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# Village Quest 2.4.0 ## ✨ New Features * **Improved new-player journey** * Added a simple first-day quest choice, Welcome Assignment, and **Village Contacts**. * Villages can now become personally known without immediately consuming a Trade Route slot. * **Guild Corners** * Added physical Guild Corners with **Generic** and **Desert** styles. * Guild Notice Posts provide local guidance and point players toward available village work. * Existing developed villages can be retrofitted. * **5 new Village Identity stories** * **The Shared Table** — Granary * **Sparks for the Road** — Forge * **The Long Drive** — Pasture * **Lanterns in Bloom** — Apiary * **Ink Between Villages** — Archive * **10 Cross-Village Commissions** * Covers every pairing of the five Village Identities. * Each pairing now has its own unique objective. * **Guest Commissions** * Eligible commissions can temporarily use matching villages from another guild member’s network. * Guest villages do **not** create permanent Trade Routes or consume route slots. * **Expanded Chronicle** * Personal village history is now separated from guild-wide accomplishments. * **Shared Guild Projects** * Guild members can contribute together. * Participation rewards remain personal and exactly-once per player. * **New 2.4 Finale: The Bells of Concord** * Unlocks after completing: * 3 local stories * 3 Cross-Village Commissions * 3 connected villages * Completing all five Village Identities and all ten pairings remains optional mastery content. * **New Prestige Rewards** * Story Memories * Commission Seals * Guild Waymarker * Atlas Illustration * New titles * Concord Plaque * Guild Standard Rewards focus on **history, progression, and prestige** rather than power creep. * Expanded **/vq town**, Questmaster, Journal, Guild Notice Post, and progression guidance in **English, German, and Spanish**. ## 🔧 Improvements & Fixes * **Major land-route navigation rework** * Caravans now follow surveyed **X/Y/Z elevation**, improving navigation through tunnels, bridges, underpasses, stairs, and elevated player-built routes. * Trade income and Guild rewards still use horizontal route distance. * Existing legacy routes and ferry travel remain compatible. * Added explicit **Peaceful Mode alternatives** for combat-dependent stories, Pilgrim work, and caravan encounters. * Difficulty changes now reset only incompatible active objective progress, not completed chapters. * Improved **Night Bells** * The threatened Story Village now remains consistent across difficulty changes and shared party progression. * Hardened: * Caravan incidents * Owner-only event completion * Route Map actions * Route world/dimension handling * Wayshrine identity across dimensions * Improved support for **large and modded villages** without force-loading distant chunks. * **Guild invitations now expire after 7 days**, including safe migration for existing invitations. ## 💾 Compatibility Existing **2.3.1 saves**, village history, earned rewards, routes, and progression remain compatible with **2.4.0**.