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Fern 0.14 – two hands and a body with a daily rhythm
- Two hands on the mouse buttons (LT / RT on a controller). Click to punch, hold to reach out and grip whatever you touch until you let go: pick berries bunch by bunch, pull mushrooms, tear a real tuft of grass out by its roots by walking backwards, carry and fling stones, drag a log (one hand creeps, two hands pull it along), hold on to a tree. Binoculars: hold them in a hand.
- An energy bar in blocks – hunger, thirst, tiredness, cold (the colder the more), heat, injuries until you treat them, a heavy backpack and whatever you carry each block their own part of the bar.
- A daily rhythm – tiredness comes in the evening and at night, by day only when you're already very tired. Thirst grows faster than hunger, sprinting makes you thirsty, carrying hungry.
- Water – fill your bottle at a river with the bottle in your hand: the scout kneels down, in three different ways with their own tempo and finish. Without it, scoop water with both hands and drink.
- Third person – the whole scout turns towards what its hands reach for; hands rest on what they hold.
Downloads: Windows (Fern-Windows.zip), Linux (Fern-Linux.zip), macOS (Fern-macOS.zip).
Windows: if Windows says "Windows protected your PC", click More info → Run anyway.
macOS: move Fern.app to Applications, then right-click → Open → Open the first time (the game isn't signed by Apple). If macOS says it's "damaged", run xattr -cr /Applications/Fern.app once in Terminal.