Dear Pioneers,

Features

New Village State: Acquainted

• The new state “Acquainted” is already achieved with 50% faction standing
• The “Acquainted” state already unlocks some trade and gift offers
• The overall amount of trade and gift offers has been increased

Building construction mode: New help grid

Building construction mode: Snapping to road

Road construction mode: 90 degree snapping

• Road snapping can be enabled and disabled with a new button in the road construction menu
• Road snapping can be suppressed by holding CTRL (customizable)

Efficiency statistics: Individual building efficiency display

• For each building with a continuous workflow, an efficiency value is shown [list]
• Hovering over a building will show the efficiency value in the building tooltip
• For a selected building, the efficiency value is displayed, too. The tooltip of the value will show the efficiency graph for the last hour. This is very helpful to understand whether the building is operating continuously or not, and at which efficiency level.

• 9 different gathering buildings (Woodcutter, Quarry, Copper hut, etc.)
• 16 different production buildings (Sawmill, Weaponsmith, etc.)
• Both farm buildings, reflecting successful harvesting
• Forester, reflecting successful planting of trees
• Tavern, reflecting successful meal ingredient usage
• Guard Tower / Garrison, reflecting territory expansion
• Explorer, reflecting unknown territory exploration

• Longer walk distances (for gathering buildings, farms, territory building, explorer, etc.)
• Missing input commodities, missing food supply (for mining) or full output piles
• Weaker ingredients which consume more production time (copper instead of iron)
• Rotting plants (for farms: more seeding, less harvesting)

Economy enhancement: Commodity redirection by more flexible input piles

• Equipment items in training buildings which are currently not needed for the ordered and scheduled units of that building, will be released and redirected to other locations if they are needed there. This ensures that equipment can be exchanged between e.g. multiple guild houses or multiple military academies to handle the training/recruitment orders.
• Input commodities in buildings which are currently not needed because their recipe has been disabled, will be released and redirected to other locations if they are needed there.

Demolish refund and visualization

• Demolishing a building grants 50% (rounded down) of wood/stone construction materials that were used to construct the building
• Cloth and rope are refunded 100%
• A tooltip shows the amount of commodities refunded
• A simple demolish visualization has been added
• The demolish refund can help to escape deadlock situations (no more softwood beams, no more stone deposits, no more nutrition food for quarries)

New additional lighting setups

• For customized maps you can select between one of several new lighting setups. At the very end of the “Map Setup” section, you will find a new dropdown for “Atmosphere”
• By pressing a hotkey (default: CTRL+L) it’s possible to change the current map lighting setup at any time. The last active lighting setup will be part of the savegame.
• The 4 available lighting setups are: [list]
• Sunrise
• Cloudy Daytime (Default)
• Golden Hour
• Sunset

• The fog color reacts when facing the sun
• Can be deactivated in the settings

Improvements

Gameplay

• When a hunter is selected, nearby animals get highlighted
• Rations and nutrition meals now still look different after being served at mining buildings

Map setup

• The landing party “Beginner” now contains some trade carriers
• Added enemy level “Extremely many” which adds another 50% of enemies
• Added landing party “Extended for co-op”
• This landing party has been created for co-op to allow a faster game start. It has both more units and more commodities. Adding more enemies keeps the overall challenge similar.

Visuals

• Improved reflection on the cliff textures

Misc

• Audio mixing
• Saved games can be deleted from the load and save menus
• Loading the game to the main menu with many saved games is now faster.
• Improvements in the UI layout
• Improvements of the localized texts
• Improved rendering performance through optimized LOD levels for characters
• Optimized VRAM usage with optimized texture compression setup
• “Join Co-op game” button got a tooltip
• Reworked visuals for the thieves
• Improved rendering of distance fog
• Performance improvements on maps with a lot of Pagonians

Fixes

Gameplay

• Fixed: Sometimes the building state “Construction paused” was not removed even though the building got finished
• Fixed: Sometimes a guard tower did not get any reinforcements
• Fixed: When a soldier was living in a residence or cottage, its selection window did not reflect this
• Fixed: A Pagonian bitten by a werewolf would still show “Ready for new orders” when selected
• Fixed: A bitten Pagonian did not have an icon
• Fixed: Building preview got stuck at its current location if cursor hovers any UI while holding right mouse button

Visuals

• Fixed: Sometimes fish was swimming into the ground when close to the shore
• Forester now carries different looking hardwood and softwood saplings
• Fixed: State "not enough to do for all staff members at the moment" stayed active when building was turned off
• The color of porcini and raspberries baskets was too similar, so the white blanket was removed from the porcini basket
• Fixed: Black rabbits suddenly turned red when dead.

Misc

• Fixed: When changing the language, not all text was updated to the new language
• Fixed several crashes
• Fixed: Placed pings in a co-op session persisted in the world after last client left the session