After stunning us all by launching on Change final month, Sid Meier’s Civilization VII has right now landed its first replace.
There is a boatload to cowl on this one, although the headline additions embody the arrival of the Bermuda Triangle, updates to the Trendy Age Geographic Society victory path and the flexibility to transform holy cites. Naturally, Firaxis has additionally carried out a bunch of UI and gameplay tweaks for good measure, so issues ought to run somewhat smoother in ver. 1.1.0.
The complete patch notes have been shared by Take-Two Interactive on the Civ VII web site. The record of modifications is so beefy that the writer break up issues into PC- and console-specific lists, so, assuming you beautiful lot will wish to hear in regards to the Change additions at first, we now have copied over the entire Change-relevant notes so that you can take a look at beneath.
And sure, it is a beefy one. So seize your self a cuppa, and let’s dive in…
Sid Meier’s Civilization VII Ver. 1.1.0 (4th March 2025)
New Options
- Trendy Age Geographic Society Updates:
- Pure Historical past Mastery now grants Explorers +1 Sight and the flexibility to achieve artifacts from Pure Wonders.
- Finishing Future Civic now grants +1 Artifact within the Trendy Age
- Finishing Hegemony Civic now grants +1 Artifact when an Explorer researches Artifacts.
- Explorers have had their value elevated now that Artifacts may be acquired from extra sources.
- Explorers can not create a brand new Dig web site on high of an present Dig web site.
- The Continents lens has been up to date to point out Pure Wonders that may present Artifacts.
- Hegemony has switched locations with Militarism and now requires Nationalism and Globalism.
- Elevated the variety of Artifacts which are spawned on Tiny maps.
- Holy Cities can now be transformed. Notice that when gamers create their very own Missionary Items, they are going to at all times comply with the participant’s chosen Faith.
- Metropolis States will now flip into Pleasant Impartial Powers on Age Transition as a substitute of disappearing fully and also will now begin with extra models in Exploration and Trendy Ages.
- Finishing the ultimate milestone of a Legacy Path not provides Age Progress within the Trendy Age to make sure you have extra time to finish a Victory.
Leaders & Civs
Leaders
- Napoleon, Emperor**: Napoleon, Emperor can not reject Sanctions at no cost.
- Isabella: Addressed a difficulty that some customers reported experiencing the place the 300 Gold from discovering a Pure Surprise whereas enjoying as Isabella was not being granted.
Civs
- America: America now receives +2 Useful resource slots upon developing their Distinctive Quarter.
- Buganda: Adjusted Nyanza Civic Impact for Trendy Buganda to award +1 Happiness and +1 Tradition on Quarters adjoining to Rivers or Lakes.
- Meiji Japan: Added +1 Useful resource slots to the Zaibatsu Distinctive Quarter.
- Siam: Elevated value of Siam’s Itsaraphab motion to be 50% greater than the usual Befriend Impartial motion.
- Siam: Addressed a reported concern the place Siam was generally not correctly unlocked within the Trendy Age after unlocking them through the Exploration Age.
Gameplay
AI
- AI will now carry out higher at finishing the Trendy Cultural Legacy Path, by gaining Artifacts from Pure Wonders, researching at Museums/Universities, finishing Civics, and so forth. (No extra AI explorer stacks of doom!)
- Addressed a reported concern the place the AI would generally fail to spend all of their factors throughout an Superior Begin setup.
- In Trendy, AI will now declare battle much less typically initially of the age.
- In Trendy, AI will now contemplate Ideology extra earlier than Declaring Warfare or providing Peace.
- Different Leaders now have a decreased need for battle if neither social gathering has an Ideology.
- Different Leaders now have an elevated need for battle with gamers of Opposing ideologies.
- Different Leaders now have a decreased need for Peace with gamers of opposing Ideologies.
- AI will now provide high-value Cities much less typically throughout Peace Offers.
Financial system
- Oil Rigs now profit from Warehouse bonuses granted by the Ironworks and Combustion Tech Masteries.
- Metropolis Patron Pantheon impact decreased from +3 to +2 Affect on Altars.
