Norland news & patch notes

Hello everyone,

Dmitry here.

Today we are releasing the Event Director to the beta branch.

This system, also known as the Storyteller in RimWorld, makes the game experience more balanced at every stage of a playthrough, as well as richer, more varied, and more rewarding.

Our testers now refuse to return to the previous version and say that playing without the Director feels painful and boring.

I hope you notice the same improvement to the gameplay experience that we did.

As usual, all save files are compatible.

You can switch to the beta branch through the game's menu in your Steam Library or directly from the game's main menu.

Event Director

The system is complex, but here is how it works in brief.

The Director controls almost every event in the game, while still taking its trigger conditions into account. For example, an uprising still requires dissatisfied characters and will not happen for no reason. It then distributes events across days based on the current phase: challenge or recovery.

In some ways, it resembles Resident Evil. First, tension builds, then you face a boss, and afterwards you find a relatively peaceful area with loot. If you suffered heavy losses, you have an incentive to search more carefully and find additional resources for recovery. The game does not secretly adjust the difficulty in your favor, but it gives you opportunities to recover, which still require effort to take advantage of. This makes the experience feel both balanced and fair.

To create pressure, we introduced a raid system, while recovery is supported by a system of opportunities. You can recognize them by the green event card in the important events banner.

On average, the Director has a 75% chance each day to create one of 60 different event types.

There are also differences between Easy, Hard, and Hardcore difficulty levels.

Raids

On average, once every 10 days during the challenge phase, a raid attacks the city. We added many different enemies, such as dog-headed barbarians who attack alongside tamed wolves, and gave each group different objectives that they reveal before the attack. For example, Unholy fanatics may want to burn down the temple, but they have no interest in your money.

Once a raid achieves its objectives, it leaves, so even defeat does not mean the end of the game.

Raids can also be seen as an opportunity to obtain valuable weapons and prisoners.

You can also disable raids in the initial game settings using a modifier.

Politics

We also reworked politics to make it less frustrating and more rewarding.

For example, politicians can now deliver a Sermon of Hope to their followers, providing a significant mood boost. This means that, if you maintain good relations with them, you can use their popularity to your advantage.

They also become less active when their relations with the king are positive.

We also reduced the Bishop's activity. Converting your population to the True Faith is now less aggressive and is accompanied by the distribution of gold.

Balance

We made substantial balance improvements, closing obvious loopholes involving resource overproduction, overly profitable trade multipliers, and imbalances in character actions.

The prices of books brought by the caravan now gradually increase with each new settlement development level, creating a more balanced gold economy in the mid and late game.

You can find the full list of changes below, but our work in this area is still ongoing.

In the near future, we will also focus on optimization, combat tactics, and economic development.

Once again, thank you all for your feedback and support!

Full List of Changes

Event Director

Added the Event Director, which regulates the flow of random events:

• Attack on the player's city by the Faceless

• Attack on the player's city or village by bandits from a camp

• Attack on the player's city or village by a neighboring province, or an attempt to force the player into vassalage

• Attack on the player's city by marauders

• Prophecies

• Arrival of unique guests

• A politician's desire to change the ruler

• Bribery of a politician

• Conspiracies

• Uprisings

• Dark deeds on the local map

• Raids on the player's city by neutral factions

• Opportunities - special ongoing events that the player can use to recover

Tutorial and Interface

• Added an image to the "Intrigues with Neighbors" encyclopedia article

• Improved the "Intrigues with Neighbors" tutorial: it is now triggered by the puppet advice, and the target is selected through the seduction prompt

• Added advice for having six or more unfilled jobs

• When the player acquires knowledge that unlocks a new crop, a yellow marker will now appear on the field

• Updated the battle tutorial with the Ragamuffins. It now uses the new raid system, and the Ragamuffins approach the player's city on the global map

• Added a yellow marker to the soft tutorial task window to indicate that the hint has not yet been read

• Changed the threshold for displaying the low population happiness alert from 40 to 30

• The army panel at the bottom of the screen will now display enemy armies on the global map that are moving to attack the player's city

• The summary will no longer report when someone makes a friend

• Removed the rumor notification

• The advice that the king does not have enough followers now has a new condition: there must be a politician in the player's faction

• The Lord Feud tutorial scenario now points to the "Play Dice" action

• The "Knowledge Will Soon Be Lost" advice now only takes knowledge from the "Economy" category into account

• Removed the notification: "Lord: Bad Relations with the King"

• Added a button to the load menu that refreshes the list of saved games

• If another faction becomes an enemy while the player is under the protection of the Church, the notification will indicate that the player is protected by the Church

• The knowledge acquisition event is no longer displayed for knowledge that is already known or permanent

• Characters who have temporarily left the local map will now appear in the list of possible sermon performers. They will be unavailable, with the reason shown

• When a character goes to intimidate a target, a notification about it will appear on the right

• Added zoom support and camera movement inertia to the Dynasty menu

• The quest to neutralize a lord will now appear above the target's city rather than the employer's city

Character Balance

• Reduced the relationship bonuses from the "Impressionable Hunter" weakness and the "Flesh Wolf Hammer" strength from x2 to x1.5 and x1.3, respectively

• Limited the maximum thought caused by relationship inversion during usurpation to between -20 and +20

• Guests from neighboring provinces can now begin arriving from day 2 rather than after the player's city reaches 20 civilian population

• Seduction can no longer be assigned against characters who are currently pregnant

• Until there is a second politician in the city, the ruler will not create new political strategies, and advice about a politician having too few followers will not be displayed

• The Bishop can now receive a thought indicating whether he likes or dislikes the current ruler

• Political activity in the player's city will now begin at 40 population rather than 20

• The "Emotionless Sex" thought received after seduction will now display the portrait of the character associated with the thought

• A politician will only use seduction or order an ally to use it if the performer's mood is above 40, or if special traits prevent them from receiving negative thoughts from seduction. A politician will not use seduction if their relationship with the target is already above +50

• Reduced the negative thought received by the performer of seduction from -30 to -20

• Experience gained from inspections has been reduced by half

• Desires to change the ruler will no longer give politicians a negative thought

• Commanders will no longer gain followers after defeating a bandit camp

• Increased the stake for playing dice from 100 to 300

• The Bishop will deliver Sermons of Faith less frequently

• The Sermon of Faith will now distribute 5 coins to each listener

• After a politician disappears from the player's city, a new politician cannot appear for at least 10 days. The exception is when a politician seizes power through usurpation

• The Manners skill level now affects the cost of the reward requested from the king

• Politicians will select targets for gaining a new ally and undermining a rival less efficiently. The best target will be selected with a 53% chance, the second-best target with a 26% chance, the third-best with a 13% chance, and the fourth-best with an 8% chance

• Added a 20% success bonus to the "Burglar" strength when kidnapping or killing a lord on the global map

• A politician in the player's faction whose relationship with the player's ruler is above 0 will perform political actions and deliver sermons half as often

• A politician in the player's faction can now independently seek absolution from the Bishop if their total sins exceed 15 and they have at least 200 coins

• Politicians will occasionally deliver a Sermon of Doubt if the Bishop is an ally of the player's ruler

• The strength of the "Addict" thought for characters with the "Hatred of Substances" trait has been changed from -20 to -10, and it will only be applied if the character does not personally have an addiction

• Removed the mechanic that gave every character on the global map a 0.5% daily chance of losing their sight. Honestly, I have no idea why we ever added this

• Reduced the chance of becoming an alcoholic by 1.5 times

Economy Balance

• Added a comfort effect for residential buildings based on proximity to rivers and lakes

• Temples now provide a separate comfort effect for residential buildings

• Removed the comfort bonus from neighboring residential buildings

• Public place bonuses no longer stack with each other

• When enemies have the objective of stealing gold from the Hall, they will now steal exactly half of the gold instead of 30-50 coins per character

• The caravan will no longer sell most weapons, except bows and clubs

• Reduced the price multiplier for goods during the post-war state

• Reduced the price multiplier during harsh seasons

• Adjusted the balance of negative effects from eating rutabaga

• Peasants and soldiers who consume Nectar will now receive "Energized"

• The "Mines" book is now available to the player from the start

• Reduced the chance of surrendering instead of fleeing from 30% to 20%. Reduced the chance of capturing soldiers who fled during a battle on the global map from 50% to 25%

• Random caravan price increases for a specific good are now capped at x2 instead of x3

• Recruiting prisoners into the army now costs money. Mercenaries now have a Combat skill level between 7 and 9

• Mercenaries are now 30% more expensive

• Seasonal effects no longer affect the prices of alcohol and hops

• Reduced the fertility bonus from rain from +30% to +10%

• Increased the resource price bonus in the resource sale opportunity quest from x2 to x3

• Chancelleries are now limited to managing no more than 10 buildings. Connecting one Chancellery to another now costs 3 paper per day

• Raiding villages now provides loot in gold

• Changed the prices of technologies and textbooks

• Changed the population thresholds at which knowledge is unlocked

• Adjusted the cost of cultural knowledge

• Increased the final settlement development threshold from 100 to 110

• Miscellaneous

• The "No Ragamuffins" game modifier has been replaced with "No Raids". This change will be applied automatically to old saves

• Players can now attack AI villages that are not located on the borders of their territory

• Reworked mercenary recruitment. Mercenaries now arrive 12 hours after being hired, at the start of a new hour. Recruitment can be cancelled and the money refunded during the first hour after hiring. For old save migration, mercenaries who were hired but have not yet arrived will appear at the start of the next hour

• After looting a warehouse, enemies will set it on fire

• Added cultural knowledge for improved hops and rutabaga efficiency to the Varns

• The number of fertile rye and hops fields has been reduced by half

• No more than four rebel squads will be created during a religious uprising

• Pilgrims will now pay for the food given to them, at a price three times higher than selling the resource to the caravan

Fixes

• Guaranteed a mine during map generation and fixed mine placement being offset when constructed

• A stronger mood modifier from treasury operations will no longer be replaced by a weaker one

• Fixed a tutorial scenario where problems could occur if the required lord had already been selected before the tutorial scenario began

• Fixed a bug where a pursuit order could end several tiles before the squad reached the fleeing target

• Fixed a bug where hostages carried by squads incorrectly handled terrain elevation

• Fixed bugs in the ambush task involving the capture of prisoners; Residents will no longer wake up because an enemy squad is nearby

• Fixed a bug where torches thrown by warriors could fly from the edge of the map instead of from their hands

• A squad will now leave a burning building on its own, unless it is engaged in combat

• When surrendering, the equipment destruction sound will only play if the character had equipment

• A warrior in a squad will drop a carried prisoner if the prisoner catches fire or dies; Warriors in squads will no longer attempt to capture burning prisoners

• Wolves in squads will no longer capture prisoners, untie allies, or bandage allies' wounds; In mixed human-wolf squads, a human will be prioritized as the squad commander

• A puppet can now definitely no longer become a master

• Fixed a bug where the order to give carrots to unique Pilgrim guests was only displayed for the Pilgrim leader; The "Expel Guest" button will now always be the last order in the list

• Fixed a softlock in the Puppets tutorial scenario when another lord was selected and a tab other than the first one was open

• Fixed a bug where rebelling prisoners simply disappeared after completing all uprising objectives instead of fleeing the map

• Fixed a bug that prevented Farms from being built. When the relevant knowledge is learned, the yellow marker will now flash on all Farm variants

• Fixed a bug in the Squad Creation tutorial scenario where, at the stage requiring the player to press the squad creation button, it was impossible to add a squad of soldiers or lords

• Partially fixed a bug involving unclear padding in the tutorial window

• Fixed movement time calculations for armies and characters on the global map

• The player will now receive the full ransom amount for freeing an AI lord from bandit captivity

• Fixed a bug where armies on the global map were not displayed in the player's bottom army panel

• Fixed a bug where Yellow Fanatics lost the Nectar Addiction trait at 08:00

• Different enemy squads will no longer burn and loot the same building at the same time

• Fixed a bug where the "Spend Time Together" action hint displayed a line granting +100 mood to the target when chatting

• Fixed a bug where the puppets of lords who became politicians did not automatically become followers

• Improved the algorithm for determining where roads and walls are constructed. They will now be placed exactly at the mouse coordinates instead of appearing higher because of terrain elevation

• The target of seduction will no longer receive the "Spent the Night Together" thought

• The initial setup of the player's city budget when starting a new game will no longer write data to statistics, which previously caused problems with the first economy report

• Fixed a bug where a bandit camp could not spawn in Ken's province

• Fixed a bug where a bandit camp could spawn with fewer than 3 bandits

• Fixed a bug where two notifications appeared on the right when a lord surrendered at a bandit camp

• Fixed a bug where the caravan trading action did not display the reason why the action could not be assigned

• Changed the mechanics for assigning warriors to towers. Soldiers without ranged weapons will no longer go to towers

• Fixed a bug where the "People Have Nowhere to Pray" and "Build a Library" problem flags repeatedly appeared and disappeared at the start of the game. These pieces of advice will now only appear if the advice about building houses for residents has been displayed and completed at least once

• Fixed a bug where the dust effect spawned too low when buildings were constructed on elevated terrain

• If a task assigned by a politician becomes invalid, for example if the politician wanted someone to be seduced but the target's interest in the performer decreased after the task was assigned, or the target became unavailable for another reason, the task will be cancelled at the start of the hour. Political activity takes place between hours 16 and 24

• Fixed a bug where forcing a seduction task from the target's menu could result in ordinary sex

• Fixed the "Intrigues with Neighbors" tutorial scenario. All windows now appear in the same location, and the correct buttons are highlighted regardless of the selected language

• Fixed bugs in the rendering of character and squad movement paths on the global map

• Fixed poisoning on the global map. Additional thoughts not listed in the action hint will no longer be applied

• Nighttime intimidation by a politician will be cancelled if the politician loses a fight

• The icon above a character indicating that they are squeezing between buildings will no longer appear while the character is in combat

• Fixed a game crash that could occur during the "Prisoner Control" event

• Fixed a bug where the caravan trader could claim that the price of a good might increase even though the caravan did not sell that good, such as coal

• Fixed a bug where the most recent saves could fail to appear in the load menu. Save loading is now lazy-loaded, so having hundreds of saves no longer affects load menu performance

• Fixed a bug where the "Poorly Hosted My Lord" thought was positive

• Fixed a bug where the opportunity quest to ransom a neighboring lord from a bandit camp could disappear immediately after spawning because the lord's ruler ransomed them immediately after the kidnapping. The ruler will now never ransom such a lord if the lord was created as part of an opportunity quest

• Fixed a NO error when cancelling squad changes after adding a new soldier and giving them a weapon

• Fixed a bug where a hired unique Mountain Bandit guest continued waiting for a conversation after being hired

• Resources will now ignore some map generation restrictions if there is not enough space for them. Added a safeguard with repeated generation attempts and a notification for the player

• Fixed a bug where maps could generate without clay

• Fixed the cooldown hint for the Sermon of Generosity, which is available to characters with the "Sacrificer" trait

• If the target of nighttime intimidation wakes up because of the break-in, the intimidation attempt will now be cancelled

• A politician will no longer attempt to intimidate at night a target with the "Anxious" trait, since such a target automatically wakes up during an intrusion and cannot be intimidated

• Fixed the displayed operating cost of the Chancellery

• Fixed a bug where an intimidation action task assigned by an AI politician was always deleted on the evening after assignment, even though the intimidation itself still began

• A bandit camp created by the Event Director's opportunity system will no longer immediately grow again; A bandit camp will also no longer grow while an attack order has been assigned to it

Hi everyone,

this is Dmitry.

Unfortunately, in this patch we won’t be showing a radically new gameplay experience, but it noticeably improves the overall feel and logic of the game.

Notable changes:

• We have reworked the mechanics of guests arriving to the player. Their actions will now be more meaningful. However, this is only the beginning of a larger task: rethinking dark deeds and moving politics to the level of relations between states.

• We have made a map generation menu for the start of the game.

• Added many new character traits (they will still be balanced).

• Added new political mechanics and more complex intrigue logic.

• Based on your feedback, we have also made politics less suffocating - political demands will now only be made if a politician’s relationship with your ruler is below friendly. This change has also been pushed to the main branch.

• And overall, we made many fixes and improvements.

But the most interesting things are currently in development and will appear in updates in the coming weeks. This summer, we plan to radically improve the game experience.

Thank you for staying with us!

Guests

Updated the mechanics of guests arriving from neighbors.

Bodyguards

• Guests arrive with bodyguards - 2–3 soldiers who rest during the day and guard their lord at night.

• Guest bodyguards will receive equipment and skills according to the AI city’s development level.

• Guest bodyguards will display a trait with an explanatory hint about whom they are guarding.

Possible Guest Roles

Sociable - arrives when relations are above -25.

• The purpose of the visit is shown in the guest’s hint - to build relations with the player’s politician for the future or to obtain a puppet.

• Before arriving, checks whether there is a suitable target among the player’s lords with a weakness corresponding to the guest’s strength.

• Can use the following strengths: Silver Tongue, Fleshwolf Hammer, or Sensitive Lover.

• Looks for targets with the following weaknesses: Naive, Impressionable Hunter, Slave of Desire.

• Prioritizes the player’s politician; if there is no suitable target, chooses the character with the largest number of followers.

• The player’s ruler cannot be the target of a Sociable guest.

• A guest with Silver Tongue can give the target money or rings on behalf of their ruler, improving the politician’s relationship with them.

• A guest with Fleshwolf Hammer can go hunting with the target if the guest is a ruler.

• A guest with Sensitive Lover can attempt to seduce a suitable target.

• If the target’s weakness is on cooldown at the start of the day, the guest will leave the next day.

Schemer - arrives when relations are below 0.

• The purposes of the visit are shown in the hint as unknown.

• Before arriving, also checks for a suitable target with a weakness corresponding to the guest’s strength.

• Chooses the player’s ruler or a politician as the target.

• If the target is the player’s ruler:

• Madness Poisoner uses the Potion of Madness.

• Fistfighter challenges the ruler to a fistfight.

• If the target is not the player’s ruler:

• Slanderer worsens the target’s relationship with the player’s ruler through slander.

The Gambler and Parent roles remain unchanged.

Map Generation

Added a map generation settings menu at the Hall placement stage when creating a new game.

• If a small terrain is selected, a hill will no longer be generated in the center of the map, and the required playable area for successful generation has been reduced to 70% of the map.

• The final generation attempt (after a series of failed attempts) now tries to generate the map to the end, even if it does not fully match the parameters.

• 2D cliffs will no longer be created during map generation.

• Added a hill placement setting to the map generation settings menu.

Character Traits

• Added the “Berserk” character trait.

• Added the “Thirst for Knowledge” character trait.

• Added the “Master of Profit” character trait.

• Added the “Gourmet” character trait.

• Added the “Life of the Party” character trait.

• Added the “Intuitive Genius” character trait.

• Added the “Inspirer” character trait.

• Added the “Comforter” character trait.

• Added the “Voice of Reason” character trait.

• Added the “Redeemer” character trait.

• Added the “Beggar” character trait.

