How to join the test branch?
Some of you probably have not done this before, so we have a small guide:
Prerequisite:
You must have Medieval Dynasty in your library – obviously.
The procedure
- Open your game library.
- Right Click on Medieval Dynasty there.
- Open properties.
- Select the tab "BETAS".
- Enter this password below the dropdown in the field:
3v491vMVZnvp3
- Press CHECK CODE
- Use the drop down and select “public_beta - Public Beta Branch”*.
- Press Close
Steam should now download this version of the game.
IMPORTANT! PLEASE SAVE YOUR LIVE VERSION SAVES GAME BEFORE ACCESSING THE BETA BRANCH!
Just in case something goes awry!
Saves can be found here:
AppData > Local > Medieval_Dynasty > Saved > SaveGames
*Steam labels those builds as "beta"(see bullet points), so do not be too confused!
The Update Notes
- New sounds for Fox.
- New sounds for Goat and Young Goat.
- New sounds for Sheep and Lamb.
- New sounds for Rabbit.
- New sounds for the Player - drinking, eating, death, hit, stamina, poison, hungry, thirsty, freezing, overheating, drunk.
- New sounds for Brewing.
- New sounds for Wine Barrel.
- New sounds for Wicker.
- New sounds for Pottery.
- New Sounds for Wine Press.
- New building - Apiary.
- New building - Workshop.
- New professions - Blacksmith and Beekeeper.
- New clothing for Beekeeper.
- New type of fields - Orchards.
- New type of crops - Poppy.
- New type of orchard plant - Apple Tree.
- New type of orchard plant - Cherry Tree.
- New type of orchard plant - Pear Tree.
- New type of orchard plant - Plum Tree.
- New type of orchard plant - Hop.
- New workbench - Woodworking Table.
- New workbench - Pottery Wheel.
- New workbench - Brewing Station.
- New workbench - Wine Barrel.
- New workbench - Juice Press.
- New items for Fields and Orchards - Apple Seedling, Cherry Seedling, Pear Seedling, Plum Seedling, Hop Plant Seedling, Hop, Poppy Seed, Poppy.
- New items (Juices) - Berry Juice, Apple Juice, Cherry Juice, Pear Juice, Plum Juice.
- New items (Alcohols) - Berry Wine, Apple Wine, Cherry Wine, Pear Wine, Plum Wine, Mead, Oat Ale, Oat Beer, Rye Beer, Wheat Beer.
- New items (Bottles) - Beer Bottle, Wine Bottle, Mead Bottle.
- New item (Apiary) - Honeycomb.
- New items (Food) - Mushroom Soup, Porridge with Berries, Porridge with Apple, Scrambled Egg, Scrambled Egg with Mushroom, Vegetable Soup, Wheat Rolls, Pear Tart, Plum Tart, Poppy Seed Pie, Cherry Pie.
- New Extraction talent - Master of Destruction.
- New Farming talent - Skilled Farmer.
- New Farming talent - Skilled Orchardman.
- New Farming talent - Carrot and Stick.
- New Hunting talent - Steady Hand.
- New Survival talent - Headstrong.
- New Survival talent - Insensitive.
- New Diplomacy talent - Empathy.
- Custom saves names.
- New animations for the player and NPCs for pottery, brewing, woodworking, wine, and juice crafting.
- New animation for NPC to pick fruits from the trees.
- A screen effect for alcoholic intoxication.
- A snow effect on fences and bridges.
- When field workers are harvesting or collecting crops, they check whether the storages are full.
- Icons for professions in NPC assignment.
- A Memorial Tree on the map.
- New spots with crashed or abandoned carts with loot.
- Sometimes Field Workers are working after 6pm.
- The Barn I has wrong ghost walls models.
- Event takes all Buckets, not just their contents.
- Matylda is mentioning sheep in dialogue (there are only goats there now).
- Field Worker with invisible tool plows or sows the same spot repeatedly.
- Bowls and Plates always show 100% condition when laying on the ground.
- Wrong buttons visibility for managing animals in building details.
- Seeds and Grains display Food value.
- Last notification is cropped a bit.
- Map centers every time the filter is changed.
- Marking dead animals for sale.
- Buying Fence schemes in fences menu results in pulling out a weapon/tool.
- Negative heat and cold protection are not shown in the item description.
- Trough fill level after loading a save is incorrect.
- When item expires it returns all expired items with 100%, e.g., Soup returned Bowl with 100% condition even if it should be lower.
- Expired Meat with Gravy returns Bowl instead of Plate.