- In-progress Buildings which are immediately granted to the participant will now auto-complete.
- Enhancements to Rail Networks geared toward rising the reliability of Settlements connecting to the Rail Community over water by constructing Ports. This could apply so long as the Capital both has a Port or is linked by rail to a settlement with a Port.
- Addressed a difficulty that some customers reported experiencing the place Sea Commerce and Rail connections generally failed in Settlements the place the Metropolis Heart was not adjoining to the coast.
- Addressed a difficulty that some customers reported experiencing the place the Manufacturing unit was unavailable when a Distant Lands Settlement was linked to a Homelands Settlement within the Trendy Age.
- Addressed a reported concern the place too many bonuses to Progress the place Meals wanted for the subsequent progress occasion turned detrimental.
- Cities will now change their focus again to Rising city routinely if they’re not eligible for his or her chosen Focus (for instance, if their inhabitants decreases) till they’re eligible once more.
Diplomacy
- Sanctions can now be used at Impartial Relationship and their value will lower because the Relationship will get extra hostile.
Crises
- Addressed a reported concern with Revolutions Disaster making use of extra Unhappiness in Settlements than said.
- Made enhancements to the Loyalty Disaster within the Antiquity Age, together with giving the flexibility to buy Villas in cities throughout this disaster, giving one other technique to handle the happiness of your settlements.
Navy
- Naval Items can now disperse Impartial Powers.
- Refinements made to the Military Unpacking motion. Gamers now have the choice to pick the Commander hex when selecting an unpack path. Doing so will unpack the strongest unit within the Commander Unit’s hex and organize any remaining Items on adjoining hexes based mostly on the present dealing with path of the Commander. If the participant signifies a path to unpack by deciding on an adjoining hex, the strongest Unit will unpack in that path, with the subsequent strongest Unit unpacking on the Commander hex. Remaining Items will then unpack on adjoining hexes based mostly on the unpack path.
- Addressed a reported concern with Harassment promotion unintentionally stacking too excessive.
- Addressed a reported concern with incorrect Bombard power getting used for Garde Imperial and Sepoy Distinctive Infantry Items.
- Duplicate Aerodrome Commanders ought to not seem when conquering a Settlement within the Trendy Age.
- A “ghost” Unit (or a number of Items of any class) can not be created when Items are deployed by an AI Commander Unit throughout regular gameplay.
- Bombers can now deploy Nuclear Weapons when packed into an Aerodrome, Service, or Squadron Commander (beforehand solely Heavy Bombers may achieve this).
- Up to date the outline of the Produce Nuclear Weapon to mirror this.
- Added an extra Navy Advisor notification for when you will have produced a Nuclear Weapon however would not have a Bomber.
- Addressed reported inconsistencies with Naval Fight.
- Naval Items will use the right Fight Energy values when attacking one other Naval Unit in all situations.
- Naval Items will correctly take reciprocal injury after attacking one other Naval Unit.
- Naval Items will extra persistently transfer into the attacked tile after defeating one other Naval Unit.
Pure Wonders
- Added Bermuda Triangle Pure Surprise for all gamers.
- [Crossroads of the World DLC*] Added:
- Machapuchare – Tropical
- Mount Fuji – Grassland
- Vinicunca – Desert
- Vihren – Plains
Memento Steadiness
- We’ve made many modifications to Mementos to make extra of them really feel like viable decisions. Some Mementos have been overshadowing Chief and civ skills and wanted to be toned down, whereas others weren’t fairly impactful sufficient to take typically.
- We’ve made many modifications to Mementos to make extra of them really feel like viable decisions. Some Mementos have been overshadowing Chief and civ skills and wanted to be toned down, whereas others weren’t fairly impactful sufficient to take typically.
- All-T’oqapu Tunic: Now grants +1 Sight for Scouts adjoining to Mountains (was +3 Sight).
- Altar Set: Now grants +1 Tradition from Specialists (was +1 Tradition and Gold from Specialists).
