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The long awaited, massive InDev 21 Unstable 1 patch has finally arrived! This patch has loads of new content, mechanics, optimizations and features, but it's main focus was on the brand new mob inventory system!

As I've stated a few times on the forums, this is a huge patch, and a lot of the content was "all or nothing". Since the main focus was the inventory system, there was a lot of mechanics and features that had to be implemented all at once to work properly, as they relied on each other to function. For example, I needed an inventory system, item system, ways to manufacture the items, and AI related to item usage all written at the same time else none of it would work on it's own. Thus, the unusually long patch cycle. But, I can assure you all the content in this patch covers over a month of work all at once, in one big bang! :)

Luckily, Unstable 1 is almost the entire InDev 21 patch, the following Unstable patches will mainly focus on fixing bugs, polishing up the new content and adding all the new villager names you guys provided.

I look forward to hearing your feedback! There's a ton of changes, so keep on the lookout for bugs to smash!

You can report bugs over at the official website's Support and Bugs Forum, or on the Steam Discussion Board. :)

InDev 21 Unstable 1 Change Log

Inventory System, Items and Equipment

• Mobs can now equip items in their head, chest, tool, weapon or item slots.
  
• New items/resources added: Iron and leather helmets, Iron and leather chest armor, swords, axes, pickaxes, hoes, hammers, shovels, bandages, medkits, healing potions, food rations, iron ore, iron ingots and silk.
  
• You can now harvest iron ore from rock and silk from forests.
  
• When a mob is equipped with the preferred tools for their job, they will do their work twice as fast.
  
• Items equipped on the head and chest will reduce damage taken.
  
• Weapons will increase damage given, but if no weapon is equipped and a tool is, they will use a tool to fight with instead.
  
• All items have durability and uses counts, and will be destroyed when either are exhausted.
  
• New Building: Toolsmithy. Used to manufacture tools and weapons from iron ingots.
  
• New Building: Armorsmithy. Used to manufacture iron armor from iron ingots.
  
• New Building: Forge. Used to smelt raw iron ore into iron ingots to be used at the smithy buildings.
  
• New Building: Kitchen. Converts raw food into food rations, that last much longer and restore more hunger.
  
• New Building: Clinic. Used to manufacture medkits and bandages, and house medics who can walk around the town with a medkit and heal seriously injured villagers.
  
• New storage buildings have been added to accommodate all the new items and resources.
  
• Resources now decay if left on the ground. The decay rates are faster in the summer, and frozen in the winter. The decay rate is also boosted when it's raining or snowing.
  
• Monsters can now hold items, but can be looted if killed.
  

• Villagers will no longer refine many resources (mainly equipment) that isn't actively needed in the village. For example, if you only have 4 Lumberjacks, the Toolsmith will usually never manufacture more than 4 axes even if the supplies to do so are available.
  
• Removed harvest restrictions, now AI will harvest regardless if there is space to store the resource.
  
• Clearing terrain AI now has priority over building.
  
• Clearing and repairing road AI now has priority over building new roads.
  
• Adjusted work AI priorities to favor delivering and refining resources over storing them in certain situations.
  

• The entire hunger AI has been rewritten. Mobs can now carry around food with them in their inventories, and eat them as needed.
  
• All food now restores substantially more overall hunger.
  
• Food storage and homes can now hold food rations.
  
• Added eating animation for adults (children are still missing their animation).
  
• All raw food now takes roughly 4 times longer to grow.
  
• You can now only have 2 farmers in a small farm, and 4 in a regular farm.
  
• Harvesting food now takes slightly longer.
  

• Fixed a bug that would cause way makers to "drain" a building's entire stock if the road they're trying to work on becomes blocked.
  
• Removed errant 1.1 GB actors.list file.
  
• Refine resources now properly calculates it's refine time reduction in the AI as they level up.
  
• Fixed a few typos in the problem panel.
  

• Redesigned the bottom mob selection panel to make space for the new inventory system.
  
• Tool tip now responds to resources on the ground.
  
• Added a dark background to tool tips to make them easier to read.
  
• Increased tool tip speed.
  
• Moved resources list to left tab.
  
• The assigned workers GUI color is no longer miscounting by 1, causing the text to change red prematurely.
  

• Added more Villager names, but not the complete list planned.
  
• Improved particle performance by dynamically assigning threads based on particle count.
  
• There are now errant particles when it is very hot or cold.
  

• Children do not have an "Eating" animation yet.
  
• New villager names database needs to be added.
  
• Many of the new jobs don't have correct clothing colors yet.
  
• The storage buildings page in the build tab no longer fits inside the GUI