Dawn of Man news & patch notes

Hello Everyone, This is a small maintenance update, much like the one we've just done for Planetbase. Changes:

• Updating the game to Unity 2022.3.60 (which is the latest stable version). This fixes a few compatibility issues. Especially for people that might have been getting black screens at startup.
• When you click on the Planetbase 2 announcement image, the game now opens its Steam Store page in the Steam Overlay instead of the web browser.

Martiño.

Hello Everyone, We can now announce that we've started work on Planetbase 2. As much that this is a sequel to the original Planetbase, this is also Dawn of Man's spiritual successor, the theme changes, but the city-builder/RTS/survival concept remains. A ton of features from Dawn of Man like work areas, relative resource limits, direct RTS style commands or storage filters will be making a comeback in Planetbase 2, After 10 years, now the time has come to go back to our origins and revisit the Planetbase idea. We now have the time and resources to expand a concept that we always thought had a lot more potential. We've started work on this about 6 months ago, and we are still very much working out the exact design for the game, but these are the core ideas are focusing on:

Real worlds

In Planetbase, the planets were inspired by real worlds of the solar system, but we stopped short of calling them by their names. Now we want to add a more realistic twist (if you can call the colonization of the Solar System realistic) and allow the player to colonize real worlds. We are initially working on Mars, but other worlds worlds we have in mind are The Moon, Europa or Titan.

Tech Tree

In Planetbase you could acquire some techs, but now we are adding a proper tech tree like in Dawn of Man. Where it makes sense you will be able to research new technologies, and if we are talking about things that couldn't be researched in an off planet-colony you will be able to buy the right patents to use them.

Vehicles

Off world colonization won't be possible without using vehicles. We are working on adding rovers, mining vehicles or propellant tankers. These will be instrumental to increase the efficiency of your base. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/10221286/bc6a805511fe98a0a946acc3b0de0c43f91dfe40.png

Complex production chains

We want to expand on the simple ideas we had in Planetbase for resource gathering and manufacturing, allowing the player to mine in-situ resources and go in more detail about what would be required to create a self sustaining off-world manufacturing industry.

New power and water sources

The power/water mechanics in PB1 were pretty simple, we now want to add more complex power and water mechanics. Things like actively mining and melting ice to produce water, building an maintain nuclear reactors, survey the planet surface searching for the right area to place a geothermal plant and more....

Separate bases

This is an idea we always had in mind, we really need to think through how the player will be able to control this from the gameplay point of view, but we want to enable construction of separate bases and power grids.

RTS features

All the RTS style features like multi-selection and direct commands from Dawn of Man will be making a comeback.

Devlog

This time around we've decided to announce the game much earlier, instead of working in the dark for years in order to gather feedback and engage with the community. We will be publishing a devlog with regular updates on X and Bluesky. Thank you everyone for joining us in this amazing journey! Martiño.

Hello all, This is a maintenance update to fix a couple of issues.

Changes

• On Windows, the game now detects if the user has changed the mouse pointer size in the system and adjusts the position of tooltips accordingly, to avoid the cursor overlapping the text. This is a fix for the issue reported here.
• Updated to latest Unity 2022.3.21, this fixes the issue of some Mac players not being able to click on the UI. Reported here.

We are looking forward to any feedback. Thanks for supporting Dawn of Man! Martiño.

This changes the behavior for non-QWERTY keyboards so it makes more sense, in particular for french AZERTY, there are two options: a) If you set the windows keyboard language to English, the default configuration will just work (you will be able to use the right keys to move the camera around) but the prompts will be wrong. b) If you set the windows keyboard to French, the default configuration will be wrong, but you can remap the keys in the settings and then all the button prompts will be correct. Martiño.

Hello Everyone, We've finally managed to spare some time from the development of our new project to release version 1.8.0. The game now runs on the latest Unity stable version (2022.3 ATM). We've been wanting to upgrade for a while, but unfortunately this wasn't a trivial task, as there were some changes in the random and math libraries, that were breaking our procedural map generation. It took us a while, but we got everything sorted out and managed to upgrade. This should provide better compatibility across the board for newer systems.

