Pompeii: The Legacy news & patch notes

• Fixed fertility calculations for Crop Fields, Vegetable Farms, and Vineyards. Any field chunk placed outside fertile land will now correctly receive a 50% production penalty.
• Fixed several quest objectives in some localizations where Honey Wine was incorrectly displayed as Wine.
• Various small UI and hint improvements, including alignment fixes.
• Added additional logging around several systems to help track down rare crashes reported by two players.

Ave, Governors!

First of all, I'd like to apologize for being a little quieter over the last few weeks. The development of the tools needed to create maps more efficiently ended up taking longer than expected. While those tools will help me in the future, the maps themselves are still largely hand-painted and handcrafted, so creating these two new maps required quite a bit of work as well.

The good news is that the foundation is now in place. I already have additional maps planned for later this summer, and from now on I expect updates to return to a more regular schedule, roughly every one to two weeks.

One of the most requested features since release has been more maps, and today I'm happy to finally deliver them!

Patch v1.006.0

New Features

• Added two brand-new maps to the game

• Added a map selection panel for Sandbox and Creative modes

• In Sandbox and Creative modes, the City Center can now be placed almost anywhere on the map instead of being restricted to the southern area

Improvements

• Improved LOD distances on a number of buildings

• Added several new grasses and plants to existing biomes to support the new maps

• Improved roof rendering performance

• Better balancing for the upgrade costs of several buildings

Fixes

• Fixed various localization and text issues across several languages

• Fixed an issue where walls on some Insula buildings could display incorrect tangents at LOD0, causing visible flickering when moving the camera

Coming Later This Week

A new update is already planned for the end of the week and will include:

• Several new plaza types

• Citizens appearing around and inside more buildings

• Improved movement throughout the city

My goal is to continue making Pompeii feel more alive with each update.

Thank You

As always, thank you for your continued support, feedback, bug reports, suggestions, screenshots, save files, and patience.

Seeing players continue to build new cities, share their creations, and help improve Pompeii: The Legacy gives me the motivation to keep working on the game every day.

I hope you enjoy the new maps, and I look forward to seeing the cities you build on them!

Ave Governors!

Patch v1.005.0 is now live!

This update brings one of the most requested additions so far, City Gates, together with improvements and fixes for the entire wall system.

I also added a family statue on top of the gate for now, and I’m already thinking about creating several additional City Gate variants later on.

Alongside the new defensive structures, this patch also includes optimization work, UI improvements, localization fixes, and various balancing tweaks.

Patch v1.005.0

• Fixed city wall placement and optimized wall models

• Added City Gates

• Added two Wall Tower models

• Added City Gate and Tower to Research

• Slightly reorganized Research due to new technologies

• Fixed moving the Arch and City Gate so the central passage remains functional after relocation

• Fixed French campaign objective that incorrectly requested Wine instead of Honey Wine

• Screen now scrolls at the edge while moving buildings if edge scrolling is enabled

• Slightly increased Patrician organic tax

• Fixed burned ruins bushes becoming green in LOD view

• Navmesh optimization, large cities should now stutter less on some PCs when placing new buildings

• Walls can no longer be built over building entrances

• Various balance tweaks

• Various minor code optimizations

• Minor localization improvements across several languages

Thank you again for all the feedback, bug reports, and suggestions, they continue helping me improve the game every week.

One more mini update will follow soon, mainly focused on improving the handling of Aesthetics and making decorations have a stronger impact on citizen satisfaction and city development.

After that, there will be a short pause until June 8th while I prepare the next larger update!

Upcoming Update Preview: City Walls, Towers & Gates

Hello everyone!

Before anything else, I just want to say thank you for continuing to play the game, share feedback, and send ideas every single week. It genuinely means a lot to me to see the community still so active and passionate about the future of Pompeii.

I read your comments carefully, and many of the improvements in upcoming patches are directly inspired by your suggestions and reports.

Strengthening the City Defenses

The next update, planned for early next week, will focus heavily on city defenses, bringing major improvements to walls together with the addition of defensive towers and city gates.

In Ancient Rome, walls were far more than simple protection, they were symbols of strength, stability, and prestige. Pompeii itself was surrounded by impressive defensive walls that evolved over centuries, originally built by earlier Italic peoples and later expanded and reinforced during Roman rule.

Even though the city eventually enjoyed a long period of peace, its walls remained an important part of its identity and appearance.

This update aims to make your cities feel more authentic, more strategic, and visually far more impressive when building large defended settlements.

What Comes Next

After this patch there will probably be a short pause between updates, as I’ll be focusing on preparing a much larger major update planned for roughly one month from now.

I’m not ready to reveal everything yet, but it will include a very large amount of new features, improvements, and a few surprises that I think many of you will enjoy.

Thank you again for all the support and positive reviews, and I hope you’ll enjoy the upcoming update!

Hello Governors,

A new update is now live!

This patch brings a mix of fixes, improvements, and a few features that were requested by the community. As always, your feedback has been incredibly helpful in shaping these updates, and I’m doing my best to improve the experience step by step.

