Hello everyone and welcome to Update 1.9.5! 

The main focus of this new version is the inclusion of a new, scalable system for quests and events. We are also introducing an important transport algorithm improvement, event snoozing, Hospitium pausing and villager portraits for all available jobs in the game. Without further ado, let’s get down to the details. 

Scalable quests and events

Ever wished quest and event rewards would adjust according to your progression? With Update 1.9.5, we’re introducing scaling to Foundation: a new way to keep things engaging from the very beginnings of your village to the realization of a fully-fledged medieval wonder.

Here’s how it works: requirements and rewards associated with events or quests will now increase based on different progression tiers. For instance, a quest asking you to deliver wood would have a low resource objective early on and scale later—in tune with your Prosperity.

Here, tier 0 (floor) is available from the start, whilst the last tier is activated upon achieving a specific Prosperity threshold. The low, standard and high rewards are linked to negotiation opportunities with traders in this specific example.

Event Snoozing

Events now have snooze delays when a player dismisses them. Such delays are added on top of their recurrence factor, which have also been slightly reduced. You can expect snoozed events to add between 50-100% more days before they pop up again. 

Hospitium Pausing

Update 1.9.5 also includes a new pause function for Hospitiums. When paused, such locations won’t welcome new guests anymore. Think of it as an added safety valve to better control your food supply as visitors tend to be quite hungry. You can resume Hospitium functionality—thus further guest waves—at any time.

Transport Algorithm Improvement

In addition to the three functions that have just been discussed, we took this opportunity to include our newest improvement with the transport algorithm. You may have noticed that previously, transporters would reserve specific amounts of resources before reaching their destination. The problem, however, was how this reserved quantity never adjusted to take into account fluctuations in availability. 

From now on, transporters are able to dynamically adjust how many resources they carry before reaching their destination, all synced with workplaces. You will notice an immediate effect on productivity as transport becomes even more responsive.

New Villager Portraits

Our artists added villager portraits for every available job in the game. Before, villagers could have a mismatched portrait as we randomly picked one from the handful available. This will no longer be the case and should benefit the game’s coherence. 

That’s it…for now!

We hope you enjoy these new features as we continue to work on the next milestones from our roadmap. You’re always welcome to share feedback here or on our official Discord server.

Changelog

New

• Scalable quests and events
• Event snoozing
• Villager portraits for all available jobs

Update

• Localization

Improvements

• Newcomer notifications are now merged into a single, dynamic notification
• Trade route: added a tooltip to the unlock button when the condition is fulfilled
• The Hospitium sub-building now has a Pause button
• Transporters dynamically adjust carried quantities according to availability fluctuations from workplaces

Hello everyone, 

After weeks of testing and refining, we are happy to merge Foundation’s latest experimental version to the main game. This update brings significant changes in the form of game balance and added features. As such, it is advisable to start over; while previous saves will indeed load, some of the work introduced in this update will undoubtedly disrupt villages’ productivity, happiness and more. That said, there’s a lot to be excited about with 1.9.4. Read on for all the details! 

New Meat Production Chain And Additional Food Need

The Butchery, a brand-new building unlocked in the first tier of the common progression path, has been added to the game! This means boars are now much more useful as a resource: after placing Hunter’s Huts near dense forests, you will be able to capture the animals. Then, butchers will turn them into meat to be consumed at your markets or sold to traders.

Such a change fits nicely with the fact that villagers—including Serfs—now require two different food types to be happy.

Tavern Overhaul And New Entertainment Need

The Tavern has undergone significant changes in this newest version of the game. You are now able to create berry brews—a special drink made of berries and water—at the Berry Brewery. Served alongside a delicious meal, this is sure to be a hit among your people!  

Introducing a new drink serves two main purposes: adding variety and perhaps more importantly, letting you deal with the fact that commoners, citizens and soldiers now require to be entertained! This new need affects happiness, so you want to make sure concerned villagers can quench their thirst.

