What changed in Kingdoms and Castles in 2019

Announcement of ongoing work on mod support with more details to come soon.

The shipping route UI is now more intuitive, allowing for easier visualization and setup of routes.

City building AI now reinforces its walls in response to attacks and places towers more effectively.

Players can now build and control merchant ships to sell resources to AI kingdoms.

Enhanced Viking raids to launch on multiple fronts and improved boat responsiveness.

Introduced Viking thieves that steal gold from treasure rooms.

Enabled drag commands for chopping wood, rebuilding, and demolishing buildings.

Added archer school building that produces archer units with ranged attacks.

Changed mouse controls for selecting and moving the camera.

Added troop transport ships to move armies across water.

Fixed multiple issues including aqueducts, gates, and load/save exploits.

Introduced castle stairs allowing units to access walls and towers.

Implemented drag placement for multiple buildings.

Streamlined military system with barracks producing full units and removed unit cap.

Optimizations improved framerate from 18fps to 25fps on a fully built test city, a 30% performance boost.

Adding fish as a food source tied to a new villager health mechanic, with Fishing Huts and Fish Mongers.

AI can now build and sustain a city of hundreds, including food storage and defensive structures.

Optimizations tested that improved framerate from 18fps to 25fps on a fully built city.

Adding fish as a food source tied to a new villager health mechanic, with Fishing Huts and Fish Mongers.

AI can now build and sustain a city of hundreds, including food storage and defensive structures.

Wooden gates now match better with wooden walls and are cheaper than stone gates.

Baker now bakes faster, reducing time from 15s to 10s per bread.

Professional firefighters can be added to the Fire Brigade building to extinguish fires more quickly.

Fixed issue where castle blocks could not be built on top of a gate with a garden underneath.

Tax rates can now be set in half increments and displayed as percentages.

Adjusted ranges for castle tower ballista and archers.

Fixed issue where delivery workers could carry goods with them if they switched jobs.

Reservoirs can now be built anywhere, ignoring road territory.

Streamer mode allows viewers to vote on events affecting the kingdom during a stream.

New algorithm for map generation with distinct landmasses, shallow water rivers, and increased buildable tiles.

Drawbridges now go up when any ship comes through, preventing phasing.

Stockpiles now treated as stone roads for peasant walk speed.

Fixed issue where vikings spawned in creative mode wouldn’t always leave on their ships properly.

Fixed issue where mason was not repairing walls.

Older Mac users can now enable a mode to see trees.

Added display for charcoal maker yearly output.

Stone bridges fit with stone roads and provide movement bonuses but are impassable by ships.

Windmill bonuses no longer stack; each provides a flat +3 per tile.

Fixed garden not receiving adjacency bonuses if under aqueduct.

Fixed armies not being able to stand in town squares.

Right click now also deselects tower range UI.

Dragons are less punishing in terms of how many people they kill.

Fixed case where doctors could end up in deep water or floating in air.

Added dirt under stone roads to match regular roads/gardens better.

Fixed case where peasants could end up in deep water.