Patch v1.004.1

• Fixed a crash that could occur when deleting a Port

• Added Large Fountain to research

• Improved visuals for Large Fountain (now fully available in-game)

• Added sorting by name to the resource selection panel (for resources shown on the status bar)

• Added FXAA option (disabled by default)

• Fixed festival duration counter not showing when a festival is initiated

• Fixed truncated texts in various tooltips

• Fixed missing Right Single Quotation Mark in French localization

• Added building size info to construction tooltip

• Various balance tweaks

• Various minor code optimizations

I’m already working on the next updates, which will bring some larger improvements and new features. Thank you all for your continued support, feedback, and patience!

Patch v1.003.0 is here!

Hello Governors, and thank you all for continuing to build Pompeii!

This update is focused on further quality-of-life improvements, fixing inconsistencies in stats, and making numbers clearer and more reliable across the game.

I’m continuing to refine the experience based on your feedback, thank you for all the reports and suggestions, they really help a lot.

What’s new & improved:

• Houses now stay on the Upgrade panel after upgrading (instead of switching to Data)

• More accurate ship travel info - now shows how long the journey takes in both directions

• Upgrade hints now display both required resources and current stock amounts

• Added “Fully Upgraded” hint when no further upgrades are available

• Houses can now also be upgraded directly from the Buildings panel

• Adjusted Apothecary House upgrade cost

• Fixed missing hints for trade resources on ships

• Fixed repair cost display to show the correct amount

• Happiness hints now show resource consumption per house

• Improved trade availability for: Mushroom, Honey, Charcoal, Medicine

• Fixed issue where only 9 trade resources were visible in the city

• Combo bonuses now correctly display actual values above buildings within range

• Various text fixes

• Balance tweaks (slightly reduced consumption of Basic and Luxury goods)

What’s next?

Another update is coming next week, with more in-game hints to help with city management, and hopefully anti-aliasing (FXAA) support as well.

A quick note on how trade works

I also wanted to add a short guide to help clarify how trade works in the game, since it can be a bit confusing at first.

Once you establish a trade route with another city, you assign a ship to it. Each ship has its own speed, and on the Ship panel under “Travel time”, you can see how long it takes for a full round trip (from your city to the target city and back).

For example, if the travel time is 2 months, and you set a resource to export 500 units per month, the ship will actually try to load 1000 units (for the full round trip), which results in an effective monthly trade of 500 units.

So the key things to consider are:

• ship speed

• distance to the city

• travel time

These determine how much your ship can realistically transport.

Another important factor is the Trade Target Quantity set in the Stock panel. If your ship tries to load 1000 units, but your Trade Target Quantity only allows 500 above your current storage, the ship will only take 500.

Lastly, keep in mind that prices vary between cities. Each resource can have a different buy/sell price depending on the trade partner. You can check this in the Stock panel, on the bottom right, you’ll see a list of cities trading the selected resource along with their prices. This helps you find the most profitable trade routes.

After all, the Romans built their empire through trade across the Mediterranean, so in the game, trade is a bit more detailed by design.

v1.002.2 – Resources UI & Trade Improvements

Another small update is live!

This patch focuses on improving UI and trade systems, making it easier to track resources and understand trade flow.

Highlights:

• Added an optional extended resource bar (toggle in the UI header)

• Ship travel time now displayed (one-way)

• Displays up to 16 cities with prices and buy/sell status in the Stock view for each resource

• Increased the number of cities that sell Imported Goods

• Fixed ship loading to correctly follow monthly trade targets

• Reduced papyrus upkeep for scroll production

• Fixed Fighting Ring production bar issue

• Fixed UI issue when opening Market from house panel

Thanks again for all your feedback, more improvements coming soon!

First Normal Patch After Release

Salve, Governor,

After the full release, I’ve been going through all your feedback, reports, and discussions, and they’ve helped a lot. Thank you all for taking the time to share issues and suggestions.

This is the first slightly larger patch, focused on fixing as many of those things as possible. Most of them weren’t game-breaking, but I want the experience to be as smooth and enjoyable as it can be, so I’m pushing these updates quickly.

Tomorrow I’m planning to add an additional resource display to the main UI, and after that I’ll continue working through the remaining fixes.

Patch Notes v1.002.1

Fixes & Improvements

• Added weekly Need/Gained stats hint in UI

• Trade input no longer requires pressing Enter

• Empty input fields in Stock / City Trade now reset to 0 instead of staying blank

• Fixed SHIFT / CTRL shortcuts in Stock panel (limits & trade targets)

• CTRL shortcut now correctly adjusts values by ±10

• Market now correctly reports serviced houses (added clearer hints)

• Fixed Martial Bless tech (Mars Temple now properly reduces Arena input costs)

• Research can no longer be started without required resources

• Improved hint when Markets are insufficient (shows total houses vs capacity)

• Burned Domus now has correct burned visual state

• Death of Markos quest now correctly counts both busts and small statues

• Fixed issue with lost governing points on City Hall IV

• Fixed sea surface shader

• Fixed incorrect efficiency hints on some buildings

• Art School & Martial Art School now properly contribute to Education

• Added upgrades to Art School & Martial Art School

• Fixed Italian objectives and reviewed other languages for consistency

• Fixed Research panel reopening on correct tab

• Added more trade cities (Olives, Iron, Fish, Wool, Grapes)

• Increased impact of difficulty settings (Easy / Hard)

• Various balance tweaks

• Multiple text improvements across different languages

Thanks again for all the support, I’ll keep polishing and improving the game step by step!

