Hello Elders,
Version 1.7 is now up on the main branch, thank you for your feedback! We did some changes during the experimental period, let's see what new QoL features I added!
Hyperlinks
As I anticipated with last news, this updates adds hyperlinks to all Agepedia elements. You can now highlight colored keywords to read the element description, and directly access the Agepedia from them. Also, this works with a controller, allowing you to access the hyperlinks on your Steam Deck (and soon on Switch)
New settings & Views
Many new settings added with 1.7 let you customize your experience, so take a look at the updated settings screen! Also, I added a new 'Actions' tab on the top right, as well as new advanced views to show all resources on the map.
Advanced Contextual Actions
During the last news I mentioned the addition of Auto-Cast and Production-Lock.
Auto-Cast lets you hold a key (default: X) while selecting a building action to set the building to keep repeating that action as needed.
You can also force-assign it (default: CTRL + X), so it will try to remove Pips from their jobs!
Production-locking allows you to lock a building on a specific production, so they won't switch to other productions.
In these last weeks I also added more similar features! There is now a new action called "Globalize" (default hotkey: 'G'), which allows you to apply the same action to all buildings. No more curing each single condition!
Also, all the contextual advanced actions are now visible in a new panel on the bottom right, so that you can more easily view their status and also interact with them without using hotkeys. This also makes them accessible to controllers, and of course Steam Deck users!
Updated Steam Deck Layout
Speaking of Steam Deck users, take a look at the new official layout in Steam Input, which now also uses the back buttons. When playing with a controller, I suggest to turn on "free camera" if you have not done so in the settings, as the experience of zooming is much better that way!
dotAGE is part of the Turn Based Fest!
With many other developer friends participating. I am happy to announce that the Turn Based Fest is live today from 10 PST! You can find many cool turn-based games made by really cool devs, many of which I've become friends with in the last years, so check the event page out, and both the game and Folkways are discounted for the week, so tell your friends!
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/TurnBasedThursdayFest2025
Switch & GOG
Also, both Switch and GOG versions of Folkways are now live as I anticipated a couple of weeks ago, so thank you for your patience and go grab the expansion if you use these platforms!
Now that Folkways is out for both versions, the next versions will be easier to push thru, so expect both of them to get 1.7 in the coming weeks.
Now what?
With 1.7 out of the way (and if I can resist the urge to add some more QoL first), I'll start working on the next big update after I finish porting 1.7, it will take a while as I want to test various things tied to the research tree!
If you did not read the previous news, here it is, with the updated roadmap:
You will find more details about it in the previous news here:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/638510/view/562497971311084479
In the meantime, enjoy the new QoL features!
Have fun
- Michele
Complete Changelog
Here is the complete Changelog for 1.7:
V 1.7.0
Balance: Buildings
- Granite Mine: output from 6 every 2 turns to 5 every 2 turns
- Granite Mine: can no more Upgrade to Stonemason's Hut, Power Saw, or Quarry
- Compressor: it is now an upgrade unique to Granite Mine
- Deforested Area: no more an upgrade of anything as it made no sense
- Timber Reach: can no more upgrade as it made no sense
- Large Inkwell: Build stages from 2 to 3, as it feels more elegant that way
- Doc House: now upgrades to Hospital and its variations
- Mender's Hut and Healer's Hut now have separated upgrade chains
- Cage: Bonus from 4 to 6 per Prisoner
- Jail: Bonus from 6 to 8 per Prisoner
- Prison: Bonus from 8 to 10 per Prisoner. Imprisoning strategy is now viable.
- Wrestling Ring: Enhancing bonus from +4 to +6
- Wrestling Ring: Build cost from 15 Wood to 20 Wood
- Waste Furnace: Sickness malus from 4 to 2
- Creative Cuisine: Now appears only if Manure production is available
- Gong Farm: Now produces 2 Manure per Pig instead of 1. Manure strategy is now viable.
- Circus: Rope input from 6 to 4
- Discovery Area: Build cost from 2 Wood to Nothing
- Grave/Cairn: Output from 1+X to 2X
- Burial Site/Large Cairn: Output from 2+X to 2+2X. Death strategy is now viable.
