Old World January 14th Updated Test Build

Old World test branch update 1.0.81509 Test 2026-01-14

Design

• Added new national ambition - Control three of each Legendary Improvement

• Changed Control Six Legendary Cities national ambition to Control Five Legendary Cities

• Send 20 luxuries is now a tier 9 ambition instead of a national ambition

• Disciples can now clear vegetation

• Cannot build an improvement that removes vegetation if the unit cannot clear the vegetation

• Traders no longer get a court merchant when founding their seat

• Prevented building improvements on Marsh, except for Farms with Centralization

• All fresh water sources supply fresh water to their own tile in addition to adjacent tiles

• Remove Free Silk and Free Ebony bonus tech cards

• Moved Free Porcelain bonus card to be unlocked by Coinage and reduced tech cost accordingly

• Free Porcelain and Free Perfume bonus cards now give 2 instances of their luxuries

• Autonomous Rule project is removed when a city is breached

• Characters cannot give birth more than once a year (relevant for non-yearly turn scales)

• Free laws that replace an existing law do not increment the law change count

• Raiders can capture empty cities and city sites

• Carthage scenario 2 now automatically uses the families that were founded in the first scenario and carries over goal memories

• Increased maximum effect of god opinion on religion opinion in Wrath of Gods scenario (200 -> 500)

• Reduced Tribal raid range in Wrath of Gods scenario

• Disabled Venerate mission for and demands being given by Abandoned god in Wrath of Gods scenario

Programming

• Many UI optimizations

• Memory leak fixes

• Improvements to Safe Mode

• AI border expansion tweaks

• AI law value correction to avoid frequent changes

UI

• Added Peak Legitimacy and Peak Legitimacy per Leader to Hall of Fame (requires regenerating HOF for existing games, won't display on very old saves)

• Added on-map icon to units that have been disarmed

• Added hotkey for extending turn time (Alt-E)

• Updated ZOC help text

• Enabled gold cost to buy yields for recommended improvements tooltip

• Added color-coding for Send/Return text in Luxury Management

• Improved consistency of city build production cost tooltips

• Trait opinion of leader now shown in trait tooltip even without advanced help text

• Pagan religions are shown in the Adopt State Religion menu even without Divine Rule, with explanatory text

• Yields from disciples on improvements are shown when disciples are selected

• Anchor mission help text includes water control range

• Condensed enlist ability help text

• Greyed out effect for dead character portraits applied more consistently

• Improved Settler Found City tooltip

• Cities with zero yield are included in the nation yield breakdown

• When a non-server network game has disconnected human players and the turn timer is counting down, a warning is displayed next to the turn time

• Improvements to Citrus resource and Grove models

• Improvements to Ruins model

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed Valid Improvements worker filter

• Fixed stun, immobilize, and panic effects sometimes being applied to units inside cities

• Fixed events that kill units not incrementing stats and goal counters

• Fixed temporarily hidden unit pathfinding

• Fixed some AI unit movement cases where it would trip over itself when there were units in the way

• Fixed some minor AI combat issues

• Fixed audio bug that occurred when only one music track was enabled

• Fixed some unit panel icon issues

• Fixed some tribal events incorrectly remaining after tribal elimination

• Fixed Caravan mission button saying that there are no players when out of orders

• Fixed some cases where city effects were not displayed

• Fixed boundary tiles in Caucasus on the Old World map

• Fixed character opinion load/save bugs

• Fixed family seat icon data bug

• Fixed State Religion reminder not opening submenu

• Fixed build specialist tile highlights not showing with border expansion

• Fixed Foreign Marriage mission in No Events mode

• Fixed temporarily hidden units sometimes still being rendered for other players

• Fixed village upgrade turns and improvement help text with Lighthouse

• Fixed Occurrence effects not being removed when ended by an event/bonus (Wrath of Gods)

• Fixed Veneration jealousy penalty being applied to both religion and god in Wrath of Gods scenario

• Fixed tech helptext not listing non religion-based project unlocks in Wrath of Gods scenario

• Fixed Carthage scenario 3 load/save bug

• Fixed ModManager panel trying to update when not active

• Text and event fixes