The Wandering Village news & patch notes

Dear Onbu Riders, As you may recall, we teased the physical PlayStation and Nintendo Switch collector's and premium editions of The Wandering Village in collaboration with Serenity Forge in July last year. We’re thrilled to announce that both editions will be released on July 30th!

Pre-Orders are still live, so make sure to grab them if you’re a fan of physical editions and get some extra awesome goodies too!

Cheers and thank you so much for your support,

Stray Fawn Studio

Dear Onbu Riders, The Wandering Village is featured on Steam this week as a Midweek Madness deal with its highest discount ever, 50% off!

Our art team has been busy putting together an Onbu skin DLC, featuring 5 new Onbu skins. 

The DLC just launched with a 10% discount:

If you already own the Collectors Edition, you can get an extra 10% off via this bundle:

And if you need even more city-builders or strategy games to play during the holidays, make sure to drop by our Stray Fawn Winter Sale on Steam featuring historically lowest discounts: https://store.steampowered.com/developer/strayfawn/sale/wintersale {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/38917339/aac255971ca355352101058088823277bea80e12.jpg In the meantime, we are working on a big new content update that will launch next year 🙂 Happy holidays & Thank you very much for your support,

Stray Fawn Studio

Changes

- Add ability to handle DLC content

Dear Onbu Riders

It’s that time of the year again: The Steam awards just went live. With Wandering Village finally hitting 1.0 this July, we are now eligible for nominations again 🙂 We would greatly appreciate it if you nominate us!

We hope you have been enjoying the game and are super happy that we finally managed to take the step out of Early Access after 2.5 years. All in all, we have now been working on The Wandering Village for 5 years! Crazy right? This is by far the biggest project we have ever made. And we’re not done! A big new update is in the works! This week, our studio is celebrating its 9th birthday. We are super grateful for all your support. We would have never made it this far without you ❤️

Cheers & Thank you very much for your support,

Stray Fawn Studio

• Updated Unity version to apply a security patch

What's New

• The new search bar allows you to quickly find any technology in the research tree!
• You can now build the Hauling Post, a rework of the old Worker Post. Workers employed here will pick up stuff from the ground and keep production buildings well stocked. They get a substantial boost to movement speed and carry capacity, too.
• Story quests and tutorials can now be collapsed into a compact format instead of disappearing completely. This should eliminate issues where players wouldn't find the quests anymore after unpinning them.
• We have added 5 additional sandbox options centered on construction and research, allowing you to tailor the game to your preferred playstyle.
• Compost on Farm, Herbalist, Mycologist increases yield instead of growth speed. The 'Crop Fertilizer' upgrade further boosts the yield to +2.
• Farm/Herbalist/Mycologist/Aquafarm workers can now also harvest crops from the plots of other buildings of the matching type, allowing you to set up some more efficient large farms.
• Hold Alt to bring up the worker management overlay, allowing you to assign/unassign workers and lock/unlock buildings with ease! On gamepad, this mode can be found in the radial menu/tools.
• Reworked food rationing from a passive system into an active decision. The food management display now allows to set rationing to Auto (the default behaviour from before the update) or to On/Off. While rationing is active, villagers will go hungry and consume 50% of the food, but get very unhappy in the process. This is useful to push through famines or save up some food for the future.
• We've reorganized resources into new categories in the top bar. The new 'Essentials' category contains everything you'll always want to keep an eye on. The other categories are designed to be useful in specific situations (such as when extending your farms or caring for Onbu). The goal is to reduce the need to keep the "All" tab open all the time, and thus reduce clutter on the screen. Let us know what you think!
• The harvest tool can now filter poisonous fungi and parasites, making it easier to select them.
• Misophonia options: a new 'audio_preferences.json' file will be generated in the game's save data folder, which allows you to tweak the volume of every individual sound effect in the game. This feature is only available on PC/Mac/Linux, since it requires direct access to the save folder and a text editor.
• We've added several new medium decorations, inspired by our backers.

