Songs of Syx News

• [p] Misc:
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• [p] Overhauled the overlays. Moved a bunch to them to the tools that actually uses them for less clutter.
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• [p] Unite is more expensive
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• [p] Gifts are more generous.
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• [p] Age death renamed to natural causes.
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• [p] Armies can be supplied in any state, as long as they're in your territory. You get more artillery when fortified though.
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• [p] Workload for farms, and in general fixed.
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• [p] Rivalry returns after 8 years for vassals.
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• [p] Admin and overhead fixes and UI.
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• [p] Admin notification.
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• [p] Admin special automate employees function.
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• [p] Work-group UI enhancements
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• [p] Colors added to tech tree.
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• [p] Some missing techs added.
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• [p] Service proximity is square rooted, so more generous.
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• [p] Fixed factions suggestions for stance changes.
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• [p] Grain farms yields less, but bakaries are better.
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• [p] New events, bug fixes
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• [p] Two new levels to smooth out the progression.
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• [p] Changed the global boost buildings - the worker's guilds now multiply workforce, and the others have reduced effects and lower costs.
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• [p] Raider adjustments
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• [p] Difficulty settings enhanced. Now there is casual mode (default) selected.
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• [p] Immigration rate increased. Has no effect on population growth.
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• [p] Breeding limit of nurseries higher.
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• [p] Ex-convict is no longer a type. Types are now native, immigrant and former slave.
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• [p] Ex-convict is set when freed from punishment and will remain for a year.
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• [p] native population gets a boost to fulfillment.
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• [p] University rate doubled
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• [p] Stocks, execution block, graveyards are no longer services. They will be visited on the subject's spare time.
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• [p] Subjects will move around more and do fun stuff.
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• [p] Water access combines sweet and salt water into one.
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• [p] Clearing rocks is a lot faster.
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• [p] Workers always go to their place of work initially, so that they don't go fetching raw materials in the wrong direction.
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• [p] The convert tool for structures is instant
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• [p] Auto replace button for noble death.
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• [p] Rearranged levels, removed a lot of rooms into the tech tree. Spreading out innovation and nobles.
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• [p] Nobles have titles for each rank.
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• [p] Nobles boost 50 workers with +2, every rank the same amount of workers.
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• [p] Dynamic boosting system for faction, royalties and regions.
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• [p] Fixed alliance cost
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• [p] Some fixes to global prices. Leather products stood out in V68.
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• [p] Many title changes
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• [p] Argonosh training speed set to 1
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• [p] City hall tax removed
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• [p] Regions buildings with global boosts changed to give multiplicative benefits
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• [p] Shorter Dondorians
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• [p] Garthimi dislike torches
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• [p] Amevian tourists
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• [p] Woodcutters, mines, and bakeries changed to use the correct (reduced) maintenance
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• [p] Many new events
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• [p] Recurring events that destroy things are disabled for now
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• [p] Text fixes
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• [p] Ingame wiki updated
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• [p] Natural stone amount decreased.
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• [p] Subjects can perform blocked off jobs.
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• [p] City ore deposits richness has been retired. All deposits now have 100% efficiency.
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• [p] World deposits is scrapped. Instead, now each region have prospects for all industries semi-randomly distributed amongst them. Terrain matters in this distribution. For the player city, the terrain matters as to what prospects you'll have in raw production.
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• [p] Pushed natural deaths off a bit.
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• [p] Decreased player trade caps and added some UI.
