Latest Patch Notes can be found here.
Patch 1.10.2.14 (Feb 21, 2025)

Fix crash when loading an overwritten savegame

Fix crash when adding multiple parts via Shift-Click

Fix crash when clicking multiple times on a part in the edit menu (especially for Walls)

Fix some fortification strings that mentioned patrollers instead of watchmen

Localization update
Patch 1.10.2.11 (Feb 11, 2025)

A tavern decoration was giving too much Splendor

Fix occasional crash when Tax Collectors deposit their loot

Fix crash after building a Court of Heroes in a cliff with specific parts

Fix crash when destroying parts in a Market while the building window is open

Fix crash when overwriting a save while auto-saving

Fix crash during upgrade/downgrade of houses in specific situations

Add Community Polish Translation

Add Community Vietnamese Translation

Updated Community Korean translation
Patch 1.10.2.10 (Feb 10, 2025)

Fixed a rare crash occurring in the building window when modifications are made.

Fixed a rare crash that could happen when the Tax Collector visits a house.

Fixed a rare crash related to the road system.
Patch 1.10.2.0 (Jan 31, 2025)

Hello everyone!

The time has finally arrived... Foundation has officially left Early Access, and version 1.0 is now available!

After 6 years of new features, bug fixes, and improving the game with the help of your feedback, we are proud to finally wrap up Foundation's incredible journey in Early Access!

Since the last major update, we have worked tirelessly to deliver the game we envisioned and the game you want to play. The full release comes with a large number of changes. So many, in fact, that it may seem like a whole new game!

If you want to know what's new, grab a medieval drink and some snacks while the game updates, and we'll take a look through the patch notes.
New and Updated Content

New Main Menu and Rulesets The first thing you will see is an overhauled main menu that now includes rulesets! Customise your new games using a selection of adjustable rules. Whether you prefer a more relaxed and creative experience or wish to challenge yourself with a higher difficulty, you can now do so at your leisure.

All New Heraldry System Display your banner with pride! You can now create and customise your village with the new Coat of Arms editor.

Revamped Aspirations Will you dedicate your efforts to building a thriving priory or craft a magnificent stronghold to win the King's favour? Choose an Aspiration to uncover new ways to play, challenging you to create a unique and distinctive village.

New and Improved Villager Residential Tiers Residential housing has been revamped for a more seamless and organic experience. Additionally, you can expand your city further with the highest density and quality residential tiers, allowing for more village customisation options.

Improved Progression System Unlock content seamlessly and enjoyably with a refined progression system, adding depth and strategic opportunities to your city-building adventure. We have also removed the estate trade-off, so you can now concentrate on a single estate or aim to keep everyone happy.

Each estate has a different focus, whether that be a focus on Kingdom Military rewards, Labour estate taxation, or improving trade relations via the Clergy pathway. The choice is yours!

New Onboarding Experience Whether a new player or a seasoned veteran, the updated onboarding quests and visual aids are now easier to follow, helping everyone find a perfect start to their village.

New Military System and Castle Monument Take on new challenges with a refreshed military system that will have you create Companies to send abroad and have them bring back precious resources and gold coins.

Naturally, these Military Companies need a home fit for a king, and what makes a better home than a Castle! Flex your creativity by building and customising your Castle from various parts, much like other Monuments.

New and Improved Walls Walls are now fully integrated into the building system. Plan and build your walls to add fortification coverage to your village. Some buildings require fortification coverage to function.

Patrols and Fortifications Alongside the new buildable walls, you will also discover Watchtowers and Guard placements adding further fortification options to your settlement.

Medium-density residential tiers now require consistent patrol coverage. Patrols can be formed from a City Watch in the Labour estate or by tasking your Military with the job of keeping your village secure.

Paved Roads Meet the needs of the new high-tier housing with our new paved road mechanic, tailored to support your most developed areas. A new paint tool is now available to give you complete control of where you wish paved roads to be created.

Extendable Buildings Some workplaces, such as the Woodcutter Camp, Warehouse, and Stonemason, can now be expanded with new parts to increase storage, worker slots, and more!

More Building Customisation Most Monuments can now have their roof colour customised to your liking, offering more choices for their appearance. Additionally, some building parts have varying cosmetics and can be easily switched while editing via the new part-switcher feature.

Enhanced UI We have significantly streamlined the user interface throughout the game. From a new main menu, progression tree, and tooltips, to an improved Book providing in-depth information about your village, not to mention a massively overhauled Monument design experience. All implemented to improve gameplay and enhance your city-building efficiency.

Monument building has evolved, allowing you to move and replace parts with minimum fuss, helping you customise your Monuments more seamlessly.
Enjoy a Completely Revamped Art Direction!

Dynamic Environment Overhaul Your Cities will now take on a completely new look and feel, helping you experience Foundation in a whole new way. Enhanced map creation, refined lighting, map edges, and major environmental changes, all of which bring more depth and immersion to your city-building adventure.

