Did something break? Please tell me about it.
Roads need a little rework, currently placing a road erases whatever was beneath it, hence why everything turns to grass.
Not building roads on mountains makes sense, maybe with a different type of work designation that could flatten the mountain (to make a pass, or allow for building a mine)
I saw a crash in 1.2.4 around fighting masklings, still trying to chase it down.
Migrants idle when they reach the settlement's influence range (the distance at which you can construct buildings). That influence range is based on population, and can get pretty big. Those idle migrants will stop idling as soon as they're assigned a task.
the migrant groups were outside the settlement range, they were idling in the masklings camp where they spawn (unless they overlapped)
Also sometimes migrants will get stuck travelling to a structure that is just on the other side of something ex: carry bricks to a wall but they walk up to the tower just in front of it instead of going around through the gate
Does that make sense? I often have to delete the structure, and retry but it can happen again, it's almost like I'm guessing if this can be built or not in this place E. Happens almost always with walls in corners that sorta thing
It's possible that a settlement's influence range expanded to a maskling camp, there's no cap on it currently.
As a performance optimization citizens will "give up" if they can't reach a destination or get closer to a destination after a thousand calculations or so. What's happening there is the citizens are getting "stuck" in a spot too far from a door.
The Trade wagon displays as a 3x3 tiles, but in actuallity it only occuplies a 1 tile space. What you're seeing is probably the wagon overlapping onto the water.
There's an issue in 1.2.5 where pathing can ignore structures in some edge cases. I have a fix in 1.3, but I could release it early if it really bugs you.
Edit: Masklings shouldn't ignore the walls, so don't worry about your defenses being useless.
I broke another save. Thanks for "fixing" the first one btw.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xbt4...
This one was created in 1.2.5 but I copied it to 1.2.6 originally it worked and I could close and reload it without a problem but now at the end I closed the entire application and then tried to reload and it just shows fatal error. Got up to over a thousand people this time.
Edit:.
When someone is hurt you can see the "!" in the grey area around the screen.
Savefile fix is in 1.2.7 Looks like world generation was running during the saving process, resulting in a corrupted world. A preventative measure will be in 1.3. The would should load correctly, now though. On a side note, that world will be great for my performance profiling work. Thanks!
That graphics glitch is already fixed in 1.3
Yes it did. It had enough for around 70-100 people I built the whole settlement with the starting 17 people.
I even send in a second migrant wave from the capital after a few Years and started importing food from other settlements because the 17/34 people couldn't support all the houses I had built. It took 3-4 Years for the first real migrants to show up.
You should actually still have the save with that settlement it was the last I uploaded the settlement between the 2 mountain areas. Btw. you said you wanted to use it for performance test. Were you able to fix some of the crashes happening every few minutes?
Yes they are! But its like directly beside my settlement, literally a couple pixels out of tower range.
I did settle directly next to fetile soil near the shallow water though so it may be coincidence
I was just not sure if the interaction was on purpose, since i lose a few villargers to continually alert mode.
I'll take a look at the "wait for buddies" behavior of the Masklings. Maybe have them wait further away, so as to not trigger an alert.
Found some new bugs.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1vi9... Maskling camps can spawn on rivers which is kinda weird.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/nmq1... If you have a bunch of migrants and send them through a bunch of streets the may become stuck and completly unable to move. I had that situation happen twice in that settlement. Just make a new migrant group and send them north (You can just send them to join the city again and then form a new migrant group).
Another thing I noticed was that masklings camps can be built/spawn on top of each other.
Also the performance stat window in region map mode.
I download it I start the game and when it starts is the version 1.2.0 but until then I did not see problem that version was cool the problem is that When I started to get better more houses large population I click to see the information and gets fatal error, i already tried download again but of the same says that it will be corrected in the next update but I can, every time that I download is the 1.2.0 help
1.2.0 has some bug and some performance problems. The current version is 1.3.2.
If you click the "Download Now" button, you should see a popup with payment options, right above the payment amount box there is a link: "No thanks, just take me to the downloads". Click that, download "bronze-age-windows.zip", and find where it was saved. Unzip and play.
