Going Medieval

Quality of Life Improvements:

• Optimized the game and improved performance in relation to fire spreading.

Known issues:

• Having underwater grated doors might confuse the enemy AI resulting in enemies just standing at the edge of the map.
  
  
• If your settlers are experiencing weird animations with some actions, be sure to turn off V-sync and cap the game's FPS in the game's options. Cap it to 60fps. If the issue persists, cap it at 30.
  
• Assigned Pets don't sleep with owners.
  
• Some text keys are still not translated.
  
• Player-triggered events don't have sound effects
  
• Settlers will not refuel torches if there is no floor/ground beneath them.
  
• Settlers will not choose the closest production building (if there are more of the same type), but the one that has a production set first in the global list of productions.

Quality of Life improvements

• Underground water sources have been added to valley and hillside map types, but you’ll have to start a new game to find them (go through layers of your terrain to see their position). Mountains and marshes don’t have underground water.
  
• Enemies now have a different pathing when approaching your base. They should act a bit more natural and not go in one line when attacking. They will try to function and path more like a group.
  
• Enemies will be spawned in something akin to a square formation. They should no longer spawn in very long lines when in large groups.
  
• Enemies will no longer idle and will stand and have a battle ready stance while they wait for one of them to get through the door.
  
• Temperature dealing damage to buildings has been further optimized and should work better on large maps with a lot of structures.
  
• Fps drop should be less intensive when a huge fire spreads.
  
• Javelin and axe throw animations have been improved.
  
• Particles that appear during oil blob destruction has been changed,
  
• Barrels fill up faster when under the edges of the roof.
  
• Combat perception is now 10 instead of 20, thus making the default stance for melee settlers a bit less unpredictable - they should not react to distant enemies as much as they used to.
  
• Six settlers can use a single well simultaneously when extinguishing fires.
  
• Up to six settlers can now use a single well simultaneously when fetching water for production.
  
• You can now order a settler to bring water to a barrel via right click.
  
• Embers and smoke effects have been added to flames.
  
• Added construction skill level in the building selection panel.
  
• Added information about stability in the info cursor when placing structures like walls and floors.

Bugs and Fixes

• Fixed the issue where stomping animation always played on settlers in certain situations.
  
• Fixed the issue where buildings that required no construction resources wouldn’t properly reset if its construction failed. Also, no foundation was shown when placing them.
  
• Fixed the issue where ranged settlers would chase enemies during the hold ground stance.
  
• Fixed the issue that allowed beams to be placed in the middle of the tall gate.
  

Known issues

• Having underwater grated doors might confuse the enemy AI resulting in enemies just standing at the edge of the map.
  
  
• If your settlers are experiencing weird animations with some actions, be sure to turn off V-sync and cap the game's FPS in the game's options. Cap it to 60fps. If the issue persists, cap it at 30.
  
• Assigned Pets don't sleep with owners.
  
• Some items are missing icons and localization values.
  
• Player-triggered events don't have sound effects.
  
• Settlers will not refuel torches if there is no floor/ground beneath them.
  
• Settlers will not choose the closest production building (if there are more of the same type), but the one that has a production set first in the global list of productions.

Quality of Life improvements

• Settlers have water-grabbing animations during their interaction with wells, lakes and rivers.
  
• Warden will now get a sad effector if they lose that role.

Bugs and Fixes

• Fixed several crash occurrences.
  
• Fixed the issue where some players reported the lack of starting scenarios when you start a new game.
  
• Fixed the issue where multiple animals would be sacrificed during the ritual event, if ritual animal was changed via + button.
  
• Fixed the issue where hanging would be cancelled before everyone gathers and the prisoner would be executed if you invite guests.
  
• Fixed the issue that allowed you to execute prisoners that belonged to prisoners merchants.
  
• Fixed minor UX issues.
  
• Fixed minor text issues.

Known issues

• Barrels don't fill faster when under the edges of the roof yet.
  
• Having underwater grated doors might confuse the enemy AI resulting in enemies just standing at the edge of the map.
  
• Underground water (present on the exp branch) is still missing on the main branch.
  
  
• If your settlers are experiencing weird animations with some actions, be sure to turn off V-sync and cap the game's FPS in the game's options. Cap it to 60fps. If the issue persists, cap it at 30.
  
