Hey Blacksmith's,

I apologize this update took so long. I also want to thank everyone for their support and kind words and your bug reports. Speaking of which, I will soon be implementing a new bug reporting format. Bug reports need to be centralize instead of having it spread out between Steam, Stomts and Discord. It will be public and you can vote, which will help prioritize which bugs need to be fixed. This will also work for your suggestions as well. I will post an update when it's ready.

I moved the 0.1.2.035 version of the game to the Main branch and the new update 0.1.2.037 is on the experimental branch. As always, I will need your feedback/bug reports so that I can push this update to the main branch a.s.a.p.

Hope everyone enjoys this update.

Now, I'm gonna go get some sleep.



Addition/Changes

• You can opt-in (options menu) to drop your equipped tool instead of swapping it out.
  
• Converted old terrain to voxel terrain. So you can dig down in most areas with your pickaxe ( will eventually convert that to shovels instead). There are things to find underground so have fun.
  
• Added new two-hand blunt head variants. These must be learned with skill books.
  
• Added two more dungeons at higher levels. ( Still working on better loot)
  
• Added Shift+Enter Minigame Tooltip when working with metals on the anvil
  
• The Farmer will order a one-hand sword.
  
• The adventurer will only bring you ingots and weapon/tool heads that are one level higher and all lower than you equipped hammer.
  
• Added physical coins that can be picked up as well as the option to toggle the option for customers to give you physical coins instead of auto dropping them in your chest.
  
• Updated loot table for the adventurer.
  
• Buildings you create will inherit their wood color from the planks you use.
  
• Anvil crafting GUI update, gamepad, and user friendly.
  
• Renamed ore veins to ore Lodes. ( hopefully i got that name correct)
  
• Added an FPS display option.
  
• Possible to create standing torches via the build mode. (“N”)
  
• Updated and re-added the corner inverted roof.
  
• Holding down the left mouse button will continue your action.
  
• You can now switch to the old customer queue and the new one.
  
• You can also switch to multiple customer queues and adjust how many can be waiting at one time.
  
• Added a button in the main menu to open the save folder location in Windows Explorer.
  
• You can create shovels for customers.
  
• Added a few more shield bosses/
  
• Added a in-game tutorial and the option to turn it off in the menu options.
  
• Disabled Tutorial map.
  
• Modular shelves can be created at the saw table.
  
• Adjustments to Quality value on ore and metals.
  
• Smelter state properly saves although more work is needed.
  
• Added unique crystals to the world that can be added to the smelter along with your ingots. (Still a work in progress)
  
• Added a death counter.
  
• Change to month names.
  
• Change to the saw tables UI.
  
• Added preset graphic buttons to change all graphical options at once.
  
• Added The Blacksmith in Northelm that sells tools in case you lose one.
  
• Added The Alchemist in Northelm. She will trade you gems for something better.
  
• Changes to the sharpening minigame: -Reduced punishment to integrity when overheating on the Sharpener. Placing the need in the yellow section earns you more points. And, quality no longer increases when the metal is overheating.
  
• Added SFX volume slider to settings
  
• Day and month counter should reset after day 360.
  
• Added option to manually choose how much memory is dedicated to texture streaming.
  
• Removed resolution scale for the time being.
  
• Some minor changes

Fixes

• Fix to being unable to set default bindings when pressing the “Default” button
  
• Removed being able to bind keys for “Mouse X” and “Mouse Y”.
  
• Fixed some crystals not changing their physical properties.
  
• Fixed crystals not showing their Quality value.
  
• Fixed issue with customers trying/failing to grab items on racks.
  
• Fixed issue with customers trying to grab fixed items on racks.
  
• Removed customers asking for armor repairs. ( Armor repair is not technically available)
  
• The cancel button should go away when a customer receives their item.
  
• Hitting a tree once causes several trees to be destroyed.
  
• Fixed to trees glitching in and out of view when being looked at certain distances and angles.
  
• Fixed keybinding issues with the “Tool selection” option.
  
• Small optimizations to the shop. Hopefully, increase fps when looking at the shop.
  
• Fix issue with the opposite effect happening when clicking the mute audio button.
  
• Moved the box off the delivery platform at your shop.
  
• Fix for sharpening metals after doing the anvil minigame.
  
• Fix to Map compass waypoint not being in the right position when looking away from the waypoint.
  
• Quicksave names should increment properly.
  