Patch v1.001.2 – Hotfix Update

A small hotfix update is now live, addressing a crash issue and a few gameplay improvements.

Fixes & Improvements

• Fixed a crash (CTD) that could occur when a building’s Stability dropped to 0 in certain situations

• Added buy/sell prices to the Stock panel in City trading resources section

• Fixed Grain Sabotage quest so it can now also be completed using:

  • Fields First Edict

  • Patrician Tax Reform

• Adjusted research tree by swapping positions of:

  • Storage of Knowledge

  • Patrician Tax Reform

Thanks again for all the reports and support, more updates coming soon!

Patch v1.000.9 is now live

Greetings, Roman Governors!

I’m continuing with daily fixes and polishing, this update focuses on UI issues, fire balance, and a few annoying bugs reported by players.

Fixes & Improvements:

• Fixed NumEnter toggling UI while in Govern / Empire panels

• Pressing ESC now restores UI if it was hidden

• Added missing notification for Entertainment

• Fixed Entertainment grid not showing warning icons above houses with low coverage

• Fixed overly bright overlay when placing Forester blueprint

• Fixed aqueduct being buildable without stone

• Fixed crash (CTD) when clicking Denarii and Food limit in Stock panel

Fire balance adjustments:

• Rebalanced fire chance from lightning during storms

• Reduced fire spread from lightning (especially on Easy difficulty)

• Reduced overall fire spread on Easy difficulty

• Increased impact of nearby Prefectures on fire control

• Slightly increased effect of wells and fountains as water sources

I’ll keep pushing fixes and improvements, thank you all for the feedback.

If you’re enjoying the game, a short Steam review goes a long way at this stage!

Thanks again for the support!

Patch v1.000.7 is now live

Greetings, Roman Governors!

I decided not to wait too long with the first patch, as these fixes were important to get in as soon as possible:

• Fixed a bug where moving a building would leave its combo bonus active

• Fixed several smaller issues related to combo bonuses

• Removed the Domus Tier 3 research (it was not used in the game)

• Fully upgraded buildings now display the total bonus from all upgrades, not just the last one

You can expect the next, more substantial patch in a day or two.

As always, feel free to share your feedback, if something is bothering you or doesn’t feel right, let me know. I want you to truly enjoy building your own Pompeii.

And if you’re having a good time with the game, a short Steam review really helps a lot at this stage.

Thank you for the support!

Pompeii: The Legacy is now live!

After six months in Early Access, this marks the end of an intense development phase for a solo developer, but not the end of the journey.

It’s hard to believe how quickly these six months passed. But reaching full release doesn’t mean development stops. This is my first solo project under Siscia Games, and I plan to continue improving and supporting it for a long time.

From Early Access to Full Experience

Since entering Early Access, Pompeii: The Legacy has grown significantly, both in scope and depth. The most important addition is the complete campaign, now fully playable from start to finish, offering over 20 hours of gameplay.

Players rebuild Pompeii across generations, managing economy, trade, politics, and the everyday lives of citizens, all while facing dynamic events and environmental challenges.

Key Improvements Over the Past Six Months

The Early Access period introduced a wide range of new systems, content, and improvements:

• Full campaign completion

• Panoramic camera

• New dynamic events and disasters (including snowstorms, storms, and volcanic ash)

• Expanded fire system with spreading mechanics

• City festivals, arena games, and public events

• Trade system improvements

• Aqueduct system rework

• Building relocation and improved UI systems

• Manual and automatic worker assignment

• City Walls and basic military presence

• Numerous new buildings, including Circus, Academy, Temples, Gold Mine, Pozzolan Mine, Weaponsmith, Armorer, and advanced production chains

• Expanded research and bonus systems

• New Building Preview panel and Army panel

• More domestic animals for immersion and additional ambient sounds for buildings

• Major engine and performance optimizations

Alongside gameplay systems, the game also received significant visual and atmospheric upgrades, including weather effects, ambient sounds, and more detailed city life.

The game is also fully translated into 13 languages.

A Solo Project at Scale

One of the defining aspects of Pompeii: The Legacy is that it was developed by a single developer, including both the game itself and its custom-built engine.

This dual focus shaped the development process, allowing for deep technical control, but also presenting unique challenges, especially in the final stretch toward release.

What Comes After Release

While the full release marks a major milestone, further updates are already planned. These include:

• Combat systems

• Steam Workshop support (modding)

• Controller support

• Steam Deck optimization

Release is just the beginning of the game’s long-term development.

Final Update Before Release

Hi everyone,

We’re getting very close now, just a few days left until full release.

This is one of the final updates before launch, with one more important update coming right before elease.

📖 Campaign Complete

• The full campaign is now available from start to finish.

• The full campaign now offers 20+ hours of gameplay, with story progression, events, and tutorial fully integrated.

