#NEW WORLD EXPANSION UPDATE#

New World Rising also introduces new buildings, emergency-services upgrades, the ability to build the Grand Stadium monument (which hosts soccer tournaments), and the Artistas, a highly demanding new population tier who bring electricity and new production chains to the New World.

#NEW WORLD EXPANSION UPDATE#

The expansion arrives alongside the Old Town Pack Cosmetic DLC, which lets players restyle their buildings with a medieval look reminiscent of earlier Anno games and a free update that introduces a reworked construction menu, the ability to select and move multiple structures at once, a bigger New World map pool, and other quality-of-life improvements.Īmong other additions, New World Rising – which can be accessed once players have 1,000 Obreros in their New World Session – adds more islands to the New World, including Mānola, the largest island, which comes with a special questline to build a hydroelectric dam. Several beaches provide space for your industry and harbour area, but also for the new beach module that we introduced in our previous DevBlog.New World Rising, the final DLC of Anno 1800’s fourth post-launch season, is out now – and as its name implies, it’s bringing an economic and industrial boom to the city-building game’s New World, with a new population tier, new islands to expand to, and a new trade-focused scenario mission. While there’s a large mountain chain further inland, the area near the coast is split by a large river and slightly rises on several levels up to the mountain region. There were additional inspirations for some of the island’s geographical features, of course: We have long beaches framed by mountain peaks (inspired by Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and many, many waterfalls (inspired by the Iguazu Falls, Argentina/Brazil).Ĭonsidering this is the finale of Season 4, we wanted to give you a similar place to create your capital city as we did back in 2019 with Crown Falls – especially since the New World also is one of the regions that are part of the base game.Īside from the waterfalls, you of course get plenty of building space on this island – making it a great candidate for your New World capital.

We recommend checking out the mentioned DevBlog by our Level Artist Simon if you want some more insights in our processes.įirst, the name: As you can see on the screenshot above, Mānola is an island with many waterfalls! The name then was inspired by the Manoa Falls on the Hawaiian island of Honolulu, an impressive 46m waterfall surrounded by rain forest. Our process for creating islands has not changed drastically from what we described a looong time ago back in 2018 in a blog before Anno 1800’s release. There is one twist, though: While only owners of DLC 12 will profit from the expanded region, the new islands and riverless island variants will be added to the general map pool, and therefore be available for all players, regardless of which DLC you own. When you start a new game, the islands will be randomly placed together with the already existing New World islands. Therefore, some of the new islands you may only see if you start a new game. The exact number of islands (5 to 7) depends on your chosen region size for your savegame. In existing savegames, these new islands will be placed in the expanded area in the north, giving you fresh building challenges to face. Plus, we’re also adding riverless variants of the existing islands to the overall map pool. Hacienda farms or workforce commute via the Airship Platform).īy popular demand, we added additional riv… no, just kidding, we reduced the number of rivers on these new islands. Season 4’s focus on the New World therefore meant a) to provide engaging new mechanics and b) simultaneously offer additional ways to increase efficiency and save space (e.g. In Anno 1800, the New World itself also acted as a limiting factor to a certain degree, considering the goods that other regions, primarily the Old World, needed. Space management therefore also is a key challenge of the Anno games – even more so if you’re playing with opponents. While some of you have proven over the years, that one can squeeze many more people on those islands than we originally thought, eventually a ceiling is hit, and either space for residences or space for production runs out. There are only so many islands in a region and the islands have only so many tiles.

While Anno games tend to give players relatively large freedoms to build as much and how they want, there are still a few limiting factors. In this second DevBlog for “New World Rising” we will take a closer look at what we only briefly mentioned before: The expansion of the New World region and the new islands that are getting added.

New world expansion