0.21.0 - MegaBox - Major Update!

We are proud to announce the long-awaited release of MEGABOX!

This patch has been many months in the making and combines multiple systems and 7 updates into one.

It adds:

• Ages - seasons that last for many years and bring disasters or prosperity to the world. From nightfall to madness, there’s many surprises included
• Alliances - they improves diplomacy by making civilizations unit together against common foes
• New Wars - wars now are more detailed. And you will be able to track how long it has been going on, including the death toll, etc
• Clans - kingdoms can and will be ruled by bloodlines and families.
• Plans and Plots - addition to diplomacy, for making it more transparent who’s plotting what
• Music - we added new sound engine. Together with music based on what you’re watching right now and many new sounds!

Overall we have over 550 changes ( and many that we have forgotten )

Enjoy 0.21.0!

PATCHLOG IS BELOW:

#ADDED:

• new ages system

• new bloodline Clans system. Kings and leaders can start new bloodlines, called Clans. It will be used in diplomacy and loyalty systems.

• • They also have multiple levels that give small bonuses to clan members. Also, every clan would have their own motto

• new age/eras system! They have different effects. Some of them give bonuses to loyalty, opinions and other stats. Others hurt them.

• age of dark. The long night could last 200-300 years

• age of hope. The default era

• age of sun.

• age of tears.

• age of moon.

• age of chaos.

• age of wonders. Era of magic, what could happen?

• age of ice. The long winter where everything freezes

• age of ash. The era where life is fading slowly

• age of despair. Cold, dark and full of danger

• different ages give bonuses to specific biome growths

• new music/sounds engine with new procedural music system. Music depends on what is currently on screen. It's not yet finished, and some sounds are still missing

• tons of new sounds for animals

• sounds for powers

• sounds for drops

• sounds for fights

• sounds in general. Idk, it's a lot

• at night cursor will exude lights

• new mechanic - plots. Now before starting wars or rebellions - clan members need to start plots for this action...(finish)

• new power: spawn ash cloud

• new power: spawn magic cloud

• new power: spawn rage cloud

• new power: show clan zones

• new power: show clan list

• new power: show alliance list

• new power: show alliance zones

• new power: show war zones

• new power: show plots

• new power: show plots icons

• new power: whisper of war

• alliances

• alliance levels. The longer alliance exists, the more bonuses it gives to members

• alliances level 1. Max warriors +5

• alliances level 2. Tower limit + 1

• alliances level 3. Armor bonus to members 10%

• alliances level 4. Damage bonus to members 10%

• alliances level 5. Max unit level + 1

• new war mechanic. More detailed wars

• now you can see sides of a war, how long war has lasted, how many people died in a war

• lightning now have light effect at night

• heatray now have light effect at night

• hold Shift to spawn multiple units

• new window for culture logo and color customization

• more colors for cultures

• new biome seeds - permafrost. It acts like snow tiles from before, but grows. It's magic biome can't be unfrozen

• new trait - light lamp

• new trait - lustful

• new trait - miracle born. Given to units that spawned by player. Increased fertility rate, and max age

• new trait - thorns

• new trait - voices in my head

• light lamp to crystal golem

• light lamp to crystal fairy

• light lamp to crystal transport boats

• light lamp to crystal trade boats

• permafrost seeds

• pause/speed change now in every tab

• speed x4

• speed x0.5 - slow mo

• new status effect rage. It makes unit stronger, but in age of chaos adds a chance for units to unleash their inner demons

• special disaster for age of despair - snow clouds will turn babies into cold ones

• you save the current power to a hotkey by selecting the power and then pressing (ctrl+1), (ctrl+2), ... (ctrl+0)

• you can select a saved power by pressing (1), (2), ... (0)

• you can clear a saved power by unselecting a power and then pressing (ctrl+1), (ctrl+2), ... (ctrl+0)

• hotkey powers will be saved through restarts - so if you restart the game the hotkeys will still be set

• hold Control and use scroll wheel to change game speed

• hold Alt and use scroll wheel to change current brush and brush size

• time icon now has current speed in the corner

• button to hide bottom bar UI

• view of current status that unit has - in unit inspect window

• lightning cloud. It's a bit darker than rain cloud, and have lower chance to be spawned

• lightning clouds will spawn in age of tears

• snow clouds will spawn in age of nightmares and age of cold

• ash clouds will spawn in the age of ash.

