Songs of Syx news & patch notes

You probably thought Bob was dead. But on June 15, Bob will have a new story to tell with the new V71 Reign of Terror update.

An update about how you balance loyalty and happiness to stay in power. 

The update will introduce changes to how populations grow, how laws work, slavery and more. This will mean lots of changes and additions to systems.  In anticipation of the release, Sterling has made a teaser for you:

I will also upload a video dev log a few days before release, where I will try to show you everything. If you want to see stuff already now, join our Discord channel, where I write a lot about what I am working on.  I have had a long alpha stage before release, so hopefully nothing goes wrong. But we will see. One thing is for sure and that is that saves will break, and balance will change. So prepare yourselves. See you on June 15. 

Jake

V71 ‘Name pending’ - EARLY SUMMER

We have news. Not a patch, not yet, but a look at what lies ahead for Songs of Syx in 2026. We hope the next update will be coming early summer. The closed beta starts this spring (hopefully around mid-late April). As usual, the update became bigger than anticipated and needs a lot of testing.  If you want more info on what is coming, or join the closed beta this spring, join our Discord where I am pretty open about what I am working on. For the launch, we will be running a Midweek Deal at 25%. We may or may not be working on a new trailer for that one, and a certain someone may or may not make a downtrodden comeback… 

What is this? Ouch...

SPRING SALE AND MEDIEVAL FEST

Songs of Syx will also be participating in the Steam Spring Sale at 25% off starting today, and again in Medieval Fest in April, also at 25%. We intend to keep discounts at this level for a long time, well past 1.0. No artificial urgency. Just a good price for a game that keeps getting bigger.  We also want to remind you that the plan is still to increase the price, probably to 29.99 later this year, right as we release 1.0. This has been the plan for years, and it has not changed. If you want the game at its current price, from now to 1.0 is your window. It is where we are.

Keep a watchful eye

1.0 BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR (We hope…)

We are targeting a 1.0 release before the end of 2026. This is not the finish line. It is a milestone, and the beginning of a new era for Songs of Syx. If the launch goes well, we want to bring on a couple of more developers and push the game further than ever before. There is a lot more world left to build… and unfortunately I have way more ideas in my head than I could possibly finish.  More soon. 

/Jake

Greetings, mortals!

The time has finally come. Version 70 of Songs of Syx is now available and will bring a host of changes and additions to the game. The brunt is focusing on war, and the battles that are fought. It also includes a few changes/fixes I believe you will enjoy, including a much requested Lab/Library fix.

And to mark the beginning of an even greater era for Songs of Syx, we have created a new trailer about a silly peasant called Bob. You should feel sorry for him:

MAIN FEATURES

RIDERS OF DOOM

With the additions of spearmen and cavalry, war in Songs of Syx has changed forever. Watch banners flutter in the wind as you flank the enemy with fast and powerful heavy cavalry, or shore up your buckling center with experienced spearmen.

A new and enhanced AI awaits you on the field, who will make short work of an unworthy adversary. Battles are inspired from antiquity with emphasis on tactics and morale. Feel the weight of 20,000 troops pushing against your shield wall. This comes packaged in a new UI, Quick Battles and more.

RESETTLEMENT AND LEVELS

Did you lose the decisive battle, with the enemy at your gates? Has your city’s situation become impossible? Pick up your stuff and leave for new pastures. But do not worry! You can bring a large amount of resources with you, including your levels with their additional bonuses that carry over and make your next city faster to build. Titles and how they work has also been improved.

EXPANDED SOUNDTRACK

Made by brilliant composer Jasinka, 10 new songs have been added to the official soundtrack.

Full patchnotes and devlog video.

Patchnotes may be found at the bottom of this post. As usual however, I have created a video log where I go through all of the features with terrible sound and video quality.

Enjoy here:

The Riders of Doom Update marks a new beginning for the epic development that is Songs of Syx. In order to make this thing bigger than ever, I have employed the assistance of my new partner, Sterling. As a result, the following is happening:

Daily Deal 25% Discount Starting 10AM PT (19.00 CET)

The Daily Deal will run for 24h, but the discount itself will continue for 14 days, until the Winter Sale, where we will also participate.

Free Weekend Starting 10AM PT (19.00 CET)

For the first time in the history of Songs of Syx, we will host a Free Weekend. That means the entire game, including V70, will be available to play for free until Monday Dec 8. The demo will still be available of course, but this is so that even our demo players can experience the full game for a limited time. The green demo button will disappear (but the demo is still up of course), for the duration of the Free Weekend.

PATCHNOTES

New quick battle mode New unit cards, tooltips and QoL for divisions. Division flags Improved AI tactics, and division maneuvering. Remade combat mechanics and stats (New battle engine) Cavalry (livestock equip). Increases mass, offence skill, decreases defense skill Spears. Increases formation defence (defence gained in the front of on guard divisions) Visuals for all battle equips. 10 new soundtracks Advisor. Resettle option (start over but keep level + resources) Labs and libraries have non-recource options, enabled by default. Limits on techs in tech tree. All titles can be unlocked per race for more effect. More efficient janitors Hunters effective for a bit longer, but diminishing returns per employee. Autumn tree colors more prominent. Lifebringer achievement fixed Fixed stalled invasions Fixed buggy caravans Region delivery of farmed goods fix

Update, 25th of June I'm now setting V69 on the main branch on steam and other stores. The older builds are still available as betas on all stores, use them to continue old saves. I will now take it easy for a bit, then work on V70, which will be even smaller changes, and polish heavy. It will focus on battles. After that I will work on 1.0. At least that's the current plan. Have a good summer! /Jake Old event: Hello!

This patch has mainly been about polish, very little juicy new things. Both previous version 67 & 68 has not been fully released. This is because they've been my attempt to balance the game, and make it more of a challenge. Problem is, this generally creates more frustration, and if the game itself is frustrating in other ways, there's simply too much frustration, and people calling for my head. But now, V69 has had a lot of that functional frustration fixed. I've also balanced the game to be easier in general, allowing for more freedom and creativity. My only vision has been a game that doesn't snowball with progress, because I want a game that you can learn from for as long as possible, not quit because of boredom. I might, and I might not have succeeded with that currently, we will see. V69 have been alpha tested, and is now going live on the beta channel. You know the drill, go to preferences in steam, select EA69, play. V69 is a bit easier than 1.0 will be. The nobles, which you can currently use, have no perpetual cost, and that's something 1.0 will address. But we will see what you guys think. Also, apologies, but the 1.0 launch is delayed. There are a few more things I want to fix and tweak before its release. For those who own the game, this means nothing for you. For those waiting on 1.0, you're simply going to get a better product. If you don't want to wait, get the game now. In the future, there's a few systems I want to fix up, and some polish overall. I also want to spend some time on battles, and balance those to a great state. It would be a shame not to. I'm also in the process of moving into a run down farm. So I will be a bit swamped this summer. Have patience. I'll try to respond to everything on discord: discord Patch notes (I'm fully aware I can't spell)

• Misc:

• Overhauled the overlays. Moved a bunch to them to the tools that actually uses them for less clutter.

• Unite is more expensive

• Gifts are more generous.

• Age death renamed to natural causes.

• Armies can be supplied in any state, as long as they're in your territory. You get more artillery when fortified though.

• Workload for farms, and in general fixed.

• Rivalry returns after 8 years for vassals.

• Admin and overhead fixes and UI.

• Admin notification.

• Admin special automate employees function.

• Work-group UI enhancements

• Colors added to tech tree.

• Some missing techs added.

• Service proximity is square rooted, so more generous.

• Fixed factions suggestions for stance changes.

• Grain farms yields less, but bakaries are better.

• New events, bug fixes

• Two new levels to smooth out the progression.

• Changed the global boost buildings - the worker's guilds now multiply workforce, and the others have reduced effects and lower costs.

• Raider adjustments

• Difficulty settings enhanced. Now there is casual mode (default) selected.

• Immigration rate increased. Has no effect on population growth.

• Breeding limit of nurseries higher.

• Ex-convict is no longer a type. Types are now native, immigrant and former slave.

• Ex-convict is set when freed from punishment and will remain for a year.

• native population gets a boost to fulfillment.

• University rate doubled

• Stocks, execution block, graveyards are no longer services. They will be visited on the subject's spare time.

• Subjects will move around more and do fun stuff.

• Water access combines sweet and salt water into one.

• Clearing rocks is a lot faster.