New Grass/Reed rendering

Grass and reed details, are now rendered as geometry instead of billboards, and they are also using different shaders to the rest of the terrain details. They now look nicer, provide more coverage, and blend better with the terrain.

Terrain Shadows

In High and Ultra quality modes, terrain now casts shadows, see the difference in this screenshots: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32831408/c51516583d27222824aa95d67323eaec4980b667.png

New Fullscreen Modes

You can now select Exclusive fullscreen mode in settings screen, this provides an alternative to anyone that might be experiencing issues with the current Borderless mode. On Mac we are also now supporting Maximized mode.

Other changes

- Disabling IMGUI layouts, which saves random memory allocations. - Removed duplicate string warnings for workshop scenarios. - Updated Madruga Works logo. - Better handling of some OneDrive errors. We want to take this chance to thank everyone in the community that supported us and allows us to keep on making games! Martiño.

Hello Everyone, We've recently uploaded an official Steam Deck configuration and resubmitted the game for testing, so it's now officially listed as playable on Steam. Martiño.

This is a maintenance update with a few fixes. MISC - Added toggle-able announcement panel on top right of title screen. FIXES - Improved description of Completion milestones to clarify that you need all 30 of them. - Fixed issue that would allow plants to be placed in bridges. - Fixed code issues in warning signs. - Various fixes for rare crashes. - Better error messages for some modding errors. LOCALIZATION FIXES - Fixed typo in Spanish translation of Deep Mining tech. - Fixed typo in the French text for "Extractable resources"

Maintenance update fixing a few issues discovered recently: - Watchtower now requires the thatching tech to be built. - Storage filters are no longer visible if the structure is not operational. - Fixed issues with one of the Tin deposit variants not changing texture in winter. - You can no longer place plants outside of the playable game area.

In this update we are adding Cheesemaking, some improvements to animal trading and a bunch of other fixes.

Cheese

Cheese can now be made in the new Cheesemaker structure, from the Neolithic onward. Cheese lasts for longer than Milk, and can be traded. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32831408/39fa371bf62783012d7c4ceeaf839da102a01117.jpg

Trading

- You can now sell animals to trader. - Trader can now bring male and female animals at the same time, and you can choose which ones to purchase. - Trader animals are now visible and stay in village when purchased, or leave when sold. - Main trader that comes to village can now sometimes be an old person and companion trader can be of any age. - Male animals are now cheaper.

Misc

- When double clicking on animals, only animals from the same team are selected (Trader or Player). - Default resource limit for sickles is now 75% of adults.

Fixes

- Edit work area option doesn't appear when several Work Areas are selected. - When editing a work area, canceling caused the work area to be destroyed. Now, the work area will be restored to its original location. - Fix for issue that could potentially result in people being stuck after coming down from platforms.

This is a quick fix for an issue introduced in 1.6.2 that wouldn't allow you to right click on a young tameable animal (like an Ibex or Mouflon), in order to give a hunt order (before the relevant taming tech was unlocked).

This version includes various quality of life improvements and other fixes. QoL - You can now double click a work area to select all areas of the same type in town. - You can now double click on ore deposits, flint and rocks to select similar nearby entities. - You can now Alt+Right Click to give alternative commands to people like collecting tannin from trees, collecting mud from banks, shearing or milking animals. - Improved milestone unlock screen, that highlights which milestone is being unlocked. - You can now specify an FPS limit in the settings screen (when VSync is off). Fixes - Tin and Iron deposits are now properly highlighted when placing mining work areas. - Fixed issue that could cause people to be stuck in a loop performing commands when their stats were low. - People are now be able to swap tools from resource slots to tool slots when required for the action they have to perform. - Fixed game unpausing while on primal vision in normal mode if a trader was selected.

This is a quick fix for two issues: - Game can now tolerate broken translation workshop items better, instead of crashing (Russian workshop translation is causing the game to crash for anyone that has subscribed to it at the moment). - Better error message for when the game can not load the Posix libraries.

This update focuses on some of the main feature requests from the community, which were Armor and combat improvements.

