Age of Wonders 4: Sprite 1.1 Update - 24/06/2026

Dear Godir,

We have a new update: Sprite 1.1 bringing fixes across the board! No longer will the AI snatch up all portals before you have a chance to find them and Gluttonous Imps are now slightly less gluttonous!

Game Version: 1.015.003.123307

• Added Sun Guardian and Moon Guardian unit datastores by request for modders.

• Rebalanced the Carnage Quest in the Azh’Ruun Pit:
• Killing Heroes or Tier 5 units now awards 10x more Carnage points.
• Destroying a city of any tier now awards 10x more Carnage points.
• The Carnage Cosmic Happening now triggers more often.
• The final Carnage Cosmic Happening now triggers later.
• Killing Karissa early now grants bonus Carnage points.

Chaos

• Tome of Gluttony
• Unit “Gluttonous Imp”
• Now has Life Steal
• Reduced HP from 70 to 65 to compensate

Passive “Demonic Satiation” - Reduced its damage bonus from 5% to 2% per stack (HP bonus unchanged at 5 per stack).

Special Province Improvement “Hungering Maw” - Reduced Food Rewards after Combat Victory from 50 to 25

Tome of Burning Passion

• Reduced the number of starting skills, so the Skills now appear consistently.

Tome of the Demon Gate

• Special Province Improvement “Demon Gate” - Can now draft the Gluttonous Imp.

Nature

• Tome of Beasts
• World Map Spell “Call Animal” - Can now summon Weaver Spider.

Tome of Vigor

• World Map Spell “Call Greater Animal” - Can now summon Weaver Spider Matriarch.

Tome of the Weaver

• SPI “Spider’s Nest” - Now unlocks drafting of all Spider Units.

• The Move Portal Operation can now be cast while your leader is in the Void.
• Addressed an issue where Gates had twice their intended AI Value.
• Reduced the inherent AI Value of Gates by 25.
• Blocked the AI from interacting with Gates during the first 15 turns of a game.

Crashes & Hangs

• Fixed a rare crash that could occur with visual effects.
• Fixed a crash in Evermore that could occur when spawning a Crisis Hero if players don’t own Primal Fury.
• Fixed a crash that could occur in the Azh’Ruun Pit when an enemy ruler captured a city linked to the Chained Hellion at the realm’s center.
• Fixed a crash that could occur when crisis armies spawned by the “Hour of the Mistcrawlers” event conquered a city.
• Fixed a crash that could occur during combat when the game attempted to spawn a Clone Unit on an occupied hex.
• Fixed a crash that could occur when loading old saves due to a Reaver Culture maintaining an active Declaration of Supremacy.
• Fixed a crash that could occur when a structure upgrade refunded its token cost.
• Fixed a crash that could occur on game creation when the Wildlands Realm Trait was selected.
• Fixed a crash that could occur on the Multiplayer Board screen when loading old or corrupt sessions.
• Fixed a crash that could occur when loading saves or sessions created with the Massive Maps mod.
• Fixed a crash that could occur when the Silent Empire Achievement triggered while a city was being razed.
• Fixed a crash that could occur when trying to start Rued Drevanya.
• Fixed a crash that could occur when resources tied to a special operation went missing.
• Fixed a crash in end-of-round telemetry when a crisis resource was missing.

General

• The Federate Reaver action “Strengthen Ties” now lets players complete the “Conqueror’s Cohort” Achievement.
• Fixed Silent Empire being able to trigger from Outposts now that Mistwalker Infestations exist.

AI

• Fixed the AI Moving Portals while a Bind Operation was already running.