• Workers always go to their place of work initially, so that they don't go fetching raw materials in the wrong direction.

• The convert tool for structures is instant

• Auto replace button for noble death.

• Rearranged levels, removed a lot of rooms into the tech tree. Spreading out innovation and nobles.

• Nobles have titles for each rank.

• Nobles boost 50 workers with +2, every rank the same amount of workers.

• Dynamic boosting system for faction, royalties and regions.

• Fixed alliance cost

• Some fixes to global prices. Leather products stood out in V68.

• Many title changes

• Argonosh training speed set to 1

• City hall tax removed

• Regions buildings with global boosts changed to give multiplicative benefits

• Shorter Dondorians

• Garthimi dislike torches

• Amevian tourists

• Woodcutters, mines, and bakeries changed to use the correct (reduced) maintenance

• Many new events

• Recurring events that destroy things are disabled for now

• Text fixes

• Ingame wiki updated

• Natural stone amount decreased.

• Subjects can perform blocked off jobs.

• City ore deposits richness has been retired. All deposits now have 100% efficiency.

• World deposits is scrapped. Instead, now each region have prospects for all industries semi-randomly distributed amongst them. Terrain matters in this distribution. For the player city, the terrain matters as to what prospects you'll have in raw production.

• Pushed natural deaths off a bit.

• Decreased player trade caps and added some UI.

• Decreased species boosts slightly. This and the above should encourage more generalisation.

• AI factions can attack your allies

• Betrayal for attacking after peace.

• Many bugs / suggestions

• Armies max amount of supplies changed from 24 days to 6 days.

• Armies can be supplied everywhere at all times (unless your capital is closed).

• Notifications for armies that have less than 1/2 supplies left.

• Walls gives roughly half the fortification bonus.

• Recruiting soldiers cost 6 days worth of health supplies up front.

• Disbanding armies does not return health supplies.

• Conscripts for the AI fix. The AI needs to wait for their conscript pool to regenerate before spawning armies.

• Redid army supplies. Improved UI and mechanics. Added Sithilon supply to Dondorians only for bonus morale.

• Foundation thing added. Gives you boost or malus to room maintenance depending on where they are built.

• Pre-generated road is special. Does not require maintenance and can not be repaired, only removed. No weirdness with maintenance on account of it.

• Degrade will become apparent sooner, from roughly 2 years to 8 days without janitors.

• Disabled rooms degrade x4 as fast.

• Logistics:

• Transports changed into mini-freight trains. Basically you need at least 6 employees and a distance of 100 tiles to make them more effective than deliverymen, else you're running them at a loss.

• Very effective transports that are fully staffed can be equal to 100-200 deliverymen.

• Transports only deliver to transport stations automatically. The stations also require minimum workers.

• Prioritized fetching. Enables warehouses and haulers to fetch from other warehouses without specific orders to do so. They fetch from those warehouses that are not prioritized.

• Market, eatery restaurant and in have warehouse-wroker carry capacity.

• Janitors also get warehouse-carry. Maintenance that require resources takes only one second to complete.

• Workers in rooms gets a "free" distance to fetch resources. The time fetching is separated from proximity, and called "input".

• Extensive copy-paste settings tool for logistics room.

• Export depots have priority-fetch and a global fetch limit as in olden times. This is enabled by default at 25%.

• Fertility:

• 4 soil types with different properties and nutrients for each map.

• Ground has moisture.

• Fertility = soil nutrients * moisture

• Natural moist maps will need very little irrigation

• Dry maps will depend on irrigation

• Dry maps has more nutrient rich soil.

• Moisture is essential to farms. You want 100% moisture for those, and perfect soil type. Pastures, orchards and woodcutters also needs moisture to some degree. Soil nutrients dictate density for these.

• Canal placement has helpful overlay.

• Canals radiate "stronger" fresh water.

• Hovering a canal / pumps tells you the pressure of the whole system.

• Pump changes. Different sizes, and easier to place.

• Region farms's once per year harvest can not be exploited.

• Tech

• Libraries now use leather instead of paper.

• Lab ratio halved. A quarter of innovation comes from your population itself (levels). Half comes from clay usage by the lab workers (clay tablets), which is then diminished to one quarter as you upgrade clay.

• Experience bonus decreased from +1.5 to 1.0.

• Max boost from tech increased from +5 to +6

• All production techs use innovation, while almost all others use knowledge.

• Laboratories produce twice the amount of innovation.

• The hammer value now shows how much workforce you gain from the tech, including upgrades and tool levels.

Rejoice! Jake brings thee new hours to waste!

• water wheels to boost industry
• Farmstead to boost agriculture
• More monuments
• More and prettier roads
• Park room
• Police building
• Medical research fascility
• New compact pasture variation.
• Meaningful fortifications.

• Price might increase 25 -> 30$, although I haven't decided.
• I might team up with a publisher for launch
• There most probably will be sales.

Patchnotes

• New event mechanics & new and refined events.
• Better and more error resistant saving
• Baths consume coal at a predictable rate
• Changing room materials do not crash saves
• new and improved bonuses and stats for regions
• new and improved road and path generation for the world.
• new mechanics for world pathing and trade partners.
• More state is saved when a room is copied or broken. Such as radius, and logistics settings.
• Stage & Arenas now have fixed sizes, but come in different shapes.
• Some visual candy for the woodcutter. Increased storage for them.
• Mines and refiners have differently sized output storage, bigger in general.
• Pastures do not get penalised for their surrounding fence, which will make indoor pastures better.
• new sprites for dirt and blood for portraits
• new tutorial cut scenes
• new titles icons
• Barber is more space efficient.
• Hospitals need fabric to function, and give 10% recovery. Opiates is optional and gives an extra 40% recovery.
• The import depot is now a potential pull source.
• New list for room construction projects.
• You can now easily swap punishments for captives, they will not go into exile. Also fixed some general weirdness with punishment rates.
• Pools now need direct canal access and will suck water out of the system.
• Woodcutters, farms, orchards and pastures now operate on base fertility, and will instead get an additive boost from sweet water.
• The old boost to knowledge from libraries is scrapped. Instead Libraries have their own separate tech point system.
• The tech tree has been remade visually with some new helpful information.
• The tech tree has been remade and rebalanced, quite a bit of thought has been put into it: All industries now have the same possible maximum boost at the same cost, making it viable to specialise in whatever.
• All industries have different times to shine, mimicking human evolutions. Farms are best at first, then comes mines, refiners and finally workshops that are best late game. In have all the same value.
• Army supply depot has been remade. It no longer stores supplies, but instead loads carts depending on demand, and leaves for the edge of the map. Considerable logistics is needed for large armies.
• Rooms no longer breaks when they are fully degraded. This is because I can now track monument degrade.
• Awe, harmony, etc. is scrapped. Instead all monuments have their own aura. This is so that monuments can be expanded upon.
• Some rooms like markets lets subjects register their surroundings.
• Pools work the same way as roads in terms of fulfilment.
• Improved rendering speed significantly, which will also increase game speed.
• New improved work assignments. Plebs will automatically change workplace based on their building preference. There's also the possibility to assign individual rooms to specific races. This is not an absolute tool, more of a hint, but it's working pretty well.
• Refactored the region development code. City hall is built with government points, generated by nobles.
• Excess world workforce generates denari.
• Growable taxes are only shipped on their harvest day.
• Admins are repurposed. An admin combats mid/late game overhead that will come creeping. Overhead increases exponentially.
• The old noble offices no longer exist. Instead, when you've appointed a noble, you assign them to an office manually. These offices are split between different industries and regional management. The former boosts a limited amount of workers. The latter will result in Gov Points that are used to upgrade regions.
• Export depots have spoilage
• Events for regions
• Ores generate differently on the city map. You get 100% deposits, but only enough for 30 workers without world deposits. This is to make self-sustaining early games possible.
• Consumption of edible goods added to the UI.
• New world battle mechanics. Better and more stable engine, with more options, such as defending a city with an army on top, assist you allies, and more.
• Got rid of the false virus flag.
• Enhanced the tutorial.
• REgion buildings rebalanced and fixed.
• Organization in regions is gone.
• Added 'Worth' to regions. It's a function of mineral deposits, fertility and area. It is used by the AI to estimate how much they want the region.
• Showing your net worth in the treasury UI.
• Showing a factions net worth in their UI.
• net worth includes worth of your population as slaves. Each pop is worth their upbringing time x the cheapest food in Syx x 2. This was bugged before with the average price of food, which could be very high.
• Fixed broken power calculations, which were a cause of raider and AI strangeness.
• Retirement fulfilment based on your total amount of retires.
• Threat is renamed into Rivalry, and is not counted towards your trade.
• You get penalised bad for failing to protect your vassals.
• Vassal tribute slightly decreased. Their armies will attack your enemies though.
• You get a trespassing penalty from moving armies in un-allied territory.
• If you have an army in a distant faction's territory, they are allowed to declare war on you.
• Factions that are at war with you, yet can't reach you, will continue to be at war with you until you make peace.
• When signing peace, you sign a peace with all factions you are at war with.
• Peace deals are less powerful. To get some cash from it, you seriously need to threaten the AI by having armies in their territory.
• Factions must break off their agreements until neutral before they can declare war.
• Wars decrease the opinion of your allies over time, along with city loyalty and region loyalty.
• Neutral factions will station their armies by your border.
• Raiders may cross through any other faction to attack you.
• Raiders will demand more unique and varied things.
• Raiders will on occasion destroy a trade partner instead of you.
• Minimum opinion is needed for trade, pact and ally. This is so you know what opinion is expected to upkeep your stance.
• Factions with low opinion, that can not attack themselves will "poison" all other factions against you. Given enough time, war will break out.
• Factions that can't reach you, but wants to kill you, can give their armies to a neighbour at war. They can not start wars though, other than "poisoning" your neighbours.
• Increased flattery from emissaries.
• Fortifications have different and better ways of being destroyed. Enemies can scale the walls if the outer tiles are broken. This means the thickness of walls is only used to station troops on.
• Drastically decreased the strength of every structure that is not fortifications, to emphasise their important.
• I have a hugely genius plan to improve the importance of fortifications for 1.0. Just wanted to mention that.
• It could also be possible to shift the map when you are invaded to the invasion spot. That is, move all buildings away from the invasion spot, which would allow you to make better use of archers and artillery (think about that will you)
• Friendly fire from archers reduced.
• Trees only block 50% of projectiles, and are no longer a real obstacle.
• Fertility changes. Fertility now goes from 0.5-1.2 in bonus. Irrigation goes from 0.5-1.0. So irrigation is mandatory for all maps. You get free irrigation close to natural water places.
• Annoying sudden confusion of divs in formation fix.
• Div movement 'stuttering' fix.
• Defenders on walls get "high ground" advantage in melee combat. This is x2 on grand fortifications. This should give the defender a clear advantage.
• Pathing for divisions improved
• Intanglement for divisions improved
• New setting for ranged units where they will not move to attack targets
• UI for battle improved.

