Rise to Ruins news & patch notes

This is a small patch addressing a few bugs, as well as a few minor balance tweaks. Enjoy! :) If you want to read more about the enormous patch that was just released on Saturday, click here. Check out the change log for all the juicy bits, and if you find a bug, don't forget to report it on Discord or the Steam Forums. :)

Update 2c Change Log

Miscellaneous Changes

• Trash burners now release or store 5 units of energy per tick, but the ticks are now 5 times longer. This fixes an issue where burners would cause too many particles to generate late-game.
• All chest open costs now reduced by 50%. (Note, already existing chests will still have their old opening costs)
• Temporarily disabled Twitch integration due to new API changes.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a few goals not progressing.
• Fixed a resource loading issue in the engine that caused problems with some localization mods.
• Fixed missing localization tag for the comet spell cost perk.
• Updated many aspects of the Java JRE and engine to reduce some hanging that can happen for specific configurations.
• Changed all .wav sound effects to .ogg to fix an additional hanging issue some users were experiencing.

https://media.tenor.com/AO9kGgay3RUAAAAd/its-about-time-starcraft.gif Introducing the largest update patch ever in Rise to Ruins history. Update 2, the Achievement Update. This patch adds a massive amount of new content, bug fixes, tweaks and over 100 Steam Achievements tied into a brand new goals system. I've also started live streaming development on Twitch, if you're interested, you can follow me there. I'll mostly be streaming Rise to Ruins, Rise to Ruins 2 (Yes you just read that) and Rayvo2D Engine development. But I may also occasionally Stream gaming and other random things. In addition, my wife is now officially SixtyGig Games new art intern, and she will be working on all current and future projects. If you're interested in stalking her, you can do so on Formerly-Twitter. Head over there and send her a "thank you" for making all the new achievement icons, chat bubbles, terrains and several other additions this patch. :) Finally, check out the change log for all the juicy bits, and if you find a bug, don't forget to report it on Discord or the Steam Forums. :) Alright, let's get into this! If you have any ideas on new achievements to add, or tweaks to existing ones, let me know!

Update 2 Change Log

Goals and Achievements System

• Old goal system has been removed from the game entirely.
• New goals system now has 117 goals (more may be added, post your ideas!).
• Each goal unlocks a corresponding Steam Achievement.
• Every goal is on a huge web map, and as you unlock goals, more goals will become available.
• Like the previous goals system, all goals and their progress persist through dooming the world.
• Goals can now be accessed in when in the play state (Playing in a region/map).
• Goals no longer award perks, but award a lot of God Experience.
• Free Chest Slots can be unlocked, awarding, you guess it, a free chest!
• Chests are now gained 25% faster to offset the goals no longer rewarding perks directly.

Faith and Influence System

• Villagers now gain and lose a new need, called faith, based on your and the world's actions. Anything they deem positive, they'll gain faith, negative, they lose it.
• Villagers are now less likely to panic or be confused when they have high faith and witness god doing things in the village.
• All spells now influence faith stats in some way or another when cast near villagers.
• New Building: The Essence Altar. Villagers can now be assigned as "Occultists", who will go to the altar and pray. Completing a pray action will increase the villager's faith and the villagers around them, as well as generate free essence that will be sent to an Essence Collector.
• New perks added for praying speeds.
• Lightning and Meteor (all kinds, including the spells) will now raise or lower faith depending on where it strikes, and what it hits.
• Villagers will now sometimes get a boost in faith when chatting with someone with significantly higher faith than they have.
• Villagers now gain 10 faith when they domesticate a wild doggo or take a mate.
• Villagers now gain faith when they mate, and villagers nearby gain a very small amount.
• Nearby villagers gain faith when they witness a monster killed.
• Nearby villagers lose faith when they witness another villager killed.
• Nearby villagers get a bonus to faith when they witness an elder die of natural causes. (Living a "full life")
• Villagers now conceive Nephilim children if their combined total faith is within 90% of their maximum faith.
• Lightning rods can increase faith when a lightning bolt hits them.
• A mob resurrected from the Resurrect spell get maximum faith instantly upon resurrection.
• Completely rewrote how max influence is calculated, each villager now provides a minimum and maximum amount, depending on the type of villager they are. Children offer less, while elders offer more, and Nephilims offer additional bonuses.
• All domesticated animals other than Doggos now provide 5 max influence each.
• Doggos now provide 20 max influence each.
• Doofy Doggos now provide 50 max influence each.
• The amount of total influence to the max influence bar each mob provides is now based on their faith. For example, if their faith is only 50% full, they will only provide 50% of their potential maximum influence. (Note: This only counts for mobs with faith stats, like villagers. Doggos for example, will always provide max faith as they have no faith stats.)
• New perks added for minimum influence, influence per animal and influence per villager.
• Flowers can now generate near concentrated areas of energy on the map, and where essence moves heavily through.
• Adjusted faith decay rates for all villagers.
• Standard and High Quality housing both now offer faith bonuses when upgraded.

Essence and Essence Collector Changes

• Significantly increased the speed newly spawned "resting" essence becomes active.
• Greatly improved essence colors and trails.
• Essence Collectors can no longer be fueled with or store crylithium.
• Essence Collectors now hold much more energy.
• Recolored and tweaked the Essence Collector art.
• Essence Collectors construction requirements have been increased, and now require crylithium for the first upgrade, and iron ingots for the second.
• Flowers can now be dissolved or cleared for a small amount of essence.

Reliquary and The Dead

• New Building: The Reliquary. You can store bound souls at the reliquary, binding the ghost to the general area, and maintaining their vessel.
• New Resources: Empty and Filled Eerie Vessels. Empty Vessels are made by the Occultists in the Reliquary with 1 iron and 1 gold.
• Occultists can now "capture souls", when a villager or doggo dies, they will go to their corpse and "capture" the soul, placing it in an Eerie Vessel and take the Vessel to the reliquary to store and maintain for future resurrections.
• Added all of the perks, job data and speed reductions for capturing souls where required.
• Ghost no longer wander to random buildings.
• Ghost now always try to hover around their vessel, or body.
• New Resource: Ghost Dust, can be freely sold to Catjeet Provisioners. Who knows what they want with it though.
• Ghosts not bound to a body or a vessel will eventually leave the map forever, when they do a ton of essence is released and they'll drop some ghost dust.
• Completely rebalanced when ghosts fade in and out of view.
• Doggos and Doofy Doggos ghosts now fade in significantly more frequently.
• Doggos and Doofy Doggos ghosts are much less likely to leave the world forever.
• Bound ghosts are 10 times more likely to appear at night.
• Increased durability of god dust by 5x, the same as the new ghost dust resource.
• Mobs now decay 20 times slower.

Spell Changes

• Banish spell now only confuses friendly mobs in the area if it actually banishes something.
• Banish confusion is now triggered from around the mob that was teleported away, rather than where the spell was cast.
• Dispel God Structures and Dispel Golem now can cause villagers to be confused upon seeing it cast.
• Dispel God Structures no longer panics villagers when cast.
• "Confusion" area of effect of Cold Aura increased.
• Generate Essence now has 1/4th the confusion/panic range.
• Generate Essence now costs twice as much to cast, but generates twice as much essence per cast.
• Conjure Material spell can now panic or confuse villagers.
• God Tower and God Wall spells now cause villagers to be confused or panic when cast around them.
• Grab spell now positively influences faith when you grab resources, and negatively when you grab mobs.
• Grab spell now no longer makes villagers panic when you grab resources (Note: Still will for grabbing mobs)
• Grab spell's panic/confusion range doubled.
• Harvest Spell can now cause villagers to panic if a resource is spawned right next to them.
• Harvest Spell's panic and confusion is now based on the location the resource spawned, rather than where the spell was cast.
• Holy Potatoes and Holy Wood spells can now cause panic and confusion to nearby villagers.
• Illuminate spell cost doubled.
• Illuminate spell now increases faith when cast and active, but only if cast at dusk or night.
• Recall spell now causes confusion and influences faith based on the location the actual mobs and resources left/arrived than where the spell was cast.
• Resurrect spell now only causes villagers to panic if the resurrection fails and creates a zombie. (Note: They will still be "confused" if the spell is successful.)
• Dissolve spell now has a chance to panic villagers.
• Blessing villagers no longer triggers Nephilim to be born. Now, blessing villagers guarantees that they will become pregnant the next time they coitus.
• Greatly optimized Cold Aura's CPU usage.
• Slightly optimized Flame Spell's CPU usage.
• Slightly optimized the Healing Aura spell.
• New Spell/Disaster added: Comet. A huge ice comet can now fall from the sky, causing catastrophic damage around it and digging a deep hole in the ground.
• Tripled cost of God Wall spell.
• Increased the cost, and cooldown, of the Holy Potatoes and Holy Wood spells
• Increased the cost of the Harvest spell.
• God Tower now has a 5 second cooldown.
• God Tower now also has a new spell cooldown perks.
• Harvest spell can now rarely generate trash when harvesting.

Temperature Influences

• Adjusted several spell descriptions to mention their impact on region temps.
• Meteor strikes can now slightly heat up the region for a short time.
• Blood Moons now make the region excessively hot.
• Full Moons now make the region slightly cooler.
• Eclipses now make the region very cold.
• Flame spell extremely slightly increases region temps.
• Cold aura now slightly lowers region temps.
• Storm spell now reduces the temperature when cast.

Loot box Changes

• Poking a loot box "circle" will confuse villagers and slightly increase faith, regardless if anything is uncovered.
• Moving a loot box will cause confusion at both locations, negative faith in the departing location and positive in the arrival location.
• Loot boxes being opened now positively influence faith (even when they're trashy!)
• Loot boxes idle in the village will sometimes confuse a villager.
• Loot box "circles" (before the box is uncovered) will now confuse villagers sometimes, as well as provide a tiny amount of faith.
• Uncovered loot boxes and keys now give a burst of faith, but also can cause villagers to panic or be confused in a wide area.
• Increased distance loot boxes cause panic and confusion when opening.
• Villagers now panic if a resource from a loot box right next to them, but also gains additional faith.
• Chances of a loot box being uncovered on click changed from 1 in 4 to 1 in 6.
• Slightly adjusted where resources spawn when a loot box is opened.

