SHKBot 2025 Year Summary
Wolves and Bandits come to Private servers
- Brand new designs of Bandit camps and Wolf lairs
- Great way to farm honor in the early game
- Compete other players on leaderboards
- All related Quests are available
- All related Achievements are available
Links: Website, Discord
Admin Panel Update
- Improved look for desktop and mobile
- Option to disable interdiction
- Option to disable self-interdiction for a village
- Option to set maximum amount of Faith Points
- Option to enable influencing in County capitals
- Option to disable removal of inactive players
- Option to adjust AI aggressiveness against each other
- Option to set rank needed to join a faction
- Option to adjust Anchor Invasion intensity
- Option to open AI factions for players
Links: Website, Discord
Teams - Ally AI
- Far more Advanced than Heretics
- Friendly AI does not attack or monk
- Friendly AI gives no honor, wheel spins or kill streak if attacked
- Friendly AI can be repaired by sending stone
- Friendly AI can be strengthened by sending pitch
- AI characters fight each other if they are different teams
- Can be configured very quickly in the Admin Panel
Links: Website, Discord
Anchors Update
- Enables Invasions from Anchors
- Anchor sends Invasion if the player has no enemy AI around his village
- Time till next Invasion is printed when you click on the Anchor
- Type of invading AI is printed when you click on the invading Captain
- Lord of the Rings world has one dedicated anchor per AI character
- Admins no longer need to manually spawn first AI castle on the map
Links: Website, Discord
CustomSHK Installer
- Brand new installer
- Supports many languages
- Installs all necessary components on your computer
- Creates Desktop shortcut
- Creates uninstall option
Links: Website, Discord
Localization
- Added more languages to main page
- Shield Editor has all game languages
- Account page has all game languages
- Payment request has all game languages
- Admin message (world settings) has all game languages
Links: Website, Discord
New AI characters
- 15 New AI characters
- 150+ New castles
- 3 AI characters from crusader: Richard, Saladin, Caliph
- 4 AI characters from Game of Thrones: Night King, Tywin Lannister, Daenerys Targaryen, Stannis Baratheon
- 8 AI characters from Lord of the Rings
- 15 New Achievements
- 75 New Quests
Links: Website, Discord
Game Upgrades
- Option to see House Glory points per day
- "Last setup" button in the Attack screen
- Send Scouts panel shows current resource level, stockpile capacity, option to make scouts
- Send Monks Panel has button to hire monks
- Simulator reports appearance is improved
- Voting screen shows number of controlled parishes, counties and provinces
- Excomm timer on own village
- Castle Designer cards can be used for Capitals castles
- Trade report has button "Show on Map"
- Outriders cards increase scouts survivability when scout a castle
- Option to return the army if the target castle was already destroyed
- Barracks screen has button to refresh troops information
- Option to forward report to big number of players
Links: Website, Discord
Lord of the Rings world
- 23 kingships
- 8 new AI characters: 4 good and 4 evil
- Over 150.000 villages
- Lots of canonical city names, castles and geographical areas
- Required game update: v150
Links: Website, Discord
Game of Thrones Events
- Follow the plot twists of popular TV show
- Take advantage of unique game mechanics
- Cooperate with other Houses
- Win exclusive rewards
Links: Website, Discord
Glory race with elimination
- Old fashion Glory race where last 2 Houses are eliminated
- House that has stars will lose 1 star and stay in the race
- Once the last House wins, the race is automatically restarted with all Houses
- No pointless round with single House at the end of a race
Links: Website, Discord
Major multilingual update of Bot for official worlds
- Multilingual support in the Installer
- Improved readability for existing translations
- Add missing translations
- Translation to 5 more languages: Romanian, Chinese Simplified and Traditional, Japanese, Korean
- Translated window "Advanced login"
- Translated window "Copy settings"
- Most of the log messages are translated
- Fixed several cases when interface didn't fit long phrases in some of the languages
- "Languages" folder is no longer needed!
- Minor bugfixes and improvements
Links: Website, Discord
Major update for video cards support
- The game now works with Intel Integrated Graphics
- It should also work with AMD videocards
- Faster game installation
- Less files copied to your computer (no Visual C 2008 files)
- Faster game loading
- Faster opening of castle screen and village screen
- Less CPU consumption
- More energy saving
- Less "system of out memory" errors
Links: Website, Discord
Bugs fixed
- Auto-hiring of monks by the bot is fixed
- AI monks get removed from world map if the AI castle is destroyed
- Placement of oil pots is fixed
- Stockpile resources are not charged in case of castle placement error
- Fixed simulator not loading AI templates from DB
- Fixed label "No honour will be received for attacking this type of AI"
- Fix for leadership research in the Bot
Links: Website, Discord