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Full Pioneers of Pagonia update
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What changed
- Maps
- Gameplay
- Events
Dear Pioneers,
A promise is a promise, and you shall receive: The brewery will be available for free for everyone in the next update! Cheers! 🍻
Additionally, there will be new and exciting base game changes, such as food variety system and new options for generated maps. This and much more will come in our “Free Beer Update” next week!
The “Free Beer Update” will be released together with our first DLC “Meadowsong” on May 27, 2026!
Highlights
The Brewery is now available for everyone!
The food system got a major update, food diversity is now rewarded
Generated maps got many changes and new options
Brewery and Brewers
Gameplay
With this update, you will be able to brew not only beer but also delicious elderberry juice at the brewery! Your Forager will gather elderberries, which grow in the wild in Pagonia just like raspberry bushes and mushrooms. Finally, our Pagonians get to drink something else than water!
Forager gathers Elderberries
Generated Maps
Some challenges that are already known from the 1.0 campaign will now appear on generated maps, too! The obstacles “Landslide” and “Thorny Forest” as well as the werewolf boss “Mashka” can also appear on any generated map. You can now also increase the randomness of enemy types on generated maps. Some of the enemy types you select may appear very frequently, while others may appear rarely or not at all. This makes exploring even more exciting, since you never know which enemies you’ll encounter—or how many! Just be careful, and never send your Explorers into the fog without a magic compass!
Determine Randomness of Enemies
As always, you can completely disable enemy attacks on your settlement if you prefer a more relaxed gaming experience.
Experimental Settings
Additionally, we added experimental settings. You asked and you shall receive: The population limit can be increased from 3.000 to 5.000, 7.000 or 10.000 Pagonians. With the experimental settings it’s also possible to generate very small and very large maps. Please note that these settings are not officially supported and the experience may depend on your system specifications. Happy experimenting!
Increase the Population Limit to 10.000 with Experimental Settings
Food Variety System
The pumpkin diet is finally over! Soon the new food variety system rewards you for offering a broad variety of meal ingredients. Whenever a cook or a carrier prepares a meal, they try to use ingredients which were not used in the previous meals, increasing the variety bonus of a meal. This will happen automatically if multiple different ingredients are available.
Keep an eye on your food diversity at the Tavern! For each ingredient the cook collects that differs from the ingredients used in the previous meal, the variety bonus increases by 1. The variety bonus increases even more if different ingredients were used in several previous meals. (We'll provide more information about the variety bonuses in the detailed patch notes next week!)
A balanced diet is good for a thriving population, who would have thought? (Of course, you’re still welcome to grow pumpkins!)
New Food Variety Overview
To help you stay on top of things, we’ve added information about food variety to the population overview: There’s now a new tab with a food variety overview! This way, you’ll always be up to date on what tasty food and drinks your market stalls currently has to offer!
Food Overview at the Market Fountain
DLC Meadowsong
Together with the “Free Beer Update,” our Meadowsong DLC will be released on May 27, 2026!
Meadowsong expands the game with several new buildings, animals, goods and production chains. Also, a new challenge is waiting for you: A mysterious “Withering” spreads on the islands. Experience the story of Meadowsong and solve the mystery of the powerful witch coven!
Wishlist Meadowsong here
That’s all for this Dev Blog!
Have fun with all the new features of the “Free Beer Update” and stay tuned for the release next week!
See you in Pagonia! Your Envision Entertainment Team
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