• I've remade the priorities (priorities visible in the property tab) to make a more dependable schedule for subjects.
• All activities a subject can do have a need to them, which can be tempered with through mods and events.
• There are now essential services, such as food. And non essential, of which 2 is selected each day and consumed.
• A proximity stat that is tracked for each citizen. Is added to production calculations. Measures the time they're doing other things than actually working while working, such as hauling goods. Good for optimising industries.
• Onx pasture produce more cotton
• Special amount setting for warehouses, lets you use one crate with a specific capacity. Needed for the new maintenance overhaul.
• Both the new setting and pull orders are now copied when pasting a warehouse.
• Fulfilment formula made a lot easier for early game, and harder for late.
• Maintenance is now a science instead of something flimsy. There are strict rules, and as such the cost can be estimated. I've added the estimates to the UI where they are needed. Maintenance will now be a much bigger factor in your economy.
• Retirement age made more important, and set it to start at half. It will slowly make its way to whatever you set as the target, so you hopefully can't cheese it.
• Services fulfilment rebalanced. More diminishing returns.
• Some changes to fishery deep sea access.
• Upgrades available for monuments with fulfillment in regards to it.
• Torch have upgrades.
• New upgrade placer tool.
• Better saved blueprint UI and functionality.
• Guard post has upgrades
• Light removes snow
• Encyclopedia has been redone. Some functionality added.
• Nursery UI facelift
• Tourism fixes. Increased amount and money from tourism. Added more races.
• Added diplomatic penalty for disallowing tourists.
• Changed disease. Disease can be avoided with near infinite tech upgrades late game. Will later be replaced by a medical research facility.
• Crimes should also increase as you grow indefinitely, but has tech to offset it. Will later be replaced by police buildings.
• New revolutionary event mechanics. Makes it easy to add many events, and have them affect the game. Over 100 events added.
• Fixes of Dondorian and Cretonain portraits.
• New biographies for subjects, deeply tied to traits, and custom for races.
• The wishes of subjects are much more colourful and race specific.
• Religion conversion now works for both shrines and temples.
• Many more rooms now have more upgrade stages, and the upgrades are expensive to maintain.
• Pastures now have useless cubs for 6 days. Slaughter all output is increased though.
• Transports have radius, increased capacity, and can be loaded when they're away.
• Food and drink production increase, but higher food/drink rations possible. You only get this bonus if rations are > 1. Rations can now be fractions.
• Removed water need for baths. (I'm not sure what I/you want. Either water should play a substantial role in city planning, or just for agriculture)
• New raider mechanics
• - a fixed number of raider groups are pre-spawned and known from the start.
• - these come in different powers
• - only a span of raiders are interested in you at any given stage of the game.
• - This span are the ones that can pose a challenge to you, and the ones that think you are worthwhile.
• - The system is self-balancing, sort of like a ladder that you climb with your wealth. If the raids are too hard, they will grab your stuff and bump you down the ladder. If it's too easy, you'll climb the ladder.
• - start difficulty determines the offset of the span you are currently in.
• - raiders can be killed, either by attacking them manually, or defeating them in an invasion.
• - you get a bounty for killing raiders.
• - a killed-off raider can be respawned. If all raiders are killed, a new raider will spawn every 10 years, so that's the max rate. Don't want it to feel endless, but also don't want to completely kill the system.
• - raiders will spawn like in V66, or at the edge of your realm as a rebel army.
• Made some changes to borderless window creation. Let me know if I broke / fixed something.
• Added army supply consumption to tooltips.
• Better room ordering in lists.
• Room name based on amount of room, not iteration of room.
• Special floors for rooms override by race. For instance Garthimi have their organic floors for them. This can be implemented for every race.
• Auto immigration only counts adults.
• Nurseries have local limits.
• Toggle for automatic roads underneath benches etc.
• Better on-hover on the world map.
• Culvert overlay
• Room build overview tweaks
• Archery speed tech
• Cobblestone repainted
• Better search for bottom panel
• Indicator for planning mode
• Historic data for available technology points
• Extra cost when constructing room more prominent.
• Indoor pastures gate placement improved.
• Some indoctrination/education changes.
• Saved bluprints work on unfinished rooms.
• Auto immigration has numerical input.
• Minimum treasury setting for imports
• Room problem overlay
• Tilapi happy in slaver and cannibal
• Janitor overlay show all combined radiuses.
• Indoor pastures get boost in mountains.
• Warehouses start with 100% radius.
• toggle all select for pull orders
• Fill tool improvements
• Woodcutter items can be placed on trees.
• Moved tooltip when managing equipment of divisions.
• reconstructing rooms and cancelling rebuilds them instantly.
• Hotspots left click to navigate, right to edit.
• Overlays remove the hard shadows in mountains.
• Resolution UI problems.
• Trade price added to resource tooltip.
• minimap settings are saved.
• Added equipped tool consumption to resource tooltip.
• Made minimap entity coloring a bit better.
• Race filter for minimap
• A bit less forest generated on the world map.
• Mural of the main menu completed.
• Service proximity is now impossible to get to 100%. But the upside is you can always find a better layout for your city.
• Much more accurate workload values.
• Temporary loyalty boost when invaded or when there is an epidemic.
• Experience bonuses for industries rebalanced.
• All industries construction materials have been balanced to be uniform, and prevent early upgrades (through the maintenance cost).
• New icons here and there.
• Trade tariff increased.
• Inflation increased.
• the two above might decrease again once I fix more world mechanics.
• Roundness change. Now both roundness and squareness exist. Humans like both, so you need a good 50:50 ratio for it. This is not registered in rooms.
• New Revolutionary trading system. Lets you export machinery with the same profits as grain if your trade partners are big enough. Also affects wood prices when trading furniture.
• Accidents more rare, and more severe.
• Livestock is now a recipe in all pastures, and can be traded normally.
• some logistics QoL
• Fixed world fortifications
• snow and ice removed when the weather setting is off.
• Contributions
• Roberto Díaz Pérez - more and better place types.
• Vanir - lots of the above
• Krastor - lots of the visuals above

V67 – balance.

