If you've been wondering about the time since the last update and you don't read the Gnomoria forums, I took the last few weeks off. My wife and I recently had a baby and I've been home with my family. I'm back and I brought an update with me! I also want to point out with the versioning that the next update will be 0.9.10 and NOT 1.0.

<b>General</b>
<ul>
<li>Building changes to reduce micromanagement when planning out large constructions
<ul>
<li>Build Wall and Build Stairs Up will now first build a floor if one doesn't exist. ie You can queue a wall, then move up 1 level of depth and queue a wall above the previous one. Your gnomes will first build floors over the lower wall before building the second level without requiring you queue any additional jobs.</li>
<li>Added scaffolding - Scaffolding works similar to stairs except they can be stacked directly on top of each other. When deconstructing, all scaffolding above the one being deconstructed will also deconstruct.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Added shifts to Guard Area, Patrol Route and Training Grounds. The same Squad can be assigned to all shifts or each shift can be assigned a different Squad. Shifts can help sync your Squads sleep schedule or to rotate Squads between guarding and training.</li>
<li>Added option to turn off Goblin Tunnelers in advanced settings</li>
<li>Replaced goblin tunnel sprite</li>
<li>Goblin raiders will now attempt to continue stealing items until satisfied. The amount that they steal goes up with the raids attack strength</li>
<li>Goblin raiders have a chance to not trigger self-powered traps. Other goblins trigger traps as usual and raiders still engage pressure plates normally</li>
<li>Reduced the number of new friendly Kingdoms that are generated as Kingdom Worth rises</li>
</ul>
<b>Fixed</b>
<ul>
<li>Goblins spawning in Peaceful mode</li>
<li>Goblin attack strength being determined when they arrive (It's now determined when they leave)</li>
<li>Cancel Job and Deconstruct selection moving after clicking</li>
</ul>

If you've been wondering about the time since the last update and you don't read the Gnomoria forums, I took the last few weeks off. My wife and I recently had a baby and I've been home with my family. I'm back and I brought an update with me! I also want to point out with the versioning that the next update will be 0.9.10 and NOT 1.0.

General

• Building changes to reduce micromanagement when planning out large constructions
  
  • Build Wall and Build Stairs Up will now first build a floor if one doesn't exist. ie You can queue a wall, then move up 1 level of depth and queue a wall above the previous one. Your gnomes will first build floors over the lower wall before building the second level without requiring you queue any additional jobs.
  • Added scaffolding - Scaffolding works similar to stairs except they can be stacked directly on top of each other. When deconstructing, all scaffolding above the one being deconstructed will also deconstruct.
• Added shifts to Guard Area, Patrol Route and Training Grounds. The same Squad can be assigned to all shifts or each shift can be assigned a different Squad. Shifts can help sync your Squads sleep schedule or to rotate Squads between guarding and training.
• Added option to turn off Goblin Tunnelers in advanced settings
• Replaced goblin tunnel sprite
• Goblin raiders will now attempt to continue stealing items until satisfied. The amount that they steal goes up with the raids attack strength
• Goblin raiders have a chance to not trigger self-powered traps. Other goblins trigger traps as usual and raiders still engage pressure plates normally
• Reduced the number of new friendly Kingdoms that are generated as Kingdom Worth rises

Fixed

• Goblins spawning in Peaceful mode
• Goblin attack strength being determined when they arrive (It's now determined when they leave)
• Cancel Job and Deconstruct selection moving after clicking

<b>General</b>
<ul>
<li>Added Goblin raider</li>
<li>Goblin behavior changes
<ul>
<li>Goblin raiders attempt to steal items and leave the map with them</li>
<li>Other goblins and ogres will escort raiders</li>
<li>When all raiders have left or died, other goblins will try to leave</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Added Goblin tunneler
<ul>
<li>If a goblin raider lives and returns without stealing any items, they will bring goblin tunneler on their next raid</li>
<li>Goblin tunnelers will start digging a tunnel when they arrive</li>
<li>Tunnels will take at least half a day to complete</li>
<li>When complete, a tunnel exit will appear in your base without destroying any part of the map</li>
<li>Goblin raiders will use the tunnel to attempt to steal items</li>
<li>Tunnels can be deconstructed by gnomes</li>
<li>Tunnel currently uses the base of the well as placeholder art</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Goblin attacks are effected by their distance to your Kingdom</li>
</ul>
<b>Fixed</b>
<ul>
<li>FPS Display overlapping with stock quantities</li>
<li>Closing windows sometimes causing a crash trying to write to the settings file</li>
<li>Building a thatch incline through the ramp menu causing strange behavior</li>
</ul>

General

• Added Goblin raider
• Goblin behavior changes
  
  • Goblin raiders attempt to steal items and leave the map with them
  • Other goblins and ogres will escort raiders
  • When all raiders have left or died, other goblins will try to leave
• Added Goblin tunneler
  
  • If a goblin raider lives and returns without stealing any items, they will bring goblin tunneler on their next raid
  • Goblin tunnelers will start digging a tunnel when they arrive
  • Tunnels will take at least half a day to complete
  • When complete, a tunnel exit will appear in your base without destroying any part of the map
  • Goblin raiders will use the tunnel to attempt to steal items
  • Tunnels can be deconstructed by gnomes
  • Tunnel currently uses the base of the well as placeholder art
• Goblin attacks are effected by their distance to your Kingdom