Revamped Art and Assets Discover updated visuals to all buildings, including an elaborate new Manor House and the brand new Castle Monument. With more detail and realism for every building, your cities will be the talk of the realm!

New and Improved Animations Get a closer look at your Woodcutters as they chop down trees, observe your Villagers during their leisure time, or track your Hunters as they look for animals to hunt. All new and enhanced animations bring your Villagers to life, adding greater immersion to your cities.

New Cosmetic Time of Day Switcher Switch between day and night to see your village come to life during the darker hours.

New Photo Mode The new photo mode lets you capture in-game moments to keep for yourself or share with the community. Don't forget to tag us on social media when you share your creations.
Will I Still Be Able to Play My Old Cities?

Due to massive changes to the game, saves from early access will not be compatible with the full release version.
Modding

Mods will need to be updated and, as such, will not be available during the initial release from Early Access. We will be collaborating closely with mod creators in the coming weeks to update their mods and will also introduce new modding features in the future.
Supported Languages

The following languages will be officially supported on release:

English

French

German

Italian

Japanese

Portuguese (Brazilian)

Russian

Spanish

Chinese (Simplified)
Patch 1.9.7.8.0206 (Feb 6, 2024)

Visitors would sometimes lack the service need even when capacity is available

Evicted Villagers that had an expired eviction debuff would have the debuff again at 100% upon reload

House/Workplace buttons in the Book did not enable when a new house/workplace was assigned

‘Monument changes complete’ notification appeared when removing a preview part of an already built sub-building

Abbatial Monastery back window minor attach point was too low

Abbatial Monastery Gallery, Minor part was missing a floor, resulting in a misalignment with other parts

Hospitium Passive Guests were spamming missing needs notifications

Villagers would not consider houses under construction as viable housing

Dedicated to Kingdom! (HARD) aspiration would not complete in certain situations even though it should have
Modding Expose missing components for custom Livestock:

COMP_LIVESTOCK

BEHAVIOR_LIVESTOCK
Patch 1.9.7.7.1221 (Dec 21, 2023)

Upgrading house construction visuals were, on rare occasions, located at 0,0
Patch 1.9.7.6.1218 (Dec 18, 2023)

Stuck Miners - Some map resources were not being gathered

Mods were preventing the “Advice: Fulfilling Villager Needs” quest from completing

Crash when changing function for Dorm

Rare Crash when starting construction of a building
Patch 1.9.7.4.1214 (Dec 15, 2023)

Market tent capacity was not registering on old saves

Onboarding Advice - Assign a Bailiff advice text was not showing the Estate name

Crash related to the destruction of inaccessible Treasury on loading

Crash related to an old removed part

Note: Market tents will only be fixed when loading a pre-1.9.7 save. Market tents on already converted saves can be fixed by rebuilding the tents.
Patch 1.9.7 (Dec 14, 2023) New

Added Interior Access visualization and construction toggle

Players can now specify their favorite resources in the top resource bar

Added a Bailiff option for the Monastery: The Monastic Emissary, a Brother/Sister working at the Emissary Office

Ghosts of buildings under construction are now displayed when you are in Construction/Edit mode
Update

Construction sites are now prioritized by start time, not by closest distance

Workers should go to their workplace before starting their work time

Display attach node only when snap mode is toggled or part needs to be mandatory attached

The Market Monument has been turned into a building with parts instead of a Monument with sub-buildings.

Moved the Clergy Privilege and Clergy Influence mandates to the Monastic Emissary

Overall improvement of the Mandate window & tooltips

Improvements to monument attach nodes

House Upgrade/Downgrade transition improvements to show construction steps and not new build

Tavern Kitchen - worker quantity now scales with building capacity

Treasury - Gold coins are no longer lost when the maximum treasury limit is reduced

Various UI improvements
Fix

Soldiers - soldiers using the barracks as their houses could not fulfill their needs when the monument is being expanded.

Bailiff - Changing the bailiff resulted in the edict "contractual wage" to not be applied until reload.

Book - Logs - Newcomer notification was not updated "live"

Monument Editing - Display all possible attach nodes when a part is being placed / moved.

Cloister - Could not start construction if function was switched

Monument Editing - Prevent parts from being attached to house attach nodes.

Building Highlight - Sometimes, a building would remain highlighted even if the window is closed and the cursor is not on the part.

Mandate Window - The window did not close when the Great Hall was destroyed.

