Settlements Rising news & patch notes

The V1.0.16 update introduces 4 new cultivable crops to the game, along with new resources and enhancement cards.

What’s New?

• New crops & resources: Tomato, Bell Pepper, Eggplant, and Pumpkin have been added as new resources and crops.

• New enhancement cards: A total of 48 new enhancement cards related to the newly added crops and resources have been introduced.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where hunted deer lying on the ground could sometimes fall below the terrain after loading a saved game. Hunters will no longer get stuck in an infinite loop after loading.

• Fixed a bug where the Winter Cloak production speed card could not be applied to its corresponding building.

• Fixed an issue where transferring animals from one Livestock Farm to another empty one would still show the destination farm as empty, preventing workers from functioning properly.

• Fixed a bug where arrows could not be stocked beyond 30 units in the Weapon Workshop.

See you in the next update!

What's New?

• Bridges: You can now build bridges over lakes or bays to enhance decorative beauty or improve pathfinding efficiency. Bridges only require wood, and the amount depends on their length.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a localization error in the Polish language where placeholders like {quantity} were shown instead of actual values (e.g., "Wood {quantity}" instead of "Wood 23").
• Fixed an issue where the worker count in Orchards would be 3 instead of 1–2 when only one tile was placed.
• Fixed an incorrect display of book usage rates in schools.

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What’s Changed?

• Bear caves and wolf dens removed: Predators will no longer spawn from static locations on the map. Instead, like raiders, they will attack the village at set intervals from outside the map.
• Predator Attacks: Wolves and bears will now attack the village periodically. For the first 3 years, villages will be protected from these attacks. After that, attacks will occur every 2-4 years. However, these attacks can be completely prevented. if the village is fully surrounded by walls, predator attacks will cease entirely.

Why This Change?

What’s Next?

• Fertilizer production speed increased by 25%.
• Dung hauler cart capacity has been halved, making dung haulers empty their loads into the fertilizer pit more frequently.
• If there is no fertilizer in storage, dung haulers will no longer wait for their carts to be full. Instead, they will transport the first collected waste directly to the fertilizer pit.
• Instead of waiting for waste to accumulate up to 10, households will now dispose of waste once it reaches 5. This will introduce waste into the game earlier.

What's New?

• Dung Haulers: Waste collectors are now called dung haulers. They no longer work directly at the fertilizer pit. Instead, waste accumulated in houses and livestock buildings is now collected by the villagers in buckets and taken to the nearest fertilizer pit or, if available, to dung hauler carts. Once a dung hauler cart is full, a dung hauler will transport it to the fertilizer pit. Even if there are no dung hauler carts in the village, waste can still be carried directly to the fertilizer pit, but placing dung hauler carts at key locations will prevent villagers from having to walk long distances. Dung hauler carts do not require any resources or construction to be placed, and each cart can be managed by one dung hauler. Dung hauler carts don't affect landvalues. This change was made to prevent waste collectors from getting stuck when traveling long distances in the late game and to add an intermediary element to deepen this mechanic.
• Cloud Save: Steam Auto-Cloud has been enabled. Since this is my first time using this system, I hope game saves sync without any issues.

Changes:

What's New?

• Cheats: A cheat panel has been added to the game. To use cheats, you must enable them in the game settings. Once cheats are enabled in a save, you will no longer be able to earn achievements in that save, and cheats cannot be disabled again. You can open the cheat menu by pressing F6. Available cheats include adding/removing resources, adding/removing people, adding/removing animals, supplying resources to all constructions and completing them, removing the Fog of War, and triggering disasters like earthquakes, raids, plagues, and fires.

What's Changed?

• Bazaar rework: Bazaar no longer generate gold. In the late game, gold is already easy to obtain, and the bazaar had little impact on gameplay aside from increasing land value. Instead, bazaar now automatically supply resources to houses within their influence area. Houses within the blue-marked radius will receive essential supplies like food and firewood directly from the bazaar. This means villagers will no longer have to leave their jobs to transport these resources, improving overall productivity.
• Gold Economy Adjustments: Since markets no longer generate gold, gold rewards from exploration missions have been doubled. Traders now carry more gold. The trade price range has been increased from 50% to 80%, making it more profitable to buy low and sell high. Gold production from gold ore has been increased; one stack of gold ore now produces 18 gold instead of 12.
• Mission & Raid Adjustments: The chance for the Immigrant Ship event to appear has been increased. The minimum success rate for Treasure Hunt missions has been improved. Raiders' carrying capacity has been reduced by 50%.

What's Changed?

• Builders can now cut down trees and remove stones within the construction site. Previously, they had to wait for laborers to do this.
• Builders will no longer abandon their work due to cold unless their stamina drops below 50%. This change was made to improve construction efficiency during winter.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where leather could not be transported to leatherworks building for leather boat and winter cloak production.
• Fixed an extra indicator that sometimes displayed the other houses when clicking on a home.
• Fixed a bug where demolished houses' landvalue were still visible in the land value visualization.

