Northgard News

Originally posted by author

Hello everyone! Today we have released an update that addresses a number of issues that have arisen since the release of the Clan of the Rat.

Whilst this update doesn't directly address the loss of progression some users are reporting, it does include implementations that will ensure that this does not happen again in the future and we are continuing to look into ways we can resolve the issues of those affected.

Read on to find out more...

• Sickness: Sick clan members regain 50% less health from healing.
  

• Production is increased by 50% > 30%.
  

• Your wounded units cost -50% > -30% Kröwns to train as military units.
  

• Wounded units move and attack 30% > 20% faster.
  

• When killed, the Shaman will reduce all nearby enemies' defense by -30% > -20% for 5 seconds.
  

• Health: 75 > 80
  
• Attack: 15 > 12
  
• Defence: 10 > 9
  

• Move speed has been reduced (-33%)
  
• Defence: 20 > 16
  

• Garm’s Incarnation heal and decay now properly affects the unit.
  
• Garm’s Incarnation active bonus display now reflects the right value.
  
• Eradicating a neutral faction now grants the appropriate reward.
  
• Missing SFX added.
  
• Achievement progress should now be correctly tracked.
  
• Missing houses notification does not trigger anymore when playing the clan of the Rat.
  
• Offering well icon doesn’t appear as influencing a neutral faction when separated from this faction by a cliff.
  
• Rat conquest bonus transmitting sickness to enemy units now correctly attributes the kill of units dying from the sickness to the Rat clan.
  
• Rat can build Skirmisher’s camps during “Hostile Lands”.
  
• Players can build two different relics in conquest if they play the same clan.
  
• Ancient Graveyard research progression can no longer be seen through the fog.
  
• Display of eradicated neutral factions in the Diplomacy screen has been fixed.
  
• Chapter 8 secondary objective colonize Jötnar camp can be validated.
  
• Heal icon no longer displayed over mouse cursor when Shamans or Eir selected.
  
• New expeditions related to rat clan achievements have been added.
  
• Update no longer overrides and deletes current Stats and Conquests progress.
  

• The “Continue” option for a mission in a conquest may not work (restart the mission is still available)
  
• Border scrolling may not work in Borderless or Windowed
  
• Issue with Overwork sound that stop too soon
  
• Blood Ties : No SFX and VFX
  

Originally posted by author

Hey everyone!

We are proud to present to you our eighth clan, the clan of the Rat, which brings some exciting new mechanics and units to Northgard.

Read on to find out more about what makes the clan of Dodsvagr so unique.

• The clan starts with more villagers but they arrive wounded. Wounded units are exempt from Happiness requirements.
  
  
  
  
  
• The clan doesn't have access to Houses, but all non-mystical buildings provide housing. Once max population is reached, extra villagers stack in a Population Reserve.
  
  
  
• The Shaman Camp replaces the Healer Hut and trains Shamans able to fight and heal multiple units and allies even outside your territory.
  
  
  
  
  
• When the clan’s units kill foes or die, the corpses are cremated at the Shaman Camp, producing Lore and attracting new villagers faster.
  
  
  
  
  
• Overwork replaces the Feast and boosts all productions at the expense of your worker's Health.
  
  

Fame 200

Fame 500

• Win with the Clan of the Rat
  

• Achieve 50 Victories with the Clan of the Rat
  

• Build the Relic of the Clan of the Rat
  

• Finish a Conquest with the Clan of the Rat
  

• Overwork the same worker 5 times.
  

• Keep the Purification Pyre burning for 12 months without interruption.
  

• House 10 Villagers or more in neutral faction houses in a single game.
  

• Have 10 Merchants working in the same zone.
  

• The Kobolds will now accept to sell their additional territories for Kröwns to the clans they befriended.
  

• Cost 60 ⇒ 80 Wood
  

• Your clan gets a 20% increase to production through feasts, -50 ⇒ -40% Feast cost.
  
• You can build an additional Sheepfold.
  
• Your units regenerate Health during a Feast.

Fame 500

• Your Defense Towers and your units gain 15% resistance in your territory when feasting.
• Your units regenerate Health during a Feast.
  

• Health = 55 ⇒ 50

• Buff to heal speed when Brundr and Kaelinn are together.
  

• Effect: Produce 3/5/7/9 ⇒ 4/6/8/10 to Food, Wood, Kröwns, Lore.
• Cost: 100 Meat, 100 Mushrooms | 200 Vegetable(Duration) | 300 ⇒ 200 Meat (Power)
  

• Effect:
  
  • New villagers will arrive at the Town Hall 10%/20%/30%/40% ⇒ 30%/60%/100%/130% faster.
    
  • Units in your territory or neutral zones will slowly regenerate their Health over time.
  • Produce 4/7/10/13 Lore.
    
• Cost: 200 ⇒ 100 Fish, 200 ⇒ 100 Vegetables | 200 Mushrooms(Duration) | 200 Fish (Power)
  

• Cost: 200 ⇒ 100 Meat, 100 Vegetables 100 Mushrooms | 300 Vegetables(Duration) | 300 ⇒ 200 Fish(Power)
  

• The behavior and wording has been reworked to include all healing-units and not just Healers.
  