• MaxWorkerCount for Farm with Farmhands upgrade 5 -> 7
• Changed Liquid WeedKiller recipe from using Biogas/Bile to using Salt
• Buffed Smoking Hut: production time 200s -> 180s, Salt consumption 5 -> 3
• Buffed Seawater Collector: ProductionDuration 50s -> 33.3s
• Changed Water Evaporator: buff water throughput: 10 -> 15, nerf salt output: 2 -> 1
• Changed RockTrumpet: plant/harvest cycle duration 15.5s -> 20s, Stone yield 2 -> 3 (Stone yield/worker/day: 20 -> 27)
• Hunger efficiency (how efficiently hunger is reduced by Onbu Food) caps at 20%, so that too many Tapeworms can't make Onbu starve completely
• Removed direct Onbu poisoning from Sporemoths, and considerably buff the food output from their eggs (to be a bit better in terms of food/tile/day than Elefleas)
• Fixed new villagers arriving twice as fast as intended. Considerably buffed the base arrival speed so the change isn't too drastic
• Changed difficulty modifier segments from 5->10->15->20->25->30 to 15->20->25->30 to remove some of the grind, and allow players to experience a harder difficulty initially
• Increases resource cost for all food compostation recipes: 3 -> 5
• Food compostation now also allows composting wheat and fish

• The use of Biogas or Bile can now be toggled individually for the Decontaminator and Pest Control
• Crops now show a visual effect, and display warning icons in their detail display, when they're either decomposing because of unsuitable climate or growing slower due to parasites
• Show missions in Onbu view as soon as related building is unlocked (rather than requiring players to build it first). Highlight missions unlocked by researching the mission-giver building
• Extended the "hostility" display in the top bar to show relevant information for any of the three game modes
• Hide hostility modifier info completely in Sandbox Mode if no modifiers were picked
• The Berry Gatherer now has plots, giving you more control over where the bushes should be planted
• Scavenging locations that could hold a special event in store (and thus override the expected rewards) now mention this specifically
• When a parasite egg location overlaps with roads, both the egg location and the roads can now be consistently selected
• If a construction site or egg-planting location overlaps with objects that have been de-selected for harvest (and thus permanently block the location), a new "construction site blocked" error flag will now show up
• Limit Researcher building count to 1, in order to avoid frustration when building multiple ones and not seeing any benefit. This will not affect existing duplicates of research buildings; you merely cannot build more once you have 1 or more.
• Abandoned Encampments will now change to Scavenged Encampments after passing them. This should avoid confusion about whether resources were picked up when passing them
• Popup when unlocking a new Onbu skin
• The intensity of the poison cloud effect has been considerably toned down, to allow players to still see the village while Onbu is in the middle of a cloud
• Improved gamepad navigation in the research tree
• Don't show housing info for homeless villagers. Show homeless icon instead of completely hiding the housing icon
• Show survey-prompt only once per unique survey
• Most notification log entries can now be retranslated when switching language
• Show effective growth speed of all plants (also in farms), including modifiers from parasites. Previously, only the temperature was factored in, while Rockgrubs/Sandworms were ignored
• All resource-tooltips now show the total amount of that resource that's currently in stock
• Added a button to the Radio Tower's detail display to open incoming transmissions
• Added a setting to reduce the quality of the ground shader, to better support older hardware
• Allowed cancelling placement of parasite eggs while their placement location is still occupied (e.g. when placing them overlapping roads)
• Improved hostility modifier selection; the 'Reset' button has been changed into a 'Select/Deselect All' button
• Proper icon for the Food Compostation unlock, and improvements to some other icons
• Keep showing a just-completed tutorial for a short while
• Right-Shift now also works to copy buildings
• Generally tightened some UI elements, to make sure important information doesn't get cut off when playing on small screens and/or with enlarged UI scale
• Improved layout of the hostility-beaten widget and popup
• Aquafarm workers will now carry away excess fish and kelp to ensure the plots do not get blocked by resources anymore
• Slightly moved back door of Aquafarm so workers will take more sensible paths
• Warning and error icons in top bar now have distinct colors and specific ordering to make them more easily identifiable
• Added information about food consumption frequency to food management display
• Fixed some layout issues
• Performance improvements across the board
• Opening the radial menu will always open it in the tools tab for faster usage of tools

