FreeHolder Steam Alpha 1 Hotfix 11
7.31.2016
Announcements
"New" Climates, Monsoon and Drought
Hilariously, although I had these climates in the game and functioning, the player was never informed that either of these existed. In any case where the year's climate was a monsoon or drought, the game would simply fail to notify the player in any way. Basically Monsoon is a wetter Wet year and Drought is a drier Dry year, and has a corresponding influence on what weather is likely to occur. The game now normally tells you about Monsoon or Drought like any other climate announcement. Note that the game will never start you on a monsoon or drought year, only a dry or wet year, to prevent the first year from being too difficult.
Alpha 2 Is Approaching!
We're five short days out from reaching Alpha 2 status with FreeHolder! I have one more large update planned within a day or two with a massive upgrade to Husbandry, including animal feeding, breeding, new animal art, and wolves looking to snatch your tasty livestock! After that we will be quality checking incessantly to make sure our Alpha 2 release is even more stable, fun, and appealing than Alpha 1. We will be releasing a video to go over the new features along with the alpha.
Now just to clarify, all current FreeHolder players are playing the very latest stable build of the game at all times. What this means is that you have been playing the new alpha content as it is implemented in the game, rather than seeing it all at once as a new customer would. So for all of you, Alpha 2 presents as a major hotfix, but we have been holding nothing back from current players; as a matter of fact, we rely on you all to test some of these mechanics before they are officially released in the next alpha. In this spirit, please report any bugs or issues you have as soon as you can. The more bug-free and stable this next Alpha is, the better it will be for us and FreeHolder.
Improved Features
-Heavy and light goods are now organized on market screen for ease of comprehension
-Game now announces copper stone or marble depletion from a tile
New Features
-Rhetoric skill learned from Famous Orator now functional
-Fishing Lore skill learned from Old Fisherman now functional
Bugfixes
-Frostbite no longer takes effect when heat is reduced to zero through equipment or upgrades
-Altered the skill Treefriend, implemented totally
-Watering rig exploit removed. Watering rig now saves its "used" status through the end of the month.
-Monsoon and Drought climates now working and displaying properly
-Old Fisherman no longer causes glitches when learning Fishing Lore
Miscellaneous
-Retired Marksman resident skill “Hunting Lore” changed to “Wilderness Lore”