V0.11.20 - Improvements to proficiency, hanging around, and other things

I decided to include new building signs in this update as a little something for Steam's current Medieval Fest. To me, they're one of the most iconic little features from the middle ages (which you can still see on many old English houses today). Hope you like them! :)

✨ Item quality and proficiency improvements

• Added 3 additional types of house signs for villagers to show off their skills. There is now one for each level of proficiency. Each type of sign can show off any competancy (they will have the related item icon embedded into them)

Upon achieving a higher proficiency tier:

• Added a small visual effect to the book

• You and villagers will now remark your accomplishment

Also:

• Fixed villagers sometimes pretending to be proficient at activities they've barely tried

🫂 Hanging around improvements

When villagers observe your activities whilst they are following you around:

• They can now comment on whether they like what you are doing

• If villagers dislike what you do, they can now react angrily

• They can now tell apart the various different gathering and crafting actions you do, and respond specifically to those

And then more generally:

• Added the ability for villagers to give useful advice they know while hanging out with you (a little bit as a sort of walking tutorial). This will be more common in the first couple of days, and then less so after that

• Villagers will now look at the people they're hanging out with rather than spacing out

• Fixed villagers not noticing if you're sitting down at the tavern, campfire, or on a decoration

• Fixed relationship effect moving with villager

⛏️ Gathering improvements

• Villagers will now consistently prioritise picking up small rocks (not using a pickaxe) if there are any around

• Villagers will no longer attempt to try to collect vegetation or resources that aren't available, which should make them seem more fluid in their actions

Balanced:

• Significantly increased regrow of wheat

• Villagers will no longer try to gather more than 5 redcurrants to prevent certain villagers from monopolising the supply

Fixed:

• Villagers sometimes using sheer air force to mine rocks

• Rare instances of ghost vegetation sticking around near building constructions

🪰 Other improvements

• Smoothed out the contribution, eating, and base crafting effect

• Fixed animations for cheering and clapping playing weirdly when someone is moving

• Fixed villagers being able to walk through forest mountain boulders on hilly maps

• Fixed quiver not appearing in market stalls, hand, or as a mastered building sign

• Fixed pliers & ladle not appearing in markets stalls or as a mastered building sign

• Fixed water effect not showing when watering plants

• Fixed everyone still coalescing to being masters of redcurrants