v2.8.1 - 2026-01-26

Added

• Added 150 new islands
• Allow players to see the best author rounds to beat on the level select screen
• Each island has a revision number which is incremented each time the island is edited in the map editor
  • It is used to force clear outdated islands, making updates to islands more obvious to Willy
• Tooltip on keyboard shortcuts
• Add button to import user pb as ARtB

Changed

• Changed text on user rounds to beat to "Personal best "
• Improve import screen visually
• Imported islands which are surrendered will not be filled with "winning" team anymore
• Add keyboard shortcuts in map create screen
• Space will now end turn on desktop

Fixed

• Fix clearing progress not clearing up the old island progress, just the metadata
• Fix instant creating island not working due to tree turns not being initialized

Removed

• Exporting and importing is disabled in map editor

v2.8.0 - 2026-01-04

Added

• Improve AI debugging by visualising where the AI just clicked.
  • Enabled with the debug AI Action setting
• Added Smooth Scrolling setting to enable prefetching of island metatadata islands.
  • Defaults to enabled on desktop and disabled on mobile
  • With this disabled the level select screen will load each island preview on demand, saving memory, but causing stutter when scrolling

Changed

• Capitals will more strongly prefer being placed next to a friendly castle
  • This should help with defending capitals better later in the game
• Capitals will slightly prefer being placed next to non-territory hexagons
  • This should make capitals be placed more optimally at the beginning of the game
• The distance to enemy territories is not weighted during initial placement
• Change how trees propagate
  • A tree will now grow one round after it was created or propagated
  • Pine trees will now also allow to propagate with other pine tees which are not themselves not ready to propagate. This should make them be harder to contain.
  • This will also fix palm trees growing from one teams hex into another which then next turn propagates father.
• Allow test maps to be saved even when invalid
• Log what AI thinks when debugAIAction setting is enabled
• Bump minimum sdk to 27 as sdk 26 does not work on emulated devices
  • Thus, it cannot be used verified to work
• Updated island ARtB
  • Island 148 improved from 20 to 12 rounds
  • Island 248 improved from 27 to 23 rounds
  • Island 330 improved from 18 to 17 rounds
  • Update initial ARtB for islands for 104 islands
  • Randomize teams on islands 63, 247, 264, 272, 293, 295, 351, 376, 448 as they were impossible to win with leaf on

Fixed

• Fix in-game info windows not showing if another window was opened some time beforehand
• Fix ARtB not being reset when using edit tools
• Fix capital placement considering the team of invisible hexagons
• Fix quick loading not working more than once
• Fix the game not being playable when low on memory
• Fix android cutout not being respected

Removed

• Incorporate debug AI Territory into debug AI Action

Full Changelog: v2.7.0...v2.8.0

v2.7.0 - 2025-11-01

Added

• Added 99 new islands
• Added pressing F1 on the level select screen to open a level select dialogue

Changed

• More lenient import, trimming away white spaces*
• Color the best user score yellow when the level does not have an ARtB
• Rename --create-artb-improvement-rapport to --list-artb-improvements
  • Update it to also list unbeaten islands
  • Add argument to write the report to initial island metadata
  • The app will now exit after writing the report
• Island ARtB updated
  • Island 11 improved from 11 to 9 rounds
  • Island 22 improved from 14 to 13 rounds
  • Island 109 improved from 29 to 23 rounds
  • Island 148 unbeaten to 20 rounds
  • Island 109 unbeaten to 31 rounds
  • Island 190 unbeaten to 23 rounds
  • Island 248 unbeaten to 27 rounds
  • Island 292 unbeaten to 39 rounds
  • Island 318 unbeaten to 16 rounds
  • Island 325 unbeaten to 17 rounds
  • Island 330 unbeaten to 18 rounds
• Update too difficult islands
  • Island 190: Added a second territory for Leaf, Sun, and Earth and added more trees to nerf Forest
  • Island 235: Replace two Sun tiles with Leaf tiles to make Sun less dominant
  • Island 248: Added a second Leaf territory and nerf Forest up north
  • Island 256: Nerfed Sun and Added second Leaf territory
  • Island 293: Added a singe new Leaf tile up north
  • Island 295: Add more Stone and Leaf territories
  • Island 303: Nerf southern Forest territory and add a second Leaf territories
  • Island 313: Nerf northern Forest territory, remove tree from leaf territory spawn, add third Leaf territory
  • Island 314: Add second Leaf territory, tweak tree spawns
  • Island 318: Enlarge eastern Leaf territory
  • Island 325: Nerf eastern Forest territory, add second Leaf territory
  • Island 330: Rework map to be north leaf vs south Stone with loads of small territories in the middle
  • Island 331: Make it easier to connect the two middle leaf territories
  • Island 340: Add second Leaf territory
• Add ARtB to 208 islands