Art

• Fixed missing flying animations for Vampire units equipped with a Breach Gun and Axe.
• Fixed the broken visual effects on Abjurer Glyphs.
• Fixed the Arachna teleporting instead of moving in combat.
• Fixed skinning and appearance issues on Merlin, including the left hand.
• Fixed Owlkin Skin Decorations incorrectly appearing for other Forms.
• Fixed Magelock Cannons created by the Construct Siege Guns project sometimes appearing without a model.
• Fixed leaders with a gun-and-sword loadout appearing invisible in the frontend.
• Fixed hero and unit customization issues with the Barbarian culture.
• Fixed clipping and a placeholder texture on the Eldritch Realms male wizard king outfit.
• Fixed the Feylor tail clipping into the ground on most maps.
• Fixed the Temptress not appearing on a boat.
• Fixed a visual issue with the Pyre Templar’s outfit.
• Fixed clipping between female Elysian ear feathers.
• Fixed Lupine and Goatkin rulers having ears pointing too far forward.
• Fixed some units having ears pointing too far forward.
• Fixed an issue where the Dragon Skin Colour and Race Skin Colour would impact each other when Custom Colours were used.
• Fixed an issue where the Cat Ears from Yaka’s Feline Transformation wouldn’t show on several Culture Units with Helmets.
• Fixed an issue where the Icon for the Dire Queen status effect was missing.
• Fixed several visual issues with leader transformations:
• Stray body parts could clip through the leader’s model after transforming.
• Some transformations didn’t change the leader’s appearance or play their visual effects.
• Transformed leaders could appear at the wrong scale on the Hero screen and world map.

Combat

• Fixed an issue where the Phoenix not playing its death animation when it can auto-resurrect.
• Fixed Berserk behaving incorrectly on support units that have no damaging abilities.

Economy

• Fixed multiple resource-sharing issues:
• Income would be based on and awarded to the Player
• Sent income being double-counted in received income.
• Shared income not clearing when a city both sends and receives.
• Incorrect amounts while in debt.
• Durations falling below -1 and losing their infinite status.

Interface

• Fixed the top bar and Event Log using the wrong round number, which could leave the Event Log un-clickable.
• Fixed a duplicate button appearing in Yaka’s Arcanum.
• Fixed an issue where the Broken Wizard’s Throne didn’t display its name in the casting point breakdown.

Text & Descriptions

• Fixed Arcane Accumulation text so it now displays correctly in certain translations, such as Polish.
• Fixed placeholder debug text appearing in the “Breached Arcanum” event when exploring the ancient wonder of the same name with a hero.
• Cosmos Beam now correctly shows its width (3) rather than its radius (1) in the tooltip.
• Fixed a missing tag on Grasping Flora.
• Corrected the Leviathan Landmark description to refer to turns instead of rounds.
• Fixed an issue where the incorrect string was linked to DaDa Yuah’s name in Polish.

Items

• Fixed an issue where Oathsworn and Primal still appeared with inherent Defense Modes. This is now handled by the Item Forge and generator.

Story Realms

• Fixed the final umbral gate in Tharru’Cath linking to a random gate instead of the correct quest gate, which made the mission appear impossible to complete.

Azh’Ruun Pit

• Fixed an exploit where the chain-slaking choice could be repeated indefinitely to farm Good alignment.
• Fixed the Balor Boss sacrifice quest (“Your Overlord Demands a Sacrifice”) offering its options when you hadn’t met the requirements, and not updating or completing correctly.
• Fixed various broken text strings and missing rewards across side-quests and events, including the chain-city siege events, “Stockade of Sinners,” and “Show Them No Mercy.”
• Fixed the “Breaking His Law” quest not completing when the Chain of Lies was broken.
• Fixed an issue where the “Blazing Heels of Steal” would still trigger even if Ysariel was already defeated.

Burrow Downs

• Fixed the Shrouded Portal event so its Nature option no longer has only negative outcomes.
• Warped Seasons: fixed the underground staying arctic during spring (adding mushrooms but keeping the arctic climate) and then jumping straight to ashland in summer.
• Fixed several issues with the “Come Closer” event.
• Fixed several text and tooltip errors across story events, including “Maleficent Aspect,” “All the Colors of Hope,” “Soarin’s End” (missing Astral icon), and “Lobelia’s End.”

Evermore

• Fixed several hexes on the raging volcano landmark near Karissa’s shrouded gate that could be walked on, which caused floating stacks.

Tomes

• Fixed an issue where the Special Province Improvement “Spider’s Nest” had incorrect construction costs.
• Fixed an issue where City Wards would be cancelled when a province changed sides.

Units

• Fixed the Priest of the Weave’s Webbed Transfusion being negated by Precognition when used on friendly units.

World Map

• Fixed an issue where you were able to attack non-siege armies from within a besieged city.
• Fixed an issue where teleporter structures (Underground Passages, Umbral Gates, Breached/Shrouded Gates) not refreshing their destination link after being connected to one another through script.
• Structures now correctly reset their story-event state when their adventure set changes, so new story events appear as intended.
• Fixed an issue where Belbedor’s Arcanum did not have enough units to spawn on higher difficulties.

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