Norland patch notes balance the early game and make stability updates

Just two days after launch, Norland has received an array of updates based on community feedback. The work over at Long Jaunt studio continues, with Norland receiving yet another set of patch notes.

The key changes here tone down the difficulty of the early game, allowing players to become familiar with the game mechanics. However, the challenge will continue to be at a high when you reach the mid-game and beyond.

Norland patch notes (July 20)

Here’s the full breakdown of today’s update.

Balance

Lords will refuse to work only when they are depressed
The book with the knowledge “Hop Field and Beer” has been added to the library at the start of the game
The player’s immediate neighbors at the start of the game will have slightly weakened armies
The fertility of turnips and rye has been increased by almost one and a half times
Soil fertility will only start to decline after 50% of the forests have been cleared and can drop to a maximum of 50% on easy and medium difficulties
The amount of wood in one tree has been increased from 10 to 13
The bet in the dice game has been reduced from 5 to 3 rings
The thought about the low level of righteousness has been changed from -13 to -10
If a child is missing a title, their friends will not be upset about it and hate the king. The lord’s thought about the king stripping the title has been reduced from -30 to -15
The cost of buying rings from the caravan trader has been reduced from 35 to 30 coins
Praying at the altar will restore 15 righteousness instead of 10
Two burned villages will halve the migration flow, not stop it completely

Stability

Lords lost due to bugs will be relocated to their city after loading, not killed. We are currently working on bugs that can lead to the loss of lords
Fixed a bug where the player’s army sent to an ally to help against forest bandits would remain in the AI’s city if the bandit squad was destroyed on the way
Fixed a crash that could occur when configuration files were corrupted (Error: Attempting to read from outside the buffer)
Fixed a bug with losing control of the interface after pressing ESC during the appearance of the pop-up menu about border expansion in the new game setup menu