Against the Storm News

• New small glade events:
  • Treasure Stags (3 types)
    
  • Wandering Merchants (3 types)
    
  • Rainpunk Drill
• 4 new perks
  
• New timed order
  
• And more!

• Treasure Stags - mythical beasts found in the forest. Once discovered, they flee to a nearby dangerous glade, where they stay for a short period of time. If you open the dangerous glade within the required time limit, you will find them and be rewarded.
  
• Wandering Merchants - hermit traders not tied to the Merchant’s Guild. Once they are found in the forest, a trader icon will appear on the HUD, and you will be able to trade with them for a short while. When the timer runs out, they leave. Wandering Traders have fewer resources and perks on sale (compared to normal traders), but their assortment is unique.
  
• Rainpunk Drills - abandoned pieces of machinery found in the forest. They can be disassembled or repaired. Repairing a Rainpunk Drill spawns a few Copper Ore or Coal nodes in close vicinity.

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• ⚡ Added 3 new types of glade events dedicated to small glades.
  • These events are not dangerous and are designed to increase the overall attractiveness and viability of small glades. For now, there are 3 categories of such events, and more are to be added in the future.
    
  • Treasure Stags (3 types) - mythical beasts found in the forest. Once discovered, they flee to a nearby dangerous glade, where they stay for a short period of time. If you open the dangerous glade within the required time limit, you will find them and be rewarded.
    
  • Wandering Merchants (3 types) - hermit traders not tied to the Merchant’s Guild. Once they are found in the forest, a trader icon will appear on the HUD, and you will be able to trade with them for a short while. After the timer runs out, they will leave. Wandering Traders have fewer resources and perks on sale (compared to normal traders), but their assortment is unique.
    
  • Rainpunk Drill - an abandoned piece of machinery found in the forest. They can be disassembled or repaired. Repairing a Rainpunk Drill spawns a few Copper Ore or Coal nodes in close vicinity.
• Added 4 new perks. They are only available in Dullahan’s Mystery Boxes and can be bought from the new Wandering Merchants.
  • Badge of Courage - A famous Viceroy emblem passed down from generation to generation. Discovering a glade during the Storm lowers Impatience by 0,5.
    
  • Lucky Charm - A strange talisman made from an extremely rare gemstone - blue Amber. Grants 1 additional cornerstone reroll charge.
    
  • Firekeeper Letters - The exchange of knowledge between firekeepers can be very beneficial. The maximum number of sacrifice stacks in the Ancient Hearth is increased by 1 for every 2 ongoing trade routes.
    
  • Makeshift Water Tank - Increases the tank capacity for every type of rainwater by 50.
• Added a new timed order.
  
• Supply Thy Neighbor - with the objective to complete valuable trade routes. This order was added in place of the old Outerwear order (which was disabled after the addition of species abilities in the Sentinels of the Forest update).

• ⚡ Changed the recipe tiers in the Brickyard.
  • Bricks - from 2 stars to 3 stars.
    
  • Crystalized Dew - from 2 stars to 1 star.
• ⚡ Increased the overall spawn rate of beneficial events on small glades (caches, camps, and the new types - traders, rainpunk drills, and stags).
  
• ⚡ Slightly lowered the arrival time of traders that were immediately called to the settlement.
  
• ⚡ Rebalanced all effects tied to fuel consumption rates, and changed the minimum fuel levels in the Ancient Hearth. The maximum possible value for fuel consumption effects was decreased by around 20 percentage points.
  • Previously, if players had a particularly unlucky set of modifiers and effects, the game would show notifications about insufficient fuel reserves even if there was enough wood/coal/oil, and a Firekeeper was working without taking breaks. This was because FIrekeepers would refill fuel after reaching a certain threshold, and that threshold was too low.
    
  • Humid Climate - changed the fuel consumption rate increase from 25% to 20%.
• ⚡ Moved the Vanguard Spire Level 5 Citadel Upgrade to level 10 (from level 8). This was done so the essential Fox House wouldn’t be unlocked before having access to Foxes.
  
• ⚡ Changed the requirements in the Advanced Outpost Order to avoid repetitions (it now requires a level 3 Hearth instead of level 2 on higher difficulties).
  
• ⚡ Changed how the game chooses workers when assigning them to a workplace. From now on, the algorithm will look at two factors to find the optimal worker: the distance from the workplace and the time left before taking a break.
  
• Changed the rewards for the Brotherhood order. Removed the Working Hard and Smart perk and added the Vessel of Incense perk instead.

• ⚡ Added the biome summary tooltip to the order pick menu, trading panel, and the wildcard panel. You can now hover over the round resource icon next to the NPC portrait in these windows to see what resources are potentially available on your map.
  
