Hands and Bloodlines

1.2.7
24 September 2026
11 changes in this update

Added

6 changes
  • Magnet - pick up to sixty creatures under the brush and carry them anywhere, even while time is paused. Let go gently and they land where you put them, let go in a sharp swing and they fly off and hit the ground hard enough to kill

  • A new life far from home - villagers carried more than thirty tiles from their village leave it. Set down on someone else's land they join that village, set down on empty land three or more of them found a village of their own. Rulers, bandits and mages always walk back home

  • Family tree - a new button on the person card opens their bloodline: grandparents, parents, spouse, brothers and sisters, children and grandchildren. The dead stay in it with their years, rank and how they died, and a click on any relative rebuilds the tree around them

  • Family on the card - the person card now lists spouse, mother, father and how many of their children are still alive

  • Dynasties - every village card shows the house on the throne, how many rulers in a row it has given and for how many years. The Rulers button lists every reign of the kingdom and who each ruler was to the one before: son, grandson, kinsman or a new house

  • Chronicle - it now records when a house loses the throne and when a crown passes to a grandchild

Improved

3 changes
  • Heirs by blood on both sides - a king's son or daughter now takes the crown, and a grandchild comes next. Blood used to be traced through mothers only, so a king's children lost the throne to any kinsman and dynasties survived only through the female line

  • Royal houses keep their name - a king's children carry their father's house, so a dynasty no longer changes its name with every heir

  • Marriages - brothers and sisters no longer marry each other while anyone else lives nearby

Fixed

1 change
  • The Dragon brush and the rain, heat and frost brushes have icons in the power bar instead of empty squares

Known Issues

1 change
  • Worlds saved before this update start their families from the moment they are loaded: people born earlier have no known parents