• Assigned Pets don't sleep with owners.
  
• Some items are missing icons and localization values.
  
• Player-triggered events don't have sound effects.
  
• Settlers will not refuel torches if there is no floor/ground beneath them.
  
• Settlers will not choose the closest production building (if there are more of the same type), but the one that has a production set first in the global list of productions.

Bugs and Fixes

• Fixed several crash occurrences.
  
• Fix settlers hunting with melee weapons
  
• Fix hunters not hauling carcasses after killing animals
  
• Fixed issue where event resources wouldn't be loaded correctly resulting in a bad event outcome
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• Fixed event resources not showing up on Feast.
  
• Make right-click ignite load a one-off flammable round if fire arrows are not allowed for that settler
  
• Possible fix for settlers getting stuck in fire stomping animation.

Known issues

• Barrels don't fill faster when under the edges of the roof yet.
  
• Having underwater grated doors might confuse the enemy AI resulting in enemies just standing at the edge of the map.
  
• Underground water is missing still.
  
  
• If your settlers are experiencing weird animations with some actions, be sure to turn off V-sync and cap the game's FPS in the game's options. Cap it to 60fps. If the issue persists, cap it at 30.
  
• Assigned Pets don't sleep with owners.
  
• Some items are missing icons and localization values.
  
• Player-triggered events don't have sound effects.
  
• Settlers will not refuel torches if there is no floor/ground beneath them.
  
• Settlers will not choose the closest production building (if there are more of the same type), but the one that has a production set first in the global list of productions.

Quality of Life Improvements:

• We now have underground water sources (unfortunately you need to start a new game to have them on your map) They have been added to Valley and Hillside maps. Mountain and Marsh maps don't have the. They can be easily found by going through the layers of your terrain
  
• Enemies now have a different pathing when approaching your base. They should act a bit more naturally by not going in one line when attacking. They will try to function and path more like a group.
  
• Enemies should no longer spawn in a very long line when in large groups but in a kind of square formation.
  
• Enemies will no longer idel around when waiting for one of them to get through the door but will stand in a battle-ready stance
  
• Temperature dealing damage to building systems has been further optimized and should work better on large maps with a lot of structures.
  
• Javelin and axe throw animations have been fixed up a bit
  
• The issue with stomping animation always playing on settlers is potentially fixed

Known issues:

• Barrels don't fill faster when under the edges of the roof yet.
  
• Settlers will not haul after hunting
  
• Settles will hunt with melee weapons
  
  
• If your settlers are experiencing weird animations with some actions, be sure to turn off V-sync and cap the game's FPS in the game's options. Cap it to 60fps. If the issue persists, cap it at 30.
  
• Assigned Pets don't sleep with owners.
  
• Some text keys are still not translated.
  
• Player-triggered events don't have sound effects
  
• Settlers will not refuel torches if there is no floor/ground beneath them.
  
• Settlers will not choose the closest production building (if there are more of the same type), but the one that has a production set first in the global list of productions.

Quality of Life improvements

• Rebalanced speed for all weapons. all weapons have a slight increase in speed (10-15%)
  
• Ranged weapons lose less HP per attack. ~50% less than before. The flimsy Quality level multiplier for HP loss is now 1.3 instead of 1.5
  
• Dummy costs hay now so it's more similar to sticks for practice targets (inspired by a mod players made :))

Bugs and Fixes

• Fixed several crash occurrences.
  
• Beams can now be constructed over furniture.
  
• Manage panel presets updated with new ranged weapons
  
• Fixed certain events not having the proper loc key for button text.

Known issues

• Barrels don't fill faster when under the edges of the roof yet.
  
• Having underwater grated doors might confuse the enemy AI resulting in enemies just standing at the edge of the map.
  
  
• If your settlers are experiencing weird animations with some actions, be sure to turn off V-sync and cap the game's FPS in the game's options. Cap it to 60fps. If the issue persists, cap it at 30.
  
• Assigned Pets don't sleep with owners.
  
• Some items are missing icons and localization values.
  
• Player-triggered events don't have sound effects.
  
• Settlers will not refuel torches if there is no floor/ground beneath them.
  
