v0.31:Stonegears/Summer

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Autosaving

When summer finally arrives the game will freeze for a bit as it autosaves your progress, and then it will pause and announce It is now summer. If you were to save and the continue/restore your game, you'd see two different games to continue:

SCREENSHOT PLACEHOLDER

This is because the game options‡ are set up to create a backup copy of your game every time it autosaves, so that if you make a big mistake you wish to undo you can restore from the backup and lose at most three months of game time. If you wish to change autosaving, auto-backup or pausing on autosave you can edit the appropriate options in the d_init.txt file (though you'll have to save and restore your game for the option changes to take effect).

Processing quarry bushes

Now that it's summer your farmer will have harvested some Template:Les. However, you can't do anything with quarry bushes without first processing them, and you need Template:Ls to process them. To get some bags, you need to make them out of leather. Go to the farming level and set up a Template:L (b-w-e) and Template:L (b-w-w):

SCREENSHOT PLACEHOLDER

Find ______ and turn on the leatherworking labor‡ (v-p-l) under the Crafts labor group to get the leather works built. Then add a repeating Construct leather Bag job (q-a-n-r) to make as many leather bags as possible; this will use up the two pieces of leather you made from the butchered animals, and the leather that was part of the initial supplies. You'll need the extra bags to hold the Template:Ls from the surface plants that your Template:L gathered from Template:Ls.

Now find ____ again and turn on the plant processing labor under the Farming/Related labor group. Once the farmer's workshop is done interact with it (q) and add a Process Plants (to Bag) (a-b) job four times. This will produce four bags of quarry bush leaves. Quarry bush leaves must be cooked to be eaten, so go to the kitchen status screen‡ (z-→-Enter) to make sure that only quarry leaves are enabled for cooking, then add a Prepare lavish meal job to the Template:L (q-a-+-+-Enter). Once the leaves are cooked the bags they were in will be empty and free for use again, so process four more quarry bushes at the farmer's workshop and then prepare another lavish meal.