This update adds 40 dedicated family-head portraits and an optional Free Sailing guide. It also refines the later story chapters and endings, event screens, and sailing usability.
Family Portraits
- Added 40 family-head portraits: two male and two female options for each of the ten origins. Portraits from other origins are also available to choose.
- New character creation and the wardrobe now focus on portrait selection and skin, hair, eye, and clothing colours. Existing saves retain their assembled appearance until you explicitly select and confirm a new portrait.
- Newborn children receive an adult portrait and inherited colours at birth. They use their adult portrait from age 16 and can change it in the wardrobe. Existing children's appearances are not automatically replaced.
- Added more dedicated palace-patron portraits and refined recolouring masks and downsampling to reduce rough hair edges and missed patches of skin.
Optional Free Sailing Guide
- Added an optional guide when starting Free Sailing. The family steward introduces provisioning, departure, a nearby survey, returning to port, and reporting back.
- Other activities remain available during the guide. You can stop or restart it from the journal; its completion reward is granted only once.
- Home ports and survey locations follow your chosen origin, with building highlights, objective tracking, and controller support.
Story Progression
- Streamlined reporting and chapter endings in the middle and later routes. Some chapters now conclude their chronicle at the palace report, avoiding an extra return trip.
- Adjusted progression requirements so important scenes about the previous generation are not missed, and added discovery evidence to the family chronicle.
- Improved late-story departure guidance, objective tracking, the transition into the final chapter, and ending credits.
- Refined the Strait of Malacca passage checks around entrance and exit gates. Tavern rumours now provide clues for royal routes that lacked separate guidance.
Cities, Events and Usability
- Replaced Busan with the large southwestern port of Naju, adjusting departure placement and nearby automatic sailing routes while preserving existing visits, contracts, residents, and related records.
- Automatic sailing can resume after a pirate interception.
- Updated remaining companion departure warnings, farewells, and company events to the illustrated event presentation, with additional artwork.
- Added regional artwork for the Guangdong registry events.
- Made unavailable library page-turn buttons easier to distinguish and refined first-visit dates, place names, and dialogue wording.