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Patch Notes — Version 0.8.050–0.8.065 (Main)

Major Changes

• [p]New Burgage Plot Level: Added a new Burgage Plot Level (now introduced as Level 3), complete with new models, requirements and effects.[/p][/*]
• [p]Rearranged Order: Moved the previous Burgage Plot Level 3 aesthetic to Level 4, and updated requirements and effects.[/p][/*]
• [p]Extension Requirements: Cobbler and Baker extension now require the Plot to be Level 3 to unlock.[/p][/*]
• [p]Family Based Progression: 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.[/p][/*]
• [p]Living Space: Burgage Plot Upgrade: “Expansion” now gives +1 Living Space to the Plot regardless of Level.[/p][/*]
• [p]New Map: Added a new map "Twin Lakes".[/p][/*]
• [p]Battlefield Visibility: All squads inside an active Battlefield are now always visible.[/p][/*]
• [p]Battlefield Proximity: After a battle starts, the area around the Battlefield where units are counted as participating gradually shrinks. (This is not the Battlefield zone itself).[/p][/*]

• [p]Only unassigned workers or workers from the Logging Camp can guide an Ox to a construction site.[/p][/*]
• [p]Only unassigned workers or workers from the building an Ox delivers to can be assigned to guide the Ox.[/p][/*]

Minor Changes

• [p]Approval Tiers "Admired" and "Revered" now increase income for Level 3 and Level 4 Plots by 1.[/p][/*]
• [p]Devil’s Hill: refreshed the trees, adjusted roads and spawn locations.[/p][/*]
• [p]Devil's Hill: added dirt cliffs and dirt hills, added additional shrubbery.[/p][/*]
• [p]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.[/p][/*]
• [p]Families are now allowed to plow their Backyard Vegetable Gardens in November.[/p][/*]
• [p]Added Rough Stone and Rubble Stone pickup spots to the Quarry.[/p][/*]
• [p]Idle Workers that can sit down to rest at the Workplace no longer go home.[/p][/*]
• [p]Idle Workers closer to their Workplace than home will go inside the Workplace instead.[/p][/*]
• [p]Only specified workplaces are allowed to be entered when idle.[/p][/*]
• [p]Granary and Storehouse workers recalculate how much to collect when reaching a target building.[/p][/*]
• [p]Increased the regional limit per good in the Trading Post.[/p][/*]
• [p]Grave diggers now bring the corpse to the closest valid destination from the corpse position.[/p][/*]
• [p]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.[/p][/*]
• [p]Family members fetching water will pick the Well that gives the shortest round trip rather than the closest to their home.[/p][/*]
• [p]Further refined unit collision and collision avoidance code.[/p][/*]
• [p]Wild animals should avoid retreating into cliffs and ponds if possible.[/p][/*]
• [p]Manor buildings/modules no longer have road snapping points while placing them.[/p][/*]
• [p]Added a force correction when a character is pushed into an obstacle.[/p][/*]
• [p]Reduced collision radius for all civilians.[/p][/*]
• [p]Smoothed collision avoidance behaviour.[/p][/*]
• [p]Added extra collision resolving fallback.[/p][/*]
• [p]Since it's still WIP, the Siege Camp building option was hidden.[/p][/*]
• [p]Hunter's traps are now checked every 90 days, and have a chance to yield based on the strength of the Teeming Affinity.[/p][/*]
• [p]Armament Delivery adjusted to require 15 total population (5 housed families) and a storehouse to trigger delivery.[/p][/*]
• [p]Refined how pathfinding emergency mode works (Emergency triggers when a character is in a spot they can't get out from, for instance they build a fence around themselves).[/p][/*]
• [p]Battlefield placement will attempt to avoid overlapping Settlements.[/p][/*]

• [p]Will now take the amount of military equipment into account before adding another Militia squad.[/p][/*]
• [p]Will now take Artisans into consideration when calculating a region's input and output of Goods.[/p][/*]
• [p]Will now export any excess military Goods not deemed necessary for current or future squads.[/p][/*]
• [p]Will now raise all squads after pressing a Claim.[/p][/*]
• [p]Will now raise all squads once a Challenge starts.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed not defending owned but not settled regions.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed building roads in a new region before it's been settled.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed building other extensions on Residential plots designated for Artisan workshops.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed building Stone Gatherer Camp when a Quarry is under construction or when no more surface Rubble remains.[/p][/*]
• [p]Will no longer build a Stone Gatherer Camp for a rich Stone resource node.[/p][/*]
• [p]Will no longer try to settle additional regions until that mechanic is properly implemented.[/p][/*]
• [p]Added a temporary max cap to the number of families in AI regions.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed disbanding squads before they have looted a defeated bandit camp.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed being able to raise squads with less than five soldiers.[/p][/*]

