Hello everyone!
New patch today.
Here are some of the highlights for today and the last two hotfixes:
Quern-stones:
We've added two devices for grinding things more efficiently. One is a Saddle Quern that allows you grind 3 items at once, the other a Rotary Quern which allows you to grind 6 items at once. These new tools should make making flour and powders a lot easier, and will come in handy once rye gets introduced a few patches from now.
Bacteria Balancing:
We've greatly reduced the amount of bacteria you can get from food and made it so that roasting, boiling and drying food items can reduce it further. We have also fixed multiple bugs related to it, made other minor tweaks and inverted stack sorting so that the most spoiled food items can appear on top.
Additional Things:
You can now also use Billberries and Springberries to make wine and syrup. First you need to turn them into a pulp and mix them with water to create the berry must. This can then be fermented in a fermenting bin to make wine or concentrated in a fire to make syrup, just like with Birch Sap.
You can now also dry Acorn Dough in Ovens to make Hardtack, a longer lasting type of bread.
Version EA_0.35 + the last two Hotfixes:
- Food now sorts properly with less fresh items appearing on top.
- Added Springberry and Billberry Wine and Syrup.
- Added Acorn Hardtack.
- Saddle Querns and Rotary Querns are now available.
- Boiling and Roasting raw Eggs now removes all the spoilage from them
- Drying and Cooking Food items now removes more Spoilage than it used to (in some items more than in others).
- Partridges can no longer be put inside storage containers, bags and shelves (this change is temporary).
- Climbing Trees now has a light requirement.
- Travois and Tree Logs can no longer be placed inside Storage Pots.
- Wolfsbane can now be eaten and its powder can be added as a spice (don't do it though!).
- You can no longer die from a heatstroke after eating too much hot food in a short period of time.
- Significantly reduced the amount of Bacteria you get when eating food.
- Renamed Bacteria durability to Spoilage (it's still the new system though).
- Fermentation Bin now properly stops bacteria growth of items fermenting inside it.
- Fixed the bug which caused Syrup and Wine to spoil too fast.
- Foods Cooked in Oven will now have higher quality than those cooked in Campfires and Fireplaces.
- Fixed a bug which caused a Wolf Pack to sometimes get stuck in the Shady Bank.
- Fixed a bug which caused the egg hatching progress to get stuck.
- Player presence now increases animal trust at a much faster rate than before.
- Fishing: Fishing Bait are now working properly with new system.
- Water levels during rain should now only increase inside the Water Cistern.
- Pushed a fix for the disappearing items problem. (If it does not work right away try reloading from the most recent checkpoint)
- Fixed a bug which caused teas made from old herbs to spoil prematurely.
- Fixed a bug which caused Intermediate Gardening to unlock at the start of the game.
That's all for now!
See you next week!
Reminder: All fixes and new content are always added to the public beta branch.
If you want to access it you can find the instructions on the link below. Be warned though, things are less stable there! :)
https://steamcommunity.com/app/2868860/discussions/0/600774299444324511/