December Major Update
We’re back with a brand-new update, just in time for the holiday season. This major update brings some of your requested suggestions, including new ways to gather eggs, a major expansion to the Marsh Islands featuring a new enemy tribe and a powerful boss, the introduction of a brand-new golem, a reworked marker system for smoother resource management, and festive decorations to help you celebrate the season in true Viking style.
If you created a new save for the Seaborne Raiders update you will be able to experience this update using that same save file.
Watch the ASKA December Update Trailer:
New Content & Features
New Farm Animal: Kyckling (Chicken)
Why would you venture out and tread on the Marsh Tribe's territory? Why, because the Marsh Islands are now home to our very first feathery friend: the Kyckling. The Kyckling is a large flightless bird that nests in the marshes and can be trapped just like the Wulfar pups using a carefully planted trap, which uses Dragon Ball Fruit as bait. Once caged, they can be taken back home, where you can drop them in the brand new Kyckling Pen!
New Building: Kyckling Pen
The Kyckling Pen, similarly to the Smolkr Pen, allows you to tame and breed kycklings. Once you make sure that both a male and a female Kyckling are present in a pen, new baby Kycklings will start spawning. They constantly produce eggs and can be slaughtered for meat and feathers. Your pie and arrow production should now be fully sustainable without having to rely on gatherers!
New Enemy Faction: The Marsh Tribe
A new tribe of lost Norsemen has moved into the Marsh Islands. These outcasts have forgotten the ways of the Gods and have taken up worship of a sinister monster. They have obviously lost their wits after being cast out by the Gods, for they now wish to fraternize with crawlers, and even become like them. They don hideous masks made of insect bits, proudly wear the skins, spikes, and scales of the monsters, and use sinister fleshy webbing to cobble together nightmarish outfits. With all this in mind, they do remain Norsemen, meaning they are still fearsome warriors, so make sure you bring a hearty crew of Vikings before setting foot on their shores.
New Boss: King Crawler
At the heart of the Marsh Tribe's madness lies a horrific new boss: The King Crawler. Unlike other bosses, this monster made its lair in the ruins of an old settlement and remains guarded by fierce human warriors. Plan your assault carefully and do not make the mistake of rushing headfirst into battle. The King has servants aplenty, who will gladly die defending their master.
New Golem: Mud Golem
Defeating the King Crawler gives you the ability to summon a new type of golem. Golems have been expanded and are now specialized for different tasks. While the previous Crystal Golem remains an adept laborer and craftsman, the new Mud Golem is better suited for farm work, like tending to animals, farming, or forestry. Make sure you check each golem's list of eligible jobs!
Quality of Life Improvements
Reworked Marker System
All markers have been merged into a single customizable marker. Players can now define which resource types should be gathered within the marker’s radius, covering multiple resource categories such as building materials and food. This greatly reduces marker clutter and simplifies resource management.
New Map Filters With Radius Indicator
To assist with the new marker system, new map filters have been added. Make sure you have "Show Ranges" checked and freely filter through all marker types to see what territory is covered by each marker. You can easily access any marker from the map to quickly toggle resource coverage on or off.
Seasonal Content
Yule Tree Decorations
The festive season is just around the corner, and we couldn't miss adding new Yule Tree decorations. Drop by the Workshop and check out all the new decorations you can craft, inspired by all the new monsters and creatures added in the game!
Improvements, Adjustments, and Quality of Life
Added a Generic harvest marker that can be customized by the player (replacing previous markers).
Added LOD group to Plank Walls.
Added decay and sync processes to pants.
Added firekeeping to karvi addon, child firekeeping structures search for buildstation on parent.
Added option to show additional loot items on gather interactions.
Added reflection probes on main characters.
Added size limits to server name & display name.
Added a new warming buff for torches.
Adjusted Aska and villager kick animations.
Adjusted build menu - removed old markers.
Adjusted desert terrain assets.
Adjusted dodge and hit reaction fall animations and transitions: combat should feel a bit better.
Adjusted grass shader specularity.
Adjusted lighting and reflection for the world.
Adjusted markers build site highlight/selection.
Adjusted plank wall slanted versions.
Adjusted some main island terrain assets.
Adjusted terrain settings for the Low graphical preset.
Adjusted textures for the birch trees.
Adjusted winter colors.
Aska animator adjustments.
Better syncing of mature, female, and drop position for pet boxes and tamed creatures.
Buffed cheese food values.
Builders complain about not finding resources from all build sites, not just the last one.
Cheese matures twice as fast.
Clothing material - fixed some of the translucency maps.
Cooks and kennel workers no longer yearn for the mines and only drop one item from storage to harvest.
Exploration tower biome adjustments.
General network optimisations.
HUD performance optimizations and improvements.
House volume adjustments: interiors are now moodier.