Progression and Balancing Changes Overview

Update 1.9.4 features a trove of progression and balancing-related changes. Here’s a quick glance at what you can expect:  

New Features

• Butchery workplace and meat resource
• Entertainment need, berry brews and berry brewery workplace at the Tavern
• Levy mandate
• Kinstone Abbey trade route
• Discoveries
• New advice
• New action bar shortcuts for mandates and village aspirations
• Quick promotions
• Resources linked to some workplaces are now displayed on click

Balancing Changes

• Tax Office was moved to the Labour progression path
• Additional food need for villagers
• Villagers have a chance to leave starting at -25% happiness
• More workplaces now require higher villager statuses
• Removed residential availability from immigration factors
• Trade routes have added resources to buy and sell from
• Adjusted plenty of building construction costs
• Events have been improved across the board
• Several unlockables have been moved around
• Your second territory no longer has an upkeep cost

The exhaustive list of changes can be found in our game design changelog at the end of this post.

Levy Mandate

Update 1.9.4 adds a new way to access “emergency funds” with the Levy mandate. Activating this mandate grants you a large quantity of coins at the cost of villagers’ happiness. The debuff is applied for a set duration (currently: 30 days) and stacks should you activate the Levy multiple times. Use with caution!

The Levy mandate has been added as a result of the Tax Office function now being exclusive to the Labor progression path.  Our design goals with this change is to further associate taxes with this estate and encourage better decision-making regarding early to mid-game profit.

New Trade Route: Kinstone Abbey

A new, Clergy-allied trade route has opened! Merchants from Kinstone Abbey sell a variety of useful and rarer resources such as gold bars, gems or marble. They’ll be looking for herbs, honey and planks to name a few. Unlocking this trade route requires you to produce manuscripts at the Scriptorium. 

Enhanced Transport

Our engine team has been hard at work developing behind-the-scenes optimizations for Foundation. Chief among them is our rebuilt transportation system that is being rolled out as part of this update. 

Before, villagers sometimes had to travel long distances to satisfy their needs and seek resources, which was more obvious while facing shortages. This led to scenarios where villagers would cross the whole map—so to say—just to reach a market or specific building like a warehouse or a church. Not good. 

From now on, our transport algorithm further favors local management of resources and needs. To put it in more concrete terms, villagers will associate with markets or buildings near where they live. The same principle applies for production chains: a weaver hut requiring wool will get it from the closest available warehouse stocking some, itself linked to the closest sheep farm—effectively giving a whole new meaning to “hubs” within your villages. They will operate in a much more satisfying and natural way.

Map Generator Improvements

We are pleased to share an updated version of our map generator. When we first released this feature, we got a lot of feedback about terrain that felt a bit too bumpy, so we started iterating on a new version of this tool that would allow for flatter topographies. We took this opportunity to add several new configurable parameters as well, in order to have maps feel even better than before. 

Each map type has its own set of parameters you can adjust to your wishes. For instance, the Fluvial map type lets you modify the following parameters: 

• River
• Island
• Slope 
• Cliff
• Promontory
• Hill

If you are particularly happy with one of the procedurally generated creations, here’s another bit of good news: you will be able to easily share them thanks to a unique map code system! Input the alphanumeric code into the designated space, click the confirmation button and voila: you have a new world to settle in!

Adjustments to Job Requirements

Several jobs now require more advanced villager statuses. In previous iterations of the game, you could (mostly) ignore promotions and still manage to get all production chains going. However, we feel like some jobs should require a bit more investment and decision making before your villagers can access them. 

Two examples of jobs adjusted to the new reality of higher status requirements are the Tax Collector and Bailiff, which now require Commoners at a minimum.

Important Changes to the Promotion System

As you will now spend a lot more time dealing with promotions, it no longer made sense to limit this function to once every 30 days. Hence why with 1.9.4, we’re introducing two important quality of life changes regarding promotions: 

• You can now use the promotion mandate at will
• You can now promote villagers directly from their detailed information window

Advanced Resource Tracking

This update also introduces easy identification of resources in the world from select workplaces such as the Hunter’s Hut. In this example, selecting the building reveals where boars live on your map. Using the Extraction paint tool produces a similar result, displaying available berry and stone sources, so you can plan your village accordingly.

New Take on Immigration 

Immigration waves will now feel more rewarding and steady across the board. Previously, passersby would take into account multiple factors before deciding whether or not to join your village. One such factor, housing, has been completely removed from the equation, effectively softening the difficulty associated with immigration. 

Another change we made is that unless your immigration rate is nil or disabled, you will always get a minimum of one newcomer per immigration wave. 

