Pioneers of Pagonia news & patch notes

Dear Pioneers,

Dear Pioneers,

Highlights

• Map specific game database changes (scenarios, custom objectives & story telling)
• Map data model changes
• Globally active game database changes
• many more improvements for Meadowsong and base game

Pagonia Editor

1.4.0 Quality of Life and Pagonia Editor Update Patch Notes

DLC1 “Meadowsong”

Improvements

• Withered Hideouts now display a status effect when an active heal effect is present
• Added a tooltip to the Pathfinder’s in-world marker flag for cleansing withered area that explains that Cleansing Potions are needed
• Fixed wrong notification when withered units infect player units

Bugfixes

• Fixed Cat Tree and Dog House stock commodities change places when disabling the delivery of certain meat/fish types
• Fixed withered area in some cases not spreading correctly
• Fixed accelerated deposit growth ability sometimes leaving fields in wrong watered state
• Removed terrain decal that was popping up in the starting area beach after having mined all stone deposits

Core Game

Improvements

• When reviewing already seen dialogs the highlighting of words is now more readable
• Removed text highlighting for building names in the options menu building key binding selection
• Pathfinder’s Hut interface was improved:
  • The control button for the currently active work order is now highlighted (remove dense thorns, etc.)
  • Added checkboxes to disable delivery of commodities needed for the removal work order
  • When a removal work order is active the commodities will always be delivered
  • Improved the tooltips of the control buttons to include which commodity is needed for the corresponding obstacle removal
• Slightly improved performance of withered areas
• Improved copy farm field settings, especially for big deposits

Mod Changes

• Active mods are now shown in the escape menu current map info UI
• Active mods are remembered when starting a map / saving
  • These mods have to be active to load the save again, otherwise loading won't be possible
  • However new mods can be added and used in existing save games
  • UI will show which mods are missing for loading a save game
• When joining a friend's multiplayer session you will now get a warning pop-up if any mods the host is using for this session have to be subscribed or enabled on your side
  • Only mods that are also in use by the host will be loaded when playing multiplayer
• Mod DLC dependencies are shown in mod browser, collection and UGC map selection
  • When selecting a user generated map, it cannot be started when required DLCs are missing
  • Mods with DLC dependencies that you do not own will not be loaded
  • However you can still subscribe and enable them in case you want to play multiplayer with a friend who owns the DLC and wants to play with this mod
• Mods can now contain localization in one language, e.g. adding a new building with a custom name is now possible
• Achievements can no longer be earned or progressed on modded maps or mods containing data base changes.
  • Whenever you start or load a map without the ability to earn achievements, you will be informed with a confirmation dialogue
• Mod browser
  • Improved visuals for page buttons
  • Added 'type' filter category

Bugfixes

• Fixed Quarriers who are hungry and therefore can’t mine boulders, but are still able to collect small rocks were not counted as hungry in the UI
• Fixed rare and unfortunate map generation mishaps
• On Steam Deck the highest texture quality setting is removed since the system cannot provide enough RAM to handle it
• Fixed 'specialized in everything' achievement
• Fixed some crashes with invalid modded game data

Pagonia Editor

• Map data model changes
  • POIs and NPC bases are now combined into buildings
  • Factions, objectives and trades are now stored in a way that allows editing them without having to merge the map through all checkpoints
• Improved user experience for creating new map packages
• Package properties for localization and game database can now be edited
• Performance improvements
• Map specific game database changes
  • Best used for scenarios, custom objectives and story telling
• Globally active game database changes
  • Adjust balancing of the game, e.g. population growth, production ratios, combat units, raids, plant growth speed and much much more
  • Mod the game for all game modes (modifications are no longer limited to the packages map)
• Create, replace, unload or enhance: units, buildings, recipes, jobs, commodities, objectives, POIs, dialogs and more by using proxies
• Consistency checks now run always before play testing a map in the game
• Select images and other assets from core game when editing a mod
  • For example, use the existing speaker images
• Basic Infos: Map database modding (Hosted game database) - Pioneers of Pagonia Wiki

Dear Pioneers,

The prototype of our werewolf plushie is finished!

Adopt your own Pagonian Werewolf now on the Makeship store page!

This is your chance to get one of our unique werewolf plushies! The pre-order phase ends on July 10, 2026 at 3 pm CEST. EDIT: Makeship extended the deadline until July 18, 2026 at 5 am CEST! More time to get your plushie! As soon as the pre-order campaign ends, the plushies go into production! Keep in mind that the plushies will only be produced once! Werwolf Plushie Concept Thanks to everyone who supported our plushie campaign in March! You already pre-ordered your plushie with your pledge. Without you the plushie wouldn't have become reality. ❤️ We can't wait for our cute werewolves to arrive! He won't bite! (most of the time)

Dear Pioneers,

DLC1 “Meadowsong”

Bugfixes

• Raids of wolves and rats summoned by witches starting from the same base simultaneously caused one of them to be skipped, instead they will now happen one after another.
• Fixed a rare desync in multiplayer caused by withered area spread
• Fixed a bug that newborns rarely were born in a building that became a sick bay recently, causing all sick people to leave again

Core Game “Free Beer” Update

Bugfixes

• Fixed enemy raids not starting correctly on older community maps and on some campaign maps
• Fixed rare crash in construction menu
• Construction menu is now closed when a unit is selected (which should fix map highlights)
• Fixed rare crash when browsing community maps/packages
• Highlights could be broken if a selected unit dies

Dear Pioneers,

Quality of Life / Pagonia Editor Update

DLC 2 – The Next Expansion

• Experience the story of the legendary island »Aldramar«!
• New campaign with 4 story maps
• Reconstruct ancient colossal buildings and discover their secrets
• Overcome ancient stone warriors
• Turn desert into fertile land
• Learn to handle marble and new artifacts

Dear Pioneers,

Highlights

• Map specific game database changes (scenarios, custom objectives & story telling)
• Map data model changes
• Globally active game database changes
• many more improvements for Meadowsong and base game

1.4.0 QoL 8 (Pagonia Editor Update) Beta Patch Notes

DLC1 “Meadowsong”

Improvements

• Withered Hideouts now display a status effect when an active heal effect is present
• Added a tooltip to the Pathfinder’s in-world marker flag for cleansing withered area that explains that Cleansing Potions are needed
• Fixed wrong notification when withered units infect player units

Bugfixes

• Fixed stock commodities of Cat Trees and Dog Houses change places when disabling the delivery of certain meat/fish types

Core Game

Improvements

• When reviewing already seen dialogs the highlighting of words is now more readable
• Removed text highlighting for building names in the options menu building key binding selection
• Pathfinder’s Hut interface was improved:
  • The control button for the currently active work order is now highlighted (remove dense thorns, etc.)
  • Added checkboxes to disable delivery of commodities needed for the removal work orders
    • When a removal work order is active the commodities will always be delivered
  • Improved the tooltips of the control buttons to include which commodity is needed for the corresponding obstacle removal
• Slightly improved performance of withered areas

Bugfixes

• Fixed Quarriers who are hungry and therefore can’t mine boulders, but are still able to collect small rocks were not counted as hungry in the UI
• Fixed rare and unfortunate map generation mishaps

Pagonia Editor

• Map data model changes
  • POIs and NPC bases are now combined into buildings
  • Factions, objectives and trades are now stored in a way that allows editing them without having to merge the map through all checkpoints
• Improved user experience for creating new map packages
• Package properties for localization and game database can now be edited
• Performance improvements
• Map specific game database changes
  • Best used for scenarios, custom objectives and story telling
• Globally active game database changes
  • Adjust balancing of the game, e.g. population growth, production ratios, combat units, raids, plant growth speed and much much more
  • Mod the game for all game modes (modifications are no longer limited to the packages map)
• Create, replace, unload or enhance: units, buildings, recipes, jobs, commodities, objectives, POIs, dialogs and more by using proxies.
• Consistency checks now run always before play testing a map in the game
• Select images and other assets from core game when editing a mod
  • For example, use the existing speaker images
• Basic Infos: Map database modding (Hosted game database) - Pioneers of Pagonia Wiki

