Of Life and Land news & patch notes

Hey settlers 👋

This update focuses on balancing, small improvements, and a few important fixes to keep your settlements running smoothly. 🛠️ Patch Notes

• The Apothecary will now also track the soap it has created.

• The community center now also pushes excess material to the public inventory during long reallocation or map discoveries.

• Fixed an issue where the soap recipe used too much resources to craft one item.

• The item history can now store twice as many items to accurately display the history for super-efficient villages.

• Buffed the Fruit tree.

• Made the construction description of the Guild House more clear what its purpose is.

• Fixed a extremely rare race condition that could cause the game to crash if a walking path was written while the job was being terminated and memory synchronization had not yet been fully completed.

• Fixed an issue when there were multiple market places on one map, and the main market place was deconstructed while the stocktaking update was running.

We've also chosen some new colors for our new game, If Red Then Stop. Feel free to check it out and add it to your wishlist. That would really help us out. 💛

See you in the village! Your Team Kerzoven 🥰

Hey settlers 👋 This update focuses on improving trading, market behavior, and faction takeovers, making large-scale commerce smoother and more impactful. Especially in the mid and late game. Trading is now faster, smarter, and better balanced when factions join you, while marketplaces can handle much higher volumes than before. 🍣 Metaroot Game Celebration Of Life and Land is part of the Metaroot Game Celebration and currently available with a 50% discount on Steam! 👉 https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/Metaroot/sale/metarootgamecelebrationfeb {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41146497/c0455e94fe7ab297da7a93507108b5cc0b40e878.png

This is a great opportunity to get the game or gift it to a friend. 🛠️ Patch Notes

• Joining factions now bring their wealth with them

• Marketplace settings of joining factions are reset to avoid accidental spending

• Duplicate marketplaces are removed if you already own one

• Your existing community center or guild house has priority when factions merge

• Market transactions now happen much more frequently with more merchants

• Trading is processed faster overall

• New carry capacity upgrade for the marketplace

• Trade log history has been extended

• Merchants now choose resource sources more intelligently

• Construction UI hint added: hold ALT or CTRL to paint large plant areas

• Building preview selection is now mixed to better show available variations

• Winery now produces three times larger bottles, making wine a strong late-game option

Thanks for all your feedback and support! It helps us keep improving Of Life and Land. 💚

Happy trading and see you in the village!

Your Team Kerzoven 🥰

Hey settlers 👋

This small update addresses a crash with the guild house if there was no path. Additionally, we unlocked all mystical places in the editor.

Patch Notes:

• Fixed an issue where a locked-in student could crash the game if a path to the guild house and his home could not be found repeatedly.

• Enabled to build Vulcanos, the Ancient Tropical Tree, Hot Springs and Moon Lilies in the editor.

Thanks again for your support and bug reports 💚

Your Team Kerzoven 🥰

• Biberstein's political requests are now easier, especially when expanding west
• Tutorial now helps you reach the desert and unlock trading with Hochdorf for copper
• Better achievement descriptions for "Prince in peril" and "A noble cause"
• Faction animals now have a different color on the minimap 🐄
• Various text, UI and localization fixes
• Slightly improved fish baiting chance 🎣

• Balanced the political requests of Biberstein in the Kerzoven-C scenario. It is now easier to expand to the west.
• Improved the tutorial in the Kerzoven-C Scenario, guiding more how to pass Biberstein to get to the desert.
• Using the specific faction partner target to make it clear you need to unlock trading with Hochdorf to be able to buy copper.
• Fixed a typo in the bloomery upgrade: You save two coal, but the text only indicated that you would save one.
• Made it more clear that the "Prince in peril" and "A noble cause" achievement are in the Kerzoven scenario.
• Improved the default in-game window position.
• Fixed a missing tile in the mountains map.
• Fixed an issue where the upgrade target description in the item usage UI was not fully localized for the community centre and fishery.
• Faction animals are now marked on the mini-map with a different color than wild animals.
• Fixed an issue where the healing bathhouse could not be used if other buildings were not present.
• Slightly increased the chance that pikes take bait from the fishery or fishing place.

