Fata Deum - The God Sim news & patch notes

Patch 15 is now available on the Beta Branch!

Following the release of Hero Possession Mode in our last update, we shifted our focus back to the Elemental Orbs.

We are thrilled to introduce the drawing wonders for the Air Orb, officially completing the ultimate wonder lineup for all four elements: Water, Fire, Earth, and Air!

Here is what you can unleash today:

The Tornado: Summon a massive vortex to hurl your mortals across the map!

Automated Construction: Tired of manually gathering wood and babysitting construction sites?

Cast a magical wind that automatically harvests timber and builds structures for you!

Bug Fixes & Performance

With the elemental core completed, we turned our attention to your feedback.

This patch includes a variety of performance optimizations and bug fixes.

Check out the full summary below!

What's Next?

We will spend the next few weeks strictly focusing on performance stability and polish before we dive into the next major feature.

Thank you for your continued support!

Summary

• Added clockwise drawing wonder tornado!

• Added counterclockwise drawing magical wind (gathering wood from trees and creating buildings automatically)

• Added camera shake effect for godly fist, comets, big berta, fireball and fps punch

• Collected food is now also represented as a throwable barrel of food

• Gain icons now stack their value if they are related to the same entity instead of shifting to the side (and creating a lot of icons at once)

• Save files can now be deleted via the main menu

• Added confirmation popup on double key bindings

• Removed option to bind keys to set own shortcuts

• Performance improvement via cached unlockable skills, significantly reducing effort to check if an action is available for the player or AI

• Performance improvement for dialog movers by always using the precalculated last value

• Performance improvement by gaining potential breed value for a settlement by caching internal values, thereby improving general performance when the settlement overview is active

• Similar performance improvements for calculating gained resources with the same result (improving general performance when the settlement overview is active)

• General performance improvement for settlement overview logic by caching whatever value can be cached, especially for gain and loss calculations

• Performance improvement by reducing the amount of localizations done by caching values for all UI icons and checking if values have really changed

• Performance improvement for localization of parameters, which could result in bad performance in some cases

• Performance improvement by reducing the amount of object positions that need to be calculated per frame

• Bug fix with the buildings category when switching settlements or going into a no-settlement area

• Bug fix where tooltips were missing for some entities after loading a game.

• Bug fix with Fireworks wonder when no building target is inside the casting area

• Fixed incorrectly displayed ResourceVisualPoint on construction sites

• Fixed game-breaking bug when being on the overview map and a quest is triggered

• Bug fix not allowing to complete the Fate challenge to build an epic monument level 1 in some cases

• Bug fix on infinitely adding new constructors to a construction site even if the limit is already reached

• Graves are no longer shown as collectible

• Bug fix on bad performance due to fighting

• Bug fix on invalid placed buildings via AI

• Bug fix on logic deciding when looting or creating a new settlement is allowed for the AI based on time progression and difficulty level

• Bug fix on trading comparison, thereby avoiding invalid AI trades

• Bug fix on colliding entries, resulting in performance improvements

• Bug fix where a damaged main building did not allow any manipulation via the overview map (with settlement target) for the player

• Bug fix regarding wrong time intervals for gain happenings resulting in weird mortal behavior and gain values

• Bug fix with always showing or wrongly placed prayer dialog icons

🔑 How to access the Beta Branch:

Patch 14 is now available for everyone on the Default Branch!

It’s finally time to unleash the Hero Possession Mode - Now on Default branch!

Ever wondered what it feels like to be a simple mortal…

…who just happens to be possessed by a god and gifted with overwhelming power?

Now you can find out.

Just double right-click one of your heroes and begin your journey.

So… what do you want to do?

Just walk around and explore the world?

Or help your followers—grow trees, bless crops, and bring prosperity?

They will love you for it.

Or maybe you prefer a darker path?

Rain fireballs down upon them…

They will fear you.

Or simply experiment with the elements?

Maybe even jump straight into combat?

Not much more to say:

Have fun—and become the kind of god (or crazy possessed mortal) you want to be.

We’re looking forward to your feedback!

Summary

• Added hero possession mode

• Added ability to execute different wonder kinds on left hand (left mouse button) and right hand (right mouse button) while in possession mode

• Godly fist in possession mode: Added godly punch on left hand and goldy uppercut on right hand

• Fire orb in possession mode: Added throwing fire balls on left hand and using firethrower on right hand

• Water orb in possession mode: Added throwing water balls on left hand and using waterthrower on right hand

• Wind orb in possession mode: Added throwing wind traps on left hand and using wind blast on right hand

• Earth orb in possession mode: Added throwing earth orb on left hand and using petrification on right hand

• Added dynamic moral system recognizing temporary beahvior as possesed hero and change reaction of mortals to this behavior

• Added reaction logic on possessed hero

• Strongly reduced mana costs for god actons executed while in possession mode

• Added new hero profile: Supporter

• Added new hero profile: Curser

Let us know what you think of this update and all the new features and improvements!

Patch 14 is now available on the Beta Branch!

It’s finally time to unleash the Hero Possession Mode! (Currently available on the beta branch only)

Ever wondered what it feels like to be a simple mortal…

…who just happens to be possessed by a god and gifted with overwhelming power?

Now you can find out.

Just double right-click one of your heroes and begin your journey.

So… what do you want to do?

Just walk around and explore the world?

Or help your followers—grow trees, bless crops, and bring prosperity?

They will love you for it.

Or maybe you prefer a darker path?

Rain fireballs down upon them…

They will fear you.