• Make maintenance great again and make sure upgrades to buildings is not a one-time cost for the player.
• Make services more costly if maintenance isn't enough, especially the late game ones.
• General love to fulfilment modifiers and race diversity.
• Admin to replace organization. Still focus on < 12 region kingdoms. Law and health rework in order to make this the primary late-game pushback, but still give you tools to mitigate them.
• Further work on the difficulty progression, by making early game more forgiving, and increase difficulty at higher populations.

V68 – diplomacy

V69 – battles

Greetings earthlings.

MISC

• Campaign engine.
• The tutorial converted into a campaign.
• Selectable scripts when generating random game.
• Different "scenario" options. A scenario is a save that you can distribute with mods. Battles for instance.
• Trait system remade and reworked to work both or royals and subjects.
• Military equipment has efficiency based on race, added as a modding request. I've added some malus to the Argonosh.
• All kinds of racism is now connected in the world and your city, and other factions.
• Save resilience. Saves should now be able to be opened with different mod configurations, if the mods are not too exotic. Custom maps also have a good chance to work all the way to 1.0 as well.
• 14 new sountracks. The soundtrack is now complete.
• A nifty little property saver that saves for instance wall-type in room construction to your profile. Can be used to save many such QoL, suggestions are welcome.
• New menu background
• New Titles: The Undefeated, The Incompetent, The Merciful, The Merciless, The Wise, The Bureaucrat, The Clumsy, The Gourmand, The Entertainer, The Drunkard, The Caretaker, The Pleasurer, The Uniter

CITY

• Admin and knowledge now have sticky production, meaning values will not swing back and forth during the day.
• Accidents are back. Also some panic when accidents occur.
• Pimped the Embassy. Made it more space efficient. It now needs jewellery and fabric, although it's optional as the admin.
• Sick and injured people no longer counts as workforce, enabling you to control work priorities properly.
• Soldier fulfilment based on total number of soldiers, not per race.
• Grave mourners now stand beside the grave.
• Market rooms keep their settings when copied.
• Pasture output tiles capacity increased.
• Overtime now has significant penalty to happiness.
• Water pumps can now only be placed on ground water. You must plan for the canals.
• Data for resources and credits are now per day instead of per season.
• Resource piles have much greater capacity, reducing their amount and potential lag if the map becomes filled with them.
• Rooms listed in construction order
• removed entrance check when building rooms, allowing you to build in mountains.
• Saved blueprint now moved to the construction screen of individual rooms. Saved blueprints made more robust.
• Made some small changes to the bottom menu. I know you don't like this, but it's for the better. Some small changes might occur next patch, but after, I'm done.
• Food preference improved. You'll get a slight value when there is one out of many.
• Service overlays now better.
• Entertainment buildings keep better count of available services.
• Services such as food stall and restaurant now count to fulfilment by themselves. Restaurants are on average used ever 8th food stall day.
• Tree regrowth rate halved, and woodcutter production boosted.
• Auto employ removed from crafting buildings.
• More road types, and they look better.
• Road access remade. Now remade into preference, which works the same as the building materials.
• Hospitals now offer fulfilment to citizens.
• Multiple drink types. I only have two. Tavern has been pimped, and has an upgrade. Drink preference works just as food preference.
• Massage parlour added. What happens in there is up to everyone's imagination. In practise, it is just another service, but reduces health slightly.
• New room "stockade" is a holding place for prisoners. It is dirt cheap, and it is not a punishment. Prisons are now purely a punishment.
• Law is remade, so it starts at full fulfilment, then climbs down as crime starts appearing.
• Added escape events to stockades and prisons.
• Work priorities and the assignment mechanics got some love, and now work better, even when priority is 0.
• -Logistics remake-
• Two new major things to know about. Fetch and deliver orders. These are set per room. They are similar to the old "empty to" functionality.
• The warehouse have 4 available fetch orders. In addition, it also has a toggle for "regular fetch", and a true store function. It also has a limit that decides how much other storage fetchers may fetch from it.
• The hauler has the same things, but only two fetch orders.
• The old fetch mechanics is thus retired. Warehouses will only grab stuff from the ground and from production rooms, if no fetch orders are issued.
• Logistics are nerfed a bit. They have less radius, and less carry capacity. The carry capacity is based on race and can be upgraded. Garthimi sucks, Dondorian and Cretonian excel.
• Transports have 4 delivery orders available. Their capacity is now 60, and they will depart more regularity. Their speed is slower than a regular pleb, but they obviously carry a lot more. They are good for moving big numbers of resources. For few numbers, a warehouse will do.
• Export depots and military supply depots work similarly to warehouses, in that they grab resources on the ground, and also have pull orders.
• The "export when over" is thus scrapped and replaced by the power of the pull orders.
• The army supply works like a warehouse with 2 fetch orders available.
• Exposure tweaks. You must now provide wells and hearths all over the city, as everyone will become cold and hot. Clothes will only decrease the frequency of getting cold/hot, thus making the city more efficient.
• Divisions when sent out to an army will take some time to return.
• Option to send out divisions even if they're not fully trained.
• Raids pimped up. They no longer spawn an army, they attack directly. You have a chance to fight them on the field.
• Raid chance is reworked. Now based on riches (resources, slaves and credits) and your military power. Also your military reputation.
• Raids no longer scale as you defeat them until you're faced with impossible odds. Instead they are randomized each time.
• Raiders have a captain and a name.
• There are a number of unconditional raids added that you can't avoid.
• Roundness is now an addative value.
• Made some visual changes to walls.
• Some 20+ techs added and tech tree restructured.
• Refined how slave submission works.

WORLD

• Generation now tries to base the size of the region on capacity, meaning larger, infertile regions.
• Roads made a bit more pronounced.
• Some color and sprite changes.
• Editor. To share maps you make, make a mod and put the save from the editor into custom folder.
• Havens now have lower requirements in order to join you. More will join if you exceed the requirements though.
• Build points removed. World buildings rebalanced.
• "Organisation" a new world thing and is based on how much workforce you have allocated. Replaces distance, although distance is still there.
• Organisation lets you either expand though upgrades or through region amounts.
• Building buildings now has a new flow. Loyalty and health is based on the population target, not current population. Enables you to know exactly what to build.
• Building buildings is done in bulk that lets you experiment with different configurations without spending money.
• Prosecution in you capitol also affects regional happiness.
• Representation of species in your capitol affects regional happiness.
• Representation of nobles in your capitol affects regional happiness.
• Prices have been fixed all over, and is now derived from the prices of goods. For instance slaves cost their food and upkeep during breeding, and mercenaries their equipment and training.
• Region generation improved.
• Battle stats for armies and factions. Military reputation based on your prowess. Affects AI factions and in-city stats.
• Mercenary rework. Scales with your size, and have a long cooldown when disbanded, and low replenishment. Also correctly prices, more than it will cost you to train your own.
• Raid stance added for army. Allows you to get slaves and resources.
• Artillery is now an army supply.
• Only rations and clothes are mandatory, drinks improve morale.

FACTIONS

• Opinion "threat" now reworked. Based on population vs Ai's population, meaning small states will hate you more/faster. Some additional stats added.
• UI of opinion enhanced.
• Reworked emmisaries. Now a diplomatic point system. Points allocated will stick to the court when someone dies. Better UI for this.
• New "sabotage" diplomacy option in order to get a faction to attack you without getting a betrayal penalty.
• Betrayal added. If you act like a jerk, you will be severely punished by all factions.
• Factions will not attack you simple because they do not like you. They will make sure they can beat you in auto resolve.
• Factions with low opinion will secretly convince other factions to attack you with time.
• New diplomatic options available:
• Alliance -> a military alliance, you will share enemies. You can get a cheap alliance by helping someone out that is at war.
• Colleague -> a non aggression pact. Promise to not attack each other.
• Vassal -> become, or make a vassal. A vassal pays a yearly tribute to its overlord, and is protected by it. As an overlord, you can pick what kind of tribute you want, and as a vassal, you'll pay 15% of your shit each year.
• Protector -> above reversed
• Join Federation -> Unite. Pay a hefty sum to have a faction join yours without bloodshed.
• New trait system for royalties. Shapes a unique personality that has a large impact on your relations. Hopefully this will prompt you to assassinate more.
• All factions now has an army. These armies grows slightly as you expand.
• Initial generation of factions makes sure you will have nice progression. The neighbouring factions are immune to events, and will stay there until you're ready to expand.
• Slave trade.
• War diplomacy fixes.
• The betray system hopefully fixes exploits, such as selling a region and then attacking it shortly after.
• Opinion has less impact on trade prices.

