Ale Abbey - Monastery Brewery Tycoon news & patch notes

v.1.0.5

A major fix that broke the saving (TL:DR, it happened if you let an ale expire in the brewery, and then you sold by chance the specific barrel from the cellar that was assigned to it when the brewing finished, even if you didn't store it), some more fixes, and some QoL for the lists sorting (more to come) ːalemugː ːdrunkmonkː

• Polished Lord Orders entries for the Capital and organized them by completion

• Fixed missing UI elements in Photo Mode

• Adjusted competition banner display during active competitions

• Fixed camera controls being re-enabled when opening the Feedback Form while the Furniture Menu was open

• Fixed errors when saving if an ale expired in the brewery and its barrel was sold (applied automatically on load)

• Added alphabetical and style-alphabetical sorting options for recipes

• Added recipe filtering by market

v1.0.4

Gameplay Fixes 🎮

• Fixed a major issue preventing saves from loading when laymen were constructing or moving rooms

• Fixed rare edge case where laymen got stuck if a room was moved during construction

• Fixed error when demolishing a newly built room with a layman still inside

• Fixed monks breaking after a staircase was demolished mid-path

• Prevented monastery modifiers from having a minimum bonus higher than zero

• Fixed unsupported characters causing save failures

• Fixed layman exceptions and freezes tied to construction timing

• Fixed the Repay Loan button not working correctly when funds were too low

• Fixed exploit where discounted furniture could be resold at full price

Competitions & Tasks 🏆

• Fixed competition bug causing ale to disappear if player already had high ranks

• Fixed error in Bockheim competitions caused by Mughali Pale Ale

• Fixed Bishop task miscounting ale orders due to Lord market unlocks

• Fixed achievement issues related to judges’ likes and dislikes

• Fixed conflicting likes and dislikes in judges (applied to existing saves)

• Fixed unlock error in the Schematics of the Blessed Hops

Rooms & Furniture 🏚️

• Fixed depth issue where furniture appeared behind others

• Fixed tooltips for furniture with limited slots

• Fixed placement error when using Shift to place multiple items

• Fixed double-click errors on room and furniture build buttons

• Fixed issue where certain buffs or furniture added storage to ingredients not yet unlocked

• Fixed buying error when florins matched discounted price but not full price

User Interface & Tooltips 🛠️

• Fixed several localizations issues in Chinese and german

• Changed position of the Game Paused banner and production icons

• Fixed all setting toggles that didn’t update correctly

• Changed UX in the Orders panel to stay on "Upcoming Orders" after accepting one

• Fixed tooltip in Recipes UI that always showed traits as unresearched

• Fixed trait percentages in Brewing UI to reflect all ingredient units

• Fixed shopping list not displaying ingredients if pantry had the same price items

• Fixed final segment of the Capital reputation bar not updating

• Added tooltip to the Capital to clarify unlocks are needed from all three villages

• Added option to increase text size by 10% (non-pixel fonts only)

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v1.0.3

We made two patches in two days, and then we though: do we really want to leave some of those saves-breaking bugs pending? Of course we don't! Hence, new patch! ːdrunkmonkː ːalemugː

A tiny percentage of saves might still be broken after this, we don't give up hope yet, but they do belong to reports in which the logs report no errors, the saves sometimes a very broken, once they were even completely empty of data, and it's super hard to solve. We are trying to make sure such things won't happen again in any case!

Various fixes

• Fixed several causes of corrupted saves and repaired most of the saves

• Fixed wrong price for Rooms in case of temporary discounts

• Improved the UX for accepting new orders

• Improved Rooms info panel to hide information on Adjacency if not unlocked yet

• Ales in transit from barrel to cart are now displayed in the barrels UIs

• Increased to 5 minutes the timer to decide the path to take for a World Event

v1.0.2

You thought that one patch yesterday was all you were gonna get this week? Wrong! Here comes a follow up one, because we just can't stand the idea of bugs still in the game ːdrunkmonkː ːalemugː

Various fixes

• Restored competitions normal occurrences after having been broken by previous bugs

• Added logic to fix broken saves due to wrongly unlocked Witbier style (a few more patches to fix other broken saves causes will come in the next days)

• Fixed the audio toggles (previously inverted with the last patch)