• Settlers will not choose the closest production building (if there are more of the same type), but the one that has a production set first in the global list of productions.

Quality of Life improvements

• We added Rope and bucket visuals to the well structure. The Bucket goes up and down when settlers take water. The time for getting water scales with the amount of levels the bucket needs to travel.
  
• Extinguish fires now has top priority in non-work hours. It's disabled only if disabled in the jobs panel. So now settlers will wake up if there is a fire.
  
• Arrows now have flaming visuals while the archer is firing and standing with the arrow in hand to help indicate that the next shot will be a flaming projectile.
  
• Fire spreading is slowed down a bit to make it less unfair

Bugs and Fixes

• Fixed several crash occurrences.
  
• Beams can now be constructed over plants.
  
• Hide the building copy button for producible buildings like rugs, paintings and statues.
  
• Changes to resources: flammable oil and Greek fire oil are now Manufactured Material Stockpile Group so the prices are also corrected (no longer can you purchase flammable oil for 0.1gold)
  
• Practice dummy and practice target are now Misc group (they were accidentally in the Waste group)
  
• Material Settings also have some changes: bear leather finally has a 1.8 multiplier for price.
  
• Wool material no longer has high flammability for clothing and the gambeson armour
  
• Practice dummy blueprint is fixed (it was a backgammon table)
  
• Fix hold ground settlers not behaving as expected. Hold-ground archers should no longer move at all. Hold Ground Melee settlers should engage in combat if the enemy is in their range. Default stance Melee settlers should engage with enemies if enemies are not behind a door and within range of ~20m
  
• Searching for water when extinguishing a fire has been optimised a bit. Cases of long pathfindng to faraway water sources has been reworked and should behave a bit more natural.

Known issues

• Barrels don't fill faster when under the edges of the roof yet.
  
• Having underwater grated doors might confuse the enemy AI resulting in enemies just standing at the edge of the map.
  
  
• If your settlers are experiencing weird animations with some actions, be sure to turn off V-sync and cap the game's FPS in the game's options. Cap it to 60fps. If the issue persists, cap it at 30.
  
• Assigned Pets don't sleep with owners.
  
• Some items are missing icons and localization values.
  
• Player-triggered events don't have sound effects.
  
• Settlers will not refuel torches if there is no floor/ground beneath them.
  
• Settlers will not choose the closest production building (if there are more of the same type), but the one that has a production set first in the global list of productions.

Quality of Life improvements

• We’ve improved FPS drop caused by our new temperature damaging system. This is just to mend the large FPS drops on larger settlements. A better fix is still in the works.

Bugs and Fixes

• Fixed several crash occurrences.
  
• Fixed the issue where new players were unable to start the game.
  
• Fixed the issue where digging under beams would leave the stockpile placed there in a floating state.
  
• Fixed the issue where in the Manage panel, the undrafted stance of Settlers would be Aggressive by default and couldn’t be changed.
  
• Fixed the issue where a settler would exit the Hold Ground stance after they were attacking a target within their range.

Known issues

• Well has no visual indicator of the bucket going up and down.
  
• Barrels don't fill faster when under the edges of the roof yet.
  
  
• If your settlers are experiencing weird animations with some actions, be sure to turn off V-sync and cap the game's FPS in the game's options. Cap it to 60fps. If the issue persists, cap it at 30.
  
• Assigned Pets don't sleep with owners.
  
• Some items are missing icons and localization values.
  
• Player-triggered events don't have sound effects.
  
• Settlers will not refuel torches if there is no floor/ground beneath them.
  
• Settlers will not choose the closest production building (if there are more of the same type), but the one that has a production set first in the global list of productions.

Fire System

• Flammability is an attribute of all objects (e.g., grass, vegetation, buildings, people, animals, resources). It determines the likelihood of catching fire and how quickly the object loses HP while burning. For example, a pile of hay has high flammability, whereas a brick floor has zero flammability.
  
• Animals & humans can catch on fire (determined by the clothing and armor they are wearing). When on fire, they will slowly sustain burn wounds and spread the fire wherever they go.
  
• The wetness system in the game reduces flammability. The wetter an object is, the lower its flammability, making it impossible to catch fire.
  
