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Sometimes a firewall or anti-virus can block the game's start-up and in such case, an almost blank error screen used to show up. This has now been improved so you see a proper explanation of the potential reasons for the failure and suggestions on how to fix it. This was a great idea in someone's recent stream of the game and will hopefully help reduce frustrations of new players.

Some players randomly experienced a lot of (what seemed like) unrelated issues, but were really the cause of the AI server crashing during a late-game out-of-bounds decoration. This would have led to things like your inventory disappearing or not being able to place a house. This patch should fix this crash, and hence at least some of those situations - but hopefully all of them so you no longer see these issue. If you still experience anything like this after this patch, let me know!

A lot of players were unsure of how to use the workshop or smithy, so I've helped improve this by:
- Adding helpful hints on the workshop and smithy doors. For example, trying to use a workshop door will now say "I can use the workbench outside for carpentry." rather than the generic "Not much to do inside."
- Pressing SPACE near the table of the workshop will now open the carpentry page. This makes the use of a workshop consistent with the smithy

Some people mentioned that they didn't enjoy building on hills and that it was difficult to find a flat area in their generated maps. As a result, I prioritised creating a map generation option in the new world menu which allows you to choose a much flatter map - better for regular city-building!

This was one was a bit tricky because I had to make sure that the map wasn't overly rocky or overly foresty since that's more common in flatter maps. But I'm pretty happy with the final solution and confident you should have no issues creating a resource-rich, yet flat-ish map!

Some people mentioned that the leaves can get in the way when exploring forests and pointed out being able to zoom-in with the camera may be useful. So this is a small patch to add a 'close-up' mode if you press the middle mouse button.