UPDATE 0.5.2072

• Inventory & UI: Lots of polish — clearer durability bars, better item assignment, refreshed item details, shop buttons fixed, and overall cleaner HUD.

• Fishing mechanics: Improved rod physics, lure animations, drag calculations, and fish-catching logic. Casting, reeling, and line tension now feel more natural.

• Multiplayer: Big step forward! Added synchronization for rods, reels, bobbers, lures, fish fights, avatars, and boats. Chat, lobby features, quick join, and Steam relay connections are now integrated. Fish positions, weights, and catches sync properly across players.

• Audio & visuals: New fishing sounds, reel effects, lure animations, and camera improvements. Optimized shadows, fog, and underwater camera behavior.

• Bugs & fixes: Tons of reported issues resolved (naming errors, UI overlaps, input bugs, fish stamina, item assignment quirks, and more). Stability improved across both singleplayer and multiplayer.

• Minor details: Added weight scale when holding fish, improved menu performance, clearer tooltips, crown icons for lobby leaders, boat collisions, and multiple boat spawn spots.

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This was a huge wave of updates, focused on making fishing smoother, multiplayer more fun, and the game world more alive. We’ve fixed a lot of long-standing issues and added features that should make both solo fishing and multiplayer sessions much more enjoyable.

As always, your feedback is super valuable. Please keep testing, reporting, and sharing your thoughts. You’re helping shape the game into something really special! 💙

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• We’re still not fully happy with performance — it should already feel a bit better, but we’ll continue optimizing.

• The drag system isn’t quite where we want it yet, more improvements are coming.

• Please remember to report bugs through the in-game bug reporter — it helps us a ton in tracking down issues.

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Level issues have been fixed, major bugs have been fixed.

• Added Apple silicon native support for the macOS build.
  
• Slightly improved fatal error messages.

• Fixed a crash caused by banishing a selected unit.

New Update Highlights

🔹 Interactive Help Labels
We’ve added interactive help labels to Programmator. These labels appear as you type EXEC commands, giving quick guidance and helping you visually spot where new components are available.

🔹 Two New Tutorial Worlds

• Tutorial_4 – a new guided example world.

• Tutorial_4b – a variation of Tutorial_4 that demonstrates how a scene can be dramatically transformed with just a few tweaks, such as changing the time of day, applying a new post-processing filter, and enabling reflections.

This update makes learning easier and showcases the flexibility of world customization!

Bug fix :)

• Added new achievements.

• Added new endings.

• Added cutscenes and new text.

• Added a camera.

• Added a car.

• Added new animations.

• Added new UI panels and items.

• Reworked/replaced some gameplay mechanics.

• Updated/replaced some sound effects.

• Fixed AI-related issues.

• Fixed incorrect behavior of certain items.

CHANGE LOG

• added pigs as a buildable animal
  
• pigs breed if there are two or more close by; they breed fast
  
• kill to harvest leather
  
• removed robots and added them to the new blueprint system
  
• blueprints for the robots are scattered throughout the wasteland; first area
  
• lots of bug fixes

- The Esc Options/Quit menu is now a tab in the pause menu. Pressing Esc brings you to it.
- Fixed Suwako seasonal goal amount in the Special Orders menu being overwritten by tooltips.
- Fixed watering can upgrades not affecting power usage with magatama skills.

Survival comes first in Whiskerwood. Your opening moves decide whether a colony takes root or stalls before winter. This diary walks through the early choices that keep your Whiskers alive: where to place the Trade Dock, how to anchor logistics with the Central Warehouse, and which starter industries to prioritize. You will see how taxes and trust shape your economy, how machinery gates early factories, and how seasons and sickness pressure food and warmth.

Of course, this is only a primer for your Whiskers' humble beginnings.

Here's the first Dev Diary in case you missed it.
https://steamcommunity.com/games/2489330/announcements/detail/658207707628569428

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Once your colony ship arrives at your assigned island archipelago, you must decide on a location for your Trade Dock. This trade dock will serve as your connection to the outside world.


All tax collectors, supply ships, new arrivals, and even pirates will conduct business with you through this dock. This dock will serve as the landing site for your initial colonists.


Selecting a suitable location for your dock is crucial to your early success. Consider the minerals, forests, and nearby forage when picking a location. In general, you should avoid barren islands, which might be rich in valuable ores but will lack the forests and berry bushes for an easy start. Unless you are attempting an advanced supply ship-driven build order, it's best to stay away from them initially.


Once your Whiskers have left the embark ship, they will need to construct a Central Warehouse.


Whereas the trade dock is the central nexus for ships, the Central Warehouse will be the nexus for your logistics network.

Pick a location near where you intend to build your town.

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We’ve talked about the Trade Dock and Central Warehouse, but the buildings you’ll use the most in the early game are the resource tier industry.

These are the Forage Hut, Logging Camp, Mining Camp, and, in time, the Farm.

Like all industries in Whiskerwood, these buildings, once constructed, require workers to operate. When assigning Whiskers to a building, consider their guilds and attributes.

The Forage Hut’s workers will collect nearby wild Flax and Berries. For an island that starts with wild berries, this is the easiest method of keeping your Whiskers fed. You can use the Harvest Priority tool to mark Flax or Berries as the first to harvest. Flax is useful for paying taxes, but you may wish to focus on Berries early.


