Colonize — v1.1.0

What's New

• Added Church Building - collecting graves

• New colonies now start with 5 female settlers instead of 4, giving a better early-game population foundation

Bug Fixes

• Woodcutters, stone miners, fishermen, and labourers now correctly resume their mid-task state after loading a save (resource counts and work assignments are restored)

• Fishermen and stone miners no longer get stuck — the game now path-checks work spots before assigning them, picking only spots the worker can actually reach

• Priests now correctly carry grave markers to church cemetery slots and restore their carried grave and target slot after saving and loading

• Demolishing a church now releases all pending graves back to the queue so other priests can collect them

• When a woman dies, her partner's child-bearing progress is reset (preventing ghost-baby edge cases)

• The resolution setting now persists correctly when the settings revert timer counts down

• Fixed a crash that could occur when an animal's detection collider was missing

Improvements

• The in-game pause menu now has full audio sliders (Master, Music, SFX, Ambient) that save and reload correctly across sessions

• Citizens now display age categories — Child, Adult, Elder — instead of raw age numbers in the citizen panel and population overview

• Colonists immediately look for a new home when a housing slot opens (on build, death, or eviction) instead of waiting for the next periodic check

• A placement hint tooltip now follows your cursor while placing buildings in the scene

• Street lamps switch day/night state instantly on the hour change instead of updating one-per-frame over multiple seconds

• Animals pause NavMesh movement when off-screen, reducing unnecessary CPU load

• Volumetric fog is automatically disabled on hardware that does not support compute shaders, preventing rendering errors on older GPUs

• The difficulty setting has been removed — hunger, energy, and sleep rates are now fixed, simplifying the new-game experience