Rise of the Settlement – Dev Diary Community Update #17

Greetings, Settlers 🏛️

This update arrives a little earlier than planned and focuses mainly on essential bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements aimed at making the overall experience smoother and more enjoyable.

Version 0.0.7 will also be the last planned release of this year, as the end-of-year and winter holidays are approaching. The journey, however, does not end here—development will continue at the beginning of next year with a fresh mind, renewed energy, and many ideas waiting to take shape.

Thank you for your patience and continued support.

🛠️ Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that caused workers to rest only when assigned to a workplace

• Fixed an issue where auto-activated boosts were not saved or loaded correctly

• Fixed an issue that caused expedition quests not to load properly from a save game

• Fixed an issue that displayed incorrect perk synergies when two perks were already assigned

• Fixed an issue where the children list expanded outside the screen when three or more children were present on Family view

• Fixed an issue that caused people assigned to expedition quests to remain idle

• Fixed an issue that caused some quests to load from savegame with a negative timer

• Fixed an issue where required technology for recipes was shown as an internal name

• Fixed an issue where the partner’s stats of the main character could not be displayed

• Fixed an issue that caused quests to reset for the current month under certain load conditions

✨ Improvements & Enhancements

• Improved game performance to prevent short freezes when feeding animals

• Updated work unit contribution display when assigning workers to a new workplace

• Missing resources now clearly indicate why a building upgrade cannot start

• Resized the notification bar to display full messages

• Added community buttons to the main menu (Discord & Dev Letter)

• Display active perks details on mouse-over person card in the population list

• Improved visibility of perks that can form synergies once at least one perk is selected

• Made the technology tree scalable using Ctrl + Mouse Scroll

• Made the Cancel Quest option more visible and intuitive

• Clicking an active quest slot now opens the quest details

• Added chronicle log entries when people are automatically assigned to workplaces

• Added chronicle log entries when auto-renew boosts fail due to missing resources

• Boosted Woodcutter’s Lodge branch production to exceed that of the Forager Hut

• Added new production quests for Firewood, Dried Fish and Meat

• Added production boosts for Press House and Brew Tub

• Added clearer loading messages to show what is happening during savegame loading

• Adjusted dried fur and leather production to better balance the production chain

• Re-adjusted ALL building upgrade costs for improved balance across the game

🎄 Season’s Greetings

With this release, Rise of the Settlement enters a short winter pause. I want to wish you happy holidays and a wonderful New Year —may your settlements thrive, your people prosper, and your journeys be full of purpose.

Happy Settling, and see you again soon.

🪶 Final Notes

Looking back at where this project started and where Rise of the Settlement is today, I truly consider it a meaningful achievement.

I deeply appreciate everyone who gave this game a chance. Your feedback, patience, and encouragement help shape the settlement into something more enjoyable and more fun with each update.

🎮 Join our community: 👉 Discord Server

Let’s continue this journey together.

— Luki