Increased stack size for the Karvi small storage.
Increased stamina base for Aska and Ragnar.
Invasion Marker border color changed to red.
Made it so carts snap to the terrain when getting close to it while not being in use.
Map Menu performance optimizations for big maps.
Optimizations for creatures using randomized body parts.
Optimizations for textures, meshes, and materials memory consumption for extended playing sessions.
Pies decay faster than cheese.
Player stamina costs adjustments.
Player stamina drain costs halved.
Removed Iron Bar dropping from fully decayed Fine Capes.
Removed obsolete furniture items from houses.
Removed smilking from male Smolkr.
Removed the anchor from the Karvi.
Removed unintended 25 defence points from barbecue addon.
Removed color tab from Yule Tree menu.
Rendering and animation optimizations for dead creatures.
Sailors teleport on the harbor pier when ending an expedition, no longer going through the water.
Slanted wall - adjusted materials.
Small tweaks to housing points summary UI.
Spawnpoint shipwreck flag fix.
Tree willow mapping fix.
UI - added a category for Markets in Settlement Menu.
UI - adjusted storage UI.
Unlocking study blueprints now discovers result too.
Updated quality presets list.
Various AI boat pathfinding improvements.
Vikings deployed in expedition will now look for resources across the whole island (except main island).
Vikings only look in storages related to their boat.
Vikings perform cleanup when ending expedition, with sailors now being able to deposit their stuff at the harbor.
Villagers are always whitelisted by their own workstations.
Villagers trying to reach destinations high up in the air or underground will no longer get stuck.
Villagers will no longer try to pathfind on the surface to reach destinations inside caves.
Water shader - adjusted details scrolling speed.
When hostile viking settlements are destroyed, the icon on the map will turn grey and enemy vikings will stop spawning there.
When prompted with an in-game cloud sync conflict, you can no longer press escape to close the window (preventing cloud overwrite).
Woodcutters are more focused on clearing stumps and picking up resources instead of harvesting them.
Fixes:
Fixed a bug where multiple roofs could be placed on a warehouse.
Fixed an issue where villagers would not take items from all dismantle piles.
Fixed an issue where warehouse tasks would sometimes desync when a few warehouse baskets would be built at the same time.
Fixed an issue where the fishing ground discovery notification would fire every time the tile is loaded, in addition to when it is discovered.
Fixed an issue where warehouse storage jotun blood would not sync its build site items.
Fixed an issue where warehouse storages would not retain their tasks or storages after upgrading the warehouse in some scenarios.
Fixed an issue where villagers would steal food items from cooking pots or barbecues.
Fixed an issue where assigning many crafters and tasks at workshops would cause severe performance stutters.
Fixed a bug where villagers would not cleanup their inventory correctly under certain circumstances (e.g., cooks stuck with coal).
Fixed a bug causing the "Your structure is being attacked" notification to be fired when attacking enemy structures.
Fixed a bug causing the winter invasion announcement to always display "today is the day" when loading the game in winter.
Fixed improved armor rack storage menu displaying more slots than it actually has.
Fixed a bug where tasks preset loading would sometimes break the game.
Fixed a bug where the game would not detect a local save as corrupted and automatically restore it to the last uploaded cloud version.
Fixed EULA menu lag when scrolling.
Fixed video settings appearing dirty when opening the settings menu.
Fixed a bug where villagers would sometimes climb enemy towers to fight hostile vikings on top instead of destroying them.
Fixed a bug where cooking house workers would get stuck and not deposit the last filler needed to complete the recipe.
Foresters no longer get stuck trying to plant in non-empty holes.
Fixed a rare case where villagers would not find Small Fir trees.
Fixed a case where Kennel workers would go underground.
Fixed a case where Vikings (sailors) would go home to resupply while on an expedition.
Fixed some boots tasks not appearing in Clothes storage task list.
Fixed a Firewood Storage furniture misconfiguration.
Fixed some wall section highlighting/selection issues.
Fixed the Hedge Wall not being repairable.
Fixed the Fish Rack giving incorrect resources when dismantled.
Fixed an issue where warehouse storages would not retain their tasks or storages after upgrading the warehouse in some scenarios.
Fixed a rare deserialization (corruption) issue with old saves.
Fixed an issue with the spawnpoint shipwreck flag.
Fixed preset loading sometimes breaking the game.
Fixed a bug causing the winter invasion announcement to always display "Today is the day" when loading the game in the winter.
Fixed herbivore pets getting stuck trying to use gather interactions when finding food.
Fixed warehouse workers taking items from the Pens without taking the outpost into account.
Fixed Villagers not attacking Nidhogg.
Fixed sled selection/highlighting.
Fixed some issues with the Slambakur model used for the slaughtering interaction.
Fixed the Wolfish model not displaying correctly.
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Also, look at these baby birds! 🥹