Highlights

ARMOR Your people can now make armor, they will automatically equip it when you sound the alarm. Note that raiders will also wear armor, from the Bronze Age onward. Armor is made in the new Armorer structure, we've also moved shield production there (which was previously in the Workshop). It comes in two variants, Leather Armor, available from the Bronze Age, and Mail Armor, available from the Iron Age. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32831408/d8b22731b654315cbb8fd263061f6a5c0c1c6f12.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32831408/f3fdb481c55af955ca641f64996d2fb28922b208.png GATE RALLY POINTS You can now choose the position where your people gather when you trigger the alert. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32831408/1019c45b50a97ca40994ec3604b5a1d46eee5333.png GATES IN 8 DIRECTIONS You can now place gates in 8 directions, allowing for much more organic looking towns. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32831408/5acfd64edd480717f6afff37b8df23354b083605.png WALLS IN SHALLOW WATER Walls can now be built in shallow water (and steeper slopes), this makes it possible to use lakes and rivers as defensive barriers. Raiders might end up swimming through them to attack you, but this would still allow you to shoot at them from a distance for a long time. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32831408/c3c44dbeab9aab9350878ebdd4e33ea91b1077cc.png

Full Changelog

NEW RESOURCE: LEATHER ARMOR Made from leather, offers reasonable protection, available from the Bronze Age. NEW RESOURCE: MAIL ARMOR Made from iron rings, offers very good protection, available in the Iron Age. NEW STRUCTURE: ARMORER Structure that produces Leather and Mail Armor, we've also moved the shield manufacturing here, which was in the Workshop previously. NEW TECHS New techs Armor, Mail and Reinforced Shields, required for Leather Armor, Mail Armor and Oval Shields. COMBAT IMPROVEMENTS - It is now possible to edit the position at which people gather behind the gates when the alert is on. - Gates can now be build in 8 directions allowing for more organic wall designs. - You can now build walls, watchtowers and platforms in shallow water, and in steeper slopes. - In the Bronze and Iron Ages, raiders don't immediately acquire all techs in the era, but they do it progressively with each attack wave. - There is now an option in the defense panel to customize the amount of men and women that will use melee weapons in combat. - People will now upgrade their weapons from slings to bows if available. - Weapons that raiders drop when dead now have random condition instead of 100% - Added some old raiders, and slightly increased the proportion of males that come to attack. - Clothing now decays when absorbing combat damage, the damage that is saved is instead taken by the clothing. - Stamina decay rate is now cut in half when the alert is on. This affects all humans, including raiders. - Slings can now be sold for their full value up to the Neolithic only (down from the Copper Age). - Making sure that people don't run to another gate after all raiders are dead. - Animals that have been butchered, even only partially, now decay a lot faster. - Most defensive structures, like walls, gates and towers are now a bit more resistant. NEW ADULT PERCENTAGE RESOURCE LIMITS - It is now possible to set a resource limit to a percentage of the adults in the settlement. - This is now the default for tools, shields and armor, as children can not use them. - Improved tooltips for all resource limits, to make everything more clear. - Added 20% and 33% resource limits IMPROVED HUNTING RESOURCE LIMITS - Butchering tasks for hunted or slaughtered animals will now only get auto-generated if any of Meat, Bone or Raw Skins are under the limits. - In auto generated butchering tasks (after hunting or slaughtering), people will not extract resources that are over the limits. - Meat limit is now set to 100 by default (it was 30 before). - Raw Skins limit is now set to 40 by default (it was 10 before). - Bones limit is now set to 20 by default (it was 10 before). - These changes do not affect manual butcher tasks (created by right clicking or using the context actions), these always extract all resources from the animal. IMPROVED COMBAT BEHAVIOUR When a person is given a direct command to move somewhere (by right clicking on the ground), they will stay there and: - They won't go to their usual combat positions. This is useful when the enemies are attacking if you want to station a bunch of people somewhere instead of in the default positions. - They won't wander around town. - For a while, they won't go and get any weapons or armor. - For a while, they won't go to rest. - For a while, they won't get assigned any tasks. - For a while, they won't go store any resources. The idea behind these changes is that you get more control over what people do, but eventually they will do what they need to do to survive. IMPROVED PATHFINDING - Humans will retry with higher accuracy if they can't find a suitable path to the destination. - Beings prefer to walk on even terrain. - Beings try harder to cross by a nearby ford instead of swimming. MISC - New loading screen for the Ancient Warriors scenario. - Ancient Warriors tech cost has now been slightly reduced. - Slightly increased population limit. - Domestic Animals will now prefer to wander around stables. - People now prefer to wear outfits that are in better condition. - Workload calculations now count kids as half an adult. - You can now select a loaded person and right click on a storage structure to tell them to unload there. - Added Elasmotherium, Hyena, long haired woman and old man to intro screen. - Carts, Sledges and Plows can now be built by two people simultaneously.

