Wizards and Warlords

Released: Sep 25, 2020
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Last updated: 04 Sep 2026, 05:41 GMT

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30 Aug 2026Developer post
Wizards and Warlords 1.0.5.1b - opt-in beta
Wizards and Warlords 1.0.5.1b - opt-in beta After a long pause, support for Wizards and Warlords is picking up again. This first release is about getting the foundations back under control: the game has been moved to a current Unity LTS version and an up-to-date Steamworks SDK, a
Wizards and Warlords 1.0.5.1b - opt-in beta
After a long pause, support for Wizards and Warlords is picking up again. This first release is about getting the foundations back under control: the game has been moved to a current Unity LTS version and an up-to-date Steamworks SDK, and everything that had accumulated in the development branch since the last beta has been reviewed and is going out as an opt-in beta before it replaces the main branch.
Nothing here changes how the game plays in a big way. That comes later, once this build has proven itself. I shouldn't overpromise on this, so I won't, but I will try to do my best to fix some of the biggest issues with the game, improve on the core functionality, and even flesh out some of the parts of the game that never got the attention they deserved. That being said, I hope anyone reading this will not have too high expectations - it is an old codebase, and a gnarly one, so there are limits to what can be done, without completely rewriting the game. But let us see where this takes us.
How to get it
Right-click Wizards and Warlords in your Steam library > Properties > Betas and pick the 1.0.5 beta branch. Switching back to the main branch works the same way.

Save games: saves from the current main branch (1.0.3.65) and the previous beta (1.0.4.13b) should load fine in this build. Saves written by this build cannot be opened by the older versions, so keep a copy if you think you might switch back.
Engine and platform
Updated to Unity 2022.3 LTS (from 2022.3.2 to 2022.3.62).
Updated Steamworks SDK (achievements, Workshop upload and subscription use the current API).
Bug fixes
Garrison upkeep reduction was not applied to units that had moved that turn (BUG-9). Units in a garrison now always get the discount.
Armies belonging to factions that are not realms (planar invaders, monsters, marauders) never had their movement and exhaustion reset at the end of the turn, which could leave AI armies stuck.
Conquering a city cleared the seat of power of the conquering faction instead of the faction that lost the city.
Fixed a crash that could hit a minor realm's diplomacy AI on the turn it lost its capital.
Cities could accumulate duplicate satellite site entries.
Several crashes involving cities and buildings without an owner.
Sites left under construction by an eliminated faction are now cleaned up instead of lingering forever.
Volcanic eruption events no longer stack on a hex that already has an eruption in progress.
Dungeon expeditions: progress no longer overshoots the target after a defeat or retreat, and retreating now produces a notification.
Battle: spell hotkeys now validate the cast first and show why a spell cannot be cast, instead of starting a cast that fails.
Worship: clearing the resource selection now also clears the offering deposit.
Character upkeep: the discount for content characters only ever applied its first tier (-1%). The full range now works, from -2% at 20 Content up to -35% at 100 Content.
Character upkeep tooltip: shows the combined upkeep multiplier, and upkeep amounts are displayed as costs (-20 Gold) rather than looking like income.
Assorted tooltip and text fixes.
Balance
Unlock Mastery project cost: +10% per mastery already unlocked above 6, and a further +5% per mastery above 10. The old formula dropped back to no surcharge at 11 masteries, which was a bug.
Seafaring workers in coastal and river towers: 25 gold per skill level (was 20).
Demon workers no longer gain experience, in line with Faerie workers. Existing demon workers in old saves are unaffected.
Custom units: the Berserker option now also gives +1 Movement to Light and Very Light templates.
Recruitment requirements for the Golem Workshop and Stables now count damaged buildings as present.
Encyclopedia
Reorganised, with new Mechanics sections for City Buildings and Fortress Upgrades.
Arrow keys move through entries while the window is focused.
Export now includes entries with generated text, and asks whether to include the Mechanics sections.
What's next
If this beta holds up for a couple of weeks it becomes the main branch, and the current main build stays available as an opt-in branch for a while. After that: actual improvements to the game. Bug reports and feedback in the forums are very welcome.
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17 Mar 2023Developer post
Patch 1.0.3.65
Multicast Panel: Toggle added to hide/show invalid targets for the current spell. Multicast Panel: Select All toggle added. Can be combined with the hide invalid option to quickly select all valid targets. Characters: Item descriptions now shown when giving items to characters. W
Multicast Panel: Toggle added to hide/show invalid targets for the current spell.
Multicast Panel: Select All toggle added. Can be combined with the hide invalid option to quickly select all valid targets.
Characters: Item descriptions now shown when giving items to characters.
World Map: The color used for the 'territory' overlay on the world map can now be changed for each faction by right-clicking in the territory (when the mode is active) or on the faction card in the diplomacy screen.
World Map: Automatic color shifting of faction 'territory' overlay color now happens during turn processing. If a faction is found to have a very similar color to an adjacent faction, the game will shift the color to avoid the clash. It will try to select a similar color and when deciding which faction to re-color it will prioritize keeping the color of the player faction and (secondarily) major non-player factions. The auto-recolor behavior can be disabled from the Game Settings.
World Map: New army order action to have an army sleep this turn only (ie 'End Turn'). Especially useful when combined with the new cycle setting.
World Map: You can now hold shift when the 'Next Turn' button is in prompt mode (cycling or other prompts), to skip directly to 'Next Turn'. This does not allow skipping prompts that must be handled (like some events).
World Map: New main setting added which allows cycling ready armies (non-exhausted and non-sleeping) using the 'Next Turn' button.
New Spell: Penumbral Torrent (Shadow/Water). Acts a damage or debuff spell depending on the traits of the target unit (debuff against Light/Dark units, damage against others)
New Unit Weapons: Footman's Pick, Cavalry Pick, Spiked Club. The world generator logic for creating culture-specific unit types has been extended to include these new weapons as potential assignments.
World Generator: Increased the variety of place and/or character names which can be generated for some cultures.
Changed a number of spells which had permanent duration (despite being cheap and low-level) to be more in line with other similar spells.
Fixed a bug where casting some spells multiple times on the same unit resulted in stacking buffs and/or weird behavior
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04 Mar 2023Developer post
Patch 1.0.3.62
This update took longer than I expected or wanted, but now it's finally here. I had originally intended for the next update to be a upgrade of the Unity engine version and some pending graphical improvements. However, due to the delay in bringing you this update, I want to put ou
This update took longer than I expected or wanted, but now it's finally here. I had originally intended for the next update to be a upgrade of the Unity engine version and some pending graphical improvements. However, due to the delay in bringing you this update, I want to put out at least one, maybe two, smaller updates on the heels of this one, before doing anything with even a small risk of delay. There is a decent backlog of QoL improvements and misc. requests that I will want to make sure are done in the not too distant future.
I realize the updates have been sparse these last months, but there are things happening that should help me pick up the pace a little. I don't want to over-promise, but hopefully the next few weeks will feature game updates that show what I'm talking about. If things pan out as I hope they will, it should increase my development bandwidth a fair bit. Either way, I will keep you all informed on the forums.

