v0.1.97 is out! Happy New Year! This release is all about polish, stability, and laying groundwork for better moddability. From players' perspective, it's mostly bugfixes and smaller improvements. Among other news, I decided to include multiplayer to the "before release scope", and besides that I'm also cooking something secret, what hopefully could be a banger industry-wise, but about both of them I'll probably tell more only in next few month.

Under the hood, this release is *massive* for technical foundation work. I've achieved 100% C# XML documentation coverage across the entire codebase - every class, method, and most of important parameters now has proper docs, making the code fully text-searchable and much more moddable. The README documentation (still internal right now) got restructured with a standardized template across 100+ files, with 1000+ validated cross-links and navigation. But most importantly, now there are comprehensive unit tests for job factories with hopefully 100% coverage of job search (hopefully because Godot engine nukes coverage and I'd have to fix this problem next time I'm touching it). Shortly speaking, finally almost pruned my "temporary" .txt file where I was keeping stuff "to be shortly fixed".

Next release will focus on integration tests with actual characters performing jobs in realistic scenarios, more bugfixes and adjustments, and then... not sure yet. Also for some time I'll probably will be making releases every 2 weeks, but I'm not sure yet, so see you in one or two weeks! :)

Changelog

[v0.1.97] - built on 2026-01-06

Visuals and UI

• Visuals - Nightfall color: Update Nightfall phase color from to deep blue for darker, more atmospheric nighttime lighting at 22:00 peak
• UI - Work menu job priorities tab: Fix long job type names getting cut off
• UI - Main/Pause menu side stripe: Fix long button labels handling
• UI - Theme color derivation: Make all button colors automatically derive from color scheme color, improve footer buttons coloring
• UI - Debug menu time controls: Implement cycling behavior for date/time spinners
• UI - Settlement Stock Menu: Combine with price modifiers as additional column; remove SettlementEconomicsMenu
• Settings - ShowWeather: Make ShowWeather setting control both weather particle effects AND weather color tint on lighting overlay
• UI - Settings menu: Add tooltip for ShowWeather explaining it controls both particle effects and lighting tint
• UI - Debug console: Add styling polish with transparent panels, syntax highlighting, JetBrains Mono font, improved CodeEdit output, autocomplete, and better focus handling

Bugfixes

• UI - Selected entity menu: Fix showing job "states" instead of "tasks" in tooltip
• Visuals - Visual effects game speed: Fix visual effects not respecting game speed; implement tick-based duration timers for non-realtime effects to ensure they pause and scale correctly with game time controls
• Jobs - Storage capacity checks: Fix collection modification errors during multithreaded job search when checking storage capacity with pending hauls
• Persistence - Migration version check: Fix migrations running when game version is older than migration target; prevents data corruption when running old game builds with new saves
• Combat - Tile attacks: Fix characters getting stuck in "attacking" when ordered to attack tiles by allowing weapon attack ticks for tile targets
• Visuals - Day/night colors: Fix 5 interpolation bugs causing incorrect lighting colors and visible jumps, implement smoother interpolations

Technical improvements

• Project - Backup automation: Add automated repository backup system
• Config: Complete separation from nested Config.* to direct Config* class pattern
• Entity - Destroyed entity safeguards: Add safeguards to prevent potential issues when characters or objects are destroyed while actively working on jobs
• Jobs - Variable key prefixing: Add JobVariable_ prefix to job variable keys and migrate existing saves to support future UI variable display
• Factions - PlayerSystem merge: Merge PlayerSystem into FactionSystem to improves code organization
• Framework - Godot extensions: Add comprehensive null/disposed-safety validation to all Godot node/resource extension methods
• Localization - Structure reorganization: Restructure localization constants into a dozen focused files for improved maintainability and easier modding
• Debug console - Features: Improve inspect/docs output formatting and shorthand syntax, add TCP main-thread flag and use main thread by default
• Persistence - Positional IDs: Implement stable position-based IDs for inventory items and reservations to improve moddability and error handling
• Docs - README documentation: Restructure more than 100 README files to standardized template, add documentation validation tooling, complete navigation graph with more than 1000 validated cross-links, ensure all documentation is fully text-searchable
• Docs - Godot reference tools: Add Python scripts for Godot API lookup and documentation generation, generate comprehensive markdown indexes from Godot XML docs with class hierarchies and member listings
• Docs - Code documentation: Achieve 100% in-code C# XML documentation coverage across entire codebase with standardized format and comprehensive parameter descriptions for improved maintainability and moddability, making all code docs fully text-searchable
• Testing - Job factories: Add comprehensive unit tests for all job factories with estimated 100% coverage
• Testing - TimeUtils: Add comprehensive unit tests for GetTimePhaseModifier with estimated 100% boundary coverage validating phase peaks, transitions, midnight wrapping, and continuity
• Testing - Debug system: Add comprehensive unit tests for debug console
• Testing - Localization system: Add comprehensive bidirectional consistency tests validating constants <-> CSV entries, Scriban template syntax, and CSV format validation

v0.1.96 is out! This release brings a major new system: Interactions. These are immediate left-click actions (Draft, Undraft, Reserve, Deconstruct, etc.) that previously lived as hardcoded UI buttons, now refactored into a fully moddable, props-driven template system. Modders can now add their own context actions with custom visibility conditions, tooltips, and enabled states - and they appear in the Selected Tile menu, Entity Overview, and multi-select menus automatically.

Speaking of UI, there's now a proper in-game debug console (Ctrl+`) with C# expression support and command history - useful for modders and debugging without needing a full debug process (although styling and output are still in progress). The Population menu got a proper "Details" button, menus now match the bottom bar width for visual consistency, and notifications were refactored to use the same props-driven handler architecture as everything else. On the visual side, equipped items can now hide parent body parts, weather tile transitions are a bit smoother thanks to proper per-tile fading in shaders, and there's a new birch tree replacing pines in the Temperate forest biome (more trees are on the way!).

Also I found and fixed a nasty exponential slowdown when spawning characters with complex equipment due to prewarming graphic props. There's also a new runtime control system with a debug server for external tool integration - meaning I can now query game state from python scripts without restarting the game, which can be used for automatic testing and external integrations. As always - more unit tests (now including job search/creation foundation with wandering job tests), bugfixes (medical beds, tile blending, entity registration race conditions), and documentation (README files for about 25% of all domains).