UI Improvements

• You can now set the resource filters to "rate", an experimental data view that gives you a rough idea how much of a resource is being consumed or generated over a given time period.
• The right hand resource bars can now be customized by opening the resource panel and selecting various types between food, water, dirty water, gold, faith and energy.
• The right hand resource bars now display a fill bar rather than just numbers.
• The right hand resource bar can now display 4 items, rather than 3.
• Increased the intensity of the mouse cursor light.
• Camp placement window now renders on the left side of the UI when the minimap is opened.
• Sound and music controls now have 25 volume levels rather than 10.
• Edge scrolling values in the settings menu now uses "O" instead of "[]" for the visual bar.
• Main menu messages now have random colors.
• "Mob rings" no longer appear when you mouse over dead mobs.
• Added a resource arrow under the mouse when you grab resources.
• The UI will no longer claim you can refine a resource at a building that can't carry it or its materials, even though the worker is allowed to refine that material.
• Fixed several UI issues related to the new Essence Altars and Reliquary.
• Areas where range is generated, but can't be used because it doesn't reach back to the main body of the village, now show up in red when viewing the range map.
• You can now change your worker's job colors to anything you want by clicking on the new color picker icon on the left hand workforce or resource management panel.
• Adjusted (hopefully) all blessed villager descriptions throughout the GUI.
• Birth console banner now displays what mob type was born.
• Easter egg logo is now 20 times more likely to appear.
• Updated silk's description to mention its use in bows.
• Improved the tooltip render boundaries math. (Note: There is an existing/known bug in high-res displays that may cause some overlap issues)
• Tweaked the Hide Topography view's red grid slightly.
• You can now view the corrupted tiles on the data map tab, including tiles under rocks, trees, etc.
• Villagers who are repairing structures will stop automatically if the building becomes fully repaired before they finish their work.
• Reworked the total gold, water, and dirty water resource counters (as well as the new faith counter) to all also show resource maximums on hover over, as well as fill bar.
• Updated copyright date on main menu.
• Completely overhauled the entire font rendering system to greatly reduce texture bleeding at some interface scale settings, and added ultra high resolution fonts for users who use 2x scaling or higher. This should mostly be apparent with 4k and similar displays.
• Added kills counter stats to mobs and objects. (Note: Known bug exists where sometimes if a mob is killed on top of a building, that building gets a "kill")
• The Perk list now extends to the top and bottom of the screen.
• You can now use the scroll wheel on the perk list.
• Added x.com social button to the main menu.
• You can now draw road selections overtop harvest resource selections.
• "Needs" thought bubbles added, rather than seeing occasional floating icons when a villager has a dire need (starving, homeless, sleepy) there is now a thought bubble that follows around the villager.
• Added new particle effects to highlighted or selected buttons.
• Re-centered console panel.
• Changed the missing icon icon to a better icon that you should never see unless I missed an icon and need to load a missing icon icon.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Clouds! A completely new clouds system has been written from scratch.
• New Building: Crylithium Firepits. Crylithium Firepits cannot be crossed by ghosts (Like Crylithium Walls), and provide more range than their regular Firepit counterparts.
• Rations now require cooked meat rather than raw.
• Rations food value increased from 100 to 120.
• Initial spawn in villagers now spawn in pre-equipped with one ration and one water bottle.
• Initial spawn in now spawns in cooked meat rather than raw.
• Improved how range and corruption resistance is generated by buildings, offering more consistent results. (And in many cases, increasing range)
• Wind and temp variations are now calculated instantly on load of a new game.
• Changed Terminate Animal Pregnancy to Tending Animals in preparation for new tending mechanics in a future update.
• "Wiser Elders" perk now also influences faith sharing.
• Mobs now make cracking/squishy sounds when they decay.
• Mobs now "pop" when poked a bit too many times, are dissolved with the dissolve spell or their soul is captured by an occultist.
• Increased the villager initial spawn in to up to 20.
• Nomads are much, much more likely to appear between days 1 and 3 to help avoid "bad RNG luck" early game.
• Nomads can no longer spawn during the morning of day 1 to prevent new players from being overwhelmed with new information. (Note: They should almost-always arrive Midday day 1 now)
• Replaced the particle effect that would generate above a resource about to be picked up, to an arrow that points down. The arrow gets increasing brighter green the closer the mob gets to the resource.
• Significantly lowered the volume of rain in the game.
• Villagers now are much less likely to work when their condition is compromised (Low hunger, thirst, overheating, etc). They also now factor in their hit points, poison and many other conditions and are less likely to work the more injured they are.
• Recompiled executable to hopefully avoid some memory allocation issues on certain machines.
• Increased animal slaughter speed.
• Reduced screenshake when smaller buildings are destroyed (Mostly for walls)
• The energy maintenance requirement for most golems is now 5 times higher. (sorry)
• The energy maintenance requirement for Cube-E golems has been doubled.
• Courier golems now have a small maintenance requirement.
• All golems now die twice as fast when the comboulator runs out of energy to maintain them.
• Doubled the amount Catjeet Provisioners restock daily.
• Made Wilhelm scream slightly over twice as likely to happen.
• You can now increase or decrease the brush size in both the play state and map editor by holding the axis lock key (Default: Left Shift)
• Wilhelm Scream is now more common when throwing male villagers into Cullis Gates.
• Throwing doggos (and especially Doofy Doggos) into a Cullis Gate is a REALLY bad idea.
• Adjusted nearly all of the panic and confusion chances in the villager's AI.
• Lightning and Meteor's panic/confusion range has been adjusted to more realistic values.
• Tons of new animations added for villagers digging, picking up and dropping resources, and many old ones tweaked slightly.
• Skirmish mode now starts with 20 +- 2 villages.
• Slightly increased how much trash is generated when builders harvest rather than the dedicated harvester jobs.
• The initial spawn in villagers now start with max hunger and thirst bars.
• Initial resource spawn in can also spawn in food and water now.
• Increased the initial spawn in resources from up to 32, to up to 64.
• There is now a 1 in 50 chance your entire initial spawn in of villagers will be catjeet.
• There is now a 1 in 200 chance your initial spawn in of villagers will also include doggos.
• Doggo houses are now upgradable, and have new art.
• Increased the amount of storage of all villager housing.
• Changed "Ellen Page" to "Elliot Page" in the villager's name list (Thanks to ArcticFox011 for catching it)
• Added tons of new speech bubbles to the game.
• Changed death subtitle "Sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you." to "Sometimes you eat the rous and sometimes the rous eats you."
• Tons of new death messages added.
• Farmers can now terminate animal pregnancies when the village is completely out of proper housing for them.
• Towers and projectiles now rotate smoothly.
• Nomads can no longer spawn on day 1, to avoid overwhelming new players with too much information.
• Doggos are now more rare.
• Very slightly optimized the animal spawn rate code.
• Digging, clearing and removing road work now picks more randomized standing coordinates to work at.
• The AI now automatically resets itself when you load an old save.
• Updated the cut stone resource artwork so it looks more distinct from iron ingots.
• Added pale Blue trees, stumps and dead trees, white snow, teal grass and mushrooms to the game for future biome plans. They can currently be accessed in the map editor.
• Improved the map selection overlays in the world map.
• Halved the chance villagers and animals can be turned into a zombie after dying with blight.
• Cluckers can now do a rooster call at dawn.
• Medkits "+" symbol is now magenta-purple to avoid lawyers with too much time on their hands going after innocent developers for war crimes, or something.
• Reduced doggo bark frequency.
• Added a diminishing returns to all idle sound effects. The more of that type of mob in the area, the less each of them will make idle sound effects.
• Reduced the volume of the doggo barks.

Bug Fixes

• Corrected a minor typo in the Trashy Trash description.
• Population list panel no longer shows farm animals as unemployed.
• "Captured Animal" fake resource no longer shows up on the courier panel.
• Steamworks4j will now forcefully load the .dll files in the install folder's native library.
• "Review The Game" popup no longer appears when nonSteamMode is true. (eg; Won't show up on Utomik or GOG copies of the game.)
• Animal pens and clucker coops UI overlap issues in the building panel have been fixed.
• When an animal is slaughtered, the damage is now correctly recorded as coming from the cook.
• Fixed a bug where work decay ticks in MobBase.doWork() was not actually utilizing the input values.
• Fixed a bug that caused the Holy Golem speed perk to actually slow down the golems, rather than increase their speed.
• Hide Topography button no longer can glitch out and leave the topography partially transparent.
• Market buy and sell prices can no longer be less than 1 gold per item.
• Crash issue when trying to buy a resource from the marketplace for 0 gold fixed (See above change.)
• Fixed a bug where building's art wouldn't update when essence was sent from it.
• Lightning Rod no longer incorrectly reports it requires a rain catcher, purifier or well.
• Nephilim children now properly spawn a child Nephilim ghost when they die, rather than an adult Nephilim ghost.
• Nephilim are now properly counted in the migration system.
• Fixed an issue where Nephilim children sometimes wouldn't get their bonus lifespan stats.
• Fixed several totaling errors on the population panel.
• Mining facility's construction outline phase no longer generates a shadow.
• Fixed font scaling issues at scales higher than 2x.
• Fixed an issue where returning to the profile select screen without clicking a profile, then attempting to delete a profile, would always delete the first profile regardless of what profile appeared selected on the list.
• You can no longer click other buttons in the play state and map editor UI when the settings menu is open.
• Fixed a longstanding bug that could sometimes crash the game if a mob attempted to flee, and could not find flee coordinates (Thanks to Veldrin for the fix)
• Devine Blessing no longer shows an incorrect cast radius when selected.
• The spell (blast) radius of meteors is now properly displayed.
• Fixed a spelling error in the blessed descriptions.
• Newly born nephilim children are now properly recorded in the birth stats.
• Animals no longer constantly escape being slaughtered. Although they can still escape rarely.
• The description of the small and large fountains no longer call Water Masters "Well" Masters.
• Fixed a few crashes related to deselecting road work outside map bounds.
• Fixed a bug that would prevent spell cooldowns from saving.
• Fixed stray pixel on energy icon.
• Fixed upgrading essence collector's values being slightly off.
• Fixed (some) overlapping tool tips when the interface scale is higher than 1.
• Slightly optimized how the courier AI finds work.
• Fixed a minor bug in the road construction delivery AI that would misflag the current job task.
• Slaughter Animal AI now checks for the correct TileX/Y coordinates before picking up the animal.
• Armor and helmets now take damage when struck.
• Dying mobs that get healed, or regenerate a hit point right at the exact moment of death no longer display a health bar when decaying.
• Tweaked the god XP tally sound effects slightly, and implemented a possible fix to the "endless sound effects" bug that rarely occurs.
• Fixed the very tiny freebie XP gains for "Villager Leveling Up" that the player would get every time the world map is reloaded.
• Villagers and golems (and other mobs, where possibly applicable) retain their proper layer colors upon death now.
• Fixed an issue with storage limits on housing being wrong while it's upgrading.
• Fixed a bug that could cause the migration system to crash the game if no valid coordinates were found based on the angle of entry.
• Fixed a bug that could reduce the amount of spawn in resources and villagers at the start of the game if the camp is too enclosed.
• Fixed a minor bug in the courier delivery AI that could make an AI misfire and deliver resources a golem could not carry.
• Fixed a typo in one of the death messages.
• Fixed several data map font rendering glitches, mostly related to debug and dev tool views.
• Fixed a crash when you use a mouse with more than 10 buttons, and press any button over button #10.
• Fixed a minor issue where on >1080p displays sometimes the game window would launch overlapping the Window's start bar.
• Miscellaneous Storage no longer claims to recommend a Bowyer and Rock Tumbler before building.
• Drones no longer show work progress bars.
• "God XP jingle" stops playing when you exit the main menu.
• Fixed a bug where 2 resources could spawn in the same spot during initial spawn in, possibly crashing the game shortly after.
• Added tooltip on settings menu in the play state informing the player they need to exit to the main menu to change hotkeys.
• Cube-E Golems no longer become invisible when repairing their spawn points.
• Tweaked wood resources art slightly.
• Fixed a minor bug where migrants were counted as arriving nomads in the statistics panel.
• Decreased the background load time for sound effects for most multicore CPUs.
• Reduced the bitrate of zoomwind.wav

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! *Brushes dust off podium* Hello? *tap tap* Is this thing on? Hello? *clears throat* Ahem.. anyway.. Rise to Ruins Update 2 Unstable 4 has finally arrived, is content complete, and brings in the brand news goals system! Once Update 2 is out of testing, the new goals system will link up with Steam, adding one of the most requested features in Rise to Ruins history; 🎉Steam Achievements!🎉 This patch has obviously been a long time coming, and I'm hoping after a bit of play testing, I can get the full Rise to Ruins Update 2 out the door, activate the achievements in Steam and start work on Update 3. I am looking for plenty of feedback on the goals and achievement system, the balance, and ideas for more. Feel free to spam me anywhere that works for you with your ideas, and they may very well become official Steam achievements! I have also started streaming game development of Rise to Ruins, Rise to Ruins 2 (yes it's true!), and Rayvo2D, my new engine. If you're interested in following development more closely, you're welcome to either join the discord or follow me on Twitch. If you find a bug, you can report it on the Steam Bugs Forums or Discord! Previous Update 2 Unstable Change Logs: Update 2 Unstable 1 Update 2 Unstable 2 Update 2 Unstable 3 Update 2 Unstable 3c

Update 2 Unstable 4 Change Log

Goals and Achievements System

• Old goal system has been removed from the game entirely.
• New goals system now has 117 goals (more may be added, post your ideas!).
• Once Update 2 is fully released, each goal will unlock a Steam Achievement. (Note: I will try my best to get your test saves to unlock them retroactively, after Update 2 is released.)
• Every goal is on a huge web map, and as you unlock goals, more goals will become available.
• Like the previous goals system, all goals and their progress persist through dooming the world.
• Goals can now be accessed in when in the play state (Playing in a region/map).
• Goals no longer award perks, but award a lot of God Experience.
• Free Chest Slots can be unlocked, awarding, you guess it, a free chest!
• Chests are now gained 25% faster to offset the goals no longer rewarding perks directly.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Added pale Blue trees, stumps and dead trees, white snow, teal grass and mushrooms to the game for future biome plans. They can currently be accessed in the map editor.
• Improved the map selection overlays in the world map.
• Halved the chance villagers and animals can be turned into a zombie after dying with blight.
• The Perk list now extends to the top and bottom of the screen.
• You can now use the scroll wheel on the perk list.
• Added x.com social button to the main menu.
• Added new particle effects to highlighted or selected buttons.
• Re-centered console panel.
• Cluckers can now do a rooster call at dawn.
• Medkits "+" symbol is now magenta-purple to avoid lawyers with too much time on their hands going after innocent developers for war crimes, or something.
• Reduced doggo bark frequency.
• Added a diminishing returns to all idle sound effects. The more of that type of mob in the area, the less each of them will make idle sound effects.
• Reduced the volume of the doggo barks.

Bug Fixes

• Added tooltip on settings menu in the play state informing the player they need to exit to the main menu to change hotkeys.
• Cube-E Golems no longer become invisible when repairing their spawn points.
• Tweaked wood resources art slightly.
• Fixed a minor bug where migrants were counted as arriving nomads in the statistics panel.

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! Update 2 Unstable 3c is a minor release addressing a few bugs and balance issues that creeped up. Check out the changelogs and enjoy! If you find a bug, you can report it on the Steam Bugs Forums or Discord! Previous Update 2 Unstable Change Logs: Update 2 Unstable 1 Update 2 Unstable 2 Update 2 Unstable 3

Update 2 Unstable 3c Change Log

Miscellaneous Changes

• You can now set the particle movement back to "retro" by setting retroParticles=true in the settings.properties file.
• Houses can no longer store raw meat.
• Reliquary vessel spots can no longer have roads built under them.
• Added Easter Egg messages and sound effects when you sell a filled Vessel to a Catjeet in the marketplace.
• Occultists now check to make sure the body they need to reach isn't under threat before attempting to go there.
• Added all remaining missing perk names.
• Increased the pray speed across the board by 10%
• Boosted the amount of essence generated per pray cycle from 20-40 to 25-45.

Bug Fixes

• Reversed a change that fixes a bug that won't allow some resources make/maintain values to be set in certain panels.
• Waymakers will no longer try to clear roads in locations roads shouldn't be allowed to be placed anymore anyway. (Example: If you build a reliquary over roads, and the old roads are overtop the vessel parking spots)
• Added test AI to help with kitchen ration output.
• Applied an experimental fix that should prevent courier golems and migrants to attempt to go to a region that was recently lost to the corruption.
• You can no longer place buildings in the red cut off area of your village range.