DLC1 “Meadowsong”

Bugfixes

• Fixed issue after loading Meadowsong campaign map save same
• Fixed some languages missing in the last line of the intro and extro video subtitles
• Fixed Fruit Farm refusing to work in some cases
• Fixed withered units using wrong notifications when scaring civilians
• Fixed Cat Trees and Dog Houses not appearing on mini map
• Fixed already built Cat Trees and Dog Houses were not highlighted when hovering a building in the construction menu and during building placement mode
• Fixed DLC buildings displayed in the key binding menu despite not owning the DLC
• Fixed DLC achievements not counting up
• Fixed Cornucopia ability “Warded domain” causing black squares during combat
• Fixed tooltip for “best for crop type” showing not yet unlocked crops

Core Game “Free Beer” Update

Improvements

• If you are hovering a building in the construction menu or if you are in building placement mode, other building of the same type and their ranges are highlighted in the world view and map view. Now we did some improvements and corrections to this feature:
  • The color of the highlight is now different for easier identification
  • The delay of the highlights has been removed
  • Now all building types show their range both in the world view and map view
  • Territory buildings no longer show their patrol point in this mode
  • Associated buildings (e.g. Market Stalls) are no longer highlighted with their central building (e.g. Market Fountain)

Bugfixes

• Fixed loading of mod maps when the package name is not written entirely in lower case
• Fixed some rare crashes in UI
• Fix in multiplayer desync reporting

DLC1 “Meadowsong”

Gameplay

• Incoming or nearby Witches will no longer count as a unit located at a Withered Hideout and therefore no longer prevent Withered Hideouts from being destroyed after all Witherwolves are defeated.

Balancing

• In custom maps, the initial amount of withered areas is now balanced depending on landing party and map size.

Bugfixes

• Fixed broken saves that were created when saving after restarting DLC 1 campaign map from the game over screen
• Fixed rare crash with new Call of Revelation ability of Cornucopia when underground deposits are mostly depleted
• Fixed Chicken sometimes stuck after a Witherwolf raid near the farm
• Fixed Meadowsong’s intro & extro video subtitle were being translated to English instead of the chosen fallback language in case of the main language not being supported
• Fixed some level art props being stuck on Meadowsong’s roads
• Fixed Witches' visibility effect placement
• Corrected Witches' death visualization
• Fixed tail animation for charging Witherrrats
• Fixed missing hat for ghost version of Witch Agira

Known Issues

• When placing a gathering building the corresponding deposit highlights are sometimes missing

Core Game “Free Beer” Update

Improvements

• Improved error reporting dialog

Bugfixes

• Fixed building demolish confirmation popup staying open when entering a cinematic cut scene
• Automatic training requests in the Village Hall or Guild House now also show the state "can't train because Carrier amount too low"
• Campaign map 4: Fixed some Bandits dying instead of plundering the storage.
• Fixed a crash when a Tavern Cook is trying to fetch the last ingredient for his meal
• Fixed dropdowns in the “Custom Game” > “Customize” setup where “Custom” was shown but instead all selectable settings were selected
• Fixed headers in campaign selection flow layout being too high in some languages
• Fixed error reporting for multiplayer desyncs
• Fixed that building ranges of existing buildings of the same type were not displayed during placement but only while hovering the building in the construction menu
• Fixed mini map dots not displayed for buildings of the same type during placement and while hovering in the construction menu

Dear Pioneers,

Our first Expansion DLC »Meadowsong« is now available!

Highlights:

• Six new building types
• A new scenario map
• Animal husbandry with pigs and chicken
• Vineyards and fruit farm
• The “Withering”, a new challenge for your Pagonians
• Mysterious witches, each with different abilities

What can you expect in this DLC?

Key Features:

• New buildings and production chains including fruit cultivation, animal husbandry, beverage production and the wonders of the mysterious Cornucopia
• The new scenario island »Meadowsong« expands the exciting story of Pagonia and introduces a new challenge: "The Withering"
• Thwart the plans and prevent the rituals of the powerful Witches' Coven – each witch possesses a unique ability
• The new challenge »The Withering« and the »Witches' Coven« can also be played on procedurally generated maps

Free Beer Update

What’s next?

Quality of Life Update 8

DLC 2 – The next Expansion

Pioneers of Pagonia – Echoes of Aldramar

• Experience the story of the legendary island »Aldramar«!
• New campaign with 4 story maps
• Reconstruct ancient colossal buildings and discover their secrets
• Overcome ancient stone warriors
• Turn desert into fertile land
• Learn to handle marble and new artifacts

Thank you

Detailed Patch Notes

1.3.0 “Free Beer” Update and DLC “Meadowsong”

Highlights

• The Brewery is now available for everyone!
• The food system got a major update, food diversity is now rewarded
• Generated maps got many changes and new options
• Our first DLC “Meadowsong” is now available, simultaneously released with the “Free Beer” update

Meadowsong

• The first DLC for Pioneers of Pagonia is available as of today, May 27, 2026!
• It expands the game world with numerous new buildings, animals, goods, and production chains, as well as a new challenge: “The Withering” spreading across the islands.

1.3.0 “Free Beer” Update

Gameplay

• The Forager can gather Elderberries now, which can be found on generated maps from now on
• New building: The Brewery
  • Uses Wheat, Water and Wood to brew Beer
  • Can also produce Elderberry Juice.
• New market stall type: Beverages
  • Offers Elderberry Juice and Beer

Generated Maps

• The obstacles “Landslide” and “Thorny Forest” now also appear on generated maps
  • To remove obstacles, Pathfinders are now also available on generated maps
  • Pathfinders now explore a very small area after removing an obstacle to ensure that they can access the next obstacle
• The werewolf boss “Mashka” is the first boss which can now also get activated on any generated map
• Randomness of enemy types
  • Until now, all activated enemy types were placed roughly in equal strength, reflecting an “even distribution”. This option can now be changed to “Some randomness” (new default) and “Strong randomness”
  • With increased randomness, some of your selected enemy types may occur very often and others rarely or not at all.
  • This also enhances exploration, as it comes as a surprise which enemies exist and in what numbers you encounter them.
  • Note that disabled enemy types will not be placed, you can still exclude specific ones. Of course, randomness does not have any effect if you only choose one enemy type.
  • Note that enabling a specific boss will always place the associated enemy type too since their bases are required for the boss to function
• If you want a more relaxing experience, you can completely disable enemies raiding your settlement
• The map generation quality got improvements in several areas: Enhanced obstacle and hurdle generation for more natural layouts, refined placement rules for plants, treasures, artifacts, and objective POIs and improved lake and terrain blocking.

Generated Maps Experimental Settings

• You can increase the population limit from 3.000 to 5.000, 7.000 or 10.000 Pagonians.
• The original map sizes are named “Standard”, “Increased” and “Large” now, and with experimental settings you can access both smaller maps (“Very small” and “Small”) and larger maps (“very large” and “largest”)

Food Variety System

• The initial variety bonus for a meal is 1 (no variety)
  • Example: If you constantly feed your people with Pumpkins only, there is no variety bonus
• For each ingredient fetched by the Cook, which uses a different ingredient than the previous meal cooked in the same building, the variety bonus is increased by one
  • Example: If a Carrier living in a Hut is constantly able to cook meals using the side dishes Corn and Pumpkins taking turns, the variety bonus will be increased by +1, doubling the comfort value of each meal.
• The variety bonus will further increase if multiple previous meals used different ingredients.
  • Example: If a Cook is able to use the main dishes Deer meat, Trout and Rabbit meat taking turns, the variety bonus increases by +2 since the last 2 used ingredients are always different.
• The variety bonus will add up for each meal component
  • Example: If a Cook is able to use three different main dish ingredients and three different side dish ingredients, the variety bonus will increase by +2 for main dish and +2 for side dish, summing up to +4 (to a total multiplier of 5).
• The total meal score can exceed 100 points if you have all ingredients for comfort meals or nutritious meals available.
• The new system also avoids that only highest scoring meal ingredients are used while others pile up unused, but instead all ingredients will be used somewhat equally and still result in higher meal scores. The food requirements have been rebalanced to reflect the higher values of the meal scores.
• The amount of Comfort Meal score required to get a newborn has been increased accordingly. While the initial values are not very different (only a limited food variety is available), much higher scores are needed later (as many ingredients become available). Overall, you can grow your population faster than before if you offer various ingredients, but if you offer only one or two types of ingredients, it will be slower.
• The amount of Nutritious Meal score required for mining has been increased accordingly. Surface mining now requires a nutrition score of 2 while sub-surface mining costs 5 per tour.
• Cottages and Huts now also show a meal history for home cooking in their interface.
• All residential buildings got their tooltips about newborns improved.

