Hello everyone,

another bugfix update incoming:

- schedule no longer interferes with people that are locked up or being carried to a bed
- fixed an issue with resource modding (.json load order)
- forester now care for small trees automatically
- doubled probability to do hobby in free time
- fixed an issue where selecting the hardest difficulty wouldn't enable the challenger achivement

Happy playing!

Hello everyone,

releasing a balancing and bugfix update today:

• Balanced garden flowers to be a lot easier to keep alive
  
• Balanced risky joke from -10 to -7 when it goes wrong
  
• Negative thought from elixir of life no longer disappears when colonist falls unconscious
  
• Fixed migrants not having body cam (necessary for them to use dresser after they join)
  
• Fixed villager getting stuck after disabling combat mode
  
• Fixed underwater dead colonist
  
• Fixed production issue when continuing on an old save

Happy playing!

Hello everyone and welcome to the Founders' Fortune Hobby Update!

Founders' Fortune has been finished for a while now. Still, the Founders' Fortune community has kept playing and enjoying the game so a whole list of feedback has accumulated. We wanted to release a sizable update to fix any remaining gripes with the game, but just a couple of bugfixes are too boring, so we spent the last 3 months making an actual, full content update, which is out NOW!

To celebrate the update, Founders' Fortune is 50% off!


Previously, your colonists spent a lot of time relaxing and socializing whenever they felt like it. Now, you gain more control: people don't start relaxing randomly, instead you'll have to fulfill their need for fun:

The easiest way to have fun is simply socializing with others. This has the added benefit of building the friendships and relationships you want to see develop in your village anyways.

But now, there are more ways to have fun: Hobbies!
Some hobbies even produce new furniture, decoration, or goods which you can sell:

• Painting
  
• Music
  
• Woodworking
  
• Masonry
  
• Reading
  
• Writing
  
• Gardening

Your artists can produce paintings to hang up in your village:

Authors will be able to write books which you can sell to the trader or to the goblins:

Musicians can entertain your citizens at parties:

The masonry and woodworking hobbies produce new furniture to be used in your colony or sold to the highest bidder:


Advanced players were looking for more control over the villager AI, so here you go!

With the schedule, you can define at which hour your colonists do which tasks. Make sure you have enough time set aside to fulfill their needs and be productive as well.

If you want to be safe, you can turn on auto-eat and auto-sleep so they ignore the schedule if they are hungry. If you are confident in your caretaking abilities, you can turn these off and manage them yourself.

Finally, profession priorities are now absolute, meaning: If you have a worker with high priority in farming and medium priority in crafting, they will first finish all the farming tasks before they go over to crafting. This has been requested by lots of players and we're hoping you like the change!


Some of the hobbies like woodworking and masonry give you new furniture to use, similar to the existing masterpiece quests. You can now find these pieces in the new furniture storage tab. This storage is linked with the trading menu, so you can even sell your creations as well as any piece you don't need anymore!


People want to play in many different ways and we're enabling that with a new game start menu. You can select all kinds of new settings to adjust the game experience to your liking. This new menu is also accessible in-game so you can even adjust it during your playthrough!

Some players felt that progression took a long time in the original Founders' Fortune so we increased the work and education speeds slightly. With these settings you can still revert to the previous balancing in case you want to play a "marathon" session like you're used to.


You used to have to select your starting crew from random colonists, which could take quite a while. Now, you can configure your first 2 villagers in detail starting from their appearance down to their personality and skill.


A big thing holding modders back was that our architecture made it so that you couldn't really add new resources with mods. We overhauled the resource system and even made a tutorial for modders:

https://forum.dionicsoftware.com/t/modding-tutorial-adding-new-resources/3286


Finally, there are tons of small fixes and improvements we made:

• Added a clock
  
• Reorganized top panel for more space
  
• Showing if achievements available in world settings
  
• Confined cursor setting in options

• Butchering animals won't play sad music
  
• Make payday wish only appear when salary expectation active
  
• Payment levels don't reset when you run out of coins
  
• Wall + Floor ghost shader performance optimized
  
• Goblin + Animal portrait performance optimized
  
• Changed hunger fulfill rate after eating to 50% (so you don't end up at 95% so often)
  
• Less foot traffic when trying to drink beer
  
• Added a setting so colonists prefer to eat at their own house
  
• Improved some animations
  
• Events with damaged limbs only occur when the population is at least 6
  
• Only 5 seconds pause between music tracks

• Fruit salad no longer requires wood to be made
  
• Fixed colonists teleporting up to second floor when waking from bed sometimes
  
• Restrict children from teaching life lessons to each other
  
• Fixed goblin sleeping positions in their huts + fireplace being out of place
  
• Fixed one kind of goblins having textureless mask
  
• Removed small islands
  
• Stop dead colonists getting removed from team panel when you load the game
  
• Fixed floating health bars showing when they are exactly behind the camera

Happy playing and let us know how you like it!!

