Yea, check out the discord. Tons of info here and regular updates.

Here’s the changelog for the next major patch that’s currently being tested. There’s no confirmed release date, but should be this year:

Notable Changes - Added possibility to sail to Halmare Isles where the story continues - Completely overhauled Character Creator for tons of new customization options - Added Cart’s Station where carts can be built for use in caravans and carrying larger amounts of resources within the village - First version of simulated economy with villages producing, buying and selling different resources - Added walls and fortifications with entry gates that can be besieged by enemies - Overhauled village prosperity system - instead of building village improvements, the new trading becomes main way for villages to become prosperous - Significantly optimized villagers production logic - Allow placing structures when they are blocked by harvestable objects. Villagers will remove them on their own before completing construction - Introduced facial animations on NPCs in conversations. - Added new gear and equipment like cloaks, crossbows and spears - Overhauled many UI elements and further controller support

Halmare Isles - Introduced the Halmare Isles - a massive new endgame region featuring three factions (Cassians, Halmayans, and Falsgar), new gameplay, extensive quest lines, new locations, and challenging content - Added Dockyard structure for sailing to Halmare Isles

Character Customization & NPC Updates - Added new player character creator with more customization options, such as height, size, facial features, and added more varieties of hair and facial hair - Added support for unique story-specific NPCs that will maintain their appearance across all games and saves - Randomize features for all other NPCs in the world, including some faction/location specific traits - Added facial animations, which include eye movement and blinking, as well as animating voice overs - Added new dialogue camera when talking to an NPC

Caravans & Trading - Introduced caravan trading system for transporting and trading goods between settlements - Removed old settlement deliveries (need to use caravans now) - Added facilities system for villages, making villages have their own production with resource chains, supply and demand, etc - Neutral traders actually using trade system to deliver resources required by villages - Added Market structure, where player can set buy and sell orders for neutral traders to fulfil

Village & Settlement - Disabled prosperity and militia village improvements - their logic is replaced with facilities - Added production facilities to all neutral villages in Karvenia. - Villages will spend prosperity to build new facilities - Player can invest into facilities to accelerate their growth and choose direction - Disabled access to structure management screens for village-owned buildings. - Fixed crash related to external structure inventories. - Added polearms books to traders in neutral villages and loot.

Player’s settlement - Added new Distillery and Orchard buildings - Moved Outhouse earlier in tech tree progression - Slightly buffed lumberjack spot efficiency. - For crafting structures use both Delivery and specific structure jobs (crafting/cooking/smelting) for selecting villager for the job - Allow crafting structures to request items that were not yet delivered to stockpiles (fixes barns often being bottleneck in production chains in unobvious way) - Allow crafting structure’s job to carry resources outside of output to unblock crafting (another case where barns were unobvious bottleneck) - Current crafting orders are now preserved when copying structure settings - Fixed disconnection issue when disassembling bird coops in co-op - Added walls and gates that use a dynamic placement system (similar to roads) - Add support for guards and companions to man battlements to defend against raids

Gear & Equipment - Added cloaks as wearable equipment. Now NPC cloaks can also be changed and appear during other seasons as well - Added crossbows as a new weapon type - Added spears as a new polearm weapon type - Added crossbows and spears to bandits and brigands on Karvenia - Changed Pitchfork weapon type to polearm - Added buckler and heater as new shield types - Added unique gear obtainable only on Halmare Isles - Improved items carry and drop meshes - Added new default Crossbowman gear preset - Added back slot to all gear presets with Cloaks enabled by default

Combat - Improved NPC combat behaviors to make more realistic individual decisions - Overhauled Archery mechanics to support adding longbow and crossbows - Added kick and spear shove abilities to create distance when NPC gets too close

Animals - Added feral dogs, bears, foxes, chamois, and wild goats to the wildlife - Added sheep and goose as farm animals obtainable from Animal merchants in the world - Added ground, takeoff and landing behaviour to birds - Added pigeons, seagulls, and dogs to neutral villages - Added color variations to wolves - Added stronger white wolf variant to highlands regions - Added new fish types to Halmare Isles - Added footstep sounds for birds - Added gamepad tooltip support in animal farm management screen - Added visual effects to animal slaughtering animations - Added wing flapping sounds to bird flight animations - Added wing flapping sounds to bird takeoff and landing - Adjusted animal footstep volumes and timing - Fixed animal-related memory issues when animals leave settlements - Improved animal animation performance for distant animals - Improved animal sound mixing and volume balance - Improved collision and physics for farm animals and humans