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• [p] Decreased species boosts slightly. This and the above should encourage more generalisation.
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• [p] AI factions can attack your allies
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• [p] Betrayal for attacking after peace.
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• [p] Many bugs / suggestions
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• [p] Armies max amount of supplies changed from 24 days to 6 days.
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• [p] Armies can be supplied everywhere at all times (unless your capital is closed).
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• [p] Notifications for armies that have less than 1/2 supplies left.
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• [p] Walls gives roughly half the fortification bonus.
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• [p] Recruiting soldiers cost 6 days worth of health supplies up front.
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• [p] Disbanding armies does not return health supplies.
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• [p] Conscripts for the AI fix. The AI needs to wait for their conscript pool to regenerate before spawning armies.
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• [p] Redid army supplies. Improved UI and mechanics. Added Sithilon supply to Dondorians only for bonus morale.
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• [p] Foundation thing added. Gives you boost or malus to room maintenance depending on where they are built.
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• [p] Pre-generated road is special. Does not require maintenance and can not be repaired, only removed. No weirdness with maintenance on account of it.
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• [p] Degrade will become apparent sooner, from roughly 2 years to 8 days without janitors.
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• [p] Disabled rooms degrade x4 as fast.
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• [p] Logistics:
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• [p] Transports changed into mini-freight trains. Basically you need at least 6 employees and a distance of 100 tiles to make them more effective than deliverymen, else you're running them at a loss.
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• [p] Very effective transports that are fully staffed can be equal to 100-200 deliverymen.
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• [p] Transports only deliver to transport stations automatically. The stations also require minimum workers.
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• [p] Prioritized fetching. Enables warehouses and haulers to fetch from other warehouses without specific orders to do so. They fetch from those warehouses that are not prioritized.
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• [p] Market, eatery restaurant and in have warehouse-wroker carry capacity.
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• [p] Janitors also get warehouse-carry. Maintenance that require resources takes only one second to complete.
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• [p] Workers in rooms gets a "free" distance to fetch resources. The time fetching is separated from proximity, and called "input".
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• [p] Extensive copy-paste settings tool for logistics room.
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• [p] Export depots have priority-fetch and a global fetch limit as in olden times. This is enabled by default at 25%.
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• [p] Fertility:
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• [p] 4 soil types with different properties and nutrients for each map.
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• [p] Ground has moisture.
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• [p]Fertility = soil nutrients
• moisture
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• [p] Natural moist maps will need very little irrigation
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• [p] Dry maps will depend on irrigation
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• [p] Dry maps has more nutrient rich soil.
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• [p] Moisture is essential to farms. You want 100% moisture for those, and perfect soil type. Pastures, orchards and woodcutters also needs moisture to some degree. Soil nutrients dictate density for these.
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• [p] Canal placement has helpful overlay.
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• [p] Canals radiate "stronger" fresh water.
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• [p] Hovering a canal / pumps tells you the pressure of the whole system.
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• [p] Pump changes. Different sizes, and easier to place.
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• [p] Region farms's once per year harvest can not be exploited.
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• [p] Tech
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• [p] Libraries now use leather instead of paper.
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• [p] Lab ratio halved. A quarter of innovation comes from your population itself (levels). Half comes from clay usage by the lab workers (clay tablets), which is then diminished to one quarter as you upgrade clay.
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• [p] Experience bonus decreased from +1.5 to 1.0.
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• [p] Max boost from tech increased from +5 to +6
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• [p] All production techs use innovation, while almost all others use knowledge.
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• [p] Laboratories produce twice the amount of innovation.
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• [p] The hammer value now shows how much workforce you gain from the tech, including upgrades and tool levels.
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Songs of Syx is a deep and engrossing colony-building sim from Gamatron AB that has steadily improved with new updates since the 2020 release into Early Access but the 1.0 release is finally approaching.