🏛️ New Features & Improvements

• City Hall V added

• City Walls system added

• Aqueduct system improved (no more strange connections)

• Fire system introduced

  • Fires can now spread across buildings

  • New actions:

    • Bucket Chain – spend Denarii to fight fires faster

    • Demolish Building – stop fire by sacrificing structures

  • Fire behavior affected by weather (rain can extinguish it, and lightning during storms can ignite buildings)

• Snow system added

  • Terrain and snowfall effects

  • Integrated into quests and sandbox

⚖️ Gameplay & Balance

• Improved economy balancing across difficulty levels

• Adjusted income from taxes, markets, and patricians

• Production upgrades improved (e.g. lumber production)

• Better worker and carrier behavior

• Increased usage of service buildings (Bathhouse, Library, School, etc.)

🛠️ Fixes & Polish

• Fixed campaign blockers and dialogue issues

• Fixed imported goods satisfaction bug

• Various localization updates

• Many smaller fixes and stability improvements

❤️ Thank You

Over the past weeks, I’ve received a huge amount of support, feedback, and kind messages from all of you. It really means a lot, especially as a solo developer working on both the game and the engine. Your support has helped me push through this final stretch.

Full Release – April 9, 2026

Thank you for being part of this journey.

📅 Release Date Update

I want to share a quick update regarding the full release.

Due to Steam’s wishlist email cooldown system, I’ve had to move the full release of Pompeii: The Legacy by a few days, from April 6th to April 9th.

This ensures that players who have wishlisted the game will properly receive release notifications. It’s a small delay, but an important one for visibility and a stronger launch.

Thank you for your understanding and continued support ❤️

A new update is now live!

I’m really happy to share this one with you, it’s a pretty important patch with new features, improvements, and a lot of polish based on your feedback.

This update brings better balance, new research options, and building construction prioritization, something many of you have been asking for.

As always, thank you for playing and helping shape the game!

📜 Patch Notes v0.803.0

• Added building construction prioritization:

  • 3 priority levels (including pause)

  • Workers finish current actions

  • New icons next to construction hammer

  • Added tooltips for all priority options

• Added new ship: Navis Oneraria (model + icon)

• Improved health and herb consumption balance

• Added 5 additional researches

• Odeum now uses Decorations instead of cakes, roses, and clothing

• Carthago now sells glass, allowing earlier access to medicine production

• Tavern: fixed radius, adjusted cost and upkeep

• Fixed Tavern upkeep, and radius

• Improved Easy mode balance (reduced happiness penalties)

• Improved religion and temple impact balance

• Improved herb consumption balance further

• Fixed Public Toilets health impact

• Fixed early entertainment influence issues

• Fixed some buildings using incorrect area calculations

• Adjusted Street Stage functionality (uses radius again for now)

• Fixed statue orientation in Symbols menu

Thanks again for all the feedback, it’s helping shape the game every day. More improvements are coming soon as we approach full release!

Patch v0.802.0 is now live!

This update focuses on improving game balance and overall flow, with a strong emphasis on making Markets more meaningful and easier to understand.

Resource consumption has been rebalanced and fixed, imported goods are now fully integrated into gameplay, and the Market panel now clearly shows weekly distribution to houses.

Alongside this, several issues have been fixed (including selection house stutter), and overall balance has been further polished.

Thanks for your continued support!

Patch Notes v0.802.0

• Market panel now displays weekly distribution to houses

• Fixed resource consumption calculations for citizens (minor percentage errors)

• Improved overall balance of citizen resource consumption

• Imported goods are now active in gameplay

• Slaves no longer leave due to lack of luxury food

• Added “Consuming” column to Imported Goods hint

• Fighters Ring now uses "Serviced Houses" instead of radius

• Added notification for missing imported goods

• Fixed stutter when selecting houses

• Fixed how citizens enter Markets

• Citizens from nearby houses now regularly visit Markets

• General balance polishing

Update v0.801.0 - Balance & Fixes

A new update is now live!

I decided to release this update earlier than planned, as it contains important balance changes and fixes that were better to get into your hands as soon as possible.

Key Changes

This update focuses on improving overall game balance, fixing inconsistencies, and polishing several systems:

• Health & Disease

  • Plague can now replace influenza and has a much stronger impact on citizens

  • Diseases can now cause people to leave the city

• Gameplay & Balance

  • Rebalanced food, basic goods, and luxury goods consumption

  • Added proper upkeep costs to multiple buildings (Arena, Theatre, Circus, Odeum, Academy, Trade Ports)

  • Increased effectiveness of Barber Shops and Bathhouses

• UI & Feedback

  • Added warning when Markets are missing and supply is insufficient

  • Added notification for poor education

• Fixes & Improvements

  • Improved selection accuracy when clicking to houses

  • Added missing upgrades across multiple buildings

  • Adjusted notification positioning

  • Fixed visual and LOD issues on several buildings (Weaponsmith, Jewelry Store)

  • Added option to adjust disaster frequency in settings

  • Fixed minor visual issues

• Localization

  • German translation has been fully implemented

❤️ Thank You

Thank you all for continuing to play, report issues, and support the game, it really helps a lot, especially this close to release.

More updates are coming soon as I continue polishing everything for the full release.

Major Update Now Live – Preparing for Release

A new update for Pompeii: The Legacy is now live!

This is one of the final major updates before the full release, bringing a wide range of improvements across gameplay systems, balance, UI, and overall experience. The goal with this update was to refine core mechanics and prepare the game for its final version.

