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 dynasties are not duplicated

Mounted units no longer get attack bonus into Marsh. Renamed Flat to Open for Mounted Attack bonus

Harbors give 100% bonus to adjacent nets, up from 60%

AI now aims to have have a minimum of about a tenth of its units be its Unique Unit

Eliminating the last unit of a tribe outside of a camp now also counts as eliminating the tribe and triggers elimination events

Specialist builds are allowed to continue after their improvement has been pillaged

Map options limiting the number of city sites now concentrate sites around player starts

Consorts can now be Regents without needing to be Royal. Ill characters will not be picked to be Regents

Added repair cost to Town and Village improvements

Free-for-all player starts no longer try to separate human players

Ambitions that require Wonders now consider Wonders owned by teammates to be impossible to acquire

When a preset character joins a preferred family their children now join the same family

Reduced the amount of Forest on the Desert map script. Removed option to specify starting inland or on the coast

Tribe units can now heal after moving

In No Events / No Characters, truce offers cost nothing if you're winning the war

Unit position swaps clears temporarily hidden state of the swap initiating unit

Characters with an active mission on them (like marriage) cannot be auto-married in the meantime

Great Lighthouse now applies faster upgrade bonus to existing hamlet class improvements, not only newly constructed ones

Added initial turn timer time stockpile. Slow adds 3 minutes, Medium 2 and Fast 1
Programming

Fixed several memory leaks (more improvements here coming next update)

Memory allocation optimization

Minor MP performance optimization

Improved AI for Zealot leader enlisting

AI no longer attacks civilians if doing so puts their units in danger of being killed

Unhardcoded some AI diplomacy parameters, made warState.xml more mod-friendly

Updated AWS SDK to 3.7

Modio version upgrade

Unity package updates

Added option for CRC tracing when loading mods
UI

Added Road improvement ping

Cities with effects that give Rebel chance are marked with a Rebels icon in the city list screen and city tooltip

Default player name in MP and network server name are now taken from the online platform nickname

MP Setup screen newly added players duplicate the parameters of the previous player

Cloud game hosts can now rename the game using the host control popup

In sequential turn network games, observer view automatically switches to the next player when the observed player's turn ends. This is disabled after manually switching to a different player

Observers now use their set language rather than the language of the observed player

Chat hotkey no longer works for non-host observers

Population in the city list screen is now a link to city specialists

Worker build action button yields no longer subtract unimproved tile yields

Map Overlay Customizer now has seperate options for Urban and Rural Improvements

Renamed the City Number options and City Site Density to City Site Spacing

Show Foreign Family Colors option now also applies to city widget crests

Clicking a General portrait on a selected unit now selects the character

Law tooltips now show family opinion changes instead of family class opinion

New Place Bonus decisions get sorted to the front of the event queue

Improvement pings no longer removed after a terrain change if the improvement is still valid or after a resource is added if the improvement matches the resource

Added foreign opinion helptext to specify the portion of the Ruthless AI opinion that is due to a player alliance

Added character archetype crest to mission targets

When a unit cannot complete a move, camera pans back to unit location and fatigued sound is played

Right-clicks on UI widgets now work with a tooltip locked

Moved some help text to the advanced help text option

Temporarily hidden units show a timer

Temporary hidden status is ignored for damage preview if unit has to move for previewed attack

Last choices for customized leaders are remembered

Succession list helptext (tooltip for the Inheritance button) shows archetype icons

Removed Follower list when selecting families

Remove the separate popups for dead/retiring governor, agent and general

Improved goal instructions in Learn to Play scenarios

City religious improvement tooltip now includes unfinished and pillaged improvements

Added tribe elimination notification
Bugs Fixed

Fixed AI development claiming more than the nation's share of city sites when using limited City Site Number options

Fixed agent tab not properly updating after assigning agent character

Fixed setup screen bug with number of players

Fixed modified trade values not being calculated in trade bonus helptext

Fixed city culture tooltip flicker

Fixed overlay customizer not updating toggles when re-opening after making unsaved changes

Fixed locked overlay highlight switching off of Custom when toggling customizer

Fixed improvement filter issues, include unfinished improvements

Fixed pillaging, burn and launch offensive not clearing hidden status

Fixed some issues with temporarily hidden units

Fixed retry cloud upload directing to succession UI

Fixed map selection with character assignment UI active

Fixed double state religion reference in happiness help text

Fixed AI leaving Wonders unfinished if interrupted

Fixed not being able to change language when it's not your turn

Fixed popup and decision processing when not the active player's turn

Fixed foreign characters showing on 1st turn of Hotseat game

Fixed custom nickname bugs

Fixed improvement net yield help text to include income from adjacent tiles that belong to a different city

Fixed game reload inconsistent state

Fixed pathfinder not being reset when a new tile is revealed

Fixed implicit conversion with maiMinStats/maiMaxStats

Fixed Recruit button not appearing with no orders

Fixed assassinating heir mission not giving achievement when heir exploring

Fixed AI not building most projects

Fixed map scripts sometimes generating marsh on hills

Fixed Regicide achievement not always triggering

Fixed characters incorrectly showing under Court filter

Fixed tile widgets not always updating after place bonus decision resolved

Fixed not being able to retire when there are no opponents in SP

Fixed possible null reference when a city is razed

Fixed Mounted unit attack bonus incorrectly being listed in tooltips as a negative defensive modifier

Fixed tribal unit movement bug

Fixed extra divider in improvement tooltip for improvements with no yields

Fixed event trigger text not always showing correctly

Fixed camera hotkeys not working in map editor

Fixed MP setup when playing scenarios where player order doesn't match scenario save

Fixed new tribe leaders not following their tribe's religion in Wrath of Gods scenario

Fixed mod infos initialization, source effects were not being properly set on new game. Fixes Rebel text in the Wrath of Gods scenario

Text and event fixes
80048 (2025-10-07)Main Branch 1.0.79872 release 2025-09-24 Main Hotfix 1.0.80048 release 2025-10-07

Hotfix updates Unity version to resolve a security vulnerability and fixes a potential AI hang
Design

Temporarily hidden units (i.e. Scouts bounced out of Trees) now become visible after 5 turns (or after attacking or moving)

Temporarily hidden units can no longer occupy territory that they would not be able to occupy if not hidden (i.e. foreign territory while at Truce)

Scouts are no longer removed from the map after establishing an Agent Network and instead get a 5 turn cooldown and are hidden for 10 turns

Veneration Theology gives +10% spread chance, up from 5%

Revelation Theology gives +20% spread chance, down from 25%

Enlightenment Theology now gives +3 Happiness only for Monks in Monasteries of Religions that have that Theology

Tribe unit behavior is less predictable

Barbarians cannot enter a nation's territory before raids are possible

Increased Discontent per turn on Sufficient, Modest and Fragile Prosperity levels (Glorious, Magnificent and Great difficulty levels)

Removed free Crossbowmen bonus tech

Nomad effect now gives +25% strength in Arid as well as Sand tiles - affects Camel Archer, Libyan Cavalry and Elite Libyan Cavalry

Highlands map script now has 27% more tiles to compensate for less useable area

Bypassed events are less frequent and tied to event level

Bypassed relationship penalty increased from 60 to 80

Automatic (non-event) marriage will prefer candidates with a lower age difference

Removed orders for refusing tribal truce in No Characters

Tribes can only adopt world religions

Poet trait gives positive opinion of other poets

Further decreased likelihood of AI founding religions early based on AI Development and Aggression (applies for at most first 16 turns)

Assault bonus to attack against forts no longer applies when forts give no defensive bonus

Disabled some more ambitions in One City Challenge

Rightful Heirs can no longer become Missing, Exiled, Imprisoned or Fugitive

Games with two human players and AI no longer place the humans at opposite ends of the map and the AI in the middle. Instead, they are treated like a FFA.

