Old World August Update 1.0.84365 release 2026-08-05Main Branch 1.0.84365 release 2026-08-05

Headline changes

Schemers can be Ambassadors and Chancellors in addition to Spymasters and Agents

Added new City Site Number game option choice - 6 per player

Added new player UI option 'High contrast Player Colors'
Design

Schemers can be Ambassadors and Chancellors in addition to Spymasters and Agents

Priest specialists increase happiness by 1/2/3 (from 1/1.5/2) and religion opinion by 2/4/6 (from 1/2/3)

Bishop specialists increase religion opinion by 3/6/9 (from 1/2/3)

In team games where one player has a tribal alliance, tribes are less likely to demand tribute from non-allied teammates

Killing or hiring a tribe unit no longer immediately changes the number of turns until the next tribe unit spawns from the closest site

Luxury resources are now more common on randomly generated maps

The more expensive (350+ science cost) Courtier bonus card techs give two Courtiers instead of one

Changed Tribe unit cooldown behavior to be consistent with player units

Tribe units receive a 2-turn cooldown if acting on another players turn (was 1)

Tribe units cooldowns are processed (reduced) before unit movement, not after

Tribe units Stun cooldown becomes Attacked cooldown on turn end

Immobile cooldown gets converted to Attacked at the end of the unit's turn, similar to what happens with Stunned

Increased tiers of later religion (Christianity, Manichaeism, Buddhism) disciple ambitions

Removed repair improvements ambitions

In the Barbarian Horde scenario, the Huns are no longer organized

Carved Ivory (Aksum) is now a Precious Resource (Wrath of Gods)

Huns won't ask for tribute before turn 20 or repeat demands until at least 10 turns after first being met (Empires of the Indus)

Added missing event for completing the Buddhist holy site (Empires of the Indus)
Programming

Improved AI character selection for governors and generals

Added tech path history to saves. Not shown in-game, for use by community save analyzers
UI

Added new City Site Number game option choice - 6 per player

Added new player UI option 'High contrast Player Colors'

Added modsets functionality to mods screen, to allow grouping mods that can all be enabled at once

Added All Player filter to Map Search

Map Search can now be closed by clicking any top tab, in addition to clicking the Map Search icon

Updated Luxuries concept/link text to list all luxuries dynamically

Added succession to Upgrade Character text

Renamed Game option 'No Organized Tribes' to 'Disable Organized Tribes'

Text localization updates

Repair recommendation no longer always assumes buying goods, instead depends on ALT

Modifier signs for negative yields are no longer reversed

Increased visibility of attack range outline for ranged units

Added Urban to map pin options

Luxury/source helptext improvements

Updated Discord channel helptext on MP join screen

Added Disable SRP Batcher troubleshooting option
Bugs Fixed

Fixed missing holy city icons on city widget

Fixed screen visibility lag after history screen has been opened

Fixed MP serialization errors that result in ghost units and repeated animations

Fixed event kills not advancing/routing when they should

Fixed units being valid to convert to a different owner if the unit is on its own city or settlement

Fixed consistency for yield help text with negative multipliers

Fixed team color on mines

Fixed repair recommendations always showing as dimmed

Fixed tooltips remaining frozen when switching screens

Fixed yield previews showing for invalid tiles with Current Tile or General filters selected

Fixed event cycling while bonus placement is active

Fixed popup processing after surrendering

Japanese text localization fixes

Fixed Korean decimal & thousands separator

Fixed Game of the Week mapscript potentially differing depending on owned DLC

Fixed terrain sometimes not updating after closing timeline

Fixed tribal stun and immobilize in Simultaneous and Loose turn styles

Fixed AZERTY keyboard shortcut issues

Fixed Map Search player/tribe filter

Fixed Precious Resource help text

Fixed tribe killing goal getting invalidated too early in some cases

Fixed duplicate floating text in some cases

Fixed Buy Yields text on Road ping tooltip

Fixed resource overlay and harvested icons overlaying each other when both are present

Fixed unit widget healthbars rendering behind resource overlay

Fixed character portrait interpolation settings (Tamil Male 05 and Rome Female 11)

Fixed Rise of Carthage scenario 1 goals potentially not triggering when Tribe Level set to Weak/Passive

Fixed possible portrait duplication in Rise of Carthage Game One scenario

Fixed score list for The Hill scenario

Fixed occurrences still affecting tiles after they became invalid for it i.e. Wildfire on water (Wrath of Gods)

Fixed occurrences that reduce vegetation pillaging and destroying improvements by that mechanic (Wrath of Gods)

Fixed some missing source improvement / project lists (affects mods)

Fixed UI fragment modding with Remove tags

Text and event fixes
Old World July Update 1.0.84044 release 2026-07-01Main Branch 1.0.84044 release 2026-07-01Headline changes

Changes to Religion founding requirements

Improvements to Influence Mission events with negative outcomes

Fixed memory leak
Design

Christianity no longer has a tech requirement

Manichaeism requires Metaphysics instead of Monasticism

Tweaked Influence Mission events with negative outcomes to be better or rarer

Tile buying costs increase slightly slower and more discretely

Minor Cities now count as urban improvements (relevant for ambitions)

Drought no longer creates sand tiles, minimum duration reduced from 3 to 2 turns (Wrath of Gods)

DOTA mapscript now has a path width option (Empires of the Indus)

DOTA mapscript Separating Terrain choice split into Inner and Outer Terrain, random option added (Empires of the Indus)
Programming

Fixed memory leak caused by renderer per-frame allocations

AI avoids building non-Settler growth units from cities that have zero citizens
UI

Landmark discovery notification added even if popup is shown

When a character mission (eg Imprison) can't be started due to a blocking memory, turns left until the memory will be removed are now shown

Updated law prerequisite event helptext to be clearer

Trait effects on city effects are not listed in a neutral tile tooltip text unless the player has a character with that trait i.e. camp effect from the Butcher's Mask

Yields from military units in territory are always shown in help text, even if there is no military unit present i.e. Happiness from Walls

Only player owned occurrence-affected tiles are listed in the turn summary. All visible tiles are still listed in the turn notifications

Tribal Invasion bonus & concept helptext now mention that war will be declared as well

Improvement pings are cleared when making tiles urban

Points to victory no longer shown when points victory is inactive
Bugs Fixed

Fixed Huns appearing near player starts

Fixed units without harvest animations playing broken animations when cutting trees

Fixed observer mode visibility after observed player surrender

Fixed event predicates failing in Japanese and Chinese due to use of localized commas

Fixed bug where wrong city is sometimes selected in bonuses

Fixed lighting regression for standard shader

Fixed dune display on Sand Hill tiles

Fixed Hovel Ruins floor rendering incorrectly

Fixed black circle in city widget religion list

Fixed tech tree button behavior

Fixed unit occlusion issues with city widget religion icons

Fixed map editor null reference errors

Fixed governor rating-affected yield showing wrong value if net yield is negative

Fixed some color issues on events with 'not' requirements

Fixed some help text for improvements in team territory

Fixed settings indicating mirror map when that option is invalid for the map script

Fixed FFA achievement triggering with 2 players

Fixed Ruthless AI not taking Time Victory condition into account

Fixed Buddhist/Hindu religious improvements being referenced in Tech helptext in Wrath of Gods scenario

