![]() On the next screen you will have the opportunity to choose your starting 5 citizens. New players should choose the biome favored by their kingdom. You can also set the difficulty (peaceful, normal & hard) and the biome (Temperate, Desert & Arctic) you want to play in. The Ascendancy is recommended for new players because they are a little easier as the other two. In the vanilla game are three kingdoms included: the Ascendancy, Raya's Children and the Northern Alliance. The first choice you have, is with which kingdom you want to play. The first thing you will need to do is start a new game. In the settings you can change the graphics, the sound, system options, gameplay options and the controls. There are the common features, save & load your games, exit to main menu, exit game and the settings. You can change them in the settings.īy pressing "esc" or by clicking on the sun/moon clock, you can access the game menu. Most of main UI buttons have a set shortcut on the keyboard. ![]() Additionally, you can rotate around the center of the view port with the Q and E keys. To move around the world, you can scroll in all directions using the W/A/S/D and arrow keys. Holding down the right mouse button and dragging your mouse around will also rotate the camera. Holding down the mouse wheel will drag the map around your cursor. You can zoom in and out on your settlement by scrolling up and down on the mouse wheel. Simply click on the item or villager you wish to interact with. The interface is primarily interacted with using the left mouse button. A full list of all controls can be found here. Stonehearth is controlled through a combination of mouse and keyboard controls. There are additional screens and controls that are used in game, but we will cover those in the relevant sections. The the pause/play/fast forward buttons allow you to change your game speed. The colorful bar shows you which game task uses how much of your computer's main memory. ![]() You can alter your vision with them, which can be useful while building and mining. The buttons Building Vision, Terrain Slice Vision, X-ray Vision and Appeal Vision on the lower right are your vision controls. These buttons are, from left to right, Town Info, Citizens, Design Building, Place, Harvest, Designate Zones, Crafters, Fight & Defend, Multiplayer Menu and Bulletins, we will cover these later in this guide. In the center are your main controls - the buttons with which you will command your hearthlings. In the bottom left, you will see information on the hearthling/ item/ enemy selected. Along the bottom of your screen you have the main game controls arrayed. You can see there the current weather and also how it will change in following days. Right under the clock is the weather forecast. At night, you will see the same effect happen to the moon as dawn draws near. As the day progresses, you will see the bars around the sun slowly empty as dusk approaches. In the upper right hand corner you have the clock. The main view port showing the world fills the center of the display. The main user interface can be broken down in to several sections. This guide will take you through your first steps in the world of Stonehearth, from choosing where to start your town, through creating items and buildings, maintaining your citizen's (hearthling's) happiness, and ending at combat and the defense of your settlement! So you have decided to build your first town. 3.11 Maintaining your hearthlings' happiness.I would hope that it develops its own distribution network and leaves Steam out of the picture for the sake of the game and its community. If Stonehearth really does become the game that we see in the early videos it will not need Steam. Imagine what Minecraft would be had it been on Steam. There are some absolutely fantastic handcrafted houses that took the creators 100's of hours to develop, but because it doesn't have every crafting station and 50 chests in it, 20% of the player base will give it 1 star making it a 3-star creation at best. And getting a 5-star is impossible as people play games for different reasons. It's nothing more than a rolling short-term popularity contest with no real percistence. Steam Workshop is a complete mess when it comes to building a real mod community. You get one forum that isn't easily accessible or moderated by community moderators. Steam isn't really a community platform for games. So any community that exists outside of Steam will likely not be able to interchange content with the Steam Community. Steam splits games from their core community by not granting access to the non-Steam community. But I'm frightful of the negative impact Steam can have on such a potentially great game such as Stonehearth. I've got over 250 titles on Steam (not including Demos or F2P).
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