Mind the Vikings

Released: Jan 5, 2018
Platforms: Windows
Last updated: 04 Sep 2026, 18:07 GMT

Updates & announcements

20 posts

12 Jul 2020Developer post
Save and Load
The patch is quite self-explanatory. I also added some new UI to the main menu, load screen and of course the save game framework. Save games are NOT going to be guaranteed to work across big patches. Atleast until we are out of early access. Ensuring compatability is a large amo
31 May 2020Developer post
Back with a vengeance
Join our discord! Going solo this time, it's been really hard getting to this point, but finally I feel like i have the start of something great that is ready for Early Access. Its still quite buggy, but stable enough to be in early access. There are way too many changes to list
25 Sep 2018Developer post
WE ARE GOING ON VACATION
So i've been meaning to make this announcement for a while. I've finally decided to just do it. WE ARE TAKING A LONG VACATION! Both me and danny are completely burnt out and stressed out of our minds. We have tried for so long to just survive, and kept releasing sub-par patches a
26 Jun 2018Developer post
Relics and bug fixes - 0.5.3
Hey! Today we are sending you a small update with a small teaser.. Relics! Along with some much needed bug fixes and tweaks. We hope you enjoy! Features: Added 2 relics... Added falling snow Added Snow footstep sound Day sign now animates in and out Bug Fixes: Farming works again
31 May 2018Developer post
Winter is here! P. 0.5.2
Despite the cold we are alive and kicking! It's actually record heat here in Sweden right now, so what better time to release a winter patch!? In this patch we have added our second season: you guessed it, Winter! (there's more coming as well) We also fixed some bugs, tweaked som
Despite the cold we are alive and kicking!
It's actually record heat here in Sweden right now, so what better time to release a winter patch!?
In this patch we have added our second season: you guessed it, Winter! (there's more coming as well) We also fixed some bugs, tweaked some tweaks and balanced some inbalances!

Added snow on the ground, and some falling snow as well
Ice ice baby (on the water)
Firewood consumption in winter goes through the roof
Farms produce less during winter
Fishing is now kind of hard when the water is frozen
Added a season clock
You can see what season your savegame is currently in
Increased chance of positive traits
Trees now bend in the wind
Floating trees should no longer appear
Fixed bug where vikings would not converse
Increased initial amount of firewood on houses
During pause the camera will rotate slightly
Thank you all for supporting the game, and we're super hyped to speed up the progress on the game again, we have so many awesome ideas from the community to get through! :)
All the best,
Simon Ulander and Danny Perlman
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12 Apr 2018Developer post
Thought’s n’ Witches - Patch 0.5.1
Hello my fellow Nords! Here’s some changes we’ve added to make the game even better, including mind-reading and witchcraft! Some great features are in the works and we are slowly but surely picking up the pace again. Features: Witch Hut is now enabled and fully functional You can
Hello my fellow Nords!
Here’s some changes we’ve added to make the game even better, including mind-reading and witchcraft! Some great features are in the works and we are slowly but surely picking up the pace again.
Features:

Witch Hut is now enabled and fully functional
You can now see what a viking is thinking
“New” notification on vikings disappears after 30 seconds
Trap chance is now displayed for coal and magical plants
Camera position is now saved and loaded
Bug Fixes:

Farms can now be removed!
Fishing and witch hut profiles now stick on click
Coal and magical plants collected are now saved
Fisherman job is now properly saved
No random smiths showing up
Floating rocks
Mystery curses not showing up anymore
Tweaks

