Genre: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Simulator, Strategy
DwarfHeim
Hotfix 26 (Patch 8)
Hotfix 26 (patch 8)
v0.10.8.9
Hello Everyone! We just put Hotfix #26 live which mainly focuses on Life improvements and improvements to Troll AI and pathfinding.
Remember, Next Thursday at 16:00 CET we're holding a Dev Q&A on Twitch as well as showing some of our upcoming features for the next patch (releasing on the 24th), hope to see you there!
Features
Matchmaker region setting Added an info panel about the ping times to different server regions, as well as a setting to change region from Auto to specific. Panel has to be enabled in the game options menu.
Troll Behavior Rework Improvement to how Trolls understand the map and how they use Mineshafts. Improvement to how Trolls select targets. Troll waves are less predictable.
Improvements Improved lighting and shadows. Different Ambience SFX for the different maps. New SFX for when Forges and Ore Sorters are stuck. Mine-block "box select" and "double right-click" will now un-mark blocks if the initial block selected was marked already. Box select is now consistently marking or un-marking all blocks.
Bug fixes
Fixed an old network syncing bug likely being the cause for a number of desyncs in the past. Fixed AI warriors squads getting stuck in a corner of the map. (potentially) Fixed AI miner’s sorter configuration issues Fixed and improved building grid. Fixed double ping shown on host client. Fixed loading button appearing on multiplayer modes. Fixed empty load panel not having placeholder texts. Fixed unit queue progress bar after loading save file.
Known issues
Local-hosting might not work with certain VPNs. Skirmish will not work immediately after playing one of the tutorials. Game restart is required. Sounds for Thane levelups plays twice. Allowed building placement positions are inconsistent with fow restrictions indicated on the building grid. Chat sometimes locks up. ```
Balancing
Buildings The pit Increased build time from 40 to 50
Units Skirmisher Increased build time from 30 to 35 Canoneer Increased build time from 30 to 35 Berserker Increased build time from 30 to 35 Unit now requires Blacksmith Iron Hand Increased build time from 40 to 45 Iron Gunner Increased build time from 40 to 45
PATCH 8
Patch 8 - v0.10.8.4
Hi Everyone, another patch, fresh from the steamy offices of Pineleaf Studio is ready for you.
Join us in testing the new features and help us by reviewing the game here on steam, or sharing your feedback directly with us on our community discord: Discord.gg/DwarfHeim
In addition to the patch, our French community will hold a show match at the Stunfest festival tomorrow at 21:00, join the discord to learn more and tune in to earn Twitch Drops during the coming weekend.
Also remember to join us in the coming Community Night, next Thursday!
Features
Local hosting
Premade games will now be hosted by the party leaders. This can provide a better experience for players in the same country. It's recommended that players meeting the recommended system requirements host the games. (Friendpass is still using hosted servers for the time being).
Save and Load (Singleplayer)
New save game functionality that can be used in Singleplayer games for the Sandbox and Survival game modes. Saved games can be loaded in the main menu. (Note: Save files may become incompatible with later game updates).
AI Upgrade
AI now responds better to attacks both in OW and UW. AI on medium and hard gets increased food income from farming. AI on offense will now go through mineshafts after killing all enemy structures in that level. Fixed woodcutting Builders going idle when no trees were found nearby. Fixed a couple of issues with buildings not being rebuilt. Reworked difficulties and added a hard difficulty. Reworked the passive resource income for the miner AI for each difficulty.
Bug fixes
Fixed some issues with the map layout on Cliffside (could build on lava etc.). Fixed an issue where new units sometimes spawned inside neighbor buildings. Fixed an issue with a spawn waypoint being visually stuck after deleting a building. Building Grid clips through building ghosts from certain angles.
Known issues
Local-hosting might not work with certain VPNs. AI warriors sometimes get stuck at the wrong level. Sounds for Thane level-ups plays twice. Building Grid might turn lava/water invisible from certain camera angles. Allowed building placement positions are inconsistent with fow restrictions indicated on the building grid. Box-selecting mineblocks currently toggle each block.