• blood clouds will spawn in age of chaos

• rain clouds will spawn in age of moon in lower amount

• magic rain clouds will spawn in an age of wonder. They have a chance to give caffeinated, powerup or shield to units

• new status effect: ash fever. Can be given if unit got inside of a ash clouds

• new status effect: cough. Can be given if unit got inside of a ash clouds

• new status effect: enchanted. Increases some stats for some time

• new trait: moonchild

• new trait: nightchild

• new trait: long-liver. Increases max age by 30

• using rain on biome tiles - would biome spread to nearby soil

• special months

• new trait: mega heartbeat

• new trait: bubble defense

• animated year bar for the bottom UI

• animated age bar for the bottom UI

• vegetation(trees, plants) counter to bottom toolbar

• in list of cities you will be able to see leader avatar

• in list of kingdoms you will be able to see king avatar

• in list of clans you will be able to see king avatar

• in the unit window - the frame of a unit avatar now would show gold - if the unit is king. Silver if unit if city leader

• tooltip for unit now shows health bar

• tooltip for unit stats now have dark background

• tooltip for unit now shows traits

• new item: shotgun. Assimilators spawn with it now

• new food source worms. Cities would get it from soil, if there's no biomes. Something to bite at least

• new food snow cucumbers. Gathered from permafrost. Can freeze units, or give freeze proof after consumption

• new food pine cones. Gathered from pine trees in permafrost. Can freeze units, or give freeze proof, tough, strong, regeneration after consumption

• in the favorited window - the frame of a unit avatar now would show gold - if the unit is king. Silver if unit if city leader

• in list of cities you can hover over leader/kingdom flag to see more info via tooltip

• in list of favorite units you can hover over unit avatar to see more info via tooltip

• in list of kingdoms you can hover over leader/kingdom flag to see more info via tooltip

• new status: invincible

• new plots/plans mechanic. Clan members could have plans to start wars, poison their kings, create alliances, etc. But their plans and plots could also be broken when they die

• kingdom names on map now show banner

• culture names on map now show their banners

• clan names on map will show their banners

• alliances names on map will show their banners

• in kingdom list window can sort by age

• in kingdom list window can sort by warriors

• in kingdom list window can sort by population

• in kingdom list window can sort by cities

• in kingdom list window can sort by kingdom

• in favorite list window can sort by age

• in favorite list window can sort by kills

• in favorite list window can sort by level

• in favorite list window can sort by kingdom

• in culture list window can sort by age

• in culture list window can sort by followers

• in culture list window can sort by level

• in culture list window can sort by villages

• in villages list window can sort by age

• in villages list window can sort by population

• in villages list window can sort by area

• in villages list window can sort by army

• in villages list window can sort by kingdom

• added tooltip for enabled kingdom zone layer

• added tooltip for enabled city zone layer

• added tooltip for enabled village zone layer

• added tooltip for enabled alliance zone layer

• added tooltip for enabled culture zone layer

• added tooltip for inspecting units when you zoomed in

• added new power toggle - Enable/Disable cursor tooltip for zones when zoomed out in mini map mode

• added new power toggle - Enable/Disable cursor tooltip for units when zoomed in

• clicking on the statistics element will open the world statistics window

• clicking on the time element will open the eras window

• tab button tooltips now show hotkeys

• pause button tooltip now shows hotkey

• hourglass button now shows hotkey

• brush buttons now shows hotkey

• some cancel buttons now show hotkey

• units tooltip shows hotkey for multi spawn

• hotkey to select culture zones on (Z)

• hotkey to select alliance zones on (X)

• hotkey to select kingdom zones on (C)

• hotkey to select village zones on (V)

• hotkey to select clan zones on (B)

• hotkey to quickly start following unit near cursor (F)

• hotkey to quickly start following unit from inspect window (F)

• hotkey to switch between demolish and life eraser (Delete / Backspace)

• can hide UI with ( H ) hotkey now

• a new window where you can edit the advanced parameters of random world generation templates