Deliver Wood Quest - Displayed requirement was 50 but required 100 to complete

Unlockables - Show part's description when there is no building function

Missing Unlockable descriptions on Candle & Commonware extension
Map generator Update

Improved elevation texture visuals
Fix

It was possible to have a broken territory on specific generated map seeds

Some territory regions were too small

Some maps had unreachable village path exits

Some setting changes could create unwanted bumps on islands
Modding

Expose - COMP_BUILDING:getEditMode

Expose - Mandates

Territory Tooltip - Always shows "coins / week" even if resource is changed

Support buying from trade routes with certain condition

Updated modding wiki
Save File Compatibility

Due to changes to the Markets, Market tents will require rebuilding on older saves to get their full capacity
Alpha 1.9.0.38 (2 December 2022) QOL/Tweaks

The parent building upkeep cost will now be updated dynamically after deleting a part instead of having to close and reopen the building window to see the change

Better wording about the monthly upkeep of sub-buildings

Updated localization
Bug fixes

Hovering over the conditions to unlock a new tier of progression displayed the Estate Splendor tooltip instead of Estate Rating

Sub-buildings displayed the tax amount of the parent building instead of their own in the building panel

Splendor was gained even though buildings/monuments weren’t completely built

The disabled trade route button was missing a tooltip

The Trading with the Abbess event was adding its debuff on top of the applied debuff on each reload

The Help window for control keybinds was displayed again after reselecting a building even if the player chose to dismiss it

The first sculpture’s required resources were being multiplied by the total number of sculptures

Required statues for some monuments’ parts were being converted to something else on load, which could prevent them from ever being completed

Fixed a large number of typos
Crash fixes

Crash linked to switching a Refectory (from the Monastery) to any other sub-building function

Crash when quick reloading while the Parts list window of a monument is active and a newly added part is still under construction
Alpha 1.9.0.37 (17 November 2022) QOL/Tweaks

Builders will be more efficient

Cloister improvements:Added new Entrance & Hall descriptions to parts; Moved the Rustic Cloister wall to the Decorative category; Updated Decorative category and description

Destroying a sub-building no longer closes the building window, instead going back to the parent building window

Updated Help topics and tooltips for Influence, Splendor & Splendor Rating

Minor music improvements
Bug fixes

Debuff timer for the Monastery Trade Favour was set to 0

Construction requirements were displaying wrong font colors and a double space

The Traders panel was displaying wrong colors for both Wants to buy and Wants to sell categories
Crash Fixes

Crash related to Trade Routes when clicking on a Courier in your village
Modding

Exposed Agent need and building function for the Monastic Cloister

Exposed the Behavior Transporter function

Exposed the Behavior Tax Collection function

Exposed sitting animations
Alpha 1.8.1.7 (16 February 2022) General

Masterpiece: prevent early activation of a masterpiece by adding additional parts once built
Crash

Fixed crash preventing saved games from loading with the Stained Glass Masterpiece
Alpha 1.8.1.6 (10 February 2022) General

Monastery: the apiary's workers are unable to produce ressources when the combined total of resources in the output is greater than or equal to 50
UI

Monument production: the output entry for the production function cannot exceed 50 in condensed view

The workplace list sorting order is not stable
Crashes

Avoid crash when deleting the kitchen part of the tavern during gameplay

Avoid rare mod-related crashes

Avoid crash with the logger
Alpha 1.8.1.4 (19 January 2022) General

Buildings using production recipes had doubled outputs

Ressource tracker: simple production buildings had the wrong input icon in certain cases

Cows walk animation was missing: they are back to being gracious while moving around!

Some mod.io mods were not fully displayed in the "Installed mods" window

Even more updated localizations for builders all around the globe!
UI

Work assignation dropdown could appear partially out of screen

Updated Tavern and Luxury needs descriptions

Updated Treasury description

Added description for public lounge

Restored unlockable button sound

Adjusted building description style

Adjusted time string readability

Adjusted Warehouse and Granary refuse icon color
Crashes

Fail to load corrupted saves instead of crashing

Avoid crash when unassigning the bailiff's office part function from the monument while the bailiff mission window was open

Avoid crash when a quest instance is not linked to any asset quest anymore (on load of a savegame)

Avoid crash when inputting (way) too many characters in any text editor (villager name, monument name, quote, etc...)

Avoid crash when logging an error related to wrong building function type on workplace

Avoid rare crash while switching job

Avoid crash when starting more than one game with certain mods

Avoid a bunch of useless logs

Avoid crash when closing game during certain loading steps

Avoid crash with some usage of resource tracker from mods
Modding

Possibility to remove Need type per villager status

Expose COMP_AGENT:setProfile()

Gatherer can produce multiple resources even if one resource isFull

Call of parent function for extendable class in Lua

Mod components now have last priority (for init, update & enable order). This ensures core game components are ready to be interacted with from mods
Alpha 1.8.1.3 (14 December 2021)

Add: Resource tracker (resource icons are shown above entities when right-clicked in info module)

Add: Resource tracker windows open entity panels

Add: Resource tracking button in the book (resources list)

Add: Shortcut from resources in info module to book

Add: Resource row highlight in the book

Add: Ready-to-build bundles are now shown in construction progress bars

Improve: Construction and Bailiff progress bars are no longer shown behind prioritize and cancel buttons

Improve: parts list and jobs ordering

Fix: color when conditions are met from green to gold (quests)

