Robber Knight news & patch notes

Welcome Knights and Princesses,

Here we are on the final stretch before release. We are now hunting for bugs, rewriting parts of the code for optimization, balancing numbers, upgrading AI behaviors, and making everything look much nicer.

As Robber Knight will be our first released game, we want it to be truly special. We are leaving no stone unturned.

We are upgrading every element of the game, starting even with the selection of your crest. We have added over 100 new crests and improved how they look in-game.

100 new crests

We are also taking care of details such as artwork for loading screens.

Art work loading screens

As you can see, it is slowly becoming what you would call a real game. Now to the really interesting parts.

Reworked Character Development Trees

Character development now works in two ways:

Welcome Knights and Princesses

First let me thank all of you who have supported us thus far. Every copy bought and every piece of feedback given was a big brick in making the game better. I would also like to encourage you to join today because it is one of the last promos before the main premiere, and one of the last moments to get that feeling, "Ah, I am one of those who made it possible."

Working on a 1.0 is completely different

You cannot be lazy anymore. There is no more place for

- oh, this icon says what it needs to say

- but it does not fit

- but it's nice, let's keep it

Everything is being made by hand, everything is created in one style.

It may seem like a small thing, but I just want to show you how deeply we care about our game. We are taking care of every detail, preparing it for 1.0.

There is, of course, much more exciting stuff coming than icons in one style. For example:

Directional combat

Many of you said that you like the current combat, but at the same time there is a certain lack of control. So we thought that adding a layer of choosing attack directions to the current system would make it work really well.

We also added the same behavior to the AI so the combats feel more like a medieval duel.

It poses some challenges with fighting animals, but we will figure it out.

Better AI combat behavior

We are also working on making the AI behave more like human beings in combat, with some level of caution and preparation before attacking. Not like now, where they rush in like crazy bulls, which is very visible in the trailer we have right now ^^

Building wherever you like

Yes, your creativity will once again be able to unleash the greatest of castles, but it will not have to. The premade city is still there to rebuild, and we are working on some cool additional stuff to make it much cooler.

Reliable co-op, plus you can wander with your character to your friend's castle (Game)

We figured out that playing co-op in the classic way, like I play with my wife, is not the only way to play it.

We saw that many of you like to play alone but would love to visit your friend's game with your character to help them out on a quest or a building task.

Many of you would also like not only to show screenshots, but to invite some of your gaming friends to see the castle with their own eyes.

Or you just want to win a battle together, help out on a quest.

That is why we are changing the whole system so your character can wander between games, and you can invite people to your game.

Not only start and finish a game with the same set of friends.

Secrets

And I will keep a few secrets for the main event ;)

Dates

I will not put a cage on quality this time. We are aiming for the exact result we have in our heads. It often means having to learn a lot of new things. So, as you love to say:

"It is ready when it is ready"

But the plan is to finish 1.0 in the first half of 2026.

Hello Knights and Princesses,

We’ve been working hard on many aspects of the game, mainly focusing on improving the quality of every element. Of course, that takes a lot of time. With the last big update, we reached the limits of our abilities—so now every change comes with a longer learning process than we expected.

But that’s how it usually goes with indie studios, and we’re incredibly lucky to have been able to work on this full-time for over three years now.

Castles Return to the Game

This time, I’m not using anything from so-called asset markets.

For those who don’t make games: that’s a place where you can buy ready-made assets like castles under royalty-free licenses. It often speeds up production without hurting the player’s experience. But I’ve already seen three, maybe even four games from bigger studios that look very similar to Robber Knight—and that means it’s time to change things.

So I’m making everything myself, exactly tailored to the needs of the game. Before, I only created my own textures, but that often caused problems.

Parts were either too big, too small, or something specific was missing. This time that shouldn’t be an issue, and if it is, I’ll be able to quickly create whatever’s needed—whether for your knightly homes or your castles.

Here are a few behind-the-scenes screenshots from the process.

Combat System

We’re working on it in three directions:

• Giving players more control over their character

• Improving NPC reactions to combat, hits, etc.

• Army management

1 – More Control

At first, we tried to replicate the combat system from Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, but that’s just too big a project for two people—at least for now.

So we’ve moved more in the direction of combining Mount & Blade with Chivalry 2.

Supporting both first- and third-person views is slowing us down, but it’s starting to take shape. In the end, we’ve decided on a directional combat system, since it works best for both leading armies and medieval duels.

2 – Better Reactions

This part is more tedious than difficult. We’re starting with fixing weapon ranges—you’ve often reported that AI hits you when it shouldn’t.

We’re also improving blood effects, adding proper animations depending on attack direction, and giving NPCs various shouts depending on the situation they’re in.

3 – Army Management

This part is delaying us quite a bit. We haven’t made significant progress yet. Formations still behave too randomly and often break apart. But we’re not giving up.

