Update 52 - Lots of goodies!

Hey all, I hope 2025 is treating you well. Welcome to update 52 of SAELIG - this one has lots of QOL goodies.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issues with skill notifications.
• Fixed a bunch of inventory/pack inconsistencies when chopping firewood, chopping wood, foraging, hunting, eating, etc.
• Fixed a raid bug.
• Fixed some crashing.
• Fixed some controller bugs.
• Fixed some GUI scaling issues on 1600x1200 resolution and on Steam Deck.
• Fixed an exploit for selling plots to get lots of money.
• Fixed visual issue where producing food at home shows in business.
• Fixed some inconsistencies with setting up a camp with firewood.
• Fixed issue when breaking into sheds.
• Fixed a sometimes empty item tooltip.
• Fixed some deer spawning under the map on Dofras.
• Fixed some issues when selecting multiple items of the same type from carts.
• Fixed carts sometimes not saving properly and then loading in incorrectly.
• Fixed small navigation issues with sheds on fields.
• Fixed some issues with game not respecting player’s set speed after pausing and resuming.
• Fixed issue where right-clicking a building while a selected cart was driving would stop the cart.
• Fixed tents at merchant camps not working correctly.
• Fixed a production issue at alehouses when inventory is full.
• Fixed nav issues for alehouse.
• Fixed FPS limit not saving.
• Fixed item duplication issue.
• Fixed warmth issues.
• Fixed a bug where sometimes Vikings would be arrested.
• Fixed issues with fire pits, chopping blocks, and merchant/military camps.
• Fixed issue where you could move two carts to the same location.
• Fixed it so people are only considered lovers if they’re 16 or older…
• Fixed a tonne of navigation issues with horses, carts, and characters.
• Fixed an issue where workers would just stop working.
• Fixed a bunch of typos.
• Fixed an issue where entertaining for an Alehouse would not increase the entertaining skill.
• Fixed some UI bugs.

Tweaks

• Increased difficulty for Vikings at higher settings.
• Player’s spouse now more likely to garden at home.
• AI hunting adjusted so that they don’t hunt down and kill every animal on the map.
• New and improved begging system for better results.
• Added a background to basic and financial notifications to make them easier to see.
• Tooltip improvements for foods, resources, inventory upgrades, trade routes, etc.
• Skills are now displayed as bars and will realtime update as you increase your skill.
• Levelling at higher levels has been slowed down.
• More brutal poison effects.
• Increased text sizes in some cases.
• Camera warp-to tweaks and zoom smoothing.
• Added zoom sensitivity slider to settings.
• Changed the hiring menu so that it should not longer kill your FPS.
• Eating while sick will no longer offset the sickness.
• UI improvements and tweaks to map mode.
• Characters will now wait for the player to be idle for some time before interacting with them.
• Adjusted some text in various windows to explain things a bit better.
• Storefront inventory upgrades scale with main inventory.
• Adjusted trade route settings - max now means ‘max items at destination’.
• Optimisations for performance.
• You can once again sleep at fire pits and camp.
• The player will no longer teleport home when in a location that cannot be navigated. They will instead teleport to the closest safe location.
• Increased the range for trading with an estate plot.
• Persistent storage button moved to inventory window itself (can still be disabled in config).
• You can now offer rentals to current renters, if the new offer is better or closer to work they will accept..
• Added a bed and woodcutting block to the camp you can setup. And also made it so you can set up a camp without any firewood.
• Children will now no longer steal from their parents house.
• Various tweaks to some maps.
• Space is now default for pausing the game.
• When hauling a cart, the player will no longer drop it unless you specifically command them to.
• Reduced the size of the game.

New

• You can now apply poison to weapons. It will last one hit, cause extra damage, and also do long lasting damage to the character.
• New notification settings window where you can adjust what type of notifications pop up and what type are automatically minimised.
• Town-Reeve can now adjust fines for crimes.
• Added commands for your spouse which they will carry out if they’re not busy: Garden, forage, grocery shopping, training, hunting, relax at home, fishing, go to church.
• Tree fading has been added for when the camera is close to trees. This can be turned on or off in settings.
• You can now right-click on map icons for actions.
• Added a notification for skill milestones with an achievement-like banner.
• Added an interrupt option for busy NPCs so you can interact with them - but it can reduce your relationship if you for instance interrupt them when they’re sleeping, making babies.
• New upgrade for Trading Post to import exotic goods from ocean-access maps.
• Added shipbuilding skill.
• Added cart logistics upgrade for Trading Dock.
• Added dog command to “find game” - they will find the closest animal to hunt.
• Made a new system for warmth, crime, and animal detection. Should perform better.
• Added a new filter for plot/building buying menu.
• Added map icon for your camp.
• Added end-of-day delivery option for automation.
• Added a note on player info window that shows how many units they are away from their destination.

Thank you for all the great feedback and support for the game! I believe this update improves a lot of aspects of the game in small but good ways.

Update 54 will focus on added new scenario options when you start a new game, so you can customise the game world itself to suit how hard or how easy you want things to be.

Cheers,
Atorcoppe.