Hearth and Hamlet

Gameplay Changes 10

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  Added research pinning.

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  Pinned research and buildings are now saved and restored when a game is loaded.

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  Redesigned the UI in the bottom-left corner to better accommodate small screens such as the Steam Deck.

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  The mouse cursor now scales with UI scaling, making it easier to use on high-resolution screens.

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  Arrow keys can now be used to move the camera (in addition to WASD).

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  Added new icons for the One-way Magic Portal and Stable Magic Portal.

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  Removed Spacebar and Enter as harvest shortcuts. Use the 'Hover to Click' option in the menu instead. This prevents accidentally harvesting a location while viewing elsewhere on the map.

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  Renamed Lord's Manor to Noble's Manor.

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  Updated several item descriptions.

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  Added an arrow indicator pointing to the education building when the next level of blueprints is unlocked.

Bug Fixes 14

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  Fixed Item and Policy status effects overlapping the UI when many are active at once.

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  Fixed several graphical errors in the farm.

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  Fixed bugged ocean tiles.

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  Fixed Town Guards becoming trapped.

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  Fixed graphical glitches around the town.

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  Fixed the sliding menus so the grabber is easier to grab at maximum and minimum sizes.

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  Fixed the One-way Portal and Stable Portal not activating correctly at the Wizard Academy.

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  Fixed a bug that allowed harvesting to continue after fast travelling away from a location.

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  Fixed a bug that caused the game's UI to display incorrectly when launching on Linux.

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  Fixed tooltip text shrinking too small on lower UI scaling.

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  Fixed some translation errors.

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  Fixed a bug that caused some resources to exceed their maximum when gathering.

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  Fixed unpurchased research upgrades causing the research book tab to flash when the required resources have not yet been unlocked.

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  Reduced the occurrence of overlapping UI elements. UI scaling can still cause overlap in some cases.

Additional Changes 7

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  Memory usage has been greatly optimised, further reducing RAM requirements beyond the improvements in previous patches.

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  Significantly improved load times.

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  Lowering the game difficulty now warns the player if the change will affect completion achievements.

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  Adjusted the Options menu size and layout to better fit lower-resolution screens.

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  Removed 720p as a preset window option. The game remains playable at this resolution, but some UI elements are not optimised for sizes below 800p.

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  Added a tooltip in the Options menu warning that increasing UI scaling too high for the current resolution may cause UI to overlap or exceed screen boundaries.

• – Thank you all for playing, and we look forward to speaking to you again soon!

Изменения 1

• – This patch is focused entirely on reducing the game’s memory footprint. Hundreds of changes have cut VRAM usage by about 1.1 GB, which should improve stability, especially on lower-spec hardware.