Greetings medievalists!

We are now in the new year and of course, we wanted to give an update on what we’ve been up to!

We did two things regarding the event system presentation.

We’ve added information that displays next to the player choices when the event needs the player to choose something. This way, the players can see what the outcomes of their choice are. This also makes the events a bit more interesting and lets the player plan out his decisions.


After a raid, the player will get a status report that will tell you if they won or lost, how many enemies you killed, as well as other handy info.



Depending on the season some kind of environmental event will happen from time to time. Right now, we have four of them in the game and each will test your settlement differently.

Hailstorm - Happens in the spring and autumn. While active, it deals damage to the plant life and lasts for about half of the day. The player has no way of fighting the hailstorm except to harvest the crops as fast as they can before the hailstorm destroys the plants.



Thor's hammer - Happens most often during the summer and autumn. Heavy rain pours and lightning strikes on the map randomly destroying buildings, trees, villagers & piles. The player has no means of fighting the event - they can protect the settlers by putting them inside so the lightning can’t strike them.



Heatwave - Happens sometimes during the summer. Several days the temperature rises to very high degrees and the player must battle the heat. To do this, it’s suggested that the villagers sleep during the day while it’s the hottest. Sewing summer clothing will also help, and having villagers work within cool rooms (underground or nicely insulated rooms) is also one of the ways they can deal with the heat.



Cold snap - Appears sometimes during the winter. The temperature falls well below -20 degrees for a couple of days. To deal with this event, the player will have to make settlement rooms warm and their villagers well dressed.



Right now we only have the wolf pack as an event. These animals are territorial creatures and they’ll mind their business where they are located. But they’ll start killing other animals and by doing this they rob the player’s villagers of a food source. If players choose to fight these animals and succeed in defeating them, they’ll be rewarded with their meat and pelt.




A very simple photo mode has been added to the game. Players can take screenshots and the photo is saved to the player’s folder within AppData.




Behavior and order customization is majorly improved - we’ve implemented different visuals, dragging functionality and individual selecting now works as intended. We’ve also implemented additional customization options (depending on the order) - what level/type of building does it affect.




Upon selecting the stockpile zone, you’ll be able to expand it or shrink it as you see fit. The only limitation here is if you try to split one stockpile into two separate areas with no connecting markers - in that case, the zone with fewer stockpile markers will disappear.

• Higher mood reward - When the villagers have a higher mood, they’ll get a bonus in global works speed (will work on everything a bit faster), XP gain amount (every action will give more XP), and the chance to produce a rare quality item is higher
  
• Time passage is better formatted/worded
  
• New tutorials were added and additional info to existing tutorials
  
• Exiting tutorials reworded because of some changes to gameplay
  
• Added several new system sections in the almanac that can help the player
  
• Added many new pieces of information to the almanac
  
• The prioritization of the task received an additional polish
  
• Hunters are now able to bring dead animals to stockpile after killing them
  
• UI received a significant overhaul in font change and size
  
• The button graphic has been changed
  
• Additional tooltips are added and tied to specific info
  
• Enemy health and behavior received additional optimization

And that would be all for this month. The next update will come sooner.

In the meantime, be sure to check our Twitter for more gameplay videos and feature showcase. And be sure to check our Discord Server as that is the best place to be regarding all of the game updates and announcements.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy_rW95WtmA

Until next time,

Foxy Voxel Team

Greetings medievalists!

As we get closer to the year’s end, we’re introducing some new features and improvements. Behold:

When you start a game, you’ll be able to choose one of the three different modes:
Peaceful - builder mode that doesn’t have enemy attacks.
Standard - classic mode that evenly balances environmental events with enemy raids.
Survival - aggressive mode that frequently tests your combat skills.

Within every mode, you’ll be able to choose one of the 5 difficulties - Very Easy, Easy, Normal, Difficult, Hard. Game difficulty changes things like starting mood, enemy health, animal retaliation chance, wound severity amount. But that is not the end, because:


Scenarios will determine the start of your game. Beyond the two existing ones, you’ll be able to create your own. Apart from required fields such as Scenario name, description, narrative and villager number there can be other starting conditions controlled, such as Starting Resources and Equipment, Unlocked Technology, and various villager constraints ( Age, Height, Weight ranges, Chance for Gender, Religion and Perks roll, Default starting clothes and Overrides for all villager stats start values). There are some limitations here, but you will have A LOT of control.


