[p]Greetings, medievalists!
[/p][p]Time to talk about the most requested features (after the water) for Going Medieval - visiting other parts of the map.
[/p][p]Currently, the only thing you can do on the game’s map is trade with other settlements. You send caravans to them, they arrive, you choose what to trade, and then they return. Simple. But now, let’s spice things up with ambushes.[/p][p]
In the upcoming update, during your caravan’s journey, it might get ambushed. Of course, this won’t happen every time, as we’ll introduce some limitations. But when it does happen, you’ll get an event popup (similar to the one you see before the raid happens) and an option to jump to a location. If you do that, it will take you to a region map and it will look something like this:[/p][p][img src="https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images/34559289/547571c3cb7b5467deea15a18b8bfaadeac7eaba.png"][/img][/p][p]Worry not! There will be a couple of ways you can deal with the situation. You can try negotiating with the ambushers. If you choose this option, a barter screen will appear, allowing you to avoid combat. Their demands will depend on what your caravan is carrying at the time.
[/p][p]Choosing to attack will take you to a secondary map. This map will be 60x60 tiles and will be generated based on the biome where the ambush occurred. The caravan's wealth will influence enemy strength, and all your settlers will appear in a drafted state.[/p][p][img src="https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images/34559289/32cc69cbd2832c1d955d5f0ab29777ee3035c934.png"][/img][/p][p]Even then, you’ll have a few choices. You could choose to retreat from the secondary map, but this would count as running away and your settlers will suffer some wounds and lose a large portion of their caravan’s resources. That might not be the worst option, since if you’re defeated in battle, the ambushers will take more resources and may even kill some of your settlers. However, if you come out victorious, your caravan can continue its journey.
[/p][p]You’ll be able to reform the caravan and maybe even take some of the items left behind by the ambushers. If there’s no room, don’t worry. You can leave the area and send someone else to collect war spoils (the location will be remembered for a couple of days).
[/p][p]We’ll go into more detail about the impact of ambushes and caravan capabilities in the official dev log, but this felt like a nice tease, right? There’s much more to discuss about other map locations, but we’ll split it into a few MMTs as there’s a lot to cover. Talk to you again in two weeks and remember…
[/p][p]Stay medieval![/p][p][/p][p]Foxy Voxel

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