Patch 1.9.8 (Improvements, Orders icon)

Greetings, Viceroys!

Now that the Steam Spring Sale is over, let us know - did you go on a shopping spree or stay disciplined? If you found something great, we’d love to hear what you’ve been playing.

Also, we want to warmly welcome everyone who picked up Against the Storm during the sale. We’re glad to have you here and hope you’ve been having a great time so far.

Anyway! We’ve just released a patch with various improvements and fixes to issues you’ve reported. A huge thanks to everyone who contributed to this patch. We appreciate all your reports and suggestions!

Balance

• The Moldy Grain Seeds Cornerstone will now only appear in biomes that contain fertile soil or Grain nodes.

• Updated rewards for several orders: Tick Tock, Pyromania, The Cult of Fire, 🦇 Bat Villagers, Bat Majority.

  • Instead of always granting +1 Copper Ore, these orders now reward one of the following based on biome resources: +1 Salt, +1 Coal, +1 Copper Ore, or +1 Sea Marrow.

• 🦇 Some perks will no longer appear when playing with the Riverlands modifier: Mist Piercers and Survey Equipment.

  • These perks had limited usefulness in Riverland games unless obtained in Year 1.

• Shedding Season (Forest Mystery) will no longer appear in biomes where Leather cannot be gathered from trees or resource nodes.

• Removed a duplicated version of the Export Specialization perk (which granted +2 to all packs of goods instead of +1).

  • As a result, the Chest Chaser order reward has been adjusted to grant the +1 version of the Export Specialization perk.

• 🦇 The Treasure Hunt order (open 2/3/4 Abandoned Caches) will no longer appear in games with the Riverlands modifier.

UX/UI

• The Orders icon in the HUD is now always visible, even when orders are unavailable. Hovering over it displays a tooltip stating the reason why orders are blocked.

  • This tooltip will now also appear when hovering over the “orders” button in the Recipes/Consumption/Trends panels.

• Hovering over the Orders icon in the HUD now shows the time remaining until the next Order becomes available.

• Disabling Lightning Flashes in the Options menu now also disables thunder effects during the Storm.

• Added new alert toggles in the Options menu:

  • Blightrot Cyst alerts.

  • Alerts for destroyed resource nodes.

• Updated descriptions for several Forest Mysteries (Cricket Mating Grounds, Golden Dust, Humid Climate, Marrow Growth, Saturated Air) to more clearly state that their bonuses are not retroactive.

• Improved the description of the Trade Logs perk (and its Stormforged version) to more clearly state that it adds active trade route slots.

• 🐸 Improved the description of one of the “discovered glades” conditions in the Cornerstone Forge to make it clear that it’s not retroactive.

• 🦇 Improved the description of the Silent Dominion modifier to also include Stormforged Cornerstones.

• Improved the description of the Captain’s Curse effect in the Merchant Shipwreck glade event. It should now clearly state that only annual Cornerstones are destroyed by it.

Bug fixes

• Fixed a bug that caused some platform-specific/SDK files to be included in builds where they were not needed.

• Fixed a bug that allowed the Unyielding Corruption Forest Mystery to appear in games with the Playing With Feeling effect (from the Gambler World Event).

• Fixed a bug that caused the Spiced Ale perk to not display its description correctly in multiple languages (Polish, Ukrainian, Czech, Hungarian).

• Fixed a bug that caused the Spiced Ale perk to display the wrong name (Trade Logs).

• Fixed a bug that caused the Stormforged version of the Value Added Tax Cornerstone to incorrectly increase the value of Packs of