Whiskerwood news & patch notes

Whiskerwood News Roundup

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A Bigger Scope for the Next Update

Thank you everyone for playing our game! I want to give you all a heads up about our intermediate plans. You see, we've noticed players asking for a bigger scoped updates. A much bigger scope. Thus we've decided to focus for the next 4+ months on landing these big gameplay expansions.

Why we are doing this

If you are reading this during this development period: I want to reassure you that we are working hard! Whiskerwood is our passion project and we appreciate everyone who has given us their play time.

For background: exactly 6 months ago we released Whiskerwood into Early Access. At that point we started doing daily patches while writing down every feature request and bug report. We soon after 2 weeks of daily patches the features commonly requested were getting bigger & bigger in scope. In hindsight this was a natural progression. When doing daily patches we could only destabilize the codebase for 1 day. That limited the size of tasks we could tackle. Thus we realized we needed to switch to larger patches in incremental steps.

Thus we switched to weekly patches for several months, then switched to the current bi-weekly pace. Bi-weekly has proven a good balance, but now we've arrived at a point where a grand leap forward in gameplay is required. We cannot reach our next goal through bi-weekly updates. We need to ask for your trust, as we work longer on a massive update.

What we are working towards

You see, our goal for the next update is to add full ship construction, trading between other colonies, naval battles, and island defenses (towers and fortresses). This is a large chunk of work and we need to destabilize the codebase. We are in effect going back into production mode. We plan to post news about this update as it progresses, but I need to ask players to be patient. Please bear with us during this waiting period and please be excited for the new content we'll be able to add and polish thanks to this wait!

Once the big update ships we intend return to daily, then bi-weekly patches.

Daniel

Lead Programmer on Whiskerwood

Patch #25's Construction Rework

What we have shipped in this Patch #25 is a focus on stability and a much needed rework: construction. Now you can control construction workers more precisely, and even boost construction efficiency through the new construction yard.

Construction yard:

• Construction yard is now an insta-build/movable camp that can be assigned a required (apprentice) foreman and 5 additional builders

• Researchable in second research tier (T1)

• All workers gain a small speed/productivity buff, and use carts for delivery

• Yard workers only work on sites within their work radius (configurable)

  • Yard workers work on sites sorted by distance/priority relative to their construction yard.

• Construction yard supports overtime, with associated buff and ability to work through the night.

Construction sites and policies:

• Construction speed now accounts for whisker productivity. It was previously just based on builder count. with RapidConstruction applying a flat multiplier on top of it.

• RapidConstruction policy and construction yard bonus now act consistently via agent modifiers with productivity and speed bonuses. Thus the description of rapidconstruction has changed slightly.

  • Rapidconstruction otherwise scaled ridiculously high being a X2 mult over all other modifiers

• Late Construction policy has been fully removed from the game. Instead being a benefit of construction yard overtime.

• Globally, workers will try to finish a construction delivery in their hands instead of immediately failing upon nightfall.

• Construction site UI has been improved, showing lines to inbound whiskers, number of whiskers building, their overall productivity, and time remaining.

Changelog

v0.6.193 Patch #25

Features

• Add insta-build Construction Yard which can be staffed with an Apprentice foreman and 5 builders

• Construction Yard builders will use carts and work only within the yard’s radius

• Add overtime construction mechanic through construction yard

Gameplay

• Rework construction progress logic now to consider Whisker productivity in build times

• Remove Night Construction policy to be replaced with the Construction Yards as a mechanic

• Rework Rapid Construction logic to boost based on Whisker traits

• Change night time builder logic, now Whiskers complete a delivery before transitioning to seeking night time activities

• Claws now charge a fee for forcing them to fire their cannons

UI

• Add lines to show on construction site ui to display active builders

• Add estimated time remaining to construction site ui

Bugs

• Fix work radius preview when moving camps showing default radius

• Housing bedding/furniture consumption is now reported in daily statistics

• Fix case where whiskers may refuse to replace their tailored cloaks before becoming threadbare (May take a couple nights to take effect)

• Fix Copy/Paste of farm field settings not correctly copying ‘remove rocks’ toggle

Acknowledgements

• Thank you to Dragon King on discord for helping with clothing bug

• Thank you to Phlimmphlam on discord for reporting farm rocks bug

• Thank you to Lady on discord for reporting missing bedding reporting

Steam Reviews

We'd really appreciate it if you could take a moment to share your thoughts about Whiskerwood in a Steam review. Each review helps us understand what you enjoy, what you'd like to see changed, and what you'd like to see added next. It's a powerful way for you to not only share feedback with us directly but also influence what comes next in a patch. We're carefully reading through all feedback, and your opinion matters!

Official Wiki and Beginner's Guide

We have some fantastic resources to help get you started on your colony building in Whiskerwood. Check out our beginner's guide and our official community wiki page to help get you the answers you need.

We also have a compilation of tips and tricks sourced from the community to help you out right here:

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Patch #24

Thank you everyone for playing our game :)

I want to thank Lucas for returning to contribute more music to Whiskerwood's OST. This patch we've added a grand song which will play randomly for larger islands. You can check out the full song on Lucas's youtube:

The whole team this patch again has been focused on optimizations. Compared to last patch this batch of optimizations should be even more impactful. Our optimizations have focused on gameplay CPU logic. This does mean computers limited by rendering will not see a significant change. Meanwhile saves at high whisker populations should see a decent jump in FPS.

