🏛️ Update 0.4.1: Faith, Identity & the Rise of Settlements

Summa Expeditionis grows deeper, more personal, and more strategic. Update 0.4.1 introduces religion, morale systems, cultural identity, and major construction expansions that transform both your people and your settlements.

Your expedition is no longer just about survival — it’s about belief, belonging, and leadership.

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🏛️ Religion & Morale System

Faith now shapes daily life and battlefield performance.

• Full Religion System Added

  • Over 25 gods introduced

  • Craft wooden and clay idols to worship at altars

• Tier-Based Altars

  • Build different altars depending on your settlement’s tier

  • Leave offerings to receive stat bonuses

• Pantheon Integration

  • Gods followed by your people become part of the settlement

  • Your patron deity can grant blessings

Morale, culture, and comfort are now core survival pillars.

• Units have Morale, Culture, and Comfort levels

• These states grant perks when maintained

• If any of them drop to zero, the unit suffers a Grievance:

  • Severe penalties

  • Risk of desertion

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🧍 Units Now Have True Identity

Every unit is an individual with history, beliefs, and strengths.

Trait System

Units now have:

• Culture

• Chosen god

• Origin

• 3 personal traits

This creates meaningful variety and rewards careful, detailed management.

Weapon Mastery

• Units improve their skill with weapons through use

• Veterans become noticeably more effective in combat

Cultural Assimilation

• Units from other cultures can have unique gods, origins, and traits

• Assimilating locals is possible — but not always easy

Temporary Traits

• Events and actions can grant temporary traits, adding dynamism to campaigns

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🏘️ Settlement Identity & Development

Your settlement is now more than buildings — it has a character.

• Settlements gain conditional perks (system in development)

• Buildings now contribute to:

  • General comfort

  • General culture

  • Specific cultural influence

• 4 settlement states can be managed from the vexillum

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⚔️ Character Creation Expanded

You now define your leader with precision:

• Choose god, origin, and personality

• Shape your playstyle:

  • Weapon specialist

  • High carrying capacity

  • Lightning-fast explorer “like Mercury”

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🏗️ Construction & Crafting Additions

Major expansion to building and utility systems:

• Tier-4 ascending and descending walls to overcome elevation

• Carpenter’s table

• Potter’s table

• Larger tool racks

• New decorative objects

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🛡️ New Faction: The Greeks

A new cultural force enters the world:

• Unique Greek faction

• Distinct armor and weapon sets

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🎨 Interface & Customization

• Contubernium icon customization

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⚙️ Improvements & Fixes

• Optimized several 3D models for better performance

• Adjusted some colliders for fairer interactions

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This update lays the foundation for deeper simulation, stronger role-playing, and more meaningful strategic decisions. Your people now believe, struggle, grow — and sometimes break.

Lead wisely.