FreeHolder Steam Alpha 2
8.5.2016
Announcements
Alpha 2 Features Video
The new Alpha 2 Features video is up on our main page! Take a look for a quick walkthrough of some of the latest and greatest features implemented for Alpha 2.
Purge Saves
With a number of changes and additions to saved game data, we cannot guarantee any compatibility between pre-alpha 2 saves and the new ones so please purge your old files from the load game screen to avoid anomalies.
Major Husbandry Update
Animal breeding, feeding, predation, and fertilizer have all been implemented. A few quick tips to avoid confusion:
1) You must manually birth animals on the turn they are ready to do so. It's one husbandry action and you must have a free pasture space somewhere in order to take the action. Once you name and place the animal, you're good. If you do not deliver the baby animal, it is a miscarriage and you lose the chance.
2) Handfeed animals various vegetables to increase their health, higher levels of which give interaction bonuses, breed bonuses, and bonuses to resist and escape wolves.
3) Wolf concentration replaces game concentration in pastured spaces, and must be kept down by taking hunting actions there. You can still earn hides and a bit of meat from this. If the wolf concentration gets too high, your animals are at risk for predation. Even at lower wolf concentrations, they can become spooked which annoys them for a few turns.
4) Fertilizer is now produced by all animals in pastures. Fertilizer can be applied to empty fields as an agricultural action to immediately restore one nutrient level to the soil.
5) The Watchful Guardian skill of the Rancher now helps with keeping predators away, as they didn't exist before.
Asparagus
Asparagus is a new type of crop the behaves very differently then others, as it is a perennial and takes a few years to reach maximum production. On the plus side, you don't have to water it, just prune it once a year and harvest it repeatedly after that.
New Features
-Ranchers can now see exact health of animals
-Animals can now breed
-Animals can now be handfed
-Animals are now subject to predation by wolves
-Animals now produce fertilizer which can be used on fields
-Asparagus is now fully functional
Bugfixes
-Changed logic on display of some agriculture actions
Graphical Improvements
-New animal art incl. updated event icons