• Fire emits significant heat, causing nearby vegetation to die, snow to melt, and wetness to evaporate.
  
• Fire can cause a heat-related health issue to the settlers where they faint.
  
• Rain and snow extinguish fires.
  
• Settlers will automatically extinguish fires if their Firefighting job is enabled in their job panel. They can fight fire in two ways: For small flames nearby, they’ll stomp them out without needing additional resources. For larger flames, they will fetch water from any water source (or from a Well, a new structure—more on that later) and use it to extinguish the fire, leaving wetness behind. This method is more effective for larger fires.
  
• Buildings get damaged by high temperatures, so high temperatures will damage things like limestone walls and whatnot. The temperature threshold for damaging structures is low and not realistic, but in a gameplay sense, we chose to use these lower temperature thresholds to make fire a bit more dangerous. That means making structures out of different materials is not a full proof defense against fires.
  
• Heat damage related info is located at the Info tab in the building bottom right panel.
  
• Buildings that use fire (torches, braziers, etc) have a high temperature threshold.

Combat with fire

• Fire arrows usage - Any flame source (e.g., braziers, torches) can enable the use of fire arrows. Drafted archers will see a "Use Fire Arrows" option next to the Attack command. Once activated, if they are standing near a flame source, a fire arrow icon will appear above them, indicating they can shoot fire arrows instead of regular ones.
  
• Fire arrows spawn a small flame at the point of impact.
  
• Fire arrows have lower precision and deal less damage than regular arrows.
  
• Fire arrows damage the bow much faster than regular arrow usage making the bow break faster due to the heat and flames.
  
• Only Short bow, Longbow, Warbow and Curved Bow can use fire arrows.
  
• Enemies can set structures on fire during their attacks, including furniture and production buildings. Raiders be evil like that!
  
• Fire traps release oil within a certain radius when triggered, which will also instantly ignite.
  
• Fire arrows landing on oil will ignite it.

Flammable Oil

• Flammable oil is created in the Oil press (new building), with Coal and Oil Source (like tallow and flax seeds).
  
• You can order settlers to spill oil on tiles making them extremely flammable and when the oil is ignited (with a fire arrow) it will spread super fast from oil tile to oil tile making a nice stronghold-esque fire trap. :D
  
• We also added a separate type of fire called Greek fire (at the moment it’s green in the game like the wildfire from Game of Thrones). This fire type can burn underwater and in the rain. It does not spread as Greek fire but spawns regular fire around it. It's just a stronger version of fire.
  
• Greek fire oil can also be created in the Oil press, but you will need Flammable Oil, Saltpeter and Quicklime (more on those later). Greek fire oil behaves the same as regular oil, but with the green fire that can't be extinguished easily.
  
• Greek fire can spread in low water.
  
• Greek fire oil is ignitable during the rain.
  
• Greek fire can spread on Greek fire oil blobs, even in rain.
  
• Greek fire oil blob burns 3x longer when compared to the regular oil blob.

• Trees when burning can have the canopy burning.
  
• Trees leave burnt trunks.
  
• During summer heatwaves, bushes in the wild have a chance to catch fire randomly.
  
• Vegetation has different flammability that's affected by the time of the year and phase the plant is in.
  
• Grass on the ground also has different flammability depending on the time of year. In the summer and autumn, its flammability is the highest.

• As mentioned, settlers with a Firefighter job will go and extinguish the fire. For bigger flames, they’ll need water. Here is how that will go:
  
• Settlers can fetch water from rivers or lakes at any accessible point.
  
• Settlers need to "go down" to shallow water to grab it. Only medium and high water level is viable for pickup from the shoreline.
  
• Water level updates when a settler takes water from a well/river/lake. (One full voxel has 3000L of water and the settler takes 60L with each run)
  
• You can construct a Well (a new structure) over a water source. Settlers will prioritize fetching water from the Well when using it for production or storing into barrels, giving you better control over water usage. When it comes to extinguishing fires, they’ll grab water from the closest point.
  
• Water can be stockpiled in barrels (new structures). There are two sizes: small and large. Barrels act as water sources during fires. Additionally, when barrels are exposed to fire, they have built-in rope and wax systems that melt and release the stored water, creating an automatic extinguishing mechanism.
  
