A new update is in the starting blocks, and we’ll show you the highlights of the extensive patch notes.
If you’ve neglected your Roman island empire in Anno 117 a little in recent weeks nbsp;a little, today is the perfect day to return! On February 19, 2026 , the building game will not only receive its next major update with Patch 1.4, but will also release its first cosmetic DLC.
In this news article, we’ll take a closer look at what you can expect in both cases.
What’s included in Update 1.4
First, let’s talk about the update. It is, of course, free for everyone and is scheduled to be released across all platforms at 11 a.m.. However, the size of the update varies greatly depending on depending on where you play Anno 117. There is no preload available:
- Steam: 5.7 GB
- Ubisoft Connect: 40.65 GB
- PS5: 5.65 GB
- Xbox Series: 77.06 GB
So there’s quite a lot in there – even if the large download size on some platforms is probably due to technical reasons. But Ubisoft’s patch does indeed deliver some fixes for the building game that fans have been hoping for for a long time.
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These are the highlights
- The silo bug: This annoying bug was at the top of many fans’ hit list. Now the team has finally ensured that the bonus from silos is retained even after a restart.
- Range displays: Another annoying bug recently caused the ranges of businesses on the road network to no longer be displayed. This should now also be fixed.
- Fewer desyncs: The developers have been working on this issue since release. Desynchronization in multiplayer should now occur even less frequently.
- Ship tracking: If you jump to a ship with the camera, you can now sit back and watch as the camera automatically follows the ship.
- More expensive islands: In the future, players who settle on a huge island in the game will have to spend more money than they would for a large island. Previously, both had the same price point. However, there are also a few islands that will become cheaper because they were assigned to the wrong size category.
- Trade goods: The trade menu will finally display more than three goods being transported on a route! Thank goodness.
However, it seems that the patch also introduces some new issues, which the developers are already aware of. For example, there are apparently problems with ray tracing on consoles, which is why the option will be disabled until the next patch.
The entire, long list of complete patch notes can be found on the next page.
What the first small DLC delivers
Update 1.4 also brings support for the first small DLC. This is a cosmetic pack that adds purely visual enhancements to the game. The DLC is called Masterful Mosaics Pack and costs 7 euros.
Unlike the large DLCs for Anno 117, the Masterful Mosaics Pack is not included in the Season Pass!
It gives you exclusively cosmetic ornaments, mainly mosaics. These are decorative floor tiles that you can arrange as you like. There are also a few additional objects, such as a stylish garden wall and skins for various buildings, including the bathhouse.
Improvements
Gameplay
- The camera now follows units and ships ships when the “Jump to” function is used from the unit’s menu with the mouse when hovering over the unit with the gamepad.
- Players can now scroll through troops using the Tab key when a unit is selected. unit is selected
- Blockers have been added to harbor buildings to prevent ships clipping into them
- The audio effects of production buildings have been improved
- The “Jump to” function for firefighting (etc.) units has been improved: When using a gamepad, the camera now follows the unit when the “Jump to” function is used
- The behavior of these units has been improved so that they are better distributed throughout the city.
- Cheering feedback units have been added to the tavern and singer’s room at night
- Merchants should now use different “routes” instead of all walking clockwise
- Different settings have been added for the behavior of the mini-map for mouse & keyboard and gamepad
- Automatic rotation is disabled by default for mouse & keyboard and enabled for gamepads (can be changed in the options).
Balancing
- The cost of colonizing islands has been rebalanced; XL islands now cost more.
- Previously, they had the same settlement costs as L islands.
- The settlement costs and property taxes for some Latium islands that were incorrectly categorized have been rebalanced: categorized, have been rebalanced:
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- roman_island_medium_08.a7m – incorrectly labeled as “large”
- roman_island_small_05.a7m – incorrectly labeled as medium
- Players who have already settled one of these islands now pay less property tax for it. Players who have already settled one of these islands and sell it will receive less money back than they originally paid.
- The maximum selection size of all “tools” nbsp; has been set to 80×80 fields for performance reasons.
UI
- Animation added to the buff arrows above buildings.
- Trade routes now show more than 3 trade goods in the overview menu.
- Players can now hold LB/L1 or RB/R1 to quickly scroll through the categories in the tree menu.
- The attack indicator has been improved by using colorblind-friendly colors.
- The quest tracker has been improved: when the list is open, the number of quests is no longer displayed, but only when it is closed
- The icons for the different quest categories in the quest book have been updated.
- 2D icons for the deities in the city status info tip have been replaced with 3D icons.
- The main menu has been visually enhanced.
- The options menu has been visually enhanced.
- The pop-up menus have been visually enhanced.
- The trade route menus have been visually enhanced.
- The awards menu has been visually enhanced.
- The statistics menu has been visually enhanced.
- Banners and notifications have been visually enhanced.
- The object menus have been visually enhanced.
Bug Fixes
Gameplay
UI/UX
Art/Visuals
- Fixed an issue where carriages would sometimes “fall through” bridges when crossing them.
li> - Feedback units no longer fall through gaps on swamp roads.
- Fixed an issue where Feedback units could not run on diagonal polygon ornaments
- Fixed an fixed an issue where some production buildings on the coast had too many or too few feedback units. few feedback units.
