Dear farmers.
We are very happy to announce a massive update, called 1.5.5, which will bring several new features, massive enhancements and several bugfixes:

• Alternative mouse-control (hold left mousebutton to move), give us your feedback how you like it or how we could improve it!
  
• New building: Chicken coops! 6 chicken can live in one coop. Chicken will automatically stay close to their coop and each coop has its own trough. You can build them with your plotting table
  
• 4 new characters (playable & npcs)
  
• Love Interests have unique looks now (old savegames could have rare exceptions)
  
• Alot new animations for npcs and player-character
  
• New Quest: Find a new bee-colony for the old beehive on your farm in one of the forests!
  
• New (dynamic) lighting in houses
  
• Love Interests will now carry a mailbag when they are delivering mail
  
• New Achievements
  
• Steam-leaderboards
  
• Added watering can & new animation while watering fields
  
• Trees which are cut down will now remain as stumps until they can be cut again
  

• Overall movement-speed increased
  
• Eating will regain health now
  
• Actions "attack" and "woodcutting" can now be performed faster than before.
  
• "too hungry for this action" removed completely
  
• Added apples as price for the wheel of fortune
  
• Customers won't wait as long for a (unavailable) product anymore and make room for new customers faster
  
• Customers won't visit on rainy days anymore (children will still come to ride pigs)
  
• Rainy days (and especially thunder) are more rare now
  
• Queue for "gained items" display
  
• Balancing optimizations
  

• Berries can now be properly picked in forests
  
• Berry-Bushes now properly show the "eating"-action instead of the "harvest"-action
  
• Animals sometimes didn't drink from the trough even though they were thirsty
  
• Diagonal movement isn't faster than normal movement anymore
  
• Stomach rumbling will occur earlier
  
• Children sometimes didn't appear to ride pigs
  
• Droppings can now be cleaned when the players inventory is full
  
• Trees that are chopped now properly reset after a while and can be chopped again
  
• Dead wolves were "standing zombies" from time to time, they gave up on this halloween prank and will properly play dead now
  
• Sometimes animals didn't show their correct animation
  
• Troughs visually looked empty after loading the game even though they were filled
  
• and many more optimizations done and bugs fixed.