Overhauled character aging mechanics, allowing characters to die from old age and be affected by random events that force them to rest for a number of turns as they age.
Added three game settings that allow players to control character aging: character life span, character age impact, and character age variation. These settings can be changed at the start of the game.
Existing games will have the new character aging mechanics disabled, but for new games, the default settings are longer life spans, low impact, and normal variability.
Adjusted recruitment costs of characters to account for their age, with older characters receiving a low to moderate discount on their base cost.
Increased the chances of older characters starting with additional levels. Note that this makes them more expensive to recruit.
Added a detailed battle log for attacks that provides in-depth information on stats and calculations concerning to-hit chance, to-wound, crit, fend, dodge, resistance, armor, armor penetration, secondary damage types, and more. It also tracks individual unit members for hit, wounded, and killed status.
Access the detailed battle log information via the right-click context menu on a unit in the battle window.
Hopebringer (Celestial spell, level 3): targets a non-Civic character, giving them the Influential trait, and treats them as a Civic class type in addition to their existing types.
Lesser Longevity (Life spell, level 3): increases the expected lifespan of a non-Undead, non-Celestial, non-Demonic, non-Vampiric, non-Immortal Follower. The spell will have a reduced or no effect if the character already has a long expected lifespan.
Greater Longevity (Life spell, level 7): greatly increases the expected lifespan of a non-Undead, non-Celestial, non-Demonic, non-Vampiric, non-Immortal Follower. The spell will have a reduced or no effect if the character already has a very long expected lifespan.
Scion of Shadow (Shadow spell, level 4): the target character gains the Guileful and Stealthy traits, and Guileful characters are treated as having the Civic class type in addition to their existing class types. If only one trait can be gained due to existing traits or class type, the character is still a valid target and will gain the single trait. Also added a new button to set the dominant deity of a plane in the Mythos Editor.
Added "Grant Character Trait: Strong" and "Remove Character Trait: Sickly" as possible favor rewards for the Strength domain when being granted Divine Boons.
Added validation checks to ensure that a plane is selected before adding a new trait, and that at least one deity is assigned to a plane before setting the dominant deity.
Display the currently ongoing construction project in the City Window.
Implemented validation checks to ensure that at least one deity is assigned to a plane before setting the dominant deity.
Added a display for the ongoing construction project in the City Window.
Added the ability to cancel the ongoing construction project directly from the City Window.
Added a display for free mana available for unit upkeep in the wizard info window. This shows the amount of free mana available for unit upkeep, as well as the amount of free mana currently being used for upkeep.
Stoneskin and Diamondskin spells can no longer be cast on units with the "Metal" tag, in addition to the existing constraints of the "Elemental", "Spectral", and "Earth" tags.
Iron Skin spell can no longer be cast on units with the "Metal" tag, in addition to the existing constraints of the "Elemental", "Spectral", "Air", and "Earth" tags.
Implemented a new game setting that allows players to specify the number of rounds resolved in legacy battle resolution per step. This setting can be modified via the settings dialog, accessed via the in-game main menu.
Added Siege Mechanics to the Encyclopedia window under the Mechanics group, providing a breakdown of the game mechanics involved in Siege resolution.
Added Unit Mechanics to the Encyclopedia window under the Mechanics group, providing a breakdown of unit stats and their impact on gameplay.
Added a check to the loading process to address an issue where starting Lore levels with bonuses were not being properly applied during game loading for older versions of the game.
Improved handling of movement costs for armies with units possessing shore-only abilities.
Building names now display " (under construction)" when appropriate in the Building List View.
Grid-based battles are now enabled by default when installing the game. An update soon will probably feature a somewhat annoying prompt to switch to grid-based battles for existing players, as it was unintentionally made the non-default options for a while, and many players thus never discovered it.
Fixed numerous (calculation-related) battle resolution bugs and issues.
Fixed a bug in the Military Window that caused an incorrect tooltip to be displayed when the player attempted to recruit a unit that was not recruitable at the currently selected site. The tooltip now correctly displays the reason why the unit cannot be recruited, and also informs the player how many other sites have the unit available for recruitment.
Fixed a bug that occurred when using Add Planar Trait in the Mythos Editor.
Fixed a bug where removing a Deity in the Mythos Editor would not properly remove it from all internal data structures, which could potentially cause data corruption.
Fixed a bug where army movement was incorrectly blocked when passing a fortress.
Fixed a bug in the Blood Portal spell where the ownership of the new follower summoned by the spell was not set correctly.
Fixed a bug where wizard template customization/cloning could result in a crash.
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09 Oct 2022Developer post
Patch 1.0.3.48
A somewhat small update this time, as I took some time off after the rather grueling effort of fixing a very nasty save game bug in the previous update. But still a few very requested features/tweaks that I'm happy to finally have had the time to do. Wizards with starting Lore le
A somewhat small update this time, as I took some time off after the rather grueling effort of fixing a very nasty save game bug in the previous update. But still a few very requested features/tweaks that I'm happy to finally have had the time to do.

