Crash Fixes
Fix for Crash related to Equipping Items
Fix for Crash related to Torches
Fix for Crash related to Multiselect
Fix for Crash related to Delegated Adventures
Hang Fix
Fix for Hang when Loading a Game with a Game Loaded
Adventure Babies
Babies Born on Adventures are now properly added to Parties
Babies Born on Adventures now return home Properly
Babies who are Stillborn on Adventures are now counted as Casualties
Prevent Babies from carrying things when Embarking
Drop things that Babies are Carrying
Pregnancies
Pause player Pregnancy Progress when less than 1d left and not on Current Map
Progress non-player Pregnancies off map
Disable Notifications for Births that take place elsewhere
Optimization
Greatly Improve performance when numerous Shelves are Selected
Graphical Options
Add Motion Blur Option (default to On)
Add Film Grain Option (default to On)
Children
Take Innate effects on Potential into account when displaying Potential Progress
Fix bugs that bypassed Min and Max for Potential
Any Schedule
Take Relaxation into account more when deciding whether to Work or not
Arrows
Fix bug that caused improper Arrow Resupplying behavior
Mortals
Fix removal of Aging Skill Malus when De-aging a character during Editing
Fix out of whack Aging Maluses on existing Characters
Book Sets
Show the number of Placed and Crated Book Sets of that Type on Tooltips
Show the number of Owned Book Sets of that Type when Adding a Task
Camera
Fix bug that allowed Camera to dip below the Ground when Layered
Status Effects
Time Based Status Effects now progress while Away/Traveling
Effects
Disable Attached Effects when a Character leaves the Map
Family Tree
Fix Cycling in certain scenarios
Crash Reporting
Automatically Include a prior save if Crashing while LoadingRestart the game and steam to pick it up!
Noble Fates
Noble Fates 0.29.2.1 Released!
Noble Fates 0.29.1.5 Released!
Ascending
Fix Crash when Ascending with Queued Salvage CommandsRestart the game and steam to pick it up! Noble Fates 0.29.1.4 Released!
Crash Fix
Fix for Crash related to Maturity Food RulesRestart the game and steam to pick it up! Noble Fates 0.28.12.10 Released!
Fire Fighting
Fight Fires from the nearest reachable position
Fight Fire Zones now include Slopes
Fix Bug preventing Fighting Fires on Slopes
Fix Bug preventing Fighting some Fires on Terrain
Camera
Improve Camera behavior on Slopes
Home
Don't show undiscovered Caves as part of Home
Don't choose undiscovered Caves as a spot near Home
Prevents Spawning/Camping in Caves
Mod Support
Add RightCtrl and RightAlt Input Chords
Add "partyPetChance" to control the chance an animal type
shows up with parties when they can afford itRestart the game and steam to pick it up! Noble Fates 0.28.12.8 Released!
Crash Fix
Fix for Crash related to status effects (thanks Sato!)
Hang Fix
Fix for Hang related to Visitors Arriving (thanks Sato!)
Fix for Hang related to Rabid Animals
Debug
Fix Debug -> Flow -> Wanderers after you've Moved HomeRestart the game and steam to pick it up! Welcome to the Steam Winter Sale!
Year in Review
As the game has stabilized, we've been able to focus more of our attention on addressing feedback - adding in-depth starting customization, revisiting and expanding on key systems, and growing the mid and end game. Oh and we added Dwarves, Caves, and new Monsters!
Noble Fates received 10 Key Updates this Year!
Choose Your Home: 2 New Biomes, Seeded Maps, Resettle at any time
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1769420/view/3873722747074465460
Beliefs: Influence your Kingdom's Alignment, Preferences, and Opinions
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1769420/view/3799410012382386859
Deep Starting Mortal Customization! Retuned Mortal Visuals!
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1769420/view/3731852844364882332
Choose Your Fate: 4 Difficulty Presets (incl. Peaceful) with full Customization! Simplified Sexuality!
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1769420/view/3705955877832190995
Fine Stone Furniture and Dwarven Decorations
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1769420/view/3672177705988621420
Ranged Combat Improvements, Building QOL, Advanced Coolers
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1769420/view/3677803305959786405
Mining QOL, Trading QOL, Closeable Vents
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1769420/view/3649653272224346657
Dwarven Domain: Dwarves! Caves! Temperature Sim with Vents, Coolers, and Exhausts! New Monsters!
