Cheers! Welcome to Kingdom Crier #26!

Advanced Frostcap Coolers

The latest invention in Dwarven technology is here!

Advanced Frostcap Coolers use a fan driven by the reaction to increase strength and efficiency!

My ruler likes it cooler!

Quality of Life Improvements (cont.)

We've continued our work Quality of Life Improvements - here are the highlights!

Ranged Combat

Ranged Combatants will now approach nearby ledges if it gives them an angle on an Enemy they want to target below. All Mortals will use improved logic to decide when to use their Ranged weapon.

Defenders confirm before Jumping from the Walls!

Ranged Defenders will no longer switch to their Melee weapon and Jump down to defend. "Go To" or "Attack" orders that will cause a Defending (or Holding) Mortal to Traverse (Climb Up, Mantle, Jump Down, etc.) will now pop up a Context menu for confirmation.

Overzealous Wall Jumpers had plagued many a Kontra.

Auto Junk v2

Auto Junk will automatically Junk Gear below a certain value threshold. Junked gear is only stored on Stockpiles or Shelves that allow Junk. Use this to lower the priority of storing that scuffed Raider Gear or prevent your people from storing it altogether. It's also easy to filter Junk in or out when Trading or giving out Belongings.

Now, the Auto Junk system will now respect any Manual Junking you do. Use this to opt out of Auto Junking for that low value item with great buffs or use it to get those garbage Steel Pauldrons out of your sight!

Tailgating through Locked Doors

Friendlies will now respect the Rules you put in place on your Door Locks. Nobles, Serfs, Prisoners and Visitors (and their Tames) will no longer Tailgate through an open door that doesn't allow them.

NOTE: Visitors will still Tailgate (and Bash) doors that are blocking them from leaving.

The Tool Button

We added a Tool button that will activate the appropriate Tool when you have a Prop, Digging Command, or Terraforming Command selected.

It's tool time!

Food Balance

We resolved a number of Food related issues that the more difficult Survival mechanics exposed.

We fixed a bug that caused Raw Meat to start at half Durability. Your Kingdom now bring a few Drinks with them to bridge the gap until they can Trade. You start with more Corn Seeds. Farming now produces more consistent results and higher Nutritional Yields.

Inherited Storage, Temperature, and Lighting Settings

Shelves, Lights, and Temperature Props will now inherit the settings of an appropriate Prop that they're replacing. In addition, the Storage Copy and Paste function now includes the Priority and Junk flags.

Raids

Raids now end when the Enemies disengage.

Patch Notes

Noble Fates 0.28.5.1 Released!
Cooling Content Update
Combat QOL Update

Cooler
Renamed Basic Frostcap Cooler
Increase Frostcaps Per Hour to .2
Decrease Cooling Range by 33%

Add Advanced Frostcap Cooler
Building lvl 6
Consumes 25% less Frostcaps Per Hour over Cooler
Provides 50% increase in Cooling over Cooler
Provides 33% increase in Cooling Range over Cooler

Jumping from Walls
Confirm Go To Orders that requires Traversal (Jumping, Climbing, etc)
Confirm Attack Orders that requires Traversal (Jumping, Climbing, etc)
Prevents Jumping from Walls without confirmation when Enlisted and not Pushing

Ranged Combat
Combatants are more likely to use their Bows than before
Approach Nearby Ledges to Fire down on Targets
Improve Line of Sight Detection
Do not switch to Melee if target requires Traversal

Raids
Raids now end when Enemies disengage
Improve Raider behavior when fired upon by a Catapult

Attack Orders
Tweaks to Attack Rate

Frostcaps
Decrease glow when immature

Kin
Increase Kin Damage by 50%
Increase Bigkin Damage by 50%

Mortal Attacks
Hitbox and Hud now follows Mortals when swing their weapons

Storage
Copy/Paste now include Priority and Junk Settings

Lighting Props
Inherit Settings from Lighting they are replacing

Temperature Props
Inherit Settings from Temperature Props they are replacing

Shelves
Inherit Settings from Shelves they are replacing
In addition, several other notable Quality of Life patches have dropped recently
Noble Fates 0.28.2.2 Released!
Hotfix

