Ancient Cities News

[h3]Ancient Cities is a realistic, easy to learn and hard to master survival city builder based on ancient times.[/h3]

You will have to guide your people through generations, growing your settlement organically, discovering and improving technologies, managing resources and population, facing other tribes and Mother Nature herself in a fully simulated world and ecosystem.

The survival of your tribe depends on your decisions!


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https://store.steampowered.com/app/667610

v 1.0.5.3 Simplified Chinese language

We have added official support for the Simplified Chinese language while fixing some visual and gameplay issues. Also adding pottery as a new requirement for some constructions.

LATEST CHANGES & FIXES

- Included official support for Simplified Chinese.
- Included Pottery as a requirement for some constructions.
- Included daily calories consumption in the tooltip for animals and humans.
- Improved task control in the interface.
- Improved terrain visualization.
- Increased farm and crop slope threshold.
- Increased maximum navigation deep in the regional map.
- Decreased probability of learning a new knowledge when many.
- Fixed message box layout in the guided tutorial.
- Fixed cultural requirements to avoid issues.
- Fixed nutrition behavior when rationing is active.
- Fixed animal nutrition behavior.
- Fixed autoselection of Steam language for the game.

CHANGES

- Included new tool for tilling : The bone hoe.
- Increased Ice Age game years and temperature offsets.
- Increased the negative effect of unrest on birth rate.
- Decreased historical year pace based on game speed.
- Adjusted knowledge probability and interface representation.
- Adjusted kale, wheat and peas growing rate.
- Adjusted crafting times for several tools.
- Adjusted meat, bones and nutrition needs for animals.

FIXES

- Fixed overlaped and blank notifications.
- Fixed crashes and stuck people due to routing behavior issues.

PLEASE ENSURE YOUR GRAPHICS DRIVERS ARE UP TO DATE.

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

WHAT'S NEXT?

- We are working on new free content updates while improving the game.

HOW CAN I SUPPORT THE CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT OF THE GAME?

- Please post a review on Steam if you want to make this game better and better!

v 1.0.4.19 Content Update : Bone hoe

In this update we have added a new tool for working the farms and we have made several adjustments to the balance and interface of some elements of the game. We have also adjusted the rate between game years and historical years in each of the eras to make them more enjoyable.

LATEST CHANGES & FIXES

- Included new tool for tilling : The bone hoe.
- Increased Ice Age game years and temperature offsets.
- Increased the negative effect of unrest on birth rate.
- Decreased historical year pace based on game speed.
- Adjusted knowledge probability and interface representation.
- Adjusted kale, wheat and peas growing rate.
- Adjusted crafting times for several tools.
- Adjusted meat, bones and nutrition needs for animals.
- Fixed overlaped and blank notifications.
- Fixed crashes and stuck people due to routing behavior issues.

PLEASE ENSURE YOUR GRAPHICS DRIVERS ARE UP TO DATE.

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

WHAT'S NEXT?

- We are working on new free content updates while improving the game.

HOW CAN I SUPPORT THE CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT OF THE GAME?

- Please post a review on Steam if you want to make this game better and better!

[h3]Ancient Cities is a realistic, easy to learn and hard to master survival city builder based on ancient times.[/h3]

You will have to guide your people through generations, growing your settlement organically, discovering and improving technologies, managing resources and population, facing other tribes and Mother Nature herself in a fully simulated world and ecosystem.

The survival of your tribe depends on your decisions!


[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/667610

v 1.0.4.16 Happy Ancient Christmas!

Special update with some Christmas goodies and the usual fixes and improvements. Happy Christmas!

LATEST CHANGES & FIXES

- Included Christmas tree and Christmas hats.
- Increaded fishing performance.
- Adjusted maintenance interval and visuals for some buildings.
- Fixed some scripts in the german translation.
- Fixed crash related to orphaned behaviours.
- Fixed core behavior system causing malfunctions and crashes.
- Fixed visuals for several crops.

CHANGES

- Included new steps in the guided tutorial.
- Included separated issue reports in the tribe status bar.
- Included decay and waste reports.
- Included tool wear due to use.
- Included new planting animations without tool.z
- Now resources stored in broken warehouses decay faster.
- Now items with zero knowledge requirement are always available.
- Improved interface for buildings,tasks and groups lists.
- Improved tooltip descriptions for farms, constructions, foods, tools, humans and animals.
- Improved report and notification descriptions.
- Improved standing animations for humans.
- Improved and optimized screen space reflections on water.
- Increased birth rate for wild animals and livestock.
- Increased priority for closed storages when used for production tasks.
- Livestock feeding only from feeders and food outside the storage areas.
- Tweaked requirements and maintenance intervals for some constructions.
- Storage house now allows any resource.

FIXES

- Fixed stripping requiring a tool.
- Fixed livestock not eating from piles outside areas.
- Fixed killing animals in innacesible locations.
- Fixed access of qualified workers to full groups.
- Fixed losing grains after processing it.
- Fixed basket decay levels visuals.
- Fixed crafting tasks generation.
- Fixed mud pit visuals.
- Fixed crash when migraing with active gathering orders.
- Fixed region rivers visualization when snowy terrain.
- Fixed tilling and seeding season calculations.
- Fixed cursor when dismantling areas.
- Fixed same tasks for different groups colapsing vacancies for same targets.
- Fixed tasks not removed when erasing farm cells.
- Fixed not dropping tools on storage areas.
- Fixed cell color for constructions in the building placement mode.

PLEASE ENSURE YOUR GRAPHICS DRIVERS ARE UP TO DATE.

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

WHAT'S NEXT?

- We are working on new free content updates while improving the game.

HOW CAN I SUPPORT THE CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT OF THE GAME?

- Please post a review on Steam if you want to support this indie project.