Steam history

This page lists the changelog of every released version of Songs of Syx that have been posted on Steam. To see a more thorough version history, see this page.

Cannibals, Slaves and Drunks

Released: 3/17/2021
Type: Major Update

• Build a spell checker that checks for spelling/typos whenever I build the game.
• Room production overhaul. Enables us to specify in-rates, so that bread can cost 0.5 wood and 1 grain for instance.
• Added a "do what I did last" Button and hotkey for the build menu.
• Clarified and fixed squareness a bit.
• Clay excavatable resource + claypit
• Ability to mod occurrence of excavatable resource based on terrain.
• Happiness screen overhauled.
• Info on city selection refined.
• Trade adjusted and balanced.
• Potter Workshop and Pottery. Coal + clay = pottery
• Alcohol resource and brewery. Wood+pottery+grain/fruit = alcohol
• Eatery room. Very basic food distribution place. Replaces kitchen.
• Canteen room. Now works as a kitchen with tables.
• Tavern is now for drinks only.
• Alcohol limit to dictate. Adds happiness, but can make subjects drunk an unproductive if set too high.
• Changed so that all rooms that needed wood to run now requires coal instead at a lower rate.
• AI faction trade and production overhauled. Still needs some work, but better now.
• Well room, a simple bath.
• Jewelry and jewelers. Jewelry can be worn.
• Proper slaves. Can be gained through beating Krull, or as a form of punishment. Slaves have a collective happiness that is still based on the racial composition of all your slaves. You set work priorities for slaves, same as citizens. Slaves have simpler demands in general. They don't have expectations, but the more slaves you have per citizen, the happier you must make them. Slaves can run away if too unhappy. Will revolt in the future.
• Slaver room for punishing criminals and gain slaves.
• New slave UI screen.
• Unique slave happiness based on the number of citizens compared to slaves.
• Lots of rebalancing around happiness and a few stats added/removed.
• Touched up some icons.
• Slaves will run away, while citizens will commit more crimes and not emigrate if unhappy.
• Slaver event, lets you buy slaves.
• Notifications reworked, some new added.
• Death statistics and death causes added.
• New grave alternative - Crypt
• Cannibal room that butchers corpses for resources.
• Mass grave for corpses.
• Hover info for room copier.
• Room category UI remade.
• Industry storage visible on hover.
• Mines/woodcutter proper errors.
• Guard post placed inside fixed.
• Forgetting techs now disables all dependent techs.
• Horizontal scrolling of tech tree with Ctrl + mousewheel
• Notification when nobles die.

