Hello dear shopkeepers!
Today you can cook, brew, and press new products and recipes in Faire Trade using some new crafting options and an old familiar. Let's run down the bullet points of all that is new this update and cover them in a bit more detail further down the post. Finally, you can check the patch notes to make sure that you didn't miss anything.
Major changes
3 New Crafting Stations
68 New Products
68 New Recipes
5 New Rooms
New Cooking & Baking skills
Tavern Cooking Requests
Tavern Visual Overhaul
New Wood Parquet Floor (2 color variations)
New Stone Mosaic Floor (8 color variations)
New Colors for the Haaften Floor (20 color variations)
New Colors for 7 Displays in the Ekehaar Set (5 color variations)
Resized 2x1 Crafting Stations
Resized 1x1 Small Cupboards
Grid Snap from 25cm to 10cm Increments
Forge & Smelter VFX & Audio Feedback Improvements
Improved room reflections
It has been roughly 2 months and about 200 project changes since the last Employee Update - Milestones - Terrain & Snow Rework because this cooking update turned out to be much bigger than expected. Let's get into the new changes to see what's in this update.
3 New Crafting Stations
Cooking was long requested and we there were several things that we were excited to add before we thought it was ready to include.
Stove
The Stove is a fond fan favorite from Winkeltje. It looks similar, but the model and materials still required quite some work to convert it from the old handpainted style to the new material style that allows for much richer colors and reflections. You can also see several smoke and fire particle effects which are easier to include and use a more performant method than was possible before.
Wine Cask
Bring your vineyard fantasy to life by growing grapes and vinifying wine.
Basket Press
Make delicious jams by adding some sugar and your favorite fruit.
New Products, Recipes, and Skills
Discover 68 new products and recipes spread across 2 new skills. Cultivate ingredients with planters and turn that produce into something delicious to serve up to customers. With the new Cooking and Baking skills you can achieve new masteries with pristine cuisine.
New Rooms
Build and decorate 5 new rooms to give a little boost to your craft.
Tavern Requests and Visual Overhaul
Wolfaert's Tavern in town has received a visual overhaul to celebrate a new activity that you can work up to which aligns with the cooking and baking theme.
Below is a comparison carousel of images to appreciate the improvement to the Tavern as you flick through the imagery.
New Floors and Display Colors
Mix and match new floors and displays in fresh new colors. There's a new wooden parquet floor in 2 colors and and mosaic stone tile floor in 8 new colors.
In addition, you can also play around with a total of 20 new color variations for the Haaften floor tiles bringing up the total colors for Haaften to 24.
There are 5 new color options for the Ekehaar display set bringing up the total to 8 colors.
Resized Furniture and Tighter Grid Snap
Some cupboards and crafting stations have been resized in order to fit in a 1x1 or 2x1 space when we noticed shopkeepers try to fit in those spaces and were disappointed when this wasn't possible.
Grid snapping was also improved by lowering the snap increments from every 25cm to every 10cm. This should now make it much nicer to snap things into position.
Smelter and Forge VFX and Audio
Smelters and Forges now play audio and VFX to indicate whether it's active or complete.
Improved Room Reflections
The world in Faire Trade uses dynamic real-time lighting. We as developers don't know what you, the player, is going to create. That presents challenges for lighting. With this update we have revamped the system that attempts to create believable room reflections. Below you can see a comparison between new and old. Do note that these are internal development captures so they will be at low resolution but it does demonstrate the improvement in room reflections pretty well.
Next Focus
Next update is already in the works though it is too early to reveal what the focus of it will be. We would like to improve some quality of life aspects of the game and spruce up the overall experience. We are also trying to make the next update a bit smaller in scope in the hope of delivering it sooner.
We read your feedback here on Steam though not as regularly as Discord so if you want to get in touch about the game then we recommend that you join the community there.
Finally, if you deem it deserving, leaving a review on the Steam store page would help a lot to support the development of Faire Trade and we would appreciate that a lot.
You have made it to the end of the post! Now let's get to the full list of patch notes. :)
Patch 15539
UI
Added a background to the date & store timer, to ensure that it remains visible during winter when the background is mostly white.
A crafting menu without any recipes should look better now.
Fixed corners on the notification popup not being rounded correctly.
All farming options should now show up on a planter but only the in-season options are interactable.
Dialogue should no longer show "None" in the top right corner.
Updated credits.
Trader menu (counter & traders) now shows the recipe of a product when hovering over it.
Reduced blurry customer progress and patience UI.
You can now click on the generated code when reporting a bug to copy it to your clipboard.
Milestone and some employee menu texts were not translated or had missing translations.
Removed degrees message at the bottom of the screen.
Custom Game Patience Timer had the wrong initial value set.
Custom Game Event Multiplier was multiplying the slider value by 25.