- Chalcedony Seal: Now grants +1 Tradition and Gold for Distinctive Buildings and Enhancements (outdated impact: “+3 Tradition and Gold for Distinctive Buildings and Enhancements if in case you have 3 or extra Distinctive Buildings or Enhancements”).
- Crown of Napoleon: Now grants 200 Gold per Age when a Formal Warfare is said in opposition to you (was 100 Gold per Age).
- Dong Son Drum: Declaring a Formal Warfare in opposition to one other Civilization grants a Tech Increase (outdated impact: “Declaring Warfare in opposition to one other Civilization grants a Celebration”).
- Eagle Banner: Now Cities achieve +2% Science per Nice Work on Show, Max 20% (outdated impact: “Cities achieve 5% bonus Science Effectivity per Nice Work they comprise, Max 25%”).
- Nice Imperial Crown: Now grants +2 Science per Age on Cities in Tundra. (outdated impact: “Cities achieve +5% Science per Nice Work on Show, Max 25%”).
- Imago Mundi: Now grants +2 Sight as a substitute of +1 for Scout’s Search and Lookout skills (was +3 Sight).
- Joyeuse: Now grants +2 Happiness for each Cavalry Unit (outdated impact: “+2 Happiness per Age for each Cavalry Unit”).
- Product owner’s Saddle: Now grants +1 Motion for Scouts, Retailers, Settlers, and Explorers (outdated impact: “+1 Motion and Sight for Scouts, Retailers, and Settlers”).
- Padrón Actual: Now grants +2 Happiness per Age on Pure Wonders (outdated impact: “+100% yields on Pure Wonders, in case you are working probably the most Pure Surprise tiles. +2 Fight Energy for Naval Items in case you are not”).
- Queen’s Jewellery: Now grants +2 Gold per Age on Pure Wonders (outdated impact: “+2 Gold on Pure Wonders”).
- Uraeus: Now grants +10% Tradition in Cities with at the very least 1 Surprise (outdated impact: “+10% Tradition if in case you have probably the most Wonders. +10% Manufacturing in direction of developing Wonders if you don’t”).
Memento Textual content Updates
- Diamond Throne
- +1 Happiness per Age on Quarters throughout a Celebration. (Beforehand learn: “Throughout a Celebration, +1 Happiness per Quarter per Age.”)
- Lotus Blossom
- Achieve Science and Tradition per flip equal to 4% of your Gold revenue. (Beforehand learn: “+4% of your Gold revenue as further Science and Tradition.”)
- Yata no Kagami
- Achieve 20 Tradition per Age initially of each Celebration. (Beforehand learn: “+20 Tradition per Age initially of each Celebration.”)
Addressed Points
- Future Civic is now repeatable in all Ages. The price of Future Tech and Future Civic will now enhance extra when repeated.
- Addressed a reported concern with Epic and Marathon sport speeds that was inflicting Ages to be shorter than supposed.
- Addressed a difficulty the place some customers reported experiencing Specialists being faraway from Settlements when confirming the Legacy Playing cards from Age Transition.
UI
Textual content modifications
- Up to date Maya’s Ok’uh Nah Distinctive Constructing textual content to state +3 Science as a substitute of +4 Science.
- Up to date textual content for the next to mirror modifications obtained in a earlier patch:
- Majapahit – Nusantura Civic: Exploration Age Tradition Buildings obtain a +1 Tradition Adjacency for Coast.
- America – Metal Mill: +6 Manufacturing. Gold Adjacency for Sources and Wonders. American Distinctive Manufacturing Constructing. Ageless.
- Prussia – Ruhr Tier 1 Civic Tree Enchancment: All Buildings achieve a +1 Manufacturing Adjacency for Navigable Rivers.
Notifications
- Added a notification for when an enemy assaults a participant’s Unit in single-player.
- The “Not sufficient gold in treasury” message now appropriately seems when making an attempt to buy an merchandise the participant can’t afford.
- Added a notification for accomplished Espionage actions, with the intention to extra simply examine the outcomes of their Espionage actions.
- “The sport is ready on you” message in multiplayer will now solely seem for the final human participant taking their flip.
