Hello everyone,

A new patch has been released on the Beta Branch.

How to Access the Beta

[b]Saves:[/b] To avoid any potential issues, it’s recommended that you back up your saved files before switching to a beta version. [b]Mods:[/b] Please remove any mods. They will most likely crash the game.

[b]To find your Manor Lords Steam saves.[/b]

• Press Win + E

• Go to %USERPROFILE%]]AppDataLocalManorLordsSavedSaveGames into the search bar.

[b]To try the BETA, please follow these steps:[/b]

• Open Steam

• Right-click on Manor Lords in your library

• Select Properties

• Go to the BETAS tab

• Enter the password: veryNiceBasket

• Choose "pre_release" from the "Beta participation" drop-down list

• Wait for the game to update the files (if nothing happens, restart the Steam client)

• Launch the game

You can report [url="https://steamcommunity.com/app/1363080/discussions/3/"]feedback[/url] and [url="https://steamcommunity.com/app/1363080/discussions/2/"]bug reports[/url] on the Manor Lords Steam forums or join us on [url="https://discord.com/invite/manorlords"]Discord[/url] for bug reports and discussion about the latest patch.

[b]Patch Notes — Version 0.8.050–0.8.059 (Beta)[/b]

[u]Major Changes[/u]

• [b]New Burgage Plot Level[/b]: Added a new Burgage Plot Level (now introduced as Level 3), complete with new models, requirements and effects.

• [b]Rearranged Order[/b]: Moved the previous Burgage Plot Level 3 aesthetic to Level 4, and updated requirements and effects.

• [b]Extension Requirements[/b]: Cobbler and Baker extension now require the Plot to be Level 3 to unlock.

• [b]Family Based Progression[/b]: Settlement Level progress now checks for Families of a certain level to be living in the region rather than Burgage Plots of a certain level to be built.

• [b]Living Space[/b]: Burgage Plot Upgrade: “Expansion” now gives +1 Living Space to the Plot regardless of Level.

• [b]New Map[/b]: Added a new map "Twin Lakes".

[b]Ox Guiding behaviour:[/b]

• Only unassigned workers or workers from the Logging Camp can guide an Ox to a construction site.

• Only unassigned workers or workers from the building an Ox delivers to can be assigned to guide the Ox.

[u]Minor Changes[/u]

[b]General:[/b]

• Approval Tiers "Admired" and "Revered" now increase income for Level 3 and Level 4 Plots by 1.

• Devil’s Hill: refreshed the trees, adjusted roads and spawn locations.

• Devil's Hill: added dirt cliffs and dirt hills, added additional shrubbery.

• Twin Lakes: replaced some of the rock cliffs with dirt cliffs, added dirt hills, lowered the height of the lake and adjusted the surrounding landscape.

• Families are now allowed to plow their Backyards in November.

• Added Rough Stone and Rubble Stone pickup spots to the Quarry.

• Idle Workers that can sit down to rest at the Workplace no longer go home.

• Idle Workers closer to their Workplace than home will go inside the Workplace instead.

• Only specified workplaces are allowed to be entered when idle.

• Granary and Storehouse workers recalculate how much to collect when reaching a target building.

• Increased the regional limit per good in the Trading Post.

• Grave diggers now bring the corpse to the closest valid destination from the corpse position.

• Dead enemy soldiers may be buried in a corpse pit if it is much closer than a Church or in the aftermath of a large battle.

• Family members fetching water will pick the Well that gives the shortest round trip rather than the closest to their home.

• Further refined unit collision and collision avoidance code.

• Wild animals should avoid retreating into cliffs and ponds if possible.

• Manor buildings/modules no longer have road snapping points while placing them.

• Added a force correction when a character is pushed into an obstacle.

• Reduced collision radius for all civilians.

• Smoothed collision avoidance behaviour.

• Added extra collision resolving fallback.

• Since it's still WIP, the Siege Camp building option was hidden.

[b]AI:[/b]

• Will now take the amount of military equipment into account before adding another Militia squad.

• Will now take Artisans into consideration when calculating a region's input and output of Goods.

• Will now export any excess military Goods not deemed necessary for current or future squads.

• Will now raise all squads after pressing a Claim.

• Will now raise all squads once a Challenge starts.

• Fixed not defending owned but not settled regions.

• Fixed building roads in a new region before it's been settled.

• Fixed building other extensions on Residential plots designated for Artisan workshops.

