Scottish medieval metropolis builder and colony sim Clanfolk simply received much more Scottish with the addition of bogs and bagpipes to the administration sport. Replace eight has now rolled out for Clanfolk’s Steam Early Entry construct, and developer MinMax Video games is celebrating with an ongoing Steam sale providing the city-building sport at a reduction. Additionally included within the newest patch are heather and thistle patches, and a brand new vary of historic Scottish Clan tartans for gamers to select from.
Let’s speak bogs – no, not that sort. The soiled, soggy variety – cease it. Peat bogs. The wetlands are one of many greatest new additions to the Scottish simulation sport and, very similar to real-world medieval occasions, they’ll be a fantastic supply of harvesting iron. Your villagers can gather peat bricks, which should be left outdoors to dry earlier than use – simply be sure you maintain them out of any rainfall.
You’ll additionally be capable of gather lavatory iron, which can initially be straightforward to assemble however should later be dug out utilizing a peat brick extraction course of as you harvest extra of it. The ensuing lavatory iron then wants processing, which leaves you with a beautiful, step by step renewable supply of iron. As for the peat bricks, they can be utilized for constructing in addition to applied right into a tiled peat range for use for heating and cooking.
To additional reinforce the texture of the world, new heather and thistle fields add that extra-Scottish contact to proceedings. Each can be utilized for decorations, and will likely be accessible for use in pure treatments in a future replace. Heather has a excessive pure magnificence and will be be damaged down into branches if wanted, whereas Thistle fields introduce a pure barrier to motion and will be changed into hay as required.
Maybe much more crucially, your clanfolk can now study to play Bagpipes and the Celtic Harp – in any case, what’s a sport set in Scotland with out these trademark whistles and wails of wind whooshing by everybody’s favorite lovecraftian squeeze bag? Talent ranges have additionally been launched for devices, that means that your villagers can produce a distinct vary of songs, lovely or in any other case, relying upon who’s enjoying collectively and their respective expertise.
31 new Clans have been added based mostly on historic Scottish Clans, full with their respective tartans. These got here from participant requests, with a choice of generic tartans with customized names and mottos deliberate for a future replace. There’s additionally some good high quality of life additions, together with reminders when new seasons start with some useful newbie options and a ‘good harvest’ possibility that ensures your clanfolk will solely harvest gadgets after they’re at their most yield. You possibly can learn the total patch notes on Steam, the place the sport is 20% off on the time of writing.
Indie technique video games writer Hooded Horse, who’re publishing Clanfolk, additionally lately launched darkish fantasy metropolis builder Towards the Storm on Steam Early Entry – we took an prolonged have a look at it and had been very impressed by what we performed. In the meantime, a Manor Lords playable demo lately confirmed off the medieval metropolis builder throughout Steam Subsequent Fest.