Daniel

Lead Programmer on Whiskerwood

Changelog

v0.6.190 Patch #24

Features

• Add new song “Rising Dominion” composed by Lucas Ricciotti. Activates for colonies with at least 100 whiskers

• Add logic to check for delayed mod downloads. Fixes mod loading on geforce now and certain PCs

Optimization

• Optimize path finding generation to speed up pathing by about 60% by improving cache coherency using purpose designed data structures for pathable state

• Optimize Whisker animations by limiting skeletal budget per frame

• Aggressively optimize high population save files by frustum culling visible skeletal meshes

• Add LOD support to Whisker skeletal meshes and reduce skinning complexity at distance

• Optimize visual positional update rates for far away Whiskers

• Optimize various buildings to reduce idle compute cost

• Optimize mine cart tick

• Reduce development tooling burden in shipping builds

• Ratelimit animation changes for heating to avoid stutter spiking when bulk heaters change state

• Optimize pathing by caching decorations with movement effects

• Reduce performance impact of navmesh updates

Bugs

• Fix tooltips not working correctly in Whisker selection lists

• Fix industry workers sometimes fetching small amounts of input multiple times before starting work

• Fix Raft Dock sometimes not showing warning when entrance is not accessible

Crash Fixes

• Fix crash after pirate bombardment when attacking a warehouse on bad timing, caused by prior optimizations

• Fix loading crash with elevators

• Fix rare crash when removing all destination platforms from an elevator shaft

Acknowledgements

• Thank you to players who reported that mod loading did not function on Nvidia Geforce Now since it only downloads mods after the game has launched

• Thank you to everyone who has been patient as we improve performance 

• Thank you to Gavin for reporting the warehouse crash over email

• Thank you to mvrck on the Discord for reporting elevator crash when deleting segments.

Steam Reviews

We'd really appreciate it if you could take a moment to share your thoughts about Whiskerwood in a Steam review. Each review helps us understand what you enjoy, what you'd like to see changed, and what you'd like to see added next. It's a powerful way for you to not only share feedback with us directly but also influence what comes next in a patch. We're carefully reading through all feedback, and your opinion matters!

Official Wiki and Beginner's Guide

We have some fantastic resources to help get you started on your colony building in Whiskerwood. Check out our beginner's guide and our official community wiki page to help get you the answers you need.

We also have a compilation of tips and tricks sourced from the community to help you out right here:

Join the Whiskerwood Community

Become part of the Whiskerwood community. Join us on Discord to chat with other players, share your villages, and see what others are creating. You can also follow updates and discussions on Reddit, stay informed through BlueSky and Twitter.

New Mechanics, New Building Settings & Tons of Optimization

Whiskerwood is currently 35% off during the Hooded Horse April Sale. In this city builder, you must establish your Whisker colony and build it into an industrious empire. Set up intricate production chains, optimize your cities, and tend to the needs of your mouse colonists. Serve your cat overlords faithfully, or defy their oppressive rule. Hooded Horse April Sale

Patch #23

Performance improvements is a constant struggle for us. Every time we improve the performance: players just build bigger islands! We like that. It is an honour as a game dev to have players push our games to its limits. Going forward we will continue to work on pushing those performance limits further.

While I have your attention, I want to direction you to this incredible new mod made by our first time modder Green Grove!

Players have asked for metrics and charts for a while, and it is impressive to see it arrive as a mod.

Daniel

Lead Programmer on Whiskerwood

Changelog

v0.6.188 Patch #23

Features

• Add configuration for heater auto-pause temperature

• Add Steam Booster variant with steam socket under track

Gameplay

• Snow is now being removed more aggressively under cover

• Whiskers at minecart station will only board minecart if their destination is in the direction of departure. Only applies to non-looping tracks

• Whiskers are soaked and slowed if walking in heavy rainfall without cover. Terrain and buildings will block rain

• Switch saving to the autosave file when exiting. Instead of the main save file

Optimization

• Optimize long whisker list scrolling by using delayed instantiation

• Optimize rain effect to reduce fps impact at high graphics settings

• Optimize draw cost when viewing lists of hundreds or more Whiskers

• Optimize rendering of large warehouse stockpiles

• Optimize thread synchronization to improve CPU fill rate

UI

• Redesign the Heater UI

• Add toggle to allow overflow on belt filters

Bugs

• Fix light not being updated correctly in some cases when removing light blockers

• Fix snow being displayed underwater

• Fix mine support beams not always being cleaned up properly during local updates.

• Cannonballs can no longer be avoided by saving and loading during firing.

• Fix farmers idle at workplace never leaving to address hunger during the day unlike other workplaces

• Fix incorrect warning icons persisting after copy-pasting settings between warehouses or input hoppers

• Fix dining hall containing ghost light

• Daily report screen now accounts for approval spent during end-of-day pause

• Fix camera rotation bindings not sticking if camera is set to smooth rotation

• Fix missing lamp to small and medium warehouses

• Fix belt animation speed not matching item move speed on belts

Mod API

• Add icons and toolbar tables to modapi

• Add support for scrolling when many decorations have been added by mods

• Fix removing a mod which added a new item, causing the savefile to crash if the the mod is later removed

Acknowledgements

• Thank you to MysticalBacon on Discord for reporting that mine beams weren’t cleaned up correctly

• Thank you to DaXoPsy on the Steam forums for suggesting steam booster variant

• Thank you to Toby on the Discord for reporting the farmer starvation issue

• Thank you to PherretDan on the Discord for reporting erroneous warnings after copy/paste

• Thank you to Phlimmphlam on the Discord for reporting the floating light in the dining hall building

• Thank you to Fret on the Discord for making a resource adding mod, and reporting the crash on removal so we could expand that mod support

• Thank you to NyxAntheia on the Discord for reporting the camera binding bug

• Thank you to Alastor on the Discord for reporting the end of day approval bug

• Thank you to MysticalBacon on Discord for reporting that light values were not correctly updated.

• Thank you to L33cher and iceball12 on the Discord for suggesting the pause menu quit related saves redirect to the autosave instead of main save file

• Thank you to Buckminsterfullerene on the Discord for suggesting we add the icons and toolbar tables to the modapi

• Thank you to veertje on the Steam Forum for reporting how enough mods have added decorations to require scrollbars

• Thank you to Demonocolips on the Steam Forum for reporting the filter should also allow overflowing alongside its default absolute filter mode

Steam Reviews

We'd really appreciate it if you could take a moment to share your thoughts about Whiskerwood in a Steam review. Each review helps us understand what you enjoy, what you'd like to see changed, and what you'd like to see added next. It's a powerful way for you to not only share feedback with us directly but also influence what comes next in a patch. We're carefully reading through all feedback, and your opinion matters!