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! Update 2 Unstable 3 has arrived! Just like Unstable 1 and 2, this patch adds a ton bug fixes and improvements, but most importantly, new content! Some of the highlights of this patch are the brand new death/ghost mechanics, the Reliquary, Crylithium Firepits, vessels, clouds, and a ton of bug fixes and other QoL changes. Next up, Unstable 4 will be "the big one" you've all been waiting for, and easily one of the most requested features of all time. The beta release of ... achievements! 👀 Just keep in mind, I may not be able to officially enable them until full Update 2 release on the main branch. But the system will be in place, and usable. As with most of Rise to Ruins' patches, there's way too much to cover in a summary, so check out the changelogs and enjoy! If you find a bug, you can report it on the Steam Bugs Forums or Discord! Previous Update 2 Unstable Change Logs: Update 2 Unstable 1 Update 2 Unstable 2

Update 2 Unstable 3 Change Log

Reliquary and The Dead

• New Building: The Reliquary. You can store bound souls at the reliquary, binding the ghost to the general area, and maintaining their vessel.
• New Resources: Empty and Filled Eerie Vessels. Empty Vessels are made by the Occultists in the Reliquary with 1 iron and 1 gold.
• Occultists can now "capture souls", when a villager or doggo dies, they will go to their corpse and "capture" the soul, placing it in an Eerie Vessel and take the Vessel to the reliquary to store and maintain for future resurrections.
• Added all of the perks, job data and speed reductions for capturing souls where required.
• Ghost no longer wander to random buildings.
• Ghost now always try to hover around their vessel, or body.
• New Resource: Ghost Dust, can be freely sold to Catjeet Provisioners. Who knows what they want with it though.
• Ghosts not bound to a body or a vessel will eventually leave the map forever, when they do a ton of essence is released and they'll drop some ghost dust.
• Completely rebalanced when ghosts fade in and out of view.
• Doggos and Doofy Doggos ghosts now fade in significantly more frequently.
• Doggos and Doofy Doggos ghosts are much less likely to leave the world forever.
• Bound ghosts are 10 times more likely to appear at night.
• Increased durability of god dust by 5x, the same as the new ghost dust resource.
• Mobs now decay 20 times slower.

UI Improvements

• Increased the intensity of the mouse cursor light.
• Camp placement window now renders on the left side of the UI when the minimap is opened.
• Sound and music controls now have 25 volume levels rather than 10.
• Edge scrolling values in the settings menu now uses "O" instead of "[]" for the visual bar.
• Main menu messages now have random colors.
• "Mob rings" no longer appear when you mouse over dead mobs.
• Added a resource arrow under the mouse when you grab resources.
• The UI will no longer claim you can refine a resource at a building that can't carry it or its materials, even though the worker is allowed to refine that material.
• Fixed several UI issues related to the new Essence Altars and Reliquary.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Clouds!
• Rations now require cooked meat rather than raw.
• Rations food value increased from 100 to 120.
• Initial spawn in villagers now spawn in pre-equipped with one ration and one water bottle.
• Initial spawn in now spawns in cooked meat rather than raw.
• Improved how range and corruption resistance is generated by buildings, offering more consistent results. (And in many cases, increasing range)
• New Building: Crylithium Firepits. Crylithium Firepits cannot be crossed by ghosts (Like Crylithium Walls), and provide more range than their regular Firepit counterparts.
• Wind and temp variations are now calculated instantly on load of a new game.
• Flowers spawn chance is now 10 times slower.
• Essence buildup (for flower spawning mechanics) is now 3 times slower.
• Changed Terminate Animal Pregnancy to Tending Animals in preparation for new tending mechanics.
• "Wiser Elders" perk now also influences faith sharing.
• Elders sharing faith now provides a small amount of XP
• Flowers can now be dissolved or cleared for a small amount of essence.
• Mobs now make cracking/squishy sounds when they decay.
• Mobs now "pop" when poked a bit too many times, are dissolved with the dissolve spell or their soul is captured by an occultist.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that could cause the migration system to crash the game if no valid coordinates were found based on the angle of entry.
• Fixed a bug where the faith calculations were reversed, causing blessed children to be born more often.
• Fixed a bug that could reduce the amount of spawn in resources and villagers at the start of the game if the camp is too enclosed.
• Fixed a minor bug in the courier delivery AI that could make an AI misfire and deliver resources a golem could not carry.
• Fixed a bug that can cause the new flower system to crash the game if flowers attempted to generate along the edges of the map.
• Fixed an issue where flower generation would crash the game if the flower tilesets were never loaded.
• Fixed a typo in one of the death messages.
• Fixed several data map font rendering glitches, mostly related to debug and dev tool views.
• Fixed a crash when you use a mouse with more than 10 buttons, and press any button over button #10.
• Fixed a minor issue where on >1080p displays sometimes the game window would launch overlapping the Window's start bar.
• Miscellaneous Storage no longer claims to recommend a Bowyer and Rock Tumbler before building.
• Drones no longer show work progress bars.
• "God XP jingle" stops playing when you exit the main menu.
• Fixed a bug where 2 resources could spawn in the same spot during initial spawn in, possibly crashing the game shortly after.

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! Update 2 Unstable 2 has arrived! Just like Unstable 1, this patch adds a ton bug fixes and improvements, but most importantly, new content! Some of the highlights of this patch are the new upgradable doggo houses, further enhancements to the new faith system, tons and tons of new animations, the resource rate calculator, additional resource bar configurations, a new spell/disaster (a comet!), really high quality new font rendering, and a ton of bug fixes and other QoL changes. As with most of Rise to Ruins' patches, there's way too much to cover in a summary, so check out the changelogs and enjoy! If you find a bug, you can report it on the Steam Bugs Forums or Discord! Previous Update 2 Unstable Change Logs: Update 2 Unstable 1

Update 2 Unstable 2b HOTIFX Change Log

Bug Fixes

• Mining facility's construction outline phase no longer generates a shadow.
• Fixed font scaling issues at scales higher than 2x.
• Fixed an issue where returning to the profile select screen without clicking a profile, then attempting to delete a profile, would always delete the first profile regardless of what profile appeared selected on the list.
• You can no longer click other buttons in the play state and map editor UI when the settings menu is open.
• Fixed a bug where the new flowers system wouldn't actually generate said flowers.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Areas where range is generated, but can't be used because it doesn't reach back to the main body of the village, now show up in red when viewing the range map.

Update 2 Unstable 2 Change Log

Resource Bar and Panel Changes

• You can now set the resource filters to "rate", an experimental data view that gives you a rough idea how much of a resource is being consumed or generated over a given time period.
• The right hand resource bars can now be customized by opening the resource panel and selecting various types between food, water, dirty water, gold, faith and energy.
• The right hand resource bars now display a fill bar rather than just numbers.
• The right hand resource bar can now display 4 items, rather than 3.

Faith and Influence System

• Flowers can now generate near concentrated areas of energy on the map, and where essence moves heavily through.
• Adjusted faith decay rates for all villagers.
• Increased Essence Altar's desirability stat to 3.
• Readjusted Cold Aura faith gains.
• Now all villagers lose a very small amount of faith when another villager dies from any cause that isn't old age. Villagers who witness the death lose significantly more.
• Standard and High Quality housing both now offer faith bonuses when upgraded.
• Villager's mates now lose 25% of their total faith if they die.
• Completely rebalanced influence amounts faith provides for all friendly mobs.
• Healing Aura now provides much less faith to villagers already fully healed.
• Now you gain additional/bonus faith if you use illuminate during an eclipse or blood moon.

Spell Changes

• New Spell/Disaster added: Comet. A huge ice comet can now fall from the sky, causing catastrophic damage around it and digging a deep hole in the ground.
• Tripled cost of God Wall spell.
• Increased the cost, and cooldown, of the Holy Potatoes and Holy Wood spells
• Increased the cost of the Harvest spell.
• God Tower now has a 5 second cooldown.
• God Tower now also has a new spell cooldown perks.
• Harvest spell can now rarely generate trash when harvesting.

Temperature Influences

• Adjusted several spell descriptions to mention their impact on region temps.
• Meteor strikes can now slightly heat up the region for a short time.
• Blood Moons now make the region excessively hot.
• Full Moons now make the region slightly cooler.
• Eclipses now make the region very cold.
• Flame spell extremely slightly increases region temps.
• Cold aura now slightly lowers region temps.
• Storm spell now reduces the temperature when cast.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Completely overhauled the entire font rendering system to greatly reduce texture bleeding at some interface scale settings, and added ultra high resolution fonts for users who use 2x scaling or higher. This should mostly be apparent with 4k and similar displays.
• Tons of new animations added for villagers digging, picking up and dropping resources, and many old ones tweaked slightly.
• Skirmish mode now starts with 20 +- 2 villages.
• Slightly increased how much trash is generated when builders harvest rather than the dedicated harvester jobs.
• The initial spawn in villagers now start with max hunger and thirst bars.
• Initial resource spawn in can also spawn in food and water now.
• Increased the initial spawn in resources from up to 32, to up to 64.
• There is now a 1 in 50 chance your entire initial spawn in of villagers will be catjeet.
• There is now a 1 in 200 chance your initial spawn in of villagers will also include doggos.
• Doggo houses are now upgradable, and have new art.
• Increased the amount of storage of all villager housing.
• Changed "Ellen Page" to "Elliot Page" in the villager's name list (Thanks to ArcticFox011 for catching it)
• Added tons of new speech bubbles to the game.
• Changed death subtitle "Sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you." to "Sometimes you eat the rous and sometimes the rous eats you."
• Tons of new death messages added.
• Farmers can now terminate animal pregnancies when the village is completely out of proper housing for them.
• You can now draw road selections overtop harvest resource selections.
• "Needs" thought bubbles added, rather than seeing occasional floating icons when a villager has a dire need (starving, homeless, sleepy) there is now a thought bubble that follows around the villager.
• Changed the missing icon icon to a better icon that you should never see unless I missed an icon and need to load a missing icon icon.
• Towers and projectiles now rotate smoothly.
• Nomads can no longer spawn on day 1, to avoid overwhelming new players with too much information.
• Doggos are now more rare.
• Very slightly optimized the animal spawn rate code.
• Digging, clearing and removing road work now picks more randomized standing coordinates to work at.
• The AI now automatically resets itself when you load an old save.
• Updated the cut stone resource artwork so it looks more distinct from iron ingots.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a longstanding bug that could sometimes crash the game if a mob attempted to flee, and could not find flee coordinates (Thanks to Veldrin for the fix)
• Corrected Essence Altar tooltips.
• Devine Blessing no longer shows an incorrect cast radius when selected.
• The spell (blast) radius of meteors is now properly displayed.
• Fixed a spelling error in the blessed descriptions.
• Newly born nephilim children are now properly recorded in the birth stats.
• Animals no longer constantly escape being slaughtered. Although they can still escape rarely.
• Added missing revision tag to essenceCollector.makeshift.description
• Fixed a UI error that would make praying speed bonuses not display in some cases.
• Added perk category localization for faith perks.
• The description of the small and large fountains no longer call Water Masters "Well" Masters.
• Fixed a few crashes related to deselecting road work outside map bounds.
• Fixed a bug that would prevent spell cooldowns from saving.
• Corrected the Crystillery's description, so that it no longer mentions fueling essence collectors.
• Fixed stray pixel on energy icon.
• Fixed upgrading essence collector's values being slightly off.
• Removed previous fix that would stop sounds from playing if the sound is too far away or too quiet to be audible and re-re-calculated sound effect distance math.
• Fixed overlapping tool tips when the interface scale is higher than 1.
• Removed some debug loading data from the logs.
• Slightly optimized how the courier AI finds work.
• Fixed a minor bug in the road construction delivery AI that would misflag the current job task.
• Slaughter Animal AI now checks for the correct TileX/Y coordinates before picking up the animal.
• Armor and helmets now take damage when struck.
• Dying mobs that get healed, or regenerate a hit point right at the exact moment of death no longer display a health bar when decaying.
• Tweaked the god XP tally sound effects slightly, and implemented a possible fix to the "endless sound effects" bug that rarely occurs.
• Fixed the very tiny freebie XP gains for "Villager Leveling Up" that the player would get every time the world map is reloaded.
• Villagers and golems (and other mobs, where possibly applicable) retain their proper layer colors upon death now.
• Fixed an issue with storage limits on housing being wrong while it's upgrading.

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! A long time coming, I am happy to introduce that Update 2 Unstable 1 has arrived! This patch adds a ton bug fixes and improvements, but most importantly, new content! The biggest additions are the new essence generation and faith mechanics. Now, you no longer fuel your Essence Collectors with crylithium. Rather, you now build a new building called an Essence Altar and assign new workers called Occultists to them. These new Occultists will go to the altar and pray, upon completing a pray action, they will boost faith in the area and generate essence that can be delivered to an Essence Collector, effectively replacing the fueling mechanics that were removed with a method the player can more directly control by building additional altars and assigning more Occultists. The faith itself is a new system that bleeds over into many aspects of the game. Now villagers will gain and lose faith in you based on your or the world's actions. As their faith increases, you'll gain additional max influence to your influence bar, and they will be less likely to be confused or panic when they see you do anything. As with most of Rise to Ruins' patches, there's way too much to cover in a summary, so check out the changelogs and enjoy! If you find a bug, you can report it on the Steam Bugs Forums or Discord!

Update 2 Unstable 1 Change Log

Faith System

• Villagers now gain and lose a new need, called faith, based on your and the world's actions. Anything they deem positive, they'll gain faith, negative, they lose it.
• Villagers are now less likely to panic or be confused when they have high faith and witness god doing things in the village.
• All spells now influence faith stats in some way or another when cast near villagers.
• New Building: The Essence Altar. Villagers can now be assigned as "Occultists", who will go to the altar and pray. Completing a pray action will increase the villager's faith and the villagers around them, as well as generate free essence that will be sent to an Essence Collector.
• New perks added for praying speeds.
• Lightning and Meteor (all kinds, including the spells) will now raise or lower faith depending on where it strikes, and what it hits.
• Villagers will now sometimes get a boost in faith when chatting with someone with significantly higher faith than they have.
• Villagers now gain 10 faith when they domesticate a wild doggo or take a mate.
• Villagers now gain faith when they mate, and villagers nearby gain a very small amount.
• Nearby villagers gain faith when they witness a monster killed.
• Nearby villagers lose faith when they witness another villager killed.
• Nearby villagers get a bonus to faith when they witness an elder die of natural causes. (Living a "full life")
• Villagers now conceive Nephilim children if their combined total faith is within 90% of their maximum faith.
• Lightning rods can increase faith when a lightning bolt hits them.
• A mob resurrected from the Resurrect spell get maximum faith instantly upon resurrection.