- Fixed an issue where feedback units from the temple could spawn and despawn before going down the temple stairs.
- Fixed an issue where Feedback units would cluster together 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—now there’s no more sleep, only work
- Fixed an issue where Feedback Units would run through bridges built over drainage channels
- Fixed an issue where ox carts appeared to glide across roads
- Fixed issues with Feedback Units spawning in swamps
- Fixed an issue where ox carts would clip into each other.
- Fixed an issue where land units would float above the ground when running over ruins.
li> - Fixed an issue where clay pit assets were still visible and undamaged in the water when the clay pit itself was in ruins
- Fixed an issue with level of detail (LoD) on low settings for noble residences
- Disease effects should now fade less quickly than before.
- Improved visibility of the villa when attacking an island.
- Fixed an issue where the Mackerel Hut generated many feedback units.
- Fixed an issue where trees could appear brown with TAA and green with MSAA
- Fixed an issue where gate doors would constantly open and close when walls were placed nearby
- Fixed an issue where the water flow direction was missing on corner segments or tower ends of the aqueduct
- Changed the color of the area of influence in planning mode to match the color of the planning mode for buildings
- Fixed a visual issue with the quay in planning mode
- Banners now push each other away to avoid overlap, and various other bugs with unit banners have been fixed
- The color saturation of the Stone Ballista Tower has been changed to match the other towers
- Fixed an issue where in some cases no water was visible in the aqueduct
Audio
Multiplayer
- Fixed various causes of desyncs.
- Fixed an issue in multiplayer mode where nbsp;a ping did not disappear when a player sent a ping and then left the game
- Fixed an fixed an issue where non-team leaders in co-op games could change the name of the governor while the game was running.
Controls
- An issue with high mouse input delay on PlayStation 5 has been fixed. 5 has been fixed.
- An issue has been fixed where the players could get a black screen when using multiple key combinations in quick succession
- An issue
has been fixed where the camera would not follow a ship if it contained units while a gamepad was being used. - Fixed an issue has been fixed where players using a gamepad in the statistics menu could not select islands multiple times or cancel the selection nbsp;
- Issues with using the beautification tool with the gamepad have been fixed.
- Fixed an issue where players could not automatically build roads around recruitment buildings such as the barracks
- Fixed an issue where players could not automatically surround buildings with walls
- Fixed an issue where zooming did not work when focusing the object menu with a gamepad li>
Quests & Achievements
- Fixed issues with escort quests
- Fixed an issue where the dialogue with Ben Baalion was not triggered during the first plague outbreak
- Fixed an issue where Caeso’s comeback dialogue was not triggered after he was reintroduced to the game following the campaign
- Fixed an issue where buffs from the amphitheater governor decisions affected NPC islands and not the player’s island.
- Fixed an issue where the “Full House” achievement was awarded when the player activated and removed the same specialist 9 times instead of 9 different specialists.
- Fixed an issue where, in rare cases, the achievement
“Pecunia Non Olet” was unlocked when the player loaded a save game with an income balance of less than 250 denarii.
- Fixed an issue where the progress bar for the “Morituri Te Salutant” achievement was missing from the “Awards” menu.
- Fixed an issue where the progress for the “Vestis Civitanten Facit” award was reset after loading a saved game.
- Some of the tutorial bubbles/highlights are disabled if their quest has not been activated.
- Fixed an problem has been fixed where the governor’s decision “Your stance on chicken thieves” awarded the same reward for both options the same reward
- Quest “Burning Fever”: Is now correctly canceled if the player destroys the shrine during the delivery process.
- Quest “Heavenly Colors”: Fixed an issue where the player was rewarded by Zara with a negative diplomatic relationship
- Quest “The Cover-Up”: Fixed an issue where the quest was displayed above every library on the player’s island if they owned multiple libraries.
- Quest “Dominus Mirabilium”: Fixed an issue where the quest could be started on an island without a tavern and with quest objectives on other islands owned by the player.
- Quest “Lost Freedom”: The type of enemy ship has been changed to a trireme to reduce the difficulty of the quest.
- Quest “The Happiness of this (H)erd”:
Fixed an issue where the quest would not complete if the player had a ship near Manx Island and then sent the sick horse away.
- Quest “Fortify the Limes”: Fixed an issue where the quest would remain active without a target.
Text & Localization
- Fixed various localization issues with challenges and achievements
- Added text to the tutorial stating that pirates do not break contracts
- A spelling error in the “Ben Baalions Crisis” Governor’s Decision in the campaign has been fixed
- A problem has been fixed where Russian text was sometimes displayed outside the designated text field in the campaign campaign has been fixed
- A problem has been fixed where Russian text was sometimes displayed outside the designated text field in the campaign campaign has been fixed
- A problem has been fixed where Russian text was sometimes  nbsp;text sometimes displayed outside the intended text box
- Fixed various localization issues in Russian
- The missing Simplified Chinese character 纾 has been added to the difficulty settings in Endless Mode
- Fixed an issue in the loading screen tooltips where the words “twice as many ” were missing.
- Fixed an issue where the tooltip indicating how many buildings would be affected was off by 1.