Odd Realm news & patch notes

Beta 17 is up!

As of now, it is the production candidate for the build going live tomorrow. It is mostly comprised of tuning changes based on feedback from the weekend. I focused on things that would be easy wins to avoid breaking anything. The rest of the feedback notes will be addressed after 1.1.0 goes to production.

The only risky thing (I hope) is the fix for night mobs not spawning. It's possible these are too difficult and I am curious if anyone thinks so. I can easily disable them for a last minute build today. So, please do let me know!

Here are the patch notes:

• \ Tuned wells from 10hrs to 3hrs to produce water.

• \ Bug: Night mobs were not spawning due to having too much cooldown overlap with other migrations.

• \ Tuned Gibaren clothes to a lower bucket (5->2) so they don’t override better item spawns.

• \ Added more racial info to the new game screen to better communicate playstyles of each race.

• \ Set unclaimed item notif to not show the top hud preview by default. It can be turned back on from notif settings. This is actually a temp solution. I found the unclaimed notif to be pretty spammy. I do want the notif on by default but it needs to manage multiple notifs better.

Huge thank you to those that played over the weekend to test the build. You are very much appreciated!

Cheers!

Beta 16 is LIVE!

This one is a small tuning and bugs patch but I did manage to add new portraits for our bat-turtle folk, the Tomek.

Here are the notes:

• \ Changed summon SFX for Void Imp and Void Woken.

• \ Increased chances of Cave Mips spawning ore.

• \ Chicken eggs can now be hatched by using the incubate egg job in the animal enclosure. Similar to how Cave Mip eggs work; minus the furnace.

• \ Making ingots is now set to manual instead of auto as default for room jobs.

• \ Reduced volume for some stone interaction sfx.

• \ Tuned xp curve down for levels 2-50.

• \ Bug: Not all biomes were generating dungeons.

• \ Bug: Spawned animals were set to citizen faction instead of captured.

• \ Bug: Tomek elders were not dying of old age.

• \ Added Tomek portraits.

Thanks everyone for your help getting these bugs fixed and providing feedback.

Hope you have a nice weekend!

Evening, folks!

Beta 15 is up!

Lots of little fixes and tunings based on player feedback in this one. I appreciate everyone giving their thoughts on the experience. It helps me a bunch!

You should now see priority, rotate, and lock toolbar buttons again. Let me know if you see any issues with those.

Oh, I also re-enabled the pause and focus camera on notifications. You can edit those in the notif settings (N). Please let me know if some are on that you don't like or if you'd like any on by default. Here are the notes:

• \ Bug: Early game NPC’s were showing up clothed in only aprons and chef’s hats.

• \ Bug: Entity sight wasn’t updating threats accurately.

• \ Bug: Notifications with the pause game permission were not pausing the game.

• \ Bug: Notifications with focus camera on create permission were not focusing camera.

• \ Added setting for “Pause On Create” to notification setting options.

• \ Added setting for “Focus Cam On Create” to notification setting options.

• \ Sighted stealthed entities now become hostile when sighted.

• \ Settler wave now only happens once instead of three times.

• \ Only critical statuses are now shown on the entity tooltip. All others can be seen in the entity window.

• \ Natural spawning and reproduction for plants has been reduced.

• \ Bug: HUD stat for race was showing all player entity count and not the race count.

• \ Slightly tuned XP kingdom requirement down early on (levels 2-50).

• \ Re-added priority, lock, and rotate buttons to toolbar.

• \ Bug: Hostile entities were not trying to reach the player.

• \ Bug: Some hostile entities were spawning as 0 days old.

• \ Build Machix job is now manual by default.

• \ Keep now starts with a captured sentients occupant group.

• \ Removed “Queen” from keep monarch occupant group.

• \ Added occupant group for Machix by default in the Transmutation Chamber.

• \ Seeds can now decay.

• \ Auto job count for rooms now displays priority color.

Thanks and have a great night!

Howdy friends,

Beta 14 (shh yes I skipped 13) is live!

This one is a fairly bug fixing focused patch. However, I did put in some time to add back in the tracking of stats on the top HUD. You can track rooms (from the room designation list), items, factions, and races.

I also did a bunch of tuning for entity item and level generation. You should see merchants with a bunch of varied items in addition to Ren. Ok, here are the notes:

• \ Bug: Sometimes auto-jobs would not update while workers were actively doing the job.

• \ Bug: New spawns were sometimes spawning all as the same profession.

• \ Bug: Event speaker portraits were not showing the correct entity portrait.

• \ Certain animals (i.e., bees) should no longer spawn in winter.

• \ Added survival statuses for Ardyn and Tomek to top bar.

• \ The top bar will now vertically resize to accommodate more entries.

• \ Items, races, rooms, factions can now be tracked on the top bar hud again.

• \ Tuned the level placement black to fade in slower so it doesn’t ‘flash’ when move the mouse to place jobs and rooms.

• \ Bug: Changing job priority was not correctly updating permissions.

• \ Bug: Troughs did not have meals permitted and therefore could not hold fodder.

• \ Bug: Cave and dungeons items were immediately rotting upon spawn.

• \ Bug: NPC’s (especially merchants) spawned with only Ren.

• \ Bug: NPC’s were spawning with max level of 1.

• \ NPC level is now generated based on avg player controller sapient entity lvl + tuning bucket. Tuning bucket = kingdom level / 5. e.g., 10 (avg sapient lvl) + 2 (kingdom lvl 10 bucket) = 12 (lvl of NPC entity).

• \ Starting items are no longer put into the racial uniform. Also, entities will not automatically unequip items if no uniform exists. They will only unequip when replaced with a higher priority uniform item. This is to prevent newly arriving entities from unequipping all their clothes.

• \ Mages no longer increase writing on level up. Scholars are now the only ones to increase this skill.

• \ Bug: Rotating a blueprint before placing, then switching to a non-rotating blueprint, then placing that blueprint would show the incorrect graphic for the blueprint.

• \ Bug: Some toolbar menus would not update correctly. i.e., going from jobs to blueprints and then selecting a category would open the beds category.

• \ Bug: Rarely, an entity could get in a loop picking up items for a job that was returning a null work location.

• \ Bug: Sometimes entities would get stuck in the warming up state.

We are getting close to beta being stable enough to move to production. Hoping next week!

Thank you to the testers reporting bugs and giving feedback!

Hey everyone!

Beta 12 is now live. Added a few things to fill out the Tomek a bit more. They should not have an okay gameplay loop. I've created their own hunger/starving system hollowgut/crackbone fever to differentiate them from the other races. This will also help fix the issue they had where they'd eat normal food.

As well, the Cave Mip life cycle should be complete. You can now hatch them with a furnace. As well, they will produce various stone, dirt, and ore over time. The Tomek can also eat their eggs for a small amount of sustenance. Oh, and they now have a 'child' appearance which is a small flying bug.

Lastly, added another food item, Mala Skola, to their roster of things to make. This uses iron and dirt. I have a bunch of other things I want to add for them, but this should somewhat help them be playable.

