Release Date: February 19th, 2026, at 10 AM UTC | 11 AM CET

Download Sizes: Steam – 5.7 GB

• Adding support for the “Marvellous Mosaic Pack” Cosmetic DLC

• Fixed issues with escort-type quests

• Fixed an issue with the silo bonus not applying anymore after the game was restated

• Fixed an issue with street range indicators disappearing

• Fixed an issue with high mouse input lag on PlayStation 5

• More desync fixes

• Due to a bug, Raytracing is currently disabled on console and will be fixed with the next patch

• Players will encounter a multiplayer desync when moving/deleting CDLC walls without owning them

• Aqueduct edges can sometimes not be built, showing a “Water Cannot Flow Uphill” error message

• The Governor’s decision “cut down the oak tree” does not appear in the “The Roots of our Ancestors” quest

• Some parts of the Sandstone ground pattern have larger scaling when painted on a diagonal

• Albion construction menu entries disappear in Latium when being clicked on

• The camera will now follow units and ships when using the Jump to function from the unit’s menu with M&K or when using a gamepad and hovering over the unit

• Players can now cycle through troops using the Tab Key when a unit has been selected

• Added blockers to harbour buildings to prevent ships from clipping into them

• Improved audio from production buildings

• Improved jump-to functionality for resolver units: when using a gamepad, the camera will now follow the resolver unit when using the jump-to function.

• Improved resolver unit behaviour so they spread out more throughout the city

• Added celebrating feedback units to Tavern and Bardic Hall at night

• Traders should now use different “routes” instead of all going clockwise to not clump up

• Added different minimap behaviour settings for mouse & keyboard and gamepad

  • auto-rotation is off by default with mouse & keyboard, and on by default for gamepads (can be changed in the options)

• Rebalanced island settling costs,  XL-size islands will cost more now

  • Previously they had the same settling costs as L-size islands

• Rebalanced settling costs and land tax for some Latium islands that were wrongly categorised:

  • roman_island_medium_01.a7m – wrongly flagged as Large

  • roman_island_medium_08.a7m – wrongly flagged as Large

  • roman_island_small_05.a7m – wrongly flagged as Medium

  • Players that have already settled on one of these islands now pay less Land Taxes for it. Players that have already settled on one of these islands and sell this island will get back less money than they paid for originally.

• Changed Max size of all tools to 80×80 for performance reasons

• Added animation to the buff arrows above buildings

• Trade routes will now show more than 3 traded goods on the overview menu

• Players can now Hold LB/L1 or RB/R1 to quickly go through the construction menu categories

• Improved the attack indicator by implementing colourblind-friendly colours

• Improved the quest tracker; when the list is open, it will not show the number of quests anymore, only when it’s closed

• Updated icons for the different quest categories in the questbook

• Replaced 2D icons with 3D icons for the deities in the infotip for city status

• Added visual polish to the main menu

• Added visual polish to the options menu

• Added visual polish to popup menus

• Added visual polish to the trade route menus

• Added visual polish to the accolades menu

• Added visual polish to the statistics menu

• Added visual polish to banners and notifications

• Added visual polish to object menus

• Fixed various crashes on PC and consoles

• Fixed an issue with the bonus from silos not applying anymore after the game was restarted

• Improved performance while building streets when being invaded

• Fixed an issue where the tile calculation for Apiary production building was not correct when used with Lavender fields

• Fixed an issue when the player would switch provinces via a notification during game pause, would not show the targeted building/ship

• Rivals construct more efficient roads now

• Fixed an issue where players would receive a “game over” screen when arriving in Albion during the campaign

  • This happened when the “resettling” option was disabled by the player during game setup

• Fixed an issue with the Mercury exaltation effect not working

• Fixed an issue where only the host received the items they unlocked via the Hall of Fame, but not other multiplayer participants

• Removed the charcoal buff effect from the Potita Calavia Flamina, Vulcan’s Augur specialist (who only affects residences)

• Fixed an issue where the Rival NPC would settle too many islands and not use them

• Fixed an issue where Auto-Repair would still work for ruins while an incident is active nearby

• Fixed an exploit where the player could copy&paste depots and place more depots than they had building permits for

• Fixed an issue where the Legendary Specialists buff could be applied twice, once boosted and once non-boosted

• Fixed an issue where in some cases if the player had several vassalised islands the take-over screen would trigger for a different island when selecting a Trading Post

• Fixed an issue where placing marble roads over bridges and/or harbor streets didn’t change it into the marble version

• Fixed an issue where the player could move the Trimmed Hedges ornament from their own island to an NPC island with the move tool

• Fixed an issue where an incorrect autosave is created after loading previous game session save from another ongoing session

• Fixes an issue where units could be dragged and dropped to the Trading Post and turn into empty or duplicate items (non functioning items)

• Fixed an issue where there was no cooldown between the military waves sent by the Emperor if a rebellion was started in Albion

• Fixed an issue where sometimes downgrade/upgrade was not possible for streets

• Demolish tool now deletes everything that is marked when the tool starts on an empty grid

• Fixed pathfinding issues when units enter combat on bridges

• Players should now be able to configure their ship modules even if they don’t have the cost to construct it

• Fixed an issue where previewing a song in Hall of Fame with the gamepad did not stop the song when pressing preview again

• Fixed an issue where taking over a rival island would sometimes have strange street wedges. This fix only works for new save games

• Fixed an issue where the player could navigate very far away from the research nodes with WASD/arrow keys

• Fixed an issue where Aqueducts sometimes would give warning about water cannot flow uphill in a valid situation

