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[nenjin]

Alpha 1.3 is out. A lot of bug fixes, and a lot of balance changes in the player's favor to address difficulty. Me, I dunno, I was starting to groove on the difficulty. We'll see where it's at now.

[nenjin]

Er mah gerd, Darkwood update!

http://www.acidwizardstudio.com/?p=413

Biggest change: the forest in Chapter 1 has gone from looking like this:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

To this:

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With the added bonus of being about 50% bigger than the original. On the one hand, my gut reaction is to not like hard boundaries. Boxes tend to ruin the magic in my mind. But on the other, there were zero obstacles in Alpha 1, which left the world feeling very flat. And at 50% bigger than it was, the chances of getting lost in just a single section are actually pretty high. The best of both worlds? Remains to be seen.

With the different areas of the chapter sectioned off, there's better pacing and a sense of enemy and loot progression, instead of just the spew of items randomly across an open map.

They've tweaked combat too, although I've yet to test it out. The melee secondary attack and the dodge ability are available from the start, whether that means after mutation or by default is unknown. They've tried to make it more responsive as well.

Included as well:
-Optimizations
-New hideouts
-New content out in da woods
-Wood is more available now but has to be made into planks with a saw.

[nenjin]

It's you!

Alpha 3 is upon us.

Haven't made the time to check it out yet.

http://steamcommunity.com/games/274520/announcements/detail/127556162231613644

Stealth got a big update. Light and sound now play a bigger role in whether you're detected or not. Staying in the dark at night for too long will cause...spirits I guess to start circling you, and I assume eventually kill you. Shedding some light on them makes them go away. Gasoline consumption has been tweaked, because they want players using the generator way more often than they are.

There's mutated plants to find at night now, and more mushrooms. Although now only some rare mushrooms give essence (as opposed to just varying levels of essence gain.) Consumables like mushrooms now decay, so no more stockpiling 800 essence worth of mushrooms while you explore the area and find our comfort zone.

You'll also drop everything you're carrying on death now, so if you're not playing permadeath you have to go back to that spot to get it. Not a huge issue for those that already played carefully, but, it makes shifting supplies around a bit more of a pain in the ass.

With this update they said they're more or less done with mechanical changes, and want to move on to new content and the rest of the game. I'm guessing these probably won't be the last mechanical changes but, after 6 months of playing and tweaking Chapter 1, I don't begrudge them the desire to make some real forward progress.

The game is on sale on Steam for $11.24, btw. It is eminently worth the money at this point.

[nenjin]

Alpha 4 is here which brings yet more changes to how nights work. At this point I think the Acid Wizards have spent way more time on the early game than I think they intended, but it's all trying to find the balance for systems that will extend throughout the rest of the game so I think it's worth it, and I appreciate that they're still willing to fiddle with things instead of feature locking and moving on to making the game's other chapters.

Patch notes:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Night gameplay is now controlled by a scenario & event system, which makes a lot of weird, awesome stuff happen. Some of that is stuff is random, some is a consequence to what you have done previously (or during the night). Some are basic and common, but there are also complex and unique ones. There are a limited number of events currently, but you can expect more in the future.

Shadow creatures have been completely revamped. The "you need to be in the light after sundown or you die" mechanic has been scrapped (it sucked, sorry about that). You will still be visited by those creatures, but they're very different now.

The Banshee has also been revamped, but I'm not going to spoil that for you.

Mutated mushrooms no longer spawn in and around your hideout every night. They're not completely removed, but they're a bit different and much more rare.

The noise you make now plays a lesser role. You can still attract attention when running around at night a lot and dragging heavy things, but it's much less dangerous now.

There are a few other changes, but you need to find them yourself!

TECHNICAL IMPROVEMENTS

Memory management has been vastly improved. We've also added a dynamic texture load / unload system, so out of memory crashes should be gone now!

You can now turn on windowed mode from the main menu.

There is new a alternate control scheme, where movement is relative to the mouse cursor. You can switch it on in the control options.

Performance optimization, and fixes to late-game fps drops.

Written text (like the one during dialogue) no longer jumps to a new line mid-word, making reading it less troublesome.



NEW STUFF:
- A new enemy type.
- If you have more than one item selected (under your cursor), you can cycle through them (default "E" key). This is indicated by a arrow icon next to your cursor.
- Your character now respawns in a small location after dying. Check your map after you get up to know where you are.
- New stuff added to some of the locations.
- Lots of new sounds!