Discoveries

Foundation is a city-building game with quite a lot of interconnected systems that you learn to master over time. We want to make sure this doesn’t hamper your fun nor prove too daunting, so we thought of an additional tool to help you learn the ropes: discoveries. 

Crucial systems or concepts are now accompanied by one-time notifications whose stated goal is to provide assistance in a concise way. We are confident this new feature, in addition to help topics, will answer most questions that may arise while playing.

General Changelog

New

• Meat production chain with the Butchery
• Entertainment need
• Berry Brews at the Tavern
• Levy Mandate
• Discoveries
• Environmental Resource Display
  • Berries
  • Fish schools
  • Stone nodes
  • Boars
• Advanced onboarding
  • Food diversity
  • Enacting the Mandate Levy
  • Leaving villagers

Improvements

• Auto-assigning higher status villagers to workplaces will not demote them anymore
• Transport behavior has been enhanced, a change that will be most noticeable with larger villages. The algorithm now focuses more on local ‘resource hubs’, which should fix workers traveling great distances to do their job

Updates

• Help topics
  • Housing
  • Generating revenue
  • Immigration
  • Markets
  • Promotions
  • Trading
  • Trade routes
  • Villager Happiness
• Localization

Modding

• Exposed missing unlockables
• Exposed Butcher-related assets (job, building, etc.)
• Exposed Tavern buildings
• Exposed Master Builder job (Crafter Workshop)
• Exposed Kinstone Abbey (trading village)
• Exposed Jeweler’s workshop building part
• Exposed Entertainment need
• Exposed missing Happiness factors
• Added members to GAME_RULE_MODIFIER_WORKPLACE_RECIPE
• GAME_ACTION_APPLY_GAME_RULE: OptionalDescriptor field no longer optional (renamed to Descriptor)

Fixes

• Common Resources mod interfered with housing placement and prevented them from being placed
• Masterpieces couldn’t be added to Churches
• Crash when selecting a Monastery with a Modest Facade

Game Design Changelog

New Features

Levy Mandate

• This new mandate lets you instantly earn coins in exchange for a temporary villager Happiness malus
• The Levy Mandate is unlocked when you build a Great Hall
• The Levy Mandate can be performed once every 7 days
• The Levy Mandate reduces every villager’s Happiness by 30% for 30 days, then decays to 0% for another 30 days
• The Levy Mandate instantly gives this many coins:
  • 3 coins per Serf
  • 4 coins per Commoner
  • 5 coins per Citizen

Entertainment Need

• Commoners, Citizens, Soldiers, and Knights now have an Entertainment Need
• The Entertainment Need can be filled by consuming a drink resource (Berry Brew, Beer, or Wine) at the Tavern
• The Entertainment Need cause a negative Happiness Factor if left unfulfilled for 300 days

Butchery Workplace & Meat Resource

• A new building, the Butchery, can produce a new resource, Meat, from Boar
• The Butchery is accessible from an Unlockable on the Common Path, Tier 1, for 25 coins
• The Butchery can employ up to 2 Serf workers
• The Butchery cost 3 Tools, 10 Planks, and 10 Stones
• The Butchery has a base upkeep of 1 coin, plus 1 extra coin per Worker
• The Butchery produces 4 Meat resources from 1 Boar
• Set Meat value to 3 coins on sell, 6 coins on buy
• Meat resource can be consumed as Food at the Market

Berry Brewery Workplace & Berry Brew Resource

• A new sub-building, the Berry Brewery, can produce a new resource, Berry Brew, from Berry and Water
• The Berry Brewery is accessible when purchasing the Tavern Unlockable
• The Berry Brewery requires a Room, a Door and a Chimney
• The Berry Brewery employs 1 Commoner per 5 Room Size
• The Berry Brewery has an upkeep of 2 coins per Worker
• The Berry Brewery produces 3 Berry Brews from 3 Berries and 1 Water
• 1 Berry Brew can be purchased for 5 coins
• The Berry Brew can be consumed as Drink at the Tavern
• The Taverner will directly pickup Berry Brew made within the same Tavern