Or simply experiment with the elements?

Maybe even jump straight into combat?

Not much more to say:

Have fun—and become the kind of god (or crazy possessed mortal) you want to be.

We’re looking forward to your feedback!

Summary

• Added hero possession mode

• Added ability to execute different wonder kinds on left hand (left mouse button) and right hand (right mouse button) while in possession mode

• Godly fist in possession mode: Added godly punch on left hand and goldy uppercut on right hand

• Fire orb in possession mode: Added throwing fire balls on left hand and using firethrower on right hand

• Water orb in possession mode: Added throwing water balls on left hand and using waterthrower on right hand

• Wind orb in possession mode: Added throwing wind traps on left hand and using wind blast on right hand

• Earth orb in possession mode: Added throwing earth orb on left hand and using petrification on right hand

• Added dynamic moral system recognizing temporary beahvior as possesed hero and change reaction of mortals to this behavior

• Added reaction logic on possessed hero

• Strongly reduced mana costs for god actons executed while in possession mode

• Added new hero profile: Supporter

• Added new hero profile: Curser

🔑 How to access the Beta Branch:

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Patch 13 is now available for everyone on the Default Branch!

We’ve been hard at work expanding and polishing the experience while continuing our intensive development on the upcoming Hero Possession Mode - with a first glimpse waiting for you below!

Along the way, we’ve introduced several exciting improvements and new features to make your time in the world even more engaging.

Two brand-new Drawing Wonders have arrived: Earthquake and Create Stones.

Earthquakes:

Unleash devastating tremors that send the ground shaking and demolish multiple buildings at once—let the mortals truly fear the power of the earth!

Or take a more benevolent approach and conjure additional stones to provide your followers with the resources they need to thrive.

Create Stones:

Here’s a first glimpse of the upcoming Hero Possession Mode!

Hero Possession Mode:

Elemental Orbs have also received their own dedicated shortcut category, making them easier and faster to access during gameplay.

We’ve also made major improvements to the day and night cycle.

The differences between phases have been significantly reduced by removing mana reduction mechanics and making most manipulations available during the day as well.

The remaining actions will be updated soon, meaning you’ll soon be able to perform any godly action whenever you want, without having to wait for the next phase.

On top of that, we’ve been carefully listening to your feedback.

This helped us identify a long list of smaller gameplay improvements that together make a big difference.

From enhanced collection mechanics and refined AI behavior to improved visuals and numerous bug fixes, many areas of the game have been polished—and we’ll keep refining them.

And of course, development doesn’t stop there. We’re continuing to work on the progression system to make your divine journey even more rewarding.

Stay tuned—there’s much more to come.

🛠️ Patch Notes v13

• Added clockwise drawing wonder earthquake

• Added counterclockwise drawing wonder create stone

• No mana is lost between phases anymore

• The manipulation change workload can now be executed during the day too

• The manipulation focus work can now be executed during the day too

• The manipulation remove building can now be executed during the day too

• The manipulation send resource can now be executed during the day too

• Improved workplace assignment to avoid mortals being placed at the same place at the same time

• Elemental orbs now have their own category in the shortcut bar

• Fixed a bug where a prayer just asking to hurt a mortal required killing him instead

• Improved animation LOD system so that more animated characters are still shown at a distance, especially if in focus

• Fixed a bug in Collecting Skill Level 2 (no bonus was applied)

• Strongly improved the collecting support system, especially for trees, to make collecting even smoother

• Fixed an issue with ungrounded terrain when building a farm on crops

• Adjusted the sound filter system so sounds always play when really close

• Added UI feedback when mana is missing or the drawing shape is not sufficient

• Improved AI logic to avoid too many fights already at the beginning (considering the game difficulty setup)

If you enjoy this update, please consider leaving a review on Steam. It helps us a lot moving forward!

Patch 13 is now available on the Beta Branch!

We’ve been hard at work expanding and polishing the experience while continuing our intensive development on the upcoming Hero Possession Mode - more on that in the next news post!

Along the way, we’ve introduced several exciting improvements and new features to make your time in the world even more engaging.

Two brand-new Drawing Wonders have arrived: Earthquake and Create Stones.

Earthquakes:

Unleash devastating tremors that send the ground shaking and demolish multiple buildings at once—let the mortals truly fear the power of the earth!

Or take a more benevolent approach and conjure additional stones to provide your followers with the resources they need to thrive.

Create Stones:

Elemental Orbs have also received their own dedicated shortcut category, making them easier and faster to access during gameplay.

We’ve also made major improvements to the day and night cycle.

The differences between phases have been significantly reduced by removing mana reduction mechanics and making most manipulations available during the day as well.

The remaining actions will be updated soon, meaning you’ll soon be able to perform any godly action whenever you want, without having to wait for the next phase.

On top of that, we’ve been carefully listening to your feedback.

This helped us identify a long list of smaller gameplay improvements that together make a big difference.

From enhanced collection mechanics and refined AI behavior to improved visuals and numerous bug fixes, many areas of the game have been polished—and we’ll keep refining them.

And of course, development doesn’t stop there. We’re continuing to work on the progression system to make your divine journey even more rewarding.

Stay tuned—there’s much more to come.

