Battle Brothers — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
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| Save 70% on Battle Brothers | 2026-04-12 | Battle Brothers is currently 70% off during the Hooded Horse April Sale, with sales on its respective DLC as well. In this turn-based tactical RPG, you lead a mercenary company in a gritty medieval fantasy world. Manage your company, take on contracts, and fight complex battles with historical equipment and brutal injuries. Hooded Horse April Sale |
| Save 70% on Battle Brothers | 2026-03-20 | Battle Brothers is currently 70% off during the Hooded Horse Spring Sale, with sales on its respective DLC as well. In this turn-based tactical RPG, you lead a mercenary company in a gritty medieval fantasy world. Manage your company, take on contracts, and fight complex battles with historical equipment and brutal injuries. Hooded Horse Spring Sale |
| Save 70% on Battle Brothers | 2026-02-27 | Battle Brothers is currently 70% off during the Hooded Horse Publisher Sale, with sales on its respective DLC as well.In this turn-based tactical RPG, you lead a mercenary company in a gritty medieval fantasy world. Manage your company, take on contracts, and fight complex battles with historical equipment and brutal injuries. Hooded Horse Publisher Sale |
| Save 70% on Battle Brothers | 2026-01-10 | Battle Brothers is currently 70% off during the Hooded Horse January Publisher Sale, with sales on its respective DLC as well.In this turn-based tactical RPG, you lead a mercenary company in a gritty medieval fantasy world. Manage your company, take on contracts, and fight complex battles with historical equipment and brutal injuries. Hooded Horse January Publisher Sale |
| Update 1.5.1.8 | 2026-01-06 | Thanks to everyone who tested the beta version of this update! Since no major issues related to extended RAM support were reported, version 1.5.1.8 is now finally released. Steam ReviewsThank you for playing Battle Brothers and sharing your thoughts, ideas, and feedback too. If you haven't already done so, we'd appreciate it if you could share your thoughts in a Steam review. It's a fantastic way for your voice to be heard, and it helps out a lot with informing with what might be resolved in a future patch. Update 1.5.1.8 Changelog The game now supports more than 2 GB of RAM to avoid crashes, "rainbow sprites", and corrupted saves when many m |
| Save 70% on Battle Brothers | 2025-12-20 | Battle Brothers is currently 70% off during the Hooded Horse Winter Publisher Sale. In this turn-based tactical RPG, you lead a mercenary company in a gritty medieval fantasy world. Manage your company, take on contracts, and fight complex battles with historical equipment and brutal injuries. Hooded Horse Winter Publisher Sale |
| Beta Update 1.5.1.8 | 2025-12-08 | We’ve put together a small update that adds support for using more than 2 GB of RAM and includes a round of bug fixes. The extra memory headroom should address the issues and crashes some players run into when running a large number of mods. Disclaimer: For that reason, we’re releasing this build on an open beta branch. If you’d like to help, switch over, play as you normally do, and report anything unusual. You can post feedback on the Steam forums or in the Discord. If you’re on the beta build, please mention it so we can track reports properly. We've included instructions on how to issue a bug report that helps us the most here. The full l |
| Update 1.5.1.7 | 2025-04-30 | More fixes for issues that came up after the release of the recent bigger update. See here for a description of what else changed recently and how to continue playing your current campaign with older mods. Changelog for 1.5.1.7 Fixed certain enemy armors using incorrect sound effects. Fixed crash that could occur when retreating while a bro is swallowed by a Nachzehrer. Fixed incorrect armor damage numbers on the ‘Destroy Armor’ and ‘Demolish Armor’ skill tooltips. Reverted a change made to the Sunken Library fight that was causing softlocks under some circumstances. |
| Update 1.5.1.6 | 2025-03-31 | More fixes for issues that came up after the release of the recent bigger update. See here for a description of what else changed recently and how to continue playing your current campaign with older mods. Changelog for 1.5.1.6 Fixed Ancient Spire revealing locations outside the intended radius. Fixed Flesh Cradles and Mortars being attackable. Fixed the 'Castigate' skill not ignoring shield defense bonuses as intended. Fixed Anatomist potions for the new locations not dropping as intended. Fixed Necromancers not being able to resurrect skeletons. Fixed minor issue with certain armor sprites not rendering correctly on slain units. |
| Update 1.5.1.5 | 2025-03-24 | Fixes for issues that came up after the release of last week's bigger update. See here for a description of what else changed recently and how to continue playing your current campaign with older mods. Changelog for 1.5.1.5 Fixed potential softlock as Wiedergängers resurrected out of sight. Fixed 'Thresh' skill potentially causing a crash when it would stun. Fixed direwolves sometimes being unkillable. Fixed some post-battle loot not being equippable until after saving & loading. Fixed issue with 'Slave Uprising' contract. Fixed various other minor issues. |
| Update 1.5.1 & New Content | 2025-03-20 | This update brings a bucket load of fixes accumulated over the last year, as well as some small content additions. You heard that right: There’s actual new content for Battle Brothers, for free. We added two new legendary locations to discover in the world with unique fights against several entirely new enemy types, offering a fresh challenge to the jaded mercenary. Can your company hold their own against the shambling horrors that are golems molded by cultists out of the flesh of the fallen? Can they overcome the Grand Diviner’s dark arts? These new legendary locations are conjoined by a small narrative told through illustrated events. While |