• Fixed an issue where players could not pause the game when the campaign banners appeared

• Fixed an issue where pressing shift while in polygon build mode, would partly hide other polygons (like lavender fields)

• Fixed an issue with rivals giving the wrong amount of money

• Fixed an issue where the player could not upgrade their Pig Farms from planning mode with the upgrade tool, if the player placed them when not having enough resources

• Fixed rare issue with aqueducts that would sometimes block build mode

• Fixed an issue where Officium shows warning about the building limit being reached even if no Officium was built yet

• Fixed an issue with street range indicators disappearing under certain conditions

• Fixed an issue where the street would not be marked in Red if players marked houses and streets with demolish tool with shift pressed down

• Fixed an issue where the Aqueduct Pillar would stay highlighted after it was highlighted but not destroyed by the demolish tool

• Fixed an issue where the building grid was not always visible when placing something on top of the ground patterns ornaments

• Changed visualization of attributes when new city status appears

• Added Lupine Vexillum to the Miscellaneous tab for ornaments

• Fixed an issue where the notification with the quest rewards would not be displayed, if the player had selected a building that was owned by the NPC that rewarded the player

• Fixed an issue where the loading screen is opened twice when a player joins a running game

• The ship in the ship configurator should now also be shown with the player color

• Added a warning and a corresponding text if the player would lose their consul/pro-consul state in the diplomacy action details

• Diplomacy reasons should now be ordered by their impact value

• Fixed an issue where the Empty Rival slot would disappear in the Diplomacy menu after sending an invite to another player and then reopening the Diplomacy menu

• Changed the color in the negotiation screen so that available actions are always in green, and won’t accept actions are in red

• Fixed an issue where the title “Appoint As Specialist” was missing in the infotip in the diplomacy menu

• Fixed an issue where the construction cost was not displayed if copying building and fields if the player did not have enough resources

• Fixed an issue where the unlock conditions were missing for ornaments when using Gamepad

• Fixed an issue where the hint bubble was sometimes pointing in the wrong direction

• Fixed an issue where the DLSS upscaler was shown in the option menu when it was not available

• Added missing infotip for locked “Claim Title” in the accolades menu

• Fixed an issue where the Hall of Fame was still present if the player had disabled access to the Hall of Fame during game setup

• Fixed an issue where the Ruby Mosaic was not shown in the Hall of Fame Category in the Ornaments menu

• Fixed an issue where the Exit button was twice present in the Hall of Fame menu when accessed from the Main Menu

• Fixed an issue where some settings in the options menu did not change language when the player changed the text language

• Fixed an issue where the online connection banner would be cut off when using TV scaling options.

• Fixed an issue where the session backup save file was present in the Manual Saves list

• Fixed an issue where the Needs icons were moving when the attribute value changed in the attribute infotip in the top menu because of the decimals

• Fixed an issue where the Needs unlock pop-up was missing after pressing Accept with the Gamepad on a previous Needs unlock pop-up

• Removed unnecessary “back” prompt in the notification menu when using a gamepad

• Fixed an issue where the player could create unfinished trade routes when pressing Y/Triangle on the gamepad when creating a trade route

• Fixed an issue where the top of the “Your Trade Route” menu would get highlighted whenever it needed to scroll if the player performed “Reorder Route Stops” with a gamepad

• Fixed an issue where offered goods icons persist on province and route maps after establishing Trade Route via Gamepad

• Trade routes now support ships with 10 goods slots

• Fixed an issue for showing the options for a trade route when many trade routes were created

• Fixed an issue where trade route would open when clicked while editing the name of the route

• Fixed an issue where the arrows in the visualization of a trade route could flicker

• Fixed some scaling issues within the Active Trade menu

• Fixed an issue where the infotip for relocation was still visible even if it was disabled in the game setup

• Fixed an issue where the player banner in the background would always be the same in the Main Menu

• Fixed a navigational issue with gamepad in the Research menu

• Added the Add and Remove prompt in the Active Trade menu when using a gamepad

• Fixed an issue where hardcoded text was briefly visible when switching from Aqueduct Source to Aqueduct via Gamepad

• Fixed an issue where the build mode panel would sometimes stay open if the player placed buildings that had limited build permits with a gamepad

• Fixed an issue where unresolved strings appear in the Goods description for active trade if the player’s camera was far away from the trader

• Fixed an issue where the Relocate icon would disappear when relocating a building while using a gamepad

• Fixed an issue where some names of buildings didn’t switch to the correct language if the player switched languages

• Fixed an issue where the player could not pin the infotip for fleets when the player is in world map view

• Small visual improvement for the icon in the notification settings

• Fixed an issue where the filter options in the province map were unchecked after saving and restarting the game

• Added sort prompt when using the statistics page with a gamepad

• Fixed an issue where the infotip for Marshland was missing in the menu for the Mud Drier

• Fixed an issue where Athr’s portrait was missing when selecting Athr’s Jolly Knights during Part 2 of the campaign

• Fixed an issue where the old quest star icon design was present for the emaciated survivors after removing the “Derelict Market” ruins in the campaign

• Fixed an issue where the delivery quest marker would be displayed above every sanctuary on the player’s island if they had multiple sanctuaries for the quest “Burning Fever”

• Fixed an issue where an icon was missing in the quest entry in “The Lost Cohort”

• Fixed an issue where the wrong reward was shown in the notification for the “Weapons from the Stars” quest

• Fixed an issue where the wrong Equites Portrait was shown instead of Mercator portrait in the “Missing Shipment” quest

• Fixed an issue with an empty notifications bubble when Julia gives you back money in the campaign