🛠️ Patch Notes v13

• Added clockwise drawing wonder earthquake

• Added counterclockwise drawing wonder create stone

• No mana is lost between phases anymore

• The manipulation change workload can now be executed during the day too

• The manipulation focus work can now be executed during the day too

• The manipulation remove building can now be executed during the day too

• The manipulation send resource can now be executed during the day too

• Improved workplace assignment to avoid mortals being placed at the same place at the same time

• Elemental orbs now have their own category in the shortcut bar

• Fixed a bug where a prayer just asking to hurt a mortal required killing him instead

• Improved animation LOD system so that more animated characters are still shown at a distance, especially if in focus

• Fixed a bug in Collecting Skill Level 2 (no bonus was applied)

• Strongly improved the collecting support system, especially for trees, to make collecting even smoother

• Fixed an issue with ungrounded terrain when building a farm on crops

• Adjusted the sound filter system so sounds always play when really close

• Added UI feedback when mana is missing or the drawing shape is not sufficient

• Improved AI logic to avoid too many fights already at the beginning (considering the game difficulty setup)

🔑 How to access the Beta Branch:

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Patch 12 is now available for everyone on the Default Branch!

After taking a short winter break over Christmas, we’re back with fresh godly energy – and we’re excited to introduce a brand-new feature: Hero Priests!

You mighty gods can now delegate minor wonder-making tasks to especially powerful mortals.

Every time you complete a quest, you’ll get to choose:

• Create a new Hero Priest by transforming one of your believers

• Or upgrade one of your existing heroes

Destroyer or Preserver - Meet the Mighty Hero Priest:

With each upgrade, a hero can perform more wonders – and they’ll even start hovering to speed things up. Sure, they slowly lose their soul in the process… but who’s counting?

Do you care?

As always, the choice is yours.

You can also give your heroes guidance and define their profile, similar to high-level settlement management: Destroyer or Preserver (with more profiles planned for the future).

And this is just the beginning! We’re already planning additional features for Hero Priests – like possessing them… or maybe even possessing any mortal? 👀

We’d love to hear what you think about the Hero Priest feature and what you’d like to do with them!

The Hero Priest in Action:

On top of that, we’ve added a new drawing ability for the Water Orb:

• 🌫️ Summon a fog of war that hides your mortals and protects them from enemy god interactions

• 🌧️ Or conjure a massive magical rain to grow food

How the Fog Works:

How the Magic Rain Works:

Now that we’re fully awake from our winter sleep and have done plenty of long-term planning over the past weeks, all we can say is:

Stay tuned – there’s much more to come. 🔥

🛠️ Patch Notes v12

• Added general hero priest feature

• Added hero priest profile: Destroyer

• Added hero priest profile: Preserver

• Added hero priest daytime logic

• Added hero priest fight support logic

• Added drag and drop logic to assign hero priest to neutral or own villages

• Added hero priest transformation wonder: apotheosis

• Added tutorial for hero priests

• Added clockwise drawing wonder fog of war

• Added counterclockwise drawing wonder grow food

• Added depth of field and distance fog dependent on camera distance and angle

• Performance improvements on building damage transformer logic (reduces lages when using meteor strike or similar)

• Collecting food is now possible from the start

• Fixed invalid doubled creations of simple building entries, and thereby avoiding long lags during simple building creation after large set of manually added buildings

• Fixed vegetation not created via wonder in some biomes

Minor Improvements:

• Godly fist can now be used directly in context where no collecting action is triggered

• Fixed bug related to blueprint extraction for invalid building types

• Fixed two bugs related to broken savegames

• Improved lowe res collider data for all scenes

• Minor general performance improvements

If you’re enjoying the new update, please consider leaving a positive Steam review — it really helps us a lot!

Thank you for your continued support.

Patch 12 is now available on the Beta Branch!

After taking a short winter break over Christmas, we’re back with fresh godly energy – and we’re excited to introduce a brand-new feature: Hero Priests!

You mighty gods can now delegate minor wonder-making tasks to especially powerful mortals.

Every time you complete a quest, you’ll get to choose:

• Create a new Hero Priest by transforming one of your believers

• Or upgrade one of your existing heroes

Meet the Hero Priest:

With each upgrade, a hero can perform more wonders – and they’ll even start hovering to speed things up. Sure, they slowly lose their soul in the process… but who’s counting?

Do you care?

As always, the choice is yours.

You can also give your heroes guidance and define their profile, similar to high-level settlement management: Destroyer or Preserver (with more profiles planned for the future).

And this is just the beginning! We’re already planning additional features for Hero Priests – like possessing them… or maybe even possessing any mortal? 👀

We’d love to hear what you think about the Hero Priest feature and what you’d like to do with them!

On top of that, we’ve added a new drawing ability for the Water Orb:

• 🌫️ Summon a fog of war that hides your mortals and protects them from enemy god interactions

• 🌧️ Or conjure a massive magical rain to grow food

How the Fog Works:

How the Magic Rain Works:

We'll show you some more footage in our next news post!

Now that we’re fully awake from our winter sleep and have done plenty of long-term planning over the past weeks, all we can say is:

Stay tuned – there’s much more to come. 🔥

🛠️ Patch Notes v12

• Added general hero priest feature

• Added hero priest profile: Destroyer

• Added hero priest profile: Preserver

• Added hero priest daytime logic

• Added hero priest fight support logic

• Added drag and drop logic to assign hero priest to neutral or own villages

• Added hero priest transformation wonder: apotheosis

• Added tutorial for hero priests

• Added clockwise drawing wonder fog of war

• Added counterclockwise drawing wonder grow food

• Added depth of field and distance fog dependent on camera distance and angle

• Performance improvements on building damage transformer logic (reduces lages when using meteor strike or similar)

Minor Improvements:

• Godly fist can now be used directly in context where no collecting action is triggered

• Fixed bug related to blueprint extraction for invalid building types

• Fixed two bugs related to broken savegames

• Improved lowe res collider data for all scenes

• Minor general performance improvements

🔑 How to access the Beta Branch:

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Patch 11 is now available for everyone on the Default Branch!

