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Exploration Module now live!

After seven months in the works, the Exploration Module is now finally here! Now you'll be able to explore other islands as well and grow your civilization even bigger. The update includes hippos, islands, terraforming and much more. The very long list of all changes can be found below.

To celebrate the release of the Exploration Module we made a special trailer for it:

https://youtu.be/9c9xd4jyJCE

Here's a list of all the changes, additions & improvements:

New words

  • Ocean
  • Coast
  • Gold
  • Hippo
  • Hyena
  • Obsidian
  • Volcanic

Commandments

  • Terraforming
  • Feed Animals
  • No more disabled commandments!

Islands

  • Coast
  • Boats
  • Fish schools
  • Fishing
  • Harbour
  • New water system
  • Seasons

New Follower

  • Terraformer

New animals

  • Fish
  • Hippo
  • Hyena
  • Seagull

Influence

  • Bless or condemn commandments
  • God currency

Ores

New

  • Gold
  • Obsidian

Updated

  • Gems
  • Metal
  • The ores can become overgrown, taking more effort to mine

City

  • Borders
  • City popup
  • Constant nameplate
  • Expertise buildings
  • Follower popup
  • Harbor
  • Rising buildings

Calendar

  • Death by old age prediction
  • Seasons

Chronicler

    More events are now being logged

Doctrine

  • Doctrine specific animations to city leader
  • New Doctrine symbols

Diplomacy

  • City relations
  • Updated war - taunts etc

Audio

  • Updated audiosystem
  • 3 new songs
  • Multiple SFX for UI, Animals and Followers etc
  • 6 new ambients

Visual improvements

  • Added dry jungle
  • Clouds
  • Expertise buildings
  • New doctrine statues
  • UI overhaul
  • Volcanic surface

Other changes

  • Added a game over screen
  • Size of followers increased
  • Minimap
  • Options Updated
  • Tutorial Updated

Removed

  • Global faith tab inside commandment tablet
  • Specifying commandments
  • Removing associations

We hope you'll enjoy the update as much as we do. Let us know if you encounter any bugs or have feedback via the Steam forums or write us on discord.

Thank you all for your support & have fun playing!

Cheers,
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