• Fixed an issue in the quest book where the “Prepare for the Worst” objective was split in the “Imperial Visit” campaign quest

• Fixed an issue where the active effects list stayed open when switching to different production buildings

• Fixed an issue where gates would be missing active effects when they were connected to a wall

• Fixed an issue where Latium was default focused on the Religion screen when you opened the menu in Albion

• Fixed an issue that two islands could be highlighted in the Religion menu

• Fixed an issue where the name of the running amphitheater event didn’t always switch to the corresponding language if the player switched languages if a game was running in the amphitheater

• Fixed the order of buildings displayed on a river slot to reflect their unlock-timings

• Fixed an issue where the drop-down menus in the options menu didn’t auto-close if the player navigated away from it with the gamepad

• Fixed an issue where default UI scaling would be set to Medium Monitor and not Medium TV on consoles

• Added a toggle-able info button for Effects in the Statistics Menu

• Fixed an issue where the Jump To button would become unresponsive via gamepad after confirming unsaved changes in the trade routes menu

• Fixed an issue where it seemed the production building had 0 workforce, but was still working

  • Now we added decimals to workforce infotips as production building would still function with 0.4 workforce

• Fixed an issue if the player used the Jump-To button on a higher scaling (Like Medium TV) they would not land directly on the correct research in the research menu

• Changed the menu for units that are encamped to better reflect the possible actions of an encamped unit

• Fixed an issue that let players change their profile name after the game had started

• Fixed an issue where there was an extra lock icon in the Shipyard menu

• Missing Fertility icon should now disappear when researching a tech that makes the fertility available everywhere

• Updated the screenshot of the Latrine in the research menu to match the in-game asset

• Fixed an issue where the banner color was not greyed out for the co-op player while in the multiplayer lobby

• Fixed a flickering issue in festival governor decision screen

• Fixed visual issues in the Save/Load Menu

• Fixed an issue where the tutorial bubble didn’t disappear after building the required amount of residences

• Fixed an issue where the Province Switch menu for ships didn’t close after selecting a location to send the ship

• Fixed an issue where the wrong background image was used for some of the public service buildings, like the library

• Fixed an issue with the first-time user experience (FTUX) that the button action Y was double used. Changed the button to X now to skip the FTUX

• Removed the player’s current reputation from the governor decision infotip, as the reputation is shown at the top of the menu next to the money overview

• Fixed an issue where the focus highlight was missing when focusing on a reward in a notification with gamepad

• Fixed an issue where the Villa was locked to the Specialists Tab when adding Specialists to the Villa

  • Players can now switch to the other categories too, like the Anno Account

• Now the rival color gets updated when a player changes their player color during a game

• Replaced outdated icon in the effects tab in the statistics menu

• Fixed an issue where the money reward for doing contracts was missing the dot between the thousands

• Fixed an issue where tutorial bubbles could be shown below the construction menu and not on top

• Removed planning mode from the drainage channels object menu, as they could not be placed in planning mode

• Boosted Item Effects should now be shown in the Active Effects menu

• Fixed a issue where the ship category button was missing its color when enabling colorblind mode

• Fixed an empty error flyout message when trying to place walls in front of the enemy when attacked

• Fixed an issue where workforce was inconsistent with showing decimals value and integer values in the residences

• Talking Heads Scenes now fully supports all subtitle properties

• Fixed an issue where the prompt list for gamepad could flicker

• Fixed an issue where carts sometimes would “fall” through a bridge when crossing

• Feedback units no longer fall through gaps on marsh street connector

• Fixed an issue where Feedback units would not walk on diagonal polygon ornaments

• Fixed an issue where some coastal production buildings would have too many feedback units or too few

• Fixed an issue where the feedback units from the temple would spawn and despawn before leaving down the temple stairs

• Fixed an issue where the feedback units would clump up like the monster from Inside after the player scared them in first person mode

• Fixed an issue where some feedback units were not present during the night – no more sleep, just work

• Fixed an issue where Feedback units would walk through the bridge created by Streets over the Drainage Channels

• Fixed an issue where it felt like the ox carts were gliding on the streets

• Fixed spawning issues for Feedback Units in Marshes

• Fixed an issue where oxcarts would clip into each other

• Fixed an issue where land units would be hovering above the ground when passing over ruins

• Fixed an issue where the Claypit assets in the water would still be visible and unharmed if clay pit was in ruins

• Fixed Level of Detail (LoD) issue on low settings for Nobleman residence buildings

• Disease effects should now not fade out as quickly as before

• Improved visibility of the villa when attacking an island

• Fixed an issue where the Scomber’s Shack generated a lot of feedback units.

• Fixed an issue where the trees could appear browner with TAA and greener with MSAA on

• Fixed an issue where the door from the gates kept opening and closing when placing walls close by

• Fixed an issue where the water flow direction was missing on corner segments or tower ends for the aqueduct

• Area of influence color changed in planning mode to match the color of planning mode for buildings

• Fixed visual issue with Quay in planning mode

• Banners now push away each other to avoid overlapping as much and other various fixed for Unit Banners

• Changed the saturation of Stone Ballista Tower to match the other towers

• Fixed an issue where, in some cases, the water in the aqueduct was not present

• Fixed an issue where several sound effects were missing for the research menu if the player used a gamepad

• Fixed various sound effect issues with groundplate ornaments

• Fixed an issue where no sound effect was playing when using quicksave with a gamepad

• Added sound effect when pressing the “Toggle Controller Scheme” button when in multiplayer pause menu

