Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown

• Visual fidelity overhaul: Textures and lighting in the game now render in 4K, providing stunning enhancements without sacrificing performance.
  
• Expanded strategic depth: We’ve introduced militia units, citizen revolts and smarter AI for even more satisfying RTS combat while defending your city.
  
• Refined city building gameplay: Trade route improvements, new highly detailed buildings and structures to customize your kingdom, and so much more!

• Influence System
  
• Decorative Buildings
  
  
  • Reduces pollution and increases happiness
• Wyrmaxa Attack Raids
  
  • Wyrmaxa attacks your territories when at war.
    
  • Assaults occur every 5 days and get progressively harder.
    
  • Small Improvement to Wyrmaxa AI pathing in combat.
• Updated Wall Placement System
  
  • Walls place and connect easier
• Difficulty Settings added
  
  • Normal
    
    • Start with higher happiness
      
    • Increased production speed
      
    • Less fires
      
    • Adjusted villager threshold for villager needs
• Hard
  
  • Original game difficulty

• Provinces becoming neutral after claiming
  
• De-Sync in multiplayer
  
• Unit placement on stone walls
  
• Small fixes for influence, initial caravan uses influence, influence tool tip only shows on buildings that cost influence
  
• Aqueduct buildings now graphically show whether they are powered or not
  
• Entertainment buildings providing happiness bonus when they have no one working there
  
• Catapult start position and wall placement amended
  
• Towns not surrendering or certain buildings not being able to be attacked
  
• Game saves not showing up in game
  
• Archers on walls not changing teams with rest of Wyrmaxa on surrender
  
• Camera issues on loading game while camera is over a mountain
  
• Localization not updating in-game
  
• Localization not appearing on the influence tooltip
  
• Wyrmaxa destroyed tool tip
  
• Military units phasing through walls when in formations
  
• Multiplayer save name error bug
  
• Homeless people showing up in the houses in the wrong territories
  
• Adjust layout of influence & wealth tooltip to ensure German & Russian translations aren’t cut off
  
• Disabled localiser on influence tooltip
  
• Added destroyed state to stone walls
  
• Updated name and description of water wheel building
  
• Lag when typing save name
  
• Construction ghosts reappearing on loaded game
  
• Scholars given as event reward instead of thralls
  
• Issue with caravan pathing around tight corners
  
• Tech tree repeating research
  
• Outposts failing to clear zone when all buildings destroyed
  
• Riots always being called
  
• Tutorial localization improved
  
• Beasts eating
  
• Balancing changes to farmer needs
  
• Road tiles drawing at node navigation points

• Trees - 23 Variations
  
• Hedges - 3 Variations

• Bench, Flag Pole, Flower Bed, Fountain, Graveyard, Hedge Maze, Pony Ride, Statue, Streetlight

• Obelisk, Flag Pole, Streetlight, Crypt, Graveyard, Statue, Hanging Cage, Spiked Heads, Torture Rack

Costs of Influence

• Large 40
  
• Medium 20
  
• Small 10
  
• Central province Medium 40
  
• Central small 20

• Neutral units 2 per
  
• B/t units 5 per
  
• Special units 10 per
  
• Siege 15 per
  
• Caravans 5 per

• Farmers every 60
  
• Laborers every 40
  
• Scholars every 20
  
• Curators every 5
  
• Thralls every 100
  
• Acolytes every 5
  
• Noble classes generate 5 influence per noble.

• 100
  
• 300
  
• 500
  
• 800
  
• 1200
  
• 1500
  
• 2000

• Improved wall functionality (movement and destruction)
  
• Improved Wyrmaxa (patrols, attacks and defense)
  
• Fix for conquered Provinces becoming neutral again
  

• Missing translations from Influence System
  
• Loading into Co-Op - only the host can see the players names
  
• Some minor visual issues
  

• Hired militia units for early-game defense
  
• Citizen revolts
  
• Optimizations to the Save/Load system to reduce time taken for each action
  
• Ability to hover on town to display town name
  
• New road rendering system for better performance
  
• Notification when the merchant arrives in town
  
• Notification for when a player creates a trade route with a different team in multiplayer mode

• The defeat screen allowing players to go back to main menu and can no longer continue the game
  
• How happiness items are displayed in the UI
  
• Edicts not activating correctly when loading a save
  
• Missing translations for ‘progress’ text during construction of buildings
  
• Benevolent Quarry graphics
  
• Progress text on Construction module when translated
  
• Units now face the proper direction when rioting, spread out more and move more as a group
  
• Removed unreachable resources from territory borders so villagers can farm those resources.
  
• Baked overworld road pathfinding to have more consistent shorter paths
  
• Translations on Onboarding ‘One Off’ Item displays
  
• Translations on Caravans ToolTip
  
• Texture issues with the building ground decals
  
• Improvements to overworld road pathfinding
  
• Building loading system
  
• Deleting Bridges not updating navigation map
  
• Military unit names not appearing in tooltip on multi military unit UI
  
• Military hotkey UI to show the proper hotkeys
  
• Localisation of narrative event rewards
  
• Localisation of secondary onboarding objective titles (such as the ones triggered by fires and disease)
  
• Missing information from Bevevolent/Tyrannical classes in stats panel
  
• Issues with Tome of Knowledge and Stats panel extending off-screen in 16:10 aspect ratio
  
• Bug where a storage would display a negative amount
  
• Caravan farmers no longer stuck at loading 9/10
  
• 'Caravans' info panel no longer fails to localize in any language in the 'Resource bar' in the top left UI
  
