Card Survival: Fantasy Forest news & patch notes

Hello everyone! I hope you're all doing well.

Main Branch Merge:

First, today we'll be merging all the new features up to 0.64f into the main branch. This should be make the following features available to all players: - Stew improvements and overboiling system. - Firepit, Barrel fermentation, frying, pies. - Container and cooking station changes. - Swamp Areas. - Beavers, leeches, bog myrtle, kingcup, alder and peat. - Bog Iron, Bloomeries, Forges and iron tools.

News:

Next update is going to be the NPC one. Probably the most important update we've had so far! Plissken is going to be coming here soon and we'll be spending the next month working together at my place so we can get it all ready as fast as possible. We don't have a release date for it yet, but it will take at least a month and should include: - Human NPCs Creator Interface. - The ability to start with Human NPCs or meet the mid-run. - The ability to befriend and romance human NPCs. - The ability for human NPCs to help with numerous tasks. And now, lets check the content for the current update!

New Tools:

We've added a large amount of new tools and devices to make crafting and processing items more efficient. Here's the list!

Handsaw:

A new tool that can only be made out of iron. It does most of the things an axe can do but can speed up many woodworking tasks. It is also a requirement for many of the new advanced woodworking recipes we're introducing for this update.

Treadle Loom:

A new, more advanced type of loom that can make cloth faster and with higher quality. It requires a high weaving skill to unlock and requires a handsaw to be crafted.

Spinning Wheel:

A new, advanced tool that can replace the spindle. It can create twine and yarn extremely efficiently and requires a high weaving skill and a handsaw to craft.

Fiber Break:

Another weaving-related tool that can make extracting fibers from nettle and flax a lot more efficient.

Pottery Wheel:

A specialized pottery tool that can help you make clay containers faster. It requires a handsaw to craft.

Wheelbarrow:

A new item for hauling items around. It's better than the travois and specially fast when when used in combination with roads.

Cloth Sack:

A new type of container made with cloth. Light when empty and able to store large amounts of grain, ash, leaves, clays or similar things in a manner similar to clay jars.

New Spiritual Things:

Swamp Hag:

The hag pond now has a hag spirit, which can be accessed only by brave individuals. When approached she can offer some bargains and teach some insights. More things will be added to her in the future. Bargains come with advantages and disadvantages and cannot be reverted once struck, but there will be a way to do it in the future (for a price).

Humming Widow:

Another hag spirit from the mosquito pond. She wanders the swamps under the right conditions carrying her swarms of mosquitoes with her. Her pond can be used to get her blessings, enchantments and summonings, which protect against mosquitoes, swamp fever, and leeches and provides blood pressure recovery. Her spells can help keep blood from coagulating, dispel mosquito swarms and stop wounds from bleeding.

The Hollow:

Butchering animals without releasing their spirit will cause hollowness to increase in the forest. Once this gets high enough some strange things will start happening. You might find strange meat inside animals or get visits from scary hollowed out spirits.

Beaver Spirit:

Beavers now have spirits, with their blessings, enchants and summonings available. Their blessings help with woodworking, making such actions faster.

Miscellaneous Additions and Changes:

Blueprint Search Feature:

We've added a search bar for blueprints, so it's now easier to find what you want to craft.

Stack limits:

We introduced a limit for some common items like leaves and needles after which they will no longer spawn in the location when foraging or clearing. Basically your character no longer gathers them if they have enough in the location. This should help prevent the accumulation of crazy amounts of items and help with performance.

Trapping Bait Improvements:

Larger animals will now ignore small food bait, making it easier to trap smaller animal if you use the right bait. So you'll no longer get bears or boars triggering all your snare traps and deadfalls! Here's a list of the small bait large animals won't be interested in: Seeds, Pine Nuts, Bugs, Leeches, Butter, Fat, Fish Scraps.

Mining Improvements:

Using pickaxes for digging mine shafts or mining ore from veins makes things actions considerably faster, making ore mining more productive than before.

Syrup making Improvements:

It now takes considerably less time to turn sugary liquids into syrups. The smaller the container the faster this will take.

Flood Changes:

High river water levels will no longer trigger the item destruction event. Instead this will just slow down travel time and hydrate and damage gardens. We will bring back item destruction in the future as a flood "river spirit" that will pick up items and carry them down river. Just not yet. ;)

Wolfsbane Coating:

We removed the tranquilizer coating and tweaked the wolfsbane one. It now works differently, requiring less dosage to kill targets but a few hours to take effect. In addition to this, boars that have fallen unconscious due to this poison can be captured and domesticated.

Charcoal Mounds:

This new blueprint can now be used to produce large amounts of charcoal at once.

Fire Strikers:

They can now be forged from iron and have a success rate based on their quality.

Version EA_0.65 and Patch Notes since the last announcement:

- Fixed a bug where stews could accumulate very intense flavours over time. - Added handsaw, treadle loom, spinning wheel, fiber break and pottery wheel. - Implemented wheelbarrow. - Added cloth sack and its storage system. - Added hag to the hag pond, night broth and 3 bargains. - Added humming widow to the mosquito pond and as well as her blessing, enchantment and spells. - Added beaver spirits and blessing. - Added hollow spirit and its mechanics. - Added blueprint search feature. - Added max stack mechanics. - Made tweaks and improvement to wolfsbane coating. - Added charcoal mounds. - Fire strikers can now be crafted. - Made improvements to the trapping with regards to baits. - Made the pickaxe a lot stronger. - Adjusted the times cloth takes to be made. - It is now possible to use Ice skates when traveling between swamp areas which have water. - Forge and bloomery now unlock when you have enough smithing skill. - It now takes less time to turn sugary liquids into syrups. - Tweaks to flood, including the removal of the flood event. - Reorganized many material tags to solve many blueprint ingredient inconsistencies. - Sharp axes are now better at removing overgrowth than stone axes. - Added missing Peas have taken message when they grow in the Garden Plot. - Ravaged Crops no longer increase discomfort. - Kingcup can now be overboiled into stew. - Significantly reduced the amount of stones and heavy stones that were dropping while clearing in most of the River Areas North of the Waterfalls. - Significantly increased the amount of stones and heavy stones that drop while clearing in Pine Slopes. - Leaves and Needles no longer add fuel to Fires. - Kiln, Forge, Bloomery and Furnace no longer give Charcoal when they run out of Fuel. - Fixed a bug where spearfishing and swimming in Swamp Ponds never gave you any Leeches. - Fixed a bug where the Ferocity combat move was appearing on Spirits other than the Badger. - Little Pieces of Fat no longer spoil into Rotten remains. - Fixed the winter art for Beaver Dam. - Fixed a bug which caused the Deer Grove to have Mosquitos in Winter - Escaping Chickens and Cows no longer increase Partridge and Boar Populations. - Removed the Wisp Start, solving the issue where players were starting with too many items to carry. - Beaver Lodge no longer loses stability during winter if there is a Beaver Living inside it. - Starting stones, wood and leaves now only apear in area you actually start in. - Fixed a bug where drinking Teas made with Powders straight from a Jar did not apply their specific status effects. - Spoiled powders now transfer less spoilage to the Tea they are added to and should no longer instantly turn Tea into Unsafe water. - Bread Loaf can no longer be placed on a Plate and can no longer be spiced. Individual Slices need to be spiced instead. Same with Cheese Wheels and their Cuts. - Flour can no longer be soaked and Soap can no longer be made wet in Soups, Broths, Stews and Potages. -Fixed the Winter Art for Frozen Ponds. - Fixed a bug with Alder Firewood not giving any fuel or fragrance. - Fixed a bug which caused issues when enchanting Leather Quivers. - It is no longer possible to wash small clothes and leather skins in Soups, Broths, Potages and Stews. - Smelting durability now only shows when its higher than 0. - Butchering a duck carcass now takes at least a minitick. - Patridges, Chickens, Cows and Boars can no longer starve in Trader Inventories. - Fixed the shovel image which shows up as requirement when building a Tanning Pit. - Added Raw and Boiled Kingcup to the Food Filter. - Added Barrels, Clay Basin and Fermentation Bins to the Water Filter. - Fixed a bug which caused the Map to open when Wheat Grains take in the Garden. - Fixed a bug where it was not possible to fill Containers with Water in Heather Marsh. - Reduced how much food you get when throwing Fat into the Enclosure. Fat Chunks can now also be thrown in. - Fixed a Typo in the Wolf Pass Card description. - Rye and Wheat Hard now properly give grain satiation instead of nut satiation. - Refreshing a Sap or Resin Tap now takes a mini tick. - Campfires, Fireplaces and Ovens now properly dry Wood Sorrel. - Newly Built Improvised Shelters now remember and drop the item types they were built from. - Metal slags, dusts and ores can now be unstacked. - Reed clothing is now unlocked only by reeds, straws and meadowgrass. - Fixed a bug that would get the game stuck on launch while converting saves to the new system. - Added some feedback messages on the save conversion process at the start of the game. - Fixed a bug where Iron Slag could be crushed or milled into Greenstone Powder. - Added the Iron Hammer blank to the list of items that can be remade into an Wrought Iron Bar. - Added the Iron Pickaxe blank to the list of items that can be split into 2 Wrought Iron Bars. - Fixed the art for pickaxe and hammer heads when they appear in their respective tool blueprints. - Badger no longer gives Weststone blessing. - Fixed a bug where Kingcup could be dried and would turn into dried nettle as a result. - Fixed the Map Icons for new areas. - Fixed a bug where willow blessing would get stuck at a certain level and stays there. - Swamp Water Level is no longer visible. - Tweaked trader iron tools quality. - Metal Hammer now gets most of its quality bonus from the smithing bonus it applies and less from flat quality bonus for every hit. - Fixed a bug which caused swamp mosquitoes to appear during Winter. - Extinguished Forge now accepts Iron Blooms. - Fixed a bug with a Metal Hammer where Metal Trader was not interested in paying more for it. - Lit Furnace will now also unlock Forge and Bloomery Blueprints like the Extinguished one already does. - Fixed winter art for Bog Iron Patch and Beaver Lodge. - Fixed the stability icon for Beaver Lodge. - Fixed a bug where a Mosquito or Hag Pond freezing would not freeze back into its original version but a generic Pond instead. - Fixed a bug where you could soak fairyweed powder in a Soup or similar Stew like liquid and turn it into Fairyweed Tea. - Fixed a bug where you could soak fireroot powder in a Soup or similar Stew like liquid and turn it into Firewater. - Added Ice Pit and Firepit to the appropriate filters. - Chicken Eggs can now be used to make Egg Dough. - Cow carcass now drops 16 fresh skin scraps instead of 8 when consumed by a wild animal. - Fixed a bug where a non-frozen river would show frozen river art in Winter. - Primeval Wolf Coat now gives 10 Profile between 22:00 in the evening and 04:00 in the morning. - Fixed the passive effects of Mine locations to have passive effects of Caves instead of Cabins. - Dried Calf Stomach can now also be used to make Water and Stomach Pouches. - Clay Cauldron can no longer hold powders in their liquid forms. Only Clay Jar can. - Raw Fish Filling can now be added to Pies. - Fixed the bug with "Remake Iron Bar" and "Split into Iron Bars" setting quality to 0. - Fixed an issue that was making game ticks more laggy. - Fixed a bug where using a mallet when making a metal hoe would increase original metal quality instead of tool quality. - Removed instances of a false positive error message when converting save files at the start of the game. - Ingame Map now properly displays that there is no more connection from Flooded Grove south to the Boggy Meadows. - Roasting Bog Iron now takes only 1 tick and oven no longer accepts it. - Added missing Path and Hunting Fences Improvements from Alder thicket south to the Bleeding Woods. - Fixed a bug where when Moontouched and Forest Beast escaped the fight, the player did not have any options to choose from. - Gloves now need to be directly equipped to protect you when harvesting Nettle and Wolfsbane. - Eating Blood and Meat Pasty is now a Carnivorous Action. - Alder Tanning Liquor now properly tans Fleshed Skins. - Fixed a bug which instantly turned crafted Iron Torcs and Twisted rings back into Nuggets. - Ponds now once again give Unsafe Water which becomes safe after boiling it for 15 minutes. - Fixed a typo in the description for Roasted Bog Iron. - Fixed the Metal bar description to better match the fact that some materials cannot be heated up on any fire. - It is no longer possible to soak fresh and dry fairyweed you need to dry and grind it first. - Fixed the general status Icon for Bog Myrtle Effect. - Fixed a bug which prevented the drink action when done on swamps, bogs and marshes. - Added Bog Myrtle and Leeches to the Food Filter. - Fixed capacity for the extinguished Bloomery. - Trout Blessing action now hides once you gut it once. - Gutting a Pike now removes its Spirit. - Clay Cauldrons can now be toggled to unstack. - Small Alder Trees now drop Alder Long Stick when cut. - Firm Cheese now displays a proper message if it cant be pressed because you need to Pee Instead of hiding the button. - Cooking a Raw Squirrel now reduces the Spoilage by a little bit. - Fixed a bug where Moontouched would sometimes get blocked from spawning. - Oaken Staff Blueprint now properly displays that it requires an Oak Long Stick to be made. - Added description to garden-frown Kingcup plants. - Fixed a bug where fat could not be dragged into flatbread. - Bog Myrtle Powder placed inside a Clay Jar now displays its description. - Fixed a bug where placing down Primeval Wolf Leather did not give any Sanctuary - Dry Heather Stems can no longer be placed in the Garden. - Added Nettle Stems have taken and Heather has taken message when fresh Nettle or Heather stems are planted. - Bird meat stacks can now be unstacked just like the regular meat can. - Leather Quiver can now be Enchanted. - Fixed some instances of no feedback showing on a card when an action is being blocked. That is all for this update. And now.. back to work. See you all for the next announcement! Reminder: All fixes and new content are added to the public beta branch first. If you want to access them you can find the instructions on the link below. Be warned though, things are less stable there and are likely to undergo balance changes quite frequently! :) https://steamcommunity.com/app/2868860/discussions/0/600774299444324511/

Hello everyone! I hope you're all well!! Today we're introducing a lot of new content:

Save system optimization:

We have changed the way that saves are handled: the game should now use considerably less RAM, the save files will be noticeably smaller in size, and game autosaves should no longer produce the extreme lag spikes they were producing before. The system should properly convert your saves to the new format, but since there is always a risk of something not going as planned we made it so that the game does a backup of all your saves when you'll start it from the new update. If you notice anything strange when loading your old playthroughs, please let us know on Discord, by email or via the in-game bug report system, and once we fix the issue you'll be able to recover your save from the backup. Backups will be saved in C:\Users\YOUR USER NAME\AppData\LocalLow\WinterSpring Games\Card Survival - Fantasy Forest\Backups\Backup_EA_0.64

Swamp Biome:

19 new areas have been added to the map to the south of the oak woods. These areas are more inhospitable than what's been seen so far. The swamp is not only a mosquito hell but also a treacherous place that can be hard to traverse. Whenever there's rain or when snow is thawing paths will often flood, making travel take longer and getting you wet in the process. Of course, despite its challenges, the swamp also comes with its unique rewards, such as iron, bog myrtle, peat, beavers and some special landmarks.

Special Note on Flooding:

We have not enabled actual flooding in the swamp areas for now, as we want to redo the flooding system since we're not very happy with it. So keep that in mind if you're building a house in a non-dry area of the swamp!

Swamp Fauna:

Beavers:

Beavers can be found in these areas. They live in flooded locations and build lodges and dams. Their dams have an effect on surrounding water levels and make fishing easier, and can also be dismantled for materials. When hunted, beavers give a good amount of meat and fat as well as skins with good fur.

Leeches:

These parasites can attach to your skin when swimming or when moving through flooded areas. For now they can just be eaten or used as fish bait, but we'll add some extra uses for them in the future. ;) They usually drop on their own when full, but they can also be detached by force, or by applying salt or heat.

Other Animals:

The swamp also has a duck a population as well as a new fish, the eel. Eels can be found in some dark waters and provide fatty fish meat.

Swamp Flora:

Bog Myrtle:

A very strong insect repellent that provide mosquito protection when burnt, used as bedding, hung from racks or applied as the new insect repellent salve. In addition to that, this multi-purpose plant can also be used as seasoning and induce altered mind states at high enough doses (at some cost).

Alder:

A new type of tree, somewhere between a pine and a birch tree. The bark from these trees can be used to tan leather, just like oak, but can also be used as red dye. Red dye worsens your stealth profile, but provide some bonuses when it comes to fighting.

Peat:

Old plant matter that has been turned into peat. This can be dug up with a shovel from certain swamp areas and after letting it dry for some time can be used as a very efficient source of fuel for your fires.

Other Plants:

Kingcup patches can also be found in the swamps and are a very nutritious plant that will later on be also usable by bees. There's also regular moss, which can be used as bedding or as tinder when dry. Both Bog Myrtle and Kingcup can be grown in gardens too.

Iron:

Bog Iron Patches:

Some parts of the swamp have patches of bog iron. These patches fill up over time and can be harvested by hand. Once extracted, bog iron can be left to dry, then roasted, and then crushed to increase it's ore quality. Iron is relatively abundant in the swamps, its difficulty instead lying on the fact that it's gated behind some specialized structures, requires a lot of work to make usable and can only be found in inhospitable swamps.

New Structures:

A new structure, the bloomery, can reach high enough temperatures to turn bog iron into iron bloom. Iron Bloom then needs to be worked into iron nuggets, which can then be turned into bars and tools as usual. The bloomery can also be used as a regular smelter, for the purpose of smelting greenstone or metal nuggets. It cannot however accept metal casts. There is also a new additional structure, the forge, which can burn hot enough to heat up iron to workable temperatures. This structure is ideal for working all kinds of metals, as it's an open fire with the capacity to hold many nuggets, bars or blanks.

Iron Tools:

Iron is a powerful metal but its strength varies a lot depending on its quality. Low quality iron is worse than ghost bronze, but high quality iron (closer to steel) is currently much sharper and durable than even tin bronze. Bog Iron is a poor source of iron, but with good smithing skills and by following the right procedures it can still be turned into relatively high quality iron (better than bronze). Later, once better iron sources and processing methods become available reaching maximum quality and steel will become more feasible. Iron requires a higher temperature to smelt that what can be achieved with in-game technologies so it cannot be cast like other metals. The only way to craft tools out of it, is to work it with a hammer at a forge. Fortunately, Iron Forge Hammers can now be crafted. This tool is essential for iron working since it makes the process extremely more efficient. Iron pickaxes can also be crafted now! Of note is that these two tools only really work with iron, as the other metals are not hard enough for them.

Swamp Landmarks:

As usual, we tried to bite more than we could chew! As a result we had to cut some of the landmark content we had planned. We'll be adding some of this missing content during hotfixes and in future updates. In the meantime this is what the landmarks currently do:

Hag Pond:

A creepy pond that gives you nightmares and can frighten you during the night. Its inhabitant will be introduced later.

Sacred Willow:

An old willow that makes anyone around it sleepy and can provide some useful painkiller calming blessings.

Mosquito Pond:

A mosquito infested pond that will eventually be the source of some blessings and a creepy spirit.

Rotten Oak:

Another spirit oak that can sometimes get angry and curse the entire forest. When this happens acorns will get diseased and deer and boar populations will start to collapse. Boars will also get extremely hungry. If this happens, a trip to the rotten oak to appease it might be needed to restore the forest to its right balance.

Status Update:

Now, we wanted to talk a bit about the next two updates. We're running a bit tight with the NPCs so we've decided to use the next update instead as a quality of life one. The NPCs are not the only reason behind this decision though. I've been playing the game a lot during this update, and I feel like we need to slow down a bit and take some time to polish the existing systems and gameplay. As you know, we're a very small team and we release updates at a very fast rate. This has its advantages, but it also comes with the side effect of accumulating bugs and unbalanced features over time, which we barely have the time to correct. So basically, the plan is that we'll focus this next month on improving performance through design mechanisms, improving our existing systems, adding new quality of life tools and playtesting, polishing and balancing the game as much as possible. :) In the meantime Plissken will be focusing on the NPCs as much as possible so that they can hopefully be released for the update after the next one! And now, to the patch notes!