• Added the “Doctor” character trait.

• Added the “Musician” character trait.

• Added the “Prince of Thieves” character trait.

• Added the “Singer of Love” character trait.

• Added the “Harsh Judge” character trait.

Politics

• Added the usurpation mechanic. A politician who has taken the throne by force is considered a usurper.

• The usurper receives a thought toward the new ruler: “Overthrew my friend” or “Overthrew my enemy”, with a strength equal to their relationship with the previous ruler, with the opposite sign.

• A politician will not receive new desires for a change of power if their relationship with the ruler is +25 or higher.

• Added fistfight duels. The winner receives a bonus to interest in themselves (x2 from the opposite sex).

• A fistfight gives a social thought of release toward the participants.

• Added the Potion of Madness. It can be used by a poisoner. The target temporarily goes mad, loses interest in themselves, and loses followers.

• The Potion of Madness now reduces interest in the target by -20 for 10 days for all other lords.

• Added the character strength “Fistfighter”: 15% chance to knock out the opponent in a fistfight. Added the character weakness “Boastful”: losing a fistfight causes the character to lose followers and worsens relations with lords who witnessed the fight.

• Added thoughts for victory and defeat in a fistfight; lords within a radius of 20 tiles gain interest in the winner (+10, or +20 if the winner is of the opposite sex).

• Politicians can now use the puppets of their followers and give them orders in the same way as followers.

• Puppets of the player ruler’s followers can now perform ordered actions (seduction, duel, etc.) that were previously available only to followers or direct puppets of the ruler.

• Night intimidation conspiracies can now involve politicians’ followers, not only their personal followers.

• The player’s ruler can no longer personally participate in night intimidation; for this, you must use a puppet or an ally. The performer receives a negative thought toward the ruler. If the intimidation was ordered by the player, guards do not intervene.

• Politicians can now use fistfights to weaken another lord’s influence if the target has the “Boastful” weakness.

• Changed the chance of gaining loyalty after an army victory in battle from 35% to 10 + 1% for each level of the Command skill.

World Map

• Added new conditions for providing assistance during aggression on the global map: if a neighbor’s relationship with the victim is above +25, and their relationship with the attacker is below 0, the chance of assistance is 100%; if their relationship with the victim is above +25, and their relationship with the attacker is below +25, the chance of assistance is 50%

• Trade agreement fixes on the global map: renewal is now calculated based on the first contract, its duration has been reduced, and the penalty has been changed

• Trade agreements for selling goods become less profitable when repeatedly signed with the same city for the same resource

• Ignoring a request for military aid from a friendly neighbor (relations 25+) now worsens relations by 30

• If the player shows aggression toward a neighbor (except through dark deeds), neighboring factions that border both the player and the victim have a 50% chance to receive mutual positive thoughts about their shared neighbor

• Intrigue orders on the local map through allies or puppets now worsen the performer’s relationship with the ruler

• Secret murder now ignores the AI’s relationship check toward the player on the global map

• Changed the algorithm for generating knowledge for AI lords on the global map

• Wise Conversation is now free, requires a 25+ ruler-to-player-ruler relationship on the global map, and a character with the "Thirst for Knowledge" trait ignores the required relationship threshold

• A puppet performer in another city can commit a crime even if relations toward the player in that city are very low (which would prevent the player from sending their own lord)

Miscellaneous

• Pottery is now sold by caravan traders

• Bandits no longer try to rob the Hall (since this almost always fails due to nearby lords)

• Blindness will no longer prevent a lord from being challenged to a duel (because of the corresponding Blind Fury achievement)

• Characters will no longer stand up for their friend in fights if the fight is caused by the mask of shame being worn

• Removed the bishop’s mood increase from performing a sermon of faith

• The bishop can no longer be selected as a murder target through an action task on the local map

• The hiring cost of a free lord based on their skills now ignores all skill modifiers (except the lord’s blindness)

• Removed the "Natural Leader" character strength, removed the "Suggestible" character weakness

• Roads no longer increase speed if they are placed directly between buildings

• Stone and clay tiles have been moved from the Resources category to Raw

• The movement speed of characters between houses has been reduced by 75%

• When farm construction is completed in winter, the farm is disabled

• A disabled farm will not turn itself back on after the harsh season ends if the player changed its crop

• The seasonal thought is now removed after the harsh season ends

• The "visit a loved one’s grave" desire is now fulfilled when the grave is built, not when it is visited

• Disrupting a cultist ceremony now drives them out of the province

• Added the "Grant Title" order for free lords who have not been hired; it combines the "Hire" and "Grant Title" actions under the same conditions

• Duels and fistfights no longer give the social thought "Beat me up"; lords now watch fistfights and duels in the same way as villagers

Interface and QoL

• Added icons for all character talents in the character menu, based on the icon of the corresponding skill

• Added a list of lords who have the opposite character strength or weakness to the lord’s character strength and weakness hint (in the lord menu)

• Added display of which kings a neighboring ruler will help when they are attacked, and who will help them against the player; this information is shown in the relationship hint with the city

• Added an emoji bubble that will be displayed when a character moves between buildings. This indicates that the character is slowed

• Added floating icons above characters who block or unblock the temple exit during the "Fervent Prayer" conspiracy

• Added additional states for the "Send to Production" button in production building menus

• When pressing the "Back" button during map preview, the player will return to editing the new game with the same parameters instead of going to the main menu

• If a technology has already been studied by another lord, the research completion notification will now be normal instead of important

• Removed the line from the sermon hint footer saying that the number of parishioners can depend on the sermon performer

• Action tasks targeting the player’s ruler for poisoning, creating an ally, or creating a puppet will no longer be displayed

• Arrows to local map exits will not be displayed while a video is playing (for example, at the end of the game)

• The lord hint for portraits at the top of the GUI now displays character traits instead of thoughts

• Disabled the "Aftermath of War" problem flag

• Disabled the "Slow Knowledge Study" problem flag

• Disabled the "Knowledge Under Threat" notification

• Removed an extra footer from the peasant hint in their house. Previously, it also showed a line about fear of death

• Removed arrow pointers to map exits, leaving only the text

• Removed market saturation information from the resource hint (in the resource panel on the left), and removed daily consumption information from the caravan trader’s goods hint

Tutorial

• Added a tutorial scenario about the bandit camp: the player is guided through opening the army menu, choosing a commander, assembling a squad, equipping fighters, waiting for the squad to form, and moving to the bandit camp on the global map

• Added a tutorial scenario about the king’s political followers: the tutorial selects the king, highlights the required interface elements, and explains the followers tab/indicator

• Added a tutorial scenario about a politician’s weaknesses: the tutorial selects a suitable politician, guides the player to the required character tab, and highlights their weak trait

• Added a tutorial scenario about bad relationships between lords

• Added a tutorial scenario about intrigues with neighbors

• Added new tutorial scenarios and a tip about the Prison Ward

• Added a tutorial scenario and a tip about the player’s lord becoming a puppet of another faction

• Added a tutorial scenario about migration

• Added a tip about the patrol flag

• Added two new tutorial scenarios, about prisoner control and lord tutoring, as well as a tip about creating a puppet on the global map

• Made fixes to the tutorial scenario about creating a squad

• The tutorial flag "sign a trade agreement" has been moved to reaching a population level of 20

• During the "Vagabonds Are Approaching" tutorial, mercenaries no longer arrive instantly; the "Defend the City" task appears only after they arrive

• The soft tutorial window now hides together with the Encyclopedia

• The Encyclopedia pop-up window now hides when the pause menu is opened

• During the soft tutorial, the player’s squad will no longer take prisoners - they will finish them off instead

• Additional peasants created only at the start of the tutorial will now be placed not in the center of the Hall, but on its square

Fixes

• Fixed cases where characters carrying resources in baskets would fall out of the carrying logic and get stuck with baskets forever

• Family preset files are now deleted if loading fails (for example, if the file is corrupted) and replaced with the default preset

• Fixed child filtering for the "Knowledge Is Not Being Studied" tip

• Fixed an error when displaying the hint for the "Make Puppet" action if the target is the performer’s child

• Fixed a possible rare crash when displaying speech bubbles

• Fixed a bug that caused the soft tutorial task window not to disappear after the task was completed

• Fixed a bug that caused shields to continue being used invisibly in fistfights

• Fixed a bug that caused the Matriarch not to receive a negative thought for illegal duels between lords

• Fixed a bug that made the province impossible to select in the tutorial after renaming it

• Fixed a bug that caused the tutorial scenario about distributing resources to remove Moonshine from production

• Fixed an error that occurred when deleting a city from the map (for example, because it was captured by the Horde) if the city had an active trade agreement

• Fixed a bug that caused the tutorial to suggest setting borders, even though this cannot be done in the tutorial

• Fixed a game crash when trying to exit to the main menu while in manual combat with a bandit camp during the tutorial

• Added color validation when loading a family preset (fixes the inability to continue the game after choosing a starting province)

• Fixed the non-working button for restoring the local map generator’s default settings

• Fixed a bug that allowed gold and rings to be adjusted in the player ruler’s action tasks even when there were not enough rings or gold

• The order to visit a sick character will be automatically removed if the character is no longer sick

• Fixed the conditions for showing the tip about books not being studied in cases where a lord left the local map

• Fixed a bug that caused battle music to stop when there was a battle on the local map and a ceremony started

• Fixed the trigger for the problem flag about homeless soldiers, even though hired soldiers simply had not yet had time to move into free barracks

• Fixed a bug that caused crops in fields to be displayed at the wrong height, overlapping characters

• Fixed a bug that caused the building selection menu for another building to open when right-clicking in the tutorial while choosing a location for the Castle

• Fixed a bug that caused Wise Conversation on the global map not to work

• Fixed a bug that caused the "border buttons" pop-up window to appear when starting a new game or tutorial

• Fixed a bug that made it impossible to hover over some tips with the "Show How" button

• Fixed a bug that caused the number of Chancery buildings in the King’s Eye not to update

• Fixed a bug where, after completing the soft tutorial, starting a new game, and saving it, the save file did not consider the soft tutorial completed

• Fixed a bug that caused the bride’s parents to receive incorrect roles when visiting for the wedding

• Fixed a bug that allowed the game to be blocked if, during the family setup stage in the tutorial, the player clicked "Continue" instead of "Next"

• Fixed a bug that caused the soft tutorial not to start after the hard tutorial ended

• Fixed order starts with an insane performer

• Fixed an error where the soft tutorial task about moonshine production was completed when setting 20, although it should be completed when setting 30

• Fixed a bug that caused the "Got it" button to mark a read article as unread again

• Fixed a bug that caused the wet/icy feet effect from bad weather not to work after loading the game

• Fixed bugs with removing alcohol addiction

• Fixed a bug with the food theft activity starting endlessly

• Fixed an incorrect notification about harvested crops that do not fit into storage after harvesting

• Fixed a bug that allowed the conspiracy target to react with a fight to the temple arson during a conspiracy, while that fight did not work

• Fixed a bug that caused the rain sound to continue playing after loading a game where there was no longer any rain

• Fixed a bug that caused a peasant bribing a politician to enter an infinite loop if the faction that sent that peasant no longer existed

• Fixed a bug that allowed children to be born with blue or green skin if their parents had pneumonia or were poisoned at the moment of birth

• Fixed incorrect outline display in the comfort tutorial scenario when changing the GUI size

• Hired soldier cards no longer display the "Fear of Death" thought

• Immobilized prisoners no longer try to escape

• If a lord dies, develops Senile Dementia, or stops being a lord, politicians who chose them as their target reset the corresponding strategies

• If a lord commits a crime in their own house, they will not pick the lock and can enter the house without problems

• Borderless screen mode now automatically sets the full screen resolution, which fixes a bug where a lower resolution could be set in fullscreen mode and part of the screen would remain black

• Graphics

• Added new building assets for the training ground, pig farm, herbalist, and smelter; changed the brewery asset

Hello everyone,

We're releasing a hotfix to the main branch that addresses the most troublesome bugs you've been reporting recently.

Let us know what you think of the new generation algorithm. Has it improved the experience?

Either way, we'll be adding more customization options in the next update.

Also, next week, we'll do our best to roll out a very exciting new version to the beta branch.

Thank you!

Changelog

• Big hill will now generate less frequently in the center of the map when using low hilliness settings.

• Required playable map area reduced from 75% to 70%, decreasing the chance of generated maps being rejected and regenerated

• Updated the localization file parsing DLL used during game startup, which should eliminate rare launch crashes experienced by some players

• Fixed an issue where the border configuration prompt could appear during the tutorial even though border editing is not available there

• Fixed an issue where the “Buttons on Borders” pop-up shown during a new game or tutorial allowed interaction with other UI elements, causing tutorial-related bugs

Norland News Roundup

• Lords no longer eat berries from the warehouse if other food is available
• Scrolling in the settings menu is no longer blocked by tutorials
• Politicians no longer schedule sermons if there is no Bishop in the city

• Expanding the event system
• Local map late game
• Global map expansion
• Combat system improvements

Hello everyone,

this is Dmitry.

This time we took longer than usual to release a new roadmap - for various reasons. However, after a lot of discussion and planning, we now have a clear vision of where we want to take the game over the coming months.

Our main areas of focus will be:

• Expanding the event system

• Local map late game

• Global map expansion

• Combat system improvements

Let's take a closer look at each of them.

Event Director

We have accumulated enough mechanics to finally organize them into a unified Event Director system (similar to RimWorld's storyteller).

The primary goal of the Event Director is to keep the game engaging by creating a highly varied experience and filling the gaps when not much is happening. It is also designed to prevent both devastating snowball situations and extended periods of overly easy challenges.

This does not mean that events will occur without any apparent cause. The system is primarily concerned with timing (which already exists in the game, albeit in a different form).

For example, a rebellion will still require unhappy characters. The Event Director simply decides when exactly it happens.

Since the game's architecture was designed with this system in mind from the very beginning, its implementation should not take long, and you will see it in beta as early as next month.

Local Map Late Game

This is part of our larger goal of building a proper feudal system in the game.

As we approached village development and, consequently, the introduction of barons, we ran into a problem: the feature lacks economic purpose - at least until we address several issues on the local map.

Technological Transition

We want the value of basic resources to gradually decline as cities on the global map develop, while demand for expensive and advanced goods steadily increases.

This will make low-level industries such as alcohol production, logging, and food production economically unattractive in the late game, encouraging you to move them into villages instead (where they require a one-time investment rather than continuous support for peasants).

Craftsmen

At the same time, we will introduce a new character class - craftsmen.

Craftsmen will be required to operate advanced industries such as weaponsmiths and alchemical laboratories.

Craftsmen will cost gold, their numbers will be limited, and they will demand a higher standard of living.

Service Economy

We are also introducing a service economy (bathhouses, theatres, apothecaries, tailoring, luxury shops, and more), which will largely depend on crafted goods.

Wealthy temporary visitors - travelers, pilgrims, and others - will begin visiting your city to take advantage of these services.

As a result, late-game cities will transition from rural economies to trade-and-craft economies while maintaining roughly the same settlement size.

Later on, we will introduce specialization through a guild system.

Barons

All of this will also allow us to create baronies based on your villages and provide some of your lords with independent sources of income, their own armies, and political leverage.

Peaceful Victory

For players who are not interested in engaging with the global map, we will introduce a peaceful victory condition: constructing a super-project building - the University.

Global Map Expansion

The global map has needed expansion for a long time, and now its time has come.

The first building block of this expansion will be the introduction of Outlooks and Lands. Based on those systems, we will then introduce Dukes, followed by internal politics within states.

Outlooks

Currently, all rulers react to the player's actions in the same way, and their response is largely limited to condemning aggression.

The outlook system will allow us to create a much more nuanced political landscape.

So outlooks represent the values of rulers on the map (including your own ruler) and determine whom they support and whom they oppose.

This is reflected through their reactions to aggression and peace treaties, as well as their initial prejudices for and against other outlooks.

In addition, one of the outlooks will be Fanatics, who follow the Matriarch's opinion completely. This will connect the global map to the game's religious politics.

Lands

Several provinces (2-5) sharing the same culture and outlook will be grouped into Lands.

For example, Kirandia could be a Land of Peaceful Varns.

Kings belonging to the same Land will have strong prejudices against suzerains from foreign Lands, foreign cultures, and foreign outlooks.

As a result, effectively integrating them into your kingdom will require the use of Dukes.

Dukes

Dukes serve as intermediaries between the king of a state and the vassals of a foreign Land.

You will be able to assign some of your vassals to a Duke. In return, the Duke will receive a share of the tribute collected from those Lands, while the ruler gains stability and no longer needs to focus on the day-to-day problems of those vassals.

However, as Dukes receive a portion of tribute income, they become more powerful.

Furthermore, they gain the loyalty of their vassals.

As a result, if a Duke rebels, the problem affects the entire Land rather than a single vassal.

Politics Within States

Currently, joining a state as a vassal or as an ordinary member of an alliance is effectively a step backward in terms of game progression.

We want to introduce internal state politics, allowing the crown to pass from one ruler to another.

In vassal kingdoms, a Duke will be able to claim the crown through rebellion and war.

In city alliances, we are currently planning to introduce elections for the position of alliance leader.

As a result, you will be able to become the ruler of a state even if you originally joined it as a simple vassal.

New Maps and Starting Conditions

When starting a new game, you will be able to choose from several geographical maps and create (or generate) the countries, political landscape, and dangers that populate them.

Combat System Development

The combat system remains a high-priority area for us, and we currently expect to begin working on it extensively in the middle of summer.

Our plans include:

• A more transparent damage system, allowing players to compare weapons and understand what each weapon type is effective against.

• New weapon and armor types and tiers, each with their own strengths and weaknesses.

• Formations and battle lines.

• More advanced siege assaults, which will ultimately allow us to introduce stone walls.

Sieges

At the moment, assaulting a fortified city simply requires overwhelming force, which limits tactical possibilities.

The introduction of proper sieges will allow armies only slightly larger than the defending force to successfully threaten fortified settlements, increasing strategic depth on the global map.

Long-term sieges that tie down armies, movement restricted to roads, and the creation of chokepoints such as bridges and mountain passes will further expand the variety of tactical decisions available to players.

However, this is a challenging task, as we must also determine how a siege of the player's own city should function in order to keep the system symmetrical.

So that's what our plans look like for the coming months!

Of course, this is not everything. We will continue improving politics, reworking guests and dark dealings, and much more.

If you like what you see - or if you feel we have overlooked something important - let us know in the comments here or on our Discord. We will read your feedback and give it careful consideration.

And of course, don't forget to leave a review to support the game.

We're working hard for you!

Hello everyone!

This is a small hotfix for the main branch that fixes a number of critical bugs related to the latest update, including the issue preventing caravans from arriving.

We apologize for the inconvenience. The update was quite large, and things like this can happen.

Thank you.