Here are the patch notes:

• \ Bug: Jobs were not correctly designated when changing the camera z level after starting a selection.

• \ Entities will no longer fall if there is a vertical access above or below them. This is to help avoid falls when building ladders.

• \ Bug: Certain things weren’t being disabled/removed outside of rooms. i.e., torch fx on torch deconstruct.

• \ Tuned XP requirement after level 1 to be higher.

• \ Increased time it takes for a well to fill with water from 1 hour to 10 hours.

• \ Bug: Sometimes saplings (and other spawns that utilise prefabs) will not turn into a tree because they had an obstacle too close.

• \ Bug: Some entity creating blueprints showed the description text twice.

• \ Ignorance Is Bliss buff for non-sapient entities now increases morale by 1 instead of doing nothing.

• \ Cave Mips now produce dirt, stone, and ores as a byproduct… Poop. It’s poop.

• \ Tomek now have unique hunger and starving statuses called Hollowgut and Crackbone Fever.

• \ Added “Mala Skola”, a Tomek food item made out of iron and dirt. Yum!

• \ Tomek eat job now available in the stockpile.

• \ Bug: Certain jobs would clear items on completion. Most obvious and common examples were for distillery jobs.

• \ Bug: Auto-job requirements weren’t updating on entity skill toggle.

Thanks everyone!

Waylon

Hey folks!

Real quick patch today. Some folks had reported a couple more issues with a few things that I wanted to address before going into the weekend. Here are the notes for those:

• \ Eat/Drink jobs set to priority 4 for the default first stockpile room.

• \ Tuned the first settler wave to appear after 8 days instead of 4.

• \ Bug: Mushroom wine wasn’t spawning on job complete.

• \ Bug: Auto job not updating correctly after prop placement or room expansion.

• \ Bug: Some jobs not being started even though they are higher priority.

Thanks and I hope you have a great weekend!

Hey everyone, Beta 10 is up!

Tons of little bugs fixed in this one. I improved the room job responsiveness to when requirements change but I'm still noticing the rare time it doesn't update for locations. Overall it should be a lot better, but I will continue to hunt down little bugs getting in the way of this.

I also refactored the pathfinding a bit, so let me know if you see anything off there. The pathfinding process should produce better shortest/fastest paths in addition to handling long distance pathing with faster performance.

• \ Bug: The Void Sick notification would spam repeatedly when Ancients had 0 energy.

• \ Improved room job responsiveness to state changes.

• \ Bug: Entities were not marking items as unreachable in certain conditions. This would have them sit idling trying to get to the same location over and over.

• \ Bug: Item categories for job conditions could not be deselected.

• \ Updated the job condition targets to use the same toggling behavior as the rest of the game.

• \ Bug: XP was showing up as a kingdom level-up buff.

• \ Tuned pathfinding logic and improved performance.

• \ Room jobs now ordered with enabled at the top, then by alphabetical order.

• \ Bug: Items would spawn on top off walls/fences and become unreachable.

• \ Tuned Sentrene Bow to deal more damage.

• \ Sentrene Bow now fires once and then needs to be repaired.

• \ Bug: Single layer (L-Alt) select would not stay active if other keys were pressed.

• \ Occupant group UI no longer shows all the permissions and, instead, will show a max of 5.

• \ Bug: Some items (commonly water items with the collect water job) are being marked as unclaimed even though they are accessible.

• \ Bug: Some trees would not collapse after the foundation was logged.

• \ Bug: Scenarios could get blocked by other scenarios that failed to start. This would keep them from activating.

• \ Bug: Global buffs to max values (i.e., Max health) would keep entities from dying.

• \ Health now gets 25x buff per kingdom level instead of 1x.

• \ Hunger, Thirst, Energy, Spirit get a 5x buff per kingdom level instead of 1x.

• \ Somnic Pools now start with a “Captured” occupant group.

• \ Bug: Some blueprints showed “duplicates” in the research unlocks list.

• \ Bug: Spellbooks could not be equipped.

• \ Added help text to indicate when an attack won’t be used due to a disabled skill when hovering over item slots.

Thanks!

Waylon

Hey guys 1.1.0 Beta 9 is live!

Also, I snuck beta 8 in last night which was a small hotfix patch.

Some good fixes in this one. Thank you to those sending me logs and save files to help find the issues. Much appreciated!

• \ Ctrl+input now applies all to permissions lists.

• \ Bug: Manual job queues were being cleared.

• \ Bug: Some expandable entries would expand multiple entries on click.

• \ Bug: Ore was generating at 0z which should only be bedrock blocks.

• \ Added wood block and wood wall to the “Basics” research unlocks.

• \ Stone Furnace now also unlocked with smithy.

• \ Bug: Some jobs would block clearing other jobs.

• \ Tuned bronze/copper/tin jobs to be easier.

• \ Bug: New occupant groups wouldn’t show permission settings.

• \ Bug: Transmuation room would allow all ancients.

• \ Bug: Null ref when entering default profs.

• \ Bug: Error when deleting a room and creating a new one.

Thank you

S

Big focus on room jobs for this one. I'm still tracking down a couple bugs related to some jobs not queuing properly. One that I encountered this with a lot was for capturing entities at the hunting grounds. Should have a fix for the next patch.

• \ I now show the room overlay with a transparency when placing jobs. As well, items are made a little bit transparent. You'll notice that some of the item jobs (i.e., collect items) kinda hide the items. I missed that on my implementation and will fix for next patch.

• \ Windows are no longer clamped to the edge, and, instead, can be moved off-screen up until part of the window remains.

• \ Bug: Small and medium cages were not properly attracting animals.

• \ Bug: Infinite load screen when entering the tile of a new settlement.

• \ Entities spawned from overworld parties will now spawn with full attributes until I implement the proper simulation for foraging on the map.

• \ Grazing is now enabled by default for animal enclosures.

• \ Improved room auto job efficiency and response times.

• \ Added two new blueprints to make fodder with vegetables and plant fiber.

• \ Added option to add select random attribute/skill global buff when kingdom levels up.

• \ Bug: Certain icons would be hidden when playing at a higher resolution.

• \ Animal Enclosure, and Gwdir Rooms no longer lose quality from having roof missing.

• \ Bug: Age text was display ‘years’ instead of ‘days’

• \ Bug: Water animal was using eat icons.

• \ Reduced chance of simulated settlement population changing.

• \ Bug: Some global buffs applied to NPCs.

• \ Items spawned from consuming another item are no longer added to non-sapient inventories and are instead spawned on the ground.

• \ Bug: Small item count tracking errors.

• \ Bug: Fodder wasn’t showing up under meals.

• \ Feed and water animal no longer require farmer. Animals will now eat/drink in their animal enclosure.

• \ Stockpiles now have feed and water animal options.

• \ Eat and drink item jobs are now restricted to sapient entities.

• \ Feed and water animal jobs are now restricted to non-sapient entities.

• \ The starting stockpile now has the feed and water animal jobs enabled by default.

