Going Medieval News

Greetings medievalists!

We understand that the animals you encounter are not necessarily the ones you want to keep. And since we have a perfectly functional merchant/trading system - why not make the most of it?

Trading animals will finally be a thing. That’s right - merchants will come to your settlement accompanied by different animals which you’ll be able to buy. This will work both ways - if you have any animals you want to get rid off, use this opportunity and trade for something that works better for your settlement.



You will also be able to send animals on caravan travels. If you do that, the caravan carrying size will increase in relation to the carrying capacity of those animals.

While we’re on the subject of animals - we want to introduce three new ones that the community requested: Cats, Donkeys and Pheasants. However… Our technical artist wanted to test his skateboarding skills during the weekend, but that didn’t go so well. So the introduction of new animals will have to be postponed - they’ll appear in Update 5, but later, in one of the patches. Here is what you need to know about them:



Cats - You know cats. You know how they roll. Let’s say that with them, any rat problems will be short-lived.

Donkeys - Donkeys are intelligent animals. They haul more frequently than the rest of the animals and have a big hauling capacity. Naturally, this makes them ideal for caravans. They’ll always come as domesticated and should be relatively easy to train.

Pheasants - Getting to chickens might take some time, so why not try these wild animals? They’ll lay eggs all over the woods. Sure, they don’t lay eggs as frequently as chickens, but they are valuable assets in the early game. Taming pheasants will have medium difficulty and training them will be very hard, but why would you do that? - they can’t attack or haul.

All animals are going to give you meat upon slaughtering. (Please don’t slaughter cats.)

That would be all for this week's MMT. Expect another one next week!

Also, more news about Update #5 and when it's going live on the experimental branch coming soon. Sooner than you think. Seriously.

Foxy Voxel

Greetings medievalists!

We’re back from vacation and ready for new challenges! Thank you for your support during our absence. The team talked about future plans and ideas and how we want to approach them. You know how previous updates were huge content-wise, but occurred every 3-4 months? We want to try something different this time - we want to make smaller updates that will occur (hopefully) every month. Here is one of the things you can expect in Update #5:

Food consumption received some changes. We’ll talk about it in more detail once the update is released. For now, what you need to know is that this will affect their behavior during all of the hunger phases and how they calculate food intake and pick food piles, based on quality/quantity. This should prevent situations where settlers would frequently abandon work just to satisfy their nutrition.

This system will also take into account the location of chairs and where and when settlers will sit after picking up a meal. Sitting in a chair with no table will give a different mood effector than when sitting at a table to eat.



Settlers will have food pouches. A food pouch is a sort of storage where the settler can store food for later. You know that situation where you send your settler somewhere far away to do something, but they have to return after some time because they were hungry? Food pouches should solve such problems!

However, settlers will only store:

• Foods enabled in their manage panel
  
• Foods in the meal category (so no raw foods, but only packaged, lavish, stew, etc)
  
• Food that is on shelves and or stockpiles
  

When a settler gets hungry, they’ll primarily eat the food from the pouch. Refilling their pouches is a new goal we’ve added to settlers. They’ll try to prioritize refilling their pouches during a non-working schedule.

You will be able to order settlers to consume food from their pouches within the settler’s inventory. If you do that, settlers will not search for chairs or random spots, etc - they’ll eat where they stand. This will happen even if settlers are drafted.

Food stored in those pouches will rot/decay. If it reaches 0 hp, it will disappear from the settler's pouch. If it reaches 0% freshness, it will turn into a pile of rot and the settlers will drop it on the ground.

And that would be everything for this week’s Medieval Monday Talk. But we are not stopping here. See ya next week with another Monday Talk in which we’ll discuss more animal content. Maybe even… new animals?

Thank you for your time!

Foxy Voxel

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Greetings, folks!

It’s been a busy year, right? Before we tackle new features, we decided that now is the perfect time to go on the holiday break... Our eight-person team has been working on Going Medieval constantly, and after talking among ourselves, we figured that August seems like a perfect time for everyone to go on a well-deserved rest. Improving Going Medieval is important but taking care of mental and physical health is crucial, too.