What’s New

This update focuses heavily on improving the core systems of the game:

• Trade has been rebalanced to better reflect each city’s role

• Health and disease systems have been expanded with seasonal influenza and more impactful outbreaks

• Education and entertainment systems have been reworked for clearer and more consistent behavior

• A brand-new Army Panel has been added, giving better insight into your military

• New city interaction mechanics like Feasts and Games add more depth to citizen management

• A new building: Weaponsmith

Alongside this, there are many UI improvements, new notifications, better feedback systems, and a number of performance optimizations, especially in the late game.

What’s Next

The full release is approaching, and the next update will be the largest and final version of the game.

Until then, I’ll continue polishing and fixing anything that comes up based on your feedback.

The campaign has now been fully developed and tested. It will be unlocked shortly before release.

❤️ Thank You ❤️

As a solo developer, I really appreciate all the feedback, bug reports, and support so far, it has helped shape the game in a big way.

If you have any thoughts after trying the update, feel free to share them!

Update Notes v0.800.1

🏛️ Gameplay, Balance & UI Improvements

• Rebalanced trade by adjusting which resources each city buys and sells • Removed mine durability values and updated Mine Durability research • Removed consumption radius from Apothecary Houses • Added resource consumption toggle for all imported goods in the stock panel • Added new notifications • Added service coverage info to building hints (School, Library, Academy, Market) • Removed unnecessary production bar from Arena and Theatre

🏥 Health & Disease System

• Introduced seasonal influenza, temporarily reducing citizens' health • Improved balance of Medicine and Herbs consumption, especially during flu season • Increased disease impact — health now drops more significantly during outbreaks • Added notifications for Influenza and Plague outbreaks • Fixed and improved health impact from service buildings (Hospital, Bathhouse, Barber, Toilet) • Houses now display how much health benefit they receive from nearby buildings

🎓 Education & Entertainment

• Reworked Education system (School, Library, Academy now properly affect citizens) • Added “Serviced” parameter to education buildings • Reworked Entertainment system to function similarly to Education • Added ability to host games in Arena and Circus

⚔️ Army & Military

• New Army Panel o Displays morale o Shows number of soldiers o Added unit description o Added button to change unit type o Displays total number of Barracks o Shows weekly food consumption o Shows total army size • Added Barracks upgrade state display • Combat system will remain locked until release

🎉 City Hall & Feasts

• Added “Perform Feast” action to City Hall • Feast increases Happiness by +20% and lasts 30 days • Cost scales with city population • Added new objective: Perform Feast

🏗️ Buildings & Content

• Added new building: Weaponsmith • Fixed hit mesh and bounding sphere issues • Added additional upgrade to Sawmill • Improved Mushroom production and other production chains • Fixed Advanced Fishing • Updated research bonuses (Reservoir capacity increase +20 area) • Added new research (Luxury Food – Beginner tier, Advanced & Master Food Production)

⚙️ Technical & Performance

• Improved logging and debugging tools • Multiple performance optimizations for late-game rendering

📖 Campaign

• Campaign progression further developed and tested • Campaign will unlock shortly before release

• Research Bonuses Fixed (Several production buildings were not correctly applying global bonuses unlocked in the Research Tree. All researched bonuses now function properly.)
• Late Game Balance Adjustments (Saltworks – adjusted salt output and upgrade costs, Honey Winery – adjusted upkeep, production values, and upgrade costs)
• Woodcutters now properly move to the tree before carrying logs (instead of sliding).

🚀 Early Access Exit Announcement

I’m happy to officially announce that Pompeii: The Legacy will leave Early Access on April 6th, when the full 1.0 release launches.

Thank you all for your feedback, patience, and support throughout development ❤️ There will be one more major update before release.

Update v0.740.0

A new update is now live, bringing fresh details, optimizations, fixes, and quality-of-life improvements across the game.

🐕 Dogs & Cats

Animals have arrived in Pompeii!

• Dogs and cats now populate the city

• Cats roam near Fishing Hut, Architect Office, Gatherer’s Hut, Clay Pit and Herbalist Garden

• Dogs roam near Prefecture, Blacksmith. Tavern, Pig Farm and Forum

• Animals wander between their parent building and nearby houses

🏛 Symbols Panel (Family Panel)

New customization options in Govern → Family → Symbols:

• Change your Family Flag

• Change your Statue

💾 Save Game Improvements

• Load panel now shows whether a save is Campaign or Sandbox

• Clearer resource selection on right-side bar & Empire Map

⚙ Fixes & Optimizations

• Fixed CTD when opening Empire Map in later years with many trade ships

• Improved rendering with horizontal camera tilt (hidden buildings behind UI are no longer drawn)

• Multiple building optimizations

• Optimized decorative Cypress, Oleander, and hedges

• Volcano crater now emits small smoke

• Gatherer’s Hut, Vineyard and Jewelry Store shadow & LOD fixes

• Corrected Salt resource visuals - no more brick in Saltworks

🎮 Gameplay Polish

• Additional balancing and refinement

• Various text and visual fixes

🔧 Work in Progress

Ongoing development continues on:

• Campaign content (not yet fully unlocked)

• New events (coming in the next update)

• Arch of Triumph completed → Unlocking in the next update after testing

📅 What’s Next

• One more major update before release

• Full Release on April 6th

Thank you for being part of the journey ❤️

Update 0702.1

This update focuses on bug fixes, visual improvements, UI clarity, and additional polish across multiple systems.