That’s right. A Basic, procedurally generated world map which shows players’ village location and surrounding villages is here. You can see your settlement on the map, along with the surrounding villages. The world map also shows Region influence - a stat that combines wealth, raid results, etc. As your influence grows, its representation will expand over the World Map. There is still much to be done here, but this is a good start.


The new window can be toggled via the top right button, next to the Almanac. Once selected, it opens two tabs:

• Statistics tab: Left part shows various graphs for different stats such as Population, Wealth, Food, Mood, and Influence. The right panel is reserved for other statistical data.
  
• History tab: This tab logs all events like villager banishments, deaths, and other important happenings.

You, our community suggested it and we implemented it - Graves are a new building type where villagers and enemies can be buried. You can look at it as a stockpile that accepts only carcasses (RIP). There are different types of graves in the game - unmarked and normal graves can be placed on the ground tiles only, while a sarcophagus is costly and can be built anywhere.


Ladders have also been requested by the community. Comparing ladders to stairs - they cost less, take up less space, and climbing them might be slower - but they get the job done!


We have been mostly working on UI improvements, adding indicators for targeting, some positioning experimentations, and added many animations (we have much more to come too). Here is the list of things we’ve done:

• Cracking graphics are added to buildings as they lose health. Removed health bar from buildings
  
• Fixed problem where drafted villagers would ignore draft order sometimes
  
• Arrow miss particle is not shown anymore for melee attacks
  
• Enemies now target buildings properly
  
• Reworked formation forming when a player chooses to move multiple drafted workers at once
  
• Multiple villagers can go through nodes with other villagers on them, but they can’t pass nodes with enemies on them
  
• Enemies now have quicker reactions (eg: if the enemy is attacking a building, and one of the villagers hit him, the enemy will focus on those villagers)
  
• Faster game speed is enabled while raids are active
  
• Removed 'right-click attack' menu for villagers
  
• When hit by a ranged villager attack, enemies will try to approach villager while seeking cover
  
• Enemies now start charging instantly, when hit or missed during the initial walking period
  
• Drafted villagers inside the building won't blindly focus on the closest enemy anymore. The enemy will be focused on only if there is a clear line of sight
  
• Villagers can now attack while standing inside open doors.
  
• Elements above villagers/enemy heads (health bar, name, combat charge, etc...) do not overlap/glitch anymore.
  
• Improvements to right-click equip order. Fixed a bug where an order would get ignored sometimes, and it now works while the game is paused.
  
• Fixed pathfinding bug where some beds would become unreachable if built too close to other beds. This caused a bug where villagers would sleep on the ground, even though the bed existed.
  
• Disabled thought bubbles while villages are drafted
  
• The game now utilizes more CPU threads on systems that have them.
  
• Multiple optimizations, and general code improvements

And that would be all for this year. Happy holidays and see you next year with more exciting Going Medieval news. Stay safe people!

Foxy Voxel Team

Be sure to visit our Discord and become part of our community: discord.gg/yHKcJat
Follow us on Twitter: @going_medieval

See the trailer for the game here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy_rW95WtmA

Greetings medievalists!

As we get closer to winter, it’s time to warm ourselves with a couple of new features. Check out what we’ve been working on below:



To build a specific room type, players will need to create certain production (buildings/furniture/decorations) within it. Once they are created, that room will get certain production buffs.

Example: If you make a kitchen out of a certain room - then the stove in it will produce food much faster.

Sweet, right? To maximize the potential of their settlement players will have to consider what and where they will build things. But that’s not all, because…



To create a room, players will have to put walls on four sides, a roof (or ceiling), and a door. If there is one hole in that construction - it stops being a room.

Every object in the game now has a thermal model. Production buildings and decorations (like torches) now have heat emission and will heat up the room they are in. Depending on the type - walls/floors/roofs now have different isolations, and the size of those rooms will also play a role in processing temperature.

To put it lightly - if the players do not want their food to rot quickly they’ll want to put them somewhere cold. But on the other side - when the winter comes, villagers will want to be warm… You get the idea.