Official Wiki and Beginner's Guide

We have some fantastic resources to help get you started on your colony building in Whiskerwood. Check out our beginner's guide and our official community wiki page to help get you the answers you need.

We also have a compilation of tips and tricks sourced from the community to help you out right here:

Join the Whiskerwood Community

Become part of the Whiskerwood community. Join us on Discord to chat with other players, share your villages, and see what others are creating. You can also follow updates and discussions on Reddit, stay informed through BlueSky and Twitter.

Patch #22

You can now quickly copy settings from one building to other buildings of the same type! Most configurable buildings now support Ctrl+C for copying, and Ctrl+V for pasting the building's configuration!

A new masonry styled long stone stairs are now available as the default variety to the stone long stairs. Being a variety this does not replace any existing stairs, but instead is now an option you can use when building new stairs.

Now for the bigger details: Reduced Pillars!

I need to explain what this means exactly. It does not refer to supports, the things built out of wood underneath buildings or paths. Instead this refers to the pillars that mining used to create. These pins got extreme when players built large underground caverns, and one of our most popular mods simply deleted them wholesale.

What we've done is implement a slightly more complex solution. Now pillars will spawn to support the entrances to mined cells, but will not spawn within the mined volume. Thus any underground city or cavern you've mined will be clear and visible, without unsightly pillars blocking the view.

This is our headline feature for this patch, but if you were already using the "No Support Beams" mod I suppose you will not see any difference.

Speaking of mods, I want to point you to 3 new mods by 2 new modders:

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Patch #21

For this patch we've worked on addressing a few of the long term popular player requests. The biggest two of which is a method to stop whiskers from eating at warehouses, and a mechanic to allow relocation of the central warehouse and trade dock.

Bridges and arches also got an upgrade. Now once raised 1 cell high they will allow Rafts to navigate below. This allows you to connect islands by bridge without blocking Raft traffic.

The Central Warehouse and Trade Dock are the first two buildings you ever construct when starting in Whiskerwood. Until now their placement was permanent. Now with enough Approval you can relocate them.

For eating at the warehouse we've now added a global toggle to the Cafe and Dinning Halls which ban whiskers from eating at Warehouses. Watch out: this is a powerful law that when implemented can result in hunger and unrest. Make sure you have amble dining facilities to accommodate your population.

Filters now also act as absolute filters. They never allow the filtered items to go forward on the top belt.

Daniel

Lead Programmer on Whiskerwood

PS: You might notice the raft navigation visual has changed. It is now a signed distance field wave pattern. We changed this to make the go or no-go nature of the navigability easier to discern for when you build bridges.

Changelog

v0.6.186 Patch #21

Features

• Add relocation mechanics for Central Warehouse and Trade Dock. Costs substantial approval. Moving multiple times scales up cost

• Add a global mechanic to block Whiskers from eating in warehouses. Behaviour toggleable at any Cafe or Dining Hall

• Added height based clearance to allow rafts to travel under self-supporting structures. Namely Bridges, Stone Arches, and Wooden Arches no longer block ocean navigability given sufficient height and clearance.

• Add new policy “Reckless Navigation” to boost raft speeds

• Added 1 new ‘Small Planter’ decorative variant: flax plant

• Update all localizations, thank you translators!

Gameplay

• Whiskers should more intelligently distribute to the closest Cafe with sufficient food

• Use signed distance field driven visuals for navigation blockers. 

• Optimize steam radiator computation workload during low steam pressure to reduce large scale heater recalculations

• Make belt filter no longer pass filter marked items through the top belt. Instead the belt will stop moving if the filter bottom exit is full when yet-to-be-filtered items are present going in from the top

• Boost speed of Splitters by 25%

• Boost speed of Liftbacks by 30%

UI

• Add subtle animation to background of main menu

• Steam & Water Valves no longer display ambient temperature in their UI

• Fix Input Hopper, Bonfire, Heating Stove & Steam Radiator displaying an incorrect ambient temperature on their UI

• Cafe and Dining Hall shows progress of each visitor and what they are eating

• Cafe and Dining Hall statistics tab now correctly shows historical food consumption

• Move masonry tab under path tab

• Make mine hotkey act as toggle

• Make farm hotkey as as toggle

Bugs

• Fix segment of raft dock roof ignoring snow

• Fix logistics workers returning to their hub every other trip

• Fix fish overlay hotkey not remappable

• Fix Xess-fg and dlss fg options appearing for player despite due to stale struct init

Acknowledgements

• Thank you to locoparentus on Steam for reporting that several buildings’ UIs were displaying incorrect ambient temperatures

• Thank you to Kralmir and Phlimmphlam on Discord for narrowing down the logistics worker bug

• Thank you to Kani_Charhan for reporting the that the fish overlay hotkey rebinding was broken

• Thank you to many players who requested the mine and farm hotkeys act as toggles

• Thank you to Key on the Discord for reporting the random graphical options appearing

Steam Reviews

We'd really appreciate it if you could take a moment to share your thoughts about Whiskerwood in a Steam review. Each review helps us understand what you enjoy, what you'd like to see changed, and what you'd like to see added next. It's a powerful way for you to not only share feedback with us directly but also influence what comes next in a patch. We're carefully reading through all feedback, and your opinion matters!

Official Wiki and Beginner's Guide

We have some fantastic resources to help get you started on your colony building in Whiskerwood. Check out our beginner's guide and our official community wiki page to help get you the answers you need.

We also have a compilation of tips and tricks sourced from the community to help you out right here:

Join the Whiskerwood Community

Become part of the Whiskerwood community. Join us on Discord to chat with other players, share your villages, and see what others are creating. You can also follow updates and discussions on Reddit, stay informed through BlueSky and Twitter.

