Alpha V.0.0.3.0

A big development milestone — the core base-building and battle loop is now playable start to finish against a computer opponent, with a full combat system, unit and building info at your fingertips, and a first pass at art and polish across the board.

Build & Economy

• Place buildings from a new blueprint panel: drag a building out and drop it onto an open plot to construct it.

• Five resource types (wheat, wood, water, gold, and iron) are now produced by dedicated buildings and tracked on a resource bar.

• Resource buildings run dry after producing enough over their lifetime, so a growing economy means building more of them rather than letting one carry you forever.

• Where you build matters: plots closer to the front lines grant sturdier, higher-output buildings, while plots tucked inside your walls are cheaper to build on.

• Train soldiers from dedicated buildings, with both a per-building and an army-wide cap on how many you can field at once.

• Six unit types are now trainable: Peasant, Bomb Goblin, Mud Golem, Soldier, Archer, and Knight — each with its own cost, stats, and personality.

Combat

• Units can now actually take damage, die, and destroy enemy buildings and each other — combat has real stakes for the first time.

• Archers fire real arrows that arc through the air toward their target instead of just swinging at melee range.

• Units automatically size up nearby threats, weighing health, firepower, distance, and who's currently under attack, so they engage smarter than just "whoever's closest."

• Units guarding or defending will jump into a fight the instant an enemy gets close, or the instant they're struck.

• Siege forces can now strike anywhere along the width of a castle's front wall instead of one fixed point, and reliably reach it without getting stuck on the way.

The Computer Opponent

• The AI now plays a much more complete game: it grows its economy, trains a balanced army, and mounts sieges once it's actually strong enough to.

• It reacts to threats in real time — rushing defenders to a building under attack, and abandoning an assault altogether to rush home if its own castle comes under fire.

Interface & Info

• Hovering over a plot, building, or blueprint now brings up an info card showing what it does, its cost, and its health.

• Selecting a single unit, or checking out a unit a barracks-type building trains, now shows a dedicated card with that unit's health, damage, and abilities.

• A new XP bar tracks progress through the game's Age system, with milestone rewards and a small token-toss animation when you hit one.

• Enemy units are now visually recolored so you can tell the two sides apart at a glance.

• A first, early look at the "Fate Engine" reward mechanic — a spinning-reel visual effect — has been added as groundwork for a future feature.

Also

• Numerous smaller fixes across unit movement, targeting, selection, and camera controls to make everything feel more responsive and reliable.