Update - Alpha 5.0.9

Posted by Ponzel on 2026-07-15

It’s time for another HavenCraft Update!

If you are already signed up for the playtest, you can find the update link in the main menu of the game or in your signup email. You can just install over your old version; no need to uninstall it first.

Let us know if there are any issues and happy playing!

Changes

• Features
  • Street painting: optional grid-aligned paint mode, toggled via Ctrl-Q.
• Balance
  • Wood burns 2x as long in the furnace and incinerator.
  • Most items made from flammable materials are now flammable themselves. This includes things like fiber, cotton, cloth, wood joints, bookshelves, etc.
  • Tripled the yield of copper ore.
  • Tree replanting is now researched much earlier in the tech tree, right after barley farming.
• Quality of Life
  • The +/- buttons on production orders now change the order by a full stack instead of a single item.
  • The player character now hints that villagers are assigned to beds on the map, when you try to click on the bed during the day.
• Audio
  • Halved the volume of the reputation milestone sound.
• Multiplayer
  • Fixed a crash when another player deconstructed something you had selected.
  • Fixed an error at unusual frame rates that could disturb how the game syncs time between host and clients.
• Bugfixes
  • Fixed packling routes that share a station getting loaded from old saves, which could crash the game when the station was destroyed.
  • Fixed saving on exit failing when an auto-save was still in flight.
  • You now get a popup when your settings can’t be saved (disk full or things like that).

Big thanks to everyone that reported bugs and gave feedback!