Hey Blacksmith's,

Notable changes and additions:

I've re-enabled the skills system and fixed several bugs with its functions, making it work more reliably.

Customers are now smarter and more determined. They'll make a greater effort to reach your shop and find the items you're selling.

You will now see detailed information on each weapon rack, including what you're selling, the price of each item, and how much extra you're charging customers.

• Added floating UI that shows smelting time remaining and expected metal bar output.
  
• Stepping on lava will now kill your character.
  
• Added missing sound and visual effects to lava areas.
  
• Added underwater sounds.
  
• Enabled a previously locked puzzle. I apologize to anyone who wasted time trying to complete it.
  
• Adjusted horse rotation when stationary.
  
• Added a reset skills button for trying different builds.
  
• Enabled dialogue with NPCs in the starter village.
  
• Reduced experience required to reach reputation level 2.
  
• Capped reputation levels to your shop's allure. Every 20 allure levels allows 4 additional reputation levels.
  
• Added visibility for total cost and markup of weapons in weapon racks while selling.
  
• Customers will now attempt to jump when stuck on different floor levels.
  
• Removed weapon display collision to fix customer pathfinding issues.
  
• Updated landscape graphics and terrain.

**Fixes**

• When creating an item from metal bars on the anvil, the quality check has been removed. This means weapon crafting now has a 100% success rate and will not produce junk items.
  
• Fixed low global illumination settings causing water visual glitches.
  
• Fixed rideable horses not triggering collision events properly.
  
• Fixed metal blueprint unlock progress not saving.
  
• Fixed compass functionality while horseback riding.
  
• Fixed first anvil strike not registering.
  
• Fixed weapons being incorrectly heatable in the forge.
  
• Fixed game settings issues, including auto-save functionality.
  
• Fixed incorrect positioning of a buildable planter.
  
• Fixed mislabeled Christmas tree decorations.
  
• Fixed paintings missing canvas elements.
  
• Re-enabled skills system with multiple fixes:
  - Proper save functionality restored.
  - Remaining skill points now display correctly.
  - Ability levels now increase properly.
  - Level-up button now disappears at maximum ability level.
  - Percentage displays for chance-based abilities are more accurate.
  - Interface readability improved.

Hey everyone,

I made the decision today after monitoring user feedback and engagement that it's best to sunset version 2.0 unstable build from 1.0 Steam store as it was not well received by the community. Trying to make 2.0 similar to the first one was a mistake on my end and it shows that I did not understand what you enjoyed. I apologize for that.
I'll remove 2.0 at the end of February for the few of you that would like to play it a bit longer.

Additionally, because I am no longer able to update and support 1.0, I've taken it out of Early Access. I'll leave the Steam Store page up for those that still want to buy and play 1.0. I'll continue to monitor feedback for the next course of action.
(I'll take another look at the 1.0 files and see if I can fix the cooking pot spawning in the ground, although no promises.)

I'm still deciding as what to do with 2.0 since it doesn't seem to be well liked. I did put 2 years or so into making it so I don't want to abandon it. I'll consider building a new Steam store page if enough people want it, otherwise. I might drop development on it entirely.

On that note. Thank you everyone for buying and playing the game. It was stressful but fun working on this project and I would not have been able to get this far without your support. I apologize I was not able to implement everything on the list. I should simplified the list.

Take care.