General Summary

We’re making great progress with visuals, buildings, and decoration elements, but the programming side especially animations, is giving us some trouble.

So if you have any requests for furniture, wall pieces, weapons, or buildings, let me know, I’ll be happy to make them and add them to the game.

As for armor, I’m still relying on my own textures but purchased models. My war gear still looks like blacksmith level 1, but I’m learning. Here are a few helmets from my training process.

Thank you for your time. We’ll keep going. As I’ve said many times before: however long it takes, it takes, but the project will definitely be finished, no matter what challenges still lie ahead.

Your scribe and developer, Sartorian

Welcome Knights and Princesses

Today, a short video so you can check out our progress in-game, so to speak. This is one of our test builds in which you can admire the new castle of Sir Hans and the life of his subjects.

A little bit about our plan for the future (reminder: we are only 2 people working on it).

Current state and plans

• The map is almost ready for the rest of the story and the endgame.

• I am thinking about cool ways for you to not be forced to take part in the story, as I know some of you just want to chop down trees or villagers—depends on your mood :P

• Sir Hans’s castle is the first place with full AI life, so there are still some fixes to be made to the system and other villages to set up the routines. We prepared it in a sort of procedural manner, but for optimization reasons, every villager on the map still requires my attention and proper placement. So it will take some time.

• Cutting down trees, mining, flower gathering is ready, so we can now move on to restoring crafting and adding crafting skill trees.

• Next, we will work on army upgrades—so better combat behaviors, better formation management, and adding horses.

• And as a final touch, a massive co-op fix and overhaul so you will be able to wander with your character around your friends’ castles.

Between those big points, we are also preparing tons of small surprises for you: like new armors, light sources for your houses, upgrades of the village you receive from Sir Hans, etc.

Future update

As RPGs are a ton of work normally for 100-person teams, we decided to work on a 0.99 version right now. So the next update will include everything intended. It will be a 0.99 because we want to add your final requests or fix whatever we missed and ask you for permission to launch.

We are very grateful that so many of you are regularly coming back and putting effort into developing our game with us—despite the fact that it is no big hit.

Thanks! The next report in a month!

Your scribe and developer, Sartorian

Welcome Knights and Princesses

Build everywhere – survive anywhere

1. New parts of the map

2. Faster resource gathering\

3. Replacing placeholders with cool quest areas and buildings\

4. Be a knight—rain or shine, day or night\

We want more freedom

Welcome, Knights and Princesses!

This is the one you have to fill out

Now, let’s play “1 Wish

• Added throwing weapons: for now, a wooden spear (available from every carpenter). After testing, we will add more spears and other weapon types.
• Added proper damage values to arrow types.
• Added armor-piercing stats to ranged weapons and displayed them in the UI.
• Fixed bandit, animal, and chest spawns for all tributes, including in old saves.
• Fixed two quests, Wikman's Bears and Demon from the Cave, so the enemies no longer disappear.
• Fixed a rare issue where chests were not generating loot.
• Bandits and animals do not respawn while you are close to them

• Added Chinese and Russian language support.
• Tribute arrival notification added (sound + text) in the left corner of the screen.
• Gold in inventory no longer shows as 0 after reload.
• Resource merchant bar now shows the quantity to be purchased, not the amount to be paid.
• Act 1 ending added upon completion of the last main story quest.
• Added sounds for drinking and eating actions.

Welcome, mighty Feudal Lords and Ladies! :)

Why such a big change

We are very proud

Thank you

Main Changes for version 0.8

Our Plan:

First Round:

Making Your Testing Easier:

Next Update Will Include:

We need more Help

Beta Open for All Our Players

- We’ll add the new UE5 version to the beta branch (at 30th 7.00 PM Berlin time).

For Those Who Want to Join the Beta

What We Need Help With:

This one will be short as it is just a reminder:

What to expect from the update:

What sort of game is it now?

Ready your sword for July 22!

Last Steam Updates

What is Coming

• The next update will be huge.
• We will work on it as long as it takes to make it great. Therefore, the dates from the end of May might even shift to our 2nd anniversary in July.
• We are moving the game from Unreal 4 to Unreal 5.
• The two campaigns (Economy and Military) we talked about with the last update will be combined into one campaign, but it will be your decisions that will shape your experience.
• From the first moment, we will let you decide whether you want to pick up a sword or a shovel. And later on, you will be able to fluidly mix your playing style and the adventures you will have.

We are moving the game from Unreal 4 to Unreal 5.

The next update will be huge.