CHANGES:
- Large amount of minor improvements and fixes to AI.
- Modified and improved combat behaviour for all characters.
- Time flows slower, so you have a bit more time to explore.
- Also, the day now always lasts from 8 am to 8pm (as shown by the watch).
- Poisonous mushrooms in the meadow are less plentiful. They can also be selected with the cursor (but not interacted with).
- Roads are safer.
- Minor loot rebalance. The loot system needs to be redone from scratch in the future though.
- Rebalanced enemy and object spawns in biomes.

FIXES:
This update has seen the biggest bug hunt yet, and it would take quite a while to write down all the squashed bugs. Here are the most annoying ones:
- Fixed discovered mini locations not being marked on the map, making navigation much harder.
- Generator usage was broken (sometimes it would consume 2x the amount it should). It's fixed now, and also rebalanced.
- Fixed camera shake being relative to FPS (making it too long or too short depending on your machine).
- Changing resolution ingame will not break some menus anymore.
- Fixed sometimes waking up in the same spot where you died (right next to the thing that killed you), instead of somewhere in the woods.
- Fixed beartraps and poisonous plants being too concealed.
- Enemies can no longer push you around when you're jumping.
- Fixed disappearing enemies.
- Fixed enemies reappearing in front of (or behind) you...
- Fixed a few instances of walking through a black void.
- Fixed crashing the game when mashing the escape button when the dream transition video was playing.



Alpha 3 broke the night gameplay for some of you, and we believe this update not only fixes these issues, but makes the nights really interesting. There's still more stuff to come for them, but we think we're close to our vision.

The new event system makes way for other things to happen during the day too! We're not sure if it will be the focus of the next update yet, as there are some serious issues with how the world is generated right now (the border areas are completely empty) which need to be fixed first.

I truly hope that this will be the last time I need to do any big changes related to some very technical stuff like memory management... These take up A LOT of time. A new version of the engine we're using (Unity 5) is out, and it brings significant performance improvements. If there are no major issues with the initial Alpha 4 update, I will probably start working on bringing Darkwood to the new engine version.

The Acid Wizard

I'm planning on writing up a Survival Guide for Alpha here, as plenty of things have changed which makes the old one unreliable. But I want to put some more time into this build first. Turtling is increasingly becoming harder to do, which has been my way of playing so far, so a best practices way to survive the night on as few resources as possible is something I need to work out, again.

But the event system is really cool and has already resulted in a moment like this:

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Just another night in the dark when all of the sudden, I hear someone very deliberately knocking at the front door.



Pictured: me

Did I go to see who it was? HELL NO I DIDN'T. Despite being very polite for a place like Darkwood, I don't want to meet whoever casually goes walking through it for night calls.

I think the game is in a pretty playable state at this point. The balance feels right on resource collection (consumption is another story) and the woods now have tons of little points of interest and some structure so it doesn't feel like you're wandering around a 256x256 grid anymore. The game has lost just a hint of that sandbox vibe, but I think that's partly because the Acid Wizards have built more structure into the game to meet people's expectations (particularly of night time, which has gone through many, many iterations to hit the right balance of random terror. Where it is now is a far cry from the first night at the house being the site of a pitched battle between dogs and savages.) It's also gotten more user friendly, which is nice, but has again made it feel less like a sim/sandbox. For example, the map now shows you which PoI you're at by highlighting it red, which between that and the new shape and structure of the woods, means it's a lot harder to get lost now. I daresay impossible until you're in the Old Woods. You might not know exactly where you are while walking around, but you're guaranteed to know the instant you hit a PoI in the relatively smaller sections of the map. You can even sort of figure out where you are by the contour of the walls of each area.

So while perhaps the game has gotten a little less hardcore survival sim, I think it's come quite a ways as a playable game.

[Crabs]

Man I havent played since alpha 1. My shitty machine couldnt handle the game very well. The patch notes state that they did perfomance improvements, can you confirm this? I will test out all the new changes soon.

[pondicherry]

This is a pearl in the deep ocean .
I want to play this.

[nenjin]

Man I havent played since alpha 1. My shitty machine couldnt handle the game very well. The patch notes state that they did perfomance improvements, can you confirm this? I will test out all the new changes soon.

