Civitatem – Launch date and update A 0.950

Hi Guys,

After so many months of development and testing, we have reached Alpha 1 and with this, the Steam Early Access release is coming this Friday, May 18.

Early adopters check your Humble Bundle Libraries, to download the latest update but you can also activate and play the game on Steam if you wish to (yes, even if is not released yet). Starting today, early adopters can start streaming or make youtube videos, write about the game, as for the rest, i will send keys manually.

If you experience low fps with your recording software or other problems, use OBS Studio (free) latest version (not classic), start the game and OBS:
1) use scene > window capture (double click on this and select window: civitatem.exe) or:
2) use scene > display if you have a powerful pc and don’t experience low FPS when recording for no hassles.

Before launch, there will be at least one more update to reach Alpha 1.000 and to polish further, the game.

If you find bugs and want to report them, please send me an email with saves, or report them on discord on the bugs section. Please include the saves located at c:\users\yourusersname\CivitatemSaves

As always, thank you for your support,
George

Update vA 0.950 change log:

New and Improved:

– Added a debuff to speed during rain and winter.
– When a stockpile or barn is destroyed by the player or events, a part of the resources inside remained on the ground (for barn only berries for now)
– Villagers now require wood in their houses each day, or they might get sick if is cold during the night (doesn’t happen during summer)
– Villagers now receive a +5 morale bonus if they have salt at home (it is used everyday)
– Children now help with the chores during the day, by bringing food and resources at home if are needed.

Misc:

– building road improved
– builders when they get back to their job, they will try to work at a building that was already in construction, before goin to a new construction site.
– if a villager cant retake his former job, he will go idle with no job until assigned again to one.
– Food spoiling at the barn and bakery is more random now with the spoiled values and it during morning.
– a smoke/dusk particles spawns when a building is destroyed
– tweaked a bit the food, water, energy drain.
– added a message for villagers with no jobs.
– added animation for hunters when creating leather clothes.
– reduce the energy cost for gathering herbs.
– stockpile collision improved, so road can be build above it.
– improved a bit hunting behavior on chasing the animals.
– added an unstuck function, that checks if villagers are having trouble with their behaviors and unstucks them.
– added a help button on the bottom right bar.
– improved tutorial with new information
– added more tool tips everywhere, still needs more at the buildings.

Bugs:

– fixed a bug with multiples specialized buildings, where villagers toke in consideration only one of them
– fixed a bug with multiples building, when assign a job from villagers list or window, it will get all the buildings.
– fixed a bug with the villagers list not showing the villagers
– fixed a bug when some villagers got stuck on retaking their job because the job was already taken.
– fixed a bug with patients at the herbalist remaining stuck at the herbalist
– fixed a bug with the herbalist loosing too much energy or none at all when healing patients
– fixed a bug with energy drain during the winter
– fixed a bug with some resources on ground that couldn’t be taken.
– fixed a bug with villager stuck at campfire (again)
– fixed a bug with invisible bushes.
– fixed a bug with music not starting in some cases
– fixed some events that were causing bugs (stuck villagers, or multiple arrivals)
– fixed a bug with removing selected stone/iron from the ground, with Left+CTRL or the remove button
– fixed a bug with land not changing during some seasons.
– fixed a bug with loosing seeds when not planted properly due the coming of Summer
– fixed a bug with farmers getting stuck at the fields.
– fixed a bug with animals and villagers blood particles remaining on map
– fixed some problems with changing seasons.