Changelog:

• Fixed a bug that could prevent caravans from arriving when loading saves made in a previous version of the game

• Scripttonic will now bring 1–2 books from another culture. If the player has a lord of a different culture than the ruler, one of the books is guaranteed to belong to that lord’s culture

• When loading a game, if roads had already been built in a city, the player’s ruler will receive the corresponding knowledge required to build those roads

• Added the option to disable soft tutorials during gameplay

• Fixed tutorial errors

Hello everyone,

Today we are moving the accumulated changes from patches 50-52 (map generation, public politics, and more) out of beta into the main branch, along with a today's patch №53 that includes many fixes and QoL stuff.

Thanks to the entire community for the feedback on the beta version!

We will continue working and will soon show you our plan for further work - there will be a lot of interesting things!

Dmitry.

Changelog of of the patch №53

Below you will find the contents of patches 50–52 from the Beta branch

Character Traits

• Added the “Devout” and “Preacher” traits

• Fanatics now receive a relations bonus towards characters with the “Devout” trait

• A character with the “Preacher” trait gains increased relations growth with the Bishop after delivering a Sermon of Faith

• When starting a new game, characters from predefined family presets now have their traits assigned in advance, and starting skills are generated taking into account the bonuses and penalties of those traits

• Changed the reward for the Red Mass: the ruler now gains +10 levels in a random skill instead of a random talent

• Updated the display of effects for the strengths and weaknesses “Born Leader” and “Impressionable” - now showing the amount by which the relations threshold is reduced, rather than the final values (as those did not account for stacking bonuses)

• The strength “Born Leader” and the weakness “Impressionable” now affect the relations thresholds for a neighboring ruler to gain a Debt of Honor after seduction

Balance

• Changed the relations threshold for becoming a puppet for the “Puppeteer” trait from 60 to 70

• Adjusted the relations bonus with the Bishop from delivering a Sermon of Faith

• Added a 3–4 day cooldown for the tribute demand quest from a stronger player on the global map

Interface and QoL

• Lords no longer eat berries from the warehouse if other food is available

• Assigning an inspector via the building context menu (right-click on a building) now correctly removes the previous inspector

• Available training hours for a lord are no longer reset when the lord leaves the local map

• Politicians no longer schedule sermons if there is no Bishop in the city

• The “Auto Study” option in the knowledge menu no longer resets after saving and loading

• Scrolling in the settings is no longer blocked by tutorials

• Buildings occupied by unique guests can no longer be moved or demolished

• Quest hint titles above global map objects are now taken from the quest name

• Crime scenes are now labeled in King’s View mode

• Map entry points are now displayed in King’s View mode

• Information about newly energized residents has been moved to the character statistics event

• The event about a politician receiving a donation has been moved to the top

• Added a new interface for soft tutorial steps - it is now displayed on the right, under the Help menu, instead of in the problem flag

• During the workday, the job manager assigns jobs to unemployed residents, but does not change jobs for residents who are already employed. Full job rebalancing still occurs at night

• Politicians no longer schedule sermons if there is no Bishop in the city

• Added an investiture ceremony: after granting a title to a new lord, the corresponding ceremony should now trigger

• If there is no Temple or Altar in the city, immobilized homeless characters will be brought to the hall square instead of inside the hall (previously they were brought to the ruler’s bedroom)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that occurred when assigning a Chancellery inspector to another Chancellery

• Fixed a bug where the city menu would freeze after assigning a Seduction there

• Characters no longer receive skill debufs from drought if they are outside the local map

• Fixed a bug where the player did not receive 300 coins for joining a city alliance at the request of its leader

• Fixed a bug where residents would sometimes tie up injured fleshwolves and try to make prisoners out of them

• Fixed a bug where lords could lack a character trait and therefore it would not unlock upon reaching a new level

• Fixed a bug where a quest executor could be completely lost if the quest the character was in was destroyed

• Fixed a bug where if the player had 3 Paper in storage, they could send a messenger, cancel it, and receive 4 Paper

• Fixed an issue where completed soft tutorial steps might not be counted when loading an old save

• Fixed a bug where a ruler with senile dementia would continue political struggle

• Fixed a bug where a notification about a fleshwolf attack would appear even if hunters attacked the fleshwolf

• Fixed a bug where the money of a free lord would still go to the player after the lord was burned

• Fixed the display of multiple traits in the non-lord character menu; scrolling now appears after 15 traits instead of 9

• Fixed a crash that could occur when loading a family preset

Patch #52 full list of changes

Characters and social mechanics

• Added character trait “Honest Trader”

• Added character trait “Iron Fist”

• Added character trait “Benefactor”

• Added character trait “Combat Teacher”

• Added character trait Intimidating

• Added character trait Bookworm

• Added character trait Friend of the Scriptonics

Intimidation

• Added loss of half of a lord’s direct followers when punished on the scaffold

• Added display of all consequences of punishing a lord on the scaffold — changes in relations with the player ruler, changes in lords’ mood, and more

• Added accusations against a lord by fanatics, which are applied when a fanatic religious uprising is declared (not the bishop)

• Added restriction on possible punishments when accusation traits are present

• Added traits Accused of Crime and Accused by Bishop for lords. These traits allow punishing a lord on the scaffold without mood penalties for other lords. Traits are applied when committing crimes (murders, attempted murders, poisonings, attempted coup) and when accused by the bishop before a religious uprising

• Player lords and junior player lords (excluding hired free lords) will receive the fear thought “Intimidated” toward the ruler and the mood thought “Terror” from punishments on the scaffold. Thought strength depends on the type of punishment

Balance

• The inventory of a free lord will be destroyed when the body is burned instead of being transferred to the player; the thought about the death of a faction member has been removed

• The player ruler will no longer receive sin for ordering seduction

• Punishing a lord on the scaffold will give a 3x stronger and longer-lasting thought to execution witnesses - commoners

• The negative thought from seduction will last 10 days instead of 3

• The seducer will not receive the thought “Good sex”

• The social thought that a lord played dice with someone increased to +14, the mood thought from winning dice increased to +16

• Farm growth settings updated - growth duration reduced

• “Soft” vassalage removed (where a neighbor offers vassalage without threat), but the chance of “hard” vassalage increased

• The heavy tribute demand variant (where a neighbor threatens attack) removed - but the light tribute variant now has higher amounts, higher chance, adjusted relation thresholds, and stronger relation penalties when refusing to pay

• Clay pottery can now be produced without researching technology

• At least one neighbor will sell Wheat

• The Scriptonic will bring books of the ruler’s culture instead of the culture dominant among adult lords

• The trait from the death of a close one (like grey hair) is now given to only one random character

• The Depression trait now applies a -5 penalty to skills

Interface, notifications and UX

• Added ability to specify hint context for reasons of skill level changes in the character menu

• Notifications about results of unique guests are now normal, not important / they are removed after reading letters

• Added a single notification for political changes (X is no longer an ally of the politician) instead of separate ones

• Reinforcement transfer notifications are grouped into one

• If a faction is destroyed by a horde, only one destruction notification is shown instead of two

• The hint reset option is now unavailable during gameplay

• When a soldier uses painkillers, it does not create a notification; instead, at 20:00 a summary notification appears with total usage

• The dice game notification moved to the top

• Removed knowledge study status from bottom right / it is now shown in lord hints in the top panel

• The game no longer pauses due to mountain marauder attack notification

• Conspiracy threat notification now has a 24-hour cooldown

• Buildings constructed after 15:00 will not appear as uninspected in the evening notification

• The game no longer pauses when hunters fight a flatwolf

• Removed deep communication notifications (top)

• Removed “child is not studying” notification

• Removed war consequences notification

• New energetic residents notification moved to the top

• Added display under the lord’s name showing what they are saying (joking, insulting, etc.) during communication activity

• Added name separation when characters stand close to each other

Fixes and stability

• Fixed character trait “Duelist”

• Fixed a bug where prisoners got pneumonia while sleeping in the barracks during winter

• Fixed game freeze when saving if a character had a seduction task

• Fixed a crash that could occur when destroying the alliance leader’s city

• Fixed a bug where seduction on the global map could fail if the seducer was acting under another lord’s order

• Fixed a bug where seduction could end without starting

• Fixed a bug where ending one trade agreement removed another one in the same city

• Fixed infinite loading for some old saves

• Fixed a possible crash when moving a building

• Fixed a bug where any resident becoming loyal to a lord was counted as loyal to the ruler in statistics

• Fixed talent assignment without required level

• Fixed a possible crash when closing menus

• Fixed a crash when starting a new game with a family with children

• Fixed a bug where the tutorial froze when exiting to the main menu

Graphics

• Fixed shadow rendering when zooming camera over water

• Added lakes and rivers to some maps

• Flower and mushroom decals will no longer appear on clay and mud

• Added new ground decals. Decals will no longer render on sand (except stones). Forests will have mushrooms and sticks

Patch #51 full list of changes:

New character traits

• Added the Smuggler trait

• Added the Kind-hearted trait

• Added the Duelist trait

Politics and AI behavior

• A politician’s allies will receive a negative thought “Manipulated me” when the politician uses them to perform an action (hunting, seduction, a gift from the lord)

• The politician will delegate actions only to allies whose opinion of them is above the alliance threshold + 20

• The player’s ruler will no longer go hunting or attempt seduction on their own as part of political actions

• A politician cannot initiate more than one political action every 20 hours

• To transfer the crown to a bishop, the player must have a free title

• The “Spend time together” action now results in 1 conversation instead of 2

• If a character sleeps outside a bed for 5 hours during winter, there is a 50% chance of getting Pneumonia, which can only be cured with medicine and may otherwise lead to death

Combat system and squads

• Added display of the selected squad’s firing range; a squad ordered to fire at an enemy will begin shooting from the same distance as in automatic mode (40 tiles)

• Fog and precipitation can now occur in manual battles on the global map

• When recruiting a prisoner, they become a loyalist and therefore should not receive the “Fear of death” thought; a note has been added to the recruitment hint indicating that the character will receive the “Fear of death” thought

Production and economy

• Clay pottery is now produced twice as fast

• After the season ends, workers are hired to the fields again

Interface and UX

• The inspection bonus in the building menu is now shown even if the inspector is a clerk

• Improved display of reasons for bonuses and penalties to a character’s skill level (in skill hints)

• Fixed a bug where scrolling was not possible during the new game setup stage

• Added the ability to save a modified family preset when creating a new game

• Disabled the “Not enough wood” issue in the issues tab

• Fixed a bug where irrelevant issues could appear in the issues tab after a manual battle on the global map

World and visuals

• Introduced new building assets to replace the old ones — lumberjack camp, workshop, and brewery

• Updated sound configurations

• Disabled the appearance of green fog over fields on game load, as the crop disease prophecy has been removed

Bugs fixes

• Fixed the clay placement algorithm when loading old saves to ensure that building a pottery workshop is always possible

• Fixed bugs in clay generation that could cause it to spawn in the same location as bushes

• Fixes and stability

• Fixed a bug where fields would ripen 12 hours earlier than intended

• Fixed a possible game freeze at 12:00 if no prophecy is available to start

• Fixed a bug where the selected character trait would reset when switching to another lord in the family creation menu

• Fixed a bug where repairing the brewery cost 3 iron instead of 2 tools

• Fixed a bug where a unique maniac guest could not kill residents; fixed a bug where there was no blood during kills and the maniac could kill while facing the wrong direction; fixed a bug where saving/loading at the “Going to kill” stage caused the maniac to leave the town

• Fixed a bug with duplicate soldiers appearing in the army menu when recruiting a new soldier during army creation

Patch #50 full list of changes

Seasons and climate

• Seasons of the year have been added. The game starts in spring

• Depending on the biome, a “harsh season” is defined. Winter, drought, or rainy season

• Season duration is 12 days for a normal season (summer - spring - autumn), 4 days for a harsh season (7 days in the north)

• For old saves on the old global map, season durations are set to 4 days for the harsh season and 15 for the fertile season

• A display of time until the end of the harsh season and until its start has been added - shown near the in-game clock

• The province selection hint at the start of a new game has been updated - it now shows climate, type of harsh season, and its duration

• During the rainy season, fogs and rains will occur more often

• The rain effect has been changed; heavy snowfall-blizzard now causes the “Frozen Feet” trait in characters who walked on bare ground without roads

• In the menu of a selected tree, berry bush, or herb bush, during the season in which they do not grow, information about this will be displayed

• Price increases have been added for farm-grown goods that cannot grow during the harsh season (rutabaga, carrots, wheat, hops); price decreases have been added for resources that increase their growth during the harsh season (wood, herbs)

• Technologies “Drought Resistance” and “Proper Fertilization” have been removed due to reworking of the game mechanics related to them

Farms, resources and production

• A new resource Clay and a clay extraction building have been added. Roads are now built from clay or stone.

• A construction cost has been added for the stone extraction building

• Instead of separate farms for growing different resources, there is now a single farm building where you can choose the resource to grow

• Vegetables now grow in 3 days, while wheat and hops take 6 days

• You can harvest a farm at any time, but with a 50% yield penalty

• Fertile fields of hops/rye are not highlighted when placing a farm if the player does not have the knowledge to grow these crops

• Firewood production no longer requires the charcoal burner technology

• The woodcutter camp and builder camp are now built 5 times faster

• Relocating the sawmill and builder camp is now free

• A regular warehouse now adds 300 instead of 200 capacity for stone and wood

• Spoilage of food and plant resources in a regular warehouse has been increased from 5% to 10%

• Clay Pottery, Roof Tiles, Clay and Stone Tiles will not be displayed in caravan trade menu - they cannot be bought or sold

• The construction cost of the level 1 brewery has been changed, now it is 20 wood instead of 15 wood + 5 planks

Politics, uprisings and allies

• Political activity will start at 20 population instead of 40

• Politicians will now use the action task system, assigning themselves or allies one task per day - all these tasks are social and aimed at gaining an ally or strengthening relations with existing allies (hunting, gift from a lord, seduction, spending time together, slander, threat)

• A new tool has been added for politicians - intimidation at night. The power of intimidation depends on the politician’s combat skill. This tool is selected like others based on the potential impact on relations

• The mechanic for gaining allies for politicians has been changed. Previously, an ally was automatically considered a lord who had exclusive +25 relations with one of the politicians. Now there is a threshold of +50 relations (can vary based on strengths and weaknesses), if a politician exceeds it, they can perform the action “Make Ally”, which will make the lord an ally. The action cooldown is 3 days. An ally stops being an ally if their relations with the politician drop below a certain threshold

• In the politician and player ruler menu, their target for recruiting allies will be displayed

• In the “Relations to Politician” hint for a lord who is an ally, the threshold for ending the alliance will now be displayed

• When a politician becomes the ruler, their neighboring ruler allies will stop being allies, and the former player ruler will become a politician while keeping their followers

• If a politician has < 1000 gold, they will give higher priority points to alliance targets that have money

• If a character has an action task assigned by a politician, it will be executed with priority

• If an action task cannot be canceled because it was assigned by a politician or a guest, this will be shown in the hint with personalized information

• The politician action “intimidation at night” provokes guards - whoever lands the first 10 hits wins. If the guards win, the politician pays 300 coins to all guards who participated in the fight. Weapons are not used in this fight

• A new type of social thoughts has been added - fear (displayed in purple)

• Fear-based social thoughts are not taken into account when determining whether a lord is a “Friend”, i.e. whether they will grieve after this character’s death, get angry over title removal, etc.

• If a character has the weakness “Hot-tempered”, provoking them into a duel on the global map does not worsen relations with the matriarch

• The “Gift from a Lord” order issued by the player can only be performed by the ruler, their allies, or puppets

• The player cannot conclude trade agreements with vassals and alliance members if their suzerain or leader has relations with the player <= -25

• The chance of a vassal uprising, if they have relations <= -25 with the player and have equal military strength, has been increased from 10% to 50%

• The algorithm for determining possible targets for vassalization by AI has been changed. If the target is a vassal or a regular alliance member, the required relations threshold for attacking them is reduced from -15 to +25

• Fixed a bug where a neighboring ally’s help to a politician during an uprising was canceled at 11 AM if the neighbor was a vassal, suzerain, or in the same alliance as the player; after ignoring a politician’s demands, when they start an uprising, they do not start it instantly but give time to hand over the crown peacefully, also 2 hours before reinforcements from a neighboring ally arrive, the rebels will start gathering in groups

Hello everyone!

This is the last patch in BETA chanell before the main branch update, which we are planning for Friday.

It includes the system of intimidating lords through terror, farming adjustments (thanks to our Discord community for pointing out the issue), changes to AI behavior on the global map, and much more.

Farming

The growth cycle of Rye and Hops has been reduced to 4 days, and vegetables to 2 days. This allows you to harvest up to 3 times per season, providing more balanced gameplay and reducing the risk of losing crops unfairly.

Intimidation system

Now punishing a lord instills fear thoughts in all others. This greatly increases their relations with your ruler but lowers their mood. You can try playing as a tyrant.

Notification system rework

We have reworked the notification system, removing many unnecessary and distracting ones. In particular, the top notifications about deep communication have been removed (you can still see what is happening in the status under the lord’s name).

New character traits

Seven new character traits have been added. More are coming soon.

• Honest Trader

• Iron Fist

• Benefactor

• Combat Teacher

• Intimidating

• Bookworm

• Friend of the Scriptonics

Global map

Hostile and strong neighbors will now demand vassalage from you more aggressively.

Other changes based on your feedback

• Clay pottery no longer requires technology and is available immediately after building the Clay Workshop

• Seduction system nerf - consequences for the initiator have been increased, preventing it from being used too frequently

• At least one faction on the world map will sell Rye

• The Scriptonic will bring books of the ruler’s culture instead of the culture dominant among adult lords. It will also always bring language dictionaries

Once again, thank you very much for your feedback and participation. We continue working - the most interesting things are just beginning!

