Dawn of Man – 1.3 Patch Notes & ALL HOTFIXES

1.3.3 Patch Notes

This is a quick patch to fix a crash that sometimes occurred when clicking on a crafting human, that was introduced on the previous update.

1.3.2 Patch Notes

In this update we've made some changes to the AI, in order to make it cope better with high workload situations. Managing the workload of your settlement is still important in order for people to prioritize tasks correctly, but now this should never result in people dying of starvation or dehydration.

AI changes

- For any task to be assigned to a human, they have to have at least 50% hydration (this could be 25% before in some cases). - Most non-food related tasks, can now only be assigned to a human when they have at least 50% nutrition. - If someone is crafting a non-food item, and their nutrition or hydration go too low, they will abort. - There are a few more situations where people will abort what they are doing if they are low on hydration or nutrition. - When cutting down trees using a Sledge/Cart the resulting logs will always be placed in the transport and not the person's inventory. - Collect tannin and flax tasks now have the same priority as all other non-food related collection tasks (before their priority was the same as of food tasks, which was higher).

Misc

- Fixed typo in the "Resource has decayed" French text - Fixed a couple of rare crashes - Fixed bug which would allow the player to place the second variant of the tent in an isolated location, causing different issues - When the game fails to open the profile or settings files, it now gives a more helpful error

1.3.1 Patch Notes

Some people have been complaining about overly aggressive behaviour in some predators (especially Cave Hyenas). In this version we are trying to fix this issue while keeping a good level of challenge in the game. Fauna Tweaks - Packs of the same type of animal are now be better distributed around the map. This will make the experience while playing the game the game more predictable and fair. - Cave Hyena packs can now have a maximum of 5 adults and 4 young (before it was 6 adults and 3 young). - When raider animals make a kill, they might stop actively chasing people in the town, and will only continue fighting if engaged in combat already. Misc - Limiting global stats in the title stats window to the last 7 days. - Sanity checking stats more before uploading them. - Fixed missing description for Bone Polishing tech. - Better placement of resources in buildings under construction. - Fixed a couple of rare crashes.

1.3 Patch Notes

Nomad mode

In nomad mode you get no initial structures, but you get extra building materials and food. All resources are located in your people's inventory for ease of transport. This way you can move your people around the map before settling and choose a different location for your village. All Freeplay scenarios are playable in nomad mode. [embed]https://youtu.be/jhs1C-tVFH0[/embed]

New animals

A medium sized predator, available in all freeplay scenarios. Elasmotherium An extinct genus of large rhinoceros, available in The Northlands scenario. Muskox A large herbivore, available in The Northlands scenario. Feral Horse In the Iron Age, all wild horses went extinct, and horses roaming the wild were feral instead.

New techs

- Allows dogs to help with hunting. Bone Polishing - Unlocks Bone Knife and Bone Sickle.

New bone tools

New bone tools make bone more useful early game, as it typically was too abundant, these include the Bone Knife and Bone Sickle

Fauna behavior overhaul

The behaviour of wild animals is now more realistic making gameplay more challenging and interesting. - Animals defend all young around the area, not just their own offspring (this makes Wolves and Cave Lions quite a bit more aggressive). - Animals sometimes disengage from the attacker if it runs away (unless hungry). Humans will now run away when confronted with overwhelming odds. - Animals will now try really hard not to drink near the player's settlement. - Animals will now react properly while drinking when attacked by other animals. - Animals won't eat dead animals that have butcher tasks associated with them. - Several herbivores might retaliate when attacking their herd, even in normal mode. - Animals now target humans more often when hungry (but still prefer other animals). - Dogs can be knocked back by large animals.

Balance changes

- All outfits now take 90s to make (up from 50 or 60). - All flint tools now take 60s to make (up from 50). - All bone tools last for less time and uses when compared with the equivalent flint tools. - All animals have had their speeds, produced resources and hit points reviewed and iterated. - Downgrading Food Dryer to 6 slots, this will force the player to build more of these, as they were too efficient before. - Doubled the amount of time animal carcasses remain in the game. - Cave Lions now do 35 damage (from 30).

Work Area management improvements

- Added work areas panel. - Replaced Next/Previous work area buttons in work area options by a button to access the panel (Next/Previous work area shortcuts still work). - Hunt work areas now display a different tooltip saying "maximum number of simultaneous tasks in this area", as the previous tooltip was wrong.

Other

- Creative mode and "The Long March" challenges are now playable from the start. - Changed "Winter Hunt" milestone in "The Northlands" scenario to include the Elasmotherium and Muskox. - In the Knowledge Progress Panel, structures and animals that can not be currently built/hunted are now grayed out. - You can now select a bunch of trees with/without cutting down tasks assigned and cancel them all or cut them all down. - Collect wild plants work area also also works for Flax now. - When taking heavy resources to store, people will abort if very hungry or dehydrated. - When a selected entity enters a structure, it gets deselected. - Adding butcher tasks for domestic animals that die of starvation or natural causes. - Improved impact particle spawn positions.