Robin Hood - Sherwood Builders News

🌲🏹🏰 Welcome, Adventurers and Builders! 🌲🏹🏰

We are incredibly excited to announce the release of our latest game: Robin Hood - Sherwood Builders! Embark on an epic journey into the world of legends, where the art of building intertwines with the spirit of adventure!



🏹 Grab your bow and live the legend! 🏹

Assume the role of the legendary Robin Hood, fighting injustice and building your own outlaw community in the heart of Sherwood. Discover the secrets of the forest, expand your settlement to provide shelter to the innocent and protect them against the tyranny of the Sheriff of Nottingham, together with your Merry Men!

🌲 Prepare for great challenges! 🌲

Face tasks that will test your skills both in combat and in construction. Gather resources, build up Robin's secret hideout village, and then travel across the land to complete numerous quests and fight fearsome foes!

🎉 Special offer to celebrate the release! 🎉

With the game's release, we've prepared a special bundle with other fantastic games at incredibly attractive prices! Don't miss the chance to grab your favorite titles at discount prices!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1159420/Robin_Hood__Sherwood_Builders/

Join us today and create your own legend in Robin Hood - Sherwood Builders! 🏹🏰

Good luck!
MeanAstronauts Team

[h3]📣 Good day, Sherwood Builders! 🏹[/h3]

We're happy to announce that we've reached the first milestone in our Community Challenge!


To celebrate this occasion, please enjoy our game's official launch trailer, which we're making public at the time of posting this announcement!

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Remember that the full release of Robin Hood - Sherwood Builders is coming to Steam this Thursday on February 29th and we're celebrating with a second live broadcast on launch day at 8:55 AM EST / 1:55 PM UTC! We'll be playing Sherwood Builders right where the prologue leaves off. The broadcast will appear on the game's Steam page.

More news to come!
MeanAstronauts Team

[h3]📣 Greetings, Sherwood Builders! 🏹[/h3]

To celebrate the release of Robin Hood - Sherwood Builders this Thursday on February 29th, you are invited to join us for our second live broadcast on launch day at 8:55 AM EST / 1:55 PM UTC! We'll be playing Sherwood Builders right where the prologue leaves off. The broadcast will appear on the game's Steam page.

Just as we wrote about the ruthless bandits belonging to the Sons of Adam faction in our last devlog, today we present a group with its own brand of ruthlessness – the Forest Spirits.



The Forest Spirits are a numerous group of bandits with unmistakeable characteristics. They're wild men, in many senses of the word. They don animal pelts, wield axes, and have howls for battle cries. This behavior is easily explained by how deeply they draw from their norse berserker heritage.



This faction's members are rarely ever just a nuisance but rather always a notably serious threat. The lawlesness of the land's rulers has been conducive to their own barbaric regression, and so Forest Spirits can be encountered in various Regions, raiding, reaving, and pillaging, much like their Viking ancestors did. Strength and ruthlesness in combat is what determines one's value in their society, so don't ever presume that diplomacy is an option when you run into them.



But absolutely do not ever mistake their primitivism for stupidity. Forest Spirits are close to nature, they have their means and traditions of survival, outside of brutality and taking what they need by force, of course. This often translates to knowing which berries are safe to eat as much as which plants you can stuff in a cauldron to brew what are essentially alchemical grenades. If Robin is ever struck by such concoctions, he not only has to deal with poison damage over time, but also some surprising side effects. Be on your guard.

We hope to see you take on the bandits on February 29th when the full version of Robin Hood - Sherwood Builders is released!

More news to come!
MeanAstronauts Team

Here's fresh news for our brave defenders of Sherwood! Today, at 1:00 PM UTC / 8:00 AM EST, we're introducing a major prologue update to the game "Robin Hood - Sherwood Builders: Bandit's Trail". Check out the improvements which are also in store for you in the final version of the game!



Our team has taken your feedback to heart and improved many aspects of the gameplay. Now you can enjoy better game balancing, performance, and controller support! Here are the main changes:

• Game balancing improvements (weapon stats, loot, coin and experience gain, among others)
  
• Performance tweaks, including generic foliage and navmesh optimization
  
• Gamepad support added
  
• Several fixes improving the resource extraction system
  
• New enemy abilities
  
• Rebalancing for Robin's character development, different types of enemies and building costs
  
• Numerous AI improvements and fixes
  
• Stamina system improvements
  
• Stealth system improvements and dynamic character visibility scaling
  
• Player visibility gauge added
  
• Difficulty setting improvements (AI detection range is also affected by game difficulty)
  
• New enemy hairstyles and beards
  
• Status effect resistance system
  
• Enemy health bar now shows level and stealth kill possibility
  
• Visual prompts for enemy sight and hearing range added to Hunter Vision
  
• Combat system improvements (for example, parrying now adds a short invincibility window)
  
• Option of selecting time of day when resting
  
• Sort button for inventory
  
• NPC idle dialogues and monologues
  
• Redecorated character treehouses
  

[h3]The scope of the updates means that your current saved game files will not work with the newly updated version of the prologue. Please take particular note of that fact.[/h3]

But that's not all! At 2:00 PM UTC / 9:00 AM EST, we're also starting a livestream of gameplay from the updated prologue! Join us on the Bandit's Trail Steam page as we delve into the heart of the fight for justice!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2465830/Robin_Hood__Sherwood_Builders__Bandits_Trail/

And there's still more! We'd like to remind you that in just one week, we're embarking on a full adventure with the premiere of the full game version! Are you ready to become a legend of Sherwood?

[h3]LAUNCH ON FEBRUARY 29 2024[/h3]
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1159420/Robin_Hood__Sherwood_Builders/

[h3]📣 Hello, Sherwood Builders! 🏹[/h3]

Our free prologue, Robin Hood - Sherwood Builders - Bandit's Trail, is getting a major update soon! Join us for a live broadcast on February 22nd at 9:00 AM EST / 2:00 PM UTC on update day when we feature live gameplay from the prologue! The broadcast will appear on the prologue's Steam page:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2465830/Robin_Hood__Sherwood_Builders__Bandits_Trail/

Robin of Loxley and his Merry Men face no small challenge in their quest to stop the Sheriff's evil reign once and for all. This is not only because of the royal soldiers, still fully loyal to the despot, but because of the questionable allies he made while establishing himself as the land's ruler. Bandits, renegades, outcasts, and all manner of unsavory characters form different enemy factions in Sherwood Builders, all too ready to do the Sheriff's bidding for their own benefit and stand in Robin's way. Today, let's talk about...



To describe the Sons of Adam in one word, they are bandits. As bandit as anyone can get, but with a particularly unpleasant twist. Led by one Adam Coterel, with his two brothers serving as the group's lieutenants, they take to theft, robbery, and all other manner of criminal activity, very often in service to their associates, to further their personal interests through destruction and intimidation.



This particular faction doesn't enjoy an exceptional degree of organization, which makes the task of taking it on possible, but also brings with it tragic consequences to the people of Nottingham – The Sons of Adam are brutal, savage, and resort to exceptionally cruel methods of running their criminal operations. They tend to commit truly evil atrocities, giving Robin even more motivation to oppose them.



The Sons of Adam appear ragged, with bones, scraps, and their iconic heraldry adorning their outfits and camps. They are quite ubiquitous as far as their presence around the Regions goes. You can encounter them just about anywhere, ready to opportunistically prey on the defenseless. With the Sons of Adam furthering their cause through utter cruelty, it's up to Robin to put a stop to their vicious ways.

We hope to see you take on the bandits on February 29th when the full version of Robin Hood - Sherwood Builders is released!

More news to come!
MeanAstronauts Team