• ⚡ Changed the name of the “Sheltered” need to “Basic Housing”.
  
• ⚡ Added a list of buildings that can produce a given resource to the “sell goods” order objective tooltip.
  
• ⚡ Changed the name of the Human Resolve order to avoid confusion.
  
• Improved the wording in the Guild Catalogue perk description (to state clearly that traders can have more perks or blueprints, not Cornerstones).
  
• Changed the description and name of the Resolve effect applied by the Converted Harmony Spirit Altar to avoid confusion.
  
• Changed the name of the Experienced Scout perk to Scout's Toolbox.
  
• Changed Xiadani’s title from Wandering Merchant to The Guild's Outcast.

• ⚡ Fixed a bug with the Makeshift Extractor (a decoration created by converting the Fuming Machinery glade event) not adding rainwater tank capacity.
  
• ⚡ Fixed a bug with the “move” button in the Trading Post now working in maps with the Levitating Monument modifier.
  
• ⚡ Fixed a bug with the “move” button in the Trading Post not working when another building was selected before clicking on the Trading Post.
  
• ⚡ Fixed an issue with perk timers resetting after reaching more than 59 minutes.
  
• ⚡ Fixed an incorrect label for the Degradation working effect in the Petrified Tree glade event.
  
• ⚡ Fixed a bug with scenes loading twice and breaking the game in some rare cases.
  
• ⚡ Fixed a bug with the game crashing when Twitch auto-login was enabled and the initial chat connection failed.
  
• ⚡ Fixed a bug with the construction mode breaking when double-clicking on a Geyser Pump.
  
• ⚡ Fixed a bug with the construction mode breaking when placing multiple buildings one after another and selecting villagers at the same time.
  
• ⚡ Fixed a bug with the Trader indicator not changing positions after moving the Trading Post.
  
• ⚡ Fixed an issue with species portraits being slightly off-center in the Consumption Control panel.
  
• ⚡ Patched up some holes in the Clan Hall building model.
  
• ⚡ Fixed an issue with the Embark Screen having inconsistencies between UI elements.
  
• ⚡ Fixed a typo in the Family Gratitude perk description in the Japanese version of the game.
  
• ⚡ Fixed a typo in the “use any rainwater” objective description in the Korean version of the game.
  
• Improved overall stability and fixed numerous smaller bugs behind the scenes (these errors had no real visible representation in the game, but once they occurred in the background, they would influence mechanics and systems in weird ways).

An Against the Storm update just landed, continuing to build on the Steam Early Access game that's already shaping up to be one of the best city-building games of 2023. It's only been a couple of weeks since the Sentinels of the Forest update brought Fox people, the fifth playable species, to Against the Storm, yet there's already more content on the way. This latest update introduces a spooky shipwreck, new ghost encounters, and much more.

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• Fixed a bug with tooltips scaling incorrectly in Japanese, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese.
  
• Fixed a bug with the "discover glades in quick sucession" orders resetting timers after loading a save.
  
• Fixed an issue with modifier tooltips not disappearing correctly after closing the Training Expedition panel using ESC.
  
• Fixed an issue with the news panel in the main menu not scaling correctly in some languages.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused players to not get boosted to level 2 after skipping the tutorial from the option screen in the main menu.
  
• Fixed a bug with ghosts in the Cursed Royal Woodlands not removing Porridge when destroying stored food.
  
• Fixed a bug with NPC names in the Forsaken Altar scaling incorrectly.
  
• Slightly tweaked the number of newcomers that can arrive each year.

• New glade event: Merchant Shipwreck
  
• 8 new Deeds
  
• 6 new Ghost encounters
  
• 7 new Orders
  
• New language: Thai
  
• and more!

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• Feature Request Tool - suggest specific new features

• ⚡ Added a new dangerous glade event.
  • Merchant Shipwreck - How powerful must the storm surge have been to carry this shattered wreck all the way here? Perhaps in the distant past, there was a sea in this place? It looks as if it had been lying here for centuries. Strange voices can be heard from below the deck...
• ⚡ Added 8 new deeds. All of them are tied to the new modifiers that were introduced into the game a few updates ago.
  • Frosts - Win a game near the Frosts modifier.
    
  • Abandoned Settlement - Win a game near the Abandoned Settlement modifier.
    
  • Untamed Wilds - Win a game near the Untamed Wilds modifier.
    
  • Land of Greed - Win a game near the Land of Greed modifier.
    
  • Petrified Necropolis - Win a game near the Petrified Necropolis modifier.
    
  • Gathering Storm - Win a game near the Gathering Storm modifier.
    
  • Overgrown Library - Win a game near the Overgrown Library modifier.
    