• Fixed Decontaminator employees burning down fungi on Mycologist plots
• Fixed Mycologist harvesting medium poisonous fungi (less yield)
• Fixed Mycologist not harvesting burnt poisonous fungi
• Fixed arabic localization issues
• Fixed 'An acquired taste' being the only sidequest to force its dialogue
• Fixed visual help for research zoom on gamepad not flipping correctly on device change
• Fixed UI Scale Issue for Pause and Confirmation Display
• Fixed: bring back research recommendation stars, and improve system so that eligible parents of next recommended research get starred if the recommended research itself is still out of reach
• Fixed tooltips shown even though they are under a panel
• Fixed harvest-balloons scaling with their marked plants when they grow
• Fixed: switching from keyboard/mouse to gamepad lets you skip hold buttons
• Fixed: changing device also clicks buttons
• Fixed: controller-lost-popup not on top of everything
• Fixed Farms still thinking they have plots after adding and then removing all their plots, leading to some wrong warning flags
• Fixed Horn-Command buttons for commands that don't need research not getting highlighted correctly after unlocking the Hornblower
• Fixed a rare case where the game could get stuck during camera transitions in story mode
• Fixed some UI elements not getting re-translated upon switching language
• Fixed some UI scaling issue
• Fixed some instances where gamepad navigation could lose focus when switching input device
• Fixed some cases where closing a panel using the gamepad would also close the panel underneath
• Fixed layout issue with the building counters in the building menu
• Fixed issue with mission button highlights, where hovering over one newly unlocked mission would remove the hover-glow from all others that were unlocked by the same research (e.g. all Onbu Pharmacy commands)
• Fixed UI getting re-shown for a split second after the story's final cutscene
• Fixed linebreak when status widgets in the top bar displayed three-digit numbers
• Fixed Energy health damage kicking in too early (90% exhaustion -> 100% exhaustion)
• Fixed vegetation often failing to spawn if initial center location for cluster was badly picked (e.g. in a spot that's completely overbuilt already)
• Fixed missing tiles in some restricted regions - building areas for Scavenger Hut, Fishery etc. should now perfectly overlap with regular building areas
• Fixed being able to uproot roads with poison plants on them
• Fixed foodmanagement selects hidden resources with gamepad
• Fixed: decoration bar not properly anchored on some housing types (Flophouse, Boarding House, Commune)
• Fixed: jumpy loading screen tips
• Fixed: main menu not navigatable after deleting the last savefile in start screen

• Fixed exception when Scavenging Trading Display was closed with right-click and then opened again
• Fixed scavenging buildings dumping their rewards in the middle of the village instead of storing them

• Forcibly show a quest’s side panel when a new transmission is incoming, even if that quest is unpinned
• Proper world-map visuals for some story-related locations
• Korean localization improvements
• Fixed unlocalized side-objective in a certain main story quest
• Don’t show survey prompt when closing the game

• Fixed a rare case where the “Someone wants to talk to you” prompt for side quests would not properly work, and stick around forever after showing the initial dialogue
• Fixed Onbu not stopping in final story location if a "Lie Down" command was issued just before issuing the "Go Home" command
• Fixed an issue where a scavenging decision would not trigger when being clicked, if the same scavenging team previously visited a sidequest location and the “Someone wants to talk to you” prompt was not yet accepted
• Fixed last active tutorial not getting cleared upon completion. Most often, this affected the “Internal Parasites” tutorial

• increase carry capacity of Onbu Doctor for Onbu Notes from 5 -> 20. This means the Enlightenment mission can be prepared much quicker, making it more useful and easy to time

We just launched the 1.0 version of The Wandering Village 🥳

What changed since Early Access?

• Story Mode: Adding more lore, quests and a story-based end goal to the game.
• Ocean and Ruins Biome: New challenges await in the form of new gameplay mechanics, events and scouting locations.
• Reworked economy: Improved villager management, a reworked research system and balancing tweaks have increased the game’s depth.
• Hostility modifiers: Extra challenges for experienced players.
• Gameplay and content expansions: Such as trading, parasites, new buildings, resources, Onbu commands, just to name a few.
• Controller and Steam Deck Support
• Ported the game to Xbox, PlayStation and Switch
• And much more!

What’s next?

More news:

Finally, the little surprise we promised is here! Animated intro

• Fixed being able to start a research while another is still active, causing you to lose all invested resources without warning
• Fixed inputs not correctly reset after controller change
• Fixed wrong glossary descriptions: gamepad alternatives were ignored

• Fixed a rare exploit that could lead to Onbu continuing past the location of the story finale
• Fixed dialogue in story finale sometimes getting locked up
• Fixed parasite egg locations not being selectable prior to the eggs actually being burrowed
• Fixed manually placed parasite eggs not being removed by Pest Control workers if marked for harvest
• Fixed road visuals not updating correctly after placing construction sites on top and then cancelling them
• Fixed VideoPlayer rarely getting stuck at end of video, requiring manual user input to continue
• Fixed islands sometimes not being visible on world map in story mode
• Fixed one scavenging event outcome showing the wrong notification with unused resource placeholders
• Fixed flags on tents and a few other housing types having their icons offset