• a new settings window with more options

• a new setting to enable/disable wind on trees and wobbly buildings

• a new setting to enable/disable night lights

• a new setting to enable/disable age particles

• a new setting to enable/disable normal clouds

• a new setting to control volume of sounds and music

• a new setting to change size of windows

• a new setting to enable/disable map transition effects

• a new setting to change size of tooltips

• a new setting to change size of map names

• templates - random shapes - change the amount of random land added on top of the initial generation

• templates - cubicle sizes - change the size of the room in the cubicle (only) template

• templates - noise level - change the scale of the main initial world generation. The bigger the value, the smaller the land masses

• templates - noise - details - a second pass of generation that refines the edges of tiles

• templates - noise - bonus - a third pass of generation that refines the edges of tiles

• templates - random biomes - whether or not the newly generated world will have biomes

• templates - mountain edges - add mountains to the edges of the world

• templates - add vegetation - spawn trees and plants

• templates - add resources - spawn stones, metals, etc

• templates - add center lake - draw a lake in the center of world

• templates - add center landmass - draw a land in the center of world

• templates - add round edges for the whole world. Would smooth edges of your world to make it in circle shape

• templates - add square edges for the whole world. Would smooth edges of your world to make it in square shape

• templates - add ring effect - would add a smooth transition near high/low tiles and coastlines

• hold shift in world templates to increase/decrease step by 5

• pressing stats in power bar - would open world info window

• pressing time element in power bar - would open world ages window

• when unit gets new status effect - he would highlight white

• a few more darker color sets for kingdoms(alliances and clans as well)

• fire sprites for tiles that are on fire when zoomed in

• new loyalty bonus, given if city was just got conquered

• new loyalty bonus. Given to all cities if kingdom had just conquered a new city

• new loyalty check, based if leader/king in the same clan

• new loyalty bonus, based if city is part supreme kingdom in the world

• new loyalty bonus, based if city is part of second best kingdom in the world

• new loyalty bonus, based on how long king has ruled the kingdom

• new sound engine. It's still in the transitional phase and some sounds/music are still missing. Would be in the future update!

• new disaster - ice ones from dreams

• new disaster - sudden tired snowman

• new disaster - garden surprise

• new disaster - dragon from far lands

• new disaster - ash bandits

• new disaster - alien invasion

• new disaster - biomass monstrosity

• new disaster - moon horrors

• new disaster - heatwave. Happens in age of sun

• smooth animation, when unit changes in size(by powerup for example)

• unique burned/broken graphics(100+) for all tree variations!

• you can close the tutorial bear now by pressing (ESC)

• new trait - whirlwind

• new secret achievement

• New language: Belarusian

• New welcome screen

• 5 types of fire elementals. They do burn

• number near save slot

• new achievement

##Changes:

• new lightning look

• new boulder look

• fire logic and render on mini map. Now it has smooth fade out pixel animation

• burning status changed from 60 sec to 30 sec

• balanced some weapons/unit damage, and added damage spread range

• when zooming in from a mini map and you have borders enabled. The layer will switch to show only border colors. Not inside of .

• volcano now is animated

• golden brain now is animated

• corrupted brain now is animated

• acid geyser now is animated

• water geyser now is animated

• volcano now has nice spawn animation

• acid geyser now has nice spawn animation

• water geyser now has nice spawn animation

• golden brain now has nice spawn animation

• corrupted brain now has nice spawn animation

• new mine graphics with idle animation

• orcs won't attack golden brains anymore

• golden brain now has new icon

• corrupted brain now has new icon

• some previous effects now lit at night

• when you turn off acid geyser - now it has special animation

• when you turn off water geyser - now it has special animation

• when city is captured, captured zones effect would be shown as spreading, instead of random

• when a city is captured in a war that has multiple allies on the same side. City would be given to a main side of a war, if they are sharing borders

• spite power now works differently. When you use it on a specific kingdom, that kingdom will start a hateful total war against every other kingdom, which won't stop until only this kingdom is left in the world or you would stop it by using friendship on the kingdom

