Divinestead

New update for the Divinestead Demo! This patch expands on the combo building mechanics introduced in v0.1.5, adds tiering to enemy camps to make encounters more rewarding and make use of higher STR values, and includes a round of balance adjustments based on recent playtesting.Following up on the Path of Growth adjacency buildings, I've added new combo structures for the Path of Wealth to give you more options when planning out your gold production, along with an early-game yard building to help with early settlement layout.Added 4 new buildings with adjacency combos, the first 3 unlocked via Path of Wealth boons: Plutus' Resonator: provides gold/day for each adjacent gold veinCrucible: provides % gold global bonus if there's a miners' hut and a gold vein adjacentWealth Effigy: provides a lot of gold/day and 1 favor every 14 days if there's a gold vein and a temple adjacentRoyal Yard: provides 2 food capacity instantly and 5 wood/day if adjacent to the Keep and 2 cottages (unlocked early on)Enemy camps now spawn with a tier (from 1 to 3), multiplying their rewards as well as their strength. The first spawn of each enemy type will always be tier 1.Other changes:Barracks can no longer be upgraded: they now have a max rank of 1 instead of 3. To build a stronger army, you will need to build additional BarracksSlight nerfs to some of the Path of Growth and Path of Wealth boons' numeric values, since they now unlock combo buildings as wellGreat Spire, Calamity, and War Room now cost extra goldGoldsmith can only craft STR 4 times instead of 10, and now costs wood as wellThe game now features a proper background instead of a placeholderVarious UI improvementsVarious minor bug fixesThe update is live, let me know what you think!

New update for the Divinestead Demo, addressing a few requests from the feedback, such as video settings and a demolish option on buildings, as well as a new type of building to spice up the gameplay and give value to where players decide to build!This new type of building gives meaning to how you place your buildings, and enables some combos as well. I'll be adding 3 more new buildings with adjacency rules for the Path of Wealth in the near future, and more.Added 3 new buildings that have new effects, enabled by adjacency combos, unlocked in the Path of Growth:Gaia's Shrine: provides wood/day for each adjacent forestVerdant Sanctuary: provides % wood global bonus if there's a lumbermill and a forest adjacentSacred Garden: provides a lot of wood/day and 1 favor every 15 days if there's a forest and a church adjacentOther changes:You can now demolish most buildingsOptimized the day-tick calculations, resulting in much better performance for the gameSanctum's favor craft cost now gets higher each timeFixed a visual isometric bug that caused things to not display correctly on the mapNew music trackThe Workshop building now costs less to build, but can only craft up to 2.0 total SPEED and the cost per craft now correctly needs gold as wellAdded video settings, as well as limiting the framerate by default to 60 (can be adjusted)Various fixes to sound effects, as well as adding some missing onesBuildings that can be built only up to a max number of times now show that info in their tooltipsVarious minor bug fixesThe update is live, let me know what you think!

Settlers, it's time to claim new lands!The Divinestead Demo is officially live and playable on Steam 🏰This demo covers the early game and offers around ~2 hours of content, but you can keep playing and expanding for as long as you'd like!If you have any feedback, bug reports, or general impressions, please drop a comment: your input helps shape the game.If you enjoy the demo, please consider adding Divinestead to your Steam Wishlist, it helps a lot!Hope you all enjoy the demo!