Hello everyone! Pirozhok Studio is here. I'm glad to announce new mechanics for today's update. There are so many of them that I could hardly find where to start.

[u]Gameplay changes:[/u]

• First of all, world map was changed. Eastern Kingdom, Islands and naga were removed from the game. World map looks like that now:
  
  
  Nord location's appearance was also changed - now it's a rocky sea shore:
  
  
• Different difficulty levels were finally implemented.
  
  
• Your subjects have learned to construct two new buildings!
  
  A school will help your minions to improve their skills in different professions. You'll need a minion with a "Teacher" trait or a master in one of professions to make it work:
  
  
  A market attracts trading caravans from other towns, bringing money to the settlement:
  
  
• Meat the mages! You can train mages in a wizard tower. Mages can wear robes and leather armor and use wands as weapons. Low armor is compensated with high damage and high effectiveness against heavy armored units.
  
  Mage without a wand:
  
  
  Mage with a fire wand:
  
  
• Shields were implemented. Soldiers can use one of three shield types -a round shields, kite shields and tower shields. Every one of them has advantages and disadvantages. Shields can be crafted in the workshop.
  
  
• Mercenaries were redesigned. Now you'll be able to hire those cutthroats instead of five similar units. Every one of them has their one weapon and armor types:
  
  
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• You'll be able to find treasure in the mine. Or ruins of an ancient settlements. Explore carefully!
  
  
• Two new weapons were added. Military picks effectively puncture heavy armor, and two-handed axes deal terrible damage to unarmored units:
  
  
• Two new effects were added. Some weapon types provoke bleeding, dealing periodic damage. Weapons of the undead might provoke poisoning, making your units miss with a 40% chance.
  
  
• New traits were added:
  
  1) Undead slayer - your unit deals 25% more damage to the undead
  2) Nords slayer - your unit deals 25% more damage to the nords
  3) Fear of undead - your unit deals 25% less damage to the undead
  4) Fear of nords - your unit deals 25% less damage to the nords
  
  
  

[u]Control changes:[/u]

• Hero and soldiers can descend into the mine now.
  
  
• Workshop interface was noticeably changed. Items were divided into three types - "weapons", "armor" and "miscellaneous":
  
  
• Soldiers Control panel was also changed - now they have personal traits:
  
  
• Behaviour mode or attack move for all chosen units were implemented.
  
• Pressing Shift you'll move to a free minion now.
• Pressing Tab one chooses hero, pressing it twice will move the camera to him.
  

[u]Graphic changes:[/u]

• Banners were redesigned:
  
  
• Loading screens were redesigned:
  
  
• Helmets were redesigned too. Ancient helmets might be dropped from the skeletons. They are slightly better that the leather ones, but are quite bulky to use, slowing your minions down:
  
  
• Names and appearance of the minions were redesigned:
  
  
• Iron armor and weapons were redesigned too.
  

[u]Bug fixes:[/u]

• Incorrect hero behaviour in battles
• Impossibility to hire minions to farms using the control menu (T)
• Incorrect soldiers and mercenaries behaviour near hunting minions
• Incorrect rations pictures after loading the game
• Incorrect dialog texts after loading the game
• Incorrect villagers behaviour
• Massive dear migration
• Incorrect ore spawn in the mine
• Incorrect bears behaviour
• Incorrect fence length on the background
• Incorrect bakery sprite after loading the game
• Ore and stone amount that is gained from villages was slightly decreased
• Minions quit their job after bathing
• Minions bug out after hiring them into the mine using control panel
• Ammunition choice bugs out using control panel
• Goblin and dwarf traders bug out
• Incorrect expedition wagon behaviour
• Heroes ranged attacks bug out
• Quests are not loaded
• Towers are not loaded
• "No soap" icon bugs out
• Catapult armor type is not shown
• Incorrect skeletons behaviour during the daytime
• Incorrect underground skeletons behaviour
• Incorrect support beams sprites while building
• Buildings overlap
• Childrens' heads bug out
• "Fighter" and "Puny" bug out
• Forest background bugs out
• Nords bowmen' armor types bug out