A Summary of Important CivRealms Changes since Beta

• Ores are between 50%-200% more common than beta, depending on the ore and world.

• Factory recipes are about 2x cheaper on average. Some of the more expensive ones (e.g. bastions, mithril) are 3-4x cheaper.

• Pickaxes of all tiers are stronger than they used to be. Stone picks especially are about 3x more effective than in beta.

• There are many newfriend friendly features:

• There is a one-time teleport to get you to your friends or to a town to start out.

• There are multiple in-game tutorials triggered by key events to help new players.

• There is a better starting book.

• There are starting kits with bed, fishing rod, food, bronze pick, etc.

• Kilns (tier 1 smelting factory) cost 0 stamina now to build or repair.

• Deaths are cheaper for new players, only costing you 0.25 stamina when you start out, then raising up later to the normal 0.75.

• There’s a new mechanic to prevent spawn bed kill camping.

• Wolves were nerfed a lot.

• The stamina costs for several stamina-requiring factories is lower.

• Building is easier with birch fence scaffolding that acts like vanilla scaffolds, and the “sportsball” feature is available, which also acts like an advanced scaffold system (see https://imgur.com/a/CsmmhBa ) and was buffed.

• The islands feature beyond the ocean is implemented, and a new island was opened.

• Farming is much easier:

  • You can reinforce crops properly (except cocoa)
  • Seeds can auto-replant (except cocoa), which makes farming 4-5x faster

• The XP recipes are a bit lower in requirements for crops needed.

• You can pay 10 stacks of wheat seeds for a stack of different crops in the bio lab

• Caves no longer mess up farming except in rare cases.

• Animal drop rates are higher.

• Reinforcements are stronger: Stone 100, Iron 750, Diamond 3,000

• Boats are 2x cheaper and have 4 DCs of inventory built into them.

• The prison realm was added, we do not use exile pearl anymore. Prisoners go to a mirror world of the overworld but with dark End sky, and 1/2 crop and ore rates.

• Prison pearls are much cheaper to maintain.

• You get more stamina per day than in beta.

• Armor and weapons were adjusted so that they scale correctly with the minerals, factory, and mining system on the server.

• Armor is “soulbound” now to prevent the “prot pinata” effect and to nerf raiding.

• There are some new helpful recipes for obsidian, ink, and others (cheaper).

• MANY bugfixes / generally more stable gameplay.