New Belts, New Mechanics, & Tons of Optimization

Whiskerwood is currently 35% off during the Hooded Horse Publisher Sale. In this city builder, you must establish your Whisker colony and build it into an industrious empire. Set up intricate production chains, optimize your cities, and tend to the needs of your mouse colonists. Serve your cat overlords faithfully, or defy their oppressive rule. Hooded Horse Publisher Sale

Patch #20

Whiskers now have a new method for traveling between islands: the Raft Ferry!

This Patch brings a new building: the Raft Dock. Since the dock is instant build you can construct it anywhere, including on new islands you'd like whiskers to travel to. Any two docks can be linked and whiskers will paddle their way to the destination. No need to staff the docks: riders provide the labor.

Unlock the Raft Dock schematic either by researching it from the first tier, or receiving it as a gift from the Claws.

This feature has been a major undertaking for our team over the past few patches. I want to thank the modders who saw this work in progress during data mining yet thankfully did not leak the surprise :)

Going forward expect more ocean mechanics :)

Daniel

Lead Programmer on Whiskerwood

Changelog

ChangeLog

v0.6.184 Patch #20

Features

• Add Raft Dock and point to point Ferry transport mechanic

• Add high performance ocean plane navmesh for boat navigation

Gameplay

• Production limits now account for resources on belts or logistics carts

• Resource tooltips now shows count currently on belts or logistics carts

• Reduce fish generated by dumping food using the ocean dump to 25%

• New visuals for several resource types

• Increase range construction workers can travel

• Increase default fire tender range by 50%

UI

• Improve cursor snapping behavior when trying to place extractors against warehouses

• Fix construction sites not showing their entrance arrow when selected

• Resource statistics rows are now scrollable horizontally

Bugs

• Fix scenario where some resources could be lost on a belt after loading a save

• Fix being unable to select other buildings while Extractor’s UI was open

• Fix default unreal navigation system active during gameplay

• Fix missing prerequisites rejection of research selection using wrong warning message

• Fix belt filters holding unlimited items as an infinite buffer

• Fix Pirate ships sometimes not spawning until very late into the game

• Fix iron bar item material shifting upon movement

Acknowledgements

• Thank you to Prometheus0000 on the Discord for reporting the incorrect warning text

• Thank you to an anonymous developer who suggested unreal navigation system optimizations

• Thank you to Voidy on the Discord for reporting how belt Filters were seemingly consuming items

• Thank you to Lorkenpeist for reporting pirate spawn bug

Steam Reviews

We'd really appreciate it if you could take a moment to share your thoughts about Whiskerwood in a Steam review. Each review helps us understand what you enjoy, what you'd like to see changed, and what you'd like to see added next. It's a powerful way for you to not only share feedback with us directly but also influence what comes next in a patch. We're carefully reading through all feedback, and your opinion matters!

Official Wiki and Beginner's Guide

We have some fantastic resources to help get you started on your colony building in Whiskerwood. Check out our beginner's guide and our official community wiki page to help get you the answers you need.

We also have a compilation of tips and tricks sourced from the community to help you out right here:

Join the Whiskerwood Community

Become part of the Whiskerwood community. Join us on Discord to chat with other players, share your villages, and see what others are creating. You can also follow updates and discussions on Reddit, stay informed through BlueSky and Twitter.

Patch #19

Got too many of an item? Want to get rid of a warehouse of stone quick? Consider researching the new advanced Ocean Dump! Hook up a belt to this nifty device and watch as all your problems drop away!

WARNING: While dilution is the solution for pollution it can have temporary impacts on localized fish populations.

Yes that is correct! We've added fully simulated fishing! Now packing a ton of docks into a pond will not result in unlimited food but instead rapid collapse of your cod fishing stocks! In contrast we've boosted the number of fish an optimized fishing dock can catch!

So gaze above your open ocean, and go catch-them-all!

Every island has a generated fish population driven by the local environment. When a fishing dock performs a fishing cycle its chance of catching anything is driven by the availability of catchable shore fish within range. This range starts at about 5 cells and goes out with weakening strength to about 15 cells.

We've known for a while that we wanted to rework the fishing docks. Fishing docks within Whiskerwood's balance exist as a powerful and easy early game source of food. Late game scaling up should require careful planning and strategy. Similar to hunting. Fishing produces a lot of food for only a little labour. To reach this proper balance we knew fishing needed a proper simulation and now we have it!

Fish populations will slowly recover. A spread out network of fishing docks can catch a vast volume of fish, but be careful to balance the distances between docks to avoid overfishing.

The item ocean dump, and pollution system, integrate with this fishing layer. Most items, and pollution, dumped into the ocean will hurt the fish population, while a few will boost fishing. Press L, the new layer hotkey, to see fish populations at any time.

For players who's save files are highly dependent on large clumps of fishing docks we've created a backup branch of the last patch. You can switch to this "Beta Branch" to keep playing with the old patch as you rework your colony to accommodate this shift in fishing. This branch is called patch18_old_fishing

A third major change is mining centric. Players who do Minecraft-style tunnel and prospecting mining should have an easier time now. We've expanded the range of vision underground so you can see further and mine fewer scouting shafts.

Daniel

Lead Programmer on Whiskerwood

Switch to the patch18_old_fishing beta branch if your colony will collapse due to the fishing change. This branch will go away in the future, so please do take the chance to rework your fishing docks to not abuse the old fishing system.

Changelog

v0.6.183 Patch #19

Features

• Add item dump to dispose of any items into the endless ocean

• Add fishing stock simulation

• Rework fishing docks to operate off fish population

• Simulate fishing population impact of toxic dumping and nutrient dumping

• Beach and ocean floor fertility is now driven by groundwater salinity, which permeates through sandy ground. Terraforming blocks salinity flow and drained ocean floor is often quite fertile after salinity has fallen enough.

