Ostriv Update 5 Patch Notes

Update 5 for Ostriv has arrived, and here are all the changes and improvements mentioned in the patch notes. The beloved city-builder is getting some new additions, fixes, and improvements with update 5 of its alpha build. Here is the complete list of patch notes for update 5 for Ostriv:

Ostriv Update 5 Patch Notes

Added/changed

• New decorative bush: Guelder rose
• Tavern owners now won’t mind getting alcohol from farther market stalls
• Added help text for slaughterhouse and burial plot
• New building: dairy
• New resources: butter, cheese, smetana
• New decorative bush: Lilac
• Added a message log where you can see all recent notifications you may have missed
• Salo and animal hides now need to be salted in the slaughterhouse for preservation
• Some resources now have limited shelf life and perish when expired
• Now only the closest boatyard will fix fishing boats
• Some minor optimizations for bigger cities
• Now using “c:\Users\USERNAME\Saved Games” for saved games
  To port your previous saves, move them from “c:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\Ostriv” to “c:\Users\USERNAME\Saved Games\Ostriv”
  
• Redesigned stats window divided to 3 tabs with added nice graphs
• Number of simultaneous trade deals is now limited to 5 per type
• Added help text for warehouse
• Can now fill the resource lists automatically, based on local availability
• New building: barber surgery
• Randomized market stall models
• New building: smaller granary (has twice less capacity and 8 resource slots)
• Improved logic behind raw materials supply
• New building: brickworks
• New building: brewery
• Slightly reduced charcoal price
• Each citizen now has a personal log with all the significant life events recorded
• Added info on available map resources on new game start
• New building: distillery
• Added help text for limeworks
• New building: hopyard
• Priest will now move to a new church if previous one was demolished
• Trade demand and proposal will now increase over time. Even more so if you import a lot.
• Now showing total area of farm fields in farm properties
• Families will now share their money with relatives living separately
• Siblings will now be visible in the family tree if they live in the same house
• Family members will now visit graves of their deceased relatives
• Graves now have a link to personal log of the deceased
• Better visualizing failed crops
• Children aged 15-18 can now work as laborers (with reduced productivity). Also added a hire option for that
• Can now set custom threshold on wealth tax
• Warehouses, hay barracks and granaries now have their storage capacity visible directly in properties panel
• New building: sand pit
• Clay pits, saltworks and sand pits can now only be placed on suitable places
• All clay pits (and sand pits) are now slightly different visually
• Can now build paved roads
• New building: iron ore mine
• New map
• Citizens will now be able to share some of their thoughts when you click on them
• Each forestry can now mark specific trees for removal by painting with a mouse
• Increased forestry log limit from 12 to 18
• Optimized the chopping tasks distribution between different forestries
• Added more on-screen tutorial tips for early game
• Improved trade screen UI
• Row houses!
• New building: stone well

Fixed

• Crash related to clay pit demolishing
• Undesired flowering on trees when looked from afar
• Demolished village houses didn’t take care of their bushes
• Junk reserves stayed in market stalls preventing demolishing them
• A few minor UI corrections
• Horses produced cow hides when slaughtered
• Slow saved game load on Intel/AMD GPUs
• Potentially fixed issues with false-inaccessible stone deposits
• Crash after destroying a mining cart
• People could get stuck in an endless gardening loop
• Crash related to farms
• Endless deliveries of <1 of a resource
• Orchard yearly fertility change didn’t save properly
• Unsuccessful animal relocation could lead to not being able to demolish building
• Error when clicking “Continue” without any saves
• Some pop-ups fell out of screen on some UI scale settings
• Could fire mayor while in camp center
• Harvest amount was sensitive to FPS
• Taverners didn’t pay wealth tax
• White lines on demolishing buildings in some cases
• Crash after demolishing camp cart parking
• Some bridges didn’t connect land correctly (“Inaccessible”)
• White lines after starting smeltery construction
• Animals in saltworks consumed twice as much hay as usual

Update 5 for Ostriv is available on PC, Linux, and MacOS only. For more information on future updates and patch notes, head over to the official Ostriv website here.