Kinstone Abbey Trade Route

• A new Clergy Trade Route made for Monastery-oriented playthrough
• The Trade Route can be unlocked with 20 Manuscripts
• The Trade Route can be further improved using Coal, Coins, or Clergy Influence
• The following resources are available for trade with Kinstone Abbey:

Discoveries

• Discoveries offer practical information and direct links to game features
• All Contextual Help, located in the top-left corner, has been improved into Discoveries
• Discoveries are located in the Notification section, at the bottom-left corner of the screen
• Discoveries trigger under specific conditions
• On top of existing Contextual Help, New Discoveries were added:
  • Set Your Taxation Rate in the Book!
  • New Progression Paths Unlocked
  • How to Generate Wealth
  • Trade Routes Can Be Improved!
  • Minerals Prospection
  • About Territory Management
  • How to Promote Your Villagers
  • You Can Now Undertake Mandates
  • How to build your monastery
  • How Taverns Work
  • How to Increase Your Treasury Capacity

New Advice

• Three new Advice were added to the game:
  • Advice: Food Diversity
  • Advice: Enacting Levy
  • Advice: Leaving Villagers
• Each piece of Advice has a specific triggering condition, narrative panel, and quest

Action Bar

• Mandates and Village Aspirations can be accessed from the action bar, at the bottom of the screen

Quick Promotion

• Promotion can be done at any time, there is not a 30-day cooldown anymore
• Promotion can be done from the Mandate window or from each villager’s detailed window
• The Quick Promotion button will be displayed once the villager meets the promotion criteria
• Only the first villager of a Status has a Need requirement
• Promotion costs stay the same as before

Environmental Resource Display

• The following environmental resources now display resource trackers upon certain conditions:
  • Berries
  • Fish School
  • Stone nodes
• The environmental resource tracker is displayed when selecting the Extraction or Hunting paint
• The environmental resource tracker is also displayed when selecting the following workplaces:
  • Gathering Hut
  • Stonecutter Camp
  • Fisher’s Hut
  • Butchery
  • Hunter’s Hut

Balance Change

Need duration

• Increased all Needs durations to 630s

Progression

• Increased Tier 3 Common Path Prosperity requirement to 75
• Increased Tier 4 Common Path Prosperity requirement to 150
• Increased Tier 5 Common Path Prosperity requirement to 300
• Increased Tier 3 Estate Path Prosperity requirement to 100
• Increased Tier 4 Estate Path Prosperity requirement to 200
• Increased Tier 5 Estate Path Prosperity requirement to 400

Taxation

• The Tax Office has been moved into an Unlockable found on the Labor Path at Tier 2
• The Tax Office Unlockable costs 5 Labor Influence
• The revenue of Housing Taxation has changed:

Second Food Need

• A second Food Need has been given to Serfs and Militia, and each of their promoted Status
• The second Food Need can be filled by consuming a second, different Food resource at a Market

Tavern Building

• The Tavern building has been moved to Tier 2 of Common Path
• New parts have been added to the Tavern building
• The Public Lounge of the Tavern building fulfills the Entertainment Need, if there are Drinks resources available at the Service Counter.
• The Tavern’s job has been renamed to Taverner
• Added Desirability to Tavern parts
• Adjusted capacity of certain Tavern sub-buildings and parts
• Tavern Splendor parts are unlocked on Tier 2 Labor Path, for 5 Labor Influence
• Base Tavern parts do not yield Labor Splendor

Job locked by Status

• Additional jobs now require advanced villager statuses:

Wood Production Pipeline

• Slowed down the production of Wood and Planks to encourage territorial management
  • Increased time per Woodcutter cycle to one cycle of 20 seconds
  • Increased time per Sawmill cycle to two cycles of 20 seconds
  • Increased Input Storage of Sawmill to 20 Wood

Stone Production Pipeline

• Synched both workplaces to improve the fluidity of the stone pipeline
  • Increased time per Stonecutter cycle to two cycles of 20 seconds
  • Reduced time per Stonemason cycle to two cycles of 20 seconds
  • Increased Input Storage of Stonemason to 20 Stone

Fish Production Pipeline

• Increased the Fish production pipeline to match the Meat production
  • Increased output resource of Fishing Hut to 8 Fish per cycle
  • Increase the maximum amount of Fish per Fish School

