• If you own Northgard but don’t own some of the DLC mentioned above, they are now integrated into your game as a free update.
  
• If you own Northgard and all of the DLC mentioned above, you are not impacted by these changes.
  
• If you don’t already own Northgard, you can buy it now with a special launch discount!

• Rig, the King of all clans, returns to the Clan of the Stag for a new fight!
  
• Hagen also returns to lead the Clan of the Raven.
  
• The leaders of the Southern Kingdom during the Cross of Vidar saga will also be available! This includes Lothaire, Carloman and a new look for Nominoe!

• 4 clans have been added to the base game: Snake, Horse, Dragon and Lion
  
• Cross of Vidar expansion has been added to the base game

• New Valhalla Biome:
  
  • Special Event: Valhalla's Feast
    
  • New Unit: Guardian of Valhalla
• You can now play normal games with biomes from Bifrost

• Add modifiers to your Bifrost run and earn more rewards

• Added Miklagard victory to Conquest

• The shop has been reworked
  
• New unit skins available
  
• More decorations available
  
• New Townhall skins available
  
• More ornaments available
  
• You can now check Military Path during clan selection
  
• New main screen art

• Improvements have been made to the resources production management
  
• Improvements have been made to the military units management
  
• AI can now contest Miklagard victory
  
• Kraken AI has been improved
  
• Kingdom AI has been improved

• Archer’s range has been reduced. They should now have less range than a Tracker with full Path complete.
  
• When military units start an attack, they no longer cancel it if the target unit moves out of range.
  
• Lords’ stats have been adjusted
  
  • Lord: [color=#74AF4B]80/6/8 -> 80/7/9[/color] (hp/atk/def)
    
  • Stoat - Lord Eco: [color=#74AF4B]80/6/8 -> 80/7/10[/color]
    
  • Stoat - Lord Military: [color=#74AF4B]80/6/8 -> 80/8/10[/color]

• Recruitment
  
  • Permanently increases population growth speed by [color=#C53D3B]25% -> 20%[/color].
    
  • You gain an additional [color=#C53D3B]5% -> 4%[/color] during 4 months for each unit from your clan killed by an enemy clan or sacrificed (max [color=#C53D3B]50% -> 40%[/color]].
• Medicine
  
  • Healing units heal [color=#74AF4B]50% -> 60%[/color] faster.
• Weaponsmith
  
  • Increases all your military units' attack power by [color=#C53D3B]20% -> 15%[/color].
• Military Strategy
  
  • Military units gain [color=#C53D3B]+5% -> 4%[/color] attack for each type of friendly military unit in the zone (max [color=#C53D3B]+25% -> 20%[/color]).
• Spoils of War is the stealable lore from Wolf clan instead of Field Ration
  
• Vow of Chastity
  
  • The food consumption of all units is reduced by [color=#C53D3B]20% -> 15%[/color].

• Houses
  
  • When upgraded gives you [color=#74AF4B]+5% population growth[/color]
• Shipwrecks & Ruins
  
  • 0 -> 3 tiles away from nearest ally Town Hall: 75 Krown
    
  • 4 -> 7 tiles away from nearest ally Town Hall: 75 -> 175 Krown
    
  • 7+ -> 175 Krown
• Shipwrecks
  
  • Gives you [color=#C53D3B]200 -> 150[/color] Wood
• Mjolnir
  
  • Global cooldown reduced: [color=#74AF4B]1s -> 0.8s[/color]
    
  • [color=#74AF4B]Ignore Armor[/color]
    
  • Deals [color=#C53D3B]6 ->2[/color] damage
    
  • Can hit up to [color=#C53D3B]6 -> 3[/color] units maximum
• Relics
  
  • Gives you 25 Fame when placed
    Time to forge them has been reduced: [color=#74AF4B]16 months -> 12 months[/color], with one worker
• Towers/Forts
  
  • Health has been increased to 50% when upgraded
  Others
  • Colonizing a tile near dwarves reveals them

• Einherjar
  
  • Stats have changed: [color=#74AF4B]60/10/6 -> 70/11/5[/color]

• Rangers
  
  • Scouting speed has been reduced: [color=#C53D3B]50% -> 25%[/color]
    
  • Scouts now consume more food: [color=#C53D3B]0% -> 50%[/color]

• Fame 200
  
  • You gain +3 Fame per enemy unit killed in a zone with Borgild or Kaija.
    
  • Shield Bearer Camp increases zone production by 10%
• Fame 500
  
  • For every 100 Fame you’ve earned, your military units gain +1.5% attack power.
    