Wizards with starting Lore levels are now able to gain 10 additional levels in these Lores, making it no longer a penalty in some regards. You still gain the benefits from the higher starting level, e.g. research unlocks.
You can now change the Unit Icon for Custom Unit types from the Military Window unit list.
You can now rename Custom unit types from the Military Window unit list.
Encyclopedia now has a section with information on Equipment Trait mechanics.
Character information display now includes item-derived bonuses to combat, death avoidance, injury avoidance and magic resistance. These are summed with tooltips breaking the sources.
New Researchable Spell: Sharpen Blades. Artifice Mastery based with a few other requirements. +1 Armor Penetration and Damage to target unit melee attacks that originate from weapon equipment (not natural attacks, breath weapons, ranged weapons, etc).
New Researchable Spell: Harden Armor. Artifice Mastery based with a few other requirements. +2 Armor. Requires the unit to have an armor type equipment.
Wizard Template cloning now works. In the previous patch notes I had mixed up template editing and cloning, and mentioned the wrong one. Both are now possible.
Fixed a crash bug.
Fixed a couple of text update display bugs, where selection changes would not be reflected in a linked context display panel.
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06 Sep 2022Developer post
Patch 1.0.3.47
Game settings now have a panel for modifying mechanics in the same manner as mods can do. This includes constants related to mana nodes, road building, character hire pool and more. Mods can still modify mechanics. The order of priority is 'Game Settings' > 'Mods' (by load ord
Game settings now have a panel for modifying mechanics in the same manner as mods can do. This includes constants related to mana nodes, road building, character hire pool and more.
Mods can still modify mechanics. The order of priority is 'Game Settings' > 'Mods' (by load order) > 'Built-in Defaults'.
Export button available during setting to export currently overridden mechanics to a text file, which can then be used in a mod.
Additional options for custom units, such as lances for cavalry (not taking up a weapon slot), holy warriors, fleet of foot, berserkers, unyielding, etc. Availability depends on cultural factors.
Custom unit types that are not available to lacking city/fortress/tower upgrades are now listed when 'unavailable' is toggled in the recruitment panel.
New special culture weapon variant: Hornbogi.
New construct/golem material base templates: Copper, Crystal, Gold.
Break Defense now has a wider and more smoothly scaling ability to reduce the effectiveness of defensive abilities/equipment
Melee fend/parry chance is now impacted by additional equipment traits/abilities and unit abilities. This applies to source and target of an attack both (depending on abilities/traits).
Crystal Deposits can now spawn from additional events
Population alignment variation/overrides now affect grouping/description in various places. For example, instead of '2 Ogre Noble' where one is good and the other default neutral, the game can now show '1 Ogre Noble, 1 Ogre Noble (Good)'.
Wizard Templates can now be cloned.
More detailed unit round results can now be shown during grid battles on unit selection.
New spells: Voltaic Blitz (Air), Chime The Bell of Unity (Celestial), Intractable Infection (Pestilence)
New (unit) Mark type: Vampirism. Exists in Lesser/Normal/Greater versions as the other Marks.
New custom unit special options: Shadow Warriors, Old Guard, Druidic Warriors. These are available based on cultural traits.
New item: Ring of Futuresight.
Added more Divine Favor Boon options for some domains.
Some ranged attacks now have a minimum range (in addition to maximum) within which they are usable. This is to represent various arcing attacks or similar, that simply aren't usable at short range.
Attack Reach now has a greater impact on battle resolution. Not quite as much as I'd like, but closer to that point.
Mythos Editor can now import directly from a save game file, allowing a randomly generated mythos to be saved for reuse in another game - and modified (although not for the actual on-going save game) if desired.
Added a filter toggle to the Spellbook panel to hide/show battle/world spells as relevant.
New game setting options for Favored character mechanics and loyalty impact added. This range from free use of Favored characters to limited use - and from high loyalty impact to no impact.
Fixed a bug causing custom unit type designs to not be deleteable under several circumstances.
Fixed a bug sometimes causing save game corruption during autosave. It could range from inconsistent or missing data to creating completely unloadable save files.
Fixed a bug causing empty dungeon expeditions to linger and cause various confusing messages and/or error prompts.
Fixed a bug causing weapon variant tags to not apply correctly
Fixed a bug causing equipment melee shock modifiers to sometimes not apply correctly
Fixed a number of text/spelling errors
Fixed a bug causing Set Defense to sometimes reduce defensive effectiveness rather than the opposite
Fixed a bug causing custom unit types to sometimes not be recruitable at sites they should be.
Fixed a bug causing multistrike to not be considered correctly in AI considerations of attacks and expected battle outcome.
Fixed a bug causing battles to sometimes not end when they should due to a stalemate.
Fixed a display bug related to city culture and effects.
Fixed a crash bug involving custom unit design.
Fixed a bug relating to a unit being affected to resistance and vulnerability to the same damage type (from effects, etc.) not always resulting in the correct combined outcome (ie +2 and -1 should yield +1).
Fixed a number of bugs causing missile attack range to incorrectly calculated and allowing for attacks at outside the allowed distance, or sometimes not within the allowed distances.
Fixed a number of attack resolution bugs that affected both auto and manual resolution making some units less effective than intended by not triggering some abilities and inherent attack bonuses.
Fixed a bug causing faction alignment override to not always be applied as intended.
Fixed a bug related to Wizard Tower upgrade slot unlocking.
It's available on the beta branch, and will be put on the main branch tomorrow. This includes some of the patch notes for the latest main branch update, but I got the notes messed up, so I have to merge them into a single update.
The last update, which is thus included in this, took a lot longer to release than expected. Quite to an extreme degree, really. A very nasty save game corruption bug was discovered, and it took a long time to identify - and then an almost equally long time to fix. Hence these patch notes are also somewhat sparse. But save game corruption is a really horrible thing in a game such as this, so I didn't think there was any way around giving that particular issue my full attention until fixed - even if it was relatively uncommon to encounter the bug. Especially when it turned out the risk increased the longer the game had gone on and/or the large the game world you're playing in was. I'm really glad it is fixed now. I also spent the time creating new ways to debug and troubleshoot save game problems, which will help if/when future bugs occur related to save games. Although I really do hope nothing like this bug turns up soon - or even at all. It was quite a tribulation to identify the flaw in my save game code (for those interested in the technical details it was related to some thread synchronization problems when autosaving in the background, and one thread erroneously assuming the save was done and letting turn processing continue while the other thread was reading the game state).
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20 May 2022Developer post
Patch 1.0.3.35
Map Search now has special keywords which can be used to perform a special search (not sensitive to casing): dungeon, wizard, warlord, major, minor, realm, independent, rebel, rebels. Free text search using these keywords is still possible, with exact matches sorting above the 's
Map Search now has special keywords which can be used to perform a special search (not sensitive to casing): dungeon, wizard, warlord, major, minor, realm, independent, rebel, rebels. Free text search using these keywords is still possible, with exact matches sorting above the 'special result' and partial matches below. (major and minor refer to factions).
Fixed a bug causing mana nodes and dungeons on the world map to have mutually exclusive visibility. If the node was selected, the dungeon was hidden, and vice versa. Both can now be displayed at the same time, as is the case for mana nodes and other sites.
Fixed a bug causing a crash when accessing the Guide while not connected to Steam. An error dialog is now shown and the URL to the guide is copied to the clipboard for easy manual browsing.
Fixed a bug causing the same behavior as above, but with planar portals and dungeons.
Fixed a bug causing the tutorial to not auto-progress correctly in all cases.
Fixed a bug causing the 'old' Military Window to display when closing the Custom Construct Window.
Fixed a crash bug related to loading multiple different games (campaigns) in succession.
Fixed a crash bug related to having multiple Fortress Upgrade in progress.
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18 May 2022Developer post
Patch 1.0.3.34
City Leaders now gain XP from city population growth and building construction (up to Level 5 for characters that have none of: Civic, Artisan, Mercantile). Custom Unit Types now have access to weapon and armor variants (ie culture 'specials'). Changed the Diplomacy Window displa
City Leaders now gain XP from city population growth and building construction (up to Level 5 for characters that have none of: Civic, Artisan, Mercantile).
Custom Unit Types now have access to weapon and armor variants (ie culture 'specials').
Changed the Diplomacy Window display of Dungeon Factions to include more relevant information and to show the Dungeon site name as header.
Faction Flags are now shown for major factions in the Diplomacy Window.
Outliner now shows City Population next to the type moniker.
Outliner now shows if an Outpost is in the process of upgrading to a City or Fortress.
Fixed a bug causing the special ability availability logic for Custom Unit Types to use an inverted flag for cavalry status, leading to ability options not being as intended.
Fixed a bug causing some special modifiers to damage to not be applied correctly when applied to ranged weapons.
Fixed a bug causing Dungeon Factions based on Dungeons from custom map seeds to have the wrong name.
Fixed a crash bug related to sieges by unaligned armies.
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13 May 2022Developer post
Patch 1.0.3.33
Custom Unit Types: Wizards and Sovereign Warlords can now create custom unit types from a tab panel in the Military Window. This is done by specifying Culture, Mount, Weapons/Armor/Shield, Abilities and Weight. You can also choose Icon and Name for the unit type. The resulting un
Custom Unit Types: Wizards and Sovereign Warlords can now create custom unit types from a tab panel in the Military Window. This is done by specifying Culture, Mount, Weapons/Armor/Shield, Abilities and Weight. You can also choose Icon and Name for the unit type. The resulting unit will have a cost based on the options chosen. Additional options will be added in subsequent updates, as will some limitations on how freely this can be used (unlimited access at no cost will likely not remain for all Wizards) - but the latter will be come with a game setting for those players who prefer to be without such restrictions.
When conquering a Fortress, leaders of minor faction will now cause an event / prompt similar to the one when conquering a City
Conquering a Knightly Order Fortress now has special logic handling the leader (Master / Grandmaster) of the Fortress. When not slain during the assault, the leader may instead flee or be captured by the conquering faction.
Shrine: Now require a Religious-type character of the correct religion to be assigned in order to generate Influence. Having an Arcane character assigned will yield an additional +1 Mana. These can be fulfilled by the a single character with both types or two different characters.
Shrine: Construction can now fail if no Religious Leader assigned during construction (2% per turn). In addition it also carries a 50% risk of gaining 1-20 Divine Wrath per Turn. This is evaluated on a per-turn basis (ie unassignment/reassignment matters).
Outliner: Now sorts most entries by type and/or name. Armies are sorted by size.
Outliner: Now includes Fortress Upgrades as part of the Construction group.
Divine Favor Boons: Added additional trait-giving boons to several domains, expanding the number of domains with access to 'treat-as-class' traits.
World Generator will now be less likely to choose certain key traits when pruning traits from randomly generated cultures that end up with a very high number of traits.
Tweaked the cost and stats of several types of armor.
Added a soft cap to the cost calculation for some of the random events that have a (potential) cost component, and did not already have such logic.
New City Building Type: Celestial Artificery. Industrial-type building for celestials and/or good-aligned wizards. Converts Industrial output to Mana.
New City Building Types: Metalworks (Silver, Platinum, Mithril, Adamantite). Industrial-type buildings which convert Industrial output to the relevant metal. Requires access to the metal via adjacency or being the provincial capital of a province with the resource.
New Spell: Gifts in the Snow (Frost Mastery). Enchantment which increases the output of resource sites in arctic terrain and buffs the stats of cities in arctic terrain.
Improved logging of character ranged attacks during grid battles
Mythos Editor: Workshop preview icon now be set from the UI
Fixed a number of crash bugs related to cities and pop culture
Fixed a bug where Ichor Vats produced the wrong resource
Fixed an unintentional cooldown affecting the Flash of Insight spell.
Fixed a bug causing the sorting on the Deities grid to be incorrect.
Fixed a bug where City Leaders gained through conquest would sometimes not switch faction correctly if the conqueror was a Wizard.
Fixed a number of bugs causing characters to be treated as being located at a site despite having a different actual location. Characters could even end up being located at multiple sites while also being in an army or in the wilderness.
Fixed a battle crash bug involving the Quicken spell.
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23 Mar 2022Developer post
Patch 1.0.3.21
Bug fixes and single minor resource site tweak. Reduced the Food and Furs resource output from Hunter's Lodges by approx. 20% Fishing Villages built on a Spices hex special will now produce 1 Spice per turn (in addition to the existing resource production) If a Planar Invasion en
Bug fixes and single minor resource site tweak.

