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• Announcements·8 Sept 2026Official

  Devlog #18 - HavenCraft Steam Demo in 2 weeks, Sept 22nd!

  Hello everyone! It's finally time for some news! We're going to release Alpha 6 in 2 weeks, on Tuesday, September 22nd. This one will also land on Steam as a free Demo. We want to prepare for a good launch into Early Access later this year, so Alpha 6 contains A LOT of small changes that make the experience overall smoother, clearer, and just straight up better. Roof Building Upgrade In HavenCraft, you're supposed to build a whole town, so building needs to work really well. That's why we worked on some roof upgrades: For example, when you drag two roofs onto each other, they merge automatically, closing the top nicely. But! That's not the big news. One of the coolest HavenCraft features that pretty much anyone enjoys is the auto-triangles for walls under the roofs. So the big news is that roof building does the same thing now, auto-corners: This way, you can now build all kinds of roofs: By the way, thanks to the content creators who already played Alpha 5 and requested this feature, for example Hirnsturz and GigaDon. This feature is a bit experimental; for now it's only on the 45° roof pieces. We wanted to first see some player reactions and make sure this works well, before doing all the math for the other angles' algorithms. Gameplay Changes Work Orders Belong to the Plot Now It used to be that each villager had their own work orders. That meant that whenever you hired a new person, or assigned/unassigned jobs, you had to reconfigure all work orders. That's no longer the case: work orders are now per-plot. This means that, for example, the carpenter plot has orders to make 800 wood joints, and you can freely assign 4 more carpenters who will all get to work immediately. Work orders are now also active by default. That should help newer players get started, hopefully. Roads Actually Make You Faster Walking on a road now makes you 40% faster. This goes for everyone: you, your villagers, and even your packlings. Now roads are not just decoration anymore; they actua...
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• Patch Notes·27 May 2026Official

  The Seasons Update Is Available For Early Playtesting!

  Hello everyone!before we launch into Early Access, we are running early playtests off Steam to find bugs and gather feedback already. Today, we're releasing Alpha 5, the Seasons Update!If you want to join early playtesting, try out the current state, and give us feedback you can sign up here:https://havencraft.dionicsoftware.com/Check out the changelog for the seasons update here: https://havencraft.dionicsoftware.com/changelog/alpha-5.0.2/We're looking forward to your opinions!Happy playing!
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• Patch Notes·20 May 2026Official

  Devlog #16 - Villager Behaviour Update

  Hello everyone!First off, if you’re short on time: Check out our new Soundtrack Video on Youtube!We're doing some pre-Early Access playtests on our website. HavenCraft Alpha 5 will release next Tuesday. With that said, it’s time for the last news post before the new playtesting update.Last week we covered seasons and the trailer. Today we’re talking about everything to do with the villagers in your town.What Are Your Villagers Up To?One of the things that makes a town feel like an actual place is seeing the people in it just live their lives. Doing ordinary things when they have a moment.In Alpha 5, villagers and travelers have a bunch of new idle behaviours:Sitting down to play cards at a table togetherWarming up around a fireReading a bookEating soup out of a bowlChatting with each otherRelaxing in public buildings like the tavern in the eveningGoing home and heading to bed at night (with a little “zzz” effect)Hanging around their assigned area during the day Villagers gathering outside and relaxing in the tavern after work.“Feierabend!”A small but nice addition: there is now an end-of-workday notification that lets you know when your villagers are wrapping up for the day. We called it “Feierabend” - a German word that means the moment you’re done with work for the day and can finally relax. We thought it fits.Falling Asleep Is No Longer PunishingThis one came directly from a lot of your feedback. With the old mechanic you’d lose items and wake up somewhere random if you didn’t make it to bed. The community didn’t like it so much, so we removed it.From Alpha 5 on, you still fall asleep if you stay up too late, and you still get the end-of-day overview. But no more item loss, and no more waking up somewhere unexpected.The end-of-day overview is a good opportunity to show some city stats and do some technical work behind the scenes, like season changes, but if you want to, you can hit enter and skip it quickly.New Character Models & AnimationsWe also took this relea...
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• Announcements·13 May 2026Official

  Devlog #15 - Seasons & Trailer

  Hello everyone and welcome to HavenCraft!We've been releasing Alpha builds for playtesting before Early Access on our website.Join the playtests and see additional info about HavenCraft here.Now, we're getting close to the pre-Early Access Alpha 5 release! Our target date is in 2 weeks, on Wednesday, May 27th. We're going to do a small weekly series of posts leading up to the release so you know what's new. There is a lot to cover!Alpha 5 Trailer Released!We finally have a Trailer. Check it out!We hope you like it, but feel free to give us your feedback! It's important that we get the trailer to be as good as possible before the Early Access release. SeasonsFor Alpha 5, we spent a lot of time improving HavenCraft under the hood, but as you've seen in the trailer, the big visual change is the new seasons!Each season changes the entire atmosphere of your town: the terrain, the foliage, the vegetation, the decorations, the fog, the lighting, and even the music all change. There are also some smaller details, like butterflies in some seasons or leaves falling from the trees when you hit them in the fall.In spring, you’ll find flowers and butterflies, while on summer nights, the fireflies come out. In fall, the leaves turn red and yellow in fall. Winter is my personal favorite season.Having seasons means that you have to be prepared. Farm plants don’t grow in winter, so be sure to stock up on food.The Big IncineratorWe added a new type of furnace, the “incinerator”. Instead of smelting ores into ingots, it can burn anything into ash.That’s useful for 2 purposes.Getting rid of unwanted items or overproduction in an automatable way (you can fill it via hoppers).You can use the ash to make soap for the villagers and achieve a little bit of extra town happiness.If you try to burn the ash itself again, it’ll burn into nothing, so you can truly get rid of items if you want.Don’t put your valuables inside.Performance ImprovementsSome of our playtesters have pushed quite far in ...
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