Version 1.9

A big update containing a ton of bugfixes as well as gameplay improvements and features.

[h2]New[/h2]

• Monsters will now attack peasants that they encounter, so beware of peasants returning from the forest late.
  
• 2 new tables for the Cosmetics DLC furniture set
  
• Peasant Details window for every peasant - still a work in progress, post your feedback and comments to the Steam forum.
  
• The new peasant show button shows you the graveyard if the peasant is dead
  
• On the detail view, you can send peasants to rest for the day (so they heal and don't do dangerous work)
  
• On the detail view, you can assign adult men to stand guard during the night (and rest the next morning)
  
• New Building: Armoury - stores weapons that are produced in the smithy.
  
• New Building: Guard Post - where guardians or armed peasants will stand guard at night
  
• New Mercenary: Guardians are now available for hire
  
• New Monster: Giant spider (only on some maps and appearing fairly rarely)
  
• New font (minimal visible changes) to allow for Cyrillic characters.
  

• Peasants are now assigned the correctly gendered visual model after loading a game.
  
• Manor house (in the Friedmarkt story "Darkest Nights") now loads correctly from save games.
  
• Buildings can no longer be both repaired and demolished at the same time.
  
• Correct gameObject names on peasants after loading a save game - was never visible to players, but will make my debugging easier
  
• Hellhafen initial dialog should have proper UI scaling now
  
• Hellhafen houses should be initialized properly now
  
• Correct icon on the "look into the manual" tip on the loading screen
  
• Reworked smithy and smelter: Smelter now allows metal gathering, smithy produces tools and weapons
  
• Forging tools and weapons now uses up metal.
  

• Added some more variety and beauty to the peasant models
  
• Updated tutorial dialogs and in-game help texts to reflect the new smelter/smithy roles
  
• Smithy now requires 10 metal to be constructed.
  
• You can now buy and sell weapons on the market
  
• Added smelter building to Friedmarkt and Ziegwald levels
  
• Moved the trapper from workshops to defenses
  
• Construction speed bonus of tools doubled to 20%
  
• Hellhafen fields updated (replaced 2 wheat fields with carrots and cabbages)
  
• Score now considers monster attacks, so if the dice roll against you and you get unusually many monsters, you also get a higher score.
  
• Some monsters do slightly more damage now
  
• Improved steward texts (was in a previous update, I forgot to put it into the changelog)
  
• Added some tooltips to various UI elements to make the game easier to discover for new players.
  
• You can now click on the status icons (damaged, destroyed, unmanned, etc.) and it will select the proper building
  
• Reworked the main menu a bit
  
• Updated Unity engine to 2021.3.22
  
• Some performance improvements
  
• Lots of behind-the-scenes improvements to make the game easier to maintain in the future