  • Kaija can now enter enemy territory

• Relic: Cost to summon Giant Boar [color=#74AF4B]150 Lore -> No cost[/color]
  
• Fame 200:
  
  • Knowledge given by this fame counts towards blessings

• Giant Boar
  
  • You can control it during combat
    
  • Can go to an uncolonized adjacent zone of your territory
    
  • Stats have changed: [color=#74AF4B]90/11/11 -> 120/16/12[/color]

• Scorched Earth will now give less minerals, [color=#C53D3B]3 -> 2[/color]

• Ruins and Shipwreck provide [color=#74AF4B]-50% -> -25%[/color] Krown.

• Ancestral Influence
  
  • Replaces Medecine
• Great Tower
  
  • Upgraded Tower becomes Great Tower, you have 2 free upgrades tower. Upkeep is the same as an upgraded tower.
• Volund Fire
  
  • Increases tools production by [color=#74AF4B]5% -> 7.5%[/color]
  Units
• Warchiefs
  
  • Increases Mining speed, forging speed and building speed by [color=#74AF4B]20% -> 40%[/color]
    
  • Building Speed of Etria increased to [color=#74AF4B]30% -> 50%[/color]
    
  • Forging Speed of Brok increased to [color=#74AF4B]30% -> 50%[/color]

• We increased the speed of Spectral arrival. They should appear twice as fast.
  
• Relic - We added a protection to attacks from the sea (Mercenaries, Ghost Event)

• Endless Tides
  
  • Pop growth and Spectral growth increased by 20%
• Ràn's Blessing
  
  • Spectral growth is working correctly, now gives +20%

• Seeress
  
  • Produces [color=#74AF4B]+3 -> +3.5[/color] Wyrd
    
  • You can recruit a Valkyrie while being in negative Wyrd

• Losing a unit gives you [color=#74AF4B]20s -> 30s[/color] of purification time
  
• Earning military experience gives you 25% more purification time

• Carcass gives [color=#74AF4B]15% more experience[/color]; resources given are unchanged
  
• We have reduced the amount of experience given by kills: [color=#C53D3B]25% -> 20%[/color]
  
• Experience needed to get level 2: [color=#74AF4B]250 -> 225[/color]

• The clan earns [color=#C53D3B]+30 -> 20[/color] Fame for each positive level of relation with other clans and factions.

• Ember of Prosperity
  
  • Brazier produces [color=#C53D3B]+0.75 -> 0.5 Krown, +1.5 -> 1[/color] during Ignite

• Varangian
  
  • Camp gives more space for them: [color=#74AF4B]2 -> 3[/color]
    
  • Their scaling cost has been increased: [color=#C53D3B]60 + (15 * nb) -> 60 + (45 * nb)[/color]

• You can now assign “Any” to a Town Hall to let players choose their clan in the lobby
  
• You can set “Free Teams” to let players choose their team in the lobby. You do not have a choice between Lock team or Free Team.
  
• You can select a neutral faction, if they have a variant, you can choose between them (Jotunn ← → Gayant, Myrkalfar ←→ Lightalfar)
  
• You can place Marmennills

• You can now make a mod that is only a script
  
• You can only have one script at a time per game

• Legion - Fixed loss of stats on military units when losing a tile with a military camp

• Titanomancy - Fixed an issue where the AI would kill its own Guardian of the Realms
  
• Wall Will Falls - Fixed an issue where the Dragon could capture units from castle assault.
  
• Minopoly - Fixed an issue where the Squirrel could not win making the Banquet of Valhöl
  
• Age of Vampires - Fixed an issue where defeat would not trigger when the Warchief was killed
  
• Defend the Oppressed - Nerfed AI assault
  
• Cataclysm - Fixed a bug causing the Apocalypse event to remain active and close all routes to other players
  
• Quarantine - Fixed an issue where loading a save would reset the life of the Gods’ Messenger
  
• For Valhala - Fixed an issue where allies could not see the amount of Favors on the Altar of the Gods
  
• Rough Seas - Fixed an issue where raids did not steal Faith for the Kingdom clan
  
• Moonlit Betrayal - Fixed a crash when a werewolf was killed in a Brawler Camp after transforming
  
• War is not an option - Fixed an issue where loading a save reset the player’s life and interrupted Fafnir’s assault
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur when leaving a Conquest mission

• Raven - Fixed an issue where mercenaries could be transformed into Dragonkin
  
• Hippogriff - Fixed a crash that occurred when mining with Sindri and a Miner
  
• Hippogriff - Fixed an issue where Varangians could not be converted with Faith when using the shared start-with of the Lion clan
  
