Medieval Dynasty News

Hello everyone!

We’ll be testing a big update on our Steam Beta Branch*.

Some of you probably have not done this before, so we have a small guide:

Prerequisite:
You must have Medieval Dynasty in your library – obviously.

The procedure

• Open your game library.
  
• Right Click on Medieval Dynasty there.
  
  
  
  
• Open properties.
  
  
  
  
• Select the tab "BETAS".
  
  
  
  
• Enter this password below the dropdown in the field:
  

3v491vMVZnvp3

• Press CHECK CODE
  
• Use the drop down and select “public_beta - Public Beta Branch”.
  
  
  
  
  
• Press Close
  

Steam should now download this version of the game.

IMPORTANT! PLEASE SAVE YOUR LIVE VERSION SAVES GAME BEFORE ACCESSING THE BETA BRANCH!

Just in case something goes awry!

Saves can be found here:

AppData > Local > Medieval_Dynasty > Saved > SaveGames

The Patch Notes can be found here

*Steam labels those builds as "beta"(see bullet points), so don't be too confused!

For your convenience - here are the notes as well:

• New items have been added to vendors.
  
• Russian language.
  
• Japanese language.
  
• French language.
  
• Portuguese (Brazil) language.
  
• Czech language.
  
• Turkish language.
  
• Added "Delete", "End", "Home" etc. to key binds.
  
• Barrels for salting in Hunting Lodge I and Fishing Hut I.
  
• The possibility of producing salted fish and dried fish in a Fishing Hut.
  
• The ability to control production efficiency of fish, salted fish and dried fish in Fishing Hut .
  
• The possibility of producing salted meat and dried meat in a Hunting Lodge.
  
• The ability to control collection efficiency of clay, salt, rock and limestone in Excavation Shed.
  
• The ability to control collection efficiency of rock, salt and iron in Mine.
  
• The ability to control production efficiency of meat, salted meat, dried meat, leather, feather, mushrooms and berry in Hunting Lodge.
  
• The possibility of producing planks in a Woodshed.
  
• The ability to control production efficiency of logs, sticks, firewood and plank in Woodshed.
  

• Optimization of map loading time.
  
• Various quest fixes.
  
• Knife position for female hunters while skinning animals.
  
• Torch position for patrolling female NPCs.
  
• Numerous fixes in refreshing the production status of items.
  
• Generic quests reward after loading the game.
  
• Coins have condition other than 100% and don't stack.
  
• Quest goal with assigning peasants to work doesn't update on objective start.
  
• Age update for npcs.
  
• NPCs getting stuck in sitting or sleeping states - should happen less often.
  
• Cauldron crafting animations.
  
• Stove crafting animation.
  
• Player position when crafting at stove.
  
• Torch condition restoring on equip.
  

• Changed Night howl quest so that it always gives some gold for completing it.
  
• Pig and piglet sitting animations so that they no longer stick out of the pigsty.
  
• Reduced consumption of stamina while running.
  
• Reduced consumption of stamina in inspector mode.
  
• Vendors now have a random number of items.
  
• Resource and Food Storage capacities have been increased.
  
• Hunting lodge produces random mushrooms depending on the season.
  
• Gender specific dialogues. May not be relevant in all languages.
  
• Polish translation updated.
  
• German translation updated.
  
• Spanish translation updated.
  
• Production's "Work Power" slider for each profession in building's details in Management tab.
  
• Production of firewood in Woodshed consumes logs.
  
• Set immortality for NPCs from non-player villages - temporary.
  
• Restored missing original NPCs in neighbour villages - temporary.
  
• Some building modules have new resource costs (require planks).
  
• The villagers take food and firewood from local chests in their homes. If there is nothing in the chest, they take it from the Food Storage and Resource Storage.
  
• Doubled the amount of resources producing from farm animals by NPC.
  
• Spears range reduced by half.
  
• Crossbow range increased x1.5 times.
  
• Crossbow damage increased from 55 to 70.
  
• Bow damage increased from 25 to 35.
  
• Recurve Bow damage reduced from 50 to 45.
  
• Longbow damage increased from 45 to 55.
  
• Wooden Spear damage reduced from 25 to 15.
  
• Stone Spear damage reduced from 50 to 25.
  
• Iron Spear damage reduced from 75 to 40.
  
• Wooden Spear durability has been increased from 3 to 4 uses.
  
• Stone Spear durability has been increased from 6 to 8 uses.
  
• Iron Spear durability has been increased from 12 to 16 uses.
  
• Wisent and Bear hp has been increased x2 times.
  
• Villagers eat food according to nutritional value. The greater nutritional value, the higher priority. In case the nutritional value is the same, food of lower condition is chosen.
  
• Wood value is now visible in item details.
  
• Lowered Dynasty Reputation limits for next inhabitants
  

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10.10.2020 - Update Changelog:

v0.1.2.1

Added
- Ukrainian language

Fixed
- Missing flax seeds in vendors' inventory
- Invalid number of resources produced by npc when more than one item is being created.

Updated
- Russian language

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v0.1.2.2

Fixed
- Not all traders had something to offer.