Starting today, we’ll be offline until the 29th of August. If you have any issues with the game, you can submit them by using the F10 button or send a mail to [email protected], and we’ll check it once we return. However, it is also worth noting that we have a super helpful community here on Steam and Discord - if you are not sure how something works or if you think it’s a bug, the folks there will help you figure it out and maybe provide instructions on how to circumvent the issue. We also have a fandom page where you can get more info on things like mood, perks, quality map seeds, and other fun stuff.

On our Discord, we have a challenge with the theme “Medieval city”, where people can submit their epic creations on what they deem a worthy medieval town. Once we’re back, we’ll pick a winner and dedicate one full video showcasing that settlement, so join our Discord and start making epic stuff (the deadline is August 29th, 10 AM CEST).

We hope that you are having fun playing Going Medieval. Thank you for supporting the game and having patience. Finally, from all of us here - we hope you have a wonderful summer holiday. Avoid longer sun exposures, be sure to take frequent naps, and enjoy the latest update for our game. Also, check the last patch notes for bug fixes and known issues.

Foxy Voxel

Greetings players! The new patch (0.8.36) is now live on all of the platforms. Please save your progress and restart your game client to update. You should be able to load normally and continue playing. If you have any problems, please let us know.

[h3]Bugs and Fixes[/h3]

• Fixed the issue that caused the loss of certain weapon animations upon loading the game.
  
• Fixed the issue that caused graves to ignore stability updates.
  
• Fixed the issue where placing beams under completed structures (such as floors, walls, etc.) wouldn’t always refresh stability properly.
  
• Fixed the issue where objects placed on beams wouldn’t change stability when those beams changed their stability.
  
• Fixed the issue where beam stability would appear the same in each construction phase (blueprint/constructed).
  
• Fixed the issue where a couple of animals on one grid space would appear as if they are on top of each other.
  
• Fixed a couple of issues where settlers wouldn't properly prioritize crop planting, harvesting, and cutting.
  
• Fixed the issue where all furniture pieces would be registered as storage buildings.
  
• Fixed the issue that caused settlers to try to pick up multiple pieces of equipment at the same time while hauling, resulting in a hauling loop.
  
• Fixed the issue that prevented settlers from sowing crops in some cases, despite having necessary resources in their possession.
  
• Fixed the issue that prevented a raid event from ending.
  
• Fixed the lag that occurred if a player would banish a settler, but that settler wouldn’t have a clear path for leaving the settlement.
  
• Fixed the issue that caused settlers to ignore cooking if that job was set to ‘1’ in the Job panel.
  

[h3]Quality of life improvements[/h3]

• Minor performance improvements.
  
• Bored animation states added to boars & chickens.
  
• Dismantle goal received better optimization.
  
• Production goal received a couple of fixes and should work better.
  

[h3]Known issues[/h3]

• Sound effects are missing for some actions like harvesting/mining etc.
  
• When the message appears that a settler can’t be banished, it will appear in English in all of the languages.
  
• If your settlers are experiencing weird animations with some of the actions, be sure to cap the game’s FPS in the game’s options. Cap it to 60fps. If the issue persists, cap it to 30fps.
  
• Some crop harvesting yields nothing. This occurs if one crop type has been turned into another one at some point in time (e.g. apples into cabbages). The solution (at the moment) is to cut old crops, destroy the cropfield and plant the ones that you want. We'll fix this in the next patch but don't know when that is happening.
  

DISCLAIMER: The experimental and the main branch have the same version of the game. However, on the experimental branch, we decided to keep the Dev version of the game, and that means that a Dev log with red text will appear from time to time. This will help us get more info from your side when crashes and bug reports occur. If you are annoyed by this, please switch to the main branch to experience the game without the red text.

Greetings medievalists!

We want to do something different this time - we want to do a recap of the first year since our medieval colony sim builder launched in early access.