Balance

• [p]Wild Animals breeding speed doubled to accommodate the recent breeding bugfix in 0.8.050.[/p][/*]
• [p]Max Wild Animal Deposit size increased from 16 to 18 (normal) and 26 to 28 (rich).[/p][/*]
• [p]Barley growth time adjusted from Winter Crop to Spring Crop.[/p][/*]
• [p]Rye growth time adjusted from Spring Crop to Winter Crop.[/p][/*]
• [p]Increased Food Spoilage values and made them more consistent relative to each other.[/p][/*]
• [p]Increased the thresholds between Very Low, Low, Medium, High and Very High Food Spoilage.[/p][/*]
• [p]Starting amount of a Shoal of Fish deposit is now 80% (was 66%) ensuring its above the default Reserve of the Fishing Hut on game start.[/p][/*]
• [p]Taverns now have the same spoilage reduction as the Granaries.[/p][/*]
• [p]Updated Generic and Pantry storage on Burgage Plots to be more consistent.[/p][/*]

• [p]Malt is now a Major Trade.[/p][/*]

UI & Text

• [p]Added logic to detect OS preferred language on first startup after update.[/p][/*]
• [p]Added a preview of the existing limited Work Area when hovering the Work Area buttons.[/p][/*]
• [p]When displaying TAB Building Floaters, they now center around the camera pivot, and not the camera location.[/p][/*]
• [p]Added a short fade in when spawning TAB Building Floaters.[/p][/*]
• [p]Updated Living Space details tooltip to include Lv4 families. [/p][/*]
• [p]Improved wording on resource deposit tooltips.[/p][/*]
• [p]Improved spacing for title on perk selection screen.[/p][/*]
• [p]\[WIP] Added a notification log prompt when a Settlement that is owned by another Lord levels up.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fishing Hut’s default Reserve is now relative to Rich or Normal deposit.[/p][/*]
• [p]Tooltips and references to Honey/Apiary now use a consistent icon.[/p][/*]
• [p]Wax is now displayed under Crafting Materials on the resource bar.[/p][/*]

• [p]Updated localization.[/p][/*]
• [p]Added "Deposits" to the Wiki with information about all natural resources.[/p][/*]
• [p]A person who works a Small Holding is now considered a Smallholder as their job title.[/p][/*]
• [p]Updated text for Burgage Plot upgrades to give more accurate info.[/p][/*]
• [p]Added translation text for resource deposits names.[/p][/*]
• [p]Added translation text for item categories in the family consumption tooltip.[/p][/*]
• [p]Added translation text for victory screen.[/p][/*]
• [p]Added translation text for dead hares.[/p][/*]
• [p]Added translation text for fire started.[/p][/*]
• [p]Added translation text for running from attackers task.[/p][/*]
• [p]Added translation text for on fire.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed missing translation string for all non-English languages adding a suffix to the letter creator’s first line.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed missing translation for when a fire propagates to nearby structures.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed translation for maintenance in Polish.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed Apiary translation for Burgage Plot upgrades.[/p][/*]

Bugfixes

• [p]Fixed workers not being able to pick up goods from their own workplace if their work area did not include their workplace.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed the chance of idle Workers going home or feeding chickens being twice as common as other idle tasks.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed Logging Camp workers not using the building’s stumps to sit around when idle.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed workers dropping transitionary items on “supplies” piles on the ground.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed storage buildings calling cart destruction functions twice on demolish.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed Millers not respecting the crafting Reserve of Grain.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed Butcher ignoring Production Limits.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed Wax carriers using the wrong walking animation.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed Wax not being collected by Storehouse Workers.[/p][/*]

