Hey everyone! We are very happy to finally present to you the sixth major free update to Northgard, Kröwns and Daggers, available now! The Kröwns and Daggers update brings a host of new features, gameplay additions and even a new neutral faction to Northgard. With an increased focus on diplomacy, and a complete overhaul of how you develop and maintain relations with your fellow factions, Kröwns and Daggers is easily one of our most ambitious content updates yet! Read on to find out more about what to expect...
The relation system with neutral factions has been reworked. Each faction now presents 4 relation statuses offering new rewards and risks depending on how you treat the faction.
All new interactions with Neutral factions and Clans are reunited in a new Diplomacy screen.
A new building is available to improve your relations with the neutral factions: the Offering Well.
The Dwarves are joining the Northgard party!
Dwarves, well known for their mining prowess, will obviously have access to and supplies of many treasures and precious resources but come too close, and you might regret it...
On the other hand, they might lend you a helping hand if you manage to gain their trust.
Interactions with rival clans are evolving:
While scouting, the borders of territories under the Fog of War are now colorless.
By sending your scouts to spy on an enemy's Town Hall, you may access new information like their Lore-tree or resource stocks.
In addition, notifications regarding the other clans now feature the portrait of their Warchiefs.
Based on the information you’ve gathered, you can now declare an enemy clan as your Rival, for a gain, but at a cost:
- Town twinning boosts your population growth, but it also increases the population growth of your Rival.
- Eavesdropping gains you more
Lore based on how much Knowledge your Rival has discovered that you have not.
- Target a Clan with less
Fame than you with Bullying and you will gain more 
Defense against them, but if they come out on top, they get significantly more 
Fame in return.
- Manhunt places a target on your Rival’s back by hitting them with an
Attack malus outside their territory. In exchange, they get a bonus as long as they stay within their territory.
To establish this Rivalry, a new building is available: the Emissary Lodge and corresponding unit, the Emissary.
New competitive events for you to take part in against the other clans for a reward.
Kill 3 enemy Dwarves Champion in a single game.
Win a game with every started neutral faction alive and not befriended by anyone.
Eliminate 3 different neutral factions in a single game.
Befriend 3 different neutral factions in a single game.
Eliminate 5 neutral factions after they were befriended by another clan.
Send a scout to spy on 3 different clan's Townhall in a single game.
Maintain for 2 years "Eavesdropping" Rivalry with a clan doing the same with you.
Eliminate a clan targeted by your "Bullying" Rivalry.
Be the target of 3 Manhunt Rivalry at the same time.
Win a competitive event in which all clans have participated.
- Player names are now displayed in the chat, but they are colorless until scouted (and so are the borders).
- When a player pauses the game, the player name is displayed to all players.
- When a player ends the pause, the name of that player is also displayed.
- Stats for Squirrel Meals have been added.
- In
Food stats, the 
Feasts are now indicated.
- In Forge stats, the Unit forged is now indicated.
Coinage (and similar Knowledges that unlock trade routes):
- Coinage no longer unlocks trade routes.
- Trade routes are available since the beginning of the game.
- Trade routes without Coinage are less effective than before
- Knowledges replacing Coinage in the Lore Tree also benefit from the trade route bonus "Your trade routes produce +100%
Kröwns".
Erudition:
The first Carved Stone is free.Your next carved stone is free.
Knowledge from Beyond:
Reveals all neutral factions.Reveals the position of all neutral factions (without removing the fog of war).
Lore cost:
- Lore cost for knowledges has been readjusted.
- New unit: Emissary.
- New building: Lodge of Emissaries.
- New building: Offering Well.
- The Dwarven Prospectors.
- The Myrkálfar's Levy.
- Ceremonial Bonfire.
- Neutral factions attack behavior reviewed to fairer.
- Jötnar now charges enemy units when attacked on their own territory.
- All factions except Jötnar now accept
Wood via trade routes.
- Every clan of the Dragon in a game now has the same Dragon Essence gauge bonuses.
- Rumor mongering was reworked to match with the new neutral factions’ behaviors.
- The detailed flux of your resources (the tooltip over a resource stock) now displays the flux as a decimal value. Meaning you can know precisely how much
Stone / 
Iron you’re extracting and trading.
- Scouting speed is reduced by 20% in enemy territory.
- With the shortcut E you could lose the selection of Kaija by selecting/deselecting her army. This feature was removed.
- Eradicating a neutral faction no longer gives military XP (eliminating a member of the neutral faction will still provide military XP).
- Eliminating a player no longer gives you military XP.
- Several SFX have been added.
- Wounded debuff on Units is now correctly removed when healed.
- Wounded debuff only applies once under 80% of
health.
- Oskoreia is no longer canceled when Mieliki is attacked.
- Achievement “Let me borrow this” is correctly unlocked.
Happiness detail now shows the entire list of entries impacting happiness and not just the X first elements.
- Multiple bugs about achievements/expeditions not triggering upon completion.
- Fixed value display for Knowledge “value of great deeds”.
- Fixed Snake’s relic Stealth ability.
- Fixed Trading Caravan. Relations with neutral factions improved 20% faster as intended. (Instead of 10 before correction).
- Fixed victory condition cut-off in story mode.
- Fixed trade with the clan of the Boar. As the Boar, you can no longer trade with another clan.
- AI of the clan of the squirrel can no longer share a meal with an ally before obtaining “A Helping Hand” ( Fame 200).
- Icon displayed after a loot no longer cancels a mouse click.
- The link to the "How to mod" button has been fixed.
- Fixed the Bodyguard from “Tactician” Military Path sometimes no longer following his warchief.
- Fixed cursor issue. You could sometimes no longer target an enemy unit with your military units.
- Fixed console spam causing lags in modded games.
- Fixed achievements in the expedition menu. Some of them were unlocked in the game but not on steam. It was the game that considered them unlocked too early.
- In the lobby, the dropdown list no longer closes automatically when you’re selecting a clan and another player choses at the same time. The dropdown list still closes if you’re selecting a color or team at the same time as another player.
- Myrkalfar no longer stall and teleport when they attack on server.
- Fixed army selection with ‘E’ and a giant Boar.
All the new Kröwns and Daggers features are not scriptable for mods at this time. This will be possible very soon.
A few sentences in the Rivalry window will only appear in english. They will soon be available in all of the supported languages.