Releases March 17, 2026
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Dev Journal
Elemental: War of Magic v1.09 was released last week. It’s been a challenging month or so since the release of the game. At this stage, the technical issues that affected the game at release have been largely resolved. Now we move towards the next phase which is where we begin to address the game play based on feedback and our own experience. Now as some people have probably noticed, most games released today are sequels to existing games. It’s difficult these days to launc... [read more]
Dev Journal
Hey Everyone, Tonight you’ll be able to update to v1.09E of Elemental. There are several bugfixes and tweaks in it, but the major change is the shift to a public Multiplayer build. If you’ve been playing the ‘release candidate’ MP builds, we suggest turning off ‘Show Pre-Release’ versions for anyone that has it selected that ONLY wants the official updates). After 1.09E we’ll be shifting all our energies onto v1.1, where you’ll start to see t... [read more]
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Multiplayer update and brief v1.1 info
So this week we’re finishing the process of porting the 1.0x updates to multiplayer. The new combined version will be called v1.09E. It has a handful of single player game fixes (like the free money from pioneer thing ). After v1.09E, we’ll take a step back to see how people are playing multiplayer and start putting together plans for future improvements in that area based on the number of people in the community playing it. For myself, I’ve been working on a different b... [read more]
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v1.09, Data.zip, Modding, and You!
Hey everyone, So v1.09 went live, and one of the big modding-side improvements is in the official addition of a 'my games/elemental/Mods' folder! The game will now properly read data from 'Mods/Data' and graphics and models from 'Mods/GFX'. For anyone using Mods that have required data or graphics to be placed in the core game directories, I highly suggest moving these out into this new folder, otherwise Elemental may attempt to rebuild the Data.zip file, resulting in a nice, lo... [read more]
Dev Journal
We expect to make this available either this evening or tomorrow. Here’s what’s new: --------------------------------------------------- ----------- Elemental v1.09 Change Log ----------- --------------------------------------------------- * Gameplay / Balance * + AI sovereigns take more care about where they are doing their attacking + Added code so that AIBasic is smarter about attacking units in cities + ‘Equipment Cache’ goodie hut now hand... [read more]
Dev Journal
Version 1.09 arrives this week and amongst the additions is the new city list window: [read more]