v0.7.0.1

v0.7.0.1

A follow-up to v0.7.0.0 that unifies the Android and desktop menus on shared OpenGL panels, giving both platforms the same look & feel and removing the duplicated native Android menu UIs.

Assets

• JSettlers.zip – desktop game for Windows/Linux (includes the Map Editor and tools)
• JSettlers-0.7.0.1-windows.zip – portable Windows build (bundled JRE, unzip and double-click JSettlers.exe, no installation needed)
• JSettlers-0.7.0.1-linux.zip – portable Linux build (bundled JRE, unzip and run JSettlers/bin/JSettlers, works on any distro)
• JSettlers-1.7.0-macos.zip – portable macOS build (bundled JRE, unzip and open JSettlers.app; macOS requires a version that does not start with 0, so 0.7.0.1 is reported as 1.7.0)
• JSettlers-Android.apk – Android app
• DedicatedJSettlersServer.jar – dedicated multiplayer server

Unified menus (Android + desktop)

The main menu, settings, map selection, join-game, multiplayer picker and endgame statistics are now rendered by the same shared OpenGL panels on Android and desktop:

• One codebase for all menus – the Swing menu code was moved into jsettlers.graphics as backend-agnostic GL panels; the duplicated native Android fragments, view models and layouts were removed.
• Single GLFW window on desktop – the menu and the game no longer switch windows.
• Consistent look & feel – both platforms use the same menu graphics, gold-yellow text and layout.

New features

• Native save dialog and a delete-savegame button in the save list.
• Language selection in the settings menu.
• Fullscreen toggle for the desktop window.
• Map preview images in the map selection menu.
• Touch scrolling and text input for the shared menus on Android.
• The in-game control panel and endgame statistics are shared between platforms too.

Fixes

• Crash fixes when quitting the game, when the game menu dialog is recreated, and a NullPointerException in the settings toggle buttons.
• The render thread now stops cleanly before the game clock is cleared during shutdown.
• CI: the known-flaky AI difficulty battles and the replay-determinism test are excluded again until fixed.

v0.7.0.0

v0.7.0.0

The first release of the dos-ise fork, building on v0.6.0.9-alpha. It focuses on much smarter computer opponents, new gameplay features (peacetime, siege weapons, waypoints), a large set of Android improvements and many bug fixes.

Assets

• JSettlers.zip – desktop game for Windows/Linux (includes the Map Editor and tools)
• JSettlers-0.7.0.0-windows.zip – portable Windows build (bundled JRE, unzip and double-click JSettlers.exe, no installation needed)
• JSettlers-0.7.0.0-linux.zip – portable Linux build (bundled JRE, unzip and run JSettlers/bin/JSettlers, works on any distro)
• JSettlers-1.7.0-macos.zip – portable macOS build (bundled JRE, unzip and open JSettlers.app; macOS requires a version that does not start with 0, so 0.7.0.0 is reported as 1.7.0)
• JSettlers-Android.apk – Android app
• DedicatedJSettlersServer.jar – dedicated multiplayer server

Computer opponents (AI)

The computer players have been reworked into much more capable opponents:

• Smarter, more aggressive and less predictable attacks – the AI picks weak spots (undefended towers), varies its targets from game to game, and presses the advantage when it is clearly winning.
• Combat-outcome estimates – the AI weighs the enemy's troop quality (upgrades included) before committing to an attack.
• Proportionate, responsive defence – defenders are distributed to the nearest breach in proportion to the threat, so a small raid no longer pulls the whole army away from the front.
• Naval invasion AI – computer players build dockyards, produce ferries and attack across water, including amphibious flanking around a defended land front, fuller ferry loads and multi-ferry invasion waves.
• Cross-water colonization – the AI now colonizes islands: it scans for targets, sends a colonization expedition, builds and holds a beachhead, grows the colony with a living house, fortifies it with towers and a barrack, and ships the harvest home. It can also colonize empty/farmland islands when no ore target exists.
• Harassment and raiding – with spare soldiers, the AI peels off small raiding parties against lightly defended buildings; raids break off and retreat when clearly losing.
• Per-opponent adaptation and retaliation – the AI adjusts how hard it presses based on how the war is going.
• Seeded per-game personalities – every computer player gets a random play style (turtle, balanced, aggressor, raider, ...) at game start.
• Difficulty affects behaviour, not only economy – harder levels use the advanced tactics; easy levels play a plainer game and now send out scouts to "explore" (first fog-of-war step).
• Configurable attack grace period – no unfair opening rush; configurable via ai-attack-grace-seconds.
• Deterministic-AI mode – opt-in reproducible AI for testing.
• Balance fixes – EGYPTIAN very-hard AI no longer loses to hard; ASIAN hard AI can beat easy AI again; fixed AI attack oscillation; harbors and dockyards can be built on the sandy coast.

Gameplay

• Peacetime – optional 5–30 minute peace phase when creating a game (or without); no combat damage, no tower attacks, economy and scouting unaffected. The AI respects it.
• Siege weapons – new siege workshops and siege weapons with graphics, sounds and UI (Android, Swing and map editor), an ammunition production toggle, and the siege engineer is counted in the settler statistics.
• Waypoints for player-controlled movables.
• Powder maker building for the Asian civilisation.
• Decorative objects of original maps are now shown.
• Savegame description prompt when saving.
• Start resources are now applied in multiplayer games.
• Soldier obedience – soldiers obey a human player's order immediately, even mid-chase; soldiers no longer chase raiders across the map (pursuit leash).
• Thief fix – the thief now actually takes the good before the steal animation.
• Selection kept after converting settlers; invert-mouse-drag option; under-attack sound throttled.
• Rendering fixes – invisible ferry passengers, stray building-preview shadow, control panel oversizing on maximized windows, settlers drawn in front of/behind buildings.
• Crash fix – the game no longer crashes at start when the log directory is not writable.
• Production statistics and a "produce goods" win condition.

Multiplayer

• Players, their ping and connection state are now shown in multiplayer games.
• Spell bug fixes, mana statistic, per-civilisation statistic layout, and the game asks before quitting.
• Fixed StatisticsRecorder scheduling beyond the RescheduleTimer horizon.

Android

• Ubisoft Connect login and game data download to /storage/emulated/0/JSettlers.
• targetSdk 33 (Android 13), compileSdk 35, build tools 36.0.0; all-files access on Android 11+.
• Toggleable minimap.
• Convert bearers into specialists in the settlers menu.
• Material and goods priority settings.
• End-game statistics with history charts.
• Audio settings – music on/off, music and sound volume (ported from the BotGGias fork).
• Various fixes (MediaMetadataRetriever crash, base64 padding, FOREGROUND_SERVICE permission).

Build & CI

• Build with Gradle 8 on JDK 21, still producing Java 11 bytecode.
• Updated deprecated GitHub Actions.
• Automated release workflow – pushing a v* tag now builds and publishes the release with all six assets.
• Native packages – the desktop game is packaged with jpackage as portable app-images for Windows, Linux and macOS, each bundling its own JRE and shipped as a per-platform zip (no installer, no security-warning setup).
• Manual CI trigger – the workflow can be run manually (Actions → CI → Run workflow) to build and inspect the native packages without creating a release.
• Fixes ported from the BotGGias fork (fog-of-war save sync, movable draw order, geologist resource sound).