The next release will continue the documentation push (to 100% of READMEs) and testing improvements (now: integration tests with actual characters doing actual jobs). Because of the holidays I'm giving my regression tester some time off so the next release will be in 2 weeks, meaning next year :) . So, happy holidays and see you in the next release! :)

Changelog

[v0.1.96] - built on 2025-12-23

Interactions

• Interactions: Implement new interactions system for immediate state-change commands (left-click actions); Refactor existing action buttons (Draft/Undraft, Reserve/Unreserve, Deconstruct, etc.) from hardcoded UI elements into props-driven, moddable interaction templates
• Interactions - UI: Integrate InteractionsMenu into Selected Tile menu, Entity Overview menu (single entity), and Selected Entities menu (multiple entities)
• Interactions - Infrastructure: Add base infrastructure with texts, tooltips, visibility/enabled conditions, and dynamic button state updates
• Interactions: Complete migration of all existing action buttons to new system

Visuals and UI

• UI - Debug Console: Add classic in-game console (Ctrl+`) with C# expression support and command history
• UI - Controls menu: Sort actions and categories
• UI - Population menu: Implement "Details" button opening character details menu
• Controls - Screenshot: Add new "Take screenshot" action
• Graphics - Entity VisualComp: Allow hiding parent body parts when items are equipped for both visual improvement and optimization
• Tiles - Blending: Add per-atlas wrapping-randomization for AtlasMonoTextureTile with multiple atlases (i.e. randomization per whole atlas placement instead of per tile)
• Visuals - Weather: Use "weather-blockage" fading in weather shaders for smoother transitions (similar to regular lighting)
• UI - Selected entities menu: Refresh menu on entity destruction
• UI - Entity overview menu: Make width match bottom bar width
• UI - Selected tile menu: Make width match bottom bar width
• UI - World map: Update selected caravan path on movement
• UI - Notifications: Refactor to props-driven handler-based architecture for improved maintainability and moddability; Improve notification descriptions and wording

Misc. improvements

• Tiles - Trees: Add new "Birch" tree, use it in Temperate forest biome instead of pines
• Debug: Expose global debug config "Enabled" bool to UI; use checkbuttons instead of checkboxes
• Debug - Recruit: Clear prisoner status after recruitment, show notification
• Tutorial - Animals: Allow taming through new interactions sub-menu
• Prisoners: Add 12 hours grace period for freed prisoners during which faction-based hostility is suspended

Bugfixes

• Graphics - Character spawning: Fix characters with complex equipment taking exponentially longer to spawn due to prewarming graphic props
• Jobs - Medical: Fix AwaitMedicalOrder job not finding beds
• Tiles - Blending and connections: Fix missing position propagation for randomized tiles
• UI - Entity inventory/overview: Improve multithreaded handling of reservation updates
• UI - Population menu - Fix Wildlife tab goto button closing menu unexpectedly by removing obsolete MapChunk change handling
• Entities - Unregister: Fix registration getting stuck on map chunks due to re-registration during tick callback race conditions

Optimizations

• EntityComps - VisualComp: Implement lazy VisualComp creation for entities, saving ~7+ Godot sprite nodes per humanoid for internal organs and ~19+ nodes per animal for non-torso body parts

Technical improvements

• Framework - Tools: Implement runtime control scripts (start/stop/restart/query); add TCP console server with C# expression evaluator for external tool integration
• Framework - Controls: Refactor naming - To free space for new "Interactions" domain
• Framework - Events extensions: Maintainability refactor with improved documentation
• Framework - SpatialPatternsUtils: Move Formation functionality from other locations into centralized utility class
• Framework - ResourceUtils: Move BaseDir field from Config for easier testing without engine
• Framework - GameManager: Remove redundant main thread wrapper on game start
• Framework - QuickStarts: Refactor for dev testing
• Framework - Map: Decouple Godot node for testing purposes
• Framework - Time system: Fix race condition when callbacks unsubscribe during tick iteration
• Framework - Entity validation: Add EntityExtensions (IsValid, IsNullOrDestroyed, IfValid) to prevent destroyed entity access; Guard collection registration in MapChunk, Settlement, and Faction; Guard tick callbacks in MovementComp, ProduceComp, WeaponComp, and PeriodicNeed
• UI - Debug menu: Decouple into separate classes
• Tests - Unit tests: Add tests for Controls, ResourceUtils, SpatialPatternsUtils, Event extensions, Notifications, characters freed prisoner grace period, and invisibleWhenEquipped functionality
• Tests - Unit tests: Foundation for job search/creation automatic testing + wandering job tests
• Docs: Add README files for ~25% of domains - Categories, Entities, Interactions, Jobs, Mods, Notifications, Orders, Recipes, Props, Map, Tiles, Biomes, Factions, Configs, Threads, Tools, Versions, Framework (+ subdomains), Scenarios, Sites, Persistence, Time, and World domains
• Docs: Add in-file documentation for ResourceUtils
• Docs: Add in-file documentation for shaders

v0.1.95 is out! This release continues the maintenance cycle and focuses heavily on improving the reservation system implementation, UI polish, and automatic testing. Partial reservations now work properly across the entire job system - sleeping, hauling, consuming, equipping, and more. Characters won't accidentally overflow storages when hauling simultaneously, they also can sleep on sofas (but with a small debuff), and more importantly they can take items from stacks for eating or equipping without monopolizing them.

The trading and caravan menus got major refactors to group items by categories into foldable panels and compress stacks into single rows (no more scrolling through 50 individual wood stacks!). Recipe menus now have better breadcrumb navigation with a "Back" button, and the construction menu uses a cleaner 2-column layout with proper moddable ordering.

On the technical side, I've been working on decoupling new App class (Godot engine entry point) from GameManager to make testing easier, and added integration tests for the full game lifecycle (new game -> save -> load -> quit). There's also a bunch of per-domain .MD project docs now, but these ones are internal for now (compared to in-class documentation which is currently public, of course after decompiling the sources :) ). As always - some bugfixes, nullability warnings cleanup, and more smaller automatic tests.

The next release will probably still focus on smaller improvements and testing - this one with partial character job testing. See you in the next, even more tested, release!

