Ancient Cities News

v0.2.7.0 Tribe leader

The leader of the tribe and its game mechanics.

CHANGES:

- Tribe leader, succesion and constraints on policy settings.
- New animal species : Mouflon ( Wild sheep ).
- New vegetal species : Blackberry plant.
- Trail particles over water, snow and dirt.
- New dancing behavior.
- Hunters avoid hunting pregnant females as long as possible.
- Manual tasks creation tool now sets normal velocity.

FIXES:

- Deleting manual tasks from interface button.
- Build task disappear when destroying its work group.
- Area creation and edition with circle and square tool.
- Graphical glitches near objects when using the camera mod.
- Animation glitch when crafting fine sticks by the fireplace.
- Chopping issues.
- Crash when selecting a very far place to migrate.
- Pits not showing correctly.
- Some portrait issues.
- Linux PROTON AMD support using propietary drivers.
- Crash when pressing building hotkey in region map.

KNOWN ISSUES:

- Rivers are not carved correctly in some locations.
- Saved games could become obsolete after an update.
- Temporary performance hiccups are expected when changing graphics settings.

PLEASE, KEEP UPDATED YOUR GRAPHICS DRIVERS.

- Please send us a report if the game crashes and write down report number.
- Please use the Steam 'Players' forum to post your feedback, bugs & issues.
- Please mod creators: Update & upload your mods when required.

WHAT'S NEXT?

Next we will implement migrant groups.

HOW CAN I SUPPORT THE GAME DEVELOPMENT?

If you want to support Ancient Cities development, please write a review on the Steam store page.

Biological family relationships, improved portraits and some additional content. Some bugs and many game mechanics have been fixed or adjusted.

CHANGES:

- Biological family relationships.
- New portrait system : Human portraits improved.
- New Animal : Wild Goat.
- New rivers in Norway and Spain : Otra, Numedalslågen, Duero, Jucar.

FIXES:

- Dead notifications issues.
- Crafting issues and reports.
- Increased temperature ranges for some vegetal resources.
- Humans & animals reproduction rates increased.
- Animal localization issues.
- No intercourse with same mother siblings.
- Priority not showed correctly in lists when a new building starts to be built.
- Current task adherence improved for communal tasks.
- Fishing & Production tasks cleared every day to generate tasks nearer to the camp.
- Manual chop tasks disappearing.
- Constitution : changes do not display properly.
- The amounts of the current constitution resources are not displayed correctly.
- Hunting group reporting no proper tools.
- Tool lack reporting in tribe tasks, clear area, hunt and chopping groups.
- Priority control don't working properly.
- Child with no fathers.
- Crash in human meeting behaviour.
- Medium rivers do not show in the European map.
- Fix siblings and couples of corpses.
- Some localization fixes.
- Unusable storage areas.
- The pregnant and baby traits disappear when the father dies.

KNOWN ISSUES:

- Rivers are not carved correctly in some locations.
- Saved games could become obsolete after an update.
- Temporary performance hiccups are expected when changing graphics settings.

PLEASE, KEEP UPDATED YOUR GRAPHICS DRIVERS.

- Please send us a report if the game crashes and write down report number.
- Please use the Steam 'Players' forum to post your feedback, bugs & issues.
- Please mod creators: Update & upload your mods when required.

WHAT'S NEXT?

Next feature in www.ancient-cities.com/roadmap.php Now working on 'Tribe leader'.

HOW CAN I SUPPORT THE GAME DEVELOPMENT?

If you want to support Ancient Cities development, please write a review on the Steam store page.

This update fixes some issues in the previous version and includes a pair of Christmas goodies.

v0.2.5.3 Christmas hotfix

CHANGES:

- Some non-historical but cute Christmas items.
- Manual tasks removed in work groups for simplicity.
- Clear tool explained in the tutorial.

FIXES:

- Behavior reporting issues.
- Deer horns are not in place.
- Tool lack report blinking for hunting and chopping.
- Storage areas over services not working properly.
- Honey stumps disappearing.
- Couple creation and reproduction issues.
- Pit placement disappear.

KNOWN ISSUES:

- Rivers are not carved correctly in some locations.
- Saved games could become obsolete after an update.
- Temporary performance hiccups are expected when changing graphics settings.

PLEASE, KEEP UPDATED YOUR GRAPHICS DRIVERS.

- Please send us a report if the game crashes and write down report number.
- Please use the Steam 'Players' forum to post your feedback, bugs & issues.
- Please mod creators: Update & upload your mods when required.

WHAT'S NEXT?

Next feature in www.ancient-cities.com/roadmap.php Now working on 'Biological families'.

HOW CAN I SUPPORT THE GAME DEVELOPMENT?

If you want to support Ancient Cities development, please write a review on the Steam store page.

v0.2.5.2 Mesolithic buildings : Dismantle

CHANGES:

.2
- Tool lack report improved.
- River Ythan in Scotland.