Fix: missing tooltip on delete savegame button

Fix: buildings generating resources have duplicated descriptions

Fix: missing localization on Controls window title

Fix: crash after building the Village Center is the Build menu was already opened

Fix: if there is at least one incomplete part in a multi-part monument when a reload is performed, all the parts that were previously completed will turn invisible (monuments)

Fix: walls disappear upon reload

Fix: Market Goods and Luxury tables are not unlocking

Fix: crash when building a village center

Fix: crash no crane on mineral deposit

Update: community localizations

Update: rename good and luxury market stall part set category
Alpha 1.8.0.8 (18 November 2021) Fixes

Expose military campaigns for mods (EVENT_ACTION_TRIGGER_MILITARY_CAMPAIGN)

Possibility that a resource cannot be gathered after changing a villager's status to unemployed

Crash when rendering saves games’ thumbnails with big cities

Major hang when using the promotion system while a villager window is already opened, using specific mods
Add

Buildings, building functions, jobs and resources introduced in 1.8 are now available to modders
Update

Localizations
Alpha 1.8.0.6 (08 November 2021) Tweaks

CandleWorkshop: Extension now modifies recipe

Minor adjustment to the Candle Workshop model

Adjust building window to properly show recipe modifiers

Wait for a villager to finish his/her work shift before changing jobs
Fixes

Building Window refresh when building parts get unlocked

Church message tooltip

Performance issue when unemploying a villager

Visual issue which doubled the maintenance cost in the preview building window

Resource depot causing infinite fuel bug with fuelmonger mod

Building description update when building and part are built at the same time

Top module not showing resources at 0 when loading a game

Some work interactive location could become locked after work shift switch

Crash on launch on Linux Proton

Localization typo

SaveGamePatcher: fix stuck interactive locations
Alpha 1.8 (27 October 2021)

add: Common Wares Workshop

add: Candle Workshop

add: Additional parts can be unlocked for these buildings

add: construction step bundles

add: new tooltips

add: new resource icons

add: workplaces condensed view now displays a combined inventory (condensed view)

add: “trader blocked” notification

add: confirm renaming with Enter

add: collapsed masterpiece parts groups are remembered through all building panels

add: construction bundles topic in the help menu

add: tooltips and localization for building parts “Locate” and “Destroy” buttons

update: community localizations

improve: stockpile communication

improve: storage issues feedback

improve: hyperlinks style

improve: buttons (red/disabled/small)

improve: compacted estates layout

improve: now communicates max instance of a part

improve: dynamically update when unlocking building parts

fix: wooden keep doors

fix: info module buttons

Alpha 1.7.11 (27 August 2021)

add: Textfield functionality to resource trade quantity in the Book

add: Counter - missing paint zone

add: Counter - ongoing construction

add: Collapsible monument parts groups when editing (reintroduced)

add: Distance to workplace when assigning worker via dropdown

add: Full tooltips - estate unlockables

add: Military mission, panel sorting

add: New map selector integration (first iteration)

add: Map selector placeholder modded map description

add: Map selector placeholder modded map screenshot

add: Option to hide autosaves in load menu

add: Option to turn off tree and grass sway to prevent motion sickness

add: Stockpile tooltip in resource window

add: Toggleable FPS visibility in the General options

add: New golden buttons implementation

update: Improved text contrast and shadows

update: Tweak estate headers (Labor/Kingdom)

update: Multiple layout, labels and icon tweaks

update: Information Module notifications - visibility improved

update: Clear building search box when switching categories

update: Help menu - Streamline text wording

update: Improve load game layout and sorting

update: Improve promotion sorting order

update: Improve save game layout and sorting

update: Improve the workplace list sorting

update: Improve zooming on elevated terrain

update: Lock environmental animations at speed x1

update: Locked buildings provide info relative to their unlocking conditions

update: Tweak delivery quest steps

update: New event illustrations

update: Adjust dropdown and combobox positioning

update: Action Menu - UX/UI iteration

update: Port the tombstone window to the new UI style

update: Visitors follow interaction via quest module changed to locate

update: Tweaked training dummies description

update: Localizations

fix: Outside Territory notification when moving a tavern with a bridge

fix: Automated fountain musical parts should display a function

fix: Bailiff - The tooltip to locate the mineral's location is empty

fix: Missing resource counter is counting each building parts as individual structures

fix: Building status not always representative of current status

fix: Crane storage not showing resources

fix: Double "achievements disabled" notification when loading a game

fix: Estate conditions should never be red when the value is sufficient

fix: Forester status should be "No tree type selected" when no tree type is selected