Important Note

The full release is now less than two months away. I’m currently heavily focused on major features such as the storyline, combat, and city walls. These systems are still in development and are not yet fully available in this update, they will be introduced closer to release.

Another patch is planned in approximately 10 days.

Fixes & Improvements

Gameplay & Bugs

• Fixed wood gathering cancellation not working properly

• Fixed missing flag when starting a second New Game

• Corrected Garum Factory entrance point, and added workers & improved effects at Garum Factory

• Citizens (workers) properly positioned at Vineyard

• Adjusted icon for Vineyard planting (no longer wheat)

• Adjusted icon for Vegetable Farm planting (no longer wheat)

Visual & LOD Optimizations

• Improved Forum LODs (columns no longer disappear at distance)

• Fixed incorrect LOD on Domus Tier 2 (extra windows issue)

• Added additional LODs & optimizations:

  • Library

  • Clay Pit

  • Dishes Factory

  • Resources carried by citizens

  • Adjusted render distance logic based on camera zoom

  • Fixed shadows on:

    • Vegetable Farms

    • Cake Shop

    • Perfume Shop

Trade & World Map

• Added all cities into the game

• Added missing trade routes (lines):

  • Narbo

  • Aquileia

  • Cyrene

  • Byzantium

  • Rhodos

  • Paphos

  • Thessalonica

  • Ravenna

  • Athens

  • Sidon

  • Chersonesus

  • Jerusalem

  • Antioch

• Verified trade lists for all cities

UI Improvements

• Added indicators in Building Panel:

  • When production is paused

  • When resources are missing

  • When required fields are missing (farms/vineyards)

Content Additions

• Added border patterns for flags

• Added new coats of arms

• Added new flag shapes

• Added icon for Large Fountain

• Added icon for Wall

• Added icon for Arch

• Added different litter variants

• Added bees to Bee Farm, and flies to Garum Factory

• Added several ambient & building sounds (More audio updates coming soon)

Work in Progress

Ongoing development continues on:

• Storyline progression

• Govern panel & law display bonuses

• Combat system

• City walls

Thank you for your continued feedback and support, it’s incredibly valuable as we move toward release ❤️

Mini Patch – Camera Improvements & Optimizations

Hi everyone! After receiving many questions and requests about the camera, I decided to introduce an increased camera tilt in this mini patch. This is still not the final version of the camera or optimization, and I plan to improve it further for the full release. With this update, I wanted to show that your feedback truly matters to me, and that I’m actively acting on it.

Patch v0.621.0 notes:

• Added “Extended Camera Tilt” option in Video settings. When enabled, the camera can tilt much further. Please note: in very large cities this can currently reduce FPS up to 20%.

• Added Red and Yellow Flowering Hedges (names are not yet translated in all languages).

• Fixed multiple shadow issues when switching LODs on many buildings.

• Numerous optimizations to building, tree, and vegetation models.

• Removed several options that were not yet implemented.

Over the next period, I’ll focus on polishing the game and finishing the story and side quests. These narrative additions will be released publicly with the full release, planned for a little over two months from now. Combat is also in development, but will likewise remain unreleased until full launch.

Thank you for your continued patience and support, I truly hope we’ll continue this journey together well beyond full release.

Patch v0.620.1

• Marriage-related cities are now unlocked in Sandbox mode

• Fixed overly bright textures on several buildings that were glaring in direct sunlight

• Optimized around twenty building textures

• Additional building optimizations and smoother LOD transitions

• Fixed shadow rendering issues on several buildings (Charcoal Burner, Cake Shop, Carpenter’s Workshop, etc.)

• Removed the Action button when a trade deal is already established with a city

• Minor text fixes across several languages

I’m already preparing another update planned for the weekend, more polish coming soon.

Salve, citizens of Pompeii — and happy 2026!

Before anything else, thank you for sticking with me into the new year. Your feedback, patience, and enthusiasm continue to push Pompeii: The Legacy forward every single day.

For this update, my original plan was to add a larger chunk of campaign content. However, as a solo developer, I ended up spending more time than expected tracking down smaller bugs and preparing upcoming quest chains properly. The good news is that this groundwork is now done, and the remaining campaign content will arrive closer to the full release.

Below is what’s included in update v0.620.0.