Crime and Punishment

Released: 2/16/2021
Type: Small Update

• Hauler room added. Can be placed for free on cleared ground and will employ haulers, that will fetch resources to the room.
• Proper Woodcutter room added. Now fully renewable and with fixed output, same as other industries.
• Much easier to reach 0% squareness.
• Logistics mechanics overhauled, added an "empty to" mechanics which lets you empty resources to specific warehouses.
• New Janitor room with maintenance now separated from construction. Only janitors can do maintenance. Janitors need construction materials in the vicinity, or they will become less effective.
• Auto employment for some rooms, which will make the AI fire/hire 1 subject per day based on workload. Workload calculations improved.
• Normal speed triggers when there is a message
• Immigrant value now decreases more slow, allowing you to fulfil the needs of new immigrants.
• Onx pastures for cold and temperate climates.
• Hotkey for getting to the throne/capitol.
• Status concept. New profile screen.
• Level (title). You now increase your level according to your population, which unlocks bonuses and rooms. The throne visually upgrades with these levels.
• Faction visuals. Change faction name and colors while playing.
• Faction banners. Randomized banners for all faction and a banner editor for the player.
• Added on "available services" tooltip. How many are used and how many that needs work.
• Fixed various crashes from streaming. Requires you to uncheck "debug" in the launcher.
• Remade light engine and prettier fires/candles
• Recolored ore
• Huge AI refactoring. Not that anyone cares, but it allows for faster AI progress.
• Criminals. Come in three flavours: thieves, vandalisers, streakers, and murderers. Each race has a property on their chance to become criminals. The amount of criminals spawned depends on law and happiness.
• New guard post room. Guards will catch criminals in their vicinity, or if they happen to stumble into one on their patrols. Guard posts also deter crime in their vicinity.
• Prison. Employ guards that bring food and empties latrines of the cells. Criminals will go here after being caught, if your policies are set up that way. Prisoners will stay there for a number of years before being let out and become citizens again (average 6 years).
• Game will now save to "new_city" before you place your throne, allowing you to restart at any time by loading it.
• Scaffolds room. Employs executioners. Prisoners will go here to be executed according to your policies.
• Courts. Prisoners will go here before going to either prisons or scaffolds. Improves justice. Can also instantly turn some prisoners back to friendly subjects.
• Added a width/height restriction to rooms.
• Made so that the tunneling bonus actually works. Dondorians tunnel into mountains twice as fast.
• Rearranged resources categories a bit.
• Law. Law is gained by apprehending criminals, having courts for them as well as Prisons and scaffolds. Law makes your citizens happy and deters the spawning of criminals.
• New algorithm for determining build order when constructing massive walls now enables you to build as thick a walls as you'd like without people getting stuck.
• The above also holds true when building rooms with inner walls.
• Added demography to understand retirement better. Also made it more clear that retired people doesn't work.
• Returned rock ground under mountains that had disappeared.
• Moved key settings to in-game menu.
• Touched up the happiness screen in an effort to make it more understandable.
• New tech tree with unlockable buildings.
• Made room construction render above terrain.
• Decreased snoring sound.
• Deleting room blueprint no longer removes roads beneath.
• New employment mechanics with new priority system and panels. AI will now distribute workforce evenly.
• A bit more UI info about service rooms.
• New trading mechanics for stabler trade and prices.
• When Krull dies, his son will take up his arms and continue raiding you.
• Optional resources shown as optional on hover when built.
• Harvest jobs can be placed, but only performed when ripe.

Crime and Punishment 0.56

Released: 2/11/2021
Type: Major Update

• Hauler room added. Can be placed for free on cleared ground and will employ haulers, that will fetch resources to the room.
• Proper Woodcutter room added. Now fully renewable and with fixed output, same as other industries.
• Much easier to reach 0% squareness.
• Logistics mechanics overhauled, added a "empty to" mechanics which lets you empty resources to specific warehouses.
• New Janitor room with maintenance now separated from construction. Only janitors can do maintenance. Janitors need construction materials in the vicinity, or they will become less effective.
• Auto employment for some rooms, which will make the AI fire/hire 1 subject per day based on workload. Workload calculations improved.
• Normal speed triggers when there is a message
• Immigrant value now decreases more slow, allowing you to fulfil the needs of new immigrants.
• Onx pastures for cold and temperate climates.
• Hotkey for getting to the throne/capitol.
• Status concept. New profile screen.
• Level (title). You now increase your level according to your population, which unlocks bonuses and rooms. The throne visually upgrades with these levels.
• Faction visuals. Change faction name and colors while playing.
• Faction banners. Randomized banners for all faction and a banner editor for the player.
• Added on "available services" tooltip. How many are used and how many that needs work.
• Fixed various crashes from streaming. Requires you to uncheck "debug" in the launcher.
• Remade light engine and prettier fires/candles
• Recoloured ore
• Huge AI refactoring. Not that anyone cares, but it allows for faster AI progress.
• Criminals. Come in three flavours: thieves, vandalisers, streakers, and murderers. Each race has a property on their chance to become criminals. The amount of criminals spawned depends of law and happiness.
• New guard post room. Guards will catch criminals in their vicinity, or if they happen to stumble into one on their patrols. Guard posts also deter crime in their vicinity.
• Prison. Employs guards that bring food and empties latrines of the cells. Criminals will go here after being caught, if your policies are set up that way. Prisoners will stay there for a number of years before being let out and become citizens again (average 6 years).
• Game will now save to "new_city" before you place your throne, allowing you to restart at any time by loading it.
• Scaffolds room. Employs executioners. Prisoners will go here to be executed according to your policies.
• Courts. Prisoners will go here before going to either prisons or scaffolds. Improves justice. Can also instantly turn some prisoners back to friendly subjects.
• Added a width/height restriction to rooms.
• Made so that the tunnelling bonus actually works. Dondorians tunnel into mountains twice as fast.
• Rearranged resources categories a bit.
• Law. Law is gained by apprehending criminals, having courts for them as well as Prisons and scaffolds. Law makes your citizens happy and deters the spawning of criminals.
• New algorithm for determining build order when constructing massive walls now enables you to build as thick a walls as you'd like without people getting stuck.
• The above also holds true when building rooms with inner walls.
• Added demography to understand retirement better. Also made it more clear that retired people doesn't work.
• Returned rock ground under mountains that had disappeared.
• Moved key settings to in-game menu.
• Touched up the happiness screen in an effort to make it more understandable.
• New tech tree with unlockable buildings.
• Made room construction render above terrain.
• Decreased snoring sound.
• Deleting room blueprint no longer removes roads beneath.
• New employment mechanics with new priority system and panels. AI will now distribute workforce evenly.
• A bit more UI info about service rooms.
• New trading mechanics for stabler trade and prices.
• When Krull dies, his son will take up his arms and continue raiding you.
• Optional resources shown as optional on hover when build.
• Harvest jobs can be placed, but only performed when ripe.