Food Overviews

• New marketplace food overview
  • If you select a Market Fountain, you will get an overview of all meal ingredients available at nearby Market Stalls.
• New global food overview
  • The “Population” overview has been extended to “Population & Food Overview”, a new tab with the Food Overview has been added.
  • It shows a similar food overview as the market fountain, but it sums up all your market place areas.
  • There is a new option to define whether your Carriers prioritize eating or priority transports, which may help in resolving Carrier shortage (default is equal priority)
  • There is a new option to disable home cooking for Huts or both Cottages and Huts. This can be useful in the late game if you want to ensure that only Cooks in the Tavern use the ingredients to produce meals with higher scores.
• We added a commodity group for “processed ingredients” and redistributed some food and plant related commodities between natural products / animal meal ingredients / plant meal ingredients / processed ingredients.

Gameplay improvements

• All boss enemy units are now immune to the Warlock scare ability
• Outdoor piles under prolonged threat by enemies will be removed from the economy
  • Therefore, currently unreachable commodities are no longer considered “available”
  • This ensures that production process for those commodities will start if the target production value is not reached
  • If the threat is gone, those outdoor piles will be added to the economy again
• The Light Spire and Monument of Wisdom got their ranges in which abilities can be used increased significantly
• Minimum carrier amount which is protected has been increased from 10% to 20%
• Allow Light Spire explore ability in partly explored areas
• Pathfinders work area radius increased from 50 to 80 meters

Controls

• If the camera jumped to a new different location during a dialogue, you can now use the BACKSPACE key to jump back to your original location

Other

• Added an option to increase or reduce the amount of music played by changing the duration of the breaks between music pieces.
• Credits are now split into base game and “Meadowsong” credits and selection is done via a dialog in the main menu
• Added a news section which may be used for special events.

UI Improvements

• Commodity tooltips in the building selection interface and many other interfaces now show how many units of the commodity you have globally in your economy, e.g. “Softwood Trunk (130 owned)”
• The cycle option in the context menu below top bar commodity tooltips now shows how many buildings there are to cycle, e.g. “cycle source buildings (8)”
• Objectives UI has new context actions, displayed at mouseover with a tooltip too:
  • Clicking the left mouse button on an objective to build a specific building type will switch directly to the construction mode of this building
  • Clicking the left mouse button on a trade objective will now cycle through available Trading Posts or switch to the construction mode of Trading Posts if none exist.
• Monument of Wisdom & Light Spire
  • Special ability buttons are now positioned in the controls
  • Special ability buttons now show a small mana bar
• Added more explanatory tooltips to the Pathfinder's Hut
• Information regarding yields on farm fields have different colors now for better readability
• Warnings for carrier shortages now include a hint that units can be demoted back to carriers
• The save and load game window now shows the map type: Campaign Map, Modded Map, Generated Map or Developer Scenario Map

Improvements

• Added Elderberries & Brewery to campaign
• Tweaked textures and sizes of wild flax deposits to improve readability
• Better performance especially during far zoom-outs due to optimized mesh LOD calculations

Bugfixes

• Campaign map 3: Fixed wrong speaker of a dialog line
• Huts and Cottages set to priority were not receiving wood for cooking if economy buildings (e.g. Workshop) also had priority enabled and wood lacking. Now the priority setting impact for huts and cottages is similar to other buildings and wood will also not get redirected elsewhere as long as priority is enabled
• Fixed "No Wood for cooking..." building state sometimes not updated correctly
• Fixed bandits stuck in the loop of scaring player’s units when interrupted while stealing
• Fixed some neutral village trades/gifts not executed correctly when receiving food goods
• Fixed not being able to disable mod/map packages. Fixed duplicate buttons sometimes displayed in map package browser
• Fixed that clicking the “Builders Edition button” was linked to the wallpapers DLC
• Fixed that clicking some entries in the top bar initiated unwanted camera jumps or entering building construction mode
• Fixed rare crash when trying to cancel a building construction via hotkey
• Fixed a rare crash in campaign map 7 when discovering a point of interest Reduced shadow flickering at certain camera positions
• Fixed issue with amount control pop-ups (e.g. to increase number on a production recipe) staying open when scrolling down in the construction menu, leaving them floating somewhere.

Pagonia Editor Changes

• Improved stability when opening, closing, and editing maps
• Fixed rendering issues for faction buildings and POIs
• Maps can now include DLC dependencies and pass required data correctly when launched

Dear Pioneers,

The “Free Beer Update” will be released together with our first DLC “Meadowsong” on May 27, 2026!

Highlights

• The Brewery is now available for everyone!
• The food system got a major update, food diversity is now rewarded
• Generated maps got many changes and new options

Gameplay

Generated Maps

Experimental Settings

Food Variety System

New Food Variety Overview

DLC Meadowsong

Together with the “Free Beer Update,” our Meadowsong DLC will be released on May 27, 2026!

Wishlist Meadowsong here

Dear Pioneers,

The beta test for the "Free Beer"-Update 1.3.0 starts now!

Highlights

• The Brewery is now available for everyone!
• The food system got a major update, food diversity is now rewarded
• Generated maps got many changes and new options
• Our first DLC “Meadowsong” will be released simultaneously with the “Free Beer” update

Meadowsong

The first DLC of Pioneers of Pagonia will be released on May 27, 2026!

Wishlist the DLC now!

1.3.0 “Free Beer”-Update

Gameplay

Generated Maps

Food Variety System

New Food Overview

Pagonia Editor Improvements

Other Improvements

"Free Beer"-Update 1.3.0 Beta Patch Notes

Highlights

• The Brewery is now available for everyone!
• The food system got a major update, food diversity is now rewarded
• Generated maps got many changes and new options
• Our first DLC “Meadowsong” will be released simultaneously with the “Free Beer” update

Meadowsong

• The first DLC for Pioneers of Pagonia will be available on May 27, 2026!
• It expands the game world with numerous new buildings, animals, goods, and production chains, as well as a new challenge “the Withering” spreading across the islands.
• Wishlist now!

1.3.0 “Free Beer” Update

Gameplay

• The Forager can gather Elderberries now, which can be found on generated maps from now on
• New building: The Brewery
  • Uses Wheat, Water and Wood to brew Beer
  • Can also produce Elderberry Juice.
• New market stall type: Beverages
  • Offers Elderberry Juice and Beer

Generated Maps

• The obstacles “Landslide” and “Thorny Forest” now also appear on generated maps
  • To remove obstacles, Pathfinders are now also available on generated maps
  • Pathfinders now explore a very small area after removing an obstacle to ensure that they can access the next obstacle
• The werewolf boss “Mashka” is the first boss which can now also get activated on any generated map
• Randomness of enemy types
  • Until now, all activated enemy types were placed roughly in equal strength, reflecting an “even distribution”. This option can now be changed to “Some randomness” (new default) and “Strong randomness”
  • With increased randomness, some of your selected enemy types may occur very often and others rarely or not at all.
  • This also enhances exploration, as it comes as a surprise which enemies exist and in what numbers you encounter them.
  • Note that disabled enemy types will not be placed, you can still exclude specific ones. Of course, randomness does not have any effect if you only choose one enemy type.
  • Note that enabling a specific boss will always place the associated enemy type too since their bases are required for the boss to function
• If you want a more relaxing experience, you can completely disable enemies raiding your settlement
• The map generation quality got improvements in several areas: Enhanced obstacle and hurdle generation for more natural layouts, refined placement rules for plants, treasures, artifacts, and objective POIs and improved lake and terrain blocking.

