New Brighter Shores patch adds two small but massive QoL changes

The Brighter Shores development team has been hard at work in shipping out hotfixes and patches to iron out the early access. Since its public early-access release last week, there have already been a handful of small updates. Today's update (November 12) was the biggest by far, and it's added two changes that, while relatively simple, make a world of difference in making the game easier to play.

Firstly, pathing by clicking on the map menu is now far better, as you can click up to two rooms away from your current position. Secondly, and more importantly, a new single-click functionality lets you completely skip the action menu to get right to foraging reagents, felling wood, spearing fish, or starting certain passive activities. For combat, you still have to select a weapon before you can start, though — that hurdle still remains.

All changes introduced in Brighter Shores patch today (November 12)

Quality-of-life improvements

As requested by so many players... 'single click actions' are now a thing! If you wish to enable this then:

open the settings.
go the controls section and press 'open'.
open the drop down next to 'do first action'.
choose "left click".

This causes left clicking something in the 3d view to do the default action, and right clicking it still opens the full menu.
You can now also rotate the camera by dragging with the middle mouse button.
You can now reassign what each mouse button does (in settings->controls).
The active foraging block album cards now list which profession equipment is required to forage them. I realize this still needs adding in more places too.
If you have (unwisely!) deleted your entire account, you can now choose to create a new account.
The map now lets you click up to TWO rooms away.

Balancing fixes

If upgrading/enchanting your profession equipment results in you getting a fractional XP increase, (for example it results in say 124.5 XP) you will now get that fraction.
Make combat rooms a little less crowded. (1 less player allowed at once).
Make spear fishing rooms a lot less crowded, (max 10 players, instead of max 20 players).
Deplete spottable thieves (detective) upon login, so you cannot gain an advantage by server hopping.

Bug fixes

Magnifying glass now boosts the XP of detective investigations again.
Fix bug which could cause a room to fail to render immediately after switching episode.
Fixes to animations when multiple people using T.E.A machine at once.
Fixes to animations when multiple people using B.R.E.W.S vat at once.
Fix safe spots in Guardian Spirit cave.
Fix safe spots on vipers.

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