Added ambitions for building Wonders added in Wonders and Dynasties

Delvers have an opinion penalty towards Stewards of the Land. These traits are now mutually exclusive (Wrath of Gods)
Programming

AI improvements:

AI water control improvements and bug fixes

Tweaks to exploration and retreat

Keep potential danger separate from actual danger

Increased value of heir tutor mission

No longer guards starting empty city sites unless there is another player nearby

No longer imports horses until they can build horse units

Hittite Scouts avoid chopping trees that will unhide them

Further reduced AI emphasis on tile buying

Tribe AI improvements

Other programming changes:

Performance optimization

AI performance improvements

Missing shaders in asset bundles are now replaced with game versions where possible (affects mods)

Updated Epic dev tools and SDK
UI

Turn timer changes (MP):

There are now 2 warnings that turn time is running out

First warning triggers at 30 seconds remaining, turns timer text red and plays audio warning

Second warning triggers at 15 seconds remaining, increases timer text size and plays audio warning again

These times are configurable using a mod in globalsInt.xml

Other UI changes:

Renamed Rider projects from Import to Supply

'Only Show Map Tacks For Worker' option renamed to 'Contextual Map Tacks'. Now shows improvement pings whenever workers, settlers or disciples are selected

Improvement helptext and unit build option prereqs take into account tile owner rather than unit owner

Added helptext warning when trying to build Improvement for teammate who doesn't have required Tech

Improved some luxury trade help text

Yield production graphs also display the total accumulated up until the hovered point (after game is over and for observers)

Learn to Play is removed from the main menu after completing all the LTP or LBP scenarios or on disabling the tutorial

Added help text for event options that give archetypes in Roleplaying mode

Imprisoned trait removed from characters on death

Updated difficulty descriptions
Bugs Fixed

Tribe AI fixes

Fixed city and culture limits not showing on Encyclopedia entries for relevant improvements

Fixed uneven distribution of tribal unit types

Fixed some bugs with AI use of missions

Fixed converting a game to play-by-cloud not working when not your turn in Strict turnstyle

Fixed missions continuing for dead target character

Fixed camera focus on tile bug

Fixed changing capital clearing sent luxuries

Fixed modded asset bundles not loading in some cases

Fixed load/save error from adjacent unit effects

Fixed bug with AI exploring units trying to harvest when they cannot

Fixed AI peace offers sometimes using the no events popup when events are enabled

Fixed yield stockpiling ambitions being offered when close to already being completed

Fixed duplicate event option archetype help text

Fixed tribal camp events not resetting with Reset Random Seed on Load option enabled

Fixed bug preventing DLC related hints being shown in Encyclopedia

Fixed potential null reference in Map Editor

Fixed some temporary invisibility issues

Fixed audio tracks not always being listed in Main Menu audio options

Fixed tribal units with a raid target counting towards a tribal camp's defend threshold or raid start threshold

Fixed AI not knowing how to repair improvements that cannot be built (e.g. Towns)

Fixed edge case with Carthage3 African Invasion goal not completing

Fixed iGovernorCostModifier applying to orders (affects Darius dynasty and mods)

Fixed unbuildable units and tech cards showing on the tech tooltip (affects mods)

Fixed mod version mismatch being displayed incorrectly, preventing modded saves from being loaded in some case

Fixed foreign occurrence effects on units, movement and visibility not being applied immediately (Wrath of Gods)

Fixed some occurrence load/save issues (Wrath of Gods)

Fixed some non-global Occurrences showing as global in helptext (Wrath of Gods)

Fixed Wrath of Gods scenario map size

Fixed wrath from difficulty not being applied in the Wrath of Gods scenario

Fixed displayed prosperity level not matching effect in the Wrath of Gods scenario

Text and Event fixes
79872 (2025-09-24)Main Branch 1.0.79872 release 2025-09-24 Design

Temporarily hidden units (i.e. Scouts bounced out of Trees) now become visible after 5 turns (or after attacking or moving)

Temporarily hidden units can no longer occupy territory that they would not be able to occupy if not hidden (i.e. foreign territory while at Truce)

Scouts are no longer removed from the map after establishing an Agent Network and instead get a 5 turn cooldown and are hidden for 10 turns

Veneration Theology gives +10% spread chance, up from 5%

Revelation Theology gives +20% spread chance, down from 25%

Enlightenment Theology now gives +3 Happiness only for Monks in Monasteries of Religions that have that Theology

Tribe unit behavior is less predictable

Barbarians cannot enter a nation's territory before raids are possible

Increased Discontent per turn on Sufficient, Modest and Fragile Prosperity levels (Glorious, Magnificent and Great difficulty levels)

Removed free Crossbowmen bonus tech

Nomad effect now gives +25% strength in Arid as well as Sand tiles - affects Camel Archer, Libyan Cavalry and Elite Libyan Cavalry

Highlands map script now has 27% more tiles to compensate for less useable area

Bypassed events are less frequent and tied to event level

Bypassed relationship penalty increased from 60 to 80

Automatic (non-event) marriage will prefer candidates with a lower age difference

Removed orders for refusing tribal truce in No Characters

Tribes can only adopt world religions

Poet trait gives positive opinion of other poets

Further decreased likelihood of AI founding religions early based on AI Development and Aggression (applies for at most first 16 turns)

Assault bonus to attack against forts no longer applies when forts give no defensive bonus

Disabled some more ambitions in One City Challenge

Rightful Heirs can no longer become Missing, Exiled, Imprisoned or Fugitive

Games with two human players and AI no longer place the humans at opposite ends of the map and the AI in the middle. Instead, they are treated like a FFA.

