Requiem for a Brew 🍺

Hear ye, hear ye Fermentines📯

The monastery has been quite busy over the past weeks, and today we bring you the update that brings Ale Abbey to its 1.1, Requiem for a Brew! A hearty update that we have been painstakingly brewing based on your feedback, it brings a multitude of UI improvements, new world flavor, spooky surprises, and some much-needed “smoothing” to make things more palatable under the hood.

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UI Changes

Cleaner, Sharper, Friendlier

• Updated tooltip for fermenters and boilers when a valid coordinate exists, but the high spot is occupied

• Added ESC-to-close on bartering panels

• Added a Courtyard delivery queue icon and panel to track incoming and outgoing goods

• Improved info when choosing ales for bandits (style and traits now shown)

• Added contextual tooltips to the Title scene

• Added “Mute when minimized” toggle in Main Menu

• Added selling details panel in Ale Markets

• New drag icon when hovering over the Recipes UI minimap

• New icon in the Brewing UI and Archives to mark award-winning ales

• Added profit sorting

• Added filters to show only ales requiring lagering or aging

• Brewing UI now keeps your filtering and sorting when closed

• Tooltips no longer vanish when hovering over a selected Fermentine

• Added “Continue” button on Title scene

• Added controls to increase/decrease ale prices in the Markets UI

• Game time now pauses when confirmation windows appear (serial pausing aficionados, we have finally been blessed!)

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Achievements

If you ever liked “cheesing” it, you can stop holding your breath now…

• The “Cold Cellar” achievement can now be unlocked by moving an existing cellar to the lower floors (it’s a feature, not a bug)

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World

New Events, New Art, Weather Effects!

• A brand-new ghostly World Event now haunts the Abbey…

• Fixed furniture-movement issues in the Abbot’s room

• Fixed laymen’s exception for newly finished rooms being moved

• Added new SFXs

• Added snow and rain VFX

• Increased bonuses for Frescos

• Added new Frescos for:

  • Cellar

  • Meditation Room

  • Refectory

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Backend

Smoother Than a Well-Rested Lager

• Fixed trait-count calculation for the More Than Three Traits judge’s dislike (your competition results should now be more logical!)

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A Small Favor from the Fermentine Order… 🍻❤️

If Ale Abbey managed to get you to find peace and quiet for a weekend or two… or months (we don’t judge), or maybe made you grin thanks to your brewing success, consider leaving us a Steam review. It helps enormously with visibility and brings more monks, nuns, and curious wanderers into the Abbey.

From everyone here at Hammer & Ravens and Shiro, Brew and be merry!

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