Ancient Cities update for 1 March 2024

v 1.0.2.32 European housing hotfix

New Sandbox game mode. Multiple gameplay improvements, optimisations and bug fixes. Expanded support for future new languages and improved game fonts.

LATEST CHANGES:

• Included sandbox game mode with free building and cheap maintenance.
• Improved multi-alphabet support and improved text fonts.
• Included beets and pulses as tradeable resources.
• Included regeneration of flint in rivers.
• Improved pathfinding for humans and domestic animals.
• Improved suitability calculation to join working groups.
• Improved visuals for trees, plants and terrain.
• Improved behavior for citizens when they have no work assigned.
• Improved perfomance for tribe information uploading to the web map.
• Balanced starting resource densities and production.
• Balanced building maintenance costs and times.
• Balanced learning pace and task performance by game speed.
• Balanced dwellings and food desirability.
• Balanced relative task priorities and distance costs.
• Balanced daily calorie needs for livestock.
• Balanced unrest effect from undesired dwelling, food and overwork.
• Increased sea fish in extreme cold conditions.
• Increased fine and raw stone density everywhere.
• Increased unloading priority by user priority in storages.

LATEST FIXES:

• New try to trick the buggy Nvidia OpenGL shader compiler.
• Fixed terrain shadows in extreme lighting conditions.
• Fixed wrong dead animation for some animals.
• Fixed crashes when sound device fails to initialize.
• Fixed crash when placing building circles with large radius.
• Fixed new game issues after game start.
• Fixed dismantling of feeders when not empty.
• Fixed incorrect limit calculation for resources.
• Fixed issues related to bodies in tombs.
• Fixed fertility for cows.
• Fixed count limit for basic fences.
• Fixed wild animals starving during grazing period.
• Fixed corrupt saved games hiding other saves in the list.
• Fixed flax and wheat do not block navigation in farms.
• Fixed to not extract resources when building if not broken.
• Fixed not showing incompatible but subscribed mods in the mod list.
• Fixed achievements progression.
• Fixed Duplicated Dnieper, Don and Volga rivers.
• Fixed visuals of the soil in the pasage tomb and trilithon.

KNOWN ISSUES:

• Issue with migration due to older AMD drivers from Windows update.

PLEASE ENSURE YOUR GRAPHICS DRIVERS ARE UP TO DATE.

• Please use the Steam 'Players' forum to post your feedback, bugs & issues.
• Please send us a report if the game crashes and post report number in the forums.
• Please mod creators: Update & upload your mods when required.

WHAT'S NEXT?

• We are working on new content updates not yet disclosed while improving the game.

HOW CAN I SUPPORT THE CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT OF THE GAME?

• Please post a positive review on Steam to support this project.