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We fixed two more bugs:

• Fixed invisible Russian font.
  
• Fixed an issue where the "fat chicken" wasn't ever spawned from the henhouse.

Hello, friends!

It might be a bit early in the year for spring cleaning, but we got rid of a lot of pesky bugs and also added some quality of life features.

Did you ever accidentally pick up the wrong person? We now added an option to highlight objects or people if they are in range to be grabbed. This allows for much more precision, especially if there are a lot of potential targets close together.
We added an option to rotate and zoom with either the left or right stick/touchpad. You can decide if you want to use this feature and on which hand. The other hand will still be available for all menu related uses.
When using the build menu, you always had the option to grab the buildings directly with your hand or with the pointer ray. This pointer had some issues that made it a much less reliable tool. Buildings in the build menu rotated faster when you point anywhere on the panel. Now they only rotate faster when you directly point at them to indicate you can now grab them. We also fixed issues that prevented you from picking up construction sites directly after being placed on the ground. This should make readjusting the position and rotation much easier.
When new buildings are unlocked during tutorials, they are now not just highlighted with a glow effect in the build menu, the build menu now also actively scrolls to the new item. This should help new players who might not have found out yet that there are more than the initial 3 buildings per category to choose from.

• General performance improvements.
  
• Improved UI performance and scroll view behavior.
  
• Optimized interactions between clouds and lightning targets.
  
• Reduced jittering during player movement.

• Fixed achievement Feathered Thief not being achievable at all.
  
• Fixed issues with achievement Diversity unlock mechanic.
  
• Fixed issues with achievement Master Builder.
  
• Fixed issues with achievement Multitasking.
  
• Fixed issues with achievement Chicken Shaker unlocking too early.

• Fixed ship navigation issues, optimized ship routes and improved ship landing behavior.
  
• Fixed issue with ship passengers not disembarking.
  
• Fixed navigation issue with townies on ships.
  
• Fixed lost trade goods on returning trading ship after loading.

• Added cooldown for townies' angry reactions to achieve a better fulfillment of needs.
  
• Improved movement of ranged units.
  
• Improved accessibility of harbors for townies.
  
• Improved check if townies or animals are under water.
  
• Made thieves return to enemy base after stealing in Sandbox mode.
  
• Fixed issue that prevented enemy units to spawn on towers.
  
• Fixed issue with seagulls not being able to steal food from tavern storage.
  
• Fixed issue with eagle that occasionally stopped hunting.
  
• Fixed fish and chicken navigation issues.

• Improved navigation on Capital Island to make mine accessible in Sandbox mode.
  
• Improved navigation on Fort Haven.
  
• Adjusted limit of gold mines on Fort Haven in Sandbox mode.
  
• Added highlight to fishing spot on Solitary Island.
  
• Adjusted well limit on New Port in Sandbox mode.
  
• Balanced timing of lava streams.

• Fixed a potential bug that could cause construction sites to never be completed.
  
• Fixed highlights on player-interactable objects and made the interactions more robust.
  
• Made rally flag sink in water and then quickly respawn.
  
• Fixed issue with game progression being one level too high after loading.
  
• Fixed issue with pallets remaining at harbor after emptying.
  
• Improved check of player's boundaries.
  
• Fixed cauldron stew level not rising properly.
  
• Fixed issue where marketplaces could hold more resources than allowed.
  
• Disabled culling of buildings and townies.
  
• Fixed clouds drifting away from play area.

It's that time of year! The Steam Awards are just around the corner, and it's up to you, the players, to nominate your favorite games of 2022. From all your excellent feedback, we know that you enjoyed Townsmen VR, and we're confident that it is one of the more unique VR experiences out there. So if you would consider nominating Townsmen VR for a Steam Award, we'd be very humbled.

Thank you so much for your continued support from everyone at HandyGames.

Hello, friends!

Townsmen VR is getting a new Patch on Steam. It includes a bunch of fixes all over the place and a couple new features. We hope you enjoy it and thank you so much for playing!



• Added improved building placement feedback: color coded outlines now show the required even space around the construction site.

• Made talking NPCs actually look at the player.

• Added Steam Community Items (Trading cards, badges, emoticons, backgrounds).


• You are now able to drop townies on your hand without them falling over.

• Implemented new underwater shaders for all levels to prevent flickering.

• Fixed an issue with townies interrupting each other's work in certain situations.

• Implemented saving for quest timers (also used for sandbox attacks and more), previously when you saved while they were running, they would always restart after loading.

• Fixed save & load issue on resource chests after some contents have been depleted.

• Fixed underwater splash effects at the player's hands appearing way below the ocean's surface.


• Updated save system to ensure that the ship starts the route where it was saved instead of going back to the first waypoint.

• Fixed issue with lost trade player ship on save & load while returning from horizon.

• Fixed the hook at the harbor being too low at the start and then jumping up the first time it is used for trading.

• Fixed an error on ships that aren't setup for trading.

• Fixed random attacks always coming from same route.

• Fixed errors connected to interrupted trades.


• Made harbor indestructible on Solitary Island and Sunken Island.

• Made the 10 minute timer for Smuggler's Cove quests to build town buildings optional, now if you already have built those buildings, the timer will be skipped.

• Fixed softlock in New Port where a pirate ship wouldn't come back if you had a lot of troops already when it disappeared on the horizon.


• Fixed issue that building info can't be reopened.

• Fixed the UI pointer ray disappearing when placing a construction site and then opening another menu (like the main menu) before the placement timer has finished.

• Fixed the UI pointer ray being blocked while placing building addons. Now it should be possible to build several addons in quick succession.

• Increased scale of build menu and island info.

• Research for buildings of the highest levels is now locked until the previous level has been researched (affecting church and barracks for sowrdsmen and crossbowmen).

• Fixed issues with info UI.

• Updated building info UI of gold mine to use the same layout as all the others.

• Adjusted info UI layout on harbor and ship.

• Fixed harbor info UI to properly show resource display of used storage after loading.

Hi,

we pushed a small update to help with a specific issue some players reported.

The game usually pauses when you take off the headset, displaying a "headset not mounted" message. But if for some reason that detection doesn't work correctly, the game can appear as always paused, preventing you from playing the game.

If you are experiencing this issue, you can now start the game with the launch option "-nopause" to deactivate the headset detection.

To add this launch option, right-click Townsmen VR in your library and click on "Properties...".
Under GENERAL add "-nopause" (without quotation marks) in the field labelled LAUNCH OPTIONS.

Hope that helps and thank you for playing! :)