Version EA_0.64 and hotfixes since the last announcement:

- Fixed a bug where soup condition messages (not hot enough, not enough liquid, etc.) appeared even when the soup was in a different environment. - Reduced the frequency of soup condition messages overall. - Fixed some instances of hunting bugs: animals should drop carcasses and die more consistently - You can now make low quality twine out of fresh willow bark or dry reeds. - Compost bins now generate bugs over time (which can be used as bait). - Liquids being hot no longer ads 15 minutes to the drink action. - Furnace now holds 12 metal nuggets instead of 10 and it can also fit 2 bars. - Badger now gives a bit less meat. - Collecting water from Marshes, Ponds and similar areas now gives unsafe water again. - It is no longer possible to interact and smith metal items while they are inside a furnace (this will now only work on open fires or forges). - Old Pickaxe and Forge Hammer items were transformed into their 50% quality Iron equivalents and their buy and sell prices have been adjusted. - 19 new Areas added to the South of the Map. - Southern oak woods are now moderate acidity, are no longer considered wetlands and have had their paths tweaked. - Flooded Grove has been moved to a different position. - Implemented flooded path system. - Added bog iron patches. - Implemented iron processing system, iron metal, bloomeries and forges. - Added blueprints for forge hammers and pickaxes. - Implemented peat. - Implemented beavers and their structures (lodges and dams). - Added ducks to the swamp and made it so that they no longer leave trails. - Implemented eels and leeches. - Implemented Alder trees, Bog Myrtle, King Cup and regular moss. - Added Mosquito pond, Hag Pond, Sacred Willow and Rotten Oak. - Fixed a bug that made the location card disappear when getting into an environment. - Fixed a bug where you would sometimes get stuck with "can't do two things at once" if you spent ticks with spiced food on the board. - Pie Slices now properly destroy themselves when eaten. - Water no longer Spoils over time. - Teas are now made though the overboiling system. - If you are playing on the beta version, you will now get access to day/week/season checkpoints even if you're playing in realistic mode. - Nesting Box can now be built outside of Enclosures. - Adjusted clothing prices. - Drinking Water from an Ice Hole made in a Lake now completes the Drink Water from the Lake quest. - Pine Salve now properly unlocks Tranquilizer Coating Blueprint. - Nettle Stems no longer displays Run out of Fuel Message when fully dried. - Ovens can now be unstacked. - Dried Spirit Mushrooms are no longer heavier than fresh ones. - Fixed a bug which prevented Nettle Leaves from being added to a Raw Pie. - Added Messages describing why the food is not being absorbed into a stew. - Kilns, Furnaces and unlit oven can now be unstacked. - Fixed a bug where the Primeval Wolf was using different animal groups when calculating weight of its actions and actual action executions. - Tweaks to firepit blueprint duration, fuel burning rate, capacity and smoke production. - Thick stew now always takes 15 minutes to drink regardless if its hot or cold. - Added missing Hunting Fences Improvements to the Rocky Bank. - It is no longer possible to wash your self with water once it absorbs some food. - Water collected from the Pond now has a lot of Bacteria which take a longer time of heating up to clear. - It is now possible to use butter instead of fat when frying foods. - It is now possible to cook in fat and butter. - Fixed the bug with Extinguished Firepit fuel capacity. - Fat and Butter can no longer be placed directly on a Fire. - Added the Shelf and Drying Rack to the Food Filter. - Fixed a bug where Garlic effect was not showing its status. - Fixed a bug where teas made from clay jar powders did not give any benefits when drunk. - It is now possible to increase the thickness ( and strength ) of Teas by drag and dropping powders from your hand or a clay jar. - It is now possible to increase the thickness ( and strength ) of Teas by right clicking more matching ingredients into a tea container and letting them boil inside it. - Fixed a bug where Healers Moss would overboil too fast making it impossible to get a boiled version of it. - Last Piece of Pie now properly inherits flavours from it. - Fixed the Acidity level of Boulder Grove. - When building mining shafts game will now prioritize a Pickaxe over a Stone. - Melting and then cooling down fat no longer resets its spoilage. - Fixed a bug with Firepit not generating any smoke inside the mudhut. - Butchering Small Animals now takes a minimum of 3 minutes. That's all for now. See you for the next announcement! :) Reminder: All fixes and new content are added to the public beta branch first. If you want to access them you can find the instructions on the link below. Be warned though, things are less stable there and are likely to undergo balance changes quite frequently! :) https://steamcommunity.com/app/2868860/discussions/0/600774299444324511/

Future Content News Hello everyone! No update yet, this is a news announcement. We have decided to postpone the swamp update. We were planning to release it in two parts ( part today, part two weeks later) but we have recently come to the conclusion that it would be better to publish one bigger update two weeks from now than two smaller less impactful ones. With that out of the way, I'd like to take this opportunity to update you a bit on our plans for the rest of the year (and the beginnings of the next one)!

Swamp Update:

What we'll be releasing 2 weeks from now. This update will be increasing the map size considerably (20 new areas) and introducing a new biome (the swamp). The swamp has dam-building beavers, leeches, eels, ducks and some new resources such as bog myrtle, peat, alder and most importantly bog iron.  It also has 4 new landmarks with some special mechanics as well as paths that flood depending on the water level. Iron is a complex metal that has to be processed in specific ways and cannot be cast or alloyed (at the current technology level). Iron tools will have the potential to be a lot stronger than tin bronze at high metal quality, and will open the way to better woodworking and eventually mechanical devices (like mills) in future updates.

NPC Update:

We're planning for this to be the update after the swamp one. It will introduce the NPC creator as well as the possibility to encounter NPCs in-game. The NPC creator is similar to the character one and should allow players to design the personalities, looks and traits of their NPCs. This first version of human NPCs will be able to do a good amount of tasks for you, and will already come with a working relationship system for friendship and romance. After this we will continue to update NPCs with more tasks and polishing their systems. This is a big update but we also think it's something card survival really needs and we want to have it in as soon as possible. These two updates are the ones coming next, and after we're dividing the coming content into a few different blocks that we are planning to release over the rest of the year (and the first half of 2027) in no particular order/priority:

Construction:

New buildings such as stilt houses and stone structures, swamp paths, cliff stairs, as well as the capacity to finally destroy buildings. Advanced infrastructure to control water flow, cave improvements and automated structures such as mills (wind, water or human/animal powered). Rafts and boats for transportation.

Magic:

We will be introducing a ritual to create familiars, the ability to create wards and home spirits, curses, foresight and other new magical blueprints and rituals. We will also use this opportunity to deepen and improve some of the psychological/spiritual system and add a good number of new spirits and landmarks. Among the spirits we have planned there are ghosts, spirit traders, location haunts, guardian spirits and unique animals. Many of these will offer special mechanics that will only come into play during the second or third year.

Life:

We have many planned features to enrich player life in the forest. Here we intend to release honey, beekeeping, sweets and more advanced bakery as well as more advanced methods for alcohol distillation, brews and alchemy. We're also planning to release NPC improvements around this time to enable family making and allow them to participate in combat as allies.

Animals:

We're planning to introduce donkeys, mules and oxes as mounts/pack animals and farm help. We're also going to be adding dogs and cats as pets and animal pests such as crows and mice. Sheep are also coming here, which will be used for their wool, milk and meat.

Mountain:

Another map expansion with many new location including permanently snowed places, areas that can only be accessed by climbing, great places for skiing and many caves. In addition to this, we'll be releasing improvements to the temperature and weather system. We are also planning to release improvements to the mining system here as well as new metals such as silver, gold, lead and new sources for iron.

New Characters (Fates):

The next characters we're planning to release are the Witch, which starts with a hut in the swamp and whose adventure has her dealing with spirits, and the Tourist, which will start on top of the new mountain area with very little resources and will have to start a new life in this new place and time. That's all for now. Let us know if you'd like to see any of this content in particular, and it might help us adjust our priorities. ;) See you all for the swamp/iron update!

Hi everyone! Just a small announcement here to let you all know we have just updated the main branch to 0.62f. This should make the following new content and changes available in the main branch: - Metal and Animal Traders - Cows and Chicken - Leather Armor - Primeval Woods Map expansion - Wildman Way - Tree Marking - West Stone - Wandering Oak - Primeval Wolves - And a lot of fixes, including fixes to bear behaviour! That's all for now. :)

Hello everyone! Another update is here. This time dealing with improvements to the cooking systems and some related new content. Mostly quality of life things that we had wanted to implement for a long time! Before going into the details though, we wanted to take this opportunity to announce that we'll be having a price increase soon, so that those of you that want to get game cheaper can do it now.

Price Increase:

We would like to thank all of our early adopters for supporting our game during this first year of Early Access. It's been quite an adventure and emotional rollercoaster! We're quite happy with all the progress we've managed together in this past year and how the game is maturing and finding its path. This wouldn't have been possible without all of your feedback and without all the bugs you've helped us find (something that simply wouldn't have been possible for a small team like us). Starting from the next update (the swamp one) we will be increasing Fantasy Forest's price to reflect our additional year of work and much larger amount of content, as well as to get it a bit closer to its final price. We still have a long way to go until the game can leave early access (probably around 2 more years) so we hope you'll keep enjoying the journey with us. The next update will feature the first part of the southern swamps as well as performance improvements. After that we'll release iron working, and then, human NPCs! And now let's get to the content for this update:

Stew Improvements and the Overboiling System:

Stews, teas and brews now use a new more robust and realistic system. Basically, most edible items will now dissolve into stew if you boil them in water for long enough. This makes it possible to make stew in bowls and other containers too, but the Cauldron is still the most practical as it has the greatest capacity of all cooking containers. We've also solved some issues with stews going bland too quickly and made their flavours work more realistically. A few special flavours will now decay slower and will never fully disappear from a stew once they're in (savoury, buttery, sweet). Teas can now also be made in greater quantities and in any cooking container, but keep in mind that potency is now also relative to liquid thickness. Important Note: We have currently disabled tea with the new system because of a last minute bug, we will hotfix this tomorrow as soon as we can. ;)

Frying System:

Gone are the days of having to manually heat up and place fat on food items to season them. Fat will now melt into its liquid form when heated and will auto apply to any food items sharing its container, consuming itself in the process. This system will also be used for oil when we introduce it in the near future.

Barrel Fermenting:

Wines and ales can now be fermented inside Barrels and Sealed Storage Pots which should make the process of making them a lot easier.

Pies:

A new available recipe that acts as a big customizable pastry. Basically you can fill pies with whatever ingredients you want and then bake them. Then you can cut slices out of them and eat them.

Cooking Station Changes:

All cooking and firing stations now work with weight-based inventories (as opposed to slot-based ones). As a result stations now hold more or less items depending on their weight. Fireplaces for example, can now only hold a single cauldron, but simultaneously, you can now place a lot more food items inside ovens.

Fire Pit:

A new specialized cooking station with twice as much room as the fireplace. It is large enough to hold two cauldrons and is ideal for cooking large quantities of food. It does come with some disadvantages though, as it is less fuel efficient and can generate a bit of smoke over time.

Container Changes:

We have made all containers weight-based and tweaked their capacities so they can work better with the new overboiling system. As a result of this some of the containers can contain more items than before. The cooking pot for example has 4 times as much capacity as the clay bowl, and the cauldron 4 times as much as the cooking pot.

Version EA_0.63 and hotfixes since the last announcement:

- Wines and ales can now be fermented inside barrels and sealed storage pots. - Implemented frying system. - Implemented overboiling system. - Implemented pies. - Drying rack can now hold twice as many items. - Added fire pit. - Tweaked container and cooker capacities and inventory types. - Forage actions now take longer if you have a movement penalty. - Tied boars now have 100% health and keep it when untied. - Cream no longer drops anything when it spoils. - Ducks now eat food off the ground just like Partridges do and can be killed by Snare Traps. - Planting Rye and Wheat Grains in the Garden now shows the proper message. - Fixed a bug where Bulls were not dropping the right carcasses after starving. - Added or fixed messages for cow and boar starvation. - Calf Carcass no longer has boar spirit related magic blueprints. - Removed outdated interactions with Fire Spirits from the Kiln and Furnace. - Fixed the trading values for Metal Fishing Hook and Metal Meat Hook. - Raw Clover no longer gains wetness inside Campfire, Fireplace and Oven. - Enclosures are now much easier to clean. - Enclosures are no longer considered indoor locations by the game. - Enclosure Improvements now unlock only after Enclosure Blueprint is researched. - Fixed some instances of the game getting stuck when dragging cards around (especially while moving from area to area). - Fixed the bug with animals not dying and dropping carcasses. - Fixed the bug that was causing Jars to not be placeable on Shelves. - Wolf Packs with only 1 Wolf Left in the Pack will now bleed out if they are heavily wounded. - Fixed a bug that was causing Triggered Traps to speed up carcass spoilage. - Traps and Triggered Traps are now more consistent with which items they can accept in their inventories. - Leather Coif is now Dyeable. - Trout now loses its spirit when you gut it. - Putting turnroot into stew now gives a tiny bit more calories to make it consistent with how much boiled turnroot gives. - Eating wild garlic now gives a bit of vegetable saturation. - Spoon Auger can now be used to create Resin and Sap taps on Birch and Pine Trees in 3 minutes. - Fixed a bug where the Forest Beast Carcass was showing the wrong art when bleeding. - Vomiting now removes Stomach Iron. - Reduced the cost of Deer Spirit Bestial Resilience Spell to make it consistent with the Badger and Boar versions. - Wind Spirit Summon now gives Alertness Aid just like other sources of Wind Spirit effects do. - Reduced the amount of eggs required for the Trader Partridge Egg Commission to 15. - Dry Juniper Needles can now be used to make your Garden Plot soil more acidic. - Cows now start eating dry fodder and forage on higher satiation levels. They eat the dry fodder in smaller portions and more often than before. - Fixed a bug where soothing effect was reducing mosquito bites twice. - Fixed description for Heather Fields description. - Garden heather plants now lose health on high Hydration. - Fixed a bug where the Drawknife was wrongly giving a Leatherworking bonus. - Added Care health recovery bonus to clover and meadowgrass fields. - Fixed a bug where players would be notified about completion of a non existing quest when crafting a fur coat. - Soap Blueprint gets unlocked and fully researched if you combine Fat chunks with a clay bowl filled with Lye. - Wet Soap is now sorted on top of Soap Stacks. - Added Frost Blessing description. - Fixed blueprint unlock conditions for cast and forged hunting spear heads. - Peeling Cattail Roots with a sharp knife now only takes 3 minutes. - Fixed a bug where traveling south at night from the lake grove could take you all the way to river clearing. - Fixed a bug which caused heather powder which had highly progressed spoilage to rot instantly when put into a clay jar. - Damp hollow now uses a Pond Map Icon instead of the lake one. - Added Rustic Barrel to the Food Filter. - Fixed a bug where Cabin Fever would sometimes affect stress twice. - Added Fur Coat description to its blueprint. - Main Construction Exit can now be renamed. - Blueprints will now prioritize auto-fill hammering tools which do not lose durability such as Mallet, Forge Hammer and Stone. - Updated descriptions of Grease Dough and various fillings. - Added Dairy Saturation to milks, creams, butters and cheeses. - Fixed partridge egg commission name. - Fixed a bug where the reason why you cannot do certain actions was not visible (ex: you can't disembowel a carcass when you have too much vessical pressure). - Fixed a bug where a second trader card with an empty inventory would sometimes appear in the top row. - Fixed a bug where right-clicking a card in hand or clicking at the top of it would make it disappear into the trader's inventory when inspecting a trader. - Fixed a bug that caused Cows to ignore dry fodder when players were away. - Fixed a bug where the Moontouched was sometimes hunting animals in the Spirit World. - Fixed the sound for drinking milk products and reduced the action duration from 15 to 3 minutes. - General trader now pays more when buying fairyweed and leather skins, and animal trader now pays more when buying partridge eggs. - All traders now pay more when buying salt from the player, and they also have some salt in stock. - Cows happiness has been tweaked (overcrowding has less of an effect and good food has a stronger effect). - Added a second Partridge to the Forest. - Fixed a bug where stews would lose flavours when transferred to empty containers. - Fixed a bug where drag and dropping stew would sometimes get the game stuck. That's all for now. See you all for the swamp update! :) Reminder: All fixes and new content are added to the public beta branch first. If you want to access them you can find the instructions on the link below. Be warned though, things are less stable there and are likely to undergo balance changes quite frequently! :) https://steamcommunity.com/app/2868860/discussions/0/600774299444324511/

Trading Improvements and Cow Update and Patch Notes #57 Hello everyone! Time for a new update. Let's go straight to the content:

Trading Improvements:

We have reworked the price calculations for traders and as a result character stats should make a greater difference when trading. Player trust and social skills should have an effect on trader trust gain, while physical things like size or facial symmetry will have a flat effect on prices. In general, the more socially adept and traditionally good looking you are, the better trader prices will be. Trust is still one of the biggest factors though, so with time, all characters should be able to achieve more reasonable prices one the trader gets to know them. In any case, we will be tweaking prices for a while so please let us know if something feels too expensive or cheap. Prices will be changing quite a bit I'm sure.

Commissions:

The trader can now have requests of his own. The completion of these will unlock new traders with their own products. We will be adding additional commissions in the future, and use them to unlock more features or to accelerate trust gain. Currently there are two new traders:

Animal Trader:

He will start coming once you complete a partridge egg commission. He comes with cows, chicken, pigs, cheese and feed. This trader is currently the only way to find cows and chicken in the game (aside from a couple new perks), and is an alternate way of getting pigs without having to catch them in the wild.

Metal Trader:

He will start coming once you complete a copper commission. He comes with copper, tin and bronze tools. This trader provides an additional way to get metal (especially tin) as well as a new tool, a pickaxe, which can be used to dig mines faster and extract ore from veins more effectively.

New Animals:

Chicken and cows can now be acquired from the new Animal Trader or through a couple new starting perks that have been introduced (Starting Cattle and Starting Poultry). On a related note, all domesticated animals (including boars) can now also be attacked by predators and some of them will fight back (boars and bulls).

Chicken:

Partridges have been nerfed and made more realistic as a result they now only lay eggs during spring, although their eggs are now lighter and more expensive. Chicken, on the other hand, give more meat and lay eggs every season other than winter. Chicken eggs are bigger but cheaper.

Cows:

These are the stars of the update. They are a new source of very large leather, give the most meat of all animals in the game, and when lactating produce milk. Cows can feed themselves by foraging but that won't usually make them happy. For that they should ideally forage from meadowgrass or clover fields or patches, be hand fed good food or given good dry fodder to eat. Dry fodder can be created with a new blueprint and will have a different level of nutrition based on the items that were used to create it. Milk is a super useful liquid that can be drank or turned into other products. Milk can be skimmed to extract its cream, and this cream can then be turned into butter. Butter is similar to fat and can be used to season and enrich other food items. Milk can also be left to spoil into curdled milk (a process that goes much faster if you use a calf stomach). From it you can extract curds which can be pressed into soft cheese. Soft cheese can then be pressed into firm or even hard cheese, which are longer lasting. Hard cheese can also be left to mature into aged cheese. You can also make low fat versions if you skim the milk first! We will be adding more uses for cheese with the cooking update in the near future. ;) And here are the patch notes:

Version EA_0.62 and hotfixes since the last announcement:

- Improved trader pricing system. - Added trader commission system. - Added metal and animal trader. - Added pickaxe tool. - Added cows and chicken. - All domesticated animals are now properly attacked by predators and some of them can fight back. - Added diary products (milk, cream, different types of cheese and butter). - Partridges now lay eggs only during spring but their eggs are smaller and more expensive. - Added Dry fodder bp for feeding cows. - Rebalanced flavours and calories gained from partridge and wild eggs. - Small Cloth now properly inherits quality when ripped from regular Cloth. - Fixed a bug where Wolf Pack was not able to eat the piglet carcass. - Fixed a bug where spoiled piglet carcasses did not drop any rotten remains. - Fixed a bug where you would sometimes get a "Can't two things at once" lock after travelling on an ongoing Huntsman playthrough. - Fixed a bug where eating raw eggs would increase your body temperature. - Fixed a bug where Rustic Clothing Perk items did not drop proper items when dismantled. - Fixed a bug that was causing the Metal Skinning Knife to give butchering bonus under some circumstances. - Fixed a bug where leg and arm laceration were not providing the proper movement and dexterity penalties. - Fixed some weight loss inconsistencies with right arm fractures. - Fresh Springberries and Billberies now transfer spoilage properly and no longer rot right if mashed on high spoilage amounts. - Huntsman, Trapper, Farmer and Wild Man now start a bit sleepy at the start of the game. - Updated Powders to properly work with the preservation system. - Fixed a bug which caused fresh fly agarics, fresh spirit mushrooms and Springberry fat cakes to increase body temperature when eaten even when cold. - Fixed boiling not working anymore after hotfix 0.61a. - If you escape from the bear without wounding it, it should no longer chase you around the map. - Boars now fill their bellies more when eating from nature (which should make them a bit less annoying). - Northern Boar feeding areas have changed and the Southern Lake Bank should now be visited less often. - Damp Hollow is now a water drinking place for animals. - Fixed the unlock description for the Parchment Blueprint. - Added missing path and fences improvements to boulder grove, old woods, shady thicket, wind needles, pine cliffs, pine grove and pine meadows. - Thrown stones now have to be recovered before they can be thrown again. - Fixed a bug that was causing traps to only catch dead partridges and boars - Wild Partridges now prioritize eating player food over socialising with domesticated Partridges. - Fixed a bug which made funnel traps catch Frogs instead of Crayfish. - Removed the word stitched from stitched left arm laceration name to make it consistent with other stitched wound names. - Fixed a bug which caused the Moontouched Enchants and Spirit to behave like Primeval Wolf ones. - Fixed the Armor stat to properly display the actual protection of the gear player is wearing. - Fixed the message display when the Large Crucible gets fired. - Ropes obtained by means other than crafting now drop 8 standard twines when unbraided. - Grinding dried Heather flowers now longer increases spoilage percentage when ground into a powder. - Decorative items placed on Rustic Table now increase the house sanctuary value. - Heather stems can now be used as bedding. - Frost shrine now properly unlocks when you make an iceblock instead of when placing an ice block blueprint. - It is no longer possible to start a wood carving by dragging a sharp knife onto a log piece. - Newly made snare traps now remember the types of ingredients they were made from and drop them when dismantled. - Leather Cordage blueprint now accepts Squirrel Leather as an ingredient. - Fixed the Spelling error when dropping Pine Needles into an Extinguished Campfire. - Added dried and lit bracket fungus to Camp Filter. - Roasted Fatty Fish now counts for Roast some Fish Quest. - Equipping Healers Moss in a wound now counts for the wound treatment quest. - Bug Resistance Perk is now more powerful. - Windy locations now have Windy condition listed under card help section. - Stone Axe now inherits usage durability from the sharpened stone it is made from. - Fixed an inconsistent issue in Movement Penalty display when going from Seriously Encumbered to to heavy to move. - Leather Helmet and Leather Bracers are now dyable. - Fixed a bug with the Clay Basin dying Clothes into wrong Colours. (Wait for the colour to wear of before dying it again) - Fixed a bug where climbing skill above 66.6% did not increase the climbing success chances for climbing up cliffs and trees. - Wet Rye and Wheat Sheaves are no longer affected by Spoilage Preservation effects. - Metal Wires and Lumps now lose smelting progress if they are not inside a hot crucible. - Fixed a bug where piercing the Forest Beasts Brain made it drop no carcass. - Fixed Char's description. - Fixed a bug where Wolves would lose their ability to attack prey. - Traveling South from Wind grove in low light conditions now has the proper name. - Rotten Duck now drops Bone Pieces instead of Needles and Hooks. - Added missing icons for new areas on the the game map. - Changed Herbalism stat name. - Changed name of Fishing Bait Ingredients to something less misleading. - Uncompleted Moon Maiden quest can now be completed if you defeated the beast before completing its sub-quests. - Updated Pine Needles description to mention you can make Tea with them. - Fixed a bug with Flint Mine expansion that would place Witchstone mine expansions instead. - Fixed some typos and incorrect names. - Reduced the building time of Forest Paths. - Healers Moss, Small Cloth and Bracket Fungus Strip Dressings now help wounds stop bleeding faster than before. That's all for now. For the next few updates you can expect, as we said, cooking improvements, the swamp expansion, and iron working. And hopefully.... soon after that... human npcs! Maybe? See you all for the next update! Reminder: All fixes and new content are added to the public beta branch first. If you want to access them you can find the instructions on the link below. Be warned though, things are less stable there and are likely to undergo balance changes quite frequently! :) https://steamcommunity.com/app/2868860/discussions/0/600774299444324511/

Hello everyone! Hope you're all doing well. New update today! First, today we'll be merging the huntsman into the main branch, so the content from the last few updates will now be available to all our players. Now let's get to the content:

Leather Armor:

Clay Basin:

Not really a leather item, but something useful for working leather. Clay basins can now be fired in kilns and used to soak reeds or nettle, to tan or to dye. They are also needed for making leather armor and can collect rain water.