Can't really say. It never ran poorly on my system, and I've done a massive upgrade since then.

edit

I should add, my enthusiasm for the game has dwindled due to a newer couple mechanics. They really don't want people hiding during the night, they want you fighting and patrolling your house. So that stupid fucking bug that creates corruption everywhere is wrecking my shit. Day 2 or 3 and the entire house is covered with crap. I find it really annoying to deal with that mechanic. Then they added the Shadows on top of that. So basically night time is a clusterfuck of special monsters designed to make camping the night out harder/impossible after a certain point. And I simply haven't gotten around to adjusting my play style to deal with it.

[nenjin]

Another alpha build is upon us. The big theme of this patch is how you make items. Now, all hideouts have a crafting bench. All blueprints found in the world are gone, instead you upgrade your bench to make more stuff. All hideouts share the same bench. You cannot craft more than simple items from your inventory now.

Secondly, you get a grace period of stopped time at the end of the night to repair your hideout, rebarricade, etc...I imagine this is because players reported it taking half an-ingame day to fully fortify their hideout after a night attack, basically stealing away the already short time they get to explore and stock up on resources. Plus the added time of running back and forth to your crafting bench. I'm not sure I like the idea of stopping the clock, but then again, I'm a chicken shit who tries to hide in an unsecured house rather than stand and fight. I'm going to try to play the game "their way" for once and do the whole "secure your house and fight in the light every night" (poetry), since most of their changes toward monster AI and night seemed directly designed to punish people without light who are hiding.

Spoiler: Patch Notes (click to show/hide)

Changes

- Added workbenches to hideouts.
- Most of crafting schematics found in the world have been removed. Instead, upgrade your workbench to craft more stuff. Upgrading a workbench applies to all other workbenches in the world.
- Repair kits have been removed. You can repair weapons on workbenches.
- Removed random modifiers from weapons. Instead, you can upgrade weapons on the workbench.
- Outside of workbenches, you can only craft basic items.
- New trading UI – no more accidental purchases!
- A new event happens each time you survive the night. Time stops, so you can repair your hideout and get ready before you venture out into the woods.
- You will be visited by a new NPC.
- New UI for the Saw.
- Better biome borders. They still need work, but they’re less confusing now, and following them will eventually lead to something that will help you navigate.
- Roads are better. There’s more of them, they navigate to locations better, and they no longer create empty space around them.
- Better location placement, making sure generic locations do not appear too close to one another.
- Biomes are tighter, with more stuff happening inside.
- New locations.
- New enemies.
- New melee and ranged weapon.
- The pellet gun has been removed.
- Ovens have their own efficiency, which affects how much essence you can extract from items.
- There are only two types of mushrooms now: regular and night mushrooms.
- Mushroom poisoning is shorter.
- A balance pass to loot distribution, gasoline usage, crafting and item values.
- New night events.
- New sounds effects and music.
- Thrown items (except the flare) do not drop after leaving aim mode or getting hit.
- Improvements to AI, especially during the night. It’s a bit harder to escape enemies in the hideouts now.
- Improvements to stuttering during exploration.
- Popups position themselves automatically if a part of them displays offscreen.
- Added a big container close to the workbench.
- It’s not possible to start raining on the first day now.
- The “slow” effect on the player now removes the ability to run, instead of just slowing you down.
- Drinking alcohol (or using it during crafting) now produces a empty bottle.
- You can open your journal in dreams. (I was sure this was added in a previous update)
- Infestations can now be burned with a torch.
- NPC’s do not trigger traps anymore (so you don’t accidentally kill Wolf if he appeared on top of your beartrap).
- Shovels and axes cannot be found on the ground anymore (except in the prologue and dreams). Instead, you find parts of weapons and craft them on the workbench.
Fixes

