Old World April 1st Updated Test Build

Old World test branch update 1.0.82968 Test 2026-04-01

To switch to the test branch, right click Old World in Steam and select Properties, open the Game Versions & Betas tab and select 'test' in the version list.

Design

• Slight rebalance to Gatherer cognomen line (Empires of the Indus)

UI

• Rendering layer cleanup

• Added rendering layer for minimum detail objects, which will always render to the timeline and minimap. This means minimum detail rivers will now always render in the timeline and minimap

• Removed "Reduce Animation Detail" option and replaced with "Disable Idle Animations"

• Occurrence end chance increment, current and minimum durations added to Occurrence helptext

• Changed color of unit health bar difference to green, when health is increasing (Zealot kill or heal action)

• Order movement now shows below yield preview

• Adjusted selection circle animation for tutorial

• Added some references to bonus UU techs to Tech Encyclopedia and Culture links (with advanced help)

• Added description for Vassalize Tribe mission (Empires of the Indus)

• Added description to the Hinduism tooltip (Empires of the Indus)

• Edited World Religion concept to include Buddhism (Empires of the Indus)

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed header display in some languages

• Fixed bug that allowed very small islands to count as connected to a continent for player start placement purposes

• Fixed Tumbling Mountain script creating occasional gaps in the mountain

• Fixed hotkeys getting evaluated multiple times per frame

• Fixed null reference in tech tree search

• Fixed bonus card search issue

• Fixed a bug with AI evaluation of city effects that give Legitimacy, should build Kushite Pyramids more urgently now

• Fixed floating text produced by combat causing visual issues with fog of war

• Fixed pathfinder path simplification bug

• Fixed pathfinder not updating correctly when a unit receives a new effect or loses an existing one

• Fixed map editor null reference

• Fixed Ask to Declare War mission (tribe) having no effect in No Events mode

• Fixed Traits added or removed by Occurrences intermittently not working on Semester/Season turn styles

• Fixed tribe AI sometimes not moving

• Fixed improvement yields from adjacent improvements that belong to a different team

• Fixed minimum detail rivers not showing when initially loading a game with minimum settings

• Fixed blocky rivers on minimum terrain detail in some scenarios

• Fixed tribe widget upgrade timer text cutting box out of clouds

• Game Editor UI fixes

• Fixed hide vegetation not working during Calamities in some cases (Wrath of Gods)

• Fixed portrait interpolation issues with Hun portraits (Empires of the Indus)

• Fixed iTradeValueModifier not being reflected in Nation summary (affects mods only)