The new and improved cooking system is used by taking a frying pan or a cooking pot into your hand and selecting an ingredient with the right mouse button. In order to cook the food then the mouse wheel has to be kept pushed down for the amount of time you want to cook it. Of course this only works when standing close to a lit fireplace. After cooking you can serve it via the left mouse button. Frying something results in food which is put on a plate, cooking something results in a drink which is put into a cup. Finally eating or drinking then is done by pressing the left mouse button again.
(There is also a little explanation text in the upper right corner of the screen to help out with this.)

The cooking process also has a little bit of a mini-game bacause each food group (fruits, vagetables, nuts, fish, meat, eggs and spicery) has its own best cooking duration. From the beginning the quality of the cooked food gets better and better up to the point where you reach the best time and then the quality drops again until it eventually even becomes worse than in the beginning. Because of this you should have to experiment a little to know which food group has to be cooked for how long.

Even though the previous cooking system (1.0, only included in the German edition until version 0.0.0.1d) allowed set meal/menu combinations of up to 4 ingredients, I removed this in order to implement the new system which just feels a lot more natural and intuitive than selecting food into the slots of a graphical menu.
If you carry any spicery with you, a random one is now automatically being used if your cooking skill is high enough.

Next there are a few changes for the fireplaces, now it works like this:
Once you have built a simple fireplace you can add 2 types of add-ons which can each be upgrades once:
     Stonecircle Stoneborder (to protect against flying sparks, thus decreasing the fire hazard)
     Stoneholding Grill rack (to hold a pan or pot above the fire, thus increasing the food quality)
This allows for 9 different combinations:

The new house building system should be familiar to everyone who has ever built a shelter in the original game:
You start by building a roof to protect yourself from rain and such. Afterwards you can add walls to protect yourself from the wind and maybe wild animals at night.
There are 4 building classes which improve in this order:
     Barrack Hut Cottage Bungalow

While the barrack almost falls apart at each slightly stronger blow of the wind a hut is a little more stable, a cottage is even stronger and finally the bungalow is the most secure one.
Also from the cottage and upwards there are windows and doors which can of course be opened and closed.

Apart from the fireplaces which I already mentioned you can further build furniture for your houses. So far there are only tables. Chairs, beds and lamps are planned.

So far I didnt plan any crates or other storages because the mod uses a global inventory system which basically means you can carry as much stuff as you like or can find. I'm thinking about changing this though, but please let me know what you think is better. If I was to bring the standard system back I could probably also need a few tips about which item should have which weight...


Note that building is done with a pocket knife now instead of a hammer! Also the building materials are not defined properly yet. Currently each building only needs another pocket knife as material. This is because it is faster this way when testing and such. Don't worry, it'll be changed in the future.

Yes, that's right: There is a chess system in this mod!
You can build a chess table and use it which will bring you to the chess island where you can play on a large chess board.
The basic things should be working but these 4 things are not yet implemented:
Check
Check mate
En passant
Castling

When using the ground of the chess island there also is an options menu which pops up. It allows you for example to turn the help on which then hightlights the squares you can place a selected chess piece on or the opponent's pieces which can be captured.

Note that the chess system is currently deactivated! This is due to the fact that I made some huge improvements at the scripts some months ago which allowed me to reduce it by several thousand lines of code! Unfortunately it's still not working properly again because some funny things ("funny" as in "strange", not "actually funny" ) happen on a regular basis. But I think this should be the next bigger part I'll be working on, now that the new cooking system should be pretty much done.

This is actually just a little gimmick. But who knows, maybe it has potential.

When sleeping there is a chance that you dream about something. There are 2 different possibilities: Either you dream something random which will then show up to 3 little images appearing and disappearing somewhere on the screen, OR you have a specified dream which initializes a sequence of slightly larger pictures in the middle of the screen. This might be interesting for mappers as this allows to create dreams which the player then can or has to interprete.

Here are 2 examples:
     closed chest closed padlock eye key open padlock open chest filled with gold
or
     closed chest closed padlock grabbing hand hammer open but empty chest skull

This could have the message that the player has to look for a key in order to open a chest instead of trying to hit it until it breaks which might activate a trap and kill the player.

There is a collection of almost 300 (black-and-white) pictures which can be used when composing such a dream. The activation then is done by simply giving a certain variable a string consisting of a sequence of three-digit numbers separated by colons.

I might upload a demonstration video in the future.

Important:
I recommend to always install the latest patch:

[Currently there are no older English versions of this mod.]

Attention: If there are multiple patches for one version then the newest one also contains all previous ones. This means you only have to download the newest one!

Note: The number of -signs shows how big the problem is/how much work it probably is to fix it.
If there is a question mark behind single entries that means that I'd like to have some more confirmations for it.

Cooking system:
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House building system:
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Chess system:
Some msg einige msg -information are still shown
Some text3d -information are still shown
Upon returning from the chess island a diary entry with a long combination of numbers shows up

Dream system:
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Other:
Upon returning from the chess island items in the inventory multiply (apparently this is because of the chess island map and not because of the chess system itself!)

Edit 1: Thread updated with reminder to comment upon voting in the poll
Edit 2: Poll removed & thread updated with information about the now released version 0.0.0.2
Edit 3: Some spelling errors removed and a few additional pieces of information added