• Savegames should display the proper play session time.
  
• Fix to Rain still playing when disabled.
  
• Fix to some in-game sounds not muting when muting the game.
  
• Fixed “Back” button being off-screen when viewing settings.
  
• Fixed issue with the menu settings items not taking effect like mouse inversion.
  
• Possible fix to a hammer dupe.
  
• Fix to smelter fuel detection.
  
• Opened treasure chests should no longer prevent you from clicking on items like books.
  
• Few fixes to the building mechanic.
  
• Fix to zone names under the compass not updating while mounted.
  
• Fix color error for fire and night crystal.
  
• Reduced render distance for some items.
  
• Adjusted reticule to be more centered on the screen.
  
• Fixed possible exploit when upgrading quality using the sharpening minigame.
  
• Fix to possibly losing progress when sharpening a blade.
  
• Ore veins/ore drops should be more consistent and cause less lag.
  
• Fix to metal creations attached to Angel grips breaking the Adventurer.
  
• Possible fix for players’ games crashing because of the dark apparitions.
  
• Fixes to the movement of the wagon.
  
• Possible fix to mouse sensitivity issues.
  
• Fix To DOF (Depth of Field)
  
• Fixed Tooltips for buildings.
  
• Possible fix to saving and/or exiting crashing the game.
  
• Fix to the exit confirmation stuff being shown after you’ve closed the entire menu.
  
• Metal Plates and Delivery crates can be destroyed in Furnace
  
• Opening your character information while crouch will now uncrouch you.
  
• Adjustment to some UI elements on widescreen displays.
  
• Some Minor bug fixes not worth mentioning.

Hey Blacksmith's,

Just wanted to give a quick update to let everyone know work on the game is progressing just fine. There were a few hiccups with Unreal Engine 4 and some game bugs that set work back by a few weeks. There are still some standing issues but I'll eventually get them ironed out.

If you haven't checked it out already, I posted a small sneak peek at some of the stuff I implemented for the coming update.



There are still more things that have been added but I'll leave those things for you to discover.

An important note is the next update will most likely break your worlds as I implemented a new voxel landscape for digging. If your world is still working, some of your workstation placements may be floating or in the ground, as well as any tools/weapons/etc that are lying on the ground may fall through the ground. So, just in case, place your stuff inside the house or a building. They should spawn back but some of you are creative and like to place things in interesting places ːsteamhappyː . So, I will push the Beta branch to the Main Branch and place the new update in Beta.

I don't have a release date yet but it should be hopefully soon.

Hope everyone is having a great day!

Hey Blacksmith's

This new patch most likely will not agree with your old save games. Sorry :(
Also, I think I'm getting close to a fix for the crashes some players are experiencing. Hopefully, I can get a fix for that a.s.a.p but I'll admit, these are pretty tough to isolate and fix.

Stay safe everyone.

Fixes

• Saving/loading in Geoffrey’s Shop should no longer spawn extra items.
  
• Log/Planks bundles collision fix.
  
• Delivery Jobs for Northelm Castle Barracks should no longer have missing weapon details.
  
• Fixed an issue when waking up on a new day, certain objects not recognizing the new day. This includes the job board and ledgers.
  
• *No longer able to exploit creating armor with ingots and weapons/tools with metal plates.
  
• Fix for not being able to buy/sell anything other than leather armor and books.
  
• Killed player momentum when entering portals. Help prevent issues like entering a portal twice unintentionally.
  
• Teleporting will carry most, if not all items with you. Known Bug: the items will Yeet to the floor which will require you to pick up again.
  
• Using the wagon should no longer (ever) cause UI issues.
  
• The adventurer will now spawn at the spawn zone thing when loading a game where they are not in a dungeon.
  
• Flower seeds can be planted in pots again
  
• Fix to Player’s hammer visible when loading back into a game where all tools should be unequipped.
  
• Fix to bed collision. Should be easier to pick up.
  
• Fixed issue with trying to remove shaman polearm weapons from adventurers.
  
• Fix issue with Northelms puzzle game cubes spawning under the ground.
  
• Remove collision area on job crates.
  
• Set default keybindings to WASD
  
• Fix to being unable to grab weapons from adventurers after they’ve returned from a quest.
  
• Gate should remain open when loading back in.
  
• Customers should now properly recognize armor.
  
• Fix issue with Warriors not having any dialogue in certain cases.
  