Hey settlers 👋 The Steam Awards are just around the corner. We would be super happy if you would nominate Of Life and Land for the “Most Innovative Gameplay” Award.

Cheers and a big thank you, Your Team Kerzoven 🥰

Hey settlers 👋 This small update improves early game guidance and food balancing based on your feedback. Patch Notes:

• The low food warning is not shown until the first few buildings are built in a new scenario to make it more meaningful and to not overwhelm new players.

• The low food warning can now be clicked where you get additional information about it and what you can do against it.

• Balanced when the low food warning is visible to get better guidance.

• Using a more realistic sprout weight for the set calories.

• Balancing: Slightly increased the size of fruits, vegetables and mushrooms = more calories per item.

• Added more info to food and drink items, allowing them to be compared better with each other.

Your Team Kerzoven 🥰

Hey settlers 👋

We’ve given the stone walls a visual upgrade and polished up several systems based on your feedback.

This update also improves the building UI, resource behavior, and fixes multiple rare crashes — making Of Life and Land even more stable and satisfying to play.

📋 Patch Notes:

• Finally improved the visuals for the stone wall.

• The setting to disable hover markings now also consistently disables the hover markings when building new things.

• Construction sites can now show the range information of the finished building as well.

• I mproved the way people select where to get the resource from by improving the human bias cutoff for larger stocks.

• Fixed an extremely rare crash where a lock statement did not lead to a full memory barrier for the critical variables at initialization time.

• Fixed an extremely rare issue where a saving thread could start its work too early and access uninitialized data.

• Fixed a rare crash when the text for a person's faction need is created at the same time as this person dies.

• Fixed a crash when a person's faith needs info was inspected when the person just has died.

• Fixed a rare crash when a person was just thrown out of a faction while wondering if there are monumental buildings in the faction.

Thanks again for your support and bug reports 💚

Your Team Kerzoven 🥰

Hey settlers 👋

We just released a new starting map for the Lenzburg scenario! 🏰 Many of you enjoyed building around Lenzburg Castle. So we’ve made the iconic fortress more central and adjusted the resource layout around it. Time to rediscover the region in a fresh way!

This update also includes gameplay improvements, UI fixes, and new options in production buildings . Full patch notes below. 👇

💚 And Of Life and Land is currently 50% off on Steam!

This is our biggest discount ever, so it’s a perfect time to grab the game or gift it to a friend!

👀 But that’s not all…

🌟 REVEALING OUR NEXT GAME 🌟

You know that moment when you’re stuck in traffic and think, “Why is this light still red? 🤬” Well… we made a game about that.

🎉 Say hello to If Red Then Stop! Our brand new project!

Over the past few months, alongside our work on Of Life and Land, we've been quietly developing a new project. In If Red Then Stop you program traffic lights, barriers, and more to solve your city’s traffic problems! Improve your coding skills by learning to control time-dependent processes with realistic state machines.

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More info coming soon! Thank you all for the continued support!! 💚 Your Team Kerzoven 🥰

Patch Notes:

• Added a new Lenzburg starting map

• Slightly increased the bias for the forester's hut to go for bigger trees instead of small ones that are close.

• The stonemason can now carry more stone blocks or cut stones from other locations to craft higher tier items.

• The stonemason will now always prefer own stocks if available.

• Fixed an issue where people with only non-tradable items in their inventory would still go to the community centre instead of trashing them directly.

• The task of processing common and exotic fruits in the winery has now been split into two. This provides more customisation options and makes it clearer whether you require one type of product or the other.

• The material storage can now also store coal.

• Fixed an issue where humans on tier 6 and 7 could have the visuals from tier 1 and 2.

• The faction storage UI now shows all tradeable items even if the stocks are zero.

• Made the build menu title more consistent.

• Added new upgrades to the winery, barber and apothecary requiring glass.

• The version info is now hidden per default in the bottom left of the UI.

Hey settlers 👋

We’ve just released a hotfix that brings several gameplay improvements and fixes to Of Life and Land. From better handling of preserved meat and animal homes to UI enhancements and bug fixes, things should feel smoother all around. You can find the full patch notes below.

But that’s not all! We’re also excited to be part of the Metaroot Publisher Sale on Steam!