Reduced the Food and Furs resource output from Hunter's Lodges by approx. 20%
Fishing Villages built on a Spices hex special will now produce 1 Spice per turn (in addition to the existing resource production)
If a Planar Invasion ends and any armies convert to unaligned marauder armies, any that share a hex will now be merged before this happens
Deity Groups (if they exist) are now shown in the Encyclopedia when using a custom Mythos
When deleting save games, the game will now properly delete any (game save data) sub-folders that become empty
Fixed the tooltip for the Spices hex special to be more correct
Fixed an AI bug sometimes causing Planar Invasions to stall and just accumulate armies at the Portal
Fixed a bug related to site construction duration display
Fixed flavor text missing from Details mode on the Deities Panel
Fixed flavor text missing from Planes and Deities in the Encyclopedia
Fixed missing text bugs in several Mythos Editor panels
Fixed a crash bug in the Mythos Editor
Fixed a bug where two (or more) provinces and/or oceans with the same name could be generated during random world generation
Fixed the Gunpowder module being shown twice in the game settings dialog
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19 Mar 2022Developer post
Patch 1.0.3.18
Work on custom 'mundane' unit types is still on-going, but here is an interim game update. You'll see some of the work on streamlining equipment mechanics and how they relate to unit types reflected below, but there is a lot of other stuff. In particular, I'm very happy about the
Work on custom 'mundane' unit types is still on-going, but here is an interim game update. You'll see some of the work on streamlining equipment mechanics and how they relate to unit types reflected below, but there is a lot of other stuff. In particular, I'm very happy about the custom deity icon/image feature for the mythos editor. I think this new way to add custom graphics without leaving the editor, thus not requiring manually linking image files with arcane script files, is much more user-friendly. This also ties in perfectly with custom unit types, culture editing and other in-progress features.
Note that one of the new Celestial City Buildings, Hall of War, wasn't really supposed to be enabled yet, so it is missing a unit buff that it should have (and which will come in a future patch). But when I saw I had accidentally enabled it, I just kept it in, as it has Unrest reduction and that's something a lot of players have been asking for.
Mechanics and Content

The equipment aspect of the recruitment cost calculation (for dynamically generated units) has been reworked. This will generally lead to lower unit costs. It is part of the foundational work for custom unit types.
New City Building: Celestial Hall of War. Requires Celestial Wizard Race and War Mastery 3+. Reduces Unrest, produces Mana and greatly increases Martial stat of city. Also affect a number of other city stats.
New City Building: Celestial Hall of Justice. Requires Celestial Wizard Race and Order Mastery 3+. Greatly reduces Unrest, produces Mana, produces Influence and reduces Crime stat of city. Also affect a number of other city stats.
New City Building: Workshops. Boosts Industry and adds a small amount of Squalor.
New City Building: Toolmakers. Boosts Industry, produces Tools and adds a small amount of Squalor.
New City Building: Windmills. Boosts Industry and Growth.
New Unit Type: Twisted Marionettes. Research requires Artifice and Darkness Mastery. Melee construct with a very high number of attacks.
New Unit Type: Vile Marionettes. Research requires Artifice and Darkness Mastery. Melee construct with a very high number of attacks and additional Darkness damage.
New Tower Expansion: Halls of Divination. Grants random event luck, a research bonus and a reduced cost when recycling the 'hire followers' pool.
New Spell: Rune of the Phoenix. Rune Mastery. Grants the Phoenix Rebirth ability and bonus stats.
New Spell: Phantasmal Horde. Instantly heals a Phantasmal unit to full strength during a battle.
New Spell: Blood Portal. Sacrifice a non-Demonic Follower to gain a Demonic Follower.
New Spell Chain: Lesser Battlesight, Battlesight, Greater Battlesight. Divination Mastery. Cheap and reasonably strong unit stat battle enchantment.
New City Industry Buildings: Metalworks (Bronze), Metalworks (Iron), Glassworks, Dyeworks, Charcoal Burners, Ichor Vats. These change the default city Industry output from tools to one or more other resources.
Tower Expansion: Prison now generates influence whenever a Fortress or City is conquered.
Tower Expansion: Enchanted Garden now produces more Herbs and also gives a reduction in cost to Plant tag units.
City Building: Festering Lake now reduces Unrest and enables recruitment of Vile Slime units at the city.
Divination Mastery 8 and 10 now give a +5%/+10% Research Progress bonus
Changed the impact of Character Loyalty/Discontent on upkeep and personal income generation. The impact is now slightly greater (in both directions), and no longer has a confusing reversed multiplier to personal income generation.
City Pop types now have a greater impact on City Resource Production/Output
Rebalanced the cost of several magical/special unit types
Slightly reduced the base price/value of Bronze
Slightly reworked the calculation of Oricalchum Forge output based on Follower Assignment to make it more intuitive
Buffed the impact of the Worker Entertainment Skill
Improved and expanded multiple aspects of the random culture generator and increased the average variation from the template baseline
Added new allied and cavalry unit types to the random culture unit generator
The Learning and Spiritual stats of Cities will now yield a Research Project bonus for Wizards.
Lesser Depravity, Depravity, Greater Depravity: These spells now yield a variable amount of Soul resources per turn to the caster. Each mortal pop in affected city has 2% / 4% / 6% (lesser/normal/greater) to yield 1 / (1 to 3) / / (1 to 5) Souls. These are evaluated per pop and the distribution isn't even, as (1 to 3) is D6-3 (min. 1) and (1 to 5) is D10-5 (min. 1). So a city of 20 mortal pops affected by Greater Depravity can yield from 0 to 100 (20 x 5) Souls per turn, but will on average yield 2.4 (0.06 x 2 x 20). Note that these spells can also be cast on Cities controlled by other Factions, and the caster will still be the recipient of the Souls - not the controller of the city.
Mythos Editor

You can now set custom Icon and Image graphics for the various entities. This applies to Deities, Planes and Deity Groups. Currently this is only shown in the game UI for Deities (on the Details view and some tooltips), but it will be added to additional parts of the UI, including those relevant to Planes and Deity Groups.
Icons are intended as an identifying sigil, depiction or similar - similar to the sigils of the various realms and factions. These should be square.
Images are background images shown on relevant game dialogs and windows. They will be dimmed when text is displayed on top. Aspect ratio of the custom image is maintained when displaying it, with margins added above/below or to the sides depending on layout.
Plane Layout can now be edited
User Interface and World Map

Dungeon window now has tool tips for party members showing traits, class type(s) and level
Encyclopedia now shows equipment cost values
Added a new musical track to the playlist
Improved the 'Details' view in the Deities Panel
Added a toggle for Realm Names to the World Map. Hold shift when pressing the Province Name toggle to shift to Realm Name mode.
Changed the 'Go To' functionality for factions and realms, so that they are zoom to the map location of the entity rather than open the diplomacy window.
Normalized the range state for (ranged) attacks to use the same distance units in all places.
Bug Fixes