🏛️ Campaign & Progression

• Added several new campaign quests as a continuation of the main story (the remaining 20+ main quests will arrive with the full release)

• From year 123 onward, citizens now require two different Luxury Foods

• Trade cities now unlock at a faster pace

• More cities can now be engaged in trade deals

🛠️ Bug Fixes & Stability

• Fixed a bug where a building could enter a loop and block construction of other buildings

• Removed misleading “Unemployed Slave 0/0” display from the Forum (the Forum gathers citizens, no one works there)

• Fixed cases where warning icons appeared on hospitals and other buildings without an actual issue

• Corrected an incorrect “Make Action” label after signing a trade deal

• Fixed a red-highlighted worker slot upgrade on the Dishes Factory

• Minor text fixes across multiple languages

• Removed production bars from Mars and Jupiter Temples

• Preparations for a larger optimization pass

• Groundwork for an optional extended camera tilt (for higher-end hardware)

⚖️ Balance Changes

Entertainment & Services upkeep rebalanced:

• Odeum: 40 Denarii

• Art School: 20 Denarii

• Barracks: 10 Denarii

• Street Stage: 4 Denarii

• School: 10 Denarii

• Necropolis: 5 Denarii + 2 Marble

• Complete rebalance of Arena and Circus construction costs

• Slightly reduced food consumption on Normal difficulty

• Adjusted resource prices across several trade cities

⚙️ Trade Improvements

• Tarraco now buys Lumber

• Malaca now buys Fish

• Narbo now buys Bread

• Additional trade tweaks and balancing across other cities

👁️ Visuals & Audio

• Added cutscene workers to the Herbalist Garden

• Plants in the Herbalist Garden now cast shadows

• Added sound effects when clearing stone or old building debris

⚙️ What’s Next

• One more polishing update planned by the end of this week

• A follow-up update focused on:

  • Completing all remaining buildings

  • Adding city walls

• Story expansion and combat will arrive in a major update with the full release, planned for late March

Once again, thank you for being part of this journey!

Pompeii is a big game, and building it takes time, but I’m committed to delivering the best version possible.

Vale, and thank you for staying with me. ❤️

Patch 0.600.3 • Quick fix for an issue reported by several players where bridges built in certain locations could incorrectly show a “No valid access point” error. This issue has now been resolved.

Thanks to everyone who reported the problem and helped track it down!

Salve, citizens of Pompeii!

First of all, thank you! Thank you for being here from the start, for your feedback, patience, logs, save files, discussions, and encouragement. You’ve genuinely pushed me toward this first major Early Access Milestone, and this update wouldn’t exist without you.

During development, some priorities naturally shifted. A few features originally planned for Milestone Two were moved forward and included here, while I focused on delivering more finished buildings, systems, and balance improvements earlier. Because of that, part of the story content I initially planned for this milestone has been slightly delayed, it will arrive around the New Year.

Major Update v0.600.0 - Patch Notes

🏛️ Buildings

• Added Armorer

• Added Heavy Weapons Yard

• Added Jupiter Temple

• Added Mars Temple

• Balanced construction and production costs for all new buildings

⚙️ Economy & Balance

• Food and Luxury Food hints now correctly indicate when variety is missing (previously incorrect when only one type was consumed)

• On Normal difficulty, reduced consumption by 20% for:

  • Food

  • Luxury Food

  • Basic Goods

  • Luxury Goods

• Updated prices for:

  • Fences

  • Several decorations and Scroll production building

  • All entertainment buildings, Shrines and temples

  • Rose Garden, farms and Saltworks

  • Iron Mine and Marble Quarry

  • Domus

• Stone Road construction now deducts the cost of Gravel Road when built on top of it

• Road construction costs are now correctly displayed in tooltips

• Default Trade Target Quantity reduced from 10,000 to 3,000

⚙️ Research Additions

• Added Skilled Carpenters - Increases Carpenter’s Workshop production by 10\

• Added Advanced Luxury Food - Increases Luxury Food production by 10\

• Added Urban Tax Reform - Each Insula and Domus generates +1 Denarii per week

• Wildwood Collector - 10% increase wood production in the Forester’s Camp

⚙️ Citizens & Pathfinding

• Citizens now prefer walking on roads in most cases (Note: on old saves, some cached data may still behave incorrectly - unfortunately this cannot always be fixed retroactively.)

• Slaves will not leave the city until you have at least 2 houses

• Plebeians will not leave until you have at least 1 Insula

⚙️ UI, UX & Gameplay Improvements

• Dialogue arrows now work correctly - you can move forward and backward through dialogue

• Added a Pause button to the dialogue panel

• Model Quality now affects the visibility of CS workers inside buildings

• Research position resets correctly when starting a New Game

• Fixed an issue where seasons did not reset correctly when starting a New Game

🏛️ Shrines & Temples

• Fixed an issue where moving a Shrine would keep houses bound from its previous position - Shrines now correctly bind to houses in their new area of effect

• If citizen health is declining:

  • A warning now correctly appears

  • An icon is shown above affected houses

⚙️ Visuals, Audio & Optimisation

• Optimised numerous textures

• Fixed several texture issues

• Optimised several models

• Improved shading on multiple buildings and added CS workers to them

• Fixed multiple warning messages in logs

• Improved log output clarity in several places

• Fixed oversaturated colors in windy sunny weather

• Added new ambient sounds (wheat fields, cats in the Hunting Camp, and more)

⚙️ Customization

• Added new family coats of arms

What’s Next?

Once the next chunk of story content is added after the New Year, I’ll shift focus to deep optimisation and visual improvements across the entire game. After that, combat will be introduced, and it will remain optional, allowing players to choose their preferred playstyle.

Once again, thank you for your continued support. This milestone is a big step forward, and there’s much more to come.

Zeljko Siscia Games solo dev team

Salve, citizens of Pompeii!