Influence System

• Completely rewrote how max influence is calculated, each villager now provides a minimum and maximum amount, depending on the type of villager they are. Children offer less, while elders offer more, and Nephilims offer additional bonuses.
• All domesticated animals other than Doggos now provide 5 max influence each.
• Doggos now provide 20 max influence each.
• Doofy Doggos now provide 50 max influence each.
• The amount of total influence to the max influence bar each mob provides is now based on their faith. For example, if their faith is only 50% full, they will only provide 50% of their potential maximum influence. (Note: This only counts for mobs with faith stats, like villagers. Doggos for example, will always provide max faith as they have no faith stats.)
• New perks added for minimum influence, influence per animal and influence per villager.

Essence and Essence Collector Changes

• Significantly increased the speed newly spawned "resting" essence becomes active.
• Greatly improved essence colors and trails.
• Essence Collectors can no longer be fueled with or store crylithium.
• Essence Collectors now hold much more energy.
• Recolored and tweaked the Essence Collector art.
• Essence Collectors construction requirements have been increased, and now require crylithium for the first upgrade, and iron ingots for the second.

Spell Changes

• Banish spell now only confuses friendly mobs in the area if it actually banishes something.
• Banish confusion is now triggered from around the mob that was teleported away, rather than where the spell was cast.
• Dispel God Structures and Dispel Golem now can cause villagers to be confused upon seeing it cast.
• Dispel God Structures no longer panics villagers when cast.
• "Confusion" area of effect of Cold Aura increased.
• Generate Essence now has 1/4th the confusion/panic range.
• Generate Essence now costs twice as much to cast, but generates twice as much essence per cast.
• Conjure Material spell can now panic or confuse villagers.
• God Tower and God Wall spells now cause villagers to be confused or panic when cast around them.
• Grab spell now positively influences faith when you grab resources, and negatively when you grab mobs.
• Grab spell now no longer makes villagers panic when you grab resources (Note: Still will for grabbing mobs)
• Grab spell's panic/confusion range doubled.
• Harvest Spell can now cause villagers to panic if a resource is spawned right next to them.
• Harvest Spell's panic and confusion is now based on the location the resource spawned, rather than where the spell was cast.
• Holy Potatoes and Holy Wood spells can now cause panic and confusion to nearby villagers.
• Illuminate spell cost doubled.
• Illuminate spell now increases faith when cast and active, but only if cast at dusk or night.
• Recall spell now causes confusion and influences faith based on the location the actual mobs and resources left/arrived than where the spell was cast.
• Resurrect spell now only causes villagers to panic if the resurrection fails and creates a zombie. (Note: They will still be "confused" if the spell is successful.)
• Dissolve spell now has a chance to panic villagers.
• Blessing villagers no longer triggers Nephilim to be born. Now, blessing villagers guarantees that they will become pregnant the next time they coitus.
• Greatly optimized Cold Aura's CPU usage.
• Slightly optimized Flame Spell's CPU usage.
• Slightly optimized the Healing Aura spell.

Loot box Changes

• Poking a loot box "circle" will confuse villagers and slightly increase faith, regardless if anything is uncovered.
• Moving a loot box will cause confusion at both locations, negative faith in the departing location and positive in the arrival location.
• Loot boxes being opened now positively influence faith (even when they're trashy!)
• Loot boxes idle in the village will sometimes confuse a villager.
• Loot box "circles" (before the box is uncovered) will now confuse villagers sometimes, as well as provide a tiny amount of faith.
• Uncovered loot boxes and keys now give a burst of faith, but also can cause villagers to panic or be confused in a wide area.
• Increased distance loot boxes cause panic and confusion when opening.
• Villagers now panic if a resource from a loot box right next to them, but also gains additional faith.
• Chances of a loot box being uncovered on click changed from 1 in 4 to 1 in 6.
• Slightly adjusted where resources spawn when a loot box is opened.

Miscellaneous Changes

• You can now change your worker's job colors to anything you want by clicking on the new color picker icon on the left hand workforce or resource management panel.
• Adjusted (hopefully) all blessed villager descriptions throughout the GUI.
• Birth console banner now displays what mob type was born.
• Increased the villager initial spawn in to up to 20.
• Nomads are much, much more likely to appear between days 1 and 3 to help avoid "bad RNG luck" early game.
• Nomads can no longer spawn during the morning of day 1 to prevent new players from being overwhelmed with new information. (Note: They should almost-always arrive Midday day 1 now)
• Replaced the particle effect that would generate above a resource about to be picked up, to an arrow that points down. The arrow gets increasing brighter green the closer the mob gets to the resource. Significantly lowered the volume of rain in the game.
• Villagers now are much less likely to work when their condition is compromised (Low hunger, thirst, overheating, etc). They also now factor in their hit points, poison and many other conditions and are less likely to work the more injured they are.
• Easter egg logo is now 20 times more likely to appear.
• Recompiled executable to hopefully avoid some memory allocation issues on certain machines.
• Increased animal slaughter speed.
• Added kills counter stats to mobs and objects.
• Reduced screenshake when smaller buildings are destroyed (Mostly for walls)
• Updated silk's description to mention it's use in bows.
• The energy maintenance requirement for most golems is now 5 times higher. (sorry)
• The energy maintenance requirement for Cube-E golems has been doubled.
• Courier golems now have a small maintenance requirement.
• All golems now die twice as fast when the comboulator runs out of energy to maintain them.
• Improved the tooltip render boundaries math. (Note: There is an existing/known bug in high-res displays that may cause some overlap issues)
• Tweaked the Hide Topography view's red grid slightly.
• You can now view the corrupted tiles on the data map tab, including tiles under rocks, trees, etc.
• Villagers who are repairing structures will stop automatically if the building becomes fully repaired before they finish their work.
• Doubled the amount Catjeet Provisioners restock daily.
• Made Wilhelm scream slightly over twice as likely to happen.
• You can now increase or decrease the brush size in both the play state and map editor by holding the axis lock key (Default: Left Shift)
• Wilhelm Scream is now more common when throwing male villagers into Cullis Gates.
• Throwing doggos (and especially Doofy Doggos) into a Cullis Gate is a REALLY bad idea.
• Adjusted nearly all of the panic and confusion chances in the villager's AI.
• Added a faith counter to the resource panel UI.
• Reworked the total gold, water, and dirty water resource counters (as well as the new faith counter) to all also show resource maximums on hover over, as well as fill bar.
• Lightning and Meteor's panic/confusion range has been adjusted to more realistic values.
• Updated copyright date on main menu.

Bug Fixes

• Corrected a minor typo in the Trashy Trash description.
• Population list panel no longer shows farm animals as unemployed.
• "Captured Animal" fake resource no longer shows up on the courier panel.
• Steamworks4j will now forcefully load the .dll files in the install folder's native library.
• "Review The Game" popup no longer appears when nonSteamMode is true. (eg; Won't show up on Utomik or GOG copies of the game.)
• Animal pens and clucker coops UI overlap issues in the building panel have been fixed.
• When an animal is slaughtered, the damage is now correctly recorded as coming from the cook.
• Fixed a bug where work decay ticks in MobBase.doWork() was not actually utilizing the input values.
• Fixed a bug that caused the Holy Golem speed perk to actually slow down the golems, rather than increase their speed.
• Hide Topography button no longer can glitch out and leave the topography partially transparent.
• Market buy and sell prices can no longer be less than 1 gold per item.
• Crash issue when trying to buy a resource from the marketplace for 0 gold fixed (See above change.)
• Fixed a bug that would cause sounds out of range to still play, but at zero volume. (Note: There is a known issue with extremely low volume levels causing issues with this new system.)
• Fixed a bug where building's art wouldn't update when essence was sent from it.
• Lightning Rod no longer incorrectly reports it requires a rain catcher, purifier or well.
• Nephilim children now properly spawn a child Nephilim ghost when they die, rather than an adult Nephilim ghost.
• Nephilim are now properly counted in the migration system.
• Fixed an issue where Nephilim children sometimes wouldn't get their bonus lifespan stats.
• Fixed several totaling errors on the population panel.

Greetings everyone, It's time to get back on the bandwagon, and explain my current plans. Although they are always subject to change, I wanted to give everyone an update on what's been going on and where I'd like to see my company, Rise to Ruins and my future projects to go in the future. As you all know, I've taken an extended break from game development as I focused on myself and my own health, my life, and the people around me. Most of you guys who follow me on Discord or Twitter have seen several of the things I've posted or said over the past year or so. A mistake I made on my previous announcement was the timeline though. I was unaware exactly how bad my mental health actually was at the time of writing it, and thus took an enormously longer time than I expected to start recovering. The previous announcement is now only half the story, the other half is perhaps fascinating, I'm not sure. But it's another half that should be told, now that it can be. The last 2 years have been quite an experience for me, good, bad and otherwise. It's hard to articulate it, because of who I am and how I am wired. But I will do my best to explain the situation and what happened. I'm not trying to make excuses, I do not care too. That's not the point. I won't bother going over my life history again as I did in my previous announcement, but I will add some fun tidbits to it that may have some drastic changes on how everything is perceived, and I hope to give a better understanding as to what happened. The first, and extremely likely most important addition to the story is on December 16th, 2021. I was officially diagnosed with ASD Level 1, or going by a (now obsolete) term more of you will recognize; I am a twice-exceptional person with Asperger's. If you want an example of what this means, I'm basically a real life Sheldon Cooper, just a bit less hyperbolic about it. (Fellow ASD: I get many people with ASD don't like this comparison, but it's very accurate for people like myself, we're just rare even among the ASD community.) What does this mean? Well for you guys, not much. For me? Again, not much. I am still who I am, labels don't change that. I'm not magically some other person. But, it does give me clarity and explain some of my past actions, behaviors and why sometimes things just aren't in sync. As well, and most importantly, what the hell happened to me sometime in 2020. What is important to understand, is why this happened. I've been working my entire adult life, non-stop in the pursuit of success to reach a level of security and stability, I achieved that in mid 2020, 20 years after first entering the workforce and 30 years too young, and my life fell apart. (Weird right?). I now can effectively retire whenever I want, although I won't. That feeling sounds great, until you realize I'm someone with Asperger's who made survival paramount. I was burned out from 15 years of non-stop work. If you've read my previous announcement, you know my life. I've been on turbo for most of it, and I don't know how to not be on turbo. But I am not on turbo anymore, regardless I don't know how not to be. There in is the problem. In 2020, I suffered a complete emotional breakdown. I was never suicidal, but something was "super wrong". I couldn't articulate it, but something was, in fact, "super wrong". Things kept getting worse and worse, day after day. Well, I figured out what it was more recently. It was a severe Autistic Burnout brought on by probably a decade of pushing forward non-stop. I had no idea what this felt like, because I've been on turbo for so long I didn't even recognize I burned out (probably) over 5 years ago, yet I just kept on going anyway. People even asked me "How do you deal with burnout?" and my answer was a hilariously now-myopic "I just don't burn out I guess? I don't know how to stop." The first part was apparently a lie, the second was the truth. I won't pretend I can handwave away the last two years, I won't even bother trying. But now I better understand how I went from a powerhouse, doing the work of 5 developers across probably a dozen skillsets, to so mentally exhausted and broken I couldn't even open my compiler or Photoshop without feeling tired. That is ending. I feel much better, I am alive, me and getting back on track. I recognize what happened, and now I am working to a much better work/life balance, that doesn't involve me doing the work of 5 developers. Course the next and most obvious question is a resounding "What the frick now then?!" Well, gamedev stuff obviously! I have been working on a plan over the past few months for my company, and what direction I'd like to take everything. As with all good plans, it absolutely won't go to said plan, but this is what's on the board: - Reignite work on Rise to Ruins Update 2, adding achievements, a new goals/reward system, and a new essence generation/praying system. - Release the entire Rise to Ruins source code in the semi-near future, so anyone and everyone can learn, edit, or do whatever they want with RtR's base code and share it openly with others. (Note: This is NOT mod support in the traditional sense, programmers in the known probably get what I mean by this.) - A complete redesign of the Rise to Ruins website. Effectively turning it into a basic splash page, and removing the forum. (Will probably update the Steam store page too*) - Launch of the Project Mary website, my next major project that will likely take 3-5 years to complete. - Working on smaller projects, that will be done between RtR and Project Mary, these are smaller games. Things you'd normally expect to pay like $2-$5 on Steam. These won't be seen anytime soon though. - Building a new Java-based 2D Engine that is faster than literally anything else gaming related that exists in Java right now. (and yes, I already have a working prototype that is multithreaded, faster than every single Java engine that exists, and uses 'modern' OGL.) This is the engine Project Mary and my smaller projects will be based on. I will not ask for your support, but I will ask for your patience as I work through restarting work, and seeking a healthy life/work balance that will avoid all this crap from happening again in my life. Have fun gaming! I look forward to your feedback on the eventual release of Rise to Ruins Update 2. :)