Full list of changes

Characters and social mechanics

• Added character trait “Honest Trader”

• Added character trait “Iron Fist”

• Added character trait “Benefactor”

• Added character trait “Combat Teacher”

• Added character trait Intimidating

• Added character trait Bookworm

• Added character trait Friend of the Scriptonics

Intimidation

• Added loss of half of a lord’s direct followers when punished on the scaffold

• Added display of all consequences of punishing a lord on the scaffold — changes in relations with the player ruler, changes in lords’ mood, and more

• Added accusations against a lord by fanatics, which are applied when a fanatic religious uprising is declared (not the bishop)

• Added restriction on possible punishments when accusation traits are present

• Added traits Accused of Crime and Accused by Bishop for lords. These traits allow punishing a lord on the scaffold without mood penalties for other lords. Traits are applied when committing crimes (murders, attempted murders, poisonings, attempted coup) and when accused by the bishop before a religious uprising

• Player lords and junior player lords (excluding hired free lords) will receive the fear thought “Intimidated” toward the ruler and the mood thought “Terror” from punishments on the scaffold. Thought strength depends on the type of punishment

Balance

• The inventory of a free lord will be destroyed when the body is burned instead of being transferred to the player; the thought about the death of a faction member has been removed

• The player ruler will no longer receive sin for ordering seduction

• Punishing a lord on the scaffold will give a 3x stronger and longer-lasting thought to execution witnesses - commoners

• The negative thought from seduction will last 10 days instead of 3

• The seducer will not receive the thought “Good sex”

• The social thought that a lord played dice with someone increased to +14, the mood thought from winning dice increased to +16

• Farm growth settings updated - growth duration reduced

• “Soft” vassalage removed (where a neighbor offers vassalage without threat), but the chance of “hard” vassalage increased

• The heavy tribute demand variant (where a neighbor threatens attack) removed - but the light tribute variant now has higher amounts, higher chance, adjusted relation thresholds, and stronger relation penalties when refusing to pay

• Clay pottery can now be produced without researching technology

• At least one neighbor will sell Wheat

• The Scriptonic will bring books of the ruler’s culture instead of the culture dominant among adult lords

• The trait from the death of a close one (like grey hair) is now given to only one random character

• The Depression trait now applies a -5 penalty to skills

Interface, notifications and UX

• Added ability to specify hint context for reasons of skill level changes in the character menu

• Notifications about results of unique guests are now normal, not important / they are removed after reading letters

• Added a single notification for political changes (X is no longer an ally of the politician) instead of separate ones

• Reinforcement transfer notifications are grouped into one

• If a faction is destroyed by a horde, only one destruction notification is shown instead of two

• The hint reset option is now unavailable during gameplay

• When a soldier uses painkillers, it does not create a notification; instead, at 20:00 a summary notification appears with total usage

• The dice game notification moved to the top

• Removed knowledge study status from bottom right / it is now shown in lord hints in the top panel

• The game no longer pauses due to mountain marauder attack notification

• Conspiracy threat notification now has a 24-hour cooldown

• Buildings constructed after 15:00 will not appear as uninspected in the evening notification

• The game no longer pauses when hunters fight a flatwolf

• Removed deep communication notifications (top)

• Removed “child is not studying” notification

• Removed war consequences notification

• New energetic residents notification moved to the top

• Added display under the lord’s name showing what they are saying (joking, insulting, etc.) during communication activity

• Added name separation when characters stand close to each other

Fixes and stability

• Fixed character trait “Duelist”

• Fixed a bug where prisoners got pneumonia while sleeping in the barracks during winter

• Fixed game freeze when saving if a character had a seduction task

• Fixed a crash that could occur when destroying the alliance leader’s city

• Fixed a bug where seduction on the global map could fail if the seducer was acting under another lord’s order

• Fixed a bug where seduction could end without starting

• Fixed a bug where ending one trade agreement removed another one in the same city

• Fixed infinite loading for some old saves

• Fixed a possible crash when moving a building

• Fixed a bug where any resident becoming loyal to a lord was counted as loyal to the ruler in statistics

• Fixed talent assignment without required level

• Fixed a possible crash when closing menus

• Fixed a crash when starting a new game with a family with children

• Fixed a bug where the tutorial froze when exiting to the main menu

Graphics

• Fixed shadow rendering when zooming camera over water

• Added lakes and rivers to some maps

• Flower and mushroom decals will no longer appear on clay and mud

• Added new ground decals. Decals will no longer render on sand (except stones). Forests will have mushrooms and sticks

Hello everyone!

Today’s update for the Beta channel is not a big one, but it includes fixes (many based on your reports) and a number of improvements.

A huge thank you for your feedback and suggestions — we’ve read and worked through everything.

Next week we’ll add more features and move this version to the main channel.

What was done based on your requests:

• A long-standing request — the ability to save character settings in the Family creation menu at the start of the game.

• Clay pottery is now produced twice as fast.

• The clay placement algorithm when loading old saves has been fixed to ensure that building a pottery workshop is always possible.

• The player’s ruler will no longer go hunting or attempt seduction on their own as part of political actions (since this could harm them).

• If a character sleeps outside a bed for 5 hours during winter, there is a 50% chance of getting Pneumonia, which can only be cured with medicine and may otherwise lead to death.

• The inspection bonus in the building menu is now displayed even if the inspector is a clerk.

Also

• New building assets have been introduced to replace the old ones — lumberjack camp, workshop, and brewery. The brewery ended up looking too similar to the sawmill, so we’ll rework it.

• New character traits: Smuggler, Kind-hearted, and Duelist.

• The “Spend time together” action has been simplified — it now results in one deep conversation instead of two.

Fun one

Fixed a bug where a maniac guest could kill people while facing the wrong direction.

Full list of changes:

New character traits

• Added the Smuggler trait

• Added the Kind-hearted trait

• Added the Duelist trait

Politics and AI behavior

• A politician’s allies will receive a negative thought “Manipulated me” when the politician uses them to perform an action (hunting, seduction, a gift from the lord)

• The politician will delegate actions only to allies whose opinion of them is above the alliance threshold + 20

• The player’s ruler will no longer go hunting or attempt seduction on their own as part of political actions

• A politician cannot initiate more than one political action every 20 hours

• To transfer the crown to a bishop, the player must have a free title

• The “Spend time together” action now results in 1 conversation instead of 2

• If a character sleeps outside a bed for 5 hours during winter, there is a 50% chance of getting Pneumonia, which can only be cured with medicine and may otherwise lead to death

Combat system and squads

• Added display of the selected squad’s firing range; a squad ordered to fire at an enemy will begin shooting from the same distance as in automatic mode (40 tiles)

• Fog and precipitation can now occur in manual battles on the global map

• When recruiting a prisoner, they become a loyalist and therefore should not receive the “Fear of death” thought; a note has been added to the recruitment hint indicating that the character will receive the “Fear of death” thought

Production and economy

• Clay pottery is now produced twice as fast

• After the season ends, workers are hired to the fields again

Interface and UX

• The inspection bonus in the building menu is now shown even if the inspector is a clerk

• Improved display of reasons for bonuses and penalties to a character’s skill level (in skill hints)

• Fixed a bug where scrolling was not possible during the new game setup stage

• Added the ability to save a modified family preset when creating a new game

• Disabled the “Not enough wood” issue in the issues tab

• Fixed a bug where irrelevant issues could appear in the issues tab after a manual battle on the global map

World and visuals

• Introduced new building assets to replace the old ones — lumberjack camp, workshop, and brewery

• Updated sound configurations

• Disabled the appearance of green fog over fields on game load, as the crop disease prophecy has been removed

Bugs fixes

• Fixed the clay placement algorithm when loading old saves to ensure that building a pottery workshop is always possible

• Fixed bugs in clay generation that could cause it to spawn in the same location as bushes

• Fixes and stability

• Fixed a bug where fields would ripen 12 hours earlier than intended

• Fixed a possible game freeze at 12:00 if no prophecy is available to start

• Fixed a bug where the selected character trait would reset when switching to another lord in the family creation menu

• Fixed a bug where repairing the brewery cost 3 iron instead of 2 tools

• Fixed a bug where a unique maniac guest could not kill residents; fixed a bug where there was no blood during kills and the maniac could kill while facing the wrong direction; fixed a bug where saving/loading at the “Going to kill” stage caused the maniac to leave the town

• Fixed a bug with duplicate soldiers appearing in the army menu when recruiting a new soldier during army creation

Hello everyone, this is Dmitry.

This time we kept you without news for quite a while, as we were developing several fairly large features at the same time. Today we are releasing them to the Beta branch.

• You can switch branches in the game properties in your Steam library or directly from the main menu of the game.

• As usual, all saves are compatible (although you will need to place the new buildings at the start).

The update includes three major parts:

• Climate and Agriculture

• Reworked Character Trait System

• Personal Politics

• Tutorial

In total, the update includes 145 items, so reading it will take some time.

As usual, development plans change along the way, and this time we diverged quite significantly from our autumn-winter roadmap, but I will soon write an update on the roadmap for the next six months.

Now, about this update.

Climate and Agriculture

New Fields

Developing the climate required us to rework agriculture, so we changed how Fields work.

Now you can grow any known crop on any Field (they are now universal), and you can also harvest early (with a penalty for immaturity). This is useful if you suddenly decide to switch crops or if a Harsh Season begins unexpectedly — you won’t lose everything that has grown.

Since Fields are essentially new objects, when loading a save you will need to place them again and choose what to grow. To compensate for lost harvests, you will receive the corresponding resources for free.

Climate

We added 3 Harsh Seasons for our 4 climate zones — Winter, Drought, and Rainy Season.

From an agriculture perspective, seasons can be roughly divided into “growing” and “not growing,” so the game now has a 12-day Fertile Season and a 4-day Harsh Season. In the northern biome, the Harsh Season lasts 7 days.

Accordingly, crop growth times have been increased:

Rye and Hops grow for 6 days.

Vegetables grow for 3 days.

This means you can harvest 2 crops of Rye and Hops and 4 crops of vegetables during the Fertile Season and prepare for the harsh days (don’t forget to build a Granary!). Yields have also been increased to compensate for the lack of growth during Harsh Seasons.

Harsh Seasons

Winter:

• Temperate and Cold climates (in Cold climate Winter lasts 7 days)

• Nothing grows in Fields

• Trees do not grow

• Berries and Forest Herbs do not grow

• Movement outside roads and buildings is 30% slower

• -5 thought to all residents due to cold

Drought

• Dry climate

• Grains do not grow, but vegetables and berries do

• Forest Herbs grow quickly

• -5 thought to all residents

• Penalty to productivity of all buildings

• All skills -3 due to heat

Rainy Season

• Wet climate

• Spoilage of food and plants increases

• Rye and Hops do not grow

• Trees grow faster

• Swamp Fever may appear

During all Harsh Seasons, prices increase for resources that cannot grow and their derivatives (which may allow you to make some profit).

We also reworked rain effects and added snow, snowstorms, and dust storms.

Trees will turn yellow in autumn and lose leaves in winter.

Reworked Role System

Characters

Now each lord has a character (there are 8 in total). They are assigned based on culture during initial creation and inherited from parents in the game (with a chance to receive a random one).

Characters determine bonuses and penalties to skill experience gain, as well as what talent a lord will have.

Talents

As Aleister Crowley wrote, every man and every woman is a star, so now every character has their own talent.

So far we have implemented about half of the planned 80 talents.

The old talent system is now obsolete.

We have also redesigned the family creation interface for the new system (yes, we remember you asked for the ability to save families at this stage — we will add it soon).

Strengths and Weaknesses

Each lord now also has a Strength and a Weakness, which are used in personal politics (see below).

Strengths allow you to influence lords with certain weaknesses much more effectively and bend them to your will.

Some weaknesses are tied to physical vulnerability and will be expanded later when we introduce Dark Politics.

Personal Politics

After public politics, we implemented the next (still not final) stage — personal politics.

We like how this experimental system is shaping up, and we will continue developing it in the coming weeks.

Using strengths and weaknesses, a politician actively recruits lords as allies (their targets are visible in their interface so you can react), and can assign allies with the right strengths to act against targets. This allows them to gain allies without spending money.

Your king can also order his allies to use their strengths against chosen targets.

Strengths and weaknesses can also be used on the world map.

Fear Mechanic

Politicians can now intimidate their targets by making a night visit and holding a knife to their throat. This creates a special positive thought — Fear.

We will continue developing fear and intimidation mechanics to allow you to play as a ruthless tyrant.

Reworked Learning

This is less important for the beta version, but we have completely reworked the tutorial system. For example, Encyclopedia articles now often include a “show how” button that launches a short guided sequence with highlights and arrows.

New Buildings and Resources

At your request, we brought back Soldier Barracks (you will need to place them).

We also added a new resource — Clay. Clay Workshops will produce pottery and tiles, which are now required for higher-level buildings.

They will also produce Clay Tiles for roads (we also added Stone Tiles for more advanced roads, produced in the Stonecutter Workshop).

These goods cannot be purchased from the Caravan.

Graphics

• Improved overall color grading — the game is now more vibrant and saturated.

• Added “god rays” effect

• Reworked rain effects, added dust storms and snowstorms

• Added small surface decals

• Improved shadow rendering

• Improved visualization of archer ranges and army paths

• Added cloud shadow movement effect

• Ground under forest trees now has a brown tint

Other Improvements

• Increased Altar radius based on player feedback. The difference between Altar, Temple, and Stone Temple is now in persuasion skill modifiers during sermons (and prayer effect strength).

• Builder Camps and Lumber Camps are built 5 times faster and can be moved for free.

• The basic Warehouse now provides 300 capacity instead of 200 for stone and wood.

• Political activity now starts at 20 population instead of 40.

• Improved AI attack logic on the world map. It no longer requires negative relations to attack your vassals and allies.

• Strong and dissatisfied vassals now rebel more often.

• You cannot trade with vassals of a hostile kingdom.

• Hill, lake, and mountain generation has been reworked. A central hill suitable for building a fortress now appears more often.

• Added fanatic terror on the scaffold.

That’s about it.

As usual, we’re looking forward to your feedback on the beta, your reviews, and join us on Discord!

Thank you!

Full list of changes

Seasons and climate

• Seasons of the year have been added. The game starts in spring

• Depending on the biome, a “harsh season” is defined. Winter, drought, or rainy season

• Season duration is 12 days for a normal season (summer - spring - autumn), 4 days for a harsh season (7 days in the north)

• For old saves on the old global map, season durations are set to 4 days for the harsh season and 15 for the fertile season

• A display of time until the end of the harsh season and until its start has been added - shown near the in-game clock

• The province selection hint at the start of a new game has been updated - it now shows climate, type of harsh season, and its duration

• During the rainy season, fogs and rains will occur more often

• The rain effect has been changed; heavy snowfall-blizzard now causes the “Frozen Feet” trait in characters who walked on bare ground without roads

• In the menu of a selected tree, berry bush, or herb bush, during the season in which they do not grow, information about this will be displayed

• Price increases have been added for farm-grown goods that cannot grow during the harsh season (rutabaga, carrots, wheat, hops); price decreases have been added for resources that increase their growth during the harsh season (wood, herbs)

• Technologies “Drought Resistance” and “Proper Fertilization” have been removed due to reworking of the game mechanics related to them

Farms, resources and production

• A new resource Clay and a clay extraction building have been added. Roads are now built from clay or stone.

• A construction cost has been added for the stone extraction building

• Instead of separate farms for growing different resources, there is now a single farm building where you can choose the resource to grow

• Vegetables now grow in 3 days, while wheat and hops take 6 days

• You can harvest a farm at any time, but with a 50% yield penalty

• Fertile fields of hops/rye are not highlighted when placing a farm if the player does not have the knowledge to grow these crops

• Firewood production no longer requires the charcoal burner technology

• The woodcutter camp and builder camp are now built 5 times faster

• Relocating the sawmill and builder camp is now free

• A regular warehouse now adds 300 instead of 200 capacity for stone and wood

• Spoilage of food and plant resources in a regular warehouse has been increased from 5% to 10%

• Clay Pottery, Roof Tiles, Clay and Stone Tiles will not be displayed in caravan trade menu - they cannot be bought or sold

• The construction cost of the level 1 brewery has been changed, now it is 20 wood instead of 15 wood + 5 planks

Politics, uprisings and allies

• Political activity will start at 20 population instead of 40

• Politicians will now use the action task system, assigning themselves or allies one task per day - all these tasks are social and aimed at gaining an ally or strengthening relations with existing allies (hunting, gift from a lord, seduction, spending time together, slander, threat)

• A new tool has been added for politicians - intimidation at night. The power of intimidation depends on the politician’s combat skill. This tool is selected like others based on the potential impact on relations

• The mechanic for gaining allies for politicians has been changed. Previously, an ally was automatically considered a lord who had exclusive +25 relations with one of the politicians. Now there is a threshold of +50 relations (can vary based on strengths and weaknesses), if a politician exceeds it, they can perform the action “Make Ally”, which will make the lord an ally. The action cooldown is 3 days. An ally stops being an ally if their relations with the politician drop below a certain threshold

• In the politician and player ruler menu, their target for recruiting allies will be displayed

• In the “Relations to Politician” hint for a lord who is an ally, the threshold for ending the alliance will now be displayed

• When a politician becomes the ruler, their neighboring ruler allies will stop being allies, and the former player ruler will become a politician while keeping their followers

• If a politician has < 1000 gold, they will give higher priority points to alliance targets that have money

• If a character has an action task assigned by a politician, it will be executed with priority

• If an action task cannot be canceled because it was assigned by a politician or a guest, this will be shown in the hint with personalized information

• The politician action “intimidation at night” provokes guards - whoever lands the first 10 hits wins. If the guards win, the politician pays 300 coins to all guards who participated in the fight. Weapons are not used in this fight

• A new type of social thoughts has been added - fear (displayed in purple)

• Fear-based social thoughts are not taken into account when determining whether a lord is a “Friend”, i.e. whether they will grieve after this character’s death, get angry over title removal, etc.

• If a character has the weakness “Hot-tempered”, provoking them into a duel on the global map does not worsen relations with the matriarch

• The “Gift from a Lord” order issued by the player can only be performed by the ruler, their allies, or puppets

• The player cannot conclude trade agreements with vassals and alliance members if their suzerain or leader has relations with the player <= -25

• The chance of a vassal uprising, if they have relations <= -25 with the player and have equal military strength, has been increased from 10% to 50%

• The algorithm for determining possible targets for vassalization by AI has been changed. If the target is a vassal or a regular alliance member, the required relations threshold for attacking them is reduced from -15 to +25

• Fixed a bug where a neighboring ally’s help to a politician during an uprising was canceled at 11 AM if the neighbor was a vassal, suzerain, or in the same alliance as the player; after ignoring a politician’s demands, when they start an uprising, they do not start it instantly but give time to hand over the crown peacefully, also 2 hours before reinforcements from a neighboring ally arrive, the rebels will start gathering in groups

Norland is a medieval colony sim that casts you as the head of a noble family and the leader of a small kingdom. You must navigate your way through class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery – all while tending to the needs of your people, executing nefarious plots against your enemies, and uncovering the lost knowledge of a fallen empire. Norland is 50% off as part of the Hooded Horse April Sale! Hooded Horse April Sale

Hello everyone,

While we’re working on new major features (and therefore postponing the release of the next big patch to early April), we’ve accumulated a number of fixes for the main branch.

Thanks to everyone who reported these bugs - you’ve made the game better for everyone!

List of fixes:

- Fixed an error when showing the on-screen event for a guest arrival

- If a dog seller’s dog dies before being sold, the seller now leaves the map; wolves no longer attack unique guests arriving on the local map

- Fixed an issue with the lord burning ceremony not working correctly

- Fixed an issue where villagers defending a village could engage allied troops that came to help them

- Fixed a rare freeze when a map entry point was too close to a mountain

- Fixed a crash when viewing sub-hints in production buildings

Norland is a medieval colony sim that casts you as the head of a noble family and the leader of a small kingdom. You must navigate your way through class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery – all while tending to the needs of your people, executing nefarious plots against your enemies, and uncovering the lost knowledge of a fallen empire. Norland is 50% off as part of the Hooded Horse Spring Sale! Hooded Horse Spring Sale

Hooded Horse Publisher Sale

Norland News Recap

• Addressing issues where global map progression stalls when city progression stalls
• Developing city progression "upward" like a spiral
• Introducing a new threshold type based on number of craftsmen
• Adding a village management system for outsourcing basic productions like agriculture
• Adding feudalization to the global map, with appointed dukes to collect tribute and taxes, which should open up a wealth of political and economic intrigue
• Reworking the late game and shifting it to a "survival mode" in later stages

• Developing local map generation to support 4 additional biomes and unique seasonal changes and climates
• New mechanics to support the new biomes and seasonal changes, hunting, foraging, and clay mining are already in progress
• Address global map variety by creating about a dozen hand-drawn maps with the eventual ability to import player-made maps
• Trade routes will also be added to add more interaction on the world map
• Changes to war and combat are planned to be tackled in spring-summer, watch out for a big discussion around then
• Character traits will undergo a radical overhaul, expanding the system to be more thematic and important in politics

Hey all,

Just a small update with a bunch of fixes for main branch.

