Old World August Update

Main Branch 1.0.84365 release 2026-08-05

Headline changes

• Schemers can be Ambassadors and Chancellors in addition to Spymasters and Agents

• Added new City Site Number game option choice - 6 per player

• Added new player UI option 'High contrast Player Colors'

Design

• Schemers can be Ambassadors and Chancellors in addition to Spymasters and Agents

• Priest specialists increase happiness by 1/2/3 (from 1/1.5/2) and religion opinion by 2/4/6 (from 1/2/3)

• Bishop specialists increase religion opinion by 3/6/9 (from 1/2/3)

• In team games where one player has a tribal alliance, tribes are less likely to demand tribute from non-allied teammates

• Killing or hiring a tribe unit no longer immediately changes the number of turns until the next tribe unit spawns from the closest site

• Luxury resources are now more common on randomly generated maps

• The more expensive (350+ science cost) Courtier bonus card techs give two Courtiers instead of one

• Changed Tribe unit cooldown behavior to be consistent with player units

• Tribe units receive a 2-turn cooldown if acting on another players turn (was 1)

• Tribe units cooldowns are processed (reduced) before unit movement, not after

• Tribe units Stun cooldown becomes Attacked cooldown on turn end

• Immobile cooldown gets converted to Attacked at the end of the unit's turn, similar to what happens with Stunned

• Increased tiers of later religion (Christianity, Manichaeism, Buddhism) disciple ambitions

• Removed repair improvements ambitions

• In the Barbarian Horde scenario, the Huns are no longer organized

• Carved Ivory (Aksum) is now a Precious Resource (Wrath of Gods)

• Huns won't ask for tribute before turn 20 or repeat demands until at least 10 turns after first being met (Empires of the Indus)

• Added missing event for completing the Buddhist holy site (Empires of the Indus)

Programming

• Improved AI character selection for governors and generals

• Added tech path history to saves. Not shown in-game, for use by community save analyzers

UI

• Added new City Site Number game option choice - 6 per player

• Added new player UI option 'High contrast Player Colors'

• Added modsets functionality to mods screen, to allow grouping mods that can all be enabled at once

• Added All Player filter to Map Search

• Map Search can now be closed by clicking any top tab, in addition to clicking the Map Search icon

• Updated Luxuries concept/link text to list all luxuries dynamically

• Added succession to Upgrade Character text

• Renamed Game option 'No Organized Tribes' to 'Disable Organized Tribes'

• Text localization updates

• Repair recommendation no longer always assumes buying goods, instead depends on ALT

• Modifier signs for negative yields are no longer reversed

• Increased visibility of attack range outline for ranged units

• Added Urban to map pin options

• Luxury/source helptext improvements

• Updated Discord channel helptext on MP join screen

• Added Disable SRP Batcher troubleshooting option

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed missing holy city icons on city widget

• Fixed screen visibility lag after history screen has been opened

• Fixed MP serialization errors that result in ghost units and repeated animations

• Fixed event kills not advancing/routing when they should

• Fixed units being valid to convert to a different owner if the unit is on its own city or settlement

• Fixed consistency for yield help text with negative multipliers

• Fixed team color on mines

• Fixed repair recommendations always showing as dimmed

• Fixed tooltips remaining frozen when switching screens

• Fixed yield previews showing for invalid tiles with Current Tile or General filters selected

• Fixed event cycling while bonus placement is active

• Fixed popup processing after surrendering

• Japanese text localization fixes

• Fixed Korean decimal & thousands separator

• Fixed Game of the Week mapscript potentially differing depending on owned DLC

• Fixed terrain sometimes not updating after closing timeline

• Fixed tribal stun and immobilize in Simultaneous and Loose turn styles

• Fixed AZERTY keyboard shortcut issues

• Fixed Map Search player/tribe filter

• Fixed Precious Resource help text

• Fixed tribe killing goal getting invalidated too early in some cases

• Fixed duplicate floating text in some cases

• Fixed Buy Yields text on Road ping tooltip

• Fixed resource overlay and harvested icons overlaying each other when both are present

• Fixed unit widget healthbars rendering behind resource overlay

• Fixed character portrait interpolation settings (Tamil Male 05 and Rome Female 11)

• Fixed Rise of Carthage scenario 1 goals potentially not triggering when Tribe Level set to Weak/Passive

• Fixed possible portrait duplication in Rise of Carthage Game One scenario

• Fixed score list for The Hill scenario

• Fixed occurrences still affecting tiles after they became invalid for it i.e. Wildfire on water (Wrath of Gods)

• Fixed occurrences that reduce vegetation pillaging and destroying improvements by that mechanic (Wrath of Gods)

• Fixed some missing source improvement / project lists (affects mods)

• Fixed UI fragment modding with Remove tags

• Text and event fixes

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