Hello, village elders!

Today’s winter update concludes this year’s update spree. Don’t worry: We’ll continue with updates in 2023!

This update has a bit of everything: sound, quality of life updates, new furniture and so on. We also threw in a chunk of fixes.

See the notes below for more info and for now, we wish you all fantastic holidays and a happy new year!

The teams of Render Cube and Toplitz Productions

• Horse and donkey fall if they hit the ground hard enough.
  
• Sounds for many items to pick up from the ground.
  
• New building – Farm Shed (Employees work in the fields and orchards. Those in the barn don't do it anymore).
  
• New furniture – Composter.
  
• Five new furniture – Containers.
  
• Seven new wall decorations – Reliefs.
  
• New Gate – Plank Gate.
  
• New Fence – Plank Fence.
  
• It is possible to build the snowman in winter.
  
• It is possible to craft snowballs in winter.
  
• Over 20 new locations generated on the map.
  
• Aim Assist for controllers.
  
• New break animations for employees.
  
• NPCs reacting to getting bumped into.
  
• NPCs reacting to getting hit by a snowball.
  
• Horse can fall if it hits something at high velocity.
  
• Donkey can fall if it hits something at high velocity.
  
• Gameplay tips in loading screen.
  
• In some dialogues the ESC/Cancel button will result in exiting/going back in dialogue.
  
• New status indicating the number of problems with work in fields and orchards.
  
• Number of coins in possession visible during dialogue.
  
• Sounds for Player's Scythe and Sickle.
  
• Sounds for picking from fields and orchards (every vegetable and fruit has its unique picking sounds).
  
• All foliage types have their unique picking sounds (for example: there are different sounds for reed, stick, stone, broadleaf, mushroom, or sapling etc.).
  
• Sounds of eating: carrot, onion, and beetroot.
  
• Sounds for inspector mode.
  
• Sounds for wicker chests.
  

• Animals launching into the air when killed on steep terrain.
  
• The Talk area marker on the compass is bugged when player is mounted.
  
• In the quest "Young Love" flowers stay in the inventory after talking to your son.
  
• Furniture from "Other" category can be built before getting permission to build on the land.
  
• Wrong item selected after removing whole stack.
  
• List in Builders Hut not updating when buildings get damaged by a tree.
  
• Disappearing items when loading a game save.
  
• Toddlers sneezing problem.
  
• Dough in cooking stove is not showing correctly in third person when ending crafting.
  
• If LMB was pressed before RMB for Throwable item, player had to release both buttons to be able to throw it again.
  
• Fixed fast traveller lantern sounds.
  
• Quests with building furniture may work incorrect in some situations.
  
• Gates cannot be placed on permanent roads.
  
• Some achievements didn't unlock properly.
  
• Player animation stuck when falling off a mount in some cases.
  
• Combat music not ending sometimes on season skip.
  
• Player being able to throw objects like snowballs with zero velocity resulting in projectiles falling down in a spawn location.
  
• Sometimes items disappear in animations.
  
• A possible fix for enabled animations on some workbenches when no NPC is nearby.
  
• Faded audio sometimes not returning on camera fade.
  
• Possible case of broken ambient audio transitions.
  
• Animals running sideways diminished.
  
• Sleeping for the family quest makes the bed inaccessible.
  

• Memory usage optimizations.
  
• Increased the basic building limit by 5.
  
• Animals don't reproduce if they are hungry.
  
• Animal Inverse Kinematics improvements.
  
• Several animal walking/running speed adjustments.
  
• Improved falling off a mount.
  
• House decoration system (More slots).
  
• Improved the pathfinding on roads.
  
• House decoration menu now has categories for easier management.
  
• Small trees in orchards don't block characters.
  
• Assigning an NPC to a workplace now no longer requires selecting a profession (now every building has only one profession).
  
• Desired skill and profession added to building slot in NPC workplace selection.
  
• In the building details at the storage part now weight and coins are visible.
  
• Stage names for fields and orchards, suggesting next tasks.
  
• Several UI optimizations.
  
• Using unstuck button outside of map borders now should move player to starting location.
  
• Count of throwable weapons is now shown in HUD.
  
• Loudness level of music. Default value of music that we recommend is on 75% and all other sounds like SFX we recommend on 100%.
  
• Music Soundtracks are levelled to general loudness standards.
  
• All languages updated.
  
• Reputation decreases when hitting animals from NPC villages with snowballs.
  
• Damage calculation when hitting tail bone in animals.
  
• Changed returning dialogue order when buying animal from locations, so that it's not required to return to the category each time the player buys something.
  
• Changed the way coin prices are displayed in dialogues.
  
• Darker colour of fertiliser in the fields.
  
• FOV blending alpha for rock/snowball, bow and spear.
  
• Throwing animation in TP is now quicker for Rock/Snowball.
  
• Roof textures.
  
• Construction progress in the ghost.
  
• Optimized NPCs.
  
• Horse sounds are less frequent.
  
• Mixed river sounds.