fix: Immigration blocked notification missing

fix: Livestock spawning location not working

fix: Possible to have 'stuck' message that gives no information in logs

fix: Missing success probability when a military mission continues

fix: Reloading a save with an ongoing military mission can have various issues

fix: Hot reload destroying the minerals depots that have a structure

fix: Rounding issues for values throughout the game

fix: Scroll bar reset position when closing / reopening

fix: Stuck soldiers can remain stuck forever

fix: Reduce military mission rewards

fix: Days left of active military quests remain at 0 after the initial 20 days

fix: Cost to unlock the tavern wall

fix: Switch the default forester tree state to true

fix: Various UI presentation fixes and tweaks

fix: Villager status when soldier job is removed

fix: Soldiers can be selected whilst invisible at quest location

fix: Wrong granary description (stores "granary-type" food)

fix: First buildings unlocked were not showing as quest reward

fix: Resources list is misalignment

fix: Resource tab cannot be closed using the Esc key under certain circumstances

fix: Automated fountain musical parts should display a function

fix: Estates value text colors incorrectly changed

fix: Load game mod list exceeded defined space for warning window

fix: Infinite quests displaying days left in their tooltip

fix: Esc button should close system menu

fix: Esc key should cancel building placing and system menu sub window

fix: Villager Stuck Notification Log when destination object does not exist anymore

fix: Possible to promote villagers without having gold

fix: Environment map lighting

fix: History tab for saves 1.7.10 and before, now list all completed missions from day1

fix: Transporters bypassing stockpile

fix: Military panel visuals when a quest expires

fix: Missing building description tooltips for multiple monuments

fix: Building completed notification loses building name on reload

fix: Applied dynamic reserved width to military lists

fix: Crash caused by mod game rule

fix: Crash on very early building part destruction

fix: Crash when a building part is deleted with active inventory

fix: Crash when accepting a military mission

fix: Crash when attempting to deposit resources in a non-existing crane deposit

fix: Crash when load selected and savegame list is empty

fix: Crash when performing force finish on parts of the bridge

Alpha 1.7.4.0618 (18 June 2021)

add: double click on a textfield selects all text

add: allow text selection even on fully-draggable window

add: support to assign workers on the general tab

add: options menu sliders drag

add: villager stuck notifications

add: stockpile descriptions notifications

add: display stockpile status on resource tooltip

add: quest pin tooltip

add: mouse instructions on quest module content

add: display stockpile status on resource tooltip

update: event illustrations

update: text colors desirability, fertility, church attendance, weapon picker and multiple paragraph styles

update: villager description in villager panel

update: achievements window

update: localization

update: various menu sizes adjustments

fix: crash when deleting a statue

fix: crash with lacking need notifications

fix: crash on some notifications

fix: crash when fetching dependencies of non-supported mods

fix: achievements progress

fix: conflict popup - only appears on first load after new controls are added

fix: influence cost image size

fix: savegames display when file name contains a dot

fix: quest tooltip used context for "opportunity" title

fix: melody composer window

fix: melody composer size

fix: help window flickering

fix: visual glitches on Illustrations

fix: help and territory overlap when a new town is started.

fix: quest tooltip pin behavior

fix: display part size on part view

fix: workplace full is taking into account the market

fix: various military mission bugs

fix: military soldiers stuck on village center

fix: soldiers won't go to dorm if building is not built

fix: soldier level

fix: achievements locked/unlocked icons

fix: workplace status when inventory changes

fix: warehouse slot information

fix: mandate mission always clickable

fix: missing description on visibility layer action button

fix: missing resource for construction notification

fix: visitor notification

fix: old notifications won't appear

fix: building capacity messaging

fix: military mission display on right mission panel

fix: villager Issue in Book missing high severity warning icon

fix: upkeep cost when building is paused

fix: multiple issues: bailiff’s detail window part list

fix: forester building: tree selector value on load

fix: trade bonus does not revert to purchasable state

fix: red color that wasn't readable in the logs

fix: effect module, opportunities and quests sorting

fix: loophole during onboarding playthrough

fix: promotion opportunity notification

fix: access to deleted construction site component

fix: crash on load when mod version is different

fix: crash with notifications when exiting the game

fix: performance issue with construction site lacking resources

update community localizations

fix: a frequent random crash due to input management
Alpha 1.6.28.0216 (16 February 2021)

- add: mod "report content" link - request user consent before logging to mod.io when rating a mod for the first time - fix: mod loading fail on reload when adding new attach node types - fix: avoid stuck tax collector or bailiff in a specific part of the lord manor
Alpha 1.6.27.1223 (23 December 2020) Changelog

- F1 to actually open help menu (...because we forgot it)

Expose new particle system to mods: PARTICLE_SYSTEM_BLACKSMITH_FIRE & PARTICLE_SYSTEM_BLACKSMITH_FIRE_SMOKE

