Alpha 1 patch 5

A long-awaited fifth patch is ready now. This time I spent a lot of time trying to optimize performance, visible only on certain systems though. I had in plans much more to add to this patch, but couldn’t make you wait any longer. I guess the next patch will come much sooner.

Added/changed:

added a chicken coop building for breeding chicken for meat and eggs. The functionality is pretty basic now, which I’m gonna expand based on your feedback:

can now set laborers limit in any building

slightly reduced a fallow field benefit
the soil has a memory for nutrients in any point, so rebuilding a field doesn’t restore nutrients now
more graphical options: texture quality, shadow quality and more flexible FPS limit. Also updated ostriv_settings.exe
replaced all building icons with hi-res ones for 4K monitors
optimized performance on some systems (more optimizations are coming)

Fixed:

a UI bug allowed to add unlimited crop rotation slots
random crash on picking up resources
can’t store hay in a warehouse anymore
new local families never had children
some wells didn’t have a hole in them
now showing required resources for a well in UI

some problems may still persist in old saves, but won’t appear again.

To update your game you can just download it again from Humble with the same link they sent you when you purchased the game and then replace it completely with your current version. Your saves will stay.

If you have errors regarding “MSVCP140.dll” you need to install Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2017. Here’s the direct link: https://aka.ms/vs/15/release/vc_redist.x86.exe

Jean VERHAEGHE

Hi , I have an issue when I launch the game ‘Can’t find MSVCP140.dll’ . I haven’t this with the previous patch.
- Fjodre
  
  Same Problem. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/dff2d72d9e6788de1f8e3de0197c8d0617c8916acc61c7e7c2d56fe0b0b9f567.png
  - The Yevheniy
    
    Installing this should help: https://aka.ms/vs/15/release/vc_redist.x86.exe
    Or search for “Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2017”
    - Jean VERHAEGHE
      
      Thanks, this solve the issue.
    - Fjodre
      
      Thx
CarperGaz Seal

Looking forward to install latest patch and playing. Gary
StoneDustButze

Game is crashing after couple of minutes. installed the patch with hotfix. some ideas? i am new to playing on pc as a platform and ostriv is one of my first alpha games
- rooymans
  
  Same here, completely unplayable. Some savegames crashto desktop immidiately, a new game crashes within minutes.
- StoneDustButze
  
  now it’s working, had to start a new game
jomein

Windows 10. Never had a crash from Patch 1-4, with Patch 5, every 2-3 minutes the game crashed. No system error message. Just “ostriv.exe crashed…”
- StoneDustButze
  
  try a new town. worked with me
  - StoneDustButze
    
    okay now after playing some time with the new town crash appears again.
Jeon Naj

Why cant I see this on humble ?
- Geoff Fletcher
  
  Had you previously bought the game?
Thomas Knip

Win 7, didn’t experience any immediate crashes or missing files. Just will have to play for some time.
beusch heinrich

wieso kann man den patch5 nicht herunter laden.
- StoneDustButze
  
  Hast du den Link vom Kauf bei Humble Bundle noch? Der müsste jetzt auf den patch5 verweisen.
arie

Newbee to the game today. I installed and played the game but there was everytime the (auto) save error: failed to open file for for writing. In my firewall the game is allowed. So, what can cause this error and how can I solve it?
Farbener

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMlGKSvugAg&t= If you can’t download the game. Wenn du das spiel nicht runterladen kannst
Farbener

https://youtu.be/W0Ulo7OxITI How to Update Ostriv! English/German tutorial
beusch heinrich

nein den habe ich nicht mehr
fanch

??? You filter the web by browser ???
You website return a empty page with http error 447 on brower Vivaldi !
- AntonK
  
  Ah! I thought I was the only one who experienced this problem with Vivaldi 1.13.1008.40 (Windows 7 64-bit)…
  - fanch
    
    This user agent above will return a blank page with http return 447. tested on vivaldi and firefox. It so bad for net neutrality 🙁 I don’t understand why change page for diffrent user-agent. Its job of the browser. But this is is a good game !!! 😉
    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/62.0.3202.97 Safari/537.36 Vivaldi/1.94.1008.32
Татьяна Филина (tanypredator)