This version improves a few game elements, based on the recent feedback from our community. Thanks everyone for helping make the game better! Balance Changes - Donkeys and Horses will usually now spend 3 game years as adults and 1 as old (before it was 2/2). This will bring up their reproduction rate to the same level as cattle. AI Changes - Domestic animals escape from raiders when not sheltered, even before being attacked. - People will now build structures even if very hungry when there is no food available, this can easily happen in Nomad mode. - Fixed issue with animals sometimes stuck in a loop in or near rivers/lakes Quality of Life - "No space in stables" warning is now only shown in Autumn or Winter. Modding fixes - When two scenarios use the same string ID, the game will now display a very obvious warning at startup. - Fixed crash when spawning items for humans in scenarios and there is no space to put them. General Fixes - Iron Sword now uppercase like the rest of the tool names. - Improved appearance of "Requires Tech" tooltip for context actions. - Fixed issue of animals/humans using the wrong idle animation when switching model (this is triggered by switching Age or outfit). - Fixed issue that could cause 2 trees to grow in the same place sometimes. Let us know about any further feedback you might have in our forums!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A5dOFhxeqo This version add the Plow, which makes planting crops faster and without penalty to morale from the Bronze Age onward. We also made several improvements to transports, including the new Transport Post structure, which allows to strategically distribute them across the settlement. As a bonus feature, we've included some new appearances for the villagers also, 12 in total. More frequent updates in our twitter devlog See all changes:

The Plow

This is a new implement that can be used to plant crops a lot faster and without penalty to morale. Has to be pulled by either Cattle or Horses. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32831408/cd5d8c1d2a54f831f58e4334681c970850bc89b9.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32831408/2e5bc07e51512bc2d3189cb630e8624e93c1844f.png

Transport Post

This new structure allows you to park Sledges/Carts/Plows in it, improving the organization of your settlement and opening new ways of optimizing work. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32831408/de64b1044599c70cd2ad74058c4cb51e61e55c72.png

New appearances for people

We are adding an extra human appearance per Gender/Age/Era, 12 in total. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32831408/3c7b755def55ac1fffc646c29bfe418bf4d16867.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32831408/ddc1f51141a76b53aed6389ef809454e3253ee4f.png

Modding updates

- It is now possible to precisely alter the distribution of trees, deposits, details and objects in custom Environments. - New Workshop Uploader integrated in the game, that makes the process of uploading scenarios and translations a lot simpler. - ConditionEntityNearMarker action in scenarios now works with any type of entity. - Fixed issue causing traders not to bring techs costing over 20 knowledge points if changed tech cost multiplier. - Added new CurrentGameMode, CurrentStartMode and CurrentEnvironment values for ConditionValueEquals

Other features

Farming - New Plowing technology. - Plant and harvest tasks are now generated in rows, with the closest plants to town going first. Audio - UI SFX volume reduced slightly. - Added panic sounds for humans. Gameplay changes - Only adult domestic animals can now be used to pull Carts or Plows. - Only adult Goats or Cattle now produce Milk. - Milk production time reduced from 0.2 years to 0.18 years. IA - Better usage of transports overall. Misc - Improved the way transports and animals follow humans, this also reduces clipping against structures. - New larger and more visible mouse pointer. - Improved Leather and Tanning icons. - Raiders now ignore megaliths and mines. - Performance optimizations in combat code, which should make mods with a ton of raiders run more smoothly. - Removed most artifacts in tinted models. - Fixed issue with river sound not updating it's volume properly when game paused. - Load is now centered when just one object is being carried on sledge or cart. - Added some more syllables for random names. - Fixed typo in burials text. - Fixed selection box on bridges under construction.