Gameplay

• Increase terrain survey depth to 2 cells

• Farmers will now sow after tilling on fields with rock removal active, if there are no more rocks to remove

• Farmers will never sow a field with rock removal active if there are still rocks to remove

• Adjusted internal priorities of some farm tasks

• Add variant of Steam Booster with opposite launch direction

• Replacing flooring type will no longer remove path decoratives

UI

• Use local timezone for times and dates on load menu

• Use locale date & time formatting for load menu based on selected language

• Fix Liftback not grouped with other Advanced Belt research locked schematics

Bugs

• Fix a bug where farmer behavior priority could become inaccurate when many farmers were working on a field

• Fix unintended text downsizing on farm crop selector

• Crops now correctly grow 10% faster during Clear Skies weather

• Fix clicking on mine carts sometimes selecting passengers instead of kicking mine cart along track

• Fix being able to click out of a reward panel without selecting a reward.

• Fix rail tool consuming resources when trying to build rail underwater

• Fix rail tool inconsistency in support costs when building ramps

• Fix belt corners causing bottlenecks and item slowdowns

• Fix buildings with directional smoke vfx not matching wind direction

• Fix Extractor sometimes showing an inaccurate warning when changing filter settings.

Crash Fixes

• Fix crash on load if meta save files have been corrupted, instead regenerate a fresh meta savefile

• Fix crash with negative relative time when mods reduce day length

Acknowledgements

• Thank you to iceball and Kralmir on Discord for drawing attention to the fact that rock removal affected farmer behavior on fields without rocks

• Thank you to Eclipsechris! on Discord for suggesting inverted steam boosters

• Thank you to Decado for pointing out path decor issue

• Thank you to Lord Yanaek for reporting reward panel issue

• Thank you to pomazánka on Discord for reporting the underwater rail bug

• Thank you to Iceball12 on the Discord for reporting how corner belt pieces caused slowdowns

• Thank you to Creepy Gnome on the Discord for reporting the shown play times were using UTC and not local times

• Thank you to Syruptmunster on the Discord for pointing out smoke vfx was not respecting the wind direction

• Thank you to Martin over email for reporting the meta save corruption crash

• Thank you to Buckminsterfullerene for reporting the crash when his mod reduces the day length

Steam Reviews

We'd really appreciate it if you could take a moment to share your thoughts about Whiskerwood in a Steam review. Each review helps us understand what you enjoy, what you'd like to see changed, and what you'd like to see added next. It's a powerful way for you to not only share feedback with us directly but also influence what comes next in a patch. We're carefully reading through all feedback, and your opinion matters!

Official Wiki and Beginner's Guide

We have some fantastic resources to help get you started on your colony building in Whiskerwood. Check out our beginner's guide and our official community wiki page to help get you the answers you need.

We also have a compilation of tips and tricks sourced from the community to help you out right here:

Join the Whiskerwood Community

Become part of the Whiskerwood community. Join us on Discord to chat with other players, share your villages, and see what others are creating. You can also follow updates and discussions on Reddit, stay informed through BlueSky and Twitter.

Patch #18

Based on feedback from players, and the hard work of the entire team: I am super proud to announce the addition of 5 new additions to Whiskerwood's belt mechanics!

Each new machine has a specific purpose in mind. We hope players will design their late game logistics around these conveyors. The new machines are:

Patch #17

After last patch a large number of players came forward and strongly objected to the increase in steam engine costs. Based on their well sourced and measured reasonings, and inspecting save files myself, I concluded they were correct. The last patch's increase in Steam Engine Steam consumption indeed hurt the game's balance.

As such I am releasing this rapid patch to both role back the increase but go further and reduce steam engine consumption of steam below where it was prior to the last patch. Thus if prior to yesterday's patch you felt Steam Engines were of mediocre value, I strongly suggest you evaluate them again under this new balance.

As a team we think the Steam Engine is one of our favourite elements in Whiskerwood. We like how it extends the existing buildings and systems without the typical "now build a better version of X". Instead you can build and expand ontop of your existing town. It would be a shame if I broke the tuning of such an important gameplay element, double so for one we intend to take lessons from in the future when expanding the game.

Daniel

Lead Programmer on Whiskerwood

Changelog

v0.6.180 Patch #17

Gameplay

• Reduce steam consumption of Steam Engine boosting Factories by 87.5%

• Reduce steam consumption of Steam Engine boosted elevators by 75%

• Halve pollution generated by Steam Boilers

• Double production cycle time of Steam Boilers

Bugs

• Fix building next/last not working for bathing docks

Acknowledgements

• Thank you to Khemoterropy for reporting how the next and last buttons do not properly cycle bathing docks

Steam Reviews

We'd really appreciate it if you could take a moment to share your thoughts about Whiskerwood in a Steam review. Each review helps us understand what you enjoy, what you'd like to see changed, and what you'd like to see added next. It's a powerful way for you to not only share feedback with us directly but also influence what comes next in a patch. We're carefully reading through all feedback, and your opinion matters!

Official Wiki and Beginner's Guide

We have some fantastic resources to help get you started on your colony building in Whiskerwood. Check out our beginner's guide and our official community wiki page to help get you the answers you need.

We also have a compilation of tips and tricks sourced from the community to help you out right here:

Join the Whiskerwood Community

Become part of the Whiskerwood community. Join us on Discord to chat with other players, share your villages, and see what others are creating. You can also follow updates and discussions on Reddit, stay informed through BlueSky and Twitter.

Whiskerwood: Now with Mods!

New Mechanics, New Buildings, & Loads of Optimization

• Patch #12 added in-place upgrades for houses, saving players a ton of time on demolishing housing just to rebuild a better version.
• Patch #13 added left/right mirroring for asymmetric buildings and extra variations for certain decorations. This update also brought major CPU optimizations to address performance issues for Whisker colonies with populations over 300. Thanks to these changes, most players should be able to push their populations as high as 700 Whiskers or more with no issues!
• Patch #14 added truss platforms, which mitigated the "pillar spam" that players were experiencing when building large bridges or building towns inside of caverns. This patch also optimized several pathfinding scenarios for large colonies and increased the capacity of mine carts.
• Patch #15, the most recent update, addressed work and service ranges. Now, several buildings and camps have a configurable service range that allows players to expand and contract freely in service of their colony's unique logistical needs.

