Missions
Missions are no longer mandatory. They give rewards that accelerate your tech research, but you don't have to complete missions to advance
Some missions have a timer on them now.
Stage changes
There are now 3 stone age stages instead of 6, 2 bronze instead of 4, 2 iron instead of 4
New Tech Tree System
You show/hide the new tech tree by pressing this button:
Now each stage has its own tech tree, which must be completed in order to get to the next stage. Every tech discovery unlocks new craftable objects.
Researching tech is done by earning 3 types of points: Survival, Prosperity, Culture. These are earned by using your skills and by completing missions. You can see in the ICB what type of points are given for each object you can craft. Tribes on Hard and Master difficulties will earn points faster than tribes on Normal difficulty mode. when you fail with a skill, you still gain research points.
3 types of mission points:
-Survival points are earned through Gathering, Firestarting, Hunting, Butchering
-Prosperity points come from Toolmaking, Bronze Working, Blacksmithing, Farming, Mining, Forestry, Husbandry
-Culture is earned by Building, Cooking, Pottery, Sewing, Weaving, Woodworking
Note that when growing food, the digging and planting work is Farming, but picking the grown fruit (etc) is Gathering, so there will be both prosperity and survival points gained.
Every player can choose which technology to research next, by just clicking on it
You can see what everyone is working on here.
If a player earns points of a category that is not needed for the research the player is currently focusing on, then the unused points will be kept here. Any player can use these points for other discoveries.
When a tribe has completed Iron Age 2, it will now enter a Bonus Age. If you complete Bonus Age, Stage 1, there will be a Stage 2, and so on.
Missions will appear during the Bonus Age as well, so there will always be ways to earn extra points if you like. It also shows in the tribe selection gui.
Animal Mask and Spirit Poles
You can create these mask and use them to decorate spirit poles
Tree Growing
You can grow full quiver trees in this update
New missions
There are more than 100 new missions added in this update.If you want more paralell missions, make sure to have some Elders in your tribe (age 50+), since this will add to the max number of active missions.
Remember that you need to eat different foods to increase your lifespan beyond 50 years.
Fewer Predators In Early Stages
Howlers and death-claws will not appear in stone age 1&2, but will appear when those have been completed.
Other Improvements
-Natural anvils can be made by cutting down the rock now (you can choose either making an anvil or getting the loose rocks for ores). Before you had to looks for the specific rock which turns to be an anvil but now it became easier to find a natural anvil.
-Vertical and horizontal walls, doors, etc... are now counted together, so you can mix building vertical and horizontal versions when fulfilling mission goals.
-Made cut trees heal over time
-Made it possible to get tanning bark from the tanning tree, even if there's a cut in tree.
-Changed the cooldown time to regain stamina.
-Increased the effect of stamina power-ups