V0.11.17 - Hanging out, skin tones, and improvements

👥 Hanging around

The 'walk up to person' action has been turned into a 'hang around' action. This means that villagers can now sometimes walk up to you, or other villagers, and linger around, vibing :)

Related to this action:

• Added new dialogue as villagers approach and decide to leave

• When hanging around, villagers will now be aware of what you're doing and can react to it with new phrases

• Allowed the three founding villagers to hang around with you or each other even if there's no friendship yet

• Added a minimum interval between hanging around to avoid villagers being too unproductive

• Fixed villagers hanging out with themselves

This was supposed to be a small thing but in my opinion might turn out to be quite a nifty big thing. Interested to hear what you think about it. I can see a lot of room for expansion here. For example, villagers giving you hints to make the tutorial / early-game easier, or them helping you with activities, or hanging around for longer when you have a better relationship.

🎨 Skin tones

This feature should have long been in the game, sorry about the delay in getting it through! In fact, at a very early stage of the game, it had already existed, but it got left behind during the character re-design. So, to summarise:

• You can now customise your skin tone when starting a new adventure

• Villagers will now spawn with a random skin tone and, most of the time, a likely hair colour associated with that skin tone

🐛 Other improvements and bug fixes

• Changed cursor to stay in the same inventory / storage slot when moving items with the controller

• Muted music and sound effects during sleeping

• Fixed villagers not having blinked in over 6 months