Generated Maps Experimental Settings

• You can increase the population limit from 3.000 to 5.000, 7.000 or 10.000 Pagonians.
• The original map sizes are named “Standard”, “Increased” and “Large” now, and with experimental settings you can access both smaller maps (“Very small” and “Small”) and larger maps (“very large” and “largest”)

Food Variety System

• The initial variety bonus for a meal is 1 (no variety)
  • Example: If you constantly feed your people with Pumpkins only, there is no variety bonus
• For each ingredient fetched by the Cook, which uses a different ingredient than the previous meal cooked in the same building, the variety bonus is increased by one
  • Example: If a Carrier living in a Hut is constantly able to cook meals using the side dishes Corn and Pumpkins taking turns, the variety bonus will be increased by +1, doubling the comfort value of each meal.
• The variety bonus will further increase if multiple previous meals used different ingredients.
  • Example: If a Cook is able to use the main dishes Deer meat, Trout and Rabbit meat taking turns, the variety bonus increases by +2 since the last 2 used ingredients are always different.
• The variety bonus will add up for each meal component
  • Example: If a Cook is able to use three different main dish ingredients and three different side dish ingredients, the variety bonus will increase by +2 for main dish and +2 for side dish, summing up to +4 (to a total multiplier of 5).
• The total meal score can exceed 100 points if you have all ingredients for comfort meals or nutritious meals available.
• The new system also avoids that only highest scoring meal ingredients are used while others pile up unused, but instead all ingredients will be used somewhat equally and still result in higher meal scores. The food requirements have been rebalanced to reflect the higher values of the meal scores.
• The amount of Comfort Meal score required to get a newborn has been increased accordingly. While the initial values are not very different (only a limited food variety is available), much higher scores are needed later (as many ingredients become available). Overall, you can grow your population faster than before if you offer various ingredients, but if you offer only one or two types of ingredients, it will be slower.
• The amount of Nutritious Meal score required for mining has been increased accordingly. Surface mining now requires a nutrition score of 2 while sub-surface mining costs 5 per tour.
• Cottages and Huts now also show a meal history for home cooking in their interface.
• All residential buildings got their tooltips about newborns improved.

Food Overviews

• New marketplace food overview
  • If you select a Market Fountain, you will get an overview of all meal ingredients available at nearby Market Stalls.
• New global food overview
  • The “Population” overview has been extended to “Population & Food Overview”, a new tab with the Food Overview has been added.
  • It shows a similar food overview as the market fountain, but it sums up all your market place areas.
  • There is a new option to define whether your Carriers prioritize eating or priority transports, which may help in resolving Carrier shortage (default is equal priority)
  • There is a new option to disable home cooking for Huts or both Cottages and Huts. This can be useful in the late game if you want to ensure that only Cooks in the Tavern use the ingredients to produce meals with higher scores.
• We added a commodity group for “processed ingredients” and redistributed some food and plant related commodities between natural products / animal meal ingredients / plant meal ingredients / processed ingredients.

Gameplay improvements

• All boss enemy units are now immune to the Warlock scare ability
• Outdoor piles under prolonged threat by enemies will be removed from the economy
  • Therefore, currently unreachable commodities are no longer considered “available”
  • This ensures that production process for those commodities will start if the target production value is not reached
  • If the threat is gone, those outdoor piles will be added to the economy again

Controls

• If the camera jumped to a new different location during a dialogue, you can now use the BACKSPACE key to jump back to your original location

Other

• Added an option to increase or reduce the amount of music played by changing the duration of the breaks between music pieces.
• Credits are now split into base game and “Meadowsong” credits and selection is done via a dialog in the main menu
• Added a news section which may be used for special events.

UI Improvements

• Commodity tooltips in the building selection interface and many other interfaces now show how many units of the commodity you have globally in your economy, e.g. “Softwood Trunk (130 owned)”
• The cycle option in the context menu below top bar commodity tooltips now shows how many buildings there are to cycle, e.g. “cycle source buildings (8)”
• Objectives UI has new context actions, displayed at mouseover with a tooltip too:
  • Clicking the left mouse button on an objective to build a specific building type will switch directly to the construction mode of this building
  • Clicking the left mouse button on a trade objective will now cycle through available Trading Posts or switch to the construction mode of Trading Posts if none exist.
• Monument of Wisdom & Light Spire
  • Special ability buttons are now positioned in the controls
  • Special ability buttons now show a small mana bar
• Added more explanatory tooltips to the Pathfinder's Hut
• Information regarding yields on farm fields have different colors now for better readability
• Warnings for carrier shortages now include a hint that units can be demoted back to carriers
• The save and load game window now shows the map type: Campaign Map, Modded Map, Generated Map or Developer Scenario Map

Bugfixes

• Campaign map 3: Fixed wrong speaker of a dialog line
• Fixed that clicking the “Builders Edition button” was linked to the wallpapers DLC
• Fixed that clicking some entries in the top bar initiated unwanted camera jumps or entering building construction mode
• Fix rare crash when trying to cancel a building construction via hotkey

Pagonia Editor Changes

• Added support for map-specific game data, enabling richer customization and custom scenarios
• Improved stability when opening, closing, and editing maps
• Fixed rendering issues for faction buildings and POIs
• Maps can now include DLC dependencies and pass required data correctly when launched

Known Issues

• Choosing playstyle in map gen rarely can have double categories
• Maps created by Pagonia Editor can be exported despite failing the consistency check. This can corrupt DLC 1 maps
• Some missing Icons and VFX
• Food Variety System balancing not final

Bugfixes (all platforms)

• Fixed mod.io in-game login issues

Dear Pioneers,

Dear Pioneers,

We need your help!

How does it work?

• Support the petition with $2 (approx. €1.75)
• If we reach a total of 200 individual supporters, the plushie will go into production
• You’ll pay the full price when the product is released (approx. June 2026)
• If we don’t reach 200 people, the plushie will unfortunately not be produced, and supporters will receive their $2 back

Giveaway

Bugfixes

• Added missing translations for some features (for example in the Population Overview)
• Fixed join via friends list button text sometimes extending out of button
• Fixed a crash during game saving that could happen for wrongly configured user made maps
• Fixed editor sometimes showing black screen initially until the light pre-set is changed
• Fixed some issues with the editor when changing between tabs
• Fixed recruitment tooltip mistakenly shown also for non-player units
• Fixed playtime explanatory tooltip not showing

Dear Pioneers,

Spring is just around the corner and is also coming to the beautiful world of Pagonia!

The “A Touch of Spring” Cosmetics Pack is now available!🌸

With the brand new Cosmetics Pack, you can now beautify your settlements with 18 spring-themed decorations with 20 additional variations. In addition to picturesque walls that are perfect for marking the boundaries of fields, we expanded the selection of decorative objects to include backyards, a shed, and a pergola. Neatly trimmed hedges perfectly frame your new gardens. There are also new trees and plants to breathe new life into your villages. In the center of attention are blooming magnolias in different colors, whose falling petals herald the beginning of spring.

Decorative dwellings such as a birdbath, a duck house, a dovecote, and a pond are now also available for Pagonia's animal population. Sit back and enjoy the colorful hustle and bustle of the animal inhabitants! As announced in the last quality-of-life update, the placement of decorations has been improved! You can now switch between the available variants using "CTRL + mouse wheel" or by clicking on the arrow keys in the new preview interface on the right-hand side. There's nothing standing in the way of building the settlement of your dreams!

Werewolf Plushie Petition

The time has come! With a little luck, we will soon be producing our first plushie! Most of you are probably familiar with this mysterious creature, which dwells in the forests of Pagonia. If you've always wanted to adopt a Pagonian werewolf, now is your chance! Feel free to check out the petition and support the project if you're interested. As soon as we reach our goal of 200 supporters, production of the plushie will begin!

