Alpha 5 patch 9 hotfix 43

Had to do some really boring work on code refactoring, especially for livestock management which has been a fertile ground for various kinds of bugs for quite a long time. But as I said earlier the main priority is to release a final version of the game, so polishing the fundamentals is just as important as adding new major features. Meanwhile some new features did slip in as a side effect of said refactoring.

Added/changed:

• New fences will now replace previous ones if built over (no overlap)

• Default animal feed stock values are now proportional to livestock size and consumption

• Trade boats will now fold their sails while moored

  

• Trade boats will now lower their mast to pass under a bridge

  

• Stable can now have dedicated pasture

  

• Horses can now also graze on a field

• Horses now require both grain and hay (or grass) for optimal health

• Stables/saltworks/wagon sheds in old saves will get certain amount of grain and hay for free if needed for transition to new mechanics

• Stable now has "Livestock limit" slider

• Can now change a field to fallow even if not all harvest stooks gathered yet

• Animals with lower health produce less resources when slaughtered

• Oxen in ploughs can now be combined if two ploughs with only one ox

• Now visualizing connection to linked building on warehouses and cart parkings

• Animals now have health property which depends on feed quality

  

• Livestock buildings now have feed rationing setting for emergencies

  

• Draft animals with lower health move slower

• Milk and wool production also depends on animal health now

• Updated help pages for buildings with new features

• Added a notification if grass quality is low around a dryer

• Added an option to allow forestry workers to plant trees

• Added a notification on a wagon shed and farm if a draft animal replacement is needed

• Clicking on wagon/boat/plough icon will now focus on it

• Added a health bar for plough and wagon animals

• If ploughing skipped on a field, but a plough arrived to farm, the field will now switch back to plouging if possible

• Clicking on ordered cart/plough/etc. will focus on a building where it's being built

• Now the "Next" button in fields works even if ploughing started

• Now showing notification if there's no available cart to supply resources

  

• A few slight optimizations

Fixed:

• It was possible to remove fences from building by demolishing an adjacent building (only fixed for new builds)

• Windmill didn't function properly

• Animals didn't consume water when on pasture

• Livestock feed consumption could depend on game speed and fps

• Potentially fixed all the weird behaviors related to slaughtering and relocation of animals

• Slaughtering from saltworks produced twice the amount of resources

• Another case of wrongfully blocked buildings

• Some UI overflow conditions

• An incest loophole for widows and widowers

• Bad performance when forestry is selected (on some machines)

• Ploughing visuals were lagging behind the plough in some fields

• Cowshed or stable manager could take the last animal required for breeding

• Boatyard could show inaccessible orders in total count

• "Optimize bulls livestock" could misbehave sometimes

• Rowhouse lods didn't have color variation