• \ Tuned path not found notifications to have a min threshold to fire. This is to avoid them firing for moments where a path was not found due to the item being temporarily in a state of movement or inaccessibility.

Thank you guys for your help testing!

Hey friends, Beta 6 is up!

• \ Tuned void-type blueprint skill requirement from 25 to 15.

• \ Added sfx for Machix.

• \ Added sfx for Void Woken.

• \ Lowered volume levels for some sfx.

• \ Bug: More upside down sprites for season transitions.

• \ Machix now start with a cold resist buff.

• \ Double-clicking rooms from the designation menu or the room location will now open the production window for the room. Thanks Mr Falaf for the suggestion there.

• \ Reduced toughness of the stone vein.

• \ Bug: Several ingot blueprints had required items disabled in the room job settings.

• \ Added condition to room job requirement list.

• \ Bug: Some “Path Not Found” notifications would point to 0,0,0.

• \ Bug: Entities would start doing a job from afar (usually their bed) after sleeping.

• \ Bug: Entities would play the sleep animation for a frame or two after sleeping and at the start of a job.

• \ Bug: Room occupants weren’t saving correctly which would result in owners switch rooms on game load.

• \ Added tilling to Arboretum.

• \ Nation settlement population simulation should now properly be capped by max population.

Several folks mentioned how when you get lots of items the room jobs really slow down. I am currently focused on improving that. Thanks everyone for your help finding bugs and improving the game. Hoope you all have a great weekend!

Big Ancient and Ardyn focus for this one. Added some new rooms for both races to help with some annoying entity management stuff. Still lots to tune and add for them (as well as pretty much every race). But, hopefully, these are easier to get up and running. Also did some work on the Tavern. You should now be able to use the Tavern as a means of improving happiness. You can also enable eat and drink jobs there.

Notes:

• \ Bug: Tomes had no slot to equip to. Now equip to utility slot.

• \ Bug: Taverns had no default occupant permissions set. Now default is for “Patrons” citizens.

• \ Relaxing with drink at the tavern now buffs spirit.

• \ Platforms no longer removed by wood and stone walls.

• \ Added eat and drink jobs to tavern.

• \ Added Imp Den room for imps to eat, drink, and sleep.

• \ Added sleep on ground job for homes that is disabled by default.

• \ Void Imps now spawn with Miner profession.

• \ Added tooltip note to plants that can grow in any season.

• \ Added room info to entity tooltip to show what rooms they occupy.

• \ Bug: newly born Ardyn were spawning as Neutral.

• \ Prison cells now allow eating, drinking, sleeping.

• \ Prison cell occupants are now restricted to sapient captured entities.

• \ Added Somnic Pool room to manage Ardyn leeching of life.

• \ Ardyn Home is now solely for sleeping.

Thanks!

Hey gang!

Beta 4 is up! (Beta 3 was a sneaky hotfix for a load bug) I think these changes will have a big impact on the fun.

• \ Players can now add custom occupant groups to any room in addition to the default ones.

• \ Stockpiles now come with eat and drink jobs that can be enabled.

• \ The first stockpile that players start a new game with will have eat and drink on by default as well as two custom occupant groups that auto add player settlers and animals. The default laborer group is still there, but disabled.

• \ Fixed a bug where not all occupant groups would be filled with settlers.

Thanks everyone!

Hey folks!

So far the beta testing is going really well. I've been getting amazing feedback. As expected, when first going live with a beta, there are plenty of bugs and issues to address. Without player feedback this would be quite the challenge. So thanks to everyone that has been playing and letting me know what you think. Helps a ton!

Here are the fixes and changes for today's patch:

• \ Added family name to home-type rooms.

• \ Added ability to enable/disable room occupant groups.

• \ Added Hauler occupant group (disabled by default) to all rooms.

• \ Tuned skill requirement for jobs. Many were WAY too high.

• \ Added entity age to entity entries such as occupants.

• \ Increased Moss Kuplin carry skill bonus to +30.

• \ Max population is now saved.

• \ Manual room changes now saved.

• \ Fodder now requires mushrooms instead of vegetables to be created.

• \ Ancients now start with stone tech.

• \ Fixed issue where entities spawned as neutral.

• \ Fixed issue where recharging Machix applied permanent energy debuff to Ancient.

• \ Fixed issue where entities would occupy multiple family rooms.

• \ Fixed an issue where entities wouldn't die.

• \ Fixed an issue where steel axe had the wrong item type.

• \ Fixed flipped sprite for Spring.

Just from this weekend, I've written a wall of notes from player feedback. So, I'll be putting out another patch with more improvements based on those asap!

Thanks!

Hey friends!

Moments ago, I finished uploading the new version, 1.1.0 Darkest Depths, to the steam beta branch.

For those of you that want to help find bugs, provide feedback for tuning, or just poke around, please check it out. Fair warning, as this is a beta, there are going to be lots of bugs and little things that we will be addressing over the coming weeks that the version is being beta tested. So, please keep that in mind before trying it out. As well, there are lots of things I will be adding during the beta that I didn't get the chance to add before it came out. Here are some of those:

-Additional Tomek Portraits

-Additional Tomek Foods

-Limiting certain jobs based on kingdom population limit.

-Using Ren to trade for automated party trade orders.

-Settler migration request from other settlements.

-Additional cave, surface, and dungeon templates.

-Cave Mip bomb fruit.

-Room Quality tuning - This is a big one I'll focus on.

-Additional tutorial tuning and guides.

-Additional research nodes for the five races.

-Additional dialogue for raids and other events.

The above might look like a lot but I've already started most of these things and they just need to be finalized.

Here is a tentative patch notes for the build. This doesn't quite show all the changes as I need to go through with a fine-tooth comb and update it. But it does cover the bulk of things:

• Content: Tomek playable race. The Tomek have the unique perk of starting a new settlement with caves near the surface revealed from the start. This lets players start in caves rather than the surface. The Tomek also have a unique reproduction mechanic where you sacrifice one adult Tomek to make three. The Tomek also do not eat normal food. Instead, they eat foods made from ores and gems.

• Content: Sentrene Bow - This is an automated sentry turret that fires arrows at hostile enemies.

• Content: Stone Chest - You can now make stones chests from stone.

• Content: Apiary Room - You can now designate the Apiary which allows players to collect honey from bees they’ve captured.

• Content: Bee Hive - Where honey is collected from bees.

• Content: Machix - A new Ancient entity that serves as a builder.

• Content: T’Igwir - A new room where Gwdir make things with Wir.

• Content: Exonaut - A new Ancient summon that serves as a defensive fighter.

• Content: Transmute To Dirt Job - Turns any block into dirt.

• Content: Transmute To Water Job - Turns any block into water.

• Feature: Claim tiles with parties. Claimed tiles allow players to build roads and settlements.

• Feature: Build roads with parties. Roads provide faster movement for parties.

• Feature: Build settlements with parties. Settlements can be traded with.

