Update 0.18.0 – Esmar in a New Light
This is the biggest visual update so far. Esmar looks very different now, and there's also a new Market, a Photo Mode and a lot more.
✨ Improved Graphics
- New foliage models: grass, flowers and bushes have been updated, with their own look for forests, deserts and snowy regions.
- New tree models that sway in the wind.
- Cliffs: mesas now have rocky cliff edges instead of plain slopes.
- Better-looking buildings: more parallax and details for the Town Hall, houses, Woodcutter, Forester, Sawmill, Masonry, Farm, Carpenter, Blacksmith, Iron and Gold Smelters, Tannery, Olive Farm, Oil Press, Vineyard, Workshop, wooden towers and more.
- New villagers and soldiers: new character models, animations and equipment, including new shoulder armor.
- Decorations stay visible while you place a building, and roads blend into the ground more smoothly.
🪙 New Building: The Market
Short on iron? Too much wheat? Build a Market to sell goods you don't need for coins and buy the ones you're missing. Your villagers carry the goods to and from the Market.
- Prices react to what you do: sell a lot of the same thing and it's worth less, buy a lot and it costs more. Prices go back to normal over time.
- Your coins now appear in the top bar.
- The Eagle uses the Market too.
- The Market has a fountain 🚰
📸 Photo Mode & First Person Mode
Two new buttons next to the minimap (singleplayer only):
- Photo Mode: optionally pause the game, change the focal length and depth of field, turn on camera guides, and save your photos straight to your Steam screenshots.
- First Person Mode: walk through your settlement at ground level and see it the way your villagers do.
🏠 Gameplay
- Residential houses make villagers faster: each Small Residential House you own makes all your villagers walk 1% faster, and each Residential House makes them 2.5% faster.
- Low villager warning: the top bar warns you when you're running out of free villagers. It stays quiet while your houses are still producing new ones.
⚔️ Smarter Computer Opponents
- Bots now quickly counterattack to take back a tower you captured before the buildings around it fall apart.
- Bots are better at deciding when to build barracks and make weapons.
- When several bots have the same name, they're now numbered (for example "Octavius II").
⚙️ Settings & Performance
- New settings: Max. FPS and VSync.
- The setting to shut up bots is back.
🐞 Bug Fixes
- Fixed villagers sometimes no longer picking up goods, which could stop production.
- Fixed ballistas getting stuck and unable to move after taking part in capturing a tower.
- Fixed items not sitting correctly in villagers' hands while being carried.
- Fixed demolishing some buildings not working for non-host players in multiplayer.
- Fixed statistics sometimes showing negative numbers.
- Fixed a rare crash in the menus and a rare error during construction.
Thank you for playing and for all your feedback!