Youkoso!

The upcoming update (Ikigai) will introduce a significant change to the production system of your dynasty. Managing your villagers' work will be much easier. Redesigned workplaces will offer better visual clarity, while improved notifications and warnings will better inform you of any production issues. Here are some specifics:

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Each worker has a work capacity pool that you can allocate to any number of recipes being produced at a given workplace. Previously, the system was limited to a maximum of 4 production slots. Now, one worker will be able to handle up to 20 different recipes at low efficiency or just one at full efficiency — the choice is yours!

You will be able to assign production tasks to a worker at any time, even if you don't have necessary resources or tools. Your workers will produce as much as they can for the day and then wait for more resources.

Missing resources and tools will be automatically gathered by workers to achieve the production level you assigned. For example, after adding the missing item to the dynasty's storage, your worker will automatically take them and produce the assigned recipe by the end of their workday.

The effectiveness of tools has been reworked to make production even more efficient and to make it easier for you to meet your villagers' needs. Better tools will allow you to get more products from the same number of resources and work.

Production results section will show exactly what a given recipe produces and how many of your villagers' needs it will satisfy.

The recipe cost section will display information about the required season or access to resource sources.

Tool and production results sections will display useful tooltips, for example listing all tools compatible with a given recipe.

You will be able to manually remove recipes, workers, or tools from the workplace if you want to halt or modify some chains of production.

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We also implemented a host of smaller changes, including navigation improvements, various bug fixes, production balance tweaks, and more.

Ikigai is coming next week, and it has many more surprises in store — hope you’re looking forward to the release as much as we are!