• Fixed some missing sound effects in the Religion menu

• Fixed an issue where in some cases loud wave sounds were present during the scene after the campaign intro cinematic

• Fixed an issue where notification sound effects could be suppressed by unit barks

• Fixed an issue where other players heard the copying sound effect when one player would use the copy function

• Fixed an issue where fluff-adding audios didn’t play if certain menus were kept open for a longer time

• Fixed various causes for desyncs

• Fixed an issue in multiplayer where if a player sends a ping and then leaves the game the ping does not disappear

• Fixed an issue where non-team leads for Co-Op games could change the name of the governor while the game was running

• Fixed an issue with high mouse input lag on PlayStation 5

• Fixed an issue where the player could get a Black Screen if they used multiple shortcut combinations in short succession

• Fixed an issue where the camera would not follow a ship if it had units in it when using gamepad

• Fixed an issue where players could not multi-select or deselect islands with gamepad in Statistics menu

• Fixed issues when using the cosmetic tool with gamepad

• Fixed an issue where players could not auto place streets around the recruitment buildings like the Barracks

• Fixed an issue where players could not “auto surround” buildings with walls.

• Fixed an issue where Zoom did not work when Object Menu is focused with a Gamepad

• Fixed issues with escort-type quests

• Fixed an issue where Ben Baalion dialog did not trigger for the first Disease incident.

• Fixed an issue where Caeso’s comeback dialog didn’t trigger after being added back into the game after the campaign.

• Fixed an issue where buffs from Amphitheatre Governor Decisions could affect the NPC island and not the player’s island

• Fixed an issue where the “Full House” achievement could trigger if the player placed and removed the same Specialist 9 times instead of equipping 9 specialists

• Fixed an issue where in rare cases the Achievement “Pecinia Non Olet” would unlock if player loaded a savegame with income balance less then 250 denarii

• Fixed an issue where the progress indication was missing for “Morituri Te Salutant” achievement inside the Accolades menu

• Fixed an issue where the progress for the “Vestis Civitanten Facit” achievement was reset after loading a save game

• Disable some of the tutorial bubbles/highlight unless their quest is tracked

• Fixed an issue where the Governor Decision “Chicken Justice” would give the same reward for both options

• Quest Burning Fever: now gets canceled correctly if the player deletes the sanctuary during delivery step

• Quest The Hue From the Heavens: Fixed an issue where the player would get rewarded by Zara with negative diplomatic relations

• Quest Cover Up: Fixed an issue where the quest offer would be displayed above every library on the player’s island if they had multiple libraries

• Quest Dominus Mirabilium: Fixed an issue where it could start on an island without a Tavern and quest objectives on other owned islands

• Quest Liberty Lost: Changed enemy ship type to Trireme to lower quest difficulty

• Quest A Hoarse Plea: Fixed an issue where when the player had a ship close to Manx island, the quest would not become completed if the player then sent the sick horse away

• Quest Secure the Limes: Fixed an issue where the quest would remain active with no objective

• Fixed various localization issues for Challenges and Achievements.

• Added a text to the tutorial that the Pirates don’t break treaties

• Fixed a spelling mistake in the “Ben Baalion’s Crisis” Campaign Governor decision

• Changed the name of Governance to Attributes in the Statistics menu

• Fixed an issue where Russian text sometimes went outside their intended text box

• Fixed various localization issues in Russian

• Added the missing Simplified Chinese character 纾 in endless mode difficulty settings

• Fixed an issue in the loading screen hints where the words “twice as many” was missing

• Fixed an issue where the incident infotip that shows how many buildings would be affected was off by 1

Hey Anno Community,

It’s been a long time since our last DevBlog dedicated to a Cosmetic DLC – the last one was back in 2024 for the “End of an Era” Pack[www.anno-union.com] – and we’re super excited to restart the tradition with our first CDLC for Anno 117: Pax Romana. We did tease you a bit in the past week on our socials, and as promised, today you are getting all the details on our upcoming content: the Marvellous Mosaic Pack CDLC!

In today’s DevBlog we showcase the content of the pack and shine a light on the amazing work behind it together with Laura, Senior Prop Artist, and Rolf, Expert Artist. So, if you don’t want to miss out – keep reading! 

The Marvellous Mosaic Pack will release on 19th February on all platforms.

On the same day, we'll also release patch 1.4 with a variety of bug fixes and improvements. Expect the full patch notes on Wednesday, 18th February.

For now, let's focus on small stones and bright colours:

When we think of the Roman Empire and its art, one of the first things that come to our minds is: mosaics! Beautiful, colourful, detailed patterns or images made up by geometrical blocks called tesserae. So, what better way to beautify your cities than by using these gorgeous large ornaments? We love placing them in a plaza surrounded by other ground plates or at the centre of a residences’ block to create the perfect private courtyard.

A lot of work was put into these 4 charming and intricate mosaics – so we asked Rolf to explain to us how they were created, step by step:

“First, a Concept Artist draws a loose sketch of a mosaic where individual stones aren’t visible (1); then I draw a greyscale on top of it (2). After that, I use a software that lets me detect the edges of the greyscale and place the tiles along those edges and shapes by using a complex “node network” (3). At the end of this process, you get a mosaic which then is tested in game and tweaked here and there if needed (4).”

This pack goes big on ground plates – as you can see from the list at the end of this blog – and we know that the Anno beauty builders out there will make the most out of all of them!

If you’re building a rural settlement in Albion, we recommend using the Grassy Pavement to match the overgrown and lush vegetation vibe, for example. And if you’re working on a little plaza in Latium, why not use some classical yet elegant marble tiles? Whatever the style you’re going for, there are 7 different types of “stone” ground plates in total.

