Hi Catanians,

We are proud to announce that Catan "Rise of the Inkas" will be available soon in Catan Universe:

Play this brand new Catan standalone edition for the first time ever as a digital adaptation.



Lead your tribe through 3 eras and experience a whole new dynamic gameplay as your older tribes will eventually be swallowed whole by the jungle or your ambitious opponents.



"Rise of the Inkas" is for Catan veterans and beginners alike. It is true to the basic Catan rules but offers entirely new gameplay mechanics and challenges.



Catan “Rise of the Inka” will be available for 500 Gold in the Catan Universe Store.

Fixed issues

• Catan boardgame – Fixed Robber edge case when trying to rob someone holding 0 ressoruces
• Catan boardgame - Statistics show right values for “Times robbed by players”
• Catan (CaK) - Knight actions are now available in the same turn after stealing an already activated knight using “Deserter”
• Catan boardgame – Fixed issue where a game got out of sync if the host reconnects in a during a trade
• Catan Duel - Resource tile highlights are now consistent
• Catan boardgame - WebGL: Coast lines shouldn´t flicker on coasts with a harbour on it

Dear Catanians,

Update 1.6.0. includes numerous new features, optimizations and bug-fixes:

New:

- Season game mode added (The start of the first season will be announced soon)
- Counter-offer system added to the trade menu
- New avatar option: Pet (Pets will be available from the shop or as special rewards)
- Optimization to AI players, esp. in regards to trading
- New UI hint added to player frame to highlight number of cards on hand if this is over the current limit for the robber event

Optimizations and bugfixes

General:

- Various turn timer and offline timer improvements, esp. when handling disconnects and timeouts
- Fixed color display of Viking Avatar Set (female version)
- Added notification when players tried to reconnect to a game after the timer ran out
- Fixed display issues in almanac headlines
- Mobile: Optimized registration flow in case of wrong or already existing entries
- Clarified and added extra timer notifications when players left the game
- Numerous further smaller tweaks and optimizations

Board Game:

- Fixed a rare error when the AI used the resource monopoly card
- The merchant once again appears in the correct color when loading a saved game
- Text overlay in trade menu fixed
- Fixed a possible error when returning to the lobby after a completed custom match
- Players who lost a match can once again review the match statistics as intended
- Switching between player trade and bank trade is now faster
- Fixed a special case regarding the rules implementation for the deserter card in case there is limited space on the board for moving the new knight
- The AI once again properly continues its building projects in all in-game situations during special seafarers scenarios
- Mobile: Optimized tooltips in the lobby screen
- Browser/WebGL: Fixed graphical glitch (flickering) on the coast fields and building cost card
- Browser/WebGL: Kicktimer once again displays properly when connection issues occur

Card Game:

- The traveling merchant once again trades for the correct amount of gold
- Scenario descriptions for theme sets updated
- The „Duel of the Princes“ game mode now has the correct VP requirement for winning

Hi Catanians,

Tomorrow August 22nd 10:30 AM [CEST] our servers will go into maintenance mode for a few hours.

This maintenance is needed in preparation for our next major update Catan Universe Seasons (1.6.0). We are currently in the final stretches for this upcoming update and we are looking forward to bring it to you as soon as possible.

Highlights of Catan Universe 1.6.0 (coming soon):



- Catan Universe Seasons:

Competitions you can sign up for with scrolls in one expansion. Participants will be rewarded with cosmetics and exclusive in-game items. Stay tuned for more info on the Seasons!

- Counter offers:

Along wished for feature by our community. You will be able to make counter offers for every suggested trade. The system is integrated into our current trade system. You will be able to simply change the offer you see to a counter offer.
Due to this changes, trade preferences will be gone in Catan Universe 1.6.0

- In-game Shop 2.0:

The new shop system will allow us to make special offers to all our Catan Universe players. This means discounts on expansions, avatar sets and so on. We will also be able to show you what new shop entries we have.

- Catan Universe pets:



Catan Universe 1.6.0 will feature the first purchasable pet. The pet will replace your avatar in the player frame once you selected it and…. It is super cute!

Hi Catanians,

Today July 23 at 11 am [CEST] we will roll out CU 1.5.3. The Amazon Version will be released tomorrow.

New feature:

• Turntimer in Rivals of Catan was set to 120 sec.

Fixed issues:

● Seafarer tutorial now progresses past chapter 3
● Metropolis is now displayed again when using the standard board pieces
● Players can now be reported via the report button in the statistics screen
● Unlocking “Rivals” with a Scroll will no longer result in only 2 theme set stacks available in “Duel of the Prices”
● The second last remaining player of a match will no longer get displayed a wrong message (game canceled) when all players except one got kicked by the kicktimer
● Edge case of Duel scout card fixed
● A second “create guild” button will no longer get shown in the interface where it shouldn’t
● Rivals: “traveling merchant” now will allow to trade 2 gold
● Rivals: “Gudrun” card could cause the AI to be stuck in case the AI owned a
gold cache which was full already
● Fixed an issue where it wasn´t possible for certain accounts to create his own custom match lobby

Please note that it make take a while until the newest version is available in your store to download.