• The bug that prevented loading a save from the main menu after generating a new map has been fixed

• Incorrect tag overriding in orders has been fixed. Because of this, squads could theoretically sometimes pass through fortifications

• Bugs in the “Hot Prayer” conspiracy have been fixed - the conspiracy could not be assigned if there were temples in the city, and the stage of moving characters to the temple could end prematurely without waiting for the conspiracy leader to reach the temple

• Lords who have developed senility can no longer conduct conspiracies or be targets of conspiracies on the local map

• Political characters who develop senility stop being politicians (here our game slightly departs from realism)

• Characters who develop senility cancel their sermons and action tasks, including studying knowledge

• Lords with senility can no longer be someone’s idols or puppets

• Lords in madness (including senility) can no longer be assigned to study knowledge

• A bug where residents sometimes did not buy certain resources on the local market has been fixed

• A bug in manual combat on the global map has been fixed where the player was awarded victory after destroying all enemy squads even if archer towers were not destroyed while the player’s squads were completely defeated

• A crash when viewing sub-hints in production buildings has been fixed

Norland is a medieval colony sim that casts you as the head of a noble family and the leader of a small kingdom. You must navigate your way through class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery – all while tending to the needs of your people, executing nefarious plots against your enemies, and uncovering the lost knowledge of a fallen empire. Norland is 50% off as part of the Hooded Horse Publisher Sale! Hooded Horse Publisher Sale

Hello everyone,

this is Dmitry.

As usual after a major update, we are back with a number of balance adjustments and fixes that were identified and resolved over the past week.

At the same time, we are working on major tasks related to reworking the roleplaying system characters, traits, worldview, and so on, and we continue improving the economy and other systems. Within the next one to two weeks, we will also present a new roadmap and summarize the results of the past six months of work.

We will be happy to receive your reviews and feedback to further improve your gameplay experience!

Full changelog

Balance and minor improvements

• Servants will bring berries to the lords hall with priority over flour

• Patrol units will try to choose opposite points within their radius during patrol so they do not patrol in the same spot

• A scroll has been added to the STATE panel in the character menu which appears if there are too many icons to fit

• Typical browser UI behavior has been added to the scroll - clicking or holding the mouse outside the scroll bar will move the scroll in that direction

• The problem flag will not be displayed during manual combat on the global map

• King names under cities in the king view on the global map will be drawn slightly lower

• New logs have been added for lords. Logs are now collected for the player's lords, junior lords, and the bishop

• A politician friendly to the ruler will deliver a sermon of hope after the player's army is defeated on the global map only if there was at least one lord in the army. If a village lost a battle on its own without player support, that is not a reason to be sad

• The strength of thoughts from playing dice has been changed from +7 to +9

• Price growth from drought consequences will be x1.5 instead of x2

• The strength of the thought from nectar has been reduced; after repeated use of nectar, the bonus increases by +5 only once

• Neighbors will help the player if their relations with the player are >= 0 instead of > -25

• The sizes of the market, den, and tavern have been increased back

• A debt of honor can now be used to request help from an ally army even if it is a direct attack action plundering a city or village forcing a neighbor into neutrality and so on and the ally does not consider the target an enemy. A debt of honor can also be used to request ally assistance even if it is a defensive action for example defending a neighbor city helping in a rebellion and so on although by default ally armies cannot be used in such actions.

• The problem flag "There are many vagabonds in the city" has been removed it duplicated an existing flag with the same name

Fixes

• Fixed a bug where the bandit camp that appeared at 20 population was empty, without bandits

• Fixed a bug where the resource panel was displayed during manual combat on the global map.

• Fixed a bug where after a manual battle on the global map the maximum capacity value of some resource category could temporarily reset to zero

• Fixed a bug where not all mines could generate when creating a new map

• Fixed a bug with opening the construction menu when canceling a building relocation

• Fixed an error that occurred when a peasant woman gave birth

• Fixed a bug where the UI panel with the player's armies did not update if the commander left the army while it was on the global map

• Fixed a bug where growing bushes were not displayed on fields if they were built on elevated terrain after the update bushes will disappear from all fields until the end of the hour. After a full growth cycle everything will return to normal

• Fixed a bug where null could be saved into the save file due to new character logs, which slowed down the game saving process

• When the Rebellion quest appears on the global map, the screen event "Defense Against Rebellion" will not be displayed

• Fixed a crash when returning to the menu from the hall placement stage at the start of a new game

• Fixed a bug where after loading a save file there was no stone highlight; resource highlighting now works not only in construction mode

• Fixed a bug where a lord could forget the language of their previous culture when switching to a new culture. Upon loading, lords who learned languages through books but lost them due to this bug will regain those languages

• Fixes in character logs - heir succession and victory in battle events

• Fixed a bug where the sound of burning buildings did not stop if those buildings were burning at the moment of saving the game

• Fixed a game crash when trying to attack an enemy unit leaving the map

• Fixed a bug where the size of the control settings menu differed from the main settings menu

• Fixed a bug where a lord could temporarily fall into endless attempts to go eat even though he had collapsed from exhaustion due to lack of sleep

• Fixed a bug where the scaffold could not be repaired due to overlapping buttons in the menu

• Fixed bugs in the rendering of severed limbs and blood from them - the rendering height is now calculated correctly

• Fixed a bug where dead characters could for some time be counted as alive in various systems

• Fixed a bug where all interfaces were enabled while inspecting the map

• Fixed a bug where during a battle on the Global map the interface with portraits of guests and the player's lords was enabled

• Fixed a bug where losing a battle on the global map could lead to an infinite battle bug if the player had a politician with good relations with the ruler

• Fixed a bug that occurred when knocking out a wolf’s eye

• Fixed a bug where the crime bubble could fail to disappear if patrol units attacked the criminal. The bubble will now disappear either when the criminal finishes their crime or when the fight with that criminal ends

Hello everyone,

this is Dmitry.

Today we are moving the accumulated changes from patches 46 and 47 (map generation, public politics, and more) out of beta into the main branch, along with a small patch №48 that improves the gameplay experience and balance.

Patch 48 is largely based on your feedback, so please leave your Steam reviews, suggestions, and bug reports - we will be grateful for any support.

Crime fixes

Crime is now much easier to control.

• Fixed a bug where any combat in a neighboring province (not just defeats) was counted as war consequences, which often caused players to be overwhelmed by waves of criminals.

• The main flow of criminals now comes from bandit camps in your own province rather than from war consequences.

• Crimes committed in the city are now displayed in King’s View mode - this allows better control of dangerous areas with patrols.

• Warriors now head out for patrol duty one hour before the shift starts so they are in position when criminals begin their activities.

• Crimes are now highlighted with a speech bubble when they occur.

• The thought caused by crime is now received only by witnesses of the crime, not by all residents indiscriminately (but the thoughts have become stronger).

Demand to change ruler

You can now force a neighboring ruler to hand over the crown, which helps in forming alliances.

Dice playing has become beneficial

Players who play dice now improve their relationship with each other after the game, making this mechanic useful for building better relations.

Other improvements

• If you choose not to repay a loan on the global map, it will only upset the lender. The loan amount has been reduced to 500 coins.

• The character event log system has been improved - it is now more informative and contains more events.

• Map entrances are now marked with road stones.

• A tooltip has been added when selecting a squad commander.

• You can now gift your lords not only money but also rings. This also counts as a reward (and can be used to strengthen your seducers).

• The maximum zoom level of the local map has been increased for more convenient viewing.

• Trading squares have been reduced to 8×8 tiles, allowing for more versatile placement.

Full changelog for patch №48

(below is also the list of improvements from the two previous patches from the beta version)

Improvements

• Road stones have been added at the map entrances (they will appear if you start a new game)

• Added action in AI city on the global map: "Demand to change ruler"

• Locations where crimes were committed will now be displayed on the map in King’s View mode for the next 24 hours

• When a bandit is heading to commit a crime on the map, it will be shown with a visible speech bubble

• Maximum zoom-out level of the game camera on the local map has been increased

• Added order "Gift - rings"

• Added the ability to open the pause menu while inspecting the map at the start of a new game

• Resource tooltips on the local map are now visible not only when creating a new map, but also during the game in building mode while King’s View is active

• The action "Demand to change ruler" has been moved from Political Intrigues to Politics, and "Puppet Uprising" to Puppets

• Bushes that have already had their berries harvested can now also be clicked to open their menu

• Added a popup tooltip about the commander in the Army modal menu when clicking “Create squad”

• The character event log system has been reworked - it now supports links to other characters, factions, etc.

• Hints for captives and rabble will now show the number of people in need of healing ointment

• The on-screen event "Knowledge becomes common" is now a regular (white) event instead of yellow

• Market, den and tavern have been reduced to 8×8 tiles; walking around temples no longer slows down residents because there is now a square

• Orders "Gift from neighbor" and "Gift from lord" have reinstated the relationship check, but it now requires 0+ relations instead of +25

• In the "Loan money" quest on the global map, if the debt is not repaid, neighbors will no longer worsen relations with the player; loan amount reduced from 750 to 500 coins

• Removed the thought "Slept on the ground"

Fixes

• Soldiers in squads will no longer untie allies, tie up and finish off enemies if they are more than 25 tiles away from the squad commander

• Fixed a bug where soldiers in squads would get stuck in an infinite loop trying to untie an ally who was tied not by an enemy squad, but by the player's city guards

• Fixed a bug due to which saves might stop being created under certain conditions when a military mutiny threat arises in the city

• Fixed a bug where defense quests against a neighbor's attack on the global map that appeared at 11 PM gave less time to send help than quests that appeared at 11 AM

• Patrolmen will start work one hour earlier

• The positive thought from nectar no longer weakens over time

• The thought "Crime in the city" after committing another crime will now appear only in two peasants, not all, and will last shorter

• Fixed a bug where the radius of the selected building would disappear if the building was outside the camera view

• Fixed the display of patrol radii when placing a new patrol flag

• Fixed a bug where lord dialog bubbles could be clipped by the ground surface

• Fixed a bug where a squad could stop and fail to complete a task (running around the substitute squad commander) if the original squad commander ceased to be such (e.g., died, fell asleep, dropped out due to wounds) and was replaced by another character

• Fixed a bug due to which lumberjacks incorrectly harvested trees growing on elevations

• Fixed bugs with displaying building comfort

• Characters now get positive social thoughts about each other when playing dice. The strength of thoughts about winning and losing has been reduced, but they now last 3 days instead of 1

• Fixed a bug where a burned hall prevented unpausing

• Bandits will no longer rob captive barracks (they have nothing anyway)

• Fixed the trigger and context for the hint of the problem flag about high politician influence

• Fixed a bug where a broken tutorial could start when the tutorial offer menu appeared

• Fixed a bug where on some maps, enemy arrival could cause the game to completely freeze

• War consequences will now only activate on successful attacks on a neighbor's city or village

• Fixed a bug in wise conversation where the "Enlightener" talent was checked on the one receiving knowledge, not the one sharing it

Changelog for patch №47

Energy Surges, UI Transparency and More

Mood management

The main problem with mood right now is that there are many tools to increase it, but first, their effects are not transparent, and second, once you solve the migration issue, these tools become mostly unnecessary. That is, they work to solve a problem, but do not work to provide advantages. To address this, we took the existing inspiration mechanic for lords, expanded it to peasants and warriors, unified everything into a single system, and significantly improved tool transparency.

Energy surges

All characters (except prisoners) who wake up happy in the morning receive an energy surge that lasts for 2 days (for lords it remains +5 to all skills for 1 day).

• For warriors this is +7 to Combat skill.

• For peasants this means +50% productivity (including construction).

Buildings now have two priorities – prisoners and energized peasants.

The ways to achieve this mood can be any. Nectar gives +50 mood (and its negative effects have been reduced). The effects from housing comfort, alcohol, and punishment spectacles have been increased. Sermons of Hope also work very well, which your king, politician, or Bishop can deliver at the temple among their followers at your request (this allows you to use their political popularity for your own purposes).

Thus, you can endlessly invest resources into the happiness of your subjects (and if migration becomes too high, it can always be disabled).

Transparency

We made the tools more transparent.

• Descriptions of alcohol, food, nectar, punishments, and sermons now provide clear data on mood bonuses during the day.

• In addition, you can now click on any object on the map and get information about it – this applies to trees, bushes, and resource deposits.

• When starting the game and choosing a location for the Hall, map entry points will also be shown.

• In the King’s Eye, you can now see the average happiness of the residents living in houses, and when selecting a church or another public building, the total amount of money owned by the residents of that building.

• In the politician interface, it is now much clearer who holds which powers.

Other stuff

• At your request, we have brought back wolves finishing off lords to death and reduced the cost of moving a building back to 5 wood.

• Also, based on your feedback, we removed the negative bonus for not having a place of prayer, serious injuries during training, and inheriting gray hair.

• We removed relationship requirements for Wise Conversation, Slander, and the Gift from a Lord. To invite another lord to your court, it is now enough to have good relations with his king (this will make it easier to collect special knowledge from the Global Map).

• Since there are now more trees, we rebalanced them, as well as the balance of bushes.

• We added another source of organic influence growth – training fighters.

• Now, when a politician gains influence comparable to that of your king, he receives the status of Contender, and only then begins to put forward demands for a change of power. The change of power itself is now much less painful.

As always, we count on your feedback and suggestions, and stay in touch – the most interesting part is just beginning.

Full list of changes

Local Map

• When loading an old save without berry bushes and Stone, these resources will now appear on the map and will not overlap

• Fixed an issue where resource bushes were generated in very small clusters; they now generate in larger patches

• Added entry point indicators to provinces in the map preview after starting a new game and before the Hall is built

• Increased the number of harvested bushes that regenerate each day

• Berries on bushes are now less bright

• Chopped trees are now harvested faster, but yield less Wood

• Fixed saving of map entry points to file; entry points are now calculated only during map generation or when loading old saves

• Removed old tree assets; when loading old saves, trees are now replaced with new ones

• Trees, stone clusters, bushes, and hop fields are now clickable and open a menu

• Trees now grow 1 unit every 10 hours instead of 5 units every 50 hours

• Improved resource distribution during map generation

• Reduced the chance of generating maps with a long hill that has a passage on one side

• Tightened map generation rules to ensure sufficient accessible space for the player

• Dry trees no longer grow in place of chopped trees

• Minor adjustments to lake and mountain size and count in the local map generator

• Tutorial is available again; replaced the tutorial local map

• Added edge blockers on the local map; they are applied at the start of a new game (e.g., in Turnow the right and top edges are blocked)

AI

• Pack wolves will finish off their opponents in combat again

• Bandits now gain a positive “Crime in the City” thought after committing a crime instead of a negative one

• Fixed an issue where combat did not end after three guard strikes on a fleeing prisoner or bandit, as each guard calculated its own three strikes; only one guard now engages a fleeing prisoner, the fight ends in one hit, and guards use weapons

• Residents no longer idle around the Hall; for social relaxation and drinking alcohol (if no Taverns are available), they now choose squares, including the Hall square

• Homeless residents no longer attend sermons

Characters

• If a lord has a desire to visit a grave, this activity now has higher priority

• A lord who trained soldiers on the Training Field now has a 10% chance to gain loyalty from those soldiers

• Gray hair color is no longer inherited by children

• During training fights, soldiers now receive only light bruises and minor injuries

• Prisoners can no longer have loyalty to lords and therefore cannot be Loyalists or Fanatics

• Loyalists no longer have a productivity bonus

• Peasants gain the “Energetic” trait at 8:00 AM and after a sermon if their mood is ≥75

• Set the duration of thoughts for transferring the ruler’s crown and heir crown to 5 days; a lord receiving the crown now gains a positive thought

• Politicians, player lord puppets, and politician followers no longer leave the player faction due to −50 relations with the ruler; a notification is shown if a lord leaves a province

• Reduced experience gained from the “Training” order so children cannot reach skill level 14+ while growing up

• Nectar no longer increases movement speed, inspection speed, or skills; addiction chance reduced to 10%; addiction ends 3 days after stopping use

• Lord inspiration no longer expires early if the lord goes to sleep or their mood drops

• Soldiers can now also become Energetic; for them this provides a combat skill bonus

• Individual worker productivity now also affects construction speed

• Hunting (10:00–20:00) and walks/drinking (10:00–23:00) now have time limits

• Removed required relation threshold for “Gift from Lord”, “Gift from Neighbor”, “Slander”, and “Wise Conversation” orders

GUI

• Updated the politician support hint: personal support from population and army is shown first, followed by allies and their support; total population support is shown at the bottom

• Added a line showing ruler support percentage to the politician support hint

• Added mood change values to food and alcohol tooltips

• Added the number of Energetic peasants to the residents hint in the top panel

• Added a hint to the new heir event display

• Reordered skills in the menu to match training categories

• Updated the info panel above residential buildings in King’s Eye mode: shows average resident mood and composition (soldiers, peasants, Energetic)

• Updated the info panel above production buildings: worker icons are larger, Energetic workers are displayed

• Reworked the resident tooltip in houses: mood and culture are now shown with icons

• In King’s Eye mode, production buildings show a Zzz icon for inactive buildings

• Buildings under construction now display a “missing resources” icon above them and a special status in the build menu if there are insufficient materials to finish the project

• When selecting service buildings (Market, Tavern, etc.), residential buildings display resident money and comfort

• Updated resource area icons and context menu on the local map

• The top lords panel now shows technology research progress percentage next to the assigned task icon

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where a city was not burned to the ground if the executing army was located on the same tile as the AI city

• Fixed an issue where the Nectar resource was missing from the statistics menu

• Fixed an issue where player soldiers could repeatedly go to sleep and wake up during the day

• Fixed an issue where flower bushes did not appear when loading a save

• Fixed fertile land indicators when constructing farms

• Fixed completion of a conspiracy that involved a fight to the death

• Fixed an issue where maps were generated with the same seed

• Fixed an issue where the negative comfort issue flag in residential buildings also affected prisoner barracks

• Fixed game start in the Prisoner scenario

• Fixed an issue with a construction marker that did not disappear in the build menu

• Fixed an issue where the pain relief effect was infinite

• Fixed inverted character references in the relationship tooltip

• Fixed an issue where dead peasants and soldiers could be assigned to houses

• Fixed an issue where action tasks on the global map could be completed instantly

• Fixed bush sprites breaking during map generation with rivers

• Fixed header text wrapping in the Training Field menu

• Fixed the issue “Monogamous characters are suffering” appearing and resolving repeatedly

• Fixed an issue where a rebellion warning event could appear for a culture that had no residents

• Fixed trees on manual battle maps on the global map

• Fixed credits not starting after victory

Misc

• Reduced building relocation cost from 10 to 7 Wood

• Changed Ale technology availability requirement from 20 to 40 population

• Added the “War Consequences” problem flag

• Removed “Approval Sermon” and “Joy Sermon”; added “Hope Sermon” (increases mood, only for followers)

• Reworked the worker type assignment menu and filters in buildings

• Added a “Trade” building category (Market, Den, Tavern)

• Doubled the thought strength from Meat and berries; doubled alcohol thought duration

• Increased comfort from religious buildings by +4

• Removed “No place to pray nearby” thought

• Building upgrades can no longer be started without sufficient resources

• Relocating a residential building now preserves the “Priority for Warriors” option state

Changelog for patch №46

Map Generation, Public Politics and Much More

Map Generation

Now you can start the game in any province of the global map. Each province has defined settings based on which the map will be generated. These settings include resources, biome type (it will matter later, once we implement climate), hilliness, and landscape complexity.