SOUND

• Reworked the sound engine.
• Added multiple new sounds in theory, but I haven't added much of the actual sounds.
• Sounds that you can be added by modding:
• -Room ambiance
• -Room on click
• Furthermore, there will be a variety of sounds coming from the subjects themselves, but I'm saving these until after 1.0, as it will not affect saves.

MODDING

• Some changes to scripts. Now there are selectable scripts, and forced scripts. Forced scripts can be adding ui tools or whatnot, selectable is a traditional script. Scripts are selected on a new random game.

• WORLD
• Overall the world has been overhauled to 1.0 status. Lots of smaller adjustments.
• Armies are now reinforced by garrisons and other armies nearby in an intelligent way.
• Better auto resolve based on damage types.
• Better army composition for the AI.
• Most UI reworked. Made sure it fits on a 1200x720 screen.
• Improvements to FOW and minimap FOW and highlighting.
• Lots of new functionality around trade.
• Improved world buildings on the map. Each race have specific ones.
• Improved neighbour factions spawning
• Mineral deposits rework. All deposits available in any region and in any city. The amount of deposits dictate the efficiency of the mines. Settlement will be generated with the same quantity of ores. The ore nodes will increase quality of the nodes.
• Epidemic events on the world map.
• NPC factions communication events.
• All UI and mechanics concerning army management and recruitment polished.
• The world construction has been completely revamped with new mechanics and buildings to choose from.
• CITY
• Generating initial roads according to the world roads.
• Generating small rivers according to the world map.
• Equally large mineral patches will be generated (about 1500 workers each) on every city. The richness of the spots is determined by what world location you pick.
• new Main UI
• Historic data for equipment wear and initial equip.
• Full control over house assignments.
• Brawls still happen now and then (prevented by segregation of hateful species with the new home settings). Big brawls are now an event that happens with low fulfilment.
• Army recruitment UI redone. Bulk edit of divisions, and reordering. More info on whats going on.
• Strangeness regarding training of different battle types fixed. A recruit can train at any facility for basic training, and will then start specialising.
• Warehouses are now upgradable for more space and less degrade. Visually a bit more exciting.
• Overtime command now gives flat bonuses. The actual work hours are not affected, they just work more efficiently.
• Work time is now "elastic" in order to let the peeps travel farther away services without affecting production. When a peep has been away in the arena, he will work extra shifts afterwards to compensate.
• Arenas now have workers istead of using prisoners. Death in the arena is an optional punishment form.
• Arenas are now renamed "fighting pits" and are available early. The size option does not affect quality.
• A new Grand arena building is available late game.
• Eatery renamed food stall, and look much prettier. Canteens -> restaurants, and I've increased coal consumption and work time for it! The idea here is that while it's theoretically possible to give everyone restaurant access, you shouldn't, you should use in conjunction with food stalls.
• Roundness and squareness now replaced with only roundness, and it's not tied to rooms, it's tied to the walls of your whole city, including mountains. Added roundness liking to Garthimi.
• Hearths no longer require wood to be brought to them. Instead they cost a lot of wood to contruct and maintain.
• Added some terrain decorations.
• Made the mineral deposits a bit more visually appealing.
• Shrines to all gods added. Shrines is your everyday religious fix. Shrine have a tiny radius. Temples can serve more people and have a much wider radius.
• All services are now a bit more tolerable for being full. A subject will try to find a vacant service several times before they mark it as unavailable.
• Made some changes to the workload calculator, hopefully giving you more accurate results.
• Entry points to your city is now fixed and mirror how your city is connected to roads on the world map. You must keep these points open, or receive negative consequences.
• Invasions can happen even if the entry points are closed. Invasions will find a suitable area to spawn on. They will not spawn on places that can't be reached from the world map, like in a mountain, but they are not tied to entry points, so you can't just fortify those. More will be done, I plan on keeping track of where enemies attack, and your fortifications in the area, so that they don't walk into kill boxes. If you go all in on fortifications and artillery, I plan to have them simply besiege you until you die.
• Mountains are now "soft" around the edges, so that you can initially tunnel quicker, however tunnelling will be slower the farther into the mountain you dig.
• Clearing other terrain stuff can be a bit slower, but yields more resources.
• Fixed so that you can always get 1 of each race through immigration, unless you're prosecuting them.
• Added more hate and racism :). This will make sure the world map is less diverse, with more regions oppressing other races. I also increased the importance of the "other" fulfilment thing, as well as gave x2 expectancy to your non-starting race.
• The liking of other species is now an absolute value 0-1. If A likes B with 0.5, they will only tolerate having 0.5 of that species relative to their own population.
• Workshops and refiners now have fixed amount of workers that are guaranteed to have something to do if raw materials exist.
• Daily production/consumption UI for rooms.
• Tools are now tied to the rooms they are used in, and not equipped.
• Pastures have an efficiency item, and get a small boost from sweet water access.
• Consumption of resources when producing also apply to bonuses, meaning when you boost something by x2, its consumption is also boosted by x2.
• Lowered all raw material production rates. (It's not harder, just more balanced).
• Animals on the map are now hunted manually.
• Hunter rooms are now a perpetual source of meat, though limited to very few employees.
• New building type added. The "hut". What's special about this is that it's free, but take a long time to build. Amevias like it.
• A new food panel, that gives you daily production and detailed info about food.
• Smallest housing option removed. The other houses have had their capacity increased by 125%
• Nurseries now unlock with you population. Maximum children is based on the population of the race in question.
• WATER
• Water table scrapped
• Instead there is ground water in both sweet and salty variants. You can terraform these areas as you're used to. These areas cover the generated natural water on the map + 8 tiles surrounding it.
• New water pumping system. You now need to build water pumps to generate water pressure that you can channel into canals. The pumps stack their pressure. these are manned by workers, although you'll need less as you upgrade them. You get the best result by placing the pumps close to sweet ground water.
• Every map is generated with at least 1 small body of water.
• To channel water through as structure you can use a drain.
• The canals emit sweet water, and increases fertility.
• Where there is sweet water access you can place different kinds of pools. These are moddable, I've added moats, ponds and pools to vanilla.
• Wells no longer emit sweet water, but can be placed anywhere.
• Bathhouses need access to sweet water to function optimally. Their pools look a bit better.
• Deep water can now not be completely removed. you can create a pathway through it, and place roads on that, and it will mimic a bridge. You can also remove the pathway.
• Skinny dipping access gets you a small fulfillment bonus.
• Fish amounts on the map is scrapped.
• Instead, you get a fixed, 1 worker/64 tiles in your fisheries.
• But, you get a lot of fish from new "deep water fishing spots" that will litter the edge of the sweet water tiles that's adjacent to deep water. These will send out boats to sea to fish.
• Salt water gets more of these tiles, since it has crap fertility.
• Just wood needed for fishery, they now have an upgrade.
• Indoor farms get a small boost to fertility from sweet water access.
• BUGS
• All bugs reported fixed. Noteworthy:
• The Cannibal now produces resources as it should.
• Fixed broken camps (Cantor, Argonosh).
• BATTLE
• Military Training and Training rooms now moddable. Each room has its own training stat and bonus. Each stat has its own set of bonuses. Divisions will be populated in a smart manner, best candidate first.
• Added new damage and armour types. Blunt, Pierce, slash
• New division power calculations + advanced auto resolve calculations.
• Added new battle equipment: short sword, long sword, warhammer, plate armour, leather armour and shields.
• I've rebuilt and rebalanced everything regarding battles. It is now much better, but far from perfect. It is important that you give me test cases where the AI is acting weirdly. Save before a battle, and if possible before the oddities occur.
• MISC
• 4 new sound tracks
• new day-night cycle, kinder to the eyes.
• New lock and unlock mechanics for everything, which makes the possibilities of the tech tree much more interesting and increases modability. For modders, full syntax examples should be in the tech files. Also works on titles and player levels and world buildings.
• Improved fonts, especially for non-latin languages.
• Visually improved main menu.
• New icons for everything. Improved icon rendering.
• Increased maximum resource types from 64 to 128. It can be increased further without hassle, but I think 128 will be enough for modders.
• New and improved titles, totalling 20. Titles have a 1:1 relationship to steam achievements.
• Steam achievements are now automatically updated when starting and exiting the game.
• Timed super screenshots
• Launcher is now translatable, with a new look, and a live language select.
• Quarter speed added by double tapping 1x speed
• Fixed the "non shading" option.
• MODDING
• First off, I've ruined a lot for current mods, and I apologise for this. I will most probably not do such a big change as this again, it is close to 1.0.
• The biggest thing is the new bonus system and unlock. It is much more versatile and broader, but has a different syntax.
• Added optional flag "AI_BUILDS" to world buildings.
• Made world generation heightmaps able to have any size (256px is the current world size) for better precision.
• Added default liking for other species.
• Better moddability for ranged weapons.
• Moddable damage and armour types
• All projectiles are now moddable, one can mod the damage done, velocity, etc. Added max arch angle as well (for muskets and cannons).
• Services are now tied to needs, and needs are moddable. This means that you can add a service and tie it any existing or new need you come up with. A physician can be reskinned and repurposed to deal with some other need for instance, very similar to industries, where you can change input/output.
• Water pool buildings available to be modded.
• Moddable city map size
• NOTES
• Brawls can not be a crime in the game. A crime needs an intent, while brawls are a sporadic thing, and will not work in the current law system. We will have to live with them going unpunished.
• Fishing boats can indeed bump around in an ugly fashion in your fisheries if you build these in weird shapes. Please let me know.