• Added a new, animated start screen!
• Replaced story outro dialogue soundtrack
• Added puddle sound effect
• Removed some UI panels related to Early Access
• Changed light and fog settings for story finale
• Improved story cutscene backgrounds
• Improved story outro
• Added optional objective to ||second seed-planting phase during finale|| to make it clear how to get Liquid Weed Killer
• Improved visuals for “wandering sporemoths” event
• Disabled mipmaps for startscreen UI assets to improve visual appearance
• Improvements to research tree zoom-bar layouting for gamepad
• Tweaked anchoring for twitch-decision popup
• Added one missing localization string
• Updated credits
• Added a visual hint to pressable elements in story cutscenes to avoid players getting stuck in cutscenes and thinking the game froze
• Added animated quest marker to one of the earlier main quest locations

• Fixed glyphs not updating correctly when switching device during gameplay
• Fixed a bug where carpenters would not fill their own storage
• Fixed broken outline shader for Linux
• Fixed Onbu clipping through islands in ocean biome
• Fixed plants being visibly fully grown on planting
• Fixed animal mission objectives not updating when unpinned
• Fixed ‘Decision’ tutorial
• Fixed resource categories not working during pause
• Fixed world map location selection
• Fixed texture issues in start screen
• Fixed cases where Onbu could get permanently stuck in “already following a command” state. If your save file is already affected, issuing the same command that Onbu last received should fix it
• Fixed gamepad navigation order for side display
• Fixed gamepad shortcut for story UI
• Fixed several issues with right-to-left localization
• Fixed resource amounts in top bar not getting refreshed when disabling/enabling buildings while paused
• Fixed a potential softlock when triggering any input during story camera transitions
• Fixed settings panel showing wrong tab on reopening
• Fixed cursor staying hidden when switching from gamepad to mouse while a popup was open
• Fixed wrong gamepad glyphs showing for scavenging widget
• Fixed elements in side display not being re-translated when switching language
• Fixed gamepad navigation issue when opening glossary for the first time
• Fixed tutorial widgets not fading out anymore
• Fixed animal mission buildings not letting you move in the mission UI when going there via button
• Fixed Credits getting skipped automatically after skipping ending cutscene on gamepad (and other cases where hold-to-trigger buttons would trigger immediately if already held when entering a new view)

• Reduced scavenging special event probabilities from 20% to 10%
• Slightly extended buildable zones on Onbu’s flanks to allow for more consistent placement of Seawater Collector

• Improved billboard shader
• Improved performance and redesigned credits
• Improved performance on worldmap
• Improved preformance of topbar UI
• Switched out all videos to 720p so they will also work on lower-end PCs
• Improved performance of log panel
• Many other performance improvements across the board

• Fixed an issue where save files could not be loaded if they were created just after completing the “Burial at Sea” sidequest while already scavenged wreckage locations were still visible on the map

• Fixed an issue where players could get locked from making further progress in Story Mode when saving after clearing the strange rubble, but before listening to the incoming dialogue
• Automatically fix save files affected by the aforementioned bug - if your file was previously stuck in this state, loading it should allow you to continue with the story

• Fixed an issue where Onbu would walk past the final location in Story Mode if it had low trust and started shaking at that exact moment
• Fixed an issue where Onbu Discipliner could be used to force Onbu to move beyond the final location in Story Mode for a couple of seconds after reaching it

Patchnotes v0.11.4

What's New

• "Story Mode": Introduces many new characters and a main quest that sheds more light on the past - and future - of the world and its inhabitants, adds over 10 side quests, multiple new soundtracks, new world map locations and an intense final showdown
• Added "Food Compostation" research - allowing the Compost Heap to turn food into compost/biogas