Hello everyone and welcome to the Founders' Fortune Hobby Update!

Founders' Fortune has been finished for a while now. Still, the Founders' Fortune community has kept playing and enjoying the game so a whole list of feedback has accumulated. We wanted to release a sizable update to fix any remaining gripes with the game, but just a couple of bugfixes are too boring, so we spent the last 3 months making an actual, full content update!

The update is going to be released on Saturday Oct 1st, 1pm CET.


Previously, your colonists spent a lot of time relaxing and socializing whenever they felt like it. Now, you gain more control: people don't start relaxing randomly, instead you'll have to fulfill their need for fun:

The easiest way to have fun is simply socializing with others. This has the added benefit of building the friendships and relationships you want to see develop in your village anyways.

But now, there are more ways to have fun: Hobbies!
Some hobbies even produce new furniture, decoration, or goods which you can sell:

• Painting
  
• Music
  
• Woodworking
  
• Masonry
  
• Reading
  
• Writing
  
• Gardening

Your artists can produce paintings to hang up in your village:

Authors will be able to write books which you can sell to the trader or to the goblins:

Musicians can entertain your citizens at parties:

The masonry and woodworking hobbies produce new furniture to be used in your colony or sold to the highest bidder:


Advanced players were looking for more control over the villager AI, so here you go!

With the schedule, you can define at which hour your colonists do which tasks. Make sure you have enough time set aside to fulfill their needs and be productive as well.

If you want to be safe, you can turn on auto-eat and auto-sleep so they ignore the schedule if they are hungry. If you are confident in your caretaking abilities, you can turn these off and manage them yourself.

Finally, profession priorities are now absolute, meaning: If you have a worker with high priority in farming and medium priority in crafting, they will first finish all the farming tasks before they go over to crafting. This has been requested by lots of players and we're hoping you like the change!


Some of the hobbies like woodworking and masonry give you new furniture to use, similar to the existing masterpiece quests. You can now find these pieces in the new furniture storage tab. This storage is linked with the trading menu, so you can even sell your creations as well as any piece you don't need anymore!


People want to play in many different ways and we're enabling that with a new game start menu. You can select all kinds of new settings to adjust the game experience to your liking. This new menu is also accessible in-game so you can even adjust it during your playthrough!

Some players felt that progression took a long time in the original Founders' Fortune so we increased the work and education speeds slightly. With these settings you can still revert to the previous balancing in case you want to play a "marathon" session like you're used to.


You used to have to select your starting crew from random colonists, which could take quite a while. Now, you can configure your first 2 villagers in detail starting from their appearance down to their personality and skill.


A big thing holding modders back was that our architecture made it so that you couldn't really add new resources with mods. We overhauled the resource system and even made a tutorial for modders:

https://forum.dionicsoftware.com/t/modding-tutorial-adding-new-resources/3286


Finally, there are tons of small fixes and improvements we made:

• Added a clock
  
• Reorganized top panel for more space
  
• Showing if achievements available in world settings
  
• Confined cursor setting in options

• Butchering animals won't play sad music
  
• Make payday wish only appear when salary expectation active
  
• Payment levels don't reset when you run out of coins
  
• Wall + Floor ghost shader performance optimized
  
• Goblin + Animal portrait performance optimized
  
• Changed hunger fulfill rate after eating to 50% (so you don't end up at 95% so often)
  
• Less foot traffic when trying to drink beer
  
• Added a setting so colonists prefer to eat at their own house
  
• Improved some animations
  
• Events with damaged limbs only occur when the population is at least 6
  
• Only 5 seconds pause between music tracks

• Fruit salad no longer requires wood to be made
  
• Fixed colonists teleporting up to second floor when waking from bed sometimes
  
• Restrict children from teaching life lessons to each other
  
• Fixed goblin sleeping positions in their huts + fireplace being out of place
  
• Fixed one kind of goblins having textureless mask
  
• Removed small islands
  
• Stop dead colonists getting removed from team panel when you load the game
  
• Fixed floating health bars showing when they are exactly behind the camera

Happy playing and let us know what you think!!

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Hello everyone!

I'm glad that many of you are still enjoying Founders' Fortune!

Software quality has always been important to me, so I'm happy to release a sizable Maintenance Update today which fixes some of the issues that you have reported on the forums or on Discord.

