🚨 PATCH ALERT: New Updates & Progress for Castle Craft! 🚨

We’re back with another exciting patch for Castle Craft, and we’ve implemented a bunch of the things you've requested! Not only have we squashed bugs, but we’ve also optimized performance, improved gameplay mechanics, and balanced some key elements to make your castle-building and defense experience even better! 💥

Patch Notes:

🎮 Gameplay Updates:

• Resource spots now save and restore when loading/saving. Goodbye re-load resource exploit 🦴

• Brute charge attack has been improved for more devastating impact! 💪⚡

• Minions now find the closest resource spot they can reach, making resource gathering more efficient.

• Rocket artillery’s projectile trajectory and performance have been fine-tuned for a cooler "drunken rocket" behavior! 💥

• One-click upgrades for prefabs like windows and doors! 🏗️

• Prefab integrity checks optimized for smoother performance.

• Telekinesis ability is now more reactive! Grab and throw objects even faster! 🪄✨

⚖️ Balancing Changes:

• Friendly archers' range reduced by around 15% to balance the battlefield.

• Road now gives a sprinting speed boost, so you can sprint even faster on roads!

🛠️ Quality of Life Improvements:

• Added confirmation prompt when deleting a profile—no more accidental deletions! 🔒

🐞 Fixes Galore:

• Bomblings no longer become (occasionally) invincible after dying! 🦴

• Fixed player equipment visibility when controlling a trap—now it’s all about the traps!

• Blade Prison and other skills are now reliably activatable during the combat phase.

• Brutes no longer die from fall damage during their charge attack.

• Fixed falling kill zone being too high in Stygia—now you can dig all the way to the ground without dying.

• Pickup kiting issue when running past a pickup is now fixed.

• Iron pickups no longer get stuck inside the iron resource spots.

• Fixed wall upgrade ability missing the change grid size sound.

• Right Mouse Button no longer cancels digging volume abilities.

• Attached prefabs (banners or horizontal spikes) no longer block wall upgrades.

• Things no longer attach to banners unintentionally.

• Mid-Air Smash can no longer be activated from very low heights.

• Climbing and Mjolnir sounds now respect audio volume settings.

• Platoon follow/unfollow bug has been resolved—platoons behave as expected!

• Flying player pawn no longer takes damage from spikes while in building mode.

• Telekinesis projectile no longer lingers mid-air if hitting friendlies.

🔥 Minor Update:

• Fire lights now have a more orange hue than yellow for a warmer, more atmospheric glow.

What’s Coming Next? 🎉

We’re also making great progress on our first content patch, and it’s going to be big! Here’s what you can expect:

1. Reworked building menu – Say goodbye to shuffling skills on your skill bar! A smoother, easier interface is coming.

2. New economic zones: Quarters and Barracks will increase your minion and platoon limits—more builders, more warriors!

3. Improved procedural level generation – Get ready for even more dynamic, unpredictable battlefields! 🌍

4. Platoon Command Tool – Easily reposition your platoons in the building phase or command them during the combat phase—tactical freedom at its best! 🔧⚔️

Do you have any issues with Castle Craft? Let us know & we will get it fixed as soon as possible 🔥

The Castle Craft Crew Philipp, Marco, and Jonathan