What changed in Kingdoms and Castles in 2018

Introducing a new viking unit that steals gold from treasure rooms.

Added rectangle mode for click+drag placement for fields, orchards, cemeteries, and piers.

Fixed issue with irrigated gardens not being clickable on piers.

Introduced witch huts that allow interaction with a witch who can provide spells or curses based on relationship.

Maps now spawn with caves that populate with wolves, which can attack anything except forester-employed peasants.

Fixed issue where buildings could be placed on rubble above castle blocks.

Gardens now provide a road access bonus but have a reduced speed bonus.

Increased noria water pressure by 50% and changed water requirement for its wheel.

Fires now extinguish faster in rain or snow.

Various small fixes and tweaks throughout the game.

Charcoal maker, Forester, Iron Mine, and Quarry now have delivery people for their outputs.

Fixed armies jittering at low FPS.

Tweaks to how resources are counted when being transported.

Plague can now spread over time from residential areas, requiring better access for doctors.

Added a hotkey for rebuilding structures.

Added cemeteries where peasants' bodies are taken by grave keepers, with a grave keeper's hut employing three grave keepers.

Foresters will plant faster if they have access to tools.

Visual improvements to the town square with better stone road linking and festive jack-o-lanterns.

Archer towers are less effective against ogres and dragons but more effective against vikings; ballistas have opposite adjustments.

Introduced a 1x1 clinic building housing two doctors, cheaper than a hospital for early coverage.

A new wooden gate will be introduced in the upcoming update.

A new Firehouse building will be added that employs effective professional firefighters.

A rework of the map generation algorithm to improve landmass distribution and features.

Development of the city building AI system for rival kingdoms is underway.

The total map size will be increased, along with the number of usable tiles compared to the current version.

Fixed issue with bakeries reporting inflated food amounts in the food report.

Some performance improvements have been made.

Workers will forget unused skills, and UI improvements show current skill learning.

Small and large fountains provide benefits of a well with extra happiness, must be on irrigated land.

Gardens provide happiness in a radius and bonus happiness if on irrigated soil or near other gardens.

A monument to the mighty dragon has been added.

Workers at towers won’t leave their jobs during combat unless manually disabled.

Fixed issue where 'w' or 's' could scroll the kingdom log.

Added happiness bonus for killing vikings.

Towers won’t shoot unless workers are present.

Aqueducts can now be built through castle walls and walls on top of aqueducts.

Granary workers will now pick up wheat dropped by other workers.

Building menu is now at the bottom center of the screen, with 'Town' split into 'Town' and 'Advanced Town'.

Development of AI that will build its own cities is underway, still in progress.

Introducing new game mechanics for a cemetery and witch hut, part of the upcoming free content update.

Numerous small tweaks and fixes have been made to improve gameplay.

Players can now build cathedrals that provide happiness and can convert invading vikings into peasants.

Bathhouses provide happiness and are available once towns reach a certain size.

Dragons now do more damage and their attacks escalate over time.

Health bars are now displayed for ogres, dragons, player, and viking armies.

The happiness overlay now shows a gradient based on proximity to happiness buildings.

A button has been added to rebuild structures from rubble created after this update.

Great libraries provide happiness and allow players to research upgrades for their kingdom.

Various performance optimizations have been implemented.

Taxes collected now depend on the number of working tax collectors.

Players can now see when the next dragon and viking attacks will arrive, with an option to toggle this in settings.

The forester is now required to build a charcoal maker.

Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, and Russian are now supported.

Introduced a new range indicator for attack towers, with a cap on range increase after 8 blocks high.

Added the option to open or close a dock to foreign merchants.

Fixed an issue with storage calculations for stockpiles and docks.

In creative mode, players can toggle settings and spawn various entities like dragons, vikings, and resources.

Armies can now target ogres and deal double damage to them.

Added the ability to rename transport ships.

Players can edit their map by painting land, water, rocks, and more after selecting a seed in creative mode.

Fixed an issue where input boxes would mysteriously take keyboard focus.

Added more new sound effects to the game.

Re-tuned the progression of viking invasions to appear a little earlier.

Libraries now cost more gold to build.

Players can now create and use their own banners by adding image files to the banner folder.

Players can now choose between standard mode and creative mode, allowing map modifications and various gameplay tweaks.

Resolved an issue where it appeared that armies weren't damaging ogres at 3x speed.

Implemented small optimizations for better performance.

Added Portuguese, Spanish, and Dutch localizations to the game.

Players can now choose between small, medium, or large maps, with deep water that cannot be crossed except by boat.

Library, Church, and Tavern provide happiness bonuses based on quantity rather than total coverage.

Players can build outposts on land separated by deep water to start new settlements.

Outposts can be built on land separated by deep water, allowing for new settlements.

Resource tooltips are now accessed by clicking on them for information.

Players can re-prioritize jobs per island by dragging and dropping.

Players can specify desired amounts of resources per stockpile, with excess being removed.

Fixed visual issue where gates did not close when vikings were near.

Fixed bug where villagers would not collect bread from bakers when hungry.

Fixed bug where villagers would not collect bread from bakers when hungry.

Draw bridges automatically open to allow ships to pass through.

Players can now prioritize jobs per island by dragging and dropping.

Optimizations made to pathfinding and other game systems.

Fixed issue where gates did not visually close when vikings were near.

Players can now rename any building by clicking the edit button next to its title.

Added lots of new sound effects to enhance gameplay.

Reworked UI for resource tooltips; now accessed by clicking on them.

Tax rate is now set in the UI rather than in Treasure rooms.

Transport ships can move goods between docks, allowing for efficient resource management.

Transport ships can move goods between docks, allowing for shipping routes.

Merchant ships will arrive at docks to buy and sell goods, offering special upgrades.

Granaries now employ more people who can carry twice as much as farmers.

Tax rate is now set on the UI in the bottom left instead of in Treasure rooms.

Draw bridges automatically open to allow ships to pass through.

Players can now choose small, medium, or large maps with deep and shallow water distinctions.

Optimizations have been made to loading time for save games.

Players can now rename any building by clicking the edit button next to its title.

Lots of new sound effects have been added to the game.

Merchant ships will arrive at docks to buy and sell goods, offering special upgrades.

Players can specify desired amounts of resources per stockpile.

Library, Church, and Tavern provide happiness bonuses based on quantity rather than coverage.

Docks can be placed in shallow water to prepare and export resources.

Granaries now employ more people who can carry twice as much as farmers.

Optimizations have been made to many game systems, notably pathfinding.

Optimized loading time for save games.

Docks can be placed in shallow water to prepare and lock resources for shipping.

New independent islands added to the game world.

New transport ships introduced for gameplay.

Transport ships introduced for moving resources between locations.

Regular hot-patching to fix bugs reported by beta testers.

Implementation of a job priority system for better resource management.

Players can now explore independent islands.

New merchant ships added for trade and resource management.

Introduction of larger maps for enhanced gameplay experience.

Regular hot-patching to fix bugs reported by players.

A new job priority system has been added to manage tasks.

New merchant ships added to the game.

Maps have been expanded for a larger gameplay area.