Clothing Production Pipeline

• Balanced the Clothing production to ease visualization of the flow
  • Reduced Sheep Farm’s Output to 2 Wool
  • Increased Weaver’s Hut Input to 3 Wool
  • Increased Input Storage of Weaver’s Hut to 30 Wool
  • Increased Input Storage of Weaver’s Hut to 40 Cloths

Bread Production Pipeline

• Improved the Bread pipeline to be a reliable source of Food throughout most of the game and to be easier to visualize its resource flow
  • Increased the amount of Wheat gathered at once
  • Doubled time per Windmill cycle to 30 seconds
  • Doubled Windmill Input to 8 Wheat
  • Doubled Windmill Output to 2 Flour
  • Increased Input Storage of Bakery to 60 Flour
  • Increased Input Storage of Bakery to 20 Water
  • Increased time per Bakery cycle to 30 seconds
  • Increased Bakery Input to 3 Flour
  • Increased Bakery Output to 12 Bread

Commonwares Production Pipeline

• Improved the Commonware pipeline to be a practical, relatively cheap next step for Planks
  • Removed Tools from the recipe
  • Increased time per Commonware Workshop cycle to 30 seconds
  • Increased Commonware Workshop’s Planks Input to 3 Planks
  • Increased Commonware Workshop’s Planks Output to 3 Commonware
  • Increased Input Storage of Commonware Workshop to 30 Planks
  • Reduced Worker Upkeep to 2 coins

Immigration

• Halved Immigration penalty due to unemployment status
• Removed the Residential Factor from Immigration Factor
• Improved the way Newcomers are spawned on the map
  • Nil Factor – 0 Newcomer
  • Low Factor – 1 Newcomer
  • Average Factor – Between 1 and 2 Newcomers
  • High Factor – Between 2 and 4 Newcomers
  • Maximum Factor – Between 3 and 5 Newcomers
• Newcomers stay at the Village Center for a maximum of 3 days

Trade Route Resource Offer

• Increased Trade Routes volume per resource to 25 units
• Lowered Trade Routes Improvement cost factor
• Increased Trade Routes’ Trade per month requirement factor
• Added resources to buy and sell for each existing Trade Route:
  • Northbury:
    • Buy from them
      • Tools, Cloth, Berry Brew, Honey, Wax, Candle, Commonwares, Barre
    • Sell to them
      • Berries, Polished Stone, Planks, Wine, Herbs, Gold Ore, Gold Bar, Meat
  • Myddle:
    • Buy from them
      • Berries, Coal, Iron Bar, Wheat, Grapes, Wine, Hops, Beer
    • Sell to them
      • Glass, Barrel, Clothing, Sword, Fish, Marble, Jewel, Cheese
  • Davenport:
    • Buy from them
      • Fish, Herbs, Polished Stone, Sword, Gold Ore, Quartz, Glass, Marble
    • Sell to them
      • Boar, Tools, Honey, Wax, Candle, Bread, Beer, Gem
  • Trotbury:
    • Buy from them
      • Boar, Gem, Iron Ore, Iron Bar, Hops, Marble, Grapes, Jewel
    • Sell to them
      • Candle, Gold Bar, Quartz, Glass, Wine, Fish, Herbs, Tools

Resource Trade Value

• Reduced Boar value to 2 coins on sell, 4 coins on buy
• Increased Bread value to 3 coins on sell, 6 coins on buy
• Set Cheese value to 4 coins on sell, 8 coins on buy
• Set Wheat value to 1 coin on sell, 3 coins on buy
• Increased Cloth value to 2 coins on sell, 4 coins on buy
• Reduced Commonwares value to 4 coins on sell, 8 coins on buy
• Reduced Beer value to 2 coins on sell, 5 coins on buy
• Set Berry Brew value to 2 coins on sell, 5 coins on buy
• Reduced Herbs value to 3 coins on sell, 6 coins on buy
• Reduced Hops value to 1 coin on sell, 2 coins on buy
• Increased Planks value to 3 coins on sell, 6 coins on buy