This is a patch for a couple of issues we found: - Fixed problem with traders not selling animals if all Stables were upgraded to Stone Stables. - Fixed wrong trader animal tooltips in French.

This is a maintenance update, the main change is that we've updated the version of Unity we use to build the game, this should fix some startup and other rare issues. Main - Updated to Unity 2017.4.35, this should fix issues with Citrix receiver and hopefully some other rare startup issues. Misc - People are now allowed to plant crops when hungry if the overall level of food is very low. - Fixed issue with people cutting down trees from a distance if their sledge was recycled while walking to it. - Fixed issue with wrong text size in loading screen if changing resolution after coming back to the main menu. - Fixed issue people dropping resources in structures at wrong distance sometimes. - Fixed graphical glitch in mines when switching from Primal Vision mode in hardcore difficulty while transitioning seasons. - Fixed issue with sometimes people having tool props while carrying sledges. - Fixed a couple of typos in the English help text. - Fixed typo in the German translation of underground mining tech name. - Stability fixes.

Hello Everyone, Now that 2019 is coming to an end, we want to take a moment to thank the Dawn of Man community. The game wouldn't be the same without your continued feedback, bug reports, workshop content, and overall support! Thanks! Dawn of Man has been a success beyond our expectations. We are very glad people are enjoying the game, and for a moment, they can feel like they are transported thousands of years to the amazing time that was the beginning of humanity.

Console version

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32831408/626c050895267daaa829c960e060dc8fccd9240c.png This is probably not the most exciting news to announce on Steam, but the game is now available on Xbox One (worldwide) and PS4 (Europe and Australia, in North America it will be live on January 6th). We will be updating the game in parallel on all platforms from now on.

Future Updates

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This is a new major update that adds burial mechanics to the game. We are also adding Metal Age versions of the Granary and Stables (which have increased capacity) and a ton of other improvements. More frequent updates in our devlog. https://youtu.be/Z2V4T3paKbs

Burials

When people die, they will get taken to a burial structure and mourned. This process allows people to recover the morale they lost when that person died. There is a new Burial Mound structure, and the existing Dolmen and Cairn buildings have been repurposed as funerary structures as well.

New Structures

Burial Mound A small tomb where to bury your dead. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32831408/f1b496ff13835d7ef8ed757b7cdb9a6649fa0209.jpg {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32831408/8b7ea2d26a65e44b613b484e74c59406f225c83e.jpg Staddle Granary An Iron Age upgrade for the Granary, can hold more items. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32831408/d2cc9130f5624609d74cbe8bed88030e76e8e1b2.jpg Stone Stables An Bronze age upgrade for the Stables, can house more animals. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32831408/e2da655d689334ab8b107ab2c49d54c2fd7aebfd.jpg

New Techs

Funerary Rituals Unlocks the Burial Mound structure. Staddle Stones Unlocks the Staddle Granary structure.

Hunting

Rebalanced danger levels and the amount of hunters that go to attack each type of animal. Fixed issue with hunt work area tasks always sending 1-3 hunters.

Population

Relaxing population limits a bit more, it should now be possible to reach 300 people.

AI Improvements

People are now more efficient when gathering resources from hunts. People will now take food from transports if extremely hungry. If extremely hungry, people will eat raw food instead of cooking it.

UI Improvements

Added workload to general panel. Environment temperature bar has been replaced by an more compact icon with a tooltip. Traders now indicate the gender of the animals they are offering. Fixed issue in savegame name input, where all text wasn't always selected. Savegames and town names can now include the dash character.

New settings

Added option to disable edge scrolling. Added option to toggle fullscreen. Added option to change UI sound volume. Settings that can be set on or off now use a toggle UI.

Misc

Up to two people can now use the Menhir at once. Up to four people can now use the Stone Circle at once. Collect and harvest wild plants work area now properly obeys resource limits on a per plant type basis. Flax re-added to collect and harvest wild plants work area. Mining work areas now show resource limits for all 3 types of ores. Fixed issue with mining work areas sometimes reporting that they were exhausted when it wasn't true. Fixed graphical issues with materials of new work areas and entities during primal vision mode. Removed stats window from main menu, as we didn't manage to get this to work properly. Various fixed for the UI of workshop scenarios. VSync settings now work properly in windowed mode. Fixed issue where trader animals could breed with yours. Traders will only bring straw from the neolithic onward. Fixed issue with panel widths when the help button was present on top. You can now keep on earning knowledge after unlocking all techs.