Fixed a bug related to 'empty' dungeon expeditions that lingered in the UI and game data
Fixed a bug where references to the Dragon Worship religion would not save correctly and would create 'phantom' copies of the religion
Fixed a bug causing unit equipment display to be incorrect
Fixed a bug causing some world spells to not be castable
Fixed a bug causing the Sabotage impact on Sieges to off by a factor 100
Fixed a number of bugs related to AI having friendly/hostile switched around in a subroutine
Fixed numerous text and tooltip bugs.
Fixed some domains not showing in the Mythos Editor.
Fixed a bug causing Allied Unit (from Culture traits) not being available in Cities.
Original post
07 Feb 2022Developer post
Patch 1.0.3.13
The Mythos Editor has arrived! I am pretty excited about this, as it's the first part of the Editor support for custom world creation. I want to expand this to eventually cover everything the World Generator does, so that players can create and share their own fantasy worlds - fr
The Mythos Editor has arrived! I am pretty excited about this, as it's the first part of the Editor support for custom world creation. I want to expand this to eventually cover everything the World Generator does, so that players can create and share their own fantasy worlds - from scratch or by modifying something created by the generator.
There are still a few issues with the Editor - the UI is a bit rough, you can't specify custom Plane unit rosters, etc. I'm sure there are a few bugs in it, also. The next patch cycle is dedicated to Sovereigns and custom unit mechanics - but I will be giving some 'hypercare' attention to the Mythos Editor, and adding some things I didn't manage to squeeze in for this version (custom deity/plane icons and backgrounds in particular).
This update cycle stretched a bit longer than I would have liked, so I will try to avoid large tasks for the next couple of cycles, in order to get the weekly / bi-weekly update schedule back on track. There is a good amount of smaller tasks pending and a slightly higher number of open bug reports than I normally have, but I expect to have those bugs stomped out during this week. So there will likely be one or more small hyper-care/QoL/bugfix patches before the Sovereign improvements are in a patch. But I am aiming for the first of those in the quite near future still.
I had hoped to have Steam Cloud Saves in for this update, but I wanted to give it more internal testing. I am sure everyone can appreciate that save game integrity is important, so I am hesitant to rush this. Hopefully it will be available later this week, for those who wish to use it.
Editor:

The Mythos Editor has been added which allows creating custom Deities, Deity Groups and Planes - along with (optional) flavor text, this bundle of entities is known as a 'Mythos'. You can then use these in your own games (Custom Mythos setting) or share them via the Workshop. If you want to include a custom 'cover image' for a Mythos workshop item, you can place one next to the file prior to upload/update using the same method as for custom Maps.
You can access the Mythos Editor via the Editor and a new button in the top editor menu.
Data files now have meta-data on what type of data they contain. This is used by the File Dialog to avoid showing irrelevant files, as the different types of Editor content (Maps, Mythos) use the same file format. 'Old' map files do not have this meta-data so will show up in dialogs that they may not apply to. You can load and re-save a map file to add the meta-data automatically. A variety of planned editor/modding features will benefit from this addition.
General:

Phantasmal ability given to the Phantasmal line of unit types. This ability allows replenishment to full strength anywhere in the world at the end of the turn. So these units are now quite powerful for conducting warfare far away from friendly territory as they just need to survive battles, and they're back at full strength.
Inscribe Constructs: New Spellcraft. When researched, it allows adding the Mark line of unit modifiers when recruiting Construct (golem) units - contingent on an Arcane character being assigned to the recruitment.
Cities can now be settled adjacent to other cities - if they are not part of the same province.
Improved the Major Faction seeding algorithm to greatly reduce the risk of factions being placed adjacent to each other and generally increase the average distance between major factions (player and AI rivals).
Enchanted Garden tower upgrade will now unlock scout infantry from relevant culture rosters.
Academy tower upgrade will now unlock spellcaster infantry from relevant culture rosters, with a fallback to medium to high quality light infantry if these are not available (for a given culture).
Divine Favor Boons to remove Insane and Depressed has been added to many domains.
Wizards with Celestial, Demon or Faerie Race now have a very high chance to get the corresponding cult as religion on at least one of any mortal followers generated - with a priority given to Religion-type followers.
Increased the variety of equipment generated for dynamic (culture) unit type rosters and added additional culture trait weights to the generation routines.
Increased the range of possible variations for several culture templates, and reduced the chance of multiple weapon preference traits being generated for a culture.
Increased the average number of culture traits generated for each culture.
Improved the unit type naming routines to increase the flavor/coherence, range/variety and overall quality of roster unit type names.
Added two new spells to Necromancy (Unliving Flesh, Eternal Servitude) which can be used to remove 'Cannot Replenish' (from Zombie and Level 5+ Undead, respectively) and give some other stat buffs.
Added a new Priest character type which is Religious/Civic.
Tweaked the culture-trait/attribute weights for some character types which had a chance that was too high or too low compared to the intent. This should improve the variety of character classes for many cultures.
Sabotage against a besieged city will now progress the siege
Added Greater Drain Soul, which is an improved version of the basic Drain Soul spell. (I still intend to add more ways to gain Souls).
Special Rulers culture trait now affects character generator adding a chance for special character types to be generated with a context-sensitive weighting, so that leadership roles have a greater chance of these.
Additional variants of the Special Rulers trait added.
Expanded the number of Culture Templates which can roll the Special Rulers trait.
Numerous special unit type templates added to the Culture generator.
Eldritch Cultism is now included as a possible roll in the Character generator. It is extremely rare, although more likely to occur with the Insane trait, Cultist class and Enigmatic culture trait.
Demon Worship and Cult of The Elements is now slightly more likely to be generated as Character religion for some character classes and/or cultures.
Spellcaster units (when part of a culture roster) are now unlocked for cities if they have Learning 2+ and/or Spiritual 2+. For some unit types additional requirements (cavalry, heavy, etc) will apply, as per the existing logic.
Bugs:

The icon for a blocked Outpost to City upgrade action is now shown with information on the reason, instead of being hidden.
Fixed Fortification modifiers not being applied for City Buildings as intended and shown in the building description.
Friendly city garrisons are now shown with unit count and proper tooltip for friendly sites.
Fixed bugged requirements for Runic Warhammer. A condition was negated, causing strange availability results (positive and negative).
Cult of the Elements is now listed in the Deity Panel.
Fixed a crash bug related to world generation.
Fixed a bug sometimes causing some of the Sovereign starting units to instead start as part of unaligned armies camped outside the intended starting site.
Fixed cultural variant equipment not being omitted from unit equipment lists in some windows.
Fixed gunpowder, sapper and chivalric units (when enabled via game settings) very often being excluded from available unit types regardless of unit type unlocks.
Fixed chariot units not being available/unlocked as intended. They are now generally available based on the same rules as cavalry unit types.
Fixed an exploit which allowed circumventing site construction hex validation rules.
The intro window is no longer missing for Sovereign Warlords.
Fixed AI Rival toggles (ie the number of opponents) not being registered correctly until another setting is changed. This could cause a preset to be saved without such changes or a game to start with the wrong number of opponents.
Fixed a bug causing an AI rival to become undefeatable despite losing all sites and armies
Fixed a missing unit type icon
Fixed a number of text display bugs
Fixed a number of bugs related to city building availability
Fixed a bug causing custom map province names to be ignored even when specified. They can now be specified for some, none or all provinces, as intended. (Leaving the default 'Province N' name will make it be overriden).
Fixed dodge logic not working as intended during battle resolution. Relative physical unit size was being applied inversely for units with the 'Melee Avoidance' ability.
Fixed a number of battle resolution bugs, most of which were related to ranged attacks, cooldowns and ammo/charges.
Original post
09 Jan 2022Developer post
Patch 1.0.3.6
First update of the year! I will try to keep a weekly update cycle, as I think that is the best cadence, but I hope you will forgive if it slips now and then. I'll count this one as a success, even if I didn't get as many things into this update as I would have liked. There are a
First update of the year! I will try to keep a weekly update cycle, as I think that is the best cadence, but I hope you will forgive if it slips now and then. I'll count this one as a success, even if I didn't get as many things into this update as I would have liked. There are a few bugs still left open and I didn't manage to get any new Editor functionality in. The Allied Race bug turned out to be pretty severe, so I had to rip out most of the old code and write a new version. I'm pretty happy with the new one, though, as it has much more flexibility and potential. But it ate a significant amount of time. Still, I am happy with this first update of the year (and the 1.0.3 version). Next week, I should be able to find some time for a recap of 2021. But as always bugs take priority.
Thank you to the many players who contribute feedback, ideas, bug reports, create mods and offer words of encouragement. I very much appreciate it, and I will do my best to put into these updates, as much as possible from that treasure trove of ideas and suggestions.
Features:

Hostile Armies now block Resource Site production
Sovereign Warlord: Now gains +1 Pop on City Settlement. This Pop will have the faction primary culture. The other Pop will have culture based on the existing rules (ie overseer, worker and province culture).
Sovereign Warlord: Sorting changed Culture selection list. It is now alphabetical 'core' cultures followed by alphabetical exotic cultures.
Nomad Raiders: Will now pillage resource sites directly on the route towards a raid target
Nomad Raiders: Will now sometimes only sack a resource site and not raze it
Economy Window: Added a Buy All button. It buys the maximum amount available or the maxium amount the faction can afford. The tool tip for the button gives information on which of these is relevant and the total cost.
Faction Window - Deities Page: Double-click to navigate to details
Faction Window - Deities Page: Extended details including info otherwise only shown in Encyclopedia
Grid Battles: Attack cooldown fractions carried over (e.g. .5 turn cooldown results in a turn of cooldown every other turn).
Grid Battles: Characters no longer have unlimited range with ranged/magic attacks. This makes range-modifying traits useful during battles.
Light Crossbow: Reload Delay 2 -> 1
Crossbow: Damage 4 -> 6, slight cost reduction
Heavy Crossbow: Damage 7 -> 8
Arbalest: Reload Delay 3 -> 2
World Generator: More cultures can now have allied races and a greater variety of these are possible. Some are monsters, some are from other cultures, some are from minority races of the same culture.
World Generator: Slightly increased the number of traits that randomly generated (template-based or not) cultures have
World Generator: Added some culture traits to the non-template culture generator which it could previously never roll (they were template only)
World Generator: Cultures of Centauroid races have a very high chance for allied units to be cavalry units (so they can keep up)
World Generator: Added a template-based version of the Stonemen culture generator
World Generator: Subterranean cultures now have a greater chance for Cavalry unit types - and will usually have at least one (before it was very common for them to have none). They do actively wage war on the surface, and it makes the trait less terrible.
Items: Can now have a 'singular' trait which means a character can have only one of these items (for example, no stacking Cornucopia trinkets for silly food bonuses from a single character).
Wizard AI: Slightly improved ability to determine viability of a battle.
Wizard AI: Improved logic to evaluate need/benefit of relieving a siege.
Wizard AI: Will now be less likely to send only a single weak army to handle priority threats. If no sufficiently powerful army is available, it will try to send multiple armies to handle the threat.
Fire-Infused Weapon: Can now affect any melee weapon. Previously only slashing weapons were valid.
City Growth: Pops will now have alignment based on a random other pop in the city (of the same culture). This also prevents fully converted cities from gaining default alignment pops on growth.
Gargantuan Apes: New powerful unit type, specializing in melee.
Trolls and Vampire Trolls: +2 HP
Random Races: Added more feature variety to completely randomly generated races.
Bugfixes:

World Generator: Culture generation which is 'forced' from traits and settings will now properly respect the 'no-templating' setting.
Hire Follower: Fixed missing culture-specific character dominating the hire pool (for factions with a main culture). Added a small chance for 'special' characters to appear (e.g. faeries, demons, celestials) for compatible factions.
Encyclopedia: Fixed terrain-specific special abilities missing from unit tool tips
Faction Window - Deities Page: Fixed a bug where the text would become blank and the navigation state corrupted
Faction Window - Deities Page: Fixed a scroll focus bug (for the grid)
Military Window: Equipment which were cultural variants were not displayed when inspecting a unit type.
Pillage: Will now exhaust the army when initiated
Character Traits: Demonic Corruption, Celestial Blessings, and similar 'cosmic alignment' traits were incorrectly blocked for almost all characters
Several text errors fixed (spelling, formatting, etc.)
Grid-Battles: Fixed a number of bugs related to Ranged weapon range calculations. An incorrect (and almost unlimited range) was sometimes used in various calculations.
Grid-Battles: Fixed the Advance to Missile Range order not working as expected
Grid-Battles: Fixed Attack cooldowns not working as intended. Such attacks either had no cooldown or could not be used at all.
Equipment: Weapons with Reload Delay had a off-by-one error when determining the resulting attack cooldown
Worker Training UI: Training time bonus "mentor" shown as "alignment clash"
Recruitment pool: The Refugee event granting a city no longer breaks an existing specialized recruitment pool for that culture.
Recruitment pool: Temporary recruits are now always added to a special pool if one exists. This also means that 'gather recruits' and diplomacy will add to this pool if you've used conversion actions to create it.
Divine Offering: Fixed resource allocation window shown behind Follower Window
Divine Offering: Fixed missing UI update after assignment
Organize Worship: Fixed missing UI update after assignment
Recruitment Cost / Upkeep Cost: Fixed several units that did not have a non-magical version of these, resulting in the magical version applying to Factions without Mana.
Fire Elementals: Fixed the non-functional cooldown on Fiery Globs
Original post
01 Jan 2022Developer post
Patch 1.0.3.3
New update to celebrate a new year - happy new year everyone! And thank you so much for a great year. The support and positivity from the player community has been truly amazing. You have provided me with ideas, beta branch testing, bug reports, words of encouragement, constructi
New update to celebrate a new year - happy new year everyone! And thank you so much for a great year. The support and positivity from the player community has been truly amazing. You have provided me with ideas, beta branch testing, bug reports, words of encouragement, constructive criticism and more - I am grateful and I hope that the game will provide you with entertainment and enjoyment for years to come.
It's been a little bit more than a year since version 1.0.0.1, and a lot has happened since then. I will try to get a post up with a summary of the changes and improvements made, highlighting the major milestones. I will also share my plans and ambitions for the coming months. I look forward to another year of work on this game and I'm excited to see how the game will grow and improve during this time, and interacting with the community, trying to get as many of those awesome ideas and suggestion into the game as possible.

New Warlord Type: Sovereign

Can choose from any culture template, start as a random culture template or select from a list of cultures generated for the world
Has the same mechanics as AI Rival Warlords, which is unlike Tribal and more similar to Wizard (without magic).
Start with a full province usually containing a city, a village and a fortress - although this can vary considerably based on what the world generator produces (and the setting chosen).
Sometimes has one or more garrisons of higher tier units present at game start. These have free upkeep for 20 turns, but the Units are also locked to those garrisons for the same duration.
Terrain-specific ability logic has been added. This allows units to have stat modifiers and/or movement modifiers applied only in certain terrain (or when not in certain terrain).