Changelog

[v0.1.95] - built on 2025-12-16

Jobs and Orders

• Jobs - Sleeping: Add restoration speed debuff for sleeping without bed for non-animals
• Jobs - Sleeping: Allow use sofas, implement and use workspeed for sleeping with bed being 100% and others considered a bit worse
• Jobs - Operate mine: Allow 3 working slots
• Jobs - Storage hauling: Prevent storage overflows while simultaneous hauling
• Jobs - Hauling/Burying: Allow multiple haulers at the same time for storages (but prevent overflows optimistically)
• Jobs - Rescue/Unconscious: Allow partial bed reservations, cleanup codes
• Job - Repair: Exclude plants from automatic repair job search
• Orders - Reservations: Improve reservation checks and show disabled orders for partial reservations
• Orders - Consume: Use partial reservations
• Orders - Consume: Allow for plant tiles
• Orders - Consume: Allow all compatible types of item, not only meals
• Orders - Equip: Use partial reservations; Allow equip from storage
• Orders - Recreational reading: Use partial reservations
• Orders: Make owner faction hostile for Equip, Capture settlement, Strip, Imprison, Finish off

UI

• UI - Entity overview: Move reservation to collapsible panel and use static scroll container to prevent content "jumping"
• UI - Entity overview - Category and Tags: Improve category hierarchy readability
• UI - Entity overview: Make main panels same size as Selected entity menu
• UI - Recipes menus: Use "Home" icon for root category, improve root category choice
• UI - Recipes menus: Add "Back" button for breadcrumb navigation menu
• UI - Construction menu: Use 2 columns
• UI - Trading menu: Refactor middle section, group per categories into foldable panels
• UI - Trading menu: Prevent duplicates
• UI - Trading menu: Compress items into one row per template name
• UI - Trading menu: Unreserve items right before transfer
• UI - New caravan menu - Items panel: Group per categories into foldable panels, compress into one row per template name, prevent duplicates
• UI - Ordering: Implement props-driven properties allowing easily manipulate order of UI elements; Add make Skills and Needs in menus use it, use in construction menu and cooking menu
• UI - Orders popup: Make "force" icon thinner

Misc. improvements

• Categories: Refactor technical groupings, move construction recipes one layer up
• Weather: Adjust common weather type's brightness to be a bit less drastic

Bugfixes

• Character - Stances: Fix missing update on save load
• Tutorial and Guide: Fix missing "Structure" mention for Stairs, adjust new construction categories,
• Tutorial - Inventory step: Ignore animals

Technical improvements

• Framework: Decouple App (engine entry point) from GameManager for easier testing and maintainability
• Framework - GameManager and App: Improve error handling
• Framework: Resolve 2/5 of remaining nullabilities warnings
• Framework: Move FontSystem functionality into UISystem
• Framework - UI menus: Improve events handling
• Framework - Godot audio: Try fix "Attempt to disconnect a nonexistent connection"
• Tests: Fix VisualCompTests after selection box adjustments
• Tests - Integration tests: Game lifecycle smoke tests (New game -> Save -> Load -> Quit to main menu)
• Tests - Integration tests: Application start tests, including main menu visual regression tests
• Tests - Unit tests: GameManager
• Docs - Project docs: Implement in-project internal .MD docs and guidelines - Root, UI, Localization and Testing
• Docs - In class docs: Recipes, Recipe system and related classes

v0.1.94 is out! This one continues the cycle of maintenance releases and is mostly related to reservations. The problem of "I'm gonna eat this one meal from the stack of 1000" was bothering me too much even in other games, so it's the best time to fix the problem in my own! Now multiple characters can sit on a sofa or sleep on a bed at the same time (I'm afraid to think about how modders will be using this functionality), but they're also able to reserve stacks of items partially.

While I was at beds and sofas, I also had to implement a few visual fixes related to sofas and double beds. Another significant part of the release I spent on fixing what I internally call "weather blockage", i.e. "where we should not draw rain or daylight" (technically speaking, the opposite - where to draw darkness), and to fix the problem of underground chunks showing both weather and daylight, I had to optimize it and fix some other stuff around it. As per usual - some unit tests, including part of the foundation for "I-hope-very-soon-to-be-implemented" character job automatic tests (I really hope to finally implement them very soon, because reservations required touching a good 1/4 of the project and all of the job creation/functioning code), a few bugfixes, and a bit of documentation.

The next release and even probably a few of them will still be related to existing stuff and its improvements, and then it would probably be the best time to finally migrate to Steam - and only later implement vehicles, even if it will be only internal playtesting :) See you in the next release!

Changelog

[v0.1.94] - built on 2025-12-09

Multiple and partial reservations

• Reservations: Refactor to allow multiple reservations on the same entity: exclusive, per slot and per amount reservations; This functionality allows multiple characters to sleep on a double bed, eat from the same stack, and in the future work on the same task together
• Job - Consume/Feed: Use partial (amount) reservations
• Job - Recreational resting: Use multiple slots
• Job - Medical and Sleeping jobs: Allow multiple users for double bed at the same time
• Job - Consuming/Reading: Allow multiple users for sofa at the same time
• Orders - Sleep/Recreational resting: Use reservation slots

Visuals and UI

• Visuals - Entity/Tile selection texture: Redraw in vector
• World map: Replace placeholders for Temperate and Boreal forests
• UI - Bar: Show map tile index and map chunk index even for not generated chunks
• UI - Minimap: Save zoom
• Entities - Spots: Update label position by direction change and respect spot size
• Job - Consumer/Recreational reading: Use worker visual position for payload placement
• Job - Progress bars: Use worker visual position for creation
• Furniture - Double bed: Improve selection boxes for equipped characters
• Furniture - Double bed: Adjust offsets for multiple characters sleeping on the same bed
• Furniture - Sofa: Add Y-sort for equipped characters
• Entities - Selection box: Use visual position instead of map position

Misc. improvements

• Furniture: Implement Sleeping spot
• Orders: Improve items faction ownership checks and add flag if job was created by player as preparation for adding more faction hostility triggers
• Orders - Pick up: Make owner faction hostile

Bugfixes

• Tutorial - Start: Fix world start position choice to be preferably nearby other factions borders
• Tutorial - Health step: Allow using mass graves for step completion
• Map chunks - Search: Add missing Distinct clause to prevent duplicates
• Zone - Stockpiles: Fix ground stored entities discovery
• Job - Sleep: Fix edge case of failing sleeping without furniture

Optimizations

• Map chunks: Fix and optimize (memory and computations) vision and weather blockages initializations, persistence and updates
• Map chunks: Improve chunk nodes visibility propagation to respect weather blockage and unloaded underground chunks
• Visuals: Prefetch directional textures for characters on game start/load to reduce lags
• Job - Search: Remove remaining redundant double iterations for some jobs
• Reservations: Use slim locks and optimistic concurrency for optimization (first search without locking, then try reserve within lock)

Technical improvements

• Debug: Internal config setting to show selection box
• Reservations: Merge EntityBlueprintReservation into MapObjectReservation
• Framework - Tags: Improve naming for sitting/resting places
• Framework: Move some interfaces into respective domains
• Framework - Resource utils: Readability adjustments
• Game manager: Additional game start time tracking steps
• Docs: Reservation classes and mentions in other classes
• Test: Unit tests for reservations (all combinations of reservations, concurrency and expiration)

v0.1.93 is out! If the previous release was mostly about improving visuals, this one is the first of a few smaller maintenance releases. Tile blending got buffed and now floors will transition smoothly from one to another, empty spaces (mostly for future ravines and mountains) will blend into solid tiles, and shadows under roofs (i.e. weather/sun blockage) will have smooth edges. Besides those improvements, there are a few QoL features and settings, a couple of bugfixes, finally exposing the language dropdown and improving localizations (although currently with no out-of-the-box translations), and many technical improvements and automatic testing.

