Hello everyone!
HavenCraft Alpha 4 will release next Tuesday!
With that said, it’s time for the last news post before the release. This time, I’d like to share news about the soundtrack with you.
So far, HavenCraft has only had some stock music to fill up the atmosphere a little bit in the playtests. But now, we’re working with the composer Marco Salamida to finally make a proper soundtrack for HavenCraft.
The first track I want to share is the main menu theme. We tried to make sure it has some catchy parts and has the right amount of action and calmness.
As for the ambient music, we’re dividing it into day and night tracks. For the day track it was important to get some energy into it and a feeling like “we’re out, working on the town!”, while not being too intense - it’s still a background track.
The night track, on the other hand, is calmer and a bit more magical:
I’m curious to hear what you think and especially how it’ll feel to you in game.
We don’t have enough tracks yet to fill up all the hours of HavenCraft playtime, so you’ll still hear some of the old stock music from Alpha 3, but we’ll phase these out in future updates.
This is completely unrelated to the music, but we just finished it, so I thought I’d share it:
The current red brick roof we have in Alpha 3 is quite a modern one, and because of that, it takes a bunch of resources and some effort to unlock. Especially at the beginning of the game, players didn’t really have a choice besides making wooden boxes as houses.
This will change now: We’re adding thatch and wood roof variations with Alpha 4:
The thatch and wood roofs are new and will be unlocked quickly.
Another thing we finished pretty recently is the new packling station. We showed the concept to you back in the post about skylings, but now it’s fully integrated. You no longer have to deal with hoppers to fill them; they just integrate with the stockpiles themselves.
The new packling station connects directly to the stockpile.
That’s it for this week. Let us know if you have any feedback, and I hope you’ll give Alpha 4 a spin when it releases next Tuesday!
Happy playing!
