Major Update v2.0 (October 12, 2023)

Update 2.0 has arrived, woohoo! Let's waste no time with the change list...

ADDED:

• Dynamic weather system (sun, rain, snow) ☀🌧❄

  • Snow pauses Plot production

• Ability to rename islands in a new panel that lists unlocked islands

• Ability to see labor in a new panel that lists all workplaces

• Buildings:

  • Tavern (Tier 4)

  • Paddock (Tier 5)

• Animals:

  • Chicken

• Resources:

  • Eggs

• New achievement: "Cracking!" Have 100 eggs in storage.

• Trade panel now has 2 sections, for consumables and animals

• Added visual filters:

  • Standard

  • Asteroid City

  • Calm

  • Warm

• "Continue" option in the Main Menu to load most recent save

CHANGED:

• Changed how objects are highlighted

• Camera speeds at low zoom increased

• Moonlight colour now has a blue tint and is slightly dimmer

• Changed some post-processing effects affecting colour

• Thin path is now thinner

• Storage Barn collision box is slightly smaller

BALANCES:

• Arborist output amount reduced from 15 to 5

• Arborist output rate reduced from 20 to 30 seconds

• Arborist growth rate increased from 30 to 20 seconds

• Arborist can now grow up to 12 trees at a time

• Exchange rate of crystal changed from 25 to 50

• Exchange rate of metal changed from 5 to 3

• Exchange rate of wood changed from 2 to 1

• Villager skills now max at 30. A fully trained villager will be 1.5x as fast as a villager with 0 experience in that skill

• Villagers will now eat up to 10 units of food when hungry instead of 6

• Villagers now gain 3 happiness from being at home instead of 2

FIXED:

• [Crash] Fixed game crashing or deleting buildings if using "Repair" on a building not damaged

• Quest notifications will no longer show if already in the quest menu

• Arborist will no longer spawn *lots* of trees nearby

• Trees will now correctly save/load if they are destroyed

• Villagers won't get stuck if a portal they need has moved

• Villagers no longer get stuck at certain buildings

• Fading effect between scenes now works correctly

• Fixed a rare bug where trees couldn't be manually felled, but counted towards a quest and achievements

• Fishery placement checks no longer offset

• Windowed mode toggle no longer uses Exclusive Full Screen option

• Plots will now show assigned villager count on holding 'Alt'

• "Notify" sound will no longer immediately play on new game

• Village name is now sent to Steam Rich Presence when loading save file

• VSync and Windowed toggle now work correctly

• Fixed UI camera rendering incorrectly

• Airship now docks at mooring with animation

UI:

• (Yet another) UI rework

• Contextually placed tooltips

• New UI sounds

• Sharper font

• Deleting a save file now requires confirmation

• Sliders can now be moved without selecting the handle first

• Render scale slider now matches text correctly

• Homeless and idle villagers counter now correct on new game

• Villager count now includes total housing room (eg. 6/10)

• Villager status image in the villager list panel is now updated correctly

• You can no longer open the villager list if in build mode

• World space UI no longer freezes when game is paused

AI:

• Improved accuracy of the Navigation Mesh on Islands

• General AI stability improved

• Villagers now avoid obstacles in the environment

• Villagers will now stop sharing the same positions at certain buildings

PERFORMANCE:

• Arborist tree pooling algorithm improved for less memory usage

• Tree animations optimized and culled when not visible

• Audio and music compression methods updated

• Minimap camera optimized

• Improved Occlusion Culling

• Lamp Posts no longer cast shadows

• Removed light source from mine

If you experience any bugs please report them on the discussions board or my Discord .

Thanks, Matt.