Villager Leaving

• Villagers might leave starting at -25% Happiness

Building Construction Cost

• Decorative
  • Roofed Stable: 15 Planks, 2 Tools
• Tavern
  • Stone Cabin: 15 Planks, 15 Stones, 3 Tools
  • Tatched Cabin: 22 Planks, 12 Stones, 3 Tools
  • Plaster Cabin: 27 Planks, 6 Stones, 3 Tools
  • Tatched Hall: 10 Stone, 15 Planks, 10 Wood, 5 Tools
  • Wooden Cabin: 8 Planks, 1 Tool
  • Welcoming Entrance: 7 Planks, 3 Wood, 1 Tool
  • Service Entrance: 5 Planks, 1 Tool
• Manor House
  • Stone Hall: 25 Stones, 18 Polish Stones, 12 Planks, 6 Tools
  • Stone Terrace: 40 Stones, 25 Polish Stones, 25 Planks, 12 Tools
  • Stone Passageway: 10 Stones, 5 Polish Stones, 5 Planks, 4 Tools
  • Stone Gate, Simple: 5 Polish Stones, 5 Stones, 2 Tools
  • Stone Gate, Elevated: 10 Polish Stones, 10 Stones, 3 Tools
  • Wooden Tower: 4 Wood, 4 Planks, 5 Stones, 1 Tool
• Monastery
  • Rustic Chimney: 20 Stones, 2 Tools
  • Rustic Hall: 35 Stones, 15 Planks, 4 Tools
  • Rustic Passageway: 35 Stones, 15 Planks, 3 Tools
  • Rustic Quarters, Major: 30 Stones, 10 Planks, 3 Tools
  • Rustic Gallery: 25 Stones, 5 Planks, 2 Tools
  • Rustic Hut, Stone: 15 Stones, 8 Planks, 2 Tools
  • Rustic Quarters, Minor: 25 Stones, 5 Planks, 3 Tools
  • Rustic Facade: 25 Stones, 15 Polished Stones, 3 Tools
  • Rustic Bell Tower, Wooden Belfry: 25 Stones, 11 Planks, 2 Tools
  • Rustic Bell Tower, Open Belfry: 30 Stones, 5 Planks, 2 Tools
  • Rustic Bell Tower, Enclosed Belfry: 30 Stones, 5 Planks, 2 Tools
  • Rustic Gallery: 25 Stones, 5 Planks, 2 Tools
  • Rustic Tower: 25 Stones, 5 Planks, 2 Tools
• Rustic Church
  • Tatched Nave: 32 Stone, 15 Planks, 4 Tools
  • Wooden Chapel: Windowed, 10 Planks, 2 Tools
  • Wooden Chapel: Inclined, 12 Planks, 2 Tools
  • Tatched Chapel: 21 Stone, 5 Planks, 3 Tools
  • Tiled Chapel: 15 Polished Stone, 28 Stone, 3 Tools
  • Wooden Bell Tower: 20 Wood, 5 Planks, 2 Tools
  • Stone Bell Tower: 25 Stone, 6 Planks, 2 Tools
• Wooden Keep
  • Wooden Quarters: 33 Planks, 4 Tools
  • Wooden Keep: 41 Planks, 4 Tools
• Workplaces
  • Bakery: 4 Tools, 20 Planks, 25 Coins
  • Berry Table: 10 Wood, 10 Coins
  • Brewery: 10 Tools, 15 Polished Stones, 15 Planks, 200 coins
  • Fisher’s Hut: 20 Wood, 10 Coins
  • Hop Farm: base upkeep of 12 coins, plus 2 coins per worker
  • Hunter’s Hut: 2 Tools, 20 Wood, 10 Coins
  • Sheep Farm: 2 Tools, 10 Stone, 10 Wood, 25 Coins
  • Stonecutter Camp: 2 Tools, 10 Wood, 10 Coins
  • Stonemason Hut: 8 Tools, 10 Wood, 5 Cloth, 25 Coins
  • Tailor’s Workshop: 8 Tools, 15 Stone, 20 Planks, 50 Coins
  • Weaver Hut: 6 Tools, 5 Stone, 10 Planks, 50 Coins
  • Wheat Farm: 4 Tools, 20 Planks, 25 Coins
  • Windmill: 6 Tools, 15 Stone, 15 Planks, 50 Coins
  • Woodcutter Camp: 2 Tools, 10 Coins

