Dungeon Settlers Roadmap and Patch Notes

Early Access launch (4 September 2026)

Source: CanOpener's official roadmap page, linked from the "Early Access & Roadmap" Steam announcement.

Patch notes checked: September 10, 2026

Expedition Founding scenario: lock individual portraits, ability stats, Major Traits (which set the skill trees) and Sub Traits while rerolling
Default difficulty changed from Hard to Normal
Gloths can summon at most three times (was unlimited) and move to an empty tile after charging
Very Hard and Devastation management difficulties no longer reduce item drop quantities
Lighter armour, helmets, bones, stone, clay, hard shells, copper and silver ores and ingots, bricks and pottery
Arrow stacks raised from 100 to 200
New in-game guide for Auto Skills

Portrait Lock option when you choose Recruit Again
Mute in Background option (on by default)
Explosion reworked: still 400% of Magic Attack Power, now applies 5 Burning stacks for 10 seconds instead of scaling with existing Burning, cast time 2.88 to 1.88 seconds
Ctrl + drag moves half a stack, Shift + drag lets you choose the amount (added to the Inventory guide)
Healing Touch no longer takes priority over First Aid when right-clicking a downed ally
NPCs no longer turn hostile when they dodge an attack

Released a few hours after the Early Access launch
Abyss Chest rewards increased
Devastation difficulty starts with 1 Cog Wheel instead of 2
Near Death now takes priority over Severely Exhausted, and the sleep animation resumes after recovery
The Create Campaign window can no longer be closed with Esc or a click outside it
Fixed Chinese and Japanese names in the Expedition Team setup

Let Ability stat increases and inscriptions be locked on level-up at every difficulty (currently Easy and Normal only)
Reveal an enemy's tile when it attacks from outside your party's vision
Less frequent resting for Stamina
Region 2 Floor 2 monsters changed so they drop Carapace instead of Gloth materials
A pre-cast delay for the Gloth summon, and wider Region 2 Floor 4 corridors for Elder Gloths
Hauling weight thresholds and a fix for units walling themselves in (use Emergency Escape until then)
Better Abyss rewards and a Mana Saturation stack indicator

Characters can rarely stop hauling when a hauling task is removed; pick the item up and drop it again
Items are not moved from lower-priority to higher-priority storage
A Level 6 unit can join through a random settlement event, above the current level cap
Floors can be built on impassable dungeon tiles and stay impassable
Some PCs crash when entering the game; updating the graphics driver fixed some cases
The game can crash while music is playing in Chrome

Launch facts and price are on the release date page; what is live today is on the regions page.