Leather Protection:

Leather clothes now grant protection based on their quality and hardness.

Boiled Leather Armor:

The following armor pieces can now be crafted: bracers, greaves, cuirass, and helmet. Leather armor is twice as protective as normal armor clothes, so it should be ideal for players that want to try to take down large animal like bears or the forest beast.

Leather Coif:

A leather hat to complete the set. Insulation and a bit of protection, not much else.

Map Changes:

The primeval woods map region has been expanded and tweaked. Here are some of the changes: - A new boar has been added to the northern area of the map. He likes to rest near the primeval woods. - A new location, the damp hollow, now acts as the end for the stream and comes with a pond and willows. - The old hollow has now being moved further north. - A new location, the still hollow, can now be found in northernmost area of the map near the lake. It comes with a cold cave that is good for preserving food. - Multiple new oak areas have been added to the primeval woods region, including a clearing with nettle. - There's a new cave with a secret exit that connects to the damp hollow. - This region is no longer a dead end and now connects to the southern areas of the pine woods too.

New General Features:

Tree Marking:

You can now mark pine and oak trees while exploring, provided you have a cutting tool equipped. This should help players find their way a bit better if they are not familiar with their surroundings or don't have a map yet.

Wildman:

The wildman way is now available. He starts in the old hollow and is combat oriented.

The West Stone:

There is now a new landmark near the primeval woods. It's a large boulder with some peculiar characteristics. It is of spiritual importance, and can eventually act as a shrine under the right circumstances, helping you deal with the effects of loneliness and offering some protection.

The Wandering Oak:

There is a new spirit tree in the woods that will behave in strange ways once you have spend enough time in the forest. This spirit is angered by certain behaviours and has a judgemental and oppressive nature. You can also learn a special ritual from it under some circumstances. There is also a new ritual that can be learned from the sacred oak.

Primeval Wolves:

Sometimes, once enough time has passed and if the wolf pack is struggling too much, a primeval wolf might emerge from the western woods and claim some territory in the forest. These are larger, more territorial wolves that can make some areas of the forest more dangerous. They can of course be skinned for their darker furs (which can also be turned into special coats). Farmer players have little to worry about them, but hunters will eventually meet them.

Coming next:

For the next update, we're planning on releasing the first stages of the trading improvements, as well as some new livestock we hope you'll enjoy! And after that, it'll be time for the swamp expansion, which will open the way to a lot of new content, including iron working! And now, to the patch notes:

Version EA_0.61 and hotfixes since the last announcement:

- Added leather coif, bracers, greaves, cuirass and helmet. - Added clay basin. - Added new locations to the map (damp hollow, secret cave, wild tangle, boulder grove, old woods, old glade, still hollow, needle slopes, shady thicket). - Added Wandering Oak and Primeval Wolf agents. - Added the West Stone and stone friend. - Tweaks to armor system. - Added tree marking feature for pines and oaks. - Added bless and curse grove rituals. - Added primeval woods boar. - You can now wear 2 items on the pant slots. - Leather Blueprints now require a Cutter in each step and steps take 15 minutes longer if done with a poor tool such as sharpened stone. - Spiritual Coats can no longer by dyed. - Going up hill no longer takes 15 extra minutes but the extra stamina cost is more noticeable. - Downhill travel actions no longer recover as much stamina as before. - Toned down the atmospheric sounds inside caves and removed them altogether from some of them. - Fixed a bug where some old leather items would not drop their constituent items when destroyed. - Fixed a bug where some leather items would not remember which type of cordage they were made of. - Fixed a bug where loading and saving the game on Huntsman would make him lose some of the courage he gets from the moon maiden charm. - Fixed numerous typos and improved some texts. - Fixed a bug which caused Carcasses to no longer be butcherable if the butchering process was interrupted by Wolves. - Fixed a bug which sometimes made Animals stick around after they are killed. - Quest for Eating Roasted Cattail Roots now completes when eaten with an Eat All action from a Clay Bowl or similar. - Fixed a bug where sometimes the Moontouched attack would spawn a wrong event with wrong art. - Switched the Wolf Pass Start Perk for the Old Hollow start and moved the starting resources to it. - Old Hollow now has a Cave with a spring inside it. - Washing organs in the stream now takes only 3 minutes. - Diving from Southern Rapids to Greenfalls now makes your clothes wet properly. - Starting with a Cabin on a custom character now properly places the Cabin in River Clearing. - Fish meat filling can no longer be cooked into Meat Cakes. - Newly created reed tunics now drop the resources they were made from when dismantled. - Changed the unlock condition for Wood Carving from a piece of log to a minimum amount of woodworking skill. - Fixed the east direction action when traveling in the dark in the lake grove. - Leather Shoes from starting perks now dismantle into the right things. - Travel to another area quest is no longer tracked before unlocked and will not complete as soon as unlocked if travel was done in the past. - Research improvised shelter quest is now completed as soon as research is done. - Fixed a bug which prevented the equip bracket fungus on a wound quest to complete when equipped to a stitched wound. - If the lake is frozen you can now travel between northern lake bank and the lake island even during the night. - Fixed the bug with some animals not respawning back into the map after being killed. - Changed the mosquito sounds to make them less grating. - Fleshed Leather description now includes that it can be tanned with brain mush. - Tweaked burrow locations to make badgers and foxes more present. - Added an additional fox agent. - Fixed Fly Agaric Powder icon. - Changed unlock conditions for specialized tools, their blanks and casts. - Spring Start Perk now ensures that you don't get too much snow on the first two weeks of spring. - Fixed a bug where gutting a fatty fish would not complete the gut the Fish subquest of the Lakes Bounty quest. That's all. See you all for the next update!! Reminder: All fixes and new content are added to the public beta branch first. If you want to access them you can find the instructions on the link below. Be warned though, things are less stable there and are likely to undergo balance changes quite frequently! :) https://steamcommunity.com/app/2868860/discussions/0/600774299444324511/

Hello everyone! Finally the Huntsman is here! We hope you'll enjoy the experience, and please let us know if you find any bugs or issues and we'll fix them as soon as possible. ;) Let's get straight to the content:

Pre-Made Characters:

The game now has, in addition to custom characters, something we call the Fates and Ways.

Fates:

Fates are pre-made characters like the Huntsman, which come with their own stories and content, they're the closest to what the premade characters were in Tropical Island. For now, only the huntsman is available, but we'll be releasing at least 3 more (the witch, the tourist and the beast). Fates come with their own quest tree and victory conditions and can be won.

Ways:

Ways are something between a challenge and a tutorial. Basically they're simpler premade characters that are build around a certain playstyle, such as trapping or farming. They don't really come with unique content other than that, but they do offer players with different challenges or playstyles and also come with their own quest tree, which consists of lists of profession related tasks to complete. Just like fates, ways can also be won. We will be tweaking and improving the ways over the following weeks as the huntsman took most of my time and they still need a lot of love. There was an issue that we still need to solve, for which we had to temporarily lock the wildman and the spirit speaker, but we will unlock them with a hotfix soon. In total there are the 4 ways: Wildman, Trapper, Farmer and Spirit Speaker. - Wildman: Someone specialized at being tough! - Trapper: Someone specialized in trapping. - Farmer: Someone specialized in growing crops. - Spirit Speaker: Someone specialized in magic and spirits. As always, we will be tweaking both the Huntsman and the Ways based on feedback, and any issues we find.

The Huntsman:

The huntsman is the first premade character. It's a good starter character that comes however with some difficult challenges. It can technically be beaten in 3-4 seasons but I think it will take 1-2 years to complete for most players. The huntsman quest revolves around hunting a mythical Forest Beast he seems to have some grudge with. This creature is very strong and requires some preparation to find and defeat. While doing this, he's simultaneously dealing with some issues from his past, in the form a recurring dream, that can actually end up helping him. He starts by the lake during spring and his strength lies in hunting (and trapping). As he progresses he'll have to gradually arm himself with the right equipment, learn to find the beast, and finally fight it and defeat it. His recurrent dreams hold clues and potential help and he also comes with a good, bad and best ending.

Other Content:

Moontouched:

There is now a special wolf/spirit that comes during full moons and wanders through the pine woods near the moonstone. It's stronger than normal wolves and can be dialogued with under special circumstances. Its spirit is a wolf/moon hybrid and its skin can be used to make a nice white wolf coat!

Leather Cordage

A new type of cord that can be made out of leather scrap.

New Perks:

Leatherworker, Butcher, Mystic, Farmer, Woodworker, Archer, Weaver, Fisher.

Balance Tweaks and Fixes:

This update also contains a good amount of balance tweaks to nutrients, courage, filth, animal behaviour that should help improve the overall experience. :)

Future Steps:

With the huntsman out of the way we'll now be focusing on the human NPCs as our main background task, while still working on performance and continuing to add content through our regular updates every couple weeks. Here are some of the things you can expect from the updates we have planned for the next 6 months or so: - Leather armor and additional leather clothes. - Cooking improvements and additions. - Progressively more difficult yearly challenges (Colder years, wilder weather, blights, dangerous NPCs, spiritual and psychological dangers) - Southern Map expansion (swampy alder woods with paths that flood, have peat, bog iron, new diseases and blights, leeches and new fauna and flora). - Northern Map Expansion (very mountainous and steep colder areas that often require climbing and eventually lead to perpetual snow areas, with some new fauna and flora, and lots of mining potential) - Metal and Mining Improvements (mining picks, improvements to the mining system, iron tools, steel, silver and gold, gemstones) - More spiritual and psychological content (including house spirits and haunts, new unique charms, familiars, rituals for warding and for pacts, and lots of unique new spirits including unique animal spirits , aggressive spirits , location spirits and ghosts). - Trading Improvements (including trader requests, investments, different specialized traders, and a lot of exclusive trader content like cows, chicken and new crops) - Automated structures (Mills!) and water travel including rafts and boats. And now, let's go to the patch notes.

Version EA_0.60 and hotfixes since the last announcement:

- Menu changes for fates and ways. - Huntsman implemented. - Moontouched implemented. - Added 4 ways. - Using Firewater and Garlic water on Gardens now spends way less liquid than before for the same effect making it more efficient. - Meat Hook now reduces duration of skinning actions by 15 minutes. - Traveling with Snow shoes now costs less Stamina. - Pine needles no longer give mosquito protection when burned. - Funnel traps can no longer catch frogs. - Fixed a bug where some caves would not have improvements or work properly with Smoke Mechanics. - Fixed bugs which prevented some blueprints such as the leaf bed and some leather crafts from being available for research. - Courage now has a greater effect in combat and has been generally rebalanced (including pain, alcohol and blessings). - Boars now drop tusks. - Wolf Cave now has some leather scraps, tusks and bones at the start of the game. - The bear will now get angry if you fight it and will chase you around the map for a while afterwards. - Chasing down an animal after a fight will now consistently put you in melee range so you can attack it at least once before it escapes again. - Independent Cellars now have a Door improvement and appropriate smoke and steam mechanics. - Structures which lead outside now need a Door improvement to keep the Steam inside. - Removed forest caps from the Rocky bank forage action. - Pine nuts are now dryable in the Oven. Dried Pine nuts last much longer. - Fixed the bug which caused witchstone and greenstone spawned on the floor at the start of the game to have 0 quality. - Added some of the missing art for heated blanks and shapes that were missing. - Empty Clay Bowls can now be carried inside Containers. - Fixed a bug which caused Partridges to eat big carcasses. - Added more interactions to the Stew (Kidney, Liver, Wood Sorrel). - Knife Sheath can now hold blunt knives. - Fixed a bug with small clothes having some outdated mechanics. They no longer have an inventory slot and can now stack. - Billberries and Springberries now last longer before spoiling. - Drinking alcohol now gives a bit of satiation. - Bones are no longer millable, so you have to break them first. - Foraging in Sacred Grove now gives Spirit Acorns instead of normal ones. - Digging roots can now be done even when encumbered. - Bellows now take 1 day to research. - Fresh Berries and Fat interaction now works both ways. - Being in Windy areas now gives some wind affinity over time. - Blood no longer coagulates when in an inventory of a bleeding carcass. - Metal tools now have their own blueprint tab. - Rapids no longer freeze. - Ice skates now work between southern lake bank and heather marshes. - Tourniquets can now be dismantled. - Pulling logs out of river now have a minimum stamina requirement. - Ice blocks are now in construction/materials tab. - Long sticks now take much longer to dry. - Tree logs and planks now also have a drying durability and take a good amount of time to dry. - Flatbow is now made from planks and its quality goes up the drier the plank is, and needs to settle before it can be used. - Updated descriptions of various room constructions to be more precise. - Staff filled with Earth Spirit can now also increase the care of Fields same as it already could with Gardens. - Wind needles location no longer has a stream. - River Pass Cave now starts with some stone and Flint. - Mining copper veins now has a sound effect. - Tables now have an inventory and a preservation effect similar to those of a shelf. - Wolves can now eat carcasses from inside traps. - Reduced the heating strength of Fireroot effect. - Filth inside structures now accumulates more slowly. - Changed the amount of iron you get from eating bugs. - Made it so that you still get mud when digging from frozen bodies of water as long as the temperature is not too low. - Dirt and crushed dirt can now be combined with water inside Ice Holes. - Iron, Proteins and Vitamins now go down slower. - Animals now take a bit longer to do some of their actions which should make them a bit easier to hunt. - Making an ice hole is now a bit faster. - Fun Actions now give a bit more gratification. - Removed Forest caps from some inappropriate places. - Confusion goes down a bit slower now. - You can now fix your leaf bed in the dark. - Fixed a bug where the Flooded Tunnel would make players wet even when not at the location. - Fixed a bug which caused cooking a brain with a lot of spoilage to rot in the process. - Showering at Waterfall Caves now removes Wolfsbane Exposure - Added ambient sounds for areas with rapids. - Added ambient sounds to mark the presence of mosquitoes. - Visual tweaks to dialog texts when talking to NPCs. - Fixed a bug where the combat window would be completely empty when starting a fight with animals. - Removed Quest and Mixed modes. - Fixed a bug where a Fox would not properly disappear after killed. - Cellars and Cabins now smoke up with a Campfire inside. - Fixed a bug which caused certain clothing items not to dye properly. (old items might experience some issues and need to be redyed) - Fixed a bug which caused leather items requiring a leather skin on board not to unlock in research mode. - Reduced Frogs and Crayfish in Funnel Traps. - Fur Mittens now properly get Fur value from the leather they are made of. - Fixed a bug where animals would not drop carcasses. - Fixed a bug that was causing campfire smoke to appear in open caves after entering and exiting them enough times. - Wood Shaving Blueprint now gives a lot more wood shavings. - Fixed winter art for inner cabin and mudhut rooms. - Fixed the Bones description. They no longer mention bone carving. - Fixed juniper berries description and spoiled notification. - Brick Mold Mudbrick recipe now accepts wheat straw. - Fixed a bug which was causing issues when dyeing the Fur Coat and Cloth Underwear, Coif, Trousers, Dress and Shirt. - Torches now appear in Camp Filter. - Billberry and Springberry Pulp can now be soaked in River Water. - Fixed a bug which caused some caves on old save files to not have copper or flint veins inside them. - Wheat straw can now be used as a temper in blueprints. - Metal Wires can now be heated up in Furnaces. - Caves now give Cabin Fever. - Hideout now provides the same protection as the improvised Shelter. - Fixed Caves giving global discomfort. - Fixed a bug where Animals would sometimes get stuck in their burrows. - Fixed a bug with Animals that sometimes caused animals to show up again right after you killed them, made them unkillable and stopped them from dropping Carcasses. - Fixed a bug where sometimes an Animal would keep fighting forever in combat. - Fixed a bug that was causing Squirrels to drop dead as soon as a fight starts. That's all for now! See you all for the next update! :) Reminder: All fixes and new content are added to the public beta branch first. If you want to access them you can find the instructions on the link below. Be warned though, things are less stable there and are likely to undergo balance changes quite frequently! :) https://steamcommunity.com/app/2868860/discussions/0/600774299444324511/

Hello everyone! Update time! This is the last update before the huntsman. Hopefully this time for real! Next update will be introducing the first pre-made character, as well as a few premade character bases for new players to use and the first batch of some performance improvements we've been working on. We will also be disabling the current quest mode. As many of you know we like experimenting and trying new things. Sometimes these things work, sometimes they don't. We feel that while the quest system has some advantages, it also has many disadvantages, and is costly for us to maintain. So starting from the next update this mode will no longer be available and all quest mode player saves will be converted into research mode ones. We feel the huntsman (which has his own mixed quest tree) and the premade character bases will take the tutorial-like role the quest mode was taking. Now let's get to today's update!

Performance Improvements:

With today's update we're pushing the first batch of a series of performance improvements we are working on. Among other things, we have optimized the way the game looks for existing cards as conditions to trigger various effects, which is something that should improve overall performance, especially in the late game, which was quite necessary. We have also optimized the way the game handles environments, improving NPC pathfinding among other things.

Hunting Improvements:

Burrows:

Foxes and badgers can now be hunted out of their burrows by smoking them.

Hunting Fences:

Fences can now be built as location improvements, just like paths can. Animals will avoid Fences and path around them whenever possible. This makes them very useful for steering animals into heavily trapped areas and for making hunting easier.

Partridges:

Partridges have been improved and can now eat player food (albeit very little) and interact with traps the proper way. As a result, snare traps should no longer trigger mysteriously on their own when no agents visit them.

Wolves:

Wolves now lower their aggression if there's a fire in the area. This prevents them from attacking you while you have a lit campfire, unless they're really starving, making it a bit easier to deal with them while camping outdoors.

Ducks:

Ducks now migrate when the water freezes. So they'll no longer be available during winter.

General Animal Behaviour:

Animals now move slower while wandering, making it easier to catch up to them while following their tracks. They still move faster when fleeing however, but will now bleed to death on their own, and leave blood trails if hurt enough. By the way. Because of a retro-compatibility fix, tracks from old saves will look like blood trails for a few ticks but should fix themselves after that.

Trap Tweaks:

Traps are now more realistic and interact differently with different animals. Most animals will be able to eat from most traps, but only some animals will be able to trigger some traps, and only some will be affected by them.

Fishing Improvements:

A new animal, the crayfish, has been added. It can be spearfished during the night or found in funnel traps. Funnel traps can also catch frogs now. Pikes can now also contain other fish in their stomachs, and you can now also make fish pasties by mixing fish meat with fat and combining it with grease dough.

Additional things

Moving in the Dark:

It is now possible to travel during the night, even without light sources. This will however have the chance to get you lost and end up in a different place accidentally.

Cauldron Iron Fix:

We've made some tweaks to the cauldron so it can finally hold iron. So eating from a cauldron should no longer lead to iron deficiency!

Plaster Improvements:

We changed the system in which slaked lime is made, making it a lot easier to make in bulk. Basically you can now make "milk of lime" in any container, by saturating its water with quicklime. We also changed the plaster blueprint to make it more efficient. This should make making plaster less of a pain! :)

Cave Improvements:

Doors, earthen floor, shelves and drying racks can now be built in caves. Making them a bit more viable as homes. Caves can also be smoked now, giving them some additional uses as smoking rooms.

Smoking Improvements:

Campfires now only produce smoke in rooms that have doors, or have no exit to the outdoors. So basically, a mudhut without a door will no longer need a fireplace as urgently as before.