• Fixed a bug where pirates would walk through gates sometimes
  
• Fixed a bug where a trader would need protection from pirates even though the player had "peaceful pirates" turned on
  
• Fixed a bug where animals wouldn't heal injuries
  
• Fixed a bug where tutorial messages would still appear after you turned them off in the settings
  
• Fixed a bug where you couldn't edit work orders on the workbench
  
• Fixed a bug where children could get strange traits when growing up, like optimistic and pessimistic at the same time
  
• Fixed a bug where carrying an enemy corpse over a trap would trigger it and hurt the villager
  
• Fixed a bug where regaining consciousness while being carried would distort the villager's body
  
• fixed a bug where the name tag and related objects would lag terribly when a person was carried
  
• Fixed a bug where life bars and related objects would be visible on the screen if looking in the opposite direction
  
• Fixed a bug where the strong watchtower would only have one half covered in snow
  
• Fixed a bug where goblin archers with armor wouldn't fall unconscious and die properly
  
• Fixed a bug where, after a death in the villager, a villager would expect to get a salary but not tell you about it when you hover over the expectation
  
• Fixed a bug where gendered text would be male on female villagers after starting a NewGame+
  
• Fixed a bug where the aging bar wouldn't display properly after starting a NewGame+

• The doctor robe now gives a bonus on crafting potions, the craftsman clothes do not.
  
• Fixed an issue where you could deny lots of wishes and exploit the sleeping spot wish for satisfaction points. Now, there is a limit to how many wishes you can deny
  
• Nightmares and bad dreams are a little less powerful now (I know seasoned players know how to deal with them, but new players get frustrated too often)

We're going to continue post-release support for Founders' Fortune, so if you find any more bugs you would like to have fixed, let us know on the forum. Since we're usually hard at work on our next game, I'll collect any reported issues in a list. Once enough issues have accumulated or a game breaking bug has been found, I'll take some time off from our next game and fix all reported bugs at once.

Happy playing!
Daniel

Just a small bugfix update today.

- fixed an issue that was leading to upper floors staying visible
- fixed a number of issues that have been reported in our error reporting system but probably didn't influence gameplay much

Hey everyone, just pushed quickfix update to address 2 issues:

• Fixed an issue where health bars wouldn't disappear after people leave on ship
  
• Fixed an issue where people wouldn't go back to work after fighting if they had to change equipment first

Hello everyone!

With Update 1.1 we wanted to smooth out some rough edges of the game. This means a load of bugfixes, but also some quality-of-life things like adding a multi-tool-rack, displaying the health of people when fighting and making bows a little more effective.

Since we gained a bunch of new players since the 1.0 release, I also wanted to take this opportunity to highlight some of the most useful mods in the workshop to players who might not be aware those exist:

• Moveable resources lets you move trees, rocks, etc.
  
• Instant Object movement lets you move furniture without the help of villagers
  
• Increased Population lets you have up to 30 villagers
  
• Absolute Profession Priorities gives you more control over the villager AI - especially useful for advanced players!
  
• UIImprovements adds a bunch of extra information for your convenience

There are also a lot of mods that contain balance changes and some even contain new furniture, so check out the workshop if you've been playing the default game!

• Traps: Improve your defenses with wooden and metal traps around your village
  
• Multi-Tool-Rack: Give your villagers everything they need and have them switch automatically!
  
• Game displays health above enemies and above villagers when fighting
  
• Buffed Bows: More damage, no more friendly fire, target seeking
  
• Now displaying notifications when achievements are disabled because of mods or cheats
  
• Also displaying notification when you're able to go for the "Challenger" achievement in your save
  
• Multi-selecting villagers key binding can be changed now (left shift by default)
  
• Tutorial messages can now be turned off in settings
  
• Increased maximum room size

• Masterpieces now always appear. If the game can't find a location for it to spawn, it will just spawn in an invalid location and let the player move it to a better room.
  
• Fixed an issue where archers in towers couldn’t shoot above walls or at enemies standing directly at their base. For tall fortifications, you still need a stone tower though!
  
• Fixed an issue that kept upper floors visible when switching to a lower floor
  
• Korean translation improved (thanks fornespresso!)
  
• A bunch of localization fixes for English, German, and Japanese
  
• Fixed issue where mine UI didn't display anything when it was empty
  
• Fixed issue where childhood happiness bar was invisible when it was negative
  
• Game restarts when applying mods instead of just closing
  
• Fixed bug where the trader inventory would reset on reload
  
• Fixed bug where animals didn't grow up properly
  
• Fixed bug where the bonfire UI was messed up if too many people were living in the village

As some of you might already know, we've started working on our next game, InfraSpace. It's a sci-fi city builder that focuses on using a road network to manage your production chains.

We're looking to get early feedback from actual players, so if you'd like to join the free public Alpha next Friday or get updates on it, you can sign up here: https://infraspace.dionicsoftware.com/

If you'd rather wait for the finished game, you can wishlist it on Steam instead: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1511460/InfraSpace/

You can also find updates on the game in our devlog[forum.dionicsoftware.com] or on our Twitter.

We hope you have a lot of fun with Update 1.1 of Founders' Fortune! Happy playing!