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Change Log:

• Path computed in one direction is now used in reverse order for opposite direction.
• Pathfinding is now distributed over multiple frames and threads using a BurstCompile job system.
• All visitors now share a common pathfinding map instead of each family calculating their own.
• Prioritization of path search for NPC over animals and further limiting animals use of pathfinding in a single frame.
• New option in the settings to serialize pathfinding data. It will increase save and load time, but prevents spike on reload.

• Chapel is no longer used by artisans. They share the church with everybody else.
• The Tavern was removed. Artisans arrive through the Inn.
• Inn now also serves mead and wine.
• Donations to clergy no longer reflect noble families. The clergy simply expects the player to donate a calculated amount of valuables over some time.
• Theatre is now visited by everyone, including peasants.

• Noble houses are generated automatically at the start of the game.
• Their growth is stimulated automatically outside of the map.
• Noble houses can be viewed in the population book in a new Nobles tab.
• Noble houses now accept ruling family marriage proposals instead of the previous artisan families.

• Noble houses and royalty offer optional delviery quests for extra rewards.
• New Loading Site structure added that is used by villagers to prepare deliveries.
• Players can also grant resources to noble houses or a royal family which is sent away through the delivery system.

• Players can now invite a noble house to be hosted at their villa.
• The noble house will spend a certain amount of days and consume the meals of the player.
• After they leave, the relationship with the player will change based on how satisfied they are with the quality.

• Villagers in the military regiments now display their combat power.
• Combat power is a function of their equipment, age, health, training, skills, blessings, and other buffs and bonuses.
• Total combat power of a regiment is used when delivering military as a royal tax.
• Combat power is now displayed in the population book.

• Royalty now only expresses their demand in terms of the gold value of delivered resources and the total combat power of delivered soldiers.
• Players can complete the taxes through deliveries or sending regiments to war at any time during the year.
• The Tax Evasion mechanic was removed. Instead, having a Master of Coin appointed will boost the rewards and contributions made through deliveries.
• Royalty also offers optional quests that provide extra money and favor points.
• Royalty also offers a list of bonus equipment, which boosts the combat power a certain regiment contributes with.

• Ropemakers can now utilize Loom to create a new Carpet resource. This resource can be used to build new floor-type carpets. Five different carpet patterns are added.
• Alchemists no longer make health, magic or stamina potions. Instead, they make love potions that peasants consume to boost their pregnancy chance, exotic mixtures which can be used as a cooking ingredient or transmuted gold, which can be minted into gold coins or granted to nobles as a valuable gift.
• Glassmakers nwo also produce glass bottles, which are required to make potions.

• Priority screen is updated and shows more detailed information.
• Player can update how much material a family is stocking for production.
• Player can also limit production if a family has stock over a certain amount.
• Player can also restrict tax-deductible options, to prevent villagers from consuming taxed resources to produce other taxed resources.

• The accounting management screen has a new cooking tab.
• Players can set custom targets for cooking meals and toggle if families are allowed to supplement high-quality targets with a lower quality meals.
• Logic for cooking was also updated so that families will continue cooking higher quality meals even if they have plenty of lower quality meals.
• Logic for cooking was also updated so that families will continue cooking higher quality meals evn if they have plenty of lower quality meals, to meet their targets.
• It is possible that families go over their target if multiple people start cooking at the same time.

• Rework the internal system for generating new families.
• The notification system was reworked to allow more flexible data transition. As a result, several notifications were updated to provide more information about their context.
• Storage management screen now has copy/paste option.
• CTRL+Select when clicking on a buildable object will now select that object from the build menu.
• A number of UI screens was improved for performance.
• Multiple churches are now possible. Secondary churches hold Sunday massby villagers assigned to the monk order.
• Inns can now be toggled in the context menu to prevent selling beds and meals to locals.

• Notifications now distinguish between source and target. Players can click separate buttons to move the camera to them.
• Zone context menu was reworked to separate the quick-build menu into structures, furniture and storage. Buttons to switch between tiered collections were added to quickly access different quality furniture and storage.
• New option in the settings to display a contrasted version of the HUD.