Greetings fellow gamers! Many of you have probably noted an obvious slowdown in development since Update 1c was released last year. First and foremost, I would like to absolutely reassure you that development is, in fact, continuing and Update 2 is currently in work, with Update 3 and 4 already planned out. But why did this happen? Well, that's a story I thought I would never find myself in a position to tell, but here we are. So strap in! There's a lot of back context needed. In 2013 I decided to learn to program as it was the only remaining skill left I did not have to make a video game. I had no experience what so ever outside of doing mods/scripting for various games over the years. I spent 8-9 months of my life doing nothing but working at Lockheed Martin as an Avionics Technician 8-10 hours a day, and another 8-10 at home learning how to program in my language of choice, Java. After roughly a year it was time to go pro, and I started development on Retro-Pixel Castles, or eventually to be renamed, Rise to Ruins. I saved up (or have been saving up, more accurately) around $90k working at Lockheed, because I lived out of a suitcase moving from one military base to the next every 4-6 months for 5 straight years. So, I did the totally rational thing you do when you want to completely change career paths into a job with an extremely high rate of failure that you have literally zero professional experience what so ever in doing, I quit my current job at Lockheed Martin. Yes, you read that right. My first ever attempt to "go pro" happened within a year of learning to program and I quit my very secure job to do it. Despite all odds, I was successful in the attempt. I also got an Associates Degree in Psychology at a local community college and bought a house in cash (87k, near-condemned foreclosure) while doing all this because it was necessary. Thanks to my former military service I could go to college for free. In fact, they paid me roughly $1,200/mo to go on top of paying for books/tuition, it's how I fed myself in the early days of this. I also needed a place to live during this ridiculous adventure too, and reducing costs was key to my strategy working, so what better cost reduction than removing rent/mortgages all together? Long as I was in college for free and getting paid $1,200/mo to educate myself for the next 4 years, I could survive. Development on Rise to Ruins itself was blistering fast as a result, because this whole plan would implode within 4 years when my education benefits ran out. It's easily a whole story in of itself, but I'll gloss over that for brevity's sake because that's not the point of this already really long announcement. Basically I dedicated years to work, spending a good 10-14 hours a day usually 7 days a week at the height of it just chugging out patches during Early Access. Fast forward to Rise to Ruins officially releasing in October of 2019, right before the pandemic started. My plan was (and still is) to continue to support the game post release. Rise to Ruins has done me very well financially, supporting my and my wife's lives without either of us having to get outside jobs. But there's a problem. While Rise to Ruins does in fact currently support my livelihood and the entire 4 year plan became irrelevant by year 2 because Rise to Ruins' income started to support me and my wife by itself, it still isn't enough to finance the next game. The next game, code named "Project Mary", is another project that will likely take me multiple years to complete with a very long Early Access cycle. I cannot guarantee I can duplicate Rise to Ruins' Early Access success again, and Rise to Ruins' sales revenue will eventually dwindle. It must, it's just the nature of how it works in this business. So, how do I get around this problem? Money. Lots of money. Well, Rise to Ruins makes decent money, but still not enough, I can't assure it will be there forever and I am against taking money from publishers and what not. Coronavirus has entered chat. In 2020 one of the worst pandemics in human history began and to my disadvantage, only a few months after Rise to Ruins released. I was faced with an awkward problem as I was locked in my home. I needed to find proper funding for my second game and I absolutely abhor taking money from publishers. I'm a solo developer and it's going to stay that way. The pandemic amplified this problem because it limited what I could do to solve my funding issue. I knew Rise to Ruins profits couldn't sustain development for the multiple years needed to complete Project Mary, and a Kickstarter also wouldn't be right as an already successful company running a Kickstarter for funding is bad optics in my opinion. Even with full continued patch support, Rise to Ruins will eventually drop under the bar its sales support me, that's just how it works unless you have a mega-ultra-hit like Stardew Valley, Rimworld, etc that generates so much cash on the front end it doesn't matter. Rise to Ruins still had done me well, at the time of making this decision I had no debts of any kind, house and car paid off in full, and over $200,000 in my savings account. That sounds great, but it still wasn't enough to accomplish my goals and as I said previously, I felt a Kickstarter would be in bad tastes (and potentially not raise enough money anyway). I had to figure out how to generate even more cash during a pandemic without relying on Rise to Ruins, so I could work on the game without any future cash flow fears. Repeating my normal methodology of throwing my whole-everything into a problem, I dedicated a ridiculous amount of time in one of the places I thought I'd never find myself; The soulless depths of the stock market. I studied, studied, and studied more. My whole life existed for one reason and one reason alone; Learn the market and use it to secure funding for Project Mary. So uh, yeah, again in my life, against all odds, I did it. As of writing this, I have turned $200k into $2.5 million dollars. That was actually higher before the recent tech crash in February and early March, where I broke a staggering $3 million. I am now pulling back from active investing, and transitioning to a semi-active-passive thing, so I can refocus on what's important; Rise to Ruins continued development, and starting development full time on Project Mary. I should hopefully have a minimum sustained additional income of $10k/month (that's not a typo) throughout all of Project Mary's development without actually touching the $2.5 million. That's not assured, but it seems likely. This process impacted everything in my life, including my own mental health, that I'm still recovering from as I write this. Trust me folks, money doesn't buy happiness and while I have a lot of it now, the past 8 months have been absolutely exhausting and downright destructive to my mental health. I will simply need time to recover. I hope you guys can forgive the lack of patches over the last year as I went through this adventure, and have gained some understanding as to why I did it at all in the first place. But, one thing is now certain for Rise to Ruins', Project Mary's and most importantly SixtyGig Games' future as a whole: Funding Secured. (EDIT/Update: No you ridiculously awesome goofballs, I didn't yolo into $GME. :P)

This is a smaller patch full of a ton of small quality of life improvements, bug fixes and balance changes. This patch was originally going into Update 2, but I decided to break out some of the Update 2 content and move it to a smaller patch, so you can get some of the new improvements and changes early, without having to wait for Update 2 later. Enjoy! :) Check out the change log for all the juicy bits, and if you find a bug, don't forget to report it on Discord or the Steam Forums. :)

Update 1b Change Log

Miscellaneous Changes

• Essence Collectors no longer deliver essence when out of range of the village.
• Drones now only harvest resources when there is not any already available within the corruption.
• Resources now decay twice as fast on corrupted tiles.
• Non-monster buildings are now slowly destroyed if they are caught in the corruption.
• Reduced the overall amount of resources generated when a very large or highly upgraded building is destroyed.
• Blood Slimes no longer can spawn boosted.
• Blood Slimes now die slowly when they're not on the corruption.
• All slimes now will no longer regain hit points unless they're inside the corruption.
• Blood Slimes no longer level alongside the corruption or current day.
• Rock now regrows at an extremely slow rate, roughly 1/20th the rate of trees.
• Rock now remains selected after harvesting.
• Added hot key support for object upgrade buttons, but the hot keys must be assigned manually.
• The hot key for dismantling buildings is now unassigned by default, but can still be assigned in settings. This is to prevent new players from accidentally triggering a dismantle action they can't reverse, but still allow experienced players to have a hot key if they desire.
• Nerfed the Flame Spell's damage by 50%

Bug Fixes

• Range is no longer improperly generated on initial load.
• Fixed the never-ending god XP tally sound that sometimes occurs on the world map.
• Fixed a rare bug that would crash the game in the event a mob would drop off a resource to a building that has just become out of range, and still had remaining resources to drop.
• You can no longer start an upgrade on a building out of range of the village, causing the game to crash.
• Fixed a bug that would cause the mouse to move too far when you increased or decreased the priority of a building on the building list panel.
• Fixed some overlaying text on the building upgrade panel on some buildings.
• Fixed an issue where several mob related perks would not apply correctly to the mobs.
• Blight settings are now properly saved in custom game mode templates.
• If a blessed villager has twins or triplets, all of the children will be born nephilims.
• Fixed a few typos in the tool tips.
• Fixed an extremely rare bug where sometimes mobs would reset their AI, and no longer be "dead" even if they have no hit points.
• Fixed a bug that could sometimes trigger invulnerable slimes.
• Slightly optimized the building destruction code.

The Rise to Ruins soundtrack is now uploaded all over the internet, including Spotify, Amazon Music, Youtube, Google Play and more! All revenue (Less various store fees) from purchasing or listening to the soundtrack does not go to me, rather it goes to Rise to Ruins' composer, José Ramón "Bibiki" García. So if you want to support him directly by throwing a few bucks his way, be sure to buy the soundtrack! :) If you're interested in listening or purchasing the soundtrack on various platforms, you can click here to get started! Additionally, if you just want to jam out on youtube, you can find the full OST here. And finally, always remember, the full sound track is always available unobfuscated within the game files, in .ogg format, just poke around the /res/music folder. But buying the soundtrack online is a way to support RtR's awesome composer, and get the files in a more appropriately organized format for easy listening on multiple devices. :)

The first free post release content patch has arrived, introducing The Magic Update! This update includes a complete and total overhaul of the spell casting mechanics, as well as a ton of new spells. It also includes double the perks the game released with, a ton of bug fixes, balance changes, and general improvements. Specter mechanics have been changed quite a bit in this patch as well, so be sure to checkout the "New Walls and Specter Mechanics" category below and read it carefully! ːrtrheartː Check out the change log for all the juicy bits, and if you find a bug, don't forget to report it on Discord or the Steam Forums. :)

Update 1 Change Log

New Walls and Specter Mechanics

• Added Crylithium Curtain Walls, Crylithium Walls and Crylithium Gates to the game. They all can block specters and ghosts from passing through them.
• Specters and Ghosts can no longer cross crystal patches.
• Regular Curtain Walls no longer block specters and ghosts from passing through them.
• All old saves before this patch get their Curtain Walls updated to Crylithium Curtain Walls automatically and free, so late game villages don't get overrun with specters after this change.
• Reorganized the walls category into two subcategories.

New Perks

• Labor Golem and Holy Golem Duration perk removed as they serve no purpose anymore.
• Tons of new perks added, more than doubling the original perk list. There are too many to list here, so just take my word for it and enjoy! :)
• Removed "perk rarity" from the game. This feature used to determine how common certain perks were, now all perks have an equal chance of being unlocked.

Spell and Influence Overhaul

• New Spell: Construct. Uses your godly powers to assist in constructing buildings, but requires the resources to already be delivered to the build site.
• New Spell: Divine Blessing. Bless a villager, causing their next born child to be a Nephilim with superior strength, dexterity and lifespan.
• New Spell: God Tower. Summons a magic bow tower with unlimited ammo. Requires a portion of your maximum influence to maintain. Can be dispelled with the Dispel Structure spell.
• New Spell: God Wall. Summons a magic wall that will help block all types of monsters, including specters, from crossing. Requires a portion of your maximum influence to maintain. Can be dispelled with the Dispel Structure spell.
• New Spell: Harvest. Automatically harvests resources from the region, dropping them on the ground for your villagers to quickly collect. Make sure you cast this in range of your village, else nobody will come pick anything up!
• New Spell: Holy Potatoes. Sprouts magic potatoes from the ground, really handy if you've just completely run out of food or want to create a new patch elsewhere in the village!
• New Spell: Holy Wood. Sprouts large erections of wood from the ground, really handy if you've just completely run out of wood or want to create a new patch elsewhere in the village!
• New Spell: Dispel Golem. Dispel a previously summoned or combobulated golem. Will work on any golem in the village, including the ones you did not summon yourself. Typically should be used to dispel labor or holy golems to regain some of your maximum influence.
• New Spell: Dispel God Structure. Dispel a previously summoned structure to regain some of your maximum influence.
• A new type of influence mechanic has been added. Now some spells can last forever, but they take up a portion of your maximum influence to maintain. For example, Labor Golems now last forever, but permanently reserve 300 points of influence on your influence bar until you dispel them, or they are killed by monsters.
• Some spells like Conjure Essence and Flame can now be continuously casted, meaning you can hold down the mouse button to continue casting them rather than clicking.
• Many of the old spells now have cooldowns, but have also been buffed or rebalanced accordingly.
• Labor and Holy Golems no longer die slowly over time, but do require influence to be maintained.
• Slightly reduced how much maximum influence the player gets per villager.
• Uncorked the influence absolute maximum, there is no longer a maximum cap on how much total influence you can have.
• Your maximum influence now uses the entire bar (visibly), but the amount of maximum influence still increases per villager.
• Influence gained per tick is now based on a percentage of maximum influence rather than a fixed amount.
• The spell select panel and spell descriptions panel have been completely overhauled.
• Revised many of the spell descriptions.
• Added a spell radius display when you have a spell selected.
• Reduced the particle count on the influence bar.
• Buffed conjure essence spell, it can now produce more resources per cast, and perks can boost it further.
• Slightly reduced influence generation rates.

Miscellaneous Changes

• New range generation "trimming" system, that will remove generated range in areas not connected to the village. Added to cut down on villagers straying away from the village and getting killed. Note that corruption resistance will still generate even if range does not.
• Increased the storage counts of equipment storage.
• Screenshot files are now tagged with the version number of the game they were taken with.
• Cleaned up some of the mouse tooltip message positions.
• Added pointer lines from selected buildings to the building's occupants or workers.
• Added lavender color trees to the game. Currently only used for the Holy Wood spell.
• Added holy potatoes to the game. Currently only used for the Holy Potatoes spell.
• A new mob type called "Nephilim" to the game, that is currently created via the new Divine Blessing spell. These new villagers have longer lifespans and boosted stats.
• Changed the pregnancy icon to look more like a rattle.
• Kitchen now increases worker's cooked meat and boiled egg refine time when upgraded.
• Updated the graveyard's tooltips.