• Gauntlets visuals fixed on customers.
  
• Fix to npc’s being moved by objects held by the player.

Additions/Changes

• Pots are moveable again.
  
• Certain prices for grips were adjusted for normal and hard difficulties.
  
• Changed wording from Northelm Bridge Outpost to Northelm Bridge Watchtower.
  
• Added more facial expressions.
  
• Horse/Wagon sprint speed Caps Lock-able.
  
• Updated tooltip for destroying buildings.
  
• Working NPCs should no longer spawn in as children.
  
• Learning new recipes from books is random again.
  
• Added ingot outline on the anvil when the player picks up ingots.
  
• Quality adjustments. Increasing quality to the next tier is slightly harder. Changing difficulty does offset the scale at which you progress.
  
• Items socketed with a crystal have a slightly more dramatic effect.
  
• Customers will now pay you for better quality items. (WIP)
  
• Added a map to the world.
  
• Added a repeatable quest to Nadine in Northelm.
  
• Customer wait times dependant on the customer type. Still scales based on difficulty as well.
  
• Camera will reset to the center of the screen when the player stops looking at the character book.
  
• Adjusted leveling curve and capped leveling to 80.
  
• Added blacksmith ranks. Does nothing at the moment.
  
• Metal armor pieces can be dropped on the armor stand.
  
• Changed ore spawning behavior. Hopefully to mitigate issues and make it easier to fix any new issues. As a result, old save games will not spawn ores unfortunately. Sorry :(
  

Hey Blacksmith's

The new patch should work with your old save games.
As always, this patch introduces a few more bugs. There are some bugs I am aware of like the job board not creating new jobs (in some cases at all), collision issues with the log/plank bundles, and Geoffrey's shop grips and guards not displaying their sell/buy price, among a few others. I am working to get a patch out for that soon. Also, multiplayer should no longer be enabled.

Stay safe and enjoy!

• Common grip requests are now possible again to fulfill.
  
• Items sales on Ledger (incl. Old save games) should be present when entering a loaded game.
  
• Weapon guard quality should display properly.
  
• Invalid weapons from customers should be displayed separately from the original request.
  
• Moving a shelf, with ingots, no longer breaks ingots.
  
• Adventurer’s internal clock now synced with the game clock.
  
• Fix to Depth of Field.
  
• Changing the left or backward keybindings no longer causes you to move in the same direction as right and forward. Might need to rebind keys.
  
• Audio muted, will be properly muted.
  
• Ingots snapping to a shelf will retain its position/rotation when the shelf moves location.
  
• Crystal fx removed when attaching light/dark crystals to grip.
  
• Teleport pads now visible in the heaven area.
  
• Blades/axes no longer sharpening pass 10 quality after removing from sharpening station.
  
• Objects falling under the earth should have a higher chance to respawn near the players’ shop.
  
• The Adventurer should hopefully return from dungeons and display their rest time.
  
• One hand pickaxe names and tooltip corrected.
  
• Customers accepting +1 or less than the requested metal.
  
• Adjusted prices for purchasing/selling grips on harder difficulties.
  
• Fixed missing/incorrect tooltip info for armor.
  
• Completing certain puzzles, on reload, reverted to an incomplete state
  
• More work is done on fixing building roofs and stairs with better positioning. Things should line up perfectly. You will need to destroy your old roofs and create new ones for the changes to work.
  
• Should no longer be able to open the character stats book and activate build mode and vice versa.

Changes/additions:

• Moveable Adventurer spawn point. Moves like everything else. However, the adventurer will not move with it. Only after returning from a dungeon run.
  
• Redefined behavior for unknown entities.
  
• Large crystal gate - rewards increased x2, also the second door to the room unlocks after completion.
  
• Characters now blink.
  
• Changed customer algorithm which reduces how often Patrons and Youtubers spawn.
  
• Added a new female hair option.
  
• Tweaks to crates. Added new skeletal mesh for the crate, hopefully to fix some physics issues.
  
• Changes to "Extra Content". You will need to re-input the code to get access to the content again.

Hey Blacksmith's,
I wanted to address a change in the last update but unfortunately neglected to mention how it worked.

Some of you might have noticed the customers now come in 5 varieties. People of the Land, Soldiers, Nobles, Royalty, and Heroes. Each is locked behind the new reputation system. So, unlocking the next tier will unlock the next type.