unstable V55 out!

Released: 12/20/2020
Type: Regular Update

Note: With this update, the demo of the game is changed from version 51 to version 53.

• Sithilion Ore that can be mined. Very rare and at a slow rate.
• Happiness modifier based on resource stored per citizen (modable in race init files). Dondorians like Sithilion ore.
• Stockpile crates size increased from 64 to 255.
• Stockpiles have adjustable radius for their workers.
• Smaller radius for employed subjects that wants to give a hand with odd jobs like hauling, construction or maintenance.
• Bread resource + Bakery industry. Grain is no longer edible, but must be processed into bread. The industry only needs grain to operate.
• Proper hunting rooms. Very effective in the beginning to feet your subjects. Has an adjustable radius that can cover the whole map. Wild game will be exterminated quickly though if overused.
• Proper fisheries. You now place a fishery room on top of shallow water. Expand a bit on land too to be able to place storage and auxiliary items. Fish stock is static and is highlighted when placing the room. Green is best. Red is hardly worth placing a fishery on top.
• When placing your throne at the beginning of the game you have the ability to regenerate (button below "place start"). While the general layout will be the same and dirived from the world tiles you picked, minerals, game, and fish stock will be randomly generated once more.
• Tilling period for farms. No longer will you get an army of workers after harvest, the farmers must remain an "till" the earth until they can sow in spring. Tilling increases the output of next harvest.
• Manual food usage in kitchen. You can now check which raw ingredients to use. Can come in handy if you're saving up some of them, or using them different locally (save the meat for the nobility district)
• Manual usage of specific raw materials in workshops. Now only applies to tailors in practise that can use either pelts or fabric.
• Rates added to industries. The rate is an estimate of the amount of produce per worker per day.
• All industries internal storage reduced and will stop producing if these are full. should prevent carpenter from using up all the wood.
• Tiny saves < 1MB. No need to zip anymore! Things now saved better and faster.
• Fields of minable resources are now much bigger, while having a lower yield. they are also infinite and clearly visible if you right click. they can also generate inside mountains, or under shallow water.
• Room placement undo better.
• Ability to change roof of room when reconstructing it.
• Ability to reconstruct rooms under construction. (Just click them).
• Livestock resource replaces the damned eggs (eggs now a food) and pastures no longer needs them in the construction process. Instead the herders will grab a livestock and haul it into the pasture where it transforms into cattle. Pastures produce livestock at a low rate. Different type pastures are available in different climates and the animals produce different kinds of resources at different rates (meat, pelt, cotton, eggs). Hunters sometimes produce a livestock resource.
• Animals also spawned according to climate and have different resources when hunted.
• Minimap has been a bit revamped with better and more consistent colors and functions.
• Construction panel has been condensed.
• New setting in the launcher allows you to pick both width and height of a windowed window. Should now work well with ultra wide-screeners.
• Service rooms have a reachability map on hover that shows you the area where subjects can reach it. "Distance" also added as a modifier to service happiness. You can never max it out, but you can decrease it by placing services closer to where they're needed.
• Ability to pick multiple mods. The first chosen mod will have residence over the second and so forth.
• 3 more soundtracks. I advise you turn the music volume back up.
• keyboard rework. Ability to assign more keys using ctrl/alt as a modulator. Added keys for saving and zooming. More keys to come. Open to suggestions.
• All rooms and their production now reflected on the world map. What this means is that the AI is playing by the same rules as you are when building your city in terms of manpower and production rates.
