Trading Improvements and Cow Update and Patch Notes #57

Hello everyone!
Time for a new update.

Let's go straight to the content:

Trading Improvements:

We have reworked the price calculations for traders and as a result character stats should make a greater difference when trading.
Player trust and social skills should have an effect on trader trust gain, while physical things like size or facial symmetry will have a flat effect on prices. In general, the more socially adept and traditionally good looking you are, the better trader prices will be. Trust is still one of the biggest factors though, so with time, all characters should be able to achieve more reasonable prices one the trader gets to know them.

In any case, we will be tweaking prices for a while so please let us know if something feels too expensive or cheap. Prices will be changing quite a bit I'm sure.

Commissions:

The trader can now have requests of his own. The completion of these will unlock new traders with their own products.
We will be adding additional commissions in the future, and use them to unlock more features or to accelerate trust gain.
Currently there are two new traders:

Animal Trader:

He will start coming once you complete a partridge egg commission. He comes with cows, chicken, pigs, cheese and feed.
This trader is currently the only way to find cows and chicken in the game (aside from a couple new perks), and is an alternate way of getting pigs without having to catch them in the wild.

Metal Trader:

He will start coming once you complete a copper commission. He comes with copper, tin and bronze tools.
This trader provides an additional way to get metal (especially tin) as well as a new tool, a pickaxe, which can be used to dig mines faster and extract ore from veins more effectively.

New Animals:

Chicken and cows can now be acquired from the new Animal Trader or through a couple new starting perks that have been introduced (Starting Cattle and Starting Poultry).

On a related note, all domesticated animals (including boars) can now also be attacked by predators and some of them will fight back (boars and bulls).

Chicken:

Partridges have been nerfed and made more realistic as a result they now only lay eggs during spring, although their eggs are now lighter and more expensive.
Chicken, on the other hand, give more meat and lay eggs every season other than winter. Chicken eggs are bigger but cheaper.

Cows:

These are the stars of the update. They are a new source of very large leather, give the most meat of all animals in the game, and when lactating produce milk.

Cows can feed themselves by foraging but that won't usually make them happy. For that they should ideally forage from meadowgrass or clover fields or patches, be hand fed good food or given good dry fodder to eat. Dry fodder can be created with a new blueprint and will have a different level of nutrition based on the items that were used to create it.

Milk is a super useful liquid that can be drank or turned into other products.
Milk can be skimmed to extract its cream, and this cream can then be turned into butter. Butter is similar to fat and can be used to season and enrich other food items.

Milk can also be left to spoil into curdled milk (a process that goes much faster if you use a calf stomach). From it you can extract curds which can be pressed into soft cheese. Soft cheese can then be pressed into firm or even hard cheese, which are longer lasting. Hard cheese can also be left to mature into aged cheese.
You can also make low fat versions if you skim the milk first!

We will be adding more uses for cheese with the cooking update in the near future. ;)

And here are the patch notes:

Version EA_0.62 and hotfixes since the last announcement:

- Improved trader pricing system.
- Added trader commission system.
- Added metal and animal trader.
- Added pickaxe tool.
- Added cows and chicken.
- All domesticated animals are now properly attacked by predators and some of them can fight back.
- Added diary products (milk, cream, different types of cheese and butter).
- Partridges now lay eggs only during spring but their eggs are smaller and more expensive.
- Added Dry fodder bp for feeding cows.
- Rebalanced flavours and calories gained from partridge and wild eggs.
- Small Cloth now properly inherits quality when ripped from regular Cloth.
- Fixed a bug where Wolf Pack was not able to eat the piglet carcass.
- Fixed a bug where spoiled piglet carcasses did not drop any rotten remains.