Ice Hole Tweaks:

Ice holes now take only 3mins to make when temperature is not too cold.

Mines:

Completing a mine now gives dirt, stones and heavy stones as a byproduct.

Version EA_0.59 and hotfixes since the last Patch Notes:

- Greatly increased Steam Cloud storage capacity to fix an issue where save data was being lost. - Optimized Environment handling. - Optimized trigger conditions. - Added the ability to get animals out of burrows. - Partridges have been improved and now interact with traps through the new system. - Wolves  now become less aggressive when a fire is present. - Ducks now go away during winter. - Tweaks to animals escaping behaviour. - Blood loss and blood trail for animals implemented. - Trap behaviour tweaks. - Crayfish added. - Implemented a system for moving in the dark. - Cauldrons can now hold iron nutrients. - Improvements to plaster production. - Fixed a bug that was causing Copper Veins to respawn after being mined. - Juniper Berries can now be added to the stew. - Added help section description for the Drying rack. - Tweaked the bps for Crucibles and Quivers, making them cheaper. - Smoke no longer accumulates inside areas connected to outdoors unless you have a door built. - Caves can now accumulate smoke and be used for smoking items on a Drying Rack. - You can now build Earthen Floors and Door Improvements inside Caves - Last step of making a barrel now takes in any Hammer but still benefits from using a mallet. - Making an Ice Hole now takes only 3 minutes if temperatures are not too low. - Eating minnows now takes 3 minutes. - Completing a Mining shaft now gives dirt, stones and heavy stones. - Applying Brain Mush to Leather Scraps is now done faster than before. - Added Bait Missing message to traps that need a bait to work. - Flint Mine is now properly buildable inside the River Pass Cave. - Fixed a bug where some items would disappear when being moved around the house with a drag and drop. - Fixed a bug with self triggering actions. Floods, Frostbites, Sleep deprivation and other actions which depend on this feature should now work properly again. - Fixed an issue which caused Raw Rye Billberry Pasty to display the wrong name. - Fixed a bug which caused Levees to transform into Log Booms. (all existing Active Log Booms will now turn back into Levees). If you lost your levee permanently please let us know and send us your save and we'll try to fix it for you. - Fixed a bug with leather skins not being cut into smaller pieces when interacted with a cutter. - Fixed more issues related to moving cards inside houses by drag and dropping. - Fixed an issue with the Stretcher only accepting leather of small size. - Bread Loaf Blueprints now show up with the research requirements in the list even before being unlocked. - Fixed a bug which would cause leather cards, fireplaces, campfires and other cards to disappear. - Fixed a bug where the blueprints menu would be empty - Fixed a bug which allowed for springberry fat cake to be mashed into springberry pulp. - Fixed a bug which caused springberry and billberry fat cakes and berry pastiesto have too many nutrients. - Cellar blueprints and improvements now use the new leather items. - Fixed a bug which caused the frost spirit blessing to last forever. - Picking up and placing down nesting boxes no longer destroys their contents. - Wheat stalks that finish drying now show a proper message. - Updated Turnroot descriptions. - Making Fat Chunks now properly applies ingredient quality to the final result. - Fixed a bug with the Log Boom blueprint. - Malting Rye and Reeds can no longer be dried on a Drying Rack. - Fatty Fish meat can now be used for making fishing Bait, added to the stew and shows up in the food filter. - The Levee card now tells you when you can't repair it because you're too tired or it's too dark. - Fur Coat and Fur Mittens now display their Fur Durability. - parchments and frame drums can now be crafted with the new reworked leather. - Greenstone Powder smelting durability is now hidden if its 0. - Updated Skinning Quest to make it work with the reworked Leather System. - Updated Wood Sorrel description. - Bone Hooks no longer have trading value. - Trader now pays more for Leather with more Fur. - Trimmed leather with high amount of Fur now displays Fur Leather art. - Fixed a bug which prevented Flintclaw from attacking the player. - Fixed a bug that would sometimes get the game stuck when drag and dropping fat from inside a container onto something in your hand. - Basic Tanning Quest now works with the leather rework. - Fixed a bug where Tanning water was increasing tannin percentage even after bark had run out. - Fixed a bug which prevented new reworked leather clothing from being enchantable. That's all for now! See you all for the huntsman update! :) Reminder: All fixes and new content are added to the public beta branch first. If you want to access them you can find the instructions on the link below. Be warned though, things are less stable there and are likely to undergo balance changes quite frequently! :) https://steamcommunity.com/app/2868860/discussions/0/600774299444324511/

Hello everyone! Time to update the main branch and release a new update for the beta one. Animal agents should now be available for all players, as well as all the latest features such as farming and garden improvements and the lake area overhaul. Now, to the new update:

Mining:

You can now build mines in some caves. With the type of mine dependent on the types of vein you can find there. These mines consist of tunnels that can be further expanded and contain their own veins. In the future these will be improved further. At the moment the 3 available types of mines are Flint Mines, Witchstone Mines and of course: Copper Mines. So you'll no longer have to spend hours clearing the rapids for greenstone if you don't want to. :) Copper veins have been added to bear cave and the cave in the Pine slopes. A new cave with flint has also been added to the river pass area.

Leatherworking Improvements:

The leatherworking system has received a significant overhaul to make it work better. First. skins will no longer all go into one confusing pile but will instead be separated by size. Second, furs are no longer considered a separate class of skins. Now all skins have a fur stat that affects how good a skin is at insulation. Here's a list of worse to best skins when it comes to fur (for insulation): - Boar - Deer - Badger - Squirrel - Hare - Fox - Wolf - Bear Lastly, cured skins are no longer a separate class either, and are just considered as leather with low softness and quality. There have been some changes to brain tanning too. First, all mammals with the exception of tiny ones (squirrels and mice) give brain mush when you butcher them, based on their size. So brain tanning should now be more available than before. That said, the process now takes considerably longer and is based on the size of the skin.

Log Booms:

In preparation for river transportation (rafts and boats) and mills a new feature has been added. Logs can now be dragged to the river, which will cause them to float downstream. Log booms are structures that can be built in river areas, and will automatically catch any logs flowing downriver.

Food Preservation Improvements:

Food preservation has received another overhaul and it now uses a more robust system. This should allow different preservation methods to stack much better and in stronger ways as well as fix existing bugs with the previous system (like items losing spoilage rather than gaining it in some cases).

Additional Things:

You can now make Berry Fat Cakes by mixing fat and bilberries or spring berries. You can now also make pasties by mixing grease dough with with different ingredients, such as fat berry cakes, meat filling and blood filling. Fish meat has also been divided into lean and fatty fish meat. Flavour distribution and interactions have been further tweaked to be more realistic and intuitive. Lastly, a new Pine Salve can now be made and used as a cheap, less effective healing salve that should be available to those living in the lake areas..

Version EA_0.58 and hotfixes since the last Patch Notes:

- Implemented mining system. - Added a new cave to river pass and some copper and flint veins in different caves. - Implemented river log transportation and log booms. - Implemented berry fat cakes and different pasties. - Leatherworking system overhaul. - Food preservation overhaul. - Added pine salves. - Multiple Flavour tweaks, especially to meat, and fish meat is now divided into lean and fatty fish meats. - Bracket Fungus can now be cut into stripes using sharpened stones too. - Fixed a bug with Juniper Mosquito protection not working properly. - Adding Pine Or Juniper Needles to Campfires and Fireplaces now produces some fragrance. - Fireplaces can now be dug using a stick or an antler, while the shovel will speed up the process a bit. - Hardtack now lasts much longer than before. - Clearing Lake Island or Lake banks now has a small chance to drop a birch long stick. - Cutting Fat chunks into Fat pieces no longer spends tool durability. - Pine nuts no longer turn into rotten remains after expiring. - Tweaked bellows bp. - Fixed a bug which prevented malting wheat from being dryable in ovens, campfires and fireplaces. - Bracket Fungus can now be lit on campfires and fireplaces. - Tracks can now be trashed. - Butchering a wolf now gives at least 1 meat scrap on each step. - Updated some description texts. - Food filter now shows cattails roots in all stages of processing. - Sleeping and Napping now restores more focus than before. - All areas upstream from greenfalls are now safe from floods. - Fixed a bug which prevented Mosquito Repellent effects from diminishing. - Reduced the Earth Spirit Summoning Spirit Acorn cost from 3 to 1 and fixed a typo in Earth Spirit Calling Blueprint. - Fixed a bug where harvesting spirit mushrooms from the Garden using a Sickle gave Forest Caps instead of Spirit Mushrooms. - Eating Wood Sorrel now gives you a bit of Wood Sorrel Effect. (for more effect drink as tea) - Fixed a bug which caused the Fireplace to count twice for Sanctuary. - Wheat Flour can now be added to the Stew. - Dismantling a Snow Shelter now gives items it was built from. - Lighting Dry Juniper Needles on Fire now gives Juniper Mosquito Protection effect. - Improvised Shelter, Improvised Bed, Log Stool, Sawhorses, Soaking Reeds and Soaking Nettles are no longer safe from floods. - Wood Sorrel Patches should now apear in older save files as well. - Fixed a bug with top quality arrows not properly applying their clash and damage bonus. - Fixed description when adding Clover to the Stew. - Shapes and Blanks can now be forged inside the furnace. - Wheat in Garden now grows as fast as in the Field. - Fixed a bug which caused wheat to require medium nutrients instead of high when recovering from dormancy. - Removed the ability to micromanage the soil of tilled and fallow fields. - Game now displays the time required to perform Eat All Actions. - Fixed a bug which required high hydration instead of medium to high for billberries to quickly recover from dormancy. - Dormant and Mature Garden planted Fireroots are now immune to Mites just like Growing ones already were. - Animals can no longer eat food from containers equipped by the player. - Rye and Wheat Syrup Spice now gives a tiny bit of Iron. - Balanced the amount of Calories you get from Syrup Spice to be consistent with how much you get if you directly drink it as a syrup. - Fixed a bug where drying malting wheat would turn into malted rye instead of malted wheat. - Gastrointestinal, Upper Respiratory, Lower Respiratory and Systematic Infections now have proper alerts on the status pane. - Fixed a bug which caused Wood Sorrel Patch, the Water Cistern and the Tanning pit to pulse every tick. - Fixed a bug which caused Dried Juniper Berries to last very little. - Fixed some issues where Wolf Packs would come back to fight shortly after fleeing. - Fishing in Ice Hole no longer has a chance to catch Minnows when using Minnows as bait. - Fixed a bug which prevented adding Bones to a very thick stew. - "Wash off Tannins From Leather" subquest now completes properly when using the river to wash. - It is now possible to put empty clay bowls, vases and cooking pots onto sledges. - Cauldrons with liquid inside can no longer be put on Travois or Sledges. - Fixed a bug which caused sleep deprivation to affect comfort rate instead of value. - Added a Cattail Patch to Lake Island, Northern Lake Bank and Southern Lake bank for older saves that didn't already have it. - Fixed an issue where Juniper Needle protection effect would go invisible at high levels. - Improved how Fly Agaric and Juniper Needles mosquito repellent effect works. - Updated Moon spirits descriptions. - Fixed a bug where Moon Stone would give stamina recover instead of Moon Blessing. - Updated Bear Urge description with information on how to keep it in check. - All the Pine locations now give a tiny bit of Herbalism when Foraged. - Wheat Straw can now be used to repair damaged roofs. - Doing a Cut Tree directly on a Sap or Resin tap now spends same amount of durability like the original cut does. - Increased the altered mind state potency of Boiled Fly Agaric. - Fixed a bug that was preventing Dry Juniper Needles from giving Bug Protection when turned into lit tinder. That's all for now. See you for the next update! Reminder: All fixes and new content are added to the public beta branch first. If you want to access them you can find the instructions on the link below. Be warned though, things are less stable there and are likely to undergo balance changes quite frequently! :) https://steamcommunity.com/app/2868860/discussions/0/600774299444324511/

Hello everyone! First update of the year. This time we're improving the pine woods at the northern areas of the map. Here's a list of the new content:

Pine Roots:

Pine roots can now be obtained from Pine trees and used for making low quality twine. This method is considerably less efficient than using nettle but gives you a reliable option for players starting in the pine woods (also it doesn't cause a rash!).

Juniper:

Juniper berries can now be found in pine clearings during the second half of autumn and the first half of Winter. These berries are considerably less nutritious than the other two, and don't really work for making syrup or wine. They are however longer lasting and easy to dry (in which case they last quite a bit) and are one of the few food items that can be foraged during winter. They can also be used to season food in their crushed form (which also has a minor preservation effect). Juniper Bushes can be grown in gardens, but take a couple years to grow so they are a bit of an investment. Their needles can be used to make a tea that can help a bit with diarrhoea, urination and respiratory infections. Lastly, they can also be burnt to produce a mosquito repellent effect.

Bracket Fungus:

This new type of fungus can be harvested in any area where birch trees can be found. While fresh it can be cut into strips that can be used as antiseptic and homeostatic dressing and when dry it can be used as very long lasting tinder. Ideal for carrying fire from one outpost to another.

Wood Sorrel:

A new plant that can be found in pine clearings and near bodies of water. Less nutritious than clover but with a lot more vitamins and a diuretic effect. It can also be used as a source of sour flavours when cooking.

Fly Agaric:

This mushroom has undergone some changes. It is a lot more toxic than it used to be so it can no longer really be used as an edible reliably. It can still be used as a psychoactive mushroom after boiling it, but it's not recommended in its raw or cooked forms (unless you want to throw up). This mushroom can now also be burnt to produce another insect repellent effect, although it can also trigger nausea.

General Changes:

The lake area has now become a lot richer, with cattails, wood sorrel, frogs and birch trees. Flint can now also be found in these areas by clearing, as well as in the rapids to the south. Nettles have been nerfed a bit. They now require the proper levels of acidity (low), hydration (mid to high) and nutrients (mid to high) to grow on gardens. Nettles now grow faster in spring, stop growing in autumn and as before, die in winter. Clearing pine wood areas now also gives dry needles. More importantly, dry leaves and needles now rot so giant piles of them should no longer be a problem. Syrups and Wines have been rebalanced and made more realistic and birch sap can now only be harvested during spring. Squirrels can now also be found in Pine areas, although they're more rare there. We've also added a few new perks: Cold resistant, Cold Sensitive, Bug Resistant and Callouses. And now, to the patch notes:

Version EA_0.57 and hotfixes since the last Patch Notes:

- Fixed a bug which caused the metal hoe blueprint to create a copper hoe regardless of metal being used. - Fixed a bug which caused Spirit Mushrooms to transform into dormant Forest Caps when harvested with a Sickle. - Fixed a bug which made Pit Traps trap live boars only if the first attempt is sucessful. - Pine roots can now be acquired from pine trees and used to craft twine. - Added Bracket fungus, Wood Sorrel and Juniper Bushes. - Fly agaric has been made more toxic and can now be burnt for a bug repellent effect. - Squirrels can now be found in pine areas but are more rare. - Added new perks (cold resistance, cold sensitive, bug resistant, callouses). - Flint now has a low chance to drop in lake areas. - Changed nettle garden requirements and tweaked its seasonal growth rates. - Added Birch Trees and Cattails to lake areas. - Repair action on an Improvised Bed now fully repairs it. - Clearing Pine areas now additionally drops some Dry Needles. - Lake Island now starts the Player at the Southern Lake Bank. - Cutting a Fat Chunk into pieces no longer requires Light. - Hare no longer drops Fat. - Dry Leaves and Needles now expire after 30 days. - Birch Trees can now be cut for Sap only in Spring. - Tweaked calorie and sugar values for berries. - Wheat Flour can now be combined with Meat or Blood Filling to make rich Filling. - Fixed a bug which showed quest complete in research mode when chopping a Tree Log into pieces. - Fixed a bug which prevented the player from Urinating into Water Containers at low values. - Tweaked smelling system so animals no longer get to smell eggs and small bait from afar. - Additional tweaks to bear behaviour (less time spent roaming per day). - Scythe can now be used to harvest wild reeds, meadowgrass, heather, nettle and clover faster. - Fixed a bug where the urinate button wouldn't appear on very low vesical pressure. - Fixed an issue with Frostleaf trading value. - Cabin blueprint now accepts mixed roofing materials. - Added a tooltip for wild patches and fields that regrow over time like clover notifying the player when there is nothing left to harvest. - Bear behaviour has been changed to be more realistic and so that that they can spend less time roaming the forest and instead stay more in their area. - Wolves feeing and hunger behaviour has been tweaked to make them less aggressive. - Fixed one of the issues causing the game to get stuck "I can't do two things at once". - Auto-filling materials for Improvised Beds now uses cheaper materials with priority. - Sharp Axes now cut down small trees faster than rustic ones. - Washing with hot water is now possible and it cleans better than cold water. - It's now possible to add River Water to the Stew. - Changed the name of the Knife and Squirrel Carcass interaction to "Skin" instead of "Butcher". - It is no longer possible to catch Minnows when using Minnows as bait. - Trimming Wolf pelts or bigger with a sharpened stone now takes 15 minutes longer than with a regular tool. - Extinguished Campfires now accept lumps of metal. - Changed the art for the metal crafts tab. - Fixed the unlock cost for Drylands and Everdry Perks. - Boars and Bears smelling range has been reduced, and they're now less hungry. - Animals cannot eat straight from your hands anymore. - Fixed a bug where the game would get stuck if you dragged a card while the Blueprint selection menu is open. - Fixed some potential problems with mods. - Fixed a bug with Wheat Grains turning into Rye when planted in a Garden. - Fixed a bug where sometimes a hunted Partridge would not drop a Carcass. - Fixed a bug where the vesical pressure quest would appear before the Urinate button. - Tweaks to Hoe blueprints. - Expired improvised bed now drops the resources used to make it. - Pine nuts now inherit the quality from the pine cone they are harvested from. - Fixed a bug which prevented turnroots from quickly recovering from dormancy even if all the conditions were right. - Fixed a bug where heather marshes would not have enough room by default for a Campfire to be built. - Added firewood to the Camp Filter. - Newly made reed skirts now drop the ingredients they were made from. - Fixed the butchering knife shape art that shows up in the Butchering Knife blueprint. For any of you wanting to hear news about the huntsman. I'm currently playtesting it. With some luck this might be the last iteration and we can release it soon. Maybe two updates from now if things go well. No promises though! :) See you all for the next update! Reminder: All fixes and new content are added to the public beta branch first. If you want to access them you can find the instructions on the link below. Be warned though, things are less stable there and are likely to undergo balance changes quite frequently! :) https://steamcommunity.com/app/2868860/discussions/0/600774299444324511/

Hello everyone! Time for a new update. First. Today we're updating the main branch to the latest version before we introduced the new animal system. We will be merging the new system a bit later, once it has become more stable and balanced. This will be the last update before the holidays, so we would like to take the opportunity to wish you all a merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! :) Now, to the new content:

Animal Improvements:

We've made many improvements to animals and there are still more coming. We will be tweaking all these new features over the following weeks. So let us know if you have any feedback or find any bugs we may have missed! :)

Navigation:

Animals can finally no longer magically climb cliffs. Not even when fleeing!

Traps:

The old trap system is no longer active for the animal npcs. Animals will now fully interact with traps on their own and will have a chance to trigger them based on the type of trap, your trapping skill and their own cunning. Also, wolf packs can again interact with traps and lose some of their wolves to them.

Food:

Animals are now able to eat food from the ground if they're hungry. So be careful with leaving things on the ground. Shy animals like hares or deer will generally avoid it unless they're very hungry, but more aggressive animals, like wolves, bears and boars, will usually don't mind you being around. They will not eat your food while you're there, but they will get progressively more angry if you don't leave.

Smell:

Some animals have a good sense of smell and can detect food from afar. This can be a problem, but can also be used to your advantage. At the moment this only works for smellier food items, such as meat, and doesn't work for vegetables. Boars and bears have a particularly good sense of smell, and the latter are specially dangerous since they can even open inventories and eat the food from inside.

Crops:

Some animals are now able to eat from gardens and fields; damaging your plants. Boars can be quite dangerous for your crops so plan accordingly. At the moment, the best way to deal with them is to have you crops near home so you can hear the boar approaching and attack him before he causes any damage, or alternatively, setting enough traps in the area that he'll eat from them instead and hopefully get killed.

Farming Improvements:

Levee:

This new location improvement is a difficult to build but will protect an area from floods, making it more viable for long term settlement. It slowly degrades over time, so it also requires a bit of maintenance.

Wheat:

A new grain crop that can be bought from the trader. As a crop it's a lot more delicate than rye and consumes and requires a lot of nutrients, while also growing faster and being tastier. It will produce the most yield if planted during spring on fertile soil. Its grain can of course be use to make all bread products as well as ale and syrup.

Thresher:

A new, relatively simple tool that makes the process of threshing rye and wheat faster.

Sickle:

A new metal tool that can be used to harvest plants at a faster speed.

Scythe:

Another new metal tool that can be used to harvest plants faster and more efficiently (lower stamina cost). This tool however can only be used in fields and not in gardens.

Metal Hoe:

As the flint hoe, but with much greater durability.

Field Improvements:

Fields now have double the yield, but double the harvest steps.