• Trade fixed a bit. You will now get special treatment in the algorithms, making sure you're the first who gets to export/import on the world scene, leading to massive trades.
• Baths are now made modable, meaning they are dynamically loaded. So you can add as many variations of a bath as you want and define how it affects happiness.
• Clarified service access happiness a bit. I grouped each "group" (food & sleep)
• Immigrants will now walk to the throne and kiss it.
• Happiness and immigration completely reworked. We now have "expectations" which will increase as your population grows. It affects total population as well as population per species.
• New, rare race added (Cantors). Giants not really good at anything else but fighting. Very picky and demanding.
• Maintenance and upkeep reworked. Should be a higher rate, you now need to pay attention to it. There are settings for road and room maintenance in the room panel.
• More resource expenditure UI. Added maintenance, construction and some other resource usage statistics.
• Temperature according to climate and season. Exposure added to subjects. they have a chance to die from exposure. Exposure can be mitigated by wearing clothes and using hearths /skinnydipping. There is also snow in cold climates.
• Walls now count towards building preference.
• Squareness thing added for room construction. Affects happiness. Species can have a thing for organic looking cities or square ones.
• Isolation added to rooms based on walls surrounding it. Affects maintenance needed greatly.
• Room cost and upkeep is increased by building big rooms. You now need supportive pillars or walls inside the rooms to avoid this extra cost.
• Efficiency/cosiness reworked. Based on actual stations vs knick-knacks/auxiliaries
• Monument Trees now emit harmony. awe, harmony and dread reworked.
• Noise. Noisy rooms disturb subjects. Noise travels through air, but is dampened by walls.
• Paper and papermaker, primarely for libraries that now needs paper, else they'll work at 25% speed.
• Fixed game zooming, should now zoom in and out without disorientation.
• Krull wins if his men reaches the throne.
• Species work priorities draggable.
• Fart sounds reduced.
• Re-added sounds to work rooms
• Service usage number fixed
• New localization method ensuring swift translation.
• Removed coal usage in weaver, reduced efficiency
• Launcher wind sound lowered.
• Faction colors mixup fix.
• CTD when invasion
• CTD when dragging unit cards in dev mode
• CTD when opening room list
• Fixed broken kitchens. No more free food.
• Food preference fixed.
• CTD when deleting room from panel.

V54 unstable - Nobles and Stuff

Released: 11/4/2020
Type: Small Update

Features:

• Version log in launcher!
• Nobles!
• Slaves
• Ability to enslave Krull's men.
• Emigration
• New top panel
• New bottom build panel
• New room - chambers. The finest of sleep services.
• New Room - flats an upgrade from dormitories.
• Dormitory reworked and job-less.
• Dorms and flats modable. You can add your own versions.
• Sleepy subjects will find sleep facilities in the order they like them. Then find a place indoors to sleep.
• Reputation now Happiness. Complete rework.
• 2 new songs + music changes with battles/stops at night.
• All panels have been reworked slightly
• Subjects get clean in baths and by skinny-dipping. They get dirty over time, visiting the lavatory and spending time in industries and mines.
• Added harmony and Dread influence to work the same as awe. Added ability for roads to emit different kinds of influence. Specific monuments for harmony and dread will come
• Added a bunch of new statistics and some happiness tied to them.
• Added extensive modability to races.
• Retirement mechanics added
• Service room access reworked
• Kickstarter names for subjects added
• Building preference added. Races like to stay in different buildings.
• Reworked room placement UI
• Added walls and doorways when placing rooms.
• Added colors for battlegear upgrades
• Minimap boxes for resources and wild edibles.
• Work priorities added
• Secondary work priority added per race
• Races have different skills and different preferences when it comes to work
• Added light & awe coverage to right click explore.
• New font for launcher