• new look for demons

• new look for cold ones

• new look for bandits

• new look for some mini map icons

• new look for ufo's beam

• dragons can be now affected by some status effects

• boats can be now affected by some status effects

• ufos can be now affected by some status effects

• friendship power. One drop of friendship now removes kingdom from random war

• when king dies, the heir to the kingdom will be an oldest member of his clan of his kingdom

• when leader dies, the heir to the city will be an oldest member of his clan of his kingdom

• some traits/statuses increase max age of units(note: when unit reaches max age doesn't mean he dies right away. But he have a chance to die from old age. Chance increases the older he gets)

• city window now shows loyalty

• culture list element now showing age

• culture window now has age icon

• culture window now showing foundation date

• kingdom window now showing foundation date

• kingdom window now has age icon

• kingdom zones moved to text box

• city window now has age icon

• city window now showing foundation date

• city zones moved to text box

• city names capital icon layout changed

• all tooltips with stats have background

• kingdom tooltip would show motto

• in kingdom menu you can see king avatar, and if you hover over it - see king's stats

• in kingdom menu you can see culture banner, and if you hover over culture stats

• in kingdom menu you can hover over capital button, and see it's stats

• in kingdom menu now a kingdom list button moved to the right side

• in city menu locate button moved to the right side

• in city menu added city list button to the right side

• in city menu you can now see kingdom banner, and if you hover over it - see kingdom stats

• in city menu you can now see city leader avatar, and if you hover over it, see his stats

• in city menu you can now see city culture, and if you hover over it - see it's stats

• in inspect menu you can now see city kingdom banner, and if you hover over it - see kingdom stats

• in inspect menu you can now see city clan's banner, and if you hover over it - see clan stats

• in inspect menu you can now see city culture, and if you hover over it - see it's stats

• in inspect menu you can hover over home city button, and see it's stats

• in inspect menu favorites button moved to the right side

• in inspect menu follow button moved to the right side

• in culture menu added "all cultures" button to the right side

• in village window now shows buildings representing village tech level and race

• windows have window titles in the left corner now

• improvements to kingdom tooltip layout

• improvements to unit tooltip layout

• health in unit tooltip now shows color level

• improvements to layout of ui elements in list windows

• cursor highlight when drawing a bit stronger

• when map names and cultures layer are on - it would show culture icon next to names

• meteorite will now fall from different directions when used

• chance to die from old age after reaching max age changed from 15% to 13.13%

• changed how loyalty is calculated

• changed how opinion is calculated

• trait super health max age + 100

• trait energized max age + 7

• trait plague max age -30

• trait blessed max age +10

• trait cursed max age -10

• trait skin burns max age -5

• trait tough max age +4

• trait strong max age +3

• trait weak max age -6

• trait regeneration max age 12

• trait lucky max age +7

• trait unlucky max age -13

• trait immune max age +10

• trait agile max age +3

• status cough max age -15

• status ash fever max age -45

• poisoned damage changed from 1hp to 1% of current health or 1hp ( whichever is higher )

• increased chance of some traits to be inherited

• tile creep decay is faster by 10x+

• somme traits now have fertility rate

• somme status effect now have fertility rate

• age now affects the unit's fertility rate(unless the unit is immortal). The closer units to their max expectation age, the less chances for them to have kids

• added chances to some unique/fun non-birth traits to be inherited, that can be added via trait editor/rain

• traits in trait editor now separated by categories

• how babies in civs are born. Added timeout for same unit being a parent

• one game month now takes 7 seconds, instead of 3 on 1x time

• when units are babies they would grow at a faster rate now. Every year they could increase their biological age by a few years

• unit window trait bar - made bigger

• wheat won't grow at cold and dark ages

• favorite food line won't show anymore in unit's window, since it duplication of same info in the hunger bar