Last time, we introduced religion. That, along with other activities will fall into the “Leisure hours”. During that time, villagers will prioritize things like food, entertainment, religion, and drinking. It’s not all about the work, right?



Alcohol is added as a resource type and with that, the need for alcohol is implemented. Some villagers will have the need to drink ale or alcohol every couple of days (some more often depending on perks). If they don’t drink, they’ll get negative mood modifiers.

Upon drinking alcohol, villagers will get drunk and this makes them work slower and walk slower. It also means they will make more mistakes (botched harvests, etc), but they’ll get nice mood modifiers. Also, if they drink too much and/or eat raw meat, they’ll vomit, nice...



Right now, we have only one type of trap, but it is a good starting point. It's a 1x1 building that gets activated when an enemy steps on it and inflicts damage. Once activated and used, the villager will have to come to it to reactivate it for the next battle. There is also a chance of trap misfiring, so this is not a bulletproof solution for battle scenarios.



The player can now order villagers to dismantle items by setting up dismantle productions in production buildings.

This is a nice way of solving the problem of too many items dropped by enemies - and it was something that was suggested by our beta players, thank you for your feedback!

Dismantled items give a fraction of resources back, this all adds up and the player can get resources like steel and gold even without a smelting station.

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And that would be all for the November dev blog update! If you haven’t checked out our previous dev blogs you can do here:

October
September
August

Head over to our Discord server to chat with us and play our Going Medieval inspired meta-game! Pick your loyalty in the #choose-a-side channel and talk to the peeps there!

Also, we recently restarted our special #going-on-a-journey story set in medieval times. Our series is written and chosen by you, the community - so while you wait for the game why not choose your own adventure!

Thanks for continuing to support us on our development journey. Talk to you soon!

Foxy Voxel Team

Be sure to visit our Discord and become part of our community: discord.gg/yHKcJat
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/going_medieval
See the trailer for the game here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy_rW95WtmA

Greetings medievalists!

We have been very busy and have been working on a bunch of things in-game, refining the old stuff and implementing new features. Check out what we’ve been working on below:
Tasks can be prioritized and chained manually by right-clicking on things.

This was requested by a lot of players, so we’ve implemented it! Right-clicking on anything that has a job attached to it can be prioritized now. This is very useful for micromanagement and making certain tasks finish in the order you want.

We’ve added more mood modifiers and better logic for the way they are processed.

Several new mood effectors have been added to the game, along with the effector types.

• Proximity effectors: when villagers get near an object, an effector can be bestowed upon them. For example: if a villager goes near a dead body, it will create a negative mood effector. As situations and options evolve in our game, so will the behavior of this effector
  
• Production effectors. A villager will get a certain effector when producing something from a certain material. For example: if a villager is producing meat from a human carcass they will get a nasty mood effector
  
• Backstories/backgrounds/perks can now have a list of effectors that are always affecting that villager, and a list of forbidden effectors. For example: backstories/backgrounds/perks tied to drinking will bump up drinking priority above all other leisure activities. Also, we can forbid an ascetic perk villager from getting negative mood modifiers when eating bad food and good modifiers when eating lavish food

We’ve introduced different colored blueprints along with feedback on why they appear.

You asked for this too, but we expanded on some of the ideas:

• Red blueprints are used as an indicator when something can’t be built along with the feedback on why it happened
  
• Buildings are now marked in the orange exclamation mark color when they are not reachable or the player does not have enough resources for them to be built. Clicking on the building in the selection screen layer shows the info on why it cannot be built
  
• Replacement buildings are now marked yellow and can be seen through buildings when being placed (to more easily understand what’s happening)
  
• Beams now give feedback when you try to place them between two walls that are more than 12 grid spaces apart
  
• Socketable buildings give feedback when they can’t be placed somewhere and why
  
• Stairs also give better feedback on why they can't be placed somewhere
  
• Added clear point where a roof should have support to be placed with a message showing up

We’ve added more categories for stockpile filters, along with features that will give you more control in managing these categories.

• New categories are Quality and Durability, also additional stockpile options are in the Copy/Paste settings, Global priority
  
• Stockpiles can now have filters for hitpoints and quality. Roughly said, this will help villagers take bad gear/stuff to a separate stockpile from raiders and good gear to another one

Beyond the name change, we’ve also implemented more functions on this one. Its main purpose is to make things happen automatically and have the player manually change things if necessary. You want your villagers to auto equip weapons, shields, and other stuff based on some parameters that you’ve made? You’ll do it here, long live automation!

