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Major Update: ‘Rise of Valhalla’ - Viking Update is live!

[h3]Greetings Builders![/h3]
We are excited to unveil the third major update for Kingdoms Reborn, Rise of Valhalla!

Experience the brand new Viking Faction – 'The Norsemen', new ships sailing, provincial buildings, and major overhauls to farming, electricity, and the military systems; as well as gameplay rebalancing, bug fixes, and optimization!

[h3]Norsemen Faction[/h3]

Play as the brand new Viking-inspired faction.
These resourceful craftsmen hail from the northern lands and bring with them their own unique survival skills for the snowy, bitter boreal wilderness.
  • Bonuses: +20% Cold Resistance / +30% wood cutting yield
  • Unique Resources: Honey Mead and Cheese
  • Unique Military Units: Berserker and Longship
  • Unique Wonders: Great Long Hall, Basilica, Stave Church

[h3]New Buildings[/h3]
  • Crop Breeders: Farm special crops within the vicinity.
  • Luxury Importer: Importing Luxury will now require the Luxury Importer (to prevent exploitation of Luxury Imports)
  • Card Shop: Buy buildings, province-specialty, and slot cards!
  • Naval Control: Create sea trade blockade - collecting fee of other players' ports
  • Deepsea Fishing Port: Fish for Deepsea Tuna populated around reefs all over the world's oceans.


[h3]Ships Sailing[/h3]
Fishers and Traders now sail with their ships.



[h3]Farming Productivity / Fertility Map revamp[/h3]
  • Fertile Field: An open meadow area with extremely high fertility, these fields will be cleared of trees and marked with a special meadow plant, indicating high fertility provinces suitable for crop farming.
  • Crop Breeders now replace the Province-based Resources that appear at the start of the game.
  • Farming Productivity affected by Crop Yield and Fertility Dependence.


[h3]Upgrade Points System[/h3]
New resource designed to make building upgrade choices more interesting, and to help keep the gameplay engaging into the endgame.

[h3]Electricity Revamp[/h3]
Reworked Electricity UI / Distribution / Balance

[h3]Military Revamp[/h3]
New Military Unit Slots. Increase your Military Slots by growing your population.
Rebalanced Military Units - Power and Cost

[h3]Others[/h3]
Bug Fixes: Many major and minor bugs have been fixed.
Gameplay Rebalance: Many aspects of the game (e.g. cost, consumption, population, upgrade system) have been adjusted to ensure challenging gameplay into the endgame.
Gameplay Optimization: Improved gameplay performance, including pathfinding and UI performance.
Improved Localization: Localization has been improved in many languages, thanks to community efforts.


If you want to play on the old saves
  • Switch to the "Pre-Viking update (Emirates)" branch in your Steam's library setting.
  • Right-click "Kingdoms Reborn" in your Steam library -> properties -> betas -> select "pre_beyond_border" patch


Thank you everyone for your support, we hope you enjoy the new update :)
Kingdoms Reborn Team