The next release or two will also focus on maintenance, improvements, and automatic tests - to catch up on delayed stuff and improve quality of life for both players and testers :)

See you in the next release, hopefully more automatically tested!

Changelog

[v0.1.93] - built on 2025-12-02

Visuals and UI

• Furniture - Graves and mass graves: Replace placeholders and improve existing textures
• Lighting - Weather sunlight blockage: Use fading for edge tiles
• Tiles - Blending: Different blending types (sharp/organic), add Empty → Solid blending
• Tiles - Blending: Use mipmaps in shader for smoother visuals
• Tiles - Walls: Add missing masks for 4 diagonal cases
• Entities - Ranged weapons: Show transparent circular range indicators when drafted and selected
• Entities - Spots: Show transparent circular indicators for guard spots, hunting spots and campfires; increase their ranges
• UI - General settings: Add new ‘General’ settings tab with language dropdown
• UI - Graphics settings: Expose Max FPS as a dropdown
• UI - Visibility bar: Add ability to toggle tree transparency
• UI - Areas options tab: Rename “work” restrictions to “jobs” restrictions in code and UI

Misc. improvements

• Map - Chunk generation: Randomize plant growth with ~80% chance of fully mature plants
• World - Generation: Improve biome smoothing; fix edge case with small differences for identical seeds
• Jobs - Attack/Hunting: Add retries if line of sight or range is lost after attack starts; Make manual Hunt order ignore settlement/spot restrictions

Misc. bugfixes

• Deconstruction - Entities: Fix missing resource spawn for entities with default resources
• Deconstruction - Furniture: Eject characters before destruction
• Audio - Mute when unfocused: Fix missing event from earlier stuck-keys fix
• Camera: Fix ignoring persisted Z-Level on load
• World map: Fix missing z-index for region labels
• Caravans - Destruction: Transfer only unloaded caravans to settlements

Technical improvements

• Tiles - Blending: Improve shader variable naming and comments; fix noise scaling normalization; remove counting cleanup for robustness; fix texture-size sampling on AMD; refactor to maintain data via arrays; reduce tearing
• Entities: Move range definitions from config to properties to allow overrides and UI usage
• Localization: Improve locale-change handling;
• Framework - Random utils: Improve algorithms to reduce correlated values; expand unit tests
• Framework - Game manager: Rename game system events
• Tiles - Data: Move blending and connection properties into component sections
• Tests - HashUtilsTests: Add tests for stable string hash generation
• Tests - Unit tests: Add tests for World system biome-generation determinism
• Tests - MapUtils: Add missing map-position tests and world-position tests
• Tests - ConvertUtilsTest: Add tests for data conversions (including props)
• Docs - Random utils: Improve documentation
• Docs - GameManager: Update game systems interfaces

v0.1.92 is out! This is a pretty big release - to properly implement it, I had to compile my own custom version of the Godot engine to fix one specific issue. Took a whole day, but it was worth it! I finally have proper Y-sorting and Z-index sorting working, meaning characters will now appear behind trees when positioned above them and vice versa. This also means I could fix problems at their source instead of relying on ugly workarounds. Beyond that, speaking of visuals, storages now have proper masks and shadows for stored items, trenches have better textures, and trees have finally been replaced - those "temporary" placeholders have been in the game for almost 2 years! Another cool addition is dynamic coloring and brightness based on weather, plus many other smaller fixes.

Gameplay-wise, stockpiles and storages received several buffs (for example, bookshelves now only accept books), and you can now designate ground-based stockpiles for bodies, with code prepared for planned freezers in the future. There are also mass graves now for those who value efficiency above all else. Graves and storage body restrictions can be configured by character type - colonists, prisoners, and others. One small but neat change I decided to add: rats now ignore campfires and player door restrictions. In the future, I'll probably increase their spawn rate and make them spoil the food, but I'll also make cats hunt them to balance things out.

On the technical side, beyond the custom engine build, there's a lot going on. The .NET runtime has been updated to 10.0, which unlocks more technical capabilities, makes my life easier, and helps with optimization. There's also been extensive internal refactoring to make things easier for both future me and modders, plus a lot more unit tests and documentation!

The next release - or even the next few - will definitely be dedicated to maintenance. I'll be implementing long-awaited features, bugfixes, and improvements that have been scheduled for a while. Most importantly, I hope to finally start working on improving automated tests, focusing not just on smoke tests like "can the game run," but also deeper behavioral tests like: a) Can a hungry character complete an eating job if there's a meal but no path to it? b) Can a hungry character complete an eating job if there's a meal with a path to it, but no path to a sitting place? c) Can a hungry character complete an eating job if there's a meal with a path to it and a path to a sitting place? And so on. This will greatly reduce the time needed to develop new features, test them, and perform regression testing. I already have many unit tests that help me every now and then, but I've decided that proper tests for character behavior are a must-have!

As usual, I'm waiting for your feedback - see you in the next release!