We have added a new general ability for elemental orbs: drawing miracles!

Once an elemental orb has been summoned, it can now be used to draw a shape on the terrain. Once the shape is closed, a miracle is performed on the area defined by the shape!

The size of the shape is, of course, limited to the power level of the orb itself.

In addition, you can perform different miracles depending on the way you draw the miracle: if the miracle is drawn clockwise, you perform a negative miracle, while drawing counterclockwise results in a positive miracle.

🛠️ Patch Notes v11

As a first step, we have added miracle drawing for the fire orb and the two miracles:

• Inferno (clockwise drawing): Damages mortals and zombies and burns vegetation.

• Holy Fire (counterclockwise drawing): Damages immortals and heals/revives mortals.

Don't mix it up, or you'll burn your poor mortals instead of healing them!

Here’s another look at the Holy Fire and also the Inferno in action.

Holy Fire:

Inferno:

At the same time, we're working on a new feature that will be introduced in January next year: the Hero Priest!

We're not revealing any more details yet, just a little spoiler:

Summary:

• Added general wonder drawing logic for elemental orbs

• Added clockwise drawing wonder inferno

• Added counterclockwise drawing wonder holy fire

• Added tutorial for drawing wonders

• Added skill for elemental orbs to unlock drawing wonders

• Added tooltips to explain new wonder functionality and effect for drawing wonders

Minor improvements:

• Removed tooltips while using thrower

• Fixed bad fading decals

• Fixed issue with render logic of particle effects

If you enjoy the new update, consider leaving a positive Steam review. It would help us a lot!

Patch 11 is now available on the Beta Branch!

We have added a new general ability for elemental orbs: drawing miracles!

Once an elemental orb has been summoned, it can now be used to draw a shape on the terrain. Once the shape is closed, a miracle is performed on the area defined by the shape!

The size of the shape is, of course, limited to the power level of the orb itself.

In addition, you can perform different miracles depending on the way you draw the miracle: if the miracle is drawn clockwise, you perform a negative miracle, while drawing counterclockwise results in a positive miracle.

🛠️ Patch Notes v11

As a first step, we have added miracle drawing for the fire orb and the two miracles:

• Inferno (clockwise drawing): Damages mortals and zombies and burns vegetation.

• Holy Fire (counterclockwise drawing): Damages immortals and heals/revives mortals.

Don't mix it up, or you'll burn your poor mortals instead of healing them!

This is your first glimpse of Holy Fire — stay tuned for a look at the Inferno in our next news!

At the same time, we're working on a new feature that will be introduced in January next year: the Hero Priest!

We're not revealing any more details yet, just a little spoiler:

Summary

• Added general wonder drawing logic for elemental orbs

• Added clockwise drawing wonder inferno

• Added counterclockwise drawing wonder holy fire

• Added tutorial for drawing wonders

• Added skill for elemental orbs to unlock drawing wonders

• Added tooltips to explain new wonder functionality and effect for drawing wonders

Minor improvements:

• Removed tooltips while using thrower

• Fixed bad fading decals

• Fixed issue with render logic of particle effects

🔑 How to access the Beta Branch:

Patch 10 is now available for everyone on the Default Branch!

We have added a new ability for the elemental orb of earth: petrify your poor mortals! Instead of throwing Earth orb around or use it to provide stone to your village you can just hold your left mouse button to let your mortals become immortal (kind of)!

Let there fate be a reminder for others whos in charge here! Or just play bowling with them. Furthermore, we improved the game in several areas based on your feedback.

🛠️ Patch Notes v10

• Added general petrifying logic

• Added special petrifying stream for Earth thrower

• Added Physics handling for petrified mortals

• Added logic to unpetrify mortals via healing wonder

• Added tooltips for petrifying case

• Added special handling of petrification for quest characters

• Modified tutorials now representing all four elements

• Further AI adjustments, reduced skills on startup with lower progression to endgame

• smaller performance improvements related to the GPU Instancing system (Crowd)

• Improved balancing on mana costs for elemental orbs and other wonders

This is how the petrification of humans unfolds before one’s eyes:

BugFixes:

• Fixed several issues related to not loadable savegames,

(If you have an issue with a savegame you can provide us your broken savegame by going into the load game menu and select the broken one. Afterwards press F2 (you do not need to load the game here) and give us a short hint in the given ticket window. When you are sending the ticket it will send the selected savegame too.)

• Fixed not updated Belief aura showing / highlighting not equipped items

• Fixed issue in mana costs calculation based on distance and beliefer factors

• Fixed issue calculating bad manner modification for player

• Fixed issues with the bug reporting tool

We hope you enjoy this patch and are looking forward to your feedback!

Patch 10 is now available on the Beta Branch!

We have added a new ability for the elemental orb of earth: petrify your poor mortals! Instead of throwing Earth orb around or use it to provide stone to your village you can just hold your left mouse button to let your mortals become immortal (kind of)!

Let there fate be a reminder for others whos in charge here! Or just play bowling with them. Furthermore, we improved the game in several areas based on your feedback.