• Feature: Raid settlements with parties to plunder items. Raids have a small chance to lose party members.

• Feature: Create automated trade routes for parties. Parties will go back and forth between settlements collecting items.

• Feature: Enter a tile with their nation leader.

• Feature: Rotate blueprints with Shift+Scroll Wheel.

• Feature: Draw jobs in a line by holding Alt.

• Feature: Added a tab to Entity Info called Life Story. This shows the entity’s family, and any events in their life that may or may not add buffs/debuffs.

• Feature: Added settings to notification window so players can edit notif visibility.

• Tuning: Chests now only hold trinkets. Chest item capacity now scales with material type.

• Tuning: Merchants now leave the settlement after 10 real time minutes instead of 30.

• Tuning: “Failure” checks for jobs is now done when progress is applied to the job instead of when the job finishes. This is to allow a job to eventually finish regardless of failures. Failures will, now, just slow the process down.

• Tuning: Added Wisdom attribute which adds job and combat XP gain.

• Tuning: New settlers and animals that spawn will have random ages closer to the entity’s min age for their adult tuning. So, instead of humans spawning with an age between 16-60, they will spawn ~16-24. This is to keep new games from having animals and settlers dying right away.

• Tuning: All entity starting health has been increased.

• Tuning: Renamed “Kingdom Points” to “Edicts”.

• Tuning: Clay and fiber blueprints are now unlocked by default with “The Basics”. This is due to the fact that there was no real need to spend Edicts (Research Points) on those over wood/stone research.

• Tuning: Caves are now more “cave-like” with better branching tunnels.

• Tuning: Ore now generates in proper vein formations, not scattered around randomly in single blocks.

• Tuning: Increased new animal arrival frequency.

• Tuning: Decreased time that NPCs stick around on the map.

• Tuning: Cave and surface props no longer spawn in grid patterns.

• Tuning: Hostile entities will no longer b-line for player entities. They will now only move towards player entities if they’ve sighted them or if they are already at war with the player’s nation.

• Tuning: Entities will now consume health potions they carry in their utility slot if their health drops below 50%.

• Polish: UI improvements across the board. More info on tooltips and various windows. Better consistency with layouts and visual language.

• Polish: Utility list buttons are now aligned to the left instead of the right.

• Polish: Cleaned up and improved tooltips. Unified overall layout and content.

• Polish: Added notification for unclaimed items.

• Polish: Cleaned up and improved entity info window. Uniform tab is now called Equipment. Items are now equipped directly from the inventory window. The inventory window can be open by clicking item slots.

• Polish: Entities that die of old age will have a notification that says, “Died of old age” instead of “Killed by elder”.

• Polish: Time menu now shows the current timescale when stopped. Whereas, before, all four indicators would turn red. This was confusing as it indicated the timescale was set to 4 before pausing. Now, players will know what timescale they are on when they unpause.

• Polish: Drop shadow (black outline around sprites) is now only show when an object is on the ground. This is to better communicate when something is in the air/falling.

• Polish: Added additional SFX for several entities, notifications, and in-game actions.

• Polish: Action text (numbers that appear when entities do work) will now scale with camera zoom.

• Bug: Entities were not moving to all 8 idle locations. Instead, they’d move to just four.

• Bug: Stoneleaf was requiring stonework instead of farming.

• Bug: Some game over scenarios weren’t spawning entities on island maps.

• Bug: Items could be auto equipped by issuing a move order while the entity was moving to the equip item.

• Bug: Small inaccurate pathing issue when pathing through water.

• Bug: Nyctium had no assigned item slots for equipping but stated it gives a move speed buff for it.

• Bug: Generating a new map caused max kingdom counts to decrease.

• Bug: Entities could get stuck in hold position state trying to get to the position, but not actually moving to it.

• Bug: Depth fog was visible for underground tunnels.

• Bug: Some fx would not start playing correctly.

• Bug: Blueprints were blocking skylight and killing plants.

I'm hoping to have 1.1.0 out of beta and into production for June. Please feel free to join our discord to discuss the beta. Always happy to hear about your experience, any issues you find, or just chat about the game.

Thanks for reading and have a nice weekend!

Waylon

Hey everyone!

You guys have been waiting so patiently for the next update and I appreciate it. It is very close to being ready for beta. I'm looking to get it out there for April. This update is huge and I'm doing my best to make sure everything works well. Thanks for waiting.

You can check out the December Dev Log to see some of the overworld features I've been working on. But, today, let's take a look at what else is in store...

The Tomek

Well, I finally started on the game's fifth race. It's a long--LONG--time coming...

What makes the Tomek special? These are a subterranean species that is constantly at war with the rat-like, Nequhtli horde. While the Humans and other races are busy bumbling around on the surface, the Tomek clans are busy keeping Odd from becoming overrun by swarms of Nequhtli filth.

The Tomek benefit from the special ability to start their settlement underground. Players will be able to see ALL underground caves on the map that are above 100z.

These cave dwelling creatures have incredibly hard skin which gives them a significant toughness bonus from the get-go. To maintain this defense, the Tomek eat a strict diet of various ores. And they've developed the unique ability to 'grow' various ores in their underground farms.

Very excited to get this race out to you folks as I think they are quite interesting.

Updated Dungeons, Caves, and Ore Gen

With the addition of the Tomek, I also wanted to improve underground exploration.

First off--and I'm sure a lot of you will be happy with this--I've made it so ore now generates in proper veins. No longer will they be peppered around the map randomly.

Caves are now more... 'cave-like'. They have more room and longer tunnel formations. And dungeons now have more room types and generate proper connecting corridors.

Additionally, I have been adding more entities and items for you to find underground...

New Items/Entities

I'm going to keep most of them a surprise but I did want to show off one of the legendary items you can find underground: The Slipway Disc. This handheld item allows the bearer to instantly teleport to their target destination. The entity must be able to path to the location, but as soon as a path is found, they will teleport immediately to the end. This is exceptionally handy when given to a laborer and I enjoy watching them bounce around the map making quick work of stocking a room.

New Apiary Room

No doubt you've seen the bees buzzing around some of the biomes in the game. Now, you'll be able to utilize these tiny friends with the new Apiary room. This room will let you gather honey from bees which is an excellent food source. It is also extremely valuable in the Market.

More Ancient Minions

For as long as the Ancients have been around (which is almost as old as I am), you guys have asked for more minions for the Ancients to summon and use. Well, I'm happy to announce that I've added a couple more. I will only showcase one for now... the Machix.

The Machix are a mechanical entity that are powered by void energy. Thousands of years ago, when the Ancient population was first starting to become dangerously low, the Ancients created the Machix to help build and maintain their cities.

These mechanical builders only need energy to function. When their energy is depleted, their movement and efficiency is greatly reduced. Ancients will then need to recharge them in the transmutation chamber. This process consumes a lot of the Ancient energy which will require them to sleep more often.

In addition to the Machix is another entity that is focused on defense. I won't spoil them just yet, but know that they are very powerful, and will require a lot of resources to build.