Fixed

• Fix android 16 kB alignment
• Fix icon on android
• Make sure the cursor is always arrow after screen change

Full Changelog: v2.6.1...v2.7.0

v2.6.1 - 2025-06-24

Changed

• Disable strength hints everywhere by default

Fixed

• Fix IndexOutOfBounds exception when the AI's selecting a piece
• Fix end game window not showing when loosing to the AI
• Fix checking end game after ending turn, not before
• Reduce invalid territory creation when playing fast (errors might still occur, but they are rare in normal play)

Full Changelog: v2.6.0...v2.6.1

v2.6.0 - 2025-06-17

Added

• Add 150 new islands
• Add debug rendering for castle placement
• Add --create-artb-improvement-rapport
  • Simplifies finding which islands have an improvement in ARtB
• Allow level sorting to be customized in settings
  • The default sorting is by ARtB, then by id
  • The sorting also applies to the map editor
• Simplify instantly creating islands by retrying to shuffle the teams until it is valid
• Add F6 shortcut to disable all piece animations

Changed

• Each team must now have at least one capital
• Improve castle placement
• Island ARtB updated
  • island 6, from 15 to 13 rounds
  • island 17, from 16 to 15 rounds
  • island 32, from 14 to 11 rounds
  • island 48, from 16 to 10 rounds (!)
  • island 58, from 28 to 23 rounds
  • island 59, from 21 to 14 rounds (!)
  • island 78, from 9 to 8 rounds
  • island 80, from 14 to 12 rounds
  • island 94, from 11 to 10 rounds
  • island 103, from 14 to 13 rounds
  • island 106, from 12 to 11 rounds
  • island 108, from 14 to 13 rounds

Fixed

• Do not automatically replace pieces when in map editor mode. It makes it harder and less predictable to edit islands
• Randomizing all teams in map editor will now properly set the capitals
• Fix maps not having capitals for all teams
  • Relevant for islands 54, 63, 74, 132, 148, 157, 197
• Fix crash when using the --update-previews flag
• Improve startup time to the level select screen

Full Changelog: v2.5.0...v2.6.0

v2.5.0 — 2025-05-23

Added

• Add 83 new playable maps
• Add debug setting to allow loading already completed/won/lost islands
• Add cheat on F9 which sets half the hexagons to the current team
  • Used to test real AI surrendering

Changed

• When the AI surrenders, exit to the level select screen after accepting it
• Add ARtB to the islands 66 to 117, and update 34 to 6

Fixed

• Fix previews incorrectly using disposed textures after resetting settings
• Fix wrong team exported as winning team
• Fix island not being saved correctly when game ends
• Save a few bytes when saving won islands
• Fix overlapping text in level select screens when the resolution is low
• Fix desktop distribution

Full Changelog: v2.4.0...v2.5.0

v2.4.0 - 2025-01-16

Added

• New music music by Stey
• Add 50 new playable maps
• Scroll one page at a time in the level select screen with page up and page down
• Draw island id and ARtB on the island previews when in map editor mode
• Show strength for each hexagon in map editor mode, and can be toggled in the settings
• Add debug option to show strength hint for all player territories
• Add program flag --ai-debug to print what the AI is thinking
• Add test islands to persist test maps in VCS
• Add shortcut ctrl + N to create a new island in the map editor
• Add button to create new islands directly from the level creation screen
• New islands validation rule: There must be at least two different teams with a capital
• Show the island id to make it easier to communicate about islands
• Show high score for each island in the level select screen

Changed

• Sort islands without ARtB by their id in ascending order
• Change color of boxes in the level select screen based on the ARtB
• Show more info about the current island and hovered hexagon when in map editor mode
• Show the number of rounds it took for AI to be done with a map on the island preview
• Do not render the ARtB and id on the preview
  • Instead, render it dynamically and show it when in debug or in map editor
• Always allow surrendering when there is AIs playing against each other
• Remain in the settings screen when resetting setting/progress
• Tune AI
  • Prioritize attacking hexagons that are a part of a territory
  • Change chances of AI to buy a castle based on the difficulty
  • Increase the chance of easy and normal AI to end their turn early
  • Fix AI holding a piece when it does not think it does
• Added remaining ARtB to existing islands
• Rename the UNKNOWN_ROUNDS_TO_BEAT constant to NEVER_PLAYED to make it clear what it means
• Add settings, which defaults to false, to toggle double tapping to zoom

Fixed

• Fix unnecessary loading all assets after pausing and resuming the game
• Toggle music button was disabled when island interaction was disabled
• Fix UI sometimes lagging when fading in windows
• Win text on the islands preview was worded differently to the other results
• Fix AI not calculating the strength of attackable territories correctly
• Fix click were going through windows in map editor
• Move windows in map editor a bit from the edge
• Fix island deletion crashing the game
• Fix do not leave the playing island when a single exception occurs
• Harden against exceptions within a start/end block