Added ambitions for building Wonders added in Wonders and Dynasties

Delvers have an opinion penalty towards Stewards of the Land. These traits are now mutually exclusive (Wrath of Gods)
Programming

AI improvements:

AI water control improvements and bug fixes

Tweaks to exploration and retreat

Keep potential danger separate from actual danger

Increased value of heir tutor mission

No longer guards starting empty city sites unless there is another player nearby

No longer imports horses until they can build horse units

Hittite Scouts avoid chopping trees that will unhide them

Further reduced AI emphasis on tile buying

Tribe AI improvements

Other programming changes:

Performance optimization

AI performance improvements

Missing shaders in asset bundles are now replaced with game versions where possible (affects mods)

Updated Epic dev tools and SDK
UI

Turn timer changes (MP):

There are now 2 warnings that turn time is running out

First warning triggers at 30 seconds remaining, turns timer text red and plays audio warning

Second warning triggers at 15 seconds remaining, increases timer text size and plays audio warning again

These times are configurable using a mod in globalsInt.xml

Other UI changes:

Renamed Rider projects from Import to Supply

'Only Show Map Tacks For Worker' option renamed to 'Contextual Map Tacks'. Now shows improvement pings whenever workers, settlers or disciples are selected

Improvement helptext and unit build option prereqs take into account tile owner rather than unit owner

Added helptext warning when trying to build Improvement for teammate who doesn't have required Tech

Improved some luxury trade help text

Yield production graphs also display the total accumulated up until the hovered point (after game is over and for observers)

Learn to Play is removed from the main menu after completing all the LTP or LBP scenarios or on disabling the tutorial

Added help text for event options that give archetypes in Roleplaying mode

Imprisoned trait removed from characters on death

Updated difficulty descriptions
Bugs Fixed

Tribe AI fixes

Fixed city and culture limits not showing on Encyclopedia entries for relevant improvements

Fixed uneven distribution of tribal unit types

Fixed some bugs with AI use of missions

Fixed converting a game to play-by-cloud not working when not your turn in Strict turnstyle

Fixed missions continuing for dead target character

Fixed camera focus on tile bug

Fixed changing capital clearing sent luxuries

Fixed modded asset bundles not loading in some cases

Fixed load/save error from adjacent unit effects

Fixed bug with AI exploring units trying to harvest when they cannot

Fixed AI peace offers sometimes using the no events popup when events are enabled

Fixed yield stockpiling ambitions being offered when close to already being completed

Fixed duplicate event option archetype help text

Fixed tribal camp events not resetting with Reset Random Seed on Load option enabled

Fixed bug preventing DLC related hints being shown in Encyclopedia

Fixed potential null reference in Map Editor

Fixed some temporary invisibility issues

Fixed audio tracks not always being listed in Main Menu audio options

Fixed tribal units with a raid target counting towards a tribal camp's defend threshold or raid start threshold

Fixed AI not knowing how to repair improvements that cannot be built (e.g. Towns)

Fixed edge case with Carthage3 African Invasion goal not completing

Fixed iGovernorCostModifier applying to orders (affects Darius dynasty and mods)

Fixed unbuildable units and tech cards showing on the tech tooltip (affects mods)

Fixed mod version mismatch being displayed incorrectly, preventing modded saves from being loaded in some case

Fixed foreign occurrence effects on units, movement and visibility not being applied immediately (Wrath of Gods)

Fixed some occurrence load/save issues (Wrath of Gods)

Fixed some non-global Occurrences showing as global in helptext (Wrath of Gods)

Fixed Wrath of Gods scenario map size

Fixed wrath from difficulty not being applied in the Wrath of Gods scenario

Fixed displayed prosperity level not matching effect in the Wrath of Gods scenario

Text and Event fixes
79513 (2025-08-27)Main Branch 1.0.79513 release 2025-08-27

Design

Duel map size is now smaller (45x45) and defaults to 2 players

Added new map size Tiny, which is the same size as the old Duel

Maximum Number of Opponents allowed is now set per map size at twice the default number of players

Random map size can no longer result in an actual map size that is too small to accommodate the chosen number of players

Added new Ultra-wide aspect ratio option to MP setup (map width is 40% of map height)

Each Victory condition is disabled for other players after first being achieved

It is no longer possible to lose the game after being the first to complete a victory condition

Tribes, Raiders, Rebels and Barbarians now more likely to pillage improvements and attack units rather than cities

All members of a team with a nation allied to a tribe can found cities on that tribe's sites, for an extra cost

The AI avoids founding a religion for a certain number of turns, depending on AI aggression and development levels

The AI can no longer start with improvements that are required for founding a religion (Shrines and Pastures)

Units that are no longer hidden because of an effect being removed remain hidden until they move or attack

Hidden scouts no longer get bounced several tiles away just to remain hidden in Trees

Make Peace/Alliance with a Tribe ambitions no longer require tribe contact and don't fail if the last contacted tribe is eliminated

Adad-Guppi and Ramesses II cannot die for the first 50 years (Wonders and Dynasties)

Slum improvements are now Urban (Behind the Throne)

Added new map script Desolation, a fertile land with deserts that expand over time (Wrath of Gods)

Occurrences no longer change terrain on a tile with an improvement (excluding roads) to a terrain type that is not supported by that improvement (Wrath of Gods)

Occurrences no longer remove roads when changing terrain to a type that doesn't support roads, unless impassable (Wrath of Gods)

Added new Sacrifice Courtier goal to the Wrath of Gods scenario

Drought raid event in the Wrath of Gods scenario can no longer occur in the first 20 turns or at all on Weak Tribe Level

Programming

AI improvements:

Pathfinder enhancements

Improved movement plans on congested maps

Combat tactics improvements

Fixed AI being less aggressive against other players than intended

Improved attacks out of staging areas

Founds cities for protection instead of retreating

Less likely to retreat healthy units after attacking in the same area

Better accounting for enemy power when allocating units to city defense and attack staging

Anchored ships are higher priority targets

More urgent repair of pillaged improvements

Revised specialist and improvement building priorities

Other programming changes:

Minor performance improvements

Occurrences are processed for each player separately during their turn

New game loading screen no longer waits for the prehistory to finish, improving load times on fast machines

Expanded and tweaked wording of warning of potential crashes on Raptor Lake CPUs

Owned DLCs on GoG are now cached in memory after receiving ownership

Better handling of modded XML paths on Windows

UI

Victory screen is updated when a player has met one of the victory conditions

Victory popup on game over mentions the last victory earned instead of the first

Score threshold for victory no longer shown after double/points victory achieved

Net yield tooltip now groups yields that subtract from each other (affects mods only)

Added loading screen hint about Advanced Help Text

Specialist help text without the advanced help text option now includes a simple yield total in the place of net modified yields

Cleaned up culture help text

Player and tribe tooltips no longer show relationship with unmet entities

Replaced icons for Strength and Weakness

Removed tile change notifications from game log

Localization text updates

More UI related actions allowed during another players turn (i.e. renaming cities, setting reminders)

Cloud notification emails no longer show details in Summary section if they appear in another category

