ASKA News

Hey Vikings, we’re thrilled to announce that our second major update, Farmers and Fighters is now LIVE!
We’re so excited to see how you enjoy this one. Thank you so much for all your ongoing support & patience while we worked on delivering it!



MILITIA? I HARDLY KNEW HER

• Villagers can now be assigned to a village Militia. Militia are regular villagers who jump to the village's defense when it comes under attack
  
• They also answer rallying calls from the newly added Horn
  
• Horns are a new special tool which allows players to raise the alarm in a specific area, and to rally Militia to a specific point. With the horn, your village will never sleep through an attack again
  
• Horns are made from Smolkr horns. We've added a new hornless Smolkr, so make sure you hunt those with horns!
  
• Towers can also be upgraded with horns, allowing you to set up automated alarm towers.
  

CROPS CROPS CROPS CROPS CROP CROPS - EVERYBODY!

• Players can now set up automated crop rotation schedules at the crop fields;
  
• Farmers will automatically reseed plants according to the schedule;
  
• And a small fix, closing the crop menu that was opened from the farm menu, will no longer close the farm menu too.
  
• New deeds and rewards
  

TRIBE LEADERS NEVER LOOKED THIS GOOD

• We've added a host of new customization options for Aska and Ragnar, but there's a catch
  
• We've upgraded the Deeds system by adding in a meta-progression system. The new customization options will be unlockable by completing deeds for the various gods
  
• All gods received all-new god deeds and new tiers. This is the first step in deepening the game's progression as we're setting the stage for new vanity items to better showcase your in-game accomplishments.
  

CAVES, CRAWLERS AND CAVE FINGERS OH MY!

• The caves have also received an upgrade, as they now feature new iron deposits, special stones where you can place torches and an improved crawler encounter. Caves can now be cleared of baddies for good by eliminating the dens
  
• Villagers working in the mine will now light the cave using the new wall torch mechanic. Miners no longer need torches in hand
  
• Also reworked how Cave Fingers are gathered.
  

IN THE CLOUDS

• Steam Cloud Saving has been added
  
• You can now save your progress remotely using Steam Cloud saves and continue playing on any machine, anywhere!
  

STUFF THAT I COULDN’T THINK OF A TITLE FOR THAT HAS ALSO BEEN ADDED

• Settlement issue menu has been improved thanks to community feedback;
  
• Villager schedule can now be changed using a dropdown;
  
• Workers are more eager to drop their junk and recyclable iron parts.
  

FIXIN THOSE BUGS

• Fixed farmers AI getting stuck due to various reasons;
  
• Fixed farmers AI complaining about not finding seeds without any reason;
  
• Fix farmers not complaining about storage is full in some cases;
  
• Fix farmers complaining about storage is full when not needed;
  
• Fixed password field being show when creating a normal singleplayer world;
  
• Fixed fishermen dropping their bait near the bait barrel;
  
• Fixed huge frame drop when depositing many items to storage;
  
• Fixed for season music in games with custom season length;
  
• Fix gatherers stuck complaining;
  
• Small navigation events fixes when using the gamepad;
  
• Improved gamepad navigation in deeds page;Fixed the villager left notification not showing up for clients in some cases;
  
• Fix archery range having 0 defence points when used as a patrol point if no archers are assigned to it
  

We hope you enjoy this next update and we are so excited to hear from you - so keep sharing your feedback and your comments and in the meantime we will get to work on the next one!

Thanks as always,
Sand Sailor

ASKA is now live in the Thunderful Publishing Sale! Become our newest tribe member here!

The Thunderful Publisher Sale is live until 21 October and you can pick ASKA up for 20% off until then.
Our second major update is coming on 14 October, so there's never been a better time to pick up your axe and join our tribe!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1898300/ASKA/

Whatever you check out during the sale, we hope you have a Thunderful time ⚡

Hey Vikings,

As you know we've been working on lots of new features for you in the next update. We're about done with this work, but we've encountered an issue with save game integrity. We don't feel confident that we have the time to test every eventuality related to this on the current timeline. Save game integrity is of paramount importance in a game like ASKA, and we cannot risk this going out with even the tiniest chance might corrupt your save game.

As such, we’re taking the difficult decision to delay the update one week to October 14th.

The extra time will also allow us to fix extra bugs, in addition to the already-announced features. The features we have already announced are not changing, so you can still look forward to them on the new date.

We really appreciate your patience and how understanding you’ve been about the previous delay already, and we want to make it really clear we’d rather release something late that was properly ready for you instead of rushing it out on Monday and it affecting people’s save games negatively.

Hopefully you can hold out for one more week while we finish testing what we need to, and as a reminder if you have any questions about the new update, you can join our weekly dev stream tomorrow night at 6.30pm BST over at twitch.tv/sandsailorstudio or ask in our forums here, or in Discord.

All the best,
Sand Sailor Studio

Hey Vikings! 🎃

Throughout October we're running a competition -we want to see your best Blood Moon screenshots 🌑!



Share them with us on any of our channels, Discord, Reddit or Steam and we will pick a winner to receive an ASKA t-shirt on 30 October.


Good luck!

Paige :)

Hi Vikings

We’re more than halfway through September and it's becoming obvious to us that our second Major Update is not going to be quite ready for the end of this month.

Instead of staying silent and leaving you to speculate, we wanted to make sure we were communicating with you about this with honesty and transparency, so we’ve updated our Roadmap to give you a sneak peek of what’s to come!



We can inform you that we’re currently aiming for 7 October as the next major content drop. This date is subject to change, and we will let you know if that is going to be the case, although we are currently hopeful that we can meet this.

The next update will contain quite a few things we think you’ll be delighted with and we hope you can forgive us for pushing it out a little to make sure we can deliver something really solid! You’ll need to wait until nearer the time for more specific details - we wouldn’t want to spoil everything so soon ;)

We hope to continue open communication with you when we can and look forward to giving you more news when we are able to provide it.


Many thanks,
Sand Sailor Team