Old World March 4th Updated Test Build

Old World test branch update 1.0.82566 Test 2026-03-04

To switch to the test branch, right click Old World in Steam and select Properties, open the Game Versions & Betas tab and select 'test' in the version list.

Design

• Legal Code law upkeep now 6 Money per city (instead of 0.2 Orders)

• Divine Rule law upkeep now 0.5 Science per city (instead of 6 Money)

• Guilds law upkeep now 0.5 Orders per city (instead of 1 Order)

• Besieger effect now valid for Melee and Ranged (previously Melee and Siege)

• Increased Growth required for new population now occurs after 30 growths instead of 20

New Events

• Grief

• Last of the Pack

• Founded (lost tie) x4

• The Wanderers

• Tribal Truce Offer (no war due to alliance)

Programming

• More frequent updates in the network games browser

UI

• Added tech tree search

• Text localization updates

• Records screen displays Improvements Controlled and Improvements Finished stats separately

• Disciples no longer counted in the Workers Produced stat

• Added improvement theology potential bonuses to help text

• Improvements to Critical Hit and Culture Level concept text

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed unit widgets stacking incorrectly

• Fixed unit widgets in the back of the stack having their icons sorted behind water

• Fixed kill preview icon drawing behind city widget

• Fixed reversed logic for Unit Cycling option

• Fixed unit cycling after attacking with Unit Cycling option on

• Fixed worker filters showing for non-allied units

• Fixed unit build list not showing valid Improvements on mouseover tile (w. Ctrl) if vegetation is present but not enough Orders are available to remove it

• Fixed Occurrence showing as started in notifications when set as pending via bonus

• Fixed some broken links in Chinese event text

• Fixed raider AI

• Fixed game UI registering clicks while file browser is open

• Fixed custom overlay getting cleared by temporary road overlay

• Fixed menu transparent backgrounds rendering as blank when colorblind filter is on

• Fixed female worker tools being tinted by team color

• Fixed pink models in burning cut scrub during wildfires

• Fixed main menu color looking different on minimum detail settings

• Fixed Family, Tribe, and Nation sometimes not being assigned to premade characters

• Fixed archetype assignment bug

• Fixed colors getting applied to links that no longer exist

• Fixed issue with characters both leaving the nation and becoming a governor or general in simultaneous events