- During "Uniegost Story II" Jan did not have his dialogue after reloading the save.
- If there was no King, he should appear now.
- Lag when entering Save Game or Load Game menu.
- Player's stamina still draining after mounting a horse, if the player sprinted when mounting a horse during a rest.
- Spears can angle incorrectly when aimed at close target and missed it.
- Player could use Bag on interactable objects and lose seeds because of it.
- Water visually appearing in Bucket when the player cancelled Bucket filling animation.
- Horse stopping when opening inventory or a map while on a horse.
- Compass is working incorrectly when the player is on a horse - directions were showed depending on the horse's rotation instead of the players.
- Objectives with hunting animals can be done in any order (for example in night hunt it can be done before reaching nighttime).
- Food totals in storages included inedible items.
- Milking gives Bucket of Milk with full condition instead of the current condition of the Bucket used for the process.
- Prices of items that consists of container (e.g., Bucket of Milk, Potage in Wooden Bowl) are now calculated separately so that the Bucket of Milk with 10% freshness with 100% condition cannot be cheaper than an empty Bucket with 100% condition.
- An issue that caused the camera to rotate incorrectly during camera reset when riding a horse.
- Number of produced Feathers is incorrect (missing comma).
- Unreal Engine - version changed to 4.26
- Sticks, Logs, Stones, Clay, Straw, Broadleaf Plantain, St John's Wort & both types of Berries now can be sold again. Everything but Logs has a fractional price.
- Throwing Stone now has a fractional price.
- Daub price is lowered.
- Torch and Simple Torch prices are lowered.
- Notifications for adding and removing now stacks.
- Food with freshness below 30% can now poison the character.
- Statistics of armor item (heat/cold protection and additional weight) are now compared with currently equipped in item details in inventory.
- Remembering all opened lists in management buildings and animals tab (during one playthrough).
- Organizers for buildings management with types (like animals).
- Organizers for buildings and animals displays count and amount of warning statuses.
- Decreased the number of logs required to complete the "Woodcutter Challenge" quest.
- Player can now equip mount items on mounts through the player's own inventory.
- Placing of Fields and Orchards is done in a new smaller grid. (New size 0.5m x 0.5m, old size 2m x 2m, chunk size remains unchanged)
- Pop ups for transferring or trading are unified so that there is only one in the middle.
- Transfer, trade, drop sliders now blurs and covers what is beneath.
- Field management details.
- Amendments in heat and cold protection parameters in clothing.
- Increased dialogue icons size.
- Changed building filters in map to match categories from radial building menu.
- Colors for buildings in management.
- Changed the moment of red coloring for items condition.
- French language.
- Polish language.
- Turkish language.
- Czech language.
- Hungarian language.
- Italian language.
- Spanish language.
- Chinese language.
- Russian language.
- Ukrainian language.
- Increased Chinese font size.
- Bigger radial menus with information about additional crafted items and presented in more clear way.
- Set Falibor from Borowo as a Craftsman, John from Hornica and Theobald from Lesnica as Blacksmiths.
- Extended the animation duration of some NPC's works.
- Icons for various crafting recipes.
- Inputs for field management details.
- Spacing in talents list.
- Updated way of selecting technology slot for better visibility (no cropping and centering).
- Selecting armor item in inventory highlights correct armor slot even if selected items are not equipped.
- Out-of-equipment food spoils or turns into Rot instead of disappearing.
- Redesigned poisoning system.
- Attacking with Knife animations.
- Food now spoils directly into Rot, and not the rotten item.
- Ranged tools now sway during aiming.
- Interaction time when filling Waterskin with water.
- Interaction time when filling Buckets with water.
- Blending for filling Waterskin animation.
- Blending for filling Bucket animation.
- Horse now slides a little bit before stopping when at high speed.
- Horse is now slowed down when riding in the water.
- Animals are now slowed down when walking in water.
- Player can no longer rotate camera during mounting animation.
- Talent "Strong as an Oak" now properly increases health instead of reducing incoming damage.
- Removed gap between NPC slots and animal slots in building details.
- Animal slots are smaller in height to match NPC slots in building details.
- Increased building limits.
- Filling Bucket no longer decreases Bucket's condition.
- Female legs are no longer clipping through dresses and skirts.
- Horse now has physics-based reins. (Still work in progress)
- Increased capacity of Barn, Food and Resource Storages.
- Doubled the productions speed of Iron.
- Some technology progression values.
- All skill progression points from items are reworked.