Patch #16

Do you feel a bit overwhelmed after Christmas? Fear not, our Patch #16 is a low key down to earth make-things-better patch! Nothing that should force you to replan your colony but a lot of improvements which will make the game feel better to play long term.

Two big headlines on that point:

Patch #15

Thank you for everyone's patience over the past two weeks! Last week we skipped releasing the patch and instead pushed all the changes into today's patch.

Our major addition this patch is related to work and service ranges. Now Fire Tenders and Luxury Suppliers have a service limit range. Not just a range: but a configurable range. The resource camps now also have this configurable range. In the future we intend to add range configuration to the earthworks and farm as well.

I've noticed some players requesting further ranges, and that is now possible! You can expand the ranges of mines, foragers, and loggers. Just watch out for the increased travel times! When you move your camps is of course up to you, but do not using the longer ranges if you find yourself forgetting to move camps closer to their work area.

Another feature new in this patch is the T hotkey, when a building is selected, can now iterate through all buildings of that type. This widget also now provides a count of how many such buildings exist on the map.

Daniel

Lead Programmer on Whiskerwood

Changelog

v0.6.178 Patch #15

Features

• Add hotkey for iterating through all instances of a structure type. Either via buttons in header or hotkey T

• Add service ranges to Fire Tender and Luxury Supplier

• Make work ranges for Woodcutter, Mining Camp, Forage Hut, Fire Tender, and Luxury Supplier configurable in their Logistics tab.

• Add 17 extra random whisker names

Gameplay

• Add an extra minute to day length, work days increase from 6 to 7 minutes

• Add 20% chance for whiskers on ships to be non-monarchist whisker under Monarchist scenario. Applies to both new and existing saves.

• Reduce construction time of Log Houses from 144 seconds to 89 seconds

• Reduce construction time of Stone House from 89 to 55 seconds

• Reduce construction time of Campfires from 21 to 13 seconds

• Reduce construction time of Central Warehouse from 89 to 55 seconds

• Increase construction time of Plank Row House from 144 to 233 seconds

• Increase construction time of Stone Row House from 233 to 377 seconds

• Increase population scaling tax cost to compensate for longer work days

• Overtime workers will still replace clothing at night if in need of replacement

UI

• Show population on save files

• Add explanation tooltips on toggles

• Show remaining clothing durability in Whisker detail view

Bugs

• Fix pipes not costing correct support cost when building vertical pipes.

• Fix exploit to generate wood from building and bulldozing vertical pipes

• Fix Show Icons None not hiding all icons

• Fix pipe vertical construction not costing wood but refunding wood

• Fix Bronze, Steel, and Iron ingots using a world position centered material instead of object position thus causing pattern to shift when item is carried

• Fix z-clipping with underground fog edge pieces

• Fix warm core trait and sickly trait appearing together

• Fix Diligent trait never appearing together with Monarchist trait

• Fix problem icons not expanding text over Triage and Boiler when selected

• Fix logistic assignment lines drawing to wrong locations if destination is above slice level.

• Fix cells with ladders blocking pollution flow more than intended.

Crash Fixes

• Fix crash caused by too many objects

Mod API

• Fix hole in blueprint sandbox

Acknowledgements

• Thank you to daameer on the Discord for suggesting we show the population on save files

• Thank you to ZakaryX on the Steam Forum for suggesting we add explanation tooltips to the mode toggles

• Thank you to Batat and Dulces on the Discord for reporting that the None option was not hiding all icon

• Thank you to Dulces on the Discord for reporting the uobject overflow crash

• Thank you to Cpl_Battlefield for reporting the wood duplication glitch

• Thank you to guessimfine on the r/BaseBuildingGames subreddit and many other players for suggesting slightly faster construction and slightly longer days

• Thank you to Dasuke on the Discord for suggesting Warmcore and Sickly should not appear together

• Thank you to Vendan on the Discord for reporting the hole in the mod sandbox

• Thank you to yogomove on Discord for reporting the incorrect assignment lines in slice view

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Patch #14

Our headline feature for this patch is one I think many players wanted without realizing: Truss platforms!

Until today if you built a long and tall bridge, or filled a cavern with a town, you were faced with a dense matrix of wooden supports.

Many players requested a method to control this "pillar spam". I am happy that the modding community was able to provide players a quick solution to that request while we worked on our intended full solution. Today now I am proud to announce: Truss Platforms.

Truss Platforms come in both masonry and wooden variations. Their exact designs require research to unlock.

Both masonry & wooden trusses come in two varities of varying lengths to fit your needs.

Trusses both solve the pillar spam and open new methods of building cheaper bridges between islands.

Daniel

Lead Programmer on Whiskerwood

PS: Whiskerwood is on sale for Christmas. If you've not bought it yet, please consider purchasing now. And if you've bought it but not reviewed it yet, please consider leaving a review for anyone considering a purchase :)

Changelog

v0.6.177 Patch #14

Features

• Add new Anchored Platform and Stone Archways.  Thus allowing design of pillar-less open areas in mines, and longer bridges.

• Optimize various pathfinding scenarios to reduce long path computations on large colonies for improved frame pacing

Gameplay

• Logistics workers should now better prioritize larger transfers over smaller ones.

• Increase capacity of rail carts from 3 to 6. Whiskers more likely to avoid stations with crowded platforms

• Add red mesh for pepper crop items

• Make autosaves when loaded now save under the original non-autosave filename when manually saved

UI

• Improve margins on crop field information

• Add description to settings menu to communicate what terrain details does

• Make the embark screen only generate non-conflicting random names to avoid overwriting saves. If all random names are used, generate a clean name using appended numbers.

