I saw the changelog mention that the wood carving difficulty calculator was fixed, but does anyone know the intended effect this was meant to have on woodcarving? It took me weeks in game to get to the point of being able to make high quality wood carvings and be able to sell them. I've spent at least six in game weeks doing just that, and I usually sell 60-80ish wood carvings per week. But now I am unable to carve anything at higher than an ordinary level.
Also, if I try to carve something more difficult, the game tells me I failed at making a lower quality item. I could see how you might either fail to make the desired difficulty item and end up with nothing usable or attempt a higher quality item and end up with an item of lower quality. If the game is trying to decide between those options, it seems the messages after the attempt should be either "you have completed [object] of [attempted difficulty]" or "you failed to complete [object] of [attempted difficulty]" or "you completed [object] of [lower than attempted difficulty]". It doesn't make sense for the message to be "you failed to complete [object] of [any difficulty apart from the attempted difficulty]"
Does anyone know if the difficulty calculator was changed to make carving that much more difficult, or maybe my carving skill been unintentionally reconfigured by the changes to it? If all of my in game carving experience is in tact and I still can't carve the higher level items, I don't think I want to continue with the carving stuff. I've carved literally hundreds of items in the game to get my skills up at all, and then hundreds more on top of that. If that isn't enough practice to be able to carve high quality items, that part of the game might not be worth the time for me anymore.