## Gameplay
• **Mod updated to 1.8**!
• 10 new harvest conditions have been added
• Dwarven Social Hierarchy Added
• Ebridor Rework
• Added Religious Tax law, available to House of Fate & Lords of Avarice tags
• Gave Arrador a proper namelist and some historical starting leaders

## AI
• Increased chance for the AI to change to preferred laws in the absence of insurrectionary interest groups.
• AI aggression for underdeveloped nations has been greatly increased
• AI aggression against 'radical leftists' has been removed.
• AI will now stat diplomatic plays against countries that share their cultural traits or homelands.
• AI will be significantly less likely to start frivolous diplomatic plays against their own subjects.
• AI will now dynamically modify their chance to start diplomatic plays
• AI is less likely to start diplomatic plays against nations in which they do not have a strategic adjacency.
• The economic strategy for the AI is now based on the market conditions of goods
• AI will now be much more inclined to dominate, subjugate and expand vassals.
• AI will now build questing offices to reduce the malus from adventurer coverage and no longer sustain a permanent -1 to SoL.
• AI will now adjust taxes, government wages, military wages and consumption taxes better
• Rework to how AI allocates spending on "nice-to-haves", "wants-to-haves" and "needs-to-haves".
• Rework to how AI decides which buildings to prioritize and what PMs to have active.
• Rework to how AI prioritizes trade.
• Fixed an issue with how AI allocated construction
• Fixed an issue causing the AI to spawn with hostile goals against each other despite being in a friendly diplomatic pact on game start.
• Game rule: enabling (default) or disabling the special political engagement multipliers for pre-industrial pops.
• Game rule: enabling (default) or disabling cached ai political engagement multipliers.
• Game rule: selective (default), and disabled dynamic diplomatic play power calculations.
• Game rule: averse (default) or unrestricted diplomatic plays between Great Powers at the beginning of the game.
• Game rule: enabling (default) or disabling an astral consortium modifier applied to Arrador so they stop dying.

## Balance
• Minor increase to assimilation and conversion.
• Subsistence farms and Grain-farms will be changed throughout the coming months in terms of location. This update includes changes to South Seas arables regarding a swap from rice to millet farms.
• Airships now have more uses via Urban Center, Hunting Lodges, Mountain Maize, and Balloon Recon now using an Airship instead
• Added some more forest traits
• Added a bunch of natural harbour across the map
• Added a Yulug river state trait
• Fixed some states not having rice in Khaara Ur

## Art

• Dwarves have received an infantry unit portrait set based on the East Locari dwarves in Dedna-Dakh
• Orcs have now have a line infantry portrait

## Bug Fixes
• An overhaul to the airship network has occurred. A number of dead zones have been fixed and convoy pathing should be more reliable in general
• Fixed a multitude of issues related to undefined GFX meshes.
• Fixed an issue causing character interactions to massively slow down the game.
• Fixed an issue in the trade stations diplomatic action that referred to non-existent vanilla states.
• Fixed an issue with dynamic naming involving Ceraun.
• Fixed major issues revolving around invalid provinces, impassable terrain and city locations which caused save games to become unplayable and large amounts of stability issues.
• Fixed other minor issues (TM)

## Gameplay
• Added the Industrial Regulation law group, to be expanded on in 1.8
• Added Plutocracy Government law, boosting industrialists
• Added "Pest Control" policing law, boosting adventurer coverage
• Added Political Lobbies to Yulugs subjects. The Industrialists, Landowners and Armed force will want to warm up to the overlord, while the rest of the IGs push for independence
• Durandmarche added to Lake Bossard.
• So'lia added, East-Lacertian tag in Locari
• New Awakened Ape-Tags
• Added 3 unique companies to Arrador
• Added the Mavelian religion in Arrador and surrounding areas
• Characters can now spawn as Starbrands of the Fey or of the Golem

## Art
• Orcs now have tusks
• Seleneth, Teferet, and Anwarth have had their colors changed
• Yulug has received a unique state picture for its capital city, Khor-Hurzk

## Balance
• Added the Arcana Party as a default party for the mages IG
• Changed Darvak from National Supremacy to Cultural Exclusion
• Added a good soils (Pearly Meadows) state trait to Arrador
• Added some Wealders and a Wealder homeland to Mount Yelfis, in Darvak
• Replaced Pecif culture's Settler Coast culture trait with Uriks Passage
• Replaced the Bossardi in Whiskerfields with more Wealders
• Redid the pop culture demographics and numbers in Arrador
• Changed the Ocelian minorities in Landing at Sea and Tostig's Dike to Ralaurians
• Added some resources to Arrador, namely hunting
• Dreadmoor's blood tithes now properly weigh where to send pops
• Wizards are now always included in manor houses under certain magic laws.
• Added government admin professionalism PM that employs wizards under the court mages law
• Boosted mages IG power with the magical proliferation institution instead of just archmages
• Added urban center churches PM option that hires wizards under when under the traditional precedent law.
• Added more wizards to universities under the wizardry schools law
• Paylaz updated
• Onghor updated
• Thassarcia now has wishstone reefs
• Ceraun pops updated
• Achon updated (again)
• Secretkeepers updated (again)
• Teferet updated (again)
• Leonceau is now Rose Court
• Leviathan Outpost employee mortality has been lowered
• Late-game wishstone trucks PM buffed
• Removed a mountain state trait from a desert in Yavira
• Removed a desert trait in a state in Kharaa Ur
• Added some hunting to states in Gavkhan
• There is now a significant Church of Man minority within the Mousefolk
• Added a harbour state trait to Saint Mer in Ceraun
• Added a golden fields agricultural state trait to Khaara Ur
• Changed the default/main religion of Changelings to Erigian