The Woodcutter should be placed near a forest. Whiskers working there will cut nearby trees. Similar to the Forage Hut, the Harvest Priority tool helps identify which trees to cut first.


Mining Camps allow you to mark Mine Shafts, which, when assigned, Whiskers will then dig up.

This can be useful for securing valuable Ores, Stone-based Housing, or building underwater tunnels to connect new islands. Often, islands will have unique ores -- and in general, the deeper you dig, the richer the veins get.



Lastly, Farms allow you to turn useless open space into productive crop land. Farmed Berries are the quickest for feeding your colony.


Still, higher-tier crops can be unlocked over time. These crops are more effective, efficient, long-lasting, or can handle different environmental factors. We’ll have an entire Dev Diary on the Farm system in time.

Farms require planks to build, which gets us to the next category of buildings.

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When your colony makes a landing, the Claws include a set of Machinery in the setup package. Machinery is the vital parts that allow industrialization. Factories require machinery to be constructed, and they need replacements when that Machinery wears out over time.


Machinery can only be made by the Claws. It is a schematic that they protect with the utmost security. It has powered their kingdom and economic might. Machinery takes extensive espionage to steal. So until then, you must purchase new and replacement Machinery from Supply Ships or earn it as Tax Rewards.

Using your starter Machinery, you can choose between the Fishing Dock, the Sawmill, and the Stone Workshop. The choice you pick is a strategic one.

The Fishing Dock can feed your colonists despite a no-berry start, and prevent them from starving.



The Sawmill allows you to mill one unit of Wood into multiple Planks. Planks, in turn, are required for many essential buildings. Additionally, Plank Pathing allows you to speed up walking speeds for a lower effective Wood cost.


Lastly, the Stone Workshop allows you to craft the most waste Stone dug out from the mines into beautiful Cutstone for higher-tier buildings.

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With the Central Warehouse constructed, you’ll start receiving quests from either the Claw administrator or your own Whisker colonists. Each has their own desires, and you do not have the time or resources to do everything.


Your immediate concern should be securing a resource extraction economy so you can start earning the first tax payment. The Claws will send tax ships about every three days. Each ship will demand a Head Tax, an Administrative Tax, and a Production Tax, and will also collect the bill for any supply ship orders.


Failure to pay what you owe will call into question why the Claws even allowed you and your colonists this freedom.

This shows up as the Trust mechanic. When you fail to pay a tax bill, you will lose 3, 2, or 1 trust depending on how far you underpaid your bill. Paying your bill on time will slowly build trust and earn a reward from the Claws.




You also have the choice to overpay taxes by 150% or 200%. Overpaying taxes earns you trust quickly and gives you more rewards. Rewards are vital because mixed into the scraps, the Claws' rewards can include new Schematics which unlock new buildings or technology.


Until you establish contact with other islands and start smuggling, then begin an espionage program, these handouts are your primary way to secure new unlocks.

We’ll discuss ocean exploration, smuggling, and espionage further in later development diaries.


Whisker colonists will have conflicting desires. They understand your need to appease the Claws, but this patience has limits. Whiskers will become increasingly accustomed to luxuries such as housing, decorations, and services.

Keeping your population happy earns you approval from the community.


Only with this support can you implement policies and welcome new Whiskers into the colony. Thus, if you want to grow a large colony, you must also grow a happy colony.

Give a Whisker a colony, and he'll want a place to sleep.

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Whiskers require a minimum of food and warmth. Warmth is easy during the Spring, Summer, and Autumn, but during Winter, freezing temperatures will bring death to the unprepared colony. Likewise, food is easiest while the forageable berry bushes remain, but in time, you will need to secure either fish or farms. Farms grow best in Summer, slow in Spring and Autumn, and with only a few exceptions, stop producing during Winter.



When Whiskers get chilled, injured, or breathe polluted air too much, they risk getting sick. Over time, if not healed, these negative impacts will accumulate, resulting in death. Dead Whiskers must be buried in a Grave site to reduce the otherwise severe depression, which will plummet your Approval.

While you survive the environment, you’ll also need to worry about surviving the Claws and Pirates. We’ll talk more about those factions in a later Dev Diary.

Thanks for reading!
Daniel Dressler
Lead Programmer on Whiskerwood

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You can find us on Discord, BlueSky, Twitter, and Reddit for discussions, updates, and feedback. You can also visit our website for more information.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2489330/Whiskerwood/

🌸 Glitter, Junk & FPS – Backstage Fixes Arrived!

The strip show never stops, but sometimes the tech does. This update brings sexy stability and some hilarious bug fixes:

💻 AMD Gets Kawaii Settings
New additional AMD options are now in the settings menu, translated into every language. Your GPU can blush in 45 tongues.

👖 Broken Genitals Fixed
No more vanishing or broken male NPC parts when changing outfits. The boys are back in full glory (and working condition).

🎤 Crowd Control (Literally)
By default the music game crowd is OFF → FPS doubles!
Got a strong GPU? Press M to summon screaming fans back in. (Warning: they’re loud, thirsty, and don’t tip enough).

🔊 Sound Disappearing Bug Squashed
No more silent stripping — the moans, beats, and claps are back where they belong.

✨ In short: smoother FPS, intact junk, and total control of your horny audience.

🌸 Now get back on stage — the spotlight is yours.