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• water wheels to boost industry
  
• Farmstead to boost agriculture
  
• More monuments
  
• More and prettier roads
  
• Park room
  
• Police building
  
• Medical research fascility
  
• New compact pasture variation.
  
• Meaningful fortifications.
  

• Price might increase 25 -> 30$, although I haven't decided.
  
• I might team up with a publisher for launch
  
• There most probably will be sales.
  

• New event mechanics & new and refined events.
  
• Better and more error resistant saving
  
• Baths consume coal at a predictable rate
  
• Changing room materials do not crash saves
  
• new and improved bonuses and stats for regions
  
• new and improved road and path generation for the world.
  
• new mechanics for world pathing and trade partners.
  
• More state is saved when a room is copied or broken. Such as radius, and logistics settings.
  
• Stage & Arenas now have fixed sizes, but come in different shapes.
  
• Some visual candy for the woodcutter. Increased storage for them.
  
• Mines and refiners have differently sized output storage, bigger in general.
  
• Pastures do not get penalised for their surrounding fence, which will make indoor pastures better.
  
• new sprites for dirt and blood for portraits
  
• new tutorial cut scenes
  
• new titles icons
  
• Barber is more space efficient.
  
• Hospitals need fabric to function, and give 10% recovery. Opiates is optional and gives an extra 40% recovery.
  
• The import depot is now a potential pull source.
  
• New list for room construction projects.
  
• You can now easily swap punishments for captives, they will not go into exile. Also fixed some general weirdness with punishment rates.
  
• Pools now need direct canal access and will suck water out of the system.
  
• Woodcutters, farms, orchards and pastures now operate on base fertility, and will instead get an additive boost from sweet water.
  
• The old boost to knowledge from libraries is scrapped. Instead Libraries have their own separate tech point system.
  
• The tech tree has been remade visually with some new helpful information.
  
• The tech tree has been remade and rebalanced, quite a bit of thought has been put into it: All industries now have the same possible maximum boost at the same cost, making it viable to specialise in whatever.
  
• All industries have different times to shine, mimicking human evolutions. Farms are best at first, then comes mines, refiners and finally workshops that are best late game. In have all the same value.
  
• Army supply depot has been remade. It no longer stores supplies, but instead loads carts depending on demand, and leaves for the edge of the map. Considerable logistics is needed for large armies.
  
• Rooms no longer breaks when they are fully degraded. This is because I can now track monument degrade.
  
• Awe, harmony, etc. is scrapped. Instead all monuments have their own aura. This is so that monuments can be expanded upon.
  
• Some rooms like markets lets subjects register their surroundings.
  
• Pools work the same way as roads in terms of fulfilment.
  
• Improved rendering speed significantly, which will also increase game speed.
  
• New improved work assignments. Plebs will automatically change workplace based on their building preference. There's also the possibility to assign individual rooms to specific races. This is not an absolute tool, more of a hint, but it's working pretty well.
  
• Refactored the region development code. City hall is built with government points, generated by nobles.
  
• Excess world workforce generates denari.
  
• Growable taxes are only shipped on their harvest day.
  
• Admins are repurposed. An admin combats mid/late game overhead that will come creeping. Overhead increases exponentially.
  
• The old noble offices no longer exist. Instead, when you've appointed a noble, you assign them to an office manually. These offices are split between different industries and regional management. The former boosts a limited amount of workers. The latter will result in Gov Points that are used to upgrade regions.
  
• Export depots have spoilage
  
• Events for regions
  
• Ores generate differently on the city map. You get 100% deposits, but only enough for 30 workers without world deposits. This is to make self-sustaining early games possible.
  
• Consumption of edible goods added to the UI.
  
• New world battle mechanics. Better and more stable engine, with more options, such as defending a city with an army on top, assist you allies, and more.
  
• Got rid of the false virus flag.
  
• Enhanced the tutorial.
  
• REgion buildings rebalanced and fixed.
  
• Organization in regions is gone.
  
• Added 'Worth' to regions. It's a function of mineral deposits, fertility and area. It is used by the AI to estimate how much they want the region.
  
• Showing your net worth in the treasury UI.
  
• Showing a factions net worth in their UI.
  
• net worth includes worth of your population as slaves. Each pop is worth their upbringing time x the cheapest food in Syx x 2. This was bugged before with the average price of food, which could be very high.
  
• Fixed broken power calculations, which were a cause of raider and AI strangeness.
  
• Retirement fulfilment based on your total amount of retires.
  
• Threat is renamed into Rivalry, and is not counted towards your trade.
  
• You get penalised bad for failing to protect your vassals.
  
• Vassal tribute slightly decreased. Their armies will attack your enemies though.
  
• You get a trespassing penalty from moving armies in un-allied territory.
  
• If you have an army in a distant faction's territory, they are allowed to declare war on you.
  
• Factions that are at war with you, yet can't reach you, will continue to be at war with you until you make peace.
  
• When signing peace, you sign a peace with all factions you are at war with.
  
• Peace deals are less powerful. To get some cash from it, you seriously need to threaten the AI by having armies in their territory.
  
• Factions must break off their agreements until neutral before they can declare war.
  
• Wars decrease the opinion of your allies over time, along with city loyalty and region loyalty.
  
• Neutral factions will station their armies by your border.
  
• Raiders may cross through any other faction to attack you.
  