Balancing
Buildings
Wood wall Reduced Wood cost from 40 to 30.
Stone wall Reduced stone cost from 40 to 30. Reduced wood cost from 20 to 15.
Iron wall Reduced wood cost from 20 to 15. Reduced stone cost from 40 to 30. Reduced iron cost from 60 to 45.
Transmuter Increased iron cost from 20 to 100. Increased build time from 10 to 25.
Units
Arbalist Increased food cost from 40 to 50.
Mercenary Increased food cost from 50 to 60.
Berserker Increased gold cost from 50 to 60.
Skirmisher Increased gold cost from 50 to 60.
Cannoneer Increased gold cost from 50 to 60.
HOTFIX 25
Hotfix 25 - v0.10.7.9
Features
New Building Grid Overlay
Grid overlay that displays the possible building locations while placing buildings. Also indicates blocked areas and areas with lacking visual information due to the fog-of-war. (Grid can be disabled in the settings menu)
New Mineblock Selection Modes:
Paint select: Hold right-click to continuously mark blocks while moving the cursor. NOTE: The first block determines if painting will mark or un-mark. Box select: Hold Ctrl + right-click to box-select blocks to be toggled. Resource select: Double right-click a block marks it and connected blocks of the same type.
Thane Lobby Animations
Added some new and more lively animations to the thane selection screen. Raven is no longer hiding behind his shield among others)
Improvements
New sounds for Nubbs actions. New voice lines for thane selection screen.
Bug fixes
- Fixed Reina's Sprint ability to match description. - Fixed Raven's Rallying Cry ability description missing on thane selection screen. - Fixed an issue where Reina and Alban would not being able to build Town Hall after researching Home Sweet Home. - Fixed supply queue count showing negative numbers for each thane in the team. - Fixed command queuing for miner units performing mining/depositing to not depend on inventory. - Fixed VFX for mine blocks being destroyed. - Fixed some machinery sounds.
Known Issues
- Building Grid clips through building ghost from certain angles. - Allowed building placement positions is inconsistent with fow restrictions indicated on the building grid. - Box-selecting mineblocks currently toggle each block. Should probably either mark all or un-mark all blocks.
Balancing
Resources
Made Angel Cap non-edible. (Can no longer be used as food) Buildings Brewing still: Reduced armor from 10 to 0.
Townhall: Increased Armor pen. from 0.3 to 0.5 Gained the ability to train Arbalists.
Explosive Storage Hut: Increased Steel cost from 40 to 50
Thanes
Nubbs: Increased Armor from 5 to 10
Units
Guard: Increased steel cost from 10 to 20
Demolition Expert: Reduce Damage from 60 to 50
Troll Hunter Increase HP from 270 to 300
Hired Spear: Increase HP from 275 to 360
Rifleman: Increase HP from 225 to 300
Shieldbearer Increase HP from 400 to 520
Skirmisher: Increase HP from 485 to 750
Canoneer: Increase HP from 500 to 600
Berserker: Increase HP from 745 to 900
Iron Hand: Increase HP from 1725 to 2070
Quar
Ores/Ingots: Decreased Quar from silver from 0.5 to 0.2 Increased Quar from Lockstone from 3 to 4
Tech
Specialize Troll Hunter: Increased/changed cost from 100 silver to 100 gold
Specialize Rifleman: Increased/changed cost from 100 silver to 100 gold
Specialize Hired spear: Increased/changed cost from 100 silver to 100 gold
Specialize Skirmisher Increased/changed cost from 200 silver to 200 gold
Specialize Cannoneer Increased/changed cost from 200 silver to 200 gold
Unlock: Iron Hand Decreased lockstone cost from 50 to 40
Unlock: Iron Gunner Decreased lockstone cost from 50 to 40
Community Game Night !
