Robin Hood - Sherwood Builders News

Greetings, Sherwood Builders!

Now that we've officially announced the release date of our game to be February 29th 2024, we want to make things even more interesting by issuing a certain challenge to you.

As you know, we wish to aid Robin Hood by having word of his rebellion against the wicked Sheriff of Nottingham reach far and wide! To that end, we'd like to make our release offer for the game as appealing as we can. Get us to reach the goals below to increase its launch discount by adding the game to your wishlist and following it on Steam!



We cannot put it into words exactly how grateful we are to those of you already wishlisting or following the game and sticking with us since development started. You can still help us by letting your friends know about Sherwood Builders and this challenge.

Robin Hood: Sherwood Builders is a game created by a core team of 7 developers, so any way you can help us by spreading word about our project will go a long way. The more successful Sherwood Builders is, the better we'll manage to bring our future game ideas to life for your enjoyment!

Check out the goals for our Launch Discount Challenge below:



If you want to check out Sherwood Builders more closely before making your mind up about our challenge, don't forget our free prologue, Bandit's Trail, which is getting a major update on February 22nd.

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

The full version of Robin Hood: Sherwood Builders is coming to Steam on February 29th. We hope to see you in Sherwood!

As the misty Sherwood forests surround you, brazen outlaws, be ready for an epic adventure! We are happy to announce that...

[h3]🌲 The full game is coming to Steam on February 29, 2024! 🌲[/h3]



[h3]🎁 Add it to your wishlist and share with your friends! 🎁[/h3]

Add "Robin Hood - Sherwood Builders" to your wishlist, share this fantastic news with your friends and embark on a legendary journey! Get ready for unforgettable moments, new challenges, and undiscovered areas of Sherwood. Countless adventures await! 🏹✨


[h3]🌲🏹 Big Prologue Update Coming on February 22nd! 🏹🌲[/h3]

In other news, on February 22nd, we will introduce a massive update to the game's prologue – Bandit's Trail. However, 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.

We will provide you with a full list of improvements in the prologue on the day of its update, along with some other surprises we're preparing for that day.

🌟 We look forward to your heroic exploits! See you in Sherwood! 🌟

More news to come!
MeanAstronauts Team

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

If you've been following our game for some time now, it's become more than obvious that during his quest to liberate Nottingham and its surrounding lands, Robin Hood is going to face a vast number of threats. These threats will grow in severity the closer Robin draws to deposing the Sheriff. How not to get overwhelmed by your foes? One thing you have to take advantage of is the...



As Robin gains experience points in the game through various means, such as vanquishing his enemies in combat, he eventually gains levels, and with levels come skill points. These can be spent in a special window of the game's menu called the Passive Skills. It's a branching grid that provides an overview of Robin's general abilities and characteristics. Spending skill points here allows you to decide how these advantages are going to be developed.

In order to better navigate the available options for character improvements, the tree is separated into several sections, called paths:

• Path of the Blade – This section mainly includes passive skills that simply increase Robin's raw damage output, whether through the enhancement of regular and special attacks or overcoming your enemies' defences. It also offers some good investments if you're interested in keeping Robin capable of swinging his weapon for longer before he gets winded.
  
• Path of Craftsmanship – Multiple passive skills that specialize in improving resource extraction from the various nodes of Sherwood Builders' world. Also a good area if you'd like to conserve your tools more effectively and increase your carry weight capacity.
  
• Path of the Arrow – A ranged equivalent of the Path of the Blade, albeit with a few additional intricacies. The price of being able to attack your opponents from a distance is the necessity to have better control over the various conditions for using a bow. With a little extra time put into consideration, these passives should help tailor your archery to your needs.
  
• Path of Endurance – Survival is the name of the game and the base health and damage resistance boosts from this part of the tree should help with it indeed, especially on higher difficulties. Seeing as some enemies in Sherwood Builders resort to special damage type attacks, certain passives here may eventually prove to be a necessity.
  
• Path of Shadows – The branch of stealth. These passive skills help you stay hidden more effectively when sneaking, but also make you a more effective assassin with improved execution damage and enemy level threshold for an assassination attempt. Some of these even provide utility by enhancing Robin's Hunter Vision ability.
  
• Path of Dexterity – Passive skills which improve Robin's movement. Speed, whether simply travelling or already in combat, but, what may be even more interesting, provide enhancements to critical strikes and penetrating enemy armor. What's not to love?

You'll notice that many of the passive skills in the tree offer miscellaneous utility along the way, regardless of the path in which they're placed. These are sure to prove worthy of your attention as well!

We can't wait to see what clever builds for Robin you will all come up with as the game launches, but whatever your choices, we hope you'll enjoy your adventure!

More news to come!
MeanAstronauts Team

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

Starting from scratch is often a difficult predicament, one that Robin Hood and the Merry Men face in Sherwood Builders as they're doomed to a life on the run from the Sheriff. But that doesn't discourage them. The brave outlaws found a hideout concealed deep in the woods of Barnsdale and it's up to Robin to help make it grow and bring aid to the oppressed people of Nottingham's surrounding lands, and to do that, he needs to become a...