Improvements

• Save files will now show an icon representing the corresponding game mode
• Updated icons for all game modes
• Various fixes for RTL languages in the UI
• Completely reworked how the world map is generated - this should hopefully fix a whole category of map-related bugs. Map bugs may still be visible when loading an existing save file, but they should not affect gameplay too much and should fix themselves after a while
• Performance improvements across the board
• Gamepad: Radial menu resets when using tools and reopening. No direct filters anymore.
• Gamepad: Left on the D-Pad now navigates to the sidebar
• Gamepad: Reworked and improved navigation for Research window
• Gamepad: Improved navigation for Glossary
• Show resources in food stand even if it is disabled
• Festival section in Onbu command bar shows all available buildings on a single line
• Improved readability for difficulty mode entries in Glossary
• Updated sound effects (radio tower, clay deposit)
• Resources in food stand can now be traded (e.g. for scavenging events)
• Improved display of long titles in Glossary
• Proper icon for experimental health potion and some other Onbu missions
• Removed obsolete popup when building a monument for the first time
• Reworked most game systems to use persistent deterministic random number generators. This should make some random effects that should be consistent actually consistent (such as outcomes of scavenging decisions, spawn locations of wild plants etc), and it helps us to reproduce issues more reliably in the future
• Ending credits got a makeover and special soundtrack
• Gamepad: hide sidebar glyph while menus are open
• Gamepad: costs and rewards of scavenging missions can now be navigated
• Added missing UI icons for various status effects and horn commands

Bugfixes

• Fixed Hostility popup not appearing after surviving for 1000km
• Fixed UI elements not visible on OpenGL
• Fixed some Glossary entries not displaying correctly
• Fixed command rejection notifications not always being displayed
• Fixed resource category "Knowledge" not being localized
• Fixed several cases where tooltips would stick around
• Fixed drag-mode persisting when zooming out of village while dragging and then back in again
• Fixed loading screen issues
• Fixed an issue in villager job distribution
• Fixed a potential issue with worldmap models not getting reset properly
• Fixed tutorial glyphs for gamepad
• Fixed a bug that lead to Onbu’s back turning brown when villagers cleared out storages in some cases
• Fixed food stand resoure slots not getting cleared if building was disabled
• Fixed toggling of food stand slots not having any effect
• Fixed food stands sometimes not getting filled properly
• Fixed tutorial sidebar navigation
• Fixed an issue where the Worker Management overlay could be used to unassign scavengers from ongoing missions (and other employed workers on missions)
• Fixed Worker Management showing sliders that should not be visible after changing language
• Fixed an issue where dialogues that focus on a building could toggle the harvest tool when playing on a gamepad
• Fixed automatically pressing the Pinned button when glossary was opened through ring menu on gamepad
• Fixed not being able to rename villagers
• Fixed Credits autoscroll not being interrupted when dragging with mouse
• Fixed Credits not being mouse-draggable from every position (e.g. from gaps between text segments)
• Fixed an issue in glossary when no tutorial was active
• Fixed Onbu movement states that should not be shown being visible in horn command tooltips
• Fixed 00:01 remaining time shown for non-postponable decisions
• Fixed side display scaling

Balancing

• BileExtractor storage size 50 -> 20
• BloodExtractor storage size 20 -> 50
• Decrease min. poison/starvation death interval with higher population
• Allow feeding Onbu while running
• "Sound of Thunder" side quest should now be easier to complete
• Reduce max. worker count of Liquefier: 5 → 4
• Increase production speed of Onbu Pharmacy and Food Liquefier at max. worker count
• Bring berry macarons recipe in line with other recipes of the same tier

• Fixed building-related achievements unlocking when loading a save file with construction sites for these buildings
• Fixed dialog endless loop if speech bubble button is pressed in transition
• Fixed bug where scavenging missions loaded from previous save files could break the game (brown Onbu back)

• Fixed Onbu's back turning brown when trying to place a Sawmill or Quarry in save files where trunks or boulders were very close to the edge of the plateau
• Fixed string wrapping in Welcome Panel Button, leading to wrapped text in Russian and other languages
• Fixed a rare case where save files created in a previous update would fail to load
• Fixed an issue where tutorial was using performance even though it was not active.

• Reduced health damage from Blood Extractor and Bile Extractor by 75%. Increase production amount of Blood Extractor 1 -> 5. Reduce production amount of Bile Extractor 6 -> 2. Adjust Water Evaporator to counter-balance.