We've redrawn trees and bushes, fields, added rivers and fords with water lilies.

Before starting the game, you'll be able to inspect the map generated by the system (resources will be marked on it), and if you don't like it — regenerate it from scratch.

New Resources

Added Bloodberries — tasty food that can be gathered in the forest using the Herbalist.

From bloodberries you can brew Herbal Infusion (or maybe better to call it "berry" one?), which relieves pain. At the same time, we brought back receiving injuries during training so that growing free soldiers wouldn't be so easy.

Public Politics

Lord-politicians will no longer spend money on bribing other lords (we'll develop a different mechanic for that), but they will spend money on sermons. On the other hand, their followers and unfriendly neighbors will regularly donate money to them.

They will distribute this money to listeners during the sermon, strengthening their influence among them. Internal trade has become even more relevant.

Gradually politicians will start putting forward various political demands, up to demanding to make them heir, and later to hand over the crown to them.

We also added organic sources of popularity among lords — for example, workers will become followers of the manager-lord.

Lords will improve their attitude toward those who have many followers among peasants and warriors, thus politicians' popularity will also become more organic.

Overall, there are many changes, but the main thing is that politicians will now really fight for influence, and when it equals the influence of your king — they will start demanding power.

Parishes

We removed the thoughts that were given to peasants depending on the distance to their workplaces. Instead, the organization of the city will now be built based on church parishes.

For residents (and prisoners) it will be important to live within the range of the temple (let's imagine it's the radius of hearing its bell), and only these residents will come to sermons.

At the same time, we increased the effect of these sermons, so if you need efficient loyalists in production, you'll have to fight for them.

If a politician decides to fight for the Bishop's loyalty, he will conduct sermons of faith.

By the way, we added a wooden temple, whose range of effect (and therefore parish) will be larger than that of the altar, and the stone temple (unlocked later) — larger than that of the wooden temple.

Feedback Implementation

A lot of changes were made based on your feedback. From the most noticeable:

• Lords on the global map now almost always possess special knowledge, which can be extracted through Wise Conversation.

• Vassal armies can be sent on various tasks like protection from marauders, politician uprisings, etc.

• When a unique guest-maniac sets buildings on fire, this is considered a crime and guards will react to it

• Wolves will no longer finish off their opponents (incl. lords who failed on a hunt)

• Social thought "Woman on the Throne" has been removed

• Freed prisoner will become a loyalist

That's it, leaving you with the list of changes. New patches will come out more often (with this one we just waited a long time and debugged generation).

Full List of Changes

Politics and Power

• Conspiracies against lesser lords are now allowed

• Fixed the marriage issue — it will now be checked when granting or revoking a title

• Probability of neighbors bribing a politician increased from 25% to 50% per day

• The player's politicians can now also be bribed by the player's vassals or suzerain if their relation is < 0

• Unfriendly neighbors will bribe the player's politicians for 400 coins instead of 250

• Importance of the event "New Political Demand" raised from normal to important

• For determining the danger of a military conspiracy, the total % of loyal troops of the politician and his followers will be used, not just his personal one

• When participating in riots, a resident will not attack residents loyal to the same politician (even if they are directly loyal to different lords, but those lords are under the influence of the same politician)

• In the politician's menu, the % of population support will now be displayed taking into account follower-lords of this politician who “pass on” their % support to him; hints for population and soldier support will also show additional information about this

• To politicians' sermons (Approval, Riots) will come residents who are loyal to a lord under this politician's influence (i.e. his follower); these same residents will participate in riots if organized by the politician; in the resident's menu near the portrait of the lord they are loyal to, the portrait of the politician who influenced that lord will be displayed

• Fixed a bug due to which the player could cancel a politician's sermon by assigning that politician to another sermon in a different temple/altar, although canceling sermons that politicians assigned themselves should not be possible

• In the politician's menu it will now display not the number of followers, but the total percentage of population and army support, including the support of his followers; in the followers hint the total army and residents support considering all followers will also be written

• Politicians will no longer give money to their future follower-lords

• The "Flattery" order has been removed, politicians will also no longer flatter followers

• Fixed a bug due to which actors bribing politicians or bandits for dark deeds would immediately leave the player's city if their faction's relation to the player was -25 or lower

• Fixed a bug due to which the message "New Political Demand" appeared together with "New Obsession"

• Fixed a bug due to which the player's politician could try to force an already dead lord to donate money to him

• Immediately after a neighbor bribes a politician, the politician will gain a desire to make peace with that politician if the conditions are met (-15 relations or lower)

• Instead of the lord with the highest number of knowledges, a politician will become the lord with the highest level of the "Persuasion" skill (if above 6); such a politician can appear in the city if there are no other politicians in it except the player's king

• The "Praise Neighbor" action on the global map has been replaced with "Gift from Neighbor", now you need to pay money and the price increases each time

• The list of lords in the "WHO?" category in the orders "Praise", "Conciliatory Gift", "Slander" will be sorted by faction so that lords from the player's faction are displayed first

• Political demands for change of power will have priority over other desires with high priority

• A lord who has declared a political demand for change of power cannot be sent to the global map until the demand is fulfilled or ignored

• If the target of the politician's uprising or the uprising conspirator leaves the player's faction, the uprising is canceled

• If a soldier is loyal to a lord preparing an uprising, or to a politician of whom that lord is a follower, such a soldier or lord cannot be added to an army or dismissed

• When ignoring or fulfilling a political demand for change of power, a screen event will be displayed; with each ignoring of such a demand the politician will behave more aggressively

• Politicians have been given power change desires — “make me heir”, “make me king”

• Changed the mechanics of donations to politicians from their followers — now followers on the local map daily give 20% of their money to the politician, leaving themselves a minimum of 150 coins

• When performing the "Transfer the Crown" action, the line of succession will not change — the heir will remain the same

• Fixed an error that occurred if a lord-follower of a politician was stripped of his title and made a knight

• Added notification that a lord has ceased to be a politician's ally

• Notification that someone has become a politician's ally is now displayed on the right, not at the top

• Politicians no longer receive an experience bonus

• The player can no longer conduct Sermon of Approval; the technology has been removed from the game

• Fixed a bug due to which a message about a political follower could appear before politics was unlocked

• Added political demand — offering to a king-ally of the politician, if that king has relation worse than 0 to the player's king

• Added desire for the politician "Reward his ally"

• New politician demand — remove vassal tax from his ally-vassal

• Politicians will not be expelled from AI cities by a random event with 0.5% chance

• Desire will first be received by the lord who has a possible desire with high priority

• The heir will not become a politician, but if a politician became the heir, he does not stop being a politician

• The politician will escalate the consequences of ignoring demands only if his relation to the ruler is < +25

• A politician now requires 0.9x support instead of 1.2x to put forward power change demands

Religion and Sermons

• Bishop's Persuasion and Teaching skill will be from 9 to 15

• The "Diplomat" talent has been reworked, now it boosts the effect of Loyalty and Approval sermons by 50%

• Only fanatics will receive the bad thought "King is cursed by the Matriarch" when relations with the Matriarch are bad

• Politicians will conduct Approval sermon also in cases if they woke up Inspired or if the politician has good (25+) relation to the player's ruler and the player lost a battle somewhere on the global map or local map (for local map defeat it counts that the enemy attacked, achieved their goals and left the map)

• Doubt sermon no longer requires technology research

• In hints of sermons affected by the Orator talent (former Diplomat talent), the strength of received thoughts will be displayed already with the bonus

• Joy, Doubt, Loyalty sermons now cost 100 more gold and this gold will be distributed among the sermon listeners

• If a politician has > 1000 gold, the politician will conduct a Loyalty sermon 2 times more effective, distributing 350 gold to listeners instead of 100

• Bishop will conduct Faith sermon even if his relation to the king >= 0, 100% chance if number of fanatics < 25%, otherwise 33% chance

• Politicians and bishop will schedule sermons not at 8 AM, but at 10 AM and conduct them the next day

• Loyalty sermon will distribute 150 gold to listeners, not 100

• Politician will sometimes perform Faith sermon to gain the Bishop's favor. Bishop's relation to politician > 0, Bishop is not an ally of this politician, number of fanatics < 50%, 30% chance

• If relations with Matriarch < 0, the player cannot conduct sermons

• Player can now also conduct generous Loyalty sermon

• If a character cannot walk, he cannot schedule sermons himself. If at the moment of sermon start the character is on the local map but cannot start the sermon (e.g. cannot walk), the sermon will be canceled provided that the player did not schedule this sermon himself

• During temple/altar construction, the number of potential parishioners will be displayed

• Politicians and Bishop will consider potential sermon effectiveness when choosing a building for the sermon. For example, for Loyalty sermon fanatics who cannot be converted to their loyalty will be taken into account, and for Faith sermon — the number of non-fanatics who no longer need conversion

• Characters will go to pray only to the temple or altar whose radius covers their home. If a character has no home — to the nearest one. If the home falls into the radius of more than one temple or altar, a random one will be chosen

• Bishop no longer has thoughts "Few Temples" and "No Temples"

• New menu for altars and temples, now it displays the number of parishioners in the radius and their loyalty to lords

• Altars now also have a resident-priest serving

• When determining a temple or altar for a sermon, the lord will choose the building with the maximum number of possible listeners. If listeners < 5, the sermon will not be scheduled

• Added calculation and display of the number of potential sermon listeners (residents of houses in the radius)

• Fixed a bug due to which lords conducting a sermon did not go to someone else's sermon

• Characters will not be distracted by beating characters in the pillory mask if busy with important activity (e.g. going to conduct a sermon)

• In the temple/altar menu, the status line will display information about the start time of the scheduled sermon, the sermon button will have a sermon hint

• Sermon effectiveness is now higher

• Added cooldown for conducting sermons by politicians and bishop — no more than two in a row in the same place

• Added technologies for building Temple and Stone Temple, resources changed

• Added Small Temple building

Characters and Social Mechanics

• Becoming a prisoner now clears thoughts about having money

• Wolves will no longer finish off their opponents (including lords who failed on a hunt)

• The strength of the social thought about being a bastard has been reduced to -5

• Added thought for soldiers "Was on patrol" after working as a bodyguard

• Message about a lord's death will now appear even if no one is grieving

• Event about starting a relationship with a Loving Family will now last 1 day instead of 1 hour

• Lords have been given a social thought "Population Loyalty" — it is given about other lords who have higher total loyalty of residents and soldiers; Politicians do not receive this thought; The larger the gap in total loyalty, the stronger the thought (up to +25 at 50% difference)

• Social thought "Woman on the Throne" has been removed

• Fixed a bug due to which the thought "Indecently Rich" appeared for a lord after 100 gold instead of 1000 gold

• Thought "My Favorite Politician" weakened from +25 to +10, added thought "Rival of My Favorite Politician" -10, which attaches to all other politicians

• Thought "Life Turned Out Great" has been removed

• Thought "Spent the Night Together" can no longer go below -15

• Freed prisoner will become a loyalist

• Politicians will no longer receive new thoughts "Happy Under Rule", old thoughts will remain until they fully expire

• If the criminal is caught, the victim of the crime will lose the thought that the criminal went unpunished

• Thought "My Teacher" will now stack up to 5 times instead of 3

• Added thought from eating berries, added berry sprite in characters' hands

Economy and Resources

• The amount of money a lord needs to buy a ring from a caravan merchant increased from 250 to 500

• When the player gives food to pilgrims, they now leave the city after 12 hours instead of 24

• Changed the algorithm for residents buying goods directly from the caravan merchant — now they will first wait for resources that are given to them for free and resources that have not yet been brought to the market or tavern

• Mercenaries will now receive the full hiring amount into their pocket instead of one-third

• Information about the list of affected resources in prophecies about crop failure and rat invasion will be inserted via code, not localization (thus adding missing resources like carrots to the lists)

• When marrying a lord on the global map, the bride will receive 250–400 coins in her inventory

• Amount of money lords start with will be from 450 to 500, amount for the Bishop from 700 to 1000

• Fixed the description of the "Confiscation" order and now the money goes to the treasury, not to the king

• Joy, Doubt, Loyalty sermons now cost 100 more gold and this gold will be distributed among the sermon listeners

• Changed the mechanics of donations to politicians from their followers — now followers on the local map daily give 20% of their money to the politician, leaving themselves at least 150 coins

• Removed distribution of resources to unemployed at game start

• Fixed a bug due to which buying a dog was free

• Added new resources — bloodberries (grow on bushes, can be eaten), herbal infusion (reduces pain thoughts)

• In old saves, bushes with bloodberries will be added when loading the game

• Loyalty sermon will distribute 150 gold to listeners instead of 100

• Generous Loyalty sermon will distribute 300 coins to listeners instead of 350

• Herbal infusion is now produced in the brewery. Added technology for production (unlocked at 20+ population)

• Added technologies for building Temple and Stone Temple, resources for temple construction changed

War, Security and Events

• Added problem (top flag) about marauder attack

• When a unique guest-maniac sets buildings on fire, this is considered a crime and guards will react to it

• A starving peasant when attempting to steal food will immediately become a bandit, not after successfully stealing the food. A notification will also be sent

• Added ability to send vassal armies on quests to protect from forest bandits, marauders and politician uprisings

• When marauders attack the player, the player will receive only one notification, not 3. Clicking the notification will open the global map and move the camera to the marauder squad. In the marauder attack hint it will say how much time until they reach the city. If the travel time would be less than 24 hours, the squad will stand in place for some time so that the travel time is at least 24 hours

• Fixed a bug due to which Wise Conversation did not work on the global map

• Fixed a bug due to which peasants from the player's village did not return to proxy after battle

• When attacking the player's village, defender peasants will belong to a different faction from the player's. Thus peasants will form their own separate squad and the bug will be fixed where after attacking the player's village, the player got dead peasant souls

• On loading, all lost due to bugs peasant souls in the player's city will be killed so they are not counted in resident statistics

• If AI city has aid squads from other states and an enemy attacks the city, but not the one the aid was sent against, after battle the aid squads will not return home but will continue staying in the AI city

• Death of Horde squad commander on local map will not trigger a funeral ceremony for that commander

• If the player's city has aid squads from other states and an enemy attacks the city, but not the one the aid was sent against, after battle the aid squads will not return home but will continue staying in the player's city

• Important local map events (yellow, no animation) will hide not after 1 hour, but after 3 hours

• Fixed the issue with ragged men attack

• Added problem "City Defenseless"

• New settings in the training field menu; battles on the training field now again cause light injuries and pain

• Redone the flag for problems about inflamed soldier wounds

• Added flag for problem that soldiers are deserting

• Victory in battle will no longer give loyalty to regular residents (will give only to soldiers)

• In the unhappy cultures problem and possible cultural uprising problem, only peasants and bandits will be taken into account, not all residents

• Fixed a bug due to which a fortification tower could be built so that builders could not reach it (if entrance from below and place tower right against gates from below or water)

Buildings, Construction and World

• Fixed a bug due to which carrot and turnip farm showed "Fertility: 120%" instead of 100% in the building menu header

• Fixed a bug due to which farms cost nothing, and farm names were not displayed in corresponding technologies

• Added unique sound of work at the sawmill

• Fixed crash when demolishing a farm

• If a farm is depleted but its repair was not started, enabling "Auto-fertilization" option will start the repair

• Lords without one eye and fully blind will have scars instead of eyes

• Fixed a bug due to which a character could get stuck if the building under him was deleted or moved

• Optimized rendering of construction grid during road laying, building and wall construction

• Comfort effects from neighboring buildings now affect the prisoner barrack

• Prisoner barrack now holds 6 prisoners instead of 10

• Peasant and lord residential buildings get comfort debuff when not within temple range

• Removed skill debuff when conducting sermon at altar

• Fixed rendering of lines between buildings if they are on elevation

• Fixed a bug due to which buildings on elevations had incorrect zone hiding characters when they were under the building roof

• Walls can no longer be built over stone resource

• Buildings (except patrol flags and walls) can no longer be built on river fords and rises between hill levels, as otherwise it can lead to sharp landscape leveling and its blocking

• During building construction, inaccessible cells due to stone resource there will be highlighted yellow

• Fixed a bug due to which a farm could become a decorative object

• Building relocation cost increased from 5 to 10 wood

• Updated soil color of northern lands biome

Interface, Hints and Notifications

• Fixed pig farm hint, now it displays accurate information about the number of days for pig growth

• Increased width of the "King's Ambitions" hint (top one)

• Added color differentiation for resident mood value in population hints (top left)

• Removed padding between cursor and typed text in the game save menu

• When opening the global map to show some object (e.g. clicking on player's army in bottom panel), the camera will zoom in to disable politics mode, because in politics mode objects like armies are not displayed

• In the hint of the political followers list, followers will now show not only soldier loyalty but also resident loyalty; Adjusted font style for army count of foreign followers; Foreign followers will have their faction indicated

• Fixed a bug due to which in actions in AI cities the hint explaining impossibility to send a lord on some task was not displayed

• In the king's resident and soldier loyalty hint, fixed the position of the loyalists block

• Changed the right-side event display about lord inspiration — now it lists all inspired lords

• Fixed possible crash when hovering over the icon of an assigned task in character menu that currently cannot be performed due to some conditions

• Fixed army menu freeze if there was an unequipped soldier in the list of mercenaries

• Fixed incorrect information in the hint about becoming a politician due to high persuasion skill

• Fixed a bug due to which enemies of a character might not be displayed in the important personalities panel of the character menu

• Added hint on the selected resource harvesting button in the herbalist building menu

• Removed duplicate line from talent hint explaining how to unlock this talent

• Fixed a bug due to which formatting might not work in the "Prophecy Will Soon Come True" hint (e.g. for "Xenophobia" prophecy)

• Fixed a bug due to which some icons were rendered over video

• Fixed a bug due to which a sermon assigned by an incognito guest did not disappear after the guest left the local map