Bug Fixes

• Added fix to buildings to prevent them from being stuck at >100% completed on load after receiving a perk that reduces construction resource requirements.
• Fixed several minor typos.
• Fixed a rare endless loop crash that could happen if monsters tried to spawn from a completely blocked in corrupted fire pit.
• Fixed a minor bug that would cause villagers to not lose hunger points when they mated.
• Fixed some animal mating issues.
• Fixed the construction outline and abandoned graphics for all gates.
• Fixed a very rare crash caused by an endless loop in the trajectory calculation code.
• Fixed a bug that was causing work speed reductions due to high wind to be calculated twice.
• Fixed a bug that wouldn't allow any golems to get their level increase perk unless the player had the wood golem level perk.
• Charmed monsters no longer threaten tiles.
• Fixed an issue where mobs would actually lose hunger, thirst and energy slower when working, rather than faster.
• Fixed a minor bug that could cause newborn animals to spawn the wrong color.
• Fixed a minor bug where catjeet elders would not show up on the population panel when the filter was set to "Elder".
• Fixed a bug where sometimes specters could be banished to inside your village.
• You can no longer upgrade the outpost while it's already being upgraded.
• Fire pit construction can now be paused.
• Fixed purple color crystals minimap color.
• Slightly modified Casas, Wyvernedge and Death Pass to add more valid animal spawn locations.
• Burner no longer trigger the energy usage tip when built.
• Doggos now count on the domesticated stats panel.
• Fixed the upgrade description panel text from overflowing on the Established Ranger Lodge description.
• Ranger lodges no longer count on the problem panel as homes with no food.
• Fixed the missing blank panels on the combobulator category on the right panel.
• Fixed a interface scaling issue with some ultrawide monitors that would cause buttons to be hidden under the UI.
• Fixed a very minor bug where the save system would claim it's converting old road map save data when it wasn't, and the data was already converted.
• Catjeet children are now counted in the children total on the population totals panel.
• Blood Moon and Eclipse countdown delay timers are now properly saved.
• Fixed a rounding issue on the perk list totals.

I am giving out up to 100 FREE copies of Rise to Ruins to anyone who Follows, RTs and replies to this post on Twitter with their "proof" they are staying at home during the #CoronavirusOutbreak! I'm not telling you what the proof is, just have fun with it. ːlunar2020ratinablanketː Have fun, and wash your hands!

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! Update 1 Unstable 2 has arrived! This patch adds tons and tons of new perks (more than double!) as well as tosses in several bug fix and other general improvements. This is also the "Feature complete" build of Update 1. Barring any issue, Update 1 should be fully released very soon. So make sure you dig deep for those bugs! ːrtrheartː Enjoy!

Update 1 Unstable 2 Change Log

New Perks

• Labor Golem and Holy Golem Duration perk removed as they serve no purpose anymore.
• Tons of new perks added, more than doubling the original perk list. There are too many to list here, so just take my word for it and enjoy! :)
• Removed "perk rarity" from the game. This feature used to determine how common certain perks were, now all perks have an equal chance of being unlocked.

Miscellaneous Changes

• New range generation "trimming" system, that will remove generated range in areas not connected to the village. Added to cut down on villagers straying away from the village and getting killed. Note that corruption resistance will still generate even if range does not.
• Increased the storage counts of equipment storage.
• Added "blessed" icon to the mob select and population panels.
• Slightly reduced influence regeneration rates.
• Buffed conjure essence spell, it can now produce more resources per cast, and perks can boost it further.
• Slightly reduced influence generation rates.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a interface scaling issue with some ultrawide monitors that would cause buttons to be hidden under the UI.
• Charm spell works again.
• Fixed a very minor bug where the save system would claim it's converting old road map save data when it wasn't, and the data was already converted.
• Fixed a bug that could crash the game if a blessed regular male villager impregnated a nephilim and the nephilim tried to give birth.
• Put in temporary fix for blessed nephilim child birth crashes so old Unstable 1 players already inflicted with the bug can continue to play their saves.
• If the father of a child is re-blessed after the father impregnates the mother, the father will not become unblessed when the mother gives birth.
• Fixed a bug that would allow you to attempt to cast some spells you don't meet the conditions for and not consuming the influence, but triggering the cooldown.
• Nephilim now properly live an average of 10 days longer than their regular counterparts.
• Resurrect spell cooldown now doesn't reset when you don't cast it in a ghost.
• Human Nephilim migrants no longer "become" regular humans after they arrive at the new region.
• Nephilim elders and children are no longer counted as unassigned workers list in the population list panel.
• Catjeet Children are now counted in the children total on the population totals panel.
• Nephilim are now counted in the children total on the population totals panel
• Nephilim are now tracked in the statistics panel.
• Blood Moon and Eclipse countdown delay timers are now properly saved.
• Divine Blessing no longer counts to the resurrection count goal.
• Fixed a few of the new spells not providing god XP or increasing spell cast counts for goals.
• Nephilim are now properly counted on the population panel (Yes, again)
• Fixed a rounding issue on the perk list totals.

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! Update 1 Unstable 1 has arrived! This patch adds a ton of small improvements and bug fixes, some balance changes, and most importantly a completely overhauled spell system! :) This patch introduces a ton of new mechanics that can greatly impact the overall balance of the game. So be sure to let me know in the comments what you think of all the new mechanics and how they're impacting your gameplay so I can fine tune them for the eventual full release. Enjoy!

Update 1 Unstable 1 Change Log

New Walls and Specter Mechanics

• Added Crylithium Curtain Walls, Crylithium Walls and Crylithium Gates to the game. They all can block specters and ghosts from passing through them.
• Specters and Ghosts can no longer cross crystal patches.
• Regular Curtain Walls no longer block specters and ghosts from passing through them.
• All old saves before this patch get their Curtain Walls updated to Crylithium Curtain Walls automatically and free, so late game villages don't get overrun with specters after this change.
• Reorganized the walls category into two subcategories.

Spell and Influence Overhaul

• New Spell: Construct. Uses your godly powers to assist in constructing buildings, but requires the resources to already be delivered to the build site.
• New Spell: Divine Blessing. Bless a villager, causing their next born child to be a Nephilim with superior strength, dexterity and lifespan.
• New Spell: God Tower. Summons a magic bow tower with unlimited ammo. Requires a portion of your maximum influence to maintain. Can be dispelled with the Dispel Structure spell.
• New Spell: God Wall. Summons a magic wall that will help block all types of monsters, including specters, from crossing. Requires a portion of your maximum influence to maintain. Can be dispelled with the Dispel Structure spell.
• New Spell: Harvest. Automatically harvests resources from the region, dropping them on the ground for your villagers to quickly collect. Make sure you cast this in range of your village, else nobody will come pick anything up!
• New Spell: Holy Potatoes. Sprouts magic potatoes from the ground, really handy if you've just completely run out of food or want to create a new patch elsewhere in the village!
• New Spell: Holy Wood. Sprouts large erections of wood from the ground, really handy if you've just completely run out of wood or want to create a new patch elsewhere in the village!
• New Spell: Dispel Golem. Dispel a previously summoned or combobulated golem. Will work on any golem in the village, including the ones you did not summon yourself. Typically should be used to dispel labor or holy golems to regain some of your maximum influence.
• New Spell: Dispel God Structure. Dispel a previously summoned structure to regain some of your maximum influence.
• A new type of influence mechanic has been added. Now some spells can last forever, but they take up a portion of your maximum influence to maintain. For example, Labor Golems now last forever, but permanently reserve 300 points of influence on your influence bar until you dispel them, or they are killed by monsters.
• Some spells like Conjure Essence and Flame can now be continuously casted, meaning you can hold down the mouse button to continue casting them rather than clicking.
• Many of the old spells now have cooldowns, but have also been buffed or rebalanced accordingly.
• Labor and Holy Golems no longer die slowly over time, but do require influence to be maintained.
• Slightly reduced how much maximum influence the player gets per villager.
• Uncorked the influence absolute maximum, there is no longer a maximum cap on how much total influence you can have.
• Your maximum influence now uses the entire bar (visibly), but the amount of maximum influence still increases per villager.
• Influence gained per tick is now based on a percentage of maximum influence rather than a fixed amount.
• The spell select panel and spell descriptions panel have been completely overhauled.
• Revised many of the spell descriptions.
• Added a spell radius display when you have a spell selected.
• Reduced the particle count on the influence bar.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Screenshot files are now tagged with the version number of the game they were taken with.
• Cleaned up some of the mouse tooltip message positions.
• Added pointer lines from selected buildings to the building's occupants or workers.
• Added lavender color trees to the game. Currently only used for the Holy Wood spell.
• Added holy potatoes to the game. Currently only used for the Holy Potatoes spell.
• A new mob type called "Nephilim" to the game, that is currently created via the new Divine Blessing spell. These new villagers have longer lifespans and boosted stats.
• Changed the pregnancy icon to look more like a rattle.
• Kitchen now increases worker's cooked meat and boiled egg refine time when upgraded.
• Updated the graveyard's tooltips.

Bug Fixes

• Added fix to buildings to prevent them from being stuck at >100% completed on load after receiving a perk that reduces construction time.
• Fixed several minor typos.
• Fixed a rare endless loop crash that could happen if monsters tried to spawn from a completely blocked in corrupted fire pit.
• Fixed a minor bug that would cause villagers to not lose hunger points when they mated.
• Fixed some animal mating issues.
• Fixed the construction outline and abandoned graphics for all gates.
• Fixed a very rare crash caused by an endless loop in the trajectory calculation code.
• Fixed a bug that was causing work speed reductions due to high wind to be calculated twice.
• Fixed a bug that wouldn't allow any golems to get their level increase perk unless the player had the wood golem level perk.
• Charmed monsters no longer threaten tiles.
• Fixed an issue where mobs would actually lose hunger, thirst and energy slower when working, rather than faster.
• Fixed a minor bug that could cause newborn animals to spawn the wrong color.
• Fixed a minor bug where catjeet elders would not show up on the population panel when the filter was set to "Elder".
• Fixed a bug where sometimes specters could be banished to inside your village.
• You can no longer upgrade the outpost while it's already being upgraded.
• Fire pit construction can now be paused.
• Fixed purple color crystals minimap color.
• Slightly modified Casas, Wyvernedge and Death Pass to add more valid animal spawn locations.
• Burner no longer trigger the energy usage tip when built.
• Doggos now count on the domesticated stats panel.
• Fixed the upgrade description panel text from overflowing on the Established Ranger Lodge description.
• Ranger lodges no longer count on the problem panel as homes with no food.
• Fixed the missing blank panels on the combobulator category on the right panel.

Greetings everyone! Now that Rise to Ruins has left Early Access, it's time to talk about how development will progress from here on out. As I've stated in the past, development will not end when the game leaves Early Access. But, I would like to change how patches work from here. In the past I tried to release giant major patches. A huge part of this was up until 2019 major patches broke your save data, so I wanted to be sure I added enough content all at once to make it worthwhile to start over. But, for a large majority of 2019 save files are no longer broken when new patches are releases, and I of course don't plan to break them moving forward from here. So, what I'm going to start doing is stop releasing future patch Road Maps outlining huge patches with tons of content. Rather, I'm going to start releasing much smaller, more frequent patches and people interested in following very closely with development can either follow me on twitter, or join our discord. Although there will still be occasional big patches, it really depends on what mechanics are being added. Some new mechanics may simply be so extensive they would be nonsensical broken up into smaller parts. For example, the recent hunting patch would not have made much sense if I broke it up into smaller pieces where I added just animals, then just hunting, then just animal pens, and then just butchering/slaughtering mechanics all individually as separate smaller patches. None of those mechanics would have functioned correctly without the other parts. Just a reminder, as I said in the past all future patches will not be DLC. All future content will be 100% free, and included in the base game. Rise to Ruins will continue to get free content patches as long as I am selling enough copies to support myself and development.

Introducing the most important patch in the history of Rise to Ruins, Release 1! It's been a long ride, but I'm proud to bring you this milestone update. In less than 24 hours, Rise to Ruins leaves Early Access. But development isn't over! Expect more free content patches over the years as Rise to Ruins continues to evolve and expand into an even more complex game with deeper mechanics. For now though, check out the most extensive and important change log in Rise to Ruins history. If you're looking for the recently released "Hunting Update" change log for InDev 34, check it out here.

Release 1 Change Log

Miscellaneous Changes

• Released the game. 🎉🥂🍻🍾

It's time to hunt! The final InDev version of Rise to Ruins has been released! On October 14th the game will launch out of Early Access and the next big content update you'll see after will be called the free "Content Update 1". Exciting times are ahead! :) This update introduces a massive amount of balance changes, a new hunting system, new mobs, and a ton more. The list is simply too long to summarize properly, so check out the change logs!

InDev 34 Change Log

Rangers and Hunting System

• Renamed the barracks to ranger station.
• Renamed guards to rangers.
• Two new buildings added, the animal pen and the clucker coop. Both buildings house animals that the hunters capture and return to the village. When full, excess animals are then taken by the cooks and slaughtered for meat in the kitchen.
• Rangers will now hunt for animals during midday, capturing them and taking them to animal pens or clucker coops.
• Rangers no longer patrol the perimeter of the village during the day time.
• Rangers no longer can post at outposts or barracks.
• Rangers now patrol the village during a blood moon, rather than the front lines.
• Rangers outside the village are no longer called when a village is in danger.
• Moved rangers lodge and outpost to the food and water category.

Animals and Cooking

• Four new animals have been added to the game, the clucker, entler, beefalo and rous. All four can be hunted by the rangers.
• Tons of new resources have been added, including raw meat, cooked meat, eggs, boiled eggs, raw hide, and feathers.
• Most non-monster mobs now drop meat and byproducts like raw hide upon death, including villagers and doggos.
• Doggos now only spawn on the edges of the map.
• Animals also spawn on the edges of the map.
• Wild animals try to seek out safe locations with food and water to congregate.
• Rebalanced all food.
• Doggos and other animals now require less food and water to sustain themselves.
• Doggos and other animals can no longer die of overheating or freezing.

Save System Optimizations

• The entire save system for object/building data has been completely rewritten, significantly reducing memory usage and save data size.
• Numerous changes and improvements to tons of modules have been done to drastically decrease save file size, save time, load time, and memory usage. (Note: The first time you load an old save it may take some additional time as it converts the data to the new format. I also strongly recommend loading and then saving and exiting at least once on every region just to decrease overall load time and memory usage on the world map.)