• Reduces your buildings' upgrade costs by 20%.
  
• Reduces upkeep from upgraded buildings by 20%.
  

• Addition of a tooltip displaying the current pop-growth bonus on the gauge of arrival of the next villager.
  

• Refund on upgraded Altar has been fixed.
  
• An “adjacent” zone means that it is connected (not separated by a cliff etc) so Ancestral Influence and Offering Well have been adjusted.
  
• Kaija’s passive ability is fixed.
  
• In singleplayer, you can now have multiple Jotnar factions.
  
• Fixed issue during Jotunheim campaign mission: attacking enemy prevented you from trading with the other factions - it now works as intended.
  
• Fixed issue in Map Editor when adding neutral factions.
  
• Fixed achievement Dances with Wolves.
  
• Fixed issue where burning building from Raven Raids can’t be repaired.
  
• Permafrost is now available.
  
• Stones from Ragnarok are correctly displayed on the minimap.
  
• Sometimes units could walk under the lake, it has been fixed as well as High Tides not giving fish.
  
• Both Lynx don’t cross zones after using Sharp Eyes.
  
• Breaded Fish Fillets affect Dwarven Operative.
  
• Freeze when clearing Naströnd zone has been fixed.
  
• Bug on chapter 9 of the Campaign preventing units from attacking has been fixed.
  
• Conquest bonus reducing Relic cooldown by 50% now also works for Yggdrasil Root.
  
• Achievement requiring you to mine 150 Stone in a single game now triggers correctly.
  
• Problem with placing Fields on some zones has been fixed.
  
• Rock Golems from eruption event are correctly displayed on the minimap.
  
• Boar can no longer colonize neutral faction zones like zones with wolves.
  
• Achievement for 500 victories no longer triggers at the same time as the one for 250 victories.
  
• Free upgrade for unupgradable units can no longer appear as Conquest bonus.
  
• Erudition knowledge now correctly allows a free Lorestone construction.
  
• Bifrost bridge no longer blocks unit selection underneath it.
  
• Multiple UI fixes.
  
• A couple of optimizations have been made.
  

Gain +10% Krowns from merchents and sailors

Mercenaries from Homeland - Fame 200

Trade routes with the homeland is available and earn more Krowns.

Sea Supremacy - Fame 500

Howl of the Sea Master - Fame 500

Supplies - Fame 200

• Fixed difficulty noted as “extreme” in saves and as “hard” in the information window.
  
• Fixed fame notifications not displayed for client.
  
• The AI will now avoid moving its spectral warriors into ally territory.
  
• Fixed merchants constantly stopping work when assigned after thralls to a trading post.
  
• Fixed the display of ore production by slaves.
  
• The free lore stone obtained with the knowledge "erudition" will still be free even after cancelling it's construction.
  
• Texts have been revised to be gender neutral.
  
• Torfin's throne produces +2 Lore which was not displayed. It is now.
  
• Option “map special” from Ragnarok has been removed. This was irrelevant as the special map could be replaced by a volcano.
  
• When Kobolds spread to a tile with an object (i.e. ruins), the name display of that building/object will no longer turn into "Kobold Hamlet".
  
• Fixed wrong icon of the relic “Edda of Vor” displayed in the player list.
  
• Fixed description text of Mask of Gullinbursti relic. It cost 150 Lore to summon the Giant Boar (not 200).
  
• Fixed villagers carrying hammers in longships in story mode.
  
• Fixed "High tide" which sometimes did not generate fish on lakes.
  
• Fixed broken food graphic displayed in end-game.
  
• THE WISE ONE from the clan of the Lynx, and Torfin’s Throne no longer produce Lore in the conquest mission “Imported Knowledge”.
  
• Fixed buildings that were burning after a raven raid. They stop burning after being repaired.
  
• Fixed warchief portrait hiding text in fame notification.
  
• Fixed Torfin’s shadow not attacking Wyverns and defense towers.
  
• Fixed several issues with neutral factions. When dwarves or myrkalfar attack an enemy clan, they continue to advance from tile to tile until they eliminate the clan or are killed. Previously, they could stagnate on a tile and cause colonisation issues, this is no longer the case.
  
• You can no longer see enemy unit status (starving, freezing…) after using Warcry.
  
• The relic Gefjun’s jar now summons new villagers on the town Hall as intended.
  
• In the conquest mission greed’s price, the knowledge “Wool trade” no longer produces Krowns.
  
• Clicking on the notification of a built relic no longer leads to the player who built it if you have not scouted him.
  
• In the gem cutter conquest mission, trading gems now affect relations.
  
• Building an offering well near an eradicated neutral faction is no longer possible.
  
• The unit type icons in the healer hut are updated when healed units change jobs.
  

Kröwns and Daggers expands the ties between clans while also adding in a whole new neutral faction to Northgard.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/10/krowns-and-daggers-is-another-big-free-upgrade-for-northgard-out-now