Fixed volcano occurrence not showing when it first appears in MP games (Wrath of Gods)

Fixed Buddhist Disciple and Hindu Brahmin vision ranges (Empires of the Indus)

Fixed invalid resource tiles on Indus Valley Duel premade map (Empires of the Indus)

AI fixes

Text and event fixes
Old World June Update 1.0.83788 release 2026-06-03Main Branch 1.0.83788 release 2026-06-03

Design

2nd tier tech costs increased to 160 (from 150)

Moved Free Horseman tech bonus card to Coinage (from Land Consolidation)

Improvement wood cost reductions - Harbor: 40 (was 60), Market: 60 (was 80), Grocer: 80 (was 100), Fair 100 (was 120)

Winning at a difficulty gives the achievements for that level and lower. Hardcore now gives all difficulty achievements

Rebels no longer attack your teammates, unless there is nothing better for them to do

Barbarian units of settlements that have been converted to named tribes are converted to raiders, if possible

Critical hit chance is now rolled only at the beginning of the turn or after an attack

Initial leader death immunity changed to 30 turns on Lengthy Mortality and 10 turns on Realistic Mortality (from always being 20 turns)

Moved some AI functionality from Ruthless AI to Competitive AI Aggression Level: Stealing Cities and Sites being attacked by other players, shorter grace period before building Wonders, founding Religions or claiming vacant City Sites near other players, not accepting Truce when about to capture a City

Ruthless AI now just gives opinion penalty towards the player when they are close to victory or in a strong alliance

Reduced frequency of 1-tile-wide inland mountain passes, most are now increased to a width of 2

Tight turn style now prevents all actions with military units when not your turn (instead of just preventing attack and movement)

Invested tech progress is reimbursed when a player receives the tech for free

Eagle Eye promotion now available to range 1 units that don't have a fixed range (Persian Unique Units)

Builder workers can no longer stack inside a teammates territory

Removed citizen loss from base-game Plague (Wrath of Gods)

Removed marsh tiles from DOTA maps (Empires of the Indus)

Jungle can no longer be cut outside of city territory (Empires of the Indus)

Lumbermills on Ebony give as much Wood as they do on trees (Empires of the Indus)

Organized tribes (The Huns) are placed farther away from human starts and their settlements are mirrored in mirror maps (Empires of the Indus)

Charge (Yuezhi Unique Unit ability) is now only blocked by Improvements or Vegetation, not terrain type (Empires of the Indus)

Tamilakam Supremacy change now gives XP to the new leader and makes them Royal (Empires of the Indus)

The number of Rebels for avoiding a change in Supremacy now depends on culture level of family seat (Empires of the Indus)

Programming

Significant improvements to late game worker recommendation lag

AI performance optimizations

Minor Unity update to 6000.3.15f1

Increased range that AI can anchor ships to bridge lands from 10 to 20 tiles

Improved AI anchoring

Initial leader death immunity turns moved to mortality.xml

UI

Improved Send Luxury tooltip

Hide Orders cost on "Add Urban" button

Selected tab is now un-highlighted when map search is open

Tribe opinion rate shown even when leader opinion modifiers sum to 0

Yield totals always shown in the stats screen, even when there is only one player shown on the graphs

Bugs Fixed

Fixed city widgets getting occluded by clouds and world geometry

Fixed units only partially occluding city widgets when selected

Fixed scrollbar getting hidden on popups

Fixed road objects not being removed correctly

Fixed overlays not toggling off with a worker selected

Fixed helptext for tribal peace in no characters mode

Fixed AI not using engineer generals to build roads as often as expected

Fixed map script dropdown data issues

Fixed some Spanish text issues

Fixed tech tree state not persisting

Fixed some UI glitches in observer mode

Fixed city assets not drawing in revealed observer territory

Fixed Alliance victory not getting recorded in some cases

Fixes text getting cut off in bug report popup

Fixed helptext for aeRelationshipNone subjects

Fixed critical hits not occurring during routs with critical hit preview option

Fixed event helptext for TraitInvalid subjects

Fixed missing hurricane variants for Groves and related resources

Fixed play by cloud emails sometimes including incorrect information

Fixed duplicated icon for Tactician Leader General units

Fixed some shrines sometimes being unavailable when using Randomized Improvements option without all DLC

Fixed tech requirement sometimes not showing on improvement helptext

Fixed mirror maps not enforcing connected human starts

Fixed some unintended 1-tile-wide mountain passes that were possible to occur in mirror maps

Fixed SubjectAny trait check for characters

Fixed SubjectNot helptext display

Fixed Mods Not Found popup getting cleared by screen switch

Fix mod overwriting from subbed Modio mods. Better logic for version mismatch ! display on Manage tab

Fixed mod uploads with line endings on Mac

Fixed goal counts in some cases in Rise of Carthage scenario 2

Fixed Rise of Carthage scenario 3 goal failing to trigger when Syracuse eliminated quickly

Fixed Heroes of the Aegean scenario 1 loss achievement not triggering

Fixed some event helptext is Heroes of the Aegean scenario 4

Fixed Gudit's Intimidate mission appearing when she is not the player's leader (Wonders and Dynasties)

Fixed Ranger leader not giving strength modifier in Jungle (Empires of the Indus)

Fixed family tree screen for Tamilakam following Supremacy leader changes (Empires of the Indus)

Text and event fixes
Old World May Update 1.0.83499 release 2026-05-06Main Branch 1.0.83499 release 2026-05-06Hotfix 1.0.83591 2025-05-14

Hotfix release fixes bugs that could cause game hangs and includes some AI performance optimizations
Headline changes

Crossbow strength buff

Tech cost rebalancing

New Map Search function
Design

Crossbows now have +50% strength against melee (from +50% attack)

Tech costs for columns in the tech tree changed to 100, 150, 250, 400, 700, 1100, 1600 (from 80, 120, 200, 400, 600, 1000, 1600)

Increased flat science from difficulty level by 2

At least two non-trashable tech cards will be offered if possible, to prevent all tech choices being bonus cards

Slingers are now obsolete at Bodkin arrow (previously also required Windlass)

Gold and Silver mine output increased to 50 money (from 40)

Reduced culture requirements for Market class improvements (Market requires Weak, Grocer Developing and Fair Strong) and adjusted some ambitions accordingly

Units can repair any improvement they can build (affects Disciples and Brahmins)

Ship build queue options added for each harbor in a city, in addition to each body of water that does not have a harbor, to allow choosing where the ship spawns

Improved city site distribution for 2-team maps

AIs will no longer have child leaders, instead using the next adult in the succession or generating a new character if needed

Rising Star trait now replaces Infamous and Unpopular

All Hindu cities can now build Brahmins, without requiring Holy City/State Religion/Tolerance (Empires of the Indus)

Decreased Indian Unique Unit vision to be in line with other units, with the exception of Steppe Riders which retain extra vision (Empires of the Indus)

The owner of the unit, not the upgrading player, needs Polis to upgrade Steppe Riders (Empires of the Indus)

Mahapadma's unknown mother now has a name (Empires of the Indus)