Come join us TODAY at 20:00 CEST
We will queue up with our Dev teams for Conquest to play against YOU and YOUR teammates We are also activating DOUBLE XP for the weekend today !
GET READY FOR BATTLE IN DWARFHEIM
PATCH 7
Patch 7 is out !! Here are all the changes ! Features
Thane Level-up Update
Added a new panel/menu for choosing levels, as well as acting as a tech tree for your individual Thane. Instant Level-up completion upon choosing an upgrade.
Quar is now a player-individual resource
Each player now has their own separate Quar amounts. Each player now gains Quar for themselves only. See Balance-changes for changes impacting individual Quar gain.
Thane leveling AI
AI opponents in Skirmish now upgrade their Thanes upon reaching the required Quar.
AI Squads
Unified behavior for warrior units, now performing various actions in groups. Improved decision-making for various tasks, based on the strength of the squad.
Rudimentary use of the Underworld. Warning: AI Warriors have not yet learned how a good underworld defense looks, we suggest investing in Towers.
New Fog of War
Reworked the Fog of War, now semi-transparent, allowing players to see underlying terrain/Mineshafts. Observing enemy buildings will let them remain visible but greyed out when losing vision. Improves GPU performance. See Balance-changes for changes impacting view range of units.
Range indicators on towers and iron gunners
Added a visual range indication to help determine your attack range.
Improvements
Combat pathfinding improvements Pathfinding rubberbanding AI Woodcutting and Lumbermill usage improvements Added extra pathing-stuck detection for some of the AI actions Support for double XP events
Troll Camp adjustments: Explosive Thursar trigger distance reduced from 20 to 12 units/meters Mines of Pith: Re-positioned a few Green Thursar to reduce builder aggro when woodcutting
Bug fixes: Fix armor upgrades affecting all towers and machinery Fixed units being canceled if an AI created a unit in the same building
Balancing
Thanes
Decreased quar cost for level 3 from 450 to 400 Decreased quar cost for level 4 from 900 to 800
Units
Guard: Reduced HP from 800 to 700 Reduced Steel cost from 20 to 10
Demolition Expert: Reduce Armor from 12 to 7
Hired Spear: Increase HP from 240 to 275
Rifleman: Increased cost to 80 food, 20 wood from 20 food, 0 wood.
Skirmisher: Increase Damage from 25 to 40 Decrease Attack rate from 0.8 to 0.5 (Same DPS but more of a punch)
Resources
Khorazan Wheat: Increase farm Yield from 15 to 20
Technology
Specialize Troll Hunter: Reduced cost from 100 iron to 60 Increased/changed cost from 50 gold to 100 silver
Specialize Rifleman: Reduced cost from 100 iron to 60 Increased/changed cost from 50 gold to 100 silver
Specialize Hired spear: Reduced cost from 100 iron to 60 Increased/changed cost from 50 gold to 100 silver
Reduced all mid-tier research time from 65 to 55 Reduced all* late tier research time from 120 to 90 Tech with a research time above 120 recuded by 30 sec
Dwarven Kingdom: Increased cost from 300 food to 500 food
Quar
Ores/Ingots Increased quar from iron, gold, coal from 0.1 to 0.2 Decreased Quar from gilver & steel from 15 to 10 Decreased Quar from Lockstone from 50 to 30
Crops Increased quar from Khorazan Wheat from 0.1 to 0.3 Increased quar from Malabar Grains from 0.1 to 0.3
Units Increased quar from tier 1 units from 5 to 15 Decreased quar from tier 2 units from 50 to 40 Decreased quar from tier 3 units from 150 to 80 Warriors get x4 quar from killing trolls and dwarfs (not thanes)
Trolls Improved quar from Thursars from 3 to 30 Improved quar from Thursars Alpha from 8 to 80 Improved quar from Risi from 20 to 200
New Roadmap !!
