Dear friends and players of Villagers. Thank you for all your supportive reviews and personal emails stating your love for the game, a huge motivation for the whole team! As some of your feedback included a request for more freeplay maps, we are extremely happy to announce an update today that includes 2 great new maps along with some other enhancements of the Villagers game: [b]CONTENT:[/b] [list] [*]Added 2 new big Freeplay maps: The mountain map "Big Boy" and "Islandhopping".[/list] [b]IMPROVEMENTS:[/b] [list] [*]Added an animated indicator to show consumed resources and created resources. [*]Buildings can now be removed if you want to. You can find the button in the building's window. The windows for raincatchers and wells have also been updated. [*]Villagers will now fall in love more randomly, not just when they find space in a house. [*]If houses with free capacity are available, Villagers will sleep in those and not in front of the townhall. However, Villagers without a partner will still be sad every night and want to find one! [*]Tree stumps will now disappear after a while. [*]New names have been added. Have a look out for Wayne! [*]Villagers will now be unhappy if they don't have a chapel or church to visit. [*]A notice has been added to inform about 'SHIFT + scroll' to zoom while placing a building. [*]Notification bar at bottom right is now smaller when opened. [*]The zoom-out when placing a building has been reduced. [*]Multiple fields can now be SHIFT placed (holding SHIFT, while placing). [*]When placing or upgrading a building, near resources or stored resources will now be added instantly to the building. [/list] [b]BUGFIXES:[/b] [list] [*]We fixed a bunch of issues with the campaign. If you were stuck in a chapter, please retry your savegame. If you still experience problems and can't progress in the campaign, don't hesitate to contact us! [*]Villagers will no longer just stand beside an attacking animal and wait to be killed by it. [*]The statistic about villagers without tools will now only contain adult villagers that actually work. [*]Further improvements to keep Villagers from getting stuck and children from starving to death have been made. [*]Fixed the occurrence of infinite loading screens on rare occasions when "reloading" a map. [*]Fixed a bug that was causing issues when cancelling a building. [*]Pathfinding has been improved, fixing several small issues including not working/lazy Villagers. [*]Houses will now save their stored food when extending or removing. [*]Unfinished buildings will now show their correct building progress after the load of a save-game. [*]Tool-tips would not disappear on rare occasions. This is now fixed. [*]Farmers will no longer move around the field, but actually work and walk on the fields. [*]Pharmacies will now save their stored medicine count. [*]Fixed an issue where buildings would be highlighted, when SHIFT placing multiple buildings. [*]In some occasions, the campaign progress was not saved between game sessions. This should be fixed now. [/list] [b]BALANCING:[/b] [list] [*]Shepherds will now bring more food to the barn. [*]Barn animals will now reproduce as quickly as described in the window. [*]Warehousers will now balance correctly between dedicated storage facilities and the townhall storage, when assigning through the townhall or loading a savegame. [*]Animal population in freeplay has been increased. [*]Villagers will live a little longer (~40), be less weak and reproduce faster. [/list] Please keep us posted with your suggestions and feedback! Thank you and best wishes from all the bumblebees and everyone at Avanquest Software. Regards Martin - bumblebee games