QoL Stuff

You can now hold shift to designate jobs in a line.

Also, you can use shift+scroll to rotate props before placing them. Or you can rotate them from the tooltip:

You'll also notice that tooltips will show optional jobs for the object you select. This is handy if you want to issue a job that's permitted there without needing to go through the jobs menu.

And, speaking of selecting, I've added a lot of feedback to indicate items, plants, and props that can be selected. This works just like entity selection where an outline will appear around the object.

Kingdom Level And Edicts

What the helly is an Edict? This is what I'm calling 'kingdom points'. You use these to unlock new research as well as expand your kingdom in the overworld map.

Every kingdom level, you will get to choose 2 options from a level up list. You can choose to get edicts, increase the max settlement population, or apply random global buffs to your settlers. Also, your settler max level will increase as normal with kingdom level.

I really like this change as it has made the kingdom level up process a lot more engaging and I hope you find it fun too.

Profession And Room Tuning

Something I'm super excited to get out to players is new tuning for professions and rooms. In the live version, these two things are... kinda fuzzy. Rooms aren't very strict on who can be an occupant. And it's not very clear who is needed for a room to function.

In the new version, rooms are way more strict about who can be an occupant. Rooms no longer allow anyone with a certain skill to join. You HAVE to have the correct profession. Stockpiles require Laborers. Workshops require Builders. Farms require Farmers. Etc. This makes it extremely clear what your room needs for workers. You can change a profession at any time, but it will incur a 24hr 'learning new profession' debuff.

As well, I've moved ALL entity auto jobs to rooms. It was SO confusing to have entities with their own eat, drink, graze jobs. You had to go and look at the individual entity to see what was going on. Now, these are directly tied to a room. So, for Humans, their eat/drink jobs are in the Human home. Graze is in the animal enclosure. And so on for other unique races. I love this change because it is so much easier to understand how things work. And, a lot of rooms have way more value. The Human home, for example, is no longer just about sleeping:

I've also added lots of the cooking and prep jobs to the home. So, no, you don't need a cook just to have your settlers well fed. It helps because they are more efficient at it, but it's not necessary. You can have a hermit run with one settler that has just a house and that works fine. Human Homes and other racial rooms are the few exceptions where Race is used to determine occupant instead of Professions. But, it also is super clear:

In addition to all this, I've made it so leaders are now professions too. This is to allow players to select their leaders and also use certain rooms. For example, the Human King and Queen are now responsible for the Town Hall and its jobs. The King is required for integrating citizens and the Queen blesses citizens.

The other races also have their own leader professions and rooms. The leader professions are unique in that only one entity at a time can have the profession. Plus, leader professions can choose one skill to increase each level.

Room Quality

You might have noticed room quality in the screenshots. This is a new addition to rooms that affects the spirit of your settlers. Settler spirit will add/remove buffs, so it's ideal to fill your rooms with nice things so their spirit stays high.

New Game Options

I've made a change so that new game item options will show you things you've discovered in other games. So, if in one run you discovered the Slipway Disc, you'll be able to take it into a new game with you.

Concluding Thoughts

Ok, there's soooo much more to show you guys but this post is already too big. I truly think this next version makes the game way more fun, So many new things to discover and a million UI and QoL improvements. I cannot wait to get the update out there but there is a lot for me to finish up and polish. It's not that far off. Thanks for being patient and for continuing to follow the game.

Cheers!

-Waylon

Hey friends!

The steam winter sale is here and I wanted to post a sneak peak of what I've been working on for the last little bit. I'm excited about the new content and improvements going into the game, and I'm planning to have them out in beta in the next week.

I'll detail everything fully in the official update post, but let's take a peak into what is coming.

Overworld

I've been working hard on improving the overworld map. The UI look and functionality has seen a lot of work. I've done a pass on making more visuals for the tile art, settlement and nation icons, and floating labels.

Race settlement visuals have been updated to be easier to distinguish in addition to having more character. I particularly like the T'Thdir tree being visible for the Gwdir.

Labels are much cleaner and easy to read. Effort was put into making settlement and kingdom labels more distinguishable:

I've moved the overworld interactions from the bottom-left tooltip to its own menu (like build/rooms/jobs). The tooltip was getting quite crammed as well as being difficult to navigate. There's still a tooltip to show what is under your cursor, but the actual interaction with the overworld happens on the right. Starting a new kingdom looks like:

Turrets

You can now research and build automated turrets. I plan on adding a bunch of turret types for the different races. This is one is called the Sentrene Bow. It's powered by a void crystal and all races can research it.

Settler Life Story

I've been working on adding more depth to the game by adding more uniqueness to settlers. As they age, they are going to develop unique traits that help them stand out from other settlers. These will positively and negatively affect the settler's stats, and, in some cases, add/remove mechanics. For example, losing a hand, keeps them being able to equip an item to that hand slot, but they also become tougher as a result.

General UI and QoL Improvements

Resizable windows!

Better hotkey editing. You can now edit the scroll wheel for individual input commands.

Super cleaned up tooltips and UI throughout. And way more info on various things.

Improved item management. You can once again just equip items from the inventory lists by dragging them to slots. Did a ton of work trying to make item management in general way more enjoyable and easy. Left-clicking a slot will auto open the inventory and jump to the item in the list (if an item was in the slot). No more item lists inside the equipment screen. Everything just opens the item inventory now.

New game screen improved!

There's lots more to show off but I want to save some things for the update post. Thanks for reading and following the game!

-Waylon

Hey everyone!

I know it has taken altogether too long to get a new update out and I appreciate you patiently waiting. This update focuses on improving stability and polish across nearly every part of the game. You’ll find dozens of bug fixes alongside performance improvements and new quality-of-life updates. There’s also a fresh batch of tuning for NPC behavior, fish spawning, and weather systems, plus a few fun additions like the new Codex window, stone walls, and a “Mouse” boss scenario among others.

(Image and cover courtesy of discord member and wiki master Kingfisher)

(Image courtesy of discord member LassoJack)

Let's take a look!

Codex

The codex is a new window (opened with the '/' key) that shows you all the things you've discovered in the game. It's meant to be a single location to show you helpful tooltips on various items, blueprints, plants, etc.

It also shows you the things you've haven't discovered (the name at least) in the world. These are denoted by ? and some of these entries will show you flavor text or possibly a hint as to where to find them in the tooltip.

Bosses

I've re-enabled a boss that used to be in the game but had some bugs that needed to be addressed. Plus I've added a new boss that is based on one of the game's legendary patrons (TwistedSteele!). I won't spoil too much about them, but here's a preview:

Improved New Game Screen

I also did some working polishing the new game screen. Hopefully you find it much easier to use and read. I tried organizing elements in addition to adding some functionality to current inventory lists.

Cooking Items

I added several new items to supplement the cooking profession. I quite like this addition as it makes cooks stand out and adds more character to the individual settlers.

Moss Kuplin

I added a new critter that the Gwdir can create called the Moss Kuplin. This creature is intended to help out with hauling, but is also quite good at evading. Maybe a valuable addition to defenses?