Garden Improvements:

Garden plots now lose acidity and nutrients a lot slower, making them easier to maintain. Fertilizer now adds half as much nutrients, making it more practical and usable. It is also easier to make, as excrement and rotten remains now give twice as much value in the compost bin. There is now also a new special action in gardens that allows you to "reset" the soil; restoring its default nutrients, acidity and hydration, at the cost of damaging its plants. That's all the main new features for this update. And here are the patch notes:

Version EA_0.56 and hotfixes since the last Patch Notes:

- Traps now work with the animal npcs. - Animals can now eat food items. - Animals can now interact with crops. - Bears can now interact with inventories. - Added new farming tools (thresher, sickle, scythe, metal hoe). - Added Levee improvement. - Balancing tweaks to garden plots and fields. - Added wheat and all of its derivatives. - Tweaked the sanctuary values of some furniture and improvements. - Bears will more frequently visit regions that have in-season berries. - Animals spawning rates have been made slower. - Hunting Spear now requires a metal spear before it can be researched. - Fixed a bug which allowed players to skate on Frozen Water without Skates. - Fixed a bug which caused medium or high snow to affect the Skate action. - Being tired no longer hides the Southern Rapids dive into Green Falls action. - Boiling durability is now hidden if its 0. - Pond now has proper Winter art. - Cutting down large trees now costs a bit more stamina. - Pyre now burns through its fuel faster than before. - Fixed a bug where saving and loading a game while having items in inventory blueprints such as Crucible would move items between slots or mess with their durabiities and type. - Sledges can now be repaired using twine. - Fixed a bug which prevented Springberries and Billberries from being placeable in Unsealed Fermentation Bin. - Removed the Partridge Enchantment Blueprint from Duck Carcass. - It is no longer possible to move items and liquids in and out of sealed Fermentation bins. - Animals now get tired a bit faster when running away from the player. - Frost Shrine now melts on temperatures above 0. - Removed enchantment recipe from skinned squirrels. - Fixed a bug which prevented metal skinning knife from being used in blueprints requiring a cutting tool. - Fixed the art for Hare Urge. - Fixed a glitch where a rustic barrel would permanently stay heated up. - Dry needles are now considered bedding material and improvised bed can be made from them. - Campfire, Rain, Frostleaf and Garlic now offer some mosquito protection. - Fixed some typos and incorrect texts. - Added description for Cattail Fluff. - Ongoing saves which started outside of River Clearing should no longer get stuck when you enter River Clearing. - Infection statuses are now visible and pinable inside the Internal Status Page. - Rustic Barrels can no longer hold liquids and solids at the same time. - Fixed a bug where the will o' wisp even would appear when you entered the river clearing if you had started from a different location. - Mortar and Pestle can now crush edible acorns into flour. - Fixed a bug that was causing the death of bears to affect other animals. - Fixed a bug that was causing the animals (including the bear) not to die properly when poisoned. - Fixed a bug that was causing the wolf to be too aggressive. - Nesting Box can now be picked up and placed down. (if your partridge are not laying eggs, trying picking the box up and placing it again) - New areas now have proper icons for the Parchment Map. - Fixed a bug where carcasses would get eaten by wolves from the player's hands. - Ducks and Partridges eaten by predators no longer drop hooks and needles but bone pieces instead. - Hardtack now lasts a lot longer before spoiling - Intermediate hunting now unlocks when both basic hunting and basic survival are completed. - Dried nettle leaves now have a trade value. - Fixed the weight of unfired storage pot and cauldron. - Frost Shrine Blueprint now properly spends the water used. - Fixed an issue where animals couldn't be attacked. - Fixed a bug which caused nightvision to persist after moon blessing. - Warming up by the Furnace no longer triggers fire spirit Summoning. - Updated Chinese translation. - Fixed duplicate texts in Chinese, Korean and Japanese. - Hopefully fixed an issue with starting older save files on modded version of the games. - Wolves will now get angry if you spend too much time in an area with them. - Added starting resources to new starting locations. - Sharpened stone can now be made in the Dark. - Squirrel Carcass can no longer be eaten or cooked it needs to be butchered first. - Fixed a bug which allowed the player to butcher the piglet carcass more than once. - Fixed a combat window bug that would get the game stuck. That's all for now. See you all in 2026! Reminder: All fixes and new content are added to the public beta branch first. If you want to access them you can find the instructions on the link below. Be warned though, things are less stable there and are likely to undergo balance changes quite frequently! :) https://steamcommunity.com/app/2868860/discussions/0/600774299444324511/

Disclaimer: This announcement was translated using machine translation. Apologies if some of the terms are incorrect. Animal Update and Patch Notes #50 Hello everyone! I hope you are all well. Today we're releasing an important update. One that was quite needed and was a necessary stepping tone for the future introduction of human NPCs. :) Here's the content:

General Changes:

Moon Phases:

The game now features moon phases. For now it is mostly only used for some magic and for the purpose of night light calculations but it will later also have additional effects.

New Areas:

The map has been expanded again in preparation for the Huntman update. These areas are in the northwest of the map and introduce a new shrine, a couple caves, a new windy area and a water stream that is not always available. These areas add more pine woods as well as some oak ones. They will also be receiving some extra love in the next two updates.

Moon Spirits:

A new spirit that grants stealth blessings and protection from wolves. It can be summoned from the moon stone shrine, which can be find in the new areas, and will play an important role for the Huntsman character.

New Perks:

We've added many new perks. Including some new starting locations as well as modifiers for temperature, rain, cabin fever modifiers, and animal populations.

Hare:

We have introduced a new animal: The hare. It has fur, like foxes and wolves and gives a bit of meat. While it is quite weak, if you miss your first attack it will be hard to catch it because of its great speed. It also comes with a new spirit which can be used for stamina recovery and alertness, as well as some other features that will only become available in the future (fertility and luck!).

Trap Spells:

Traps can now be blessed with a fox spell to increase their hunting chances. A similar thing can be done with pike spells, to improve fish traps.

Animal Intelligence and Behaviours:

This is the most important addition for this update. A complete revamp of animal behaviour that has many effects on the game. We did our best to catch bugs and we believe it's working relatively well. The next update we will be introducing further tweaks and features related to animals too. For example, traps are still working with the old system right now, but starting from the next update, animals will be start interacting with them as real agents.

Duty System:

Animals no longer go on rails and have now have more realistic behaviours. They will go and feed themselves when hungry, go drink at the closest body of water when thirsty and go to sleep when tired. They will also more realistically escape from you, and take breaks to catch their breath.

Active Hunting:

Another big difference is that animals no longer interrupt the player just by being in the same location. The player now needs to actively approach them if he wants to interact with them. Of course animals that do want to interact with the player (like hungry wolves) will still initiate.

Sounds:

Animal sounds have been improved. So you can now hear their unique sounds easily when they're near you. You can even hear them from inside your mudhut, and you can also hear wolves in the distance. ;)

Wolves:

Wolves are no longer killing machines. They now behave more realistically and will generally leave you alone. They will usually be busy hunting other animals (actually chasing them around and attacking them) so you will sometimes find some eaten animal remains in the woods. There are some circumstances though were wolves can still attack though, like if they get too hungry and they can't find any prey (because you've been overhunting for example) they will then still go and hunt you. The wolf perks have also been updated to make them work with the new wolves. So there's that option if you miss them!

Bears:

Bears are also no longer killing machines and will generally leave you alone unless you approach them or overstay your welcome by staying for too long in the same location as them. So should still be careful around them, but you will no longer be in danger if you just bump into them.

Badgers and Foxes:

These animals now have burrows in which they can hide to rest and recover. There is no way to get them out of their burrows once they go in for now, but we will change this is the near future. And that's all the content for now. Let's go the patch notes:

Version EA_0.55 and hotfixes since the last Patch Notes:

- Implemented duty system for all animals. - Added animal burrows. - Added wolf woods and primeval woods region. - Added moonstone and moon spirit. - Added hare and its spirit. - Added moon phases system. - Added improved animal sound system. - Added trap spells. - Added new perks. - You can now make pine needle tea (great for vitamins). - Tweaks to the flavour system. - Fixed some issues were fat was not behaving properly in the flavour system. - Frogs, Mice and Minnows now also give iron. - Carcasses no longer show enchantments when their spirit has left. - Weakest Fever Status now properly shows up in stats screen. - Removed the Fire Ambience sounds from the Frost Shrine. - Metal Axe now also unlocks Path Improvement In Research mode just like Flint Axe does. - Added Iron Striker to the Camp Filter and updated the description to match that it now works 100% of time. - Fish Scraps can now be eaten off plates. - Ritual pyre now accepts Firewood as fuel. - Wood Shavings Blueprint now accepts a drawknife. - Carcasses will now open on their "Info" tab by default and otherwise on their last opened tab. - Fixing a bug that would sometimes break the game when trying to drag and drop items in environment improvement blueprints. - Fixed Art for the Frame Drum. - Updated Frame Drum water ingredient text to "Hot Water". - Alcohol no longer turns back into syrup. - Removed the Smokehouse Blueprint from Research mode. - Food Preservation now unlocks Drying Rack in Quest mode. - Saunas now work in Cellars. - Campfires now create smoke inside Cellars. - Fixed a bug where a Fermentation Bin filled with Birch Sap could be placed inside another fermentation bin. - Workbench bonus now applies to making sinew cordage. - Having low stamina now greys out the harvest meadowgrass seeds action instead of removing it. - Blueprints made with a regular cutting tool now include skinning and butchering knife. - Ghost Bronze Needle now has proper art. - Added description to small crucible variants which were missing it. - Putting solidified Ghost Bronze crucible into the furnace and smelting it now gives a bit of witchstone poisoning. - Fixed a bug which caused Pea Fields to lose yield on medium nutrients. - Firebrew can now be added to the Garden plot and has same effect as firewater. - Fixed the art for the Drying Rack. - Fixed an issue where the Frame drum was asking for sinew instead of sinew cordage. - Harvesting a Rotten Partridge now gives Bone Pieces instead of needles and hooks. - Fixed a bug that was preventing the Sledge from applying its downhill movement bonus. - Added Fly Agaric and Boiled Partridge Eggs to the Food Filter. - Added Sauna Stove Improvement to the cabin. - Iron Striker now has 100% success chances. - Making Bone Needles and Hooks now spends the Bone Pieces but you get 3 items instead of 1. - Fixed a bug which caused the Frost Shrine to affect stats it was not intended to effect. - Ice Block can now be made at the Frozen Pond if temperature is low enough. - Boiled Cattail Root can no longer be used to make Firebrew. - Fixed a bug with the stew which prevented cattails from being added if the thickness is 0. I hope you will enjoy the update! We'll be working hard on balancing and improving all the animals over the next few updates. Many new additional features will be coming for them soon, including interactions with food, crops, traps and domesticated animals! See you all for the next update! Reminder: All fixes and new content are added to the public beta branch first. If you want to access them you can find the instructions on the link below. Be warned though, things are less stable there and are likely to undergo balance changes quite frequently! :) https://steamcommunity.com/app/2868860/discussions/0/600774299444324511/

Hello everyone! Hope you're all well. Time for another update! This one is themed around winter. A season that definitely needed some extra love and activities! Here's a list of all the new content:

Elevation:

Locations now have elevation. This will have some effects to speed and stamina usage during travel. I.e.: Going uphill is harder than going downhill and has some fun interaction with some of the other new features we've added. :)

Skis:

A new tool for fast downhill travel and entertainment, provided there's enough snow.

Sledges:

A new winter-only contraption for carrying heavy loads like the travois. It moves faster across snow, especially when going downhill and can also be used for entertainment.

Ice Skates:

A tool for entertainment and for moving across frozen river areas faster and more efficiently.

Cold Distillation:

Alcoholic drinks can now be made stronger through cold distillation. Simply leave an ale or wine barrel outside during low temperatures and wait for it to freeze. Then simply remove the ice and you'll be left with stronger beverages. :)

Smoke and Drying Racks:

First we're retiring the old smokehouses. Players who have them will keep them but no one will be able to build them anymore. Food can now be smoke dried with a new more systemic mechanic. Basically there is a new simple device called a drying rack, which reduces spoilage, doubles as a decoration when herbs are hanging from it and starts drying its contents if there's enough smoke in the area. Lighting a campfire in indoor locations will now fill up the area with smoke. Smoke reduces wellbeing and takes a bit of time to clear but will dry any items hanging from a drying rack in that room. This should let you build your own smoking rooms/houses if you want, or just temporarily convert your own living room into one when there's the need. Fireplaces or Ovens will not fill rooms with smoke for now.

Sauna Stove:

There's a new type of stove that once heated can be doused with water to release steam. Steam increases body temperature, gratification and immune system, while reducing filth and stress. Beware of overdoing it, as there's always the risk of having a heatstroke if you're body temperature gets too high.

Ice Pit:

A new cellar that can be filled with ice or snow to help preserve the food stored in the area. If filled with enough ice it can keep working all the way to summer! Ice can now be obtained from rivers, provided temperatures are cold enough.

Frost Spirit:

A new spirit that is only available during winter and can be summoned from player-built frost shrines. The spirit can help players be comfortable at lower temperatures and help preserve food among other minor things.

Snow Shelter::

A new hideout structure that is more insulating and can be build from snow. Ideal for winter hunts.

Frame Drum:

A new instrument which uses the percussion skill. Basic rythms help with focus and gratification while some more advanced ones can help put the player into a trance.

Hide Stats Feature:

Stats can now be manually hidden if you think they're not important and are just producing clutter. We've added a button to show any hidden stats too.

Version EA_0.54 and hotfixes since the last Patch Notes:

- Added elevation system. - Added new winter transportation items: skis, skates and sledges. - Added Cold distillation system. - Added snow shelter. - Added frame drum. - Added frost spirit and shrine. - Added sauna stove and mechanics. - Added drying rack and new smoke mechanics. - Added ice pit. - Ice Holes are now easier to reopen (only 3 minutes) and doing any activity on them also reopens them. - Bones now break into Bone Pieces and birds now drop bone pieces directly. - Bone Needles and Hooks are now crafted from bone pieces. Milling or crushing bone pieces now produces bonemeal. - Deployed funnel traps now prevent the fish caught inside them from spoiling. - Windy locations now give a bit of Wind Affinity while the player is present in a location. - Washing yourself with River or Unsafe Water no longer makes your clothes wet. - Waterproofing Waterskins with fat or heated resin now maxes "waterproofness". - Newly made Reed Coats now remember the twine type they were made from and the coat you get from the perk now properly drops ingredient on dismantle or destroy. - Harvesting Wild, Garden and Field Plants now takes longer if you have a dexterity penalty. - Tree logs are now cut into 8 log pieces and log pieces are cut into 3 firewood each. - Mixing meat fillings with fat, flour and adding them to intestines now takes 3 minutes. - Mincing meat with sharpened stone now takes 15 minutes longer. - Improved the message displayed when plants are planted in the garden. - Equipped Amulets now give a bit of sanctuary. - Added a "hide stat" button in the stats list and stats details window to control what stats can appear on the left side of the screen. - Fixed a bug with the game displaying a wrong message when being tired and trying to Spearfish. - Fixed a bug with the "Jab" knife attack where coating effects would sometimes not apply. - Fixed a bug where trying to fish when it's too dark would show the wrong text and other similar feedback issues. - Butchering a Fox with a sharpened stone now properly uses Butchering Mats. - Fixed a bug which caused the Bellows blueprint to consume the hammer used to make it. - Butchering mat now needs to be placed to work and it takes a lot longer to become filthy and unusable - Low proteins stat now properly shows up in the warning section. - Fixed issue with fat not having the proper flavours when used to season food. - Mature Meadowgrass Fields can now be destroyed with a Hoe. - When the refined Copper Crucible breaks it now drops 2 nuggets instead of 6. - Fixed a fresh wolfsbane bug which made it "pulse" in players hands. - Oak Bark can now be soaked in River Water. - Fleshing beam now makes parchment scraping faster and can be picked up and moved. - Fixed a bug that was causing the fleshing beam to also affect carpentry actions. - Workbench can now be dismantled and rebuild just like the Rustic Table, only provides the benefits when placed in a Location Row and provides some Sanctuary as well. - Sawhorses now takes 3 minutes to pick up and place. - Metal Hook can now be picked up and moved but only provides benefits when placed in a Location Row. - Drawknives now apply their effect to parchment. - Placed sawhorses, fleshing beams, meathooks and rustic barrels now give a bit of sanctuary. - Fixed a bug which caused resharpened tin bronze items to have more sharpness than intended. - Fixed the bug which required 2 hammerings tool in 2nd step of the Bellows Blueprint. - Fixed a bug where the cabin/mud hut appeared in the tutorial area when using the perks that spawn them. - Both Good and Bad Food combinations now have a higher impact. - Rebalanced focus effects on gratification. - Extinguished Fireplace now accepts Firewood. - Eating boiled, cooked or dried peas / sausages no longer reduces gratification directly ( taste combination reductions and similar will still apply ). - Basic Smithing in Quest Mode now unlocks a blueprint for forged version of Metal Meat Hook. - Fixed a bug which caused Wash off Tannins from Leather Quest to complete on non leather washing actions. - Leather can no longer be washed if tannins are 0. - Heal Plant Spell can now only be cast on plants inside Garden Plots and Mushroom Beds. - Final Flatbow BP step now shows proper art for sinew cordage. - Fixed a bug that was causing Stagsto mostly escape in Autumn instead of fighting the player. - Bear Spirit no longer encumbrances the player. - Cooked, Dried and Boiled Sausages now give more calories. - Flint knife is now enchantable. - Halved the penalty for gaining Climbing Skill for climbing actions that were repeated many times. - Unsealed Storage Pots now have the list of items that can seal it in its description. - Spindle and Hackle now show up in crafting filter. - It is no longer possible to Urinate into Sealed Storage Pots - Fixed a bug that let you interact with the food and liquids inside a sealed storage pot. - Fixed a bug which made Flint Knives not usable on Unfinished Wood Carving. - Cellar now has stronger Spoilage reduction effect during Summer. - Shaving Wood and Firewood with Drawknife now takes less time and gives more Wood Shavings. - Workplace bonus from Rustic table and Log Pieces is now properly removed and replaced by the bonus from the Workbench. - Removed the ability to add things to a field to change its water, acidity or nutrients level (as it was confusing and not meaningful). - Rye Fields no longer lose yield on medium nutrients. - Clover, Heather and Meadowgrass Fields are now more resilient to damage and will last longer in wrong conditions and heal in right ones. - Fixed issue with meat hook art. - Fixed a bug that was destroying partridges inside when their cage was dismantled. - Alcoholic drinks now give less alcohol when drunk. That's all for now. Hope you like the new features! :) Reminder: All fixes and new content are added to the public beta branch first. If you want to access them you can find the instructions on the link below. Be warned though, things are less stable there and are likely to undergo balance changes quite frequently! :) https://steamcommunity.com/app/2868860/discussions/0/600774299444324511/

Hello everyone! Hope you're doing well. Today we're updating the main branch and releasing a new update on the beta one!

New Tools:

For this update we have retired the old crafting bonus and replaced it with many new tools and equipment that should help make many tasks easier. Many of these tools are not necessary, but can replace knives on some tasks, granting quality and speed bonus when they're used. Here's a full list of all the new additions and Improvements:

Drawknife:

A specialised knife that is great at shaving and working wood and can also be used to flesh skins faster.

Chisel:

A tool for carving wood faster and better, ideal for carving figurines or more detailed woodwork.

Spoon Auger:

A specialised tool for drilling holes more precisely and efficiently.

Butchering Knife:

A specialised knife for butchering animals with greater efficiency and precision.

Skinning Knife:

A specialised knife for skinning animals faster and better.

Mallet:

A specialised hammer that can help with most construction and furniture blueprints among other things.

Meat Hook:

A device that helps you butcher and skin animals better and faster.

Butchering Mat:

A straw mat that helps minimise area filth when butchering animals.

Fleshing Beam:

A device that helps clean skins faster.

Sawhorses:

Devices that can help with many construction and carpentry actions.

Workbench:

A working station that helps increase the quality and speed of many crafting blueprints.

Storage Pot Changes:

Storage Pots are now harder to move around and preserve food a bit worse by default. However, they can now also be sealed with fat, mud or clay, in which case they become stronger at preserving food than they were before!

Rustic Barrels:

Rustic barrels are storage containers for preserving food and drinks. They are larger than storage pots, easier to transport and preserve better than unsealed pots (but are still weaker than sealed ones). In the near future, these containers will also gain some new special features.

Firewood:

Logs can now be chopped into firewood, which is a much more efficient fuel source than the usual wood you can get by clearing areas.

Copper Refining:

Copper nuggets can now be merged together and refined to produce higher quality copper nuggets at the cost of sacrificing some of them.

Trader:

We've added two new requests for the trader: Additional tin and a Forge Hammer that helps with smithing actions (the same one you get from the perk). We've also updated the prices for all metal tools and weapons. And here are the patch notes.