• Berserker Wrath - Fixed an issue where the Turtle AI sent a caravan to a Brawler Camp
  
• Kraken - Fixed building prices being displayed on ally non-coastal tiles
  
• Kraken - Fixed an issue where Hörgrs could be requested by allies or built by the Kraken on ally tiles
  
• Boar - Fixed the second Conquest bonus not being offered

• Fixed an issue where changing the sound device after launching the game would not apply
  
• Ranked – Fixed clan selection when it was not the player’s turn
  
• Ranked – Fixed a case where a player could access a lobby while already having a clan selected
  
• Ranked – Added a safeguard to prevent the “Lobby Found” popup from appearing when you are already in a lobby
  
• Ranked – Fixed GP/Rank icons not displaying correctly
  
• Ranked – Fixed an issue where team/all chat did not work correctly
  
• Building – Fixed colonizing a tile with an enemy Forge from allowing ongoing projects to be cancelled for resources
  
• Notification – Fixed an issue where warning notifications incorrectly indicated the player was attacked when a scout on an ally’s tile was attacked
  
• Notification – Fixed military notifications deselecting buildings.
  
• Fixed decolonization not granting Fame when a sheep or foe was present on the tile.
  
• Fixed mirrored maps not mirroring foes correctly
  
• Added security to avoid being disconnected from lobby due to micro disconnection
  
• Fixed spectator issues
  
  • Corrected fog not updating properly when switching view modes
    
  • Spectators can now see fame information for each clan
    
  • Knowledge tree now correctly shows the clan being spectated
    
  • Not able to join a full lobby
    
  • End game screen correctly displayed

• Fixed Source of Urdarbrunnr blessing not granting full bonuses from upgraded camps
  
• Fixed Parasitic Vegetable not reducing food consumption
  
• Fixed descriptions for Feeling Safe and Legendary Heroes
  
• Fixed Terraforming Ground giving resources from Brazier production
  
• Fixed a crash caused by Invasive Fruit when two Owls in the same team give it to each other

• Fixed carcasses not being gatherable (new ability for Berserkers)
  
• Fixed Foxserker freezing when reaching high attack speed
  
• Fixed an exploit with the conversion cost of Brawlers
  
• Fixed an issue with Bloodthirst healing not respecting the max health cap

• Dragon - Fixed merchant being in no work sometimes
  
• Dragon - Fixed trading values from thralls with Miklagard
  
• Dragon - Fixed military path being all unlocked once reaching 3000 military XP
  
• Fixed enemy captured military units not updating color on the mini map
  
• Fixed military path icon not displayed in end-game statistics

• Fixed Catapult not staying selected after being packed/unpacked
  
• Fixed Catapult SFX not playing when packed/unpacked
  
• Fixed free Happiness upgrade being incorrectly proposed in Conquest
  
• Fixed bonuses/knowledge affecting military units not working for Varangians (stat buffs, price reduction, etc.)
  
• Fixed an issue where mining outside Sindri’s territory could remove ore from the deposit without granting it to the player
  
• Fixed Catapult not validating clearing of certain tiles (Wyvern, Bifrost Portal, etc.)
  
• Fixed multiple Sindris being able to mine the same deposit
  
• Fixed Catapult triggering war against neutrals when attacking them during an assault

• Fixed second Conquest bonus not working for Paladins
  
• Fixed female Paladin sometimes playing male SFX

• Fixed Sentry cost with March of Brittany knowledge

• Fixed Warchief ability not usable if an enemy scout is present on the same tile

• Fixed Guardian’s Tower not granting Lore when scouting

• Fixed conquest bonus decreasing forging speed not working

• Fixed an issue where Fertile Soil and Lynx Lure did not allow caravans to produce food from wheat or deer

• Fixed trading stopping on caravans if a deposit finished on a tile with multiple deposits

• Snake – Fixed an issue where the AI would send Signy into enemy territory unnecessarily
  
• Fixed an issue where the AI would not use the Giant hero

• Fixed an issue with filters on the minimap
  
• Fixed UI overlapping when setting up AI players in custom games
  
• Fixed end-of-game stats not showing the icon for forged military units
  
• Fixed UI issue in diplomacy menu with 5 neutrals

• Russian - Fixed a missing letter in localization
  
• Italian - Fixed Ranger Knowledge localization
  
• Kingdom - Fixed description for upgraded camps
  
• Kingdom - Fixed description in Fairground for Marmenill trade route
  
• Kraken - Fixed Spanish localization in Expeditions
  
• Owl - Fixed missing localization in Guardian of the Realms’ description

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