What's New?

• 3 New Resources Added: Pants, Dresses, and Shirts. These resources are produced in the Textile Workshop. Instead of a generic "Clothes," these new items were introduced. Dresses are exclusively worn by women, while Pants and Shirts are only worn by men. Their effects remain the same as the old Clothes. The new Pants and Shirts resources will also apply to your saved games. If you have a large population in your village, be aware that villagers will immediately start demanding Pants and Shirts.
• Hide Coat Renamed to Winter Cloak: The name was changed to better fit the visuals, as villagers wear cloak-like clothing during winter.
• Shoes Renamed to Leather Boots: Since villagers wear boots, and this equipment provides protection against the cold during winter, "Leather Boots" was deemed a more accurate name.
• Cobblers Workshop Renamed to Leatherworks: This building now produces both Leather Boots and Winter Cloaks. Previously, Hide Coats were produced in the Weavers Hut. With this change, both buildings now use a single type of input resource, improving efficiency.
• Leather Usage Added: Both Leather Boots and Winter Cloaks can now be produced using Leather in addition to Animal Hide.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed issues with population enhancement cards.
• Corrected several translation errors where Japanese text appeared as Korean.

What's New?

• Added an upgrade button to the Wooden Defense Tower.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue where a new archer was not automatically replacing a fallen one in the Defense Tower.
• Fixed a formatting error in the event log when a villager's illness was cured in German.
• Some players reported that firewood was no longer being transported to houses. Since I couldn't fully reproduce this bug, I added additional checks to firewood delivery tasks. Hopefully, this will resolve the issue. If anyone still experiences firewood not being delivered to houses, please report it.

What's Changed?

• The maximum production limit of 9999 has been removed. Previously, when gold exceeded 9999, the smeltery would stop producing gold. Now, production can continue beyond this limit.
• The initial builder capacity has been increased from 10 to 50. This change was necessary to allow for faster rebuilding of structures destroyed by earthquakes in the late game. In the future, this capacity may be increased further with a building like a Builder's Guild.
• The initial laborer capacity has been increased from 30 to 100. This change was made due to a high workload and a low number of laborers in the late game. Initially, the laborer limit was set at 30 to optimize CPU performance, but since no performance issues have been reported, the limit has now been raised. In the future, a building such as a Laborers' Guild may be introduced to further increase laborer capacity.
• The worker capacity at the trading dock has been increased from 2 to 5.
• Shift-click functionality has been added to the profession list menu, allowing workers to be assigned or removed in increments of 10.
• The impact of small earthquakes remains unchanged, but the destructive power of large earthquakes has been slightly reduced.
• Some building names have been revised to make them clearer for non-native English speakers and to prevent confusion with upcoming production buildings.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the gravedigger could get stuck in an infinite loop inside the cemetery.
• Fixed a bug where the prices of wine and beer in the trader could exceed the min-max limits, which could result in negative values and cause a crash.
• Fixed an issue where enhancement cards that were supposed to increase the capacity of the Healer's Hut were mistakenly providing a healing speed boost instead.
• Fixed a rare crash caused by a code issue related to ship movement calculations.

• Fixed a formatting issue in the Stone wall requirement "Town center 2 required" message.
• Resolved the issue where "Personal Use" was not being saved.
• Builders will now prioritize rebuilding collapsed structures over repairing damaged ones after an earthquake.
• Improvements have been taken to prevent a rare crash that could occur when trading with the merchant. However, since I couldn't reproduce the issue, please continue submitting crash reports if the problem persists.

What's Changed?

• The starting population and resources has been increased.
• Immigrants can now only arrive through ship exploration missions. When a migrant ship exploration mission is successful, it will always bring immigrants with a 100% probability.
• The birth rate per household per year has been increased by 30%.
• When an earthquake occurs and the notification screen is closed, destroyed buildings will now automatically be rebuilt.
• The red spoilage indicator in the top UI has been removed to reduce confusion and encourage players to read hover tooltips more.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue where some Chinese words appeared in Korean.
• Fixed an issue where schools would not get repaired after an earthquake.

• Fixed an issue where leather production at the tannery was stuck at 30.
• Corrected a typo in the tavern building description where "bathkeeper" was mistakenly written instead of "tavern keeper."
• Fixed a crash that occurred when trying to select a saved enhancement card in a new game.

What's Changed?