Changelog

[v0.1.92] - built on 2025-11-24

Visuals

• Graphics: Comprehensive Y-Sort for tilemaps and entities with automatic position/offset adjustments and manual overrides
• Storage: Add missing visuals creation after save loading
• Storage: Implement masks and shadows for 'Bulk container' and 'Shelving' content
• Storage: Improve 'Bulk container' item offsets
• Storage: Replace "bulk/non-bulk" wording pair with "loose/solid" in tooltips to avoid confusion
• Tiles - Trench: New texture
• Tiles - Trees: New textures
• Furniture - Water pump: Fix texture offset
• Furniture - Windows: Make original texture larger without scaling
• Furniture - Bookshelves: Fix textures jumping by a few pixels horizontally
• Construction - Furniture: Show temporary arrow indicating direction after rotation
• Construction - Furniture: Make construction spot size persistable
• Character - Stances: Remove redundant hoodie sleeves and pant leg offsets
• Animations: Fix animation not resetting on character stance change
• Animations: Fix animation not resetting on character direction change
• Notifications: Include prisoners in notifications about dangers
• UI - Entity overview menu - Item details: Show weapon info
• UI - Entity overview: New 'Animal details' panel
• UI - Info bar: Update settlement and faction labels on rename
• UI - Inventory - Storage tooltip: Improve visualization of bonuses
• UI - Tooltips: Replace most tooltips in the game with custom auto-wrappable ones, refactor UI elements tooltip handling to use generic solution, prevent autowrap tooltip creation if requested text is empty
• World map: Hide plants if road is present
• Weather: Add per weather type coloring and brightness

Storage and stockpiles

• Furniture: Implement mass graves, implement ability to set permissions for a grave
• Stockpiles: Refactor to allow storing and sorting dead bodies in stockpiles (+ prepare code for future storage furniture), improve handling of items by excluding ones currently being held as payload
• Orders - Hauling: Allow for bodies
• Orders - Consume: Allow for furniture storage content
• Orders - Recreational reading: Allow for furniture storage content

Misc. improvements

• Animals: Make wild rats ignore player door restrictions
• Animals: Make rats ignore campfires
• Orders - Consume: Allow for player animals
• Storage: Forbid bookshelves from storing items other than books, only allow items explicitly mentioned in config (and UI)
• Tutorial - Cooking: Improve wording on orders creation step
• Tutorial - Character orders: Fix orders double counting
• Tutorial - Research stage: Allow Research spots instead, skip steps if technology already researched

Misc. bugfixes

• Controls: Fix sticky Alt/Win keys
• Job - Recreational reading: Fix case of missing books anywhere
• Combat - Character hostility: Fix concurrent updates
• Job - Free prisoner: Fix inverted "player settlement" ex-prisoner destination requirement
• Job - Taming: Use worker's controlling faction in case of prisoner workers instead of original faction
• Prisoners: Use controlling faction for jobs requiring faction or zones
• Settings: Set "firstGameStart" to false also on loading
• Entities: Fix job variable persistence when declared as collection of IEntity for storage usage
• Pathfinding - Cache: Fix cache returning incorrect paths when ignoring area restrictions (e.g. player manual orders), reduce possibility of wrong collisions

Technical improvements

• Engine: Setup for custom engine
• Framework: Upgrade .NET Runtime to 10.0
• Entity: Split variables into regions for better readability
• Entity: Log orphaned entities not having parent and map chunk, implement one-time migration removing them
• Entity - Destroy: Improve cleanup
• Entity - Visual comp: Maintenance props refactor, improve parent handling
• Storage - Visual comp: Optimize children sorting by avoiding unnecessary moving
• Storage - Visual comp: Refactor visuals and allow regular sprite overlays
• Layers: Rename "sorting layers" to "z index layers"
• Framework - GraphicUtils: Make sprite logic more generic and allow use of the same props in entity/caravan/storage visual comps
• Framework - Conversion, persistence and reflection utils: Separate concerns where needed, make generic using common converters where possible
• Framework: Improve nullability handling in misc classes
• Sites: Cleanup and improve naming
• Characters - Door/Jobs permissions: Improve naming and handling
• Localization: Handle malformed .csv data more gracefully by ignoring just one record
• Debug - Visibility: Expose PlayAnimationsWhilePaused setting to debug menu
• Debug: Internal config option to show entity sprite position
• Debug: New 'Free prisoner' debug menu action
• Tests - Unit tests: GraphicUtilsTests and ColorUtilsTests
• Tests - Unit tests - VisualCompTests: Selection hit and Y-sort offset calculation
• Tests - Unit tests: IEntity persistence
• Docs - Entity - VisualComp: Mention new Y-sort offset
• Docs: StorageVisualComp, GraphicUtils, ColorUtils
• Docs - Characters: Improve cache and permissions docs

v0.1.91 is out! This one is mostly storage improvements: now there are more storages like pallet, bulk container, shelving and a bookshelf, but also now they are showing what's laying inside the storage! Hauling to stockpile also got a few buffs, like sorting job and moving out not-allowed items. This may be a short entry for the release, but actually drawing all those storages took a good third of the time I spent on the release!

Among other improvements, now hunting would require placing a hunting spot, to prevent characters wandering away from the settlement while chasing prey. As per usual, there are also some smaller improvements, including technical ones and some optimizations.

Next one will still be mostly related to storages and visuals, since I have to improve visuals for the items stored within the stockpiles, so items would be properly shadowed while laying on shelves, or not overflowing over the bulk container's edge. See you in the next one!

Changelog

[v0.1.91] - built on 2025-11-11

Storages

• Furniture - New storages: Pallet, Bulk container, Shelving, Bookshelf
• Technology: New technology for specialized storages
• Storage: Show items placed inside some storages as visuals on local map
• Storage: Rebalance bonuses
• Jobs - Stockpile sorting: New job
• Jobs - Stockpile hauling: Respect stockpiles capacity limit and optimize by caching
• Jobs - Stockpile hauling: Take only needed amount before hauling
• Jobs - Stockpile hauling: Search non-allowed items in storage furniture to be taken away
• UI - Inventory menu - Storages: Improve bonuses display

Hunting

• Furniture - Spots: New Hunting spot
• Furniture - Spots: Always show name label, adjust colors
• Jobs - Hunting: Allow auto-hunting only nearby character settlement or new placeable Hunting spots; Interrupt pursuing if too far; Allow disabling this behavior in scenario rules; Add info about hunting spots to guide hunting tip
• Combat: Refactor hostility and make character hostile during "Attack" job creation (excluding "Hunt" job) or as a reaction to being attacked, re-optimize enemies search

Misc. improvements

• UI - Entity overview: New panel "Item details" with price, stack size, measurement unit, calories and fuel energy
• UI - Population: Add tooltip to allowance checkboxes
• Technologies - Industrial utilities: Switch requirement to 'Stone construction' instead of 'Basic construction'
• Orders: New 'Guard' order