Of Life and Land is now 50% off ! Our biggest discount ever! 👉 Check out the sale here: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/44892821/sale/autumnsale2025 We also want to let you know that a new Lenzburg map is on the way very soon, and we’ve secretly started working on a brand-new game.

More details coming soon, so stay tuned! 👀

Thanks for being part of this wonderful community 💚

Your Team Kerzoven 🥰

Patch Notes – 29.09.2025

• Non-tradeable items are no longer dumped at the community centre if their task is interrupted by an emergency.,

• Fixed an issue where buildings couldn’t be edited when the inspector was opened via the “building done” notification while on a different map.,

• Garden beds now only display growth stage 1 if there are fruits or vegetables, not just seeds or grass.,

• Adults will now only begin education if they are younger than 32 (previously 51).,

• Building tooltips now display custom names when available.,

• The "Follow Target" button in the inspector UI will now switch maps if needed.,

• Fixed an issue where animal control removed too many entries when multiple people worked with barn trainees.,

• Building hover tooltips now display pets and animals living there.,

• Improved hover information for buildings owned by other factions.,

• Fixed an issue where transferring animals while paused could duplicate home slots.,

• Starving people are now quicker to recognize and use preserved meat.,

• Improved kitchen and restaurant UI to clearly show preserved meat usage.,

• Fixed a typo in the bronze forge upgrade description.

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Hey settlers 👋

We’ve just released a small hotfix that improves gameplay clarity and fixes a few key issues around storage, heating, and education balance.

Thanks as always for your feedback and support! 💚

📝 Patch Notes:

• Inactive genetic effects are now grayed out for better readability 🧬

• Changing pets/animals no longer affects firewood in heated homes 🔥

• New storage upgrade added to the carpenter 🪚

• Charcoal Burner can now use firewood

• Fixed over-educated immigrants affecting family balance

• Cathedral and bathhouse now auto-clean their full area 🧼

• Slightly increased the chance for educated immigration

Hey settlers 👋 We have released a patch that allows you to start the Kerzoven scenario on the coast map. We have also added three new AI villages with which you can trade to obtain the resources you need. 🔧 Patch Notes:

• Added Kerzoven C Scenario (Single settlement mode, coast map start)

• Added an animal count label next to the mini map symbols when you select animals to display.

• Added a hint to the map symbols to make it more clear what the button is for.

• It is now possible to show and hide animal population lines in the census UI.

• Buffed the recipes with leather.

• The water mill can now produce rags with leather only.

• Cats can now as well be freed with the unstuck animal button.

• The list of new scenarios is now sorted alphabetically on all platforms.

• Fixed a potential rare crash where the static effect tree was not ready to be looked up by the engine.

🏘️ Simfest 2025: We are part of this year's Simfest, where you can find lots of other great city builder and management games.

Of Life and Land will be available at a 40% discount until 31 July.

We hope you enjoy the summer and as always thank you for your feedback! Your Team Kerzoven 🥰

Hey settlers 👋

We’ve released a new patch that updates our game engine to Godot 3.6.1 LTS, improving render performance by 7–21% depending on your setup. 📈

Please take a look and let us know if you notice any issues. 💚

🌍 Regional Price Adjustment

Thanks to our community for pointing out that the game was priced a bit high in some regions compared to similar titles.

We’ve adjusted the price in the following countries:

Switzerland: CHF 24.99

Poland: 99.99 zł

Brazil: R$ 69.99

We really appreciate your feedback! ❤️

🔧 Patch Notes

• Updated to the latest LTS Godot 3.6.1 version

• Removed a few small erosion banks in the Kerzoven scenario map.

• The wood cost reduction upgrade in the Apothecary also reduces the ash amount requirement for the soap.

• Improved the shadow fade setting.

• Fixed a rare potential issue where the bubble sprite was not visible for the mushroom circle.

• Fixed an extremely rare crash when the work inspection UI was requesting the workplaces at the same time the workplaces were updating.

• Improved the unstuck button logic to cover more edge cases and free more stuck humans or animals.

As always, thank you for your feedback and for being such a wonderful community! You bring the game to life! 💚

Enjoy the summer!

