Greetings, city builders! Here are the October 15 updates:

System Improvements

1. Added an important alert when the projected Knife Money balance is negative, helping you manage income and spending.
2. Added alerts when Dedicated Shipping cannot dispatch goods. Click an alert to open the sending building and its route.
3. Improved warning markers for full storage buildings.
4. Clarified Worker status descriptions and the maximum number of resident Crews.

Interaction Improvements

1. Added the option to press Esc to cancel residence or workplace assignment.
2. Fixed Farmland not being selectable by dragging a box in batch demolition mode.
3. Fixed the build confirmation button not following moved Farmland.
4. Fixed batch upgrade and demolition modes remaining active after opening the map.
5. Fixed an issue where resolving a destination-full warning for one Dedicated Shipping route also cleared warnings for other routes.
6. Fixed flickering flag icons and incorrect Cottage icon orientation on the Minimap.
7. Updated some building detail backgrounds and made the Mobile Ballista icon clearer.
8. Fixed Demand View showing enlisted personnel's needs as if they were still Workers.
9. Fixed missing Farmland highlighting in Worker assignment and Retainer placement views.
10. Fixed missing Constabulary range circles and incorrect Jujube Trees highlighting in Stability View.
11. Fixed missing influence circles for plague-infected Workers in the disease view.
12. Fixed incorrect view highlighting on some equipment, Loot, Gate flags, and bandit building objects.
13. Fixed the Retainer placement view highlighting only the driver of a Chariot Troop.
14. Fixed tutorial videos allowing game-speed changes, and opening or closing videos affecting the pause state.

Combat Improvements

1. Added health bars for injured Beasts.
2. Improved overlapping friendly and enemy Attack Range circles and fixed incomplete displays.
3. Fixed range circles changing friendly selection colors and missing hover outlines on Archers.
4. Fixed flickering muster-formation previews and large color differences between heads and bodies.
5. Fixed misplaced Soldier previews after changing Chariot Troop formations.
6. Improved turning speed and action-icon changes for Sword Infantry, Halberd Infantry, and Archers after reaching position.
7. Fixed an issue where orders issued through City Defense structures could incorrectly target friendly Walls with Siege Engines. Also corrected Chariot previews on Walls.
8. Fixed an issue in Crossroads of War where bandit Battering Rams became stuck on Barricades, preventing invasions from ending.

Performance Improvements

1. Reduced rendering costs for completed buildings and attached objects.
2. Improved visibility checks and reduced redundant rendering for buildings, roads, and Resource Nodes.
3. Reduced unnecessary redraws of Attack Range circles when the display is unchanged.
4. Reduced vegetation, terrain, and distant-building rendering costs at low and medium quality, and adjusted low-quality shadows.
5. Reduced rendering costs for some flags and equipment models.
6. Improved compression for some UI and art textures to reduce video memory use.

Bug Fixes

1. Fixed closed-loop roads repeatedly showing a “road too short” warning and a red preview.
2. Fixed some road extensions incorrectly flagged as overlapping buildings or being too steep.
3. Fixed Army selection shortcuts making some roads disappear while leaving snap points behind.
4. Fixed partial failures when batch-upgrading roads. The entire batch is now blocked if materials are insufficient.
5. Fixed missing white road previews and road snap points appearing on enemy buildings.
6. Fixed floating Farmland preview borders, misplaced corner markers, and blocky road and Resource Node edges.
7. Adjusted some mountain no-build areas to prevent Wells being placed inside mountains.
8. Fixed detection circles remaining after Gates became regular Walls or connectors, and corrected lighting on some Wall connectors.
9. Fixed some Workers climbing Walls without a Ladder Tower at 8× speed.
10. Fixed the Spring Ritual failing to enter preparation when supply collection finished on or after day 21 of the second in-game month.
11. Fixed some hauling jobs failing to resume after loading, leaving Workers wandering while marked as hauling.
12. Fixed dropped resources not being counted, selectable, or available for hauling after loading.
13. Fixed abnormal stock increases and task-assignment crashes during certain resource recovery operations.
14. Fixed missing piles of Logs at Logging Camps after loading and distorted starting-resource piles in new games.
15. Fixed crashes during end-of-winter crop updates after Farmland removal, and when building settings failed to load correctly.
16. Fixed Loot models and effects disappearing after changing graphics presets, and incorrect materials on hunting Loot.
17. Fixed floating Granary fences, intersecting Cottage posts and water jars, and clipping weapon racks around Constabularies.
18. Improved Worker hauling and Well work animations, including water-drawing and dripping effects.
19. Improved Cottage and Weapon Workshop smoke, and standardized wind movement for some decorative flags.
20. Fixed scene-shadow flickering when displaying Attack Ranges for Archers and other units.
21. Slowed cloud movement and softened cloud shadows to reduce brightness flicker at 8× speed.

Localization

1. Fixed Chinese text appearing in some building and unit interfaces when using other languages.
2. Fixed display issues with some Turkish letters.
3. Updated and improved some localized text.

— The Mandate Order Team