- Fixed a stability issue where the title could crash while convert scrap at Old Nates Island Harbour.
- Fixed a situation where the Twitch Drops would not be in-game anymore after the Botanica-Update.
- Fixed a situation where players were unable to manually load/unload at the pier.
- Fixed an issue where items or materials would get lost when diving with a full Salvager ship.
- Fixed a visualization issue where the infotip for railway construction would not update properly upon placement.
- Fixed an unintended spawning issue where quest givers could show up on sea areas.
- Fixed an issue where trading items would no longer have differences between buy and sell costs.
- Fixed an issue where an user would be unable to delete multiple pavement tiles at the same time.
- Fixed an issue where prohibiting consumption of wares didnt affect resident...
Added new plaza tiles and reworked four existing ornaments to serve as connectors for your cultural buildings, allowing you to create much more lifelike and varied museums and zoos. I got your back. Giving an order to escort a ship that has been ordered to switch sessions will now have the escort ships follow their charges to the new session, making your trade ships much less vulnerable. The AI ceasefire has ended, and third-party characters can now attack pir... Read more



We are back from gamescom 2019, but there’s no rest for the wicked, as the next DLC drop is just around the corner. Today, we give you an overview of what happened during the world biggest game convention and some info about what is yet to come in the upcoming weeks.
As many of you already know, we revealed our new Season Pass trailer during the opening ceremony of gamescom 2019, giving you not only a glimpse at upcoming DLCs like Botanica or the icy The Passage DLC, but also revealing the new day & night cycle that you will all be receiving as a free Game update alongside Botanica on September 10!- Our second Season Pass DLC, Botanica, drops September 10, alongside the free Game Update 5. You can look forward to a detailed DevBlog about your personal botanical garden next week!
- Game Update 5 will bring you the free day & night cycle and the much improved return of certain plaza tiles you may have seen during our beta phases. As always, we will share the full release notes next week...

Today, we announced that Anno 1800 will be free to play for the occasion of gamescom 2019. Until August 25*, players will be able to get a first glimpse at the upcoming day & night cycle free update, releasing on September 10 for all the players. In addition, the second DLC of the game, Botanica, will also release on September 10 as part of the Season Pass. Find more information in our official announcement here! Read more


Below you'll find the Notes: Fixed an issue where some piers and trading posts were not correctly registered by trading ships. Ships will now check all available options to unload their cargo when stopping at an island. All participants of a multiplayer match with the Sunken Treasures content will now receive the discovery expedition when loading a savegame in which the unlock conditions are fulfilled. Previously, it could happen that only the host of a match received the discovery quests when loading a multiplayer match with an existing savegame. Fixed a minor issue where the Sunken Treasures discovery expedition would still get triggered even after the player declined to start it. Removed a blocker in the Sunken Treasures Build Harbor Quest that occurred when the player built and upgraded the harbor directly before solving the first quest given by the queen. Fixed a bug that deleted all blueprints ... Read more
- Fixed a situation where a blueprint of a building that costs influence would break the influence count of players save file upon reload.
- Fixed an unintended behaviour where an Enemy AIs Trading Post could drop upon destruction a lot of scrap resource which couldve been sold for huge amount of money.
- Fixed a graphical issue that occurs with the maximum zoom level which affected the visibility of buildings in the distance.
Release Notes for Game Update 4.1
After some reports we received after we deployed Game Update 4.0 and released “Sunken Treasures”, we will apply a hotfix to Anno 1800 today, July 31. at 10pm CEST. Game Update 4.1 (4.0.88) is an update to fix the following issues:
- Fixed a situation where a blueprint of a building that costs influence would break the influence count of player’s save file upon reload.
- Fixed an unintended behaviour where an Enemy AI’s Trading Post could drop upon destruction a lot of scrap resource which could’ve been sold for huge amount of money.
- Fixed a graphical issue that occurs with the maximum zoom level which affected the visibility of buildings in the distance.
UPlay: 2PM CET
Steam: 6PM CET Below you'll find the Patch Notes: HIGHLIGHTS
While “Sunken Treasures” is paid content, everything you will find in the Release Notes below will be free for all Anno 1800 players as part of Game Update 4. You can now zoom the camera significantly further out, giving you a better overview of your majestic islands (which you can activate in the Gameplay options menu). We have further improved and optimized game performance, leading to smoother gameplay across most graphics settings. As part of this, users will now also note an improved viewing range. A new, improved minimum stock system has been added to the Trading Post. In order to replace the old system, we need to remove the old settings from all your existing trade routes. We have reworked and rebalanced Expedition rewards to make them feel more rewarding across all difficulty levels. New expedition reward tiers per difficul... Read more

The Battle of the Ages
Annoholics living in North America will have the chance to participate in one of the most epic battles of the ages for life and death schnapps and wool.

Eight YouTubers will join the battle to compete against each other and to build the most impressive city Anno has ever seen. But they won’t do this on their own – you might be the partner in crime!
And these are the Head-to-Head YouTube Teams
- Oompaville vs. MattShea
- BunnyFuFuu vs. Professor Akali
- BaronVonGames vs. Ohmwrecker
- LevelCapGaming vs. PhlyDaily
Each of the YouTubers will pick one Annoholic to join the fight! For a chance to join one of the YouTube teams, you must do the following:
How to enter
- Play Anno 1800 and build the most impressive city possible –
or share your most impressive Anno 1800 city if you already have one - Take the most creative and cool looking picture of your built city
- Reply to the tweet of any of our YouTube stars with the picture of your city and their hashtag:...

Size: ~550MB Find out more in our Union Update: Follow this yellow brick link! Read more

After we received reports that some of the issue in Game Update 3.1 are not resolved and an instance leading older savegames to crash, we plan to apply an hotfix to Anno 1800 tomorrow June 7. at 2pm CEST.
- Fixed an issue blocking players from finishing the Prosperity for All campaign quest on savegames created prior to Game Update 3. When players now load an older save, the game will check if the prosperity quest is active but cannot be completed and will then automatically resolve the quest for the player.
- Fixed an issue that could cause a crash of the game client after loading an old savegame with an active mission.
- Fixed a stability issue with the railway system, which could cause the game to crash in some rare instances.
- Fixed an issue that locked players from constructing buildings in their coastal area.
- Fixed an issue with charter routes missing their information in the overview screen.
Download size: roughly 3GB Highlights Game Update 3 adds support for The Anarchist character and associated content for all owners of the Digital Deluxe and Pioneers Editions. Owners of the Standard Edition can buy The Anarchist as part of the Digital Deluxe Edition Upgrade. The first expedition event from our Anno Union contest and vote, The Great Sickness, is now in the game and awaits intrepid explorers. We have reworked interface elements for the World Fair Monument, the Court of Justice and the Excavation Site. These new menus will give players better readability. You can now find new items for purchase at the harbors of Eli Bleakworth, Archibald Blake and Carl Leonard von Malching The Anno Union Emblem company logo is now available for all users and can be claimed from the Club Rewards section on Uplay. Go Anno Union! Balancing and I... Read more