- The notification menu now opens appropriately initially of the subsequent flip, even when no models have been moved.
Alignment & Spacing
- Continued to handle alignment points some customers reported when enjoying in Simplified Chinese language. We are going to proceed to make enhancements right here in future patches
- Addressed some textual content alignment points when language is ready to Simplified Chinese language.
- The strains connecting the Tech and Civic timber now align correctly with their respective nodes.
- Improved the alignment of chief names and portraits on the Age Abstract, when viewing the Overview display screen of the Victories Rankings.
- Improved Picture and Font alignment within the Metropolis particulars menu.
- Improved spacing and alignment on the Warfare Declaration display screen.
- Improved textual content alignment within the International Yields Breakdown.
- Improved picture and textual content alignment on the Progress menu.
- Improved the textual content alignment for the Description of Continents when utilizing the Continents Lens throughout Exploration and Trendy age.
- Improved the spacing between Civ descriptions, distinctive Items, and Constructing icons on the loading display screen.
Tooltips
- Unit motion tooltips now keep inside display screen boundaries.
- Addressed a reported concern the place advisor advice tooltips will seem on non-recommended gadgets.
- Tooltips up to date with Surprise icons, descriptions, and standing for buildings.
- The Social panel icon now shows tooltips when hovering the mouse cursor over it within the Primary Menu.
- Addressed a reported concern the place no tooltips for Chief’s identify would seem when hovering over a non-selected chief when within the pre-game foyer display screen.
- Addressed a reported concern the place tooltips for a civilization weren’t showing correctly on the pre-game foyer display screen.
- Addressed a reported concern the place Tech and Civic Tree tooltip font didn’t scale.
Efficiency & Decision
- Varied efficiency enhancements.
- Addressed a reported concern the place progress bars for Age Progress, Tech, and Civics would current incorrectly at greater resolutions.
- Addressed a reported concern the place the Commander Unit Panel would run off display screen at 1024 x 768 in Windowed mode.
- Addressed a reported concern the place hotkeys have been inactive when the chat window was open in multiplayer.
- Corrected inconsistent controls when within the expertise tree menu.
- The Scientific Attribute tree now shows appropriately in 720p decision with out being lower off.
- Graphics Profile choices now show appropriately when altering settings within the Choices menu, as a substitute of at all times exhibiting ‘Excessive’.
Normal
- The Victory Achieved popup now takes you to the right Civilopedia web page if it’s the remaining milestone, and the right tab within the victory progress display screen in any other case.
- Descriptions for a civ’s Distinctive Items will not point out their Tier when loading into the sport.
- Social Insurance policies and Disaster Insurance policies can now be slotted individually if you unlock each on the identical flip. This had beforehand made the display screen seem caught when both desk had an empty slot.
- The Plot cursor impact ought to now be extra seen throughout a Progress Occasion or when inserting a Constructing.
- Deciding on Manufacturing unit Sources not highlights invalid slots.
- A brand new icon for Pure Wonders within the Continent lens has been added, so it’s simpler for gamers to see the place to dig up Trendy Age Artifacts.
- Up to date and Improved the Chief Attribute Menu.
- Chief portraits now correctly replace when Relationships change throughout gameplay.
- Scrollbars now correctly reply to mouse wheel enter.
- Chief portraits now correctly show within the My Progress menu.
- Scrollbars now correctly reply to mouse wheel enter.
- Addressed a reported concern the place enabling or disabling lenses would disguise Useful resource icons.
- Addressed a reported concern the place Sources have been unable to be assigned to their origin Metropolis after being unassigned.
- The present participant’s faith is now displayed first within the perception picker tabs.
- Changed the Simplified Chinese language font with the font utilized in Civilization VI whereas we work on further enhancements for future patches.
- Addressed a reported concern the place the Settlement menu fails to open when clicking on a non-player’s Settlement Banner in gameplay.
- Addressed a reported concern the place some textual content was lower off on the International Yields Breakdown display screen.
- Metropolis initiatives not seem like purchasable.