Fixed

• FPS Display overlapping with stock quantities
• Closing windows sometimes causing a crash trying to write to the settings file
• Building a thatch incline through the ramp menu causing strange behavior

<b>General</b>
<ul>
<li>Corner walls are no longer required for privacy status</li>
<li>Tracked stock items - Create groups of items to track real time quantity on the HUD. Groups can be created in the Tracked Items tab of the Stocks window. Previous Food and Drink quantities have been integrated into this method.</li>
<li>Kingdom and Stock windows are now resizable</li>
<li>Window position and sizes are stored in the settings.ini file to preserve window settings across multiple game sessions</li>
<li>Alarm HUD element to indicate when your Kingdom is currently under alarm</li>
<li>Removed the pop up delay in the right click context menu</li>
</ul>
<b>Fixed</b>
<ul>
<li>Crash sending a merchant to trade with items that are no longer available</li>
<li>Crash viewing ambassador after he dies</li>
<li>Personal Quarters being considered "not private" after loading, forcing it to be redesignated to keep the ambassador</li>
<li>Doors within a Personal Quarter but at the edge not being considered for privacy</li>
<li>Foreign Kingdoms getting into a state where it stopped sending merchants or ambassadors</li>
</ul>

General

• Corner walls are no longer required for privacy status
• Tracked stock items - Create groups of items to track real time quantity on the HUD. Groups can be created in the Tracked Items tab of the Stocks window. Previous Food and Drink quantities have been integrated into this method.
• Kingdom and Stock windows are now resizable
• Window position and sizes are stored in the settings.ini file to preserve window settings across multiple game sessions
• Alarm HUD element to indicate when your Kingdom is currently under alarm
• Removed the pop up delay in the right click context menu

Fixed

• Crash sending a merchant to trade with items that are no longer available
• Crash viewing ambassador after he dies
• Personal Quarters being considered "not private" after loading, forcing it to be redesignated to keep the ambassador
• Doors within a Personal Quarter but at the edge not being considered for privacy
• Foreign Kingdoms getting into a state where it stopped sending merchants or ambassadors

<b>General</b>
<ul>
<li>Added Ambassadors
<ul>
<li>Foreign Kingdoms now give the option to host an ambassador</li>
<li>Hosting an ambassador allows trade between Kingdoms</li>
<li>Ambassadors require food and drink while staying at your Kingdom</li>
<li>Ambassadors require their own Personal Quarters with bed, privacy and minimum worth</li>
<li>Viewing the status of an ambassador will show if they are missing a requirement or are satisfied</li>
<li>Ambassadors will leave if their requirements aren't met for an extended period of time. They can also be manually dismissed.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Ambassadors and Merchants will wait to arrive at your Kingdom if it's unsafe</li>
<li>Ambassadors and Merchants will return home (with notification) if there is no way into your Kingdom</li>
<li>Additional friendly Kingdoms will now make contact with you over time and as your Kingdom grows</li>
<li>Added Mining Colony, Lumber Camp and Agricultural Settlement friendly Kingdoms. These Kingdoms offer some goods at a cheaper rate than Merchant City-States and also give more for goods they need. ie Mining Colony has cheaper ore and pays more for food, drink, bandages and pick axes</li>
<li>Pause show arriving merchants gameplay option now also applies to your returning merchants</li>
</ul>

General

• Added Ambassadors
  
  • Foreign Kingdoms now give the option to host an ambassador
  • Hosting an ambassador allows trade between Kingdoms
  • Ambassadors require food and drink while staying at your Kingdom
  • Ambassadors require their own Personal Quarters with bed, privacy and minimum worth
  • Viewing the status of an ambassador will show if they are missing a requirement or are satisfied
  • Ambassadors will leave if their requirements aren't met for an extended period of time. They can also be manually dismissed.
• Ambassadors and Merchants will wait to arrive at your Kingdom if it's unsafe
• Ambassadors and Merchants will return home (with notification) if there is no way into your Kingdom
• Additional friendly Kingdoms will now make contact with you over time and as your Kingdom grows
• Added Mining Colony, Lumber Camp and Agricultural Settlement friendly Kingdoms. These Kingdoms offer some goods at a cheaper rate than Merchant City-States and also give more for goods they need. ie Mining Colony has cheaper ore and pays more for food, drink, bandages and pick axes
• Pause show arriving merchants gameplay option now also applies to your returning merchants

<b>Fixed</b>
<ul>
<li>Crash when loading saves with a gnome 'en route' and has items equipped</li>
<li>No merchants arriving in games that were created in version 0.9.4 or earlier</li>
<li>Items not becoming available for trade again, if the trade was canceled while your gnome was departing</li>
</ul>

Fixed

• Crash when loading saves with a gnome 'en route' and has items equipped
• No merchants arriving in games that were created in version 0.9.4 or earlier
• Items not becoming available for trade again, if the trade was canceled while your gnome was departing