• People of the land ask for basic tools (more will be added) and limited types of weapons like daggers.
  
• Soldiers will request repairs.
  
• Nobles will have more detailed requests and those requests are tied to the "House/Clan" they belong to.
  
• Royalty and Heroes will ask for a variety of things, much like how it was before, however, they will ask for armor as well.

Also, if you push a customer/guard except for the Adventurer, you will lose reputation.

On a final note, the Job board's main purpose is to allow you to earn more reputation (and coin) So if you want to quickly get to Heroes or make armor, doing jobs will expedite your progression. Job boards are created at the Saw. It requires 12 planks.

Hopefully, all of that makes sense. Feel free to let me know what you think of the changes.

Hey Blacksmith's,

I apologize for the large gaps between each update. However, as a result, the update is fairly large with plenty of bug fixes and changes. I will only write the notable additions/changes/fixes.

As always, there are some new bugs and some old ones I am still working on including a few crashes.

Please leave your bug reports in the discussion forums or come talk to us over at discord if you have any issues you need immediate help with.

Hopefully, everyone enjoys the new additions and changes.

• Stealing has a new consequence.
  
• Skillbooks.
  
• Fog during rainy days.
  
• Updated Building GUI.
  
• Toggle option for combining weapons in the game menu.
  
• Craftable torch heads.
  
• Crafted torches can be equipped.
  
• Cooldown for the adventurer when returning from a dungeon.
  
• Reputation System.
  
• Jobs and Job Board.
  
• More rewards for completing a certain puzzle.
  
• Option to disable extra content rewards.
  
• New Customer types and progression.
  
• Placeable plank/log bundles.
  
• Skill books to Geoffrey's shop.
  
• New POIs.
  
• Player created buildings can be destroyed with an axe.
  
• Added tooltips.
  
• Redesigned Temple.
  
• Redesigned Castle Exterior.
  
• Rewrote sleep/fatigue system.
  
• Added new Patron Grips, Guard, and Blades.
  
• Rewrote guard spawns at Geoffrey’s Shop ( you may not notice a difference)
  
• Redesign to Geoffrey’s shop.
  
• Armor workbench added for purchase.
  
• Added two new character items in character customization.
  
• Added a small building to Kaldesia Misty Forest delivery location.
  
• Toggle hud UI elements visibility when in 3rd person.
  
• Create wall mounts for weapons and shields you want to display to your customers but not sell. Crafted on Woodworking bench.
  
• Gain experience from Smelting, sharpening, and woodworking.
  
• Lantern light will shine wherever you are looking and not just straight ahead of you.
  
• Adventurer reset button added.
  
• Removed some building roof options.
  
• Added plank requirement text on unfinished buildings. ( They may still show up when you complete it, just move away from it and it will go away foreverrrr).
  
• Added a smaller size delivery box when the contents are less than 5.
  
• Added Stompt for receiving and managing player feedback. So please feel free to use it.
  
• Added ambient lighting to a few building interiors.

• Removed 32 bit support.
  
• Zinc no longer mineable with a copper pickaxe.
  
• Saved games not displaying in the in-game menu.
  
• Some paper notes not displaying their location indicators.
  
• Customers, custom orders not recognizing some of the weapons because of quality.
  
• Zinc being asked by customers.
  
• Buttons on saved games.
  
• Purchased grips/guards from Geoffreys will retain their quality when opened.
  
• Ledger position changing when loading a game.
  
• Jail doors blocking Player/NPC movement.
  
• Stabilization pass for crates and objects inside.
  
• Weapon heads spawned from crates.
  
• Geoffrey's shop not properly restocking.
  
• Building issues.
  
• Set executables to ShopSim for Steam Users.
  
• Buying anything and leaving sends you to jail.
  
• Weapon info on mouse-over showing on loaded games.
  
• Shield quality issues.
  
• Shield assembly issues on workbench fixed by removing disassembly on workbench temporarily until a better method is found.
  
• Shield quality reset on reloaded games.
  
• Adventurer not returning on reloaded games.
  
• Comments on weapon quality always negative.
  
• Shield quality taken from adventurer not persistent when disassembling.
  
• Shield stats broken on adventurer.
  
• Shield missing parts when reloading into the game.
  
• Unable to swap back to hammer after switching to another tool.
  
• Crystals socketed in tools are lost on reload.
  