Version EA_0.53 and hotfixes since the last Patch Notes:

- Added new tools: drawknife, chisel, spoon auger, butchering knife, skinning knife, mallet. - Added new devices: meat hook, butchering mat, fleshing beam, sawhorses, workbench, rustic barrel. - Added copper refining. - Added new requests to the trader. - Tweaks to Storage Pots. - Increased the amount of Wine/Ale consumed with drinking actions. - Butchering and Skinning with sharpened stones now take longer and decrease quality. - Updated trading prices for all metal tools and weapons. - Rings and Torcs no longer encumber the player when equipped. - Fixed a bug which caused metal needles and hooks to break down into Knife Blanks. - Hooks now get damaged when a fishing line breaks and eventually get destroyed. - Fireroot is now resistant to Mites. - Garden Plot Bilberries ideal water amount interval expanded from high into mid to high. - Crafting the Quill now takes at least 3 minutes. - Ritual Pyre now drops enchanting materials if it gets destroyed. - Fixed a bug causing issues with some blueprints that used multiple slots of the same item, (for example the mud hut with reeds). - Fixed a bug where tin could be placed in slots meant for bronze in certain blueprints. - Fixed a bug where after locking the old perks some would unlock themselves again. - Fixed a bug where enchanting your spear would hide its Durability value. - Removed the Partridge Enchantment from the Duck Carcass. - Fixed a bug with metal arrows where the clash and damage bonus from quality did not properly apply. - Grinding greenstones no longer gives herbalism skill. - Planks blueprint no longer needs room in location to be placed down and worked on. - Undamaged Mudhut roof should no longer collapse but get damaged first. - Fixed Bear Pathing, it no longer goes to Lake Grove but to Swaying Pines instead. - Fixed a bug which caused hooks, torcs and rings to turn into copper instead of their proper versions. - Fixed a bug which caused ghost bronze torcs to turn back into heated nuggets when created. - Fixed a bug which caused Map problems on older saves. - Fixed a bug with tin bronze hunting spear receiving to much sharpness when being sharpened. - Fixed a bug which caused Ghost Bronze Twisted Rings to smelt themselves right after creation. - Fixed a typo in the Medium leather ingredient name in the last step of Cellar Blueprint. - Fixed a bug with dyed Deer Coat. It will now display a proper name. That's all for now! We'll be pushing a few features we didn't manage to add in time over the next few days as well as hotfixes for any issues we find as usual. ;) Hope you like the new tools! Reminder: All fixes and new content are added to the public beta branch first. If you want to access them you can find the instructions on the link below. Be warned though, things are less stable there and are likely to undergo balance changes quite frequently! :) https://steamcommunity.com/app/2868860/discussions/0/600774299444324511/

We are uploading a small patch to fix a recently discovered vulnerability affecting all Unity-made games.

Hello everyone!! I hope you are all well. Today we're here with yet another surprise update! :) Let's go straight to the content:

Scribing:

We have introduced the ability to make parchment from animal skins, carve quills out of feathers and make ink. With these new tools you can now make your own maps and write texts on parchment. Created maps will show all the locations you've visited so far, and you will be able to update them after visiting new locations provided you have a quill and ink. Maps also show your location, as well as any mudhuts, cabins or crop fields you might have.

Bronze and Metal Crafts:

Tin can now be bought from the trader and used to make a couple of new alloys: Tin Bronze and White Bronze. Tin Bronze is the strongest metal so far, more durable and sharp than Ghost Bronze, but also more limited, as tin is expensive and can only be acquired from the trader. White Bronze is a bit of a luxury metal. It's worse for tools, but ideal for decorations and ornaments, giving them extra value and beauty. Rings and torcs can now be crafted and worn. These new items will give some wellbeing based on their quality and metal beauty and can also be enchanted. We will be adding more and more complex jewellery in the future. You can now also craft metal wire, which is needed basic jewellery, and can also be used to make durable metal needles and hooks.

Perks:

The perk unlocking system has returned. For every day survived you'll get a Sun, for every month a Moon, and for every year a Star. These resources can be used to unlock perks just like in Tropical Island. If you would like to keep your old perks unlocked, you will of course be able to keep them unlocked. But the new perks we're introducing in this update and any future ones will be locked by default. Here are some of the new perks we've added: - Perks to start in Spring, Autumn or Winter. - Perks to start with a Mudhut or a Cabin. - A Perk to start with Weaving Gear (which includes flax seeds, copper needles and gloves) - A perk to start with Smithing Gear (which includes tin and copper nuggets as well as a Forge Hammer) - A perk to start with Scribing Gear (which includes a map, parchment, ink and quills) - A couple fun perks to get night vision and to have your body covered in fur. And now, to the patch notes:

Version EA_0.52 and hotfixes since the last patch notes:

- Added unlocking system. - Added new perks. - Added tin and related alloys. - Added rings, torcs, wires, metal needles and hooks. - Added parchment, quills and ink. - Added map and notes system. - Fixed a bug which was resetting Fly Agaric growth progress if a Pine Tree was cut in the area. - Log Bed now increases perceived temperature a bit. - Fixed a bug with caused some spiced food items not to give their spice effect when eaten. - Cooked, Fresh and Boiled Peas now give some Vegetable Saturation. - Removed a bugged Waterproof interaction for Stomach Pouch. It should now be waterproofed by default. - Fixed a bug with the blueprint for Cellars, Quivers, Mittens and Bellows. - Fixed the Claw Marks Bleeding durability icon. - Green Glade, Moss Clearing and Pine Meadows now have proper winter art. - Fixed the typo with the Spear Poke move adding an extra the to the message. - All Spirit Coat blueprints now display their proper ingredient art. - Fixed the bug with the hardtack from the survival gear perk. - Improved weight values for skins and furs. - Completing House Building Quest now displays proper art. - Fixed a typo in the Weaver Perk and the Leather Sack. - Fixed a bug which prevented the transformation of some of the old leathers into their appropriate new size. - Tweaked new skin and fur Trading prices. - Patched Skin blueprints now unlock right away on research mode when conditions are met and no longer require research time. - Cutting Fat Chunks now takes a minitick. - Fleshing a Fresh skin or fur now takes less time for smaller and more time for bigger skins and furs. - Drinking hot liquids and eating hot food no longer raises body temperature higher than sweating. - Eating a Rye Bread Slice now takes 3 minutes. - Trader now pays proper sizes for leather based on their size. - Fixed the Art for the first Deer Coat ingredient and it now also requires 2 antlers to be made. - Fixed a bug with containers losing liquid when dragged into the doorway to be placed in a neighbor room. - Leather and Leather Clothing now display softness durability. - Changed cold and hot tar art. - Fixed the names of patched leather so they match with the names of their blueprints. - Fixed the typo in the Flint Knife name. - Removed Spirit from butchered Squirrel. - Fixed a bug with the cut action on patched leather to sometimes just destroy the leather without cutting it into 2 smaller pieces. - Fixed a bug which was causing Flax Fields to lose a bit of yield on medium nutrients. - Skinned Squirrels can now be added to Stews. - Snare Traps now have a higher chance to catch live partridges if there is a Cage Trap with a live partridge inside in the same areas. - Eat some Roasted Mushrooms subquest not completes if roasted forest cap is eaten from a hardtack or a clay plate. - Removed the blessing and release the spirit actions from a butchered Squirrel. - Mincing the meat now takes 3 minutes instead of 0. - Food Filter now contains all types of Carcasses, organs, fillings and sausages. - Water Pouches made from Stomach are now always Waterproofed but they break apart after approximately a season. And.... that's all! I hope you enjoy the new content. We will continue to release new things until the huntsman is ready! See you next time! Reminder: All fixes and new content are added to the public beta branch first. If you want to access them you can find the instructions on the link below. Be warned though, things are less stable there and are likely to undergo balance changes quite frequently! :) https://steamcommunity.com/app/2868860/discussions/0/600774299444324511/

Hello everyone! It's time for another surprise update while we wait for the Huntsman to be ready! Here's the new stuff!

Leatherworking Improvements:

Skinning animals now produces a single pelt or hide that is specific to them. This single piece can be processed much more easily than with the previous system, where you would get multiple hides and would need to process separately. Animal hides come in different sizes depending on their type and can be can be trimmed to remove their excess bits, cut into smaller pieces or sewed together to create larger ones. Leftover pieces are called scraps, and can be sewed together into small pieces too. Full animal skins, once cured or tanned can also be used as rugs for your home or turned into animal coats with spiritual properties. Oh, and Squirrels can now also be skinned for fur!

Perks:

We've added a few new perks and 2 perk categories (Situational and Knowledge). These perks will give you the option to start with specific gear (like clothes, survival , hunting or spiritual equipment), with knowledge (like skills, blueprints and insights) and some modifiers (like disabling wolves or making them even worse). We will of course be adding more perks once the huntsman is out.

The Huntsman's News:

We're not sure when the huntsman update is going to be ready but it's getting closer. :) This update brings some big changes to the game, and these take time and need iterations and testing before we are ready to show them. The main feature coming with the Huntsman (besides the first playable character and some UI graphic overhaul) is the NPC navigation and duty system. There won't be any human NPCs yet, but wild animals will be using the system to move around and decide what to do. This will make animals a lot more realistic, and solve many of the issues we currently have with hunting prey, or with being pestered by annoying wolves. And of course, it will set the path for Human NPCs to come. :) And now, to the patch notes...

Version EA_0.51 and hotfixes since the last patch notes:

- Skinning animals now gives you a skin or pelt of the appropriate animal type. - Skins and pelts now have 5 different sizes. - Skins and pelts can now be cut into smaller pieces and patched together into bigger pieces after trimming them. - Added rugs and animal coats. - Tannins are now completely washed away with a single 1 tick action. - Temporarily removed the ability to scrape furs into regular skins. - Killing wolves no longer increases blood spilled and the chance of wolf packs to spawn. - Temporarily reset blood spilled counter for all players. - Washing Stomachs, intestines and kidneys now takes 3 minutes instead of 15. - Fixed a bug which caused the Furnace to sometimes turn copper or ghost bronze into useless generic metals which made useless weapons and tools. - Knife Sheath now accepts blunt Metal Knives. - Boiling dried Fly Agaric now properly reduces its spoilage. - Fixed a bug which caused the fireplace to transform meats from one type to another. - Nettle stems and reeds can now be added to the Compost Bin. - Heather Stems, Raw Clover, Meadowgrass Seeds, Dried Peas, Flax Seeds, Rye Grains and Turnroots now show field requirements inside their help section. - Garden Turnroots now require high nutrients just like field ones do. - Garden Heather now require any water just like the fields do. - Lit Torch now has a different name from the unlit one so it can be correctly selected when combat starts. - Liquid blood curd now cools down when removed from source of heat. - Fixed the blueprint art for the forged spearhead to show the spearhead instead of a spear. - Fixed the blueprint art for hunting spear to show the hunting spear art instead of a normal spear. - Estrogen now gives a boost to your immune system. - Improved some item descriptions. - Fixed a bug which prevented the hunting spear unlock on ongoing saves in research mode. - Fixed the description for Forged Shovel Head blueprint. - Fungicide and Insecticide applied to garden plots now last longer. - It is now possible to warm up on ovens and kilns after they run out of fuel as long as temperature is high enough. - It is no longer possible find Frogs when foraging in Shady Grove. - Log Bed can no longer be dismantled in the dark. - Flint arrows now have a value for the trader. Reduced the value of simple arrows. - Fibers, Yarns, Long sticks and Clay can now be toggled in and out of pile in middle row to more easily look for various qualities or types. - Snow shoes are now researchable before winter if snow falls in autumn. - It is now possible to fill a container with water at the Waterfall exit and entrance cards. - Heather stems, meadowgrass and rye straw can now be added to the compost bin. - Fixed a bug which prevented new leather tunics from being crafted. - Leather clothing can now be made from soft tanning skins as well. - Fixed a bug which caused directly consumed fat to give double amount of intended calories. - Turnroots no longer get damaged on high hydration. - Rope now remembers and drops the twine it was made from when unbraided but it can only be made through blueprint. - Twine can now be unstacked so its easier to find different types such as Sinew Cordage. - Domesticated Boars now periodically give Manure which can be used as Fertilizer. - Moderate and Strong Dexterity and Movement Penalties now show up as alerts in the alert ( top ) part of status screen summary window. - Newly crafted stretching frames now remember the ingredients they were made from and drop them on disasembly. ( Warning, this only works for the stretching frames created after this update. Old ones will not drop anything. ) - Northern and Southern Rapids now have a chance to drop heavy stones when being cleared. - Fixed a bug which displayed some bleeding carcasses as bled carcasses. - Fixed a bug which caused Cooking pot to transform meat into a different type when cooking it. - Fixed a bug which displayed Cabin Room art when moving from Enclosure to a Mudhut Room. - Cabin Room art now displays on doorways leading into a Cabin Room. - Large objects such as Wolf, Deer, Boar or Bear Carcasses can no longer be placed inside Storage Pots. - Fixed a bug which caused the stitch wound action to generate a new wound received message. - Fixed a bug with hunting spear giving normal Spearhead when dismantled instead of a hunting Spearhead. - Fixed a bug with stomach pouch blueprint consuming the cutter used. - It is now possible to throw Brain Mush into the Compost Bin. - "Not enough Derealization" player notification implemented for blueprints that need it when player does not have enough of it. - Dried up Peas no longer start with 100 Temperature - Fixed a bug with Ritual Pyre affecting player stealth ( and other stats ) even when not in the same area. - "On the verge of starvation" weight level now negatively impacts immune system. - Newly made simple bows now remember the type of cord they were made from and drop it when bow breaks. ( warning: only works on newly made bows, old ones will drop no twine at all. ) - Drinking fairybrew now counts for the "Drink some Fairy Tea" objective of the "Fracture and Sprain Treatment" Quest. - Powders can no longer be directly put onto a Travois. - Fixed a typo in Connection status. - Reduced the threshold for minor wounds on all animals. It is now a lot easier to deal minor wounds and apply poisons to animals. - Broadhead arrows and hunting spears will now more easily wound animals and apply their bonus damage to them. - Simple bows can now shoot broadhead arrows. - Broadhead arrows, flatbow and hunting spear are now enchantable. - Fixed a bug with broadhead arrows transforming into normal arow heads (instead of broadhead ones ) when dismantled. - Fixed a bug where the trader would give you back powder items. That's all for now. See you on the next announcement! Reminder: All fixes and new content are added to the public beta branch first. If you want to access them you can find the instructions on the link below. Be warned though, things are less stable there and are likely to undergo balance changes quite frequently! :) https://steamcommunity.com/app/2868860/discussions/0/600774299444324511/

Hello everyone! As some of you may know, our original plan was to release the Huntsman update on the first week of September. Unfortunately, as it often happens, we're starting to see we're not going to be able to reach our planned deadline on time. For this reason, we have decided to release a surprise update with some of the content that we felt could be released independently. We don't want to give any dates for the Huntsman update, for fear of missing the deadline gain, but we'll keep you all updated and release more content before that if we see any opportunities. ;) Now to the new content:

New Hunting Weapons:

We have added a few new tools to make hunting large animals a bit easier.

Hunting Spear:

You can now craft hunting spears. These weapons have special metal heads designed to cause deep bleeding wounds and are fitted with a crossbar that can help keep more dangerous game at bay.

Flatbow:

The flatbow is a new, more advanced bow that is more complex to make. It has greater draw strength than the current simple self bow and is therefore much better at hunting large animals.

Broadhead Arrows:

A new type of metal arrows that is designed, like the hunting spear, to cause deep bleeding wounds, making it easier to kill larger animals.

Butchering Improvements:

Butchering animals is a now a more realistic multi-step process when dealing with medium to large sized animals. This is similar to what we had in Tropical Island but it now comes with more features.

Blood:

You can now collect blood from animals. This blood can be drunk, eaten as blood curds, bloodbread and blood sausages. You can also paint yourself with it!

Organs:

You can now extract multiple organs from animals. Namely kidneys, liver, heart, brains, stomachs and intestines. Most organs are rich in iron and a few of them have special uses. Intestines for example can be used to make sausages, while stomachs can be used to make pouches and waterskins, and brains to soft-tan animal skins and produce a softer more comfortable leather.

Tendons:

Tendons can now be extracted from animals, which after drying and pounding them can be used to make sinew cordage, which can be used as a twine replacement that is especially good for bows and will have some additional uses in the future.

Butchering Skill and Meat Cuts:

There's now a new skill that allows you to get higher quality things out of carcasses the higher it is. Meat now comes in different cuts of varying quality, namely: meat scraps, shoulder meat, loin meat and haunch meat.

Sausages:

Meat can be minced, mixed with fat and stuffed into intestines to make sausages; a good meat source that keeps well. Sausage filling can also be enriched with flour to make sausages more nutritious. Blood curds can also be used instead of minced meat to make blood sausages instead.

Iron:

Tracked as a new nutrient in the game, it can be increased by eating meat (especially organs), nettle and rye. Having low iron will affect your mood, immune system and focus capacity. And now, the patch notes!

Version EA_0.50 and Hotfixes since the last patch notes:

- Implemented new butchering system. - Added 4 meat cuts. - Added tendons and sinew cordage. - Added kidneys, liver, brains, hearts, stomachs and intestines. - Added stomach pouches and water pouches. - Added 4 sausages types. - Added soft tanning system. - Implemented iron system. - Added flatbow, broadhead arrows and hunting spears. - Fixed a bug where liquid containers would retain the flavours and spicing of the liquid they held after drinking it. - Unsealed Fermentation Bins now count for "Craft a Fermentation Bin" quest. - Equipping a Waterproofed Waterskin now counts for "Craft a waterskin and equip it" quest. - Fixed Fear Urge description and status icons. - Fixed a bug which prevented you from making a 2nd sieve in the same area. - Fixed a bug which reduced the partridge spoilage when used as magic ingredient instead of increasing it. - Fixed a bug which caused Northern Rapids to drop Heavy Stones. - Boiling Birch Sap now reduces its spoilage over time. - Fixed a bug where Attic was showing non attic art in winter. - Cloth Shirt now gives a tiny bit of mental structure just like other clothing items do. - Fixed a bug which gave high quality fibers when extracting them from nettles growing in the garden. - Fixed the description for the Perch enchantment. - Spear Carrier and Quiver blueprints now give leatherworking experience. - Fixed a bug which caused disassembling a stretching frame to give too much twine. - Fixed a bug where internal enclosures were missing some internal construction projects towards south even though they were possible. - Fixed a bug which prevented fresh Healers Moss from completing the "Equip Healers moss in a wound" quest. - Cooked mouse no longer uses squirrel art. - Copper Knives the trader brings now have proper quality. - Added trading value to several powders and dried herbs. - Garden Nettles ideal soil condition description now matches the help section. - Dismantling newly made log beds now drops the exact type of resources they were made from. (Caution, log beds made before the update will not drop anything.) - Fixed a typo in Fishing Aid. - Cutting open a Partridge Carcass is now considered a light action in terms of stamina - 3 minute kill action on Partridges no longer consumes stamina. - Fixed a bug which caused mixing fine dirt with water to make clay to randomly give too much pottery skill. - Fixed a bug which caused making yarn to randomly give too much tailoring skill. - Separated the Growth and Yield conditions in help and description sections for various Fields. - Carve A Figurine subquest now completes even if you fail the carving. - Fixed a bug which prevented Frog Blessings and Enchantments from showing up. - Fixed a bug which prevented low Vitamins status from displaying on its own. - Killing tied and free Partridges now always takes a mini tick and gives a Partridge Carcass as a result. - Spirit Mushroom, Frostleaf and Fireroot powder stored in jars can now be added to stew by just drag and dropping the Jar. - Storage Pots can no longer be stacked. - Replaced the North Path upgrade with a West one in River Pass to match the available movement directions. - Added Mosquito Bites Stat to Damage Status List. - Reduced the weight of Dried Peas. - Rye Eggbread and Rye cake now have Roundbread art and can be put on a plate. - Fixed Fermentation Bin's description. - Renamed Clay Jar Quality to Container Quality ( to avoid confusion with the Quality of powder stored inside ). - Trees, Overgrowth and Plant Patches will no longer grow if an area weight is maxed out. - Fixed a bug which caused Waterskins to sometimes still leak liquid even when waterproofed. - Cabins are now a bit cheaper to make and have more space. - Insect Protection ( Frog Blessing ), applying Mud to your body and wearing Clothes now reduce the - Mosquito stat protecting you a bit from their bites. - Fixed a bug which prevented piglets to lose trust and to transfer their stats properly when growing up. - Fixed a bug which caused extinguished Fireplace to provide its Sanctuary value even when player was in a different area. - Butchering a Partridge now takes a minimum of 3 minutes. - Frozen Pond no longer helps with Stealth. - Fixed Expansion descriptions for Mudhut and Cabin constructions. - Made it a bit easier to gain wellbeing from Comfort stat when wearing high quality clothes. That's all for now. See you all for the Huntsman update, or for a new surprise update if the former is taking too long! :) Reminder: All fixes and new content are added to the public beta branch first. If you want to access them you can find the instructions on the link below. Be warned though, things are less stable there and are likely to undergo balance changes quite frequently! :) https://steamcommunity.com/app/2868860/discussions/0/600774299444324511/

Hello everyone!! Hope you're all well.

Branch Merge:

First, today we're updating the main branch. So a lot of the content that was previously only available in the beta branch should now be available to everyone. :)

Cabin:

A new late game structure that is expensive to build but brings a lot of benefits. It increases cabin fever at a lower rate, has increased storage space, greater comfort and insulation, takes longer to get dirty and lets you build attic rooms, which are immune to floods. Cellars and enclosures can also be connected to cabins, just like with mudhuts. Windows can also be added, which decrease cabin fever rate at the cost of some insulation.