Network games are now removed from the Current Games list for eliminated players

Bugs Fixed

Fixed 11th ambition / 2nd National ambition sometimes getting offered

Fixed null reference on exit to menu

Fixed tooltips clearing unnecessarily between turns

Fixed governor icon not updating after losing control of a city

Fixed tile recommendation icon interactability when tile status is active

Fixed possible crash if a mod eliminates a council position

Fixed tile border expansion when using the Game Editor

Fixed leader trait achievements not working when new leader already has trait

Fixed AI behavior for congested battlefields

Fixed pinned characters being shared between players

Fixed some game editor actions not working when it's not the active player's turn

Fixed AI building too many forts and in bad locations

Fixed incorrect AI danger calculations

Fixed Caravan animation being affected by "Follow AI moves" setting

Fixes to Multiple Continents map script

Fixed trigger text for some city culture events

Fixed assign governor tooltip showing incorrect opinion change

Fixed some duplicate titles in cloud email notifications

Fixed caravan missions not being able to be completed through unrevealed territory

Fixed governor project reminders not being dismissable

Fixed toggle buttons closing reminders panel

Fixed yield previews showing for improvement placement on invalid tiles with map tacks

Fixed custom overlay not restoring properly after hovering to build a road

Fixed a city site assignment bug that could result in AI cities on higher development levels not being grouped together

Fixed null icon in eliminated player text on MP game tooltips

Fixed cities not being able to be razed in no-character mode

Fixed AI sometimes not clearing or claiming city sites

Fixed net yield change tooltip for adjacent improvement modifiers

Fixed events incorrectly showing origin of foreign occurrence

Fixed display of family tab when large numbers of luxuries are sent to family

Fixed helptext performance issue

Fixed units sometimes not getting bounced from occurrence impassable tiles

Fixed XP floating text sometimes not appearing

Fixed map scripts allowing unreachable non-boundary tiles

Fixed missing Tribal Truce and Peace missions in No Characters

Fixed ethnicity helptext issue in Heroes of the Aegean 6

Fixed Kingship god icon positioning (Wrath of Gods)

Fixed global Occurrences (e.g. Drought, Plague) being more frequent than intended (Wrath of Gods)

Text and event fixes
79004 (2025-07-31)Main Branch 1.0.79004 Release 2025-07-31

Hotfix release that fixes a couple of potential game hangs. It also reverts the UI change requiring ctrl+click to load cloud games from previous versions on release builds.
78921 (2025-07-23)Main Branch 1.0.78921 Release 2025-07-23 Headline Changes

Added support for Multiple Victories and Succession Games

Custom Map Overlay added, Overlay and Map Pin UI improvements

AI improvements
Design

Multiple Victory support

On achieving a Double, Points or Ambition victory, players will be prompted to either accept victory or try to pursue another victory condition

While pursuing additional victories, defeat can still occur if another player satisfies a victory condition

Multiple victories are tracked in the Hall of Fame

Succession game support

Added 'Send to Player' option to in-game menu for Single Player games

This is designed to support Succession games and can also be used generally for sharing saves

Select a friend from the dropdown or enter their platform ID

Games will appear on both the sender and recipients Current Games list on the main menu

The Current Games entry will be deleted automatically after the recipient loads the game and can be manually deleted in Host Controls by both parties

Other design changes

Religious improvements may now be adjacent to improvements of different religions

Launch Offensive now gives the unit and leader 20 XP

Events can no longer end a war with a tribe that has a player ally

Resources added during the game (events or other bonuses) can now be placed adjacent to resources of different types

Holy site legitimacy events are now guaranteed to trigger on improvement completion

Distant raid probabilities are now based on each player's Prosperity rather than global Tribe Level

Gadarat's Subjugator trait spawns worker at cleared site rather than capital (Wonders and Dynasties)

Akhenaten can build Altar of the Aten improvements which spread Atenism, a new unique religion for this dynasty. Disciple bonuses removed. (Wonders and Dynasties)

Nebuchadnezzar I's brother now recognized as Royal (Wonders and Dynasties)

Occurrences no longer change or remove existing resources, or add resources to improved tiles unless the existing improvement matches the new resource (Wrath of Gods)

Occurrences no longer add vegetation to tiles with resources that don't allow that vegetation (Wrath of Gods)

Added goal Declare War on Tribes Three Times to the Wrath of Gods scenario
Programming

Enabled cloud games on test builds

AI attack and retreat tweaks

Added some AI flexibility in still getting kills when an attack doesn't go as predicted

AI is a little more careful with sacrificing its good units

AI is less eager to buy tiles

AI makes truce with other AI more easily when it detects a stalemate

Adjusted the target number of units for the AI

AI places more value on walls after reaching its unit target

AI now tries to explore rival territory, if possible, to reveal cities

Decoupled subject picking from events

Missions now take an arbitrary list of subjects and relations
UI

Custom Map Overlay added, giving a lot more flexibility in what is shown on a map overlay

Map pins can now be added and removed using a grid of icons from the Overlay Customizer

Map pin UI improvements

Map Overlays can now be locked with right click

Added option to set default map overlay

Added option Advanced Help Text. Some tooltip information is removed when this option is not enabled

Event triggers are now displayed at the top of events where relevant

Added popup notifications for some bonuses (Diplomatic, Subjugator, King of Kings, Fickle Band)

Landmark discovery popups no longer shown when starting an alliance

Cloud games that were last played on a different version will be greyed out with a warning. Use Ctrl+click to load a game from an earlier version. Saves from later version cannot be loaded

Added starting characters to SP setup stats screen

Added support for cycling through occurrence tiles on click

Added turns of/since conflict to player and tribe tooltips

Mission subject info now shown in Encyclopedia

Up/Down arrows cycle through encyclopedia entries

Added yellow warning text to specialist "replaces" text

Added visual flood effect for extreme Iteru flooding in Pharaohs of the Nile campaign

Added Governor Project reminder category for religious dissent (Sacred and Profane)

Added custom helptext for Ebbing Sea occurrence (Wrath of Gods)
Bugs Fixed

Fixed yield previews getting stuck

Fixed bug that could cause games to fail to start after selecting Learn to Play scenarios

Fixed map generation for games with 2 human teams where the middle of the map is not suitable for player starts (e.g. Hardwood Forest)

Fixed border expansions sometimes including urban tiles that belong to other city sites

Fixed free improvement UI not triggering when completing Jebel Barkal

Fixed free improvement UI not showing dynamic improvement text (i.e leader name on Stele)

Fixed data issue with some tile status text

Fixed succession list character links showing effects of being a leader instead of current character effects

Fixed empty categories in cloud emails

Fixed project net yield bug

Fixed MP setup spacing and text wrapping issues

Fixed rout preview sometimes being shown incorrectly

Fixed Caravans consuming orders when they cannot move

Fixed subject matching for characters in eventlinks

Fixed Road To overlay not clearing after selecting tile

Fixed some parts of the research UI sometimes being uninteractable

Fixed note map pings

Fixed AI build choices not respecting the Guilds law

Fixed selected city widget not being interactable

Fixed tribal units not getting allied territory water movement bonus

Fixed toggle sizing on some resolutions

Fixed Event Browser not using full screen

Fixed Encyclopedia errors

Fixed anarchy road building bug

Fixed Lose a City goal not completing when losing a city due to an event

Fixed ship harvest helptext showing xp is gained from harvesting

Fixed player count not resetting when switching from premade to random map

Fixed units counterattacking when they could not have targeted the attacking unit on their own turn