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1769420/view/3657533936655804682
Proper Door Locks
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1769420/view/3674412925840803511
Mortal Appearance Editor
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1769420/view/3683415686324899351
The Roadmap has been updated
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1769420/view/5445412989034362287
Noble Fates is on Sale
There's no better time than now to decide the Fates of some Nobles!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1769420/Noble_Fates/
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Happy Holidays!
Noble Fates wouldn't be possible without your support, feedback, and encouragement.
Thank you,
The Noble Fates Team
Noble Fates 0.28.12.7 Released!
Crash Fix
Fix for crash related to Grappling Hooks
Hang Fix
Fix for rare hang when a Raid is Discovered
Biome
Load the correct Biome Backdrop when loading a SaveRestart the game and steam to pick it up! Noble Fates 0.28.12.6 Released!
Crash Fix
Fix for crash on World MapRestart the game and steam to pick it up! Kingdom Crier #31: Choose Your Home! Roadmap Update!
Noble Fates continues to grow and mature thanks to your continued support, encouragement, and feedback. The path to 1.0 is clear, and we're armed to tackle it thanks to you.
To celebrate, Choose Your Fate Content Update #4 - Choose Your Home has been released!
Choose Your Home!
Now that you can create that perfect starting group, it's time to find them the perfect home!
To help we've added a Map step to the Choose Your Fate screen, moved to a Seeded Map system, added 2 new Home Map Biomes, and added Resettling!
New Home Map Biome: Mountain
The Mountain Biome offer a more difficult, but interesting alternative to the existing Forest Home Biome.
Expect more verticality, better choke points, and a harsher Winter!
My Orcs rock ramshackle shanties, walls, and towers!
New Home Map Biome: Arid
The Arid Biome offers the hardest Home experience.
Expect nothing to Forage, limited Logging, few Hunting options, and a harsher Summer.
It's the perfect place to employ the new Terraforming improvements!
Seeded Maps
Maps are now seeded and produce consistent results for a given Map Seed.
A Map Seed is a bit of text that we key off of when deciding what to put where. Any text is supported, but supplying a biome prefix (forest-, mountain-, arid-) ensures a consistent biome as new ones are added to the game.
The fine print: Expect occasional differences from as we continue through Early Access. We'll signal these and keep them subtle. We'll do everything we can to maintain consistency here post 1.0. In addition, adding or removing mods may change the Map for a given Seed.
Resettling
You can pack up and move your Home any time you'd like.
Currently, there's no limit to what you can bring along, but keep in mind that it'll all be sitting on the ground when you arrive at your destination.
I want to go to there!
This is unlocked from the start outside of the Guided Experience, so find that perfect home before you start building up!
Anything you leave behind is gone forever, so choose what you bring wisely.
Quality of LIfe Improvements
In addition to Choose Your Home, this update brings a fresh batch of Quality of Life changes to Raids, Terraforming, Wounds, Preaching, and more!
Patch Notes
Noble Fates 0.28.12.5 Released!
Choose Your Fate Content Update #4
Choose Your Home!
Options Include Mountain and Arid Biomes
There are always 3 Potential Homes present on the Map
You can Replace or Edit them before you move
You can now Resettle on a new Map at any time
No cost, but anything left behind is abandoned
Choose what you bring (including Animals!)
Map Seeds
A given Map Seed will reproduce the same Map
Save these to replay on a Map you liked or share with others
Any text is supported
Include explicit Biome prefix support (forest-, mountain-, arid-)
Derive Biome if not supplied
NOTE: this can result in a different map as more Biomes are added
Biomes
Mountain
Now Available as a Medium-Hard Home Map Biome!
Decrease Temperature
Tweak Appearance
Tweak Minerals
Tweak Foliage
Limit Animals
Arid
Now Available as a Hard Home Map Biome!
