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🛠️ Update – Balancing & Fixes (04.12.2025) 🛠️

Hey settlers 👋

Today’s patch brings balancing improvements to the Kerzoven-C scenario, clearer tutorial guidance, and lots of useful fixes and tweaks!

✨Highlights:
  • Biberstein's political requests are now easier, especially when expanding west
  • Tutorial now helps you reach the desert and unlock trading with Hochdorf for copper
  • Better achievement descriptions for "Prince in peril" and "A noble cause"
  • Faction animals now have a different color on the minimap 🐄
  • Various text, UI and localization fixes
  • Slightly improved fish baiting chance 🎣
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Full Patch Notes:
  • Balanced the political requests of Biberstein in the Kerzoven-C scenario. It is now easier to expand to the west.
  • Improved the tutorial in the Kerzoven-C Scenario, guiding more how to pass Biberstein to get to the desert.
  • Using the specific faction partner target to make it clear you need to unlock trading with Hochdorf to be able to buy copper.
  • Fixed a typo in the bloomery upgrade: You save two coal, but the text only indicated that you would save one.
  • Made it more clear that the "Prince in peril" and "A noble cause" achievement are in the Kerzoven scenario.
  • Improved the default in-game window position.
  • Fixed a missing tile in the mountains map.
  • Fixed an issue where the upgrade target description in the item usage UI was not fully localized for the community centre and fishery.
  • Faction animals are now marked on the mini-map with a different color than wild animals.
  • Fixed an issue where the healing bathhouse could not be used if other buildings were not present.
  • Slightly increased the chance that pikes take bait from the fishery or fishing place.