We’ve introduced religion as an activity for your villagers. There is going to be a need for religious constructions that influences the mood of villagers, it will also grant them buffs if the stat is satisfied.

• Villagers can be aligned as Pagans or as Christians, and if they have their Religion Alignment more towards the middle of the bar they will need to pray less
  
• We’ve added to new buildings villagers can pray to - a wooden Pagan shrine and a Christian shrine
  
• Villagers will go and pray at shrines when their religious activity drops under a certain threshold
  
• Villagers with higher Christian or Pagan alignment will lose the need for religious activity faster

We also have an update on the development of the game for you. We are approaching the end of a very strange 2020, and lots of events happened this year that we did not foresee. We know some of you have been asking if we plan to launch the game into Early Access this year, so we thought now would be a good time to let you know that we won’t be launching this year. However, we will have some pretty exciting Going Medieval related things happening from early 2021 that we cannot wait to share with you!

In the meantime while you wait for Going Medieval to be released, we suggest you head over to our Discord Server and experience an awesome meta-game based on Going Medieval! You can do this by firstly going to the #choose-a-side channel and pick your loyalty. Then you can head on into the #bot-commands channel start the meta-game!

Thank you all so much for your continued love and support for the game. We have much more news to come via our dev blogs, social channels and Discord - so stay tuned!
Talk to you soon!

Foxy Voxel Team

Be sure to visit our Discord and become part of our community: discord.gg/yHKcJat
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/going_medieval
See the trailer for the game here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy_rW95WtmA

Hi! We are Foxy Voxel, an independent game development studio from Serbia that greatly appreciates colony builders, strategies, and simulation games. We’re a team of experienced developers who, in late 2018, started working together on our first project - Going Medieval.

Going Medieval is a colony builder set in alternate post-apocalyptic medieval Europe. In it, you guide a group of survivors while they migrate and re-settle remote areas reclaimed by nature. It’s up to you, the player, to take care of your survivors in a vastly changed world. You can build simple settlements, multi-story fortresses, or dig elaborate shelters below the ground. You’ll have to defend villagers from vicious raiders in a classless, borderless, and lawless post-calamity age.

You can try all of the above in this timed demo. With simple-to-use 3D terrain tools and various buildings and props to create, the only limit in place for the demo is time. The demo ends after 24 in-game days, which may take hours in real-time (depending on your play style). Please keep in mind that this version of the game is still in an early beta phase and a lot more features are still to come as we approach Early Access launch.

Have fun!

We will be featuring a stream led by the fine folk from The Irregular Corporation (our publisher). They are playing the Steam Festival Demo version of Going Medieval right now! Joined by special guest, Vladimir Zivkovic! (Co-founder/Developer @FoxyVoxel)

Vladimir will be giving them all his developer tips and tricks on creating the ultimate settlement!

Head on over to our Steam page to watch now ːsummersunː

Greetings medievalists!

We are happy to announce that the demo for the Going Medieval will be playable when the Steam Autumn festival starts.

For those that are not familiar with it - The Steam Game Festival is a multi-day celebration where fans can try out demos, chat with developers, watch live streams, and learn about upcoming games on Steam.

Disclaimer: This demo is almost identical to the one played by the closed-beta players a couple of weeks ago. However, this is a chance for those who missed out on the beta to get hands-on with the game. This also means that the changes made in the September devblog will not be in this demo, however, those things are fixed, true, but they require extensive QA on our side, and we are not yet ready to share them with our players.

You can play our timed demo from Wednesday, October 7th, 10AM PST to Tuesday, October 13th, 10AM PST. It is important to note that the demo lets you play until the end of the summer season. For this purpose we’ve disabled the save/load feature - you will be able to start as many new games as you want during the festival, and play freely by the start of the in-game autumn.

Share your experience with our community and us via our Discord server and Twitter account.

Foxy Voxel Team

Be sure to visit our Discord and become part of our community: discord.gg/yHKcJat
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/going_medieval
See the trailer for the game here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy_rW95WtmA

Greetings medievalists!