Various UI Polish

I did even more clean up on notifications and I added some new ones to help communicate work and combat failures/successes. Hovering all notifications should give you a much better detailed tooltip explaining the why and how of things.

As well, I went through a huge amount of tooltips to add more lore and flavor descriptions, and I added new icons for all plants. So they no longer share the one.

Hermit Status

All the single (non custom) settler loadouts now apply the "Hermit" status to the settler. Those that still want to play more of a hardcore mode without this can do so with the custom loadout.

Skill Failures

I added in a new system to jobs called Skill Failures. The intention of this is to add some progression to jobs. I feel that, previously, jobs were way too forgiving and there was no real sense of "getting better" for individual settlers. You could easily change your settler professions around and it didn't quite matter. Now, if you put a settler onto making, say, Rutile, they will struggle to make these. Whereas, your master blacksmith will have no problem. To me, it's a much more satisfying experience to have this difficulty at first and it showcases the difference in materials a lot better.

This system is a small part of a larger plan for jobs. I will also be adding "Critical Failures" and "Critical Successes" to jobs. These will act more like mini events. For example, if you have a settler roll a critical fail in something like summoning they might summon a hostile creature. Or, perhaps they turn themselves inside out. A master blacksmith might imbue their perfectly crafted sword with a special buff, making it a legendary item.

I think things like this help the professions and skill progression feel more dynamic and interesting. I'm excited to add these very soon and I hope that excites you too.

There's lot more but I'll save that for the patch notes!

1.0.38.4 Patch Notes

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Closing the room designation menu was not remembering your last selection when re-opening it.

• Make fodder required animals skill instead of cooking.

• Sometimes entities would have thirst appear after re-loading a game. This was due to the drink from well buff not being permanent.

• Iron Ingots were set to automatically build in foundry and should be manual by default.

• Flying entities would not find suitable locations in the air to move to and would end up always on the ground.

• Flying entities were unable to leave the map when perched in trees.

• Selections would not apply to multiple z levels. So, for example, mining would only be applied to the current z level you were on. This made it impossible to create a vertical tunnel.

• Not necessarily a bug, but snow was spawning in a horizontal scanline. Now, it spawns randomly around the map.

• Snow and weather spawn rates were not properly checked. This would cause checks farther to the left of the map to have a lower rate of spawning. Now, the spawn rates are checked uniformly.

• One raid would still happen despite raids being toggled off.

• Ice block could not be mined and did not permit mining.

• Staff of focus was giving a buff to ???. Should now be for Magic Combat skill.

• Archenthrall target gathering wasn’t executing correctly.

• Void stabilizer powered state wasn’t triggering so blueprints like Archenthrall could not be started.

• Sometimes text wasn’t wrapping correctly in big text blocks.

• Job visuals weren’t updating correctly. This would cause transitions between the same job to not display properly.

• The unlocked/locked visuals were blocking ambient light which would cause a shadow around things like trap doors.

• Entities would not drop into blocks below a trap door if the block contained a platform.

• Notification order was incorrect after a certain amount had been created.

• Room jobs were not appearing at workstations.

• Some skills were not toggleable in the default skill permissions tab even though they were not locked.

• The tooltip for the diet group showed up as ???.

• Some diet items were not changing priority when edited.

• Some of the auto-equipment generation wasn’t filling all slots.

• There was an error when shift-adding a new room without one selected.

• Free Caged Animal was set to Auto for Hunting Grounds. Now, only Capture Entity is set to Auto.

• The nation expand/collapse of the settlements list on the overworld map wasn’t working.

• Astracube was flagged as an obstruction which would keep the stockpile room from allowing them inside.

• Fixed an issue where eat/drink jobs could not be created if the entity was in an empty block (no plants, items, anything).

• Tooltip delay settings weren’t working.

• Fixed an incorrect hotkey icon on the overworld map for “Deselect” showing the left mouse and not the right.

• Plants were not expiring when planted in the wrong season.

• Some plants would float in the air.

• For stockpile jobs, entities were not filling their inventories completely.

• Entities were not being set to player faction on job capture success.

• Newborns were not spawning with age 0.

• When target entities run away during combat, the player attacker was incapable of attacking successfully.

• Some fish weren’t spawning correctly in biomes.

• Jobs could unintentionally be placed below previous jobs. This would happen because the previous job wasn’t blocking the placement from cascading downwards when ‘single layer placement’ was off.

• Melon had a typo in its season id causing it to not grow in spring or display text correctly.

• Plants could automatically be planted in seasons they don’t grow.

• The background for some tracked professions was the wrong color.

• Pregnant status for non-humans would show pregnant human tooltip.

• Tin, Copper, and Coal weren’t properly spawning in Barrens and Desert biomes.

• Some NPC entities weren’t spawning with handheld items.

• Some fish spawned hidden.

• Some tooltips (e.g., egg item) were throwing errors under the hood which would keep the tooltip from appearing.

• Glass blocks weren’t transitioning correctly.

• Entities would drink from water blocks before using items in water troughs nearby.

• Duplicate toggle icons were showing up on some permissions lists.

• Several group counts were displaying 0 for the tracking settings lists.

• Prohibited entities would show up duplicated in target lists for jobs.

• Prohibited entities were still being used for target jobs. e.g., Leech Life (Ardyn).

• Racial tech was being unlocked when entities were captured instead of when they become citizens.

• Raiders were spawning as neutral.

• Some plants, after being planted in a farm, were not properly being marked as Mature. e.g., Mirtle grass.

• Market items were showing an incorrect “Merchant capacity exceeded” error when buying from merchant.

• Some entities given an attack order would have a ‘stuttering animation’.

• Some attacks weren’t being used because of an out-of-range attack check error.

• Entities were unable to fight in the water.

⚙️ Tuning / Content / Polish / Misc

• Updated mod project to 1.0.38.4.

• Added more tooltip info when hovering over a room in the world. This is when the room designation window is open.

• Killed entities will now award less XP.

• NPC’s now have a higher chance of leaving the map after a certain amount of time has passed.

• Improved pathfinding performance.

• Reduced damage over time from freezing.

• Body temperature is now reduced with some randomness involved. A roll is checked against the difference between body and ambient temperature. As the difference in temperature increases, the body temperature has a greater chance to lower each minute.

• Added some additional logic for NPC’s to move as a group.

• Added a tooltip to the top-right weather graphic to show the current weather and temperature range.

• Enabled thief scenario. Thieves will appear when your settlement has Ren. Entities can spot thieves if their paths cross.

• NPCs can no longer become each others companions.

• Spike traps are now damaged when an entity triggers them.

• Added repair job to fix damaged props (such as spike traps damaged by entities walking over them).

• Spikes now do more damage.

• Remaining ancient props now require void cells to be powered and used.

• Added unpowered icon above Ancient props to indicate when they don’t have a Void Cell powering them.

• Significant text performance improvements.

• Tree populations in forest biomes have been decreased.