Added Phidias, a Builder Artist, as a starting courtier to the Pericles dynasty (Heroes of the Aegean / Wonders and Dynasties)

Can no longer recruit Fanatic Raid units in the Wrath of Gods scenario (Wrath of Gods)

Slightly reduced frequency of Jade spawning (Empires of the Indus)
Programming

Renderer initialization split across four 4 frames instead of 1

Improved performance when rendering timeline GIFs

Moved the minimum number of non-trashable techs offered to XML (MIN_NON_TRASHABLE_TECHS_AVAILABLE)

Stale network games are cleared from the database on failed connection

Potential improvements to Bluetooth audio output

Replaced custom map element names with TextTypes on Empires of the Indus premade maps

Family Control scores are now moddable (Empires of the Indus)

UI

Added Map Search function, accessed via the magnifying glass icon on the top left of minimap. Can search for Cities, Units, Improvements and Resources, by player

Added Tech Tree to Extras menu, to allow viewing the tree without being in a game

Added banded overlay effect for cities that will soon have a religion due to building a shrine when the religion is selected

When selecting a unit with a General, the General name is now shown in brackets instead of replacing the unit name

Added a Mission concept to help explain the Maurya ability

Score list now sorts Wonders and Holy Site VPs together

Map element names now take priority over family-defined first city names

Unit effect tooltips show to the right of the promotions panel

Pressing ALT now shows health bar damage preview of non-hostile units, in addition to the damage preview text that is displayed without ALT

Specialists on pillaged tiles are now shown in most city UI counts, with warning color

Map cameras now adjust the center of their view to avoid featuring large out-of-bounds areas

Handling of possessive character names now language dependent

Updated Map Size tooltip to show the actual maximum player count

Bridges now only render over rivers when a road segment is present on the tile leading up to it

AddImprovement bonus is no longer valid when the only valid tiles already have improvements

Added warning text and hint to use CTRL when placing a bonus improvement on a tile with an existing improvement

Religion overlay is now displayed, at a lower opacity, for cities that will soon have a religion (eg via Shrine construction)

Added Ruthless AI text explanation to AI opinion due to being close to winning or having an alliance

Reworked event helptext for "subject not" - "Not Character is X" is now "Character is not X"

Added more detailed mission menu button info

Premade map selection with restricted nations is no longer saved, to prevent issues with leaders not appearing on Choose Leader screen

Localized text updates

No Organized Tribes option renamed to mention the Huns (Empires of the Indus)

Tamil leaders show their preset family on the dynasty selection tooltip (Empires of the Indus)

Updated portrait selections for some Hun portrait sequences to reduce artifacting (Empires of the Indus)

Bugs Fixed

Fixed double client initialization on network reconnection that could crash the host

Fixed map overlays something getting stuck while scrolling

Fixed fog of war toggle in timeline screen

Fixed rare game hang after a tribal invasion

Fixed unit selection circle being rotated incorrectly

Fixed repeated unit movement on server after network reconnection

Fixed Ask to Declare War mission result text not accounting for possibility of declining to pay for war dec

Fixed Esc not closing console/editor

Fixed some mission target text not actually taking a target name parameter, leading to confusing mission button text (e.g. "Divorce")

Fixed addition of temporary characters not updating characters tab

Fixed disabled city family option being clickable in minimized event UI

Fixed large unit models occluding unit widget status icons

Fixed unit models obscuring some elements on tribe widgets

Fixed world map state not returning to normal correctly when timeline screen is closed in cases where the timeline displays changes to terrain type

Fixed tooltip hitbox on stacked unit widgets being in the wrong order

Fixed the AI sometimes not attacking cities that have no defender

Fixed attack preview so that it doesn't show the effects of hidden units to the active player

Fixed counterattack preview being wrong for flanking with hidden units

Fixed dropdowns sometimes getting cut off

Fixed Akhetaten AI getting initial development that does not have a Cleric capital

Fixed succession gendered helptext issue

Fixed some Spanish localization errors

Fixed several scenario loss events not working correctly

Fixed council missions showing in tooltips without required content enabled

Fixed network games sometimes not getting relisted after getting unlisted

Fixed Allied Tribes being able to respawn settlements that are being claimed by player units

Fixed Map Search player dropdown options

Fixed disciple construction animation not being affected by Disable Idle Animations

Fixed minimum detail rivers occluding unit widgets

Fixed positive yield modifier on negative yield issue

Fixed issue when two volcanic eruptions overlap

Fixed some river materials having an incorrect stencil buffer value

Fixed Tribes paying tribute while at war

Fixed Close button being hidden behind Console in Game Editor

Fixed tech buttons not updating in Game Editor consistently

Fixed mission cooldown helptext issue

Fixed SP setup display on ultrawide resolutions

Fixed tooltips spawned from Reminders panel not being lockable

Fixed yield rates not updating after getting units from events

Fixed Hall of Fame Regenerate HOF issues

Fixed mirror map generation artifacts

Fixed scouts getting stuck in foreign territory after Schemer leader change

Fixed some ZOC issues related to visibility

Fixed tribe attacks not being included in turn summary emails

Fixed tribes not capturing other tribes' settlements

Fixed improvements that spread religion not being highlighted when a religion is selected

Fix a rare Hall of Fame regeneration issue

Fixed some AI issues

Fixed missing opinion rate for marriage help when Tribal suitor marries heir

Fixed event portrait tooltip positioning

Fixed being able to push a an allied unit from its own territory

Fixed water control previews not updating with changes in vision

fixed some main menu Tech Tree issues

Fixed event helptext issue with Player/Leader/IndexSubjectNotAny

Fixed TRIBE_F, RELIGION_F, and TRAIT_F event text tags not working

Fixed some ambiguous map element name types

Fixed some Spanish text localization issues

Fixed map terrain not reverting correctly after closing timeline screen

Fixed Modio & local maps not showing in mod browser

Fixed Modio upload not including mod version number (fixes incorrect update ! on install tab for local up-to-date mods)

Fixed null reference when clicking on maps in Mods Manage tab

Fixed modio ModBuilder bug

Fixed leader customization panel breaking if characters exist with fixed portraits but no names (affects mods)

Fixed Improvement yield breakdown showing base yield with mabNoYieldOutput when resource yield is of same type (affects mods)

Fixed Heroes of the Aegean scenario 5 fire display issues (Heroes of the Aegean)

Fixed Elephant Archer achievement text (Empires of the Indus)

Fixed Attila the Hun appearing as a player character instead of a Hun (Empires of the Indus)

Fixed The Monumental Buddhas not being buildable in the Wrath of Gods scenario (Wrath of Gods)

Fixed Venerate mission working for Exiled and other invalid Character Traits in the Wrath of Gods scenario (Wrath of Gods)

Fixed misplaced Fish in Empires of the East premade map (Empires of The Indus)

Fixed Family Control text not updating when council assignments change (Empires of The Indus)

Fixed wood from Jungle replacement by an improvement not equaling the wood from a double chop (Empires of The Indus)

Text and event fixes
Old World April Update 1.0.83036 release 2026-04-08Main Branch 1.0.83036 Release 2026-04-08

Headline changes

Unit and tech tree rebalances

AI will no longer found religions very early, before it is possible for players to do so