🛠️ Patch Notes v10

• Added general petrifying logic

• Added special petrifying stream for Earth thrower

• Added Physics handling for petrified mortals

• Added logic to unpetrify mortals via healing wonder

• Added tooltips for petrifying case

• Added special handling of petrification for quest characters

• Modified tutorials now representing all four elements

• Further AI adjustments, reduced skills on startup with lower progression to endgame

• smaller performance improvements related to the GPU Instancing system (Crowd)

• Improved balancing on mana costs for elemental orbs and other wonders

An exhibition of mortals transformed and preserved in ancient stone:

Now you can even enjoy a round of bowling when you feel like it:

As always, once the Patch switches to the Default Branch , we'll show you the new petrifying stream in action!

BugFixes:

• Fixed several issues related to not loadable savegames,

(If you have an issue with a savegame you can provide us your broken savegame by going into the load game menu and select the broken one. Afterwards press F2 (you do not need to load the game here) and give us a short hint in the given ticket window. When you are sending the ticket it will send the selected savegame too.)

• Fixed not updated Belief aura showing / highlighting not equipped items

• Fixed issue in mana costs calculation based on distance and beliefer factors

• Fixed issue calculating bad manner modification for player

• Fixed issues with the bug reporting tool

🔑 How to access the Beta Branch:

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Patch 0.1.9 is now available for everyone!

We have added a new ability for the elemental orbs of fire, water and wind (earth will come next): the flame thrower, water canon and wind blast!

Instead of throwing an elemental orb you can just hold your left mouse button to burn your enemies down! Or grow some trees instead and refresh your poor mortals! Or let them fly around by a magical blow and unroot trees!

Furthermore, we have added different settlement profiles which are used to place different kind of start settlements with different mortals and buildings on startup, changing each match and providing more variety. These profiles are also used to let you as player get rid of the micromanagement and let the mortals do the job.

Just change the profile of one of your settlements and let the mortals do the job!

Additionally the AI is now able to extend the villages with the new free building system as the player can and build more and more building on their own to further reduce the micromanagement.

🛠️ Patch Notes v0.1.9

• Added new general elemental orb functionality: thrower

• Added thrower functionality for fire, water and wind: flame thrower, water canon and wind blast

Flame Thrower

Water Canon

Wind Blast

• Added fuel logic for elemental orbs

• Added general settlement profile logic

• Added visual differences per profile for mortals created on startup to raise different kind of dynasties

• Added different skill set per profile on startup for created mortals

• Added startup logic to create different and more advanced settlements based on randomly selected profiles

• Added settlement profiles: Development, Belief, Income, Aggresssion, Normal and Entertainment

• Added manipulations to allow player to change the profile of a settlement

• Improved settlement manipulation menu by adding submenues for each topic: worklaod, settle, profile, send resources and loot

• Added option to send resources with different amount (20, 40, 100 or 200)

• Modified tutorials to reflect new changes

Balancing:

• Strongly increased the amount of actions taken by settlement AI if free will is active

BugFixes:

• Fixed game breaking bug occuring sometimes when switching to night phase

• Fixed game breaking issue when killing main quest character while playing wihtout AI opponents

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Patch 0.1.9 is now available on the Beta Branch!

We have added a new ability for the elemental orbs of fire and water (wind and earth will come next): the flame thrower and the water canon!

Instead of throwing an elemental orb you can just hold your left mouse button to burn your enemies down! Or grow some trees instead and refresh your poor mortals!

Furthermore, we have added different settlement profiles which are used to place different kind of start settlements with different mortals and buildings on startup, changing each match and providing more variety. These profiles are also used to let you as player get rid of the micromanagement and let the mortals do the job.

Just change the profile of one of your settlements and let the mortals do the job!

🛠️ Patch Notes v0.1.9

• Added new general elemental orb functionality: thrower

• Added thrower functionality for fire and water: flame thrower and water canon

Flame Thrower

Water Canon

• Added fuel logic for elemental orbs

• Added general settlement profile logic

• Added visual differences per profile for mortals created on startup to raise different kind of dynasties

• Added different skill set per profile on startup for created mortals

• Added startup logic to create different and more advanced settlements based on randomly selected profiles

• Added settlement profiles: Development, Belief, Income, Aggresssion, Normal and Entertainment

• Added manipulations to allow player to change the profile of a settlement

• Improved settlement manipulation menu by adding submenues for each topic: worklaod, settle, profile, send resources and loot

Balancing:

• Strongly increased the amount of actions taken by settlement AI if free will is active

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed game breaking bug occuring sometimes when switching to night phase

• Fixed game breaking issue when killing main quest character while playing wihtout AI opponents

🔑 How to access the Beta Branch:

After running on the Beta Branch, Patch 0.1.8 is now available to everyone on the default branch!

Following the introduction of Fire and Water Orbs in Patch 0.1.7, we decided to add two more elements — Earth and Wind!

The Wind Orb helps defend your settlement from enemies and can be used to disrupt trade routes, while the Earth Orb allows you to summon a massive magical stone that causes destruction on buildings — but also provides a valuable source of stone which is required for various constructions.

Additionally, this patch also includes various fixes and improvements.

Check out the full changelog below if you haven't already and let us know what you think of this patch!

As promised in the last news post, we brought some footage of the new orbs in action if you haven't seen them yet!

🛠️ Patch Notes v0.1.8

• Two new elemental orbs (wind and earth) have been added

• Use the wind orbs to throw or place wind mines, if triggered by mortals they will fly around! Use the wind mines to protect your settlements against attackers or sabotage trade routes!