The closed beta came and went, but the feedback you provided along with the bugs helped us immensely! So, thank you all so much again for taking part.

We have been fixing and implementing some of the feedback suggested throughout August. There is still more to go of course, but based on the response that came from all of you, this tells us that we are on the right path.

Here is what we have added so far:

• Enemies plan their attacks better now

Users reported issues where enemies behaved weird, not changing targets properly and attacking when they should be fleeing (also attacking unconscious villagers). We’ve implemented a system that should be much more satisfying and optimized when it comes to these attacks, thus avoiding a player’s frustration in the process.

• Villagers getting stuck within constructions, stairs and ground should be thing of the past now
  
• Planning construction within the game’s grid space is much easier now. Also, the issue where some buildings getting canceled in the mid-build process would stay written in grid
  
• The underlying system for socketable constructions (wall banners, beams, etc) is refactored and changed. This solved the potential issue where the players couldn’t build buildings under torches or banners
  
• We’ve changed to the way villagers reach certain points (mining ground, picking up resources, etc). This way, no pile will be ignored
  
• The destroyed door will spawn a floor now. This solves the problem of a door on the second floor with nothing underneath it. When enemies would destroy the door, a hole would be created thus blocking their path forward
  
• We’ve added orientation indicators to the buildings. Players can now see where the “front” of the building is
  
  
• Added better position indicators to the staircase in order to make it easier to place the stairs
  

• Info that is shown to the player when selecting an item on the ground has been expanded
  
• Added tooltips to all the important information in the selection tab (with an explanation of how this number came to be)
  
• Added tooltip with more detailed information when hovering on a weapon/armor/shield on the ground
  
• Added detailed information on how the math works for range, damage, armor, temperature, etc in the inventory panel

• Reworked combat animations. All animations are now slower (in order to help combat look a bit more clearer)
  
• Animations no longer move the villager when performing an attack
  
• Wind up part of animations have been trimmed away (except for ranged weapons)
  
• Doors now animate and open automatically when villagers walk through them
  
• Food production no longer has a simmering phase. Other productions like smoking meat still have this passive phase because it’s much longer and logical
  
• The player can now choose to produce x5 and x10 food products at once
  
• The production panel automatically opens if the production building is selected during construction
  
• The construction panel automatically updates when research is unlocked

Now - if you want a COMPLETE list of fixes, you might want to sit down, as this will take some time:

• Fixed a bug that caused enemies to walk through the doors
  
• Fixed a bug where the player was able to place stairs blueprint over stairs that were being constructed at the time
  
• Fixed a bug where the player was able to place roofs in such a way that one endpoint of a roof was resting on either a wall, window, door, or beam and the other wasn't, i.e. it was resting on a floor one level below its other endpoint. Because of this bug, roofs appeared as floating on one side and on the other they had proper support
  
• Fixed multiple roofs related bug issues; villagers wouldn't construct roof after game loading, roofs not visible after loading, roof foundation rotation wasn’t correct after loading and roof positions not calculated properly after loading (which might lead to roofs collapsing for no obvious reason)
  
• Fixed a bug when building construction is canceled only while the villager is constructing it. That would lead to that building data to remain on grid spaces it occupies, which resulted in other bugs (example: roofs couldn't be placed because the system thinks stairs exists (even though they've been destroyed))
  
• Fixed a bug where the room is not detected in case its door has no ground or floor under it, resulting in villager mood penalties
  
• Fixed a bug where the room's wall (under which is a hole) was destroyed, but the area remains still recognized as a room
  
• Fixed a bug where the slope dig marker sometimes doesn’t get deleted after the selected slope was removed
  
• Fixed a bug that caused villagers to get stuck. Villagers should get stuck less often, if at all
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented roofs and stairs from carving crop fields
  
• Fixed a bug that caused some dirt ramps to disappear after loading a save game
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented villager from not hauling resources to the stockpile if the stockpile was on the upper level
  
• Fixed a bug that created an unmovable pile - caused by when a pile spawns at the stockpile and it's forbidden to be stored on it (example: waste spawns after food rots)
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the same villager to arrive multiple times (caused usually by that same villager being dead before the event ends)
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the roof foundation to not be properly aligned after the roof replacement that happened after loading a saved game
  