What's Next?

We are currently working on our very first DLC, called Meadowsong, which will be released in the Q2, along with the Free Beer Update! Look forward to freshly tapped beer, fine wines, and an exciting new story map! Let us know what you think of the new decorations and feel free to post some screenshots of your decorated settlements. We want to see them all! Thank you for your ongoing support! Take up your tools, Pioneers! Your Envision Entertainment Team

1.2.0 - Quality of Life

Cosmetics Pack: A Touch of Spring

Gameplay

• Saved games with DLC decorations can be loaded by anyone even without owning the DLC
• Rebalance ancestral defender amount from 25 to 30 and their combat power from 8 to 12

User Interface

• Improvements for placing decorations
  • Randomizing the variation is now optional and can be disabled in the preview interface on the right (default is on)
  • If the randomize setting is enabled it will now only choose a random variation once when selecting the decoration and again after placing a decoration
• Construction menu building tooltip improvements
  • Recruitment buildings now show which units they can recruit and what weapons are needed
  • Market Fountain now shows that it produces Drinking Water
  • Tavern now shows that it uses Wood + Drinking Water + different meal ingredients and cooks Nutritious and Comfort Meals out of it
  • All buildings that are unlocked either by purchasing a DLC or through other sources (e.g. campaign finish) now show their source
  • Decorations no longer show the “Workers” and “Costs” sections
• All additional content (including the Builder's Edition) is now displayed in the main menu and clicking the individual items will lead you directly to the store page
• Forester no longer shows if trees or Wood are in range during building construction
• The number in the building menu showing how many buildings of this type you currently have now has more space before it breaks into a new line (e.g. 13/42)

Bugfixes

• Fixed edge case with Stone Boulders having 1 extra Stone when only gathering Stone Boulders
• Fixed join co-op window was super wide after changing from 150% to 100% UI scale
• Fixed demote window was not showing Grove Enchantress unit even if you have any

Known issues

• Some text (for example in the Population Overview) is only available in German and English, the game will be updated with the remaining localizations soon.

Dear Pioneers,

it's time for a new Quality-of-Life-Update! We're excited to release some highly requested improvements today!

Unit Overview and Demoting Units

You asked for it, we delivered: It's now possible to transform any unit type back to a Carrier. Just remember that the units need to be in your territory. All dropped equipment can be picked up and used again. The new Unit Overview comes in really handy. You'll find it on the right hand side of the construction menu. Not only does it look good, you can also use it to find specific unit types and cycle through their workspaces by clicking on the magnifier icon. Neat!

Copy Building Settings

You planned out the perfect production settings meticulously and don't want to do it all over again? Well, now it's possible to simply copy settings to on or all buildings of the same type! You can cycle through buildings of the same type while in copy mode (by TAB key or clicking the new arrow buttons in the building selection menu). All work orders including their settings, the main priority setting and enabled state will be copied.

Balancing Adjustments

Next up are a lot of balancing adjustments for trade and gift offers, building placement and units. We rebalanced the trade offers of Pagonian villages on generated maps. Also, we've worked on a lot of combat balancing! Look into the detailed patch notes down below for more information.

Other Improvements

Misplaced a building or just changed your mind? It's never been easier to demolish a building. With a brand-new hotkey you can demolish a building or cancel it's construction in no time!

The next one is for everyone who loves to decorate their villages: The decorations category now has a search bar! Also while placing decorations you can now cycle the available variants via CTRL + Mouse Wheel or by clicking the arrow buttons in the new preview interface on the right.

As always, we hope you enjoy all the new improvements in Pagonia. Let us know about your feedback on Steam and Discord! Take up your tools, Pioneers! Your Envision Entertainment Team

1.1.0 - Quality of Life

Highlights

• Unit Overview and demoting units: Transform any unit type back to standard Carrier
• Copy building settings: copy settings to one or all buildings of the same type
• A lot of balancing adjustments for trade and gift offers, building placement and units

Gameplay

• Unit Overview and demoting units
  • A new interface shows you all unit types you currently have
  • You can demote any kind of unit back to a standard Carrier
  • Units have to be in your territory to be demoted
  • Equipment will be dropped where they stand and can be re-used
  • The interface can also be used to find specific unit types and cycle through their workplaces
• Scav Bulwarks are now destroyed if all units in its vicinity are killed, even if some assigned units are still alive but far away
• Thieves and Bandits will cancel looting attempts and return home when scared off by Warlocks
• Warning flag colors for some states of residential buildings have been corrected
• The Mint now starts without production orders, all recipes are set to “amount 0” by default
  • This ensures that the Mint does not accidently consume important copper, silver or gold ingots. The Mint will only produce after the player ordered it to do so.
  • A notification will be sent to the player as soon as the Mint is ready for work for the first time, if it still has no orders at this point in time

User Interface

• New functionality: Copy building settings
• You can copy settings of the current building to all other buildings of this type
• You can also copy settings of the current building and paste the settings to specific building of this type. Additional highlights and tooltips assist you while doing so.
• You can cycle through buildings of the same type while in copy mode (by TAB key or clicking the new arrow buttons in the building selection menu)
• All work orders including their settings, the main priority setting and enabled state will be copied
• This can be used for gathering buildings, production buildings, training buildings and territory buildings
• All options have hotkeys associated, defaults are:
  • Copy: CTRL+C
  • Paste: CTRL+V
  • Paste to all: CTRL+SHIFT+V
  • Additional highlights and tooltips guide you through the process
• The locations of any campaign, objective and arcane artifact are now represented by an icon in the mini-map if it is lying on the ground in an explored area. The icon can be clicked to focus on the artifact location
• Improved production/recruitment interface: Switching the mode to “target amount”/”minimum stock” now uses the current existing amount as the default value. Switching the mode back to “amount” always uses “0” as default value
• Woodcutter: Changed the work mode buttons of the woodcutter to three separate buttons of which one is always active (preserve forest, cut all trees, remove forest). Before, the three modes were reflected by 2 buttons only, which caused some confusion
• The objective UI now has more contextual jump-to actions when clicking the objective
• Stone and Copper Chunks now also have markers on the mini-map
• In-game pause menu now shows more info about the current map you are playing
  • Added “Difficulty” information, if available
  • Added “Map Size” and “Actual playtime” (if time speedup was used)
  • Added “Map Goal” and “Landing party” for generated maps
  • Added “Author” information and buttons for “feedback”, “like” and “report” for mod maps
• Improvements for demolishing buildings
  • Added a hotkey to demolish a building or cancel it’s construction (default key “-”)
  • The confirmation dialog can be confirmed by pressing the hotkey again, ESC cancels it
  • The confirmation dialog is skipped for newly placed construction sites which did not start yet
  • The confirmation dialog can now be disabled in the gameplay options
• Improvements for placing decorations
  • The decorations category now has a search bar
  • While placing decorations you can now cycle the available variants via CTRL + Mouse Wheel or by clicking the arrow buttons in the preview interface on the right
  • Randomizing the variation is now optional and can be disabled in the preview interface on the right (default is on)
  • If the randomize setting is enabled it will now only choose a random variation once when selecting the decoration and again after placing a decoration
• The Info box showing which resources are in range while placing buildings has been improved
  • Resources in range are now displayed directly at the mouse pointer for better visibility
  • All resources are additionally still displayed at the bottom right with an improved visualization
  • All resources now display icons for better readability
• Improved meal history readability, the latest entries are now on the left and finished ones are greyed out
• After selecting the Treasure Hunter in the construction menu, treasure areas are highlighted
• Baneroots now display their summoning progress in the tooltip
• Amber Baneroots now state that they are immune to any attacks
• Underground mines meal tooltip now mentions that softwood beams are required for the ore production process
• Unit tooltips now show if the unit type does not require a tool and training building
• Units that are not scared by Spectres now indicate this in their traits list
• Key bindings bound to mouse now display the actual mouse icon instead of text
• Tooltips of some control buttons of selected buildings have been improved (Territory buildings, Monument of Wisdom, Light Spire, Woodcutter’s Hut)
• If you start a new game, the interface will remember the previous selections
• Added missing highlight for selected game mode in the start new game section
• Map information layout in the “escape menu” has been improved
• On campaign map 7, a location highlight for an important objective was added
• Improved farm field UI
  • You can see where each crop grows best in the tooltip while placing a farm field
  • New color-coding depending on how well a plant will grow on a given sediment type
  • While hovering over a sediment type you immediately get information how well the selected crop grows, shown directly next to the cursor
  • Improved mouse picking for farm fields