• The quality of parts used in tools equipped by the player is not maintained when switching to a different tool.
  
• Swapping between tools where only one has a crystal will carry the effects over.
  
• Removed an arrow above the player's head.
  
• Fixed issues with rain pouring inside of caves and Temple(?).
  
• Shuffled incinerator away from the wall.
  
• Inability to move the bucket from both shops after purchase of new shop.
  
• Cooling down not always working when metal placed in oil.
  
• Fixed rotations on some workbenches that are spawned from crates after purchasing the new house.
  
• Rain drops continue after event stops.
  
• Fix to several UI bugs.
  
• Upgrading the quality of a weapon, sharpen it then smelt it down into bars, maintains the quality, allowing you to infinitely increase the quality with every upgrade.
  
• Fix Typos.
  
• Fix to Guard Rotation after being pushed.
  
• Portals should have their visual displayed when they are activated.
  
• Rain fx not going away when toggled off in options menu.
  
• Firewood quality not receiving logs quality when created.
  
• New game ingots quality unavailable.
  
• Removed fog when entering buildings.
  
• Desk Ledger mounts falling down without ledger.
  
• Torches not moveable in big shop.
  
• Removed strange shadow blotches in buildings and characters.
  
• Removed strange bloom effect at night.

Hey Blacksmith's,

Small update to fix some issues that were mentioned in the last update.
Thank you for all of your feedback.

• When completing a customer's order, the timer will stop.

• Small indicator to help position and drop, picked up objects.

• Removed double audio on maps.
  
• Horse/Wagon should hopefully not fall thru ground in Sandbox.
  
• Entering Geoffrey’s shop should no longer break the UI
  
• Exiting the Wagon should no longer break the character book.
  
• Switching between Axe and Pickaxe should no longer break voxel mining in Sandbox.
  
• “Extra Content” codes not being valid.
  
• Customized characters not saving.
  
• Changes save on player character not reflecting in-game. Old save files won’t change.

Hey Blacksmith's,

I hope everyone is doing well and staying safe.
Thank you everyone for your comments, suggestions, and bug reports.

Today's update has been added to the Alpha Test Branch, hopefully, to prevent any issues with the Live branch of the game. I am planning on updating this branch more often until the game is stable and finally, push the update to the Live branch.
You can access the Alpha Test branch by:

• Right-Clicking on "My Little Blacksmith Shop" in your Steam Library.
  
• Select Properties.
  
• Click on the Betas Tab.
  
• Click the drop-down menu and choose "alphatest". This will download the new update.
  
• Click close.

Your current save files will not work, unfortunately. However, the good news is, going forward, all new save files should work with any new versions of the game. Unless otherwise stated.

Finally, as a thank you, all players can enter this code 6b0$RZ%huPxFCdr0l^JQ#C1 into the game by clicking on the "Extra Content" button and entering the code to unlock a free small gift.

Please continue to leave your feedback and bug reports in the forums and will do my best to fix them all.

Thank you!!!

• Puzzle door reworked to accommodate the new crystal. New and random solutions to open.
  
• Wagon completely redone. Tweaks are still needed but overall issues with the wagon flying off or being upside down etc.. should not happen. Physics is removed and is now using math to calculate its position and rotation relative to the horse. However, issues may arise if the game runs in the lower FPS range. Maybe below 10fps. Also, the back can be opened and closed for easier access to the interior of the wagon.
  
• Adjusted equipped lantern position to be more off-screen to improve screen real estate for the player.
  
• New crystal behavior. All crystals have been removed from the map to facilitate the new behaviors. Light and Dark crystals have been renamed and are spawned once per day in random locations throughout the map but only one of each can exist in the world at one time.
  
• Sandbox map uses a new Voxel terrain for deformation. Use a pickaxe to destroy the ground below you. Ore veins don't spawn under the earth yet. Also, no caves yet either.
  
• Removed Coins Gui visibility when entering Geoffrey's shop. Players can look at their character sheet for that information instead.
  
• Tree growth has changed to 1o days.
  
• Clearing dungeons no longer increases the entry requirement.
  
• Re-work done on trees.
  
• Increase street lights max draw.
  
• Slightly increase run speed.
  
• Lowered earned pts on anvil minigame.
  
• Increase the speed of quality gained on blade sharpener.
  
• Rewrote item quality code and applied it to almost all items.
  
