Hello players!

Following your feedback, we’ve made a few new adjustments to the new foes and map generation. We also want to take this beta to introduce new balancing changes and tweaks to some clans and to the way you gain positive relations with ally clans.

Boar stats
• 15 Atk (12 previously)
  
• 110 Hp (100 previously)
  
• 8 Def (8.5 previously)
  
• 5 Moves Speed (3.5 previously)

• The overall number of hostile units close to a clan’s Town Hall will now also depend on the number of zones in contact with the clan's starting zone.

• When feasting for their team, a clan improves its relationship with all the affected ally clans. (Relation is passively enhanced for the entire length of the Feast)

• Meals prepared by the Squirrel for their allies improve their relationship with the affected clans. (Passively increases while the Meal is ongoing)
  
  
• Rumor-Mongering now also increases all relation gains by +100%. (Offering Well, Trade-Routes, Gift-Routes, Rumor-Mongering passive effects, and Meals).
  
  
• Rumor-Mongering passive relation gains have been readjusted to remain identical to the previous value even when multiplied with this new effect.

• When collecting a Levy for their team, the Stoat clan improves their relationship with all the affected clans. (Passively increases while the Levy is ongoing)

• Both Warchiefs now cost only 100 Kröwns to recruit (150 previously).
  
• Horse clan when exploring Ruins and Shipwrecks will only get half of the Kröwns any other clan would get.
  
• But they also extract ore from those.
  
  • Exploring a Ruin provides +5 Stones.
    
  • Exploring a Shipwreck provides +5 Iron.

• Each mercenary killed during a raid increases the raid cooldown of the zone by +30 seconds.
  
  
• Sons of Hrymr (giants) power depends on the number of mercenaries sent with them.
  
  • Sent with a full raid of 6 mercenaries, their power will be the same as currently.
    
  • Sent with only 1 mercenary, they have only a fraction of their max resistance.
    
    • 50 HP (instead of 100 max)
      
    • 6 Def (instead of 12 max)
• Killing a Son of Hymir sent on a raid increases the raid cooldown of the zone by +120 seconds.

• After unlocking City Building, zones can be improved even if they do not contain the maximum number of buildings.

• Improved the defense behavior.
  
• If the AI is attacked by a player, its military units stop whatever they are doing, and go defend right away.
  
• If the AI is attacked by foes, it use the right amount of civilian to defend itself.
  
• Improved a lot the Eagle AI : it stays on a recently cleaned zone to benefit from the boneyard heal + it can scout its treasures.

• Silos can be built on shores without problems.
  
• Norms can produce lore outside their territory
  
• Kingdom - Guardian’s military path send militia
  
• Mimirsbrunn - Loading a save after unlocking Mimirsbrunn will not allows to pick any lore
  
• Stoat - Fixed Peon not healing on the Town Hall
  
• Lynx - Caring Siblings doesn’t heal Lynx and Mielikki on enemy territory

• Stoat - Relation grant with a levy give too much relation (should be +0.8 for a 30% levy)
  
• Squirrel - Rumor-mongering doesn’t increase relation granted with a meal
  
• Concede doesn’t kill a player

• investing foes disappearances[jstrieb.github.io] in strange rituals

• Added log for 4v2 lobby
  
• Dragon - Fixed Dragonkin captured with negative life in conquest mission
  
• Fixed camera zoom after cinematics in campaign
  
• Fixed leave pop up premade spawning after leaving a premade
  
• Fixed skins in coop conquest

• Crash in coop conquest (P2P/Server) if players use pause
  
• Some localization missing

Hello Vikings!

With the next update new animal foes will appear on your way through victory!
Those are long awaited faces so you’ll be able to face them in your games.

This new threat is already available in the public beta branch for you to test!

• New system for an equal confrontation with the foes around
  
• More foes types on the map!

We hope you will enjoy this new content, remember that all of this is being worked with the new clan[jstrieb.github.io] in mind!

See you soon for more info on the update and what could come next!

Hello players!

Big changes are coming to the ecosystem of Northgard; new animals are appearing, and this is changing the world for everyone.
Here are the details:

• Foxes are new animals. They have the same aggressive behavior as wolves, but they are less powerful, way faster, and attack in numerous groups. So keep an eye on them.
  
• Fox Burrow is a new building equivalent to the Wolf Den. It spawns new foxes that will attack the adjacent zones if left unchecked.
  
• Closing it will grant 25 Fame and 100 Kröwns.

• Boar is a new animal in Northgard. It has passive behavior similar to that of a bear but will defend itself and its territory fiercely if you attack it.

• Sheep now grants a 50% wood consumption reduction during winter in the zone it is in (-30% previously).
  
