Hey Everyone, Happy December! Motivated and inspired by Froggy and RepeatPan’s excellent Frostfeast holiday mod, the entire team is in full Alpha 14 swing. This week, let’s take a look at Yang and Tom’s latest contribution to our combat prep and recover gameloop: our newest class, The Herbalist!
The Herbalist (Part 1)
To recap the video’s points:
- Before we can add more combat classes to the game, we need to fix a more fundamental problem: that combat right now is, from a gameplay perspective, binary. You either win, and your town goes on as if nothing happened at all, or you lose, and so badly that you often need to restart your whole game. Since Stonehearth is a game about resource management and advance planning, combat too should be something you can plan for in advance, and then work to recover optimally from afterwards. The military prowess of your town should build over multiple combats, with a recovery cycle between each.
- Injured hearthings will now recover HP very slowly, if at all
- To heal injured hearthlings, promote an herbalist with a staff crafted by a carpenter.
- The herbalist will use flowers and plants to create healing tonics and bandages
- To help the herbalist get started, all small plants (berry bushes, silkweed, flowers) will all be movable
- Flowers, like silkweed and berry bushes, will now be renewable resources
Other Announcements
- It’s the holidays, so we will suspend Desktop Tuesday over the weeks of Christmas and New Year’s. Desktop Tuesday will return on Tuesday, 1/5/2016
- Streams will also return on Tuesday, 1/5/2016
- If you haven’t tried out our community holiday mod, Frostfeast, you should definitely do so!
From everyone at Team Radiant, we hope you all have a wonderful holiday, and we thank you from the bottom of our hearts for giving us the chance to work on this game together with you. 
XOXOXO, Tom, Tony, Stephanie, Albert, Chris, Doug, Brad, Yang, Allie, and Linda