Anno 1404 Patch Changelog

What's new in Anno 1404 Patch 1.2

Dec 7, 2013
  • An overview of the most important changes:
  • The Golden Ship is now available after accomplishing all the Achievements (the corresponding affected Achievements have been corrected and can now be completed).
  • The cooldown period between individual Quests for the Emperor and the Sultan has been reduced.
  • Sultan Quests are now available even if players do not have Noblemen in their City.
  • Players can no longer see the routes taken by opposing Transport ships.
  • Buildings and fields may now be rotated by pressing the middle mouse button.
  • Construction time for the Large Oriental Trading Ship has been doubled.
  • Players can now also connect to the Gateway to the World under Windows 7.
  • Other changes:
  • Savegames in user-content scenarios are no longer corrupted when a fellow player is vanquished in that scenario.
  • In some cases uploads to the Gateway to the World failed. This bug has been fixed and uploads to the Gateway to the World should now be much more stable.
  • Fixed a bug in mission 7 in which, under certain conditions, a black pearl necessary for completion of the mission was not given to the player.
  • Fixed a bug which allowed the player to multiply the Goods on a Ship through skillful movement between the Ship's cargo slots.
  • The title "World Traveler" is now correctly displayed in the title selection.
  • Purchasing the second or third stage "Occidental Shipbuilding" Attainment sometimes led to all the Goods over 40 tons being thrown overboard by the Ships involved. This error has been corrected.
  • Ships in the "Historic Battle" Quest can now shoot back!
  • The cost in Gold shown in the Caravanserai delivery notification was displayed incorrectly. This error has been corrected.
  • Envoys whose Needs are now all met and who pay very few Taxes are now "euphoric" instead of "angry".
  • The Experts Customs goods Items are now somewhat more powerful.
  • A number of small improvements have been made.
  • Several spelling errors were corrected.