Network code improvements

Added player option Manual Bonus Placement

Design

Crossbow strength reduced to 6 from 8

Polybolos strength reduced to 8 from 10

Windlass now requires Coinage instead of Manor

Windmills require Windlass instead of Hydraulics. Watermills are still available at Hydraulics

Free Court Soldier moved from Infantry Square to Stirrups

Free Court Merchant moved from Chain Drive to Cartography

Free Court Merchant moved from Fiscal Policy to Manor

Free Longbowmen moved from Manor to Battle Line

Free Horse Archer moved from Land Consolidation to Composite Bow

AI no longer gets shrines and pastures for free as part of their initial development handicap, to prevent very early religion founding

Judaism no longer requires Labor Force

Lowered civics cost of Fisher, Trapper, Rancher, and Gardner specialists to match other rural specialists

Schemer order buying now costs an extra Legitimacy point every time it's used. Cost increase resets for each leader

Kartir event triggers less often

Game of the Week no longer varies city site numbers

Slight rebalance to Gatherer cognomen line (Empires of the Indus)
Programming

Network code improvements

AI no longer skips laws and basic improvements in order to save for future Wonders

AI pushes culture harder in its highest culture cities

Non-raider tribe AI tweaked to keep them more focused on nearby targets

Pathfinder tweak to prefer single tile paths whenever possible

Border renderer and shader optimizations

UI

Added player option Manual Bonus Placement. This skips the popup prompt when placing a bonus improvement from an event or city founding bonus

Tribe sites now display both Next Unit turns and Development turns

Road map pins now appear with the Contextual Map Tacks option enabled when Engineer units are selected

Added tooltips to ping improvement dropdown

Renamed 'Exploring' trait to 'Traveling Afar'

Adjustments to reduce blur on text displayed on world UI

Reintroduced very simple lighting to the minimum detail level for standard shaders

Removed random option from City Site Number options

Added explanation to non-city site camp tile tooltips

Improved helptext for General traits which aren't valid for some units

Worker positions with and without height overrides are no longer mutually exclusive

Cities owned by Tribes or in Anarchy now show in the Timeline Screen

When gifting, hiring, or recruiting a unit, the helptext specifies that the cooldown is for the unit (and not the action)

Rendering layer cleanup

Added rendering layer for minimum detail objects, which will always render to the timeline and minimap. This means minimum detail rivers will now always render in the timeline and minimap

Removed "Reduce Animation Detail" option and replaced with "Disable Idle Animations"

Occurrence end chance increment, current and minimum durations added to Occurrence helptext

Changed color of unit health bar difference to green, when health is increasing (Zealot kill or heal action)

Order movement now shows below yield preview

Adjusted selection circle animation for tutorial

Added some references to bonus UU techs to Tech Encyclopedia and Culture links (with advanced help)

Forest and Jungle on Mountains are now partly hidden, for clarity

Disabled Mirror Map option on Desolation & Ebbing Sea mapscripts (Wrath of Gods)

Added description for Vassalize Tribe mission (Empires of the Indus)

Added description to the Hinduism tooltip (Empires of the Indus)

Edited World Religion concept to include Buddhism (Empires of the Indus)

Bugs Fixed

Fixed unit banners being visible when they shouldn't in some cases during hotseat games

Fixed text outside of viewport bounds sometimes not clipping

Fixed custom overlay icons not showing correctly on first opening

Fixed barbarian widget sorting incorrectly with rivers

Fixed barbarian widget cutting out the revealed-not-visible effect past the edges of the icon widget

Fixed pathfinder avoiding ZOC tiles from unseen units

Fixed color of requirements for adopting State Religion when you have no cities of that religion

Fixed units getting temporarily rendered twice when upgrading

Fixed AI sometimes moving its ranged siege units when it doesn't need to

Fixed characters getting randomly married if currently targeted by a marriage mission

Fixed skull highlights for attack previews

Fixed fog of war revealing the same tiles multiple times

Fixed rivers not updating their appearance in sync with changes to terrain detail level

Fixed world pins over vegetation having the shadowed outlines of vegetation drawn on top of them

Fixed volcano effects sometimes not applying to mountains when the volcano is on the edge of the map or in MP games

Fixed AI saying it will leave a city site and then not doing so

Fixed Next Unit tooltip hitbox

Fixed women being able to birth children from different fathers on the same turn

Fixed player notification issue with occurrences

Fixed prereqs for repeatable techs showing up in searches that bring them up

Fixed non-urban city sites in Donut map script

Fixed lakes sometimes being placed next to ocean

Fixed worker particles turning pink when a worker is selected in some cases

Fixed Trade Network overlay getting locked on after building roads

Fixed bug that allowed very small islands to count as connected to a continent for player start placement purposes

Fixed Tumbling Mountain script creating occasional gaps in the mountain

Fixed hotkeys getting evaluated multiple times per frame

Fixed null reference in tech tree search

Fixed bonus card search issue

Fixed a bug with AI evaluation of city effects that give Legitimacy, should build Kushite Pyramids more urgently now

Fixed floating text produced by combat causing visual issues with fog of war

Fixed pathfinder path simplification bug

Fixed pathfinder not updating correctly when a unit receives a new effect or loses an existing one

Fixed map editor null reference

Fixed Ask to Declare War mission (tribe) having no effect in No Events mode

Fixed Traits added or removed by Occurrences intermittently not working on Semester/Season turn styles

Fixed tribe AI sometimes not moving

Fixed improvement yields from adjacent improvements that belong to a different team

Fixed minimum detail rivers not showing when initially loading a game with minimum settings

Fixed blocky rivers on minimum terrain detail in some scenarios

Fixed tribe widget upgrade timer text cutting box out of clouds

Fixed inconsistent capitalisation in DLC names

Game Editor UI fixes

Fixed Jerwan Aqueduct flickering between turns (Wonders and Dynasties)

Fixed Rejuvenation replacing Trees with Scrub (Wrath of Gods)

Fixed hide vegetation not working during Calamities in some cases (Wrath of Gods)

Fixed portrait interpolation issues with Hun portraits (Empires of the Indus)

Fixed iTradeValueModifier not being reflected in Nation summary (affects mods only)

Text and event fixes
Old World March Update 1.0.82741 release 2026-03-18Main Branch 1.0.82741 release 2026-03-18
Hotfix 1.0.82832 release 2026-03-24
Hotfix 1.0.82975 release 2026-04-03

Hotfixes fix display issues with header text in some languages, MP connectivity and improves the display of UI text
Headline changes

Flanking now protects from counterattack damage for all units

Enlightenment and Redemption theology buffs

Added tech tree search

Design

Flanking now protects from counterattack damage for all units

Enlightenment Cathedrals give growth per population, not per citizen

Redemption gives +50% to harbors and hamlets (was +20%)

Redemption Cathedrals allow hurrying specialists and projects with training

Zealot leaders can now only rush units with training

Monasteries can be built in Clerics family cities without Monasticism

Clerics no longer start with Divine Rule

Baths can no longer be built on sand (except for Clerics)

Events that spread a religion now contribute to religion spread goals

Legal Code law upkeep now 6 Money per city (instead of 0.2 Orders)

