Wild West Dynasty – Update on the Beta Branch

Howdy Partner!

We're back! We have a new update for you that we'd like to test on the beta branch before releasing it into the wide-open spaces of the prairie. So, without further ado:

How do I play on a beta branch?

• A quick guide:

• Prerequisite: You must have Wild West Dynasty in your library – of course.

• Open your games library. Right-click on Wild West Dynasty.

• Open the ‘Properties’ menu.

• Click on the ‘BETA’ tab.

• Use the drop-down menu and select ‘Public Staging Branch’. This is the beta version of the game.

• Click ‘Close’.

• Steam should now download this version of the game.

Changelog:

Added

• The ability to move settlers to different houses

• A panel to manage houses in Management tab

• The ability to have more than one settler in one house

• The ability to assign a house to yourself

• Indicator in radial menu showing that crafting multiple is RMB

• Resource list the player needs for buildings in the building wheel

• Added more save slots and the ability to label them. Saves can now be deleted.

• The ability to name horses

• The ability to destroy just tents

• The ability to paint the roof triangle on a house

• Added 32 new investigation recipes (for cooking)

• More saddles are available for purchase at Four Nines

Changes

• Removed Annie's mail from the ground

• Horse options to mount/dismount and a horse menu

• The map is centring on the player when opened

• Local transport now does not cost any money (in range of a city)

• Transport system has been updated – after removing a city, every transport will be updated. If the destination for a transport is a removed city – the transport will be cancelled and will return to the starting point.

• Removed the seeds tutorial/tip

• Removed Ed's and Roger's tutorial/tip

Fixes

• Annie now marks her promised location.

• All fires supply warmth now

• The first fire should not have the Analyse option

• Created a marker for “can be eaten” for NPCs in the menu. It is a checkmark instead of an X.

• Granger’s behaviour when dead

• Items stacking is now working

• All the buildings are now destructible. Including the warehouse! And the Barn!

• Fixed an issue where post-processing was not working in animal’s buildings (barn/pigsty/ranch/stable)

• Fixed an issue where the detection of animal buildings was not working properly (player could not see name or health of the building)

• Fixed an issue where the Barn was not showing its name and health and could not be destroyed

• Fixed wrong names displayed on animal’s buildings

• Fixed an issue with loading map state after save/load

• Fixed an issue with loading Granger’s state

• Fixed an issue where the Barn’s marker was not visible on the map after loading a saved file

• Fixed an issue where the Windmill marker was not visible on the map after loading a saved file

• Fixed an issue where the Mine marker was not visible on the map after loading a saved file

• Fixed the de-synchronisation of animals

• Fixed an issue with roof material in winter

• Food now is updated on a daily basis, instead of every hour (food loses 40 points of condition per day)

• Fixed an issue where items prepared with the cookbook were not transferred into rotten food if their condition reached 0

• Granger, Owl and Grama Lucy now offer things to buy after reaching a certain point in the storyline

• Fixed an