- Herbal Altar: input from 2 to 3
- Great Herbal Altar: input from 4 to 5
- Test Chamber: Base output from 3 to 4 Science
- Large Barbecue: Increased Fish max output from 10 to 12 (these buffs are so new player stop insisting the building is bugged)
- Large Campfire: Increased Fish max output from 14 to 15
- Large Campfire: Increased Meat max output from 10 to 12
- Large Campfire: Meat recipe now produces only 2 Heat instead of 3
- Milky Bakery: Hard Bread recipe from 1 Flour + 2 Milk -> 25 Hard Bread to 1 Flour -> 15 Hard Bread
- Milky Bakery: Soft Bread recipe from 1 Flour + 2 Milk -> 3 Soft Bread to 2 Flour + 3 Milk -> 5 Soft Bread (this becomes the highest Bourgeoise food single output in the game)
- Milky Bakery: Soft Bread recipe from 1 Flour + 2 Milk -> 3 Soft Bread to 2 Flour + 3 Milk -> 5 Soft Bread (this becomes the highest Bourgeoise food single output in the game)
- Extractors: Fruit Recipe output from 2+2X to 6+X
- Extractors: Vegetable Recipe output from 2X to 4+X
- Extractors: Added two recipes to make Milk out of Fruit or Vegetables
Balance: Elders
- Improved general research path selection to avoid some bad combos appearing
- Revised path as some buildings would appear too rarely (Hearth of Gold, Surgeon, Knitting House)
- Shaman: Manure path is no longer available, as it would be too hard due to no Latrine
- Dad: Woodpips won't auto-switch to the next cutting area anymore (only these buildings avoid that logic, for now)
- Dad: Lumber Factory is now a variation of Clear Forest
- Dad: Stone Extractor is now garaunteed to appear
- Dad: Hay research path is now garaunteed to appear
- Dad: Dad is not required to destroy or build his toolshed
- Captain: starting planks from 6 to 10
- Captain: Wooden Piers build turns from 3 to 2
- Captain: Campfire is now garaunteed to appear once you unlock it
- Ronomy: Removed "Refreshing Rain" and "Storm" events from selectable events as they were too strong for them
Balance: Miscellaneous
- Pipkins can now procreate with other Folks in Folk-specific buildings, as the beds are a bit more comfy
- Imprisoned Ailment now lasts forever, or until Pips are freed again. You can keep that Cat in prison forever.
- Added action to free Pips from prisons (can also be performed by selecting the Pip to free)
- Memories: Ink memory is now free if you already have unlocked later memories
- Memories: Unlock a new research path mid-run will not make the new buildings appear if prior buildings have been already selected
Balance: Events
- Lost Group: Halved number of hit Pips
- Breath of Death: Halved number of hit Pips
- Water Diet, Hemp Diet, Seed Diet: Now requires 5 Pipfolk to be in the village to appear (this avoids it appearing for Dwarves)
- Water Diet: Rarity from 3 to 5 (it's pretty strong)
- Sudden Scratch: Rarity from 2 to 3, constraint from 10 to 20 Water
- A Good Boy: Now requires White meat to appear instead of red meat, and requires 8 White Meat instead of 2 Red Meat to get
UX: Settings
- Revised settings menu with new headers and a better layout
- Speed: Separated Fast / Super fast mode into various sliders to allow more control on game speed
- Speed: Added Popup speed option (at maximum, all popups are instant)
- Video: added 'Low Quality Terrains' mode to improve performance
- Options: Added option to skip the event arrived panel
- Options: Added option to skip the research completed panel
- Interface: Added 'Show Zeroed Resources' and 'Use two columns' to settings so controllers can access them too
- Interface: Added option to skip all elder visions
- Interface: Added option to disable event arrived panel
- Interface: Added option to disble research completed pop up
- Interface: Added option to disable gameplay confirmations (such as untraining)
- Interface: Added option to disable ALL confirmations for the daring among you
- Controls: Added option to disable 'Force actions by holding buttons'
- Controls: "Free Zoom" is now the default setting for new players
- Accessibility: Added new option to disable all wind animations
- Accessibility: Added new option to disable seasonal colors
- Added some new tooltips
UX
- Special action icons on the cursor are now bigger so they can be better seen
- You can now hold Auto-Cast (X) to set an action to be repeated in a building
- You can now hold Auto-Cast (X) to lock a production for a specific building
- You can force-assign Auto-Cast, so it will force the action if possible
- Curing priority now does not prioritize Pips that can self-cure but are working at other buildings anymore
- Crops now always show the Plant action, even if unavailable (needed for autocast)
- Crops will now show an error if you try to replant them off-season
- Agepedia: Implemented Hyperlinking in all of Agepedia! You can now right click on highlighted words to go to the correct item.