Fixes:

• Might now correspond at a 1:1 ratio with your population. For claiming regions 1500 might is required for each of them
• Added email in error messages.
• Possibly trade depot bugs fixed.
• Added manual steam-fetch mods button in launcher.
• Export/import setting is set to 50%
• Fixed a bunch of placability issues.
• Woodcutters stopped from chopping invisible trees.
• Rooms can now be built on top of degrading roads.
• When placing monuments, you can delete mistakes by holding shift.
• Collision with domesticated animals removed.
• Available services changed to a "usage" percentage. Can be sorted in menus.
• Flowers no longer grows on fences.
• When you're building a room, Right Clicking or opening another panel will construct the room (if it's constructible). This also applies when Refurnishing a room
• Krull increases his tribute as you yield.
• You are warned where Krull is likely to strike.
• camera pans to where Krull attacks
• Adjusted working schedules, so that there will be more activity in the day.
• Graveyard items fixed
• Might have fixed world map lights
• Subjects will return equippables to stockpiles if there is storage for it before they drop it on the ground. Inc. Battlegear.
• Delta generation fixed.
• Fixed Stockpile UI.
• Light, awe and road access now only updates when a subject is outside of a room.
• Main menu: rearranged buttons a bit, removed others.
• Mouse scrolling now opens the minimap.
• Fixed some rendering bugs with growables.
• Adjusted Animal spawn rates, eating behavior.
• Adjusted light colors somewhat.
• Fixed subjects clothes color.
• Fixed minimap colors for rooms working as intended, no need to load save
• Fixed a visual bug with degraded floors/roads
• Errored jobs show what resource is missing.
• Changed a little trade thing with imports. The game would import resources in order depleting your treasury on the first ones, never getting to the last ones. Now changed to prioritize resources based on incoming/storage capacity.
• Mushrooms now placable in caves.
• Monument no longer removes cave roof when removed.
• Fixed some stat and cost values for room items.
• Added support for non 16:9 screens (no more stretching).
• NOTE: some drivers might report faulty resolutions, casing crashes.
• Hopefully fixed the game from going into low FPS when Vsync is enabled.
• Defeated divisions un-musters
• Accepting Message prompt about Krull's tribute closes the message UI
• Soldiers move from their current division to ones with more experience if experience is gained. Fixed a few training bugs
• Animals no longer run away from hunters
• Animals drop a lot more resources
• Hunting fixed in general
• Animals in water rendering fix.
• Entities saved differently, shaving off a few MB of savegame size
• Sorted the order of resources.
• Flimsy placement of walls/ceilings fixed.
• Graveyard desecration values reworked. (Avoid penalty by deactivating it and let the graves disappear)
• Max room size now can't be exceeded.",
• Dormitory knickknacks different costs",
• Library and knowledge fixed, it was a disaster.",
• Slayed enemies now says that they were slayed by you.",
• Outposts such as fisheries always finds fish, even if once depleted",
• Double click for save/load in menu

Bugs:

• Fixed CTD when undoing items in room construction.
• Fixed continue button in menu when saves were deleted.
• Fixed a CTD when restarting from the main menu a couple of times.
• Fixed CTD when trying to delete non existent save
• kitchen had a nasty bug, hopefully fixed.
• Rare corpses stay active fix
• Fleeing Krull messes everything up fixed.

Notes:

• Doors are no longer intended to use with rooms. They're going to be changed to gatehouses, but I leave them in for now.
• Some things are coded in the blind. I only have a 16:9 display for instance, so, wide displays may/may not work, please let me know if you have one...",
• I seem to get crashes when choosing certain full screen displays. I hope this is because I bought a cheap display :). Let me know if you get any of that.
• There is no tutorial in this version.

