Ok, the latest patch is finally out! This should be a lot more solid than the develop-2477 build. However, in order to fix some of the bugs, we had to break save compatibility. Once the game is more stable, we'll be able to keep the save games compatible within Alpha 11 (hopefully starting with this build).
Here's what's new in this patch:
Bug fixes
- Crates inside and on building will now work properly.
- Hearthlings can now place items that are stored in crates.
- Fixed an issue that prevented hearthlings from crafting from crates.
- Hearthlings now eat from food in crates.
- Fixed promoting hearthling when talisman is in a crate.
- Fixed collision regions for the large crate and leather bound chest.
- Fixed save/load bugs with sleeping and eating.
- Starting town items now show up in town inventory.
- Fix character sheet error on promotion.
- You can no longer sell placed items.
- The place item screen now only displays objects that can be placed.
- Pets can now eat from berry baskets without errors.
- Crafted items are now immediately added to town inventory.
- Crafters now maintain the correct number of items.
- Crafters can now sometimes successfully skip craft orders they do not have the ingredients to complete.
- Sheep no longer run in place when they first spawn.
- Fixed resource description on cook's workshop.
- Character sheets only display for humans.
- Fixed some UI errors that can happen in the shop dialog.
Performance
- Improved farming performance for when there are a lot of farm fields.
Other Changes
- Hearthlings now sleep underneath the covers in comfy beds.
- Added copy to clipboard button for UI errors.
- Shops will now put stuff in escrow when you sell it so you can buy it back if you want. Escrow items will be dropped off near the banner once you close the shop UI.
- Game speed hotkeys are now back to 1, 2, 3.
- Hotkey to open the console is now ctrl-c.
Known Issues
- Objects in hearthling backpacks will show up in place furniture screen even though they cannot be placed.
- Objects that are in iconic form versus objects placed in the world will show up as separate items (but with the same icon/name/description) in town inventory screen.
Develop-2477
Embark!
When starting a new game, you can now see portraits and roll attributes for your hearthlings. (Mouse over the attributes to see a description.) You can also give your hearthlings new names and purchase inital starting equipment.
Crates
Carpenters can now craft crates to store and organize your items. Crates come in two sizes and function much like mobile stockpiles. This means you can move them to where they are needed. For example, you can load up a crate with wood and then move it near a construction site. Or, put a food crate in your dining hall!
Backpacks for all
All hearthlings are now equipped with a backpack that can hold up to four items. This makes them much more efficient at restocking items as well as other tasks. You can see the contents of their backpack on the character sheet.
Preview of the Cook
The cook profession has been enabled. There are only two recipes at the moment, but we will be adding many more later. Uncooked food now spoils after a few days, so don't overproduce it! Prepared food lasts longer but will also eventually spoil.
Attributes
Hearthling attributes now have more of an impact on the game. Over time, we'll continue to add more effects. An example of some of the effects currently in the game:
- Diligence increases crafting speed.
- Curiosity increases experience gain when crafting new items.
- Inventiveness increases chance of crafting fine items.
- Muscle increases weapon damage.
- Stamina determines duration of hearthling sleep.
- Courage determines change to flee in combat.
- Compassion affects maximum number of trapper pets and improves sheep wool production and reproduction rates.
Performance
Other Changes
- You can now specify the seed used to generate the world so you can replay a map.
- The fog of war has been lifted when selecting your starting location.
- Portraits added to the unit info pane in the bottm left corner. Clicking on the portait brings up the character sheet.
- Added many tooltips to the character sheet and building designer.
- Show armor and weapon bonuses on the character sheet.
- Hearthlings can now pick up and place items on multiple levels instead of just at foot level.
- Hearthlings no longer pop up when placing large furniture.
- Hearthlings no longer build ladders when they can reach the item from ground level.
- Removing ladders now shows the undeploy icon.
- When moving items, their initial facing is preserved.
- Clicking units in the party window will now select and zoom to them.
- When buying and selling items, the reticle no longer obscures the quantity.
- Hearthlings now sleep in the center of the bed.
- Enemies no longer gain experience and level up.
- Incompatible saves can no longer be loaded.
- Game speed hotkeys have been moved to ~, 1, 2.
- The debug console hotkey is now ctrl-shift-c.
Crash Bugs
Other Bugs Fixed
- Manually extended auto-placed ladders can now be removed.
- Renaming structures no longer causes the camera to move.
- Fixed hearthlings floating on top of chairs while eating.
- Fixed issues when saving/loading the game while a hearthling is sleeping.
- Fixed hearthlings sleeping twice in a night.
- Fixed error in the scaffolding manager.
- Fixed error when placing items in buildings.
- Fixed bug trying to restore destroyed items on game load.
- Fixed save/load issues with farms.
- Fixed error with shepherd looking for more sheep.
- You can now save the game before placing the banner.
- Rotating an item while placing it now correctly rotates its collision shape.
- Crafter workbenches now have the correct collision shape.
- Fix camera zooming away when focusing on carried item.
- Fixed lots of small UI issues.