Old World July Update

Main Branch 1.0.84044 release 2026-07-01

Headline changes

• Changes to Religion founding requirements

• Improvements to Influence Mission events with negative outcomes

• Fixed memory leak

Design

• Christianity no longer has a tech requirement

• Manichaeism requires Metaphysics instead of Monasticism

• Tweaked Influence Mission events with negative outcomes to be better or rarer

• Tile buying costs increase slightly slower and more discretely

• Minor Cities now count as urban improvements (relevant for ambitions)

• Drought no longer creates sand tiles, minimum duration reduced from 3 to 2 turns (Wrath of Gods)

• DOTA mapscript now has a path width option (Empires of the Indus)

• DOTA mapscript Separating Terrain choice split into Inner and Outer Terrain, random option added (Empires of the Indus)

Programming

• Fixed memory leak caused by renderer per-frame allocations

• AI avoids building non-Settler growth units from cities that have zero citizens

UI

• Landmark discovery notification added even if popup is shown

• When a character mission (eg Imprison) can't be started due to a blocking memory, turns left until the memory will be removed are now shown

• Updated law prerequisite event helptext to be clearer

• Trait effects on city effects are not listed in a neutral tile tooltip text unless the player has a character with that trait i.e. camp effect from the Butcher's Mask

• Yields from military units in territory are always shown in help text, even if there is no military unit present i.e. Happiness from Walls

• Only player owned occurrence-affected tiles are listed in the turn summary. All visible tiles are still listed in the turn notifications

• Tribal Invasion bonus & concept helptext now mention that war will be declared as well

• Improvement pings are cleared when making tiles urban

• Points to victory no longer shown when points victory is inactive

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed Huns appearing near player starts

• Fixed units without harvest animations playing broken animations when cutting trees

• Fixed observer mode visibility after observed player surrender

• Fixed event predicates failing in Japanese and Chinese due to use of localized commas

• Fixed bug where wrong city is sometimes selected in bonuses

• Fixed lighting regression for standard shader

• Fixed dune display on Sand Hill tiles

• Fixed Hovel Ruins floor rendering incorrectly

• Fixed black circle in city widget religion list

• Fixed tech tree button behavior

• Fixed unit occlusion issues with city widget religion icons

• Fixed map editor null reference errors

• Fixed governor rating-affected yield showing wrong value if net yield is negative

• Fixed some color issues on events with 'not' requirements

• Fixed some help text for improvements in team territory

• Fixed settings indicating mirror map when that option is invalid for the map script

• Fixed FFA achievement triggering with 2 players

• Fixed Ruthless AI not taking Time Victory condition into account

• Fixed Buddhist/Hindu religious improvements being referenced in Tech helptext in Wrath of Gods scenario

• Fixed volcano occurrence not showing when it first appears in MP games (Wrath of Gods)

• Fixed Buddhist Disciple and Hindu Brahmin vision ranges (Empires of the Indus)

• Fixed invalid resource tiles on Indus Valley Duel premade map (Empires of the Indus)

• AI fixes

• Text and event fixes