Brewgether news & patch notes

The interface has a cleaner, darker style that's much easier to read, along with a round of co-op and quest fixes.

Added / Improved

• The game has a new dark interface, the quest tracker, quest log, NPC conversations, trading, bar management, notifications, the property panel, settings, and speech bubbles now all match and are far easier on the eyes.
• The house Property panel (furniture progress and daily value) is now a compact, modern layout that wastes less space.
• The Trading menu leads with rewards and tucks away quests you aren't tracking, so it no longer buries you in text.
• Buff icons now sit below the on-screen clock instead of covering it.

Fixed

• Fixed invisible wall in the bigger barn
• Quest tracking is now per-player, everyone follows their own quest, and finishing a shared quest still completes it for the whole group.
• Fixed a soft-lock where a delivery quest couldn't be handed in while you had other quests active.
• The Town Favor Board title was too hard to read — fixed.
• Used inventory slots were nearly see-through and hard to tell apart — they're now clearly visible.
• Mopeds exit fix.
• Bar upgrades now appear for everyone in co-op, not just the host.
• Houses you build now stay built after you save and reload.
• Your backpack and its upgrade are no longer lost after saving and rejoining.

Fixed

• Clients (players who join a host) no longer lose their inventory and equipped backpack after saving and rejoining. Inventory still present in your save is restored on your next join.
• Tutorial quests could get permanently stuck when the objective was already met — buying the plot before the quest asked for it, or already having the hammer. These now resolve automatically on load.

Added

• Pressing ESC now pauses the game in single-player.

Fixed

• Dropped items and quest rewards no longer stack into unreachable towers or land on vehicle roofs — they settle on the ground.
• Wine can be bottled again, from the wine barrel — both manually and by workers. Wine left stuck in existing saves is repaired automatically when you load.
• Stations and placed objects can now be used and picked up from any angle. Previously some angles selected a nearby door, or nothing at all.
• Stations now take a full batch of a base ingredient in one go (for example 10x Sugar Cane) and tell you exactly how much is needed — no more partial loads that silently refuse to start.
• Favor rewards can now be collected from the chest at houses you build.
• Favor requests now display the correct NPC name.
• Cartel Carlos's requests now name the correct ingredient.

Fixed

• Fall damage was applied when exiting a vehicle or moped after a drop. No longer occurs.
• Players could take repeated damage until death after exiting a vehicle. Fixed.
• Out-of-bounds recovery no longer applies fall damage.
• Scarecrows only aggro players inside their field, and disengage once you leave it.

Added

• Mostly everything now can sit inside the crates, before you could only put bottles.

Thanks again for the reports, the thieves we're balanced.

Tractor from the Old Wounds quest has more power, you should be able to finish the quest now

Closed door means closed door, the thieves won't go inside anymore

• A closed storage door now actually keeps thieves out. If they find it shut, they turn around and leave empty-handed. Lock up before you head out and your stored goods are safe.

Raids are far less punishing

• Much less frequent. Thieves were raiding roughly every 2 minutes. That's now several times longer between visits.
• They take about 4x less per raid, and they no longer empty a slot completely, so you can actually see what was taken.
• You can finally catch them. A flee faster than a sprinting player — chasing was impossible. Hit a thief carrying loot and they drop everything.
• Standing near your storage stops a robbery in progress — previously walking right up to a thief mid-theft did nothing at all.
• Thieves no longer bolt the instant you appear on the horizon, so you can actually reach them.

Also fixed

• False "THIEF ESCAPING!" alerts. Any failed or aborted thief run was showing a full theft alarm for 35-45 seconds despite nothing being stolen — which made theft feel far more constant than it was, and made scaring one off feel pointless.

Worth knowing

• Thieves become active around day 10 and get bolder as you progress.
• Close your storage door and what's in the bar, in a van, or in a vehicle are still fair game.
• Being near your storage prevents theft outright, and hitting a loaded thief makes them drop the goods.
• Anything they do get away with is stashedmp and you can take it back.

Hi all, thanks for supporting the project — and thanks for the reports. They're genuinely helping. This hotfix targets the some issues you've run into:

Fixed

• Scarecrows no longer abandon their field. Once they aggroed onto you they would chase you across the map and never return home. That also meant the cornfield could end up empty for the rest of a session, blocking the A Rough Start quest. They now break off and walk back to their corn.
• Grapes can be picked back up after being dropped.
• Dropped items can no longer go missing. Certain items could be removed from your inventory on drop without leaving anything to pick back up. Drops now fail safely and keep the item.
• Health bar no longer shows the wrong maximum (e.g. "110/100") for players joining a host, so it drains correctly again.
• The "I'm Stuck" button in the pause menu had a frozen cooldown and looked permanently greyed out. It now updates live — if you ever get wedged in the world, this will get you out.