Alpha 0.1.20: hand-built homes, carts, tailoring and a new Firstfurrow Isle

This update gathers everything since our last Steam build. The highlights are below; the full list is in the patch notes on our website.

Build a real home

• Walls built by hand: rough-sawn board-and-batten timber, hand-hewn log walls chinked with clay, and stone walls laid stone by stone, in every shape (windows, doors, gables, half, diagonal and round walls).
• Roofs of hand-split shingles or thatch, a hewn log palisade, railings, wide and double windows, double doors and a wooden mine door.
• Wooden buildings, furniture and carts take the color of the wood they're made from, including the new European larch.
• Seven new kinds of paving, and lights that come on at dusk.

Craft and work the land

• Tailoring: spin flax and wool, weave cloth on a loom, and sew cloth armor, bandages, cloaks, rugs and windmill sails.
• The windmill grinds grain and halite, saws timber or pumps water by itself whenever the wind blows, even while you're offline.
• Carts: a handcart, cart, hay cart and covered wagon, pulled by you or by a hitched team.
• A new domed forge and baker's oven, fuel hoppers, padlocks for your chests and carts, and furniture rebuilt with fine joinery.
• Search every recipe from the crafting window, and a Make list on every work station.

Fight and grow stronger

• Axes, mauls, a spear and staves, each with its own skill, plus shields and plate armor you can see on your body.
• Refining from +1 to +9, and gems set in your gear for harder hits, saved stamina, healing and more.
• Two tough new animals: the moose and the wild boar.
• Fallen stars can hold heartfire gems. Set one in your settlement pillar to give the whole settlement a gift for a month.

Settlements and players

• Up to five characters per account.
• Change your settlement's borders, hire several guards at once, pick your pillar orb's color, and decide who may enter each building.
• A Help tab in chat, chat moderators, and right-click to copy chat lines.

A better first hour

• Firstfurrow Isle is now a real place: terraces, woods, Old Harl's cottage, a jetty and gulls overhead. Old Harl explains as he teaches, with new lessons in fire, repair and gardening.
• After the island, "Your first days" in the tracker suggests what to do next.
• 68 Steam achievements are ready for launch.

Smoother and better looking

• Joining is about three times as fast, with far fewer stutters.
• Smooth hills and riverbanks, natural edges between grass, dirt and rock, new fire, and work animations for your tools.
• Mining is much quicker, skill checks are a little kinder, and stamina comes back faster when you're well fed.
• Many fixes, from bounties and building to tools in hand and smoother sprinting online.

Thank you for playing the alpha. See you in the Loamwood!