- Fixed cases where you would sometimes miss enemies when shooting, especially in point blank range. Still might need some work though.
- Fixed several issues to do with eating bait by enemies.
- Fixes for disappearing and weirdly behaving enemies who chased the player out of a location, lost him, and then engaged with him again.
- Fixes for enemies not wanting to search for the player after losing him in a building.
- Fixed shadows event, where sometimes ALL lights would get turned off.
- Also, only inside lights can be left turned on by this event, so the player is not forced to stay outside during the night.
- Fixed rock savage sometimes forgetting to throw his rock…
- Fixed case when player would get frozen when died during jumping.
- If a character gives you a key, it is automatically added to your journal (so you don’t have to click on it in your inventory).
- Fixed tons of UI glitches.
- Fixed case when the player could achieve a higher level than possible, crashing the game.
- Fixed broken pigs in the pigshed.
- If the player is using a door in any way (barricading, interacting with it’s context menu), this action will be cancelled if the door is opened / destroyed by somebody else.
- Fixed a few crafting errors.
- Fixed glitchy healthbar for enemies / objects.
- Fixed or adjusted hitboxes for several characters.
- Fixed being able to move (or shoot) characters during their death animation.
- Fixed sound slider not affecting the game sometimes.
- Increased radius for the closest location to the player which is marked on the map.
- Fixed a case where the player would respawn in the wrong biome.
- Fixed issues with timing of attacks by enemies.
- You can’t dodge anymore when trying to jump through a window or when browsing the inventory.
- Fixed infinite torch when stepping in beartraps and then dying.
- Fixed some items being reset when loading game.
- Fixed third eye perk bugging out when aiming weapons.
- When returning from a underground location, the saving icon appears before the save process begins, so it doesn’t look like the game crashed anymore.
- Fixed door sensors not resetting after being destroyed.
- Fixed some sounds playing several times rapidly.
- Fixed sound slider.
- Fixed doctor’s house not culling itself correctly when returning from it, resulting in performance drop.
- Fixed epilogue dream not behaving correctly.
- Fixed many cursor glitches.
- Fixed enemy combat issue, where they could spam attacks.
- Fixed enemy sprites behaving weird just after death.
- Fixed major issue where enemies would not run away or despawn during night events, making nights more difficult than intended.
- Fixed drag and mass values for some items.
- Fixed issue where your character would want to jump over windows constantly after dying when jumping previously.
- Disabled lamp sparks are timed properly now.
- Fixed being able to select objects when aiming a thrown item by trolling the run button.
- Fixes to trolling crafting (or other cases of using the progress bar) and menus like leveling, trading.
- Fixed lamps not resetting correctly if your generator ran out of juice during the shadows event.
- After the prologue, you start in the morning instead of the middle of the day.
- Fixed some pathfinding issues, making enemies get stuck on doors / barricades.
- Radio popup in prologue now displays “Examine” instead of “Pick up”.
- Fixed prologue dead bodies hitboxes.
- Fixed slight lag after walking into a mushroom.
- And lots of other fixes I forgot to write down

Phew, that’s a lot of stuff! There might be some bugs that got through the testing builds from the recent changes, but once we iron them out in the next minor update, I think we will be albe to describe Darkwood as pretty darn stable.

It looks like we’re in the final stages of modifying the gameplay mechanics. As of now, we still have to work on a few things, like The Well (or get rid of it in favour of something else), adding unpredictability to exploring locations, or the loot distribution system, and of course some technical stuff like gamma settings and normalizing the camera zoom across all resolutions… But once we’re through with that, we can focus on the things veteran players are interested most: adding more content!

The Acid Wizard

If I had to characterize the Darkwood EA process so far, I'd call it one of non-stop change and iteration. Everything about this game has changed since release in some way. First the forest, then the Well, acquiring Mushrooms, the Night Events, now Crafting and Mushrooms again. For the next build, they're going to do away with the Well mechanic entirely. (Really glad about that last one. Thematically it made little sense even with all the weirdness of Darkwood, and secondly it felt like a gamey requirement to get you near a house near nightfall....which is totally unnecessary based on how the game work has worked pretty much from the beginning.)

Compared to other EA games I've been playing, that seem to have a pretty solid idea of what they're going to do (or at least they're very committed to a particular design) the Acid Wizards seem more more focused on real iteration, scrapping functional stuff in favor of a different approach constantly. It's why we still have pretty much the same core content now as we did when it released....almost a year ago. I can see why, of course. You don't write and create Chapter 2 and 3 when half of the mechanics being tested in Chapter 1 are constantly changing. But there is a cost. This isn't the first time they've said "Alright, AFTER this patch, we can finally get back to making real content." If you're the kind of gamer that chafes at delay, this would probably be pretty irritating. But since I take a more placid view of EA development (and I've specifically not seen everything in the first chapter exactly because of this scenario), I actually approve. Too few devs are really willing to change their core game mechanics or to experiment, because of the time already invested and the additional time to create new stuff.

