Patch 0.5, the Pathfinding path, available now!

Patch 0.5 features a brand new pathfinding system. Some things see some reworking, while other things see some upgrading.

Patch 0.5

General

• New pathfinding system (faster, better and more flexible)

• Added prompts, characters now ask for permission when buying work plots

• Increased max zoom distance

• Improved behavior when camera pans to a character

• Added new thoughts

God Powers

• Changed Sense of Urgency into an over time effect

• Added Chatterbox god power, similar to Sense of Urgency but for social

Visuals

• Updated terrain edit visuals (block markers when building/removing terrain)

• Now shows people beliefs if the god power panel is open

• Added floating text for sleep & nature needs

• Procedures (e.g. oven when baking bread) now always display their progress

GUI

• Added Feelings to the Status bar, you can now see min/max/avg/median happiness/mood

• The workplaces tooltip in the status bar now shows employees, in addition to jobs

• Stats and record GUIs are now easier to read

Performance

• Increased performance for character behavior in large towns

Audio

• Added a bunch of character sound effects

• Added some world & GUI sound effects

Bugs

• Fixed an issue where sometimes a tile in the river would falsely be marked as flat ground

• Fixed a rare issue where one character would sneak in an interaction with another character in the middle of doing something

• Fixed a number of small, rare issues that could cause a crash (animals mating at the exact same time a plot is deleted etc)

• People can no longer get stuck midair