Allow mods to override core textures
Update alpha 1.6.19.0812 (12 August 2020) Buildings:

adjust: Some building shapes in Monastery, Rustic Church, Legacy Church, Lord Manor & Wooden Keep

adjust: Markets now requires at least one stall

fix: Villager could remain blocked once a monument door was placed on water

fix: Cancel reserved resources when agent villager behavior is aborted

fix: Multiple Villagers occupying the same workstation

fix: Some workstation orientation
Masterpiece:

adjust: Allow multiple masterpieces on the same monument

adjust: Some effects on appropriate masterpieces

fix: Some masterpiece conditions
Mineral Deposit:

fix: Prevent deleting the Stone Mineral Deposit

fix: Blueprints will no longer appear in quarry
Notification Panel:

adjust: Warning panel will remember severity

fix: Action button is red only when a new action is available
Custom text boxes:

fix: the possibility to be stuck in an un-resumable game when closing the text editor
Crashes:

fix: Rare crash on game load

fix: Rare crash when loading corrupted localization file

fix: Rare crash when downloading a mod
Modding:

add: Prompt download of missing mod(s) when loading a save containing missing mod(s)

add: lua file name + line number in modding logs

add: Behavior tree example - Guard patrol behavior

add: Localize function

update: Example 02 - bridge mod
Update alpha 1.6.10.0714 (14 July 2020)

Lords and Ladies, we are excited to present to you the Minerals & Craftmanship 1.6 Update!

It’s a big one, so let’s take a look at some highlights of what you can expect in the new update and let you get quickly into discovering the new minerals and crafting up some masterpieces!

Savegame compatibility warning: 1.5 saves will be compatible but some of your buildings may be removed if they were placed on one of the new mineral deposit sites. Also, note that your builders will now require a Builders’ Workshop.

WHAT’S NEW Discover and Extract New Minerals!

New Mineral deposits can be found scattered throughout the maps, containing nice shiny new minerals, from gold-rich veins to glittering quartz nodes. These deposits can be prospected by your Bailiff in order to identify the ore they contain.

Inside the Mineral deposits your Bailiff will find both rare minerals as well as more common ones such as Iron. Once discovered the minerals can be extracted by clicking the deposit and building a quarry.

Extend your Buildings and Build Masterpieces

Buildings can now be extended with new parts. The first building extensions will take the form of crafting workstations that can be added to the Builders’ Workshop. These crafting workstations will allow your builders to craft various objects such as sculptures and stained glass.

Note that Builders' Workshops are now mandatory for the building of any construction.

Masterpieces are sets of specific parts that can be added into a monument or be built as a standalone building. They are unique creations that will give your village unique perks once built. In total, there are 9 Masterpieces to discover and build.

Each masterpiece will unlock when specific conditions have been met. For example, this could be when your soldiers emerge victorious from a faraway mission.

New Productions

All of the new minerals can be used in production buildings as well as in the new Masterpieces. Further, new production buildings have been introduced to refine these minerals to be ready for use, such as the new Gold Smelter that turns Gold ore into Gold bars, the Glassworks that will work quartz into glass as well as a Jeweler who will make good use of any gold and gems you might find.
Bailiff Mandates

The Bailiff’s role has been expanded and can now undertake Mandates. These mandates will range from prospecting the new resource deposits to gaining influence with an Estate or researching blueprints. Yes, the scholar was unhappy and has now left!
Pathing Inside Buildings

Villagers can now path through monuments! This means that Monks can now get to those inner courtyards and soldiers can protect the pass. Pathing inside buildings will allow particular villagers to enter and exit through separate monument doors. Pathing will have conditions so that only those that should be allowed through can get through.
Visits

Word of your settlement is growing stronger. Not only will there be visits from envoys but there will be new visitors arriving at your village. Pilgrims might visit your shrine masterpiece and one of your monuments, that is perfect for taking in guests, might also receive a visitor under certain conditions.
Even More New Features

As you may know, we are working on a full UI overhaul. In the meantime, you will notice a new notification panel that will help to see warnings of potential issues in your village as well as a log of your missions and quests including currently active quests.

Bridges can now be raised in height as well as length. Yes m’lord, you can now raise your bridges up high, the sky is the limit!

The List Goes On…

The Minerals & Craftmanship update will also include:

New animations

New modding functions and capabilities

New sounds

New improved grass and cliff visuals

9 new achievements

Plus many fixes and improvements

You can check out the full changelog below:

Changelog Gameplay New features

New: Minerals sources that can be prospected and extracted

New: Production chains related to minerals

New: Masterpieces

New: Productions chains

New: Buildings can now have multiple placeable parts

New: Builder now has his workshop

New: Builder's workshop can be extended with crafting extensions

New: New unlockable builder's workshop parts

New crafting feature: craft sculpture and stained glass

New: Bailiff can have mandates assigned like prospecting minerals and influencing estates

New: New notification panel

New: Pathing can now go through buildings that have multiple entrances
Improvements

Add: Completed monument parts activate its function, (no need for an entire monument to be built before it becomes usable)