Morale Tweaks:

We have been working on morale and wellbeing. There are a few new stats now which directly affect wellbeing. Namely Comfort (which is now gained through clothes and being at the right temperature mainly), Sanctuary (the old comfort, gained by being in a place that is meaningful and aesthetical), Gratification (gained by eating good food or having fun) and Connection (gained by interacting with people). These 4 stats will affect wellbeing directly, and morale indirectly. We have also reactivated Isolation and loneliness, which should start making things a bit harder as time progresses. For now you can talk to the trader to help with your connection and loneliness. All these things will be tweaked extensively over the following weeks as we prepare for the addition of some new important features. :)

News and Future Updates:

We are approaching an important milestone: our first premade character. Our original plan was to go with the Witch, but after a few delays and complications, we have decided to go for a different character: the Huntsman. Releasing a character however, is a big thing, and not something that we can release in our small weekly chunks. For this reason we have decided that we will be taking a break from our weekly updates while we focus on finishing the character, putting more work into the NPC system, balancing the game, and adding a few other complicated features that wouldn't fit so well with our weekly patches. We are aiming for a a big patch on the first days of September. So, like in a month and a week from now. In the meantime, we will of course continue to push hotfixes and make a new branch merge once everything in the beta is stable enough. ;)

Version EA 049 and hotfixes since the last patch notes:

- Spices and flavours will now properly dilute in the stew if you add more water. - Added Cabins, cabin rooms, attic rooms and windows. - Added the new House Building quest. - Reorganized woodworking quests to give easier access to some blueprints. - Reworked wellbeing stat, adding Comfort, Sanctuary, Connection and Gratification. - Added Isolation mechanics. - Gutting fish now takes only a minitick. - Eating food spiced with sweet spices like saps, musts, syrups and sweet wines now gives sugar saturation. - Fixed a bug where cards would disappear after being taken from a cooking pot. - Fixed a bug where going West from Northern Rapids or East from Pine Clearing would lead to Lake Grove instead of Swaying Pines. - Removed Path Improvements from Lake Island. - Moving around the Death Crack Caves no longer requires a source of light. - Added a Help Section to Dried Peas with information for their farming preferences. - Gutting Fish with workplace bonus now takes 3 minutes instead of 0. That's all for now. See you for the big update. ;) Reminder: All fixes and new content are added to the public beta branch first. If you want to access them you can find the instructions on the link below. Be warned though, things are less stable there and are likely to undergo balance changes quite frequently! :) https://steamcommunity.com/app/2868860/discussions/0/600774299444324511/

Hello everyone! Update time again! Here are the features for today:

Metal Revamp:

All metal weapons now last considerably longer than before, making them ideal for crafting lasting tools as an investment. Flint weapons on the other side, are now sharper than the available metals, but break much easier. It will take better metals to make them obsolete. :) We have also given a pass to the effects sharpness has on combat, giving sharpness more weight when it comes to determining whether you managed to wound your target.

Lake:

We've added a new lake area with multiple locations, including a lake island and a marsh. We have also added a new fish (the char), ducks and cattails (a new type of reed that is also edible). We haven't only added good things though. We've also introduced mosquitoes. These can be a pest in some areas, specially during summer, and can increase infection risk and get you swamp fever, a weaker, nordic variant of malaria (also known as ague).

Custom Recipes:

Plates, bowls, flatbread and bread slices now let you save your favourite recipes. You can give them a name, pick an image for them and autofill them easily when you want to have them. We will make some additional improvements for these in the feature, so they can feature better art and even custom art too. And now, to the patch notes:

Version EA_0.48 and Hotfixes since the last update

- Added recipe saving system. - Reworked material sharpness and durabilities. - Tweaked sharpness effects in combat. - Added new 8 lake areas. - Added cattails. - Added ducks. - Added char. - Added mosquito system and Swamp fever. - Fixed a bug which caused harvested flax stems and seeds to have the wrong quality. - Fresh Fly Agaric can now be stacked and unstacked. - Wild Garlic Powder can now be trashed. - Equipping boiled healers moss onto a wound now counts for Basic Wound Treatment quest. - Shady Pines, Dead Hollow and Peaceful Grove now have proper Winter art. - Metal shovel blueprint now requires a long stick instead of wood. - Fixed a bug that was causing wellbeing to affect morale incorrectly. - Bear Clawmarks and Bear Bite wounds now accept tourniquets. - Growing Heather field now properly lists that it requires low to mid hydration. - Fields which do not recover Yield over time will now allow you to harvest them even when on very low yield. - Fixed a bug which caused heating up Springberry and Billbery Wine to turn into Birch Syrup. - Corrected some issues with the metal knife stats. - Fixed a bug where texts would be invisible in the dialogs and combat logs. That's all for now. :) See you for the next update! Reminder: All fixes and new content are added to the public beta branch first. If you want to access them you can find the instructions on the link below. Be warned though, things are less stable there and are likely to undergo balance changes quite frequently! :) https://steamcommunity.com/app/2868860/discussions/0/600774299444324511/

Hello everyone! Hope you're all well. Today we have a magical update! Here's the content:

New Spirits:

We have added a bear spirit in case you manage to defeat it. It should help you increase your strength, combat capabilities and immune system. In addition to this, we have also added a lot of minor spirits. Now basically every animal in the game have spirits. With the exception of the poor minnows. Trouts help with swimming, perches help with stress, sturgeons with cleaning, pikes with fishing, partridges with partridge farming and alertness, frogs with insect protection (which will come in handy soon), squirrels with foraging acorns and climbing and mice with escaping.

Magic Improvements

Blessings:

Blessings no longer have blueprints and they now cost focus instead. Shrines now have an internal cooldown, which prevents you from overusing blessings.

Enchantments:

Enchantments are now cheaper too (they no longer cost fairyweed) but cost focus instead. Enchantments now also produce spiritual noise: Wearing too many enchants (more than 7) will limit their maximum strength and drain some of your focus.

Summonings and Callings:

Summons now last only 1 day, but they unlock a new "Calling" blueprint. This ritual allows you to call on a spirit you have previously summoned from anywhere in the forest at a reduced cost all without needing a carcass or shrine. This should make spell casting a lot more practical and accessible.

Ritual of Awakening:

For those of you interested in practising magic more regularly, there is now a secret ritual that can let you awaken your soul and exist in a permanent altered mindstate. Be warned though, there's no way back once you go through it! If you want a clue on how to discover the ritual you should try to find the Void spirit.

Version EA_0.47 and hotfixes since the last patch:

- Added bear, squirrel, partridge, mouse, perch, trout, sturgeon and pike spirits, blessings and enchants. - Blessings no longer use blueprints and now cost focus. - Shrines now have blessing cooldowns. - Enchant costs changed. - Spiritual noise mechanic implemented. - Callings implemented. - New Void Spirit added. - Ritual of awakening added. - Rye Flatbread and Flour can now be added to stew. - Fixed a bug which caused Crucibles to lose all durability when casting molten metal into molds. - Fixed a bug which made Sieve made Clay have 0 Quality. - Fixed a bug where sometimes the "Could Urinate" status appeared a tiny bit before you could actually Urinate. - Anxiety attack now gets interrupted by low Hydration instead of Low Thirst. - Drying Cooked Forest caps and Wild Garlic now shows proper message when done. - Fixed a bug which caused the Snowshoes to not work under some specific circumstances when there's heavy snow. - Fixed a bug with incorrect feedback on enchanted amulets that would let the player believe they could perform actions that they actually couldn't. That's all for now! See you all for the next announcement as usual! Reminder: All fixes and new content are added to the public beta branch first. If you want to access them you can find the instructions on the link below. Be warned though, things are less stable there and are likely to undergo balance changes quite frequently! :) https://steamcommunity.com/app/2868860/discussions/0/600774299444324511/

Hello everyone! This week we are releasing a small update while we work on some important features and try to catch up a bit on some of the things we are behind on. Next week's Update is going to be about magic improvements and will be coming sooner than usual. By the way, this announcement contains our Q&A #3, so make sure to scroll down if you're interested! First, here are the Patch Notes:

Version EA_0.46 and hotfixes since the last announcement:

- Slag Recycling: New way to acquire additional greenstone powder out of slag. - Whetstone: New tool for sharpening more efficiently. - Pottery Improvements: Pottery now has a skill and clay and some clay objects now have quality (jars and crucibles for now). - Doors built inside your hut will show different art depending on what type of room they lead to (an indoor room, cellar or enclosure). - Added some new wound types for the bear. - Hideout can now be used for sleeping. - If you max out your rectal pressure while having loose stools you no longer expel solid excrement. - Clothing Equipment Research now unlocks after making cloth of any size. - It is now possible to prepare ghost bronze crucibles with ghost bronze nuggets. - Fixed a bug which let the player mix and match nuggets of different metal types in the same recipe. - All Path building actions should now reduce sharpness of metal Axe or Shovel used. - Dying of wolfsbane poisoning now displays the proper message. - Furnace can now heat up Lumps of Metal. - It is now possible to use Mortar and Pestle to grind Malted Rye into Rye Grist. - Fixed Bug which caused Tools and Weapons to lose their enchants when sharpened. - Metal Shovel blueprint now shows the proper picture. - Boars should no longer be pushed out of triggered pit traps. - Typo fixes. - Fixed a bug which caused 3 minute actions not to spend any ingredients. - Fixed a bug which would sometimes incorrectly calculate metal nugget and metal lump quality. - Crucible Research mode unlock condition now has proper text. - Dead Witch Stone can now be ground into dust. - Added a Blueprint shortcut for the "Bake a Breadloaf" Quest. - Flax seeds can now be used as trap bait. - Dying of Witchstone Poisoning now displays the proper message. - It is now possible to wash dressings in River Ice Holes. - Peeling and cutting a fireroot now takes a minimum of 3 minutes. - Soothing Ointment now displays the correct message when it spoils. - Fixed dyed underwear's name. - Building an outside enclosure now also finishes the "Build an Enclosure" quest.

Q&A #3:

1) Will we getting any kind of 'wooly' animal in the future? Like wild sheep/mouflon since FF has much more focus on proper clothing? Yes we will be adding them along with spinnable wool and clothes. A wild woolly animal is planned for the more mountainous regions of the map and the trader will also be bringing sheep in the future. 2) Will TI cooking pot recipes make a comeback? Or with there be some new system for making new 'special' dishes? We will be adding more special recipes like the ones in tropical island but it won't be the main system like before. We want these recipes to be mostly used for more specific things like breads, pastries or candy. As we want to give players more creativity and choice when it comes to cooking. The flavour system is a step in that direction and the cauldron stews are another. We will soon be adding an important feature that lets you create your own recipes from plates. So you can store and name your favourite dishes, and easily access them later. Oh, and this feature will include customizable pies! 3) How are yall feeling about the games progress so far? So many new things added in such a short while since launch! We are very happy with our rate of progress so far. It's been intense but very rewarding! Here are some of the things in the works that will hopefully be released over the next couple of months: - Magic Improvements: Including spirits for all existing missing animals, rebalancing tweaks for all types of magics and spiritual awakening events and rituals. - Recipe Making: Giving you the ability to create your own food recipes in plates, bowls, flatbreads and pies. - Butchering Improvements: introducing a butchering skill, blood, organs and sinew among other things. - Swamp Areas: Introducing alder trees (red dyes), leeches, peat, mosquitoes, more diseases, paths that flood and freeze and more. - More Metal Stuff: Tin Bronze, White bronze and Jewelry. - Cabin: A sturdier, larger and more comfortable home that can support a second floor. - River Action: Log river transportation, log booms and Water Wheels for automated milling. - Lake Area: Introducing ducks, cattails and a lake island. 4) Are there any plans to modify the map exploration? Will there be changes to provide higher exploration benefits to encourage players to explore? Exploration in the first game felt more like uncovering a world. Tropical Island was a relatively small island and used a more conceptual and blurry approach to its different areas. With Fantasy Forest we wanted to capture the feel of an expansive forest that is large enough for one to get lost in. We also wanted a world with NPCs moving around, and proper hunting and tracking. This meant we had to move away from the more conceptual approach to a more spatial one resembling an actual grid. As a result of these changes, we now have a lot more areas and content is more spread out among them. In any case, as you know, we've been adding lots of new content and the map is gradually filling out. Greenstone, Witchstone, different tree types and vegetation, animal territories and the addition of new landmarks have all been helping on this front, and we'll continue to add more and more of them over time. 5) More questions on npcs, will they be able to do most of the things the players will be able to do like tending gardens, cooking, taking care of the animals, etc.? NPCs have a "duty" system that will let them take care of farming, cooking, animal husbandry, foraging, hunting, cleaning and wood gathering among other things. Provided they're on good terms with you of course. Their traits and relationship with you will determine how effective they are at those tasks. 6) Can NPCs die, either from age, death from animals or other means? It'll be cool if we also have an age stat, to incentivise us to have children with npcs. Once these children grow up, having an option to play as the children may increase the longevity of the game and add some difficulty as everyone eventually dies of old age. NPCs can die from wounds or disease but death from old age is not planned at the moment. Can't promise anything here for now, but we'll see. :) 7) Whats your plans for after CSFF is finally finished and satisfied with everything about it, would you create a new game again? there has been rumors and talk about how you guys been wanting to make a arctic survival game and if so will you do something like that in the future projects? We have a few games in progress that we started after finishing Tropical Island but we had to put on hold to focus on Fantasy Forest. The next title we release is probably going to be one of those. :) I'm afraid there won't be any artic survival in the foreseeable future though, as the winter survival game we were working on is what gradually mutated into Fantasy Forest! 8) Will we be able to destroy / dismantle a old hut - or rooms inside the hut? To build something better? Yes, but unfortunately this feature will take some time to implement. It's probably going to be some time until we manage to get it in. 9) How did Gwim and Plissken met / or how Winterspring games was born? Plissken and I have been friends for approximately 10 years. We met while working at a big mobile game company. I had been trying to go indie for years and failing at it and when Plissken started working with me we instantly realized we had chemistry and started producing game prototypes in our free time. We slowly worked on developing ways to exploit our strengths and weaknesses and found our own unique way of developing games. Before we knew it we were quitting our jobs and going full time on Card Quest. While we were happy with the game, it did not make enough money to keep us afloat. Plissken had to go back to live with his parents and I had to stay with a friend, but we were fortunate enough to find jobs again relatively soon. Over the following years we kept our friendship going and we kept working on side projects together until we felt we were ready to give it another try. That's when we went for Card Survival: Tropical Island. The game did well enough that this time we were able to stay full time, and when our Chinese audience joined, we were surprised to see that suddenly we were now not only able to recoup our costs but also secure our development for the next few years. It was also during this time that Neomare joined us, as he had been supporting the game for a long time and we got along well. 10) What made you jump genre from Card quest to Card Survival? Was Card Survival something you had planned before Card Quest? Or the game idea was born while developing Card Quest? We have prototyped games of many genres over the years, from shootemups to metroidvanias or first person exploration games so we were never really tied to any particular genre and the transition felt normal to us. Card Survival's ancestor was one such prototype. A menu-based survival game that had definite Card Survival vibes. The initial idea was abandoned at some point for some new idea that had excited us at the time, but it was later resumed, this time as a "prehistoric" survival card game that eventually turned into Tropical Island. 11) While drawing the maps I do see a lot of "Aha, this makes a lot of sense" or "This fits perfectly", How do you design the maps? You draw them? Create each area on the go? How do you determine where each resource is placed? I picture in my mind Gwim in a room with hanging papers and colored twine connecting them. Haha. Close enough! :P I usually keep a big graph with lots of interconnected areas. I try to make it make sense and situate things where they would naturally fit, while also trying to keep gameplay in mind. 12) Do you devs have real life survival knowledge or you research something before implementing? Did you really had to google "How to make home-made dynamite" at some point? I'm afraid we don't have much practical survival knowledge, only theoretical! I personally don't have any real life experience in these things, besides some silly experiments trying to start fires with hand drills or some basic camping experience. The content you can find in our games is mostly the result of lots of hours of internet research. I do put special attention in trying to make sure things feel deep and realistic within the constraints of our game. 13) Are there any HUD changes planned or more or less what we see is what we have? What is the locked icon on the right side? We are currently experimenting with an improved HUD with an artist friend. So it is possible that we will be releasing more aesthetically pleasing and readable UI in the future. Nothing too crazy, just overall prettier and clearer. The locked icon on the right side is the zoom out/in button. It toggles between smaller and bigger cards. The feature is quite buggy however so we currently have it disabled. 14) Is there any chance for the popular QoL mods to be implemented? I see the mini-cards and the detailed number mod images in discord and I wish they were in the game. The mini-cards mod is technically already implemented (the zoom feature), we just need to fix a few bugs before we are comfortable releasing it, so that one's definitely going in. Regarding detailed numbers, we don't have any plans to implement that at the moment. What we do have plans for is to setup steam workshop so that people can more easily publish and install mods. :) 15) Will there be any possibility for including controller support/mouse and keyboard shortcuts? Keyboard shortcuts definitely. Controller support is less likely. Maybe if enough people want it? 16) Will there be animal riding like boar/wolf as a mount? There's definitely going to be animal riding. There are no ridable boars/wolves planned at the moment, but we could look into it. Maybe if you find a large enough animal, or if your character is small enough. :) 17) What do merchants expect to sell? More animals, such as cats, dogs, sheep, cows? Or plants, such as onions, peppers, chili peppers, rice and wheat? Or blueprints, such as weapons, water wheels, automatic sprinklers, automatic fertilizer spreaders, people (slaves), robots? We have plans to improve the trader system considerably. Here are some of the things you can expect. - Trader wealth will increase as you trade and fulfill special requests, unlocking new content and options. - Eventually trader will start coming with additional more specialized traders, unlocking more content and eventually turning into a caravan and trading outpost. - Farm animals (cows, sheep, chicken) and pets (dogs, cats) will eventually be available. - Prospective husbands, wives, friends or workers can also sometimes comes with the traders and can also be requested. (the system will generate them randomly or allow you to create them through perks, like when you create your own character). 18) Are sometimes seasons particular harsh or dry, and does the game communicate that to the player afterwards? (Brain is bad in statistics). Is it just statistical weather, or are there some small differences in other details or mechanics too? At the moment seasons are quite regular when it comes to temperature and most of the random aspects comes from cloud formation and rain. Our weather system has the capacity to be a lot more complicated though. The game has a feature that allows different winds to interact with each other, moving temperature, humidity and clouds around. Unfortunately we had to temporarily disable it as it was just too chaotic and impossible to predict. Hopefully we can switch it back on before too long. 19) Will there be a way to use the river to move stuff - like floating logs (or big carcasses?) downwards? We have plans to use the river for transportation. It's actually going to be the main automated way for transporting large amounts of cargo. Here are some examples of the river transportation things we'll be introducing: - Logs: Logs placed in the river currents will gradually travel downwards. - Rafts: Mobile structures that can carry cargo or the player, and also flow downriver like logs. - Boat: Sturdier than rafts, they serve the same purpose but can travel faster than rafts. - Oars: Will allow you to go upriver with rafts and boats (not through rapids or waterfalls though!) - Log Booms: Chained logs that help catch any log, raft or boat floating downriver. 20) Do you plan to have any trans-gender specific plans? Like NPCs with their opinion on the matter of your character not fitting into the expected range, or them having different organs than what they present? I also am curious if queer people and relationships will be present or included in the “relationships” that are planned with npc’s. Will NPCs be playersexual? NPC's will not be playersexual as they are systems with their own likes and dislikes, dictated by their own specific traits. That said, most NPCs will be introduced into the game through a character creator screen giving players the ability to shape what they like or dislike. You could make NPCs that would really be attracted to your character's every trait, or indifferent to them, or even repelled by them. The choice is yours. :) That's all for now. See you on the next announcement! Reminder: All fixes and new content are added to the public beta branch first. If you want to access them you can find the instructions on the link below. Be warned though, things are less stable there and are likely to undergo balance changes quite frequently! :) https://steamcommunity.com/app/2868860/discussions/0/600774299444324511/

Hello everyone! I hope you are well. Today we are releasing the following features:

Metal Casting:

You can now build crucibles to alloy metals and cast them into molds. Metal casting is more practical and efficient than simply forging tools from lumps of metal and can save you a good amount of time and calories. The metal system has also received some improvements under the hood with regards to sharpness, and some other features that will become more relevant in future updates (metal beauty, malleability and weight). Oh, and you can now also craft metal shovels!

Alloys:

We have implemented the alloy system. For now there's only one copper alloy, but 2 more bronze types will become available once tin is introduced. In the end we decided not to go with a completely free system as we had originally planned, as that would have mostly led to the creation of useless alloys and the loss of valuable materials that can't be recovered. Instead, new alloys will be unlocked with the acquisition of new materials or at higher skill levels.

Witchstone and Ghost Bronze:

We have a added a few new areas to the northwest region of the map. These areas include a sterile clearing with a new toxic cave which contains a poisonous material called witchstone (In-game name for realgar). Witchstone is highly toxic, and becomes more so when exposed to sunlight. It can be mined from this new cave, and used to create a copper alloy called ghost bronze. You should be very careful when working with witchstone (or when mining it) as it can seriously poison you. It is recommended that you take breaks and wait until your toxicity levels have dropped before continuing with your work. Otherwise you could very well die! Ghost bronze is harder than copper, which gives it greater durability and sharpness, but also makes it harder to work.

