To try out the pre release right click on the game in the library left side bar, then click properties, go to the betas tab and choose "PreRelease" This is the same as the planned Beta 1.1 but bumped up to a full beta purely for marketing reasons as there will be a lot of big features in it (devlog for this pre release only)

• Fixed Drain events having 0% chance of happening
• Fixed Big flood having low chance of happening
• Set small flood odds back to 0% (was taken out a long time ago but accidentally got it's odds back in beta 1)
• Fixed many other values that got changed due to a mistake
• Updated MainMenu UI to use the new background sprites
• Fixed bugs relating to miss matched data
• Turned on and updated the former country data collection code
• Turned on and updated the culture data collection code
• Turned on and updated the city data collection code (is turned on but should do nothing for now as there is no cities in game yet)
• Fixed code converting 1v1 wars to 1vall wars mid event

• Pause menu is now hidden when game loads in
• Hover box is no longer visible at start of game
• Fixed SimpleStreangth typo
• Game no longer thinks you don't own the game when going to the main menu from ingame

There is currently a few guides on how to play and how to make your own custom scenarios in the discord server, i will work on adding them to the steam guides page during the day but for now if you need any help either read them in the discord or leave a comment on any of the news post or make a discussions post about it and i will do my best to help ^^, you can join the discord here

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• Temp turned off, will be back in Beta 1.1 Added odds for Civilwar (War) (15)
• Temp turned off, will be back in Beta 1.1 Added odds for Civilwar (Peace) (5)
• Temp turned off, will be back in Beta 1.1 Added odds for Independence (War) (17)
• Temp turned off, will be back in Beta 1.1 Added odds for Independence (Peace) (8)

• Temp turned off, will be back in Beta 1.1 Added odds for Claiming bordering wilderness (Value of how many claimed pixels border wilderness pixels)

• Added Workshop Upload menu
• Added Workshop Update menu
• Added Saves menu
• New "AutoSaving" popup in game
• In backup alpha version also Fixed ui scaling issues
• Changed quit button in game to settings button
• Made Settings icon
• Mane Saves icon
• Made Display map icon
• Made Country map icon
• Made former country map icon
• Made culture map icon
• Made subdivision map icon
• Made city map icon
• Made terrain map icon
• Made height map icon
• Made naval invasion map icon
• Made shore protection map icon
• Made Water map icon
• Added Buttons for each map icon in settings menu
• Added map shape button in settings menu
• Added main menu button in settings menu
• Added quit button in settings menu
• Added save button in settings menu
• Added save name text field in settings menu
• F1-F11 changes map modes
• Esc now opens and closes settings
• When hovering above a mapmode button a name pops up

• New "Upload" folder with a guide text file in it
• New "Saves" folder
• Game now autosaves every 10(ish) years as soon as no event is ongoing
• Internal code untested code for creating saves (will be fully implemented at a later date)
• Game can now load in both maps from saves and scenario folders
• In backup alpha version also Game now downloads any subscribed items in the steam workshop
• Map Data Changes
• Countries now keep track of borders with wilderness and keep it separate from other borders
• Renamed all internal mentions of SubDivisions to Subcontinents, real subdivisions still planned and in the works
• Renamed SubDivision.png file to SubContinent.png
• New Class for cultures with only size, colour, countries, size in countries data
• New Class for Former Countries with only size, colour, countries, size in countries data
• New Class for cities with only size, colour, countries, size in countries data, city border, empty border, shore border
• When figuring out if the game should keep a bordering pixel to a newly drained pixel shore or not it will now ignore the curently draining pixel as it's data is not set yet and therefore leaves it as always staying as shore
• Temp turned off, will be back in Beta 1.1 Game now collects data for cultures
• Temp turned off, will be back in Beta 1.1 Game now collects data for former countries
• Temp turned off, will be back in Beta 1.1 Game now collects data for cities
• Temp turned off, will be back in Beta 1.1 Countries now keep track of what cultures are within it's borders
• Temp turned off, will be back in Beta 1.1 Countries now keep track of what former countries are within it's borders
• Temp turned off, will be back in Beta 1.1 Countries now will keep track of any cities within it's borders if the city map isn't empty
• When a pixel is being invaded it will now recheck if shore data is correct
• Game now keeps track of all data colours ever used for countries within the game
• Game now keeps track of the colour within the data map that lead to a countries creation and connects it with all data colours list
• Game now keeps track of what data type the colour that lead to a coutnries creation is
• Made new UI background image
• Datamaps now get updated if the map is selected
• Added not at all used internal subdivision map
• Made all maps and a lot of other not needed to be public elements private
• Removed Physical Height map

• Screenshots now return smaller images
• Screenshots is now ctrl + F1 instead of just F1
• Changed the 3D model used for flat maps to be a custom made one instead of unity default cube
• Flat map is now readable / can now click to get info while using it
• Added splash screens

• Fully documented list of 2230 cities to be added to the game
• Drawn roughly 60 cities on big city map (most likely too big to be in Beta 1)