Rise of the Settlement – Dev Diary Community Update #14 version 0.0.4

Greetings settlers, 🏛️

The time has come to step into your own world.

With version 0.0.4, you can now create your own character — a long-awaited feature that lets one of your settlers truly become you.

Choose your name, your starting stats, and shape your fate through a unique card-based destiny system.

🧙‍♂️ New Feature – Character Creation

At the start of a new game, you’ll now be able to create your personal character and define who you are within your settlement. This feature gives you the chance to guide your people not just as an unseen leader, but as one of them.

Here’s how it works:

• You begin your journey by drawing from 24 Fate Cards — mysterious tarot-style cards that each influence your destiny.

• The process happens in 4 rounds, each presenting 6 random cards. You choose one card per round, shaping your fate step by step.

• Every Fate Card grants unique bonuses, adding specific stat increases or traits to your character.

• As the chosen one, you are naturally luckier than any other settler, starting with +1 base Luck by default.

• Once your character is created and reach the settlement, you can distribute an additional 10 stat points into any attributes you wish — choose wisely, as your selections cannot be undone once assigned.

This new system brings personalization and role-play to a new level, allowing each player to craft a unique identity and starting advantage for their settlement.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Objectives are now correctly tracked and saved/loaded with the game.

• Fixed an issue where several production progress bars appeared on the same building card.

• Building tooltips now display properly and are no longer cropped.

• Population icons cleaned up (removed unwanted artifacts).

• Fixed oversized text in some building tooltips under Technology nodes.

• “Delete Building” dialog text now fits properly.

• Autumn season icon artifact removed.

• Perk description text now stays inside tooltip bounds.

• Fixed an issue preventing CHAR and HAP stat buttons from being accessible when some perk lists were open.

• Building tooltips are now positioned correctly next to the building card.

• Production card order now saves correctly after being reordered.

• Fixed overlapping text in some resource descriptions.

• Tooltips now close correctly when switching panels.

• Total goods produced/consumed are now properly visible.

🧭 Improvements

• Buildable lists for Production and Settlement buildings optimized.

• Improved objectives system – every building and technology now has a proper objective and sequence. Objective progress is now saved with your game. (Note: objectives saved before 0.0.4 won’t load retroactively.)

• Perks that can form a synergy are now visually highlighted after one is activated.

• Minor layout tweaks to the Settlement Needs page.

• Added a Quit Game confirmation dialog.

• Building destructions now appear in the Chronicle.

• Increased visibility of the speed buttons (1x, 2x, 4x, 6x).

• Buildable buildings are now always alphabetically sorted for easier browsing.

• Added a global option to skip the intro cutscene when starting a new game.

• Improved the Settings dialog look and feel.

• Updated the Technology Tree visuals to take advantage of 0.0.3’s resolution improvements.

• The Perks dialog can now be closed by clicking in the middle area (X button).

• Added confirmation pop-ups when saving or loading the game.

• Feast quests now show additional info when multiple settlers can join the settlement.

💬 Feedback & Quality of Life

• The Tutorial can now be reset from the Settings menu.

• Active quests can now be canceled by right-clicking them in the quest slot.

Some players mentioned that a few resources — such as potatoes and corn — may not be historically accurate for the era.

This is important feedback, and I absolutely plan to revisit this in a future historical and era overhaul.

At the moment, the game doesn’t yet have a clearly defined time or region, but I intend to introduce era progression and regional variation later on.

That’s when I’ll carefully review which crops, tools, and resources fit each historical context more accurately.

🪶 Final Notes

Version 0.0.4 marks another important step in shaping Rise of the Settlement into a living world — one where you truly belong among your settlers.

Thank you for every suggestion, report, and idea — your feedback continues to shape the settlement’s future.

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Let’s continue this journey together!

— Luki