This might be the first time I use the word "penultimate" in an appropriate context

In last week's blog, I wrote how satisfying it was to finally play the game with proper icons, recipes and tooltips for the new items. This week, we've done a lot of balancing and just testing the game has become very addictive!

The game keeps motivating you to push forward by making new research and jobs available. Once you've expanded, gathered new resources and recruited the new jobs, new research and jobs become available to push you even further. This is exactly what we've been hoping for but it's awesome to see everything come together in a testbuild!

We've also worked on the new guards and monsters. The guards are nearly done. Here is the new menu that can be accessed with the command tool:



"Night guards" are the most important, but guards have become more important during the day as well because monsters don't die because of sunlight anymore. They only spawn during the night though. In normal circumstances, your guards should kill all monsters before they go to bed. But if monsters are slowed down by long mazes, your guards might leave their posts before all monsters are dead! Mazes will give guards more time to kill the monsters, but they won't be saved by the sunrise.



The different guards have very different stats.There will be three different monsters in 0.4.0. They'll have 100, 300 and 500HP.

Slinger guards

• Throws stones, crafted from stone bricks
  
• Damage: 50HP
  
• Range: 12 blocks
  
• Reload speed: 3 seconds
  

• Fires bronze arrows, crafted from bronze ingots and planks
  
• Damage: 100HP
  
• Range: 20 blocks
  
• Reload speed: 5 seconds
  

• Fires bolts, crafted from wrought iron and iron rivets
  
• Damage: 300HP
  
• Range 25 blocks
  
• Reload speed: 8 seconds
  

• Fires lead bullets using gunpowder pouches made from linen, saltpeter and charcoal
  
• Damage: 500HP
  
• Range 30 blocks
  
• Reload speed: 12 seconds