• The earth orb is a big magical stone; throw it to damage buildings strongly or drop it as a gift so that your mortals receive a large amount of stone

Crash Fixes / Performance Improvements:

Crashes occurring on level loading or during the game are mostly related to insufficient memory, either RAM or graphical memory, thereby we worked very hard to reduce the memory consumption even further

• Reduced memory consumption for vegetation system

• Reduced memory consumption for mass crowd rendering system

• Reduced memory consumption for the terrain rendering system

• Reduced memory consumption for the impostor rendering system

Furthermore, there was a very ugly bug storing invalid long-term information reducing performance over time and even worse blowing up the save game and thereby save and loading times extensively over time

• Fix issues of keeping delayed happenings in individual handling even long gone

• Added safety mechanisms to ensure that even such a thing happens in the future, will be detected and automatically removed

In consequence, everyone who was struggling with very long saving and loading times in mid- to endgame scenarios should be helped out here (but we can’t guarantee that this was the only case in this direction, always feel free to contact us and send us the broken save game!)

• Added extra mechanism to identify such invalid data in a save game and remove before initializing data

• Fixed another possible crash based on deformed NoWaterAreas which results in crashes on some graphic cards due to invalid memory access

Minor:

• Adjusted elemental orbs tutorial to reflect the two new elements

• Fixing issue with migration when migrating mortal has no source settlement (quest characters mostly)

Let us know what you think about the new patch! If you feel like the game is heading into the right direction, consider leaving a Steam review. It would help us a lot on our way to shape Fata Deum into the god game you're looking for!

Patch 0.1.8 just launched on the Beta Branch!

As teased in our last Steam News post, two new elemental Orbs have arrived in this update — Earth and Wind!

The Wind Orb helps defend your settlement from enemies and can be used to disrupt trade routes, while the Earth Orb allows you to summon a massive magical stone that causes destruction on buildings — but also provides a valuable source of stone which is required for various constructions.

Alongside these new additions, this patch includes a variety of other changes, fixes, and improvements.

Check out the full changelog below for all the details!

🛠️ Patch Notes v0.1.8

• Two new elemental orbs (wind and earth) have been added

• Use the wind orbs to throw or place wind mines, if triggered by mortals they will fly around! Use the wind mines to protect your settlements against attackers or sabotage trade routes!

• The earth orb is a big magical stone; throw it to damage buildings strongly or drop it as a gift so that your mortals receive a large amount of stone

Just like last time, we’ll be showing the new Orbs in action in our next Steam News post, once the patch moves to the Default Branch!

Crash Fixes / Performance Improvements:

Crashes occurring on level loading or during the game are mostly related to insufficient memory, either RAM or graphical memory, thereby we worked very hard to reduce the memory consumption even further

• Reduced memory consumption for vegetation system

• Reduced memory consumption for mass crowd rendering system

• Reduced memory consumption for the terrain rendering system

• Reduced memory consumption for the impostor rendering system

Furthermore, there was a very ugly bug storing invalid long-term information reducing performance over time and even worse blowing up the save game and thereby save and loading times extensively over time

• Fix issues of keeping delayed happenings in individual handling even long gone

• Added safety mechanisms to ensure that even such a thing happens in the future, will be detected and automatically removed

In consequence, everyone who was struggling with very long saving and loading times in mid- to endgame scenarios should be helped out here (but we can’t guarantee that this was the only case in this direction, always feel free to contact us and send us the broken save game!)

• Added extra mechanism to identify such invalid data in a save game and remove before initializing data

• Fixed another possible crash based on deformed NoWaterAreas which results in crashes on some graphic cards due to invalid memory access

Minor:

• Adjusted elemental orbs tutorial to reflect the two new elements

• Fixing issue with migration when migrating mortal has no source settlement (quest characters mostly)

🔑 How to access the Beta Branch:

Patch 0.1.7 is now available for everyone!

We’re excited to announce that Patch 0.1.7, which launched earlier this week on the Beta Branch, is now available for everyone on the Default Branch!

The highlight of this update is the introduction of the new elemental orbs. These powerful orbs grant you divine abilities to either grow vegetation or unleash destruction upon your enemies and cities. This marks the first step in transforming Fata Deum even more into the true god game you’ve asked for by adding more abilities for you to use.

But this is just the beginning — next, we’ll be adding two more elemental orbs: Wind and Earth, expanding your divine powers even further.

Stay tuned for more updates!

🛠️ Patch Notes v0.1.7

The ability has been added to summon a fire and water orb as new wonder from the early beginning on

• up to 5 orbs can be carried by the imp at the same time

• orb can also be placed somewhere for later usage

• fire and water orb can both be thrown

• fire orb acts as a fireball when thrown => destruction

• water orb kills fire and lets vegetation grow

• added tutorial explaining how to handle orbs

As promised in the last news, we'll grant you a quick peep at the orbs in action!

Let’s start with the Fire Orb, a tool of divine destruction that lets you rain devastation upon villages and enemy units.

In contrast, the Water Orb empowers you to grow vegetation, allowing forests to grow which provides wood for construction.

Further improvements:

• improved settlement border calculation in complex cases

• size for border extension via towers is now dependent on map size

Bugfix:

• fixed issue with settlement border calculation on higher progression levels

• fixed issues with old savegames on the first map since our last update

We’re incredibly grateful for all the feedback and support you’ve shared so far. If you’re enjoying the direction Fata Deum is heading, it would mean the world to us if you could leave a review on Steam — it truly helps us continue developing and improving the game!

Today, Patch 0.1.7 launches on the Beta Branch!