Divine Rule law upkeep now 0.5 Science per city (instead of 6 Money)

Guilds law upkeep now 0.5 Orders per city (instead of 10 Money)

Besieger effect now valid for Melee and Ranged (previously Melee and Siege)

Increased Growth required for new population now occurs after 30 growths instead of 20

Yield per opinion level effect now starts from 0 at Furious to a maximum of 5 at Friendly. Affects Statesmen Civics, Estates Training and Culture, and Corruption Reform Civics

Disciples generate 1 Culture per turn on their Holy Sites

The presence of Rebels in Hunters family cities no longer affects family opinion

Clergy traits now have a minimum age of 18 (Sacred and Profane)

Player now starts with Divine Rule active in Pharaohs of the Nile scenarios 2 and 3

Major defeat/victory in Pharaohs of the Nile scenarios also awards minor defeat/victory achievements

New Events

Grief

Last of the Pack

Founded (lost tie) x4

The Wanderers

Tribal Truce Offer (no war due to alliance)

Programming

More frequent updates in the network games browser

Added support for mapscripts to set a maximum number of teams

UI

Added tech tree search

Rural and Urban worker filters now show improvements that are not currently valid due to culture level restrictions

Dynasty entries in Encyclopedia are labelled with Dynasty name instead of first ruler name for clarity

Text localization updates

Records screen displays Improvements Controlled and Improvements Finished stats separately

Disciples no longer counted in the Workers Produced stat

Added improvement theology potential bonuses to help text

Improvements to Critical Hit and Culture Level concept text

Non-hostile and hidden unit damage is now included in the text on mouseover

Health bar shows damage only from hostile units with visibility, as before

Added Disable Turn Start Cycling and Disable Automatic Cycling player options

Improvement tooltip shows unit cooldown warning when relevant

Changed ship anchoring color from white to a more transparent version of the already anchored color

Removed camera snapback when clicking on minimap on city screen

Non-host observers of network games can now send chat messages

Added an in-game menu button to directly rehost a network game if it becomes unlisted, which otherwise prevents additional players from joining

Add Worker Turns stat to Records Screen

Added some explanation text to the hurry tooltip when an invalid specialist cannot be hurried

Added "Tutorial: Grand Vizier" to Encyclopedia

Added "Councilors" section to DLC Summary pages

Removed unhelpful Clergy links on Clergy Encyclopedia help

Merged Council Encyclopedia concept with Councilor concept

Updated Caravan Mission concept text to include how to gain Caravan access

Increased sampling point size for better Cyrillic support

Family tag grammar pass

Bugs Fixed

Fixed unit widgets stacking incorrectly

Fixed unit widgets in the back of the stack having their icons sorted behind water

Fixed kill preview icon drawing behind city widget

Fixed reversed logic for Unit Cycling option

Fixed unit cycling after attacking with Unit Cycling option on

Fixed worker filters showing for non-allied units

Fixed unit build list not showing valid Improvements on mouseover tile (w. Ctrl) if vegetation is present but not enough Orders are available to remove it

Fixed Occurrence showing as started in notifications when set as pending via bonus

Fixed some broken links in Chinese event text

Fixed raider AI

Fixed game UI registering clicks while file browser is open

Fixed custom overlay getting cleared by temporary road overlay

Fixed menu transparent backgrounds rendering as blank when colorblind filter is on

Fixed female worker tools being tinted by team color

Fixed pink models in burning cut scrub during wildfires

Fixed main menu color looking different on minimum detail settings

Fixed Family, Tribe, and Nation sometimes not being assigned to premade characters

Fixed archetype assignment bug

Fixed colors getting applied to links that no longer exist

Fixed issue with characters both leaving the nation and becoming a governor or general in simultaneous events

Fixed Event Browser loading of dependent mods

Fixed city counterattack not being shown in the preview

Fixed unit damage text sometimes being incorrectly updated

Fixed roadbuilding pathfinder to not pass through rival nation territory

Fixed Cmd key interaction when assigning hotkeys on Mac

Fixed some Custom Overlay interaction issues

Fixed damage text showing on units other than the top defender

Fixed Remove Dissent projects being able to be queued multiple times

Fixed Marsh tiles being replaced by Urban during map generation

Fixed Egypt getting improvement cost discounts for adjacent improvements of a different team

Fixed Rebel and Anarchy units receiving Tribe Level fatigue bonus

Fixed automatic placement of bonus improvements sometimes being placed on a bad tile

Fixed map script not being preserved when using Reroll Game option with random map script selected

Fixed Player 1 name and player archetypes not being saved from MP setup screen

Fixed help text typo about alliance with Ruthless AI

Fixed "Blackmailed by" relationship text

Fixed some player info panels not getting hidden when selecting unmet nation

Fixed icons sometimes not showing on city production list

Fixed governor tooltip flickering on city list screen

Fixed family/religion order on tab tooltip

Fixed tribe units sometimes not moving when they wanted to move

Fixed anchor ranges sometimes not showing

Fixed selection not clearing when closing event popups

Fixed Point Symmetry city sites and resources not always being symmetric near the center

Fixed visual issue where units that exit fog of war and make an attack immediately during AI's turn disappear after attacking

Fixed Suppress Dissent projects only being completable once per city

Fixed yield previews sticking when cycling units

Fixed unit crit chance not updating properly on attack preview

Fixed doubled notifications for starting/ending tribal alliances

Fixed One Continent per Team map option with multiple players per team

Fixed tile ownership not being revealed to an agent player when new tiles are added to the city territory

Fixed some terrain tiles not rendering their normals correctly

Fixed flickering fog of war from allied vision

Fixed timeline rendering on the first turn in Pharaohs of the Nile scenarios

Fixed mod-loading strict mode on startup when loading external mods

Text and event fixes
Old World February Update 1.0.82189 release 2026-02-18

Main Branch 1.0.82189 Release 2026-02-18

Main Hotfix 1.0.82387 Release 2026-02-26

Hotfix release fixes several bugs introduced in the previous update

Hotfix Bugs Fixed

Fixed Portrait Interpolation and re-enabled

Fixed terrain display issues

Fixed partially hidden free promotion icon

Fixed network game timeout issues

Fixed End Turn button in Simultaneous MP games

Fixed tooltip flicker on game browser

Fixed ping wheel initial position

Fixed specialist icon display

Headline changes

Major Unity and rendering system update

Improved graphics performance and memory optimization

Unique Unit (UU) tech bonus cards are now unlocked through culture instead of tech

Design

Unique Unit (UU) tech bonus cards are now unlocked through culture instead of tech

First tier UU bonus cards have had their cost increased from 100 to 200, give 2 units, and require a city with Strong culture

Second tier UU bonus cards require a city with Legendary culture

Zealot leader general now performs a Heal action after each kill, instead of being able to Apply Enlist

Fervent (Piye's unique trait) now enables Apply Enlist as a leader general, at a cost of 100 civics (Wonders and Dynasties)

Ballista strength reduced from 6 to 5

Carthage city founding bonus reduced from 200 to 100 civics

Founding Christianity no longer requires ownership of a Jewish city, now requires 3 Jewish cities globally

Engineer promotion and general trait allows road building instead of bonus against siege/ships

