Hello all! Today we are releasing the Event Pack, Wandering Nobles. Alongside this, we are also releasing Update 1.14.0 "Traverse".

Check out the release trailer just below this text, and then the changelog a bit further down!

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Update 1.14.0 "Traverse" Changelog​

Expansion Features (Paid)​

• New lifestyle, ‘Wandering,’ split into three new lifestyle trees
  
  • Inspector: Landed characters can survey and improve their realm; landless characters can specialize in a terrain type
    
  • Wayfarer: Travel to reduce stress and pursue fame for your exploits.
    
  • Voyager: Improve linguistic skills and live the life of a tourist and sightseer.
    
  
  
• Three new activities linked to the new lifestyle
  
  • Inspection: Inspectors can examine their realm and pursue improvements
    
  • Hike: Wayfarers can reduce stress with a walk in the wilderness
    
  • Monument Expedition: Voyagers can set forth to see special buildings in other realms
    
  
  
• New events connected to travel, new lifestyle trees, and the associated activities
  

Free Features​

• Added a new set of buildings, ‘Breweries,’ available to Catholic temples, a building giving a lot of county-wide bonuses
  
• Added a new cultural tradition, ‘Brewing Culture,’ where you can unlock the Breweries building for cities of your culture
  
• Added new Court Position, ‘Court Brewmaster,’ related to the Breweries building line, with three Court Position tasks:
  
  • Empty the Cellars
    
  • Share with the Court
    
  • Experimental Brew
    
  
  
• Added a new decision to merge the kingdoms of France and Aquitaine in the 867 bookmark
  
• Added a new decision to restore the Bosporan Kingdom
  
• New Points of Interest, ‘Battle’
  
• Added 11 Historical Battle Points of Interest:
  
  • Battle of Yarmuk
    
  • Battle of Aror
    
  • Battle of Tours
    
  • Battle of Talas
    
  • Battle of Lechfeld
    
  • Battle of Svolder
    
  • Battle of Dandanaqan
    
  • Battle of Civitate
    
  • Battle of Stamford Bridge
    
  • Battle of Hastings
    
  • Battle of Manzikert
    
  
  
• Added dynamic Battle Points of Interest, where particularly large and bloody battles will be remembered and be able to be visited after the fact
  
• Added a salacious Grand Wedding event chain
  

Bugfixes​

• Fixed an issue with adventurers checking distance incorrectly
  
• Fixed error with a wedding event not checking faith correctly
  
• Fixed errors in siege events with a scope that does not exist
  
• Fix flavorization title tier names for landless adventurers
  
• Tweaked some events animations/portraits
  
• Fixed a rare issue where the player loses all war progress after enemy liege dies
  
• Add raid block reason to map tooltip
  
• Fix raid immunity being applied to the wrong character
  
• Any plague that appears in a realm that shares a border with you (land or sea) will now show up in the nearby section
  
• Removed incorrect land loss notification when a Governor's county vassal is in line to inherit a Governorship
  
• Fixed many issues with the family chronicle event decision and story cycle
  
• Now the Pope will be referred to as the Pope rather than a King-Bishops in many events
  
• Adjusted some Hunt modifier icons so they are appropriately shown as mixed (yellow) instead of positive/negative
  

Balance​

• Placing bets in a chariot race no longer grants or reduces stress.
  
• Journals are now a new type of inventory artifact. Only one journal can be equipped at any time. Many books that were previously trinkets are now considered journals
  
• Family chronicles are now generally better with more modifiers; they are also either considered books (if you have a court) or journals
  
• Artifacts that boost terrain advantage now give a more significant boost.
  
• The kingdom of Aquitaine is now a part of the De Jure kingdom of France in the 1066 bookmark
  
• Rebalanced inbred/pureblooded chance, due to inbreeding risk now being calculated based on the degree of relatedness instead of the number of missing ancestors
  

Art​

• Added a cheers icon.
  
• Added a new court position icon, new court position task icons, and a new building icon. All related to the new brewery building.
  
  • Added icon for new activity option inspection allocated funds.
    
  • Added a new wanderer lifestyle icon.
    
  • Added several art assets as well as GUI adjustments
    
  • Added several new events backgrounds:
    
  • Hills (Winter)
    
  • Plains (Winter)
    
  • Wetlands (Winter)
    
  • Mountains (Winter)
    
  • Steppe (Winter)
    
  • Riverside
    
  • Coast
    
  
  
• Added new animations:
  
  • Survey with Walking Stick
    
  • Idle with Walking Stick