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Hey settlers 👋

We have released a patch containing an updated version of the game engine, which improves render performance by 7–21%, depending on your system and settings. 🥳📈

Please take a look and let us know if you notice any issues. 💚

➡️ How to access the beta version:

In your Steam library: Right click on your game: Properties: Betas: Select the beta-branch.

🌟 We’ve just reached 200 Steam reviews. Thank you so much for the love and support!

It means the world to our small team. 💚 If you haven’t yet, leaving a review helps us more than you know!

🔥 And don’t forget: Of Life and Land will be 40% off during the Steam Summer Sale!☀️

Team Of Life and Land 🦊

Hey settlers 👋

This small update improves how barns handle their animals, adds some helpful tooltips, and includes various quality-of-life and crash fixes. Thanks for your continued support and feedback! 💚

🐄 Barns & Animals

• Barns now better manage runaway animals

• Barns have more reserve slots to control population

• Oldest animals are now prioritized for gutting

• Products from slaughtered animals now count in production stats

• Tamed animals are less disturbed by nearby humans or wild animals

• Improved logic for animal relocation: now tries barns/homes first before sending them to market or center

🛏️ UI & Gameplay Improvements

• Added comfort and sleep tooltips to UI

• Intro & welcome screen can now be advanced with a mouse click

• Clarified you can use any button to progress the intro story

• Better handling of humans/animals when starving and thirsty simultaneously

• Added aging weaknesses for very old characters:

• New weakness stage at 80+

• Final weakness stage at 100+ to avoid immortality 😅

• Limited central popup messages to 8 to prevent spam when inviting large groups

🔧 Bug Fixes

• Fixed “yummy” spelling

• Fixed typo in forge upgrade costs

• Clicking minimap no longer accidentally places roads/buildings

• Animal selection menu no longer covers the minimap

• Fixed crash when an animal dies while leaving the map and saving occurs right after

🌟 We’ve just reached 200 Steam reviews. Thank you so much for the love and support!

It means the world to our small team. 💚 If you haven’t yet, leaving a review helps us more than you know!

🔥 And don’t forget: Of Life and Land will be 40% off during the Steam Summer Sale!☀️

Team Of Life and Land 🦊

Hey settlers 👋

This update is a smaller one, but it brings one long-awaited feature: You can now move animals between barns, homes, and even maps! Perfect for reorganizing your herds or giving that chicken a nicer view. 🐓

We’ve also made several UI improvements, fixed bugs, and added quality-of-life tweaks.

🐾 New Feature

• Move animals between barns, homes, and maps!

✨ Improvements

• UI: Clearer category highlighting in the construction menu

• UI: Optional needs are now better color-coded

• UI: Resource bar now supports up to three columns

• Text fixes for Japanese localization

• Default pet is now a cat instead of a raccoon

• Music: Balanced how often short tracks are repeated

• “Skip Intro” now skips the welcome screen as well

• Free animal button now located with other window controls

• Street/demolish tools remember your selection on new game load

• Improved map names in Kerzoven-B

• Faster body heat recovery in ideal temperatures

🛠️ Bug Fixes

• Fixed child showing "died of old age" 😬

• Resolved storage reset issue on reload

• Fixed weird gibberish when no worker was available for hire

• Crashes fixed related to animals dying during interactions

• Fixed faction wealth being incorrectly initialized by multiple marketplaces

• Slight storage increase for fireplace, farm & gatherer

Let us know how you’re using the new animal moving feature and thank you again for your support and feedback! 💚

Steam reviews are always a huge help! 🙏

Team Of Life and Land 🦊

• Added over one hour of new music from Loïc Leclair and Yurii Panivan
• Improved the description for energy reserves.
• Made the color indicator for good values in the plant UI better visible and less gray-ish.
• Fixed an issue where foxes could not be tamed when they already have a burrow home.
• You can now tame wolves and have them as pets.
• Improved the habitat AI when animals are pets.
• People can now care more for their pets if they feel lonely.
• You get now a flat 5 people event immigration every spring stacking up to two times.
• An issue has been fixed where you could not invite people when you had event immigration but the village attractiveness was very low.
• Increased the temperature range of the Finn torch and the Windcatcher Tower.
• Slightly buffed the temperature values of the Finn Torch and Windcatcher Tower.
• The building entry markers are now better visible on snow.
• The UI will no longer show quick notifications if the QuickNotificationDuration is set to 0.1s or lower in the settings.
• Sheep's wool can now be collected more quickly. Crashes:
• Fixed a crash that occurred when the user looked at the AI status tooltip while an animal was interacting with another animal that had just died.
• Fixed a crash when the user changed the workplace priority at the same time a worker quit the job / died.
• Fixed a rare crash when destroying buildings very quickly.