• Fixed potential freezing of the game due to conflicting use of shortcuts in World Event panels

• Fixed the wrong unlock of styles in a new village upon loading the game

v1.0.1

Fermentines 🍺

• Fixed a major meditation bug causing time to slow and freezing the day-night cycle

• Fixed saves not loading due to meditation-related issues

• Fixed abbots scolding monks who weren’t in the same room

• Retired monks are now correctly removed from the Kneeling Pads

• Removed brewers already assigned from the recipe selector

• Fixed monk particles not displaying properly on stairs

• Fixed Bishop tasks asking for ale quality above 100

Laymen 🧹

• Fixed paths not updating when a room on their route was demolished

• Fixed bug when swapping a freshly built room before the layman had despawned

Rooms 🏚️

• Fixed room brightness not updating if light was added while the game was paused

• Room info panel is no longer blurry

• Prices for furniture and room building now correctly reflect buffs and debuffs

UI 🛠️

• Added an option to hide the HUD

• Added a toggle to disable the Feedback message

• ESC now properly closes World Event panels

• Fixed text in World Event descriptions being cut off when using pixel fonts

• Fixed frontend not displaying correct lighting with IncreasedBrightness tech unlocked

• Fixed style unlock icons showing incorrectly in the Capital’s reputation bar

Carts 🛞

• Fixed purchases not being logged in the sales cart history

• Fixed ale marked “in transit” not updating after being sold

• Fixed stuck cart appearing on load when only one cart is available but already in use

Fame and Events 🎭

• Fame unearnable debuff no longer triggers when ale is accepted but not delivered during Prohibitionism

• Fixed competition list not showing newly unlocked entries

• Oktoberfest event difficulty and pace have been reduced

Visuals 🎨

• Added final copper fermentor art to the brew UI

• Fixed boken visualization of the ale virtues in colorblind mode

• The origin
• The team
• The community
• The Early Access

• Clint Bajakian, the industry veteran and our composer and SFX specialist, discovered homebrewing as a young-er man, experimenting with recipes and flavors long before Ale Abbey existed. Yannis, our Community and Marketing guy, shared the same passion in the past, specifically homebrewing Saisons.
• I used the game as the perfect excuse to dive even deeper into beer. I collected countless books, sampled quite a few brews, and even went on beer-focused trips to gather inspiration during development.
• As a nod to the game, Shiro helped bring Ale Abbey’s world to life with a special beer brewed for the project!

Official release

New content!

New Content

Markets & Competitions 🌍

• Added 4 new markets, including the majestic Capital
• Introduced 1 new competition league
• Added 1 new judge with updated jury preferences
• 8 new unique competition reward furniture pieces
• New trophies to unlock and archive

Brewing & Tech 🔬

• 8 new ale styles now available to unlock
• Introduced 2 new tiers of research with 16 new techs
• New gigantic 1000-liter copper brewing tool

Rooms & Furniture 🏛️

• New room: the Contemplarium, enabling meditation shifts
• New decorative furniture: frescoes, stoves, and cellar dehumidifiers
• Info panels added for rooms
• Added competitions and trophies archives

World Events 📜

• Introduced 6 new World Events system (including Oktoberfest!)

Bishop & Tasks ✝️

• Added 3 new tasks from the Bishop

Quality of Life

• Competition results and reward visualization added
• Sorting enabled for monk and room lists
• Reduced micromanagement: less cleaning and candle relighting
• Removed cooldown from cleaning tools
• Improved balancing for economy and difficulty
• Increased stat impact on Fermentine work

Steam Additions

• 56 Steam achievements added Not available on early access save
• 8 Steam trading cards available
• Game credits now viewable

Accessibility

• Optional colorblind mode added in settings

Thank you all once again!