If you’re going for a more maximalist look, then there are 13 colourful ground plates to choose from – which perfectly match the vivid ornamental mosaics we mentioned above. Purple, russet, green, yellow tesserae perfectly laid in complex or simple patterns: your choice.

These ground plates will make your cities shine, quite literally:

“The idea is to use a wide range of surface roughness to create reflections that change depending on the viewing angle. At certain angles and heights, the surface relies less on colour and more on reflective patterns, which adds a subtle sparkle as the camera moves. The contrast is intentionally pushed further than what you’d normally see in real life to make the visuals more striking in-game.” (Rolf, Expert Arist)

Among all the ground plates, this pack also adds two wall systems, both perfect in their own way. The Hortical Wall, together with its Gate of Heroes, adds some classical walls ideal for a Roman settlement to surround the Governor’s Villa, for example.

Conversely, the Oppidum Wall and the Druwid’s Gate are the ultimate choice for Albion and Celtic settlements (and perfect for all the Lord of the Rings fans out there that would like to recreate The Shire in Anno 117: Pax Romana…)

Finally, to complete this pack, we also added building skins for the Bathhouse and the Forum, both with a Latium and Albion variant to give you even more choice! Who knew that the perfect Bathhouse would come in pink shades?

Now, let’s have a chat with the two artists that worked on this Pack, Senior Prop Artist Laura and Expert Artist Rolf. Whilst Laura focused on the wall systems and the four building skins, Rolf took care of all the ground plates and mosaics.

Q: Which piece of content from the pack was the most challenging to work on and why? Which one the most fun?

A (Laura): For me the organic, Celtic inspired wall was hardest to work on, more organic stuff usually is. Also, to get the textures quite right and the amount of vegetation on top so it wouldn`t merge with the background too strongly – that took a lot of fiddling with it.

A (Rolf): The 3×3 mosaics, which represents pictures, were challenging and needed a lot of hands-on craftsmanship and problem-solving skills. It was stressful, but in a good way, it was still a lot of fun creating them.

Q: Real life inspiration: how much research goes into a CDLC like this one? How do you balance it with creative freedom?

A (Laura): Usually our amazing Concept Artists do the biggest research part. After that, the assets go through a lot of back and forth even before we get to the 2D Concepts. Then we build it in 3D, mostly focusing on getting the “feeling” of the concept right, so as long as that still translates into our final model, there is quite some freedom really.

A (Rolf): I had a look at a lot of Mosaics, but they are not dramatically helpful. They do teach you a certain history and character which you need to take and extrapolate. Since we have such a specific perspective in our game, I will make it more exaggerated than in real-life and weave in all the Anno knowledge I have collected in the past 13 years.

Q: On a personal level: among all the ground plates, skins and ornaments, which one would you pick as your absolute favourite and why?

A (Laura): My favourite pieces in this pack are all the amazing mosaics, especially the “Intwined Verdant Mosaic”, since I love Celtic patterns and the colour green.

A (Rolf): The “Lavish Garden Mosaic” for sure. I had a lot of creative freedom playing around with all the different tile sizes, patterns, and contrasts. Additionally, I started my career as a Concept Artist, and since I’ve been working as a 3D artist for most of the time after that, it was great to get the chance to paint again, which I had really missed

Q: What recommendation would you give to players who want to beautify their cities with this pack?

A (Rolf): Place a unique mosaic in the middle and let it shine with some patterns around it. and don’t forget, less is sometimes more, decide for 2 or three and combine them, more might feel a bit overwhelming in terms of colours.

And with this, we are at the end of this (long) DevBlog dedicated to the first Anno 117: Pax Romana Cosmetic DLC! The Marvellous Mosaic Pack will be available starting 19th February on PC and consoles, for the price of 7€ or your regional equivalent.

We cannot wait to see your marvellous creations!

• Lavish Garden Mosaic (ornament 3×3)

• Latium Mosaic (ornament 3×3)

• Sol Magnificus Mosaic (ornament 3×3)

• Sacred Tree Mosaic (ornament 3×3)

• Papyrus Mosaic (ground plate 1×1)

• Purple Papyrus Mosaic (ground plate 1×1)

• Purple Florals (ground plate 1×1)

• Russet Florals (ground plate 1×1)

• Russet Fan Pattern (ground plate 1×1)

• Purple Fan Pattern (ground plate 1×1)

• Sandstone (ground plate 1×1)

• Granite (ground plate 1×1)

• Irregular Sandstone (ground plate 1×1)

• Rustic Stone (ground plate 1×1)

• Marble Tiles (ground plate 1×1)

• Irregular Marble Tiles (ground plate 1×1)

• Sunkissed Stone (ground plate 1×1)

• Ornate Russet Square (ground plate 1×1)

• Intwined Verdant Mosaic (ground plate 1×1)

• Four Winds Mosaic (ground plate 1×1)

• Verdant Winds Mosaic (ground plate 1×1)

• Aureum Pattern (ground plate 1×1)

• Light Granite (ground plate 1×1)

• Grassy Pavement (ground plate 1×1)

• Forum Latiorum (Forum building skin 12×17)

• Forum Albionum (Forum building skin 12×17)

• Baths of Hygieia (Bathhouse building skin 11×20)

• Baths of Sulis (Bathhouse building skin 11×20)