[h3]Launch[/h3]
Going Medieval launched on 1st June 2021, accompanied by this slick trailer:
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Alongside this, we dropped the roadmap of what was coming next.



We thought we had a good thing going on, but we did not expect the game to blow up as it did. In its first week, it sold over 175,000 copies whilst maintaining an 89% rating. You understood the type of game we wanted to make, and the limitations of being an Early Access title. You had trust in us and you had patience.

The next couple of weeks were spent on bug fixing and improvements - with such a big player base, finding and reporting bugs became… very fast!

[h3]Experimental Branch - July 19th[/h3]
That’s why we needed a system that will help us identify those bugs before they get to a wider audience. The Experimental Branch helped us immensely here - eager players get to experience new features first while helping us discover bugs or issues. Once the experimental version is stable enough, we make it live on the main branch and make that a full update for everyone. Thank you all who partake in it and help us by playing on the experimental branch, Bug fixing is more manageable with you peeps.

While we did that, we also worked on new features and wanted to surprise you with them. This led to a quiet period which made some of you worried - did we abandon the project, are we doing anything at all? Understandable thoughts, but that was not our intention.

[h3]Medieval Monday Talk Introduction - July 26th[/h3]
Thanks to your feedback, it was clear that you wanted to hear us talk about the development, even when we have nothing immediate to show. To talk about ideas, challenges, future plans, to show that the project is alive and active. That’s why we introduced our Medieval Monday Talk blog posts. We would use Mondays to announce new things and give you a sneak peek at what we were working on. While they did not occur every Monday, we tried to be as transparent as possible.

[h3]Update #1 launch - August 9th[/h3]
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Early on, we decided to do bigger updates that would appear every few months. That’s why Update #1 arrived after two months. Adding more storage options was always one of the things we wanted to do, but we didn’t expect that it would come so soon. You were very local about it and that’s why this update was all about Shelves & Racks. Of course, we introduced other things too, but storage options were our primary focus.

You folks were aware that after an update, the next couple of weeks would be focused on patches and hotfixes - Going Medieval is a pretty complex game and with every update, that complexity will increase. Some systems that worked perfectly previously would be affected by new changes and sometimes those would destabilize the game. We tried to convey clear messaging and your patience is appreciated.

[h3]Talking about Update #2 - August 30th[/h3]
These are the posts in which we started talking about new features. Presenting it via MMTs proved valuable for a couple of reasons - each blog allowed you to comment on the feature mentioned in that devlog, which would, in turn, give us insight into how excited were you, potential issues, and the ways those features would evolve.

This is also the period where we expanded the team by one programmer thus making Foxy Voxel an 8-member team. This one would be focused on automated testing and modding because we understand the importance of modding in these types of projects. He’ll also do other tasks, but that will depend on a team's availability, the scope of the tasks, etc.

Weekly talks made sure that the game development was very much active, and some of you eagerly waited for another Monday. Sounds like a win-win situation

[h3]Going Medieval is on GeForce NOW - October 11th[/h3]
Some of you wrote to us and asked us when Going Medieval will be on Mac or Linux. Our official stance regarding this is that we are focusing on PC only at this stage. We've been getting reports of people playing our game on Mac by using Windows via BootCamp and on Linux via Proton (with varying degrees of success). However, after looking into it - we’ve seen that GeForce Now allows streaming on Mac without any issues. Going Medieval was included in their library.

[h3]Update #2 - October 19th[/h3]
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Even though this update was titled “Merchants & Diplomacy” and was all about merchants, trading, and factions, we also managed to upgrade a bunch of existing features by introducing a custom settler creator, relocating objects, and other various improvements.

But after that came a hotfix period, where we took time to fix existing bugs but also upgrade some of the systems of Update #2.

[h3]Our First AMA - November 25th[/h3]
We’d never held an “Ask Me Anything” session, so this was a pretty new thing for us. Our Discord server seemed like a perfect place for it, and it was awesome indeed. You guys are cool!

