It's time to enter darkness.
Day & Night cycle
Let the darkness surround your island and viking settlement. Set alight all the torches and watch the mist roll in from the ocean.
The big feature of this patch is Darkness. A much needed change from the monotonous perpetual day we’ve had up until now.
To adapt the game for this change has been huge, spanning all features of the game, so I hope you can have understanding for how long time it took us to get here!
New UI for the buildings to support more types!
We had to revamp the building UI because the old format just couldnt support this amount of buildings, so this new one should have more space, let us know what you think of it!
Torches and Braziers
Light up the night with these fancy torches and braziers!
Adventures & Treasures
Send your vikings out on missions to collect valuable treasures!
This feature is the framework that we will try to build raiding around, so please give us feedback on it!
Log Palisade
Ward off evil attackers with this sturdy log wall (evil attackers to-be-added, for now it just looks pretty)
Coal
A “Treasure item” used to build torches and braziers
Witch’s Hut
Recruit a witch to brew concoctions for your vikings, can cure both curses and illnesses.
Currently has no use, but we wanted to show it to you! Functionality will be added in 0.5.1
Herbs
A “Treasure item” used by the witch to concoct potions to cure illnesses etc
Fishing huts work okay now!
The game is now “Very early alpha” instead of “Very very early alpha”
We’re getting there!
Small stuff:
Vikings now require more food per day
Days are much longer
Changed horn to a more low-key horn so that your ears will be less likely to explode.
Viking list is now located in bottom right corner
Fishing hut renamed to fishing shack
Road renamed to Wooden Road
Added rarities to the storage inventory
Added a “wake up” button on houses for you to disturb a viking’s beautysleep because why the heck not?
Bugs:
Holy cow we fixed a lot of bugs, but they were produced by the features we just added, so we cannot count them, Doh!
At least we fixed an infinite loop with the farm, so your game should crash less often!
Thank you for having the patience and sticking with us, this patch was a real pain to make, but we sincerely hope you enjoy it!
You can follow our bug-squishing journey here
https://trello.com/b/jwezI6DE/mind-the-vikings-bugs-issues
And if you have ideas for what cool new stuff we should work on, check this out:
https://trello.com/b/qSqAecgZ/mind-the-vikings-ideas
And of course: Talk to us! (we bite gently)
https://discord.gg/q4mPUdP
Odin’s blessing upon you.
/ Simon Ulander and Daniel Perlman.