• More info for buildings like: Stonemason, Smelter, Gatherers Shack, Farm, Beehive, Barn, and more,

• How to delete things
• How pollution & heat work
• How to get food
• How the marketplace works

• Warnings for common marketplace config mistakes
• Clearer feedback for work-related problems & specializations
• Improved info on why villagers died, how fields/weirs work, and how to increase efficiency
• New counter in the construction UI to show how many of a building exist
• Many small UI fixes and help text additions across the board

• Less flooding in default scenario (less rain, fewer springs)
• Root Cellar now uses open dairy as source even if stock is low
• Rebalanced marketplace upgrades and dairy upgrade power
• Water now washes off dirt in the Lenzburg Castle
• Improved survival chances of NPC villages in Kerzoven scenarios
• Fishery can now clean their landing stage
• Several visual/UI layout adjustments for clarity

• Visual updates during agent removal
• Cats hunting dead targets
• Editor water bodies during startup
• Apprentices removed during job search
• Rare engine-level multithreading edge cases
• Dynamic level timers

• Made critical fields read-only and thread-safe
• Defensive copies for mesh batching to avoid engine-level crashes
• World timers are now protected
• More stability for complex mods interacting with multithreading

• Added more information about the Stonemason Shop, Smelter, Bloomery, Gatherers Shack, Farm, Forester, Beehive, Barn, Small Cabin and Shrine.
• Added a new help view to explain how to delete things, how the pollution works, how the heat works, how to get food and how to buy something from the marketplace.
• Balanced the water in the default scenario: Less rain in the mountains. Less springs on the start map = less floods. Moved water drainage in hills. Reduce winter rain on the start map. Made the AI a little more resistant to extinction.

• The Root Cellar now also considers the open dairy as a source even if the stock is not that high.
• Fixed a missing description for the mountain pass.
• Fixed an issue where the trade change event to solve the tutorial was not triggering correctly if it was set as a text without pressing enter.
• Improved the weather event data in the default scenario.
• Tutorial: Saving the done status for fields and trees as well.
• Improved the help UI.
• Added warnings to the marketplace trade entry if 'sell over' or 'provide over' is set to 0 and explain what it means in detail.
• Improved the wiki trade entry visual.
• Added an info hint if no worker could be found to hire in a location. Also added additional help if work specialization is activated in the guild house.
• Added an option so that the right mouse button does not deselect construction blueprints.
• The road and delete tool in the bottom bar now toggle if they are selected a second time.
• Added a counter in the construction UI to see how many instances you already have of this kind on your map.
• Explain more how the marketplace storage works and what its limits are.
• Added more help text to the cell side constructions on how to remove them again.
• Added more help text to the Finn torch on how it works.
• Added more info about why someone has died.
• Made it more clear on how the weir works.
• Made it more clear on how the fields work and how to increase efficiency.
• Slightly improved the text margins in the construction UI.
• The building range text hint also shows if there is something bad in range like another beehive next to the red building marker.
• The building range text hint no longer takes into account targets that would be replaced by the building.
• Improvements:
• The fishery can now also clean their landing stage.
• Fixed an issue where the weather events could apply to a different map than the starting map.
• Kerzoven: Increased gold rewards a bit. Applied to all Kerzoven scenarios.
• Improved survival chances for NPC villages in the Kerzoven Scenario. Now it should be quite difficult to get them extinct.
• Balanced the market place upgrades.
• The water can now wash off the dirt in the Lenzburg castle, keeping it clean.
• The camera now preserves the zoom level when you follow something and then select the next target to follow.
• Food crates and material places now more often check if they can be safely removed when they are empty.
• Added two more entries for the hunters hut.
• Made the dairy upgrades much, much stronger.
• Crashes:
• Fixed a potential rare crash when the visual update was still going on while an agent was removed.
• Fixed a rare potential crash when the cat tried to hunt a target that just died in the same moment as it was inspected.
• Fixed a potential rare crash in the dynamic level timer only curing on very specific systems with lots of interrupts.
• Fixed a rare issue where the the editor could crash when a water body tried to register at startup in the same time while being replaced with another water body by the user.
• Fixed an issue where the game could crash when an apprentice was looking for a job and was removed by the user with the editor tools at the exact same time.
• Modding:
• Modding: Ensure the world timers are read only.
• Modding: Added a defensive copy to the mesh array builder to prevent a potential rare crash where the engine released the mesh cache while it was batched.
• Modding: Made critical fields read-only and added defensive copies in the DynamicObjectBehaviour to ensure it works well with mods editing this area in a multi threaded context.