Added new national ambition - Control three of each Legendary Improvement

Changed Control Six Legendary Cities national ambition to Control Five Legendary Cities

Send 20 luxuries is now a tier 9 ambition instead of a national ambition

Disciples can now clear vegetation

Cannot build an improvement that removes vegetation if the unit cannot clear the vegetation

Traders no longer get a court merchant when founding their seat

Prevented building improvements on Marsh, except for Farms with Centralization

All fresh water sources supply fresh water to their own tile in addition to adjacent tiles

Remove Free Silk and Free Ebony bonus tech cards

Moved Free Porcelain bonus card to be unlocked by Coinage and reduced tech cost accordingly

Free Porcelain and Free Perfume bonus cards now give 2 instances of their luxuries

Autonomous Rule project is removed when a city is breached

Characters cannot give birth more than once a year (relevant for non-yearly turn scales)

Free laws that replace an existing law do not increment the law change count

Raiders can capture empty cities and city sites

Adjustments to Family Archetype character tendencies:

Champions have more Zealots and less Heroes

Riders have more Heroes and less Zealots

When randomly assigning archetypes, characters with governor effect traits are much more likely to be assigned a governor archetype, and similarly general archetypes for characters with general traits

Killing Raiders now contributes towards goals to kill units of their original tribe

Raiders are less stubborn about raiding, if the shortest path is blocked, and will hit opportunity targets instead

Doubled Master/Elder Scribe money per Citizen, to +2/+4

Anchoring and Unlimbering states are not interrupted by attacks that apply new cooldowns (i.e. Immobilize, Stun)

Killed civilian units now count for Assyrian orders, Hero Leader Training, Epics Culture, etc

Units can pass through hostile civilian units, as long as they don't end their movement on their tile

Families and Religions suffer -40 opinion for 20 turns when their Workers and Disciples are killed

Improvements to Carthage campaign persistency

Increased maximum effect of god opinion on religion opinion in Wrath of Gods scenario (200 -> 500)

Reduced Tribal raid range in Wrath of Gods scenario

Disabled Venerate mission for and demands being given by Abandoned god in Wrath of Gods scenario

Programming

Unity updated from 2022.3 to 6.3

Graphics code converted to Unity's Universal Rendering Pipeline

The URP upgrade improves graphics performance, letting the game render with fewer draw calls and use fewer shader variants

Many UI optimizations

Memory leak fixes

Improvements to Safe Mode

AI border expansion tweaks

AI law value correction to avoid frequent changes

Better AI legitimacy evaluation

AI builds slightly fewer units

Updated unity packages (relay and lobby replaced by multiplayer services)

Added Latin supplemental characters U+100 to U+17F to Avalon, Trajan and Judson assets, to assist Polish translation mods

Added support for bonus cards to use bonus names in tooltips (affects mods only)

UI

Families are now shown before Religions on the tab panel

Swapped Worker Filters and basic actions panels on Selected Worker UI

Valid Improvements, Rural, and Urban worker filters show improvements valid anywhere in the city rather than just for current tile

Restart Game button renamed Reroll Game. This keeps the same map and preserves nation/dynasty of random AI opponents but now rerolls the random seed

New Map button renamed to Reroll Map. This button is not shown for games on predefined maps

End Turn button can now always be clicked on your turn, will cycle to required items if needed

Added hotkey for suppressing tooltips (hold Ctrl + X)

Added hotkey for extending turn time (Alt-E)

Added Reset option when editing hotkeys

Added Unimproved Resources overlay to Overlay Customizer

Character XP is now shown when they have upgraded at least once but progress to next level is 0

Added Peak Legitimacy and Peak Legitimacy per Leader to Hall of Fame (requires regenerating HOF for existing games, won't display on very old saves)

Added on-map icon to units that have been disarmed

Updated ZOC help text

Enabled gold cost to buy yields for recommended improvements tooltip

Added color-coding for Send/Return text in Luxury Management

Improved consistency of city build production cost tooltips

Trait opinion of leader now shown in trait tooltip even without advanced help text

Pagan religions are shown in the Adopt State Religion menu even without Divine Rule, with explanatory text

Yields from disciples on improvements are shown when disciples are selected

Anchor mission help text includes water control range

Condensed enlist ability help text

Greyed out effect for dead character portraits applied more consistently

Improved Settler Found City tooltip

Cities with zero yield are included in the nation yield breakdown

When a non-server network game has disconnected human players and the turn timer is counting down, a warning is displayed next to the turn time

Improvements to Citrus resource, Grove, Ruins and Alter of the Aten models

Improvements to Luxury Management display, especially when no luxuries available

End Turn button now always active, clicking it will cycle to decisions preventing turn from ending

Free improvement bonuses now show as normal event popups first

Place improvement overlay not shown while bonus event is active

When placing free improvements, ctrl+click is required to replace existing improvements

Games with custom victories are skipped for unloaded scenario mods in Hall of Fame

Improved fidelity of shadows on high settings

Bugs Fixed

Fixed Valid Improvements worker filter

Fixed map generation sometimes placing trees under water

Fixed Hall of Fame display for scenario custom victories

Fixed units passing through hostile civilians cancelling under construction improvements

Fixed Dynasty being displayed as "default" with selected Archetype

Fixed starting a game with more instances of a nation using a preset leader than existing dynasties for that nation

Fixed hotkeys not triggering unit cycling

Fixed per citizen generic specialist help text

Fixed Timeline screen display issues

Fixed Marshes affecting display of adjacent tiles

Fixed Rebel units from events sometimes not being assigned to a player

Fixed some popup scaling aspect ratio issues

Fixed exception during loading of incompatible asset bundles

Fixed Coastal Rain Basin boundary mountain range

Fixed Hardwood Forest player start position issues

Fixed missing clutter materials on Honey groves

Fixed opinion graph hover exception

Fixed hotkey assignments sometimes incorrectly being labeled as conflicts

Fixed inaccurate opinion sometimes showing in city governor tooltip for Grand Viziers

Fixed some Chinese text localization issues

Fixed stun, immobilize, and panic effects sometimes being applied to units inside cities

Fixed events that kill units not incrementing stats and goal counters

Fixed temporarily hidden unit pathfinding

Fixed some AI unit movement cases where it would trip over itself when there were units in the way

Fixed some minor AI combat issues

Fixed audio bug that occurred when only one music track was enabled

Fixed some unit panel icon issues

Fixed some tribal events incorrectly remaining after tribal elimination

Fixed Caravan mission button saying that there are no players when out of orders

Fixed some cases where city effects were not displayed

Fixed boundary tiles in Caucasus on the Old World map

Fixed character opinion load/save bugs

Fixed family seat icon data bug

Fixed State Religion reminder not opening submenu

Fixed build specialist tile highlights not showing with border expansion

Fixed Foreign Marriage mission in No Events mode

Fixed temporarily hidden units sometimes still being rendered for other players

Fixed village upgrade turns and improvement help text with Lighthouse

Fixed Bulwark Cuirass UI issue

Fixed Unyielding Banner reassigning general to non-player units

Fixed scores not updating after effectPlayers change

Fixed event decisions not getting restored after clearing selection

Fixed tutorial videos not showing in the encyclopedia on Linux

Fixed missing theology info on tech tooltips

Fixed bonus yield text bug

Fixed Unit Seen notification not firing if unit becomes visible mid-move

Fixed Default Governor bugs

Fixed Peaks adjacency requirement being ignored by Clerics on Sand tiles

Fixed Encyclopedia display issue

Fixed Research UI not showing after renaming landmark

Fixed MP games with one human team getting stuck after victory

Fixed Ask to Declare War mission helptext

Fixed tile tooltip to show improvement defensive modifier in neutral territory

Fixed overlay customizer issues

Fixed load/save error that was possibly invalidating replay data

Fixed scenario selection getting cleared when moving to MP setup screen

Fixed Occurrence effects not being removed when ended by an event/bonus (Wrath of Gods)