• Druwid’s Gate

• Oppidum Wall

• Gate of Heroes

• Hortical Wall

Please find below the patch notes for version 1.3.2

Release Date: Thursday, January 29th, 10AM UTC | 11AM CET

• Adjustments to the prices of many goods

• Increased likeliness and intensity of Major Incidents

• Fixed issue related to global religion buffs

• Fixed several causes for crashes and desyncs

• The base prices of many goods were adjusted (mostly increased), resulting in higher buying and selling prices

  • Consumption was accordingly also very slightly decreased for some goods

• Difficult and aggressive rivals are now more likely to declare war on the player

  • We have adjusted multiple behaviour reasons to make it more likely for rivals to start wars, including the smaller feuds

  • Specifically Neferneru and Concordia are now also more likely to ally against the player

  • The intention is to provide more challenge for players seeking it

• Major city incidents are more impactful

  • Increased number of rioters to be defeated (Riots), increased number of people to be evacuated (Fire), increased number of sick people to be picked up (Plague)

  • Additionally, taking any such actions (defeating rioters, etc.) reduces the incident by only 1min each now

• Major incidents will happen more often

• Increased the population threshold for city status changes in early game (level 3 + 4) to allow players to build wide for longer

• Fixed various crashes, for example:

  • Fixed crashes related to moving or destroying aqueducts

  • Fixed an issue with the benchmark crashing for some players

  • Fixed occasional crashes during mod loading related to the use of options

• Fixed some possible triggers for desyncs for example:

  • Fixed desyncs related to crossplay between PS5 and other platforms

• Fixed an issue with global religion buffs not applying to newly settled or conquered islands

• Fixed issues with certain keyboard shortcuts when using a keyboard on PS5

• Fixed a visual issue with some palisade stakes

• Fixed several visual issues with NPC portraits:

  • issues with Concordia’s headscarf

  • a visible renderline on Julia’s forehead

• Fixed an issue with blueprinted aqueducts not always upgrading as expected

• Fixed an issue with rivals not constructing anything on islands they took from other rivals or players

• Fixed an issue where mouse clicks would occasionally not be registered

• Fixed an issue that prevented land units from recovering when retreating, even if the recovery conditions were met

• Fixed an issue with Voada’s ship being invisible during the “Scars of Conquest” quest.

• Added warning messages on start-up when the game lacks permission to save the game in the savegame folder

  • This is a Windows folder access problem, please refer to official Windows documentation on how to give applications writing access to specific folders

• Fixed an issue with the buttons for goods in the Trading Post changing layout under rare circumstances

• Fixed an issue in campaign where having both Festive Decorations and Vital Condiments on board of the ship would glitch our Julia’s dialogue boxes

• Fixed an issue with the Xbox Gamertag not being displayed in some menus

• Fixed an issue with the network status icon not appearing under certain conditions

• Fixed an issue with notifications for diplomatic proposals would trigger and immediately disappear

• Removed the exclamation markers from the incident values in the top bar

• Fixed an issue with the “The Missing Shipment” quest remaining active after completion

• Fixed an issue in the campaign that would result in the player not receiving a ship in Albion when sending multiple ships at the end of Part 1

• Improved various parts of the localization, for example:

  • Fixed a spelling mistake in the Trading Pier help menu

  • Fixed some missing translations for the “Dominus Racing Stallions” quest

Happy New Year, Anno Community!

We hope you had a great start into 2026.

The year will be filled with Anno content and news, let’s get started right away with an overview of the next couple of months:

On January 29th, we’ll release patch 1.3.2 with several more bug fixes as well as balance changes – the full patch notes will be available on release day.

After that, more content and fixes will drop in the second half of February. More details in a few weeks.

Additionally, we’ll have several DevBlogs lined up covering not only the topics of music and sound (originally presented in a livestream in December by our Audio Team) but also insights into the work of the UI and Art teams on various aspects.

Expect more details into our plans for 2026 and – later – also the DLC in the coming weeks and months. We’re also looking forward to showing you more in dedicated livestreams on our Twitch channel[www.twitch.tv] in addition to these blogs.

Finally, a few words on the topic of snow:

The snow intended as an easter egg for the holidays was more intense for several of you than planned, and was therefore deactivated on PC on the 25th. Unfortunately, it was not possible to do the same on consoles and we apologize for the inconveniences this has caused over the last weeks for everyone playing on PlayStation or Xbox.

The topic will be revisited this year in preparation for the next holiday season to provide a more enjoyable experience for everyone.

We deployed a hotfix to remove the snow effect on PC.

Hey Anno Community,

Here we are at the end of a special and eventful year: 2025 was a huge milestone for Anno and the Anno team, with the release of Anno 117: Pax Romana. So many things have happened throughout the year and today we would like to have a look at 2025 and recap the latest news.

In case you missed it, this week we released version 1.3 of Anno 117: Pax Romana, which fixes several bugs, crashes and performance issues and resolves various causes for desyncs. If you missed the Patch Notes that we shared last week, you can find them here[www.anno-union.com].

If you encountered any issues following the patch, please let us know via the Bug Reporter[www.ubisoft.com]https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/game/anno/117-pax-romana/bug-reporterwebsite.

A lot has happened in the past 12 months. It all started with the first teaser of the year back in January, showcasing diagonal roads[www.anno-union.com], which kind of blew up and created some concerns for the Anno grid (fear not, it’s still there). Plus, in January we held the final Community Contest[www.anno-union.com], where we asked you to design an island for Latium; speaking of, have you spotted it on the map while playing?

Where it all began – many months ago…

While we were slowly introducing you to the world of Anno 117: Pax Romana throughout the first few months of 2025, we were secretly getting ready for our big comeback in May, when we first publicly showcased gameplay. Seeing your reactions when the first trailer and all the videos by content creators dropped, was priceless.