V54 progress - 2

Released: 10/10/2020
Type: Small Update

This update featues more UI improvements and makes some resources equippable.

V54 progress

Released: 9/28/2020
Type: Small Update

This update features an active face generator.

Hotfixes

Released: 9/26/2020
Type: Small Update

53.51

• Fixed tribute from claimed regions
• Fixed forgetting knowledge from affecting all techs.

53.52

• Fixed a CTD that occurred when building baths that I introduced in 53.51 :)

53.53

• Fixed baths, now you can build big basins
• Fixed some CTDs (Crash to desktop)
• Set up a new build pipeline, so that the game updates to all platforms instantly. I've tested this on mac, but not linux. Would be very grateful if someone on Linux could test it out.

53.54

• Added a little more info to the launcher info screen to help debug mac users.

53.55

• Hopefully fixed the full screen visuals for mac users. I still recommend playing in windowed more, or at lower resolutions. That retina display is a tricky beast)
• Adjusted mouse wheel to better fit mac.

53.56

• Fixed crashes related to computers being set to other languages than English.

53.57

• Fixed a CTD on load

53.58

• Fixed a CTD when looking at the minimap
• Fixed a CTD due to big, big rooms.
• Fixed a CTD when trying to add animals through modding.

53.59

• Fixed a CTD that wasn't really fixed.

53.60

• Finally found a bug where deleting a room under construction would delete parts of neighboring rooms and cause a lot of bugs as a result. Also increased max addable fortifications to 8.

53.61

• Removed the confusing tool policy.
• Fixed a bug where subjects wouldn't fetch tools unless the clothes policy was > 0.

53.63

• Fixed a krull spawning CTD.

53.64

• Fixed trade depots. They would become useless in time and workers would stop fetching goods.
• Fixed steam integrations from crashing the game at startup.

53.67

• Made some smaller specific fixes. Tried to get the steam integrations to work.

1000 copies sold, bug fixes, rant & and a thank you!

Released: 9/22/2020
Type: Small Update

• The damned message panel can now be closed. (it could be closed with right click, but now also through clicking the 'x').
• Crashes when pressing the wiki button is gone. Instead no wiki will be opened, because there isn't one yet for all room types.
• Steam screenshots should now work. Unfortunately the in-game screenshots made by clicking buttons /pressing prtsc are not connected to steam yet, but will be in the next major update.
• Mac unplayability: When playing on mac, the steam overlay goes rabid and completely takes over. I have no control over this. The only fix now is to disable it. https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=9394-yofv-0014 Long term fixes is Steam fixing it, or me dropping Mac support, if it's not acceptable.
• Crashes when clicking play. This seems to be conflicts with other software running on your PC. I've had Bandicam as a culprit for example. try turning those off.

V53 - Refinement & mod support

Released: 8/12/2020
Type: Regular Update

Modding:

• Resources
• Many room types
• Technologies
• Sounds
• Structures (fences, walls, ceilings, fortifications)
• Floors & Roads (they look better too)
• Animals

V52 - The world and beyond

Released: 7/14/2020
Type: Regular Update

This update featues large improvements for world and region generations.

V51 - Battles and KS

Released: 3/26/2020
Type: Minor Update

This update features battles and an antagonist named Krull.

Minor Fixes:

• Prettier roads
• Rendering optimizations
• Tool level now set for each room
• Zoom move with mousewheel
• Coziness implemented bonuses special items for other rooms
• Instant feedback when trying to place something where it doesn't belong
• Room furnishing new item-sizes for all rooms with feedback when trying to place them.
• Night gamma setting
• Script loading/saving more robust
• Better job prioritizing by the AI. It's not perfect, but better
• New technology screen
• Ground is prettier gets wet in rain
• Start camp is now placed manually at the beginning of a game
• Jobs shows when there is a problem
• Continue in main menu loads latest save
• Deleting graveyards will give huge penalty to reputation
• Fine structures uses cut stone
• Hotspots - mark part of the map and navigate to it easily
• Globian eggs dropped by killed Globians