Bugs

• Fix construction site of mirrored warehouse having white icon

• Fix some pipe junctions rendering incorrect rotations

• Fix spicegrinder building icon overwriting carpenter

• Fix camera rotation impacted by time dilation

• Fix rain and snow wind direction not matching gameplay wind direction

• Fix windsock using singpost details menu

• Fix fully grown crops consuming fertilizer (nutrients above nutrient limit)

• Fix heater overdrive state not being loaded correctly from saves

• Fix some achievement progress not saving in all codepaths

Acknowledgements

• Thank you to many-many players who requested gameplay methods of building large caverns with fewer wooden pillars visually blocking views

• Thank you to Marco2 on the Steam forum for reporting that the Gold Ore achievement progress was getting lost under certain save paths

• Thank you to Khemoterropy on the Discord for reporting the missing icon on mirror small warehouses

• Thank you to Richard on the Discord for reporting one of the steam pipes were 90 degree rotated incorrectly

• Thank you to several players on Discord and Steam Forums who suggested Logistics Hud workers should prefer larger transfers

• Thank you to Syrupmunster on the Discord for pointing out the margins on field tooltip imply rockiness was the sunlight value

• Thank you to Morwenna and others who reported the Carpenter building’s icons had been overwritten by the Spice Grinder

• Thank you to r4v4g3 for reporting how camera rotation was being impacted by mods which adjusted time dilation

• Thank you to Gideonstar on the Discord for reporting that random names were being generated which overwrote existing saves

• Thankyou to Kekosch on the Discord for reporting that the visual weather wind was not matching gameplay wind directions

• Thank you to gue.ngevlog on Steam forums for reporting the windsock was using the wrong details menu

• Thank you to Khemoterropy for suggesting we add a description to explain the importance of terrain and grass detail graphics settings

• Thank you to Kralmir on Discord for reporting that fully grown crops still consumed nutrients when above the nutrient limit

• Thank you to Chromy on Discord for reporting that heater overdrive wasn’t loaded correctly

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Patch #13

We've got two major features for this patch! One highly requested since demo, the other highly requested the instant players reported playing past 300 whiskers.

Today I am proud to present to you:

Patch #12

Hello Everyone,

Have you ever noticed how the schematic progression includes a number of houses in the same shape but better quality? You can now upgrade in-place upgrade those houses once you unlock them!

Adding this feature required handling quite a number of edge cases, but the result should be a quality of life improvement for players. It rather feels like the long haul of gamedev: a lot of work for a seemingly small yet worthwhile improvement.

Of course please check out the full change log below. This patch brings a number of balance changes and bug fixes.

Daniel

Lead Programmer on Whiskerwood

Changelog

v0.6.173 Patch #12

Features

• Add upgrading of houses in-place if same shape higher tier is available

Gameplay

• Increase plank cost portion of Large Warehouse from 34 planks 55 planks

• Increase plank cost portion of Giant Warehouse from 55 planks 144 planks

• Add extra option to only show Status & Problems Only for show icon setting instead of the prior all or nothing

• Boost trade value of Hearty Meals from 21 to 34

• Boost trade value of Savory Meals from 21 to 34

• Boost trade value of Fancy Meals from 21 to 34

• Boost trade value of Jam Pastry from 13 to 21

• Boost trade value of Mushroom Stew from 13 to 21

UI

• Improve ui scaling of pirate menu at high populations

• Scale down event icon blips as the camera zooms out

• Show version number on pause menu

• Add Management Office to workplace overview

• Ensure research is always at bottom of sidebar

Bugs

• Fix resources clipping and overflowing the resource screen

• Fix expectation stars appearing over ore

• Fix mismatch of free construction worker count between HUD and workplace overview

• Fix tree decorations not occupying second cell vertically in blocking grid

• Fix Whiskers clipping through the sides of bridges

• Fix stone paths and pipes incorrectly blocking heat, light & pollution.

Crash Fixes

• Fix crash that could happen when filling in enclosed sections of water

Mod API

• Add Optional prepending of date log message modapi

Acknowledgements

• Thank you to many players who requested the ability to upgrade houses in-place

• Thank you to the players on the Discord who commented on how they’d be willing to pay much more for the larger warehouses.

• Thank you to Gardlt on Discord for reporting the ore expectations bug

• Thank you to IronJack on Discord for reporting the resource overflow on resource screen bug

• Thank you to Madame Hardy and VisceralRevolt on the Discord for suggesting the addition of the version number to the pause menu

• Thank you to Morwenna on the Discord for suggesting the meal trade values were too cheap 

• Thank you to Lord Yanaek and xs4nd3r for reporting the construction worker mismatch

• Thank you to KatherineOfSky for suggesting the research button always be at the bottom of the sidebar

• Thank you to Buckminster for suggesting the date logging for the mod log message call

• Thank you to Khemoterropy on the Discord for reporting the missing cell block in the tree decoration

• Thank you to KriticalSquid on Discord for reporting that Whiskers can clip through the sides of bridges

• Thank you to DeathWolf & Halhozo on Discord for reporting the crash that could happen when filling in enclosed sections of water

• Thank you to slavic on Discord for reporting that stone paths & pipes were incorrectly blocking heat

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Patch #11

Highlight:

+New Large & Giant warehouses!

+New setting to control display of status/problem/event icons

+New decorations

A bunch of players have asked for larger warehouses.

We always planned to add more warehouses, hence why the largest one upto now was called medium, but based on the large volume of player requests we made this task a priority!

So I am proud to present to you the Large and Giant warehouses!

We put our best carpenter on the task and he figured out that if we brace the structural beams at the mid point we can achieve much taller volumes!

We've also snuck in a few more decorations, and a new option which improve performance on large colonies: you can now disable the various floating status icons using the new "Info Icon Blip" setting. Plus of course many other bug fixes and balance changes you can read about in the full changelog below.