- Addressed a difficulty some customers reported experiencing the place a District’s well being bar would stay on-screen after being totally healed.
- Addressed a difficulty some customers reported experiencing the place the background coloration remained the default coloration when the person modified it within the Participant Customise tab.
- Addressed a reported concern the place yield icons would fail to replace within the Metropolis manufacturing record when upgrading a City to a Metropolis.
- Addressed numerous reminiscence leaks in numerous UI parts.
- Added useful resource yields on tiles that don’t produce yields.
- Addressed a reported concern on Age Transition the place out there civs wouldn’t fill horizontally throughout the display screen when enjoying in Windowed mode.
- In-game time now appropriately matches system time as a substitute of at all times displaying in UTC.
- The pre-options menu now correctly returns to the earlier choice if a participant selects the improper possibility throughout gameplay.
- Addressed a reported concern with the attribute menu displaying incorrect art work when seen throughout gameplay.
- Peace Offers now appropriately show the supposed chief icon and identify.
- Chosen Legacy playing cards now appropriately seem within the Superior Begin menu throughout gameplay.
- The Daybreak of Man tutorial not closes routinely after exiting the Welcome to Civilization fullscreen tutorial.
- The complete Science tab is now clickable when navigating between Age Progress and Victory tabs.
- Disabled content material not routinely re-enables when restarting the sport after being disabled.
- The Diplomatic menu not closes routinely when deciding on a pacesetter portrait after selecting a Diplomatic Motion.
- The choice to revisit the information not seems through the FTUE slideshow when Tutorials are enabled in Antiquity gameplay.
- The cursor not shows as a forbidden icon within the Your Progress menu after reconnecting to the community on the Primary Menu.
- The “Journal” Quest not switches to a “Legacy Path” quest when opening the “Chief Display” or “Diplomatic Motion” menus throughout gameplay.
- Added the outline textual content for ‘Gunpowder Empire’ when viewing the thumbnail within the civic menu and tree.
- The Vary immediate now appropriately seems when launching the Carpet Bomb potential within the Aerodrome Commander’s motion panel.
- Addressed a reported concern the place the aerial reconnaissance potential had limitless vary.
- Customers can not select Reliquary Beliefs for different leaders whereas researching the Reformation Civic in the event that they have not chosen Reliquary Perception through the Exploration Age.
- Eliminated a redundant ‘Affirm’ button showing when viewing the Promotion tree loading menu throughout Gameplay.
- Addressed a reported concern the place leaders would stay on the display screen if two wonders are constructed on the identical flip.
- The Diplomacy ribbon now appropriately seems after accepting Navy Support from an AI chief throughout gameplay.
- The Rankings display screen can now be toggled with shortcut keys.
- Eliminated an unneeded crimson dot when no coverage slot is on the market.
- The Faith UI button and knowledge panel now appropriately seem throughout Trendy Age gameplay.
- Addressed a reported concern the place Encampments are lacking the White Dotted/Dashed Hex Borders UI after reloading save knowledge.
- Addressed a reported concern on the Keyboard + Mouse hotkey menu the place the hotkey description textual content would cease showing after altering the decision.
- The Disaster Web page now appropriately labels insurance policies as “Your Disaster Insurance policies”
- Addressed a reported concern the place the text-to-speech hotkey fails to operate when used on a checkbox or slider in numerous menus.
- Addressed a reported concern the place the Narrator fails to have operate when hovering the cursor on some gadgets within the Your Progress menu.
- Shawnee is now listed with the Exploration Age civilizations when viewing the Participant Unlocks menu.
- Addressed a reported concern the place Shawnee’s unlock notification fails to show when befriending two Metropolis-States throughout Antiquity gameplay.
- Addressed a reported concern the place The Impartial energy characters stay on the display screen after opening and shutting the diplomacy menu a number of instances.
- Addressed a difficulty that some gamers reported experiencing the place the Distinctive Quarter description seems lower off when viewing within the Constructing Breakdown display screen.
- Addressed a difficulty that some gamers reported experiencing the place unlocalized textual content appeared when viewing the “Nuclear Weapons Accessible” warning pop-up in Trendy Age.
