Category Archives: Downloads

What’s new in Alpha 10: Particle effects (smoke for houses work, smoke for damaged houses, dust effects for plans placement and for house destruction, emitters that could be placed on terrain in MapEd (e.g. mist). SSAO (aka prettier lighting) New … Continue reading →

Alpha 10 is entering “work in progress” stage, where it has its features mostly done. This stage usually runs for several months while I’m polishing features (and adding smaller new ones). Come by and take a stab at it in … Continue reading →

I’m happy to announce new Alpha of the game! Alpha 9 changes and improvements: Three major gameplay mechanics (described in detail in earlier article): Wildlife (aggressive animals and dens) Early army (militia can be trained in Camp) Morale to affect … Continue reading →

New Alpha 8.2 has just one critical bugfix. In Alpha 8.1 the game would crash upon warriors death. This has been fixed now. Download links:   Discussion forum: https://www.knightsandmerchants.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=35

Fixed bugs: + Having selected a neutral unit that is about to be dead (killed) causes a crash + Camera changes height too noticeable on panning across mountains + Camera does not move smoothly when dragging over minimap + Desert … Continue reading →

Alpha 8 is ready!   Change list is quite big: Gameplay mechanics: Rigged Cottages to spawn Blank units Units get trained from Blanks now Wool/Cloth/Recruits removed Warriors take small time to train now Units can be stacked in training queues … Continue reading →

Alpha 7.1 features a dozen of bugfixes and improvements (updated to r4382). Download links: Full list of changes below:

Alpha 7 is finally ready! It took a long time, but the list of improvements is also long: Improved Win/Defeat graphics Reworked terrain to allow for textures 21 new terrain textures Terrain surfaces painting with weights in MapEd Improved and … Continue reading →