## Bugfixes
• Fixed the basic fishing company using whaling instead of leviathan outposts
• Changed arcane learning to reduce ahead of time penalty and give innovation cap
• Changed Loyal mage trait to give state construction and reduce turmoil penalties
• Added the Settler Coast culture trait to Highland Halfling culture
• the dummy religion glitch is actually fixed this time. maybe.
• Corrected IG weights for adventurers and heroes
• Fixed Banana waterwranglers turning nanas into coffee. It's not that kind of magic.
• Fixed dragonblight outbreaks after the cure was researched
• Fixed a handful of known CTDs
• Fixed a bug causing one the Nyolli JE general events to not fire
• A few broken ports in the coast naga area have been fixed, thanks to a bug report from user pkp
• Fixed more borken ports in Snowpeak dominion and equine plains
• Properly flipped Salzenland and Mondhain’s names
• Fixed Sternewacht’s pops being Druidic despite the nation being Daelic

## Other
• The Animal Kingdoms submod is actually live!

## Content
• Added Pre-Industrial tags. These have a different starting political setup with a new Interest Group: Tribes
• Two new gnoll formables for the Hyena Plains, including a related JE for Prowlhold. Unite the Nyolli and embrace the mountain!
• The Dwarven settlements of the Nyollyx are now on the map
• A slew of historical gnollish leaders, agitators, and generals have been added
• New jungle gnoll releasable tag "Mkolla", within Thassarcia

## Balance
• Flussholm's bloc has been rebalanced. Kamui is a March. Salzland is a dominion. Rannor is independent now.
• Ceraun demographics rebalanced
• Prilyra has been tuned up.
• Yingulnado now no longer starts as part of the Ring of Steel bloc, but begins the game with a pro-Khaduras lobby.
• Both Skravend and Prowlhold's starting tech and starting laws have been improved
the claims situation on the Hyena Plains has been improved, and should produce less bordergore going forward
• Ceraun now starts the game with a pro-Dumonia lobby
• The Ocelian Locari company now starts the game with a pro-Emerald League lobby
• Fixed some homelands in Khaara Ur
• Added a Hornodukh homeland to Kargishabbo
• Added a small minority of Thiralians to their island colony of Umagama
• Skravend now starts the game with an anti-Thassarcia lobby
• Shirhuajian now starts the game with an anti-Yulug lobby
• Added 2 Coalfield TP states to Arrador
• Added a Moorwealder culture trait to Wealder, Coast Halfling, Mousefolk, and Yelfi cultures
• The Orcs of Embervein have been demoted to unrecognized.
• Orcs elsewhere on the map, as well as Wood Gnomes and Wood Elves among other tags will now be preindustrial
• Thassarcia now has homesteading
• Arrador has had its demographics redone and has more pops now overall
• Kailando's demographics have been fixed and made proper
• Kailando itself has FAR more pops now
• Removed Frontier Colonization from Seleneth

## Bugfixes

• Fixed Yulug vassals doing nothing but spamming gov admins forever by giving them gov admins. And removing their police forces.
• Fixed Hobgoblin training standards. Now properly makes Yulug armies harder to rout and more deadly.
• Fixed Hobgoblin Yoke to be actually fulfillable
• Possible Divide by 0 crash fixes.
• Finally fixed the positivist baby
• Removed double malaria from Kunduzov
• Removed a stray Awakened Fauna homeland in Chintanagiri
• Fixed the state with zero pops of Ribagar in the Plaguewoods
• Fixed the East Dumonian River state trait not having localization

Weekly Update, October 21th, Week 42.

• Almost all of Kharaa Ur is now releasable, with some parts being further balkanizable
• Fixed a bug where only one of Dumonia's underlying nations could be released in a peace deal at a time. We encourage you to test this
• added new gulf naga formable "Kulkedliak", along with a handful of releasables in the region
• A slew of new releasables means that Ravik can now be properly balkanized. One or two more on the way.
• Added Journal for Ceraun to handle their halfling minorities
• Added Real Union subject type, mainly for historical content
• the hole in Skravend has been filled with rocks, and some of their cities have been loc'd
• Made it clear to adventurers that archeology is part of their portfolio, closing another privatization loop.
• Capped adventurer coverage demand from unused arable land to 100
• Fisheries that catch abnormal fish have been renamed to reflext that fact. Also squiddies.
• A lot of small fixes, at least one naval exit added
• Added refridgeration to sea snakes
• Fixed Naga formable
• Fixed one of Yulug's historical agitators. Poor guy actually a lady got lost in the DLC vortex.
• Many secret goals fixed. Prepare to be antagonized by a nation who's name you can not pronounce.
• Many building history fixes. Whole economies, lost to the maelstrom of "that is not what that state is called."
• Dovbush got their general back
• (Re)instated a small amount of religious freedom in the South Seas Company
• Rustaxe found their two missing generals and put them back into their army
• As did Khaduras
• The South Seas Company found their admiral
• Taught a certain ogre nation that no, they can not have 1.5 Million popes as slaves. They should be content with pops, instead.
• Pearfields naval port-al to Thassarcia has been closed
• Fixed Serbinelle not being considered coastal
• Restored Dragon isles subject flags
• Awakened Wildlife can now enact anarchism from the start of the game
• Overhauled the society tech tree, many techs including socialism and political agitation now come in slightly earlier.
• Observatories are now capped to one per state.
• Added flag to brynurin
• Cooperative Ownership is now allowed under anarchy without Council Republic as long as socialism is researched.
• The hyena plains have received some well-deserved love, including border redraws, a localization overhaul, and some arable land buffs
• Corrected Thalorian formation requirements