• Fixed an issue where enhancement cards saved for future games were not appearing.
• Resolved the issue where clicking the workplace button in the villager profile did not move the camera to the villager's workplace. Additionally, this button is now hidden for villagers without a designated building, such as laborers and builders.
• Fixed an issue where scribes were not appearing in the occupation list.
• Corrected a typo in the sawmill building description.
• Added a fix for a specific scenario where the graveyard keeper could get stuck in an loop inside a grave. If you encounter this issue again, please report it.
• Fixed a UI issue where a part of the UI was not visible when converting a saved demo game to the full version.
• Disabled collisions for the wagon and barrels in the town center to prevent villagers from getting stuck between them.
• To avoid an issue where changing settings before placing the town center would prevent it from being built, the change game settings button is now hidden until the town center's location is determined.
• Although not a bug, the requirement to click twice to confirm selected enhancement cards has been removed for better user experience. Now, cards can be assigned to buildings with a single click. However, to prevent accidental deletions, removing a card still requires a double-click.

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Update Notes for 1.0 Preview:

What's New?

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• Diverse Villager Models: We've added 6 new villager character models: 3 male and 3 female. Additionally, villagers equipped with hide coats will now wear winter clothing during the colder months, resulting in 18 unique villager models roaming your streets. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43886373/65aaae6e48245c606f3195965061f21b78faf414.png
• New Mountain Models: To make the mountains look less ordinary, we've replaced them with more visually appealing models. Please note that the new mountain models will only appear in newly created games.
• Improvement to Land Value Display: Based on community feedback, when you open the land value indicator for a house, the land values of other nearby buildings will now also display on the map for easier planning.

Bug Fixes:

• Storage Attendant Issue: Fixed an issue where storage attendants would get stuck in a loop of starting and canceling tasks when the storage was full, and one of the selected resources was in the wheel cart.
• Waste Collector Issue: Fixed an issue where waste collectors would get stuck in a loop of starting and canceling tasks due to unreachable waste buckets.

What's New?

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• Earthquake: Earthquakes occur every 10-15 years by default, with magnitudes ranging between 6 and 7.5 Mw. They strike randomly and damage buildings in the affected area. The earthquake's magnitude determines the level of damage and the size of the impact zone. Villagers inside collapsed buildings have roughly a 50% chance of either dying or getting injured. Damaged buildings are repaired by builders without requiring additional resources.
• Plague: The plague outbreak occurs roughly every 10-15 years by default. It starts by infecting a few villagers and spreads to others in their homes and workplaces. As a result, its spread is highly random. Generally, the plague can infect between one-third and half of the population, with approximately 10% of the adult population dying on average. Villagers affected by the plague will slowly lose health. However, villagers receiving treatment at the Healer's Hut will not lose health. Similarly, military units behave as if they are receiving treatment. Plague-infected villagers cannot work, causing a loss in workforce productivity.
• Polish Translation: Thanks to the efforts of our friend Damian Bartyś (Lisek), the Polish translation has been added to the game. We hope our Polish players will enjoy the game even more now!

What’s New?

• Pigs: Pigs have been added to the game for livestock farming. Unlike other livestock, pigs do not produce resources continuously. They are raised and slaughtered to produce meat and leather. Pigs provide a moderate amount of both meat and leather.
• Restricting Production Building Storage for Personal Use: You can now choose to restrict production building storages from being accessed directly by villagers for personal use. Villagers typically search for food and equipment at the nearest production building or storage. If you want the equipment in a production building to only be accessible through dedicated storages or marketplaces, you can disable personal access to those storages.

New Decorations

• Bench
• Flowers
• Stepping stones
• Street signs
• Crates and barrels
• Street lamps
• Wheelbarrows and carts
• Buckets and bins
• Trees
• Fence

Changes:

Bug Fixes:

What's New?

• Beer: A luxury resource produced in the fermentary using grains and consumed in the tavern.
• Wine: A luxury resource produced in the fermentary using fruits and consumed in the tavern. The term "wine" is used as a general name for beverages made from fruits. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43886373/a3e8fb7c8646686dd794af0587e7ae01aa3ab917.png
• Fermentary Building: Workers called "fermenters" produce beer from grains and wine from fruits in this building. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43886373/9ac0f4fc3bdf620472d3a1b2fec03c23f283ed98.jpg
• Tavern Building: Similar to the bathhouse, the tavern is a place where villagers rest and recover more quickly. To function effectively, the tavern requires firewood, beer, and wine.
• Enhancement Cards: Added 16 new enhancement cards related to the production and consumption of beer and wine.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where animals were not displayed in the merchant's inventory on the left-side notifications panel.
• Fixed a rare bug where resources could not be transported to construction sites due to villagers mistakenly perceiving storage areas as inaccessible.

What's Next?

What's New?

