Hi all, this major update contains farming plots, food resource separation, fixes for a few serious bugs and hopefully a small performance boost.
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changedHi all, this major update contains farming plots, food resource separation, fixes for a few serious bugs and hopefully a small performance boost. Thank you for all that have played the game and especially to those who provided feedback via the Discussion boards or Discord. Changes below...
changedADDED: - The food resource has been split and new resources added: *Wheat *Corn *Fish *Strawberries - New building "Plot" for growing crops (Tier 1) - Wheat Mill and Watch Balloon now show radius of effect - Villagers will now eat random food items (no priority) - Villagers will now sometimes display their current thoughts - Achievements "Strawberry Delight", "Golden Harvest", "Kernel King", "Master Angler" - New large island variety
addedCHANGED: - "Farm" renamed to "Wheat Mill", taking 1 villager, and is now Tier 2 - Wheat Mill now boosts up to 8 nearby plots by 2x - Slightly reduced output of the Wheat Mill to balance new food resources - Made the collision boxes of some buildings smaller - Square path is now Tier 1 - Background mountain models
fixedFIXED: - Arborist no longer breaks if you manually chop down a tree (for real this time!) - Arborist no longer moves existing trees when moving the building (also for real this time!) - Mass building feature no longer used when moving buildings, causing incorrect building to be selected - Various issues with Snatchers, including a case of a memory leak
addedPERFORMANCE: - Added LODs to islands, decreasing load on the CPU
changedIf you experience any bugs please report them on the discussions board or my Discord . The demo version of the game has also been updated with all recent changes.
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changedHi all, this major update contains farming plots, food resource separation, fixes for a few serious bugs and hopefully a small performance boost. Thank you for all that have played the game and especially to those who provided feedback via the Discussion boards or Discord. Changes below...
changedADDED: - The food resource has been split and new resources added: *Wheat *Corn *Fish *Strawberries - New building "Plot" for growing crops (Tier 1) - Wheat Mill and Watch Balloon now show radius of effect - Villagers will now eat random food items (no priority) - Villagers will now sometimes display their current thoughts - Achievements "Strawberry Delight", "Golden Harvest", "Kernel King", "Master Angler" - New large island variety
addedCHANGED: - "Farm" renamed to "Wheat Mill", taking 1 villager, and is now Tier 2 - Wheat Mill now boosts up to 8 nearby plots by 2x - Slightly reduced output of the Wheat Mill to balance new food resources - Made the collision boxes of some buildings smaller - Square path is now Tier 1 - Background mountain models
fixedFIXED: - Arborist no longer breaks if you manually chop down a tree (for real this time!) - Arborist no longer moves existing trees when moving the building (also for real this time!) - Mass building feature no longer used when moving buildings, causing incorrect building to be selected - Various issues with Snatchers, including a case of a memory leak
addedPERFORMANCE: - Added LODs to islands, decreasing load on the CPU
Hi all, this major update contains farming plots, food resource separation, fixes for a few serious bugs and hopefully a small performance boost. Thank you for all that have played the game and especially to those who provided feedback via the Discussion boards or Discord. Changes below...
ADDED: - The food resource has been split and new resources added: *Wheat *Corn *Fish *Strawberries - New building "Plot" for growing crops (Tier 1) - Wheat Mill and Watch Balloon now show radius of effect - Villagers will now eat random food items (no priority) - Villagers will now sometimes display their current thoughts - Achievements "Strawberry Delight", "Golden Harvest", "Kernel King", "Master Angler" - New large island variety
CHANGED: - "Farm" renamed to "Wheat Mill", taking 1 villager, and is now Tier 2 - Wheat Mill now boosts up to 8 nearby plots by 2x - Slightly reduced output of the Wheat Mill to balance new food resources - Made the collision boxes of some buildings smaller - Square path is now Tier 1 - Background mountain models
FIXED: - Arborist no longer breaks if you manually chop down a tree (for real this time!) - Arborist no longer moves existing trees when moving the building (also for real this time!) - Mass building feature no longer used when moving buildings, causing incorrect building to be selected - Various issues with Snatchers, including a case of a memory leak
PERFORMANCE: - Added LODs to islands, decreasing load on the CPU
If you experience any bugs please report them on the discussions board or my Discord . The demo version of the game has also been updated with all recent changes.