• Raiders will demand more unique and varied things.
  
• Raiders will on occasion destroy a trade partner instead of you.
  
• Minimum opinion is needed for trade, pact and ally. This is so you know what opinion is expected to upkeep your stance.
  
• Factions with low opinion, that can not attack themselves will "poison" all other factions against you. Given enough time, war will break out.
  
• Factions that can't reach you, but wants to kill you, can give their armies to a neighbour at war. They can not start wars though, other than "poisoning" your neighbours.
  
• Increased flattery from emissaries.
  
• Fortifications have different and better ways of being destroyed. Enemies can scale the walls if the outer tiles are broken. This means the thickness of walls is only used to station troops on.
  
• Drastically decreased the strength of every structure that is not fortifications, to emphasise their important.
  
• I have a hugely genius plan to improve the importance of fortifications for 1.0. Just wanted to mention that.
  
• It could also be possible to shift the map when you are invaded to the invasion spot. That is, move all buildings away from the invasion spot, which would allow you to make better use of archers and artillery (think about that will you)
  
• Friendly fire from archers reduced.
  
• Trees only block 50% of projectiles, and are no longer a real obstacle.
  
• Fertility changes. Fertility now goes from 0.5-1.2 in bonus. Irrigation goes from 0.5-1.0. So irrigation is mandatory for all maps. You get free irrigation close to natural water places.
  
• Annoying sudden confusion of divs in formation fix.
  
• Div movement 'stuttering' fix.
  
• Defenders on walls get "high ground" advantage in melee combat. This is x2 on grand fortifications. This should give the defender a clear advantage.
  
• Pathing for divisions improved
  
• Intanglement for divisions improved
  
• New setting for ranged units where they will not move to attack targets
  
• UI for battle improved.
  

• I've remade the priorities (priorities visible in the property tab) to make a more dependable schedule for subjects.
  
• All activities a subject can do have a need to them, which can be tempered with through mods and events.
  
• There are now essential services, such as food. And non essential, of which 2 is selected each day and consumed.
  
• A proximity stat that is tracked for each citizen. Is added to production calculations. Measures the time they're doing other things than actually working while working, such as hauling goods. Good for optimising industries.
  
• Onx pasture produce more cotton
  
• Special amount setting for warehouses, lets you use one crate with a specific capacity. Needed for the new maintenance overhaul.
  
• Both the new setting and pull orders are now copied when pasting a warehouse.
  
• Fulfilment formula made a lot easier for early game, and harder for late.
  
• Maintenance is now a science instead of something flimsy. There are strict rules, and as such the cost can be estimated. I've added the estimates to the UI where they are needed. Maintenance will now be a much bigger factor in your economy.
  
• Retirement age made more important, and set it to start at half. It will slowly make its way to whatever you set as the target, so you hopefully can't cheese it.
  
• Services fulfilment rebalanced. More diminishing returns.
  
• Some changes to fishery deep sea access.
  
• Upgrades available for monuments with fulfillment in regards to it.
  
• Torch have upgrades.
  
• New upgrade placer tool.
  
• Better saved blueprint UI and functionality.
  
• Guard post has upgrades
  
• Light removes snow
  
• Encyclopedia has been redone. Some functionality added.
  
• Nursery UI facelift
  
• Tourism fixes. Increased amount and money from tourism. Added more races.
  
• Added diplomatic penalty for disallowing tourists.
  
• Changed disease. Disease can be avoided with near infinite tech upgrades late game. Will later be replaced by a medical research facility.
  
• Crimes should also increase as you grow indefinitely, but has tech to offset it. Will later be replaced by police buildings.
  
• New revolutionary event mechanics. Makes it easy to add many events, and have them affect the game. Over 100 events added.
  
• Fixes of Dondorian and Cretonain portraits.
  
• New biographies for subjects, deeply tied to traits, and custom for races.
  
• The wishes of subjects are much more colourful and race specific.
  
• Religion conversion now works for both shrines and temples.
  
• Many more rooms now have more upgrade stages, and the upgrades are expensive to maintain.
  
• Pastures now have useless cubs for 6 days. Slaughter all output is increased though.
  
• Transports have radius, increased capacity, and can be loaded when they're away.
  
