Capture and breed animals, then use them as mounts!
Soldiers can be any combination of animals, weapons and equipment.
40 new resources.
30 new buildings.
A complete rebalance of the economy.
Steam Input and Steam Deck support.
-See full change log below.
If you want to finish your old game save, you can use the Steam version manager and roll back to “version_settlers2026”.
I had two big goals with this update; Animals are an efficient way to increase the visual appeal of the game. All my friends have expressed love for my new critters, so I think that goal was a success!
Second, I wanted players to be able to maintain interest in more cities. Previously, you could have around 5–7 fun, specialized cities before management started to feel like a chore; now, that number is closer to 7–9. The new economy also makes idle cities valuable for tax collecting.
Some features were cut to make it in time for the Steam medieval fest; those will be patched in soon.
An online multiplayer update is planned for this summer. To set the right expectations: this will be friends-only co-op games.
Finally, for the autumn, I will try sticking to just polish and quality-of-life improvements.
Happy gaming!
* 10 new city cultures
SOLDIER RECRUITING
* More options in soldier conscript: man type, shield, animal and wagon.
* Adding up to 12 000 000 possible soldier types
* Soldiers have gold upkeep, related to their training
* Extended recruiting to battle lab and god powers
* Skill bonus will now also affect base health (to symbolize better survival skill)
* Shields affect damage block, health, move speed and attack speed
* Reduced units without shield to 50% damage block
NOBLEMEN
* A new man type that can be produced for conscripting
* Noble houses now function as housing for noble men
40 NEW RESOURCES
* 5 New basic resources
* 3 new wagon types
* 4 shield types
* 21 new animals
* 8 Animal armor types
* 4 new collectable terrain resources
* Conserved food, Extra storage capacity for armies
30 NEW BUILDINGS
* Animal farming pens uses breeding and cost upkeep
* Item storage
* Soldier hall - unlock advanced conscripting
* Cesspits with destruction menu
* Limit toggle for stockpile
* Added farming tab to buildings
* Buildings tooltip
* Improved farms tooltip
USER INTERFACE
* Menu for cesspits
* Limit toggle for stockpile
* Added farming tab to buildings
* Buildings tooltip
* Improved farms tooltip
* improved multi line content in buttons
* Mobility value to represent soldier speed
* Army total mobility value, is 20% medium speed + 80% slowest unit
* city strength includes soldier defence from walls
* Updated soldiers tooltip
* Ui for exposing soldier stats
* crafting tooltip on some buildings
ACHIEVEMENTS
Knights achievement has been adjusted
Leaderboards for city size, victory difficulty and survival time in 350% and 400%
VOXEL EDITOR
* Added frame export
* Pick works with layers
* repaired the animation locks
SYSTEMS
* Redesign of the resource stockpile system
* Wild animals and trapper buildings to capture them
* Animal pens have upkeep
* Can breed animals to higher tiers
* Resource collecting is limited by storage
* Crafting: can produce two different items in one craft
* Orchards have their own priority
* All worker skills are stored
* Cities have a biome status - affects some buildings and animals
ECONOMY REBALANCE
* tax reduced to 25%
* soldier gold upkeep reduced to 25% (however is zero in retail)
* service men upkeep reduced to 40%
* guard upkeep reduced to 40%
* orchard food produce increased 30 to 50
* wheat farm produce increased 30 to 50
XP REBALANCE
- The general xp gain is -25%
- But lvl1 to lvl2 is increased +50%
- Collier has double xp gain
- Workers store all xp now, instead of just three
* Increased all technologies point costs with about +50%
PERFORMANCE
* Diplomacy is converted to a component system, removing around a 1000 references
* made a cleaner exit of the multicore process
* Worker xp use ECS BOT AI
* Auto build will now check for work priorities and resource access on crafting
* Rebalanced all auto build options
* Better at building up from settlement
TUTORIAL
* Shorter and more streamlined tutorial
* settler tutorial on unclaimed area
STEAM INPUT
* Added support for Switch, Steam and PS controllers (layouts not done)
* Will store previous control setup
* Players can choose between mouse mode (free cursor) or controller mode (lock cursor to center)
* reduced move speed during build mode
* option to lock mouse to window
* options for edge push, and added active push
* mouse pointers are instanced (for split screen)
* I changed the cloud setup to no longer copy all files
* removed logs for performance
* added patches
* tooltip flips when hitting right side
DECK SUPPORT - BETA
* added button icons for the deck
* added mini map scale option
* steam deck starts at ui scale 1.5, smaller mini map, and puts the deck controls as first suggestion
* scroll in-game
* links controller to mouse, if only one player
* complete official Deck layout (except editors)