• Crop plant populations (wheat, berries, etc) have been increased.

• Added Wood Hatchet item.

• Added Wool/Cloth Apron item.

• Added Wool/Cloth Chef’s Hat item.

• Cloth items are now called “Linen”. i.e., Linen Pants instead of Cloth Pants. Cloth is now just the material type. i.e., Linen Cloth, Wool Cloth, etc.

• Cleaned up some requirements text for making ink to make in clearer.

• Removed “Can Be Butchered” from Honey Bee.

• Added some visuals to diet items to indicate when they have affects for consuming.

• “Cooked Foods” in diets are now just “Meals”.

• Added the Legendary Patron item “Twisted Steel”

• Added “Mouse” boss scenario.

• Capturing animals now has a chance to fail.

• Entities now have a chance to escape from cages. This is a random roll each minute that compares: roll out of (cage toughness + 1) * 2000 ≤= entity stats (level + evasion + toughness). If there is no open space to exit to beside the cage, they will break it.

• Cages can now be locked by faction.

• The hermit loadout now starts the settler with buffs to several skills.

• Newly spawned entities (with no parents) will get a natural bonus to their core skills for their starting profession.

• Added a Clear Plants job to jobs menu to clear all plants regardless of being mature.

• Tons of cleanup on notifications.

• Clicking a notif previews that are stacked will now open the notif window on the notif group page.

• Clicking a notif in the Notifications window takes you to the notification.

• Added stone wall prop.

• Improved overworld map searching to highlight names and focus camera on searches.

• Prison cell occupants now require captured faction by default.

• Tavern occupants now require citizen faction by default.

• Added inline text icons for all plants.

• Added a ton of new description text and codex hint text to tooltips.

• Added tooltip to location coords to show permitted paths from location.

• Added a “Codex” window that shows info for discovered items, plants, statuses, professions, skills, etc.

• Temperature input hotkey is now ‘ and codex now uses /.

• Re-enabled Deen and Chicken Greg scenario.

• Re-enabled Desert Shimmer scenario.

• Added a ton of tuning/polish to starting loadouts.

• Starting items that have a random chance are no longer added to the default uniform loadouts.

• Added “Poor Diet” status for when entities eat items they shouldn’t in their diet.

• Added remaining Moss Kuplin art and data.

• Added skill check failure and tutorial step.

• Clicking a new discovery will open the codex, focus its entry, and expand its info.

• Increased natural fish spawning chances.

• Fishing skill now increases range that fish are lured to fishermen.

• Added notifications for fishing. These show whether fish are lured as well as caught.

• Fish now show up in the population panel.

• Kotha armor now unlocked with Fishing II.

• Added job state for permitted seasons. This is to keep plants from being planted in the wrong season.

• Added season info to blueprint tooltip.

• Planting jobs in rooms have been separated out by plant rather than be put in “plant standing” and “plant ground cover”, etc. This is to make it easier to see what is available for planting, see and edit plants by season, and differentiate skill level requirement.

• New entity natural bonuses have been tuned down from max of 15 to max of 5.

• Tuned starting NPC level to be based on avg sapient player level instead of kingdom level.

• Tuned base health for Ancients from 250 to 350.

• Tuned NPC starting items to more accurately match the player’s progression.

• Tuned NPC spawn count to more accurately match the player’s progression.

• Added better list feedback for when entity is selected (on lists where selection is possible).

• Added some extra tooltip info to target requirements to show when there are prohibited targets.

• Lowered XP for fishing.

• Increased rate at which fish rise to the surface.

• Fish now despawn after 24-48 hrs of idling. This is to allow for the redistribution of new fish across the whole map.

• Made the game background dark instead of light. See, I do listen! xD

Ok, so what's next? I'm going to start work on adding new content. This update has a few new things, but I'm going to add a lot more in the next one. I'm also doing some exciting work on rooms and professions that will add a lot of uniqueness to settlers. Excited to share more about that soon. And, lastly, I will continue to try and improve the game based on feedback. I know the tutorial and game tips in general need work. I want to flesh those out more. I also want to improve the equipping and uniform flow some more. It has some pain points.

Anyway, that's all for now. Thanks for reading this far and I hope you enjoy the new update!

Waylon

Hey friends Here's a small update focused on fixes and tuning. In the last version, fixing the scenario activation bug accidentally unleashed a flood of raids. This update pulls that back significantly to avoid overwhelming players. I've also fixed the settings menu option to properly disable raids. Note: if a raid is already en route on the overworld map, it will still arrive—but all future raids will now be blocked as expected.

Here are the notes:

🐛Bug Fixes

• Disabling raids did not disable all raids.

• Merchants weren’t leaving.

• Command line up and down input select wasn’t working.

• Global buffs were also applying to NPCs.

• Glass wasn’t blocking rain.

• Graphical tooltip error which shows a white box in an empty tooltip.

• Caged hostile entities could not be captured because entities got stuck fighting them, or running away from them.

⚙Tuning/Content/Polish/Misc

• Merchant inventories now leave a quarter of the total space open.

• Tuned arriving party size to scale up at a slower rate.

• Tuned raiding parties to be less frequent.

• Ardyn herder loadout now starts with sheep instead of chickens.

• Added game seed to save slot info.

• Tuned Kingdom XP requirement to grow steeply at first and plateau rather than be a linear growth.

• Arcane study blueprints now use Voidwork and Lecterns instead of Writing and no workstation.

Thanks!

Hey folks!

Nothing too exciting here. Just a small update with some fixes and small changes. Here are the notes:

🐛Bug Fixes:

• A pretty severe performance issue related to spotlights. I completely missed this and am glad I noticed it by accident. Fix will greatly reduce CPU load when you have lots of spotlights.

• Snow and ice not melting.

• Snow not falling after its support is removed.

• Ardyn appearing as neutral. This fix only works for new games unfortunately.

• Events stopping after a certain period.

⚙️Changes:

• I reduced the max distance that a party can head to your settlement. This should result in more merchants showing up.

• Greatly reduced XP bonus from training melee/ranged.

• Increased frequency of animal migrations.

• Increased chances of night mobs.

Thanks!

Hello friends!

Today's new version has a bunch of improvements across the board. But I did try to focus in on combat to improve how that feels. It was pretty frustrating to fight enemies, and I tried to fix a lot of the weird behaviors you'd often see when trying to take down an enemy.

As well, I worked on making some of the blueprints and profession more useful. For example, you can now actually use potions! This is tied to the newly added utility slot.

Let's take a look!

Consumable Items and New Utility Slot

The utility slot can be used to equip food, drinks, potions, and any consumable item. You select the equip items from the Uniforms window (U) like normal. But then you can left-click the item in the utility slot, and the entity will use it. Don't worry, food and drinks are automatically used when needed. I also want to eventually set up conditions for players to be able to trigger consumables the way they want. i.e., "HP < x%, use potion."

Players can now use youth potions to reduce the age of their settlers. This will help keep your favorite settlers around! Careful, though. You can make them children again. And we all know how useful they are.