• Food and drink production increase, but higher food/drink rations possible. You only get this bonus if rations are > 1. Rations can now be fractions.
  
• Removed water need for baths. (I'm not sure what I/you want. Either water should play a substantial role in city planning, or just for agriculture)
  
• New raider mechanics
  
• - a fixed number of raider groups are pre-spawned and known from the start.
  
• - these come in different powers
  
• - only a span of raiders are interested in you at any given stage of the game.
  
• - This span are the ones that can pose a challenge to you, and the ones that think you are worthwhile.
  
• - The system is self-balancing, sort of like a ladder that you climb with your wealth. If the raids are too hard, they will grab your stuff and bump you down the ladder. If it's too easy, you'll climb the ladder.
  
• - start difficulty determines the offset of the span you are currently in.
  
• - raiders can be killed, either by attacking them manually, or defeating them in an invasion.
  
• - you get a bounty for killing raiders.
  
• - a killed-off raider can be respawned. If all raiders are killed, a new raider will spawn every 10 years, so that's the max rate. Don't want it to feel endless, but also don't want to completely kill the system.
  
• - raiders will spawn like in V66, or at the edge of your realm as a rebel army.
  
• Made some changes to borderless window creation. Let me know if I broke / fixed something.
  
• Added army supply consumption to tooltips.
  
• Better room ordering in lists.
  
• Room name based on amount of room, not iteration of room.
  
• Special floors for rooms override by race. For instance Garthimi have their organic floors for them. This can be implemented for every race.
  
• Auto immigration only counts adults.
  
• Nurseries have local limits.
  
• Toggle for automatic roads underneath benches etc.
  
• Better on-hover on the world map.
  
• Culvert overlay
  
• Room build overview tweaks
  
• Archery speed tech
  
• Cobblestone repainted
  
• Better search for bottom panel
  
• Indicator for planning mode
  
• Historic data for available technology points
  
• Extra cost when constructing room more prominent.
  
• Indoor pastures gate placement improved.
  
• Some indoctrination/education changes.
  
• Saved bluprints work on unfinished rooms.
  
• Auto immigration has numerical input.
  
• Minimum treasury setting for imports
  
• Room problem overlay
  
• Tilapi happy in slaver and cannibal
  
• Janitor overlay show all combined radiuses.
  
• Indoor pastures get boost in mountains.
  
• Warehouses start with 100% radius.
  
• toggle all select for pull orders
  
• Fill tool improvements
  
• Woodcutter items can be placed on trees.
  
• Moved tooltip when managing equipment of divisions.
  
• reconstructing rooms and cancelling rebuilds them instantly.
  
• Hotspots left click to navigate, right to edit.
  
• Overlays remove the hard shadows in mountains.
  
• Resolution UI problems.
  
• Trade price added to resource tooltip.
  
• minimap settings are saved.
  
• Added equipped tool consumption to resource tooltip.
  
• Made minimap entity coloring a bit better.
  
• Race filter for minimap
  
• A bit less forest generated on the world map.
  
• Mural of the main menu completed.
  
• Service proximity is now impossible to get to 100%. But the upside is you can always find a better layout for your city.
  
• Much more accurate workload values.
  
• Temporary loyalty boost when invaded or when there is an epidemic.
  
• Experience bonuses for industries rebalanced.
  
• All industries construction materials have been balanced to be uniform, and prevent early upgrades (through the maintenance cost).
  
• New icons here and there.
  
• Trade tariff increased.
  
• Inflation increased.
  
• the two above might decrease again once I fix more world mechanics.
  
• Roundness change. Now both roundness and squareness exist. Humans like both, so you need a good 50:50 ratio for it. This is not registered in rooms.
  
• New Revolutionary trading system. Lets you export machinery with the same profits as grain if your trade partners are big enough. Also affects wood prices when trading furniture.
  
• Accidents more rare, and more severe.
  
• Livestock is now a recipe in all pastures, and can be traded normally.
  
• some logistics QoL
  
• Fixed world fortifications
  
• snow and ice removed when the weather setting is off.
  
• 
  
• Contributions
  
• Roberto Díaz Pérez - more and better place types.
  
• Vanir - lots of the above
  
• Krastor - lots of the visuals above