Fixed AI trying to start a Caravan mission over and over when it's not possible

Fixed heir sometimes getting auto-married instead of getting a marriage offer

Fixed portrait loading error when toggling mods in SP setup

Fixed custom nicknames for leaders not being applied from events

Fixed chat and pings not working when not your turn in network MP games

Fixed players not being able to act after ending their turn when still their their teams turn with Strict (Teams) turn style active

Fixed AI behavior for congested battlefields

Fixed issues when removing tile visual effects, which were causing problems in the Pharaohs of the Nile scenarios

Fixed Pharaohs of the Niles scenario 1 undo back over army deployment

Fixed minor victory broken link in Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 6

Fixed bug that could cause turns to be skipped in the Wrath of Gods scenario

Fixed Occurrence effects applying multiple times to cities (Wrath of Gods)

Fixed Occurrence overlay sometimes not clearing (Wrath of Gods)

Fixed Occurrence terrain change notifications appearing for out of bounds tiles (Wrath of Gods)

Fixed mod upload error

Mod browser and upload page fixes

Text and event fixes
78527 (2025-06-25)Main Branch 1.0.78527 Release 2025-06-25 Headline Changes

Clerics family changes

Guilds law now allows building Elder specialists directly, skipping prerequisite specialists

New UI system for placing free improvements and resources
Design

Cleric family now gets free Divine Rule law on founding. Removed free Monasticism and Found Religion Project from Clerics

Cleric seats can build Christian and Manicheist Disciples after the religions have been founded without the religion being present

Cleric seats have double speed Disciples only for State Religion

Religion spread no longer has a distance limit from the Holy City

Guilds law now allows building Elder Specialists directly, skipping any prerequisite specialists. Hamlet happiness bonus removed

Tribe-owned units no longer get a strength modifier against other tribes at strong and raging tribe levels

Regents now become Royal if they usurp the throne or continue ruling after the rightful heir's death

Projects and specialists that are automatically removed from the build queue because they are no longer valid now refund any invested resources to the player's yield stockpile

AI governors now emphasize growth and build fewer growth units when city has no citizens

Persia's Shapur dynasty gets the Found Religion project (Wonders and Dynasties)

Rising Stars are now less common and ask to become a Grand Vizier less (Behind the Throne)

Opulence project now requires a luxury in addition to estates (Behind the Throne)

Reduced probability of Occurrence ready events (Wrath of Gods)
Multiplayer Turn Style changes

Loose turn style can be selected only with a turn timer

Renamed normal turn style to adaptive

Tight turn style is now the default

Strict turn styles no longer allow players to perform any actions when not their turn (this also affects single player)
Programming

Performance optimization

Memory allocation optimization

Bug reporting system improvements

Improved AI valuation of Disciples and Religions

AI now uses Cleric seat ability to build disciples of non-present religions

Improved AI use of unit staging before an attack

AI checks whether a city can have an effect from resources before building a project that gives that same effect (i.e. Riders Import Horses)

AI knows to use units that do not require orders when it's out of orders

Improved sprite loading thread safety

Added safeguards against unexpected UI resets from a game restart

Added 3 additional resource categories to the default map script for use by mods

Added support for partial counterattack strength for use by mods (replaced InfoUnit.mbMeleeCounter with miMeleeCounterPercent)

Added support for upgrading rural improvements for use by mods

Generalized event subject picking so it no longer needs an event, just a list of subjects

Various missions started by the leader now no longer block all events with a leader subject

UI mod files (UI/includes and UI/styles) are excluded from game CRC

Added UI/templates to UI modding paths
UI

Free improvements and resources are now added to the event queue and placed by clicking a valid tile

Tooltip in tech tree shows the date team mates have discovered each tech, as well as for observers in MP games, and all players when the game is completed

Games with custom names (i.e. Game of the Week) now show their name in the parameters tooltip

Improvement net yield now includes Patrons Precious Resource culture bonus

Border expansion preview has the correct border colors for families

Added Items to Encyclopedia in their own category, with unique events listed

Encyclopedia now lists DLC source for traits where applicable

ESC clears luxury selection before opening menu

City luxury tooltip improvements

Valid unit types now listed for 'New units start with

' helptext

Improved luxury tooltip positioning

Removed tile raw yield from the city net yield tooltip

Added min height for OK button on turn summary popup

Scripted tutorial events blur the background UI, preventing events being bypassed

Added strength/weakness icons to concept links

Improved Riders 'Import Resource' project helptext

Yield and unit strength previews when assigning jobs now take into account the opinion change caused by the job switch

Mission requirements in tooltips are no longer shown in some situations where these requirements are all met

Ratings shown on character tooltip when they are 0 if they produce a yield (i.e. Schemer Agents)

Removed resource ping from improvements dropdown. This was made obsolete by the new UI to place free resources

Improved tooltips and interactions between Behind the Throne traits and imprison/assassinate missions
Bugs Fixed

Fixed event job forcing not always working

Fixed trade breakdown tooltip

Fixed governor marker showing in city widget for No Characters

Fixes to the Old World premade map - re-added dynasty start positions and fixed empty tiles warning

Fixes to the Punic Duel premade map - removed underwater trees and fixed missing city name

Fixed border expansion preview not updating after changes in player decision queue

Fixed Stele placement not being restricted to chosen city

Fixed a bug with AI unit effect evaluation

Fixed Game.canStartOccurrence modifying the game state

Fixed players being unable to surrender in MP games when they are the last active human player

Fixed events checking for mutual attraction selecting divorced spouses

Fixed incorrect amount of orders when ending the turn without founding a city

Fixed temporarily impassable tiles getting counted for minor city creation

Fixed leader bio paragraph indentation inconsistencies

Fixed farm model roof bug

Fixed visibility load/save error from terrain height change

Fixed an AI bug that made it misjudge large battle outcomes and attack when it should be retreating

Fixed number of improvement ambitions becoming impossible after losing control of a city

Fixed mini tech tree names not being accounted for in scroll area

Fixed council character tooltip positioning with selection active

Fixed reference to Stun in Retreat helptext

Fixed Guilds help text inconsistency

Fixed top bar yield arrows for selected character

Fixed events giving characters jobs getting invalidated when character is general of a unit on cooldown

Fixed yield preview showing incorrectly when replacing an improvement with a specialist

Fixed duplicate characters getting generated from events

Fixed AI bug that caused retreat from non hostile AI units

Fixed critical hit chance not resetting on General wisdom change

Fixed flicker when hovering over improvement recommendations

Fixed border expansion algorithm

Fixed family and religion crest color and opinion display

Fixed potential infinite recursion in AI bonusValue calculations

Fixed another case of Carthage scenario 4 Epic Victory achievement not being granted

