Another major game changer patch has arrived! Introducing the super sized, InDev 25 Content Patch, the Hydration Update! This update's primary focus was to bring "thirst and water" into the game. But, as usual includes a ton of other additions, tweaks and bug fixes.

Check out the change log for all the expansive changes, and let me know down in the comments what you think!

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

InDev 25 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 and eventually die.
  
• 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: Water Purifier. This building will accept dirty water (Harvested from lakes) and slowly filter it into clean water the village can use.
  
• New Building: The Well. This building will slowly generate drinkable water year round, regardless of weather and temperature.
  
• 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: Water Master. Water 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.
  
• Water Masters can now harvest dirty water from lakes to be taken to the water purifiers.
  
• The "Harvest Food" button is now a "Harvest Food and Water" button.
  
• Lake water can now freeze in extremely cold weather (Usually only during the Winter) making it unharvestable until it thaws.
  
• Water can now be drained completely from a lake, due to over harvesting.
  
• Water levels in lakes replenish when it rains.
  
• Way Makers can now clear all terrain, just like Builders.
  
• Water can now be cleared by Way Makers and Builders with the destroy terrain tool.
  
• Way Makers can now dig holes to create villager make lakes for collecting rain water, creating new water sources next time it rains. They can also be used to expand existing water sources.
  

• 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 stop growing, or even die.
  
• 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.
  

• The world now has a "Full Moon" night 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.
  

• Rebalanced weather and severe storm rates in all seasons.
  
• 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.
  
• Reduced the overall amount of "High Wind".
  

• 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%.
  
• Available jobs now factor in to nomad spawn rates. The more available jobs you have (Total job slots minus Total population) the higher chance nomads will appear. If you have more villagers than job slots, it has a negative effect.
  
• Nomads can no longer arrive twice in one day.
  
• The nomad ticker now works in traditional mode again.
  
• Traditional mode spawn rates and spawn caps have been increased.
  
• Village overall population size now has a negative affect on nomad rates.
  

• The resource distribution and storage AI has been rewritten completely from scratch.
  
• Each building now has a set resource priority for each resource they can store. For example, the Lumber Mill's priority for wood is "Very High", and the priority for boards is "Very Low".
  
• Organizers, and most manufacturing and refining workers can now rearrange resources in the village taking resources from low priority buildings and delivering them to high priority buildings. For example, an Organizer may take wood from a Lumber Shack and deliver it to a Lumber Mill for the Carpenters to refine, and then later take boards from a Lumber Mill to the Ancillary, Camp or Wood Storage to clear up space in the Lumber Mill for additional wood.
  
• All harvesters now deliver harvested resources to the highest priority buildings first, even if the building isn't the closest. For example, a Lumberjack will try to deliver freshly harvested wood to a Bowyer or Lumber Mill first, before delivering it to a Lumber Shack.
  
• All construction jobs now always take resources from the lowest priority buildings first. For example, a Builder will take wood from Wood Storage, an Ancillary, or the Camp before taking it from the Lumber Mill, even if the Lumber Mill is closer. This applies to Way Maker's road construction as well.
  
• Added additional AI flag to help prevent villagers from removing needed resources from buildings under construction to use elsewhere.
  

• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• Hunger now drops about 20% slower, to help offset the demand for water.
  
• Peaceful mode has been renamed Traditional mode to lessen confusion for new players.
  
• Lowered the "rest period" essence has when it first spawns, before it is attracted to your hand/cursor.
  
• The "suck in" radius of essence to your cursor has been doubled.
  
• Lumberjacks can now store silk.
  
• Miners can now store iron ore.
  
• Slightly increased the overall resource values of most of the terrain in the game.
  
• Improved resource amount generation code somewhat. Some terrain, like dead trees, now have significantly less resources.
  
• Changed "Everything is peaceful" to "Everything is calm" during day 1's night cycle.
  
• Grab Objects tool removed from Sandbox Mode.
  
• Improved worker location selection for terrain and road clearing.
  
• Page up/down and back buttons now flash on the GUI when there's a page to go to.
  
• Removed the shadow behind floating particles.
  
• Hunger now drops slightly slower.
  
• Doubled the time between having a child and getting pregnant again is possible.
  
• Decreased the pregnancy chance by 50%.
  
• Slightly decreased the chance villagers will stop and chat.
  
• Increased the time a villager is pregnant to one full game day.
  
• Slightly deceased the chance villagers mate.
  
• Recall spell now works on Nomads.
  
• Tripled Tool and Armorsmith's refining speeds.
  
• Children now take 2 full days to grow up.
  
• Reduced the amount of high wind.
  
• Cleaned up some of the resource display lists in the world map GUI.
  
• Some buildings, like homes, now have fixed resource amounts per resource, always allowing space for a variety of resources so they won't be filled with just one.
  
• Made all shadows a bit darker.
  
• Total unassigned villagers count now factors in villagers en route to get or quit a job.
  
• Decreased the body temp adjustment rates by 30%. (Meaning their temp will adjust to outside temps slower, keeping them cool or warm longer)
  
• Added female villager sprites.
  

• Overhauled the way tileset data is loaded into the game, somewhat lowering memory usage.
  
• Optimized tile flag detection, increasing the general overall speed of the engine.
  
• Optimized many of the mob and building search algorithms.
  
• Increased the render speed of all overlay data maps.
  
• A new resource loader system has been implemented, that should decrease load times.
  
• Slightly optimized particle emitter system.
  
• Improved random number generator speeds engine-wide.
  
• Improved mob reach map generation by 30-50%
  
• Slightly improved village range map generation.
  
• Improved particle rendering speeds slightly.
  
• Doubled the overall speed of the data module, used for generating all types of overlay data in the game (Range maps, resource maps, tower ranges, etc).
  
• Improved tile loading memory usage slightly.
  
• Completely removed the Trove library from the game.
  

• 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.
  

• 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.
  
• Fixed a very rare crash caused by the object sorting algorithm when a game is first loaded.
  
• Fixed a rare crash if the game tries to find a building at a specific coordinate right as the game launches.
  
• Fixed resource "Hovering above head" bug when villagers are carrying something in water, tar or anything else with depth.
  
• Experimental fix for resource loading lag issues some users have been having due to some picky malware and anti-virus programs.