2.5 "What A View!"

Added

• Artwork by Juho Huttunen
• Paper watercolours in DMG style by /u/FlamableConcrete
• Two column style
• Some auto-updating elements
• Goblins
• Castles
• Dungeons
• Prisoners
• Sieges
• Infinite breadcrumbs
• Hover information for settlement size
• Description of racial makeup to the start page.
• Ability to edit dominant gender
• Customers and expanded relationships
• Relationships between buildings and NPCs
• Added race in dropdown NPC creation tool in the toolbox.

Changed

• Equality slider has changed; previously 0 was a completely matriarchal society, 50 was perfect egalitarianism, and 100 was patriarchal. Now, there is a dropdown for which gender is the 'dominant' gender, and 0 is sexist with 100 being perfect egalitarianism.
• Changed the function that generates initial buildings to test for whether a person with the corresponding profession lives in the town (don't flip a coin to see if there's a bakery when you've already got a concrete answer of whether there's a baker!)
• Population definitions for villages, towns, and cities have been increased.
• Fixed some bugs introduced in the last update.
• Bug fixes for Tippy on profiles
• Fix tavern material being [object Object]
• Alchemist bugs
• Fix creating new faction.
• Fix some slider bugs.
• Fix tavern material bug.
• Put patreon supporters list in a table.
• Improvements to onboarding process and tutorial.
• Formatting improvements in town edit
• Fixed empty headers sometimes appearing in shops

Removed

• 'Return' option in profile pages has been removed to force navigation through the breadcrumb.

Known issues

• Sliders are still very bugged. We know.
• Tippy not being used in Settings menu
• Still no consistent style language between links that take to new page, append, or replace existing content
• Spymasters still sometimes live in abject poverty.
• Sticky heading does not span the entire width on some viewports
• NPC profiles still break on refresh
• Changing town name still does not update establishments
• Two column layout sometimes slices tables in half

Hansel Eats Bugs

Nothing too major- just a bug fix of many of the issues addressed when a post went viral, resulting in an uptick of traffic, plus an overhaul on the breadcrumb system (and a restructuring of the town.buildings object into an array behind the scenes)

2.4.1

Added

• Option to change biome before town creation
• Create NPC function in toolbox
• Added functionality to delete NPCs
• Added functionality to delete buildings
• More sophisticated breadcrumb system allowing for infinite links
• List of professions in town now shows associated NPCs, and gives option to create new NPC
• Hyperlink on version number to latest changelog

Changed

• Minor fixes to NPC edit page, still thoroughly beta
• Genericized profile tool, increasing stability
• Fix encounter instability
• Fix (most) weather instability
• Fix nightmare function

Kitchen Sink

Wow! So uh, there's a lot in this release.

2.4

Added

• PRNG by default, taken from the URL's location hash (everything after the #, incl. the hash)
• URL seeds following the gfycat naming convention of adjective+adjective+animal
• Tutorial
• Fletchers
• More meat in the butcher
• Additional text
• Indefinite article support
• NPC debt- creditors, debtors, and curtailed hoarding of wealth.
• Temporary highlighting of newly created building
• Gender equality description, minor mechanical effects
• Option to disable 'realistic' gendered occupations
• NPC religion
• NPC relationships generator (previous was primitive, based off the Life Events function)
• • Includes friends, drinking buddies, exes, old flames, neighbors, acquaintances, and secret crushes
• NPC professions will generate relevant associations i.e. butlers will usually have an associated employer.
• • This is an ongoing project, which will help make towns feel like living, breathing entities.
• Baked good generator

Changed

• Updated dependencies
• Tooltips use dotted underline instead of bolding text now
• Fixed Sugarcube & TweeGo install links
• Building list is now alphabetically ordered
• Fixed some bugs with roofs
• Minor bug with factions fixed
• New background
• Reduced file size slightly
• Relationships chart on NPC page now includes race, occupation, and the reciprocal relationship
• Communism, syndicalism, and alternate economic and political ideologies have been rebalanced to be much rarer.

Known issues

• toUpperFirst() is sometimes not defined on the NPC profile page
• NPC partner's finances are totally separate, leading to amusing issues with spy masters living in abject poverty

v2.3 (which was never released, so count this as v2.4, too)

Added

• Generic structure creation function
• Deployment overhaul (thanks, Glinkis!)
• Link to Discord in the sidebar
• Link to Github Repository in the sidebar
• Tailors
• Bakeries
• Florists
• Butchers
• Cobblers
• Barbers
• Taxation
• Living standards
• Daily wage
• Over 300 new professions
• Profession descriptions
• Generate a crewmember function for ships
• Riddles
• Druid and Clergy factions
• Over 100 new prefixes and suffixes for town name generation
• Physical traits based on body parts
• 10 new potential life events
• Expanded Family Trees
• Blacksmith Plothooks
• Temple Blessings
• Tavern Unique Features

Changed

• Plain text title to banner
• Buildings can share streets
• Grouping of buildings is now done via street then type of building.
• Bug fixes for Mountain scenarios
• Dock ship descriptions expanded
• Market vendors no longer persist between different markets
• Minor UI Rework
• Button reskinning
• Minor temple readout reformat
• Minor Brothel readout reformat
• Minor Tavern Reformat
• Share button in sidebar
• Main Shops output rework
• New entertainers in tavern
• Blacksmith current projects now reflect the blacksmith's skills
• Tons of bug squashing

Removed

• Dead code
• Non-poster based plothooks from the tavern

Fresh Start

• Total code rewrite, making it much more accessible to newcomers
• Added NPC editing
• Added support for multiple buildings
• Added temples