• Fixed an issue where workers harvesting trees, rocks or clay could get permanently stuck and starve to death
• Fixed an issue where loading an old save file could lead to some trees becoming "unharvestable"
• Fixed issue when loading an old save file where scavengers were on a mission for a reward that doesn't exist anymore in the current version (village was turned to brown Onbu back)
• Fixed Onbu-command related achievements not unlocking properly
• Fixed some scavenging events missing their artworks
• Fixed research going above 100% and never finishing in some cases
• Fixed save files becoming incompatible when overwriting a very old file

Patchnotes v0.10.6

What’s New

• Explore the brand-new Ruins Biome! This late-game environment holds Debris, a versatile new resource that can be salvaged at the Salvage Yard to get iron, glass, bricks and perhaps even other rare, useful materials. But beware - the rampant fungal infestation lets your Air Wells collect Tainted Water that needs to be purified first.
• Collect enough of the rare Weave to build the Purifier, a new building that collects fungal spores before they can even land and infest your crops!
• Scavenging is a lot faster. Scavengers can now explore remote locations, but they will need Scavenging Rations to do so. The new Smoking Hut can smoke and cure food to produce these.
• Infested Locations hold valuable treasures, but require Survival Gear in order for your scavengers to explore them.
• We’ve added 5 new hostility modifiers, bringing the total maximum up to 30 points! We also adjusted the progression, requiring one less run to reach the maximum amount of points.
• We’ve also added 15 new achievements and reworked 3 of the existing ones that weren’t particularly fun, or didn’t play together with some of our recent changes (The Wandering Metropolis, Berry Good, Agricultural Revolution).
• Trees, big rocks and clay pits can now be collected by multiple workers at once!
• Find rare Experimental potions and injections for Onbu - these are very powerful, but do not come without cost…
• The new Onbu Storage building can store potions, food and other things for Onbu.
• We’ve reworked the flow for starting new games. Hostility Modifiers are now available from the very beginning, and can be found in the new Challenge Mode. All sandbox settings have moved to the Sandbox Mode.
• The glossary has been reworked from the ground up! Information is now grouped into different tabs, making it easier to digest.
• Monuments are now part of the research tree. You will not get them automatically and the associated event will not appear anymore. This means you can now build all monuments in a single playthrough - if you are able to produce the required materials!

• We’ve optimized game startup. The splash screen animation should be a lot smoother now
• Products of all recipes of a building are now also shown in the “Global Resources” section in the detail display
• Better information about hostility modifiers in-game. The hostility panel that can be opened from the top-bar now shows whether the current run will unlock a higher limit and shows other useful information
• Memory handling improvements - reduced memory spikes when loading a game
• Trees, rocks etc. that are being harvested by employees of camps can’t be manually cancelled. To cancel work on them, disable or remove workers from the camp instead
• Bug report window does no longer automatically send the message when hitting Enter in the input form
• New icons for some Onbu interactions that didn’t have their own icons before
• All buildings, plants, resource stacks and parasites now have invisible selection areas, allowing you to select them by clicking anywhere on the tile(s) they’re standing on
• pin/unpin Tutorials from Game View (currently only supported with keyboard and mouse)
• shortened Tutorial Descriptions in Game View to use less screen space
• Re-integrated building upgrade tutorial

• Fixed resource grids not always updating correctly when a recipe changes
• Fixed a bug where workers could be starving even though there was enough food available
• The “has entered a new biome” notification only appears when actually entering a different biome
• Fixed multiple wrong research durations across research tree
• Fixed some broken scavenging notification texts
• Fixed Needs sometimes being displayed with more than 2 decimal places
• Fixed humidity/temperature display on Farms, Mycologists etc not always updating correctly when climate changes
• Fixed feeding spots and abandoned camps sometimes appearing in the ocean (feeding spots will be schools of fish instead, and camps got their own island now)
• Fixed poisoned plants and trees giving more spores when burnt
• Fixed wrong collection animation for poisoned trees
• Fixed resource-obtained popup effect showing in cases where 0 of that resource was obtained (for random amounts, such as spores)
• Fixed Berry Gatherer planting on poisoned fields
• Fixed some cases in which hostility details did not show the correct string for your situation
• Fixed roads affected by poison plants not turning back into roads when plants naturally decay
• Fixed not being able to start multiple animal missions from the same mission giver type at once, even if multiple of that building were present
• Fixed decaying plants being affected by plant-growth multipliers
• Fixed decaying, poisoned or burnt crops being affected by yield modifiers (such as when using compost)
• Fixed mismatch between resources dropped of burnt plants depending on whether they are collected or decay naturally
• Fixed poisoned berry bushes not giving seeds when burnt to a crisp
• Fixed "Awaiting Decision" sometimes visible for some frames on scavenging locations that don't have an event
• Fixed danger zone marker around path event not being hidden when switching selection to a moving event

