Your island sits in the water, plunder reports name the fix, and routes mind themselves

A quality of life pass across the daily game: the island you look at every session, the reports you read, and the chores in between.

Trade routes

Automated routes no longer tie up your merchant ships between runs. Each sailing takes what is docked, so more ships or a fuller store means a bigger run. Cargo can be set as amounts or as a percentage split of each run’s hold, routes can carry goods, and you can hold, amend or retire a route at any time, even with a convoy at sea.

Getting robbed

Being plundered used to be a dead end. Now you are told the moment it lands, and the report names what your island was missing and puts the patrol first, because ships on the water are what turns a raider back. An island robbed again and again with nothing patrolling it shows “A Shore Worth Robbing” until you send one.

Underneath, a settled harbour remembers raids for three days, so the same Governor pays less each time. And your storehouse now shields enough to bank your next building at home. Raiders still always find a tenth.

The Black Tide

The Tide has been rebuilt over these past weeks, and most of that is already at sea. It keeps no calendar now. It answers what you do: strike it and it answers in proportion, raise a shrine and the sea takes a shore nearby. Its counter-attacks carry no siege engines, so a reply costs you ships and soldiers, never buildings.

New today, it stops raiding while you sleep, returns to the same harbour far less often, and steers clear of any island you keep a patrol over. It also hunts blackened idols in earnest. A raid sails with thirty warships, three a tick at most and one per owner every four hours, biggest hoard first. Set a patrol if you mean to keep your idols.

New

• One dialog for a combined attack: the landfall clock, every fleet as its own card, and a single Recall All
• “A Shore Worth Robbing” marks an island that keeps getting robbed. A patrol clears it
• The Watchtower tracks the Black Tide’s hoard. Raid a fortress to drive it down

Improved

• Islands sit in the water, with real shadows, drifting cloud and moving shallows
• A starving island shows “The Stores Run Thin”, with the cause and the remedy
• A patrol sends a blockade home whoever wins the fight
• The combined attack lists harbours that can sail first, the rest under “Cannot sail yet” with the reason
• The island ledger and mission history open instantly
• Push notifications carry the anchor and name the office they came from
• Tap a Governor in any chat and message them straight from their profile
• Colonisation reports list the charter stores the voyage spent
• Tavern boards list the top twenty, and count everyone else at the table
• The Warlords board says what it measures, and points raiders at the Plunderers board
• The feedback form’s Send button is in reach without scrolling

Fixed

• Friends can no longer be attacked, plundered, colonised or blockaded
• Spying and checking odds no longer cost a new Governor their sanctuary
• A patrol that fights a blockade sends back a report
• Merchant ships are no longer lost on the way home
• A neglected island no longer loses its whole garrison at once
• Attack warnings wake your phone, stale ones stop arriving late, and German notifications are in German
• Taking an island with nobody home no longer builds your Warlord standing
• Long messages no longer hide what you said from the other person
• A target announcement in alliance chat takes you to that island
• Building a monument no longer rearranges your village or drops your flag
• A finished combined attack opens its battle report, and none stick on “Loading”
• Removing a friend asks you to confirm first
• Shave the Belly counts the bellies you shaved when you close the game
• The spy panel shows the enemy hounds’ level as a number again
• Your island picture updates straight away when you raise a statue
• The “Report a bug” button on an honour badge works

Thanks

Some of this release started as your reports. Thanks to Miko Misan, Pytale, Keenest Kingfish, Turtle Blues, Aragorn, Jittery Gecko and Aye-for-an-Aye.