Balance Changes

• Cooks and bottlers can now manufacture with their entire workforce again.
• Doubled both the speed and damage of bows. (Resulting in 4x more DPS)
• Tripled the ammo capacity of quivers.
• Villagers now use hostile towers and corruption in their fight or flight mechanics.
• Tools now require wood boards and iron.
• Bows now require silk and wood.
• Iron armor now requires raw hide and iron ingots.
• Medkits now require silk and wood.
• Quivers now require feathers and wood.
• Heavily buffed rations.
• Rations now require a raw meat and a raw vegetable.
• All buildings that make the above mentioned resources now have had their storage changed to store those resources.
• Elders can no longer turn into zombies when blighted.
• Rebalanced zombies very slightly.
• Removed intelligence from the game.
• Removed happiness from the game.
• Completely overhauled entire resource storage system, now buildings can store fixed amounts of each resource type rather than a total of any resource types they can store.
• Completely rebalanced storage limits of nearly all buildings.
• It is now easier to push back the corruption.
• Maintaining infinite refined resources will now manufacture them regardless if storage space exists.
• Less monsters now spawn overall, but their levels increase more rapidly.
• Monster level increases extremely fast when the corruption is highly threatened. (Warning: If you pinned the corruption in your save, the difficulty may be unexpectedly much higher suddenly.)
• The corruption can now be completely destroyed, but it's extremely hard and time consuming.
• Doubled resource decay times for most resources, and tripled others.
• It now takes less trashy trash to make a trashy cube.
• Reduced farm range to 24.
• A fourth dark purple work selection color has been added to signal when a work selection has been threatened.
• When pushing back the corruption, it becomes more resistant and slower to push back the more pinned it is.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Workers now try to equip the best tools or food available rather than anything they can find.
• Loading tips moved to the main game, and now the game starts paused.
• Top popup panels no longer overlap the left panel's category buttons.
• Reduced the overlay font size slightly.
• Raw food renamed to raw vegetables.
• Slightly optimized mob rendering code.
• Perimeter generation code completely removed from the game.
• Changed Doofy Wild Doggo to Wild Doofy Doggo.
• Armorsmiths can now make leather armor.
• Wooden shield renamed to leather shield, and can also now be made by armorsmiths.
• The toolsmith can now make wooden swords.
• Villagers no longer enter a home when they claim it for the first time.
• Console banners are now smaller, 6 can be displayed at once, and they decay faster when there's a backlog.
• Tweaked the storage priority of many buildings.
• Resources can no longer be paused or banished from a building.
• Building perks are now retroactive.
• Wolfmere is no longer connected to Deepnesse
• Added a new "Make/Maintain until storage is full" option for all resources.
• Harvesting tasks are now set to maintain to storage limits by default, rather than infinite. Although the infinite option still exists if you want to use it.
• Made loot boxes more encouraged to teleport closer to the village.
• Added a "backup your saves" warning to old profiles loading InDev 34 for the first time.
• Changed the disclaimer page to remove mention of Early Access.

Bug Fixes

• Implemented possible fix for the "lazy bowyer" problem.
• Fixed a few incorrect tips and tooltip descriptions.
• Processed leftover trashy trash at the trash processor can no longer go over the storage limits.
• Fixed a typo in the Total Home Occupancy tooltip.
• Twitch integration text box now properly loses focus when you close the settings panel.
• Fixed a bug that could cause object data to not load correctly on custom user maps.
• Fixed a minor bug in damage calculations RNG that could throw an error if the mob's stats were too low.
• Fixed a very minor layer color issue with the doggo sprite animations.
• Placing walls for construction no longer automatically deletes the topography under it.
• Fixed a crash when nomads tries to visit a village and the camp/castle was destroyed.
• Sleeping AI branches now obeys the booleans that dictates if they can sleep inside or outside.
• Fixed a bug where sleep and incapacitated animations would not reset properly.
• Fixed an Ancillary on Black Coast that could not be dismantled or reclaimed.
• Implemented bandaid fix for the resourceCount crash.
• Fixed an issue with refine AI if no storage exists anywhere for the refined material (even if the building would make space once a resource is refined) production would halt.
• Fixed a crash related to the clear out resources AI by deleting the clear out resources AI.
• Send villagers goal now counts correctly.
• Year calculations fixed (Yes, again)
• Fixed a string key call in the trash AI task list.
• Fixed a bug where a monsters "breakaway chance" would fire too rapidly in the day time, possibly causing some lag at dawn.

The light at the end of the tunnel is arriving rapidly. Rise to Ruins will be launching out of Early Access on October 14th. But this ride isn't over yet, Rise to Ruins will continue to get new content as long as you're still around to support and play it. This has been an amazing several years, and the support from the entire community over all this time has been absolutely amazing. It's very rare a one man developer can launch a game of this magnitude all by himself, and if it wasn't for the support of every one of you Rise to Ruins never would have reached this milestone. Launching a game is one of the biggest moments in a developer's life, and can make or break their entire career. But, no matter what happens during the launch, thank you for allowing me to follow my dreams. Here's to more years of completely free Rise to Ruins content, and someday, more SixtyGig Games!

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! Unstable 4 has arrived! This patch introduces mostly small bug fixes in preparation for InDev 34 Stable to be released in early October. The game is officially in "Feature lock", all additional changes will be to gear up for the big "Release" patch on October 14th. So post all your nitpicks in the comments! Exciting times are coming. :)

InDev 34 Unstable 4 Change Log

Balance Changes

• Buffed the stats and levels of all animals except the doggos.
• Quadrupled the rate cluckers produce eggs.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Animal pens and clucker coops no longer store dirty water.
• Changed the disclaimer page to remove mention of Early Access.
• Warning panel can now be translated.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed some errors in the way point module that would cause animals to not seek out locations with both food and water.
• Fixed offset construction art on the Clucker Coop.
• Fixed the speed control tip not properly displaying the shortcut key name.
• Fixed an issue that would cause builders to "lock up" if they had a clear terrain task in a threatened area that was required to complete a building.

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! Unstable 3 has arrived! This patch introduces a ton of small changes, AI improvements and general preparation for the game's launch in October! For the next month, all additional changes will be to gear up for the big "Release" patch on October 14th. So post all your nitpicks in the comments! Exciting times are coming. :) NOTE: This patch makes extensive chances to your save data, I highly recommend backing up your profile before playing. When you launch the game, a warning panel will pop up, when it does, click "Open Install Folder" and then make a backup copy of the /profiles/ folder!

InDev 34 Unstable 3 Change Log

Balance Changes

• Cooks and bottlers can now manufacture with their entire workforce again.
• Doubled both the speed and damage of bows. (Resulting in 4x more DPS)
• Tripled the ammo capacity of quivers.
• Villagers now use hostile towers and corruption in their fight or flight mechanics.
• Tools now require wood boards and iron.
• Bows now require silk and wood.
• Iron armor now requires raw hide and iron ingots.
• Medkits now require silk and wood.
• Quivers now require feathers and wood.
• Heavily buffed rations.
• Rations now require a raw meat and a raw vegetable.
• All buildings that make the above mentioned resources now have had their storage changed to store those resources.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Rangers now hunt animals in the morning.
• Cluckers can now lay eggs.
• Animals being slaughtered no longer plays the death sound.
• Workers now try to equip the best tools or food available rather than anything they can find.
• Loading tips moved to the main game, and now the game starts paused.
• Top popup panels no longer overlap the left panel's category buttons.
• Reduced the overlay font size slightly.

Bug Fixes

• Implemented possible fix for the "lazy bowyer" problem.
• Animal domesticated this period now properly ticks up when you capture an animal.
• Fixed a few incorrect tips and tooltip descriptions.
• Missing water bottle drinking flags for new animals added.
• Processed leftover trashy trash at the trash processor can no longer go over the storage limits.
• Fixed a typo in the Total Home Occupancy tooltip.
• Twitch integration text box now properly loses focus when you close the settings panel.
• Problems panel now properly detects all food types when checking if the village has food.
• Fixed numerous areas where the game AI was only looking at raw food and rations rather than all new food types.
• Fixed an Ancillary on Black Coast that could not be dismantled or reclaimed.
• Implemented bandaid fix for the resourceCount crash.
• Domesticated animals no longer count on the population panel's unassigned workers.

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! The big Unstable 2 patch has finally arrived! This patch introduces a large majority of the new hunting mechanics, and a ton of miscellaneous changes I hope you guys will love. Check out the change log for the juicy details! NOTE: This patch makes extensive chances to your save data, I highly recommend backing up your profile before playing. When you launch the game, a warning panel will pop up, when it does, click "Open Install Folder" and then make a backup copy of the /profiles/ folder!

InDev 34 Unstable 2 Change Log

Rangers and Hunting System

• Renamed the barracks to ranger station.
• Renamed guards to rangers.
• Two new buildings added, the animal pen and the clucker coop. Both buildings house animals that the hunters capture and return to the village. When full, excess animals are then taken by the cooks and slaughtered for meat in the kitchen.
• Rangers will now hunt for animals during midday, capturing them and taking them to animal pens or clucker coops.
• Rangers no longer patrol the perimeter of the village during the day time.
• Rangers no longer can post at outposts or barracks.
• Rangers now patrol the village during a blood moon, rather than the front lines.
• Rangers outside the village are no longer called when a village is in danger.
• Moved rangers lodge and outpost to the food and water category.

Animals and Cooking

• Four new animals have been added to the game, the clucker, entler, beefalo and rous. All four can be hunted by the rangers.
• Tons of new resources have been added, including raw meat, cooked meat, eggs, boiled eggs, raw hide, and feathers. Feathers currently serve no purpose, but will in unstable 3.
• Most non-monster mobs now drop meat and byproducts like raw hide upon death, including villagers and doggos.
• Doggos now only spawn on the edges of the map.
• Animals also spawn on the edges of the map.
• Wild animals try to seek out safe locations with food and water to congregate.
• Rebalanced all food.
• Doggos and other animals now require less food and water to sustain themselves.
• Doggos and other animals can no longer die of overheating or freezing.

Balance Changes

• Elders can no longer turn into zombies when blighted.
• Rebalanced zombies very slightly.
• Removed intelligence from the game.
• Removed happiness from the game.
• Completely overhauled entire resource storage system, now buildings can store fixed amounts of each resource type rather than a total of any resource types they can store.
• Completely rebalanced storage limits of nearly all buildings.
• It is now easier to push back the corruption.
• Maintaining infinite refined resources will now manufacture them regardless if storage space exists.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Raw food renamed to raw vegetables.
• Slightly optimized mob rendering code.
• Perimeter generation code completely removed from the game.
• Changed Doofy Wild Doggo to Wild Doofy Doggo.
• Armorsmiths can now make leather armor.
• Wooden shield renamed to leather shield, and can also now be made by armorsmiths.
• The toolsmith can now make wooden swords.
• Villagers no longer enter a home when they claim it for the first time.
• Console banners are now smaller, 6 can be displayed at once, and they decay faster when there's a backlog.
• Tweaked the storage priority of many buildings.
• Resources can no longer be paused or banished from a building.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that could cause object data to not load correctly on custom user maps.
• Fixed a minor bug in damage calculations RNG that could throw an error if the mob's stats were too low.
• Fixed a very minor layer color issue with the doggo sprite animations.
• Barracks can now store ballista bolts when at max upgrade.
• Outpost can no longer store ballista bolts until its at max upgrade.
• Placing walls for construction no longer automatically deletes the topography under it.
• Fixed a crash when nomads tries to visit a village and the camp/castle was destroyed.
• Sleeping AI branches now obeys the booleans that dictates if they can sleep inside or outside.
• Fixed a bug where sleep and incapacitated animations would not reset properly.
• Fixed an issue with refine AI if no storage exists anywhere for the refined material (even if the building would make space once a resource is refined) production would halt.
• Fixed a crash related to the clear out resources AI by deleting the clear out resources AI.

Greeting everyone! Every once and a while I have to revise my road map plans. This is one of those times! After some extensive thoughts on the future of Rise to Ruins I've decided to rearrange the development scheduled a bit, and drop fishing from the next update, replacing it with some heavy rebalancing, trash system changes and AI adjustments to prepare for Rise to Ruins' launch in October! Don't worry though, fishing is still planned. It'll likely happen after Rise to Ruins releases in the many free content patches you guys will get post launch.

Rise to Ruins development will not end when the game leaves Early Access in October.

So be sure to keep posting your suggestions and opinions! I will be supporting the game and continuing on with additional 100% free content patches well after Rise to Ruins has left Early Access. :rtrheart: You guys have been amazing over the years, and I thank you for all your support on discord and twitter! This has been an amazing experience, and I have you guys to thank for it! I encourage you to post your nitpicky tweaks/gripes/suggestions below! Now that the game is moving into its home stretch to launch, all future patches will have a heavy focus on fixing/polishing "the little things" as I go. So now is the time to complain about all those "little things" that bug you, no matter how small! :)

InDev 34 Revised Road Map

Hunting

• Guards will be completely redesigned into a new Ranger job This new job class will combine the functions of the new rangers and the function of guards into a single job. During the day time, they will hunt animals out in the wilderness, and during night they will defend the village.
• The current outposts and barracks will be re-purposed and the barracks renamed to a ranger's station. Functionally they will remain fairly similar. This is a rename/reskin of the building to make it suitably themed with the new hunter job.
• 4 new animals will be added to the game, to be hunted. The Beefalo, The Entler, the Rous and The Clucker. They will spawn on uncorrupted land in and outside the village.
• To complement the new hunting systems, new complex foods will be added. The kitchen will be able to combine multiple combinations of foods into more complex and nutrient rich dishes.
• A new farm type will be added to house captured animals, to be slaughtered, bred or farmed as needed.
• The kitchen will now be able to slaughter animals for meats and byproducts like raw leather and feathers.
• The toolsmiths and armorsmiths will now be able to make wooden and leather tools, weapons and equipment.