• Fixed a bug where all of the banners appeared white until you try to open the in-game menu to edit the flag
  
• Fixed a bug that caused villagers to stuck themselves into an infinite construction loop. This bug was caused by the beam that had one grid space width in size
  
• Fixed a bug that caused incorrect calculation of the year cycle. The game was displaying the spring variant of the materials for a moment when loading the game, then it switched to the appropriate variant corresponding to the current season
  
• Fixed a bug where the marked ground would not be dug after loading (the reachable positions would not refreshing properly)
  
• Fixed a bug that caused human carcass piles to not be stored/unstored in the resources dictionary when loading a saved game. Villagers would ignore those piles when in need of a resource
  
• Fixed a bug that caused villagers not to deliver resources to floor blueprint if socketable item exists above it
  
• Fixed a bug where villagers would get stuck inside the stairs when falling down
  
• Fixed bugs with dig markers; invisible dig markers, villagers do not want to dig some marked ground, some dig markers when selected show an action_dig text on the info panel, you have to mark it for dig, then cancel and mark again to make it work, etc…
  
• Fixed a bug that caused building blueprint to have stability 0 when attached to the voxel - when that would happen, villagers would never deliver resources for construction
  
• Fixed a bug that caused when a pile falls down, it's reachable position is null, meaning villager would never touch it
  
• Fixed a bug that worked like this - after loading a saved game, if furniture or a socketable item (that's in the foundation phase only!!!) construction fails, it will never start again
  
• Fixed issue with the player being able to place a wall through a roof
  
• Fixed issue where typing numbers in production queue changes game speed
  
• Fixed issue where Villager's Mood tab was showing placeholder text on the first open
  
• Fixed issue with overlaying text in Selection Panel > Info Tab
  
• Fixed issue with almanac linking - it’s more understandable on what word to click to get almanac help
  
• Fixed issue where the wrong villager name was shown on birthday notification
  
• Fixed speed button issue where the button would be disabled when no raid is happening on screen
  
• Fixed issue where group skills were mismatched on the character creation screen
  
• Fixed issue where socketable items (torches, beams) could be placed over other socketable items
  
• Changed design of production Edit button to make it more important and easier to spot
  
• Fixed Attributes extra panel behavior - Attributes extra panel is now updated instantly after opening
  
• Added indicator to the stairs - height indicator as well as from what side can villager access them
  
• Animals shouldn’t get stuck into the terrain now
  
• Combat colliders should work as intended now - things like archers shooting through floors and walls when showing/hiding layers work as it should
  
• Icons are now properly shown in the villager’s Skill Extra Selection Panel
  
• Destroyed doors will now spawn constructed floors at their position. This will prevent workers and enemies from getting stuck if the doors were on upper levels
  
• Detailed equipment tooltips have been added
  
• Changed the way villagers reach piles. Some piles would remain frozen and no one would use them due to a reachable position problem
  
• Refactored socketabel constructions: This was done so that the player could place items directly below socketable items. Solves a bug where some socketable items were in blueprint mode forever. Furniture, decorations, and production buildings can be placed on the same grid space as socketable items
  
• Deactivating particles when construction fails for socketable torch (infinite particle loop problem)
  
• Villagers will prioritize higher nutrition food
  
• Socketable items can't be placed if stairs exist at the same position. If the player tried to do that, a message will pop up

And that would be all for this (last) month. There is still a lot of fixing to be done, and a lot of stuff to be implemented, but we are on it!

Stay well, and see you soon.

Foxy Voxel Team

Be sure to visit our Discord and become part of our community: http://discord.gg/yHKcJat
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/going_medieval
See the trailer for the game here:

Greetings medievalists!

Last month was reserved for various bug fixes, game improvements, and QA testing. So no new features, at least not yet. Keep reading to find why that needed to happen.

