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The game changer is here! Introducing the first Unstable build in the InDev 25 series. This update brings in an absolute ton of game changing mechanics, most of them centered around the new water system. This patch fleshes out the early game quite a bit, rewrites a large portion of farming, rebalances food, monsters, adds new spells, and much more.

Check out the extensive change log, and let me know what you think down in the comments.

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

InDev 25 Unstable 1 Change Log

Water and Thirst System

• Villagers now have thirst, like hunger this stat will drop slowly. If their thirst reaches zero they will begin to lose hit points.
  
• Being overheated or overworked will cause villagers thirst to drop faster.
  
• Drinking water will lower a villager's body temperature if they are overheated. Sometimes they will drink water if they're extremely hot, even if they're not thirsty.
  
• New Building: The Well. This building will slowly generate drinkable water year round. Once the water purifier is added to the game, the well will freeze over in the winter.
  
• New Building: Rain Catcher. This building will collect rainwater, funnel it into barrels, and will work year around, assuming it is rains.
  
• New Buildings: Small and Large Water Fountains. Decent sized fountains of drinkable water, villagers will visit the fountain to drink water if they don't have any water in their inventory.
  
• New Building: The Bottler. This building will provide new Bottler job slots, and refine water into water bottles villagers can carry around with them.
  
• New Job: Bottler. As stated above, they will refine water buckets into bottles. They will also distribute bottles to houses.
  
• New Job: Well Master. Well masters will deliver buckets of water from rain catchers and wells to other sources that need them in the village, like fountains, farms, houses and bottlers.
  
• Villagers will now visit water sources to replenish their thirst, they prioritize going to fountains or drinking water bottles in their inventory. If they can't find either, they will visit their house or any other water source anywhere in the village.
  

• Crops can now be tended to and watered to help them grow faster, or resist dying. Typically meaning the more farmers you have, the faster your food production.
  
• Crops can now grow in the summer, but must be well tended and watered. Otherwise they may die.
  

• Lowered the cost of the Send to Limbo, Take From Limbo and Resurrect spells.
  
• The spells Magic Torch, Distract and Spotlight have been removed from the game.
  
• New Spell: Summon Holy Golem. A Summonable mid level golem you can summon anywhere in the map, and will destroy everything in sight. The golem will lose 5% of it's health every few seconds until it eventually dies.
  
• New Spell: Storm. This spell will cause a terrible thunderstorm in the area cast, and should never be cast inside the village. This spell will also trigger rain or snow. Useful in summer drought.
  

• The game now goes into "Full moon" every 7 days.
  
• Monsters do not attack during a full moon, unless you get too close to them.
  
• Essence spawns randomly all over the map during a full moon.
  
• Ghosts (Dead villagers) pop up very frequently during a full moon.
  

• Changed starting villager summon in count in the World Map to summon up to 40 villagers, rather than 32.
  
• Changed starting villager count in Skirmish from 21-27 to 28-32
  
• Reduced global spawn rate in survival mode by 10%.
  
• Large, detailed building and working job panels have been added to the left and right tab, detailing a ton of useful information about the building or job assignment to the player when you hover over the building or job icon.
  
• Improved some of the "Building Required" building overlay messages.
  
• Monsters no longer auto attack when in range of the village.
  
• Refining/Manufacturing villagers will now attempt to manufacture more resources in an endless loop until they're tired, run out of base materials or the building is at least 1/4th full of the refined resource in question.
  
• Reworked how food is eaten somewhat. Now food has a much higher use-count, but each use only counts as 1 hunger point. The final actual food value is the same.
  
• Renamed "Stone" to "Cut Stone".
  
• Adjusted the "trigger points" for fill phases in buildings somewhat.
  
• Moved mouse over overlay for buildings above the building rather than on top of it.
  
• Improved the particle generation when it is raining, now water will hit the ground and drip off terrain and buildings.
  
• Reduced overall amount of lightning during rain.
  
• Midday is now longer, and Night is shorter in the Summer.
  
• Midday is now shorter, and Night is longer in the Winter.
  
• Removed essence collecting from radiance pools. They now only attract monsters.
  
• Added total village energy (and now, water) to the resource bar.
  
• New Song added, Maxine.
  
• Overhauled the way tileset data is loaded into the game, somewhat lowering memory usage.
  
• Optimized many of the mob and building search algorithms.
  
• Hunger now drops about 30% slower, to help offset the demand for water.
  

• Fixed the rain frequency in the early days of Spring.
  
• Medic work now exhausts the mob correctly.
  
• Fixed a few minor shadow and particle map issues.
  
• Abandoned Crystal Harvestries can now be rebuilt properly.
  
• Fixed Rain sound "Stuttering/Skipping" for some users.
  

• The in-game tips are outdated.