Campaign

• Third campaign map now hides Wheat recipe in farm field selection
• Improved visibility of treasure spots of the fourth campaign map to ensure that players can find the important artifacts
• Added new dialogue to explain remote delivery with Trading post on fourth campaign map
• Added description for objectives to build and recruit Trade Post and Trade Carrier on fourth campaign map
• Fifth campaign map now kills all minions when their boss is defeated
• Sixth campaign map now allows Steel and Diamond Staff production from the beginning
• Warlocks cannot scare the Malthorn Boss anymore

Balancing

• Some additional building types can now be placed on rocky areas (stone plateau, scree and flat cliff areas) beside quarries and mines: Geologist’s Hut, Smelting Works, Furnace, Storage, Warehouse, Construction Camp, Military Camp and Traders’ Camp.
• The trade and gift offers of Pagonian villages on generated maps have been rebalanced
  • The internal trade balancing values, which define the ratio at which the Pagonian villages offer goods and gifts, have been rebalanced to better reflect the rarity and production effort of the commodities
  • The probabilities of trade and gift offers for different commodities have been rebalanced to create a better variety of offers
• The probabilities of objectives to deliver specific commodities have been rebalanced to create a better variety of requests on generated maps
• Relics can now be offered in trade and gift offers by Pagonian villages in on generated maps
• A few commodities which were added with the “Major economy update” (Stone Picks, Stones, Fishing Rods) can now appear in trade offers, gift offers and objectives on generated maps too.
• Guard unit type’s combat values have been rebalanced
  • Veteran Guards get their combat power increased from 12 to 20
  • Elite Guards get their combat power increased from 30 to 40
  • This ensures that guards are the significantly more cost-effective than soldiers to defend your village, to compensate for their inability to go on the offensive.
• All Blade Dancer unit types attack bonuses against Scavs are now 100%
  • Standard Blade Dancers get their attack bonus against Scavs increased from 50% to 100%
  • This ensures that their effectiveness against Scavs is significantly better than “Advanced Soldiers” in comparison
  • Elite Blade Dancers get their attack bonus against Scavs reduced from 150% to 100%
  • This ensures they are not too overpowered against Scavs and their power increase compared to the Swift Blade Dancers is more reasonable
• We rebalanced objective types on generated maps
  • Supply POI objectives are 30% more likely than before, in order to reflect the availability of the new delivery process by trade carriers and the additional commodity types which have been added since Early Access start
  • On the other hand the objectives to impress with global values (e.g. total land explored or total wealth) are now 30% less likely than before, since they showed up too often
• Reduced the amount required by objectives for some commodity and unit types in medium and higher difficulty levels
• The difficulty to obtain a hidden achievement about logistics has been reduced

Other Improvements

• Autosaves now can not be overridden when doing a manual save
• Added an option to skip the intro video
• “Scavenger” achievement now requires only 95% of all deposits being mined instead of 100%
• Added death animation variations for all humanoid units

Bugfixes

• Fixed that crafted jewelry did not boost combat power of Sorceresses and Warlocks
• Pathfinder will no longer ignore focus point changes
• Show prompt for multiplayer invites instead of ignoring them while in-game
• Fixed blocked areas around mining resources in generated and campaign maps
• Fixed invalid keyboard shortcut behaviors in the Pagonia Editor
• Fixed edge case when pausing Pathfinder that could lead to unremovable obstacles
• Fixed Layout of mod.io connection button
• Fixed notification filter; it now uses non accelerated game time
• Fixed supply trades not counting as finished when completed with normal Carriers
• Fixed some points of interest being able to be demolished on campaign map 6
• Fixed mini-map showing sometimes building warnings when there are none
• Fixed flickering point lights on Scavenger Bases on very specific zoom levels
• Fixed “Claim All Territory Achievement” not always working
• Fixed performance issues with own idle units being outside own territory in an isolated area
• Fixed missing plural forms of some artifact names
• Fixed wrong exploration of NPC village on second campaign map
• Fixed an issue that the interface of a selected unit was no longer showing the other units employed in the same territory building
• Fixed some guidance videos showing numbers in the video
• Fixed an issue where the guidance video about “Supplying Important Locations” in the fourth campaign map would not be shown properly
• Fixed VFX of the end boss of campaign map 7 looping after he is killed
• Fixed road preview sometimes not corresponding to finally built road
• Fixed tooltips of resources/units in the overview HUD sometimes showing invalid context actions
• Very few text lines were missing, e.g. in some territory buildings tooltips, which have been added
• Fixed player units rarely being stuck in a certain area when being constantly scared by enemies
• Fixed overview HUD dropdown may be displayed below building menu
• Fixed HUD being shown below active dialog cutscene after entering and exiting pause menu once
• Fixed game timer text sometimes having a line break before the last digit
• Fixed “All accessible territory in range claimed” sometimes showing up wrongly in the territory claiming buildings
• Fixed a rare crash that could happen on campaign map 5 if an enemy camp was destroyed before a certain step in the story was reached

Dear Pioneers,

1.1.0 - Quality of Life

Highlights

• Unit Overview and demoting units: Transform any unit type back to standard Carrier
• Copy building settings: copy settings to one or all buildings of the same type
• A lot of balancing adjustments for trade and gift offers, building placement and units

Gameplay

• Unit Overview and demoting units
  • A new interface shows you all unit types you currently have
  • You can demote any kind of unit back to a standard Carrier
  • Units have to be in your territory to be demoted
  • Equipment will be dropped where they stand and can be re-used
  • The interface can also be used to find specific unit types and cycle through their workplaces
• Scav Bulwarks are now destroyed if all units in its vicinity are killed, even if some assigned units are still alive but far away
• Thieves and Bandits will cancel looting attempts and return home when scared off by Warlocks
• Warning flag colors for some states of residential buildings have been corrected

User Interface

• New functionality: Copy building settings
  • You can copy settings of the current building to all other buildings of this type
  • You can also copy settings of the current building and paste the settings to specific building of this type. Additional highlights and tooltips assist you while doing so.
  • You can cycle through buildings of the same type while in copy mode (by TAB key or clicking the new arrow buttons in the building selection menu)
  • All work orders including their settings, the main priority setting and enabled state will be copied
  • This can be used for gathering buildings, production buildings, training buildings and territory buildings
  • Additional hotkeys are available (Default setting: Copy = CTRL+C, Paste = CTRL+V, Paste to all = CTRL+SHIFT+V)
  • Additional highlights and tooltips guide you through the process
• The locations of any campaign, objective and arcane artifact are now represented by an icon in the mini-map if it is lying on the ground in an explored area. The icon can be clicked to focus on the artifact location
• Improved production/recruitment interface: Switching the mode to “target amount”/”minimum stock” now uses the current existing amount as the default value. Switching the mode back to “amount” always uses “0” as default value
• Woodcutter: Changed the work mode buttons of the woodcutter to three separate buttons of which one is always active (preserve forest, cut all trees, remove forest). Before the three modes were reflected by 2 buttons only, which caused some confusion
• The objective UI now has more contextual jump-to actions when clicking the objective
• Stone and Copper Chunks now also have markers on the mini-map
• In-game pause menu now shows more info about the current map you are playing
  • Added “Difficulty” information, if available
  • Added “Map Size” and “Actual playtime” (if time speedup was used)
  • Added “Map Goal” and “Landing party” for generated maps
  • Added “Author” information and buttons for “feedback”, “like” and “report”
• Improvements for demolishing buildings
  • Added a hotkey to demolish a building or cancel it’s construction (default key “-”)
  • The confirmation dialog can be confirmed by pressing the hotkey again, ESC cancels it
  • The confirmation dialog is skipped for newly placed construction sites which did not start yet
  • The confirmation dialog can now be disabled in the gameplay options
• Improvements for placing decorations
  • The decorations category now has a searchbar
  • While placing decorations you can now cycle the available variants via CTRL + Mouse Wheel or by clicking the arrow buttons in the preview interface on the right
• Improved meal history readability, the latest entries are now on the left and finished ones are greyed out
• After selecting the Treasure Hunter in the construction menu, treasure areas are highlighted
• Baneroots now display their summoning progress in the tooltip
• Amber Baneroots now state that they are immune to any attacks
• Underground mines meal tooltip now mentions that softwood beams are required for the ore production process
• Unit tooltips now show if the unit type does not require a tool and training building
• Units that are not scared by Spectres now indicate this in their traits list
• Key bindings bound to mouse now display the actual mouse icon instead of text
• In building construction mode, the info about resources in range has been moved to the mouse pointer location for better visibility (it was in the bottom right corner)
• Tooltips of some control buttons of selected buildings have been improved (Territory buildings, Monument of Wisdom, Light Spire, Woodcutter’s Hut)

