Clanfolk — patch notes and updates
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| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
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| Patch Notes: v0.653 | 2026-07-12 | Hi all, I am still busily working on the Bears. This patch should resolve a couple of the major issues. Important Note: If you are having trouble with the Bears or dislike the mechanic, you can disable them for the time being by pausing the game with Escape, the selecting Settings/Gameplay and untick the "Allow Bears" toggle. v0.653 Fixed Bear blocking crafting stations in rooms close to but not containing the bear. Fixed Bears getting stuck in rooms. On saves with them stuck, they should find a way out now. Fixed Bears chasing Clanfolk into houses Made Bears in Aggressive mode not constantly gaining Flight (Courage) bar because it was gettin |
| Update 20 - Bears! | 2026-07-11 | Update 20 is now live! Hi Everyone, Update 20 is all about Bears, their Behaviors, and their developing Stories. So, I spent a bunch of time researching Bears and fell into another rabbit hole. Here is the result! The Bears have a unique set of Behaviors that simulate the the natural drives and reactions of real bears. The goal was to make bears as realistic as possible instead of having them just be aggressive monsters. I will describe life with bears in detail below, but rest assured it is possible to coexist with the bears if desired. You can also scare them away, or hunt them if feeling foolhardy. If you want to avoid Bears completely, yo |
| Save 50% on Clanfolk | 2026-06-25 | Clanfolk is currently 50% off during the Hooded Horse Summer Sale. Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children, and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations. Hooded Horse Summer Sale |
| Patch Notes v0.644-v0.646 | 2026-06-09 | v0.644 Fixed case where if a tool is being carried, and there are no available tool storage slots and then a hauling tasks starts, the haul task will start and stop until the haul item is picked up and tool dropped. v0.645 Fix for additional hauling bug introduced in v0.639 that could cause singe stacks to be hauled instead of grabbing nearby extra haulables too. v0.646 Fixed issue that could cause haulers to get stuck, introduced in v0.645. |
| Clanfolk News Roundup at the Hooded Horse May Publisher Sale | 2026-06-01 | Spring is here, and so is a major update for Clanfolk! Earlier this month, Blorf released a huge patch that includes a variety of long-requested atmospheric and QOL features, with a specific focus on creativity, planning, and efficiency. Keep reading for the recap! Clanfolk is also part of the Hooded Horse May Publisher Sale at 50% off. Check it out, and the other games on sale during the Hooded Horse May Publisher sale. Hooded Horse May Publisher Sale A Major Update for Clanfolk Update #19 featured a lot of long-requested additions from the community. This one was so big that Blorf had to split it into three sections. Let's check out the big |
| Patch Notes v0.639-v0.643 | 2026-05-30 | v0.639 Food Desirability Improvements Changed Food Desirability vs Spoilage calculation such that the Desirability of the food is proportional to how much of a desirability boost food gets as it is closer to spoiling. So a food about to spoil with 100% desirability will have 100% + 1.5*100% = 250% desirability (this boost only starts to take effect in the last 1.5 days a quality remaining and increases from 0% to 150% over time) But a food with 50% Desirability will have 50% + 1.5*50% = 125% desirability; A food with 25% Desirability will have 25% + 1.5*25% = 62.5% desirability. What this means is low desirability foods may spoil more often, |
| Save 50% on Clanfolk | 2026-05-28 | Clanfolk is currently 50% off during the Hooded Horse May Publisher Sale. Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children, and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations. Hooded Horse May Publisher Sale |
| Patch Notes v0.635-v0.638 | 2026-05-23 | v0.635 Fixed issue where Clanfolk could get stuck trying to drink buckets of milk at a table when they were thirsty and there was no water available. v0.636 Fix for bug that could cause issues with auto supply counting containers like Honey Pots and Crunchy Honey. Lowered Automated Farming Task Priority from 5 -> 4 to match the default priority elsewhere. In existing games, the number will need to be lowered manually. Fixed bug where if an in use trough was emergency boosted, the Clanfolk would see it as a crafting station needing feed resources due to the extra unit slots, but since the trough was full already, they would just end up shruggi |
| Update 19 - Creativity, Planning, and Efficiency! | 2026-05-09 | Update 19 is now live! Hi Everyone, Update 19 contains three sections: Creativity, Planning, and Efficiency. The focus for this update was to deliver a variety of long requested atmospheric and quality of life features. Creativity: Tables and Chairs: Clanfolk will now eat at the Tables if they have connected Chairs available. There is also an adjustable radius for each table to attract Clanfolk for meals. When a table is selected, all the chairs that are connected to it will also be shown with an attachment arrow. Clanfolk will prefer to sit in the chairs with higher desirability, but still obey priority preferring higher priority. Desirabili |
