Going Medieval News

Greetings medievalists!

A lot of different things can be found in this update. Let’s start with the simplest one:

[h3]You can banish villagers now[/h3]


Villagers can be banished now. Maybe you are not satisfied with their contributions to the settlement, perhaps they are slowing things down, or just looking at them makes you nervous. If you choose to do so there will be a prompt text that asks you, ‘are you sure about that decision?’. If the answer is yes, the selected villager will take some food and leave the settlement. Other workers will have a mood penalty because of this...so keep that in mind. We hope you are happy with this addition to the core gameplay features. Also, while we are talking about moods…

[h3]Additional Mood effectors are added[/h3]


In previous updates, we talked about how villagers will have different moods. Those with a very low mood will disobey the player’s schedule and try to satisfy needs on their own. If the mood reaches 0, a villager will disappear from the settlement.

Now with the changes, everything modifies your villagers’ mood! We mean things like sleep quality, performing passionate jobs, deaths of the fellow villagers, and much, much more!. A villager will get mood modifiers from different beds, for example, sleeping in the rain, on the ground, and so on. If they are doing the job they love, this will also affect their mood. We added thought bubbles when a mood modifier hits, so keep an eye out for these. You’ll want to keep them in a really good mood because...

[h3]Raiders are here![/h3]


Look at those raiders! When they attack, you’ll get an in-game announcement (see March Update for this). Depending on the progress of your settlement, they might have different goals: killing villagers, destroying buildings, or simply stealing food. But they can bring firepower...and so can you because...

[h3]Trebuchets are in the game![/h3]


Any worker can be manned for some trebuchet actions. At this point in development, they use limestone as ammunition. So we will see how that goes.

That is everything for this update, we hope you’re enjoying seeing the ongoing development of Going Medieval!

Foxy Voxel Team

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Greetings Medievalists!

We want to talk a bit about archery in our game. It is super essential for us that we make archers fun factor of our game, but avoid feeling over overpowering them. So this is what we did.

[h3]Attack switch[/h3]

Archers now attack with fists when an enemy is near them (2m). This will make them less OP, but also - it would be pretty silly to attack a person up close with shooting arrows.

[h3]The environment can block arrows in their path[/h3]

Arrows now have a chance to hit certain objects when the trajectory is through them (trees, bushes, constructions, merlons). A broken arrow icon pops up when an arrow hits something along the way. NOTE: if something is 2m in front of the archer, it will not be taken into the equation for obstacle hit chance. This is to prevent your archers on walls from hitting merlons all the time.

[h3]High ground matters[/h3]

Workers with ranged weapons can now target and shoot targets from other levels (from a cliff, wall, platform). "It's over Anakin," some might say.

[h3]"Arrow to the knee" is super effective[/h3]

Enemies and workers will slow down (for a minor time) when damaged. This is implemented so the enemies will run away a bit harder if hit by an arrow. When an arrow misses a target, it will check a radius of a few grid spaces and run the calculation again for targets in that radius. This is to simulate potential friendly fire and bad archers getting a hit when firing on a group of enemies that are next to each other.

So yeah, show some love for your archers, and we’ll see you soon!

Foxy Voxel Team

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Greetings medievalists!

Time for a proper update:

[h3]Research tree and research queuing[/h3]


You saw this little tab before, didn’t you?



Time to explain it a bit in more detail. Selecting this tab opens the research panel (shown in the gif above). Do you want to learn new things? You’ll need books for that! That’s right! Books are the main resource for this tab. You can produce them via the research table that you create within the game. Convenient, right? Well, like any other resource in this game, it can be lost due to a player’s misplacement. Yup. Leave it out in the open, and the rain will destroy them eventually. It makes sense to put them inside the buildings, right? True, but don’t put them near the fire, you know how that goes. And if you want to learn all those nodes, you’ll need a LOT of books - you see, since the books are not “spent”, you’ll have to manage them properly. The short story is - love your books, and they’ll love you back.

[h3]The event system is working[/h3]


So your village is doing good? Others will want to join your little utopia (or cannibalistic cult if that is their/your thing). Regardless, you’ll have options to accept or reject them, as you are in control.



Buuuut, you’ll attract enemies too! But don’t worry, we have a proper alert for that too!



That’s it for now, we’ll have more to say in a couple of weeks! Thanks!

Foxy Voxel team

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Don't worry, you'll get your regular monthly update soon, but our community is growing, and we want to address that.

[h3]Twitter rises slowly, but surely![/h3]


We’ve passed 300 followers on Twitter! Twitter is a great place to be since there are all sorts of short videos from the game we are posting there. Also, our devs pop in there from time to time with some nifty gifs. Check this video of Somerhild struggling to hit a deer with a bow:

Somerhild giving her best

[h3]Discord is rising super fast![/h3]


There are more than 1000 members on our Discord Server! Those patient people support us from the very start, just like you. While more things will happen there eventually, for now, you can jump into #going-on-a-journey and #going-on-a-journey-discussion to experience a unique medieval story in which you decide an outcome by voting. By discussing it, you’ll get experience points! If that sounds interesting to you, head over to GM discord server here:

Going Medieval Discord Server

And last but not least - you, the Steam audience. Your likes, comments, and questions showed us that what we are doing makes sense, that we are on the right path. We will continue to work on Going Medieval and make it great because you deserve it.

Thank you once more, you wonderful medievalists!

See you in a week or two with a regular update!

GM team.

Greetings medievalists! Onto new updates, shall we?

[h3]Hunting Gameplay Loop[/h3]


Hunting is ready, but it will require some balancing. Let’s take bows as an example - workers with higher marksmen and animal handling skills will be better hunters. Marksman skill will give them higher DPS and better precision along with the ability to equip themselves with better bows. Animal handling will lower the chance of the animal retaliating against the hunter, and also reduces the chance that the animal will flee if the hunter misses (also, higher animal handling will give a higher chance of dealing critical damage to… you guessed it - animals).

[h3]RTS worker control[/h3]


Player can take control of any worker like in a real-time strategy game - they can move him/her to any given location, order them to equip a specific item, or point where to attack if that is your thing. Selecting a worker and right-clicking on a piece of equipment or food will give the player a menu of actions.

[h3]Worker jobs are improved[/h3]


Crafting jobs have been split into several different types depending on the skill set and production type. AI of the workers is polished now for these situations. Sequence prioritization and planning are evident and fully functional.

That’s it for now, we’ll have more to say in a couple of weeks! Thanks!

Foxy Voxel team

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