.0
- Building dismantle.
- Wooden benches.
- Inaccessibility mark for buildings.
- Beet plant and beetroot resource.
- New vegetation distribution system based on temperature and humidity.
- New tree species : Larch tree.
- New rivers : Ems, Weser, Gudena, Skjern, Llobregat, Ouse.
- New resource summary draggable window.
- Crafting and gathering production limit.
- Character behavior reporting improved.
- Clothing color variations.
- Current building resources listed in the tooltip.
- Camera navigation also uses cursor keys.

FIXES:

.2
- Resource lack incorrect reporting.
- Rotating glitch when placing buildings.
- Inaccessible report in buildings for blocking issues.
- Service access, selection and queues.
- Build task priority increased.
- Localization issues & crashes.
- Buildings and walls placement.
- User configured priority was ignored in some work groups.

.0 .1
- Dismantle issues.
- Some building location too near the water.
- Strip and crop should be done faster when using tools.
- Improved auto chopping & Cropping tasks to avoid not desired targets.
- Improved use of storage services when high demand.
- Fixed river displaying on global map.
- Loop behavior when picking very few resources or repairing.
- Canceling some behaviors causes frozen characters.
- Storage empty not working when deselecting resource.
- Automatic crop avoids non adult plants.
- Crafting orders fixed and improved.
- Sit services around some huts are clipping with objects.
- Honey load on humans not showing correctly.
- Fishers unloading resources too early.
- Hunting problems with animals by the map borders.
- Food resources vanishing when going to sleep.
- Out of range tasks not discarded but cost x2.
- Doubled stone axe durability and stone fine heaps density.
- Frozen individuals waiting in front of pits.
- Paused button in groups is working again.
- Resource selection panel glitch when using < > Back & Front buttons.

KNOWN ISSUES:

- Rivers are not carved correctly in some locations.
- Saved games could become obsolete after an update.
- Temporary performance hiccups are expected when changing graphics settings.

PLEASE, KEEP UPDATED YOUR GRAPHICS DRIVERS.

- Please send us a report if the game crashes and write down report number.
- Please use the Steam 'Players' forum to post your feedback, bugs & issues.
- Please mod creators: Update & upload your mods when required.

WHAT'S NEXT?

Next feature in www.ancient-cities.com/roadmap.php

HOW CAN I SUPPORT THE GAME DEVELOPMENT?

If you want to support Ancient Cities development, please write a review on the Steam store page.

v0.2.5.1 Mesolithic buildings : Dismantle

CHANGES:

.0
- Building dismantle.
- Wooden benches.
- Inaccessibility mark for buildings.
- Beet plant and beetroot resource.
- New vegetation distribution system based on temperature and humidity.
- New tree species : Larch tree.
- New rivers : Ems, Weser, Gudena, Skjern, Llobregat, Ouse.
- New resource summary draggable window.
- Crafting and gathering production limit.
- Character behavior reporting improved.
- Clothing color variations.
- Current building resources listed in the tooltip.
- Camera navigation also uses cursor keys.


FIXES:

.1
- Dismantle issues.
- Some building locations too near the water.

.0
- Strip and crop should be done faster when using tools.
- Improved auto chopping & Cropping tasks to avoid not desired targets.
- Improved use of storage services when high demand.
- Fixed river displaying on global map.
- Loop behavior when picking very few resources.
- Canceling some behaviors causes frozen characters.
- Storage empty not working when deselecting resource.
- Automatic crop avoids non adult plants.
- Crafting orders fixed and improved.
- Sit services around some huts are clipping with objects.
- Honey load on humans not showing correctly.
- Fishers unloading resources too early.
- Hunting problems with animals by the map borders.
- Fixed resource vanishing when going to sleep.
- Out of range tasks not discarded but cost x2.
- Loop Pick&Drop when repairing storage buildings.
- Doubled stone axe durability and stone fine heaps density.
- Frozen individuals waiting in front of pits.
- Speak effect gain for adult males was too low.
- Paused button in groups is working again.
- Resource selection panel glitch when using < > Back & Front buttons.

KNOWN ISSUES:

- Rivers are not carved correctly in some locations.
- Saved games could become obsolete after an update.
- Temporary performance hiccups are expected when changing graphics settings.

PLEASE, KEEP UPDATED YOUR GRAPHICS DRIVERS.

- Please send us a report if the game crashes and write down report number.
- Please use the Steam 'Players' forum to post your feedback, bugs & issues.
- Please mod creators: Update & upload your mods when required.

WHAT'S NEXT?

Next feature in www.ancient-cities.com/roadmap.php

HOW CAN I SUPPORT THE GAME DEVELOPMENT?

If you want to support Ancient Cities development, please write a review on the Steam store page.