Building Upkeep

• Tavern
  • Stone Cabin: Base upkeep of 3 coins
  • Thatched Hall: Base upkeep of 3 coins
  • Thatched Cabin: Base upkeep of 2 coins
  • Plaster Cabin: Base upkeep of 2 coins
  • Roof Chimney: Base upkeep of 1 coin
• Monastery
  • Rustic Chimney: Base upkeep of 1 coin
  • Berries Planter: Base upkeep of 1 coin
• Mineral Deposits
  • Stone Quarry: Base upkeep of 2 coins, plus 1 coin per worker
  • Iron Quarry: Base upkeep of 5 coins, plus 1 coin per worker
  • Quartz Quarry: Base upkeep of 5 coins, plus 2 coins per worker
  • Gold Quarry: Base upkeep of 10 coins, plus 2 coins per worker
  • Marble Quarry: Base upkeep of 10 coins, plus 2 coins per worker
  • Crane: Base upkeep of 10 coins
• Workplaces
  • Hop Farm: Base upkeep of 12 coins, plus 2 coins per worker
  • Wheat Farm: Base upkeep of 4 coins, plus 1 coin per worker
  • Bakery: Base upkeep of 7 coins, plus 2 coins per worker
  • Brewery: Base upkeep of 14 coins, plus 2 coins per worker
  • Commonwares Workshop: Base upkeep of 18 coins, plus 2 coins per worker
  • Fisher’s Hut: Base upkeep of 2 coins, plus 2 coins per worker
  • Hunter’s Hut: Base upkeep of 1 coin, plus 1 coin per worker
  • Sheep Farm: Base upkeep of 5 coins, plus 1 coin per worker
  • Stonemason Tent: Base upkeep of 8 coins, plus 2 coins per worker
  • Tailor’s Workshop: Base upkeep of 8 coins, plus 3 coins per worker
  • Weaver’s Hut: Base upkeep of 5 coins, plus 2 coins per worker
  • Windmill: Base upkeep of 6 coins, plus 2 coins per worker

Event Improvement

General

• Added new illustrations to all narrative panels
• Fixed wrong Trade Route Conditions across different events
• Adjusted Prosperity Conditions across different events
• Forced the following “Welcome” events to happen once their waiting time was done:
  • KingdomWelcome
  • LabourWelcome
  • MonasteryTrade (initial welcoming event)
  • MonasteryWelcome

Initial Onboarding

• Initial Onboarding’s Quest Happiness requirement has been reduced to 75%
• Removed Taxation Quest from the Onboarding sequence

Monastery Welcome

• Swapped the Wood and Stone reward for Planks and Polished Stones

Monastery Trade

• Changed the Fish option for Barrels

TownTale

• Added Meat check for NoFood

LabourFair

• Increased Happiness check to trigger the Event
• Increased the Low Happiness’ Quest objective to 50%
• Increased all Fair Quest’s Happiness objective to 75%

Advice

• Removed the MonthlyTax Condition from the two taxation’s Low Coins and Low Happiness
• Removed the Prosperity Condition to the Decorative Advice
• Lowered the Prosperity and Population requirement for the Commoner Promotion Advice
• Changed the Labor Specialisation Quest’s objective to build a Roofed Stable
• Removed the No Tool’s starting condition to not have Tools assigned at the Warehouse
• Reduced the No Tool’s objective to 3 Tools to purchase

Bad Weather

• Pushed back Bad Weather to Prosperity 75
• Reduced Bad Weather to 40 days

King’s Welcome

• The King’s Welcome Narrative Panel will now start when the Manor House is built

Mission Board

• Added Berry Brew, Beer, Boar and Meat rewards to Military Missions

Territory Upkeep

• Made the first and second territory cost 0 upkeep
• Increased the cost of all further territories:
  • Territory 1-2: 0 coin
  • Territory 2-3: 10 coins each
  • Territory 3-4: 20 coins each
  • Territory 5-6: 30 coins each
  • Territory 7-8: 40 coins each
  • Territory 9-10: 50 coins each
  • Territory 11-12: 60 coins each
  • Territory 13-14: 70 coins each
  • Territory 15-16: 80 coins each
  • Territory 17-18: 90 coins each
  • Territory 19+: 100 coins each

