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v0.68.1
Home is built on Formiga Desktop 0.68.1 and still reads household version 12 and travel version 6,
so it opens the same houses as 0.68.0.
- The notebook's pencil hand is drawn on a grain about a fifth finer, so its writing reads less
blocky. - Every line of the notes rests on its rule, written with the same ruled-lines code as Formiga's
Journal and Battle.
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v0.68.0
Home is built on Formiga Desktop 0.68.0 and reads household version 12 and travel version 6, so a
creature reshaped in Formiga Farm comes indoors as itself. An older Formiga still opens its houses
as before.
- Farm creatures are drawn as themselves, and each body keeps to what it can do: a turtle only
climbs onto low pieces, a whale drifts up rather than stepping and never bounces on a bed, and
the menus leave out what a body can't do. - Opened on its own, from Applications or the Start menu, Home shows a welcome card saying a house
opens from your village in Formiga, and offers a look around with a sample colony. - A kitchen and a study can be built, with five new pieces: a little stove, a kitchen dresser, a
writing desk, a blanket chest and a tall clock that residents wind. Every kind of room is now for
something, and whoever is in it does more of that. - Every project stage that waited on the Hill or on friends can be met with a little more life at
home instead, every Hill souvenir counts towards something, and a Winners' podium project appears
once the colony has a cup or medal from Formiga Battle. The household warms up by the hearth, has
supper at the family table and puts on puppet shows, and every bed and basket can be made over. - The house can be used from the keyboard: the arrows step through everyone and everything, Enter
asks or picks up, and the arrows carry what is picked up a tile at a time. - Hovering anything not here yet says what it waits on, the rooms page says how long until another
room, the how-to note is out the first time a house is opened, and a full keepsake drawer says so. - The room is drawn only when it changes and the lamps' light worked out once, so the house costs
less to keep open, and a visit's moments reach Formiga even if the clock was changed meanwhile. - The notebook round the house is written in the pencil hand Desktop and Battle now share: Kalam,
drawn onto a pixel grid with no anti-aliasing, so the notes read as pixel-art pencil beside the
painted cover. Section headings are its bold capitals, nothing is written under 15 points, and
only what is printed (the house's name on the cover, the tabs) stays in monospace.
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v0.67.14
Home is built on Formiga Desktop 0.67.14 and still reads household version 11 and travel version 5,
so it works with the same visits as before.
- Leaving the house after the computer's clock was set back still hands the visit back to Desktop.
- Undo no longer swaps out a keepsake that has just arrived, or brings back someone who was sent
out.
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v0.67.11
Home is built on Formiga Desktop 0.67.11 and still reads household version 11 and travel version 5,
so it works with the same visits as before.
- Using a saved design keeps what is shown on furniture a newer Home put in the room, instead of
moving it off.
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v0.67.9
Home is built on Formiga Desktop 0.67.9 and still reads household version 11 and travel version 5,
so it works with the same visits as before.
- What hangs on a far wall (frames, postcards, ribbons, Battle medals, photos) now lies along the
wall, slanting as its top does, instead of sitting over it face-on. Frames have a slim moulding
and only as much mount as fits, so frames side by side meet rather than overlap. - Using a saved design in a room keeps any furniture a newer Home put there, and fits the design
around it. - If Home can't write the list of who is indoors (a busy file on Windows, say), it tries again
instead of leaving Desktop showing the wrong companions outside. - A project stage readied by a visitor's arrival or a sleepover now shows its "ready on the project
board" notice, where before the arrival notice hid it. The arrival still goes in the journal.
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v0.67.8
Home is built on Formiga Desktop 0.67.8 and reads household version 11, which offers the keepsakes
a colony won in Formiga Battle, and travel version 5. Designs are kept in Home's own data folder,
so nothing about them reaches Desktop.
- A Designs page in Arrange Mode. The whole house, or one room, can be saved to a gallery by name:
its sizes, finishes and pieces, and where the colony's things are shown, but never the keepsakes
themselves or anyone who lives there. A design is tried in the house first, with anything it
cannot bring named and why, and used as one change that undo takes back. - Share saves a design as a file to pass on, and a design file opened is tried in the house before
it is used or kept. The finds tab is now called Finds, to make room for Designs. - Formiga Battle's cup trophies and medals, for the Backyard, Woodland, Millpond and Sandy Cove
Cups. A trophy is a little brass cup on its arena's own stand (a wooden plinth, a mossy stump, a
millstone and driftwood), and a medal hangs on its cup's own ribbon. They can be set down, hung,
carded or framed like any other find, and a keepsake this Home does not know yet still gets its
card.