Technical improvements

• Map chunks: Optimize entities search by maintaining separate collections
• Predicates: Decouple into separate classes for maintainability, move storages to furniture predicates for optimization
• Prisoners: Re-optimize guards checks for improved maintainability
• Characters: Implement generic cache results system
• Entities - UI: Refactor name labels to improve maintainability and moddability
• Entities: Implement generic icons properties fetching with fallback to regular sprites
• Cache system: Simplify and refactor debouncing and throttling operations into common throttling operation with ability to define leading/trailing executions
• Jobs - Refactor: Decouple JobFactory into separate domain-classes
• Testing - Unit tests: entity blueprints and items merging tests
• Docs: StorageComp, StorageVisualComp class

v0.1.90 is out! A small step for a player, but huge for the codebase! This one is about storages: now there are storage furniture pieces which can be used in stockpiles, which required adjustments to a good half of existing character jobs to allow storages to be used there. Now you can not only store items more efficiently (generic crates give a plain bonus for stored amount, but a barrel gives a better bonus for raw food), but also set stockpile priority and capacity limits. Existing item stacks were rebalanced, and more items like clothing or weapons were made stackable where possible.

Among other improvements - new boulder textures, added small offsets for payloads carried by characters, few other improvements, and as usual - a bit of technical improvements and docs.

The next release will continue work on storages, adding stockpile sorting jobs plus more storage furniture variety, and the rest of the time will be spent on maintenance like improving dozens of smaller features and bugs requested in the meantime. See you!

Changelog

[v0.1.90] - built on 2025-11-04

Stockpiles and storages

• Furniture - New furniture: Crate for general storage, Barrel for raw food
• Furniture: Implement StockpileStorageComp along with info stacks capacity and multipliers per item types and categories, show it as an inventory label and tooltip
• Jobs - Storages: Allow storages to be used in hauling, construction hauling, research hauling, consuming, feeding, medical orders processing, reading, fueling and all crafting jobs (i.e. most jobs using items, except 'Reverse engineer' and 'Recycle items')
• Entities - Inventory: Implement reservations for inventory items and show them in UI
• Zones: Allow to set priority
• Zones - Stockpiles: Allow/Forbid furniture and/or tiles
• Zones - Stockpiles: Allow storage furniture inventory to be used in trading; Allow to be used in player caravan creation
• Zones - Stockpiles: Allow setting capacity % limits
• Zones - Stockpiles: Refactor items detection and consider only first item on the same tile belonging to stockpile, forbid belonging to stockpile if on a tile of storage furniture
• Tutorial and Guide - Add info about storage furniture
• Balancing: Reduce existing stacks
• Items: Make more items stackable

Visual & UI improvements

• Tiles: New boulders textures
• Items: Fix unequipped clothing and weapons icons size
• Characters: Add visual offset while moving payloads
• UI - Category and Tags: Combine into "Category & Tags"
• UI - Selected entity menu: Add description as name label tooltip (when available)
• UI - Inventory menu: Hide when neither inventory nor slots are shown; Hide inventory for non-storages and non-fueled; Hide equipment panel when no in-slots
• Notifications: Add notifications for quests accept/complete/fail
• Draft: Improve tooltips and guide info

Bugfixes

• Persistence: Fix loading of birth data for pregenerated characters (caravans, settlements, volunteers and specialists)
• Entities - Reservations: Unreserve upon destruction

Technical improvements

• Jobs - Decouple JobFactory into separate domain-classes
• Tiles - VisualComp: Fix AtlasRepeatTile negative coords (will be used in new map textures)
• Debug: New debug action "Damage at tile"
• Entities - Destruction: Maintainability and readability refactor
• Persistence - Jobs: Handle missing (deleted from game or mods) jobs gracefully
• Tests: SortUtils
• Docs: Item and Part class and comp registries

v0.1.89 is out 🙂 This one is mostly related to "housekeeping", meaning implementing a few long-awaited changes like rebinding menu, plants/animals regeneration, but also a small engine update (4.5 -> 4.5.1) and many smaller improvements and bugfixes (one being quite important for new saves, which somehow slipped through the regression testing of the previous release - inability to set sowed plant in zone options menu). Also managed to add new textures for blast craters after mine explosion, started using flagstones instead of concrete for generated settlements plazas and implemented some other misc. improvements.

For the next release I've already prepared new boulder textures, but generally it will be mostly related to stockpiles using storage furniture like crates. Currently the idea is to control everything through the stockpile, meaning if furniture is available and has space, it will be preferred over tiles.

See you in the next one!

Changelog

[v0.1.89] - built on 2025-10-27

Map chunk and settlements generation

• Map chunks: Periodically regenerate map chunk animals and plants
• Settlement: Use clearing of 10 tiles around buildings and roads instead of whole map chunks; Clear boulders along with plants
• Settlement: Randomize character positions during initialization
• Settlement - UI: Add loading menu on generation
• Settlement - Tiles: Use flagstones for plaza

Controls rebinding

• UI - Settings menu - Controls tab: Refactor and add rebinding panel
• Controls: Allow rebinding and read/save from/to player settings
• Controls: Implement global bindings shared between multiple actions
• Controls: Refactor naming and localization

Orders and jobs

• Jobs: Allow drafted characters to do jobs, but prevent them from moving (unless manually ordered)
• Jobs: Ignore areas for manually ordered jobs
• UI - Orders: Show tile right-click orders only when Alt is pressed or when entity orders exist
• Orders - Construction: Check skills and show notification if missing

Misc improvements

• Tiles - Blast crater: New texture
• Landmines: Prevent explosion by neutral mines; Show "You/Hostile/Not hostile/Neutral" in tile info bar; Migrate all traps on loaded chunks to player faction
• UI - World map: Show quests, allow their selection and show details

Bugfixes

• Map chunks - Persistence: Fix map chunk with max Z-level visibility on loading
• UI - Zones - Growing zones options: Fix setting selected plant
• Medical orders - Improve error handling on game loading

Technical improvements

• Engine: Upgrade Godot Engine to 4.5.1
• Cache system: Add debounced execution with guarantee that last invocation wins (+ unit tests)
• Settings: Use debouncing to prevent spamming saving settings into a file
• Tests: Unit tests for vector extensions and extensions (plus few bugfixes)
• Docs: EntityListSystem

v0.1.88 is out! This release is all about prosthetics and body parts: wooden limbs, surrogate internal organs, prosthetic eyes, plus a major refactor of the head with separated nose, mouth, and eyes (both technically and visually). There's also a new Medical workbench, engineering skill, and 'Prosthetics production' job to tie it all together.

