Patchnotes 0.5.5

• Complete overhaul of how villager needs work:[list]
• Villagers productivity will no longer fall below 100%.
• Instead, villagers can leave if their needs aren’t met.
• Productivity can still be boosted above 100% if villager happiness is kept above certain thresholds.
• Population level has been removed, so all needs can be worked on from the start of the game.
• Villager demands will increase over time, so make sure to keep them happy.

• The topbar is now centered, with the most important information taking center stage.
• Research, scavenging, Onbu mission and status effect widgets were redesigned. They are now grouped together and always visible at a glance.
• Various UI elements have been re-arranged in a way that brings related information closer together.
• The resource panel can now be filtered by category.
• The tutorial UI was redesigned.
• Many icons were reworked.

• Gourmet Kitchen - Produces gourmet food from a variety of ingredients
• Flophouse - Provides a lot of housing for villagers, if you’re willing to sacrifice some quality and poison resistance
• Boarding House - An improved version of the Flophouse
• Town Square - Early-game building to boost happiness through festivals

• Buttons show tooltips for a short time when using the gamepad
• Gamepad navigation improvements (ex. grid navigation in resource display and storage buildings, more categories in radial menu, topbar navigation in general)
• Added disable all/enable all buttons for storage buildings for easier usage
• Added a news panel to the main menu to inform you about new patches and features
• Glossary entries with detailed info on the difficulty modes, accessible from the ‘New Game’ menu
• The Onbu interaction menu can now be hidden like the building menu
• Added icons to indicate whether resources in a building can be stored, removed or both
• Workers now prioritize transporting harvested resources into storage if there is free space
• Improved Onbu's behavior to choose between sleeping or eating depending on the severity of each need
• If world map locations are stacked, multiple clicks toggle through them
• Improved prioritization of which food resources to transport to food stands
• Added new music and environment sounds for events
• New tutorials for food variety and festivals
• Added sandbox setting to prevent villagers from leaving when they’re unhappy

• Berry Gatherer is much less productive at lower efficiency percentage values, but gains a bit of productivity above ~80% efficiency
• “Weak Immune System” hostility modifier: effect reduced from +100% to +50%
• Infested plants no longer spawn on Onbu’s back when it is heavily poisoned
• Research time for all research in the initial tier reduced by 25%
• The chance to encounter nomads in the world has been raised significantly, making it a bit easier to get more villagers
• Poisonous locations now also lower villager happiness while Onbu crosses them
• Population level no longer exists, since it doesn’t serve a purpose anymore with the new happiness system
• Decoration capacity now depends on the building type rather than the village level. For example, tents can only be decorated up to a value of 2, thus contributing less to the overall decoration value
• Wild mushrooms now grow in patches

• New shrine visuals
• New burned plant visuals
• New rain cloud visuals
• New icons for potions and medicines
• New ground transitions between grass and dirt
• When clicking on an object that workers are transporting materials to or interacting with, it now shows the workers' paths
• Building radius/area of effect now shows an outline to make it clearer

• Fixed bug where research and worker management windows could not be closed via shortcut
• Fixed bug where worker focus could not be broken with key movement
• Fixed bug where key bindings were mapped to mouse movement instead of being removed
• Fixed bug where Onbu had a stomach ache even though a laxative was given
• Fixed a bug where scavenging locations would not be cleared if a worker died during the mission
• Fixed bug where Onbu slept in water
• Fixed many small UI bugs
• Fixed Placebo upgrade for Village Doctor not working properly
• Fixed tombstones counting as poisoned workers in tutorial
• Fixed Onbu sometimes not eating food on an island when also very tired
• Fixed issue where food on islands sometimes didn’t disappear after being eaten
• Fixed a bug where workers that died on a scavenging mission could cause issues
• Fixed unclickable decision button on world map locations