Firewood consumption has been drastically increased
Lowered initial firewood inventory on houses drastically
Food consumption increased as well
And if you have ideas for what cool new stuff we should work on, check this out:
https://trello.com/b/qSqAecgZ/mind-the-vikings-ideas
And of course: Talk to us! (we bite gently)
https://discord.gg/q4mPUdP
Also, huge shoutout to Laurie (otherwise known as Berserk-bob), a new developer who has joined the team, and whom is responsible for a lot of the changes in this patch! Thanks for all the patience and feedback, we look forward to bringing you even more awesome content!
/Daniel Perlman and Simon Ulander
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15 Mar 2018Developer post
Hotfix 0.5.0.5
Freeze's are only acceptable during Midvinter Here’s a hotfix that should fix the most immediate crashes and freezes you’ve been experiencing. Fixed a crash that would happen when you went on an adventure Fixed a freeze on game load Fixed a freeze when you throw vikings into wate
15 Mar 2018Developer post
Hotfix 0.5.0.5
Freeze's are only acceptable during Midvinter Here’s a hotfix that should fix the most immediate crashes and freezes you’ve been experiencing. Fixed a crash that would happen when you went on an adventure Fixed a freeze on game load Fixed a freeze when you throw vikings into wate
08 Mar 2018Developer post
Day / Night cycle! - Patch 0.5.0
It's time to enter darkness. Day & Night cycle Let the darkness surround your island and viking settlement. Set alight all the torches and watch the mist roll in from the ocean. The big feature of this patch is Darkness. A much needed change from the monotonous perpetual day
08 Mar 2018Developer post
Day / Night cycle! - Patch 0.5.0
It's time to enter darkness. Day & Night cycle Let the darkness surround your island and viking settlement. Set alight all the torches and watch the mist roll in from the ocean. The big feature of this patch is Darkness. A much needed change from the monotonous perpetual day
15 Feb 2018Developer post
Quality of Life update - v.0.4.4
Hello Viking Overlords! We’re adding a few quality of life features before we drop the 0.5.0 patch next week (which we suspect you will like… quite a bit.) Here comes a few changes that should make life in vikingville a little easier! Features: New UI for vikings, buildings and r
Hello Viking Overlords!
We’re adding a few quality of life features before we drop the 0.5.0 patch next week (which we suspect you will like… quite a bit.)
Here comes a few changes that should make life in vikingville a little easier!
Features:

New UI for vikings, buildings and resources that should hopefully make managing information a little easier
Re-growing forests - saplings now spawn in forest-areas that turn into trees after a while
Launch menu has been totally revamped for simplicity
Range indicator on lumberyard to see it’s area of effect
You can now quickly see how much firewood each house contains by selecting the lumberyard
You can now hold SHIFT to automatically see information on hovered object
Added details to damage, so you can see where damage was taken from
Added confirm quesion on main menu so you don’t accidentally exit game without saving
You can now evict vikings from houses that you think they don’t belong in by draggin another viking onto that house
You can now opt-in to the stable version of the game under the beta branch on our game's properties page!
Bugs:

Lag when saving the game has been reduced (more fixes are coming)
Fixed gatherers mixing up trees and bushes
Thank you for reporting issues to us and coming up with awesome ideas! Lets continue this train all the way to valhalla!
You can follow our bug-squishing journey here
https://trello.com/b/jwezI6DE/mind-the-vikings-bugs-issues
And if you have ideas for what cool new stuff we should work on, check this out:
https://trello.com/b/qSqAecgZ/mind-the-vikings-ideas
And of course: Talk to us! (we bite gently)
https://discord.gg/q4mPUdP
Odin’s blessing upon you.
/ Simon Ulander and Daniel Perlman.
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15 Feb 2018Developer post
Quality of Life update - v.0.4.4
Hello Viking Overlords! We’re adding a few quality of life features before we drop the 0.5.0 patch next week (which we suspect you will like… quite a bit.) Here comes a few changes that should make life in vikingville a little easier! Features: New UI for vikings, buildings and r
Hello Viking Overlords!
We’re adding a few quality of life features before we drop the 0.5.0 patch next week (which we suspect you will like… quite a bit.)
Here comes a few changes that should make life in vikingville a little easier!
Features:

New UI for vikings, buildings and resources that should hopefully make managing information a little easier
Re-growing forests - saplings now spawn in forest-areas that turn into trees after a while
Launch menu has been totally revamped for simplicity
Range indicator on lumberyard to see it’s area of effect
You can now quickly see how much firewood each house contains by selecting the lumberyard
You can now hold SHIFT to automatically see information on hovered object
Added details to damage, so you can see where damage was taken from
Added confirm quesion on main menu so you don’t accidentally exit game without saving
You can now evict vikings from houses that you think they don’t belong in by draggin another viking onto that house
You can now opt-in to the stable version of the game under the beta branch on our game's properties page!
Bugs:

Lag when saving the game has been reduced (more fixes are coming)
Fixed gatherers mixing up trees and bushes
Thank you for reporting issues to us and coming up with awesome ideas! Lets continue this train all the way to valhalla!
You can follow our bug-squishing journey here
https://trello.com/b/jwezI6DE/mind-the-vikings-bugs-issues
And if you have ideas for what cool new stuff we should work on, check this out:
https://trello.com/b/qSqAecgZ/mind-the-vikings-ideas
And of course: Talk to us! (we bite gently)
https://discord.gg/q4mPUdP
Odin’s blessing upon you.
/ Simon Ulander and Daniel Perlman.
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08 Feb 2018Developer post
30 Vikings? How about 300? 0.4.3 is here!
Today I want to tell you that we just implemented the biggest performance increases yet. The amount of vikings you can recruit before your computer dies just increased by something like 300-500% :) Together with that we also threw in a couple bug fixes and improvements to the UI
08 Feb 2018Developer post
30 Vikings? How about 300? 0.4.3 is here!
Today I want to tell you that we just implemented the biggest performance increases yet. The amount of vikings you can recruit before your computer dies just increased by something like 300-500% :) Together with that we also threw in a couple bug fixes and improvements to the UI
01 Feb 2018Developer post
Oceans, Fishing and better Terrain - Patch 0.4.2
Gott kveld Vikings! Today im happy to reveal something we’ve been wanting to do for a long, long time... Water! Ocean, lakes and rivers, as well as vastly improved terrain generation 0.4.1 & 0.4.0 saves should be atleast functional in this patch With that said, I would like t
01 Feb 2018Developer post
Oceans, Fishing and better Terrain - Patch 0.4.2
Gott kveld Vikings! Today im happy to reveal something we’ve been wanting to do for a long, long time... Water! Ocean, lakes and rivers, as well as vastly improved terrain generation 0.4.1 & 0.4.0 saves should be atleast functional in this patch With that said, I would like t
25 Jan 2018Developer post
Bugstew! 0.4.1 is out!
Vikings don’t like bugs, they eat them for breakfast. So in true viking spirit we cooked you a delicius pot of bugstew. Enjoy. Features: Added Glutton trait Tip: Don’t brawl with pyromaniacs. Save-games from 0.4.0 should work properly with this version Bug fixes: Fixed mixed up d
25 Jan 2018Developer post
Bugstew! 0.4.1 is out!
Vikings don’t like bugs, they eat them for breakfast. So in true viking spirit we cooked you a delicius pot of bugstew. Enjoy. Features: Added Glutton trait Tip: Don’t brawl with pyromaniacs. Save-games from 0.4.0 should work properly with this version Bug fixes: Fixed mixed up d
23 Jan 2018Developer post
Clans! Brawling and Death: The Eternal: Patch 0.4.0 is LIVE!
Welcome to 0.4.0! Let your vikings band together (or brawl together) as clans during your struggles to survive, which has now gotten even harder, with the everlasting presence of Death. Features: Clans Death - vikings can now die from a plethora of delicious causes. Brawls! - Vik
Welcome to 0.4.0!
Let your vikings band together (or brawl together) as clans during your struggles to survive, which has now gotten even harder, with the everlasting presence of Death.
Features:

Clans
Death - vikings can now die from a plethora of delicious causes.
Brawls! - Vikings love fighting, so let ‘em!
Guards: If you don’t dare unleash the full potential of the Viking spirit, train
some guards to prevent everyone from killing each-other
Guard-post: Used as a vantage-point for your Guards
Difficulty options
Hill & Mountain slider
Health - Vikings now display how much health they have remaining until their inevitable Death
Houses now display what clan the vikings residing within it belong to
Outline now shows what clan the viking belongs to
Increased viking spawn-rate by 100%
Added a notification widget for important messages that will certainly annoy you
Tweaked trait weights to make it more likely to award positive traits
Added help screen to launch widget + some additional tips
Updated credit-list - Shoutout to Brandon Alexander for his awesome music!
Bug fixes:

Reduced time for crops to grow by 20%
Fixed Switching job for a viking in the middle of a job caused confusion
Made focusing in on vikings less unbearable
By changing a viking’s profession it was possible to re-lock certain buildings, fixed.
Not a lot of bug-fixes this patch, but we hope you can appreciate the amount of content we managed to cram into this patch, now, we’re off to bed to sleep for a good long while.. We hope you will enjoy!
Warm greetings from Sweden,
Simon Ulander and Daniel Perlman.
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23 Jan 2018Developer post
Clans! Brawling and Death: The Eternal: Patch 0.4.0 is LIVE!
Welcome to 0.4.0! Let your vikings band together (or brawl together) as clans during your struggles to survive, which has now gotten even harder, with the everlasting presence of Death. Features: Clans Death - vikings can now die from a plethora of delicious causes. Brawls! - Vik
Welcome to 0.4.0!
Let your vikings band together (or brawl together) as clans during your struggles to survive, which has now gotten even harder, with the everlasting presence of Death.
Features:

Clans
Death - vikings can now die from a plethora of delicious causes.
Brawls! - Vikings love fighting, so let ‘em!
Guards: If you don’t dare unleash the full potential of the Viking spirit, train
some guards to prevent everyone from killing each-other
Guard-post: Used as a vantage-point for your Guards
Difficulty options
Hill & Mountain slider
Health - Vikings now display how much health they have remaining until their inevitable Death
Houses now display what clan the vikings residing within it belong to
Outline now shows what clan the viking belongs to
Increased viking spawn-rate by 100%
Added a notification widget for important messages that will certainly annoy you
Tweaked trait weights to make it more likely to award positive traits
Added help screen to launch widget + some additional tips
Updated credit-list - Shoutout to Brandon Alexander for his awesome music!
Bug fixes:

Reduced time for crops to grow by 20%
Fixed Switching job for a viking in the middle of a job caused confusion
Made focusing in on vikings less unbearable
By changing a viking’s profession it was possible to re-lock certain buildings, fixed.
Not a lot of bug-fixes this patch, but we hope you can appreciate the amount of content we managed to cram into this patch, now, we’re off to bed to sleep for a good long while.. We hope you will enjoy!
Warm greetings from Sweden,
Simon Ulander and Daniel Perlman.
Original post

Updates & announcements

Hey!

Features:

Bug Fixes:

Tweaks:

Despite the cold we are alive and kicking!

Features:

Bug Fixes:

Tweaks

Freeze's are only acceptable during Midvinter

Freeze's are only acceptable during Midvinter

It's time to enter darkness.

Day & Night cycle

New UI for the buildings to support more types!

Torches and Braziers

Adventures & Treasures

Log Palisade

Coal

Witch’s Hut

Herbs

Fishing huts work okay now!

The game is now “Very early alpha” instead of “Very very early alpha”

Small stuff:

Bugs:

It's time to enter darkness.

Day & Night cycle

New UI for the buildings to support more types!

Torches and Braziers

Adventures & Treasures

Log Palisade

Coal

Witch’s Hut

Herbs

Fishing huts work okay now!

The game is now “Very early alpha” instead of “Very very early alpha”

Small stuff:

Bugs:

Hello Viking Overlords!

Features:

Bugs:

Hello Viking Overlords!

Features:

Bugs:

Performance:

Bugs:

Features:

Performance:

Bugs:

Features:

Gott kveld Vikings!

Gott kveld Vikings!

Welcome to 0.4.0!

Welcome to 0.4.0!