Among improvements and bugfixes, this update introduces the ability to summon elemental Orbs as a brand-new Wonder! Harness the power of Fire and Water for destruction and vegetation growth.

Read the changelog below for more information:

🛠️ Patch Notes v0.1.7

We have added the new very cool ability to summon fire and water orb as new wonder from the early beginning on

• up to 5 orbs can be carried by the imp at the same time

• orb can also be placed somewhere for later usage

• fire and water orb can both be thrown

• fire orb acts as a fireball when thrown => destruction

• water orb kills fire and lets vegetation grow

• added tutorial explaining how to handle orbs

Here’s your first look at the elemental Orbs! Stay tuned — when the patch moves to the default branch, we’ll showcase the orbs in action in the next Steam news!

Further improvements:

• improved settlement border calculation in complex cases

• size for border extension via towers is now dependent on map size

Bugfix:

• fixed issue with settlement border calculation on higher progression levels

• fixed issues with old savegames on the first map since our last update

🔑 How to access the Beta Branch:

Over the past weeks, we’ve released several updates and patches that improved Fata Deum based on your feedback — from gameplay tweaks and performance improvements to balance and quality-of-life changes. We’re really happy to see how much better the experience has become thanks to your input!

If you’ve enjoyed these changes, we’d love it if you could take a moment to leave (or update) your Steam review. Every review helps new players discover Fata Deum and supports us in continuing development.

Thank you for being part of our divine community — and for helping us make Fata Deum even greater!

Patch 0.1.6, previously available on the Beta Branch, is now live for everyone on the Default Branch!

This patch puts a strong focus on enhancing the free building aspect. Settlement borders now expand dynamically with the number of followers you have which can be supported by defense towers and wonder protection towers.

The pathing logic has also been improved which let's you build freely in newly aquired areas more easily.

Check the entire changelog below for all the content of this patch!

🛠️ Patch Notes v0.1.6

• The settlement border of each settlement is now defined by the amount of follower in the settlement and is growing with the amount of followers

• Furthermore defense towers and wonder protection towers can be build to further extend this border up to the doubled size defined by followers

• Added logic when two settlement borders are colliding so that no intersection takes place

• Improved pathing logic to allow free building in the new areas now available and connect to travel paths between settlements

• Added logic to avoid building on exploration spots, relics or monuments

• Updated first map (Skultho) by providing more building space available due to the new settlement border system

• Improved logic to be able to build buildings even on more "not so suitable" ground

Balancing:

• Woodcutter, farm and mine can now also be built in cities

• Increased effect of wonder create food or create wood

• Significantly increased amount of maximum mortals possible per settlement by buildings residence and shacks

• Doubled amount the imp can carry

• Doubled amount of wood gained by a collected tree

• Buildings can now be built / planned during the day even resources are missing (like during the night)

• Mana costs to build buildings have been reduced significantly

• wonders lovable and unlovable can now also be performed as multicast wonder

• AI gods do not gain any follower anymore when reaching 0 follower

• Significantly reduced additional belief points gain for AI gods due to attention

Minor:

• Selection support when using a building wonder: selecting the radius of the building is enough, no need to target the structure itself, very helpful to target constructions sites

• Updated tutorials for building buildings and building supporting buildings

• Updated tooltips for border extending buildings wonder protection altar and defense tower

Thank you once again for all your feedback and continued support! We're continue to look forward to all your feedback!

In today’s patch we focus on improving free building—something we’ve seen mentioned often in your feedback! Settlement borders are now defined based on the number of followers. This can be supported by defense towers and wonder protection towers.

We’ve also enhanced the pathing logic, making it easier to freely build in newly available areas while ensuring smooth connections to travel paths between settlements.

These improvements were often requested by the community, and we’re excited to bring them to the game. As always, we’ll keep working hard on Fata Deum and truly value all of your feedback!

🛠️ Patch Notes v0.1.6 (Beta)

• The settlement border of each settlement is now defined by the amount of follower in the settlement and is growing with the amount of followers

• Furthermore defense towers and wonder protection towers can be build to further extend this border up to the doubled size defined by followers

• Added logic when two settlement borders are colliding so that no intersection takes place

• Improved pathing logic to allow free building in the new areas now available and connect to travel paths between settlements

• Added logic to avoid building on exploration spots, relics or monuments

• Updated first map (Skultho) by providing more building space available due to the new settlement border system

• Improved logic to be able to build buildings even on more "not so suitable" ground

Balancing:

• Woodcutter, farm and mine can now also be built in cities

• Increased effect of wonder create food or create wood

• Significantly increased amount of maximum mortals possible per settlement by buildings residence and shacks

• Doubled amount the imp can carry

• Doubled amount of wood gained by a collected tree

• Buildings can now be built / planned during the day even resources are missing (like during the night)

• Mana costs to build buildings have been reduced significantly

• wonders lovable and unlovable can now also be performed as multicast wonder

• AI gods do not gain any follower anymore when reaching 0 follower

• Significantly reduced additional belief points gain for AI gods due to attention

Minor:

• Selection support when using a building wonder: selecting the radius of the building is enough, no need to target the structure itself, very helpful to target constructions sites

• Updated tutorials for building buildings and building supporting buildings

• Updated tooltips for border extending buildings wonder protection altar and defense tower

🔑 How to access the Beta Branch:

Patch 0.1.5 is live!