• In the temple/altar menu, the status line will display information about the start time of the scheduled sermon, the sermon button will have a sermon hint assigned

• Added note in the pain hint that it can be reduced with Herbal Infusion

• Removed the "DO NOT SELL" panel from the market menu

• Added hint on the child birth event display

• Removed event display about unemployed not receiving food

• Added information about increased labor productivity in the loyalists hint

Start of Game and Generation

• Added tooltip about hovering over capitals in the new game creation menu; New order of windows before starting the game; Warning about difference between lord family culture and starting region culture

• Now every time family composition is generated, random lord appearances matching the selected culture will be generated anew

• Added local map generation at the start of a new game

• Now after starting a new game, you need to place the Hall, which will be placed instantly, and only after that all characters will be created. Pause cannot be unpaused until the Hall is placed

• At the start of a new game a new menu appears with options to place the Hall, regenerate the map and return to new game settings

• During the first Hall placement stage at new game start, resource locations will be highlighted

• Added hint on resources when choosing a province for new game start

• Now you can start the game in any province on the global map

• Fixed generation of negative and positive traits for AI lords at new game start

Fixes and Balance

• Fixed a bug where the "Loyalist" achievement could not be completed because bandits were counted as population

• Fixed a possible bug where character bodies might not be carried if they died during binding

• Loyalist-prisoner will be counted as a prisoner for the hiring system, not as a loyalist

• Fixed the issue with ragged men attack

• Fixed the functioning of the advice and problems menu

• Fixed a possible crash when hovering over the icon of an assigned task in the character menu that currently cannot be performed due to some conditions

• Fixed army menu freeze if there was an unequipped soldier in the list of mercenaries

• Fixed a bug due to which a character could get stuck if the building under him was deleted or moved

• Fixed a bug due to which a notification about not having enough paper to write a book could appear when the paper was already being carried to the library

• Fixed a bug due to which rewriting and writing new books did not work

• Fixed frequent appearance of the problem "Bishop in Rage"

• Fixed a bug due to which sex was interrupted if there was an animal in the building — wolf or dog

• Fixed a bug due to which buying a dog was free

• Experience gained from completing work with knowledge reduced by half

• Strength of thought from ignoring a political demand increased from -18 to -22

• Fixed a bug due to which a resource production task was canceled if the knowledge about the resource was public but there were no specific lords who possessed that knowledge

• Fixed a bug in the Bishop's "Conversion" order where relations were checked not with the player's ruler but with the conversion target

• Fixed multiple appearances of the message about resolving the problem "Lord's relation to king is worsening"

• If an AI city has knowledge but no carriers of that knowledge and no lords suitable by Intelligence level, the knowledge will be added to the lord with the highest Intelligence

• Thought "My Teacher" will now stack up to 5 times instead of 3

Graphics, Sound and Assets

• Updated character voice parameters

• Replaced fertile soil assets

• Added vegetation and stone assets for fords, updated bush and tree sprites

• Removed old unused building sprites

• Replaced fertile soil assets for hops

• New bush assets with berries and flowers — each biome has its own bush appearance

• Added unique sound of work at the sawmill

Miscellaneous

• Added a line to the personality traits list of AI faction characters stating that he is the player's puppet, with the idol's name shown in the hint

• Updated display of lord icons in AI cities. Lord backgrounds are now gray, and icons of selected special statuses (low loyalty, player's puppet, politician, merchant, not in city) are now displayed as a list

• No more than 3 icons will be displayed on lord portraits in AI cities. The icon indicating that the lord is not in the city (world map icon) will always be displayed last

• Added tester Sm1r to Credits

Hello everyone,

this is Dmitry.

With this patch (which once again goes to the Beta channel, and the public update will be released to the main branch in a week), we are finishing improvements to the core gameplay. Starting next week, we will move on to the long-awaited story generation features – crime and justice, aggression, intimidation, blackmail, deeper character personalities and traits, intrigues using weaknesses, and so on. In addition, in the conservative branch we continue working on new buildings and resources and are moving quickly toward climate and seasons. By the way, we have decided to bring back barracks for warriors (in one of the nearest update).

This patch solves two problems – mood management and tool transparency.

Mood management

The main problem with mood right now is that there are many tools to increase it, but first, their effects are not transparent, and second, once you solve the migration issue, these tools become mostly unnecessary. That is, they work to solve a problem, but do not work to provide advantages. To address this, we took the existing inspiration mechanic for lords, expanded it to peasants and warriors, unified everything into a single system, and significantly improved tool transparency.

Energy surges

All characters (except prisoners) who wake up happy in the morning receive an energy surge that lasts for 2 days (for lords it remains +5 to all skills for 1 day).

• For warriors this is +7 to Combat skill.

• For peasants this means +50% productivity (including construction).

Buildings now have two priorities – prisoners and energized peasants.

The ways to achieve this mood can be any. Nectar gives +50 mood (and its negative effects have been reduced). The effects from housing comfort, alcohol, and punishment spectacles have been increased. Sermons of Hope also work very well, which your king, politician, or Bishop can deliver at the temple among their followers at your request (this allows you to use their political popularity for your own purposes).

Thus, you can endlessly invest resources into the happiness of your subjects (and if migration becomes too high, it can always be disabled).

Transparency

We made the tools more transparent.

• Descriptions of alcohol, food, nectar, punishments, and sermons now provide clear data on mood bonuses during the day.

• In addition, you can now click on any object on the map and get information about it – this applies to trees, bushes, and resource deposits.

• When starting the game and choosing a location for the Hall, map entry points will also be shown.

• In the King’s Eye, you can now see the average happiness of the residents living in houses, and when selecting a church or another public building, the total amount of money owned by the residents of that building.

• In the politician interface, it is now much clearer who holds which powers.

Other stuff

• At your request, we have brought back wolves finishing off lords to death and reduced the cost of moving a building back to 5 wood.

• Also, based on your feedback, we removed the negative bonus for not having a place of prayer, serious injuries during training, and inheriting gray hair.

• We removed relationship requirements for Wise Conversation, Slander, and the Gift from a Lord. To invite another lord to your court, it is now enough to have good relations with his king (this will make it easier to collect special knowledge from the Global Map).

• Since there are now more trees, we rebalanced them, as well as the balance of bushes.

• We added another source of organic influence growth – training fighters.

• Now, when a politician gains influence comparable to that of your king, he receives the status of Contender, and only then begins to put forward demands for a change of power. The change of power itself is now much less painful.

As always, we count on your feedback and suggestions, and stay in touch – the most interesting part is just beginning.

How to switch to Beta channel

RMB on the game in Steam Library and then go to Game Versions and Betas

Full list of changes

Local Map

• When loading an old save without berry bushes and Stone, these resources will now appear on the map and will not overlap

• Fixed an issue where resource bushes were generated in very small clusters; they now generate in larger patches

• Added entry point indicators to provinces in the map preview after starting a new game and before the Hall is built

• Increased the number of harvested bushes that regenerate each day

• Berries on bushes are now less bright

• Chopped trees are now harvested faster, but yield less Wood

• Fixed saving of map entry points to file; entry points are now calculated only during map generation or when loading old saves

• Removed old tree assets; when loading old saves, trees are now replaced with new ones

• Trees, stone clusters, bushes, and hop fields are now clickable and open a menu

• Trees now grow 1 unit every 10 hours instead of 5 units every 50 hours

• Improved resource distribution during map generation

• Reduced the chance of generating maps with a long hill that has a passage on one side

• Tightened map generation rules to ensure sufficient accessible space for the player

• Dry trees no longer grow in place of chopped trees

• Minor adjustments to lake and mountain size and count in the local map generator

• Tutorial is available again; replaced the tutorial local map

• Added edge blockers on the local map; they are applied at the start of a new game (e.g., in Turnow the right and top edges are blocked)

AI

• Pack wolves will finish off their opponents in combat again

• Bandits now gain a positive “Crime in the City” thought after committing a crime instead of a negative one

• Fixed an issue where combat did not end after three guard strikes on a fleeing prisoner or bandit, as each guard calculated its own three strikes; only one guard now engages a fleeing prisoner, the fight ends in one hit, and guards use weapons

• Residents no longer idle around the Hall; for social relaxation and drinking alcohol (if no Taverns are available), they now choose squares, including the Hall square

• Homeless residents no longer attend sermons

Characters

• If a lord has a desire to visit a grave, this activity now has higher priority

• A lord who trained soldiers on the Training Field now has a 10% chance to gain loyalty from those soldiers

• Gray hair color is no longer inherited by children

• During training fights, soldiers now receive only light bruises and minor injuries

• Prisoners can no longer have loyalty to lords and therefore cannot be Loyalists or Fanatics

• Loyalists no longer have a productivity bonus

• Peasants gain the “Energetic” trait at 8:00 AM and after a sermon if their mood is ≥75

• Set the duration of thoughts for transferring the ruler’s crown and heir crown to 5 days; a lord receiving the crown now gains a positive thought

• Politicians, player lord puppets, and politician followers no longer leave the player faction due to −50 relations with the ruler; a notification is shown if a lord leaves a province

• Reduced experience gained from the “Training” order so children cannot reach skill level 14+ while growing up

• Nectar no longer increases movement speed, inspection speed, or skills; addiction chance reduced to 10%; addiction ends 3 days after stopping use

• Lord inspiration no longer expires early if the lord goes to sleep or their mood drops

• Soldiers can now also become Energetic; for them this provides a combat skill bonus

• Individual worker productivity now also affects construction speed

• Hunting (10:00–20:00) and walks/drinking (10:00–23:00) now have time limits

• Removed required relation threshold for “Gift from Lord”, “Gift from Neighbor”, “Slander”, and “Wise Conversation” orders

GUI

• Updated the politician support hint: personal support from population and army is shown first, followed by allies and their support; total population support is shown at the bottom

• Added a line showing ruler support percentage to the politician support hint

• Added mood change values to food and alcohol tooltips

• Added the number of Energetic peasants to the residents hint in the top panel

• Added a hint to the new heir event display

• Reordered skills in the menu to match training categories

• Updated the info panel above residential buildings in King’s Eye mode: shows average resident mood and composition (soldiers, peasants, Energetic)

• Updated the info panel above production buildings: worker icons are larger, Energetic workers are displayed

• Reworked the resident tooltip in houses: mood and culture are now shown with icons

• In King’s Eye mode, production buildings show a Zzz icon for inactive buildings

• Buildings under construction now display a “missing resources” icon above them and a special status in the build menu if there are insufficient materials to finish the project

• When selecting service buildings (Market, Tavern, etc.), residential buildings display resident money and comfort

• Updated resource area icons and context menu on the local map

• The top lords panel now shows technology research progress percentage next to the assigned task icon

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where a city was not burned to the ground if the executing army was located on the same tile as the AI city

• Fixed an issue where the Nectar resource was missing from the statistics menu

• Fixed an issue where player soldiers could repeatedly go to sleep and wake up during the day

• Fixed an issue where flower bushes did not appear when loading a save

• Fixed fertile land indicators when constructing farms

• Fixed completion of a conspiracy that involved a fight to the death

• Fixed an issue where maps were generated with the same seed

• Fixed an issue where the negative comfort issue flag in residential buildings also affected prisoner barracks

• Fixed game start in the Prisoner scenario

• Fixed an issue with a construction marker that did not disappear in the build menu

• Fixed an issue where the pain relief effect was infinite

• Fixed inverted character references in the relationship tooltip

• Fixed an issue where dead peasants and soldiers could be assigned to houses

• Fixed an issue where action tasks on the global map could be completed instantly

• Fixed bush sprites breaking during map generation with rivers

• Fixed header text wrapping in the Training Field menu

• Fixed the issue “Monogamous characters are suffering” appearing and resolving repeatedly

• Fixed an issue where a rebellion warning event could appear for a culture that had no residents

• Fixed trees on manual battle maps on the global map

• Fixed credits not starting after victory

Misc

• Reduced building relocation cost from 10 to 7 Wood

• Changed Ale technology availability requirement from 20 to 40 population

• Added the “War Consequences” problem flag

• Removed “Approval Sermon” and “Joy Sermon”; added “Hope Sermon” (increases mood, only for followers)

• Reworked the worker type assignment menu and filters in buildings

• Added a “Trade” building category (Market, Den, Tavern)

• Doubled the thought strength from Meat and berries; doubled alcohol thought duration

• Increased comfort from religious buildings by +4

• Removed “No place to pray nearby” thought

• Building upgrades can no longer be started without sufficient resources

• Relocating a residential building now preserves the “Priority for Warriors” option state

Hi everyone, this is Dmitry.

We're back after the winter break with the feature we've been working on since August — map generation. Besides that, in this update we've significantly improved public politics, added new buildings and resources, and overall made 259 improvements of various kinds.

There are a lot of changes, so it's better to start from the beginning. For the same reason, we're releasing the patch to the beta channel — some things might work strangely.

To switch to the beta branch, right-click the game name in your Steam library, select Properties, and choose the Betas tab.

And as usual, we'll be glad to hear your feedback.

In the coming weeks we'll focus on developing character traits, the justice system, and climate.

Let's start with the biggest one.

Map Generation

Now you can start the game in any province of the global map. Each province has defined settings based on which the map will be generated. These settings include resources, biome type (it will matter later, once we implement climate), hilliness, and landscape complexity.

We've redrawn trees and bushes, fields, added rivers and fords with water lilies.

Before starting the game, you'll be able to inspect the map generated by the system (resources will be marked on it), and if you don't like it — regenerate it from scratch.

New Resources

Added Bloodberries — tasty food that can be gathered in the forest using the Herbalist.

From bloodberries you can brew Herbal Infusion (or maybe better to call it "berry" one?), which relieves pain. At the same time, we brought back receiving injuries during training so that growing free soldiers wouldn't be so easy.

Public Politics

Lord-politicians will no longer spend money on bribing other lords (we'll develop a different mechanic for that), but they will spend money on sermons. On the other hand, their followers and unfriendly neighbors will regularly donate money to them.

They will distribute this money to listeners during the sermon, strengthening their influence among them. Internal trade has become even more relevant.

Gradually politicians will start putting forward various political demands, up to demanding to make them heir, and later to hand over the crown to them.

We also added organic sources of popularity among lords — for example, workers will become followers of the manager-lord.

Lords will improve their attitude toward those who have many followers among peasants and warriors, thus politicians' popularity will also become more organic.

Overall, there are many changes, but the main thing is that politicians will now really fight for influence, and when it equals the influence of your king — they will start demanding power.

Parishes

We removed the thoughts that were given to peasants depending on the distance to their workplaces. Instead, the organization of the city will now be built based on church parishes.

For residents (and prisoners) it will be important to live within the range of the temple (let's imagine it's the radius of hearing its bell), and only these residents will come to sermons.

At the same time, we increased the effect of these sermons, so if you need efficient loyalists in production, you'll have to fight for them.

If a politician decides to fight for the Bishop's loyalty, he will conduct sermons of faith.

By the way, we added a wooden temple, whose range of effect (and therefore parish) will be larger than that of the altar, and the stone temple (unlocked later) — larger than that of the wooden temple.

Feedback Implementation

A lot of changes were made based on your feedback. From the most noticeable:

• Lords on the global map now almost always possess special knowledge, which can be extracted through Wise Conversation.

• Vassal armies can be sent on various tasks like protection from marauders, politician uprisings, etc.

• When a unique guest-maniac sets buildings on fire, this is considered a crime and guards will react to it

• Wolves will no longer finish off their opponents (incl. lords who failed on a hunt)

• Social thought "Woman on the Throne" has been removed

• Freed prisoner will become a loyalist

That's it, leaving you with the list of changes. New patches will come out more often (with this one we just waited a long time and debugged generation).

Full List of Changes

Politics and Power

• Conspiracies against lesser lords are now allowed

• Fixed the marriage issue — it will now be checked when granting or revoking a title

• Probability of neighbors bribing a politician increased from 25% to 50% per day

• The player's politicians can now also be bribed by the player's vassals or suzerain if their relation is < 0

• Unfriendly neighbors will bribe the player's politicians for 400 coins instead of 250

• Importance of the event "New Political Demand" raised from normal to important

• For determining the danger of a military conspiracy, the total % of loyal troops of the politician and his followers will be used, not just his personal one

• When participating in riots, a resident will not attack residents loyal to the same politician (even if they are directly loyal to different lords, but those lords are under the influence of the same politician)

• In the politician's menu, the % of population support will now be displayed taking into account follower-lords of this politician who “pass on” their % support to him; hints for population and soldier support will also show additional information about this

• To politicians' sermons (Approval, Riots) will come residents who are loyal to a lord under this politician's influence (i.e. his follower); these same residents will participate in riots if organized by the politician; in the resident's menu near the portrait of the lord they are loyal to, the portrait of the politician who influenced that lord will be displayed

• Fixed a bug due to which the player could cancel a politician's sermon by assigning that politician to another sermon in a different temple/altar, although canceling sermons that politicians assigned themselves should not be possible

• In the politician's menu it will now display not the number of followers, but the total percentage of population and army support, including the support of his followers; in the followers hint the total army and residents support considering all followers will also be written

• Politicians will no longer give money to their future follower-lords

• The "Flattery" order has been removed, politicians will also no longer flatter followers

• Fixed a bug due to which actors bribing politicians or bandits for dark deeds would immediately leave the player's city if their faction's relation to the player was -25 or lower

• Fixed a bug due to which the message "New Political Demand" appeared together with "New Obsession"

• Fixed a bug due to which the player's politician could try to force an already dead lord to donate money to him

• Immediately after a neighbor bribes a politician, the politician will gain a desire to make peace with that politician if the conditions are met (-15 relations or lower)

• Instead of the lord with the highest number of knowledges, a politician will become the lord with the highest level of the "Persuasion" skill (if above 6); such a politician can appear in the city if there are no other politicians in it except the player's king

• The "Praise Neighbor" action on the global map has been replaced with "Gift from Neighbor", now you need to pay money and the price increases each time

• The list of lords in the "WHO?" category in the orders "Praise", "Conciliatory Gift", "Slander" will be sorted by faction so that lords from the player's faction are displayed first

• Political demands for change of power will have priority over other desires with high priority

• A lord who has declared a political demand for change of power cannot be sent to the global map until the demand is fulfilled or ignored

• If the target of the politician's uprising or the uprising conspirator leaves the player's faction, the uprising is canceled

• If a soldier is loyal to a lord preparing an uprising, or to a politician of whom that lord is a follower, such a soldier or lord cannot be added to an army or dismissed

• When ignoring or fulfilling a political demand for change of power, a screen event will be displayed; with each ignoring of such a demand the politician will behave more aggressively

• Politicians have been given power change desires — “make me heir”, “make me king”

• Changed the mechanics of donations to politicians from their followers — now followers on the local map daily give 20% of their money to the politician, leaving themselves a minimum of 150 coins

• When performing the "Transfer the Crown" action, the line of succession will not change — the heir will remain the same

• Fixed an error that occurred if a lord-follower of a politician was stripped of his title and made a knight

