Primitive Kingdoms 0.1.0-beta

First public beta. Everything below is new.

Survival (stone age)

• No tree punching: sticks and rocks lie on the ground; knapping grid for stone and clay; stone tools from heads, cordage and sticks.
• Small inventory at first; fiber sack, wicker basket, backpack, frame pack and armoured packs; carry weight.
• Fire drill, campfire fuel, pit kiln pottery.
• Thirst, dirty water and sickness, boiling water, waterskin.
• Spoilage, drying rack and smoking, four-group nutrition, farming with a digging stick and watering pots.
• Hunting with thrown spears, skittish animals, butchering, hides and leather, bone needle, fur clothing.
• Stamina, body temperature, sprains, bleeding and infected wounds, bandages and poultices.
• Fishing: fish spear, bone hook, primitive rod, fish trap.
• Longer days, rarer rain, lit campfires keep monsters away.

Physics

• Structural support: unsupported blocks fall; posts, beams, timber frames and masonry carry different loads.
• Tree felling, falling soil, landslides.
• Dropped items lie on the ground.
• Support view that colours what holds a block and what will fall.

Metal and crafts

• Charcoal piles, malachite and cassiterite, clay furnace, bellows, crucible, molds, bronze tools.
• Bloomery iron, stone and iron anvils, forge, steel tools, metal armour; the vanilla furnace needs iron first.
• Masonry (chisel, lime mortar, stone bricks), loom and cloth, bread oven, barrels, salting, brewing.
• Quern, water wheel and windmill.
• Copper, silver and gold coins; every item has a barter value.

People and settlements

• Villagers with names, jobs, moods, relationships, marriage, children, purses and grudges; a talk screen.
• 14 trades of real workers who chop, mine, farm, carry, craft and build from blueprints.
• Plant a banner to found a settlement; ranks from camp to kingdom; taxes, wages, rent, market and tavern days, thieves.
• Up to 3 settlements per ruler, with trade routes between them.

Kingdom journey

• Kingdom map (N): 2D map of your town with jobs, people, storage, goals and building placement.
• Camp jobs (Gatherer, Farmer, Builder, Guard) that split into new trades as the town grows.
• Population growth: births, settlers, wanderers, refugees.
• Seven kinds of villages to discover and win over.
• Defence: watchtowers, alarm bell, guard posts, gates, boiling water.
• Army: spearmen, archers, swordsmen, horsemen; squads and orders; barracks, range, stable, siege workshop (ram, catapult).
• Rival lords and bandit camps; diplomacy and war; the crowning.

Transport

• Dugout canoe, hand cart, horse cart, barge; animals aboard.
• Gravel and cobbled roads that speed you up.
• Ports, merchant ships and sea traders.

Creatures

• 34 new creatures (animals, small folk, brutes and bosses) with lairs.
• Non-medieval vanilla mobs turned off by default (configurable).

Journal and tutorial

• Journal (J) with 150+ missions and an illustrated guide drawn from the game's own recipes.
• Studio tutorial world with numbered stations, on-screen lessons and right-vs-wrong demos.

Known issues

• R (mount attack) clashes with Iris's shader reload key: rebind one of them.
• Xaero's Minimap's default top-left spot is under the mission panel.
• Large towns and armies can cost performance; armies are capped at about 16-24 soldiers.