• nobles (will include a whole set of posh buildings)
• military (fix AI issues on the battlefield) Perhaps add commanders to divisions, more training options, royal guard)
• Tutorial
• Campaign
• Zombies
• Atrifacts
• Sound overhaul

A new era dawns. The greatest gaming event of 1999 is here. Song of Syx has a new patch.

New Stuff

• Sweet and salt water are now environments.
• Blight and bountiful harvest events added. (+2 years playing) 25% chance per year
• Droughts events. (+4 years playing) 6% chance per year-
• Fishing events for improved/decreased fish output.
• Upgrades for all mines + small fixes
• Difficulty settings for random game.
• New resource: Machinery. Used mostly to upgrade rooms.
• Outdoors added as a building preference.
• New workshop added. Makes the machinery resource.
• New UI for individuals. Added a gimmic that generates biographies to each subject. Also added opinions as to what individuals want improved in the city. Each race can have their own template, and there are templates for scared, normal and confident subjects. Can be easily modded to add infinite flavour. If someone do, please let me know.
• New thing - tourists. Tourists can come to see the marvels of your city. They're attracted by large scale industries that have a high work preference with the race of the tourist. Tourists will leave some cash and a review. You must build an inn to be able to accept tourists.
• Thanks to Victor Baker, who wrote a lot of tourist review texts.
• Strikes added as an alternative to emigration and riots.
• Two new monuments. Flower beds and humidifier.
• New road: festival square
• New thing: Benches. Idle subjects will search out benches to sit on in a small radius. Useful for letting them absorb the environment.
• Fullfillment from tourists.
• Individual crime statistics.
• Micro and macro actions for your people. Free drinks, money handouts, day off work and arrest. Can be used to temporarily boost happiness.
• New growable resource 'Herbs'. Used in the ration maker. Will be used in cooking services for the nobility in later updates.
• Serial killer event
• 3 scripts added

Reworks & Improvements

• Climate and weather redone. Now with fully simulated cycles. Snow and ice added. Terrain has been redrawn and will respond to weather and wind. Map generation improved. Wild growing things adjusted and remade. One should now no longer be able to support maximum 100 people through harvesting.
• Water now increases fertility around it. Irrigation is scrapped.
• Farms have been re-coded to make more sense. The coming harvest is the result of many factors, clearly listed.
• Homes now need a structure, the ugly walls are gone. Easier to copy and handle. Poor isolation leads to more furniture degrade.
• Animals now have fixed spawning points. These replenish at a slow rate. Animals will stick to these points. Animals will attack people near them, except for hunters. Once you build near a spawning point, no more spawning will happen.
• Hunter room simplified. The rate is nerfed.
• Corpses bleed.
• Room rates have been improved, now showing produced per day per room.
• Shape for rooms are now individual for each room, and it's possible to please everyone regarding squareness and roundness.
• Refiners remade. Are now upgradable. Unlocked from start. Production lowered. Early survival tactics is to use grain + bakery.
• Accidents more rare, but more deadly.
• Workshops have been converted to the new sprite system. Visually improved. Has their own storage, same as refiner. Some have upgrades. They are more space efficient.
• University has gotten a face lift and is more space efficient.
• Upgrades for service rooms, although, I've only enabled it for lavatories so far. Lavatories got a facelift, with sanitary lids for the toilets.
• The throne can no longer be instantly moved, but must be constructed. Trapped people can still function and find jobs in their vicinity.
• Changed the trade controls a bit.
• Reworked exposure to work differently. Exposed people will seek services or shelter. In shelter they are still exposed, but at a lower rate. Prior to death, that can also go insane.
• Made trees and other growth be able to grow randomly when fertility is increased by irrigation.
• Added different sizes to wells, and an upgrade. And emitting of sweet water.
• Gave hearths the same treatment as wells.
• Added fulfilment modifiers for all monuments, meaning you can get happiness from specific monuments per capita.
• Law remake. More detailed and more options.
• All punishment types affect fulfilment differently for races.
• Stocks added as a compliment to punishment. This shortens prison time by half.
• Guard post now come in different sizes. They now have a visible radius. The chance of arresting a criminal is based on distance to guard post.
• The enemy kills stat increases neuroticism and crime rate.
• Guard posts remade. Now work with a radius. The closer a crime is committed, the greater likelihood for catching them.
• More crime, and more penalty from it.
• Added stuff to the tutorial.

Bug Fixes & Quality of Life

• An attempt to fix shuttering mouses on certain PCs.
• Buildings can be built next to deep water.
• Overlays have gotten some love.
• Minimap improved + flawless zooming in/out.
• Copying items is easier.
• Room panels and priority panels have been improved. Now possible to prevent employment by setting priorities to 0.
• Lots of effort put into the new sprite system for room. Making it more moddable.
• People will not try to fetch corpses that are in dangerous zones, such as a animal spawn point.
• Workload calculations improved.
• The use of walls when building rooms have been improved.
• Huge refactorings, making the game less error prone.
• New Housing panel panel with improved overlay and tools.
• Oddjobbers will find homes faster.
• Improved the top panel.
• Remade and improved bottom panel.
• Wiki improved + moved race info to new wiki and improved them a bit.
• Fixed Maintenance overlay
• Added a type swapper to room copying and saved blueprint placer.
• Industry recipes will revert if the recipe is re-locked.
• Added population to save game files.
• Fixed buggy Workstations
• Ability to set punishment for prisoners manually + better ui for managing criminals.
• Fixed broken steam achievements.

Aesthetic

• An in-game palette that lets you change colours of roads and structures for visuals.
• Unique sounds for all animals. sorry about the volume, WIP.
• Sounds will play when fast forwarding.
• 3 new soundtracks
• Made openings of buildings a bit clearer.
• A light cycle toggle in the settings.
• Improved overlay for minables
• Added some visual help to room construction.
• Made roads go diagonal next to diagonal walls.
• Improved the text rendering engines, taught it some new tricks, and better looking text.

Modding

• New script engine. Now possible to inject java code, and package them as mods. See pdf in installation directory of how to get started.
• Big refactoring with rooms. Room files now in folders. Modders, check out the new way of specifying rooms in other files.
• Made titles be able to lock rooms (requested by modders).
• Updated external libraries.