Fixed Pharoahs of the Nile scenario 4 being continuable after winning

UI modding fixes

Text and event fixes
78114 (2025-06-02)Main Branch 1.0.78053 Release 2025-05-28 Hotfix 1.0.78114 Release 2025-06-02

Hotfix fixes bugs with some events and automated workers that could cause the game to get stuck
Design

Garrison and Governor changes:

Governors no longer require a Garrison

Capital no longer gets a free Garrison

Garrison and Stronghold stone cost reduced by 20 (80/100 -> 60/80)

Darius dynasty now gives 50% discount to appointing Governors (Wonders and Dynasties)

Law changes:

Guilds now gives +10 money per specialist type per city instead of -10% Rebel chance

Freedom now gives -5% Rebel chance instead of +1 happiness per city

Calligraphy now gives +10 culture per city instead of +4 culture per library

Swapped Calligraphy and Iconography upkeep costs

Swapped Colonies and Serfdom upkeep costs

Other design changes:

Library class improvements Science increase changed from 20%/30%/50% to 10%/20%/30%

Courthouse class improvements Civics increase changed from 20%/30%/50% to 20%/30%/40%

Market class improvements Money increase changed from 20%/30%/50% to 30%/40%/50%

Rider family Import projects allow cities to build relevant units directly instead of adding resources to map. Added extra order to rider seat (1 -> 2)

Increased AI penalties on The New difficulty (20% -> 25%)

Ruthless AI declares war on a winning player even if that player is not directly reachable

Ruthless AI gets more chances to conduct diplomacy when a player is close to winning

Ruthless AI now takes alliances and national ambitions into account for determining if a player is close to winning

The Old World premade map edits - boundaries slightly expanded, marshes added and resources redistributed

When a unit move cannot be completed because a lack of orders, a partial 1-tile move results in a unit swap, if possible

Damaged cities cannot be gifted to another team

Added 'No city gifting' option to MP setup

Disjunction mapscript with King of the Hill option balance improvements

Minor cities can be created even if the site is occupied

Borders with team-owned tiles on opposite sites are now claimed by the city with the most adjacent tiles

Barbarian Horde will now spawn inside player territory if there are not enough tiles available otherwise

In Rise of Carthage scenario 3, Orator-recruited mercenaries now count as hired and contribute to the optional merc hiring goal

Drought effect tweaks (Wrath of Gods)

Occurrences that result in small seas (18 tiles or less) convert that water to lakes. Mainly affects Ebbing Sea mapscript (Wrath of Gods)

Occurrences can now cause terrain changes on improved tiles, as long as the improvement remains legal for that tile (Wrath of Gods)
New Events

14 new events added - 11 for base game and 3 for Behind the Throne DLC

A City Like No Other

Deadly Inheritance

I Love It When A Plan Comes Together!

New Front

No War Declaration

Not to Be Trusted

Offensive Remarks

Reaping the Whirlwind

The God Queen

Triple Cross!

Tutorial: Upgrade Mercenaries

No Longer of Use (x2) (Behind the Throne)

Support or Scheme (Behind the Throne)
Programming

The AI claims cleared city sites more urgently (with force march, if necessary)

Performance optimization

Replaced valid terrain fields by TerrainTargetType to make improvement requirements more flexible

Family bonuses now check whether the bonus player has that family

Improved AI chokepoint management and attacks with high unit density

Memory allocation improvements

Occurrence terrain change refactor, now more mod friendly

Changed opinion-calculating functions to return a tuple

Event triggers can now have an arbitrary number of subjects

Added EffectUnits miAdjacentDifferentModifier, maeBuyTile, mbPillage, mabHideTerrainTarget and miMarchCostModifier

Added EffectCity aiYieldRateSpecialistRural

Allow the road pathfinder to accept TeamType.NONE, returning a road path which ignores visibility or diplomacy

Promoted Infos validator from ModPath to GameFactory so mods can supply custom validators

Added support for Religions to have a law opinion directly, not just through theologies
UI

Ship unit icons replaced to make the differences between them clearer

Added improvement net yields in tooltip

Foreign city citizen and specialist numbers now shown if the city tile is visible

Foreign city tooltips no longer show defense and damaged state unless the city is visible

Jobs are no longer shown on foreign character tooltips, unless their unit is visible (for Generals) or player has an agent in the relevant city (for Governors)

Added missing improvement warning text to unique unit production buttons

Added opinion gain line to Make Agent tooltip

Improved German grammar for character relationships

Stacked worker count shown on tooltip even when not actively building an improvement

Added "Improvements (Special)" section to the Encyclopedia, to include non-buildable Improvements

Added dynamic helptext for Attribute effects and tweaked Attribute helptext

Added Prosperity to Wrath of Gods setup

Ambitions display no longer gets minimized when clicking on listed ambitions

Pin Character icon has higher saturation when character is pinned

General traits which only affect some unit types now display affected unit types

Character relatives display now left-aligned

Improved border expansion predictions

Leader now shown on Court tab

Leader concept added to Encyclopedia

Horse trait now shown in Encyclopedia

Improved Encyclopedia entry for Citizen concept

Religions now always show founding requirements in the Encyclopedia

Characters entries in Encyclopedia now list unique events and missions

Encyclopedia, when viewed in-game, show entries based on currently enabled DLC instead of owned DLC
Bugs Fixed

Fixed tribal diplomacy cooldown not being enforced

Fixed minor cities not always being created when they should be

Fixed Send Goods icon display

Fixed load/save error from border expansion

Fixed null reference when tribe sites sit outside map boundaries

Fixed incorrect default value for resource hill height offset

Fixed improvement culture prereqs not working with modded culture

Fixed family opinion penalty from the Imprison mission getting applied to the character instead

Fixed net yields for projects to include secondary effects

Fixed sign error in specialist net yield help text

Fixed occurrence notification localization when playing MP with players using different languages

Fixed tech names not showing up on cards in some languages

Fixed changing a tile improvement affecting city build queue specialists on other tiles

Fixed character card not selecting tribe leader

Fixed occurrence overlay getting stuck in some cases

Fixed temporary overlays not getting cleared when blocking popups are active

Fixed units being bounced by an Occurrence before taking damage from it

Fixed bug with Player.canEverHaveEffectCity

Fixed tile territory assignment in game editor

Fixed Grand Vizier interfering with automated unit management

Fixed camera zooming to fog when clicking foreign character with job

Fixed Towers giving extra height instead of extra range

Fixed movement bug that resulted in allied units not getting bounced out of your territory

Fixed some AI retreat confusion

Fixed promotion button icons not aligning to right of button

Fixed nation crest color issues

Fixed tooltip positioning issues with HUD scaling

Fixed missing source traits on some effectCity entries

Fixed Opulence project not granting family opinion bonus

Fixed tooltip for event options that marry away characters

Fixed city production text not updating after builds finish

Fixed founded city territory bug

Fixed extra mission buttons appearing in some cases

Fixed missing at sea bonus description

Fixed production text sometimes not appearing in some languages when city healthbar is visible