• Increased default inventory space of the open dairy to better interact with root cellar storage.
• Increased Twitch emote duration.
• Balanced wheat field and garden bed: better flood resistance and deeper root access.
• The church and cathedral can now prepare services using milk or wine instead of only honey.
• Added separate storage for fruits and exotic fruits to reduce storage conflicts.
• Slightly adjusted groundwater values under waterfalls.
• Buffed immigration bonuses for T1–T3 and slightly reduced them for T6–T7.
• Improved UI visibility for road & deconstruction tools.
• Made inactive spin boxes in the market less transparent for better clarity.
• Fixed a bug where wheat fields appeared fully grown in the UI while flooded.

• Fixed a crash when inspecting the faith or thirst need of a deceased villager.
• Fixed a rare crash caused by uninitialized agent positions during dirt simulation.
• Fixed a crash in the world timer by marking certain data fields as immutable.
• Fixed a graphics pipeline issue caused by background apps interfering.

• Fixed the double “or” in the tutorial text (“Press the B key or or click…”).
• The faction building list is now sorted alphabetically.
• New sound when selecting a building in the construction UI.
• Improved the resource check for secured gates.
• Bigger precondition text box for longer messages.
• The collapse button for the building menu is now easier to see.
• The building menu now remembers if it was collapsed or open.
• Animals can no longer access the food crate directly in the Kerzoven scenario.
• Reduced wetness in the northern valley to improve early farming.

• Fixed a rare crash during auto saves + reduced memory usage.
• Fixed crash when an AI tooltip was called on a missing animal.
• Fixed a rare multi-threading crash related to agent backtracking.
• Improved thread safety for inventory tracking.
• Fixed rare pathfinding issue when a construction site is removed while being targeted.
• Fixed potential crash during simultaneous save and state update.

• Fixed an issue where region discovery could stop at 70% if discovery work was completed first and items were used for other purposes in the meantime.
• The water has been made bluer to make it more distinct from the roads, and it looks prettier.

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🛠️ Some of the biggest features added since Early Access

• Physical 💩dirt and humidity simulation. (Trailer & Patch Notes)
• New trade focused scenario Risenna with 11 new maps (Trailer & Patch Notes)
• Two fully simulated animals that influence the ecosystem: 🐔Chickens and 🐟pike.
• Simulated education & retirement system: (Patch Notes)
• Lots of new buildings such as the guild house and several faith buildings.
• And many more content and improvements in over 20 feature updates.

🏰 New in the 1.0 Release: The Counts of Lenzburg Scenario

• Castle buildings and single-city scenarios,
• A deeper trading system where your production choices impact others,
• Lots of new decorations to make your settlements feel alive: benches, signposts, flower buckets, letterboxes & more,
• Granaries, material storage, city walls, gates, towers and even stairs 👀 ,
• Voice acting for intros, and Twitch integration,
• Tons of polish, UI upgrades, visual improvements, and new achievements!