• Personal homes
• New tech tree
• Elderly care
• Disease & health
• World camps
• A new species and religion.
• Balance and fixes

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Pros:

• They use resources that you allow to upgrade their house, going from slum-looking to something really nice.
• The resources adds a new, familiar from other games, depth to the simulation. A lot more resources will have bigger meaning and demand. Cantors wants gems and cut stone, very expensive to keep happy. Garthimi requires a slab of clay for full upgrade.
• The thin walls and detail makes it look much more detailed than the 1x1 tile walls of Dormitories/apartments. It also takes less space that say an apartment complex.
• Need 5 more beds? No need to refurnish a room and evict everyone. Add dynamically
• No need to build a city with dorms, unlock the apartments and have to tear everything down to add them. Now the houses can stay. You upgrade them by allowing for more furniture resources.
• "Communist ant simulation" gets a hit. Everyone will have their own little space they go to, uniquely furnished (automatic) by the individual.
• Easier to decide where, and how big services to place down.
• Zoning, getting to decide exactly who lives where (if you want to). If you don't, the game will work out the most efficient placement of your citizens, and move them about as you change your workplaces.

Cons:

• More space requirement (x2)
• Dormitories and Apartments gone (Chambers still available, and you can still mimic the apartment room if you want.)

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• Apartment - 3x3 - 2 residents ~4.5 tiles/person
• Homestead - 4x4 - 4 residents ~4 tiles/person
• Dormitory - 5x5 - 8 residents ~ 3.1 tiles/person
• Longhouse - 5x7 - 16 residents ~2.1 tiles/person

• People will have a "healthy" stat that will be increased by comfortable jobs, food rations and visits to a doctor. Hygiene will be important to keep off epidemics. I'm thinking immigration could also increase the chance for that. We will have wards, or hospitals that will need supplies of medicines (made from opiates I'm thinking). A curfew decree that will cause everyone to stay indoors to prevent spread. Obviously your economy will suffer from this. I also want to make some kind of martial law mechanics where soldiers will patrol the streets, we will see about that.
• An elderly care building for retired people, where they can hang around playing cards as the elderly often do.
• I also plan to make private housing. Each dude will have one of different quality. They will also fetch stuff such as furniture and cloth to improve their dwelling, if you allow it. You'll be able to specify what species get to live where. I'm aiming to make some funny interaction between neighbours as flavour, but also potential problems.
• Some races will be converted into a sort of "creature" instead. They will not immigrate, but they will have camps on the world map that you can persuade to join you if certain conditions are met. Cantors will be one of those. There will also be a new ant species.
• I've had this idea about changing up the tech tree, and just display all bonuses that you can allocate tech points into, indefinitely, but at an increasing cost. This will really simplify the whole tech aspect of the game, while offering more freedom at the same time. I'd like to hear if anyone has objections to that.
• A new notification system that will bake messages and notifications into one, with some clever mechanics and customization options, so that you can decide exactly what you want to be notified about.
• I have an idea of a new sprite system as well, that will benefit modding, and allow for more variation and detail. Basically I want to put all sprites in a folder and have all assets map to the sprite they're using. that way a lot of sprites can be reused, and you can mod in new rooms without having to draw stuff.
• Tons of suggestions and QoL's and polish are going into this one as well.

• Now we have catapults and archers and troops on walls, gatehouses.
• We have an AI that's semi-smart.
• We have complex and true to life morale and combat mechanics. Configure your own troops in almost infinite ways.
• We have increased modding support for battle-related stuff. Someone wants to add javelins, slings, scorpions, WW1 machine guns, no problem.
• Big performance gains. New pathfinder that's better and smoother and faster.

V59

EA version 59 is now out in beta. As always, it is not save game compatible. To help me out with stability, please check it out in the steam client.

Path notes, V0.59

• Patch notes will automatically be shown when something new has been added to the game!
• Rebalance happiness in general. Should now be more stable, and immigration shouldn't ruin it.
• Rebalance a few technologies.
• Added more flavour to all species.
• Tech tree now allows unlocking multiple techs at once.
• Slave uprisings. Slaves no longer runs away. If they are unhappy enough they will rebel.
• Slaves can now be sold to the slaver
• Riots. When loyalty is low for subjects there is a chance for a riot. Can be put down with guards and soldiers.
• Law remade. Much easier at first and climbs with your population. Happiness is no longer such a big factor.
• Burials now count differently. If no deaths take place, value will be based on available grave spots.
• Farm and pasture yields increased slightly
• Production rate remake for all rooms. Adds intelligence as a possible factor and a lot of tweaks for better balance.
• Fixed correct training for your city divisions on the world map.
• Fixed library/admin paper bug, and made gaining tech/admin faster, while decaying at a lower speed.
• Warning icon on harvestable food when not ripe added.
• University room for education of adults
• New smart remove tool.
• Reconstructing rooms with different structure now works.
• Workflow of room construction made better. Now refurnish without prompt & builds over other jobs.
• When hovering a job/ something buildable, you'll be prompted to build jobs of the same type by hitting a hotkey.
• New translation opportunities through crowdin. The idea is that the game will ship with these translations automatically, no need for mods.
• New species, the Tilapi. Thrives in forests, and likes to eat people. Hates basically everyone. Good fighters and herders.
• New portraits for all races. Thanks to Bendi!
• Storage and logistics wiki entry
• Immigration can now be set to a absolute number.
• Launcher screen selection is now a bit clearer and simpler.
• Education added. Education + intelligence = production boosts and knowledge. Will decrease loyalty a bit.
• Indoctrination as an option to education. Indoctrination only adds to submission regardless of education.
• School added. Can only be used by children. Will rapidly educate them.
• Changed so that wild growables spawn based on yield rate, and decreased regeneration of all of them.
• Added a multitude of hotkeys and new ways of assigning them.
• Path notes will automatically be shown when something new has been added!
• Children. Walks around and eats your food while contributing to nothing. Can also go to school.
• New procreation rooms that lets you make new citizens. Breeder for Cretonians, Nursery for men and Hatchery for Garthimis.
• Rooms on battle minimap fixed
• Nerfed hunter success by 50%
• Room refurnishing vanishing resources fix.
• Added addition useful info to the food days tooltip.
• Fixed disparaging enemy garrisons after battles
• Tweaked pathing a bit. More road usage, and smoother paths.
• Hearths now used once a week, even if no one is cold.
• Fixed population decline in world regions.
• Remade room, work and priority panels.
• Made slaughtered animals into skeletons in pastures, so to stop the confusion.
• World generation now have moddable blueprints for the terrain. Random seed also added.
• Export depot remade into a static design, and has only one resource. Global settings for exporting in the UI
• Visual genders for certain species, with feminine and masculine names.
• Admin nerfed slightly. Harder to remain in control of regions. You need either an army stationed, or a big garrison.
• Admin room now unlocks at Cheiftain (500 people)
• Import depots have controls for global import level.
• Import depot has a visual resource
• Lavatory basins fixed
• Janitors do a better job at fetching needed resources
• New title system. Titles can be unlocked and then used with a new game. Unlocked titles persist between games and also hopefully versions.
• Savable room layouts that will also hopefully survive between versions.
• x200 speed added if you push the third speed key twice.
• Some rooms leave the floor/road when deleted
• Steam achievements now triggered when you press the sync steam button.
• Trade resource counter fixed
• Bonuses in status panel sorted alphabetically
• Warehouse and export depot UI fixes
• Added tooltip for equipping resources with their wear-rate
• Improved the room creation UI
• Added UI for how much a race like other races in the race info panel
• Some needs now resets, such as drink. Will help that initial drink supplying.
• Improved canteen workers significantly and their usage as well.
• New room - transport. A cart pulled by animals that is loaded and then sent to a destination. Requires livestock to operate. Moves 200 items at a time.
• Hauler now come in different sizes.
• Made freed slaves immigrants, so you'll have some time before their expectations rise.
• Smarter Deliverymen
• All now have multi-carry capabilities. They'll carry up to 3 resources, and be a bit smarter about it.
• Refiners have common storage for output.
• Deliverymen has had their carry capacity nerfed a bit.
• Prolonged the day-length. This is to optimise things and make distances less important. Leisure time can be experienced as longer in early game though.
• New stat: riches. Based on the amount of credits you have per citizen.
• Military depots have setting how much they'll be filled.
• Trade interval halved, more frequent trades. Good deals for SoS. Trade reworked, should be better in general.
• Import depots has more storage.
• New penalty for exports. You'll be paid less at the beginning, but this penalty can be reduced by techs and levels.
• AI now receives tribute as to what makes sense, not a static amount for each, resulting in a more balanced market.
• Spoils and tribute will go to the throne, if there is no import depot for the resource. Also imports that has had their import depots removed.
• measuring tool with right click.
• Deposits colored after density
• A new super copier tool
• Fixed keyboard issues
• Proximity instead of distance in services. And this has been nerfed, allowing you to reach 100%.
• Service coverage radius increased by 50%
• Toggable overlay when building roads
• Some rooms have their settings copied when copying them. Worker limits and warehouse settings.
• Fixed mining output based on workers
• Added "Starfoth The Burgundy"'s Silk Rug's2 nobility mod to the main game.
• 5 new soundtracks
• Info in main menu about starting race
• Expanded info when placing down first city
• MODDING
• Environments (awe, harmony) modifiable.
• Monuments/decorations made modifiable, and ordinary rooms can map to these.
• Added support for invalid keys for mods. Race init files can now have rooms that doesn't exist. Make sure you have debug on when modding to test that you aren't making mistakes.
• Remade the appearance block of subjects almost completely. Now allows for more modularity when rendering portraits. There is an example race you can have a look at in game folder that hopefully explains it. Not too difficult too convert from the old system.
• Added a file-type "_IgnoreVanilla.txt". Place this anywhere in order to ignore all vanilla assets in the folder.
• Added new mod versioning. At the root of the mod folder, you must have a new folder VXX, where XX is the major version number of the game. So you can now support multiple versions.
• Sync steam button no longer hangs
• Removed totorial + examples is mod does not have their own.
• Added support for more textures. Crazy content mods is no problem, and bigger fonts possible, such as Asian ones. (you specify texture size in mod _info.txt as TEXTURE_CACHE_SIZE Can be 4096, 8192, 16384)

