A longer road home, real quests, and houses that look their trade

A full homestead used to take about half an hour. It should now take many evenings, and every step should feel earned.

• Trees and rocks take longer to swing at, and a swing can glance off: three in four land at first, up to 95% with levels and better tools. A miss is quiet, and your experience per hour is about the same as before.
• Planks come two to a log (four from oak).
• House kits, facings and stairs cost several times more, and pay 2.5 times the Crafting experience.
• Building sites. Putting down a kit raises a scaffold with a work bar, like any workstation. The room is finished when the bar is full. Growing a claim stakes out the new border over a few minutes.
• Bigger claims now cost coins too: 2,000, 6,000 and 15,000. Upkeep is 8 planks and 6 wheat a week, times 1, 3, 6 or 10 by claim size.
• Gathering jobs while you are away, and thralls, now work at 15% of your pace.

• Shops pay 10% of an item's value (food 5%).
• The more of one thing you sell, the less a shop pays for it. The price recovers over a couple of hours. The shop window shows today's price.
• Rare finds are worth double, and the first sapphire and bird's nest turn up sooner.

• A new homestead rank gets a banner, fireworks and a fanfare.
• Pin a recipe to your screen to track what you still need for it.
• Lucky bonus yields pop up in gold.
• The shop counts up your takings as you sell.

• Talking to someone now opens a dialog box along the bottom of the screen, with their portrait on the left and yours on the right. Text types itself out, and keys 1-9 pick an answer.
• Every quest giver and story character has a painted portrait with moods, and your own portrait follows your look from the character creator.
• Story characters are drawn in the world to match their portraits: the wizard's pointed hat, the baker's toque, the fisherman's sou'wester and more.
• Quests can branch on your choices, remember what you said, ask you to come back and hand them in, let you pick a reward, run on a timer, repeat daily or weekly, and be abandoned.
• New kinds of goals: collect, equip, use, interact, catch, build, and reach a level or skill.

• Invite up to four friends to a party from a player's menu or with /invite. /party shows who is in it.
• Kills and gathering count for everyone in the party nearby who has the same quest.
• Share a quest with your party, and see each other's progress in the tracker.

• Porches now hang their roof from the front wall of the house, on a post at each corner, instead of lying in front of the door. A porch can only go across the front of a room. Porches built on a side or back have been taken down and their kits returned to your bag.
• The forge room, kitchen, workshop and kiln room now look their trade from outside: a stone forge bay, a serving hatch, open workshop doors and a brick kiln stack. Their fires glow at night.
• Rooms get a dormer, big rooms a bay window, hallways ivy, and towers a pennant.
• Rooms side by side share one continuous roof, with no seam or strip of grass between them.
• Paintings, shelves and windows no longer show through a roof, and wide stations no longer poke through a side wall.
• Things on a porch count as outdoors, and stepping onto the porch no longer lifts the house's roof.

• Towns full of houses draw many times faster. Walking through a big town no longer stutters.
• Animals, farm plots, shadows, critters and night lights do less work off screen.

• A new Story designer in the editor (F1, Quests, Designer): a quest graph where you drag lines to set what must come first, a dialog graph for each character with conditions, effects and locked answers, a "play from here" simulator, a flags list and a problems list that points out broken links.
• Each quest can be handed in or finish by itself, with a world default you can set.
• Pick a painted portrait for any character in the NPC tool.

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