• Added new decorative buildings for your village (benches, signposts, flower buckets, letterboxes etc)
• Added granary (storage)
• Added material storage building
• Added a high weir to keep the water level even higher.
• Added fortification walls.
• Added towers.
• Added city gates.
• Added Twitch integration emote influence option.
• Added voice acting to the game intro and scenario intros.
• Added spillway barrier for rivers.
• Added the possibility of building stairs.

• (Modding) Added option to add string arguments to the subtext for EventEntities.
• (Modding) Added link to the item view as well to the item overview in the resource view.
• (Modding) Added more SFX tracks to play
• (Modding) Added option that the reject button can be green for decisions.
• (Modding) Added possible intro voice line.
• (Modding) Added the possibility to assign relative time tasks to AcceptTask conditions.
• Added click skip feature which uses the text markers instead of a constant time for a better experience.
• Improved the preconditions for weirs and stone gates to communicate better that they are not for the early game as you lack the resources.
• Added missing help mouse markings.
• Buffed the T3 immigration count.
• Boosted immigration bonus a bit for the number of children in your village.
• Improved the Risenna scenario quest display priority where many quests appear at the same time and need a decision.
• Added upgrade to the glassworks where you do not need coal anymore if you take it.
• Improved the small option layout in the inspection UI.
• Added option to select another target directly in the inspection UI.
• Added option to change the skin for buildings directly in the inspection UI.
• Set the default follow focus distance a bit further away to provide a better overview.
• Added more skins to T6 homes.
• Improved the map saving process to allow easier interpretation at runtime.
• Improved the icon for bushes and grass.
• Improved the visual water levels and allowed slight underground water flows for waterfalls.
• Fixed an issue where the alternative Kerzoven-B scenario had humans on the lakes map.
• Improved the open work positions tooltip in the player UI.
• If there are no unemployed people, the number of open workplaces is shown next to it.
• New work positions can now directly be assigned in the workers UI if they have free working slots.
• Made the building UI more clear by grouping the categories to the left and the selections to the right.
• Reduce the price for cheese and milk a bit.
• Added more Achievements.
• Set the maximum animation playback speed to the new animation scale.
• Fixed an issue where villagers tried too hard to explore a region and find the needed resources.
• Added pointing hand mouse skin to the upgrade patch to make it similar to other buttons.
• Removed the unused last environment tab.
• Improved the position calculation performance a bit.
• Improved the performance when humans try to catch an animal for the barn.
• Improved the performance when someone is searching for animals or people nearby.
• Added a chicken hunter for tablelands to take care of a possible chicken plague if they emigrate to the area.
• Set the default max FPS setting to 180 (adjustable in the options).
• Reduced the chickens health a bit.
• Improved achievements visuals.
• Localized Steam Achievements

• Fixed an issue where the game could crash in the editor when inspecting the animal data while there was no animal data generated yet.
• Fixed an issue where the time slider could not be set to x120 (x1200) speed with a custom hot key binding.

🗺️ New Content

• New Starting Maps: The Lakes and The Hills are now available in the Kerzoven scenario!
• New Item: Soap 🧼 Crafted at the Apothecary, soap boosts hygiene and is used in cleaning upgrades and sanitary buildings.
• Cesspit UI: Shows what’s happening and how it works.
• New Warnings: Get alerts when food is scarce, including tips to troubleshoot.
• Guild House Tips: More helpful information about child and adult education policies.
• Pause Quests & Tasks anytime to better control your village flow.

🛠️ Improvements & Fixes

• Smarter cleaning behavior: Villagers now care more for their own homes.
• Glassworks now produce more glass with the same resources.
• Eggs are now larger and more nutritious.
• Enhanced construction UI and quest indicators.
• New season hints, comfort tooltips, and animal age bar charts!
• Range indicators for the Finn torch, windcatcher towers, barns, and hunters.
• Balanced item prices to fit with updated recipes.
• Editor improvements: Subgroups, loading info, and better logic structure.
• Multiple crash fixes and UI improvements for better stability.
• Localized diplomatic UI and better trade log sorting.

Patch Notes 2025.04.16

• Added Kerzoven scenario with The Lakes as starting map
• Added Kerzoven scenario with The Hills as starting map
• Added cesspit UI showing what is going on and how it works.
• Added soap to the game. It can be crafted by the Apothecary and is used for cleaning upgrades and hygienic buildings.
• Added warning when the food is scarce and information about what the problem could be.
• Added more information and tips to the guild house policies.
• Added possibility to pause a quest or task anytime.