• Rain can refill water barrels.
  
• Water barrels can spill water manually by settlers via barrel selection and choosing Open in the bottom right corner.
  
• Barrels can freeze when in <0°C temperature for about 3h. They can be filled with water when they are frozen, but no water can be taken from the barrel in that case.
  
• Upon their destruction, frozen barrels will drop ice blocks.
  
• Barrels can’t be opened if they are frozen.

Combat Changes

Multiple Drafted Stances

• Default: This is the same as before – settlers will engage in combat when an enemy enters their line of sight.
  
• Hold Ground: Settlers will ignore everything around them and engage in combat only when directly attacked or within range.

Shield Changes

• Shield cover percentage is now divided into ranged cover and melee cover, meaning shields differ in how much protection they offer against different types of attacks. For example, the buckler shield has a lower ranged cover than other shields but offers excellent melee cover.
  
• Shields now have a cover angle. Shooting a shielded enemy form behind will result in a direct hit.
  
• People with shields will automatically turn towards their attackers (even if they are receiving ranged attacks).
  
• During a melee attack animation, ranged cover is briefly reduced—because who’s holding a perfect block mid-swing?
  
• Raised shields as an animation has been added. Now, people raise their shields when in combat or attacked.
  
• Any weapon can now act as a shield, with its own cover values. Yes, this means a melee fighter can sometimes block arrows with their weapon, and an archer can try to block melee strikes with their bow. Using a bow to stop enemy blows will damage the weapon and even break it if the strike is strong enough.
  
• We’ve added sparks and VFX when a shield receives a hit. The shield will also turn red and flash a bit when hit, thus indicating that the shield has taken damage and not the human.

Alternative Attack Mode

• If an archer is attacked he/she will use the bow as a staff and fight with it like that instead of using bare hands like they do now.
  
• When a settler uses ranged weapons as melee in combat, they will use Melee skill to calculate performance.
  
• Using ranged weapons as melee will damage those weapons much faster than using them in ranged combat.

New Weapons

• Throwing axes - (Axes in the Research window, made in Blacksmith’s Forge) - They are short-ranged and have a loose precision with distance, but are massively strong against shields and armour. Settlers can also use them with a shield in the other hand, thus making your ranged units shielded as well.
  
• Javelins - (Wooden Weaponery 2 in the Research window, made in Woodwork Bench) - They have a bit better range than axes and are also great at taking down shields.
  
• Slings and Stave Slings are just low-tech low-cost variants of the other two. They are produced at Bowyer’s table. (Stave Sling is located in Fletching 2 in the Research window)
  
• All of the mentioned weapons can also damage buildings (while arrows cant) so they are a great addition to the attacking forces.

Training Settlers [Community Request]

• Archery Range and Practice Dummy are new buildings where setters can level up their ranged and melee skills.
  
• Settlers have a new “Train” job that will make them go to those stations to get some sweet XP;
  
• To use the station, settlers will need to bring assets there - Practice Target to Archery Range and Dummy to Practice Dummy station. Once they bring it, the training (in a form of production) will start.

New Structures

• Oil Press (Oil Press in the Research window, appears in the Production category) - used for creating Flammable Oil and Flammable Greek Fire Oil.
  
• Oil Splash (Oil Press in the Research window, Appears in Warfare category) - these are created with flammable oil. Combine it with fire arrows for utter chaos.
  
• Fire Trap (Defensive Structures 4 in the Research window, appears in the Warfare category) - when activated, it spills oil and ignites it.
  
• Small & Large Water Barrel (Barrels in the Research window, appears in the Misc category) - used for placing water and controlling fire.
  
• Well (Appears in the Base building category) - used as a control point from where the water will be taken from.
  
• Saltpetre Works (Chemistry 2 in the Research window, appears in the Production category) - used for making saltpeter.
  
• Archery Range (Combat Training Equipment in the Research window, appears in the Leisure category) - used for improving the Marksman skill of your settler.
  
• Practice Dummy (Combat Training Equipment in the Research window, appears in the Leisure category) - used for improving the Melee skill of your settler.

New Items/Resources

• Flammable Oil (Created at the Oil Press) - can be used as a resource for various oil related things.
  
• Quicklime (Created at Kiln) - used as a resource for making Greek Fire.
  