It’s good to see this game isn’t abandoned 🙂
About new patch. Waterside buildings connot be demolished again. Seemed to me, they were demolishable in a previous version.
Funny thing – initial log benches near the campfire turned to usual benches after loading game.
Warren Thwaites

Nice patch, except that any attempt to plant a tree causes a crash to desktop. Not essential though, as I previously found a while back that after planting over a thousand pine trees for the sawmills, all were protectected from cutting. LOL. I had to laugh. Be nice if it were possible to switch the protection on all trees being planted as either on or off as an option.
Brian

Demolishing and undo demolish both cause the buildings to go in to “stall” states even if resources exist.
Save here:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1zQWlOah-j1Qs4INygsrOrhLd1aCFzg1d
- Ron Baglien
  
  if you want to email yhevnie directly there is a readme file in the game folder with his email address in it and directions on what to send him. thats the easiest way for him to get a look at and debug the glitch/crash or stall.
Michael

Hi,
Just updated patch 5. Game doesn’t load get message saying need openGL 4.3 or greater. I’ve updated GPU driver still nothing. GPU is a gtx 1050ti 4gb. Hoping it’s still supported and not needing to buy a new GPU. Any ideas how to see what openGL I’m running and to update it without going through Nvidia website or app.

Thanks
Christopher Pütz

Very nice game, every time I get more addicted 😉 !! But it would be useful to plant trees that are not protected from cropping. I had to do it one by one per hand or build a new forestry. Perhaps a thing like a brush to remove protection or even plant trees would be very helpful.
Also sometimes my managers in the tradepost gets “lost, so that no messengers arrive from other towns or a deal can´t be fullfilled and the messenger cost is spent useless. The same happens sometimes to my farm managers, so the fruit tables disappear and i have to renew them when a new manager comes. Even the job offering disappear and i have to add a new job offer.
Kind regards and many thanks for your work
Christopher
- Ron Baglien
  
  as for protected trees, build something over them, i use a farm field
Татьяна Филина (tanypredator)

Just have got a crash when initial tent got demolished as family went to a house.
Josh

Great patch! Unfortunately villagers won’t purchase eggs. I have a LOT of eggs on hand and I’d love a way to sell them off. Also, would it be possible to add shoes to the trading post? There’s a town that wants them, and I have them, but I can’t sell them through the trading post. Lastly, villagers still cannot get firewood from warehouses. Thanks for all your hard work!
Arnel Dulovic

I feel like this game will rock once its finished
Jake

The email with the link to my game got deleted. And it doesn’t show up in my humble bundle library. How do i download it again?
- The Yevheniy
  
  http://humblebundle.com/resender
GameOverAUS

Just got it the other day and gotta say for 1 guy you have a good base game there, visually/performance wise it trumps some other more well established games and with some additions/bug fixes and tweaks it’s gonna be a really good game.

My only issues/suggestions for possible additions are
Completely random crashes with no rhyme or reason. (Bound to happen, in this phase)
Food production/consumption amount could use some tweaking seem to have plenty but it dwindles fast and people complain they have no food when there’s a market with food in it.
Money drains too quick in early game
Could do with finer control of the rotation so we can get straight as desired (not by luck).
Easier way to mass control on where people are needed to work like in Banished they have the tab with all workers and jobs they could fill.
Easier way to change the values in the warehouse/granary rather then just 1 or 10 notches at a time
An improved tutorial or guide/campaign in game which gives a general overview of how to get going,
Takamaruuu

I’ve bought this game directly from this website, without humble bundle. How can I get the update?
- wojteks86
  
  I guess that using this website gives you a Steam code?
  - Takamaruuu
    
    Unfortunately no Steam code, don’t think the game is even available on Steam?
    - wojteks86
      
      ah sorry, I misread the information yesterday, so try this:
      https://www.humblebundle.com/resender
      - Takamaruuu
        
        That worked 🙂 had found the link in a post below just a few minutes ago. Thanks!
Wesley

Thanks for the update! It’s running great and i haven’t had any crashes so far. I gotta say i love that you included the font file. Let’s me easily change it to a custom font that i’ve been obsessed with for some time. Just loving this game. Thank you!
jaras360

That worked 🙂 had found the link in a post below just a few minutes ago. Than