Keep on brewing 🍺

Keep your fermentines happy 🎉

Monitor market demands 📈

Use the right monks for the right jobs 💪

Take advantage of discounts 🤝

Cater to seasonal Trends 🍂

Negociate with Bandits ⚔️

Don't be afraid to experiment 🧩

Research and develop better tools 🔧

Plan your monastery layout 🏰

New content🔥

• The Contemplarium, a new room for your Fermentines’ mental well-being, where you can personally schedule their shifts and much-needed meditation breaks,
• New World Events and Tasks that alter gameplay in their own very unique ways and are bound to keep your monastery buzzing,
• A new Competition League with a familiar new Judge (especially if you’re doing some extra homebrewing on the side IRL), new prizes, and unique unlockables, reserved for only the best of brews,
• New Research Nodes to buff your production and other facets of monastic life,
• Steam Achievements (yes, finally!) for every milestone worth bragging about,
• Four new markets, including the grand Capital with its affluent populace and the region's thirstiest patrons (yet!)
• Eight fresh ale styles to unlock and master,
• A wealth of new furniture and equipment (incl. Frescos and Cellar Dehumidifiers!), and
• many other additions, including new accessibility and gameplay features!

v0.4.5

Bugfixes

• Fixed an edge case where laymen or carts could get stuck during deliveries

• Fixed an issue that could corrupt save files when repeatedly loading and fast-forwarding just before an autosave

• Fixed a bug that incorrectly unlocked unavailable styles in the market

• Fixed a freeze that occurred when loading a game with an enrolled competition but no ale submitted

• Fixed a bug that caused competition timers to display negative values after loading

• Fixed a bug triggered when a Fermentine drank an ale with a quality higher than 100

• Fixed the broken "Specials" sorting in the brewing recipes list in case of no active special condition (competition or style unlock)

v0.4.3

Additions

• Added the ability to reject a task given by the Bishop even after it was already accepted.

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug that would lock a Brewery if an Ale Order expired while Laymen were still transporting the ale to the cart.

• Fixed error from being thrown when sending ale to the Pope from a Cellar barrel.

• Fixed incorrect Ale Order related French localized text that provided incorrect information.

• Fixed issue that resulted in additional Laymen being recruited when loading a save with a single Farmhouse Ale stored in a Cellar barrel.

• Fixed issue that prevented an active Abbey upgrade from being completed successfully. Implemented fix on load for saves already affected by this bug.

• Fixed the positioning of a coin icon in the Merchant UI.

• Fixed an issue with the Feedback Form being opened when renaming a recipe using the 0 key on the number pad.

• Fixed the F11 feedback tool to improve the information provided and the reliability of the data.

Changes

• Various gameplay performance optimizations.

v0.4.2

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug that due to audio issue introduced by one of the new events, caused some groewing major lag and a memory leak (that was only reset by restarting the game)

• Fixed a bug for Fermentines freezing in case of bartering successful after another Fermentine was retired

• Fixed brewery-blocking bug that happened when an event (A New Pope) and an ale order were happening on the same batch of ale

v0.4.1

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue where competitions could get stuck with a negative date (you’ll need to replay the last one you completed to unlock new competitions).

• Resolved a freeze that could occur when ingredients were in storage but no accessible storage rooms were available for laymen to retrieve them.

• Fixed a bug with Old Ale where storing it in barrels would reduce its quality instead of improving it.

• Corrected placement issues for the new prize furniture.

• Resolved a rare issue causing sound to break in certain situations.

• Applied initial fixes to address recent performance drops in the latest build.

• Fixed stuck audio sliders on some operating systems.

Changelog

V0.4.0

Major addition

• 3 new Vagaries and 3 new Edicts
• 6 new bishop tasks
• 8 new unique furniture pieces as rewards for competitions
• 1 new judge for competitions
• Access to the 2nd League of Competition: The Alchemists
• Access to the settlement of Dunkelheim
• Access to the Tripel and Bock beer styles

Other additions

• Added visualization of virtues and values used to sort recipes in the brewing UI
• Added a furniture info panel accessible via the furniture ring menu
• Added hotkey indicators in tooltips for actions
• Added waiting icons and progress bars for tasks that haven’t started yet (e.g. due to nighttime, missing ingredients, fermentine walking to the work post)
• Added display of the current Abbot/Abbess in the Personnel UI

Changes

• A judge’s dislike now only activates if a recipe contains 5 or more ingredients of the same type
• Improved bonus and malus for lagered or unlagered beers in competition style adherence
• Improved voting system for competitions with very high results
• Brewing orders no longer request quantities that exceed available brewing tools
• The Vintage Feast competition special is no longer offered for Lager styles
• The Adjunctivity competition special only occurs if at least one Adjunct has been unlocked

Bugfixes

• Several minor UI and refresh issues related to bishop tasks
• Tooltip behavior for unplaceable furniture due to quantity limits (e.g. boilers, escritoires)

• More unique tasks given to you by the bishop
• More events to shift your game
• More furniture to decorate your abbey as you like

• The new city of Dunkelheim
• A new league of competition (with a new judge!)
• Two new beer styles!