- Enhancements to the Age Transition Spend Factors display screen.
- Improved the efficiency of the Metropolis Particulars display screen when viewing a big Metropolis.
- Improved Progress Bar info consistency (HUD Progress wheels go the suitable means now).
- The Esc key can be utilized to again out of the Impartial Energy display screen.
- Added Constructing icons to the plot tooltip with their standing. Added Surprise icons to the plot tooltip with the gameplay impact. Made useful resource icons bigger on improved tiles, and smaller on unimproved tiles. “Thanks for the inspiration Sukritact!”
- Addressed a difficulty some customers reported experiencing the place yield icons didn’t populate on the ‘now out there’ Buildings when changing a City to Metropolis.
- The proper citizen character set is now being displayed for Korean Impartial Powers.
Narrative
Narrative Occasions
- Addressed numerous points that have been occurring on some Narrative Occasions.
Quests
- Addressed a reported concern the place the Nice Library III Legacy Path Quest wasn’t finishing if an academy was bought.
- Addressed reported points with incorrectly displayed quest textual content.
Loading Display
- Corrected typos and different loading display screen textual content points.
Miscellaneous
- Added further Audio for numerous UI occasions, together with First Meet diplomatic occasions.
- The proper citizen character set is now being displayed for Korean Impartial Powers.
- Addressed a reported concern the place the identify of the Upkeep Yield identify audio doesn’t play when the person hovers over the textual content for yields with narration enabled.
- Addressed a reported concern the place the background flashes when the person switches the submenus in Age Progress.
Platform-Particular
Normal Console
- Addressed a reported concern the place the enter immediate to loop between Items stacked on a tile was showing on the improper place.
- Addressed a reported concern the place it was potential to transform a City to Metropolis with out having sufficient gold.
- Addressed reported points with incorrect enter prompts showing.
- Addressed reported points with controller focus.
- Addressed a reported concern the place platform mates couldn’t be added as 2K Account mates.
- Addressed a reported concern the place some multiplayer invitations weren’t obtained in sport.
- Addressed a reported concern the place cross-platform lobbies and cross-play saves weren’t out there on first title launch.
- Addressed a reported concern the place the tooltips for gadgets on the Tech and Civic Unlocked pop-ups have been inaccessible on controller.
- Addressed a reported concern the place the Heroic Assault potential might be used and not using a goal on controller.
- Addressed a reported concern the place the Nice Banker unit may teleport into FOW tiles when utilizing a controller.
- Addressed a reported concern the place the verify button would seem offset from the tile spotlight.
- Addressed a reported concern the place diplomacy scenes would fail to exit fully when backing out of them utilizing a controller.
- Addressed a reported concern the place menus would routinely scroll when the person switches to a different tab whereas scrolling.
- Addressed a reported concern the place the participant couldn’t navigate by the Civilopedia search outcomes with a controller.
- Addressed a reported concern the place the Analysis/Excavate tooltip was not seen when enjoying with a controller.
- Addressed a reported concern the place the sport was blocked after triggering the lenses in some particular setup on Xbox & PlayStation.
- Addressed a reported concern the place autosaves weren’t created after hitting a sure restrict on Xbox & PlayStation.
PlayStation
- Addressed a reported concern the place gamers becoming a member of a personal foyer by be part of code the place not reported as in a multiplayer sport
Xbox
- Addressed a reported concern the place the Attributes sections names have been on two strains
- Addressed a reported concern the place gamers weren’t moved to the foyer when rejoining a sport.
- Addressed a reported concern the place autosaves weren’t created after hitting a sure restrict.
- Addressed a reported concern the place customization gadgets from bought DLC may seem as locked till a brand new sport is launched.
Change
- Addressed a reported concern when making an attempt to hitch a foyer with a Customary map dimension twice.
- Addressed a reported concern the place a participant may seem twice within the mates record.
We had a good time with Cvi VII on Change final month, however felt it was let down by its efficiency. Let’s hope right now’s replace goes a number of the means in direction of fixing that, eh?