Catan Universe 1.5.2 brings further optimizations and fixes:

Fixed Issues:

• Building via the game pieces below the board once again works as intended when placing cities.
• Rivals card game victory screen now always displays the correct Elo changes
• Rivals tutorials chapter 6 “Heroes” updated
• Post-Match screen (board game) updated
• Fixed unintended card rotations in Rivals when trying to discard cards in the draw phase

Hi Catanians,

We published Catan Universe 1.5.1 which includes fixes for issues we unfortunately had with 1.5.0:

Fixed Issues:

• Optimizations of the communication between server and client to prevent users from being held in the “you are offline” state and/or getting frequent “offline messages”
• Password recovery now works again as intended
• Resource tiles now rotate correctly in Rivals multiplayer games and indicate the correct amount of resources
• Server messages are functional again
Known Issue:
• When trying to build via the game pieces on the bottom of the game board the pieces won’t get placed correctly on the board. Please use the other possibilities to build or upgrade
• PC/Mac: Use the Quick-Build option by clicking on the board/intersection or village directly
Mobile: Use the Quick-Build option by clicking on the board/intersection or village directly or drag and drop the game pieces from the left side of your screen

We are already working on a fix for that issue. Thank you for your patience.

New Features:

● The full version of Rivals of Catan (Catan Cardgame) can be purchased in the ingame shop
● Rivals theme sets “Era of Gold”, “Era of Progress”, “Era of Turmoil” and “Duel of the
Princes” are now available
● Rivals of Catan now offers all play modes (Singleplayer / Free match / Auto-Match /
Custom Match)
● Rivals of Catan now offers a tutorial
● New Free to Play Content: Additional Quest and unlocks for “Arrival on Catan”
● GDPR addition to Catan Universe

Fixed issues

● Searching the card stack and playing the scout card is now possible again
• Large Tradeship can now be used as intended
● Drag and drop with the right mouse button is now disabled (drag&drop still works using the left mousebutton)
● Double-clicking the autopay button in Rivals will no longer crash the WebGL version

New Features:

● (Rivals) Basic turn timer for Rivals which kicks players from the match when it
runs out to penalize stalling
● (Rivals) Consistent system to show currently played Event & Action cards (notifications are also displayed longer now)
● (Rivals) Users can now click on draw stacks to draw in all situations (dragging
still only works when drawing a single card)
● (Rivals/Mobile) Automatic camera movement when drag & dropping a card to the
screen edges
● (Rivals) Almanac extended
● Added badges for treasure chests (Hint: No badge is displayed if the player needs to choose resources found in the treasure, in this case the trade/selection menu is displayed)
● Optimized error handling when a multiplayer game is corrupted during initialization, e.g. when a player disconnects while loading. In these cases, players are moved back to the main menu (also doesn’t decrease ELO & Karma, and doesn’t increase experience level)
● (Mobile) Added notifications if a game session is closed and the user is kicked to main menu while app is closed / minimized
● Dozens of new loading screen hints

Fixed issues

● Complete kick timer stability overhaul
• Offline Mode available again
● Many multiplayer session bugs fixed and systems optimized
● Reworked the longest road calculation to fix a counting bug with circular roads
● Users couldn’t re-enter their very own name in “Arrival on Catan”
● Guild request were not shown (instead infinite loading circle)
● ‘Arrival on Catan’ rewards didn’t activate in certain cases
● Game session was closed if player lost game (could not view the statistics)
● Some users could not create custom matches in certain cases
● Fixed trade-board flickering
● Fixed scenario info overlay in multiplayer games not being shown
● Removed double scenario info in almanac
● Chat input fields are now limited to 512 characters
● Fixed Avatar and game table overlapping when switching between categories in player profile
● Fixed starting a tutorial while being neither logged in nor a guest could result in an infinite
loading screen
● Cities & Knights) Fixed Medicine card and turn timer edge case could cause a match to be
stuck

● (Cities & Knights) Fixed ‘progress card’ tooltip
● (Cities & Knights) The AI should no longer give commodities away which are still
needed

● (Mobile) Fixed keyboard opened automatically when entering in game chat
● (Mobile) Fixed display of wrong Viking tooltip when entering a category in the player profile
● (Mobile) Removed cancel button from merchant fleet screen
● (Mobile) Fixed rare custom match lobby corruption error
○ If lobby creator leaves the lobby
○ for the creator himself, if (s)he re-opens the lobby
● (Mobile) Chatting (opened virtual keyboard) on mobile devices could trigger the kick timer
● (Mobile) The application could crash after resuming it from minimized state

● (WebGL/Browser) Fixed cursor issues when email tab was selected in login.

● and many more

Hi Catanians,

Version 1.4.5 of Catan Universe will be rolled out May 16th 11 AM [CEST]. Servers will go into maintenance mode for about 2 hours to ensure a smooth roll out.

Please note that the update may take some time to get distributed to your countries Appstore. The Steam and Browser Version of Catan Universe 1.4.5 will be available right away.

We are very excited for you to get your hands on CU 1.4.5. The version includes lots and lots of fixes and it will bring a turn timer to Catan Rivals.