Removed

• All old music tracks have been removed

Full Changelog: v2.3.0...v2.4.0

v2.3.0 - 2024-09-27

Added

• Added music by Stey SoundCloud
  • New mute icon on the level select screen and in game
• Add global shortcuts
  • ctrl + m to toggle music
  • alt + enter to toggle fullscreen

Changed

• Rename volume setting to master volume
• Tweak island 62 to make it possible for leaf to win
• Display more info in the map editor
• Update the ARtB of the smaller islands (id 57-63)
• Tune AI
  • Disallow hard AI to buy castles on the first round
  • Double the number of rounds before normal AI can buy castles
  • AI will try to attack enemy living pieces in the order of baron, knight, spearman, peasant
  • AI will try to attack enemy trees
  • Add special case when there is only a single least defended hexagon, will try to place it adjacent to it if possible to protect the living piece
  • Only prioritize cutting down trees that will propagate into friendly territory
  • Improve castle placement to be allowed to place on movable living pieces
  • Improve castle placement to ignore the capital and living pieces
    • to more fairly distribute them regardless of how living pieces are placed
    • to place castles near capitals to defend them

Fixed

• Improve audio on android by using AsynchronousAndroidAudio
• Do not prompt for end turn when the player cannot afford merging two pieces
• Trees are only allowed grow once per round, but it does grow after each turn
• Fix UI wiggle when interacting with it
• Fix lag when scrolling through the level select screen

Removed

• Remove background texture as texture atlas is too large

Full Changelog: v2.2.0...v2.3.0

v2.2.0 - 2024-09-15

Added

• Add export and import of islands
  • Currently only to the clipboard
  • A screen will show the import progress
• Add nine new islands
• Play a "bad click" sound when doing an action that does nothing
• Add a highlight to actionable hexagons when trying to end turn
  • It can also be permanently enabled in the settings
• Add randomize every team editor
• home and end keys will now take you to the top and bottom of the level select screen respectively

Changed

• Only clear island progress when restarting island
• Do not clear trees when AI is surrendering
• Do not animate when rendering previews
• Never fail on any properties
• Allow AI to surrender when there is only a single real player left
  • Even when playing against other players, the AI will surrender if there is only one player left
• Update ArTB, all times by Willy
  • island 5 to 33 rounds
  • island 13 from 16 to 14 rounds
  • island 10 from 60 to 36 rounds
  • island 15 from 61 to 25 rounds
  • island 19 from 36 to 19 rounds
  • island 21 to 33 rounds
  • island 24 from 52 to 28 rounds
  • island 25 from 55 to 23 rounds
  • island 34 from 9 to 7 rounds
  • island 49 from 41 to 21 rounds
  • island 50 from 20 to 18 rounds
• Randomize teams on islands 1, 9, 16

Fixed

• Fix not displaying version in the settings screen and title on desktop
• Fix potential memory leak when updating previews
• Fix tutorial screen showing vertical scroll bar on high w:h ratio devices
• Fix possibility of the async thread not being disposed properly
• Fix game not starting when the first player is an AI
• Fix crash when exiting island when there are no hexagons visible
• Fix inputting ARtB would not update until the spinner lost focus
• Fix team percentages not updating when hexagons changes

Removed

• Remove useless ARtB menu entry

Full Changelog: v2.1.0...v2.2.0

v2.1.0 - 2024-07-13

• New islands validation rule: No pieces on invisible hexagons
• Add confirmation dialog when restarting a completed island
  • Can be disabled with the 'disable restart confirmation' setting
• Write round number on the island previews

Changed

• Make it easier to read the upkeep cost in the tutorial screen by adding a white border to the numbers
• Tweak tutorial screen
• Pressing escape on desktop will take you back to the level select screen
• Allow islands to be manually placed last with ARtB
• Make ARtB editing more user friendly
  • Add a warning when resetting ARtB of an island
  • Display the previous ARtB when editing an island
• Always render the previews as 1024x1024
• Update ARtB of island 11 to be 11 rounds
• Draw a capital on the preview when the island has been conquered
• Suggest that there are actions to do when a piece can chop down a tree

Fixed

• Using regular font instead of bold font
• Fix infinite tower glitch
  • A player could swap a living piece and a just-bought castle to get the castle for free
  • Thanks Willy!
• Fix sorting islands without a rating before islands with ratings
• Fix screen messages not fading out smoothly/at all
• Fix previews being inconsistently rendered
• Remove the raw tutorial images from the app/jar
• Fix switching app after winning/loosing but before pressing OK would cause the island to be loaded in a non-playable state
• Fix game not ending properly when the player has no territories left

Full Changelog: v2.0.2...v2.1.0