• We have added a tutorial pop-up window (note: If you turn off tutorials in the options menu, this pop-up window will not appear)
  
• The first pop-up window appears when you start the game. It has a welcome screen, explanation of camera controls, layer controls, and game speed
  
• After the first raid event has started the game will pop-up the second tutorial window with instructions on selecting, drafting, equipping and moving your villagers
  
• Standalone pop-ups will appear for the first time when opening the job, schedule, and research panel
  
• Videos have been added to all tutorials

• We’ve added additional tooltip information for resource categories
  
• Added hyperlinks to stability and decomposition almanac to help players understand how both systems work
  
• Added additional tooltip to books in research panel to help understand how negative value of books functions
  
• Building blueprint will change color when it’s out of reach (also added text “out of reach” when clicked on)
  
• Drafted go-to position arrow is now red when the player tries to order villager to an unreachable location

• Fixed several issues with quitting to the main menu and resuming the game
  
• Fixed issue with placing a building on a forbidden pile resulting in villagers freezing
  
• Added new input controls and made it cleaner when remapping (in categories now)
  
• ESC key now closes all windows and opens the in-game menu
  
• Drag select now works with priorities (if a villager is in the selection box, that villager will be selected every time, after that - an item, and after that, resources. Trees and buildings can’t be selected with drag-select by design)
  
• Shift + click now also deselects stuff
  
• “New villager” events now have randomized: health, sleep, hunger, wounds, and equipment
  
• Enemies now have randomized HP of equipment
  
• Villagers carry unconscious villagers properly now
  
• When enemy upon dying leaves carcass and equipment dropped - they will be forbidden by default
  
  
• Added basic combat sound effects
  
• Added several more UI sound effects: pause, notification, event, etc.
  
• Buildings now instance properly making it less CPU heavy
  
• Attack animations are slowed down so the player can tell what's going on
  
• Attack animations are now randomized between 3x different animations
  
• Added randomized heraldry to heraldry editor (all random heraldries are created by discord users during Alpha, their names are credited underneath)
  
  
• Added Trebuchet projectile VFX
  
• Enemies will have a bubble of defeat when running away
  
• Fixed several problems with counting resources on stockpile and map
  
• Villagers are in the flee mode by default
  
• Trebuchet projectile, animals, and fists now inflict wounds
  
  
• Floors and walls hide differently now when hiding and showing layers
  
• Fixed several bugs with roofs, beams, and floor
  
• Fixed several bugs with stockpiles and building on stockpiles
  
• Fixed several issues when renaming a villager (not appearing in a text later as the renamed villager)
  
• Added leaves blowing in the wind
  
• Animals will try and stay away from villagers when idling
  
• Fixed camera restart problem and default camera position issue

• Book piles now hold 100 books instead of 50
  
• Limestone, wood, and iron piles hold 200 instead of 100 resources
  
• Equipment decays faster when not worn
  
• Equipment decays slower on a villager

Rebalanced the nutrition value of food in the game:

• Raw food now has a nutrition value of 0.5 while cooked has 0.8-1.0
  
• Villagers will prioritize higher nutrition food
  
• Villagers will prioritize food when sleeping
  
• Villagers will prioritize food when in a sleeping hour (making them eat before going to sleep)
  
• Villagers will eat at tables now (Animation is still work in progress)
  
• Human meat added to the game. All meals can have a human meat version to it (forcing villagers to eat them will result in harsh mood penalties)
  
• Changed how much food costs to cook
  
• Less raw food is given from hunting/harvesting

And we’ve fixed a bunch of tasks regarding optimization, save/load problems, and all sorts of other things that our QA found. Like you can tell - we did a lot of work. Why is that? Because…


That’s right. The day has come - The Going Medieval beta will run on August 10th at 4PM BST / 5PM CEST / 8AM PT - August 17th 4PM BST / 5PM CEST / 8AM PT and it will be on Steam via a Steam key. We will provide your key to you during the day on August 10th! So please keep an eye on your inboxes then (if you have any issues with your Steam key when it arrives, please let us know).

Everyone that applied so far for it will receive the beta key. You can share your opinions and thoughts on Twitter (and tag us in the process) and head over to our Discord server - there you’ll be able to share your thoughts, give us feedback, and post some sweet gameplay screenshots.

Stay well, and see you soon.

Foxy Voxel Team

Be sure to visit our Discord and become part of our community: http://discord.gg/yHKcJat
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/going_medieval
See the trailer for the game here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy_rW95WtmA

Greetings medievalists!