| Save 50% on Clanfolk | 2026-04-12 | Clanfolk is 50% off during the Hooded Horse April Sale. Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children, and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations. Hooded Horse April Sale |
| Save 50% on Clanfolk | 2026-03-19 | Clanfolk is 50% off during the Hooded Horse Spring Sale. Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children, and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations. Hooded Horse Spring Sale |
| Clanfolk News Roundup at the Hooded Horse Publisher Sale | 2026-03-10 | Blorf has been hard at work continuing development of Clanfolk, recently adding two major systems and inadvertently learning a lot about historic Scottish Beekeeping. Down below, we'll talk about the latest development updates for Clanfolk and what's been going on in case you missed it. Also, Clanfolk is part of the Hooded Horse Publisher Sale at 50% off. Check it and other games out in the sale. Hooded Horse Publisher Sale 2026 Latest Update News Roundup for ClanfolkWhile Blorf is hard at work on even more content based on your feedback and Steam reviews. Here's Update #18's recap. This update adds a New Settlement System and a historically |
| Save 50% on Clanfolk | 2026-02-28 | Clanfolk is 50% off during the Hooded Horse Publisher Sale. Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children, and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations. Hooded Horse Publisher Sale |
| Patch Notes v0.608 | 2026-02-09 | v0.608 Fixed Swarm Lures and empty Skep Shelters not updating their Domain Circles after Winter. Simple Workbench: Added Sound and Effect Weavery: Added Sound of the stone weights clinking together Simple Tailor and Tailor Bench added Tailoring sounds. Fixed the Scroller for the Marriage Picks sometimes showing up when it should not. Lowered sound multiplier of the mining pick sound from 0.5 to 0.3 Upgraded Grass Shader such that grass now can show on top of walls but only in the places where it would be natural to do so. I am thrilled that this worked! Fixed non spoiled dead humans showing up in the spoiled section of the inventory. |
| Patch Notes v0.606-v0.607 | 2026-02-06 | v0.606 Fix for bug that caused v0.605 to break in regions where numbers are represented like 0,605 vs. 0.605 v0.607 Fixed World Name allowing invalid character for the file system which would then cause all kinds of havoc Fixed Emergency Boost for removing Walls, Floors, and Roofs not working when in strict priority mode. Fix for Family Tree menu in case where a previous Chief had been deleted. Added Scroller to the Marriage Picks for cases where there are more then 5 available options. Some options were getting stuck offscreen Fix for saves where the Beekeeper did not appear on the map after doing the Renown expedition at the first settlemen |
| Patch Notes v0.602-v0.605 | 2026-01-30 | v0.602 Updated Food picking logic to more favor older foods so the get eaten before spoiling. Fixed Clanfolk getting their Key level for doors being set to minimum (hand) when starting a new settlement. Optimization: Made case where livestock need to graze but there is no grass available faster. Saw a case of a huge slowdown with lots of pigs and no grass to graze. Fixed case where if the pregnant mother returns after being sent away the first time, she has had the baby but also the next time she gets pregnant, it is an instant birth because the pregnancy progress was not reset. Fixed Sparks not showing up on floors. Fixed rare case where spa |
| Update 18 - New Settlements and Beekeeping! | 2026-01-16 | Hi Everyone, Update 18 is now live! It features the New Settlement System and a Beekeeping Simulation that I have tried to make as historically accurate as possible. If you have been keeping up with the last three "Progress Updates" you should be ready to jump right into Update 18. I have done my best to compress all the info from those posts to cover everything in the Update 18 release notes below. Before I go into the main new features though, I would like talk about Clanfolk Player Types. This all came about based on feedback from the Testing Branch, and it is quite important in how I shape my thinking on new feature priorities. I want to |
| Save 50% on Clanfolk | 2026-01-08 | Clanfolk is 50% off during the Hooded Horse January Publisher Sale. Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children, and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations. Hooded Horse January Publisher Sale |
| Save 50% on Clanfolk | 2025-12-18 | Clanfolk is 50% off during the Hooded Horse Winter Publisher Sale. Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children, and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations. Hooded Horse Winter Publisher Sale |
| Clanfolk Progress Update! (Update 18 Release Plan) | 2025-12-18 | Hi Everyone,Beekeeping the the Secondary Settlement Part 1 has been available on the Testing Branch for three weeks now, and I wanted to review the changes. But, The most important detail is that:Update 18 will release to the Default Branch Early January. If you are feeling curious, anyone can join the Testing Branch by selecting: Steam/Clanfolk/Properties/Betas and it will be in there list there. A very special thanks to everyone who has been participating in the Testing Branch and finding bugs and suggesting tweaks! You all have kept me very busy, but in a good way :) Here we Go:Ok, I am going to dive into the changes since the other two pr |