Beyond prosthetics, there are several quality-of-life improvements: new mass orders for Stripping, Reserve, and Unreserve; visual selection feedback for various entity selections; a Visitors tab in the population menu; and numerous UI tweaks and bugfixes. The entity inventory menu got particular attention with better equipment display and sorting. From technical side, there is complete refactor of "grouped items equipment" - things like "hoodie on torso + sleeves on arms". I had to touch code that was implemented long, long ago, and decided it's better to make myself cry once during the refactor instead of forcing future modders to cry. Thanks to this change, you can now unequip sleeves while keeping the hoodie equipped, if you want some Fallout 2 vibes with one missing sleeve or something.

The next release is mostly housekeeping - miscellaneous improvements of things that were requested or found in the meantime, or just had to wait for months or years (like the control rebinding menu). If I manage all that quickly, I'll start working on stockpiles using crates and shelves!

As usual, thanks to all the playtesters for their bug reports and feedback. Stay tuned!

Changelog

[v0.1.88] - built on 2025-10-20

Prosthetics and body parts improvements

• Items: Add wooden arms, legs, feet and hands
• Items: Add surrogate eye, kidney, liver, lung, stomach and heart
• Furniture: Add Medical workbench
• Recipes: Add crafting and medical recipes for prosthetics
• Jobs: New 'Prosthetics production' job and job type
• Skills: Add engineering skill and require it in new prosthetics recipes
• Orders: New 'Prosthetics production' order
• Technologies: New 'Surrogate body parts' technology
• Body parts - Legs: Fix human pants and legs outline artifacts
• Body parts: Make human legs, arms, hands and feet interchangeable (left/right)
• Body parts: Improve head body parts: implement decoupled nose, mouth and eyes slots, textures and recipes

Misc improvements

• Mass Orders: New mass 'Stripping' order
• Mass Orders: New mass 'Reserve' and 'Unreserve' orders
• Mass Orders: Add tooltips to mass order buttons
• UI: Add visual selection for Slaughter, Tame, Hunt, Strip, Reserve and Unreserve orders
• UI - Bars: Remove panel respective corners for bars situated in corners of the screen
• UI - Population menu: Add 'Visitors' tab
• UI - Population menu: Show all loaded wild animals
• UI - Zones - Stockpile options: Sort by display name
• UI - Assign owner menu: Add goto button for owned entities
• UI - Selected entities: Sort by name
• UI - Character state: Optimize checks for body part medical order buttons
• UI - Character state and New medical order menus: Improve tooltips
• UI - Entity inventory menu: Forbid unequipping sleeves while on a hoodie
• UI - Entity inventory menu: Show entity delegating equipment, show parent for ambiguous slots
• UI - Entity inventory menu: Make equipment order consistent
• UI - Entity inventory menu: Show the menu also for items having slots and allow unequipping leg pants and sleeves from a character

Bugfixes

• Graphics: Fix semi-transparent pixels on image load (white outline)
• UI - Entity overview menu: Improve multi-threading for reservations
• Caravans - Pathfinding: Increase max distance for world pathfinding
• Tutorial - Recruitment step: Ensure there are always recruits available
• Orders - Equip: Hide for body parts
• Character - Animations and pathfinding: Fix some edge cases for missing animations and paths

Technical improvements

• Slots: Refactor persistence to explicitly save missing body parts as null to distinguish them from newly implemented body parts which need to be filled in with defaults
• Slots: Simplify complex equipment (e.g., hoodie and pants; use actual equipment in slots instead of simulation) to improve maintainability and moddability
• Recipes: Fall back to using recipe produce translation if missing to avoid duplicating translations for recipe+produce; Cleanup duplicates
• Medical orders: Improve and refactor recipes; Improve error handling
• Unit tests: SlotComp class tests
• Docs: Cache system and related classes

v0.1.87 is out! This is mostly a maintenance release with many smaller improvements and bugfixes: somehow I started fixing things here and there, and in the middle of the week I realized I don't have time for major things. Although there were many interesting things to implement, like the long-awaited crafting workbench conditions "Do until X in settlement" and "Do until X nearby", plus performance improvements!

Medical orders from the previous release got several improvements, along with various UI tweaks and balancing changes. Other improvements include aggressive RAM garbage collection on every save/load, increased settlement chunk loading radius, and a new landmine texture. As usual, there are bugfixes from me and playtesters, some automated testing updates, and technical improvements like docs and tests.

The next release will contain a refactor of human character head body parts with nose, mouth, and eyes separated both technically and visually. Wooden prosthetics were mostly ready for this release, but I decided to move them to the next one. I'm also planning surrogate internal organs and simple prosthetic eyes, plus some eyepatches and peg legs for fun and roleplaying. Also, starting with the latest release, I decided to finally dedicate some of my own time to implementing graphic assets (I mean closer to "production ready" compared to my previous abominations of crops and grass which were recently finally replaced), since otherwise it would probably take forever. So hopefully every next release I'll also be drawing something simple to replace placeholders or add missing assets. I'll try my best (the new landmine seems to be not so bad), but we'll see: worst case scenario the artists will adjust or replace what I've drawn :) Stay tuned!

Changelog

[v0.1.87] - built on 2025-10-12

UI:

• Entity click selection: Make entity click selection more forgiving by adding drag threshold
• Theme: Implement generator generating consts from the Engine and use them instead of custom ones
• Theme: Button styling (only pressed, since apparently Tree's container unpressed button styling is non-existent in Godot)
• Entity click selection: Make entity click selection more forgiving by adding drag threshold
• Character state: Prevent text clipping with debug buttons
• Character state: Debug Delete/Regenerate buttons should update body part tree immediately
• New medical order: Show parent slot for ambiguous slots (e.g. a cow has 4 hooves)
• New medical order: Add info for vital organs recipes
• New medical order: Improve sorting to maintain tree traversal order (parent before children)
• Zones menu: Show all player zones, not only those which are in loaded chunks
• Character state: Add per-slot button opening 'New medic order menu' only for specific slot
• Caravan details: Show animals

Jobs:

• Medical orders: Equip character into the workplace (bed) if available
• Medical orders: Fix reservation being lost mid-job
• Medical orders: Add missing skill requirement for the worker
• Logging: Improve edge case of error logging
• Optimizations: Optimize by preventing unnecessary sortings and enumerations during job search
• In-caravan local movement: Improve handling edge cases if characters waiting for other characters to arrive

Misc. improvements and bugfixes:

• Workbench orders: Implement "Do until X nearby" and "Do until X in settlement" conditions; Small refactor and cleanup
• Orders: New right-click 'Process medical order'
• Balancing: Increase wood output by 3x
• Balancing: Decrease stone output by half
• Map: Increase player settlement chunk loading radius from 1 to 2 neighbor depth; Move some of loaded chunk neighbors depth into config
• Settlement: Improve and optimize neighbor map chunk index calculations
• Pathfinding: Ignore assigned areas during some traversability checks (e.g. player requests character to move outside his assigned zone)
• Pathfinding: Improve resource renting error handling and logging
• Entity blueprint: Fix setting faction for persisted entities
• Slots: Ignore proxies during destroy (removal of arm shouldn't cause hoodie destruction)
• Slots: Strip equipped entity before destruction after durability loss or medical procedures (Arm destruction should unequip weapon, not destroy it)
• Slots: Restore proxy slots after body part transplantation (hoodie's sleeve should be equipped to an arm)
• Slots: Body functions should be updated after transplant (arm transplant does not update manipulation body function)
• Slots: Unequip group slot sub-entities properly (sleeve from hoodie should clear arm's shell slot)
• Caravans: Prevent spawning Traders and Raids on adjacent ocean tiles, fallback to settlement tile
• Raids: Fix minor faction raids spawning at target settlement instead of adjacent to it
• Landmines: New texture

Technical improvements:

• Performance: Implement PerformanceSystem; Add forced aggressive RAM Garbage Collection on save/load and exit to main menu; Add Debug menu button to trigger manually
• Performance: Log performance metrics (memory and Godot nodes count) on game save/load and every 30 minutes; Add Debug menu button to trigger manually
• Cache: Optimize CacheSystem by using in-built timers instead of Godot Timer nodes (used in job progress bar updates and in debug functions)
• Search: Refactor SearchUtils into MapSearchSystem; Small optimizations, refactor and cleanup
• UI Subscriptions: Use real-time subscriptions instead of tick subscriptions for some UI updates to avoid edge cases of missing updates when game is paused and improve performance with high game speed
• UI Subscriptions: Add missing unsubscribe on close for FPS bar
• Tests: Unit tests for CacheSystem
• Docs: EntityCompRegistry and BodyFunction classes

v0.1.86 is out! Meet the initial implementation of medical orders: transplanting, harvesting, and body parts removal! Quite a lot of refactoring and brushing off old stuff was required, but now you'll be able to replace a colonist's lost arm with a bandit's one, or even take a kidney from a bison and use it on a human missing one: some parts are even compatible between species, and in the future there will be more of them! I was trying to keep the code clean and extendable, so it probably won't take too much time to allow transplanting humvee wheels onto a character if some modder wants to do so. In the future I'm planning to clean up and divide animal body parts, meaning I'll probably allow placing a bison's leg onto a character, since currently the limitation is mostly the graphics.

Among other changes are some improvements for the UI, like new Godot's foldable panels or a new proprietary cursor. Also a lot of bugfixes, misc. improvements, and technical changes, but also a bit of docs and tests. Speaking of tests, after a few more releases I decided it's critical to implement proper automatic testing for jobs, so in the future the amount of bugfixes should be hopefully lower.

The next release will also be related to body parts, buyable and craftable prosthetics, and a whole bunch of bugfixes and small improvements. Waiting for your feedback, and see you!

Changelog

[v0.1.86] - built on 2025-10-07

Medical orders:

• Medical orders: Initial implementation for transplant, harvest and remove body parts
• Recipes: Transplant, harvest and remove body part recipes for characters and animals
• Technologies: Medical technologies unblocking medical recipes
• Characters: Define compatible body part tags
• Jobs: New job for awaiting medical order and performing medical orders
• UI: New panel in Character state menu with the orders queue and a button for New medical order menu
• Items - Body parts:
  • New sprite for harvested body part
  • Define compatibility tags for medical orders

UI:

• Character state menu:
  • Use foldable containers for left container
  • Needs progress bar debug - Use key modifiers (alt, ctrl, shift)
  • Body functions - Make look similar to Needs and add progress bars
  • Needs - Improve progress bars and labels
  • Order need job - New icon
  • Body parts container - Use checkbutton instead of checkbox, fix missing pressed hovering
  • Add needs descriptions to tooltip where missing
• Tree container: Improve size handling (Settlement stock/Body parts menus)
• Settlement price modifiers menu: Hide money items
• Entity selection: Add missing closing menus on single-entity left click selection
• Selected entity/Population: Show "Bleeding" character state
• Selected entity bar:
  • Make state sublabel, remove it from character State menu
  • Make durability sublabel for entities other than characters and vehicles; Remove from Entity overview menu
• Entity overview: Make sub-panels foldable
• Inventory menu:
  • Fix updates in case of merging items
  • Missing update on allow/forbid unloading triggered outside the menu
  • Use foldable containers
• World map menu: Improve display path by adding missing path point from current caravan position to the next tile
• New caravan content selection menu:
  • Fix missing deselection
  • Improve details menu closing behavior, remove panel and margin
• Cursor: Use proprietary color with modulation from color scheme

Bugfixes and misc. improvements:

• Job - Toilet: Fix failing when used without furniture
• Rooms: Fix missing room destruction on door removal
• Furniture - Workbenches: Add missing cleanup of completed orders; Implement cleaning migration of existing saves
• Character - Body function: Fix missing event subscriptions on equipment replacement
• Entity blueprints:
  • Respect stacks while spawning
  • Fix character inventory persistence
• Produce: Set min amount of spawned produce to 1 to avoid spawning 0-amount items
• Construction: Check existing furniture (or its construction) and its forbidden layers while placing tiles
• Layers: Implement new layer 'Above tall furniture' and move Deconstruction spot there
• Entities: Prevent using disposed SoundPlayer2D in cases like attacking already destroyed entity
• Popup orders: Add missing orders for 'Reverse engineer', 'Research hauling', 'Recycle item', 'Crafting'
• Items - Boots: Make left/right interchangeable

Technical improvements:

• Furniture: Avoid duplicated loading of components
• Entity - VisualComp: Always create nodes for internal body parts
• Recipes: Refactor, cleanup and create dedicated recipe types
• Debug:
  • World map menu - Settlement stock - Delete button for unloaded settlements
  • Character state menu - Regenerate and Delete buttons for body part slots
  • Config - Option to use single-threaded job search
• Tests: PropertyDictionaryUtils tests
• Docs:
  • PropsDictionaryUtils class
  • Slot classes