• Added notification that a lord has ceased to be a politician's ally

• Notification that someone has become a politician's ally is now displayed on the right, not at the top

• Politicians no longer receive an experience bonus

• The player can no longer conduct Sermon of Approval; the technology has been removed from the game

• Fixed a bug due to which a message about a political follower could appear before politics was unlocked

• Added political demand — offering to a king-ally of the politician, if that king has relation worse than 0 to the player's king

• Added desire for the politician "Reward his ally"

• New politician demand — remove vassal tax from his ally-vassal

• Politicians will not be expelled from AI cities by a random event with 0.5% chance

• Desire will first be received by the lord who has a possible desire with high priority

• The heir will not become a politician, but if a politician became the heir, he does not stop being a politician

• The politician will escalate the consequences of ignoring demands only if his relation to the ruler is < +25

• A politician now requires 0.9x support instead of 1.2x to put forward power change demands

Religion and Sermons

• Bishop's Persuasion and Teaching skill will be from 9 to 15

• The "Diplomat" talent has been reworked, now it boosts the effect of Loyalty and Approval sermons by 50%

• Only fanatics will receive the bad thought "King is cursed by the Matriarch" when relations with the Matriarch are bad

• Politicians will conduct Approval sermon also in cases if they woke up Inspired or if the politician has good (25+) relation to the player's ruler and the player lost a battle somewhere on the global map or local map (for local map defeat it counts that the enemy attacked, achieved their goals and left the map)

• Doubt sermon no longer requires technology research

• In hints of sermons affected by the Orator talent (former Diplomat talent), the strength of received thoughts will be displayed already with the bonus

• Joy, Doubt, Loyalty sermons now cost 100 more gold and this gold will be distributed among the sermon listeners

• If a politician has > 1000 gold, the politician will conduct a Loyalty sermon 2 times more effective, distributing 350 gold to listeners instead of 100

• Bishop will conduct Faith sermon even if his relation to the king >= 0, 100% chance if number of fanatics < 25%, otherwise 33% chance

• Politicians and bishop will schedule sermons not at 8 AM, but at 10 AM and conduct them the next day

• Loyalty sermon will distribute 150 gold to listeners, not 100

• Politician will sometimes perform Faith sermon to gain the Bishop's favor. Bishop's relation to politician > 0, Bishop is not an ally of this politician, number of fanatics < 50%, 30% chance

• If relations with Matriarch < 0, the player cannot conduct sermons

• Player can now also conduct generous Loyalty sermon

• If a character cannot walk, he cannot schedule sermons himself. If at the moment of sermon start the character is on the local map but cannot start the sermon (e.g. cannot walk), the sermon will be canceled provided that the player did not schedule this sermon himself

• During temple/altar construction, the number of potential parishioners will be displayed

• Politicians and Bishop will consider potential sermon effectiveness when choosing a building for the sermon. For example, for Loyalty sermon fanatics who cannot be converted to their loyalty will be taken into account, and for Faith sermon — the number of non-fanatics who no longer need conversion

• Characters will go to pray only to the temple or altar whose radius covers their home. If a character has no home — to the nearest one. If the home falls into the radius of more than one temple or altar, a random one will be chosen

• Bishop no longer has thoughts "Few Temples" and "No Temples"

• New menu for altars and temples, now it displays the number of parishioners in the radius and their loyalty to lords

• Altars now also have a resident-priest serving

• When determining a temple or altar for a sermon, the lord will choose the building with the maximum number of possible listeners. If listeners < 5, the sermon will not be scheduled

• Added calculation and display of the number of potential sermon listeners (residents of houses in the radius)

• Fixed a bug due to which lords conducting a sermon did not go to someone else's sermon

• Characters will not be distracted by beating characters in the pillory mask if busy with important activity (e.g. going to conduct a sermon)

• In the temple/altar menu, the status line will display information about the start time of the scheduled sermon, the sermon button will have a sermon hint

• Sermon effectiveness is now higher

• Added cooldown for conducting sermons by politicians and bishop — no more than two in a row in the same place

• Added technologies for building Temple and Stone Temple, resources changed

• Added Small Temple building

Characters and Social Mechanics

• Becoming a prisoner now clears thoughts about having money

• Wolves will no longer finish off their opponents (including lords who failed on a hunt)

• The strength of the social thought about being a bastard has been reduced to -5

• Added thought for soldiers "Was on patrol" after working as a bodyguard

• Message about a lord's death will now appear even if no one is grieving

• Event about starting a relationship with a Loving Family will now last 1 day instead of 1 hour

• Lords have been given a social thought "Population Loyalty" — it is given about other lords who have higher total loyalty of residents and soldiers; Politicians do not receive this thought; The larger the gap in total loyalty, the stronger the thought (up to +25 at 50% difference)

• Social thought "Woman on the Throne" has been removed

• Fixed a bug due to which the thought "Indecently Rich" appeared for a lord after 100 gold instead of 1000 gold

• Thought "My Favorite Politician" weakened from +25 to +10, added thought "Rival of My Favorite Politician" -10, which attaches to all other politicians

• Thought "Life Turned Out Great" has been removed

• Thought "Spent the Night Together" can no longer go below -15

• Freed prisoner will become a loyalist

• Politicians will no longer receive new thoughts "Happy Under Rule", old thoughts will remain until they fully expire

• If the criminal is caught, the victim of the crime will lose the thought that the criminal went unpunished

• Thought "My Teacher" will now stack up to 5 times instead of 3

• Added thought from eating berries, added berry sprite in characters' hands

Economy and Resources

• The amount of money a lord needs to buy a ring from a caravan merchant increased from 250 to 500

• When the player gives food to pilgrims, they now leave the city after 12 hours instead of 24

• Changed the algorithm for residents buying goods directly from the caravan merchant — now they will first wait for resources that are given to them for free and resources that have not yet been brought to the market or tavern

• Mercenaries will now receive the full hiring amount into their pocket instead of one-third

• Information about the list of affected resources in prophecies about crop failure and rat invasion will be inserted via code, not localization (thus adding missing resources like carrots to the lists)

• When marrying a lord on the global map, the bride will receive 250–400 coins in her inventory

• Amount of money lords start with will be from 450 to 500, amount for the Bishop from 700 to 1000

• Fixed the description of the "Confiscation" order and now the money goes to the treasury, not to the king

• Joy, Doubt, Loyalty sermons now cost 100 more gold and this gold will be distributed among the sermon listeners

• Changed the mechanics of donations to politicians from their followers — now followers on the local map daily give 20% of their money to the politician, leaving themselves at least 150 coins

• Removed distribution of resources to unemployed at game start

• Fixed a bug due to which buying a dog was free

• Added new resources — bloodberries (grow on bushes, can be eaten), herbal infusion (reduces pain thoughts)

• In old saves, bushes with bloodberries will be added when loading the game

• Loyalty sermon will distribute 150 gold to listeners instead of 100

• Generous Loyalty sermon will distribute 300 coins to listeners instead of 350

• Herbal infusion is now produced in the brewery. Added technology for production (unlocked at 20+ population)

• Added technologies for building Temple and Stone Temple, resources for temple construction changed

War, Security and Events

• Added problem (top flag) about marauder attack

• When a unique guest-maniac sets buildings on fire, this is considered a crime and guards will react to it

• A starving peasant when attempting to steal food will immediately become a bandit, not after successfully stealing the food. A notification will also be sent

• Added ability to send vassal armies on quests to protect from forest bandits, marauders and politician uprisings

• When marauders attack the player, the player will receive only one notification, not 3. Clicking the notification will open the global map and move the camera to the marauder squad. In the marauder attack hint it will say how much time until they reach the city. If the travel time would be less than 24 hours, the squad will stand in place for some time so that the travel time is at least 24 hours

• Fixed a bug due to which Wise Conversation did not work on the global map

• Fixed a bug due to which peasants from the player's village did not return to proxy after battle

• When attacking the player's village, defender peasants will belong to a different faction from the player's. Thus peasants will form their own separate squad and the bug will be fixed where after attacking the player's village, the player got dead peasant souls

• On loading, all lost due to bugs peasant souls in the player's city will be killed so they are not counted in resident statistics

• If AI city has aid squads from other states and an enemy attacks the city, but not the one the aid was sent against, after battle the aid squads will not return home but will continue staying in the AI city

• Death of Horde squad commander on local map will not trigger a funeral ceremony for that commander

• If the player's city has aid squads from other states and an enemy attacks the city, but not the one the aid was sent against, after battle the aid squads will not return home but will continue staying in the player's city

• Important local map events (yellow, no animation) will hide not after 1 hour, but after 3 hours

• Fixed the issue with ragged men attack

• Added problem "City Defenseless"

• New settings in the training field menu; battles on the training field now again cause light injuries and pain

• Redone the flag for problems about inflamed soldier wounds

• Added flag for problem that soldiers are deserting

• Victory in battle will no longer give loyalty to regular residents (will give only to soldiers)

• In the unhappy cultures problem and possible cultural uprising problem, only peasants and bandits will be taken into account, not all residents

• Fixed a bug due to which a fortification tower could be built so that builders could not reach it (if entrance from below and place tower right against gates from below or water)

Buildings, Construction and World

• Fixed a bug due to which carrot and turnip farm showed "Fertility: 120%" instead of 100% in the building menu header

• Fixed a bug due to which farms cost nothing, and farm names were not displayed in corresponding technologies

• Added unique sound of work at the sawmill

• Fixed crash when demolishing a farm

• If a farm is depleted but its repair was not started, enabling "Auto-fertilization" option will start the repair

• Lords without one eye and fully blind will have scars instead of eyes

• Fixed a bug due to which a character could get stuck if the building under him was deleted or moved

• Optimized rendering of construction grid during road laying, building and wall construction

• Comfort effects from neighboring buildings now affect the prisoner barrack

• Prisoner barrack now holds 6 prisoners instead of 10

• Peasant and lord residential buildings get comfort debuff when not within temple range

• Removed skill debuff when conducting sermon at altar

• Fixed rendering of lines between buildings if they are on elevation

• Fixed a bug due to which buildings on elevations had incorrect zone hiding characters when they were under the building roof

• Walls can no longer be built over stone resource

• Buildings (except patrol flags and walls) can no longer be built on river fords and rises between hill levels, as otherwise it can lead to sharp landscape leveling and its blocking

• During building construction, inaccessible cells due to stone resource there will be highlighted yellow

• Fixed a bug due to which a farm could become a decorative object

• Building relocation cost increased from 5 to 10 wood

• Updated soil color of northern lands biome

Interface, Hints and Notifications

• Fixed pig farm hint, now it displays accurate information about the number of days for pig growth

• Increased width of the "King's Ambitions" hint (top one)

• Added color differentiation for resident mood value in population hints (top left)

• Removed padding between cursor and typed text in the game save menu

• When opening the global map to show some object (e.g. clicking on player's army in bottom panel), the camera will zoom in to disable politics mode, because in politics mode objects like armies are not displayed

• In the hint of the political followers list, followers will now show not only soldier loyalty but also resident loyalty; Adjusted font style for army count of foreign followers; Foreign followers will have their faction indicated

• Fixed a bug due to which in actions in AI cities the hint explaining impossibility to send a lord on some task was not displayed

• In the king's resident and soldier loyalty hint, fixed the position of the loyalists block

• Changed the right-side event display about lord inspiration — now it lists all inspired lords

• Fixed possible crash when hovering over the icon of an assigned task in character menu that currently cannot be performed due to some conditions

• Fixed army menu freeze if there was an unequipped soldier in the list of mercenaries

• Fixed incorrect information in the hint about becoming a politician due to high persuasion skill

• Fixed a bug due to which enemies of a character might not be displayed in the important personalities panel of the character menu

• Added hint on the selected resource harvesting button in the herbalist building menu

• Removed duplicate line from talent hint explaining how to unlock this talent

• Fixed a bug due to which formatting might not work in the "Prophecy Will Soon Come True" hint (e.g. for "Xenophobia" prophecy)

• Fixed a bug due to which some icons were rendered over video

• Fixed a bug due to which a sermon assigned by an incognito guest did not disappear after the guest left the local map

• In the temple/altar menu, the status line will display information about the start time of the scheduled sermon, the sermon button will have a sermon hint assigned

• Added note in the pain hint that it can be reduced with Herbal Infusion

• Removed the "DO NOT SELL" panel from the market menu

• Added hint on the child birth event display

• Removed event display about unemployed not receiving food

• Added information about increased labor productivity in the loyalists hint

Start of Game and Generation

• Added tooltip about hovering over capitals in the new game creation menu; New order of windows before starting the game; Warning about difference between lord family culture and starting region culture

• Now every time family composition is generated, random lord appearances matching the selected culture will be generated anew

• Added local map generation at the start of a new game

• Now after starting a new game, you need to place the Hall, which will be placed instantly, and only after that all characters will be created. Pause cannot be unpaused until the Hall is placed

• At the start of a new game a new menu appears with options to place the Hall, regenerate the map and return to new game settings

• During the first Hall placement stage at new game start, resource locations will be highlighted

• Added hint on resources when choosing a province for new game start

• Now you can start the game in any province on the global map

• Fixed generation of negative and positive traits for AI lords at new game start

Fixes and Balance

• Fixed a bug where the "Loyalist" achievement could not be completed because bandits were counted as population

• Fixed a possible bug where character bodies might not be carried if they died during binding

• Loyalist-prisoner will be counted as a prisoner for the hiring system, not as a loyalist

• Fixed the issue with ragged men attack

• Fixed the functioning of the advice and problems menu

• Fixed a possible crash when hovering over the icon of an assigned task in the character menu that currently cannot be performed due to some conditions

• Fixed army menu freeze if there was an unequipped soldier in the list of mercenaries

• Fixed a bug due to which a character could get stuck if the building under him was deleted or moved

• Fixed a bug due to which a notification about not having enough paper to write a book could appear when the paper was already being carried to the library

• Fixed a bug due to which rewriting and writing new books did not work

• Fixed frequent appearance of the problem "Bishop in Rage"

• Fixed a bug due to which sex was interrupted if there was an animal in the building — wolf or dog

• Fixed a bug due to which buying a dog was free

• Experience gained from completing work with knowledge reduced by half

• Strength of thought from ignoring a political demand increased from -18 to -22

• Fixed a bug due to which a resource production task was canceled if the knowledge about the resource was public but there were no specific lords who possessed that knowledge

• Fixed a bug in the Bishop's "Conversion" order where relations were checked not with the player's ruler but with the conversion target

• Fixed multiple appearances of the message about resolving the problem "Lord's relation to king is worsening"

• If an AI city has knowledge but no carriers of that knowledge and no lords suitable by Intelligence level, the knowledge will be added to the lord with the highest Intelligence

• Thought "My Teacher" will now stack up to 5 times instead of 3

Graphics, Sound and Assets

• Updated character voice parameters

• Replaced fertile soil assets

• Added vegetation and stone assets for fords, updated bush and tree sprites

• Removed old unused building sprites

• Replaced fertile soil assets for hops

• New bush assets with berries and flowers — each biome has its own bush appearance

• Added unique sound of work at the sawmill

Miscellaneous

• Added a line to the personality traits list of AI faction characters stating that he is the player's puppet, with the idol's name shown in the hint

• Updated display of lord icons in AI cities. Lord backgrounds are now gray, and icons of selected special statuses (low loyalty, player's puppet, politician, merchant, not in city) are now displayed as a list

• No more than 3 icons will be displayed on lord portraits in AI cities. The icon indicating that the lord is not in the city (world map icon) will always be displayed last

• Added tester Sm1r to Credits

Hey guys, Dmitry is here.

Below, I will talk about the challenges facing the game's design and how we plan to address them.

But first, I would like to thank everyone for their support. It's not easy to develop experimental complex games these days, given the increased quality expectations from the audience. Conducting experiments while maintaining the required level of quality is a non-trivial task that would be impossible without the constant support and feedback from our wonderful community. Thank you - we will continue creating interesting new features (even if they don't always work as intended right away, but that's part of the invention process).

So.

At the moment, we are planning to exit Early Access around summer 2027, giving us roughly one and a half years of development to create the envisioned gameplay experience. After that, we will expand it both through adding a modding system and through our own updates.

Of course, all of this is very tentative - the Early Access exit date may be postponed, some items on this list will be implemented differently, and so on. So please don't take this as a promise - these are approximate plans. I'm sharing them to hear your ideas and feedback.

Over the past year, we have formed a fairly clear vision of the game's final form, and now we will focus on three strategic directions that, in our opinion, the game needs the most.

Hello everyone,

...and a few more fixes — sorry, we just can’t stop.

Though we do feel a bit bad about the dog.

List of changes:

• Fixed a crash where the game could crash for some players immediately after the intro on startup

• Fixed a bug where sex was interrupted if an animal (wolf or dog) was present in the building

• Fixed a bug where the notification about missing Paper for writing a book could appear while Paper was already being carried to the Library

• Fixed a bug where rewriting and writing new books did not work

• Fixed a bug where a tooltip could freeze in the trade menu

Hello everyone,

Before heading off for the winter holidays, we would like to fix several unpleasant bugs that were discovered in the main branch.

A large and exciting update is planned for the second half of January.

In the meantime, we wish everyone a happy upcoming New Year!

(And as gifts, we gladly accept your reviews on the game’s store page and your feedback on our Discord!)

List of fixes:

• Fixed an issue related to ragged ones attacking

• Fixed the behavior of the advice and issues menu

• Fixed a possible crash when hovering over an assigned task icon in the character menu if the task cannot currently be performed due to certain conditions

• Fixed the army menu freezing when a weaponless soldier appeared in the mercenaries list

• Fixed an error that occurred when stripping a politician’s follower-lord of their title and turning them into a knight

Hey guys,

This was a large patch, so we tried to fix the inevitably arising issues and bugs as quickly as possible.

Thanks everyone for the reports — we’re still investigating some of the cases.

Things should be better now:

• Fixed a crash in old saves where a resource production was running that had been moved to another building (e.g., Bows and Crossbows)

• Added a marker button with a hint to the global map city menu explaining how relations with neighbors work

• Politicians will no longer get desires to kill an enemy, as they have access to conspiracies

• A lord will no longer try to kill a lord who is not on the local map; lords will not get revenge desires toward enemies not on the local map

• Fixed a bug where thoughts about long or short distance to the workplace did not disappear after dismissal

• Personality traits list in the second tab of the character menu now shows icons for traits that have them

• The “Conqueror” trait is now shown in red in the lord hint; icons added for some personality traits

• If a vassal or ally is attacked with a goal that can change borders (destruction, conquest, forced neutrality), they will always request help from their liege or alliance leader, even if they believe they can defend themselves

• Restored population requirement info in cultural technology hints in the technology menu for when they appear at the trader

• Fixed a bug where the highlight on the required book did not appear in the caravan trade tutorial

• Reduced marauder attack frequency

• The “Military Logistics” technology is now a general technology instead of a Varn cultural technology

• Fixed a bug where dialogue bubbles were visible while the global map was open (if they were near the top-left of the map)

• Burning a wolf now yields 3 Meat instead of 7