http://stonehearth.net/2014/08/11/steam-unstable-branch-updated-with-alpha-4-build-118/
You know you want them curtains. Also, plushies.
I love you guys. I’m super excited to try this!
Edit: So many little awesome things already… (only been playing for 15 minutes). No more accidentally clicking on the stockpiles!
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ok, clearly these guys are having too much fun cranking out the content (on a Monday? pre desktop Tuesday?!?)
I blame the cheese balls…
three cheers for cheese balls!
- Many more crafting recipes and placeable items
- More flora
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Hey guys thanks for the update. I reloaded a save from the previous Alpha 4 and all the guys whos heads were previously in the ground popped out of the ground and got back to work!
Now, the only thing iv noticed now is that some of the villagers are moving at different speeds. As in, either normal or as slow as molasses
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full on “squeee!” moment…
placing my carpenter’s sign, on the worlds smallest building (serving as a makeshift wall, for the express purpose of holding said sign)… 
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That has to be the coolest thing I have ever read, of all time. Just saying 
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as soon after i promote someone to carpenter the game stops responding
Epic thanks for the update 
Awesome update 
building is still a bit buggy but at least they put up windows for me now. On thing that still breaks the game for me is when i accidentally place 2 buildings too close to one another and the roofs overlap, when that happens my citizens just freeze and get stuck.
But overall this was a great update cant wait for alpha 4 
Aw, why’d you have to release just when I was at my parents’ place where I can’t reasonably play/test it? I guess I’ll have to wait until early next week now…
Anyway, very excited about the reported improvements
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Workers don’t seem to find a way to build a ladder going down a heigh level (= when starting from a higher ground).
would you be able to submit a bug report, or perhaps provide a screenshot or two depicting this? thanks!
yes, ladders don’t “go down” just yet…
Ok. Apart from that I have a serious problem with attacking goblins. They freeze a part of the UI for me after the first theft I fight with the CTA. When this happens I’m stuck with the harvestings tooltip in the lower left corner and the last thing I had clicked before the attack (could be the button for the carpenter workshop). It’s game over at that point. I can still click every item but the UI doesn’t show the tooltip or the options so I cannot place furniture, plants and basically everything else (e.g. the stockpile options).
If it’s anything like the UI freeze from this issue and this one, a save/load should fix this problem. Have you tried that?
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Also notice lack of events, been logging about 2hr of play time and not a single event appeared.
Interesting, I had a a few of them in 2 hours. 3 Trading option and 4 villagers joined.
Edit:
So I have prided myself on not losing any villagers to goblins since shortly after alpha 3 was released.
Wife totally distracted me while I was playing and I had the misfortune of turning towards my pc just in time to witness poor Cray cut down by a vengeful goblin while his fellow villagers watched in horror…
As if a gift from Church of Plenty… i was sent 2 Footman in rapid succession. They now patrol my village to keep them protected in honor of Cray.
RIP Cray, I hope you enjoy the flowers we left by your grave.
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Yes, save/reload solves the problem 
edit: What doesn’t get solved by a reload is the lazy workers just standing around at one point into the game and finally dying from hunger. The other things I encountered are more or less minor: Bushes wouldn’t show the graphic that new berries have grown (you can still harvest them) and my workers wouldn’t move the dining table inside the new cantina I build but would do so with the chairs. I was also quite sad that my settlers don’t sit on the four benches I placed around the campfire for them. They seem to prefer the ground.
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I have 13 Villagers at the moment…and FIVE of them are footman. I don’t know where all these wandering mercenaries are coming from, but i feel SUPER safe right now.
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They must have heard about how happy the people in your town were and decided to come check it out!
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Seen on sign outside town
“It’s been 4 Days since the last fatal Goblin Raid!”
Wandering Villagers… “Good enough!”
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