Add Lucas Riccoiotti to credits for the OST
Make all panels display the total available amount of Royal Wax Seals next to reroll buttons
Fix end of season reporting "Ends Tonight" instead of "Ends Tomorrow"
Bugs
Fix crash when moving camp
Fix save/load forgetting to allocate gift reward
Fix Tree farm logs disappear when reaching farmbuilding
Fix Whisker stuck at top of stairs
Fix embark dock line flickering 1 frame on 1 frame off during dlss frame generation
Remove obsolete tools from supplies
Fix manual assignment of whiskers fails to handle occupied houses
Fix crash in height visualizer
Fix incorrect colony name may be displayed upon loading a save
Fix flashing and pulsing white dots on ocean under certain upscalers
Fix DLSS FG labels not displaying
Attempt fix for DLSS-FG stuck enabled (untested due to no dlss fg on dev machine)
Fix crash when exiting to main menu
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