Changed the order of the loading text so that it correctly shows what step it's actually loading.
Furniture/Structure menu icons had a black background that would stick out on the corners.
Changed detail panel gradient from horizontal to vertical.
Added a Grass Per Meter graphics setting.
Added Ctrl (+- 50) / Shift (+- 10) modifiers when trading or crafting.
TECH
Interacting with a fully grown tree that wasn't watered completely should now just skip the watering prompt, since it doesn't need to be watered anymore.
Enabled depth priming which improves performance in areas with a lot of overdraw such as with foliage.
Loading a save game in an area near Bep would not trigger a terrain update.
Improved the shopkeeper animation that plays when checking out customers at the counter.
Added VFX and audio for the Stove.
Added an effect when the camera clips through village roofs to make that look better.
Enabled frustum culling for all VFX particle effects.
Grid snap subdivision lines now appear every 10cm instead of every 25cm to make it easier to snap furniture into place.
Customers should now only dress up in orange if it's Kings Day.
Added Tavern requests for when you finish the Wolfaert objectives.
Exterior and interior reflections have been improved. This was initially to fix a reflection artifact near the edge of a domain but the solution was extended to also improve reflection probe placement and bounds of interior reflection probes.
ART
Centered product slot on Eefde.
Added 20 new color variations for the Haaften floors.
Added animation to the Basket Press.
Smelter now has a visually active and completed state.
Fixed dirt shape underneath Swindle Workbench.
Fixed dirt shape underneath Armament Workbench.
Fixed dirt shape underneath Musical Instrument Workbench.
Fixed dirt shape underneath Pottery Station.
Smelter now has a circular dirt shape.
Fixed dirt shape underneath the Forge.
Forge now has start and idle VFX and SFX.
Added 5 new display color options for Ekehaar, Elahuizen, Elburg, Elden, Eldersloo, Eldrik, and Eleveld.
Updated the Stove crafting station.
Resized the Armament Workbench to allow it to fit in a 2x1 space.
Resized the Forge to allow it to fit in a 2x1 space.
Replaced the wood material on Couture, Crockburn, Crocksdorp, Coco, Constantine, Cranendonck, and Crapoel with a better alternative. Also phased out a couple of bad looking materials.
Rework of tavern domain, adding lights and decorations.
Added two new floor options. A wood parquet pattern and a stone mosaic pattern. Both floor options have several color variations to pick from.
The metal trim around Carrington had incorrectly authored vertex colors.
AUDIO
Added sound effects to the Basket Press.
Fixed spatial audio by using camera orientation instead of player.
Smelter now has audio.
OTHER
Moved the merchant for the Saturday market slightly further away from the stall to avoid it clipping into the collision box of the stall.
Added Bakery & Wine Cellar rooms.
Unlocking a product now no longer unlocks the recipes, recipes are only unlocked through crafting trees now. This is mostly to avoid crafting trees that interact with Farming to unlock things when they shouldn't.
Separated and cleaned up several child meshes in the Pottery Station in order to improve placement. You may have to reposition the Pottery Station in your save game.
Adjusted width of Eckelrade, Eembrugge, Eese, Egmond, Elburg, Ell, Ellemeet, Elspeet, Emmeloord, and Emmen to enable placement on a 1x1 walled tile. This change in dimensions can have an affect on price and appeal.
Added Rooms for pottery & cooking.
Added Cooking tag to a few decorations.
Added Cooking & Baking as unlockable skills, and enabled the crafting station for it.
Wolfaert now stands in the Tavern, and will give you objectives as you progress through cooking.
Changed the Baked tag to Baking.
BALANCE
Lowered the bonus for the Armor Workshop from 0.2 to 0.1 to be in line with the other ones.
Hotfix 15550
UI
Temporarily replaced Fruit ingredient in Tart, Fruit Cake, and Bundt Cake until tag based ingredients are properly supported.
Planters did not properly check whether it was in a Greenhouse.
Planter button would not work due to not properly checking whether the planter is in a Greenhouse.
TECH
Fixed an issue where loading a save file would trigger dialogue if it's linked to an objective starting.
Wolfaert was taking your entire inventory worth of products, rather than just what he requested. I've told him to be less greedy.
OTHER
Re-added missing Coal recipe.
Re-added missing Glass recipe.
Tart, Fruit Cake and Bundt Cake had an incorrect sale price.
Hotfix 15556
UI
End of Day Report was using the incorrect values for products sold and products bought
Planters did not properly check whether it was in a Greenhouse.
Planter button would not work due to not properly checking whether the planter is in a Greenhouse.
TECH
Fixed a memory leak that became exceptionally noticable when using Smelters.
ART
Customers would not transition to walking after checkout resulting in a sliding animation.