Mycologist
Visits 33% more frequently

Cooler
Decrease cost to .1 Frostcap per Hour

Props
Add "Tool" button that activates the Build Tool with that Type selected

Digging
Add "Tool" button that activates the Build Tool
Add Progress to details

Terraforming
Add "Tool" button that activates the Build Tool

Fuel Burners
Add Temperature Output to Type Tooltip
Add Temperature Range to Type Tooltip
Add Fuel cost to Type Tooltip

Skill Progression
Rename Talents to Skills on Character Job Tab
Correct errors in calculation of At Lvl 20 on Job Skill Tooltip
Add (?) Tooltip that explains Skill Progression

Walls
Fix cases where walls are incorrectly shortenedNoble Fates 0.28.3.1 Released!
Minor Version

Starting Inventory
Increase Consistency
Start with more Corn Seeds (+200%)
Start with less Drybars (-10%)
Start with Octogin (~8)
Fix Octoberberry Durability

Fruiting Foliage
Increase Yield Consistency

Octoberberry Bushes
Yield +33%

Mealbean Stalk
Yield +33%

Pumpkins
Nutrition +100%

Drybars
Decrease Lifetime by 33%
Add Description

Travel Meals
Add Description

Bouquets
Add Description

Drinks
Rename to Alcoholic Drinks
Add Description to Items

Visitors
Fix Octoberberry Durability

Junk
Remember when an Item has been Manually Junked or Unjunked
Items Manually Junked or Unjunked opt-out of Auto Junk
Re-junk or Unjunk the item to opt back into Auto Junk
Unjunk Auto Junked Items when Auto Junk settings no longer include them
Hide Junk Checkbox on Items where it isn't relevant

Performance
Greatly decrease the cost of calculating Food RemainingNoble Fates 0.28.3.2 Released!
Hotfix

Butchering
Fix bug that caused resulting Meat and Hide to have half Durability

Salvaging
Fix bug that caused resulting Items to have half Durability

Dismantling
Fix bug that caused resulting Items to have half DurabilityNoble Fates 0.28.4.1 Released!
Minor Version

Crash Fix
Fix for crash related to Melee Attacks

Doors
Tames will no longer Tailgate through open doors.
Visitors will no longer take on tasks that they can only complete by tailgating
Visitors (and their tames) no longer Tailgate through open doors...
Unless they're trying to leave

Prisoners
Prisoners can now leave their cell when Escaping
Prisoners can now Tailgate through Doors when Escaping
Prisoners can now Unbarricade Doors when Escaping
Prisoners can now Bash Doors when Escaping

Lodging
Visitors will no longer rent Lodging that they cannot reach

Relaxation
Properly account for "Always" burners when evaluating potential Relax spots
Resolves issues where people liked to sit by burners that cause them harm

Breacher
Fix bug that allowed a Fireball to hit the same victim multiple times
Tune Fireball damage
Improve Pathing

Catapult
Fix bug that allowed a Boulder to hit the same victim multiple times
Tune Boulder damage

Time Limits
Fix bug where Time Limits would cause cycling on tasks covered by multiple jobs

Green Thumb
Lower Cooldown to 3d from 5d

Performance
Improve performance of calculating Days of Food
Improve performance of checking controllable Temperature
Improve performance of reachability check
Restart the game and steam to make sure you're up to date!

Experimental Branch

Minor Updates like those above arrive on the Experimental Branch first.

If you have the stomach for brief bouts of instability and want to help us out - switch to (or stay in) the Experimental Beta on Steam and participate in discussions here or on discord.

v0.28 Saves will remain compatible until we launch the Beta for Feature Update #6 - some time from now.

Expect occasional issues - but know that we appreciate you helping us make the game better!

Community Corner

KSGvsHead planned this build out in dev mode


Then built it for real


Plum released Gremlins!

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Thanks for reading and thanks for playing!
The Noble Fates Team