• Adjusted health to logs and trees
  
• Linear and rotation interpolation for the horse.
  
• Main Menu overhaul.

• You can now dismantle Weapons/Shields on Workbench as well as the anvil.
  
• Crystals that are too high above the ground will attempt to move towards the player.
  
• A new crystal type.
  
• Some more lighting in the forest cave.
  
• The original blueprint sheet in the shop to further help players create things.
  
• Two hand animations for players and npc’s. Tweaks will be made since there are some clipping with the camera issues present.
  
• Players can equip two hand axes now.
  
• New interaction context menu and removed texts on the center of the screen.
  
• Character customization. It can be found on Start Menu.
  
• Pushing NPC's by left-clicking on them is possible.
  
• Pot for decoration. Will be adding more seeds/plants
  
• 3rd Person Cam. Mostly for screenshots, not gameplay.
  
• Tutorial map.
  
• Re-enabled smashing weapon/shield parts together as per requested.
  
• Exit menu when riding the wagon. (saving on the wagon will cause issues).
  
• Tools you are holding will be dropped when you pick up a new tool.
  
• You can grab weapon/shield from the Adventurers hands/back,
  
• Partial gamepad support.
  
• Cutting down pine trees and removed other trees
  
• New Pine logs, pine planks, and pine firewood.
  
• New loot table to Geoffrey's shop. Still needs tweaking for sure.
  
• Missing zinc ore nodes.
  
• Two more treasure chests to the map.
  
• Missing text for disassembling items.
  
• Extra Content reward feature.
  
• One-hand pickaxe.

• NPCs' lanterns no longer create shadows.
  
• Fixed class title typo for Customers.
  
• Ore veins turn to stone on reload.
  
• Hammer still can be swung while in the anvil selection menu.
  
• The puzzle gate doesn't toggle the hand cursor when interactable.
  
• Crystals not being tied down with crates.
  
• Sleep slider can be moved while the timer is ticking.
  
• Player footsteps sound still there when the player moves and mounts wagon.
  
• Lantern is no longer visible when coming off the wagon.
  
• Planks phase through Wagon.
  
• Reduced volume for Braziers.
  
• Text for anvil minigame is hard to see at night.
  
• Rain should follow the player on the wagon.
  
• Still raining in snow area when the player on the wagon.
  
• Objects fly away when using the new connection system.
  
• Planks phase through the wagon.
  
• Save system fixes.
  
• Fix gear settings on Adventurer.
  
• Fix shield use for Adventurer.
  
• Gear on the Adventurer should be visible when loading back in.
  
• Adventurer not coming back if sent out and the player saves and leaves then loads back in.
  
• Alloy duplication.
  
• Crouching in water.
  
• Sound delay when hitting objects with hammer/axe/pickaxe.
  
• Mismatched planks on the wood workbench.
  
• Workbench blueprints pushing the player.
  
• Assembling weapons/shields should retain all information so when disassembling, the information is returned to each broken off part.
  
• Continue button enabled on completely new installs with no save games.
  
• Moving the portable ledger should be easier.
  
• Updated some footsteps audio.
  
• Removed first-person characters shoulders to avoid clipping issues when using two-handed tools
  
• Wagon’s door should save properly now
  
• The mining helmet should be visible when riding the wagon.
  
• The bed should have a collision with player again.
  
• Crate lids colliding with the player.
  
• Spamming the place order button causes the delivery box that drops to be invalid.
  
• Coins showing 0, on the character sheet.
  
• Zinc Ore not mineable.
  
• Overall volume toggle not working.
  
• Grass missing near the Cathedral.
  
  
• Other minor fixes not worth mentioning.

Hey Blacksmith's

With the Coronavirus on the loose, I hope everyone is taking all the necessary precautions to avoid getting infected.

This update took a while to fix but its finally here. As always, please continue leaving your bugs and suggestions in the forums or over on our Discord channel.

Changes:

• A complete overhaul of the weapon attachment system. The system should be more reliable. So, in a nutshell, Players no longer drop parts together to make the weapon/shield. Instead, when the player press and hold “E” the player will hold the object and this will also create a blueprint of the object. If the player looks at another object, and presses “E” again, the connection will be made otherwise, they can place the item wherever they’d like or cancel by right-clicking.
  
• New area and building added.
  
• Treasure Chest will spawn ores equal to or lower based on your character’s highest equipped metal.
  