• Fixed building Stone Gatherer Camp when a Quarry is under construction or when no more surface Rubble remains.

• Will no longer build a Stone Gatherer Camp for a rich Stone resource node.

• Will no longer try to settle additional regions until that mechanic is properly implemented.

• Added a temporary max cap to number of families in AI regions.

• Fixed disbanding squads before they have looted a defeated bandit camp.

[u]Balance[/u]

[b]General:[/b]

• Wild Animals breeding speed doubled to accommodate the recent breeding bugfix in 0.8.050.

• Max Wild Animal Deposit size increased from 16 to 18 (normal) and 26 to 28 (rich).

• Barley growth time adjusted from Winter Crop to Spring Crop.

• Rye growth time adjusted from Spring Crop to Winter Crop.

• Increased Food Spoilage values and made them more consistent relative to each other.

• Increased the thresholds between Very Low, Low, Medium, High and Very High Food Spoilage.

[b]Trade:[/b]

• Malt is now a Major Trade.

[u]UI & Text[/u]

[b]Styling & Quality of Life[/b]

• Added logic to detect OS preferred language on first startup after update.

• Added a preview of the existing limited Work Area when hovering the Work Area buttons.

• When displaying TAB floaters, they now center around the camera pivot, and not the camera location.

• Added a short fade in when spawning TAB Building Floaters.

• Updated Living Space details tooltip to include Lv4 families. 

• Improved wording on resource deposit tooltips.

• Improved spacing for title on perk selection screen.

• \[WIP] Added a notification log prompt when a Settlement that is owned by another Lord levels up.

[b]Text:[/b]

• Updated text for Burgage Plot upgrades to give more accurate info.

• Added translation text for resource deposits names.

• Added translation text for item categories in the family consumption tooltip.

• Added translation text for victory screen.

• Added translation text for dead hares.

• Added translation text for fire started.

• Added translation text for running from attackers task.

• Added translation text for on fire.

• Fixed missing translation string for all non-English languages adding a suffix to the letter creator’s first line.

• Fixed missing translation for when a fire propagates to nearby structures.

• Fixed translation for maintenance in Polish.

• Fixed Apiary translation for Burgage Plot upgrades.

[u]Bugfixes[/u]

Production

• Fixed workers not being able to pick up goods from their own workplace if their work area did not include their workplace.

• Fixed the chance of idle Workers going home or feeding chickens being twice as common as other idle tasks.

• Fixed Logging Camp workers not using the building’s stumps to sit around when idle.

• Fixed workers dropping transitionary items on “supplies” piles on the ground.

• Fixed storage buildings calling cart destruction functions twice on demolish.

• Fixed Millers not respecting the crafting Reserve of Grain.

• Fixed Butcher ignoring Production Limits.

• Fixed Wax carriers using the wrong walking animation.

Military

• Fixed Battlefields drifting based on positions of units not actively involved in the combat.

• Fixed Battlefields ending up outside the region actually targeted by the challenge.

• Fixed enemy squads not being properly disbanded and removed when conquering another region.

• Fixed empty squads counting as active when determining if a battle is still ongoing.

• Fixed AI sending a peace offer, offering more treasury than they have.

• Fixed non-Bandit AI being able to raid.

Pathfinding

• Fixed people getting stuck during castle deconstruction due to the castle ladders being removed incorrectly.

• Fixed soldiers getting stuck on, or walking into cliffs during fights.

• Fixed characters getting stuck when they load within floating point error to a pathfinding obstacle.

• Fixed another instance of workers clogging in a narrow doorway.

• Fixed Ox guides running ahead of the Ox when at high game speeds.

Save/Load

• Fixed fence collision of buildings that are being upgraded creating pathfinding issues after loading a saved game.

• Fixed Global Market Supply not resetting properly when starting a new game.

• Fix attempt for the game crashing if the engine fails to load unit templates properly.

• Fixed sowing task getting stuck during loading because of an invalid target building.

• Fixed drought data not being saved and loaded correctly.

• Fixed harvest prediction changing after save/load.

Manor

• Increased the initial Manor palace bounds to cover the construction process timbers, otherwise they could spawn inside a cliff/lake and block construction.

• Fixed inability to build additional Manor buildings within the Manor area after placing walls due to changing building bounds.

• Fixed reserved resources being taken twice for Manor primary building.

• Fixed stone Outer Tower pieces disappearing during reconstruction.

• Fixed the Castle Planner allowing you to upgrade for free.

