- Steam App
- Sword & Banner Playtest (4957080)
- Event type
- patch note
- Published
- 23 July 2026 - 19:37:00 UTC
- Source
- steam_community_announcements
Roads The overworld now has a proper road network. Roads follow the lie of the land: they stick to plains and valleys, wind around mountains and marshes, and merge into shared trunk routes with natural junctions Roads meet towns properly instead of skirting past them, and bridges now appear where roads cross rivers Merchant caravans follow the roads, and travel faster on them than cross-country Caravans no longer freeze in place at random. If you spotted a merchant standing in a field staring into the distance, that is fixed Towns Speciality towns now look the part. A smithy town keeps swords on its shelves, a logging town keeps timber in stock, and visiting a producer means you can actually buy what it makes Industries hold back a working reserve of their materials instead of selling the lot to the first passing caravan. The Production tab shows the town granary and what each industry i...