And of course, back in May we also celebrated the 30th Anniversary of Ubisoft Mainz! Originally founded as Related Designs and having developed games like No Man’s Land and Castle Strike, the studio is now most known for working on – you guessed it – Anno! Together with our other colleagues at the studio, including teams working on Rainbow Six and Beyond Good and Evil 2 we celebrated three decades of game development.

One thing we loved about 2025 was having the chance to meet so many of you in person at gamescom – where we even held our biggest Community Event! Plus, we had a very special guest with us: the Town Crier himself was there to celebrate with all of us. Thanks to all of you who came around to watch our panels, queue FOR HOURS to play the demo, or just to say hi and share your love for the game with us.

But of course, let’s not forget another important thing that happened at gamescom 2025: Anno 117: Pax Romana won the awards for Best PC Game and Best Consumer Booth! Well, it’s hard to beat a 4.5-meter statue of the Town Crier…

With all these things happening throughout the year, 13th November arrived quickly. Seeing Anno 117: Pax Romana out in the world has been both unbelievable and fantastic at the same time (and a little bit scary).

We know, Anno 117: Pax Romana has been out for just over a month, but we still wanted to provide some stats to wrap up the first few weeks of the game and celebrate your achievements! Safe to say you’ve done pretty well – congrats, Governors!

We cannot wait for you all to see what’s next for Anno 117: Pax Romana. After all, this was just the beginning.

• We’ll have more insights into the work of different departments for you, both via DevBlogs and dedicated livestreams.

• In early spring, we’ll have more information on the first DLC: Prophecies of Ash.

• And we have some more surprises planned that we can’t talk about just yet.

We would like to thank each and one of you for your continued support throughout the years, and especially 2025: you, Anno Community, made the release of Anno 117: Pax Romana truly special.

Finally, we would like to wish you all happy holidays and an amazing start into the new year. May 2026 bring everything you want and more!

The Anno Team

Please find below the patch notes for next week’s update.

Version 1.3 will release on all platforms on Tuesday, December 16th, at 10AM UTC.

• Fixed several crashes and performance issues

• Fixed various causes for desyncs

  • With these desync fixes, we’ll also re-enable crossplay for Xbox since all 3 platforms will be on the same version again

• Adde various updates and fixes to texts and localizations

• Fixed an issue with deities (Ceres, Neptune, Mars) disappearing from the Religion menu

• Fixed an issue making it impossible to upgrade blueprints of slot buildings (mountain, river, marshland) and farms

• Pirate Ships will drop more items from now on when destroyed

• Shrines are supported to be built on plazas tiles now.

• The Credits movie now has subtitles.

• Session generation has been improved. There should be no island missing any longer.

  • Please note this will change the seeds

• General improvements to street- and path construction

• Various improvements on the technical side, like refinement on game stability and performance, including:

  • A fix for heavy stutters during fights involving many ships and/or land units

  • A fix for heavy stutters when rivals triggered festivals under specific circumstances

  • A fix for benchmark stutters

  • A fix for the game not booting

  • A fix for slow performance on Intel GPUs

  • A fix for the lag when opening the Save Menu

• Fixed an issue with the title freezing for 10 seconds after pressing the “Quit Game” button in the Main Menu.

• Fixed an issue with the game crashing when moving an Aqueduct under certain circumstances

• Fixed an issue that prevented the instant repair of ruins

• Fixed an issue making it impossible to upgrade blueprints of slot buildings (mountain, river, marshland) and farms

• Fixed an issue where destroyed shipyards of rivals continued to spawn ships

• Fixed an issue with the trading post menu being unusable, when the trading post was destroyed with no villa present.

• Fixed an issue with deities (Ceres, Neptune, Mars) disappearing from the Religion menu when the player disabled or lost access to the Hall of Fame

• Fixed several issues with gates and walls

  • Gate could be constructed without available resources

  • Gates were not showing maintenance and build costs in construction bar

  • Walls could be placed on islands of rivals

• Fixed an issue with the villa garrison cavalry in Albion requiring workforce

• Fixed an issue with cisterns not having water supply costs

• Fixed the Naumachia event not showing the naumachia (ship battles) all the time

• Fixed an issue where extra-needs were consumed before they were unlocked via the research tree

• Fixed an issue that broke the Research Tree queue after changing the research speed while research was ongoing

• Unlocking a discovery via the Hall of Fame no longer unlocks the full cluster of research around it

• Replaced the placeholder AI artwork in loading screen and campaign cinematic

• Fixed an issue with City Status notification appearing too often.

• Fixed an issue where rivals invited after the game started were not considering in the diplomacy comparison reasons

• Fixed an issue with the deposed emperor still granting reputation

• Fixed an exploit that allowed +100 reputation exploits

• Improved the ship-boarding handling for land units

• Fixed an issue with rival land units teleporting while patrolling

• Fixed an issue where Ranged Units didn’t defend themselves in melee

• Adjusted civilian ships to not follow a group-attack command any longer when grouped with warships

• Fixed an issue with land units not defending themselves while partially embarked

• Fixed an issue with the festival banner reappearing every single time a user jumped back to their island

• Fixed an issue where pirates didn’t show up on the map

• Fixed an issue with the Builder Pack content not being present on first boot of the game

• Fixed an issue with new Asset ModOp

• Fixed an issue with easy and medium rivals settling all islands in a session

• Fixed an issue with marsh-only buildings of rivals not getting destroyed when the marsh is drained

• Fixed an issue with rivals not considering the correct costs of building trading posts