The update will be released in about 24 hours, right on time for the Tacticon! See you there!

v0.3.5

• Fixed massive lag on the minimap and fermentines selection of the recipes book,

• Fixed the UI being softlocked if an order was successfully negotiated while having the brewing UI open,

• Fixed a crash that caused by game being loaded with a competition completed but with no results visualized yet,

• Added progress bar to the some more bishop tasks to show the updated state of the task,

• Reduced the speed at which the candles light drops,

• Reduced the speed at which the littering accumulates in the rooms

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v0.3.4

Improvements

• Tooltip now shows brewing and recipe progress even when the game is paused

• Added tooltip with days and deadlines for competition deliveries

• Notifications now appear when a delivery is too late

• Unlock order deliveries for the local lord now display an "in delivery" icon

• Increased the hitbox of wall lights to make refilling easier

Fixes

• Fixed misleading messages related to mandatory loans for upkeep

• Fixed incorrect buttons appearing under the competition jury after the first competition

• Fixed monk using walk animation instead of stirring when returning to work after sleeping

• Fixed save corruption caused by specific combinations of saved competitions

• Fixed the positive special effect of Saison ales not triggering correctly

• Fixed the Cornucopia of the Farmlands providing access to locked ingredients

• Fixed untranslated texts in several minor instances

• Fixed price sliders automatically jumping to maximum due to stuck input

Storage Logic

• Cold cellars now exclusively store lagering ales; aging and normal ales are stored elsewhere

v0.3.3

Gameplay Adjustments

• The effects of aging and lagering on price and sales have been significantly increased, both positively and negatively

• Weekly sales are now more closely tied to settlement population, particularly affecting advanced settlements

• The penalty for failing an ale delivery now halts fame growth for one week

UI & UX Improvements

• Improved sorting and filtering in the brewing recipe list

• Fixed camera movement and shortcut triggers while typing in the feedback or monk renaming panels

• Recipe names in “Create from Existing” now properly reflect renamed versions

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that could break recipe renaming under specific conditions

• Resolved an issue with brewing tasks requiring two seasonal ingredients even when only one was available

• Removed multiple unique furniture items added through a previous bug

• Fixed click detection on room buttons being blocked by the goat’s collider

• Fixed a bug causing transportation issues when part of an ale was taken for delivery and the rest was trashed

• Fixed duplication of certain brews made by the same monk across different breweries

• Fixed broom size and position scaling inconsistently with zoom level

• Progress bars for several bishop tasks now update correctly

• Fixed delivery cart icon stuck on “Delivery Loading...” after an ale competition expired

• Fixed a save corruption issue caused by specific room swap and demolition sequences

Patch notes

v0.3.2

Addition

• Added more tooltips and information in case of Brewing Purity Edict, to prevent breaking the edict by mistake

• Added tooltips for monks tasks icons on the monks panels

• Added additional idle silly animation to the Biquette goat 🐐

Ale Competition 🏆

• Fixed competition to not be able to enroll without having enough money

• Fixed inscription to competitions to not allow joining the one already done, in order to not mess up the date and countdown for the next competition

• Fixed competition to calculate correctly specific virtue value or range

World events

• Increased from 1 to 3 minutes the time to decide how to react to a Vagary or Guild Wars event

UI

• Fixed progress bar and tooltips now updating on the bishop tasks UI also when the UI stays open

Others

• Fixed the text for the Quality vs Quantity guild war event

• Fixed a bug that could interrupt the renaming of a recipe,

• Fixed an error that allowed to complete at 21% the comfort task that requires 31%

• Change the way the required quality is calculated for the bishop tasks, in order to avoid unachievable value

Thank you for playing Ale Abbey!

