Old World January Update: Added Point Symmetry maps and new Ballista icon

Main Branch 1.0.81366 release 2026-01-07

Headline changes

• New Point Symmetry mirror option for MP games

• Healing Shrines now give Healer effect to all units

• New Ballista unit icon added

Design

• Added Point Symmetry option to MP setup when Mirror Map option is selected. This enables radial mirroring around the map's midpoint, producing a layout symmetric in all directions from the center. Players will start in opposite corners of the map

• Healing Shrines now give Healer effect to all units including non-promotable ones

• Heliopolis gives 0.5 orders per shrine instead of 1

• Mourning trait no longer has a chance to make characters ill

• If the player doesn't have enough yields to sell to cover debts, then a queued build with no progress is cleared to get enough yields to sell, if possible

• Added event for when AI forfeits a city site due to player having attacked the camp more

• Many event tweaks including a buff for the Shrine of the Unknown God

Programming

• AI avoids building Wonders in border cities, and especially in cities that are in danger of being captured

• AI uses disciples to build religious improvements before further spreading the religion, if possible

• Pathfinder prefers to keep units hidden, have them occupy good defensive terrain, and avoid marsh, all else being equal

• Added support for local storage for persistent scenario data

UI

• New Ballista unit icon added

• All Improvements filter shows all non-wonder improvements that can ever be built

• Removed crit chance from attack preview window when not applicable (i.e. attacking cities)

• Clicking cities listed for a selected luxury pans to city center

• Dead character portraits faded in Characters tab

• Trashed bonus cards faded in tech tree

• Non-improvement yield lost when building an improvement on a resource now shown on tooltip (with Advanced Help Text active)

• Leader General control immunity bonus no longer shown in archetype helptext, merged with extra movement unit effect

• Leading and trailing whitespace characters are now removed from manually entered player online IDs

• Help text for multiple traits from a bonus now properly takes fallbacks into account

• Renamed terrain target of Volcanoes or Mountains (Jerwan requirement) from "Mountains" to "Peaks"

• Actions panel now hidden when it would otherwise be empty

• DLC name shown in parentheses in dropdowns for map scripts

• Included map scripts shown on DLC Mechanics page in Encyclopedia

• Hid some redundant-looking missions in Encyclopedia

• Mod Browser UI is refreshed once workshop mod list is retrieved

• Traits that give yields now always show totals with Advanced Help Text enabled

• Orders history graph no longer subtracts unit consumption

• Schemer's Adopt mission now shows a reminder when available

• Yield totals in the stats screen graphs now include all sources, not just income

• Alt-1 to Alt-9 switch players when observing a network game

• Improved eligible unit trait help text

• Made tech unlocks helptext more specific and consistent

• Removed outdated references to save importing in Carthage scenario descriptions

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed events not firing for killed units

• Fixed combat notification log categories

• Fixed children gaining archetypes randomly

• Fixed improvements from bonuses not being auto-placed on their intended tiles

• Fixed religion founding city randomisation

• Fixed Hamlet development turns tooltip being wrong before the hamlet has been completed and the Lighthouse is active

• Fixed Mirror Map being selected on map scripts that do not support that option

• Fixed entering observer mode and following a different nation after surrendering from a network game

• Fixed client Hall of Fame not being updated after completing a network game

• Fixed governor availability text not updating consistently

• Fixed options menu tooltips getting hidden behind dropdowns

• Fixed map generation bug that could result in a river delta on land

• Fixed trade network save/load bug

• Fixed a threading issue

• Fixed improvements with city effects that modify a city's overall yield not showing up on calculations before building improvement (i.e Patrons culture bonus)

• Fixed character tooltip position

• Fixed some random seed quirks causing courtiers appearing on the same turn to be identical

• Fixed luxury availability not updating immediately on canceling a trade deal

• Fixed AI making urban over resources

• Fixed invalid trait warning text color being reversed

• Fixed tile tooltip null reference

• Fixed resources getting added outside of map boundary

• Fixed being able to target non-visible tiles

• Fixed Tough promotion being double-counted on defense

• Fixed tribe units sometimes not healing

• Fixed AI sometimes taking over player units that are not automated, if there was at least one actually automated unit

• Fixed automated workers unstacking

• Fixed Barbarians not moving in players territory when they end up there whilst not allowed to enter

• Fixed Theology help not showing potential effects that do not currently apply

• Fixed MP scenarios overwriting the game name

• Fixed religion opinion graph disappearing after player defeat

• Fixed difficulty defaulting to Custom and preset difficulty showing as Custom in the Barbarian Horde scenario

• Fixed Duel and Tiny map sizes and Tumbling Mountain map script being available in the Barbarian Horde scenario

• Fixed some combat events potentially displaying incorrectly in Heroes of the Aegean scenario 5

• Fixed Wrath icon in Wrath of Gods scenario sometimes not displaying colour

• Fixed mods subbed from Steam client not copying from workshop cache to Old World mods folder

• Fixed mod sub checker not being able to check again if modio authentication is slow

• Fixed mod sub checker sometimes not closing

• Text and event fixes

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