Fixed Veneration jealousy penalty being applied to both religion and god in Wrath of Gods scenario

Fixed tech helptext not listing non religion-based project unlocks in Wrath of Gods scenario

Fixed Carthage scenario 3 load/save bug

Fixed ModManager panel trying to update when not active

Text and event fixes
Old World January Update 1.0.81366 release 2026-01-07

Main Branch 1.0.81366 release 2026-01-07
Headline changes

New Point Symmetry mirror option for MP games

Healing Shrines now give Healer effect to all units

New Ballista unit icon added
Design

Added Point Symmetry option to MP setup when Mirror Map option is selected. This enables radial mirroring around the map's midpoint, producing a layout symmetric in all directions from the center. Players will start in opposite corners of the map

Healing Shrines now give Healer effect to all units including non-promotable ones

Heliopolis gives 0.5 orders per shrine instead of 1

Mourning trait no longer has a chance to make characters ill

If the player doesn't have enough yields to sell to cover debts, then a queued build with no progress is cleared to get enough yields to sell, if possible

Added event for when AI forfeits a city site due to player having attacked the camp more

Many event tweaks including a buff for the Shrine of the Unknown God

Programming

AI avoids building Wonders in border cities, and especially in cities that are in danger of being captured

AI uses disciples to build religious improvements before further spreading the religion, if possible

Pathfinder prefers to keep units hidden, have them occupy good defensive terrain, and avoid marsh, all else being equal

Added support for local storage for persistent scenario data
UI

New Ballista unit icon added

All Improvements filter shows all non-wonder improvements that can ever be built

Removed crit chance from attack preview window when not applicable (i.e. attacking cities)

Clicking cities listed for a selected luxury pans to city center

Dead character portraits faded in Characters tab

Trashed bonus cards faded in tech tree

Non-improvement yield lost when building an improvement on a resource now shown on tooltip (with Advanced Help Text active)

Leader General control immunity bonus no longer shown in archetype helptext, merged with extra movement unit effect

Leading and trailing whitespace characters are now removed from manually entered player online IDs

Help text for multiple traits from a bonus now properly takes fallbacks into account

Renamed terrain target of Volcanoes or Mountains (Jerwan requirement) from "Mountains" to "Peaks"

Actions panel now hidden when it would otherwise be empty

DLC name shown in parentheses in dropdowns for map scripts

Included map scripts shown on DLC Mechanics page in Encyclopedia

Hid some redundant-looking missions in Encyclopedia

Mod Browser UI is refreshed once workshop mod list is retrieved

Traits that give yields now always show totals with Advanced Help Text enabled

Orders history graph no longer subtracts unit consumption

Schemer's Adopt mission now shows a reminder when available

Yield totals in the stats screen graphs now include all sources, not just income

Alt-1 to Alt-9 switch players when observing a network game

Improved eligible unit trait help text

Made tech unlocks helptext more specific and consistent

Removed outdated references to save importing in Carthage scenario descriptions
Bugs Fixed

Fixed events not firing for killed units

Fixed combat notification log categories

Fixed children gaining archetypes randomly

Fixed improvements from bonuses not being auto-placed on their intended tiles

Fixed religion founding city randomisation

Fixed Hamlet development turns tooltip being wrong before the hamlet has been completed and the Lighthouse is active

Fixed Mirror Map being selected on map scripts that do not support that option

Fixed entering observer mode and following a different nation after surrendering from a network game

Fixed client Hall of Fame not being updated after completing a network game

Fixed governor availability text not updating consistently

Fixed options menu tooltips getting hidden behind dropdowns

Fixed map generation bug that could result in a river delta on land

Fixed trade network save/load bug

Fixed a threading issue

Fixed improvements with city effects that modify a city's overall yield not showing up on calculations before building improvement (i.e Patrons culture bonus)

Fixed character tooltip position

Fixed some random seed quirks causing courtiers appearing on the same turn to be identical

Fixed luxury availability not updating immediately on canceling a trade deal

Fixed AI making urban over resources

Fixed invalid trait warning text color being reversed

Fixed tile tooltip null reference

Fixed resources getting added outside of map boundary

Fixed being able to target non-visible tiles

Fixed Tough promotion being double-counted on defense

Fixed tribe units sometimes not healing

Fixed AI sometimes taking over player units that are not automated, if there was at least one actually automated unit

Fixed automated workers unstacking

Fixed Barbarians not moving in players territory when they end up there whilst not allowed to enter

Fixed Theology help not showing potential effects that do not currently apply

Fixed MP scenarios overwriting the game name

Fixed religion opinion graph disappearing after player defeat

Fixed difficulty defaulting to Custom and preset difficulty showing as Custom in the Barbarian Horde scenario

Fixed Duel and Tiny map sizes and Tumbling Mountain map script being available in the Barbarian Horde scenario

Fixed some combat events potentially displaying incorrectly in Heroes of the Aegean scenario 5

Fixed Wrath icon in Wrath of Gods scenario sometimes not displaying colour

Fixed mod sub checker not being able to check again if modio authentication is slow

Fixed mod sub checker sometimes not closing

Text and event fixes
Old World November Update - 1.0.80908 release 2025-11-26Main Branch 1.0.80908 release 2025-11-26Hotfix 1.0.81098 release 2025-12-10

Hotfix release fixes a bug with royal children getting assigned archetypes randomly outside of the event system
Headline changes

Can no longer hire Barbarian units, upgrading hired Tribal units now costs Money as well as Training

Civilian units defend cities instead of getting pushed out

Units with Leader Generals are immune to control effects
Design

Can no longer hire Barbarian units (affects Carthage and Orator leaders). Tribal units can still be hired.