• When several sheep are in the same zone, this bonus increases, but multiplicatively.
  
  • 1 sheep will reduce the consumption in the zone by 50%.
    
  • 2 sheep will reduce it by 75%.
    
  • 3 sheep by 87,5%.
    
  • And so on…
• Sheep can now spawn in almost any zone of the map.

• The clan can choose to sacrifice a sheep to get 60 Trophies (but no Food).

• When sacrificing a sheep for food, the clan will get 100 food out of it instead of 80.

• The clan can send a sheep to the Sacrificial Pyre to gain 4 dragon essences (but no food).

• The clan can sacrifice a sheep to trigger a boneyard in the zone, calling all its hawks (but granting no food).

• The clan can choose to sacrifice a sheep to light up the Purification Pyres for 90 days (but granting no food).

• Sheep reduce the food consumption in the zone by 35% (25% previously).
  
• This bonus also increases for each additional sheep in the same zone. Also multiplicatively.

• All clans on a map will now start with the same level of hostility on adjacent zones (Meaning the overall power of hostile foes on adjacent tiles will be the same).
  
• However, this hostility might come in different animals and be split differently for each clan.
  
  • For example, clan A can start with 2 hostile zones adjacent to their town hall, containing 1 and 2 wolves.
    
  • Clan B can start with 3 hostile zones, containing respectively 1 fox, 1 fox, and 2 foxes.
    
  • The total hostility is the same for both clans, even if it materializes differently.

• Sheep can spawn in any zone (except for neutral faction camps and special zones).
  
  • The fewer natural resources the zone contains, the higher the chance of spawning sheep.
    
  • The number of sheep spawned depends on the distance of the zone from the clans’ town halls (the further away a zone is, the more sheep it might contain).

• Environment hostility (foes and hostile wild units presence) has been slightly reduced on easy maps.
  
• Environment hostility has been slightly increased on extreme maps.
  
• Normal and hard maps hostility should be the same as before.

• AI Warband should not get stuck in a zone anymore.
  
• After decolonizing a player’s zone, in hard and extreme difficulty, the AI will continue pushing the assaults to the next zone until they reach the player’s town hall or are stopped.
  
• The AI will now use its civilian units to defend itself when attacked by foes.
  
• AI now handles its happiness correctly and will assign units to happiness production buildings.
  
• AI is now better at evaluating the outcome of a fight and how much strength it needs to win, so it should no longer send armies to die in fights against neutral factions.
  
• Raven clan AI no longer builds a harbor as its first building, but when needed.
  
• Dragon AI now correctly differentiates between thralls and villagers when assigning them.

• Many optimizations.
  
• The game uses less CPU resources.

• Dragon - The Gauge UI and the buy thrall button will not disappear if you keep watching a multiplayer game after being eliminated

• Boar Menders sealed away the past of their clan

• Added new logs to understand the 4v2 issue
  
• Owl - Fixed a crash in conquest when selecting a root
  
• Fixed some crash when loading a save
  
• Thor Wrath - Fixed Barricade construction near the center

• Performance issues
  
• Some localization missing

• Season will end the 27/03
  
• Added security to avoid the join pop up while in a lobby
  
• Added security to avoid full lobby occurence
  
• Fixed crash when creating/joining a conquest lobby with special characters in player names
  
• Fixed lobby not starting if players wasn't ready
  
• Fixed spectator choosing lore for players
  
• Joining a premade while looking for a game will stop the search

• Owl - Fixed Parasitic Vegetable working for military units

• Performance issues
  
• Thor Wrath - Can't place a Barricade near the center
  
• Some localization missing
  
• Conquest Owl - Crash when selecting a root if you have special character in Player name
  
• Victory animations may not appear

• Fixed GP gain for team and FFA game
  
• Fixed lobby Finder misrepresenting the actual research for a lobby
  
• Eagle - Fixed boneyard not healing if an ally was on the same tile
  
• added security to avoid the "lobby full" occurences

• Performance issues - Will be addressed shortly
  
• Ubuntu 23.10 hdll error - Investigating
  
• Connectivity issues on joining multiplayer games - investigating
  
• Lynx - Oskoreia ability shortcut key might crash the game

Ohoï warchiefs!
After a month of beta testing, it is now time for the Rivals and Allies update to be available to everyone!
This content has been made to answer the community’s expectations after the lobby finder update, but it includes other content as well! Be sure to read the news entirely.

Rivals and Allies focused on the demands around the multiplayer, we’ll wait for your feedback on the changes but the next update will also soon arrive for you all to see!
thank you all for following us after all those years and see you in a future patch

-Shiro Community Team