• All chests now open by left-clicking on them.
  
• Clocks can be moved around.
  
• Villagers interact with each other.
  
• Woodworking bench crafting selection no longer always visible with wood on table.
  
• Smelter menu is no longer always visible.
  
• Escape button function to go back while in the main menu.
  
• Renamed and modified some crystals behavior.
  
• Removed the ice Crystal from map. Can only be obtained by other means.
  
• Removed the static ledger from table and made it separate and moveable.
  
• Removed the sandbox button from the main world menu. Not needed since the game has a proper main menu to allow the player to switch over. Also avoids any issue with saving.
  
• Some weapon heads have been locked and now requires finding skill books to unlock. This will affect all future metal/wood creations and Patron items.
  
• Torches turned on by default for new games.
  
• Increase the size of houses in Castle town. Which decreases how many there are in the area.
  
• Additions:
  
• New Patron weapon heads.
  
• New puzzle to solve.
  
• Seeds that can be planted to grow trees.
  
• Braziers for future content.
  
• Minor additions for future content.
  
• Leather chest armor to npc’s..
  
• Mining Helmet for the player to wear. Alternative to Lantern.
  
• Apron models.
  
• Music when sleeping.
  
• Limit to crate and sign posts text input..
  
• Player position reset button to character sheet.
  
• New hammer head. (Must be unlocked).
  
• Saved game override confirmation.
  
• More context cues to help the player know when they can pick up an object.
  
• Sleep length slider decreases while sleeping.

Fixes:

• Leather gauntlets position on NPC arms.
  
• Jumping when the character sheet is open.
  
• Switching dagger heads on anvil will eventually create a large axe head.
  
• Patron Piecity blade not activating grindstone station properly.
  
• Crystal embedded in one tool and equipped makes all tools have crystal fx.
  
• Issue with trying to click the “Grip” button on the order sheet.
  
• Major ore problem, ores not spawning or not spawning properly.
  
• Missing a variety of ore’s in the world including coal and carbon.
  
• Torches on/off state not persisting through saved games.
  
• Loading in the game with lantern equipped but not visible.
  
• Customers needing repairs are grabbing weapons that are not flagged as repaired.
  
• Customer and other NPC’s afro being mixed with ponytails and hair buns.
  
• Doors. Specifically the Shop door. At some point the door "breaks" and can't be closed anymore.
  
• Checkmark button blocked by counter
  
• Character Sheet. Unable to see the up arrow buttons for spending skill points.
  
• Head bobs while standing still.
  
• Created ingots in smeltery not cooling down.
  
• Items not spawning in the center of anvil.
  
• Broken weapons not needing to be heated to be repaired.
  
• Ingots resetting cooldown when picked up.
  
• Music transitions to quickly.
  
• Lantern shadows.
  
• Shelves to high by forge.
  
• Save game edit button not working.
  
• Most torches are not movable in the shop.
  
• Left clicking on seeds does nothing.
  
• Heating status text doesn’t update until you look away.
  
• Difficulty changing on loaded games. Causing prices to change.
  
• Sleeping status not persisting between saves.
  
• Alloy heads heating status causing complete failures.
  
• Ore veins don't seem to recognize pickaxe strikes.
  
• Map hole near bridge.
  
• Rotating a held object to view it doesn’t follow camera or player when not longer rotating.
  
• Issue with some treasure chest spawning nothing.
  
• Two levels of fatigue (now only has one)..
  
• Saw UI - UI stays greyed out / wont let you select planks / fails to load entirely.
  
• Objects jumping when grabbed.
  
• Increase chance to drop seed to 100%.
  
• Crate lids being opened when loading into saved games, regardless of previous state when saved.
  
• Mining nodes collision detection interfering with using the character sheet.
  
• Keys “L” and “X” opening exit menu.
  
• Unable to clear save selection. Left Clicking nothing should clear any selection.
  

Optimizations:

• Decrease number foliage rendered.
  
• When a player triggers the visibility of NPC names.
  
• Disabled NPC animation when a player is not looking in their direction.
  
• LOD and Distance culling added to a lot of static meshes and actors, including NPC’s.
  
• Lowered dynamic shadow draw distance and dynamic shadow cascades (shadow resolution).
  
• Small changes to day and night cycle and removed static mesh moons in favor of textured moons rendered into the skyboxes material.

