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Forge a medieval community with intelligent AI villagers. Gather resources and transform the village into a town, or simply listen to captivating stories from various simulated and evolving lives. All in a beautiful, relaxing, and immersive fantasy world.

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V0.11.7 - Improvements & Bug Fixes

May 30

Lots of behind the scenes work these last couple of weeks to improve the quality of updates and dialogue management. Expect less bugs in the future and villagers to be saying many more things in the coming updates! :)

Overhauled asking for help: there's now a small dialogue tree so that you can choose exactly what you want to know. I've also added a lot of new dialogue explaining how exactly all the important parts of the game work, based on commonly asked questions
Changed some existing dialogue lines and what villagers consider a large town
Improved performance by adding LODs for the most common decorations
Added the ability to skip the intro tutorial with F1 or Select
Added an icon for the game when shown in your taskbar (finally!)
Added a back button to the new game screen and improved transitions on that screen
Added a small sound when you begin a new game
Improved visibility of fields and especially grown flax fields
Fixed glitchy new skill animation
Fixed visual glitch during sleeping if it's past midnight
Fixed decoration rotation being frame-dependant
Fixed pine trees not being semi-transparent when you're in front of them
Improved tavern collisions
Fixed merchants sometimes appearing / not appearing at the wrong times
Fixed being able to use pickaxes without wear in the mine if switching tools
Fixed placement of mine not finishing correctly
Fixed jewellery and masonry signs not moving the wind
Fixed tree particles moving with the tree as it falls and adjusted colours slightly
Fixed villagers overwriting books
Fixed settings sliders being unmovable in the title screen
Fixed rebind overlay not covering whole screen

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Can't seem to unlock tailoring recipes

Can someone please help me? I have everything but fortifications and the mine built by now and have inlocked a lot in the different tech trees. I also have biilt a tailor and my villagers seem to be able to produce linen for buildings. However, I still haven't unlocked a single tailoring recipe. I've collected some Flax and even have a field (which, oddly enough, has not shown growth once in an entire in game year). Any help would be appreciated....

Doe

May 21 @ 7:07am

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How to get a chisel?

For the masonry I have to have a chisel, but I am not getting the recipe. Already got a full town including a jewellery.

Mr.Mouse

May 30 @ 2:26pm

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V0.11.6 - Improvements & Bug Fixes

May 14

I've recently gotten around to watching a couple of full streams of the V11 update (including from the amazing Nookrium and RedToxon[www.twitch.tv]) and I've learnt a lot about what could be done to improve the early game and tutorialisation. In the coming weeks, I'll be addressing those things whilst working on the next big thing™️ in the background.

Fixed changing the window mode using an old settings file breaking the game
Allowed swords to be equipped as back accessories
Allowed interrupting and taking over any equipment villagers are about to use (like the anvil, tailor table, and bakery oven)
Made merchants always bring storage chests if you have not yet unlocked them
Fixed interaction indicators overlapping with with the player speaking
Fixed fields not showing an interaction hint when not holding a scythe
Fixed wrong crafting animation playing if you craft outside of a workspace with a tool equipped
Fixed a few button selection issues when it comes to crafting inside a building with a controller
Fixed ESC cancelling paths / decorations AND opening settings
Fixed building masterpiece signs being talked about wrongly
Fixed bubbles in mine preview at night
Fixed tool being visible while villager is using the pottery

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Which major feature would you most like to see next?

May 10

Hey everyone 👋 I have an important poll for you all! I'd like to hear your thoughts on what should be the next major update for Heard of the Story? I've laid out a few of the key features which I think would be the most fun and make the most sense given the game's current state. But I want to leave it up to you all to decide! 😄 To cast your votes, please head to the Discord[discord.gg] where you can react to this poll with emojis of the relevant features.

⚒️ Guilds & Fame: as you specialise into your favourite craft, find others with like-minded interests and establish your own guild. Likewise watch your villagers forge their own across different disciplines. Construct a guildhall and develop your collective experience to improve the items you produce. Rise to fame by developing your town's unique hallmark trade craft.
🌹 Romance & Marriage: connect on a much deeper level with more dialogue, gifts, and new shared activities. Unlock new mechanics and events such as having villagers follow you around, kissing, sharing houses, and more. Marry your favourite villager, and watch others find their own partners, or get into drama over toxic break-ups.
👑 Autonomy & Governance: raise a manor house to establish building and gardening zones for your villagers. Watch them start their own construction projects or beautify the town with well thought-out decorations. Establish more general rules and policies dictating villagers' overall conduct and witness just how exactly society will evolve.
🌾 Fields & Farming: purchase or gather seeds for various fruits, vegetables, and flowers. Plant any crop in any field, water it, and care for it. Finally, harvest the fruits of your labour and sell them for profit. Set up organic plantations by drawing the exact area in which you'd like the vegetation to grow, be it a big circle, small square, or a star-shaped farm.
🗺️ Towns & Conspiracies: open up a new world map showing a drawing demarcated by district lines, denoting towns, forests, mountains, and ancient ruins. Hear about events happening across the world - whether royal marriages or tough droughts. Uncover conspiracies, mysteries, relics, or ancient legends through stories from visitors.

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pleas add or change so we cant delete our building by mistake , i have deleted my buildings 3 times and it is very annoying. adding a lock in place option would be wonderful. otherwise the game is lots of fun. good game

cgwildwolf11

Apr 9 @ 3:39pm

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I bought that game yesterday, and I love it. it reminds me of the abandoned game Kingdoms, made by a Russian guy. i hope that Head of the Story will surpass Kingdoms and become a great game

rhainds666

Feb 3 @ 2:56am

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Kingdoms is a good place to look for inspiration with this game.

It really, really is. The poor dev either dropped and left or, something much worse. This game seems to have potential. I posted quite a long wall of text in the help channel on the discord.

Rick Deckard

Feb 23 @ 1:29pm

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