Exile news & patch notes

Improvements

• Changed size & layout of the Nature panel to better match others
• Added harvest button to Lumber, Stone, and Iron panels
• Town Hall category descriptions no longer blocked by open categories
• Hire/Fire buttons on Quick Access and Town Hall panels now respond rapidly when held (for mass layoffs by profession)
• Resized Town Hall text
• Renamed buildings:   - 'Fabric' → 'Fabric Shop'   - 'Mill' → 'Windmill'   - 'Well' → 'Village Well'
• Updated 'Close' and 'Go To' buttons on Town Hall and Nature panels (test phase for global update)
• Lowered minimap on spawn to avoid blocking popup descriptions
• Increased size of building preview descriptions
• Increased size of, and brightened, professions on quick-hire menu.
• Cleaned up lumber icon
• Implemented versioning system for Game Saves for mod-work and starter scenario.
• Added internal float versioning check for .exi mod files

Fixes

• Hunters Lodge now properly stops working when food limit is reached
• Hemp now uses a unique resource limit, separate from food
• Fixed crash caused by adjusting limits in the Town Hall
• Addressed input parsing issue affecting users who write half as "0,5"
• Fixed some known stability issues.
• Fixed visible texture seam on barn and church roofs at certain distances

Balance & Behavior

• Sun brightness reduced in winter
• Cloud coverage increased in winter
• Added event warning when unburied deceased villagers are present
• Increased quarry stone capacity by 25% (existing saves will be updated, quarries will hire 2 laborers by default)
• Marketplace workers now better prioritize goods that are low in stock
• Increased starting food in new homes to prevent early starvation scenarios
• Villagers now carry 5% more food when leaving home
• Reduced frequency and severity of quarry workplace accidents.
• Reduced severity of mining workplace accidents.
• Reduced years it takes for an unburied corpse to decay away.
• Further reduced peer-to-peer illness spread.
• Further increased effectiveness of clinic access.
• Increased lifespan of all coats
• Reduce 'food is low' event spam.
• Adult chicken egg laying rate reduced.

Patch Notes:

• Rebuilt road/infrastructure system
• Increased range villagers are willing to find jobs
• Fixed issue where labor was not willing to always change jobs if it was beneficial
• Fixed bug that would cause demolishing construction to visually affect town hall builder counts
• Fixed bug where infrastructure construction panels couldn't be opened
• Fixed some other panel interaction bugs

Bug Fixes & Stability Improvements

• Fixed crash that could occur when opening panels during building placement.
• Fixed edge-floating early-construction mesh for schools.
• Fixed bug where the school panel incorrectly displayed a full bookshelf immediately after construction.
• Fixed issue where millers would take and then abandon flour at the mill.
• Fixed bug preventing cancellation of home upgrades to sturdy homes.

Health & Population Balance

• Significantly reduced chances of mass illness from all sources, especially peer-to-peer spread.
• Villagers are less likely to suffer workplace fatalities (though minor injuries are slightly more common).
• Risk of losing villagers during childbirth reduced with access to healthcare.
• Increased chances of newlyweds successfully having a firstborn.

Building & Housing Upgrades

• Upgrade icon now disappears from panel after completion.
• House panel updated to better explain the "Upgrade to Sturdy Home" button.
• Fixed issue preventing sturdy home upgrades from being canceled early in the process.
• Tweaked building costs for better resource balance: --Brewpub: +2 iron --Bakery: +1 iron --Paper Mill: -1 iron --Market: -2 stone --Mill: -2 iron --Sturdy Homes: -1 stone

Jobs & Production Changes

• Added rare chance for trade buildings to produce an extra good at no cost.
• Made ranching easier overall (ranchers now perform tasks more effectively).
• Tools now improve effectiveness for farming, foresting, and ranching roles.
• Slight decrease to food values for easier-to-grow crops.

User Interface Improvements

• Main menu now respects UI scaling.
• Increased the maximum allowed UI scale.
• Enlarged quick-access panel to better match others.
• Resource labels added to quick-access panel on mouse hover.
• Town Hall category buttons now display description text on hover.
• Home button now centers on the town; space bar still jumps to a villager.
• Added 0.5x speed setting for finer control.

Polish & Immersion

• Villager status messages now repeat less frequently during repetitive tasks.
• Trails in dirt, snow, and water now decay more slowly.
• Ranch buildings now display a “tended” description similar to farms.

Steam API integration started: -Achievements now available. -Linked steam to players for future workshop updates. QoL improvements: -Key-bindings menu now remains interactable even when inside another menu. -Bumped up size and added additional graphic to help elaborate the sun/moon button's utility for time controls.

Exile is now available! To celebrate launch, I'm offering a limited-time discount. The game is finished and fully ready to dive into—build your village, manage resources, and guide generations through challenges that scale with your ambition. Whether you’re growing steadily or stress-testing every system, Exile is built to keep up. While the core game is complete, I’ll be rolling out quality-of-life improvements based on your feedback to keep refining the experience. I’m also hard at work finishing the modding companion app, which will make it easier than ever to create and share your own content. If you’d like to be part of shaping its development, join the Discussions. All of your ideas, suggestions, and reports are welcome and will only help perfect the tools and features to be done. For those of you that've following the game during development, I hope it lives up to everything you've imagined and more. Don't hesitate to point out what isn't. Thank you all. -Jake