• Cinematic Audio settings
  
• Resource flag AOI and highlights
  
• Z & X keys overriding modified squad controls
  
• Onboarding objective display cut off in 16:10 aspect ratio
  
• Caravan hot key buttons
  
• Crash when host crashes/leaves and a client saves
  
• Win/loss display, and scoreboard
  
• Switching language from Chinese to English leaves blank boxes for revolt warning
  
• Caravan or Military Hotkeys
  
• 'Ctrl+C' not functioning in-game correctly to deploy the 'Caravan'
  
• Z & X Hotkeys Conflicting with each other
  
• Dead units remaining as icons in Barracks
  
• Thralls not using happiness goods
  
• Issue when camera pans over mountains above the cloud height locking the camera above the clouds
  
• Military units no longer get stuck in the center of the map

Revolts and Riots

• 25% Penalty on Provincial Tax Income (cumulative, per-class)
  
• Associated jobs of that citizen class are ‘Locked’ (citizen cannot be fired)
  
• Locked job slots suffer a 50% Production penalty

• Citizens of that class will take to the streets in a large crowd, yelling and waving torches and pitchforks
  
• They will start outside the keep or a random building if there is no keep. After a short gathering period they will move on to start targeting specific buildings
  
• There will be a chance to set targeted buildings on fire. Mainly production buildings and buildings of higher classes.
  
• Thralls have a chance to spawn aggressive units(grimrot) that will attack structures.

Hired Militia

• Edge Scrolling - Found in the setting and off by defaut
  
• Vegetation System improvements (see comprehensive breakdown below)

• Fixed hunters lodge workers trying to hunt outside their territory
  
• Updated tutorial steps for a better experience
  
• Fixed Wyramxa outpost units not targeting player units
  
• Fixed military unit patrol order
  
• Fixed issue with caravans bunching up or setting stuck in towns blocking trade routes
  
• Updated battle report after destroying towns and outposts to be clearer
  
• Fixed bug with wells that stop water production after being rebuilt

• Optimized unit pathfinding and terrain detection
  
• Added estimated completion time to building production UI
  
• Updated camera far clip plane to be based off zoom height
  
• Optimized save data
  
• Updated lighting systems

• Improved Gameplay Performance
  
  • Smoother gameplay with most PCs seeing a 10-30% improvement in FPS over the old system, representing a notable percentage increase in performance.
• Increased Grass and Vegetation Density
  
  • Significantly increased the density of grass and vegetation, enhancing visuals without impacting performance on both low- and high-end systems.
• Road Building Enhancements
  
  • Roads now automatically remove grass when being built, improving the overall appearance and functionality.
• Enhanced Lighting Effects
  
  • This update includes visual improvements to lighting for a more polished look.
• Optimized Rendering Performance at 4K
  
  • Rendering performance is significantly improved, ensuring smoother visuals at higher resolutions.
• Improved Vegetation Rendering
  
  • New vegetation assets have streamlined rendering code, paving the way for easier future improvements.
• Ultra Shadows Upgrade
  
  • Ultra shadow settings now use 4K shadows, resulting in much cleaner and more detailed shadow rendering.
• Better Visuals on Low-End PCs
  
  • Low-end PCs using lower graphics quality settings retain more visual fidelity, minimizing the trade-off between performance and quality.

• Influence System
  
  • A new feature that limits the amount of provinces, alliances and military units from the start of a new game. This acts like a currency that is spent to acquire more of these items; but once they’re lost and destroyed, the currency returns. When a new game is started, you’ll begin the game with a small amount of influence, which scales with your province's population or upgrade level of your Keep. You’ll never lose influence bonuses even if your population decreases.
    
• Militia
  
  • Before a player gains access to more reliable combat units, they have no way to protect themselves in the event of an attack. To tackle this problem, players should be able to temporarily hire citizens into a militia, aimed at dealing with the incursion. New unit types will include:
    
    • Bowman (sling or arrow)
      
    • Spearman (spear or pitchfork)
      
    • Scout (knife)
• Riots
  
  • If the Happiness level of a class of citizens is below a certain threshold for an extended period of time and they do not emigrate or die, the people will find ways to make their voices heard. Immediately after a Revolt begins, citizens of that class will take to the streets in a large crowd, yelling and waving torches and pitchforks. Property damage and penalties on Provincial Tax Income can occur!
    

• Decorative Buildings
  
  • Including the ability for players to decorate their cities in a unique way, regardless of what level you’re at - neutral, Benevolent or Tyrannical. Giving your structures a new look also combats pollution and improves the beautification of the province, which impacts civilian happiness and the bonus output of the structures themselves.
    

• Improved Wyrmaxa
  
  • Wyrmaxia are the hostile, antagonistic communities of Nysamor that want you off their land and focus on destroying your town. We’ve made tweaks to the intelligence of the patrols, attacks and defences during battle that will improve the combat with each encounter.
  
  
• Wall Functionality
  
  • With every wall you place to defend your province in battle, you’ll be able to move them with ease, plus you’ll see an improved destruction animation each time the enemy damages them.
    

• Trade routes no longer lock resource slots when making changes to trade routes.
  
• Resolved the potential of the fog of war appearing when loading autosaves
  
• Building Texture updated
  
• Roads now load correctly after becoming Benevolent or Tyrannical
  
• Trade routes no longer disappear
  
• Fixes to Caravans sometimes not deploying correctly
  
• Adderbeast now despawns correctly
  
• Fixed possible tutorial softlock during game saving or loading
  
• Fixed possible crash during game loading (occurred while ALT-tabbing).