Greetings fair Nysians,

From our entire team, we wish everyone a happy and safe holiday season! The year isn’t quite over yet - so we’re releasing a update packed with significant quality of life improvements, bug fixes and enhancements to Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown.

In your feedback across our Discord and Steam forums, you requested for us to add Edge Scrolling, to span across your provinces with ease. We're excited to confirm this is now available, as well as a complete rework of our vegetation system! Here are the details of everything we’ve released as part of our December update:

Added:

• Edge Scrolling - Found in the setting and off by defaut
• Vegetation System improvements (see comprehensive breakdown below)

Fixed:

• Fixed hunters lodge workers trying to hunt outside their territory
• Updated tutorial steps for a better experience
• Fixed Wyramxa outpost units not targeting player units
• Fixed military unit patrol order
• Fixed issue with caravans bunching up or setting stuck in towns blocking trade routes
• Updated battle report after destroying towns and outposts to be clearer
• Fixed bug with wells that stop water production after being rebuilt

Changed:

• Optimized unit pathfinding and terrain detection
• Added estimated completion time to building production UI
• Updated camera far clip plane to be based off zoom height
• Optimized save data
• Updated lighting systems

Vegetation System Overview
As the ruler of Nysamor, your duty is to take care of your people. Each province within the kingdom has slightly different resource availability, but regardless of the type of leadership you choose to lead your civilians, providing them with access to the proper resources, open grassland and plains to ensure flat buildable land is ideal for agriculture that will sustain everyone.

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Our team has been hard at work overhauling the vegetation within each of the biomes, and we're excited to highlight the significant improvements and enhancements that this change has had on game performance, frame rate, lighting, and visuals of Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown:

• Improved Gameplay Performance[list]
• Smoother gameplay with most PCs seeing a 10-30% improvement in FPS over the old system, representing a notable percentage increase in performance.

[*] Increased Grass and Vegetation Density

Significantly increased the density of grass and vegetation, enhancing visuals without impacting performance on both low- and high-end systems.

[*] Road Building Enhancements

Roads now automatically remove grass when being built, improving the overall appearance and functionality.

[*] Enhanced Lighting Effects

This update includes visual improvements to lighting for a more polished look.

[*] Optimized Rendering Performance at 4K

Rendering performance is significantly improved, ensuring smoother visuals at higher resolutions.

[*] Improved Vegetation Rendering

New vegetation assets have streamlined rendering code, paving the way for easier future improvements.

[*] Ultra Shadows Upgrade

Ultra shadow settings now use 4K shadows, resulting in much cleaner and more detailed shadow rendering.

[*] Better Visuals on Low-End PCs

Low-end PCs using lower graphics quality settings retain more visual fidelity, minimizing the trade-off between performance and quality.

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Now is your time. This is your land. Your kingdom. Your war to win. Long may you reign, and long may you thrive.

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