• [p]Fixed Battlefields drifting based on positions of units not actively involved in the combat.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed Battlefields ending up outside the region actually targeted by the challenge.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed enemy squads not being properly disbanded and removed when conquering another region.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed empty squads counting as active when determining if a battle is still ongoing.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed AI sending a peace offer, offering more treasury than they have.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed non-Bandit AI being able to raid.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed logic for when Challenge battles start and end.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed logic for deciding who won and lost after a Challenge battle ends.[/p][/*]

• [p]Fixed people getting stuck during castle deconstruction due to the castle ladders being removed incorrectly.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed soldiers getting stuck on, or walking into cliffs during fights.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed characters getting stuck when they load within floating point error to a pathfinding obstacle.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed another instance of workers clogging in a narrow doorway.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed Ox guides running ahead of the Ox when at high game speeds.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed Twin Lakes fishing spots spawning inside the lake area.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed another instance of Retinue stuck in the Manor on rallying.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed wrong collision shape generating for water bodies with sharp turns on the bank (Eg. Small lake).[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed ox guides sometimes abandoning ox when picking up last log from a supply dump.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed mules not being led back to the Pack Station when the worker is reassigned to a different job.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed workers just standing still due to not getting a path back from the pathfinder.[/p][/*]

• [p]Fixed fence collision of buildings that are being upgraded creating pathfinding issues after loading a saved game.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed Global Market Supply not resetting properly when starting a new game.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fix attempt for the game crashing if the engine fails to load unit templates properly.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed sowing task getting stuck during loading because of an invalid target building.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed drought data not being saved and loaded correctly.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed harvest prediction changing after save/load.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed Ox carts not being loaded properly.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed owner of Hunting Hounds not being saved and loaded.[/p][/*]
• [p]Citizens no longer transport weapons from a Burgage Plot into a Storehouse after loading a save.[/p][/*]

• [p]Increased the initial Manor palace bounds to cover the construction process timbers, otherwise they could spawn inside a cliff/lake and block construction.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed inability to build additional Manor buildings within the Manor area after placing walls due to changing building bounds.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed yet unbuilt Manor walls not updating cost in popup when modifying variant of stone walls.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed Manor buildings level change buttons not updating cost properly in popup after building becomes fully built.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed upgrading Manor modules for free if a second module of the upgraded type was already built.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed manor "ghost buildings" missing ghost material unless manor was initialized by loading a save file.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed invalid retinue ownership transfer when player or AI conquers region with Manor.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed reserved resources being taken twice for Manor primary building.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed stone Outer Tower pieces disappearing during reconstruction.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed the Castle Planner allowing you to upgrade for free.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed the unaffordable Manor exploit.[/p][/*]

• [p]Fixed another possible memory leak with TAB Building Floaters not erasing properly.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed issue with random camera shakes due to distant units not having their distance to the player updated yet.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed another possible instance of camera shake setting not applying.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed wrong Obstacle ID order after deleting an Obstacle, possibly leading to Obstacles being ignored during pathfinding or even crashing the game.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed valid good type arrays appending on each session start, leading to excess livestock spawning at Tradepoints.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed Market Stalls sometimes being overstocked by 1 good.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed maintenance slider in buildings changing frequency values to 0.25 and 4 instead of 0.5 and 2.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed Lv4 residential buildings sometimes pushing too deep into the plot area.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed not getting back the construction cost of a Burgage Expansion when demolishing.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed an instance of Ox stuck in collision with a Market Stall peddler.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed weavers sometimes sitting the wrong way while crafting.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed oversized Tier 4 Burgage Plots caused by using meters instead of centimeters in the scaling algorithm.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed ability to scroll map by moving cursor to border of the game window while fullscreen UI is opened.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fix attempt for people wearing plate armor during transport instead of carrying it.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed Of the Vogtland perk doubling capacity resources other than Berries and Mushrooms.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed pause or slowdown of game speed happening due to player continuously discovering encamped squads of bandits.[/p][/*]

