v3.3.21.37220-beta [quote]Hello players! Big changes are coming to the ecosystem of Northgard; new animals are appearing, and this is changing the world for everyone. Here are the details:[/quote]

New contents

Foxes and Boars

Foxes

• Foxes are new animals. They have the same aggressive behavior as wolves, but they are less powerful, way faster, and attack in numerous groups. So keep an eye on them.
• Fox Burrow is a new building equivalent to the Wolf Den. It spawns new foxes that will attack the adjacent zones if left unchecked.
• Closing it will grant 25 Fame and 100 Krwns.

Boars

• Boar is a new animal in Northgard. It has passive behavior similar to that of a bear but will defend itself and its territory fiercely if you attack it.

Sheep

Sheep

• Sheep now grants a 50% wood consumption reduction during winter in the zone it is in (-30% previously).
• When several sheep are in the same zone, this bonus increases, but multiplicatively.
  • 1 sheep will reduce the consumption in the zone by 50%.
  • 2 sheep will reduce it by 75%.
  • 3 sheep by 87,5%.
  • And so on
• Sheep can now spawn in almost any zone of the map.

Wolf Clan

• When sacrificing a sheep for food, the clan will get 100 food out of it instead of 80.

Dragon Clan

• The clan can send a sheep to the Sacrificial Pyre to gain 4 dragon essences (but no food).

Eagle Clan

• The clan can sacrifice a sheep to trigger a boneyard in the zone, calling all its hawks (but granting no food).

Rat Clan

• The clan can choose to sacrifice a sheep to light up the Purification Pyres for 90 days (but granting no food).

Owl Clan

• Sheep reduce the food consumption in the zone by 35% (25% previously).
• This bonus also increases for each additional sheep in the same zone. Also multiplicatively.

Map Generation

Spawn Hostility

• All clans on a map will now start with the same level of hostility on adjacent zones (Meaning the overall power of hostile foes on adjacent tiles will be the same).
• However, this hostility might come in different animals and be split differently for each clan.
  • For example, clan A can start with 2 hostile zones adjacent to their town hall, containing 1 and 2 wolves.
  • Clan B can start with 3 hostile zones, containing respectively 1 fox, 1 fox, and 2 foxes.
  • The total hostility is the same for both clans, even if it materializes differently.

Sheep spawn

• Sheep can spawn in any zone (except for neutral faction camps and special zones).
  • The fewer natural resources the zone contains, the higher the chance of spawning sheep.
  • The number of sheep spawned depends on the distance of the zone from the clans town halls (the further away a zone is, the more sheep it might contain).

Difficulty

• Environment hostility (foes and hostile wild units presence) has been slightly reduced on easy maps.
• Environment hostility has been slightly increased on extreme maps.
• Normal and hard maps hostility should be the same as before.

AI

• AI Warband should not get stuck in a zone anymore.
• After decolonizing a players zone, in hard and extreme difficulty, the AI will continue pushing the assaults to the next zone until they reach the players town hall or are stopped.
• The AI will now use its civilian units to defend itself when attacked by foes.
• AI now handles its happiness correctly and will assign units to happiness production buildings.
• AI is now better at evaluating the outcome of a fight and how much strength it needs to win, so it should no longer send armies to die in fights against neutral factions.
• Raven clan AI no longer builds a harbor as its first building, but when needed.
• Dragon AI now correctly differentiates between thralls and villagers when assigning them.

Improvements

• Many optimizations.
• The game uses less CPU resources.

Known Issues

• Dragon - The Gauge UI and the buy thrall button will not disappear if you keep watching a multiplayer game after being eliminated

Other

• Boar menders sealed away the past of their clan