• Saltpeter (Created at Saltpetre Works) - used as a resource for making Greek Fire.
  
• Greek Oil (Created at the Oil Press) - advanced version of the regular oil. More durable and stronger.
  
• Practice Target (Created at Woodwork Bench and/or Bowyer’s Table) - used as a resource for Archery Range.
  
• Dummy (Created at Sewing Station) - used as a resource for Practice Dummy.
  
• Dung - Cows, donkeys, sheep and goats produce dung once a day. Dung just drops in the pen or where they stand. Dung is a type of waste and can be used to create saltpetre and dung bricks. Dung has an effect on certain people - dainty and precious perks are affected by the smell of dung and are unhappy when around it.
  
• Dung bricks can be created in kilns from dung and hay. Dung bricks are a reliable form of fuel.

Quality of Life Improvements

• Ranged weapons now have different projectiles. Now, crossbows shoot bolts and not arrows (what a time to be alive).
  
• Projectiles now have an arc to them. It's just a visual thing (the projectile won't be stuck in the ceiling or anything) just gives some nice visual flavor. This also means that bolts have the smallest arc.
  
• Sweet fire visuals on arrows (note, all projectiles have the visuals. If you change the json files so that let's say a sling can use fire projectiles, it will work).
  
• Added very hard enemy types with the appropriate equipment. This will also balance the spawn rate of the late game enemies (the idea is to have about 50 more difficult enemies, rather than 100 of them).
  
• We’ve changed the chances for destruction of traps a bit. Stick trap has 4% chance to be destroyed, wood 3% and metal trap has 1% chance to get destroyed when activated. Fire traps have a 100% chance to get destroyed when activated.
  
• Alcohol is no longer visible in the UI in settler’s Stats.
  
• Low alcohol does not have negative mood effects anymore unless a settler has certain perks that are about alcohol use.
  
• Wording has been changed so that it's obvious it's about drinking booze and not water to avoid the confusion that settlers need to drink water.

Known issues

• Well has no visual indicator of the bucket going up and down.
  
• Barrels don't fill faster when under the edges of the roof yet.
  
  
• If your settlers are experiencing weird animations with some actions, be sure to turn off V-sync and cap the game's FPS in the game's options. Cap it to 60fps. If the issue persists, cap it at 30.
  
• Assigned Pets don't sleep with owners.
  
• Some items are missing icons and localization values.
  
• Player-triggered events don't have sound effects.
  
• Settlers will not refuel torches if there is no floor/ground beneath them.
  
• Settlers will not choose the closest production building (if there are more of the same type), but the one that has a production set first in the global list of productions.

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Previous Updates

Quality of Life Improvements:

• Added more info to construction info cursor.
  
• Sling has been added to default scenario starting equipment.

Bugs and Fixes:

• Fixed several crash occurrences.
  
• Fixed the issue where wells, tall gates, portcullises and gallows were not constructible in some situations, citing lack of stability.
  
• Fixed the issue where all animals had 100% retaliation upon the reload of the game.
  
• Fixed the issue where some players were missing Manage presets.
  
• Fixed the issue where Zzzz sleep effect would remain even after the sleeping settler gets drafted.
  
• Fixed the issue where star icons were missing for passionate, unwilling, eager modifiers.
  
• Fixed the issue where if a settler would engage in hand to hand combat while having new ranged weapons with them, they would refuse to ever use ranged attacks of those weapons.
  
• Fixed the issue where bodies wouldn’t be moved to graves.
  
• Fixed the issue where raiders would just give up attacking after some time.

Known issues:

• Well has no visual indicator of the bucket going up and down, but it works.
  
• Barrels don't fill faster when under the edges of the roof yet.
  
  
• If your settlers are experiencing weird animations with some actions, be sure to turn off V-sync and cap the game's FPS in the game's options. Cap it to 60fps. If the issue persists, cap it at 30.
  
• Assigned Pets don't sleep with owners.
  
• Some text keys are still not translated.
  
• Player-triggered events don't have sound effects
  
• Settlers will not refuel torches if there is no floor/ground beneath them.
  
• Settlers will not choose the closest production building (if there are more of the same type), but the one that has a production set first in the global list of productions.