Fixed Chancellors with negative discipline not reducing money income

Fixed Learn to Play ambitions not displaying correctly in Hall of Fame

Fixed mods not showing in Upload tab in some cases

Fixed map mod attributes not being checked in setup screen

Fixed scenario victory achievements sometimes not completing

Fixed Heroes of the Aegean scenario 4 tech tree completion achievement triggering too early

Fixed Heroes of the Aegean scenario 4 state religion adoption

Fixed Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 2 Tribal peace/truce/war missions

Fixed Pharaohs of the Nile scenario issues with Urusalim not being a city site

Fixed Pharaohs of the Nile overlapping goals UI

Fixed unwanted VPs in The Hill scenario

Fixed "Wrath of Gods" map script showing with "show hidden map scripts" enabled and content not owned

Fixed occurrences causing rivers with deltas flowing into land tiles (Wrath of Gods)

XML ordering fixes

Text and event fixes
78070 (2025-05-29)Main Branch 1.0.78053 Release 2025-05-28 Main Branch 1.0.78070 Release 2025-05-29

78070 update is a hotfix release that fixes a bug with some events that could cause the game to get stuck
Design

Garrison and Governor changes:

Governors no longer require a Garrison

Capital no longer gets a free Garrison

Garrison and Stronghold stone cost reduced by 20 (80/100 -> 60/80)

Darius dynasty now gives 50% discount to appointing Governors (Wonders and Dynasties)

Law changes:

Guilds now gives +10 money per specialist type per city instead of -10% Rebel chance

Freedom now gives -5% Rebel chance instead of +1 happiness per city

Calligraphy now gives +10 culture per city instead of +4 culture per library

Swapped Calligraphy and Iconography upkeep costs

Swapped Colonies and Serfdom upkeep costs

Other design changes:

Library class improvements Science increase changed from 20%/30%/50% to 10%/20%/30%

Courthouse class improvements Civics increase changed from 20%/30%/50% to 20%/30%/40%

Market class improvements Money increase changed from 20%/30%/50% to 30%/40%/50%

Rider family Import projects allow cities to build relevant units directly instead of adding resources to map. Added extra order to rider seat (1 -> 2)

Increased AI penalties on The New difficulty (20% -> 25%)

Ruthless AI declares war on a winning player even if that player is not directly reachable

Ruthless AI gets more chances to conduct diplomacy when a player is close to winning

Ruthless AI now takes alliances and national ambitions into account for determining if a player is close to winning

The Old World premade map edits - boundaries slightly expanded, marshes added and resources redistributed

When a unit move cannot be completed because a lack of orders, a partial 1-tile move results in a unit swap, if possible

Damaged cities cannot be gifted to another team

Added 'No city gifting' option to MP setup

Disjunction mapscript with King of the Hill option balance improvements

Minor cities can be created even if the site is occupied

Borders with team-owned tiles on opposite sites are now claimed by the city with the most adjacent tiles

Barbarian Horde will now spawn inside player territory if there are not enough tiles available otherwise

In Rise of Carthage scenario 3, Orator-recruited mercenaries now count as hired and contribute to the optional merc hiring goal

Drought effect tweaks (Wrath of Gods)

Occurrences that result in small seas (18 tiles or less) convert that water to lakes. Mainly affects Ebbing Sea mapscript (Wrath of Gods)

Occurrences can now cause terrain changes on improved tiles, as long as the improvement remains legal for that tile (Wrath of Gods)
New Events

14 new events added - 11 for base game and 3 for Behind the Throne DLC

A City Like No Other

Deadly Inheritance

I Love It When A Plan Comes Together!

New Front

No War Declaration

Not to Be Trusted

Offensive Remarks

Reaping the Whirlwind

The God Queen

Triple Cross!

Tutorial: Upgrade Mercenaries

No Longer of Use (x2) (Behind the Throne)

Support or Scheme (Behind the Throne)
Programming

The AI claims cleared city sites more urgently (with force march, if necessary)

Performance optimization

Replaced valid terrain fields by TerrainTargetType to make improvement requirements more flexible

Family bonuses now check whether the bonus player has that family

Improved AI chokepoint management and attacks with high unit density

Memory allocation improvements

Occurrence terrain change refactor, now more mod friendly

Changed opinion-calculating functions to return a tuple

Event triggers can now have an arbitrary number of subjects

Added EffectUnits miAdjacentDifferentModifier, maeBuyTile, mbPillage, mabHideTerrainTarget and miMarchCostModifier

Added EffectCity aiYieldRateSpecialistRural

Allow the road pathfinder to accept TeamType.NONE, returning a road path which ignores visibility or diplomacy

Promoted Infos validator from ModPath to GameFactory so mods can supply custom validators

Added support for Religions to have a law opinion directly, not just through theologies
UI

Ship unit icons replaced to make the differences between them clearer

Added improvement net yields in tooltip

Foreign city citizen and specialist numbers now shown if the city tile is visible

Foreign city tooltips no longer show defense and damaged state unless the city is visible

Jobs are no longer shown on foreign character tooltips, unless their unit is visible (for Generals) or player has an agent in the relevant city (for Governors)

Added missing improvement warning text to unique unit production buttons

Added opinion gain line to Make Agent tooltip

Improved German grammar for character relationships

Stacked worker count shown on tooltip even when not actively building an improvement

Added "Improvements (Special)" section to the Encyclopedia, to include non-buildable Improvements

Added dynamic helptext for Attribute effects and tweaked Attribute helptext

Added Prosperity to Wrath of Gods setup

Ambitions display no longer gets minimized when clicking on listed ambitions

Pin Character icon has higher saturation when character is pinned

General traits which only affect some unit types now display affected unit types

Character relatives display now left-aligned

Improved border expansion predictions

Leader now shown on Court tab

Leader concept added to Encyclopedia

Horse trait now shown in Encyclopedia

Improved Encyclopedia entry for Citizen concept

Religions now always show founding requirements in the Encyclopedia

Characters entries in Encyclopedia now list unique events and missions

Encyclopedia, when viewed in-game, show entries based on currently enabled DLC instead of owned DLC
Bugs Fixed

Fixed tribal diplomacy cooldown not being enforced

Fixed minor cities not always being created when they should be

Fixed Send Goods icon display

Fixed load/save error from border expansion

Fixed null reference when tribe sites sit outside map boundaries

Fixed incorrect default value for resource hill height offset

Fixed improvement culture prereqs not working with modded culture

Fixed family opinion penalty from the Imprison mission getting applied to the character instead

Fixed net yields for projects to include secondary effects

Fixed sign error in specialist net yield help text

Fixed occurrence notification localization when playing MP with players using different languages

Fixed tech names not showing up on cards in some languages

Fixed changing a tile improvement affecting city build queue specialists on other tiles