• General balancing pass over the research tree - reduced the cost of many unlocks in the mid- and late-game parts and reduced or removed some key costs in early-game research, with the goal of making research flow better.
• Building upgrades need to be unlocked through a single research, available after the scavenger hut
• Villager poisoning is now easier to get a feel for and more stable, making it easier to get a grip on the number of doctors and herbs needed to keep your village healthy at any given point in time
• All poisoned plants (trees, crops etc) now slowly decay. Decay is accelerated in arid climate. Arid climate prevents ground poison from spreading
• Early-game jungle will not have any ground poison, reducing the risk of getting sick villagers during the first 15 days of the game
• Kitchen: increased worker count 2 → 3. There’s enough reason to build multiple kitchens due to food diversity, so letting them scale a bit stronger feels right
• Gourmet Kitchen: increased worker count 3 → 4
• Food Liquefier and Feeding Pump moved down into brick tier, to make them more feasible at a point in the game where they could already be very useful
• Researching the Pest Control no longer requires Biogas
• Replace Decontaminator unlock cost (25 Biogas -> 10 Spore)
• The Scout Tower now only stacks up to 3, but has a stronger effect per tower. Each tower now increases maximum view distance, cost-free scavenging distance, and scavenging speed!
• Scout Tower now requires 3 workers
• Reduced amount of spores dropped from infested plants to make them less dominant compared to harvesting fungi directly
• Poisonous fungi on Onbu will now decay in extremely dry climates
• Increased Insecticide production costs
• Increased Spore Distillery max. workers (1 → 2)
• Increased Clay Gathering Camp max. workers (2 → 3)
• “Low Digestion” no longer leads to Onbu shaking
• Added new unlockable recipe to Spore Distillery to retrieve spores from tainted water
• Added new recipe to Evaporator to purify tainted water using clay
• Added new building upgrade for Evaporator to purify tainted water for free
• Added new event “Tainted Rain” that slowly turns your stored water into tainted water. Conversion happens per water tank, so having few larger tanks is a good way to counter this
• Added new event “Landfill” that accelerates growth and spread of poisonous fungi on Onbu’s back
• Added new event “Infested Skyscraper” that causes many spores to land on Onbu’s back - some even turning into mature fungi right away!
• Hostility modifier “Hedgehog” is more difficult now, spawns a lot more spikes
• New hostility modifier “Age of Progress” (research gets more expensive the further along the tree it is)
• New hostility modifier “Heart of Darkness” (more dangerous biomes appear much earlier)
• New hostility modifier “Cloud of Despair” (villagers will become very unhappy a short while after Onbu empties its bowels)
• New hostility modifier “Anxious Onbu” (Onbu will panick and run away when encountering parasites)
• New hostility modifier “Bleak Outlook” (start with only 3 New Hope, and progress bar for new nomads goes down while villagers are not happy enough)
• Reduce Farm construction cost: Stone 30 → 15
• Increased chance of special events during scavenging expeditions
• Buffed Brick Furnace: increased max. workers (2 → 3)
• Buffed Windmill: increased max. workers (2 → 4) to reduce footprint of bread economy
• Granary unlock: reduced brick cost 150 → 100, increased plank cost 50 → 100
• Tweaked Seawater Collector and Evaporator recipes to harmonize better (timing & amounts) and make saltwater economy a bit more powerful
• Increased costs of birthday festival
• Increased chance of finding herbs in Jungle scavenging locations
• Onbu Doctor can use Spore Essence to remove one random internal parasite from Onbu - at the cost of increasing Onbu’s poison by 10%
• Guarantee 1 island per path-segment in Ocean biome on Hard
• Slightly reduced event density of Desert biome
• Onbu Antitoxin and Experimental Antitoxin apply a short-term status effect that makes Onbu immune to poison, giving players a chance to break out of death-marches
• Onbu will sleep on poison islands (and other poisonous path events) if exhaustion is too high
• Reduce amount of feeding spots on Hard
• Crop growth speed modifier from rockgrubs can never fall below 20%, regardless of how many rockgrubs are alive
• Slightly sped up production times of Compost Heap (4.8h → 4.5h) to buff them slightly and make them more visually pleasing
• Buffed nutritious Onbu food. Mushroom production cost lowered (30 → 20)
• Iron Furnace Unlock: replaced cost (75 brick → 75 plank)
• Blacksmith Unlock: increased brick cost (50 → 75)
• Healshroom Unlock: reduced herb cost (25 → 5)
• Water Evaporator Unlock: replaced cost (salt → clay), to allow researching it independently of Ocean biome
• Increased the distance at which some moving events spawn (Plague Gnat, Sandworm), so that players have more time to detect them and react
• Removed possibility of getting villagers from Infested Shipwreck scavenging location (didn’t feel right thematically). Slightly increased some of the other rewards
• Slightly reduced the amount of internal parasites spawned per event
• Doubled collection duration of Onbu Horn, but increased worker slots from 1 → 4, effectively doubling the potential mining speed if enough workers are available
• reduce unlock cost for Food Liquefier: AnimalFood 10 -> 5
• reduce construction cost of OnbuFoodLiquefier (Slab 50 -> 20, Brick 20 -> 10)
• remove Ancient Knowledge cost from unlocking Food Liquefier
• slight increase to one scavenging reward in Forest location
• reduce time needed for burnt plants to decay, to make it more viable to let them decay naturally
• make Liquid Insecticide and Insecticide more affordable
• Blacksmith - reduce production time for tools 300 -> 200
• Gourmet Kitchen - reduce secondary ingredient count 2 -> 1 to make recipes more viable
• Trader can stock SporeEssence
• add recipe to create liquid onbu food from nutritious shroomball