• Bathhouse: The Bathhouse is a relaxation building where bathkeepers work. This building fulfills villagers' rest and warmth needs while also increasing land value over a wide area. To function efficiently, the Bathhouse requires firewood and water. Villagers recover faster in the Bathhouse compared to resting at home or in parks.
• Bathkeeper: Bathkeepers work at the Bathhouse and are responsible for providing the firewood and water the building requires. Additionally, the ratio of bathkeepers to resting villagers affects how quickly villagers recover.

What's New?

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• Orchard: In Orchards, orchardists plant and grow fruit trees. The planted trees start bearing fruit after approximately 1 in-game year and reach full maturity in about 3 in-game years. Fruit trees require water and fertilizer to grow effectively. While rainy weather can fulfill their water needs, a Compost Yard must be built to meet the fertilizer requirements. Without adequate water and fertilizer, trees grow slower and produce less fruit. Unlike Crop Fields, Orchards provide food production throughout the year.
• Orchardist: Orchardists work in the Orchard, handling the planting, maintenance, and harvesting of fruit trees. Their experience gain rate and training requirements are comparable to those of Field Farmers. Depending on the size of an Orchard, up to 9 Orchardists can work there at maximum capacity.
• Fruits: A food type with a shelf life of 500 days. In future updates, Fruits will also serve as a raw material for producing Cider.
• New enhancement cards: A total of 8 new enhancement cards related to fruits and orchards have been added.
• Animal Sales in Neighboring Villages: Neighboring villages now sell cows, sheep, and chickens. The chance for a village to sell animals in a given cycle is 33%.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where Trading Ships awaiting cargo loading for trade would get stuck in the cargo loading task after loading a saved game.

What's New?

• Papermill: A new production building that produces paper from fiber. Up to 5 paper makers can work here.
• Paper Maker: Workers in the papermill who produce paper.
• Paper: A new resource used in book production. Building a papermill is required to produce paper.
• Scriptorium: A place where books are crafted using paper and leather. Up to 4 scribes can work here to produce books for school use.
• Scribe: Works in the scriptorium, using 3 units of paper and 1 unit of leather to produce books. Training is more crucial for scribes than for other professions in terms of skill and experience gain.
• Books: Produced in the scriptorium and used in schools to boost education speed by 30%.
• New Enhancement Cards: 16 new enhancement cards related to paper, books, and their production have been added.
• Infinite Ore Deposits Setting: An option for players who don't want ore deposits to run out. This setting can also be changed in your existing saved games.

Changes:

• Increased education speed in schools.
• Increased leather production speed by 40% due to additional uses for leather.
• Decreased wool production speed by 50% due to overproduction.
• Decreased animal hide production speed by 30% due to overproduction.

Bug Fixes:

• Added an automatic fix to prevent raiders from getting stuck in mountains.
• Fixed an issue where villagers wouldn’t return to their daily routines after fleeing raiders and entering their homes.

What's New?

• Change Game Settings: I value the time players invest in the game, and to show respect for their time, I aim to remove the need for starting a new game to change certain game settings. If you're unhappy with a setting in your current game, you can now modify it without beginning anew. Gameplay settings like fog of war, enhancement cards, raids, fires, and production speed can now be adjusted in existing games. However, world generation settings, which are applied at the start of a game, remain unchangeable after that point. When a setting is modified, the game saves with the new configuration and reloads, ensuring the changes take effect. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43886373/de09f54e0654364d75f7058d04f4c10f83e3e05a.jpg
• Pickle Workshop: To extend the shelf life of greens and produce an alternative food source, a new building has been added that transforms greens into pickles. In the pickle workshop, three picklers transform 1 unit of greens into 2 units of pickles. While greens have a shelf life of 420 days, pickles last for 850 days.

Improvements:

What’s New?

• Selective Storage: Selective storage has a lower capacity compared to open storage. However, it employs one storage attendant who transports the selected resources to the storage using a wheelcart. This feature makes it ideal for placing near production buildings that are far from main storage areas, preventing workers from traveling long distances to fetch resources, thereby improving productivity. Only the resources you select from the resource list will be stored in selective storage. When choosing resources, you will have the option to enable auto-transport. Resources with auto-transport enabled will be automatically transported to this storage, while resources without auto-transport will only be stored if nearby villagers manually deposit them.
• Storage Attendant: The storage attendant works in selective storage, ensuring that the resources with auto-transport enabled are consistently available in the storage. Additionally, the attendant transfers excess resources from selective storage to open storage to free up space when the local storage limit is exceeded. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43886373/19421b0f089e74aa2a47cbbf1c66e7b20714096c.png
• Stored Item Hover Info: A new hover tooltip has been added that provides more detailed information when you hover over resources in storages. The tooltip shows unit weight, the percentage of space the resource occupies, and the total capacity of the storage.

Changes and Improvements

• The unit weight of firewood has been reduced from 2.5 to 1.0.
• Improvements have been made to optimize resource sharing in storages, ensuring that villagers have better access to the resources they need simultaneously.