Fixed character card not selecting tribe leader

Fixed occurrence overlay getting stuck in some cases

Fixed temporary overlays not getting cleared when blocking popups are active

Fixed units being bounced by an Occurrence before taking damage from it

Fixed bug with Player.canEverHaveEffectCity

Fixed tile territory assignment in game editor

Fixed Grand Vizier interfering with automated unit management

Fixed camera zooming to fog when clicking foreign character with job

Fixed Towers giving extra height instead of extra range

Fixed movement bug that resulted in allied units not getting bounced out of your territory

Fixed some AI retreat confusion

Fixed promotion button icons not aligning to right of button

Fixed nation crest color issues

Fixed tooltip positioning issues with HUD scaling

Fixed missing source traits on some effectCity entries

Fixed Opulence project not granting family opinion bonus

Fixed tooltip for event options that marry away characters

Fixed city production text not updating after builds finish

Fixed founded city territory bug

Fixed extra mission buttons appearing in some cases

Fixed missing at sea bonus description

Fixed production text sometimes not appearing in some languages when city healthbar is visible

Fixed Chancellors with negative discipline not reducing money income

Fixed Learn to Play ambitions not displaying correctly in Hall of Fame

Fixed mods not showing in Upload tab in some cases

Fixed map mod attributes not being checked in setup screen

Fixed scenario victory achievements sometimes not completing

Fixed Heroes of the Aegean scenario 4 tech tree completion achievement triggering too early

Fixed Heroes of the Aegean scenario 4 state religion adoption

Fixed Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 2 Tribal peace/truce/war missions

Fixed Pharaohs of the Nile scenario issues with Urusalim not being a city site

Fixed Pharaohs of the Nile overlapping goals UI

Fixed unwanted VPs in The Hill scenario

Fixed "Wrath of Gods" map script showing with "show hidden map scripts" enabled and content not owned

Fixed occurrences causing rivers with deltas flowing into land tiles (Wrath of Gods)

XML ordering fixes

Text and event fixes
78053 (2025-05-28)Main Branch 1.0.78053 Release 2025-05-28 Design

Garrison and Governor changes:

Governors no longer require a Garrison

Garrison and Stronghold stone cost reduced by 20 (80/100 -> 60/80)

Darius dynasty now gives 50% discount to appointing Governors (Wonders and Dynasties)

Law changes:

Guilds now gives +10 money per specialist type per city instead of -10% Rebel chance

Freedom now gives -5% Rebel chance instead of +1 happiness per city

Calligraphy now gives +10 culture per city instead of +4 culture per library

Swapped Calligraphy and Iconography upkeep costs

Swapped Colonies and Serfdom upkeep costs

Other design changes:

Library class improvements Science increase changed from 20%/30%/50% to 10%/20%/30%

Courthouse class improvements Civics increase changed from 20%/30%/50% to 20%/30%/40%

Market class improvements Money increase changed from 20%/30%/50% to 30%/40%/50%

Rider family Import projects allow cities to build relevant units directly instead of adding resources to map. Added extra order to rider seat (1 -> 2)

Increased AI penalties on The New difficulty (20% -> 25%)

Ruthless AI declares war on a winning player even if that player is not directly reachable

Ruthless AI gets more chances to conduct diplomacy when a player is close to winning

Ruthless AI now takes alliances and national ambitions into account for determining if a player is close to winning

The Old World premade map edits - boundaries slightly expanded, marshes added and resources redistributed

When a unit move cannot be completed because a lack of orders, a partial 1-tile move results in a unit swap, if possible

Damaged cities cannot be gifted to another team

Added 'No city gifting' option to MP setup

Disjunction mapscript with King of the Hill option balance improvements

Minor cities can be created even if the site is occupied

Borders with team-owned tiles on opposite sites are now claimed by the city with the most adjacent tiles

Barbarian Horde will now spawn inside player territory if there are not enough tiles available otherwise

In Rise of Carthage scenario 3, Orator-recruited mercenaries now count as hired and contribute to the optional merc hiring goal

Drought effect tweaks (Wrath of Gods)

Occurrences that result in small seas (18 tiles or less) convert that water to lakes. Mainly affects Ebbing Sea mapscript (Wrath of Gods)

Occurrences can now cause terrain changes on improved tiles, as long as the improvement remains legal for that tile (Wrath of Gods)
New Events

14 new events added - 11 for base game and 3 for Behind the Throne DLC

A City Like No Other

Deadly Inheritance

I Love It When A Plan Comes Together!

New Front

No War Declaration

Not to Be Trusted

Offensive Remarks

Reaping the Whirlwind

The God Queen

Triple Cross!

Tutorial: Upgrade Mercenaries

No Longer of Use (x2) (Behind the Throne)

Support or Scheme (Behind the Throne)
Programming

The AI claims cleared city sites more urgently (with force march, if necessary)

Performance optimization

Replaced valid terrain fields by TerrainTargetType to make improvement requirements more flexible

Family bonuses now check whether the bonus player has that family

Improved AI chokepoint management and attacks with high unit density

Memory allocation improvements

Occurrence terrain change refactor, now more mod friendly

Changed opinion-calculating functions to return a tuple

Event triggers can now have an arbitrary number of subjects

Added EffectUnits miAdjacentDifferentModifier, maeBuyTile, mbPillage, mabHideTerrainTarget and miMarchCostModifier

Added EffectCity aiYieldRateSpecialistRural

Allow the road pathfinder to accept TeamType.NONE, returning a road path which ignores visibility or diplomacy

Promoted Infos validator from ModPath to GameFactory so mods can supply custom validators

Added support for Religions to have a law opinion directly, not just through theologies
UI

Ship unit icons replaced to make the differences between them clearer

Added improvement net yields in tooltip

Foreign city citizen and specialist numbers now shown if the city tile is visible

Foreign city tooltips no longer show defense and damaged state unless the city is visible

Jobs are no longer shown on foreign character tooltips, unless their unit is visible (for Generals) or player has an agent in the relevant city (for Governors)

Added missing improvement warning text to unique unit production buttons

Added opinion gain line to Make Agent tooltip

Improved German grammar for character relationships

Stacked worker count shown on tooltip even when not actively building an improvement

Added "Improvements (Special)" section to the Encyclopedia, to include non-buildable Improvements

Added dynamic helptext for Attribute effects and tweaked Attribute helptext

Added Prosperity to Wrath of Gods setup

Ambitions display no longer gets minimized when clicking on listed ambitions

Pin Character icon has higher saturation when character is pinned

General traits which only affect some unit types now display affected unit types

Character relatives display now left-aligned

Improved border expansion predictions

Leader now shown on Court tab

Leader concept added to Encyclopedia

Horse trait now shown in Encyclopedia

Improved Encyclopedia entry for Citizen concept

Religions now always show founding requirements in the Encyclopedia

Characters entries in Encyclopedia now list unique events and missions

Encyclopedia, when viewed in-game, show entries based on currently enabled DLC instead of ow