• Fixed the unaffordable Manor exploit.

Miscelleanous

• Fixed another possible memory leak with TAB Building Floaters not erasing properly.

• Fixed issue with random camera shakes due to distant units not having their distance to the player updated yet.

• Fixed another possible instance of camera shake setting not applying.

• Fixed wrong Obstacle ID order after deleting an Obstacle, possibly leading to Obstacles being ignored during pathfinding or even crashing the game.

• Fixed valid good type arrays appending on each session start, leading to excess livestock spawning at Tradepoints.

• Fixed Market Stalls sometimes being overstocked by 1 good.

• Fixed maintenance slider in buildings changing frequency values to 0.25 and 4 instead of 0.5 and 2.

• Fixed Lv4 residential buildings sometimes pushing too deep into the plot area.

• Fixed not getting back the construction cost of a Burgage Expansion when demolishing.

• Fixed an instance of Ox stuck in collision with a Market Stall peddler.

• Fixed weavers sometimes sitting the wrong way while crafting.

Text/UI

• Fixed burgage plot extension for extra family not being shown in available space UI while its construction started but was not yet finished.

• Fixed corrupted production building popup state that appears after assigning Family to workplace via Burgage Plot People UI.

• Fixed map names staying in the previously selected language in the Game Setup screen.

• Fixed the sidearms requirement displaying the incorrect icon in the Form Militia stats panel.

• Fixed Market supply/demand tooltip being in a broken state after switching tabs.

• Fixed tooltip for Berries deposit incorrectly displaying Pollination Affinity.

• Fixed Approval tooltip sometimes only displaying data from the player's starting region.

• Fixed player being able to see the Approval Rating of Regions they don't own.

• Fixed misaligned text in Residential Requirements.

[u]Crashfixes[/u]

• Fixed crash on late game saves when season was updated and too many fields updated their plowing on the GPU at once.

• Fixed bug in bandit camp initialization on game load, leading to crash on bandit camp removal.

• Fixed a crash that could occur when a building was burned down but was in queue for distribution of goods.

• Fixed crash on attempt to read family assigned to just abandoned stall (for example when removing multiple families from granary).

• Fixed crash caused by missing "does this unit clog other units" invalidating when deleting unit.

• Fixed crash often happening on mule animal appearance - trying to access an empty animation

• Fixed crash related to idle units trying to find a conversation target outside of map.

• Fixed crash when building a bridge in the same place as a demolished bridge.

• Fixed crash on mercenaries disbanding after retreating out of map.

[u]Cosmetics[/u]

• To increase the visual variety of wide LV4 Burgage Plots, the game will sometimes leave a facade gap and pick smaller house varieties.

• Fixed the Quarry rocks being covered in snow at the same time as the surrounding building area isn't.

• Re-added some Urban environment grass patches.

• Reduced grass pop in by adding a dithered fade in.

• Added variable turning rate so that small animals like Hares can rotate faster.

• Made Unit selection circles less distracting up close.

[u]Optimization (up to 6x fps gain in very large cities)[/u]

• Completely refactored the Event Notification system, for example to avoid Step FX events registering when the villager is far from the camera (where they can't be heard anyway).

• Fixed a lag spike happening when pressing TAB on a large city and spawning hundreds of Building Floaters.

• Implemented various building caches to greatly reduce worker task iteration times.

• Added farming task check skipping if the field is fully plowed, sown and growing.

• Fixed crop transform changes causing a lag spike on every "day passed" update on saves with huge fields.

• Reduced spikes caused by problem banner updates happening all at once.

• Improved the way idle villagers search for an animal to pet.

• Made grass density to be variable on the camera angle.

• Stabilized Task updates.

• Greatly optimized the unit rendering system to avoid redundant transform updates.

• Greatly optimized Regional Stock and Surplus recalculation.

• Greatly optimized Regional Stock UI counter updates.

• Greatly optimized field texture updates.

• Reduced frequency of rotation updates to be in sync with location update frequency.

• Optimized idle task generation checking if someone already targets the worker with their own tasks.

• Optimized Farmers attempting to collect Crops for Threshing from buildings other than Fields.

• Optimized unit location interpolation frequency.

• Optimized the "find unit under cursor" function.

• Optimized the Warehouse and Granary tasks.

• Optimized searching for a conversation spot.

• Optimized searches for the nearest Cart.

• Optimized the "Get Resource" Task.

• Further optimized market supply distribution.

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