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v0.67.7
Home is built on Formiga Desktop 0.67.7 and reads household version 10, which keeps a household's
projects with its home, and travel version 5. With an older Desktop, the project board says
Desktop needs updating, and nothing else changes.
- A project board, on its own page of the notebook while living in the house. Five projects to
begin with: a window garden and a puppet theatre to build, cosier beds and a family table to
improve stage by stage, and a hearth that grows with the household's history. The board lists
each in a line, with where it stands; choosing one shows what its next stage asks for, how far
along each thing is, and what finishing it gives. - A project's stage comes from what happens at home anyway (snacks shared, naps, games, plants
tended, finds looked over, friends come over and staying over), from the days the colony has
lived and the keepsakes the house has, and from souvenirs anyone in the colony has brought home
from Formiga Hill, which count alike for every house. What each house makes is its own. Nothing
costs anything, runs down or waits on you. - Finishing a stage, whenever you like, gives the house something for good: a piece the household
made, set in the house where there is room; pieces already there made better where they stand,
with whatever is on them; or a new floor or wall. Each stage finished goes in the journal, and
the board keeps a list of everything made at home, with when. - Twelve new pieces, all made by households: a window box and the window box in bloom, a puppet
theatre and its Fairground curtains, quilted, feather and canopy beds, gingham and harvest
tables, and a hearth, with a mantel for keepsakes and then a garland. Three new finishes come
with them (hearthstone floors, trellis and gingham papers), and two more arrive with the days
for every house: oak parquet and a sage wainscot. - A small mark on the board's tab when something on it is new or ready, a quiet line when a
stage becomes ready, and one when a new souvenir from Formiga Hill counts towards a project. - The finds on shelves and tables and what residents wear are drawn in what they are made of, so
an acorn is brown and a teacup china, each with a few tones of shade. They are drawn by Formiga
Desktop, so this comes with Desktop 0.67.7. - The notes page's ruled lines scroll with what is written on it. They were painted with the cover,
so scrolling a long page slid its words across lines that stayed put; now each line stays under
whatever it was under, worn in the same places as it goes. - Each page of the notes keeps its own place: scrolling down the furniture, turning to the rooms
and back finds the furniture where it was, and a short page is never opened part of the way down
because a long one was. - What is written on the notes sits on the page's ruled lines: each line of the journal, each
resident's name with their portrait standing on the line, what the chosen one is doing, the
houses next door and the hints at the foot. The notes are set in a larger type, body text at
14 points and small print at 12, as Desktop's notebook is. - Quieter words on the notes read as easily as the rest, darker by daylight and lighter after dark,
and the mode tab not chosen is lettered more brightly on the leather.
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v0.67.6
Home is built on Formiga Desktop 0.67.6 and reads household version 9 and travel version 5, so a
household in Desktop's Echo Fox Mode comes in as foxes. It opens the same houses as before.
- A household that comes in while Desktop's Echo Fox Mode is on is a skulk of foxes here too: each
resident and friend Desktop draws as the Echo Fox is drawn as it in every room, doing everything
it would do as itself. Its name, likings and home are its own, and it comes in as itself the next
time the house opens after the mode is switched off.
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v0.67.5
Home is built on Formiga Desktop 0.67.5 and reads household version 8, which lets it tell Desktop
who is in the house. It still reads travel version 4 and opens the same houses as before.
- A small card of faces in the corner of the house says who is home, one cell for each resident
and each friend lent for the visit. Click a face to send them out to the desktop, where they
live in the colony as usual while the house stays open, and click it again to have them in. A
resident kept out stays out the next time the house opens. A friend is out on the desktop until
it comes over and again once it has gone home. With an older Formiga Desktop, everyone is in and
the card is not shown.
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v0.67.3
Home's version now matches Formiga Desktop's, so the apps released together carry one number. Home
is built on Formiga Desktop 0.67.3 and still reads travel version 4 and household version 7, so it
opens the same houses as before.
- Residents no longer slide across the floor. After about 25 seconds in a house, every walk and
other looping animation froze on one frame, so residents glided wherever they went. Formiga
Desktop 0.67.3 fixes this in the drawing Home shares with it. - Residents walk up onto a seat or a bed and back down off it, a step at a time, instead of
jumping from the floor beside it and walking out through the furniture. - A pat or a lift stops a resident's walk, so it answers the pat or dangles while carried rather
than walking on the spot. Let go over open floor, it lands where it was let go. - A resident patted while up on a sofa or bed stays up there to answer, and walks down afterwards.
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