Hello everyone!

Today we're introducing some performance improvements, some new items and some bug fixes!

New Content:

Tallow Candles:

You can now make candles with fat and twine. They last considerably longer than torches and are relatively cheap to make.

Soap:

Soap and Lye have also made a return. You can make lye by boiling ash water and use it to craft soap. Soap is a very efficient way to wash yourself and a pretty good disinfectant.

Salves:

You can now also make salves (Healing and Soothing), which are stronger than ointments, but are crafted using fat.

And now to the patch notes proper:

Version EA_0.29:

[*]Performance Improvements (ticks in the late game should have significantly less lag).
[*]Added Tallow Candles, Lye, Soap, Healing and Soothing Salves (as well as their art) and the Tallow Crafts quest for the Quest Mode.
[*]Improved the birch sap system to make the creation of syrup and wine more realitic.
[*]Fixed a bug which sometimes prevent players from chopping a log into Pieces.
[*]Fixed a bug which was preventing the Tar from heating inside Campfires and Ovens.
[*]Fixed another bug which would spawn a duplicate Waterfall at Greenfalls.
[*]Gathering Mud from the Pond now completes Basic Pottery "Gather Mud" subquest.
[*]Killing a Wolf using a Log Trap now properly reduces Wolf population.
[*]Fixed a bug which allowed the player to place more Log Chairs in Mudhut than intended.
[*]Snow inside liquid containers will now melt if put inside a warmed up Kiln.
[*]Various text and Art fixes.

That's all for now!
See you on the next announcement. :)