We will work on it as long as it takes

• Fixed the „on face” bandit spawns.
• Fixed the UI performance issues. Especially opening the label under L.
• Autowalk – stops on all interactions like dialogue, opening working station or looting container. Also in co-op for the client.
• You don`t have to carry your stuff to the mason(castle building) it will work like the building office it will take the resources out of the warehouse.
• Fireplace – fixed the stucking between the building and your worker, after you interrupt him with your craft.
• Changed animation for barracks and church – the sitting animation needs a rework.
• Added footsteps sounds also in caves
• Chainmail gloves – adjusted material
• Apothecary foliage delete radius adjusted
• Added item fur to wisents loot
• Miners gather more silver
• Animals made possible for breeding also for the player. Works like a field.
• You items with durability should no more stack in any situation

Patch 0.65 – 10.11.2023

• New NPCs
• Dialogue added
• Some quests (Reminder the main story comes next year this is just a very small teaser + 6 fighting quests, and 10 procedural fighting quests in December )
• Test English voiceover (you may turn it out if you prefer to read it to your viewers.)
• Title claimed on click not after a timer
• Resources needed for title counted in the UI over the button
• The needs of your subjects grow with your rank
• Caravans
• The Higher your rank, the harder the caravans, the bigger the loot
• Caravans give loot that allows you to build your city without “farming”
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• Working shields (with block and shield hit)
• Third person (fighting in third person comes in December)
• Chests with loot in it (hidden on map)
• More animal spawns (The new ones are not marked on the map)
• Up to 4 Apprentices for every workshop(building) master. They multiply production. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42091718/89bbff7ee9e8dd9346c93e6e385a1b50465c9efb.png
• Apprentices animate when the workshop is working ( 2 first ones appear in the workshop)
• Sound for workshops
• Particles like smoke and fire for some workshops
• The higher the masters level the faster the building works
• Autowalk on button click, deactivated with another button click or with taking over movement with WSAD
• Production Que for AI
• New look for many buildings
• New buildings (45 in total now, not counting castle parts)

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• Knight skills unlocked
• New technologies
• New items like parchment and books
• Sorting in building office – tittle wise
• Sorting in crafting buildings – skill wise
• Mining buildings placeable only on the resource
• You can read in the school what will given technology unlock
• On the working list, an icon informing where the peasant is hired
• More tools tips all over the game UI
• „Headshots” also on animals
• IK (foot adjusting to surface) for humans. Animals will come with the next update
• On the building manage list there are different icons – when something is not ok with your building like lack of worker, lack of tools, etc.
• On the building manage list, there is an icon informing you about the current production

• First rank is without taxes
• Proper costs for technologies in school
• Game economy made faster – to achieve the feeling of being a feudal Lord
• Game crafting skill economy balanced. Especially blacksmith.
• Lifted almost all building blocks, So the big lake is open for your castles! (building in cliffs comes with next update)
• You must now fulfill the needs of your subjects. If you don't there is a 50% Chance they will leave.
• Brick furnace and charcoal kiln, bloomery will let you start a production and mind your own business,
• Adjusted the foliage destroy radius, so the big buildings do it correctly too
• Trees do respawn, but not in buildings. They usually respawn after loading a game. The respawn is probably an engine bug, according to what you are telling us. Anyway your buildings are safe.
• Required items named in all places (no more guessing what is on the icon)
• Performance upgrades to „make place” for all this new stuff
• Changed “drop meshes” to crates, purses, barrels and sack to avoid losing items to landscape.
• Moved weapons dropped by enemies or caravans into their loot
• Weapons and armors have a lot more durability now
• You can now make coal of all woods, but birch is the best material for it
• Crosshair changed to simple dot
• You can hover over weapons and armors when crafting or buying and you will receive information about the damage or armor.
• Minimap zoomed out so you can navigate via it, not only via M.
• Take all closes the window

Patch 0.572 - Castles

New

• Modular Castle system with round towers, hoardings, battlements, and gates. So finally a place you can call home.
• Added 4 new orginal music pieces from Steliodas

Changed/Upgraded/Fixed

• Items related to castles and charcoal are producted faster
• Moved heal potion to alchemy level 1, so you can start leveling up alchemy as a player. Keep in mind that before the december update potion are good only for making money.
• Chainmail – gives now blacksmith expierience instead of sewing
• Waraxe – is appearing in the inventory after craft
• Changed gold ingot value – to 1340
• Changed Clothes value to - 250
• Changed steel value to - 150
• Peterlin performance upgrade – Reduced used materials from 19 to 6, Reduced number of textures used from 30 to 5.
• Music in menu is now looping.
• New mining sound
• Crossbowman gives the right unit now instead of militia
• Pear pincture with a corect icon
• Attack sounds plugged in
• New textures for some armors and bows
• Moved peterlins boards a little – so you will not get stuck between them and his house when overloaded
• Small fixes in buildings looks
• In blacksmith the weapon rack does not block you between him and the AI, after craft .
• The bloomery furnaces made more historical accurate
• Small performance tweaks
• Orchard has a apple tree on him now
• Changed beam icon – so it stand out a little more
• Changed building office icon – to make it diffrent from mallet