Version EA_0.45 + Hotfixes since the last patch:

- Added Metal Shovel. - Added 4 new pine areas to the north west region of the map. - Added a new cave with witchstone veins. - Added metal casting system. - Added alloy system. - Metal system overhaul. - Added medium and large sized crucibles. - Added witchstone, witchstone poisoning and ghost bronze tools and weapons. - Eating feedback now takes the "Visual Effects" option into account and doesn't show flashes when the option is ticked off. - Fixed some bugs with the new construction menu (overlap between cards). - Added a button to cancel the construction of new room/cellar/enclosures. - All animals now heal over time and most show tired behaviours when appropriate. - Peas can now be planted in gardens. - Fixed a bug which turned Berries milled in Quern into their fermenting version instead of Pulp. - Reed Tunic now increases Stealth Profile. - "Build a Hideout" quest now displays a proper message when completed. - Fixed a bug which prevented the building of a nesting box inside enclosures built outside of a Mud Hut. - Crafting Wooden Plates now properly gives Woodworking Skill. - Green Tangle Flora section now properly lists Springberries. - Large cloth now drops the appropriate amounts of materials when ripped apart. - Milling Rye Grains in Querns now properly calculates the Flour Quality. - Fixed a bug which allowed the player to urinate with too little vesical pressure. - Simple bow can now be trashed. - Washing yourself with unsafe water leaves you a bit dirty, just like washing in Pond does. - Fixed Fresh Rye Stalks durability and icon not properly representing Hydration/Wetness. - Frostleaf powder can now be added to stews. That is all for now! As usual we'll be fixing any issues we find and tweak things throughout the week. ;) See you all next week! Reminder: All fixes and new content are added to the public beta branch first. If you want to access them you can find the instructions on the link below. Be warned though, things are less stable there and are likely to undergo balance changes quite frequently! :) https://steamcommunity.com/app/2868860/discussions/0/600774299444324511/

Hello everyone! Hope you had a good week. Here's what we've added for today's patch:

Peas and Field Improvements:

First we're adding a new crop: Peas! Peas can be purchased from the trader, are a pretty good source of calories, last quite a bit when dry, act as a source of proteins and can restore nutrients to the soil. Peas cannot be planted in garden plots as of now, but we'll be pushing a hotfix for this tomorrow. ;) We've given a balance pass to all fields and made many tweaks to make crop rotations work properly now that we have enough different crops. Planting crops in the right order will reward you with better yields and health for your plants. We've also made field crops a bit more robust and made their yields also get affected by seasons and nutrient levels.

Hunting Improvements and Rebalancing:

Animals now slowly heal their wounds over time, making the "death by a thousand cuts" tactic no longer viable. In addition to this, animals will now also stop treading their usual paths when wounded. This will change the dynamics of hunting large game making hunts more realistic. Ambushing and pursuing your wounded prey should now be the only viable way of hunting. This new animal behaviour will only be available for the Doe for now, but we'll be pushing a hotfix tomorrow that will enable it for all other animals. (it's been a busy week!) That said. We have introduced some things to make ambushes easier. In addition to the improvements to stealth from last week's patch, players can now further increase their stealth by building a new hideout structure which should make ambushes easier. We have also added some stealth bonuses to reed clothing and to applying mud to your skin. Animals now also have some new behaviours when tired, which should make chasing them a bit easier, and give you more opportunities to strike at them.

Balancing Pass:

We're in the process of going through a big balance pass. We have been adding a lot of content over the last few months and we're trying to make a push to get things to a better place in terms of challenge and reward. Some of the balance changes we have done this week are: - Made wounds consume more calories. - Made immune system enchantments a bit weaker. - Made hunting large game more difficult. - Made ambushing and pursuing easier. We will be balancing things further over the following weeks, making things easier if they got too hard and vice versa.

What's Next:

We have been working on many new things lately and things have been coming along nicely, Next week we'll be releasing metal casting, slag recycling and the first alloys along with a bit of new territory. After that we'll start releasing swamp areas, improve the players physiological system (which is not in the best place at the moment), release an improved butchering system and the new system for storing food recipes. And now let's get to the patch notes:

Version EA_0.44 + hotifxes since the last patch

- The construction menu system (for expanding the mudhut for example) has been improved. - Added a button linking to the instructions of how to play the beta in the news announcement screen of the main branch. - Added Peas. - Tilled fields now start with maximum structure. - Tilled fields now take longer to craft and longer to dissappear. - Tilled and fallow fields now recover nutrients faster. - All crops have received a balance pass and now increase or decrease structure and nutrients at different rates. - Crops are now a bit more resistant but their yield is more sensitive to both nutrient levels and season. - Some crops have become considerably more resistant to winter (clover, meadowgrass, heather). - Added Hideout structure. - Reed clothes now add a bit of cammouflage. - Applying Mud to your body now improves your stealth profile. - Does can now heal wounds and will no longer follow their usual path when wounded. - Does have a new tired behaviour when they run out of stamina. - Wound durations have been standarized and their calorie consumption has been adjusted to better match the current weight system. - Tweaked and balanced some enchantments to make their less overpowered. - Single portions of Billberry and Springberry Syrups used as seasoning no longer taste too sweet. - Fixed a bug which caused boiling dried turnroot to increase spoilage instead of reducing it. - Fixed a bug which caused dried turnroots and some other food items to not work as omnivorous bait for Boars in pit traps. - HandStone, Saddle Quern, Rottary Quern and Stone Mortar and Pestle are now safe from floods. - Copper items can now be enchanted with Spirits. - Urine, Nettle Solution and Dyes can no longer be used for cleaning Wounds. - Urine, Nettle Solution and Dyes are no longer considered a source for Fresh water for things like watering Crops. - Urine, Nettle Solution and Dyes are no longer considered a source of Safe water for things like making a Dough or Fermenting items inside Fermentation bin. - Fixed a bug which caused nettle stems to gain quality under the wrong conditions - Knife bought from trader now has 50% quality but its also more expensive as a result. - Removed the tanning water blueprint. Tanning water can be instead made by soaking bark in water and then waiting 24 hours or boiling it for 1 hour. - Fixed some issues with foxes and badgers being caught in traps in the wrong locations. - Updated card texts related to dyes to make the process more clear. - Wood carving direct card interaction now receives a workplace bonus and dexterity penalties just like the blueprint does. - Fixed Flavours for Rye Flatbread and Rye Bread Slice. -Leather and Fur clothing now loses colour faster than Fiber clothing. - Fixed a bug which made the Hackler blueprint invisible. - Willow Bark can no longer be put inside a Garden Plot - Hoe no longer drops Flint when it breaks. - Fixed Wolfsbane description to match the Help Section. - Malted and Malting Rye can now be properly placed in the Smokehouse. - Fur Coat now properly offers protection from rain. - Fixed fireroot, turnroot and fairyweed descriptions to match the Help Section. - Added Knife fighting moves to Copper Knife. - It is now possible to wet soap on the River, Pond, Ice hole, Flooded Tunnel location card and the Waterfall. - Fixed a bug which caused blizzards to spawn "winds are too strong" events after the blizzard is over. - Fixed a bug which was causing Ash Waternot to boil into Lye if the player wasn't present. - Appleweed now properly lowers grain saturation. - Actions which reduce tool usage now also reduce tool sharpness. - Significantly reduced the usage and sharpness loss when working with softer materials. That's all for now. See you all for next week's patch! Reminder: All fixes and new content are added to the public beta branch first. If you want to access them you can find the instructions on the link below. Be warned though, things are less stable there and are likely to undergo balance changes quite frequently! :) https://steamcommunity.com/app/2868860/discussions/0/600774299444324511/

Hello everyone! Today we're merging changes into the main branch (EA_0.42b) and releasing a new update for the beta branch (EA_0.43). And here are the patch highlights for the new update:

Flax and New Textile Items:

Flax can now be bought as seeds from the trader. It can be grown in fields and gardens and it can be used to make fiber more efficiently and of higher quality than with nettle. Flax seeds can also be eaten and used as seasoning, We have also added a hackler tool for increasing fiber quality as well as a few new clothing items, namely: dresses, cloth pants, underwear and coifs.

Dyes:

Most leather and fiber clothing items can now be dyed. For now only green (nettle) and brown (oak) dyes are available, but we'll soon be adding red and black dyes, and a few more will come in the future. Some dyes will confer certain benefits to clothes under certain conditions. For example, white dyes confer a stealth bonus during winter, while black dyes confer one in the dark, or green ones in green environments. Both tanning pits and cisterns can now be used for both tanning leather and dyeing clothes.

Version EA_0.43 and Hotfixes since our last patch:

- Urine liquid has been added and can be used for multiple things. - Players can now urinate in containers. - Added new clothing items (dress, pants, underwear, coif). - Added hackler item. - Added dyeing system with green and brown dyes. - Added quest for dyeing objects. - Improved tanning system. - Added flax crop. - Stealth system has been improved and made more realistic. - Repairing cloth and leather items now reduces their durability. - Nettle patches are now only available in oak river banks and clearings. - Improved the in-game news system so that news are up to date in the main branch too. - Fixed a bug where copper things left inside fireplaces would disappear after loading. - Fixed a bug which prevented the simple Bow from shooting copper arrows. - Fixed fairyweed and fireroot powder prices. - Dried nettle leaves can now be added to stews. - Fixed Pond Ice Hole art. - Fixed the Sharpness Icon on Copper Tools. - Baskets now break when their spoilage reaches 0. - Fixed a bug which caused copper tools to lose sharpness inside baskets, storage pots and shelfs. - Fixed a bug which sometimes prevented firebrew from losing its temperature when outside of a fire. - Dried turnroots can now be boiled. - Fixed a bug which caused Springberries and Billberries to recover with only 10% HP when waking up from dormancy and they now also recover much faster in their dormant state. - Fixed the general description and flavour description for salt. - Fixed River Clearing Help section. - Enclosure can now be built from the outside without the need to build a mudhut or enclosure first. Still requires poultry farming quest on quest mode to be buildable. On research mode it requires a tied wild animal. - Researching MudHut blueprint on research mode now unlocks room construction improvements. - Research mode: Fireplace, Door, Plastered Walls and Earthen Floors are now again unlocked as soon as you enter the Mudhut or MudHut Room Expansion. - Fixed a bug which prevented powders from averaging their durabilities when added to a pouch or jar. - Trader Pouches now stack with player pouches. - Powdered Garlic can now be added to Stews. - Demolishing a Smokehouse now gives Planks back but this only works on ones built after the hotfix. - Building Paths now reduces Copper Axe sharpness. - Tweaks to Wild Growth effect visuals. - Dried Nettle Leaves now show up in food filter. - Fixed a bug which made enchanted bow not display its usage durability. - Adding seasoned food to stews now properly adds flavours from the spices used. - Making Clay Bowls by directly combining temper with Clay now takes the same time as the Blueprint. - Crafting Candles now takes a minimum of 3 minutes. - Yarn can no longer be made by combining twine. That's all for now. See you on the next announcement! Reminder: All fixes and new content are added to the public beta branch first. If you want to access them you can find the instructions on the link below. Be warned though, things are less stable there and are likely to undergo balance changes quite frequently! :) https://steamcommunity.com/app/2868860/discussions/0/600774299444324511/

Hello everyone! Hope you're all well! Let's go straight to the new content for this week:

Patch Highlights:

Copper Smelting:

When clearing the rapids in the bear area you will now sometimes find "greenstones". These rare stones can be smelted in a new specialised structure called the Furnace, producing both copper nuggets and slag. The furnace can reach higher temperatures than the kiln, but will only smelt copper if built in a windy location or if you are actively using bellows on it. Slag has no use at the moment, but in a future update you will be able to use some techniques to squeeze some extra copper out of it.

Copper Forging:

At this tech level we are not casting metals into molds yet but instead heating up copper nuggets and lumps on campfires and striking them into shape. This is more time consuming and requires some skill but is more than enough to craft simple tools and shapes. The objects you will be able to craft at this point are: - Copper Knives - Copper Axes - Copper Spears - Copper Arrows

What's Next?

For next week we are planning a textile update that will include some improvements and additions to this area of the game, including a new crop: Flax. Other than that, over the next few weeks we will be implementing additional ways to get copper, more metal tools, parts of the swamp area and cooking and construction improvements.

Version EA_0.42 and Hotfixes since our last patch:

- Added Furnace, Greenstone, Slag, Copper and smelting systems. - Added smithing skill. - Added Basic Smithing quest for quest mode. - Fixed putting salt and powder into jars having a "Transfer Liquid" tooltip. - Paths now allow you to travel in the dark too. - You can now drag a whole stack of salt/powders into a container by holding the cards before dropping them. - Fixed Jars inside chests or shelves not stacking/unstacking properly. - Fixed some text overflow on some buttons. - Fixed a bug which prevented Tanning pit to store the tanning liquor and leather at the same time. - Fixed a bug which prevented enchanted items such as knife sheaths to hold items inside them. - Fixed a bug which caused the enchants on items such as knife sheaths which had items inside them to fail. - Fixed a bug which caused bound spirits to leave right away after being summoned. - Fixed a bug which would use up all the powder in the pouch or clay jar when creating or interacting with a firebrew or fairybrew made inside a cauldron. - Fixed a bug which would cause a travois left on the ground to sometimes take durability damage. - Seasons now affect the spoilage rates of powders stored inside clay jars and pouches. - Powders stored inside clay jars and pouches now get a proper spoilage reduction. - Travelling actions now indicate if you have built a path. - Using the "Empty" action on things like salt and powders in a jar will now give you the right amount of cards back instead of destroying the powder. - Removed the alternate mudhut exists as the feature is not fully ready yet. - Removed the North Path improvement from the Deer Grove. - Rye fields are now properly increasing soil structure. - Extinguished Oven no longer increases the ambient perceived temperature. - Fixed a bug where the turnroot field blueprint would be stuck and never complete its second step. - Fixed a bug which prevented the Sacred Spring from Generating Water. - Fixed a bug which hid the Kill action for partridges when there was not enough light instead of informing you of the reason. - Fixed a bug which would sometimes prevent the player from taking the last powder out of a clay jar. - Temporarily disabled the player low muscle mass penalties until some issues with the system can be solved. - Snow piles should now more consistently melt when player is away. - Removed the North Path improvement from the Mysterious Grove. - Fixed a bug which hid away the expansion options for an Enclosure. - Updated Icons for the Rye Dough and Rye Sour Dough yeast durability. - Fixed a bug which prevented enchanted tools from being used in blueprints. That's all for now. See you all for next week! Reminder: All fixes and new content are added to the public beta branch first. If you want to access them you can find the instructions on the link below. Be warned though, things are less stable there and are likely to undergo balance changes quite frequently! :) https://steamcommunity.com/app/2868860/discussions/0/600774299444324511/

Hello everyone! First we wanted to give you some updates and news for the next few steps of development! We have been refactoring our plans and we believe we will now be able to release some important features faster than we had planned. First, we will be releasing Basic Smithing next Sunday (June the 1st). This should include copper smelting and forging, and the making of some copper tools. We will be releasing additional smithing patches after that, which we'll alternate with other types of content. These patches will bring metal casting, more metal tools and some new more advanced structures that are only practical after getting metal tools. And later, once there's enough of the mountain areas, more metals so that alloys can start playing a role, as well as the addition of iron and bloomeries. Second, we have started to work on the first character for Fantasy Forest: The Witch. Getting her ready will still take some time, but we'll be focusing on gradually releasing the different game pieces that her character requires to work. Starting with the beginnings of the swamp area to the south, some additional crops and animals and some spiritual additions and improvements. And now, the highlights for this update!

Patch Highlights:

Paths:

Paths can now be built to connect to different locations and allow you to travel much faster between them. These paths are better than the ones in Tropical Island, as they allow travel in both directions.

Powder Containers:

We have introduced a new leather container called a pouch. Both pouches and clay jars now act as powder containers, and can store a large amount of powders and use them directly on target items without having to get them out first. So basically if you have a clay jar or pouch with salt, you can just drag it to your cooked meat too season it.

Trader Improvements:

We have rebalanced the prices for many objects, fixed many bugs and made it so that he will give you better prices depending on your character's traits. The trader was already altering his prices based on trust, but he will now gain trust faster based on traits such us how non threatening you appear, how socially compatible you are and how much he is willing to please you. And now to the patch notes.

Version EA_0.41

- Fixed a bug where crafting yarn in the spindle would yield results of inconsistent quality. - Liquid quantity now affects the value of a trade. - Fixed a bug where you could perform drag and drop actions with the trader's items on your hand's items. - Most containers now cannot hold both a liquid and solid content at the same time. - Fixed a bug where you would sometimes get stuck after building a room or an enclosure in your mudhut. - Fixed a bug which made low quality bows trade for too much value. - Fixed a bug which caused the Spindle to do incorrect quality value calculations when crafting Yarn from Fibers. - Fixed a bug which allowed players to start a construction of 2 different rooms in a same direction and sometimes get stuck as a result. - Fixed a bug which allowed players to move spirits inside Cisterns. - Fixed a bug which allowed players to gut a fish while the Fish is inside a Funnel Trap placed in the River. - Fixed a bug which made Rye grains transfer too much spoilage when ground into Rye Flour. - Fixed a bug which would wrongly light up a River + Torch Interaction. - Added workplace bonus time reduction to butcher actions which were missing it. - Nettle stems can now also be used to make mud bricks. - Added dry Pine Needles to the Camp/Fire filter. - Wolfsbane maturity is now visible. - The Basic Trading quest will now also display/complete if you interact with the trader in autumn and not just spring. - Fixed a bug which prevented the wolfs packs from spawning. - Fixed a bug which sometimes caused northern rapids to drop Pine Cones when foraging in Spring. - Funnel Trap can now be built inside your mud hut. - Rye planted in gardens no longer loses health on low hydration. - Snow shoes now lose durability while equipped. - Stretching Frame now drops its contents when its destroyed. - Fixed a bug which caused the Rye Grains not to increase their hydration while the players is away. - Simple arrows now unlock earlier on Research mode. - Increased the research costs of most blueprints. - Balance tweaks to trader prices and changes in which items can be traded. - It is no longer possible to travel with more than one Travois in your hands. - You can no longer make salt requests from the Trader, but he know brings more salt every visit. - Clay Jar water capacity has been halved, allowing for more precise watering of Garden Plots. - Added Pouches. - Clay Jars and Pouches work as a new type of container that can hold some type powders and are ideal for seasoning foods or adding powders to make tea. - The trader now gains trust at a faster rate depending on some of your traits. - Added buildable paths that work in both directions. - Grains saturation is now available in the player saturation status list. - Splint no longer increases quality of baskets that store it. - Fixed a bug which caused spirit enchanted weapons not to lose the enchantments over time. - Boiling sacred water now turns it into normal water. - Tweaked how quality is determined with cloth shirts. - Flint arrows no longer drop twine when they get destroyed. That's all for now. Hope you all have a good week and we'll see you for the next announcement! Reminder: All fixes and new content are added to the public beta branch first. If you want to access them you can find the instructions on the link below. Be warned though, things are less stable there and are likely to undergo balance changes quite frequently! :) https://steamcommunity.com/app/2868860/discussions/0/600774299444324511/

Hello everyone! The patch is finally here. Let's go straight to the highlights:

Trader:

The trader will start appearing in the Green Glade on the second year, after the second week of spring and again after the second week of autumn. He sells rye grains, salt and some other edibles and will be especially interested in buying cured skins, furs and leather from you (but will also accept some other things). He will of course pay more for higher quality things. He can also accept requests once his trust is high enough, and will bring additional things on his next visits. Among these there are some (for now) unique items: such as fire strikers, copper knives and stone mortars and pestles. The copper knife can be resharpened as usual, the fire striker is a much faster method of starting fires and the stone mortar and pestle is basically a small portable quernstone that while slower can produce high quality results.

Bread:

Rye flour can be used to make dough, just like acorn flour. Rye dough can be used to make flatbread too, but it can also be mixed with eggs or fat to make eggbread or rye fat cakes respectively. One of its best things though is that it can be turned into sourdough by placing it in a fermenting bin. Sourdough can be baked to make roundbread or a larger loaf of bread which keeps for longer and can be split into multiple pieces.

Ale:

Rye grains can also be malted (by first hydrating them and then dehydrating them) and then mixed with hot water to make wort. This wort can later be reduced into rye syrup or fermented into ale. Rye is more dense than berries, so it's much better for making syrup and alcohol.

Version EA_0.40:

- Trader has been added. - Salt, Copper Knives, Stone Mortar and Pestles and Iron Fire Strikers have been added. - Added a new quest for the trader in quest mode. - Rye can now be properly grown in fields and garden plots. - Implemented ale making process. - Added sourdough, roundbread, bread loaves, fat cakes and eggbread. - Flowing resin no longer blocks spawning of new Pine Trees. - Oven now shows which durabilities change when drying items. - Fresh Leaves can now be put inside the Compost Bin. - Fly Agaric can now be added to Stew. - Kiln now properly heat up liquids. - Tied up animals can now be placed inside the Travois. - Help Section for Pine areas now properly show you can find Fly Agaric in them. - Heather Stems can now be used for making bricks with Mud Brick mold. - Bird Eggs now show up in Food Filter. - Intermediate Fishing subquests now show up in correct order. - Mudhut Door no longer increases perceived temperature if player is not present.

Hotfixes since the last Patch:

- Fixed a bug which prevented Fly Agaric from boiling. - Fixed a bug which would cause the Stags to get stuck in a "Stag Notices you" Loop. - Billberries and Springberries now have a help section. - Calming Flow now displays in a buff area instead of in an alert area. - Fixed a bug which caused Agaric Toxicity not to go down over time. - Various text Fixes ( Fixed the name for Very High Willow Bark Dose ). - Fixed a bug where some weapons would not appear in the combat weapon selection popup. -The weapon selection popup will now remember which weapon you had equipped last and pre-select it, or it will pre-select a ranged weapon automatically if the fight starts at a distance. That's all for now! See you for the next announcement! Reminder: All fixes and new content are added to the public beta branch first. If you want to access them you can find the instructions on the link below. Be warned though, things are less stable there and are likely to undergo balance changes quite frequently! :) https://steamcommunity.com/app/2868860/discussions/0/600774299444324511/