Corruption Changes

• Due to rioting with pitchforks popular demand, the corruption mechanics will be altered, allowing you to completely annihilate the corruption in a region if you're skilled enough. (But it won't be easy!)
• Monster spawn rate will be slightly re-balanced, opting to spawn higher level monsters rather than higher amounts of monsters. Although spawn counts will still increase, just at a lower rate.
• A nightly spawn cap will be reintroduced (Similar to InDev 32's mechanics), but instead, when the nightly spawn cap is reached the game will start to greatly increase monster levels.

Trash System and Resource Changes

• Resources will now take twice as long (and some, 3 times as long) to decay into trash.
• Less trash is generated overall.
• A new harvest/refine to storage limits setting will be added to the production panel, allowing your workers to only generate more resources when there is a place to store them in the village.
• The entire resource storage system will be redesigned to store specific amounts of specific resources rather than totals of all resources. For example, the lumber mill will no longer store 36 wood or boards in total, rather it can store 12 boards and 24 wood.
• Due to the above changes, many buildings will get their storage heavily buffed or nerfed accordingly.

Miscellaneous Changes

• The object/building data will be completely overhauled, reducing overall memory usage, and decreasing save and load times.
• All building perks will now be retroactive.
• Tons of miscellaneous AI and balance improvements.

Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! The first unstable patch for InDev 34 has arrived! This patch introduces a ton of improvements to the save system, lower memory usage, and faster save/load times. In addition it also brings in a ton of balance changes to trash and the corruption mechanics as well as some other nice tidbits. Check out the change log! NOTE: This patch makes extensive chances to your save data, I highly recommend backing up your profile before playing. When you launch the game, a warning panel will pop up, when it does, click "Open Install Folder" and then make a backup copy of the /profiles/ folder!

InDev 34 Unstable 1 Change Log

Save System Optimizations

• The entire save system for object/building data has been completely rewritten, significantly reducing memory usage and save data size.
• Numerous changes and improvements to tons of modules have been done to drastically decrease save file size, save time, load time, and memory usage. (Note: The first time you load an old save it may take some additional time as it converts the data to the new format. I also strongly recommend loading and then saving and exiting at least once on every region just to decrease overall load time and memory usage on the world map.)

Balance Changes

• Less monsters now spawn overall, but their levels increase more rapidly.
• Monster level increases extremely fast when the corruption is highly threatened. (Warning: If you pinned the corruption in your save, the difficulty may be unexpectedly much higher suddenly.)
• The corruption can now be completely destroyed, but it's extremely hard and time consuming.
• Doubled resource decay times for most resources, and tripled others.
• It now takes less trashy trash to make a trashy cube.
• Reduced farm range to 24.
• A fourth dark purple work selection color has been added to signal when a work selection has been threatened.
• When pushing back the corruption, it becomes more resistant and slower to push back the more pinned it is.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Building perks are now retroactive.
• Wolfmere is no longer connected to Deepnesse
• Added a new "Make/Maintain until storage is full" option for all resources.
• Harvesting tasks are now set to maintain to storage limits by default, rather than infinite. Although the infinite option still exists if you want to use it.
• Made loot boxes more encouraged to teleport closer to the village.
• Added a "backup your saves" warning to old profiles loading InDev 34 for the first time.

Bug Fixes

• Send villagers goal now counts correctly.
• Year calculations fixed (Yes, again)
• Fixed a string key call in the trash AI task list.
• Fixed a bug where a monsters "breakaway chance" would fire too rapidly in the day time, possibly causing some lag at dawn.

Just slightly over 5 years ago (May 3rd, 2014), I decided to make a simple pathfinding tech demo, to prove you can design a large scale pathfinding system for thousands of creatures all at once on a large, complex map. Well, that tech demo sparked an idea, an idea that turned into what you're currently playing; Rise to Ruins. Now, after 5 years of solo development, the final InDev release is underway! (Actually, it has been underway for about 2 weeks, but hey!) Your support has been amazing over these 5 years, and I'm proud to announce InDev 34 will be the last content update before Rise to Ruins leaves Early Access In October! This primary focus of this update is (you guessed it!) to add new hunting and fishing to the game. Part of that will also mean reworking guards and adding more complex food options. There will also be a ton of tweaks and improvements done to the new save system, corruption mechanics, as well as the usual general optimizations and improvements.

Rise to Ruins development will not end when the game leaves Early Access in October.

So be sure to keep posting your suggestions and opinions! I will be supporting the game and continuing on with additional 100% free content patches well after Rise to Ruins has left Early Access. :rtrheart: You guys have been amazing over the years, and I thank you for all your support on discord, twitter and writing reviews on Steam! This has been an amazing experience, and I have you guys to thank for it! I encourage you to post your nitpicky tweaks/gripes/suggestions below! Now that the game is moving into its home stretch to launch, all future patches will have a heavy focus on fixing/polishing "the little things" as I go. So now is the time to complain about all those "little things" that bug you, no matter how small! :)

InDev 34 Road Map

Hunting and Fishing

• Guards will be completely redesigned into a new hunter job (Name pending, suggest one below!) This new job class will combine the functions of the new hunters and the function of guards into a single job. During the day time, they will hunt animals out in the wilderness, and during night they will defend the village.
• The current outposts and barracks will be re-purposed into hunters guilds/lodges (Again, name pending! Suggest something!). Functionally they will remain fairly similar. This is a rename/reskin of the building to make it suitably themed with the new hunter job.
• New animals will be added to the game, to be hunted. They will spawn on uncorrupted land in and outside the village.
• A new fishing hut will be added, allowing you to fish in nearby waters.
• Dev time permitting, the new fishing hut will be able to be built on the water.
• To complement the new fishing and hunting systems, new complex foods will be added. The kitchen will be able to combine multiple combinations of foods into more complex and nutrient rich dishes.
• A new farm type will be added to house captured animals, to be slaughtered, bred or farmed as needed.

Corruption Changes

• Due to rioting with pitchforks popular demand, the corruption mechanics will be altered, allowing you to completely annihilate the corruption in a region if you're skilled enough. (But it won't be easy!)
• Monster spawn rate will be slightly re-balanced, opting to spawn higher level monsters rather than higher amounts of monsters. Although spawn counts will still increase, just at a lower rate.
• A nightly spawn cap will be reintroduced (Similar to InDev 32's mechanics), but instead, when the nightly spawn cap is reached the game will start to greatly increase monster levels.

Miscellaneous Changes

• The object/building data will be completely overhauled, reducing overall memory usage, and decreasing save and load times.
• All building perks will now be retroactive.
• Dev time permitting, workshop support will be added for custom maps.
• Dev time permitting, bridges will be added to the game.

The last planned content patch of InDev 33 is here, introducing 9 brand new maps in a brand new biome, and created by a member of the community no less! The Red Sands biome, by Shade (Give him a follow on Twitter as a thank you!) In addition to the new biome, I've also fixed a ton of bugs and improved the AI. So be sure to check out the change log! If you're interested in following development much more closely, don't forget to follow me on Twitter or join the awesome community on Discord!

InDev 33e Change Log

Miscellaneous Changes

• 9 new maps have been added to the world map, creating a brand new "Red Sands" biome to explore!
• Increased the threat range of hostile towers and mobs.
• Added several community contributors to the credits page.
• Monsters can no longer spawn from incomplete buildings.
• "Clear Resources from Road" AI added that will prevent incorrect resources from sitting on a road and stopping your way makers from upgrading it.
• New builder AI improvements that should help avoid the "Waiting for one last hit of work" taking forever because the worker tasked with the job is on the other side of the village.
• All other panels on the world map now close when the player attempts to open a chest or complete a goal.
• The total available storage resource counts on the resource bar and panel no longer count buildings with paused or banned resources.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a crash if you tried to place a building or draw terrain with a very tall shadow on the most-eastern or southern edge of the map.
• "Ready to migrate" no longer pops up on already established villages with migrants en route.
• Fixed a rare bug if a mob was killed while another mob was attacking it, and you saved and exited the game before the other mob's AI reset, it could cause a crash on reload.
• Fixed total years being offset by 1 day.
• Workers no longer repair abandoned buildings.
• Fixed a bug where water harvesting will not respect if a building's storage if paused or disabled when deciding to harvest more water, possibly causing an over harvesting problem.
• Fixed an issue where the game would crash with no sound device active.
• Fixed an issue where sometimes some goals that has map specific requirements on maps you didn't yet occupy would cause the game to crash.

This is a fairly small bug fix patch, correcting a few issues that creeped up in InDev 33. If you're looking for the previous "Passive Tips" update, check out InDev 33c's change log. If you're interested in following development much more closely, don't forget to follow me on Twitter or join the awesome community on Discord!

InDev 33d Change Log

Miscellaneous Changes

• Clearing terrain, roads, digging and all harvest AI now obey the new threat map introduced in InDev 33c, and should drastically cut down on villager's suicidal behavior when new work becomes available after pushing back the corruption.
• Increased the rate trash decays in the corruption.
• Decreased the rate corruption destroys natural resources like trees and food.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a crash if you assigned road work to upgrade to a path, and before the road was actually upgraded to a path one was generated naturally on the same tile, causing a loop in the road AI and eventually crashing the game when the AI tried to interact with that tile.
• Guards posting at a building being upgraded no longer has a very small chance of crashing the game.
• Implemented a possible fix for the rare bug that could sometimes cause resources to be generated in a building that was just destroyed, causing the game to crash next reload.
• Fixed a rare bug that would corrupt a save file if you saved and exited while you were carrying a resource your hand.
• Fixed a bug that could cause organizers to accidentally place the wrong resources in the wrong buildings, mainly keys. Credit to Veldrin on Discord.

InDev 33c has arrived, introducing a new passive tip system that should help newbies out a bunch. Now you guys get the same information, but more on your terms, rather than the prior "interrupt your game and slap you in the face with a wall-o-text" method. Now, tips will pop up when conditions are met, and float around the area that triggered them, so you can click on them when you're ready. This patch also introduces a mess of bug fixes, balance changes to trash, and the first half of a new "threat awareness" system that will greatly cut down on workers doing things in unsafe areas of the map. As per usual, check out the change log! :) If you're interested in following development much more closely, don't forget to follow me on Twitter or join the awesome community on Discord!

InDev 33c Change Log

Passive Tip System

• Most tips now pop up and hover around what triggered them, waiting for the player to click on them.
• New tip sound has been added.
• New tips have been added related to over harvesting, resource decay and walls being attacked.

Trash Re-balance

• All trash is worth 50% less "trash points", meaning it will be burned/destroyed faster.
• Trashy cubes are still worth the same trash points, but with trashy trash worth half as much, that means it takes 2x more trashy trash to make a single cube. Buffing cubes indirectly because now you can condense more trash into one cube.
• Burners are roughly 20% faster, but since trash is also worth 50% less trash will also be destroyed 60% faster (50% less points, 20% faster rate). eg; it consumes "trash points" 20% faster, and trash is worth 50% less points.
• Trashy Loot Boxes spawn rates reduced 66%.

Miscellaneous Changes

• The custom resource bar can now list up to 32 items.
• Greatly reduced the memory footprint of the new save system.
• Migration Way Station can no longer store trash.
• New threat map system implemented, that will help prevent workers from getting near towers and monsters to collect resources or build and repair roads. In a future patch, it will be utilized for many other work tasks as well.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that was preventing water bottle refining from progressing in the goals system.
• Fixed a bug that was causing some fight or flight mechanics to miscalculate.
• Fixed a bug that could cause paths to not generate on commonly walked tiles.
• Fixed processing trash goal.
• The game will no longer crash if you try to move the world map with WASD controls or edge scrolling when a game mode has not yet been selected.
• Game no longer crashes when a monster tries to spawn and no corruption exists.
• Implemented a possible fix for a very rare crash if the dedicated threads are in the middle of work when the player exits the region.
• Fixed a bug where the game would crash if couriers or migrants tried to leave a map and couldn't find an exit.
• Fixed an issue where empty profile folders from previously deleted cloud save data would be listed as "Corrupted".

Greetings fellow and future deities! Rise to Ruins is on sale for the next 48 hours at its lowest historic price on Steam, only $3.40 (or, 66% off)! This will be the lowest price point you will see Rise to Ruins on Steam for a very long time, so if you're interested in buying, now is the time! This is part of the ultimate plan to launch the game out of Early Access later this year. After tons, and tons of community feedback between the discord, twitter, and the official forums I have settled down a game plan for Rise to Ruins' road to release. Phase one starts with this blowout sale, giving everyone "one last hurrah" to get the game at a great price and we blast our way through to leaving Early Access. After the sale is over, the game's price will increase to $14.99 for the remainder of Early Access. Phase two starts with the next two major content patches. InDev 34, the "Bio and Hygiene" update and InDev 35/Release 1, the "Fishing and Hunting" update. Phase three, one month prior to leaving Early Access, the game will hit its final price point collectively agreed on within the community; $19.99, and then have a launch discount of 30% when the game finally leaves Early Access. After release, development will not stop. As I've said in the past, these sort of games are never truly finished, there's always more to add! You will continue to get completely free content patches as long as the community is still active. Reaffirming my policy there will be no paid DLC. You will all have all the content the game will ever contain, for the single one-time asking price. It's the way I've always done things with Rise to Ruins, and that will not change. So hopefully, for the years to come Rise to Ruins will continue to expand and grow, and at absolutely no additional costs to you, you'll continue to get more and more content. I thank you all for your great reviews, feedback, suggestions, and everything else you've provided over the years during Early Access. I am looking forward to launching the game this year, and I hope you'll all stick around during and after the launch for years to come. It's because of your support that I am privileged to do my dream job, and I will continue to do my best not to let you down on the road ahead. :rtrheart: