Following our bi-yearly release schedule, we're pleased to release version 0.5!  

This release includes lots of new buildings as well as a lot of backend improvements which make the code easier to maintain and extend.  

New Buildings

• Dairy Farm: Produce cheese for food consumption.
• Hops Farm, Brewery, Inn: Grow hops, produce ale and distribute it, making people happy!
• Armory: A storage for your weapons.
• Fletcher's Workshop: Produce bows or crossbows.
• Poleturner's Workshop: Produce spears or pikes.
• Blacksmith's Workshop: Produce swords or maces.
• Armorer's Workshop: Produce shields.
• Barracks, Stone Barracks, Engineer's Guild, Tunneler's Guild: They are currently placeholders, but they will allow recruiting military units in the next updates.
• Chapel, Church, Cathedral: They are currently non-functional, but in future updates they will increase faith, which will increase happiness.
• Apothecary: Currently non-functional. It will gain utility in future updates.
• Positive Buildings: Gardens, ponds and maypole. Build them to increase population happiness.
• Defensive Stone Structures: Towers and gates made out of stone.

Gameplay

• Added a new "Campaign" mode, where you can play missions with objectives.
• The previous free build mode is now a separate mode called "Freebuild".
• Added auto tax feature to castles. This will automatically apply tax on your population, based on the happiness level.
• Workers from destroyed builders will no longer disappear anymore and they will become unemployed again.
• Destroyed buildings will now refund half of the material cost.

GUI

• Added map selection for the freebuild mode.
• Added campaign menu.
• Added option to select game resolution.
• Added GUI for the barracks.
• Added GUI for the armory.
• The material cost on building tooltips will change color based on if you have the required resources or not.

Misc

• The game date is now displayed.
• Added the lord unit. It will wander around your castle.
• You can now press F12 to take a screenshot.
• The camera zoom is now smoother.
• Added tooltips to built buildings.
• Added current materials beside the cost to the building tooltips.
• Clicking on materials in the stockpile UI will now open the market UI with that material.
• Added right click shortcut to navigate back in UIs.
• Added soundeffects to the action bar.
• Save files are now ~10 times smaller.
• Added configurable keybindings. This is currently not exposed in the UI.

Bug Fixes

• Buying materials from the market when the stockpile is full will no longer spend money.
• Fixed wheat farmer sometimes getting stuck.
• Fixed crash after trying to build outside of the map.
• The quarry workers will not get stuck anymore if the ox handler is unemployed.
• Fixed wrong shading of the stockpile on game load.
• Fixed not being able to select the Fortress (upgraded keep).
• Fixed several bugs about terraforming when placing buildings.
• Fixed being able to place the initial buildings when the game is paused.
• Fixed stone texture in the stockpile getting misaligned.
• Fixed crash on game start for ARM processors, like Apple's M1 and M2.
• Fixed not being able to fully destroy woodcutters in a loaded game.
• Disable building too close to the keep to not interfere with keep upgrades.