Campaign

• Third campaign map now hides Wheat recipe in farm field selection
• Improved visibility of treasure spots of the fourth campaign map to ensure that players can find the important artifacts
• Added new dialogue to explain remote delivery with Trading post on fourth campaign map
• Added description for objectives to build and recruit Trade Post and Trade Carrier on fourth campaign map
• Fifth campaign map now defeats all Werewolves when the boss is defeated
• Sixth campaign map now allows Steel and Diamond Staff production from the beginning
• Warlocks cannot scare the Malthorn Boss anymore

Balancing

• Some additional building types can now be placed on rocky areas (stone plateau, scree and flat cliff areas) beside quarries and mines: Geologist’s Hut, Smelting Works, Furnace, Storage, Warehouse, Construction Camp, Military Camp and Traders’ Camp.
• The trade and gift offers of Pagonian villages on generated maps have been rebalanced
  • The internal trade balancing values, which define the ratio at which the Pagonian villages offer goods and gifts, have been rebalanced to better reflect the rarity and production effort of the commodities
  • The probabilities of trade and gift offers for different commodities have been rebalanced to create a better variety of offers
• The probabilities of objectives to deliver specific commodities have been rebalanced to create a better variety of requests on generated maps
• Relics can now be offered in trade and gift offers by Pagonian villages in on generated maps
• A few commodities which were added with the “Major economy update” (Stone Picks, Stones, Fishing Rods) can now appear in trade offers, gift offers and objectives on generated maps too.
• Guard unit type’s combat values have been rebalanced
  • Veteran Guards get their combat power increased from 12 to 20
  • Elite Guards get their combat power increased from 30 to 40
  • This ensures that guards are the significantly more cost-effective than soldiers to defend your village, to compensate for their inability to go on the offensive.
• All Blade Dancer unit types attack bonuses against Scavs are now 100%
  • Standard Blade Dancers get their attack bonus against Scavs increased from 50% to 100%
    • This ensures that their effectiveness against Scavs is significantly better than “Advanced Soldiers” in comparison
  • Elite Blade Dancers get their attack bonus against Scavs reduced from 150% to 100%
    • This ensures they are not too overpowered against Scavs and their power increase compared to the Swift Blade Dancers is more reasonable

Other

• Autosaves now can not be overridden when doing a manual save
• Added an option to skip the intro video
• “Scavenger” achievement now requires only 95% of all deposits being mined instead of 100%
• Added death animation variations for all humanoid units

Bugfixes

• Fixed that crafted jewelry did not boost combat power of Sorceresses and Warlocks
• Pathfinder will no longer ignore focus point changes
• Show prompt for multiplayer invites instead of ignoring them while in-game
• Fixed blocked areas around mining resources in generated and campaign maps
• Fixed invalid keyboard shortcut behaviors in the Pagonia Editor
• Fixed edge case when pausing Pathfinder that could lead to unremovable obstacles
• Fixed Layouting of mod.io connection button
• Fixed notification filter; it now uses non accelerated game time
• Fixed supply trades not counting as finished when completed with normal Carriers
• Fixed some points of interest being able to be demolished on campaign map 6
• Fixed mini-map showing sometimes building warnings when there are none
• Fixed flickering point lights on Scavenger Bases on very specific zoom levels
• Fixed “Claim All Territory Achievement” not always working
• Fixed performance issues with own idle units being outside own territory in an isolated area
• Fixed missing plural forms of some artifact names
• Fixed wrong exploration of NPC village on second campaign map
• Fixed an issue that the interface of a selected unit was no longer showing the other units employed in the same territory building
• Fixed some guidance videos showing numbers in the video
• Fixed an issue where the guidance video about “Supplying Important Locations” in the fourth campaign map would not be shown properly
• Fixed VFX of the end boss of campaign map 7 looping after he is killed
• Fixed road preview sometimes not corresponding to finally built road
• Fixed tooltips of resources/units in the overview hud sometimes showing invalid context actions
• Very few text lines were missing, e.g. in some territory buildings tooltips, which have been added

Known Issues

• Locally installed map packages are currently not shown in custom maps.

Dear Pioneers,

Post-Release Roadmap

AMA with our Creative Director Volker Wertich

Bugfixes

• Added more telemetry and error logging when granting an achievement failed
• Fixed rare crash in UI when showing unit information
• Fixed units sometimes not returning to own territory when finished with their job
• Fixed rare crash during unit recruitment
• Fixed rare crash during terrain sediment update
• Fixed rare desync when updating POI health
• Fixed an edge case when demolishing a building could lead to resource loss
• Fixed residents sometimes not assigned to Tavern tables
• Fixed text layout in some rare edge cases
• Scavs are now correctly engaging in combat when encountered during obstacle removal
• Fixed some typos

Dear Pioneers,

One week ago Pioneers of Pagonia left Early Access! Since then, it's been so wonderful to follow up on your positive comments, reactions and live streams about the new story campaign! Thank you for embarking on this adventure with us! We already started to work on new content and have a lot of ideas of what's coming next! But first we would like to welcome all new Pioneers who landed in Pagonia since the 1.0 release! For those of you who are interested in an introduction to the world of Pagonia, we got you! Just watch the little video we made for you:

Builders of Pagonia

We would also like to remind you of our ongoing map building contest! Become a builder of Pagonia and let your creativity shine! You'll have some time left until January 29th, 2026 to submit a map on mod.io. For more details check out the official Map Contest. Apart from fame and glory, the winner receives a visible tag on their map package on mod.io and in-game, a special rank on our Discord and an exclusive merch package.

Festively Decorated

It's getting cold outside and the Pagonians are preparing everything for their festivities! We activated festive decorations around the market area in Pagonia from December 18th to January 8th!

Our team at Envision Entertainment will also take some time off during the holidays. We'll be back in January 2026 with fresh energy and some new ideas and improvements!

