Voxel Dynasties update 0.1.3

This update is all about making your first hour in Voxel Dynasties click. It adds a proper guided tutorial, redesigns a good part of the HUD for clarity, and fixes a long list of AI, pathfinding and unit-behaviour issues you reported.

Learning the ropes

A new tutorial walks you through the basics with on-screen objectives and progress tracking. It sits front and centre on the main menu, with a dismissible invitation for new players and a one-click Continue button that jumps straight back into your most recent save.

Clearer HUD, better feedback

• The minimap is now a circular, heading-up display that rotates with your camera, with a compass ring and a view-frustum outline.
• An embark icon makes boarding transport ships clearly labelled.
• The resource bar shows how many workers are assigned to each resource, and the carry bar always shows what is being carried, not only while gathering.
• The resource-node info panel was redesigned to match the unit and building panels.
• Event and tutorial notifications appear as a dismissible card below the resource bar instead of a fading banner in the middle of the screen.

Sound and graphics

• New sound effects, including a HUD notification chime, an age-up fanfare and an anti-air siren.
• Graphics quality is auto-detected on first launch from your RAM and CPU instead of always starting on Low.
• Ultra particle effects are available on every hardware tier.

Fixes

• Workers step out of a building’s footprint when construction finishes instead of standing inside it.
• Idle or blocked gatherers redirect to the nearest available resource instead of giving up.
• A unit’s own required technology is no longer ignored for its first production tier.
• Rotated building parts block movement and projectiles correctly again.
• Automatic town-centre placement is no longer off-centre for buildings with an even-numbered footprint.
• Peaceful wildlife such as deer no longer retaliates the way predators do.
• Forests keep a consistent gap between trunks instead of forming impassable clusters.
• Attached limbs and weapons follow body movement correctly in unit animations.
• Ships no longer cut across other players‘ docks and piers; coastline movement is smoother.
• Units no longer clip through cliffs or terrain edges.
• A stuck unit in an explore or search-and-destroy group order no longer stalls the rest of the group.
• Multi-ship selections unload together instead of one at a time.

Balance

• Increased wood yield from trees and food yield from hunting wild animals.
• Increased the catapult’s population cost from 2 to 3.