Noble Legacy - Patch v0.1.64487

Highlights

• Expanded the Guides section with new pages covering Energy, Knockdown, and Death.

• Added Steward's Storage, a new player-only storage container.

• Improved crafting and research UI, making unlock requirements much clearer.

• Major AI improvements for villager behavior, raids, and navigation.

• Numerous quest and scenario fixes, including several progression blockers.

• Improved save-game stability and fixed multiple crashes.

Combat

• Fixed an issue where two-handed weapons could be equipped alongside shields.

• Fixed an issue where short and long swords could be equipped at the same time.

• Weapons now only deal collision damage while actively attacking.

• Guards will now automatically seek out and equip shields when available.

Villagers

• Improved hunting behavior.

• Hunters will no longer hunt settlement chickens.

• Villagers now make smarter decisions when selecting leisure activities, preferring their own homes before visiting public locations.

• Improved Smart Object selection between public buildings and private homes.

• Improved AI sleep simulation.

• Improved production building navigation.

• Improved raid behavior to prevent bandits from becoming stuck while attacking settlements.

• Raids now automatically expire after 10 minutes if they become stalled.

Building

• Added unlock descriptions for build parts and prefabs.

• Build parts now display unlock requirements.

• Added Steward's Storage for player-exclusive storage.

• Improved furniture placement validation and placement accuracy.

• Optimized Steward's Storage with improved LODs, collision, textures, and materials.

• Improved kingdom wealth calculations when upgrading structures.

• Production build parts now correctly detect unreachable work areas.

• Improved save compatibility when build assets are reorganized.

• Fixed pasture fences not updating correctly after placement, resolving invisible previews and delayed fence appearance.

Crafting & Research

• Crafting recipes now display unlock requirements.

• Locked recipes now clearly explain how they are unlocked.

• Updated research tags and Masterwork recipe descriptions.

• Corrected research unlock mappings.

• Research now automatically cancels if progression requirements are no longer met.

• Weapon racks now support additional equipment.

• Clothing items are now stackable.

• Fixed repeat crafting occasionally cycling to incorrect recipes.

Survival

• Sleeping now correctly simulates survival systems, including hunger and ongoing status effects.

• Sleeping now correctly restores player energy before the interface updates.

• Warmth, Hunger, Injury, and Illness afflictions now feature separate player and villager descriptions.

• Player effects no longer incorrectly display villager morale bonuses.

Guides

• Expanded the Guides section with new pages covering:

  • Energy

  • Knockdown

  • Death

• Updated the Guides interface for improved readability and navigation.

Quest Fixes

• Fixed Gisla occasionally despawning.

• Abigail can no longer be killed before completing the Heart of Gold quest.

• Cecilia and Hardwin now remain in place during quest progression.

• Fixed the Eliminate the Bandits quest completing before all enemies were defeated.

• Players must now defeat every bandit before the quest completes.

• Fixed an issue where the player's weapon could become unequipped during the encounter.

• Improved quest handling when objectives are shown or hidden.

• Improved bandit spawn locations in Scenario 3.

• Updated several NPC job assignments.

• Improved the Foundry layout.

• Corrected Adella's profession assignment.

• Added additional dialogue and alternate success dialogue for several events.

• Fixed the Redecoration event requiring decorations to be placed within settlement boundaries.

• Expanded Blades Gone Dull to support additional short sword variants.

• Prevented duplicate event instances from being queued simultaneously.

Navigation

• Improved waypoint interaction behavior.

• User-placed waypoints are now non-interactable by default.

• Tracked objectives and custom waypoints remain interactable.

• Improved quest marker navigation behavior.

User Interface

• Improved Tactical View.

• Updated Radial Menu visuals and interaction.

• Updated Tool Rack artwork.

• Improved crafting menu clarity by displaying unlock requirements.

• Fixed effect tooltips failing to appear correctly with multiple active effects.

• Added player-specific effect descriptions.

• Added a harvesting range tooltip.

• Prevented accidental interaction with unlock requirement checkboxes.

• Fixed Kingdom Tier UI updates.

• Sleep screen clock now updates correctly after sleeping.

• Fixed Market purchases occasionally displaying incorrect prices due to rounding.

• Fixed Market Stall Buy menu incorrectly labeling items as Sell.

• Fixed Market Stall Buy menu displaying incorrect coin totals.

• Optimized numerous UI elements for improved responsiveness.

Localization

• Updated French localization.

• Updated Russian localization.

Bug Fixes & Stability

• Fixed multiple crashes.

• Improved building save/load stability.

• Builder construction order now saves correctly.

• Fixed tavern crafting output becoming inaccessible.

• AI-crafted items now correctly move to building or global storage.

• Fixed interaction issues involving chairs and motion warping.

• Fixed interaction traces incorrectly blocking weapon hitboxes and enemy spawn actors.

• Fixed filled graves correctly refunding corpses when demolished.

• Improved recruitment morale UI performance.

• Fixed Kingdom Tier initialization issues.

• Added additional validation and stability improvements throughout the building system.

• Various backend optimizations and overall stability improvements.

• Fixed sand and clay resources appearing underwater near Thornwick.

• Improved shoreline foam visuals.

• Fixed Christmas tree wind animation.