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.
[h3]New Buildings[/h3]

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

[h3]Farming Productivity / Fertility Map revamp[/h3]

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