Dwarf Guild Mania

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• Patch Notes·1 Sept 2026Official

  Update 1.3 - War, Diplomacy, & Great Empires

  Hello Guildmasters,Today we proudly bring you our biggest update to date, 1.3. This update largely focuses on the new mechanics of war and diplomacy, although we bring many new features to enhance everything from trade to espionage to customization of your guild.War & DiplomacyInteract with other guilds with the new diplomacy mechanic. Guilds will have both an opinion of you as well as a diplomatic stance all based on your past actions as well as the personality of each guild. Propose alliances, Send Warnings, Declare War, and so much more. You can improve relations with other players using a new unit - the diplomat. The diplomat has a number of other actions we'll touch on later in the post.Oh and did we mention - you can now progress from being a small guild to a Dominion, Kingdom, and finally an Empire. Upgrading your realm will grant bonuses and unlock new features.When diplomacy fails or you simply don't like your neighbor then send in the army. Using the Military menu you will be able to create armies and assign regiments to them. Different regiments have different stats and dictate your armies strength and weaknesses. Above you will see an ongoing battle. Battles progress through phases until one army has been shattered or every soldier within it killed. Of course if you dont want to see a battle play out then you can quick resolve it.Armies can be instructed to train, improving their experience and giving them buffs. They can also be told to entrench, pillage, and loot. Armies can be renamed.HeraldryHeraldry is the art of creating a coat of arms. While this brings only a small cosmetic change to the game we think it's too cool not to feature. When creating your guild you may create a coat of arms. These appear on the map over your land. Clicking on another players coat of arms will bring up its diplomacy panel.Control, Rebellion & Building Upgrades.We have reworked the tile menu. Tile stats (such as population, prosperity, etc) now appear on the same menu as...
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• Patch Notes·6 Jul 2026Official

  Dwarf Guild Mania - Update 1.2.1

  Hello Guildmasters,Today we bring you a fun update with plenty of new major feature but also some critical changes to the AI, UI. and performance of DGM.Major UpdatesFarmsAdded a new buildable feature - farms. Farms produce food and require 100 pops to operate. Farms cost 25k gold and 80 construction materials to be built. They have a base production of 50 food. Farms are influenced by a tiles farmability (golden steppe and plains have higher farmability than aether, badlands, or mountains).Population SystemAdded population as a new core resources. Population is calculated based on tiles owned by each player. Each tile contributes to the total population of the guild. Population also replaces grunts as the staff for all production facilities. Populations require food to operate facilities. Grunts are still produced by dwarf camps but are no longer used by production facilities. (Note that grunts do not have a function in 1.2.1 but will become a core resource once again in the next update. Their military prowess hints at the nature of this future update).Populations decrease based on attrition which is now calculated at the tile level. Populations increase based on the birth rate of the tile. The Advisor Added the advisor which now gives structured and ordered tips to the player. This replaces the tutorial system previously in place. Acknowledging tips will prompt the next one in the queue. The advisor can be disabled for the entire game at any point. World InitialisationThe beginning of the game has been tweaked and changed. The game now starts with a total of 20 players. Each player is spread around the realm and has its own set of revealed tiles, no longer are they shared. Cities are spread across the realm too and may be inaccessible to some ai players causing them to die off early.Minor UpdatesPolitical border rendering is now shader based improving performance."Unprospected" is now known as "Unsurveyed".Tile Selector now shows tile farmability, vein quality, po...
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• Patch Notes·15 Jun 2026Official

  Dwarf Guild Mania - Update 1.2 - "The Guild"

  Hello Guildmasters,Its been a while since our last update but there is good reason for that. We have brought a ton of new updates affecting every aspect of the game including how you manage the guild, trading, exploration, world generation, graphics and much more.Major UpdatesUpgrading MinesMines can now be upgraded by prospectors. There are 8 possible upgrades all requiring resources and some requiring prior upgrades to be completed. Some of these upgrades include "Deep Mining", "Air Ventilation", "Tavern", and "On Site Storage". These upgrades affect productivity, storage, unrest, attrition etc.Added 8 new upgradesOverhauled the Production menu.Selecting a mine will bring up the production menu.Constructing a mine will no longer remove the base features (grass, mist, etc).Removed efficiency metric and merged its functionality with productivity metric.Trade ReworkWe've greatly overhauled the trade system in the first of a few major changes we intend to make. We have introduced Buy & Sell Orders. Orders are placed by the players as well as cities themselves indicating how much of a resource they intend to trade. At the end of a turn orders are matched.Added Buy & Sell OrdersAdded 3 new tradable resources (Food, Building Materials, & Beer)Food is now obtained by trading rather than using the "Source Food" action of a merchant.Added a number of new metrics to the city menu (Population, Diplomatic Influence, and city type).Tile Selection MenuSelecting any tile will bring up the relevant menu as well as a new menu known as the "Tile Selection Menu". Left clicking any tile will bring up the production or city menu if that tile contains either a mine or a city. It will then cycle to the unit menu if that tile also contains a unit belonging to the player. Finally it will cycle to the tile selection menu. This menu shows the ownership and resource status of the tile as well as any features or units present there.UI ReworkThe UI of the game has been reworked in a number of w...
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• Patch Notes·12 May 2026Official

  Dwarf Guild Mania Update 1.1.2

  Hello Guild Masters,Today we bring you update 1.1.2 bringing new features, balancing, and bug fixes.Political Map ModeThe political map mode has seen a large overhaul. We now show the distinct borders of each guild as well as the name of the guild superimposed on top. The name and overlay color disappear the closer you zoom in so as to not impact gameplay.Other ChangesAdded option to set the seed of the map in game setup.Added notification when you default on loans and bonds.Added header showing units current action above available actions when selected. Fixed loans UI not fitting in its container.Improved the way prestige is calculatedImproved enemy AI.Enemy AI now build less camps.Main menu buttons changed to red color.
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• Patch Notes·10 May 2026Official

  Dwarf Guild Mania Update 1.1.1

  Hello Guild Masters,We've bringing a number of quality of life changes and bug fixes today.All scrollbars have been upgraded graphicallyUsing scrollbar on the ideologies page no longer selects an ideologyVirtue cards now show the resource and quantity given to the player.Fixed next turn button so that it is clickable when mouse is over anvil iconAdded sound effect to next turn buttonAdded new tutorial sound effectsAdded color to highlight key quantities in the detailer. This affects actions, tiles, units, and more.Added arrows to the tutorial to make it clear what the current step is.Added a unique notification sound that only applies to tutorialFixed a bug where tutorial was complete but achievement not given.Added new steps to the tutorial.
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