Updated
- Increased throw range of all types of spears
- Stone Spear damage increased from 25 to 30
- Iron Spear damage increased from 40 to 50


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v0.1.2.3

Added
- Portuguese language
- Italian language
- Option in Game Settings for changing quickslots steering from QWERTY to AZERTY

Fixed
- Issue which allowed to cut trees faster if Player was clicking quickly and had low stamina
- Tutorial card about changing seasons shows on load
- Taking side quest of same type that is already in journal results in quest from journal being replaced by the new one.
- Field changes acceptation UI can't be "confirmed" using gamepad or keyboard
- Field management slot's seeds don't update after confirming changes
- Sometimes hunters teleported near the center of map
- Issue where NPCs were unable to get close to some workbenches
- Issue where male NPCs during Autumn sometimes had no model due to invalid clothes ID
- Technology requirements for the bucket - Changed 5000 points to 3500 points
- Issue that caused crash when many animals that were surrounded by buildings tried to flee from player
- Quest goal for flirting can't be done if player already has a wife
- NPCs could turn towards player while sitting or sleeping

Updated
- Logic optimization when loading NPCs
- German language
- Turkish language
- Czech language
- French language
- Clearing side quests that are completed or failed after changing season
- Compass look

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v0.1.2.4

Fixed
- Restoring the condition of items in a chest when loading saved game.
- Doubled scheme for creating Roasted Meat in a Tavern II.
- Son doesn't come home after the "BOY" quest.
- Hunting Lodge II requires a Building technology instead of Survival to be unlocked.
- Restoring the default keybinds doesn't work after restarting the game.
- The number of items sometimes displays fractional values in the transfer / drop / craft window.
- Items without the Freshness parameter don't display a price during the transaction.
- After first talk with Uniegost the player gets 2x "Chapter I" quest - A bug from 0.1.2.3 version.

• Food no longer spoils in vendors inventory - Current spoiled food will be exchanged to fresh in the next season
  
• Changed Manure to Fertilizer in vendors inventory, which can be purchased - Manure will be exchanged to fertilizer in the next season
  
• The food store receives a stronger weighting. The food gets new storage life:
  

Food type:
Inventory / Chest / Food Storage

Fruits:
2 season / 4 seasons / 8 seasons

Eggs:
2 season / 4 seasons / 8 seasons

Vegetables:
2 seasons / 4 seasons / 8 seasons

Bread:
3 seasons / 6 seasons / 12 seasons

Fresh meat:
2 season / 4 seasons / 8 seasons

Roasted meat:
2 seasons / 4 seasons / 8 seasons

Salted meat:
3 seasons / 6 seasons / 12 seasons

Dried meat:
4 seasons / 8 seasons / 16 seasons

Cakes:
2 seasons / 4 seasons / 8 seasons

Fresh fish:
2 season / 4 seasons / 8 seasons

Roasted fish:
2 season / 4 seasons / 8 seasons

Salted fish:
3 seasons / 6 seasons / 12 seasons

Dried fish:
4 seasons / 8 seasons / 16 seasons

Stew:
2 season / 4 seasons / 8 seasons

Pottage:
2 season / 4 seasons / 8 seasons


This is the game loop for foodstuff, an example:
You receive fresh meat at the end of the season
You put it into a chest
Condition is reduced by - for example - 50% next season.
You roast the meat, and it will become 100%.
When you process food, its condition is restored to 100%

Hello everyone!

We have a small update just before weekend!

Fixes

• Food in chests becomes spoiled now.*
  
• Extracting stones with a pickaxe now accounts gains to correct technology and skills.
  
• The possibility to get stuck at workbenches when closing the crafting menu using escape has been eliminated.
  
• Hitting rocks with a pickaxe did not always trigger sounds and effects. This is fixed.
  
• Talents for faster extraction, stamina consumption and durability were not working properly. They should now.
  
• Fixed an issue where players could change an item with the mouse wheel or the quickslot menu and then holstering the tool, the character equipped a tool from different slot.
  

Additions

• Added new barn levels – Levels 2 and 3.
  
• Added version display in save slot and labels for save slots.
  

Updates

• Digging up the stump now produces a log.
  
• Items placed in non-player chests now disappear after a season.
  
• Spoiled food is turned to new item ("rot"), it rots after a season.
  
• Fields are fertilized with a new item - Fertilizer, instead of Manure.
  
• Fertilizer is made in a barn from Manure or Rot.
  
• Rock, Iron, Salt, Clay now drop only after draining the deposit durability to 0%.
  
• Talks to the NPCs (related to the quest) at night.
  
• Reduced the number of employees for the barn, depending on stage. The dismissed employees are waiting for new assignments.
  
• Increased animal attack frequency.
  
• Autosave slots number changed to 3.
  

*please see the posting for clarifications.

Trees inside buildings and fields FIXED - Unfortunately, it will only work when loading the game from a save before patch 0.1.1.2. In the case of saves from version 0.1.1.2, you have to delete the trees yourself

More stuff fixed, added and updated. Let us make this quick:

Fixes

• Cave mining now increases the Extraction skill instead of the Crafting skill.
  
• Removing tree stumps now works with a shovel. Stumps should now be gone permanently.
  
• It is impossible to destroy the fence without building at least one module. It is now fixed.
  
• NPCs used to stop working in the field when the player did not watch them. They now have a better work morale.
  
• If a torch burned out, it decreased the health of (an)other torch(es). This is fixed as well.
  
• Fixed the production list in building management showing less items per hour than it produced.
  
• Quests where you could deliver items in parts and had to deliver more than one type of item should work properly now.
  
• Fixed projectiles like spears, bolts and arrows getting stuck in the air after hitting an animal.
  

Additions

• Added build and destroy sounds.
  
• Added the possibility to turn off head bob – Further optimizations to reduce motion sickness are work in progress.
  

Updates

• The size of plants data in the save file has been reduced.
  
• Updated the “Digging with shovel” animation.
  
• Removed crossbow as an item to deliver from Missing Bow quest. Only for new quests, existing ones still require it.
  
• More quests are generated per season.