• Improved defensive behaviour of rivals during island invasions

• Various desync fixes

• Fixed an issue with the trade route warning messages missing their icons in multiplayer

• Fixed an issue with the Save Game Menu being empty after enabling Persistent Coop during a session or loading into a Live Save Game

• Added a confirmation pop-up when attempting to overwrite a cross-progression save file

• Fixed an issue where in the setup screen of a multiplayer game (upon loading a savegame) players were shown as connected even if they weren’t present in the lobby

• Locked the ‘City Status Impact On Incidents’ difficulty setting so that it’s only changeable by the host, not by other participants

• Fixed an issue with Hall of Fame specialists not being available to other players than the host

• Fixed an issue that prevented players from hosting a multiplayer game while “house access” was turned off

• Improved the visibility in co-op when a fellow player selects or moves a building

• Improved the UI of the multiplayer lobby

• Fixed an issue with gamepad controls becoming unresponsive when a player’s or enemy’s land unit retreats

• Fixed an issue with mines becoming selected when the mouse cursor is a significant distance away

• Fixed an issue where trade routes couldn’t be renamed via gamepad

• Fixed an issue with uppercase letters not being supported for savegames when using non-English keyboards

• Fixed an issue with mouse and keybord not always working simultaneously on PlayStation 5

• Fixed a highlighting issue when hovering over a drainage channel with a gamepad

• Improved the placement of Ground Ornaments when using a gamepad

• Added various usability improvements for gamepad

• Fixed an issue where upgrading buildings from blueprint mode didn’t always have a sound effect

• Improved the audio feedback upon claiming rewards in the Hall of Fame via gamepad

• Various audio improvements, including a fix for audio degradation during extended play-sessions

• The “Repairing Damage” infolayer is only visible when hovering on damaged buildings now. It’s not shown all the time a building is damaged anymore.

• Improved and aligned visuals of connection slots of aqueducts and marshland buildings

• Fixed an issue where trading post infotips weren’t accessible when the passive trade popup was open

• Fixed an issue where a water-consuming building was listed in the menu of multiple cisterns in range of the building

• Fixed an issue where Sheep were displayed instead of Flax in the Loungers production chain

• Fixed incorrect construction phase numbers of the amphitheatre monument

• Fixed an issue with the wonders category for Patricians appearing to not be fully fulfilled in the residence menu even if all needs were provided

• Fixed an issue with Albion always being the default selection in the trade route menu

• Hovering over a good on the trade route map will now storage information

• Fixed an issue where the route between regions was not visualized on the World Map during manual ship transfer

• Fixed an issue with the Twitch-Drop Nova Alba skin icon missing

• Fixed an issue with ruins being lit up at night (we called the Ghostbusters)

• Roman-Celtic Tier 3 residences in Albion are now using assets fitting to the region

• Fixed an issue with the player logo not being visible on sails

• Improved low morale visibility via making unit banners blink

• Feedback units in the marshland are now more fitting to the production building there

• Fixed a placeholder logo on the “generic enemy” ships

• Fixed a graphical issue with male priests becoming invisible.

• Fixed an issue that resulted in the loading screen occasionally showing a black image

• Fixed various issues with the lighting of character portraits

• Installed guard rails to prevent feedback units from falling down (and up) some temples

• Fixed an issue that prevented markers from appearing in another province during the Inferno quest after switching between provinces

• Improved spawning behaviour for quest objects

• Improved quest behaviour related to save & load functionality

• Fixed several issues affecting tutorial buttons that didn’t vanish, including the “All buildings require a street connection” bubble

• Campaign: It is no longer possible to set Caeso active through the Game Setup menu

• Campaign – Quest Empty Coffers: Fixed an issue that required players to interact with Rivals not present on the map

• Campaign: Adjusted the end screen to better lead players into Endless Mode

• Fixed an issue with the “Hic Svnt Dracones” achievement not unlocking when the player explores 100% of Albion in Campaign mode

• Quest Ultima Ratio: Fixed an issue that prevented the quest to be completed with Celtic ships

• Fixed an issue that prevented the Emperor’s ships to count toward the “Oceanic Battlefield” achievement progression

• Quest Mare Infestum: Fixed an issue where the “Select Ship” objective could become stuck if the player was in a different region when it appeared

• Quest Transgress to Impress: Fixed an issue with localization

• Quest The Stuff of legends: Fixed an issue with localization

• Fixed an issue with quest bubbles not showing the exact position of the quest giver ship

• Quest Weapons from the Stars: Fixed an issue that appeared when the ship had a Specialist in the Captain slot

• Quest Tarragon’s Troubles: Fixed an issue with the quest skipping the final objective, preventing the player from completing the quest

• Quest In the Name of Venus: Fixed an issue that prevented the completion of the quest

• Governor Decision Gymposium: Fixed an issue affecting the randomly chosen trading post in Latium or Albion, after selecting “Promise them writing materials” option

• Quest Lost Family: Quest will now trigger when the player reaches Tier 3 population (Equites)

• Quest Potion Seller: Replaced placeholder objective text “Decision” with “Decide the Hermit’s fate”

• Quest Meddling with Metal: Fixed an issue where delivering iron ore didn’t show the interaction bubble with the weaponsmith

• Quest Holy Stones: Fixed an issue that prompted players to deliver still-locked materials during the quest stage

• Quest Cutting the Chain: Fixed an issue with the quest item spawning in another province

• Quests Dominus Mirabilium: Adjusted the spawning position of the quest object

• Fixed some wrong texts for in City Status names

• Various changes and additions to the Credits

• Various fixes for text and localization issues