The following Unit Types have terrain-specific modifiers: Yetis, Medusae, Jotnar, Rime Trolls, Grendelkin, Giants, Frost Giants. More will be added in future patches.
Modding support has been extended to cover these ability types.
Elephants and Mammoths cannot be Chariot mounts for most races
Additional mount variance chance (based on size)
Chariot-specific mount variance chances
Beast Tamer culture trait: reduce cavalry/chariot mount attack modifier from -2 to -1
Massively reduced the chance that Cultures are generated with no traits
Greatly reduced the chance that Cultures are generated with only one trait
If a unit cannot benefit from the Garrison upkeep reduction due to recent movement the upkeep tooltip will now state this
Fortress Window: Summary of characters present now includes the Garrison
Independent Realms no longer build mines in hexes without resource specials
Encyclopedia: World entry now includes any seed used to generate it
Prospectors: Geomancy, Subterranean, Wanderlust now increase chance for a culture to generate a character of this class.
Independent Realms now have show info on hostile actions in the diplomacy relation log
Roads can now be built with a destination which is controlled by allied and vassal factions. One end of the road (ie the origin) still has to be controlled.
City: +5% Divine Offering value per level of Spiritual.
Bugbear units now have +1 HP
Adjusted the animation speed when resolving ranged attacks during grid battles. It will now adapt to the number of units, speeding up when there are many units/attacks.
The numerical keys (1, 2, 3, etc) are now keyboard shortcuts for the corresponding top bar button. They can be used to quickly open the main windows: Magic, Military, Economy, Faction, etc.
City Window: Added 'Show Unavailable' toggle. This also adds Requirements text to all relevant buildings.
Added Monster Slayer character type
Gunpowder weapons now do additional damage at short range (25%-)
Many gunpowder weapons are less effective considerable at long range (50%+)
Attack, Site and Unit Conditions can now utilize base Condition logic (and / or / not)
Army Window: Units with (temporary) free Upkeep now have a tooltip showing what the cost would've been without the effect.
AI Rivals will now use the same 'Easy' Scouting game setting as the player, with the exception of Very Easy (does not gain if player has) and Hard/Very Hard (gains even if player has not)
Spell: Training Day now has a 4-turn Cooldown
Many (mundane) unit types now have shorter training time. This mostly affects races which had very long training times.
The list of constructed city buildings is now sorted alphabetically.
Followers Window: Location is now specified.
Followers Window: An Icon now shows when the Follower counts as 'At The Tower'.
When giving items to Followers, and they do not gain Loyalty due to having > 5 items already, "(No Loyalty Gained)" will now be shown in the character history log to help make it apparent this is not a bug.
Fixed a bug causing the majority of Bow units to have Poisoned attacks.
Fixed a bug where diplomatic relations towards an independent realm could get stuck at the current level
Fixed a bug where cultures where are an area of the map which was supposed to have a realm seeded was instead empty, and the culture not added to the world.
Fixed a number of bugs/issues which could cause an AI Rival to become mostly passive
Fixed bugs relating to Rename dialogs
Fixed equipment stats not being applied when for encyclopedia tool tips
Fixed being able to open the editor while having the new/load game window open
Fixed administration center not giving +1 Influence
Fixed unit battle leader stat bug. Retroactively fixes save games.
Fixed outpost worker add bug (skill req)
Fixed bug where effects checking if a unit was airborne instead evaluated if the unit was engaged in melee (even disregarding whether it can fly at all)
Fixed a bug when assigning an item after completing the enchant item project. The item was either removed for the vault if a duplicate existed there or not given at all, depending on circumstances.
Fixed incorrect requirements for Prison and Mercenary Sprawl buildings
Fixed a bug causing lairs to block outpost construction for Warlords
Fixed bug where unit type descriptions did not include stat modifiers from equipment in some cases (display bug only)
Fixed some spelling errors and missing spaces/commas
Fixed Warrior Monk characters almost never being generated
Fixed unit type export omitting attack modifier target conditions
Fixed city walls not being available after palisades
Fixed inverted modifier to recruit follower success from not sharing a class type with the target
Fixed a bug where city buildings could be constructed multiple times.
Fixed a crash bug related to followers with province-scope location.
Original post
13 Nov 2021Developer post
Patch 1.0.2.68
Units now have an experience level icon displayed if they are level 1+. The tool tip for this icon will show what benefits the unit has gained from those experience levels. Unit experience level display also comes with modding support. See the Modding Guide for instructions on ho
Units now have an experience level icon displayed if they are level 1+. The tool tip for this icon will show what benefits the unit has gained from those experience levels.
Unit experience level display also comes with modding support. See the Modding Guide for instructions on how to change the display with custom images and frames.
Improved the unit strength display in most windows to be more readable, with larger and clearer font.
Unit strength display now has a tooltip showing the max strength of the unit - and the default strength of the unit type, if a unit is understrength.
Tribal Population Growth: Migration now provides a greater benefit to Population Growth.
Tribal Camp: An action has been added which allows allocating Food from faction stores to a particular Camp. This will boost Population Growth and provide a buffer against starvation (through a local Food store increase), based on the amount of Food provided.
Shrine Dedication: Religion-class followers now contribute to the pool of available dedications. The religion still has to be compatible with the faction, but in most cases this will be so.
Influential: New character trait which acts as 'counts-as-class' for Civic.
Divine Favor: Added additional domain-specific boons.
Divine Favor: Most temporary boons now last 60% longer.
Dungeon Expeditions: Increased the experience benefit from having a Mentor in the party. However, Mentors can now longer give other Mentors bonus experience.
Character Experience: Overseeing construction of a site or the upgrade of an outpost (to city/fortress) will now yield Experience for the assigned character.
Save games are now listed in chronological order - even for autosave files. Many players have expressed that always having autosave at the top does not add value, and increases the risk of accidentally loading the wrong game file.
Workers Window: Settle City now includes in the query dialog whether a City has the blocking effect from recent settlement (including duration) and such options are now unselectable by default. Previously you would not be notified until you made a selection, and would have to reopen the window to select a new city.
Transfer Units / Split Army: Double-clicking a unit is now a shortcut for to the 'create new army' button. This allows quickly creating a new army with a specific initial unit.
"Give/Swap/Revoke Item" actions have been added to the Character Context Menu for Followers (when relevant).
Made some visual improvements to the Battle Report window in how units are shown.
Added notifications for the completion of City Settlement and Outpost Fortification projects.
Fixed an army state corruption bug related to saving/loading games during migrations.
Fixed a missing UI update trigger in the Dungeon Window.
Fixed Follower text overflow in the Trainer part of the Military Window.
Fixed Follower text overflow in the General/Officer panels of the Army Window.
Fixed a number of crash bugs in the Transfer Units window.
Original post
21 Oct 2021Developer post
Patch 1.0.2.65
Road Construction can now terminate at Resource Sites (farms, mines, etc). For example: You can now build from a City to a Mine. You still cannot build from a Mine to a Farm (but you can link them with an Outpost as road nexus). Balance tweaks to Death Knights, Lesser Celestial P
Road Construction can now terminate at Resource Sites (farms, mines, etc). For example: You can now build from a City to a Mine. You still cannot build from a Mine to a Farm (but you can link them with an Outpost as road nexus).
Balance tweaks to Death Knights, Lesser Celestial Phoenixes, Maladonisai.
Grid-based battles now have better logic for determining when a unit counts as charging. It requires the unit to have moved during the turn, and to have moved from a non-engaged position to the final position. This sounds more complicated than it is - if a unit moved into combat from non-combat (including combat -> non-combat -> combat) it counts, but 'sliding' along an already engaged battle line does not count.
Set Defense now gives a Fend bonus against units which charge it. (de facto reduces to-hit).
Set Defense now requires immobility to be active during melee resolution.
Lances are now "Charge Only", but do much more damage.
Workers will now be unassigned from a newly constructed site if they are no longer valid for assignment (requirements for assignment to construction and 'active' site work can differ).
Added two new game settings for Recruitment Pools: Relaxed and Harsh. Relaxed will count the number of units for each culture/pool as two less for all purposes. Non-Harsh now has the upkeep penalty capped at +25%.
Added a 'Summary' button to the Battle Report window. It allows you to see the final outcome of the battle without having to progress through every single round, or stopping when you've seen enough. You can shift-click it to close the window at the same time (tooltip also specifies this shortcut).
Enrage Wildlife now has a 2-turn cooldown and a slightly higher mana cost. It also applies a province-wide effect for 8 turns. During this period re-casts may fail fully or partially (creating an understrength unit). A success will extend the duration, a partial success will extend it partially.
New Spell: Greater Enrage Wildlife (Beasts 5). Summons a larger army and has a lower risk of failure when re-cast with a lingering effect than the basic version.
New Spell: Survival of The Fittest (Beasts 3). Summons a small army of beasts to fight one of your own armies, which will gain additional experience from the battle.
New Unit Type: Catoblepas. Poison-breathing and dark-gazing boar-bull monsters. Unlocked at Darkness Mastery 5 and can spawn in some unaligned armies.
Fixed the missing spell descriptions in the multi-cast 'select spell' dialog.
Fixed a bug where some battles did not register their location correctly and did not get the intended battle name.
Fixed a bug where "Nearby Culture Override" was not saved/loaded as part of game setting presets.
Fixed a bug where the message prompts in the military window did not close via the X button.
Fixed a bug causing tooltips in spell result prompts to not work correctly.
Fixed a bug where conversion-based recruitment pools did not interact correctly with the recruitment window - showing incorrect pool usage and not always giving the correct selection of available units.
Fixed a bug causing character items with a battle effect not working as intended during grid-based battles.
Fixed armor not importing/exporting as part of unit type mods.
Fixed a bug where the context panel showed an incorrect selection.
Fixed a text bug with the 'Compose Epic' event.
Fixed a bug allowing some city stats being able to go negative against the intent (had very strange effects on some mechanics).
Fixed characters not being unassigned from Army tasks if part of a garrison which becomes empty (and non-inspectable).
Fixed "Charge Only" attacks being usable in every round - charge or not.
Fixed "Set Defense" from weapons not always giving the unit this ability during battles.
Fixed Units gaining special abilities from Experience - which they already have from their equipment. This will no longer happen.
Fixed a bug where charges/ammunition for ranged attacks was being depleted much too quickly during battles.
Fixed a bug where some tooltip links did not work as intended.
Fixed a memory leak when loading/starting new games during an existing game session.
Original post
06 Oct 2021Developer post
Patch 1.0.2.60
Changed the scaling of Marauder/Undead/Monster Armies. In addition to the chosen game setting for the power level of these, there is now a time-based scaling applied during the early game to mid game - depending on game settings. This will remove the risk of unreasonably powerful
Changed the scaling of Marauder/Undead/Monster Armies. In addition to the chosen game setting for the power level of these, there is now a time-based scaling applied during the early game to mid game - depending on game settings. This will remove the risk of unreasonably powerful event armies spawning near a player in the early game - especially when playing with default settings.
After resolving a Battle the result dialog now has a button which opens the Battle Report. Previously you had to close the dialog and open the notification icon to see this report.
Fortresses can now be upgraded to the next tier. This can only be done if there is no upgrade construction in progress and no hostile armies in the hex. The cost and time scales with the level of the fortress. If hostile armies enter the hex, the upgrade will halt temporarily.
Fortresses can now be razed by their owner. The time taken scales with the level of the fortress. If hostile armies enter the hex, the razing will halt temporarily.
Dismissed and deserting workers now enter the hire pool in most cases.
You can now recycle the pool of recruitable characters. Free once per 10 turns, otherwise has a cost. The cost is a fixed amount of Gold and Influence in addition to 50% of total Influence. Cost and cooldown can be modded via mechanics modding using the following keys: CharacterHireRecycleCooldown, CharacterHireRecycleGoldCost, CharacterHireRecycleInfluenceCost, CharacterHireRecycleInfluenceCostFraction.
In-window dialogs for the wizard and tribal recruitment windows, replacing the pop-up dialog. You can close these with escape, clicking on the unit list, or through the X icon.
Spellfire Phoenixes got a small balance pass. Lesser ones nerfed (but lower upkeep), buffed movement for the regular and greater.
Fixed a crash related to the character generator
Fixed a crash related to the Battle Gate spell.
Fixed some road-related rules keys not being loaded correctly for mods
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20 Sep 2021Developer post
Patch 1.0.2.57
The Escape key can now be used to close additional windows, specificially most of the 'OK' info-style message windows. There are a few exceptions, one of which is the 'Missing Mods' info window on loading a game. (These will be given Escape shortcuts in a coming patch). Battle Wi
The Escape key can now be used to close additional windows, specificially most of the 'OK' info-style message windows. There are a few exceptions, one of which is the 'Missing Mods' info window on loading a game. (These will be given Escape shortcuts in a coming patch).
Battle Window (Grid+Classic): The list of spells in the 'More Spells' dialog is now sorted alphabetically
Battle Window (Grid): New Playback Speed option, 'Instant'. This skips all the attack pop-ups during the turn and plays the movement at maximum speed. Attacks are still shown in the log and you can still hover over units between turns to show attacks taken/dealt during the previous turn.
Battle Window (Grid): 'Fast' is now the default Playback Speed.
Units with bombs now have a +1 Siege Progress modifier. As before only the unit with the highest modifier in an army will contribute with bonus progress. Overview of possible bonuses: Sappers with bombs +4, sappers +3, burrowers with bombs +3, burrowers +2, other with bombs +1.
Fixed a crash caused by the Mass Resurrection spell
Fixed a bug causing irrelevant pre-battle dialogs being shown when choosing to auto-resolve battle
Fixed a bug where the cursor would change to an X permanently when casting spells via 'More Spells...' during battles
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19 Sep 2021Developer post
Patch 1.0.2.56
Bombs can now be generated as armament for units if the Gunpowder module is enabled. This is a possibility for cultures that have knowledge of Gunpowder or alchemy - and for special miner and sapper unit types. Note that Gunpowder is currently not a full Culture trait, so you'll
Bombs can now be generated as armament for units if the Gunpowder module is enabled. This is a possibility for cultures that have knowledge of Gunpowder or alchemy - and for special miner and sapper unit types. Note that Gunpowder is currently not a full Culture trait, so you'll only see it by inspecting unit types in the Encyclopedia. It will become a full Culture trait in a future update.
Added four Bomb weapons with different stats: Crude Bombs, Bombs, Shrapnel Bombs and Fire Bombs.
Unit weapons can now have non-Physical base damage. The first example of this is the Fire Bomb weapon.
Increased the chance of Gunpowder weapons being enabled for a culture, when that module is enabled. The chance is still based on technological progress and cultural traits, but more factors are considered and the base chance is slightly higher. I'll continue tweaking carefully if necessary to avoid overshooting.
Fixed a number of bugs relating to the Army Transfer/Split functionality and UI.
Fixed some Fortress Upgrades not showing full details on requirements when unavailable.
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17 Sep 2021Developer post
Patch 1.0.2.55
Just a small bugfix patch. The regular update patch is expected to be ready within the next couple of days. Fixed a number of crashes related to battle magic. Fixed a crash when inspecting Dungeon Expedition history.
Just a small bugfix patch. The regular update patch is expected to be ready within the next couple of days.