- Agepedia: Updated localization for Boons to allow hyperlinking
- Agepedia: Added new Agepedia sections: Domains, Terrain Traits
- Adepedia: Improved Classes information
- Agepedia: Added the missing descriptions for some buildings and ailments to Agepedia
- Flow: Actions that drag Pips (such as burials, or curing frozen or mourning) now have Pips running by default
- Flow: Sped-up resource dissipation and collection when you have a lot of resources
- Flow: If you produce 10 or 100 of a resource, the value will now be merged into one resource icon at all times
- Flow: Made popup panels snappier by default
- Research Tree: Building slot choices will now appear all together instead of one after the other
- Research Tree: Elaborate food is now known when seen in the tree as a requirement to avoid confusion on what to research to advance
- UI: Revised research bar and memory bar UI to allow more space for information tabs
- UI: Added new toggleable UI Panel on the right showing all Actions for all Pips
- UI: Clicking on separated numbers in the creatures / job panels now highlights and cycles only the relevant creatures
- Pips: You can now see the last building a Pip worked inside when selecting them (to easily return them back after curing, for example)
- Pips: To avoid confusion, Pips won't be auto-assigned to their previous building anymotr < after having been forcefully removed
- Pips: Added a "Pip assigned" warning when a Pip is auto-assigned to a building due to the Auto-Switch logic
- Pips: Added a "Pip removed" warning also when a Pip is removed from a building due to an event (for example due to stunning)
- Pips: Added better icons when Pips are force-removed to show the reason for their removal (for example, force-removal of patients, or force-removal with a forced action)
- Buildings: When the season changes, buildings that produce the related temperature gem will switch off
- Buildings: Revised and improved feedback when buildings will become abandoned if close buildings are set to be dismantled
- Buildings: If a Pip cannot work anymore in a building because his state changes, a warning will be shown
- Buildings: Buildings that are built but cannot be activated right away won't keep trying to re-activate each turn anymore
- Hotkeys: You can now press F to open search filters in Agepedia and Village Recap
- Hotkeys: Added a new hotkey (default "L") for toggling the action log
- Views: Added new Output view that keeps all outputs visible on the screen
- Views: Added new Dwellers view that keeps all dwellers visible on the screen
- Views: Improved usability of Views
- Highscores: Leaderboards are now populated with last version values if there are not enough to fill the leaderboard
- Controller: Added support for search filters
- Controller: Added some missing controller glyphs
- Controller: Added a "Zoom Currently Enabled" UI element when playing with a controller so that the Free Zoom mode is clearer
- Controller: Redone official Steam Input layouts
- Controller: Implemented hyperlink access
- Advanced UI: Added a new "Contextual Actions" panel that shows the status of contextual actions tied to hotkeys (such as Force Action, or Pip Picking)
- Advanced UI: Added "Globalize" hotkey (default: G). Will try to perform the same actions on as many buildings as possible
- Advanced UI: "Copy contextual action" and "Copy building" hotkeys are now merged
- Advanced UI: Pressing Escape won't close the Advanced UI panel anymore
- Boons: Separated the "Coating" boons so they appear better in the Agepedia and so that they avoid some localization bugs
- Steam Deck: Improved placement of the new UI elements or they are hidden with a Steam Deck
- Steam Deck: Improved placement of Folkways news for some resolutions
- Minor visual improvements
System
- Optimized serialization when changing options on the main gameplay screen
- Optimized terrain bonuses
- Optimized distance computation when playing Yugong
- Sprites optimization
- Switch: Enabled GC Collection at critical points
Bugfixes
- Fixed Dog events not appearing without Folkways!
- Fixed Dad workshops being able to get Efficient
- Fixed Bourgeoise Pips being able to work even if hungry if you disable the food while they are working
- Fixed some Cat-related visual issues with Agepedia
- Fixed some Agepedia sorting issues
- Fixed the new Pip selection UI messing up if not on the first page
- Fixed Pause Menu opening when it should not, when closing other menus
- Fixed Fused and some similar ailments being able to be negated
- Fixed some dead Pips being able to be hit by ailments
- Fixed bug with Pips sometimes being able to live in buildings without enough space for more dwellers
- Fixed Lumber Factory appearing in non-Folkways games, thus making it seems you could meet Dad (you can't, he's in Folkways!)
- Fixed Milky Bakery, Campfire, Doctor, Ice Cutter, Theater, Cloakmaker, Shrine to Progress having 14 instead of 15 as output due to a rounding error
- Highscores: Wins, heat level, and DLC used are now correctly shown in the highscore instance
- Fixed Exile Post now requiring a single Pip
- Fixed the new Quirks generating resources even if the Pip is dead / disappeared / exiled
- Fixed bug with Randolph thinking he lost the egg when an event removing food actually just removed other types of food
- Fixed zeroed resources / column options not remaining visually toggled on a reload
- Fixed "Cult of the Dead" not working for Cairns
- Fixed bug with free zoom mode sometimes messing up the grid-to-cursor transform
- Fixed "Remove Paving" counting as a Structure
- Fixed Techs not being applied to all buildings in an upgrade chain
- Fixed Gallows sometimes directly keeping an Executioner inside after training, thus making him unavailable for work
- Fixed research tree sometimes pulsing and revealing the wrong slots
- Fixed some buildings (such as the Mender's hut) sometimes now getting the correct upgrade chain
- Fixed Trisavolo being a bit too obsessed with telling you he'll get some guide rocks
- Fixed Large Buoy and Tunnel appearing for the wrong elders
- Fixed bug with trying to apply a stone pavement to a stonemaker increasing the cost of the task permanently (and a similar one with Dad's automation)
- Fixed a non-existing Lake terrain appearing in the Agepedia
- Fixed Flower Lover event giving twice the Flowers
- Fixed being able to lure the same creature to multiple pens, thus making some pens count one creature too many until a reload
- Fixed some wild creatures appearing at the wrong time
- Fixed bug with rerolling before choosing the persistent bonus not losing the bonus (you should not keep it if you keep rerolling of course!)
- Fixed me and Olexa messing with save games and making his game harder (fun!)
- Fixed being able to access a ghost Pip creature agepedia page
- Fixed the Cat VIP being assigned an unobtainable Drowsy ailment when playing without Folkways content enabled
- Fixed event sorting in Agepedia
- Fixed force-picking for cures sometimes not getting the correct amount of Pips
- GoG: Fixed game not correctly retrieving user ID when offline
- Localization fixes