We wish you happy holidays! ✨ Your Envision Entertainment Team

Balancing

• Increased combat strength of Apprentice Warlock from 1 to 2

• Increased the number of Carriers in landing party of campaign map 4 from 60 to 120

Bugfixes

• Adjusted camera position on some dialogues on campaign map 5

• Fixed faction color of Soldiers on campaign map 5

• Fixed boss of campaign map 7 sometimes freezing and not engaging in combat correctly

• Fixed crash due to achievements

• Fixed rare crash when terrain type changes

• Fixed rare crash when setting focus point of the Treasure Hunter's Lodge

• Fixed two achievements that were not able to be completed on custom maps: “Architect” and “Specialized in everything”

• Adjusted “Pagonians Assemble” achievement to require only 3 factions

• Attempted to fix campaign map achievements sometimes not triggering correctly

Bugfixes

• Fixed a race condition that could lead to various crashes, especially during construction of Forager’s Hut

• Some fixes in localization

• Fixed gatherable deposits highlight when changing gather recipes and during construction preview

• Fixed crash when the mission is failed while being in road demolition mode

• Fixed missing Darian icon in some Notification messages of campaign map 4

• Fixed some dialogs being triggered multiple times in campaign map 4

• Fixed claiming of territory around some POIs on campaign map 4

• Fixed the game stuck in loading screen after loading a broken saved game

• Fixed Farm Field deposit tooltip & forester plant tooltip showing empty/invalid info

• Pathfinders recruitment is now unlocked with all mines claimed on campaign map 3

• Fixed wrong colors for some objectives tooltip/building menu on campaign map 4

• The Chisel recipe now gets unlocked together with the Jeweler when the supply objective for the Jeweler POI is solved on campaign map 4

• Fixed a hole in the mast of the Venturer on the campaign map 1

• Some shaders are preloaded to reduce initial flickering on main menu map

Improvements

• Better telemetry data for some of the crash reports

• Removed empty work orders header shown in Explorer and Geologist

• Updated defeat all enemies victory screen

• Improved trade Carrier distribution between trading posts

• Players that finished the tutorial map during early access will still start the campaign anew with map 1 per default (and not map 2). They can opt to skip it though.

• Adjusted some “infinite” trades to a fixed amount on campaign map 6

• Added some information for locked recipes on campaign map 4

Dear Pioneers,

Pioneers of Pagonia 1.0 – including the new story campaign – is out now!

Beyond the Fog

• Play the complete campaign with unique missions and meet a wide range of story characters
• Discover new factions, artifacts and legends
• Confront the Hollowed—boss enemies that seem to be born from the fog itself
• Find the Tower of Visions, symbol of Pagonia’s unity

What has changed since Early Access?

• Quality of Life #1 – 0.3.0: Unit selection menu, attack command and more improvements.
• Economy Update 0.4.0: Added the fishing hut, new commodities, large storage building, increased camera zoom, production and units statistics and many more improvements.
• Shared Co-op Update 0.5.0: Our first multiplayer with up to 4 players sharing one faction together.
• Quality of Life #2 – 0.6.0: Adding new light setups, new help grid and efficiency statistics.
• Mining Update 0.7.0: Added a lot of new buildings, e.g the Geologist, subsurface mining and a new enemy faction, the Scavs.
• Quality of Life #3 – 0.8.0: Improved the notification system, new top bar configuration and added the "threatened" state.
• Magic Update 0.10.0: New Buildings (Treasure Hunter's Lodge, Jewelry Workshop), monument abilities (Light Spire & Monument of Wisdom), Arcane Economy, Sorceresses & Warlocks, New enemy type: Malthorn.
• Winter Update 0.11.0: Added our first narrative tutorial map and new arcane artifacts.
• Quality of Life #4 – 0.12.0: Gameplay, UI and visual improvements.
• Quality of Life #5 – 0.13.0: New production & new user interface, save game naming, seagulls!
• Major Economy Update 0.14.0: Introduced the new settlement progression, added 8 new buildings, map gen improvements and decorations.
• Pagonia Editor Update 0.15.0: Released our in-house tool for map creation

Builder's Edition

What comes next?

Thank you, Pioneers!

Changes since version 0.15

Highlights

• Campaign with more than 30 hours of playtime and three difficulty levels
• Campaign-only features like boss encounters, landscape obstacles, unique locations and much more
• Many enhancements for new players based on community feedback including an improved tutorial map, extended commodity tooltips and many new guidance videos.

Patch Notes

Campaign

• We refrain from giving details about the campaign to avoid spoilers.
• The campaign also offers a “Story mode” in which players can experience the full story without having to worry about military challenges.

Settlement Progression

• Resorted the Settlement Progression objective steps of all milestones to a more meaningful order
  • Improved several objective steps to better guide new players
  • Additionally, the list of objectives shown while playing now hides follow-up steps by default to reduce the amount of objectives displayed continuously
• New objectives when starting with advanced landing parties
  • New progression objectives guide you to establish your settlement if you choose to start with a higher tier landing party
• Renamed “Stone Block” progression to “Stone Block Construction”, which now requires at least one gathered Stone Block and one trained Builder
• Moved the Arcane Academy to the Cloth section of Stone Block Construction
• Moved Trade Carriers into the main Stone Block Construction tier

Gameplay

• Production building execution of competing recipes has been improved
  • Production buildings which require different quantities of the same commodity to produce different products (e.g. Weaver needs 2 Flax for Rope and 1 Flax for Cloth) until now only produced the cheaper recipe if the supply was very scarce (e.g. whenever one unit of Flax arrived, the Weaver immediately produced Cloth and therefore 2 Flax required for Ropes were never available at once).
  • Now, the recipes in those production buildings are processed alternately even when supplies are scarce (e.g. if Cloth has been produced, the Weaver will now wait for 2 Flax to arrive and produce a Rope next). This assumes both recipes are on the same priority level.
• Building construction does not require a road connection. This change is valid since the “Major Economy Update”, but has not been communicated:
  • Pioneers, Diggers and Builders immediately start raising buildings after they have been placed. The construction site does not require a road connection anymore.
  • The economy requires road connections since Carriers need them to deliver / pick up commodities and to reach their homes.

Balancing

• Jewelry items now grant arcane combat boosts
• Boar respawn rate lowered
• Construction costs for Monument of Wisdom and Light Spire were significantly reduced
• Reduced mana costs for Monument of Wisdom and Light Spire abilities

Guidance Videos

• All existing guidance videos have been updated
• Several new guidance videos have been created to fill information gaps

User Interface

• Extended commodity tooltips
  • Commodity tooltips now offer much more information
  • Right-clicking a commodity centers the view on its production building
• Selecting enemy camps now displays an info panel detailing their abilities and the number of enemies still based at this location.
• Mouse buttons can be assigned to shortcuts
• Resource calculations and warnings in HUD fixed and updated
• Mini map
  • The Venturer is now displayed on the mini map
  • Buildings with critical warning flags are highlighted by default on the mini map
  • Changed colors for buildings with warnings to yellow and buildings with a critical state to red
• New objectives are highlighted now
• Building menu shows buttons to cycle to the next building of this type (was available via TAB already, but without UI element)
• Construction menu now shows which tools the workers working here need
• Hitbox for geologist signs improved
• Updated start menu background map and animations
• If owned, the Official Guide Book can be opened from the game start menu

Other

• Exclusive Builder's Edition decoration statue
• Steam achievements are available now
• Credits have been added

Please Note

Dear Pioneers,

The 1.0 version of Pioneers of Pagonia is coming December 11!

Dear Pioneers,

Version 1.0 of Pioneers of Pagonia will be released in one week!

Story Campaign: Beyond the Fog

What is the Campaign About?

Campaign Facts

• More than 30 hours of playtime
• Multiple difficulty levels available, settings can be changed for each map
• Play the campaign with friends and family in shared co-op mode
• Discover unique locations and overcome large landscape obstacles
• Surprising challenges on handcrafted maps and much more!

Steam Achievements

What comes after?

Dear Pioneers,

Dear Pioneers,

It's time for our very first map builder contest!⚒️

Builders of Pagonia – Map Contest

• Create a new custom map using the Pagonia Editor and upload it on Mod.io with the "Map Builder Contest 1" Tag.
• Make sure to stay within the time frame: January 29, 2026 4 pm CET.
• The winner will be determined shortly after.

• The map must be your original creation
• The map must be visible and accepted on mod.io
• The map must be playable, i.e. have a victory condition that can be achieved.
• Have a single active member account on mod.io
• Not be employed or provide services for mod.io, Envision Entertainment or Pioneers of Pagonia
• Notwithstanding the above eligibility criteria, Envision Entertainment and mod.io reserve the right to exclude any creator or mod from the contest for any reason

Mod.io

May the best builder win!⚒️