Version 0.3.0. A family tree arrives, you can step inside the clan hall, villages have a clan graveyard, the county gentry meet in assembly, death sentences reach the autumn assizes, and rivals now strike at your shops. Plus a one-button bug report.
Clan
- Family tree: a button in the header of the "People & lineage" tab. The male line top to bottom from the founder: branches 房, houses that split off, daughters. Your own line from the founder is drawn in gold. Next to it, a "Households" tab.
- Double-click a living relative in the tree or in the people list and the camera goes to them, in their own yard.
- A clan hall stands in the village only once the clan has founded it. Until then a shrine to the earth god 土地廟 stands there. The hall name board 堂號 and the clan lanterns hang on the hall itself.
- Double-click the hall to go inside: a niche with ancestral tablets by generation, the founding ancestor 始祖 in the middle, and an offering table.
- Spring and autumn clan rites in months 2 and 8: the hall fills with the clan's men. Missing them costs face.
- A clan graveyard 祖墳 at the edge of the village, past the fields. One grave for each clan member buried; husband and wife share a mound, the long dead rest in a common mound, the founder in an armchair tomb. After a funeral the procession walks to the new grave. Clans with high office get a spirit way with stone figures.
- Grave sweeping 墓祭 at Qingming in month 3.
County and office
- Gentry assembly 公議 in the 明倫堂 hall: the county gentry discuss county posts, the questions of the age, famine relief and militia against bandits. Speak for or against, and sway a neighbour beforehand with a gift or a favour owed. The magistrate decides, but going against the majority costs him. If you are the magistrate, you call the assembly and decide.
- Community wine drinking 鄉飲酒 in months 2 and 10: the county's best house is the guest of honour.
- Four new questions of the age: strict audit of arrears 考成 (1573–1585), labour service assessed by land 均田均役 with grain tribute paid in silver, the poll tax merged into the land tax 攤丁入畝, and the meltage surcharge sent to the treasury 耗羨歸公.
- The service pyramid is now a real pyramid: trapezoid tiers, the capital at the apex, the six ministries as wings beside the prefect. County posts have their own pyramid on their own tab: click a post to see what it gives, your chance, and apply right there.
Justice
- A relative sentenced to deferred death no longer vanishes silently. The chronicle shows when the case went to the capital and how the autumn assizes 秋審 ended: execution, another year of waiting, commutation to penal servitude or exile, or release to care for a father.
- From the prisoner's card you can petition for clemency 可矜 or release to support a parent 留養, with a price and a chance.
- An assizes scene: tables under red cloth, the reading of the lists, and at dawn the vermilion brush over the names.
Business and rivals
- You can hire a man against a rival's shop: arson, spoiling the goods, bribing the clerk, a bad rumour. The man may be caught and may name you. Burning someone's storehouse means death after the assizes.
- Rivals strike at your business: they open the same trade next door, lure your buyers, report your licence, and set fires when the feud runs hot. The chronicle shows who did what.
- You can buy another house's business through a middleman 中人, haggling up to three times. The seller's kin may step in and take the deal. The AI sells you a losing business before closing it, and may buy your profitable one.
- Goods leave the village by boat from the landing and on carrying poles, toward the places they were really sold.
Combat
- "Hit, back off, catch your breath" no longer works: stamina recovers more slowly while moving and not at all with your back to the enemy, and enemies chase anyone who backs away.
- A blow to the back does half again as much damage, to the side a fifth more. Blocks hold only from the front.
- The stamina bar marks whether you can afford a swing, and a light shows when a strike is ready.
Streets
- People of your house walk where their friends go and avoid enemies. Acquaintances stop and bow in the street.
- Villagers fish at the creek and the pond.
- Women of the house go out to the temple, and on festival days into the streets.
Music
- The master's fee rises more steeply: below 95% quality a hard piece in 演义 pays under 6 taels, a flawless one still 40. Quality is shown with one decimal.
If something breaks
- After an error a ⚠ mark appears by the Menu button. The Bug report button in the menu and in the save window writes one file: the errors, a world check, your description, the chronicle and the save. Send it to us on QQ or the Steam forum and we can find the bug much faster.