Patch 0.1.5 is here — and this time it’s launching straight to the default branch (no beta branch first)! 🎉

With this update, we’ve focused heavily on performance improvements to make your experience smoother and more stable. In particular, you should notice:

• Fixing crashes on map loading due to insufficient memory

• Decreased map loading times

• Increased overall stability

• General memory usage reduction

• Performance improvements in early game

We’re continuing to refine and optimize, so thank you for your feedback and patience as we push Fata Deum forward.

If you’re enjoying the game, we’d be really happy if you could leave us a positive review on Steam — it helps a lot! 💙

Become a god shaping the destiny of mortals, or a leader guiding your people across the back of a colossal creature. In both adventures, every choice matters — faith, survival, and adaptation will decide the future of your followers.

The Wandering Village

The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?

Fata Deum

Fata Deum is a god game inspired by the classics of the genre. Use your divine powers to guide, bless, or punish mortals. Shape entire civilizations through faith and influence — will you be a benevolent creator, or a wrathful deity?

This bundle is perfect for players who dream of shaping the destiny of civilizations — whether by divine will or through resilience atop a colossal wanderer.

Patch 0.1.4 is live!

First of all, THANK YOU for all the good feeback that we received on the beta branch it means a lot to us! We’re excited to roll out these changes now for everyone. This update is a first glimpse at the direction we want Fata Deum to take during Early Access – faster, freer, and more divine. Everything here is based directly on your feedback – thank you for helping us shape the game!

📢Main goals of this update:

• Unleash divine power: We’re removing restrictions to give players more freedom and a stronger “god” feel. This includes the multi-grab allowing you to migrate mortals to other cities, pick up bigger piles of resources (while just holding left mouse) and improved/increased throwing physics to come with more punch!

• End the night’s limitations: You decide what and when to do – gods don’t rest when the sun goes down. All actions that are available during the day are now also available at night.

• Reduce micro management: Quicker and more powerful multicast improving cast time and power of effect

• Quicker Building times: a new building won't wait for the next day to be build anymore allowing the player to have quicker impact and less forced micro-management.

• Fairer AI: we decreased the "last hit" power of AI gods that received additional mana when having 0 followers as a "hail mary" which felt unfair to players

• Improve Stability and Performance: we focused a lot on stability and performance improvements over the last week to make Fata deum more stable and improve the player experience - there is more to come soon though!

Patchnotes 0.1.4:

• reduced "last hit power" of AI (AI gets some extra mana when having 0 follower for a final push),

• bug fix where settlements under free will always switch to exhausting workload,

• mortals are now assigned to a building when dropped in the building area / circle no need to select the building directly anymore,

• working mortals stay most of the time now at their work place and have less breaks = easier to find and bless them,

• free the night: all actions possible at daytime are now possible at night too, you can also pause and speed-up time during the night (but still possible to skip of course),

• migration via drag and drop: migration from one settlement to another can now easily be done via multi-drag/collect and drop: just place them at the main building of another settlement,

• two mortals directly start constructing a new building when built during the day,

• increased population limit per settlement,

• updated tutorials for migration, night time handling and speedup and pausing time,

• speedy collect / drag and drop: just hold the left mouse button while collecting,

• increased amount of resources and mortals players can collect

• general speed up of all imp hand interactions,

• more power / speed on physics while throwing

• decreased AI difficulty

• reduced cast bolt effect as becoming to large on higher levels

• Grabbed objects do not disappear in the night and are are saved and still grabbed after loading a savegame

• Improved performance and stability

• improved damage logic for godly fist: no more extra damage when directly hitting the ground

• removed doubled power entries in tooltip when leveling up

These are just the first steps toward the Fata Deum we envision. Please keep sharing your feedback – it’s shaping the future of the game!

We are happy to launch patch 0.1.4 today on the open-beta branch. The patch is supposed to go live on the default branch tomorrow if we/you don't experience any major issues.

We think that the patches heavily adjusts the gameplay towards your community sentiment:

• more freedom especially at night (all actions that are possible at day are now also possible at night)

• more god power / feel (multi grab follower and improved physics)

• less repetitive micro management (improved and quicker multicast)

• easier migration of mortals (grab them and drop them to another village/city to migrate)

• quicker and more natural building experience (buildings will no longer wait for the next day)

Please keep in mind that these are just firsts steps that shall highlight the direction we want to take. None of this is regardet as finished or final from our side. Thank you for your support and please let us know what you think in the discussions or your Steam reviews!

Patchnotes 0.1.4:

• reduced "last hit power" of AI (AI gets some extra mana when having 0 follower for a final push),

• bug fix where settlements under free will always switch to exhausting workload,

• mortals are now assigned to a building when dropped in the building area / circle no need to select the building directly anymore,

• working mortals stay most of the time now at their work place and have less breaks = easier to find and bless them,

• free the night: all actions possible at daytime are now possible at night too, you can also pause and speed-up time during the night (but still possible to skip of course),

• migration via drag and drop: migration from one settlement to another can now easily be done via multi-drag/collect and drop: just place them at the main building of another settlement,

• two mortals directly start constructing a new building when built during the day,

• increased population limit per settlement,

• updated tutorials for migration, night time handling and speedup and pausing time,

• speedy collect / drag and drop: just hold the left mouse button while collecting,

• increased amount of resources and mortals players can collect

• general speed up of all imp hand interactions,

• more power / speed on physics while throwing

• decreased AI difficulty

  🔑 How to access the Beta Branch:

• Open your Steam Library

• Right-click on Fata Deum → Properties

• Go to the Betas tab

• Select Open - Beta from the dropdown menu

• Close the window – Steam will now automatically download the Beta version