Greatly decrease Saguaro Cactus Wood yield
Decrease Olive Tree Wood yield
Limit Animals
Forest
More Grass on Slopes
Add Overview
Add Description
Add Icons
Map Generation
Increase initial Foliage amount
New Game
Add Map Customization
Iterate on Heavy is The Crown Flavor text
Terrain
Lower Generation Ceiling to +14
Increase base Mining Speed (should help at the start)
Dirt
Decrease Mining difficulty
Increase Mining speed
Increase Dirt yield when Mining
Sand
Decrease Dirty yield when Mining
Decrease Mining difficulty
Increase Mining speed
Terraforming
Allow Blocks to be placed over Ramps, Ridges, and Nooks
Auto-Dig out the existing Block before Terraforming
Cut costs by 25% for all Block types
Hollow Block Blueprints
Hidden on current layer when layered
Allow Stockpiles below
Allow Props below
Turns into a "Leave Ceiling" Dig when placed on a Ramp, Ridge, or Nook
Fix rendering bug
Raids
Increase logic behind Target finding
Increase detection radius of Surprise Raids
Rename Unannounced Raids Option to Surprise Raids
Warn about incoming Declarations of War Raids
Detect Warned Raids if they reach the Home area
Detect Warned Raids when they begin their attack
Increase Range for Detecting Warned Raids (x2)
Increase Range for Detecting Warned Raids when Enlisted (x4)
Increase Range for Detecting Warned Raids from above
Fix bug that allows Duplicate Declarations of War Raids
Fix bug that can cause first Raid to have more than 1 Attacker
Improve handling of Raids edge cases
Characters
Prevent redundant Ambushed Esteem entries
Prevent redundant Allowed Death of Esteem entries
Scale back Power (o) of Esteem effects of Moral Interactions...
when Neutral and you don't Like or Love the Pawn involved
Fix bugs related to positioning
Fix bugs related to Aggro
Fix bugs related to Escaping
Wounds
Decrease Treatment Difficulty
Increase Treatment Rate
Treatment is ~2x faster on average
Adventures
Add Load Screen when destination is reached
Add ability to bring Animals back
Performance
Fix Performance hitches when Building in Layered View
Animals
Only Aggro against Monsters when Attacked or Enlisted
Only Aggro against Rabid Animals when Attacked or Enlisted
Do not auto-finish downed enemies unless Enlisted or Rabid
Animals will no longer Hunt characters they can't reach
Rabid Animals
Fix bug that prevented them from attacking Doors without Locks
Fix bug that prevented names from turning Red when an Animal becomes Rabid
Rabid Animal Corpses are no longer Ignored by default
Escapee Moment
Prevent Relocating Home
Prevent Ruler Adventures
Grappling Hooks
Improve Pathing around Grappling Hooks
Cutting Hooks down is now much easier
Fix bugs related to loading with deployed Hooks
Fix bug when Hooks Break the Prop they land on
Fix bugs with targeting in third person
Preachings
Add ability to Prioritize Preachings
Mage
Improve Projectile AOE range
Fix bug that prevented leaving Mage Control when Downed or Dead
Places
Add more Place name variations
Iterate on Place name generation
Stone Cutting Table
Now uses Iron Rods (16) to Build
Battles
Fix bug that caused premature Battle end
World Map
Show Party Leader's Title on Parties
Hide Kingdom Home from traveling Party Tooltip
Iteration on Map Seed details on Ruler Tooltip
Add "Copy Map Seed" when your Ruler is selected
Fix bugs related to dragging
Items
Ensure Items on ground are reachable after Starting or Resettling
UI
Iterate on visuals of unticked Rush buttons
Expand Rename Field size
"Add Barricade" Command
Fix Status Text
Modding
Add Animal support to Biomes
Add -mapstats cmdline to write out map stats after generation
Add -mapgen cmdline to write map details after generationRestart the game and steam to make sure you're up to date!Roadmap Update!
2 Years of Early Access is the perfect time to update the Roadmap!
As a reminder - there are 3 types of updates for Noble Fates - Hotfix Updates that address bugs and issues (including those that are listed on the Backlog and those that you Report in-game); Content Updates that focus on expanding existing systems and filling them with additional content; and Feature Updates that add new features to the game expanding the overall breadth of what the game has to offer.
Priority Fixes
Progress against the Priority Fixes that we outlined on 3/14
We've continued to move out of the Crash fixing phase and into the improvement phase as the game matures! There were a high number of Quality of Life improvements this year, including the Choose Your Fate initiative.
Notable Changes
Crashes
Fixed 40+ additional crashes, bringing the total to 200+!