• Improved the introduction text
• Fixed an issue where Villagers with T6+ could satisfy the delicacy need if they were very hungry (they still eat at the kitchen / fireplace but do not change the delicacy need state).
• Localized locked statement in diplomatic relations.
• Added sub groups to the logical places in the editor to make it easier to read.
• Improved item view UX
• The glassworks now produce much more glass with the same amount of ingredients.
• Eggs now have twice the size and nutritional values.
• Buffed cleaning a bit.
• Improved the description of the weir and how it works.
• Improved construction UI order.
• The quest process marker count is only shown if there is more than one subtask.
• (Modding) Added option to add extra info in the loading info box.
• Fixed an issue where the tab key was not working when a button in the Item UI had the focus.
• The forester can now as well care for trees.
• People are now more intelligent about cleaning their own home.
• Added season hints to the player UI.
• Fixed cleaning crash if there was no home to clean.
• Improved the trade log to always sort the new entries by date.
• Fixed stack overflow on recursion in the quest detail view.
• Fixed a problem where the animation could be read before it was ready.
• Activated filter setting to reduce aliment offset when UI size is a non-integer offset.
• Added a bar chart for animal age distribution in the census view.
• Balanced all item prices according to the new recipes.
• Fixed a crash where the item UI tried to open the marketplace UI and crashed.
• Fixed an issue where the game could freeze for a short time when an animal died while it was pooping.
• Fixed a rare crash when the class category count is updated while someone is born.
• Improved the performance when playing short audio effects.
• Added comfort tooltip in the home UI.
• Added more hints on where to get chickens from in Risenna.
• Added range indicators for the Finn torch, windcatcher towers, barns and hunters.

• The toggle button for the full construction view now starts correctly on small monitors.
• Added missing items to the construction UI’s generation procedure info.
• Item lists are now neatly sorted.
• You can now use work time tasks in scenario reallocations even without a community centre.
• Fixed a missing translation in the animal catch AI description.
• Updated the streamer-friendly music list due to a musician’s policy change on YouTube.
• The world load/save box has been enlarged to support longer save game names.
• Fixed an issue where existing save games couldn’t be manually overridden.
• Improved the button theme for dragged buttons, making text more visible.
• Reduced the grass requirement for building huts.

• Added extended tooltip functionality for ‘accept task’ prompts.
• Modders can now customize button text for those prompts.

• If ‘Train Children’ is enabled at the guild house, only children ages 6–9 will start an apprenticeship (duration still 4+ years).
• This prevents older kids from getting locked into an apprenticeship until well past 16.
• If both ‘Train Children’ and ‘Train Adults’ are enabled, everyone can start as before.

• Retired individuals, apprentices, and babies are now clearly marked in the UI.
• Workload info is more transparent for these special statuses.

• Fixed an incorrect tile on the frozen island map.
• Made titles, text, and descriptions optional for CheckDay entries in scenarios.
• Improved house locking mechanics and the eviction system for more consistent behavior.
• Resolved rare crashes related to job scheduling, working hour inspections, and faction class counts.
• Fixed an issue where a dead animal could spread sickness if thrown into the barn.

Highlights of the Update

Patch Notes 2024.12.17:

• Added the Risenna Scenario: Explore new islands and establish trade relations with a distant kingdom.
• Added Chickens to the game.

• Faction animals that can’t find a path to their home now display a local warning instead of a map-wide one.
• Balanced the tailor storage upgrade cost from 10 planks down to 5 per year.
• Improved the detail text in the Journal quest UI for multiple subtasks.

• The wealth of extinct/joined factions now correctly shows 0 in the UI.
• Fixed an issue where recently deceased people were briefly counted as unemployed in the faction UI.
• Improved Kerzoven story intro visuals and Eliane of Kerzoven visuals.

• Added the ability to get items from anywhere in the faction if a quest is marked accordingly.
• Added TaskTitleMark for quest accept prompts.
• Added support for timed accept quests and long accept prompt question texts.

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