Anyways, toodles, I'm going to go take a stroll through the woods.

[Fniff]

Ooh, this game.
This is a good game. Reminds me a lot of STALKER. I think I could get very into this game. Hope it gets better as it expands, though. A few more weapons wouldn't go amiss. I like my plank with nails in, but sometimes I want a little variety in my shitty weapons that barely do anything against the incoming horrors.
By the by, anyone know a good place to find sticks? The wiki tells me to look in the forest, but I can't be certain that the info is accurate.

[nenjin]

The only place I remember getting sticks in the older versions was off dead Savages who were wielding them.

[Cthulhu]

Little bit of a bimp, I'm playing this again.  It's different, I like it though.  Night is always my favorite time, it's genuinely pretty scary and the absence of spoilers makes it even better.

Spoiler: Stuff that's happened to me (click to show/hide)

My house become aswarm with insects and eventually two giant ones burrowed up through the floor.  I smashed them and got shells which I'll probably trade to the Three for more monster smack.  Then while I was hiding between two lamps I noticed that everything outside was glowing bright red.  I worked up the courage to look through the boarded up windows and there was something with a deer skull looking back at me.

Now I'm kind of stuck.  Right before the night ended some kind of fungal growth exploded into my house, completely covering the foyer and the kitchen.  Walking on it hurts me but fire seems to force it back.  Flares did nothing, I don't think it's afraid of light  but it might be, it's only grown inside my house.  If it weren't for the hole in the wall I'd be screwed, I'm trying to figure out what to do about it.  I'm thinking maybe if I can get some old mushrooms I can make an antidote and see if that protects me from it.  If it does, all I've gotta do is burn it out.

EDIT:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Just another night in the dark when all of the sudden, I hear someone very deliberately knocking at the front door.



Pictured: me

Did I go to see who it was? HELL NO I DIDN'T. Despite being very polite for a place like Darkwood, I don't want to meet whoever casually goes walking through it for night calls.

I answered.  I won't say what I found on the other side.

[nenjin]

I haven't personally been back to Darkwood in some time. I think I OD'd a little in Early Early Access and so I find it hard to casually come back to the game. It's owed more play time by me, for sure.

So, Alpha 7. The Acid Wizards continue to polish the shit out of Chapter 1. I honestly don't think I've seen a game spend this much time on its first couple hours. Sometimes I wonder if Chapter 2 is actually in the cards. You could argue for Chapter 1 being a complete game and occasionally I worry that they'll start to move that direction too.

Here's the patch notes.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Greetings, mortals!

Say hello to Darkwood’s biggest content update as of yet! Even though we have tested this Alpha extensively, there are things which are bound to be broken due to the massive amount of changes made, so please bear with us!

CHANGES
- The story progress through Chapter 1 has been overhauled. This resulted in a big amount of changes both small and large, but you will need to find most of them by yourself!
- The Prologue has had some work done on it, and also has it’s own map.
- Most of the dialogue for NPCs has been rewritten.
- Lots of new journal entries, and all previous ones have also been rewritten.
- In-game cutscenes!
- Renamed the Meadow to the Dry Meadow, and Forest to the Silent Forest. We needed a solution for people who were having problems with finding the beginning locations (eg. looking for the Chicken Lady in the Meadow) as they did not know that these are two different biomes .
- New enemies, new attacks and behaviours for existing ones.
- A ton of new characters, mostly villagers.
- Many new idle animations for enemies and characters.
- At lot of new locations, most notably a large village area.
- Wolfman now has hideouts in each biome.
- New quality settings for low-end PCs.
- Improvements to stuttering when exploring the woods.
- Dynamic difficulty scaling to player progress for some enemies.
- The game now saves after talking to NPCs (except when in dreams).
- Several updates and improvements for controller mode and new default bindings as suggested by players.
- Removed mushroom gift after the first night.
- Added specific post process effects for certain locations.
- Removed priority for enemies to attack the player, resulting in more fighting between mobs.
- Added and modified a few help popups.
- Doors move when hit by something.
- Changed gamma settings to brigthness adjustment.
- Un-nerfed dodge.
- Removed game save when leaving the hideout after morning mode.

