One of the most common requests is the ability to fight the monsters.
So I've used my break to start working on that, and I'm here to announce that it will come to the game soon. I have the first version working and here's an exclusive teaser screenshot:

Yes ! - as you can see, I have decided that instead of giving you NPC warriors, I am adding an FPS mode. At night, you yourself don your armour, take out your sword (or other weapon, depending on your smithy level, more on that later) and go defend the village !
Excitment, action, more defense - but also a right of injury and death which (on normal or hard) will end the game in defeat (if you are injured, the next day your camera view will be a bit blurry).
UPDATE:
Happy April Fools :-)