This is a quick patch to fix a crash that sometimes occurred when clicking on a crafting human, that was introduced on the previous update.

In this update we've made some changes to the AI, in order to make it cope better with high workload situations. Managing the workload of your settlement is still important in order for people to prioritize tasks correctly, but now this should never result in people dying of starvation or dehydration.

AI changes

- For any task to be assigned to a human, they have to have at least 50% hydration (this could be 25% before in some cases). - Most non-food related tasks, can now only be assigned to a human when they have at least 50% nutrition. - If someone is crafting a non-food item, and their nutrition or hydration go too low, they will abort. - There are a few more situations where people will abort what they are doing if they are low on hydration or nutrition. - When cutting down trees using a Sledge/Cart the resulting logs will always be placed in the transport and not the person's inventory. - Collect tannin and flax tasks now have the same priority as all other non-food related collection tasks (before their priority was the same as of food tasks, which was higher).

Misc

- Fixed typo in the "Resource has decayed" French text - Fixed a couple of rare crashes - Fixed bug which would allow the player to place the second variant of the tent in an isolated location, causing different issues - When the game fails to open the profile or settings files, it now gives a more helpful error

Some people have been complaining about overly aggressive behaviour in some predators (especially Cave Hyenas). In this version we are trying to fix this issue while keeping a good level of challenge in the game. Fauna Tweaks - Packs of the same type of animal are now be better distributed around the map. This will make the experience while playing the game the game more predictable and fair. - Cave Hyena packs can now have a maximum of 5 adults and 4 young (before it was 6 adults and 3 young). - When raider animals make a kill, they might stop actively chasing people in the town, and will only continue fighting if engaged in combat already. Misc - Limiting global stats in the title stats window to the last 7 days. - Sanity checking stats more before uploading them. - Fixed missing description for Bone Polishing tech. - Better placement of resources in buildings under construction. - Fixed a couple of rare crashes.

This is a large content update focusing on the new Nomad Mode, more animals and overhauling the fauna and hunting mechanics overall. More frequent updates in our devlog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhs1C-tVFH0

Nomad mode

In nomad mode you get no initial structures, but you get extra building materials and food. All resources are located in your people's inventory for ease of transport. This way you can move your people around the map before settling and choose a different location for your village. All Freeplay scenarios are playable in nomad mode.

New animals

Cave Hyena A medium sized predator, available in all freeplay scenarios. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/32831408/9b52597251afadaa3f89631004b411f6e5fd06ad.jpg Elasmotherium An extinct genus of large rhinoceros, available in The Northlands scenario. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/32831408/e1e8dfebd3eb94bbec5d42a5cd3ffe5e62c61bfa.png Muskox A large herbivore, available in The Northlands scenario. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/32831408/9ff19d41c80a5d6411c8d0a34d5814b51f993523.jpg Feral Horse In the Iron Age, all wild horses went extinct, and horses roaming the wild were feral instead. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32831408/c92ff95d5a80d651c6faa83a3cb730944aae0b64.png

New techs

Dog Training - Allows dogs to help with hunting. Bone Polishing - Unlocks Bone Knife and Bone Sickle.

New bone tools

New bone tools make bone more useful early game, as it typically was too abundant, these include the Bone Knife and Bone Sickle

Fauna behavior overhaul

The behaviour of wild animals is now more realistic making gameplay more challenging and interesting. - Animals defend all young around the area, not just their own offspring (this makes Wolves and Cave Lions quite a bit more aggressive). - Animals sometimes disengage from the attacker if it runs away (unless hungry). Humans will now run away when confronted with overwhelming odds. - Animals will now try really hard not to drink near the player's settlement. - Animals will now react properly while drinking when attacked by other animals. - Animals won't eat dead animals that have butcher tasks associated with them. - Several herbivores might retaliate when attacking their herd, even in normal mode. - Animals now target humans more often when hungry (but still prefer other animals). - Dogs can be knocked back by large animals.