Daniel

Lead Programmer on Whiskerwood

Changelog

v0.6.171 Patch #11

Features

• Add Large Warehouse building with capacity of 987

• Add Giant Warehouse building with capacity of 2584

• Add setting to toggle display of info/problem/event blips

• Optimize rendering of inactive blips

Gameplay

• Make highest tier supply choice give tea and fine tea

• Stump Collection policy redesigned to also work on farmed trees.

• Larger Warehouses - A new warehouse types with even larger capacity

• Warehouse roofs are now dynamic and can be built into like other buildings

• Boost Thread per Cotton from 3 to 8

• Increase Cotton to Thread cycle time from 89seconds to 144seconds

• Reduce trade value of Thread from 8 to 5

• Speedup Tea roasting cycle time from 377seconds to 89seconds

• Speedup Fine Tea roasting cycle time from 610seconds to 144seconds

• Reduce trade value of Tea from 55 to 21

• Reduce trade value of Fine Tea from 144 to 55

UI

• Increase savefile name length from 20 to 150

• Fix numbers on tax screen upper right not using consistent baseline

• Fix tax owed in hud not using command separation

• Add shortcut to Production Limits in sidebar

• Add heat indicator to Management Office

• Show Raise/Lower key hints when building rail

Bugs

• Fix Stockpile Select tool on Farms could get stuck.

• Fix Management worker sometimes getting launched out of building on load.

• Additional fixes for logistic workers not fulfilling some requests.

• Fix whiskers sometimes getting stuck at warehouses trying to eat unavailable food

• Fix poor heat insulation on Management Office

• Fix some situations where trains could get saved/loaded into invalid stuck state

• Fix trains sometimes going the wrong direction after loading save

• Fix rare crash with train state

• Fix deleting rail boosters could return more resources than it cost.

• Fix short jump in camera position when starting a camera pan with MMB

Crash Fixes

• Fix crash on save when train references are corrupted

Mod API

• Ensure saves do not break if modded decoration blueprints disappear

Acknowledgements

• Thank you to KatherineOfSky for suggesting the longer file name limit

• Thank you to JJun for reporting the departing station train corruption

• Thank you to michaelbaldur on the Steam forum for suggesting fine tea also be found in the highest tier supply ship choice

• Thank you to CptMrshmlw on the Discord for reporting the farming stucking bug

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Patch #10

Highlight:

+Build the Management Office to set limits on production at factories and resource camps!

+Assign fields to farms to control the behaviour of farmers!

Thank you to everyone who gave feedback over the past 2 weeks!

Since our launch into early access we've noticed a few highly requested features from that feedback. Namely:

Patch #9

Hello Everyone,

A bunch of players requested a way to toggle the acceptance of goods into a warehouse while it was being constructed. To address this we started work on construction phase configuration and added this control. Going forward we have a bunch of tickets of similar construction phase configuration requests which can leverage this UI flow.

We also made buildings better communicate when their entrance was out of reach. Many players got confused by the Flax Spinner's second floor entrance, and this improvement helps that situation plus any other player might hit.

Of course please consider reading the full changelog, today's patch is quite a large one.

Daniel

Lead Programmer on Whiskerwood

Changelog

v0.6.166 Patch #9

Gameplay

• Warehouses under construction can be set to reject all resources until configured by player

UI

• When bulldozing warehouses the lost resources preview is sorted with highest amounts first

• Refund value blips when bulldozing will show (+n) instead of (-n)

• Add input hint for quick elevation controls (Shift + Mousewheel to quickly change slice elevation)

• Inaccessible construction entrances will display their entry positions when hovered by cursor

Bugs

• Fix warehouses having stuck ‘inbound’ resources if disabled while being delivered

• Fix Firetender workers indicating ‘Headed to work’ while idle.

• Fix Earthworks workers indicating ‘Idle’ while performing work.

• Fix Stockpile assignment UI not dismissing in some situations.

• Fix deleting excess Offices removing a policy slot.

• Fix Woven Cloaks not being reported consumed in statistics

• Fix Whiskers repeatedly attempting to deliver to inaccessible construction sites

• When manually selecting a student to assign to a school, the list is now automatically filtered for Whiskers who don’t have the taught skill/guild, yet

• Assigning students to schools via the plus button will now automatically filter for Whiskers who don’t have the taught skill/guild, yet

• Fix typo in description of Rebellion Fervor

• The new storage capacity of Fire Tenders & Luxury Suppliers is now correctly applied to buildings in existing saves. Currently stored items above capacity are not lost.

• Fix schooled Whiskers keeping old guild modifiers when changing guild

• Earthworks labor now correctly applies Hard Labor thoughts

• Fix spring planting quest triggering too early

• Fix thoughts summary not displaying all of day’s thoughts when loading save

Crash Fixes

• Fix a a crash that could happen when generating a map with many large islands

Mod API

• Add ModAPI for adding new datatable rows 

• Add ModAPI for linking extra datatables as moddable

• Add ModAPI for adding new runtime translations

• Add ModAPI delegate to hook on new day starting

• Add ModAPI linkage for SlotDecoratives

• Fix ModAPI for construction spawning not triggering correct delegate

Acknowledgements

• Thank you to r4v4g3 on Discord for pushing the limits of our ModAPI

• Thank you to Lickorice on Discord for suggesting the new day hooks

• Thank you to Buckminster for requesting the datatable extension tooling to allow new building mods

• Thank you to ruff on Discord for debugging the construction delegate ModAPI

• Thank you to RonEmpire & CaptCharlie82 on Discord for drawing attention to automatic assignment for students

• Thank you to Anteprefix on Discord for reporting the murmur typo

• Thank you to madbroetchen & Simply Matt & Lord Yanaek on Discord for reporting that schooled Whiskers retained old guild modifiers

• Thank you to Goiaba_Rei on Discord for reporting construction pathing bug

• Thank you to Gregor Pepe for reporting a crash during map generation

• Thank you Fargel on Discord for reporting inconsistency in thoughts breakdown

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