Other Fixes and Tweaks

• Added new Help Topics:
  • Work Restrictions
  • Mandates
  • Sculptures
  • Entertainment
  • Resource Flow
  • Maintenance Cost
• Added the Tax Office Unlockable as a requirement to all Taxation-related Unlockables:
  • Milling Taxes
  • Drinking Taxes
  • Mining Taxes
  • Smithing Taxes
  • Tithe Privilege
  • Protection Taxation Privilege
• Moved Kingdom’s Decoration 1 Unlockable into Tier 1 of Kingdom’s Path
• Added new icons to certain unlockables
• Differentiated visuals from the Builder’s Workshop from Master Builders at the Sculptor’s Workshop and Stained Glass’ Workshop
• Increased grace period from lack of Goods
• Increased starting Tools inventory to 25
• Rearranged Unlockables order within a Tier
• Moved Bailiff Office to Tier 2 of the Common Path
• Moved Fisher’s Hut to Tier 1 of the Common Path
• Lowered Tavern Tax revenue to 0.5 coins per Tavern consumption
• Lowered Market Tax revenue to 0.15 coins per Market consumption
• Moved Rustic Cloister to Tier 2, reduced cost to 5 Clergy Influence
• Made the second territory cost 0 upkeep

Hello Lords & Ladies! 

A new update has just been released. The two main features are decorations availability and action bar (HUD) improvements. Without further ado, let’s see what this means for Foundation.

Common Decorations

Starting with 1.9.3, common decorative parts are made available for all monuments regardless of their previous limitations. In other words, you can now customize monuments with more freedom. Decorations have been grouped into different categories in the build panel for better understanding. The intended goal is to open up more customization possibilities for your villages. 

As a reminder, common decorations are not only for looks either: they provide a very useful desirability bonus, encouraging villagers to upgrade their houses. Furthermore, common decorations provide beautification, which is taken into account for prosperity—a score that represents your overall progress in the game. Estate and monument-specific decorations, on the other end, provide splendor instead of beautification and desirability.

In summary:

• Common decorations are available for each monument and from the build menu
• Estate decorations are available across all monuments from the same Estate
• Monument decorations are for parts that only work for a specific monument

Action Bar (HUD) Improvements

In past versions of the game, mandates were enacted at the Manor House with the help of a special button. Alternatively, you could click on a specific opportunity in your quest module to enact mandates. Starting with 1.9.3, a shortcut for mandates has been added to the action bar at the bottom of the screen. Clicking this icon will bring up all available mandates, allowing faster access to this feature. 

While on the topic of action bar improvements, we also added a shortcut to village aspirations. Clicking on the trophy icon brings all available village aspirations—optional objectives you can aim for while building your medieval village. Village aspirations will appear in the quest module once you start tracking at least one of them. Please note that the Village Aspirations shortcut previously found in the system menu has been removed.

Illustrations Galore

Update 1.9.3 features plenty of updated–⁠and in some cases, completely new–colorful ⁠illustrations to breathe life into Foundation events.

We hope you enjoy your time with this newest update. Stay tuned for more details on upcoming content for Foundation.

Changelog

New

• Common decorations are now accessible for all monuments
• An extensive collection (100+) of new and improved illustrations for events
• Added two buttons to the action bar
  • Mandates 
  • Village Aspirations
• Added help topics in the Help (F10) menu
  • Hunting
  • Bridges
  • Motion sickness
  • Useful shortcuts
• The game now has its own icon

Game Balance

• Moved tombstones (decoration) from tier 2 to tier 1 of the Clergy progression path

Improvements

• Advices from the quest module now display a New prefix, for example New Advice: Increase Taxation
• When using more than one monitor, players can now choose which one will display the game (fullscreen mode)

Updates

• Batch of unlockables’ icons
• Localization

Modding

• Villager statuses and profiles now have gendered fields. Therefore, we removed statuses and profiles related to nuns. To convert your mods, read the official documentation here
• GAME_ACTION_DELIVER_RESOURCE now has a BudgetCategory property

Fixes

• Removed a line from the Book which was displayed before Estates were unlocked
• Switching tabs of the Book after deleting a privilege reactivated it and stopped players from removing it again
• Death finds a way: right-clicking on tombstone window wouldn’t close it
• Dead soldiers were listed as newcomers and still counted for the village’s total population
• Bailiff selection window wasn’t closing on a right-click