[h3]Talking about Update #3 - November 29h[/h3]
From this period, we started discussing features of update #3. Medieval Mondays showed us that you were skeptical about new upcoming features, mainly the introduction of seeds. We heard your feedback and really worked on it to make this not feel like a chore and micromanaging hell.

[h3]Update #3 - February 1st[/h3]
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Beyond introducing "New Resources & Cultivation", we implemented things like settlers' aging, new buildings, new researchable stuff, and music!

[h3]Talking about Update #4 - March 14th[/h3]
This update has been a long time coming. Previous pathfinding fixes were done on a macro level, so once we adjusted something, it would be adjusted for every situation. This did not work for our game since players would create various different scenarios. The new system would work on a case-to-case basis. But, Update #4 would provide more than that, so we decided to introduce more animals and pets.

[h3]Our second AMA - April 14th[/h3]
We held another AMA because it was fun the first time and you guys deserve honest responses. We tend to be active on our Discord and reply if you folks have issues and/or need help with the game, but AMAs like these help us talk about the feature, which is always nice. We also have to extend a big thanks to our Discord Mod team and its community, thanks to them, Discord is a really helpful place for not only newcomers but seasoned players as well.

[h3]Update #4 - June 1st[/h3]
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We released this update on our Early Access birthday. It felt right. Animal husbandry was introduced, along with all the important interactions with new animals. We also did a code cleanup and reworked how the game stored save files. All this meant that old saves couldn’t be supported by this update.

We tried our best to maintain compatibility, but it was not possible in this case. We understand that some of you were frustrated by this, and that’s why we kept the legacy branch in which you could play your old saves (minus update #4).

Since Going Medieval is still in Early Access, these situations might happen again. We’ll try our best to avoid it as much as possible, but if it happens again, we’ll notify you ahead of time.

By the way, did you know that to this date, Going Medieval has sold 600 000 copies and has over MILLION WISHLISTS!

As you know, we’re still in the process of bug fixing and making quality of life improvements - we want to do as much as possible before moving on to the next big thing. Here’s how the roadmap looks at the moment:


Still a lot to be done, but we are here for it!

We’d also like to say thank you to the helpful folks of Steam Discussions - thank you for providing advice and interesting insight to other people when we are not there. We're also constantly in awe by your epic creations in the Screenshot tab.

In fact, Players create wonderful settlements all the time, that we really want to share and promote your creativity. That’s why during this period we created Community Spotlight Videos where we would take your settlements and show them in-engine:
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Think you have something epic and want to be in the video? Join our Discord and share your screenshots there. If it looks interesting/epic/awesome/aesthetically pleasing, one of the devs will contact you and ask for a save file, so we can make a video.

We also have to say big thanks to streamers/youtubers. Your video about Going Medieval ranged from informative to hilarious. We’ll try to spotlight a couple that caught our eyes (but in truth, there are a bunch that deserve a mention).

For informative ones, look at the playthroughs of SplattercatGaming, Raptor, and KatherineOfSky.

There are some hilarious videos made by The Spiffing Brit, Let's Game It Out, Drae and ambigousamphibian.

Then, there are those like perafilozof and Just Don’t Die, who spotlight the game in their own way and dissect it big time.
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We simply can’t list all of them as there are too many, but believe us - we love what you are doing and that you are having fun doing it.

Aaaaaand that would be all for now, folks. We’ll make another post soon, detailing what’s to come and how we plan to approach it, but for now, we want to say it again - Thank you for believing in us, and for playing our medieval colony sim builder. Going Medieval is only going to get better from this point on!

If you want to stay in the loop with all development news, follow us on Twitter. We also have a TikTok account which is sometimes funny, sometimes informative, but always Medieval. And of course, our Discord server which allows for faster troubleshooting, promotion of your content and is just a cool place to chill in general. Want more info? We have a helpful fan-made wiki - be sure to check it out.

That would be all for now. Thank you for your time and congratulation if you managed to reach the end - talk to you soon!

Foxy Voxel

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