Alternatively you can use the itch.io app which makes installing really easy.
I loaded the save and played for several minutes without crashes. It could be that whatever the problem was it has been fixed by the patch I'm working on. If the problem persists in 1.3.3 (due out today or tomorrow) let me known and I'll take another look.
Another one: the pigs have escaped their pasture and I have no idea how. Nobody seems intent on putting them back either.
Edit: The pigs mostly got re-gathered eventually, but one dude got stuck on a peninsula while gathering pigs (again), which seemingly stopped all pig-gathering business altogether, despite half a dozen empty pastures.
1.3 has an overallocation bug around pigs and tradehouses. When a group of pigs reaches the tradehouse, another batch of pigs is sent out. That's been fixed in 1.4.
There is currently a limit of 1 shepherd per settlement as well, which is why the stuck guy is preventing any other pig gathering. Could you send me the world so I could see how he's getting stuck?
After reloading the game it seems that he got unstuck somehow. He was at the tip of that peninsula while he was stuck. I don't recall having tradehouses when the pig escape happened but maybe I'm wrong.
On a 1440p monitor, the world doesn't fill the game window, I get black bars on the sides like mario 3. 
When I go to place roads, I'll click and hold with the mouse and then move the window with the arrow keys. I'd like them to be straight the whole way. But the game won't render anything new so I just scroll into oblivion.
Yes, I click "export image", it sometimes run for a second or two, and then it gives me the regular "fatal error, bronze age has crashed menu/quit" message. It is in a subfolder of Documents, not Program Files. I'll try running it with admin, see if it changes anything.
PS: Nope, admin doesn't change anything. It creates a folder for it in the export folder ("Eror the plane of chopping turn 76858", number varies a bit), but it's empty.
So Twonky made a temporary fix for those of us eager to try stuff out! Check the comments here: https://commodoreshawn.itch.io/bronze-age/devlog/14251/20-new-era-update
Okay, found a better fix than using Twonky's mod. This is for people who live in regions where commas are used for decimal place. Instructions are for Windows 7 but probably apply to different Windows.
Go to Control Panel -> Region and Language.
Change the Format to some type of English, or else it probably also works if you go to Additional Settings and change the Decimal symbol to "."
I downloaded the new version but I cannot create a new world, everytime the progress bar completes ,,Picking region centers", the fatal error occurs. In the main menu there is a notification that some data files were not loaded. It happens all the time, restarting the game does not help. I have Windows 10.
UPDATE: I tried moving the files around and I managed to find out that I made the most progress with the Komma's fix beacuse with the normal file in the game the fatal error occured but with the Komma's fix I could get trough the loading without any fatal errors but once I was in the starting point choosing menu I couldnt press the [Start] button, it just didnt allowed me to.
Found the problem, it looks like it's due to the "Not enough housing for migrants" notification being present when saving the world. I'll have a fix in the next patch, in the mean-time you should be able to avoid the problem by adjusting the autosave interval, dismissing any notifications, and/or building more housing.
managed to clear out 2 maskling vilages in quick succession, and i have 2 issues; first is what you see in pic1 i was going for a racial purity match and so once i got the first tribe under my belt i starting demolishing their roads (first). This lead to whatever mess we see on top of some of these buildings. The second is that since the whole tribe became commanded by me the second i destroyed their home base, i sent their 15-20 units into the adjacent village with my troops while doing that i decided to demilitarize them and destroyed their war huts. After the war was over they came back to the ruins of their hut and just stood there. Sadly i was spawned on an island so i can't send them on a suicide mission (not even into the ocean), so i think it would be great if there was a disband button on them, or maybe you could speed up the HP degeneration time on the base-less units (idk if that's been implemented yet, i've only heard about it).
As a side thing, i was managing my second town when my troops took it and i had no idea until i saw all the masklings wearing my colors; so i thought it might be nice if once a totem is taken we get a menu screen like in civ where it gives us the option to raze, colonize, or maybe make the citizens into migrant slaves to be moved to another city. You can kinda raze them by destroying the camp, thus killing all maskling slaves and turning the humans into migrants that you can use to resettle the area, but i'd like a simpler option. (PS - if ya need my save file, just ask)
The ability to abandon and reclaim structures is already done for the next update. Abandoned structures won't drain or produce resources or infrastructure, and will slowly decay.