• Entirely new gameplay mechanics for the overworld.
• Space usage for sprites severely reduced, making it possible for more mods.
• UI for goods remade. Now merged with trade.
• Inflation added. 10% of credits per year will be lost. Sorry.
• Treasury UI remade
• New Happiness modifiers and fixed ones.
• Improved Pastures ability to deal with bad daily work.
• Made Lavatories modable
• Added some load information to services and heatmaps for access.
• Added dynamic yield for mines based on assigned workers.
• Added some kind of growth inside mountains, made mountain generation a bit better
• Races now have terrain/biome preference in addition to climate. MODDERS: added a TERRAIN clause for
• animals. Added POPULATION clause to races.
• Fixed a lot of streaming issues, like discord. Just uncheck "debug" in the launcher, if it complains when you exit the game.
• Workshop rooms furniture improved.
• 2 new races.
• 3 new music tracks
• Price for leather fixed through a moddable thing in resource init files.
• Fixed CTD regarding monuments and smaller rooms.
• Added forums and a wiki to the webpage (well, community did really).
• Middle mouse button now grabs map.
• Knowledge cap now limitless
• Mines now produce according to employees and deposits, you can now build over bad deposits.
• Administration room, works as library to make admin points, used to upgrade regions.
• Rations and rationmaker
• Autosave & quicksave new UI
• Changed apartments to only need work every 4th use.

• Build a spell checker that checks for spelling/typos whenever I build the game.
• Room production overhaul. Enables us to specify in-rates, so that bread can cost 0.5 wood and 1 grain for instance.
• Added a "do what I did last" Button and hotkey for the build menu.
• Clarified and fixed squareness a bit.
• Clay exavatable resource + claypit
• Ability to mod occurrence of exavatable resource based on terrain.
• Happiness screen overhauled.
• Info on city selection refined.
• Trade adjusted and balanced.
• Potter Workshop and Pottery. Coal + clay = pottery
• Alcohol resource and brewery. Wood+pottery+grain/fruit = alcohol
• Eatery room. Very basic food distribution place. Replaces kitchen.
• Canteen room. Now works as a kitchen with tables.
• Tarven is now for drinks only.
• Alcohol limit to dictate. Adds happiness, but can make subjects drunk an unproductive if set too high.
• Changed so that all rooms that needed wood to run now requires coal instead at a lower rate.
• AI faction trade and production overhauled. Still needs some work, but better now.
• Well room, a simple bath.
• Jewelry and jewelers. Jewelry can be worn.
• Proper slaves. Can be gained through beating Krull, or as a form of punishment. Slaves have a collective happiness that is still based on the racial composition of all your slaves. You set work priorities for slaves, same as citizens. Slaves have simpler demands in general. They don't have expectations, but the more slaves you have per citizen, the happier you must make them. Slaves can run away if too unhappy. Will revolt in the future.
• Slaver room for punishing criminals and gain slaves.
• New slave UI screen.
• Unique slave happiness based on the number of citizens compared to slaves.
• Lots of rebalancing around happiness and a few stats added/removed.
• Touched up some icons.
• Slaves will run away, while citizens will commit more crimes and not emigrate if unhappy.
• Slaver event, lets you buy slaves.
• Notifications reworked, some new added.
• Death statistics and death causes added.
• New grave alternative - Crypt
• Cannibal room that butchers corpses for resources.
• Mass grave for corpses.
• Hover info for room copier.
• Room category UI remade.
• industry storage visible on hover.
• mines/woodcutter proper errors.
• Guard post placed inside fixed.
• Forgetting techs now disables all dependent techs.
• Horizontal scrolling of tech tree with ctrl + mousewheel
• Notification when nobles die.

• Hauler room added. Can be placed for free on cleared ground and will employ haulers, that will fetch resources to the room.
• Proper Woodcutter room added. Now fully renewable and with fixed output, same as other industries.
• Much easier to reach 0% squareness.
• Logistics mechanics overhauled, added a "empty to" mechanics which lets you empty resources to specific warehouses.
• New Janitor room with maintenance now separated from construction. Only janitors can do maintenance. Janitors need construction materials in the vicinity, or they will become less effective.
• Auto employment for some rooms, which will make the AI fire/hire 1 subject per day based on workload. Workload calculations improved.
• Normal speed triggers when there is a message
• Immigrant value now decreases more slow, allowing you to fulfil the needs of new immigrants.
• Onx pastures for cold and temperate climates.
• Hotkey for getting to the throne/capitol.
• Status concept. New profile screen.
• Level (title). You now increase your level according to your population, which unlocks bonuses and rooms. The throne visually upgrades with these levels.
• Faction visuals. Change faction name and colors while playing.
• Faction banners. Randomized banners for all faction and a banner editor for the player.
• Added on "available services" tooltip. How many are used and how many that needs work.
• Fixed various crashes from streaming. Requires you to uncheck "debug" in the launcher.
• Remade light engine and prettier fires/candles
• Recoloured ore
• Huge AI refactoring. Not that anyone cares, but it allows for faster AI progress.
• Criminals. Come in three flavours: thieves, vandalisers, streakers, and murderers. Each race has a property on their chance to become criminals. The amount of criminals spawned depends of law and happiness.
• New guard post room. Guards will catch criminals in their vicinity, or if they happen to stumble into one on their patrols. Guard posts also deter crime in their vicinity.
• Prison. Employs guards that bring food and empties latrines of the cells. Criminals will go here after being caught, if your policies are set up that way. Prisoners will stay there for a number of years before being let out and become citizens again (average 6 years).
• Game will now save to "new_city" before you place your throne, allowing you to restart at any time by loading it.
• Scaffolds room. Employs executioners. Prisoners will go here to be executed according to your policies.
• Courts. Prisoners will go here before going to either prisons or scaffolds. Improves justice. Can also instantly turn some prisoners back to friendly subjects.
• Added a width/height restriction to rooms.
• Made so that the tunnelling bonus actually works. Dondorians tunnel into mountains twice as fast.
• Rearranged resources categories a bit.
• Law. Law is gained by apprehending criminals, having courts for them as well as Prisons and scaffolds. Law makes your citizens happy and deters the spawning of criminals.
• New algorithm for determining build order when constructing massive walls now enables you to build as thick a walls as you'd like without people getting stuck.
• The above also holds true when building rooms with inner walls.
• Added demography to understand retirement better. Also made it more clear that retired people doesn't work.
• Returned rock ground under mountains that had disappeared.
• Moved key settings to in-game menu.
• Touched up the happiness screen in an effort to make it more understandable.
• New tech tree with unlockable buildings.
• Made room construction render above terrain.
• Decreased snoring sound.
• Deleting room blueprint no longer removes roads beneath.
• New employment mechanics with new priority system and panels. AI will now distribute workforce evenly.
• A bit more UI info about service rooms.
• New trading mechanics for stabler trade and prices.
• When Krull dies, his son will take up his arms and continue raiding you.
• optional resources shown as optional on hover when build.
• Harvest jobs can be placed, but only performed when ripe.