Version 1.8.011
5 days agoImproved save stability
Faster pace
Turns shortened from 15s to 12s; seasons scale to match, so the economy is untouched - the game just moves ~20% quicker.
Gentler Landowner start
Founder's Tasks - a step-by-step checklist at Landowner rank (grow to 30 people, build a Market, stockpile 150 food, survive winter, raise the Beacon Fire and Wayside Shrine, claim your title), each paying a small reward with a Herald's Log message. Retires forever at Lord/Lady.
Mild winters - your first winter is always gentle (about a third lighter food drain), and Deep Snow can never strike in year one. After that, mild winters roll roughly one in six.
Founder's diligence - your first Wheat Field (+2 food), Woodcutter (+1 timber), and Trading Post (+1 gold) work a little harder until you reach Lord, with its own line in the resource ledgers.
Flavour events - small pleasant happenings every couple of seasons in the founding years (tinker, berry patch, good fishing, fallen oak, wandering mason, pedlar's toll). Pure upside, never repeated back-to-back.
Balance
Crop rotation locked for the first 4 years - soil stays healthy that long anyway, so early rotation was pure waste