  • Ominous Presence - Win a game near the Ominous Presence modifier.
• Added 6 new ghost encounters in the Cursed Royal Woodlands.
  • Ghost of a Lizard Elder
    
  • Ghost of a Lost Scout
    
  • Ghost of an Old Merchant
    
  • Ghost of a Murdered Trader
    
  • Ghost of a Fox Elder
    
  • Ghost of a Teadoctor
• Added 7 new Orders. All of them make use of new objective types introduced into the game - completing trade routes with a given minimum value, and discovering glades in a short time span.
  • Profit Margin
    
  • Profitable Trade
    
  • Fair Exchange
    
  • Export Hub
    
  • Into the Unknown
    
  • Hasty Explorer
    
  • All at Once

• ⚡ Rebalanced the spawn rates of ghost encounters in the Cursed Royal Woodlands. The chances of coming across two identical ghosts on the same map should now be minimal.
  
• ⚡ Changed how cyst spawning during the Storm works. Previously, every Cyst that spawned during the Storm was immediately open. Now, after the last open Cyst was burned, subsequent cysts will appear closed.
  • This means that if you are in the middle of burning Cysts during the Storm, and a new one appears, it will be open. But if you burn all Cysts, and a new one appears only after the last one has been destroyed, it will lay dormant until the next Storm (or until awakened by an event, like the Infected Mole).
• ⚡ Changed the Land of Greed modifier effect. It no longer removes event rewards.
  • Land of Greed - The strange totem causes you to only focus on your wealth... And the Crown is worried. Impatience grows 50% quicker, but every ongoing trade route reduces Impatience generation speed by 20%.
• ⚡ Added new decisions to 5 already existing glade events.
  • Corrupted Caravan - with the option to either cleanse it or send contaminated goods to the Citadel (tagged as corruption).
    
  • Fuming Machinery - with the option to either tear it down or fix it (and be rewarded with a decoration with a special effect).
    
  • Withered Tree - with the option to either cleanse it or cut it down.
    
  • Petrified Tree - with the option to either cut it down or heal it (tagged as empathy).
    
  • Noxious Machinery - with the option to either cleanse it or tear it down.
• ⚡ If a player isn’t level 2 after the second tutorial map (because they skipped the tutorial, lost a game, or an update reset their settlement), they will be automatically promoted to level 2 after entering the World Map for the first time.
  
• The size of the Newcomers caravan now scales with in-game years instead of scaling with the number of villagers in the settlement.
  
• Changed the reward for the “fix” option in the Leaking Cauldron glade event. Instead of giving Reputation, it spawns fertile soil around.
  
• Changed the way newcomer scaling works. Previously, the number of new villagers was based on the population of a settlement. Now the numbers are based statically on the number of years past. This change was introduced to allow players to recover more quickly after a negative chain of events wipes out a significant portion of their villagers.
  
• Changed the way Standing levels progress when using Trade Routes. Previously, neighboring towns would level up after a fixed number of routes were completed. Now it’s the value of your transactions that counts. This change should introduce more variance into the system, and make it possible to gain Standing more reliably (with big transactions).
  
• Increased the Complex Food requirement in the Vitality effect. It now requires 200 units (instead of 150) of complex food consumed to add the Resolve bonus.

• ⚡ The Trading Post is now movable. The “move” button can be found in the Trading Panel after selecting the building (you can also move the Trading Post by hovering your cursor over it and pressing M on your keyboard).
  
• ⚡ Added an option to rebind the “copy building” function in the Options menu.
  
• ⚡ Resource tooltips now show which buildings a player owns (they are highlighted in the list of all buildings that can produce said resource).
  
• ⚡ Tooltips for goods are now formatted differently. They display building names in a list and show the star rating of a recipe next to the building name.
  
• ⚡ Need tooltips now show which service buildings a player owns (they are highlighted in the list of all buildings that can fulfill said need).
  
• ⚡ Holding Shift when changing production limits will now change the number by 10. Holding Ctrl will change the number by 5.
  
• ⚡ The clickable area for Woodcutters’ Camp settings has been enlarged.
  
• ⚡ Resources in the “related goods” section of the Recipe Popup are now separated based on which slot they are assigned to in the original recipe.
  
• ⚡ Clicking on a need icon in a service building will now open the Recipe Panel and automatically search for the good required to satisfy the said need.
  
• ⚡ Changed the name and icon of the Obsidian Shovels perk to avoid confusion.
  
• Improved scaling for almost all tooltips in the game. Tooltips should now be able to resize more easily in all directions.

• ⚡ Fixed an issue with the unique effect of the Converted Harmony Altar not taking the Teadoctor into account.
  