• We’ve listened to your feedback and reworked the research tree, streamlining and cleaning it up. You can find all the details under Balancing below.
• We’ve improved on many other things mentioned on Discord and Steam, such as the order of food-related items and recipes being inconsistent.

• Order of food-related items is now consistent throughout the game. Order of Berry, beets, corn etc. and all their related products is the same everywhere (UI, Kitchen, Farm, etc.)
• Food Stand workers will no longer stand around outside while waiting
• Water puddles now also get marked in grey when placing or selecting a Clay Gathering Camp
• Made research lines a bit thicker and more visible

• Fixed some research items showing pollution value, even though they didn’t cause any pollution
• Fixed bug where removing employees from a building with an ongoing mission (e.g. Trebuchet) could lead to unexpected side effects, such as Onbu never getting hungry again
• Fixed research recommendation order (Brick Furnace got recommended too early)
• Implemented a first batch of improvements that should hopefully prevent the map bug from happening (Onbu taking unusual paths through the landscape). Please send us a bug report if it still happens!
• If the game’s config file contains a corrupted screen resolution setting of 0x0, it will now default to 640x480 to prevent the “black screen” bug from happening
• Fixed issue where changing texture quality and then starting a new game could get you stuck in the loading screen

• Increased scavenging radius and view radius
  • Improved in-range detection for scavenging, so that locations that significantly touch the circle are now already considered in range
• The research tree has been reworked:
  • Made the structure a bit more parallel overall. Many research items that were locked behind other, thematically unrelated ones are now accessible on a more direct path
  • Building upgrades are now unlocked from the start, but part of the former resource cost is now needed to build them. This makes the tree a lot leaner, especially in the first half
  • All quality housings (Hut etc.) are now on the same height, as are all mass housings (Flophouse etc.)
  • Getting the Scavenger Hut is now a bit easier
  • Onbu Discipliner is available much earlier now, making it more feasible and tempting
  • Pest Control and Decontaminator no longer require Onbu Notes
  • Spread the different tiers of progress (plank/slab, brick, iron/glass) out a bit more, to give a better sense of orientation
  • Removed some overly restrictive research costs, such as Evaporator costing Biogas
  • Made some early-game research a bit cheaper, slightly reduced overall slab cost and moderately increased overall plank cost, especially in the second half of the tree. The goal is to make the early-game a slight bit quicker, while giving more of an incentive to keep a strong wood economy running into the late-game
• Rebalanced decorations across all tiers. Every piece of decoration should now have its place in the game’s progression
• Increased chance of finding iron ore in scavenging events
  • Mines, Fort Ruins and Shipwrecks can now also contain iron ore
• Reduced how fast the maximum happiness penalty from Starvation/Homelessness/Poisoning increases by 33% on Relaxed and Tutorial
• Increased fuel usage of Blacksmith to be in line with other fuel-consuming buildings
• Increased number of guaranteed giant boulders on map (4-6 → guaranteed 6)
• Reduced number of giant trunks (6 → 4)
• Brought production speed of Gourmet Kitchen in line with Kitchen, increased worker count (2 → 3)
• Cult mechanic has been nerfed:
  • Higher cult levels now demand more frequent sacrifices
  • Onbu hunger restoration from feeding it a villager has been reduced (15% → 10%)