Fixed a number of crashes related to battle magic.
Fixed a crash when inspecting Dungeon Expedition history.
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12 Sep 2021Developer post
Patch 1.0.2.53
Gunpowder units can now be generated for cultures (chance based on their traits). This is not enabled by default, but can be done so by via a new Module, Gunpowder: Basic. It can thus not be applied retroactively to existing games. A new trait has been added to identify such unit
Gunpowder units can now be generated for cultures (chance based on their traits). This is not enabled by default, but can be done so by via a new Module, Gunpowder: Basic. It can thus not be applied retroactively to existing games. A new trait has been added to identify such units for the purpose of modding, and the guide updated accordingly.
Dragon Summoning. A new Spellcraft has been added, with a progression of research projects to unlock summoning of Dragon units of increasing power.
Hero for Hire tooltip now includes details on the Hero, so that the player can make an informed choice on whether to hire or not.
Restarting the Tutorial is now possible via a button in the Settings window. This can be used if the tutorial was closed by accident, or if the player wants to show the tutorial and still wants to keep the tutorial disabled by default.
Unit Battle Experience: +1 XP for units led by Character. +1 additional XP if Character has the Mentor trait. +25% to total XP gain if the Character is higher or equal level cunit.
Wizard Tower: Each level upgrade now gives +50 Influence cap.
Several City buildings now increase resource caps for Food and Influence.
Thieves Guild changed: No longer reduces Unrest by 10, but increases by 10. Instead Influence gain doubled from 1 to 2. It now also increases the Faction Influence cap by 25.
New Building: Prison (Harsh). Reduces Unrest and boosts Industry. Requires Evil, Autocracy, Lawful, and/or Slavery. Not available to Good and/or Chaotic cultures.
New Building: Festival Grounds. Reduces Unrest, Industry and boosts Prosperity, Decadence. Requires Semi-Cultured, Culture or Highly Cultured.
New Building: Sacred Grove. Reduces Unrest and boosts Spiritual. Cultures with at least one of Primitive, Savage, Barbarian, Druidic, Pact with Nature.
New Building: Mercenary Sprawl. Unlocks Elite Units. Requires City Pop 10+. Cultural requirement: Chaotic and at least one of: Martial Honor, Philosophy: Conquest, Philosophy: War, Philosophy: Survival. Not available to Primitive or Savage cultures.
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