Balance changes

- All outfits now take 90s to make (up from 50 or 60). - All flint tools now take 60s to make (up from 50). - All bone tools last for less time and uses when compared with the equivalent flint tools. - All animals have had their speeds, produced resources and hit points reviewed and iterated. - Downgrading Food Dryer to 6 slots, this will force the player to build more of these, as they were too efficient before. - Doubled the amount of time animal carcasses remain in the game. - Cave Lions now do 35 damage (from 30).

Work Area management improvements

- Added work areas panel. - Replaced Next/Previous work area buttons in work area options by a button to access the panel (Next/Previous work area shortcuts still work). - Hunt work areas now display a different tooltip saying "maximum number of simultaneous tasks in this area", as the previous tooltip was wrong.

Other

- Creative mode and "The Long March" challenges are now playable from the start. - Changed "Winter Hunt" milestone in "The Northlands" scenario to include the Elasmotherium and Muskox. - In the Knowledge Progress Panel, structures and animals that can not be currently built/hunted are now grayed out. - You can now select a bunch of trees with/without cutting down tasks assigned and cancel them all or cut them all down. - Collect wild plants work area also also works for Flax now. - When taking heavy resources to store, people will abort if very hungry or dehydrated. - When a selected entity enters a structure, it gets deselected. - Adding butcher tasks for domestic animals that die of starvation or natural causes. - Improved impact particle spawn positions.

Maintenance release, while we work on the next big content update. More details in our devlog.

Changes

- Trees that are not full grown, produce less wood when cut down. - Cut down work areas only cut down trees that are fully grown. - Preventing structures and transports from being built where another transport is being built. - Swordmaking and Swordmastery milestones in Ancient Warriors, now require you to produce swords, instead of just accumulating them (so you can't get them from looting the raider's weapons) - Game now detects savegames for community scenarios that no longer exist, and prevents you from loading them. - Stability fixes.

The Dawn of Man soundtrack is now available to stream or download free of charge. Youtube Soundcloud Download Track List 01 - The Dawn of Man 02 - Echoes of the Stone Age 03 - Ancient Times 04 - Desolate Winter 05 - Old Rites 06 - The Harvest 07 - Dance of the Ancestors 08 - Early Settlers 09 - Unsettling Times 10 - Winds of Change 11 - Tribal Gathering 12 - Dawn of Civilization 13 - Primitive Crafters 14 - Sacred Forest 15 - Bygone Tales 16 - Mists of Time 17 - The Founders 18 - Hunters and Gatherers 19 - Nomads 20 - Hunting Grounds 21 - Drums of War More updates in our devlog

Maintenance release, while we work on the next big content update. More details in our devlog. *Edit: Version 1.2.1b has now been uploaded to fix an issue with people not gathering resources of the ground sometimes.

Changes

AI and Gameplay - If a resource's condition is below 50%, then the AI will store it with very high priority. - New default resource limits: Meat: 30, Bones: 10, Raw Skins: 10. This prevents Hunting work areas from getting overused if it's not required. Optimizations - Human and animal paths are now saved in savegames, this prevents the game from stuttering at the beginning sometimes when recalculating them. - Various performance optimizations from the console version are now included, which make the game run better with high population counts. Stability - If the game now detects that the settings or profile are corrupted, it will reset them instead of crashing out. - Making the game more tolerant to corrupted savegames. - Fixed crash when clicking on enable/disable if a human was also selected. - Preventing messages from focusing on destroyed entities

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/32831408/e39424a7b149bb3d1cd8abb508c6e5e05f46650b.png This is a large content update focusing on combat, aiming to make it more balanced, realistic and fun to play. New elements like Shields and Platforms fundamentally change how combat plays out. Raider AI has been overhauled, and the existing defense structures have been rebalanced. The update also introduces other substantial non-combat related improvements: The Deep Iron Mine and the Megalith and Structure panels. More info on the latest updates in our devlog https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/32831408/c4e946d16f906d92f414e611c18586765d3602e9.jpg https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/32831408/a6b2046c02cfaed72cee4a6e5023a764a5e2abb2.jpg https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/32831408/ed7c79fa66c3c01e6be4d16a30a42f6ad42e4a4e.jpg https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/32831408/fa7723c7cacc2b242d5192b590c451b82031acee.png