So as the beta date approaches we’ve added a bunch of stuff. Really. Like, A LOT - as you’ll be able to tell. We’ve focused on combat behavior and raids as the biggest feedback from the alpha concern these things. So without further ado:


We’ve implemented a more sensible approach of unit control and behavior during the battles. Now it’s more like your classical RTS experience in that area. Really, there are a bunch of things implemented in this area that would take quite a lot of time to explain… But we’ll try our best!

• We’ve added a weapon icon in the villager panel to indicate who is an archer and who is not
  
• The “Draft” indicator next to the icon in the villager panel (also villager panel turns a bit blue when a villager is drafted)
  
• We’ve also added red flashes on villagers icon in villager panel when they take damage
  
• Added prominent red overlay when the villager is damaged
  
• Enemies and villagers now have an indicator when the camera is zoomed out (basically turning your view into a mini-map). Zooming out will emphasize every character’s circle (of enemies and your villagers) and it will become visible through walls. That way, you’ll know where everyone is at every point in the game
  
• Added range indicator to selected archers. Selecting a drafted archer will show his range radius (represented in a yellow circle around them)
  
• HP bar over the worker and enemy heads (with the health bar flashing with the amount of health reduced) HP bars show when taking damage, when damage is taken a white slower bar appears that indicate the amount of damage taken
  
• We’ve removed numbers indicator when the damage is being dealt, but text like “miss, blocked, evade” is still present. If you are a numbers guy, will leave that as an option to turn it on
  
• Special text will appear when one of your villagers gets unconscious or killed
  
• You’re now able to select multiple trees, stones, and other materials with double click feature - this will make manipulation of materials much more convenient

So one of the most common complaints was that the raids are not fun & they are too hard. Behold - we’ve implemented the system that balances the raids based on the behavior of your settlement. Call it an adaptable difficulty, if you want. Without giving away too much info, rest assured that this system will allow for different scenarios for all of the players. Sure, there will be similar events here and there, but the content of those events will vary. Here is what we did for raids and enemies overall:

• Enemies will walk 50% of the way towards the target
  
• Added cheering animation to your villagers when enemies are defeated
  
• Villagers will keep attacking enemies when enemies are running away
  
• There are now different types of enemies (for now: melee, archer, heavy and siege equipment)
  
• Only the first event in the game is hardcoded (will happen to everyone), but the way you handle it will lead you down a different path. This is done as an introduction of the system, and also to show the consequences of the events overall
  
• We’ve added a couple of new raid variations - cannibals attack, twisted crusaders and mindless assassins
  
• We’ve added new events for the introduction of new villagers into your community

Things can get intense.


Without going too much into details, we’ll list some interesting stuff we’ve also implemented. Hopefully, you’ll like it.

• Human corpses added. Now when a human dies he leaves behind a carcass (same height, same features, and same body structure as when alive)
  
• Added “ctrl + click” and “shift + click” to the production panel. This way the player can add +10 and +100 of a product to the production of a certain thing, avoiding unnecessary clicking for a long time. Alternatively, you can type in the number of products in the production panel
  
• The “Research” panel now shows all 3x types of books needed for research. It also shows additional info on the tooltip. Research evolved big time
  
• Instead of assigning jobs for your villager with an “on” or “off” button, they can now have a higher priority or lower priority (5x priorities)
  
• Added see-through effect to trees and buildings to make it easier to move around
  
• Added various graphical options (the ones that were easiest to implement but had a nice boost to performance)
  
• Health tab added to the villager’s auxiliary panel where all the info for wounds and health are presented to the player
  
• Added various graphical options
  
• Added the option to turn off the tutorial from the options menu
  
• Added blue vignette to screen when the game is paused
  
• Added constructions having variations in appearance when producing
  
• Workers no longer come to the corner of the production construction to produce, they have hand placed spots where they stand
  
• Floors will now carve crop fields

Those are the important ones worth mentioning.

That is a lot of things for the beta build, right? And we’re still looking for the beta players! if you know someone who still did not registered there, be sure to send them this link:

{LINK REMOVED}https://bit.ly/GoingMedievalBeta

That is everything for this update, we hope you’re enjoying seeing the ongoing development of Going Medieval!

Foxy Voxel Team

Be sure to visit our Discord and become part of our community: http://discord.gg/yHKcJat
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/going_medieval
See the trailer for the game here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy_rW95WtmA