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Seasons

The Long Night

Winter turned cruel — the rare, brutal winter that falls roughly once in six.

Entity ID
long-night
Food production
0.25× (-75%)
Troop upkeep
1.6× (+60%)
March speed
0.6× (-40%)
Gathering rate
0.4× (-60%)
Garrison defense
+25%
Scouting range
0.5× (-50%)
Observed length on the default world
110–137 game days (mean 123.5, across 2 occurrences in a 762-day calendar)
How often it falls
Roughly one winter in six, lengthened by 1.8×

Every modifier this season applies

A season is a pure function of the world seed and the day. It takes no wallet, no spend and no account input, so every lord on a world gets the same weather on the same day — winter cannot be bought away and summer cannot be bought early. On the live weather clock a season holds for 7 real days.

The Long Night: the six figures the season multiplies or adds.
What it touchesKindValueEffect
Food productionmultiplier0.25×-75%
Troop upkeep (food eaten)multiplier1.6×+60%
March speedmultiplier0.6×-40%
Gathering ratemultiplier0.4×-60%
Garrison defenseadditive+25%+25% to a defending garrison
Scouting rangemultiplier0.5×-50%

What that means at the field

The Long Night: a farm's food output once this season's multiplier is applied. Base rate is 2 food per second per level, and the Intro Era multiplies every figure below by a further 2.5×.
Farm levelBase per hourPer hour in the long nightDifference
1072,00018,000-54,000
19136,80034,200-102,600
30216,00054,000-162,000
45324,00081,000-243,000

The white raven's proclamation and gift

The white raven brings the word every lord dreads: winter has come. Guard your granaries and your walls.

The gift carried when the long night begins, claimable once per season phase.
FoodWoodStoneIronGems
6,0001,5001,00080020

Guide: Seasons & Weather · Surviving the Long Night. Index: all five season states · the whole database.

The other seasons: Summer · Autumn · Winter · Spring

Every figure above is generated from the shipped game code — the same constants and formulas the running game uses — and regenerated whenever the balance changes. Nothing on this page is hand-typed.

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