v0.3.1

Ale competitions 🏆

• Fixed victory over the Sacresty league causing issues

• Fixed wrong information in the competition rewards panel

• Fixed competitions to accept ale styles not unlocked in their market yet

Orders 📜

• Fixed orders asking  for styles not yet unlocked by a given market

• Fixed issues that counted a good beers as incorrect for the order

• Fixed lords order to not accept a broad range of virtue values

• Fixed visualization of the lord order panel on the map

• Fixed advanced payment to not be 100% taxed upon arrival

Rooms 🏚️

• Fixed issues caused by moving/swapping rooms while monks were inside

• Fixed issues caused by moving/swapping storage rooms while adding or selling furnitures

• Fixed game freeze caused by an overfilled storage

Others

• Save - Fixed storage space won in a task to not decrease after reloading the game anymore

• Market - Fixed demands to be able to drop completely on any market

• Graphics - Fixed Several settlements names and icons being incorrectly displayed

Thank you for playing Ale Abbey!

Changelog

V0.3.0

Addition

• You can now name your monastery!
• Added World Events system and 11 world events (4 guild wars, 3 vagaries, 4 edicts)
• Added Ale competitions – first league (with 8 competitions)
• Added 8 unique pieces of furniture with special abilities as reward for the competitions
• Unlocked access to the village of Maerzenheim
• Unlocked Phase III of the monastery with additional floors, new researches (7 techs and 5 pieces of furniture), space for more rooms and fermentines
• Unlocked access to 2 new ale styles, the first Lager beers: Bohemian Pilsner and Munchener Dunkel, with related unlock tasks
• Added sorting and filtering on all the lists of recipes. In the brewing UI, also order or task specific recipes can be singled out
• Added the possibility of playing the game in windowed mode
• Added in the options the cam shaking and v-sync toggles
• Added visualization of Fermentines current task in all the related UIs
• Added visualization of the Ale being brewed near the Fermentines brewing progress bar
• Added visualization of the Recipes being developed near the Fermentines recipe progress bar

Changes

• Further balancing of sales amount in advanced markets
• Turned the virtue-based requests of richer market into a range rather than using a single value (allows to reuse recipes more easily)

Bugfixes

• Fixed several breaking conditions that caused an ale to be stuck in transit
• Fixed some cases in which the demolition of relocation of a room caused stuck custodians issues

hey brewers! We’re close to the release of Foam & Fame, for this occasion, we want to present to you the other big changes coming with the update…World events! We'll also reveal the date of the update release just below, keep an eye out for it 👀

What are World events?

Life at the Abbey can be peaceful and untouched by the outside world. Sometimes, though, it’s not quite that easy! With World Events, you’ll face new tasks or limitations that reward you for temporarily changing your gameplay style. This new feature is divided into three categories, each with different options:

📜 Edicts

A law has been enacted for a few months in the region! Abide by the edict for its full duration, and you'll be rewarded both during and after, though you’ll also have to deal with its limitations. Or, disregard the edict and stick to your ways, but don’t be surprised if you miss out on the reward!

⚔️ Guild Wars®

Guilds are a major force in the worldwide ale market. All is peaceful until a rival guild starts stepping on their malt. When such commercial wars erupt, you’ll have to choose which Guild your Abbey will support. For the duration of the event, you’ll receive specific types of orders based on their clientele✨

💥 Vagaries

Some things in this world are simply beyond control, from weather gone mad to the unexpected arrival of a stray goat. When these events occur, you’ll be able to choose how to respond. Each choice comes with its own consequences, often a mix of pros and cons.

Now is the time to announce the last information, the one you are all expecting... You'll be able to play this update tomorrow! Ready your week end as the game will look quite different once it's reached ⚙️ See you there 🍻

What are competition like?

New developments for your abbey!

• Competition Techniques - Unlocks the possibility for an ale to earn the competition traits
• Jury Pleaser - Add +5% to the competition score
• Procrastination Approval - Increase by 50% the deadline for the competitions
• And more…

• Fixed a bug that showed the icon for ale orders active also when there were no orders
• Fixed a problem with the selling price slider that could cause a stuck delivery loop for an ale just brewed
• Fixed the animation for the quality bar reveal stuck after brewing for a new ale
• Fixed a bug that could cause a brewery to be temporarily stuck until the next loading
• Fixed a bug that allowed every order to be served by any ale since the last patch
• Added missing quantity required for ale orders displayed on the map
• Fixed and updated the count of total styles to unlock/unlocked in various UIs
• Optimized performances for long recipes or ingredients lists in the UIs