Rise of the Settlement – Dev Diary Community Update #13 version 0.0.3

Greetings settlers, 🏛️

The 0.0.3 update is here — and it’s all about giving life and individuality to your people! This update focuses on population depth, adding perks, synergies, and several quality-of-life improvements.

🌿 Main Feature: The Perk System

Your villagers are no longer just workers — they now have unique abilities and traits that define how they live, work, and contribute to the settlement.

🧩 Perk Categories

There are three categories of perks: Physical, Mental and Lifestyle.

Each person can have one perk from each category, allowing deep customization of your population.

⚠️ Permanent Choices

Once a perk is selected, it cannot be unselected, so choose wisely! Each perk has stat prerequisites, ensuring only capable individuals can master certain abilities.

⚙️ Everyday Benefits

Perks affect the daily life of your people — providing bonuses like:

• Faster production

• Better stamina management

• Improved trading and negotiations

• Faster specialization in their professions

✨ Synergies

Some perks combine to form powerful synergies that grant additional effects and benefits. However, not all perks are compatible — you’ll need to experiment to uncover the strongest combinations.

🛠️ Bug Fixes

• Fixed: Newly joined settlers had an unusually high initial drink demand.

• Fixed: Stamina sometimes displayed long decimal numbers.

• RemovedFixedRemoved Civic Beginnings objective that was blocking progression.
• RemovedFixedRemoved redundant additional resources (like straws) from building output lists.

• Fixed: Quest button sometimes did not enable automatically.

• Fixed: Needs fulfillment could exceed 100%.

• Fixed: Fuel and tools fulfillment were not visible in the last column.

• Fixed: Worker slots now automatically update when upgrading buildings.

• Fixed: Feast quest button could be active even without enough food.

⚙️ Improvements

• Improved compatibility across different screen resolutions.

• Increased production for balance:

  • Wild food: 60 → 70

  • Meat: 5 → 8

  • Fish: 10 → 12

  • Wood: 6 → 8

  • Branches: 15 → 20

• Added search and filter options for:

  • Population list

  • Production buildings

  • Trade / barter list

• Unified search & filter design across all panels (quests, missions, etc.).

• Enhanced left-side navigation buttons — now more visible (maybe too visible 😅).

• Chronicle button now toggles the dialog.

• Production building cards can now be re-ordered.

• Added additional information for resources already tradable in the Barter Hall.

• Added tutorial for October’s new features.

• Tutorial progress is now saved — it will remember if you’ve completed it (no more replaying it on new or loaded games).

🪶 Final Notes

This update continues our focus on making your settlement feel alive — with more personality, progression, and meaningful choices.

Thank you for all your feedback and support — every suggestion helps shape Rise of the Settlement into the world we’re building together. 💛

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Let’s continue this journey together!

— Luki