As promised, here comes another small patch. Thank you all once again for your support, feedback, and patience. This isn’t the final optimisation pass yet, but rather an important step to ensure that several performance-related options actually work as intended and give at least a bit of improvement on a wide range of hardware. Patch v0.512.3

• Model Quality now properly affects the number of polygons being rendered (older GPUs may see a noticeable FPS improvement).

• Texture Quality now adjusts how much GPU memory textures use. (This option must be set before loading a map; otherwise changes take effect after restarting the game.)

• Optimised several dozen models and textures.

• Fixed shadow rendering issues on certain models such as Jupiter Shrine, Bee Farm, and others.

• Roads were not correctly applying movement speed bonuses; this is now fixed. The correct speed increases are:

  • Dirt Road: +10%

  • Gravel Road: +20%

  • Stone Road: +30%

And once again, a reminder:

A major update is coming in about two weeks!

Pompeii: The Legacy — New Update & Full Release Date

Greetings, citizens of Pompeii, and thank you for continuing to build this great city with me. Your support, feedback and patience shape this game every single day.

🛠 Full Release Target — March 2026

Pompeii: The Legacy is steadily moving toward full launch, and Early Access development is advancing at full speed. The current roadmap aims for completion of all core features and full campaign content by the end of March 2026.

Full release will not be the end, just the end of Chapter I. After 1.0, I plan to continue supporting and expanding the game with:

🎮 Controller & Steam Deck support 🛠 Official modding support

Today's Update — v0.512.1 Patch Notes

This one took a bit longer to prepare, but it brings a lot of improvements:

Gameplay & UI

• Fixed wrong icon showing instead of Religion need indicator

• Prevented possible crash when exiting the game

• You cannot upgrade an Insula without having Tools

• Research windows now remembers its scroll position (after load)

• Adjusted construction costs of Bathhouse, Apothecary House, Theatre, Arena, and Circus

• Denarii tooltip now shows more accurate Denarii value

• Fixed laws that were not applying properly

Performance & Behaviour

• Polished worker handling in large cities

• Improved tax calculation performance

• Optimized several dozen textures

Buildings, Audio & Effects

• Sound emitters now move correctly with buildings

• Smoke added to Baker and Dish Factory

• Sheep & pigs sound less frequently and more naturally

• Many new building sound effects added:

  • Sawmill

  • Reservoir + Water Pump

  • Quarry / Marble Mine / Iron Mine

  • Clay + Sand Pits

  • Pottery / Glassworks / Blacksmith

  • Charcoal Burner / Carpenter / Brickworks

  • Rose Garden

  • Fighting Ring / Martial Arts School

  • Neptune Temple

  • Bathhouse

  • School

  • Market

Next Milestone — Coming in 2 Weeks

The next update will bring the first major milestone of Early Access, including:

✔ Significant balance improvements ✔ New buildings & gameplay systems ✔ Continued campaign progression ✔ UI & quality-of-life upgrades + general refinement

Thank you once again for playing, for reporting bugs, for pushing me to improve, and for believing in what this game can become. I will keep working, creating, and building Pompeii with you step by step.

Ave, citizens, and onwards to glory.

Pompeii: The Legacy — Nominated for Steam Awards!

Hello everyone,

Thank you all for supporting Pompeii: The Legacy through Early Access. If you’re enjoying the challenge, the management depth, and the feeling of rebuilding Pompeii against all odds, you can help us in a very meaningful way today.

⭐ Vote for Pompeii: The Legacy in

Best Game You Suck At - this is the game that rewards persistence, and is not for the faint of heart. It’s the toughest game we’ve ever loved.

Your vote would mean the world, every click helps more players discover Pompeii and strengthens the development as we move toward full release.

Thank you sincerely for being part of this journey.

Ave, citizens, and onward we build!

Greetings, citizens of Pompeii!

Thank you all for playing, supporting, and helping me shape Pompeii: The Legacy every day. Your suggestions make a huge difference, and this update brings several important improvements based directly on your feedback.

Patch Notes — v0.511.6

Storage & Resources

• Improved storage behavior: when warehouses are full, the game now prioritizes critical resources (wood, stone, food, etc.) instead of adding resources that are already overstocked.

• Fixed rare issue where an overloaded warehouse could stall production chains.

Religion & Shrines

• Overhauled religious feelings: citizens now correctly gain and lose religion influence depending on shrine/temple coverage.

• Sacrifice system redesigned, different Shrines and Temples now request and accept specific resource offerings.

• Selecting a Shrine or Temple now displays influence lines showing which houses and buildings are affected.

• Added various positive buffs granted by successful Sacrifices.

New Audio

• Added upgrade sound effects for:

  • Houses

  • All building types

  • Shrines and Temples

• Added a Sacrifice sound effect.

City Life & Buildings

• Street Stage now includes an active worker (Actor).

• Fixed incorrect data displayed on Temple UI panels.

Ships & Boats

• Polished several small bugs related to boat and ship movement behavior.

Stability & Debugging

• Fixed a rare crash that could occur in the late game.

• Improved debug logging to make it easier to detect issues with large cities.

Next Steps

The upcoming updates will focus on:

• Education & Aesthetics – expanding these feelings with new mechanics.

• Campaign Progress – continuing the story toward the first EA milestone.

Thank you again for all the support, every message, save file, bug report, and idea helps me improve the game.