The game's Builder Mode allows you to construct your own hideout village, complete with various structures that fulfil a range of functions. Expanding this base provides many benefits:

• Resource production – A lot of raw materials found in the game's world can also be produced right in Robin's village for easy collection from its Storage after a certain amount of time. Invest right and you might not have to forage as much.
  
• Crafting – Not all item production can be done by hand. If Robin's to upgrade his gear, he'll need the right workshop.
  
• Training – Another category of buildings will allow Robin to improve his various skills, both those related to combat and not.
  
• Decorating – Surely, many don't want their creation to be bland and strictly just functional. The denizens of Robin's hideout will feel much better if you add a touch of aesthetics to the community with some decorative elements.
  

All the advantages don't come with no effort and if you wish to reap the benefits of the Builder Mode, you'll need to face several challenges as well:

• Caring for the people – All the fruits of your village's labour won't come from thin air. You need people loyal to your cause to put their backs into it. Recruit new villagers from the surrounding lands through various events, house them, feed them, and give them jobs if you want your hideout running the way you picture it.
  
• Securing the materials – Buildings are not only constructed, but also upgraded. The more advanced your structures the better the advantages you can gain from them. But progress 'will' require increasingly more sophisticated resources. Secure them first while campaigning through the Regions and maybe you'll afford yourself the opportunity to generate them yourself later.
  
• Space management – It may seem like you have the whole forest to yourself, but a hideout won't be quite that hidden if it just sprawls endlessly. There's technically enough room to secure all the Merry Men's needs and also get creative, but first you'll need to wrest it from the thick forest by cutting down its trees.
  

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Robin's village is essential to progressing through the game, but we've made sure all the rules of this gameplay aspect are transparent and the interface for managing everything for it is easy to follow with the right stats and indicators. We can't wait to see your versions of the hideout!

More news to come!
MeanAstronauts Team

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

Yuletide is just around the corner. Countless merrymakers around the world get into the spirit of gift-giving, so do we bring you fresh development news about Sherwood Builders all the while wishing you all the best for the upcoming Holidays!





[h3]Stealth[/h3]

Stealth builds, sneaking mechanics, critical surprise attacks. We've all seen the many different ways in which stealth mechanics are employed in games, so it stands to reason that Sherwood Builders, a game about outlaws in hiding, just wouldn't do without them.

Invest your skill points, gained by levelling up, in various portions of Robin's skill tree that will enhance his stealth-related abilities and offer you unique challenges, which will be well rewarded if you do everything right. Mind the amount of noise you're making with your movement speed or veil yourself in night's darkness to further improve your chances.

Stealth benefits:

• Go unnoticed: Not every direct confrontation can be won, not every odds will be in Robin's favor. Sometimes the best course of action for accomplishing your objective is to avoid the fight altogether and well-developed stealth abilities will enable you just that.
  
• Eliminate enemies: Few things are as satisfying as thrusting defeat on your foes before they even realize they're in a fight. Sneaking in Sherwood Builders enables you to instantly kill enemies in melee assassination or dropping down on hostile characters from above. It can also significantly increase damage with arrows when they're fired at unaware opponents. Beware, however! If your target's level greatly outweighs Robin's, the assassination will fail, with damage dealt as your only benefit of the attempt.
  
• Seize treasures: Not all valuables lie out in the open. Sneaking around, breaking locks, and taking down security mechanisms will be the only way of getting your hands on them. A stealthy burglar will witness many rewards as they complete the many, many Sherwood Builders quests.

Stealth challenges:

• Risk of discovery: The closer you are to enemies, the higher the risk of being noticed. Sneaking requires caution and patience, as carelessness may end unpleasantly for you. Do this correctly and make sure you upgrade your skills well or you may find yourself suddenly surrounded by enemies eager to fight you and well aware of your presence. Keep a 'plan B' on hand.
  
• Using the environment: Stealth means a demand for perfect awareness of your surroundings. You have to use your surroundings to your advantage by hiding in dense foliage and behind objects to remain unseen and staying still if you're making too much noise. Your Hunter Vision ability will prove useful to find out which way your enemies are looking and whether they can hear you. Study their patrol routes carefully if you want to pull it off.
  
• Skill investment: How well you sneak about is not a finite deal, not by a long shot. The 'Path of Shadows' part of Robin's skill tree features many upgrades to how you can take advantage of the game's stealth features. If you want to reap the benefits, the challenge lies in choosing the right options between levelling up stealth skills and Robin's other abilities, such as those related to combat and crafting.

We hope that the sneaking mechanics in Robin Hood - Sherwood Builders will provide you with even greater excitement and challenges. We encourage you to share your impressions and suggestions on our community forum. Thank you for your support, and we're already working on further enhancements!

More news to come!
MeanAstronauts Team