Choose Your Fate
Made Intro Skippable
Added Peaceful Experience
Added Easy/Medium/Hard Experiences
Added Experience Customization
Added Sexuality Customization
Added Starter Customization
Editable Alignment
Editable Kingdom Size Preference
Editable Skills
Editable Opinions
Editable Sexuality
Added Beliefs System
Influence Alignment
Influence Kingdom Size Preference
Influence Opinions
Leverage Principle presets to simplify
Includes Autonomous Mode
Add Principle Selection step to Intro
Added Resettling
Maps
Introduced Seeded Maps
Added Mountain Home Biome
Added Arid Home Biome
Performance
Improved Reachability Performance
Improved Room Calculation Performance
Improved Temperature Sim Performance
Improve Work List Performance
Improve Need Performance
Improve Building Performance
Sexuality
Replace Gender with Sex and Traits
Add Sexes and Options (Male, Female)
Add Sexuality Traits and Options (Straight, Gay, Bisexual, Asexual, Non-Binary)
Add Attraction Modifier Options (Race, Age, Prestige)
Add Title Options (Masculine, Feminine)
Add Simplified Sexuality Option (Males & Females, Attracted to opposite Sex)
Make Simplified Sexuality the default to streamline New Games
Character Visuals
Add Visual Extremes Option
Reign in Visual Extremes by 50% by Default
Tweak Iris Sizes for Orcs
Tweak Eye Reflectivity
Combat
Improved Ranged Combat near Ledges
Prevented Jumping from Ledges without confirmation
Improved Raid Detection Logic
Improved Raider Behavior
Improved Grappling Hooks
Door Locks
Visitors and Animals respect Lock Permissions
Building
Improve Building Reachability
Dismantle from anywhere nearby that is Reachable
Junk
Auto Junk v2
Ability to Override Auto Junk
Races
Added Dwarves
Characters
Reworked Skill Leveling
Monsters
Added Kin
Temperature
Introduced Advanced Temperature Simulation
Added Fine Stone Hearth/Chimney
Added Vents
Added Exhaust Pipes
Added Coolers
Added Frostcaps
Injuries
Added Minor, Major, and Permanent Injuries
Added Heatstroke/Hypothermia
Added Frostbite
Food
Reworked Meals
Added Drybars (Preserved Meal)
Added 5 Drink Types
Terrain
Added Caves
Added Dirt Resource
Added Terraforming
Needs
Rebalanced
Ramp Esteem Effects over time
Conversations
Greatly reduced Ruler Conversation importance
Items
Rebalanced Decay
Rebalanced Stack Sizes
Decorations
Added Dwarven Furniture
Trading
Added Buffs Column and Filtering
Added Click and Drag SupportCurrent Priorities
A number of systems have gotten a second pass and that will continue as we move through the remainder of Early Access.
Localization is underway, but is paused while we tackled the Choose Your Fate initiative. Work will resume once Feature Update #6 is released, and it will likely land between Feature Update #6 and Feature Update #7 (mid 2024 by current estimation).
Content Updates
We've released 22 Content Updates so far! Wow!
There have been 6 Content Updates since the last Roadmap Update!
Content Update #17: Advanced Frostcap Coolers
Content Update #18: Dwarven Furniture
Choose Your Fate Content Update #1: Choose Your Fate
Choose Your Fate Content Update #2: Mortal Editor
Choose Your Fate Content Update #3: Beliefs
Choose Your Fate Content Update #4: Choose Your HomeWe'll continue to work on these and release them as they're ready,
Feature Updates
Finally, we have the Feature Updates. As a reminder, 8 of these will arrive during Early Access. 5 have landed so far.
Feature Update #5: Dwarven Domain!
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1769420/view/3657533936655804682?l=english
Feature Update #6: Choose Your Fate
This Content Update marks the transition into the Feature Update portion of the Choose Your Fate initiative.
We're hard at work on the remaining features of the Feature Update and are targeting an early 2024 release.
As always, thanks for your patience!
Early Access Status
We're around 70% of the way through what we aim to accomplish with Early Access.
We continue to raise the bar as we work through the remaining bits so the last 30% could take as long as the first 70%.
That puts us 18 months or so from 1.0 with at least 3 Major Updates landing before 1.0. We've had enough success that we're in good shape for landing 1.0 thanks to your support!
Experimental Branch
If you have the stomach for brief bouts of instability and want to help us out - switch to (or stay in) the Experimental Beta on Steam and participate in discussions here or on discord.
v0.28 Saves will remain compatible until we launch the Beta for Feature Update #6 - some time from now.
Expect occasional issues - but know that we appreciate you helping us make the game better!
Community Corner
Kideya captured this stunning Mountain Winter scene!
cypr' always finds creative new ways to build...
CheeseCake with the cozy starter base!
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Thanks for reading and thanks for playing!
The Noble Fates Team
Noble Fates 0.28.11.18 Released!
Crash Fix
Fix for Intro Crash
Intro
Improve UI Placement during Ruler confirmation
Carpet
Reduce Cotton cost by 28%
Stone Blocks
Double Batch Size when Cutting (24 from 12)Restart the game and steam to pick it up!