Preliminary Changelog

Forester

• Added Forester, where players and NPCs can grow saplings and replant forests.
• Added Tree Seeds that drop when harvesting saplings.

Staging Ground

• Added Staging Ground, where players can assign their companions to it; they will stock up on food from nearby storages and await further orders at its location.
• Added Food Bag, allowing players and NPCs to store food in a separate container instead of the inventory.

Brigand Headquarters

• Improved and extended the final quest after [spoiler]defeating Lord Ashbourne[/spoiler].
• Added unique dialogues to Lord Ashbourne when [spoiler]meeting him before the battle[/spoiler].
• Removed incorrect lines from Lord Ashbourne outside of dialogue.
• Significantly improved NPC navigation in Headquarters, allowing for much smoother combat with big armies.
• Blocked unfinished areas that aren’t supposed to be accessible yet.
• Fixed some wooden walkways and the balcony not being accessible by NPCs.
• Fixed various other issues by spreading our or grouping closer together decorations.

Tier 3 Improvements

• Overhauled Bakery gameplay loop to allow for consistent bread production that feeds the town, requiring larger wheat fields to support it.
• Increased Bread output in Bakery from 1 to 8 per craft; all other recipes from 1 to 3.
• Increased Flour output in Windmill from 1 to 5 per craft.
• Increased Grain requirement per flour from 3 to 6, effectively making the recipe 30 Grains -> 5 Flour.
• Changed Windmill worker job category from Cooking to Crafting.
• Changed Wheat category from Food Ration to Resource, so they don’t store it in Food Cellar.
• Changed Windmill to require a worker to reflect much higher crafting efficiency.
• Fixed various floating decorations in the Windmill.

• Added new unique recipes to Inn that have status effects useful for players.
• Increased Warehouse storage volume from 2500 to 6500.
• Increased Big House NPC capacity from 5 to 7.
• Added 4 Foraging Racks to Foraging Lodge.
• Moved Apiary from Tier 2 to Tier 3, as it can’t be researched this early and honey has no use before Tier 3.
• Increased Sage requirement in Honey from 3 to 5 to reflect the change in Apiary tiers.
• Replaced Cured Rope with Rope in Coal Burner recipe to fix a Resin deadlock.
• Removed smithing requirement when crafting at the Workshop to remove Iron Hammer deadlock.
• Removed Fast Travel from Town Hall; it was an experimental feature that had broken functionality.
• Fixed various navigation issues in Tier 3 buildings, where NPCs would get stuck.
• Fixed some NPC interactables in Tier 3 buildings not being accessible when a building is placed on extreme hills.
• Fixed various issues with decorations in Tier 3 buildings; wrong collision set up and locations, resulting in flying or clipping.
• Fixed Mashed Potatoes and Beetroot Jam not being possible to craft by players.
• Fixed floating fences and flowers in Lodge.
• Fixed Lumbermill being possible to be built partially inside hills.
• Fixed Apiary map icon using meat.

Gameplay Improvements

• Increased spoilage time for food that doesn’t regrow; this includes meat, cooked dishes, and special raw food like Cloudberry.
• Removed and adjusted NPC profession requirements for researching Tier 2 equipment in Toolmaker and Weaver Hut.
• Changed metal helmets crafted in Weaver Hut to Toolmaker.
• Made it possible to destroy saplings growing in forests by hitting them with a weapon.
• Fixed book reading and other status effects sometimes get stuck when loading the game after sleeping.
• Fixed Knowledge Book loot never dropping One Handed books; thank you to our modders for finding this issue.
• Fixed Rabbit Traps sometimes not being accessible by Trappers.

Combat

• Added new down block animation for two handed weapons.
• Increased the size and duration of blood particles to make them more prominent.

User Interface

• Added the word “Broken” to broken items when searching for deliveries and for storage management in stockpiles.
• Added warnings to the Research Desk screen to show missing requirements for research.
• Added new category to stockpile storage management for Knowledge Books, quest items, Old Coins, and animal trophies.
• Improved various alignments and positions of various screens and menus.
• Added words “Highest” and “Lowest” when selecting priorities to make it clearer.
• Made items in storage management automatically enable when Specify Amount is clicked and disable when it's cleared.

Text and Localization

• Updated all localization to new and changed text.
• Improved and fixed Ukrainian, Polish, and Russian localization.
• Updated Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese localization.
• Fixed wrong spelling of Bradford in some posters.
• Fixed wrong text being voiced by NPCs in some instances of dialogue.

Various Fixes

• Fixed rare issue on save files in late progression that would load for 10 minutes or more.
• Fixed crash when Rabbit Traps would get assigned to a settlement twice.
• Fixed working animations not playing for NPCs when using some Tier 2 buildings.
• Fixed shooting corpses giving Archery experience and lowering trust on mutilating animal corpses.