• ⚡ Fixed an issue with the Automaton worker slot still showing the old icon instead of the new one.
  
• ⚡ Fixed some overlapping text in Resolve effect tooltips.
  
• ⚡ Fixed an issue with ghosts requiring the burning or spawning of cysts appearing for players without Rainpunk unlocked in the Citadel.
  
• ⚡ Fixed a bug that caused Fox and Lizard icons to not be clickable in the Training Expedition panel.
  
• ⚡ Fixed a few outdated pieces of ghost dialogue (they were referencing requests that were no longer present in the game).
  
• ⚡ Fixed an issue with a handful of orders appearing in maps where they can’t be completed (like an objective to build farm fields in a map without fertile soil).
  
• ⚡ Fixed a bug with scouts not playing any animation when solving the Destroyed Rainpunk Foundry glade event.
  
• ⚡ Fixed a bug with scouts not playing any animation when solving the Altar of Decay glade event.
  
• ⚡ Fixed a bug with the Sealed Vault glade event having an incorrect working effect on higher difficulty levels.
  
• ⚡ Fixed an issue with two-line order objectives sometimes cutting into other text on the HUD.
  
• ⚡ Fixed an issue with the Blight Swarm Prestige modifier not being available in Training Expeditions.
  
• ⚡ Fixed a bug with recipes in the mine displaying a one-star efficiency. They are now correctly assigned a two-star tier.
  
• ⚡ Fixed a bug that allowed Cornerstones like Firelink Ritual to appear in a game without any species with the need for Religion. From now on, if a need is not represented in a settlement, Cornerstones tied to it will not appear.
  
• ⚡ Fixed a bug that caused the ESC key to sometimes not work correctly when trying to exit the Embark View.
  
• ⚡ Fixed an incorrect objective text displayed on the HUD for Orders based on delivering goods.
  
• ⚡ Fixed a bug that caused the visual FX of a completed Order to be displayed above other UI elements.
  
• ⚡ Removed an unnecessary dot in the tooltip header of Order objectives based on delivering goods.
  
• ⚡ Fixed a bug that allowed the Destroyed Rainpunk Foundry to be deleted with the destruction tool.
  
• ⚡ Fixed a bug that caused the Herb recipe in the Greenhouse to be affected by the Leaking Cauldron working effect.
  
• ⚡ Fixed an issue with the Mine missing the worker count in the Encyclopedia.
  
• ⚡ Fixed an issue with Citadel Resource icons being inconsistently ordered below upgrades in the upgrade tree.
  
• ⚡ Fixed an issue with Twitch Chat Polls sometimes breaking after caravan voting.
  
• ⚡ Fixed an issue with Twitch Chat Polls breaking after two votes were started at the same time.
  
• ⚡ Fixed an issue with the Consumption Control panel having a brighter background than other full screen popups.
  
• ⚡ Fixed a bug with ore not reappearing while moving a building placed on top of it.
  
• ⚡ Fixed a bug with the Human Starting Ability showing the fertile soil marker on the edge of the map in games without any fertile soil.
  
• ⚡ Fixed a wrong translation in the Korean version of the Voice of the Forest effect.
  
• ⚡ Fixed a bug that caused some numbers to be obstructed and unreadable in the Japanese version of the game (like for example in the Protected Trade Cornerstone).
  
• ⚡ Fixed a typo in house descriptions in the Spanish version of the game.
  
• ⚡ Implemented multiple fixes to the Simplified Chinese version of the game (biome descriptions, some effect descriptions, order objectives, etc.).
  
• ⚡ Fixed an incorrect translation of the Fungal Guide perk in the Ukrainian version of the game.
  
• ⚡ Fixed an issue with two buildings having the same name in the German version of the game (Distillery and Tinctury). Additionally, improved translations in the Embark View and the Carved in Stone perk description.
  
• ⚡ Fixed an incorrect translation of the Procrastination effect in the Russian version of the Game. Additionally, we implemented multiple miscellaneous fixes and improvements to the localization (deeds, descriptions, perks).
  
• Fixed a few incorrect profession names assigned to new buildings (Distillery, Beanery, Tea House).
  
• Fixed an issue with female Fox villagers carrying incorrectly rotated objects.

• ⚡ Added 2 new music tracks to the Cursed Royal Woodlands (during Storm).
  
• Added a new officially supported language - Thai.
  
• Changed the visual representation, name, and description of the Living Matter. The event (and its clone) is now called Blood Flower. This change was introduced mainly to get rid of the old Living Matter model (which was simply a particle effect) and to ground it a bit more in the game’s lore.
  
• Improved overall stability and fixed a few instances of CPU crashes that occurred after the last engine update.

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