- Fixed a bug where you would sometimes get a "Can't two things at once" lock after travelling on an ongoing Huntsman playthrough.
- Fixed a bug where eating raw eggs would increase your body temperature.
- Fixed a bug where Rustic Clothing Perk items did not drop proper items when dismantled.
- Fixed a bug that was causing the Metal Skinning Knife to give butchering bonus under some circumstances.
- Fixed a bug where leg and arm laceration were not providing the proper movement and dexterity penalties.
- Fixed some weight loss inconsistencies with right arm fractures.
- Fresh Springberries and Billberies now transfer spoilage properly and no longer rot right if mashed on high spoilage amounts.
- Huntsman, Trapper, Farmer and Wild Man now start a bit sleepy at the start of the game.
- Updated Powders to properly work with the preservation system.
- Fixed a bug which caused fresh fly agarics, fresh spirit mushrooms and Springberry fat cakes to increase body temperature when eaten even when cold.
- Fixed boiling not working anymore after hotfix 0.61a.
- If you escape from the bear without wounding it, it should no longer chase you around the map.
- Boars now fill their bellies more when eating from nature (which should make them a bit less annoying).
- Northern Boar feeding areas have changed and the Southern Lake Bank should now be visited less often.
- Damp Hollow is now a water drinking place for animals.
- Fixed the unlock description for the Parchment Blueprint.
- Added missing path and fences improvements to boulder grove, old woods, shady thicket, wind needles, pine cliffs, pine grove and pine meadows.
- Thrown stones now have to be recovered before they can be thrown again.
- Fixed a bug that was causing traps to only catch dead partridges and boars
- Wild Partridges now prioritize eating player food over socialising with domesticated Partridges.
- Fixed a bug which made funnel traps catch Frogs instead of Crayfish.
- Removed the word stitched from stitched left arm laceration name to make it consistent with other stitched wound names.
- Fixed a bug which caused the Moontouched Enchants and Spirit to behave like Primeval Wolf ones.
- Fixed the Armor stat to properly display the actual protection of the gear player is wearing.
- Fixed the message display when the Large Crucible gets fired.
- Ropes obtained by means other than crafting now drop 8 standard twines when unbraided.
- Grinding dried Heather flowers now longer increases spoilage percentage when ground into a powder.
- Decorative items placed on Rustic Table now increase the house sanctuary value.
- Heather stems can now be used as bedding.
- Frost shrine now properly unlocks when you make an iceblock instead of when placing an ice block blueprint.
- It is no longer possible to start a wood carving by dragging a sharp knife onto a log piece.
- Newly made snare traps now remember the types of ingredients they were made from and drop them when dismantled.
- Leather Cordage blueprint now accepts Squirrel Leather as an ingredient.
- Fixed the Spelling error when dropping Pine Needles into an Extinguished Campfire.
- Added dried and lit bracket fungus to Camp Filter.
- Roasted Fatty Fish now counts for Roast some Fish Quest.
- Equipping Healers Moss in a wound now counts for the wound treatment quest.
- Bug Resistance Perk is now more powerful.
- Windy locations now have Windy condition listed under card help section.
- Stone Axe now inherits usage durability from the sharpened stone it is made from.
- Fixed an inconsistent issue in Movement Penalty display when going from Seriously Encumbered to to heavy to move.
- Leather Helmet and Leather Bracers are now dyable.
- Fixed a bug with the Clay Basin dying Clothes into wrong Colours. (Wait for the colour to wear of before dying it again)
- Fixed a bug where climbing skill above 66.6% did not increase the climbing success chances for climbing up cliffs and trees.
- Wet Rye and Wheat Sheaves are no longer affected by Spoilage Preservation effects.
- Metal Wires and Lumps now lose smelting progress if they are not inside a hot crucible.
- Fixed a bug where piercing the Forest Beasts Brain made it drop no carcass.
- Fixed Char's description.
- Fixed a bug where Wolves would lose their ability to attack prey.
- Traveling South from Wind grove in low light conditions now has the proper name.
- Rotten Duck now drops Bone Pieces instead of Needles and Hooks.
- Added missing icons for new areas on the the game map.
- Changed Herbalism stat name.
- Changed name of Fishing Bait Ingredients to something less misleading.
- Uncompleted Moon Maiden quest can now be completed if you defeated the beast before completing its sub-quests.
- Updated Pine Needles description to mention you can make Tea with them.
- Fixed a bug with Flint Mine expansion that would place Witchstone mine expansions instead.
- Fixed some typos and incorrect names.
- Reduced the building time of Forest Paths.
- Healers Moss, Small Cloth and Bracket Fungus Strip Dressings now help wounds stop bleeding faster than before.

That's all for now.

For the next few updates you can expect, as we said, cooking improvements, the swamp expansion, and iron working. And hopefully…. soon after that… human npcs! Maybe?

See you all for the next update!

Reminder: All fixes and new content are added to the public beta branch first.
If you want to access them you can find the instructions on the link below. Be warned though, things are less stable there and are likely to undergo balance changes quite frequently! :)
https://steamcommunity.com/app/2868860/discussions/0/600774299444324511/