• speed icons have different colors now

• normal clouds won't spawn in age of sun

• rain clouds will spawn in age of tears

• rain, lava, lightning, acid clouds can only be huge now

• rain, lava, lightning, acid clouds are now slower than normal ones

• snow drops from snow cloud can freeze units

• orcs now have nightchild trait by default

• elves now have moonchild trait by default

• fairies now have moonchild trait by default

• fires in era of tears will be extinguished fast by itself around the map

• frozen status effect 7 -> 15 sec

• range weapons at night will have 50% less range attack radius

• short sighted trait "range weapons" attack range 0 -> 3

• eagle eyed trait "range weapons" attack range 0 -> -3

• super pumpkins now have trait thorns

• changed ranges of range items

• sight of units is now 2 chunks, instead of 1

• favorite unit list will show age of units

• in favorite unit you can click on whole element to open inspector

• if king is chosen from non capital city, he will move to the capital

• enchanted biomes won't give a blessed trait anymore. Instead it has a chance to give enchanted status effects. A bit stronger, but not forever

• rain/lightning cloud is not a disaster anymore

• tornado disaster now can only happen in age of tears, ash, chaos, wonders, moon

• meteorite disaster won't happen now in age of hope and sun

• earthquake disaster won't happen now in age of hope and sun

• hellspawn disaster only can happen in age of chaos

• mad thoughts disaster won't happen in age of hope and wonders

• greg only in despair

• disasters chances changed and now fully depends on a world age

• tornado would spawn only in ages of tears and ash

• dragons have reduced knockback when hit

• meteorite won't spawn in age of hope anymore

• earthquakes won't spawn in age of hope anymore

• hellspawn only can spawn in age of chaos

• wild mage won't spawn in age of hope anymore

• mad thoughts won't happen in age of hope and wonders anymore

• greg can only spawn at age of nightmares

• some kingdom colors adjustments

• some culture colors adjustments

• some save format change. Kingdoms/Cultures could mess it's age counter

• tweaks for opinion mod, based on kingdom age

• wolves now friends with orcs

• hyenas now friends with orcs

• UFO armor 0 -> 30

• UFO health 500 -> 1500

• gray goo damage to units 50 -> 200

• some tweaks to grass growth logic

• item speed modificators lowered

• assimilators now have bubble defense trait

• some improvements to dragon AI logic

• worms now can dive under tiles, not damaging them

• Moved printers to new AI system

• Moved dragons to new AI system

• Moved ants to new AI system

• Moved worms to new AI system

• Moved UFOs to new AI system

• assimilators now have bubble defense trait

• boats would now sink after a while if their kingdom is no more - and they don't have a dock to return to

• healing era interval 1 -> 2

• regeneration 1 -> 3

• kingdom list window now shows kingdom ages

• kingdom list window now shows max cities

• ice would break right away when unit is stepping on it

• ships won't die in ice anymore, but would break it when move thought it

• bowling balls now has shadows

• map icon for leader crown is changed

• boulders now sink in lava

• tornadoes throw less water particles now, but still a lot

• dragons can be favorited now. Star still won't render, but you will see dragon in favorites UI

• ufos can be favorited now. Star still won't render, but you will see UFO in favorites UI

• order of templates in new world window is changed

• loyalty bonus for new city is increased

• loyalty bonus for new kingdom is increased

• loyalty bonus for city being nearby capital changed from 15 to 20

• loyalty difference for cultures changed from 10 to 15

• units that taken by magnet not fully "frozen" anymore

• drops spawned from volcano and geysers a bit lower

• improved lava spreading logic, to make it more even

• lava would stay longer before turning into rock

• lava smoke effect is back

• cities won't try to build new buildings when fight is going on in that city borders

• many statuses will reset the timer when reapplied - e.g. if you caffeinate a caffeinated unit, the status will stay longer

• when earthquake happens, it will remove burned tiles

• EXPERIMENT(!) villages won't lose zones when some buildings are destroyed. Can be changed in debug options for now

• changed building animation logic, now little scale animations are synced with flow of time speed

• unit selection effect is improved

• antimatter bomb effect is improved

• pressing on the power bar's yellow left/right buttons will scroll the power bar to the left/right

• crab bombs don't harm crabs any more

• steam rich presence now localized

• peaceful trait will be removed, when unit turns into zombie, mush, etc

• increased amount of lines logged in the console

• save tooltip will show world's last save date in local culture format

• zooming in/out buildings/trees animation updated

• adjusted amount of farmers and soldiers in cities

• if city doesn't have enough food, it won't have many soldiers

• can remove good with sponge now

• snowman will die in age of sun

• orcs won't attack golden brains anymore

• village window now shows amount of babies

• village window now shows amount of adults

• village window now shows amount of farmers

• improved logic of how village assign jobs to citizens

• decreased max age for orcs a bit

• animation for button for changing map sizes on right click

• when there is a rebellion, alliance members will now only join the war against the rebels if they have a good opinion of the member. Previously, they would always join regardless of opinion.