Where ever you downloaded Bronze Age, if you installed it through the itch.io App there is a button in the bottom right (when looking at the Bronze Age page) called "Show local files" that will open the install directory.
I'm seeing some reported errors around trying to load a save file "Inhe The Island Of Hammering". They could be your errors, in that case you may be trying to load an old (pre-2.0) save file. You can check for it in the "saves" folder in the Bronze Age directory. If the file doesn't have an XML extension then it's an old format save file that sadly can't be opened in Bronze Age 2.0.
You could download Bronze Age Classic to play that save file, though.
There's a couple suggestions threads, and feel free to make your own as well. I've thought about making a discord group, but I'm not sure I have the time to manage that as well as the game.
As znuffy said you can build monuments. When fully upgraded they're a very efficient source of morale. If you have patches of fertile soil you can also build gardens.
Resources show up on the zoomed out map, but I like the idea of a "find a resource" window. Stellaris has an "expansion planner", and that sort of thing could work well in Bronze Age.
Towers are a good candidate for keeping vision throughout your territory. They can also slow down attackers that pass through.
I'll see what I can do. Probably cancelable upgrades, but also have the structure keep operating while being upgraded. That way the whole settlement doesn't shut down.
ok thanks for the heads up i will remove bridges also i need to reset all the trade routes as the boats are all suck now going back and forth in an area my next question is once a bridge is built does that permanently cut off that water way as even with the bridge gone ships wont travel over the shallows any more?
why not just let boats go under bridges that would be a clever thing to add to the game with all the broken things you added recently and give happiness back to monuments
Still doesn't work.
Now at the same place it says "Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics.NoSuitableGraphicsDeviceException: Adapter 'NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M ' does not support the Reach profile."
The full text output of the error file is here:
https://pastebin.com/ZMsZLwSa
It seems that indiegames like this have issues with my graphics card quite often, is there some setting I can change on my side, either with my system or with game configs, that will make it easier? For this game, specifically? Am I supposed to conclude that my graphics card is too outdated to run specifically games with pixellated 2D graphics? I mean idk
The problem was on my end.
Sorry about that.
For some complicated reason a program was masking my graphics card, using a bit of software that acts like a driver, which would confuse my system for some programs trying to use the graphics card. I uninstalled the program and I can now run the game.
I'm now having a lot of fun playing your game.
I think a decrease in tin needed in smelters back to 1 and a decrease in tin production in the mines would be good.
This way you can still distribute bronze in your kingdom by shipping tin and smelting it at the settlement where it arrives while at the same time tin is still more valuable than copper.
It looks like it's failing to generate a trade route, and crashing every frame. I'll look into it, thanks.
Edit: yep, it appears to be failing to calculate an impossible trade route. I'll have a fix to more gracefully handle it out tonight. Thanks again for reporting the issue.
Did you exit the game before trying again? There could some memory held on to by the previous world.
Yep that was the problem! was on a mediteranean map, i've just try on mesopotamia and everything was fine^^ thank for the help.
Realy like the happiness mod btw, i t give me more liberty for desining my city wich i realy like. What are you going to do with the happiness building if you implement it in the base game btw?
The performance are not the best in the game "Commodore Shawn" says that performance improvements need to be done with the game.
And map types are not, as much as i know, to change the size of the map. They only change the generation features. For example: Mesopotamia worlds generate with deserts and lakes instead of large oceans, Mediterranean generate ocean in the middle, a ring of land attach to the borders of the maps, and more rivers.
The trade window bug ?!
First of all I'd like to thank you for the great work.
Now, it seems that the trade window doesn't have any scroll bar or any way to shift to other commodities.
I'm not sure if it is a bug or something wrong with my settings, I'm a totally clueless when it comes to programming or any ''PC STUFF'' T.T
I toke a screen shot if it will help.
Thanks
