When I wanted them to stop mining to work on something else, however, there was no way to directly communicate that to them.

I'd designated a large area to be mined, and my workers got busy digging. While your craftsmen have a to-do list, it would be nice if the rest of your workers had a little priority queue, too. There's also plenty of room for improvement. Stonehearth's 10th alpha shows a lot of promise, which is important for a Kickstarter campaign that netted over $700,000. You'll be visited by traveling merchants and survivalists who will buy and sell goods, and you can construct default buildings or design your own to serve as residences and dining halls. Beginning with only a handful of settlers, you designate a carpenter, animal trapper, warrior, or worker, and as they complete tasks they level up and can become shepherds, blacksmiths, farmers, masons, and so on. I put in a morning's work on Stonehearth, starting by searching the randomized map for a spot with a good amount of resources and wildlife, and founding a town there. I think they just went down the list of popular Steam tags and checked all the boxes. But Stonehearth is attempting to dabble in a number of different genres, with elements of city and civilization building, strategy, simulation, resource management, and RPG trappings, all in a procedurally generated fantasy sandbox setting.

Back to Stonehearth! Yes, it looks very Minecrafty indeed, as every game with blocks does, and the developers have stated that Dwarf Fortress was a major inspiration as well.

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