Added Tribal unit upgrade cost of money equal to its upgrade cost in training

Units with Leader Generals are immune to Stun, Panic, Enlistment, Disarm and Immobilization (Grappler)

Civilian units defend cities instead of getting pushed out

Citrus is now a luxury resource

Caravans can't spawn on a tile with a Caravan, although they can still occupy the same tile as one when moving

Increased Prosperous trait money from 5/10 per culture level to 8/16

Halved Intelligent trait science output

Assassination attempts that fail have a chance to avoid negative consequences

Enlisting a unit replaces any existing cooldown by the enlisted cooldown

Capturing city timer no longer counts back up when city is left vacant

Cities in the capturing state no longer go to Anarchy if no capturing progress has been made

Units can pass through capturable cities without capturing them as long as they don't stop inside

Changing the Succession Law no longer results in characters becoming Bypassed and suffering opinion penalties

The cost to change the Succession Law now starts at 400 civics and increases at 100 civics per switch

Judge leaders can change the Succession Law for 100 civics as per other laws

Stunned units no longer counterattack

Characters are more likely to get a strength or weakness before reaching adulthood

In 2 team MP games, leaders initial strength is now mirrored when set randomly

Ocean depth tiles are safe from Tsunami's (Wrath of Gods)
Programming

Memory management cleanup, fixed more memory leaks

Better AI improvement selection, improvement unit movement decisions after founding a city

Improved AI worker order efficiency and management

Damaged workers heal more often

Existing improvements get replaced less often

AI places less emphasis on building Garrisons early

AI anchoring improvements

AI tries harder to have an up-to-date army

Improved AI attack planning to reduce the effect of counterattacks

AI builds more strongholds, citadels and unique units

AI now uses units with disarm effect early, so that later attacks can take advantage of it

Tribe placement improvements on map generation

Automated workers now take into account road pings

ModManager improvements
UI

Camera no longer pans to failed unit movement if instant unit movement is turned on, or in Network games

City screen button tooltip now differentiates between increasing and decreasing happiness

Added "Polearm" instead of "Rout" to combat preview, to make it clear when polearm units prevent a rout

Holding Ctrl with a worker selected adds the improvement on the worker's tile (if any) to the unit action buttons

Holding Alt with a selected unit displays the unit's movement path/range assuming water control in all water tiles

Cloud games are now sorted by whether or not it's your turn first, time since last upload second, and alphabetically third

Added selection to dropdown list for customizable leader portrait, name, age, gender, and trait, so that these can be reset to random after being selected

Capitalized some game terms (Unit, City, Nation, Character, Tile, etc)

Tweaked adjacent terrain target help text

Improvement name is shown for bonus placements of improvements that produce no yields

Planned specific improvements/roads for players on your team now listed on the tile tooltip (but still not as tile widgets)

Effect of free specialists now shown in improvement yield previews

Unit modifiers to improvement yields only shown if unit on the tile

Forced March button tooltip clarification

Blocked abandoning ambitions in Learn to Play scenarios

Changed High Vision icon effect color for Scouts

Changed capture progress bar appearance on city widget when paused

Unit attacked log now shows damage done instead of health left

Notifications now appear when invisible units are soon to become visible

Added a longer camera delay to AI attacks

Relatives panel now shows dead characters

Player tooltip reveals yields information when game is over, similar to observer mode

Updated text for some law Encyclopedia entries

Enabled Mirror Map option with Random map script selected in MP

Cleaned up governor candidate text on city list screen

Updated Clergy helptext

'Unlocks Project:' helptext no longer shown for hidden projects

Renamed From Tribute to Cancelled Tribute in bonus help when relevant

Removed "Each:..." helptext from Specialists if you don't have that effect

De-cluttered EffectCity help text

Added more specific turn summary text for when a regent or a rightful heir takes over the throne of a rival nation

Removed scenario save import option from Carthage campaigns
Bugs Fixed

Fixed attack preview not always updating

Fixed error logged on shutdown

Fixed unit repair recommendations

Fixed Resources sometimes being listed multiple times in Encyclopedia

Fixed never-buildable improvements appearing in map pin UI

Fixed null reference in overlay customizer map pins

Fixed mod manager UI when session is not already valid

Fixed Atalia wikipedia link

Fixed formatting of Zealot enlist tooltip

Fixed 'Consumes X Orders' line showing when order cost is already shown

Fixed enlisting a unit that had been capturing one of your cities not capturing it back for you

Fixed effectCity help sometimes not appearing

Fixed observer visibility update

Fixed observer not being able to cycle decisions

Fixed camera sometimes not panning to a unit that could not complete its movement

Fixed movement preview when moving into a capturable city

Fixed Tribe Elimination event and stat if eliminating a tribe through hiring a unit

Fixed null reference caused by blank note pings

Fixed yield panel not updating with changes to player trade network connections

Fixed timeline borders for final turn when game is over

Fixed Envoy trait tooltip

Fixed player luxuries not being correctly updated when a resource was removed from a tile with a specialist

Fixed city unit production buttons missing unit traits

Fixed caravans causing game crash in Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 2

Fixed unit action cost labels sometimes getting applied to mission buttons (affects mods)

Fixed Cathedral happiness adjacency not working

Fixed question marks appearing in some event text

Fixed memories for assassination getting applied to dead character instead of family

Fixed tile improvement highlights being shown for non-team units

Fixed appearance of fortify bar on unit banner for Testudo

Fixed some AI and UI revealed terrain knowledge

Fixed net yield help text for projects with effects with improvement modifiers

Fixed imprisoned mission succeeding on dead characters

Fixed null reference on shutdown

Fixed observers getting achievements from the player they are observing

Fixed religious dissent projects being valid without associated religion

Fixed Tribal truce missions failing silently when tribe has an ally

Fixed some issues with the leader customization settings feature

Fixed history popup not always showing fog of war

Fixed rebels and raiders pillaging tiles that don't belong to their target nations

Fixed the definition of an open tile to include no vegetation

Fixed Send Caravan ambitions auto-failing if you lose the ability to build Caravans

Fixed trade values showing total trade for individual trades

Fixed missing mask in bug reporting Description box

Fixed redundant trait check

Fixed Found Capital icon alignment in Pick Later

Fixed tribal camp not being cleared when defender killed by an event following a ranged attack

Fixed Regents taking the throne not being announced to other players

Fixed repair tooltip with action queue

Fixed AI repeated unit movement

Fixed AI not considering danger from immobile units

Fixed AI civilian unit retreat

Fixed tooltips showing effects from disabled DLCs

Fixed Minor Earthquake sometimes targeting water tile and not propagating (Wrath of Gods)

Fixed tile reveal not being reset after an Occurrence changes visibility (Wrath of Gods)

Fixed Event Browser errors when loading a mod that uses -change on an -add entry

Minor Worker/Occurrence fix for better mod support

More robust null handling from ModCache lookup

Text and event fixes
80522 (2025-11-04)

Main Branch 1.0.80522 Release 2025-11-04

Hotfix release that fixes some game hang issues, particularly when using Road pings, issues with cloud game Host Controls, event text not always displaying correctly in some languages, changing terrain height in the game editor, tile visibility issues when in an alliance and borders not updating for Observers
80396 (2025-10-29)Main Branch 1.0.80396 release 2025-10-29 Headline changes

Leader archetype balancing for Heroes, Builders, Zealots and Diplomats

Added Road Improvement Ping (Map pin)

Rebel chance icon added to Cities Screen and City tooltip

MP setup and observer mode improvements
Design

Hero leaders can now Launch Offensive after attacking. This still puts the Hero unit on cooldown, so they cannot act after Launch Offensive

Add Urban (Builder Leader ability) stone costs doubled (20 on flat and 40 on hill)

Spending Civics to Enlist (Zealot Leader ability) no longer expires after 3 turns, but the effect is removed when the leader is removed from the unit

AI now requires a Diplomat leader to start a National Alliance. Increased probability of an alliance offer

Duplicate nations are now allowed even with preset leaders, as long as d