New Resources

Round Shield A basic shield that can be used with one handed weapons to block incoming attacks. 1 Leather + 1 Log = 2 Round Shields. Has 200 HP and a 50% chance of blocking incoming attacks. Available from the Bronze Age onward. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/32831408/b60182a6490180f217b7b3ec8f6702f20ef6b188.png Oval Shield A large shield that can be used with one handed weapons to block incoming attacks. 1 Iron + 1 Log = 2 Oval Shields. Has 400 HP and a 66% chance of blocking incoming attacks. Available at the Iron Age. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/32831408/8a2fb17023cb97fc694d6defd537c753cc49d0d5.png

New Structures

Wooden Platform A structure, built inside the settlement's walls, so your people can shoot at raiders from it. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/32831408/b76e4ecc5815be862d5dfd5f219fcdd07cd50c7f.png Reinforced Platform A sturdier version of the Wooden Platform, can hold more people in it. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/32831408/9038b5f4e16d85418acdfdd67eed3ce4d2cc6f94.png Deep Iron Mine An upgraded Iron Mine, that increases the amount of ore that can be extracted from it. This was a request from the community as people were running out of Iron in late game. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/32831408/410d4319dd37897b6653b868bb6f4c686bca6df4.jpg

New Techs

Shieldmaking Allows the crafting of Shields in the Workshop. Deep Mining Allows the construction of Deep Iron Mines.

New Music

3 new music tracks.

Quality of Life

- New Structures panel, that allows you to locate any structures you have built (especially useful for mines). - New Megaliths panel, that allows you locate megaliths and megalithic transports. - Management panels are now split between "Standard" and "Advanced". - New default resource limits: Wool: 50, Dry Skin: 20, Leather: 20.

Balance Changes

- Increased the amount of Raiders that attack your settlement from the Copper Age onward, since it is easier to defend your town now. - Watchtowers and Guard Towers are more expensive now, but also more resistant. - Increased amount of skins produced by domestic animals, as Leather is now in higher demand in late game. - Slightly reduced the cost of techs in the Ancient Warriors scenario (but they are still more expensive than normal). - Changed express evolution achievement to 6 hours instead of 5. - Reduced Reinforced Gate cost to 1 unit of Iron. - Slightly increased hit points of Gate, Reinforced Gate, Palisade and Wall. - Moved netting tech to Bronze Age. - Reduced trader prices of all animals.

Misc

- Fix issue with raiders bringing outdated weapons in hardcore mode sometimes. - Tweaked main menu UI. - People will now abort capture tasks if very hungry, or if the animal has run too far away. - Towers and Platforms can now be toggled off, which will cause AI to ignore them. - Raiders now gather near the town and attack in a more coordinated manner. - Improved Wall and Palisade selection boxes. - Optimized rendering of small objects. - Properly snapping materials to terrain when building a structure. - Improvements to milestone cameras to make sure they show more relevant scenes. - Preventing people from changing outfit when the alert is on. - Fixed exploit where the player could save the game just before a trader arrived to get better resources. - Fixed issues with milestones on community scenarios with uppercase names. - Improved shadows for palisade

Another update with a few fixes. Note we are also working on the next big content update, see here.

CHANGES

AI Improvements - AI will now feed Grain to animals if there is a large surplus of it (when compared to Straw). - Animals and people now distribute themselves better among buildings when seeking shelter, instead of all flocking to the nearest one. Fixes - When a savegame is loaded, all of it's milestones are copied into the profile (this is useful when moving savegames between computers). - When giving a command while carrying a heavy resource, the human will drop it unless the command requires it. - When a command is given to a task that the player is already doing, the entity flashes green. - Fixed issue that caused weapons recovered from raiders to be indestructible. - Fixed issue allowing the player to set automatic production during tutorial when it shouldn't. - Some improvements and additional restrictions on bridge placement. - Fixed glitch when swapping structure variant while placing it on an invalid location. - Savegames from workshop scenarios can now be transferred to another computer and they will still work (as long as the scenario is present). - Fixed issue where all Raiders had blonde hair and light skin color.