Add: Gold has been separated in two new resources: Gold Coins and Gold Bars

Add: Improved performance when editing a monument

Add: Transporters will now carry materials to construction sites

Add: New uniformized build flow between buildings and monuments

Add: "getting started" section to help menu

Add: Davenport now sells gems

Add: Allow multiple transporters to carry materials to construction sites

Add: localization
Art

Buildings

New Builder's workshop and crafting extensions: sculpture, stained glass, jewelry

New mineral sources and quarries installations

New Glass Smelter

New Gold Smelter

New customizable fountain, stained glass

Characters and animations

New miner's job outfit and animations

New Glass Smelter & Gold Smelter animations

Environment

New grass texture

New cliff texture

Bug fixes

fix: soldier/monks could get stuck on bridges

fix: Wooden Keep Door B

fix: tavern bridge bug

fix: transporters and builders flow (pause & builder allocation)

fix: missing tavern chimney texture

fix: path finding issues when house upgrading

fix: crash when the same game file is empty

fix: crash when closing the game due to unsupported OpenGL version

fix: rare crash with promotion

fix: clear preview on bridge

fix: freeze on clear preview

fix: wooden bridge entrance PATH & slope locator position

fix: showing bulldozer button on destructible building when under construction

fix: mod list disappearing when scrollbar is added/removed

fix: crash when destroying building too close to map edges

fix: rare crash during tax collector collection

fix: drop-down scroll bar behavior

fix: wooden keep stair colliders

fix: a crash in mod list menu

fix: rare crash in workplace list window

fix: building parts are not child of the core part anymore

fix: crash with public lounge function activation

fix: crash with notification window
Modding

Add: mods hot-reload with Ctrl+Shift+R

Add: creation of new asset and data types, and extending existing asset, component and data types

Add: creation of behavior trees and custom behavior tree nodes

Add: access to events

Update: example 02 mod bridge

Update: Remove Mover from Building Part Asset

Update: Batch all Modding logs in a single file to avoid opening too many files

Update: Foundation log file and mod log file are now readable during execution

fix: asset retrieval by scripting ID was not allowed in some cases

fix: VS Code snippets

fix: restore some missing textures

The full modding changelog can be found on the modding wiki.

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Update alpha 1.2.4.0611 (12 June 2019)

Bug Fix: Trader walking animation is restored.

Bug Fix: Monks can no longer be assigned to a non-monk job through the “...” menu.

Bug Fix: Rare crash when destroying buildings.

Bug Fix: Wheat Farms "No Farming Zone" notification message no longer appear for no reason.

Bug Fix: Upkeep cost for new parts are not charged while editing an already existing monument.
Update alpha 1.2.2.3105 (3.06.2019)

Hi everyone, the Wine Production Update (Alpha 1.2.2.3105) is live!
IMPORTANT:

Savegames from the previous version are compatible!

All mods need to be updated by modders to make them compatible with this new version. See the Migration documentation https://bit.ly/2EL947h

All mods from the previous version are unsupported and may cause crashes.
Game changes

New wine production chain:

New building: Monastery Vineyard

New building: Monastery Winery

New building: Cooperage

Production of workplaces can now be paused, halving maintenance cost

Villager window now displays distance between home and workplace

Improved job selection UI

Destroying a building under construction will refund upfront cost

Add severities to warning window (low, high) to distinguish stuck agents from full workplaces.

Farm have separated farm fields, zonable through the workplace window. All fields need to be zoned on previous savegames. You also need to press the "Start production" button once you have finished zoning.

Change in balancing (WIP):

Reduce production rate of honey

Reduce production rate of herbs

Reduce the value on herbs and honey on the market compared to wine

Wine is tradable

Texture uniformisation on Stone Bridge, Small Stone Wall and Large Stone Wall

Changes on some Monastery building part cost

Update localization
Modding

mod:registerPrefabComponent to add component to FBX nodes

adding workplaces

adding monuments and bridges

adding walls

expose particle systems features

overriding game assets

individual log files for mods

new example mod: Mithril Factory

mod IO functions

mod dependencies

mod sandboxing: hide some potentially dangerous lua function from mods

msgbox function will only log and won't display a messagebox, unless enabled in usersetting.config

log and crash as soon as a circular parenting is detected

lua will use mod relative path when logging lua error instead of long path

expose game textures to lua materials

fix: generate generated_ids.lua sooner if inexistent

fix:: COMP_BUILDING_PART.FeedbackComponentListToActivate on certain type of - -production buildings

fix: QUEST.OnFailCallback was never triggered

fix: EVENT_CALLBACK_TRIGGER_EVENT with delay 0 was never triggered

expose PROFILE_ENVOY_CLERGY and PROFILE_ENVOY_ROYAL

rename DELAYED_QUEST.QuestResource into DELAYED_QUEST.AssetQuest

rename WALL_CONFIG.UvTillingWall into WALL_CONFIG.UvTilingWall

rename WALL_CONFIG.UvTillingTop into WALL_CONFIG.UvTilingTop
Bug fixes

Construction will cancel if builder profile change to monk

Use S3TC compressed texture when supported

Forbid zone painting outside of player territory

Zone cleaning when abandoning tile

Occasional crash when leaving a game containing a bailiff office

Fix various crashes

Zoning tool optimization & interpolation between two frames

Tree shadows are now dynamic
Update alpha 1.1.7.0308 (08 March 2019) Fixes:

fix: save game loading crash with some old saves with monks
Update alpha 1.1.6.0307 (07 March 2019) Fixes:

fix: occasional crash when leaving the game during a save

fix: crash with the Monastery

fix: House/Dorm capacity display

fix: Lordhouse Smoke FX position

fix: Crash when a house was destroyed
Update alpha 1.1.5.0305 (05 March 2019) General:

New Help Window

Improve Intel GPU compatibility by fixing object flickering
Monastery:

Support multiple dorms

Monks will leave their current home and family (sad, we know) when conceded to the Monastery

Villagers won't go live in the Monastery Dorms

Monks will fill their needs – a first step toward a secluded need loop

Monks will find a new dorm if their dorm is destroyed
Housing:

Housing now have capacity

Villagers should fill empty houses before building a new one

Fix entrances for Level 2 houses (not on houses already built in old savegames)
Rustic Church:

Size has been increased

Entrances are now fixed (not on doors already build in old savegames)
Lord Manor:

Stone parts are now giving Splendor
Wooden Bridge:

Revamped Look
Fishing Hut:

Lengthen Wooden Poles
Others:

quest window can't be close anymore

added error message with description when a save game fails

improved mod loading error logging

fix some production building description

fix: estate button could become un-clickable with small definition

added Discord link on Main Menu

*Old savegames should be compatible

Update alpha 1.0.15.0226 (26 February 2019)

Hello everyone,

Alpha 1.0.15.0226 is live, it fixes a freeze / memory leak introduced in previous version - which was ironically fixing another less frequent issue of same type.

Have a good day!

Update alpha 1.0.14.0225 (26 February 2019)

fix: shader loading for some graphic cards

fix: possible infinite loop and memory leak in some mods

better handling of shader compilation errors, with user message
Update alpha 1.0.12.0220 (21 February 2019)

fix: crash on loading when the player setting file was corrupted

fix: UI scale bug when going back to main menu

fix: bug and potential crash when closing a market window with ESC key with the resource selection menu open

fix: crash when a villager tried to find his house the same frame the house was destroyed

fix: occasional crash in workplace list window when player destroyed certain building part

fix: rare crash due to lack of residential zoning notification

fix: rare crash when quitting the game
Update alpha 1.0.11.0219 (20 February 2019)

Fix "No zoning" notification on load game
Update alpha 1.0.10.0218 (19 February 2019)

fix: occasional remaining crash when closing a workplace window while assignation menu was open

fix: occasional crash while editing bridges

fix: occasional crash due to game memory corruption caused by zoning notifications

fix: crash in bailiff selection window when a bailiff candidate leave the village
Update alpha 1.0.9.0215 (18 February 2019)

fix: crash when closing game during loading

fix: crash related to bailiff offices destroyed in old save-games

fix: safely ignore mods containing duplicated IDs

fix: display of mod names in "Browse Mods" list

mods can now be removed from "installed mods" list

move mod.io json files outside of mod folders
Update alpha 1.0.8.0213 (14 February 2019)

fix: occasional crash when leaving a game

fix: crash when destroying a warehouse before accepting a delivery quest

fix: crash when closing warehouse with escape key with resource selection context menu open

fix: crash when send troops quest was closed while the soldier selection context menu was open

fix: crash when housing attempted to build on map's edges

fix: occasional crash when loading a corrupted mod

fix: occasional crash after a bailiff office was destroyed

fix: crash when clicking on an envoy notification if the bailiff was leaving

fix: workplaces list refresh when a monument building part workplace is destroyed
Update alpha 1.0.6.0206 (7 February 2019)

fix: crash when houses were built outside the map

fix: some anti-virus were sometimes preventing game to launch. Might still occur with some anti-viruses but a message will inform the player.

fix: better user settings handling for save games

fix: quests could be doubled
Update alpha 1.0.5.0205 (6 February 2019)

fix: Crash on AMD VEGA graphic cards

fix: Disabled texture compression for better compatibility

fix: Attaching parts bugs when editing monuments

fix: Crash with bridge monument

fix: some issues with UI scale

fix: top-right icons was disappearing on small resolution screen or with UI scale

fix: various crash
Update alpha 1.0.3.0202 (4 February 2019)

Add Simplified Chinese language

Fix crash when removing a door in Monument Edition

Fix crash when removing training dummies

Fix a leak with Warehouse UI

Fix: Trader is no more invisible

Fix: Trading in Valley map now work on both sides of the river

Fix: Some quests were not resolving

Fix: Rustic church bell tower will now ring (only newly built ones)

Fix: crash with building entrance indicator

Fix market edition crash

Fix monument edition crash