• [p]Fixed burgage plot extension for extra family not being shown in available space UI while its construction started but was not yet finished.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed corrupted production building popup state that appears after assigning Family to workplace via Burgage Plot People UI.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed map names staying in the previously selected language in the Game Setup screen.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed the sidearms requirement displaying the incorrect icon in the Form Militia stats panel.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed Market supply/demand tooltip being in a broken state after switching tabs.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed tooltip for Berries deposit incorrectly displaying Pollination Affinity.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed Approval tooltip sometimes only displaying data from the player's starting region.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed player being able to see the Approval Rating of Regions they don't own.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed misaligned text in Residential Requirements.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed text error on Regensburg Guildmen perk that referenced a discount to Iron Ore instead of Iron Slab.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed missing text on Eel resource deposit.[/p][/*]

Crashfixes

• [p]Fixed crash on late game saves when season was updated and too many fields updated their plowing on the GPU at once.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed bug in bandit camp initialization on game load, leading to crash on bandit camp removal.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed a crash that could occur when a building was burned down but was in queue for distribution of goods.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed crash on attempt to read family assigned to just abandoned stall (for example when removing multiple families from granary).[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed crash caused by missing "does this unit clog other units" invalidating when deleting unit.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed crash often happening on mule animal appearance - trying to access an empty animation[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed a crash on loading when a save contains an invalid task target building.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed crash related to idle units trying to find a conversation target outside of map.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed crash when building a bridge in the same place as a demolished bridge.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed crash on mercenaries disbanding after retreating out of map.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed a crash that could occur when putting out fire on a building.[/p][/*]

Cosmetics

• [p]To increase the visual variety of wide LV4 Burgage Plots, the game will sometimes leave a facade gap and pick smaller house varieties.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed the Quarry rocks being covered in snow at the same time as the surrounding building area isn't.[/p][/*]
• [p]Re-added some Urban environment grass patches.[/p][/*]
• [p]Reduced grass pop in by adding a dithered fade in.[/p][/*]
• [p]Added variable turning rate so that small animals like Hares can rotate faster.[/p][/*]
• [p]Made Unit selection circles less distracting up close.[/p][/*]
• [p]Added ground blenders for Burgage Plot lv1 and Church lv1[/p][/*]
• [p]Tweaked behaviour of Hunting Hounds to look more responsive.[/p][/*]

Optimization (up to 6x fps gain in very large cities)

• [p]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).[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed a lag spike happening when pressing TAB on a large city and spawning hundreds of Building Floaters.[/p][/*]
• [p]Implemented various building caches to greatly reduce worker task iteration times.[/p][/*]
• [p]Added farming task check skipping if the field is fully plowed, sown and growing.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed crop transform changes causing a lag spike on every "day passed" update on saves with huge fields.[/p][/*]
• [p]Removed periodic hitch of 80ms that occurred on large saves when calculating resident market requirements.[/p][/*]
• [p]Reduced spikes caused by problem banner updates happening all at once.[/p][/*]
• [p]Prevented particle effects from playing that were too far away.[/p][/*]
• [p]Reduced hitches when constructing buildings.[/p][/*]
• [p]Improved the way idle villagers search for an animal to pet.[/p][/*]
• [p]Made grass density to be variable on the camera angle.[/p][/*]
• [p]Stabilized Task updates.[/p][/*]
• [p]Greatly optimized the unit rendering system to avoid redundant transform updates.[/p][/*]
• [p]Greatly optimized Regional Stock and Surplus recalculation.[/p][/*]
• [p]Greatly optimized Regional Stock UI counter updates.[/p][/*]
• [p]Greatly optimized field texture updates.[/p][/*]
• [p]Reduced frequency of rotation updates to be in sync with location update frequency.[/p][/*]
• [p]Optimized idle task generation checking if someone already targets the worker with their own tasks.[/p][/*]
• [p]Optimized Farmers attempting to collect Crops for Threshing from buildings other than Fields.[/p][/*]
• [p]Optimized particle effects across the board.[/p][/*]
• [p]Optimized unit location interpolation frequency.[/p][/*]
• [p]Optimized the "find unit under cursor" function.[/p][/*]
• [p]Optimized the Warehouse and Granary tasks.[/p][/*]
• [p]Optimized searching for a conversation spot.[/p][/*]
• [p]Optimized searches for the nearest Cart.[/p][/*]
• [p]Optimized the "Get Resource" Task.[/p][/*]
• [p]Further optimized market supply distribution.[/p][/*]
• [p]Optimized water rendering on Twin Lakes.[/p][/*]

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