Animated Plants

I've also been working on making all plants animated. I'm not 100% there yet, but I've got quite a few down.

Progression Tuning and Organization

A lot of work has gone into tuning and cleaning up progression. I've combined a few research trees together to make things easier to find and more organized.

General Polish and Combat Improvements

An absolute unit worth of work has gone into polish. As always, tooltips have seen a ton of work, but most of all, the game logs (N) have seen a lot of work. I've organized the logs into categories and tried clean them up a bit better. As well, I've added some helpful tooltips. For example, below, you can see combat details for the Vytrax Claw attack.

Something else I've added is damage types. There are currently four:

• Piercing – Ignores half of the target's toughness.

• Slashing – Doubles the damage bonus from critical hits.

• Bludgeoning – Ignores half of the target's evasion.

• Magic – Ignores all of the target's toughness.

These are to help give the combat a bit more depth when creating your fighter uniforms.

As always, I still have lots and lots of work to better communicate these sorts of things. So please let me know if you want something. I'll probably add it!

Ok, there's so much more, but I'll leave it to the patch notes to guide you through the rest.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Several combat related behaviors which caused entities to get stuck or have incorrect attack output.

• Health action text wasn't showing up.

• Gwnvayth didn't drop the rose crown on death.

• Newly spawned Gwnvayths weren't spawning with the rose crown equipped.

• Load game window didn't keep the game paused.

• Entities could get stuck in job loops if an item was reserved and the reserve count wasn't updating other jobs.

• Container size wasn't showing up in tooltips.

• Plants couldn't be manually planted unless another plant was already present.

• Job position priority wasn't calculating correctly, causing nearby positions to be ignored.

• Planted saplings instantly became trees.

• Entities got stuck trying to stock items after being trapped in a block.

• Items in rooms became unclaimable if unreachable.

• Torches were getting placed on doors.

• Ambient shadows appeared over blueprints during certain job selections.

• Entities repeatedly picked up and dropped off items at the same spot due to a room priority bug.

• Returning from the overworld map sometimes caused chunks to not render.

• Items weren’t spawning after settling a new tile.

• Some game over dialogues weren’t playing correctly.

• Chickens weren’t laying eggs.

• Sky light wasn’t updating correctly under floors.

• Some paths didn’t open correctly after loading a save.

• Ardyn couldn’t leech life.

• Vertical climb wasn’t calculated correctly.

• Some NPCs didn’t attack during combat.

• Merchant items weren’t appearing in buy list.

• High-priority jobs blocked low-priority jobs from starting even when they failed.

• Steel items appeared before iron when spawning NPC entities based on player progression.

• Some plants didn’t drop items or spawn entities when mature.

• Saved plants didn’t produce crops.

• Nelescuro couldn’t expand past a certain size.

• Entities could over-level after becoming adults.

• Clicking on diet groups didn’t expand the list.

⚙️ Tuning / Content / Polish / Misc

• Combat tuned to be 100% less annoying. Better entity spacing and targeting. Enemies tuned way down to be less OP.

• Entities with combat disabled now flee instead of fighting.

• Children no longer earn XP (prevents unassigned profession leveling).

• Children now inherit a parent’s natural skill bonus (coin flip per skill).

• Children have a chance to get a +1 core skill bonus from parents.

• Performance improvements for stockpile storage and notifications.

• Trailmix recipe now unlocked via Campfire Cook research.

• Sentient entities can now drink from wells.

• Butcher Item now unlocked via Campfire Cook research.

• Moved Wood Block, Fence, and Beam to Wood-Work research.

• War research moved to the industry tree.

• Added coal, copper, and tin to Ember Rock and Sandstone terrain.

• All research nodes now cost 1 kingdom point.

• Lowered kingdom XP per level to 200 (from 400).

• Increased stack size of wood logs, stone chunks, and plant fiber to 10.

• Capped item stacks at 5,000 (except Ren) for performance.

• Stock room jobs are now global rather than room-locked.

• Farms now default to container-only stockpiles.

• Renamed Log skill to Forestry.

• Arboretums now use Forestry instead of Farming.

• Added more room requirement info to occupant groups.

• "+" button now appears beside rooms in room menu when searching.

• Improved water fill behavior.

• Newly discovered items aren’t added to permission lists if some are prohibited.

• Improved animal/traveler spawn point search.

• Updated various icons with larger art.

• Added night mobs.

• Added off-screen HUD indicators (toggleable).

• Added damage types (piercing, slashing, etc.).

• Added more detail to combat logs.

• Added Logs button to bottom bar.

• Improved floating label visuals (Shift to hold).

• Added “Family” tab to entity window.

• New control group hotkeys: Ctrl + # to set, Shift + # to add, Alt = lock tooltip.

• Shift now adds/removes from previous selection.

• Clicking profession icon now opens the profession pop-up.

• Void Cell unlocks with Immortality Tomb research.

• Added utility item slot for consumables (food, drinks, potions).

• Health potion, youth potion, and sablixian tar now grant buffs.

• Tuned down Staff of Focus and spellbooks.

• Spellbook of Healing grants passive healing.

• Library research jobs now give XP at the cost of ink and paper.

• Added animation variance to idle terrain (e.g., plants, water).

• Merchant UI now shows item counts.

• Market rooms only show local items for sale.

• Merchants scale quality and quantity of items with kingdom level.

• Non-merchants now bring more Ren based on kingdom level.

• Only common/uncommon items are in custom loadouts unless specified by race.

• Increased custom loadout Ren.

• Reduced Gwnvayth spawn time.

• Gwdir now start with T’Thdir I unlocked.

• Increased decay reduction for items stored in the Nascien.

• More plants now have animations.

• Wells now unlock with the Wellhouse.

Up Next

This update addressed a lot of annoying things that kept me from enjoying the game. But, for the next update, I'm going to focus more on depth. There are five main things I will focus on:

• Character traits and personality - I want characters to have more of a unique feel to them. What makes them interesting and not just pawns.

• Scenarios - More unique scenarios to help mix things up.

• Mechanics Props - More things to build that affect the world.

• Profession and Room Impact - I want rooms and professions to affect output for jobs and provide bonuses in a way that isn't just job progress bonus. i.e., improve merchant item rarity by having a nicer market. Apply buffs to items if a settler is skilled at making the blueprint. I also want to try limiting what jobs can be done based on settler level. It doesn't make sense that a level 1 settler can make rutile weapons and gear and it makes your high level settlers not as important. I think I'd like to add some item degradation as well to help professions feel useful. Tailors for example could mend clothes that have been worn through.

• Items - More items in general especially ones that add to the game's lore.

That's all for now. Thanks for reading this far and for checking out the new build if you do!

Best,

Waylon

1.0.36.0 Patch Notes

UI Improvements

Kingdom Level and Points

Game Over State

Bug Fixes

Tuning/Content/Polish/Misc

Concluding Thoughts

New Wiki

Cloud Saves

Workshop and Modding

Patch Notes