Update – North 7.1 “Bogland”

Spring arrived in the North – high time for a sacrificing feast and to renew the Banished land. Version 7.1 brings a couple of new buildings, bog areas and peat-cutting as well as many adjustments and fixes. Overall a small but important update to make North 7 more matured and polished. Check out what’s new and download below for another Banished adventure!

New Buildings and Land Uses

Longhouse

No Viking update without a proper Longhouse, right?

Turf-Storehouse

Matching storage buildings for Turf Houses.

Huntin Camp

Permanent workplace for lazy early game hunters.

Peat Cutting

Additional fuel for heating your houses.

Gameplay Changes and Bug Fixes

• Bog areas are now scattered on the map with peat as a new resource.
• Abundance of stone, iron ore, deadwood and wild plants are rebalanced.
• In the Norse Temple, people now celebrate sacrificing feasts for happiness.
• Idols are reduced to one tile and provide only an idling spot.
• Nomads now arrive at Thingsteads and later in larger groups at the Village Hall, not longer at chapels.
• Risk of diseases for healthy people reduced to be now 1/50 of unhealthy.
• Risk of death while childbearing reduced from 0.5% to 0.1% for healthy women.
• Fuel efficiency of houses recalculated. Details on housing page in wiki.
• Storage capacity has been increased by about 20% and of trading docks by 50%.
• Loft-Storehouses now also store food.
• Adjusted export merchants to pay well more often and more predictable.
• Hunting spots now take place on only 2 x 2 tiles for easy use in dense forests.
• Campfires can now render tallow from animal fat in a pot.
• Added building UI to Campfire and Stepstones.
• Reduced radius of Gatherer Shelters to 24 for higher yield (shorter walks).
• Changed marker of fishing spots for better visibility.
• Fixed crayfishing spots to prevent people from fully crossing the stream.
• Removed glass from Dairy Hut to let the Vikings process milk from the beginning.
• Quarries now also produce boulders in ratio of 1:3 stones.
• Increased output of Millstones to 2 – 3 from a boulder.
• Fur coats now need leather to require a tannery.
• Fixed workspeed of linen weaving, now +100% faster.
• Many buildings got more road tiles to workaround the vanilla “building site bug”.
• Added upgrade buttons to Turf House and Turf Storehouse.
• Reworked fire particle system to better match size and location of buildings.
• Fixed a storage bug in glass factory extension.
• Fixed (now really) the crash when pausing the building site of an export dock.
• Fixed a bug that caused a crash at DS Jetty Glassmaker.
• Fixed a bug that caused a crash at the Mini Town Hall.
• Kralyerg’s Mini Buildings are now better integrated in general.
• Polished UI and a new font that works over all languages.
• Reworked toolbar tips for better descriptions.

The wiki pages will be revised in the next few days to be up to date with North 7.1.

Credits

Many thanks to all beta testers for bug reports and suggestions, especially Nilla, Jase and Taganaya, to Lucy Bextor for the now up to date Russian translation and Ľuboš Dráb for the new Slovak translation. Also thanks to all people who donated to this modding project since last update!