Waiting for the other player to attack first no longer wins versus battles: a rich seam of gold breaks the surface in the middle of the field a minute in
Stand your army over it with no enemy among them to claim it, and while you hold it your miners pour out gold and XP every second
It pays more in later ages and more with every minute it has been open, so the longer a standoff lasts, the richer it makes whoever holds the middle
A dig with a winch and a banner marks it, a meter shows who is winning the ground, and the versus panel shows who holds it and what it pays
Brimstone Ridge: break an enemy dug in along a ridge of Gunpowder Age batteries while rockslides keep coming down
The Mother Lode: a Steam Age battle for a gold seam in the middle of the field, against an enemy that wants it first
The campaign now has twelve stages and 36 stars; Glass Towers and The Last Age are now stages 11 and 12, and every stage you have played stays open
The Fire Catapult's burning pots set the enemies they splash on fire, burning them for 8 damage a second for 3 seconds
The Viking Age's Arrow Loft is now the Dragon Prow: a longship's carved dragon that snaps its jaws open to spit arrows, with smoke curling from its nostrils
Every Viking turret has new animations: the Javelin Rack's pole whips forward and quivers before it is cranked back, and the Fire Catapult rocks up as it throws, its fire basket swinging
Viking turrets stay alive while they wait: flames flicker, pennants flap and the dragon breathes
The Arcane Age's dragon now flies: it hovers on beating wings, rears back to draw breath, dives to pour fire on the ground ahead, and falls out of the sky when it dies
The dragon's fire has its own fireball woosh
Back row units now keep behind your front line instead of walking out ahead of it and dying
Burning enemies show flames and orange damage numbers, and turret tooltips show their fire
The Fire Catapult's direct hit deals a little less (56, was 72) now that its fire burns on
The campaign and the Warpath were rebalanced for the back row change
The Warpath boon Mother Lode is now called Golden Vein; it works the same
Both versus players need this update to battle each other
The enemy on The Mother Lode stage doesn't head for the seam on purpose; it marches and fights as on any stage
The Arcane Age's magic bolts use a generated placeholder sound for now