Thanks for playing the first test build of Windreach. You haven't had a build before, so this page lists what's in the game. From the next build on, it lists what changed.
New
- You wash up on a bare shore and work your way up. Chop, mine, dig, fish, farm, cook, forge, fight, build and sail.
- Twenty-two skills that level by using them, and a tech tree to spend the points in.
- Voxel ground you can dig all the way to the bedrock. Caves run under every biome, and the Underhalls lie further down: old halls with their own creatures, cists and urns, and a Keeper's room at the end.
- Build on a 1 m grid with real support. Overhang too far and it comes down.
- Work at a station with your own hands. Smelt ore in a furnace and forge the ingots on an anvil.
- Swords, great swords, spears, daggers, axes, mauls, scythes, whips, bows and crossbows. Hold the heavy attack and you whirl.
- Kindling: call fire out of an Emberstone held in your off hand.
- Sail a raft, a sailboat or a longship on a wind that's simulated. Fit your boat out at the mast with new sails, rudders, a deeper hold, nets and a harpoon bow.
- Ride a horse you won over, glide off a cliff, steer a balloon, slide down a slope on your shield, or pull a handcart full of gear.
- Till, sow, water and harvest. Keep hens and collect their eggs, keep cows, and win over a stray dog.
- Traders who buy and sell for Silver Pennies, and who'll talk if you ask them about themselves.
- Sand Warriors rise out of the desert and wyverns hunt the high mountains. Bring a Rime Heart to a summit cairn and you can wake the Cairnwing.
- Fifty-one insects to catch with a net, each with a page in the Wingbook. The Fieldbook keeps a page for everything you've learned so far.
- A character creator with body sliders, tattoos, scars and piercings. Clothes and armour fit the body you made.
- Seven difficulty sliders, full controller support, narration, a colour-vision filter and more than forty languages.
Known issues
- The download is large, about 11 GB. Trimming the assets the game doesn't use is planned.
- Starting a new world can take about a minute.
- Busy places like big fights, storms and thick forest can drop the frame rate on the High preset. Medium or Low helps on older machines.
- Some of the newest text is still in English when the game is set to another language.
- Achievements and Steam Cloud saves only work when you start the game through Steam.
- If something goes wrong, the log is in %APPDATA%\Windreach\logs. Please send it along with what you were doing at the time.