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Farthest Frontier v0.9.4: Distinguished Mansions

Delectable pastries and endgame mansions deliver beautiful new treats to the frontier.

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September 5, 2024

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[This unedited press release is made available courtesy of Game Developer and its partnership with notable game PR-related resource Games Press]

Crate Entertainment :

[Boston – 09/03/2024] – While in early access, Farthest Frontier has grown from a solid foundation into one of the deepest city builders on the market. The introduction of mansions and a pastry shop allow players to advance their settlements to gorgeous new heights and revamped military controls add a new layer of strategy when defending your people from encroaching raiders.

 
A sampling of the myriad new features and improvements in v0.9.4:
 

  • Shelters can now upgrade to tier 5 Mansions. These grand living spaces are the ultimate display of wealth and prosperity for your citizens.

  • Bakeries can now be upgraded to tier 2, enabling the production of luxury Pastries.

  • Manual Upgrades are now available for Shelters. By disabling automatic upgrades, you can now control exactly which of your shelters upgrade and when.

  • Military units can now be placed in advanced formations and a new Retreat to Barracks command has been added.

  • The latest batch of optimization improvements includes an up to 25% framerate boost for most users.

  • Balance changes to endgame population growth to smooth out progression.

 
The 0.9.4 update for Farthest Frontier is available on September 3rd, 2024. Farthest Frontier is available now in Steam Early Access ($29.99). To learn more about the game, you can visit the official website. For the full roadmap leading up to the game’s v1.0 launch, check out our regular development updates.


Key Features

 

  • Build and Advance in Random Generated Maps: Construct over 140 different types of buildings as you grow your town from a fledgling settlement to a bustling city. Upgrade production buildings to increase efficiency and enable production of more advanced items. No game is ever quite the same with beautiful, completely randomized terrain generation and resource distribution.

  • Most Detailed Farming System Ever: Strategically select from 12 crops with unique growing characteristics and configure crop rotations to maintain soil fertility, avoid heat and frost damage, and prevent the accumulation of diseases. Cultivate your fields over time by removing weeds and rocks, raising fertility, and adjusting soil mixture to achieve maximum crop production to keep your growing population fed.

  • Idyllic to Brutal: Customizable difficulty options allow you to turn off features like invaders, disease, and combat for a more tranquil experience or to max out the difficulty to truly test their town-builder prowess.

  • Advanced Town Simulation: Villagers actively live out their lives and perform their jobs in real-time. Develop roads, construct transport wagons, and set production and storage limits to reduce spoilage and facilitate the efficient movement of goods throughout your settlement.

  • All Them Old-Timey Diseases!: Clean drinking water, proper waste disposal, healthy diets for your villagers, and even proper clothing will help combat the variety of diseases and ailments that plagued the medieval era.

  • Fend Off Would-Be Invaders: Progress from wood palisades to stone walls, build towers, barracks and stables, and recruit and equip soldiers in the defense of your town as rising prosperity attracts the attention of raiders and foreign armies seeking plunder.

 

About Crate Entertainment
Crate Entertainment was founded in 2008 to create the kinds of games and experiences that they love to play, with deep gameplay and compelling worlds. The team's first game, the action RPG Grim Dawn, was successfully funded through Kickstarter in 2012 and released in 2016 to critical acclaim. The game sits at a 93% score on Steam, with over 5 million copies sold and 5.2 million copies of DLCs.
 
Farthest Frontier is Crate's second game. Since its Early Access debut in Q3 2022, it has sold over 1 million copies.

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