Somewhere to call home

Yesterday’s building tools began to make a home for other people today. Settlers can be invited into the valley, given a sheltered bed, and assigned work at a lumber camp. They now have bodies in the world, walking between the places that matter to them.

This is the town taking shape again after the reset, with a clearer beginning: build somewhere for someone to live, invite them, then decide what work they will do.

A bed before an invitation

The notice board opens the Town Ledger. A free sheltered bed makes room for a settler, who arrives at the next dawn without a job. The ledger keeps track of who has arrived, where they sleep, and whether they are working or idle.

The Town Ledger in a controlled review scene: two arrived settlers, two sheltered beds taken, and one woodcutter assigned.

A bed needs walls and a roof around it. At night, villagers walk home and lie down; at dawn, they get up. Idle villagers can stroll around the notice board, while those with jobs head for their workplace.

Their routes received attention too: straighter stretches, rounded corners, slowing into sharper turns, and room to pass one another. Doors open on the way through and close behind them.

Bringing wood home

The lumber camp is the place to assign woodcutters. Its four working slots keep their axes at the workplace, ready for whoever takes the job next.

Woodcutters go to nearby trees, bring them down, gather the logs and return with a load strapped high across their shoulders. The load follows the body as they walk, giving the trip back to camp a visible weight.

The camp chest in its original review preset, supplied with twelve logs so storage and collection can be inspected.

The camp keeps the wood in its own chest, with room for 24 stacks. When it fills, workers wait until space is made. Goods still move by being carried: collecting wood from that chest and taking it to the next building project remains part of the player’s journey.

The work cycle is implemented, while the villagers’ axe-swing animation is still waiting for its own pass. Their chopping currently advances on a timer.

A change in the afternoon

The same shore can now look different under a change of weather. Clear spells, passing cloud and overcast conditions follow a schedule tied to the world’s seed and time, blending gradually as the day goes on.

The same arranged settlement under overcast light, held for comparison.

Wind changes with the weather as well. Grass and hanging cloth respond to the stronger breeze, clouds move faster, and the lake grows rougher. Under overcast skies the sunlight softens away and the whole scene becomes greyer.

Rain and morning fog are scheduled in the groundwork, but their visible effects are still to come in this build. For now, the day’s connections are small and tangible: a bed that belongs to someone, a walk to the trees, wood brought back to a chest, and a familiar home beneath a changing sky.

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Archive note: these screenshots were captured on October 21 from the unchanged October 20 late-evening checkpoint and its own assets. The settlement and ledger use its arranged review presets. The ledger and camp chest use a separate town test with arrived settlers and twelve supplied logs; these images do not document a complete felling cycle.