Time for another update, and not a small one either. This one includes the start of the main feature of the game, villages, and also provides a lot of QoL improvements.

Changelog:

• Added villages (for real, they function now), currently they appear in forests and birch forests.

• Added 3 villagers professions:

  • Builder, they will actually perform the construction task itself once the tile has been cleared and resources deposited.

  • Lumberjack, they will cut down trees and bushes to gather wood.

  • Miner, same as lumberjack but for stone and ores.

  • Unemployed villagers will clear tiles and move resources between storage.

• Pathfinding now works everywhere.

• The foundry has been improved.

• Pockets are back, use the middle mouse button (by default) to switch items.

• Improvements to river generation and rivers now has custom foliage, including clay.

• The night is less dark in general and day/night transitions are smoother.

• Animals are now slower than the player.

• The health bar is now more indicative of the current health (changed the smoothing).

• Rebalanced iron tools to make them faster.

• Coal has been retextured to be more distinctive.

• All items now have a small hitbox to make picking up small items easier.

• The empty backpack submenu is no longer listed when the player doesn't have one yet.

• Climbing should be a bit more reliable.

• Dashing underwater in creative no longers decreases the oxygen.

A little disclaimer on villages.

Villages will be developed over an extended period of time, currently they don't do much and aren't very interactive. This is on purpose since they should be able to function on their own. From now on, new buildings, jobs and systems will be added gradually. Which means this is just the begining and many things can and will change. I'm always looking for feedback.

That's it for now, if you find any issues please report them as always. Look forward to the next patch that will add some more content to the villages.