FIXES
- Fixed torches and flares not giving light when clipping inside walls, doors etc. – Fixed enemies wanting to jump through small, blocked windows.
- Fixed some events that should be triggered when entering a specific location being fired on game start.
- Fixed pathfinding issues with locations outside of the game world.
- Removed duplicate river in some cases of a generated world.
- Fixed some events not loading properly.
- Some outside locations now have proper rotation based on their corresponding location in the world (like the train wreck).
- Fixed error when destroying the large larva egg.
- Fixed nasty error for characters with changing portraits, resulting in a memory leak.
- Fixed banshee screams not disabling lights.
- Fixed some characters getting stuck in the middle of nowhere.
- Disabled secondary attacks when in inventory.
- Disabled hotbar scrolling when in main menu.
- A lot of AI fixes.
- Fixed item repair popup when it’s no longer usable incorrectly positioning itself.
- Fixed some incorrect gamepad icons.
- Fixed visible culling when being teleported to a new location.
- Fixed map dragging itself when closed.
- Optimized morning mode effect.
- Fixes to Bicycle man behaviour and getting stuck.
- Fixes to violin quest, as doing it in the incorrect order would still get you a outcome you did not want.
- Fixed missing controller translations.
- Fixes to time freeze music playing in dreams and The Three disappearing.
- Fixes to characters still making sounds (eg. barking) after dying.
- Fixed bugs in crafting requirements for gasoline.
- Made horizontal and vertical camera movement dependent on screen size.
- Fixed poison overlay displaying on top of map and journal.
- Fixed some stuff that should fit to the screen size being a pixel or two too small.
- Standing by the oven at night no longer makes you invulnerable to shadows.
- Fixes to controller camera movement and player reach when in dynamic resolution mode.
- Fixed incorrect number of lives showing up sometimes.
- Fixed incorrect skill popup positioning on small screens.
- Fixed not being able to repair weapons in certain situations.
- Fixed characters sometimes getting stuck on barricades.
- Fixed banshees sometimes changing their mind when walking towards the player.
- Fixed characters which wanted to jump through a object even if they did not have the space to do so.
- Fixed crows flying in place.


Chapter 1 still needs some work, but we’re pretty close to how we want it to look.

What’s next? We don’t know yet! It’s time for some quality time with the family (mine will grow by one any day now ) for the Wizards, but we will definitely be looking at the forums and streams to see how you’re liking the new update

I find it interesting how iterative this game has been with some of its core systems. Wells are gone, apparently, in a previous update, replaced by this weird red mist thing. Bonuses and penalties seem to arrive in one version then disappear in the next. Sometimes I think DW is more of a sandbox design than it gets credit for.

Maybe I'll try and spend some time with this over the holidays. And to note, Dankwood currently is NOT on sale during the Steam Winter sale. But for $15 I still don't think you can go wrong.

[Blaze]

Just finished downloading, pretty fun.

The only problem is that I can't seem to find a stick anywhere. I nabbed a axe head and salvaged the other necessary parts, but it's day 9 and no stick at all.

Also, there are two code-locked boxes that I just can't seem to find the answer to. The one in the Hideout 1 and the Cottage between Dry Meadow and Old Forest. I looked up and down but can't seem to find the code.

[nenjin]

Sticks as far as I know only drop off stick-wielding savages.

I've never found the combos for those lock boxes either. It wouldn't surprise me if they actually don't have a code and the Acid Wizards just put them there to screw with us.

So I haven't played this in a long time and I feel bad for it. Partially because they changed night mechanics and I've been too stubborn to even try and play it since. But I'm going to try and get through it because they're working on Chapter 2 now.

I'm pleased to see a lot of changes that shore up some of the more glaring issues of the game. Dynamic night events. Destructible (it looks like?) furniture. No more stupid well and drinking and yadda yadda. Now the oven just gives off vapors to justify you staying in a base. Crafting makes a little more sense now. There's some nice new effect touches though like a nice dawn light level with morning fog and stuff, very atmospheric. The game is probably more playable now than it's ever been despite night-time stuff. So I am going to try to play more of it.

[Fniff]

I've been playing this again. How long has the village been in the game? It's great. I love how it's a safe place (...right?) yet that trademark Darkwood feeling of wrong bleeds through, making it very sinister indeed.