Hey Blacksmith's,

I hope you are all enjoying the new year so far. The game is now updated with lots of fixes.
More fixes are on the way including graphics optimizations. This build also might make your old save files obsolete.

Enjoy!

• Fix - Objects should no longer fall through shelves after loading.
  
• Fix - Removed physics when creating a weapon rack.
  
• Fix - On story map, pushed out shelves beside forge to fix ingot stacking issues.
  
• Fix - Adventurers shield if not initially having the decoration parts are for some reason showing on Adventurer when loading back into the game.
  
• Fix - Dropped weapons from the adventurer with bad grips stats.
  
• Fix - Missing shelf in the larger shop.
  
• Fix - Added physics to certain objects that were on shelves and tables in the larger shop.
  
• Fix - Treasure chest grip spawns orientation has been corrected.
  
• Fix - Grips rotation when placed on the table should match tables rotation after being rotated.
  
• Fix - Legs for church bridge not connected to ground underwater.
  
• Fix - Hole in the ground underneath water near the bridge leading to node cavern.
  
• Fix - Wagon animal was not set to horse on Story Map.
  
• Fix - Bridge to node cavern collision detection issues
  
• Fix - Dismount of wagon issues.
  
• Fix - Compass North facing the wrong direction.
  
• Fix - Compass broken.
  
• Fix - New settings file Sound is set to 10000%.
  
• Fix - No music or sound in the Sandbox Map.
  
• Fix - Direction of auto placed ingots on the shelf were locked to one axis.
  
• Fix - Forge heat box detection is off-center.
  
• Fix - Ingots start merging after row 3 on shelves with auto-arrange enabled.
  
• Fix - Wooden grips and shelves revert back to original color after a few saves and loads.
  
• Fix - Collision detection for ground/floor areas with the wagon is not being detected.
  
• Fix - Bridge bricks floating above the bridge.
  
• Fix - Ore returning to default values on load.
  
• Fix - Ore reappearing on mining nodes ON LOAD
  
• Fix - Save function for sword pedestal and door.
  
• Fix - Popup text says "Deer" instead of the "Horse".
  
• Fix - Restored the image on the painting that's inside of the shop.
  
• Fix - Patron/Youtuber names to be ordered instead of random.
  
• Fix - Flat two hand blade isn't receiving crystal glow.
  
• Fix - Level up text behind chatbox and other text that were behind there.
  
• Fix - Shift-clicking to play minigame before hammer strikes cause the minigame to be played constantly.
  
• Fix - Clicking too fast on anvil sometimes doesn’t register as a hit.
  
• Fix - Change help text on the Sharpening Workstation.
  
• Fix - Fix to Sharpening Workstation so that players can no longer do the game again after changing the mesh on the anvil.
  
• Fix - Hitting the anvil adjusted to prevent infinite quality increase on the anvil with mini-game.
  
• Fix - Minor changes to the Main menu.
  
• Fix - Lowered reward for repairs.
  
• Fix - Issue with purchasing the larger shop sign widget not being clickable after opening up Main Menu.
  
• Fix - Floating props on the bridge to cave.
  
• Fix - Reloading sometimes causes weapons to sell for 1c.
  
• Fix - Too large shelf collision box.
  
• Fix - Door is showing shop closed but customers still coming after loading game.
  
• Fix - Tress hit area rework.
  
• Fix - (Temp Solution) Deleting the first slot disabled unless its the only slot left.
  
• Removed - Ledger from Large shop.
  
• Removed - Glow on ores.
  
• Removed - (Temp Solution) Taxes for the moment.
  
• Removed - Old mining nodes for new ones on the Story Map
  
• Added - Reset button on the order sheet.
  
• Added - Chatbox toggle in options.
  
• Added - Crystal hint to door inside the cave.
  
• Added - Arrows pointing direction for shelves and everything else player can pick up.
  
• Added - Signs variety.
  
• Added - Popup text for moving workstations.
  
• Added - Piecity blade.
  
• Added - 1h or 2h labels on order sheet for grips and guards.
  
• Added - Notification when exiting the game.
  
• Added - Mouse wheel scroll for all GUI.
  
• Added - Option to decouple head from the wagon. Toggled with head-bob option.
  
• Added - Shop sign popup text.
  
• Added - Hand image on toolbelt for when the player has no tools in hand.
  
• Added - Entry to Character Sheet to reset horse and wagon positions.
  
• Added - New info to the Information book.