Old World October Update

Main Branch 1.0.84977 release 2026-10-07

Headline changes

• Added a Mod Editor, available from the Extras menu

• AI anchoring and overseas expansion improvements

• Sages no longer get a free Archive on founding a city

Design

• Sages no longer get a free Archive on founding a city, instead they can build Archives without Metaphysics

• Units with leader generals are now immune to the Fireship effect

• Generic religion building ambitions are no longer offered (religion-specific building ambitions remain)

• Event review and tweaks based on analytics and player feedback

• Olympiad projects up to 100/200/300/400 Training (from 50/100/150/200)

• Added mission to exchange maps with another human player

• Improved symmetry of free city sites on mirror maps

• Free Settler bonus card no longer appears if all city sites are settled

• Disbanding Workers/Disciples gives the same opinion penalty as having them killed

• Sword of the Gods now gives +50% attack vs infantry (was +50% strength)

Programming

• AI anchoring and overseas expansion improvements

• Fixed issues with MP not connecting to cloud VM servers

• Removed duplicate log spam when the send queue is full

• Moved some event bonuses from multiple independent trait rolls to a single uniform roll

• Characters are processed before units at turn start

• Reduced some heap memory allocations when calculating water control

• Eliminated some unnecessary network traffic

UI

• Added a Mod Editor, available from the Extras menu

• Unit list filter left click now shows only that type instead of hiding them, shift+click toggles type

• Notable characters (Exploring, Imprisoned, Exiled, Rising Star, Power Hungry, Trade Venture, Distant Claimant, Vengeful, Plotting, Bypassed) now added automatically to the pinned characters tab

• Active mods popup no longer shown when starting or loading a game with mods. The loading screen now displays active mods in the bottom left

• Added the ability to trigger the combat preview panel for tiles other than the selected unit's current tile. To use this, add a waypoint using CTRL+click, then mouse over the attack tile from the waypoint.

• In network games with observers allowed, players can send chat messages that only observers can see and observers can send messages to specific players

• AI no longer plays the rest of the turn after a player surrenders in a 1v1 game

• Cloud game order reversed so that the more urgent ones are at the bottom

• Added email field to bug reporting popup

• Added player notification for rejection of human proposal for alliance/peace/truce/map sharing

• Savegames from completed named games will include the game name in the filename

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed city widget not being hoverable with city open, which prevented renaming a city

• Fixed Hittite portraits showing the Egyptian portrait background

• Fixed Chittogarh (Empires of the Indus) and Blessing of Healing (Wrath of Gods) healing all units, now only heals team and allied units

• Fixed inheritance screen and family/religion tab text potentially displaying outside of their windows

• Fixed undo delay and redo issues

• Fixed random traits from events sometimes applying multiple times

• Fixed point symmetry resource issue

• Fixed MP chat dropdown issue

• Fixed bug preventing servers running on Linux

• Fixed cloud games with non-ASCII characters in the game name failing to upload

• Fixed pending critical sometimes not happening when it should

• Fixed clicking unit name on unit list not selecting unit

• Fixed panic into a hidden unit's tile sometimes resulting in Disarm instead

• Fixed ambitions to send X luxuries to tribes failing if fewer than X tribes are alive

• Fixed hostile unit notification and Schapur suffix shown incorrectly in German translation

• Fixed some religion mission translation issues

• Fixed events sometimes not displaying 'not' requirements correctly

• Fixed AI losing the game due to no heir

• Fixed UU card being moved from draw pile to discard pile on culture growth

• Fixed Nation/Tribe crest being shown twice in "unit seen" notifications

• Fixed an issue where Occurrence Ready events could happen on back-to-back turns

• Fixed AI overvaluing border expansion

• Fixed ursurper succession load/save bug

• Fixed duplicate Sin-Muballit name

• Fixed promotions being available for Workers upgraded from Steppe Riders (Empires of the Indus)

• Fixed potential Family Control null reference (Empires of the Indus)

• Text and event fixes

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