Here is the next 3 months of planned patches and releases!
We hope you are excited for the future updates :D
There will also be more HOTFIXES that will come out about 1-2 weeks after a patch, to fix bugs and gameplay balance based on your feedback :D
Double XP Weekend
We are doing our first ever Double XP weekend 🥳🥳 It's live when the new patch is live Tomorrow!
Use this chance to level up your profile in DwarfHeim and the chance to get your epic Raven's Elderbark Armor!
Join our discord discord.gg/DwarfHeim for new friends to play with :D
DwarfHeim Livestream
Greetings everyone !
Me (Confusus) and Aech will be doing a livestream on April 23rd 14:00 CEST on our Twitch channel
We will be Showing off the new patch, and also answer your questions about the patch and other DwarfHeim related questions :D
So join us on our Twitch Channel https://www.twitch.tv/pineleafstudio on April 23rd14:00 CEST
Livestream with Kyle from Thunderful Games!!
Greetings everyone ːsteamhappyː
We are doing a livestream on the 13th of April at 13:00 CEST over at our Twitch channel :D
Kyle works at Thunderful games in Publishing and Sales Manager, and we will talk a bit about how that is and about the latest game they published Say No! More
https://www.twitch.tv/pineleafstudio
Patch 6
Hey Everyone!
Patch 6 is live
PATCH 6 Version 0.10.6.14
New Underworld Mineshaft - Updated visuals of Mineshafts New settings - Toggle if deleting building while hovering is possible
New VFX
- Updated fire and smoke VFX's on buildings (added on shacks, gates and tents) - Changed Forge VFX - Added Gilver transmuter VFX - Added Geology center VFX - Changed chimney VFX and added on explosion hut - Added Wick VFX to dynamite
Bugs fixes
- Removed Trollsblot mineblocks from miner tutorial - Removed Trollsblot from sorter UI - Fix machinery refunds while being constructed - Fix miners on hold position to not go mine blocks - Fix machinery rotating under another in building mode - Fix Frida bloodthirsty ability - Fix map objectives to not be able to build near them - Fix 'Scrap Plating' tech to only affect Miner units - Fix cursor icon not updating when selecting units through keyboard or UI - Fix priority on cursor icons - Improved lighting in Quar Pits map - Fix destruction VFX not appearing on death and added it to all buildings - Fix defensive stance not returning to original position after attacking - Fix occasional firewall issue with sandbox mode - Fix AI going after wrong troll camp on Quar Pits - Fix in-game chat character limit to avoid overflow - Fix splitter blocking on some occasions - Adjust troll health bar color
Balancing
Thanes
Raven: Increased Armor from 15 to 20
Frida: Decreased Attack Rate from 1.2 to 1 Decreased Attack Range from 8 to 6
Buildings
Wall (Iron) Increased HP From 5000 to 6000 Cost Changed: 40 WO, 80 SO, 80 IR 20 WO, 40 SO, 60 IR
Tower (Iron) Increased HP From 4500 to 5000
Gate (Iron) Cost Changed: 100 WO, 200 SO, 80 IR 100 WO, 150 SO, 60 IR
Technology
Explosive Shots Increased Damage from 10% to 15% Cost Changed: 300 FO, 250 GO, 150 CO, 0 GI, 15 LO 300 FO, 250 GO, 150 CO, 15 GI, 0 LO
Cone Attack: Increased Damage from 5% to 15% Cost Changed: 300 FO, 250 GO, 150 CO, 0 GI, 15 LO 300 FO, 250 GO, 150 CO, 15 GI, 0 LO
Raw Material Expert: Cost Changed: 100 FO, 60 GO, 100 SI 100 FO, 60 GO, 75 SI
Unlock Iron Defences: Decreased build time from 180 to 120 Changed cost: 300 food, 250 gold, 50 steel, 25 LS 300 food, 250 gold, 50 steel, 20 LS