#FIXED:

• zombie trait could be given by parents to their baby together with immunity for it

• heat value on tile wasn't limited, resulting in a lot of lava sometimes

• units had walking animation while frozen

• boats could get infected or poisoned

• pause button between tabs showing wrong icon sometimes

• units experience getting duplicated sometimes when firing multiple projectiles

• sometimes village storage become empty after reload

• crash when trying to save modded map with 100k units

• some fixes to debug console

• world history logs had wrong red color sometimes

• capture effect on mini map was rendered on top of other effects

• zooming out sometimes had weird animation

• units with powerup had weird slash animation

• ufo not getting experience

• units have negative health sometime

• units couldn't get crippled/eyepatch sometime

• baby could get zombie infection trait from parent 1 and immunity from parent 2 at the same time

• crash, when you try to inspect unit, but after inspecting him unit gets killed by an arrow a moment later

• sometimes fire was burned on water for a few moments

• water drop position offset that spawned from water geyser

• donut world gen template doesn't look like donut

• king/leader/boats icons on mini map a bit jumpy

• sometimes boats didn't count as dead within a kingdom. And the dead kingdom could stay alive forever until the world was loaded again

• farmers and warriors sometimes keep walking around aimlessly, if their city is destroyed. Not joining some other kingdom's city or trying to create new one

• cats attacking plague doctors

• snakes attack cats, but cats doesn't fight back

• crocodile avatar in unit window is out of bounds

• dragon avatar in unit window is out of bounds

• ufo avatar in unit window is out of bounds

• civs can build on snowy mountains

• when you switch speed via game ui, sonic speed button was still shown as active

• clouds doesn't spawn drops if zoomed in

• soft crash sometimes when rain used on wheat from minimap view

• sometimes kingdom considered dead, and turns into "ghost" kingdom

• green babies

• soft crash if you generate a map, while holding mouse click

• game crash when android system don't have enough space for save

• printer unit is not visible

• baby king/leaders can be given weapons and armor

• flying heads cases

• zombie dragon shadow was weirdly green

• save descriptions didn't allow you to put empty text

• gray goo sometimes stuck, if you use freeze ray on it

• after changing name/description of saved world - it won't show in window until next opening

• snowmen bug that made them actually super powerful

• too long kingdom, city and unit names will be shortened in tooltips

• highlighted zones had a small offset that was annoying when you look at it if you manage to notice it

• kings, leaders, boats, army icons would render big on mini map, when they don't have home city

• volcanoes and geysers were being destroyed by lightning if they were placed on an ocean tile

• penguin swim speed

• drop physics ( e.g. spawned lava by volcanoes ) should be now the same - no matter the game speed

• tornado shadows did not change with the tornado size

• units will be now smarter about which beach to swim to

• killing a dragon while the game was paused, made them hang in the air until the game resumed

• dragons sometimes had a weird distorted animation when flipping before an attack

• lava colors were not correct based on their heat level

• necromancer didn't cast curses correctly

• zoom was wonky when you scroll to change zoom, but then moved cursor over UI

• units that are ok with lava will swim to lava

• some trees stay on tiles without biomes, water

• sometimes abandoned buildings roofs had color of living buildings

• crab bombs did not shake the world

• fairies would fly through lava - killing themselves

• flying insects would fly through lava - killing themselves

• fairy that spawns in enchanted biome on high tile had energized trait(only the ones, that player spawns supposed to have that)

• sometimes console logs would stack and appear unreadable

• some soft crash related to status effect

• added support for saving huge worlds without running out of memory

• mini map was sometimes got dirty

• optimizations: for enemy check logic

##Modding:

• A lot of changes to modding. There's not enough space to post all full patch log. Please check on main website/discord.