| Upcoming Regional Pricing Updates | 2024-04-11 | Battle Brothers and its DLC are currently on sale. After the sale, we plan to make some adjustments to regional prices. We wanted to provide advance notice in case anyone would like to purchase at the current, discounted price. Prices will change in some regions. However, we will continue to find a balance to maintain affordability for players. The USD price will remain the same, except for Warriors of the North DLC increasing by $1 (from $8.99 to $9.99). Thank you for all the support of the game! |
| MENACE | 2023-08-21 | As some of you already discovered, we’ve been working on our next game - called MENACE - for a while now. We’ve been prototyping since after the full release of Battle Brothers in 2017, and have gone into full production after the Blazing Deserts DLC was done. Now we’re finally ready to show what we’ve been working on for all that time. Like Battle Brothers, MENACE is a turn-based tactical RPG - with the same type of deep mechanics and replayability you've come to love. Unlike Battle Brothers, MENACE has a sci-fi setting and plays out on a larger scale. You'll lead a strike force of marines sent to the far frontier, answering distress calls a |
| Update 1.5.0.15 | 2023-07-21 | This update adds a free new banner to hoist for your mercenary company, inspired by popular German streamer HandOfBlood, who previously covered Battle Brothers in a series of Let's Play videos. Additionally, you'll find a few fixes accumulated over the last couple of months. If you have a modded game, update your mods. If you encounter issues, remove your mods. If you still encounter issues, please report them here following the instructions in the sticky post. Changelog for 1.5.0.15 Added a new player banner. Fixed some post-combat events potentially not triggering as often as intended. Fixed an incorrect AI consideration regarding the use o |
| Update 1.5.0.14 | 2023-03-10 | A collection of fixes for issues reported over the last couple of months. If you have a modded game, update your mods. If you encounter issues, remove your mods. If you still encounter issues, please report them here following the instructions in the sticky post. Changelog for 1.5.0.14 Fixed throwable Lindwurm acid applying less damage to head armor than intended. Fixed "Break Free" skill using an incorrect melee skill value as a base for calculations after an ally tried to break free a character but failed. Fixed wardogs potentially spawning on top of characters if their owner gets killed and the ground is already covered with corpses. Fixed |
| Livestream and chat with devs! | 2023-01-31 | For a couple of times over the last few months, the Overhype team has joined the community in the official Discord to chat about Battle Brothers (among other things). These events were very interesting (and fun!), so we promised to do it again every now and then; but for the next one we want to take this a step further. This Friday (February 3rd) at 3:30 pm CET and will run for about 2 hours,. We’ll have a new Chat with the Devs event at our official Discord server; but this time it will be a live talk on Discord, in a new Stage Channel that will be created for this purpose. To make it easier to follow, we’ll gather your questions in the #gen |
| Update 1.5.0.13 | 2022-11-18 | A collection of fixes accumulated over the last couple of months. If you have a modded game, update your mods. If you encounter issues, remove your mods. If you still encounter issues, please report them here following the instructions in the sticky post. Changelog for 1.5.0.13 Fixed incorrect determination on whether a line of fire is blocked for ranged attacks on very specific angles. Fixed AI not properly avoiding tiles with negatives effects, such as fire, as it is supposed to in specific cases. Fixed 'Hook' and 'Repel' skills not applying the 'Overwhelmed' effect on a miss. Fixed various smaller issues and typos. |
| Update 1.5.0.12 | 2022-06-10 | A collection of bugfixes for things reported over the last two months. If you have a modded game, update your mods. If you encounter issues, remove your mods. If you still encounter issues, please report them here following the instructions in the sticky post. Changelog for 1.5.0.12 Fixed issue where the 'Siege Fortification' contract could get stuck in a loop after certain contract twist outcomes. Fixed game hanging upon accepting the 'Hunting Schrats' contract in rare cases. Fixed destruction of some contract-related caravans not counting towards completing the 'Raid Caravans' ambition. Fixed the 'Oath of Honor' bonus objective not counting |
| Update 1.5.0.11 | 2022-04-08 | A collection of balance changes and fixes collected since the release of the 'Of Flesh and Faith' free DLC. The console versions will receive this update in the coming weeks. If you have a modded game, update your mods. If you encounter issues, remove your mods. If you still encounter issues, please report them here following the instructions in the sticky post. Changelog for 1.5.0.11 Added a new 'Collectors' settlement situation that increases the sell prices of beast parts and treasures. Changed the relations gain/decay effect of the Negotiator to 15%, up from 10%. Changed the equipment and hire costs of the Oathtaker and Anatomist backgrou |
| A Battle Brothers Novel | 2022-03-24 | From Casey Hollingshead, writer of Battle Brothers and author of the recent Battle Brothers comic, now comes the first novel set in the Battle Brothers universe: The Witch Hunter. This tale concludes the in-game story of the strange traveler who carries the Lorekeeper’s black book, as introduced in the ‘Blazing Deserts’ DLC. Hated. Distrusted. Needed. Richter von Dagentear, a witch hunter known in legend as the Wight, traverses a realm falling headfirst into war. To survive, he will have to betray his profession’s purpose and undertake a task that goes against everything he believes in. All that stands in his way are backstabbing nobles, crue |