Ashwind Chronicle Developer Blog

If you raise a tax a little, how many years will the treasury last? If you lower one, how much easier does life get? The old tax screen was a list of rate fields, and the only way to find out was to play a few months and see.

This round of development rebuilt Tax Policy as a single movable window. Move a slider and it recalculates, on the spot, the treasury five years ahead and four health scores: fiscal health, fair burden, economic vitality and social stability. An appointed Minister also proposes reform plans.

The Tax Policy window of the Windkeeper States, captured for verification in a development debug build (2026-10-24). All eight taxes are researched for this capture, and three changes are drafted. The treasury, which would run out in 1 yr 8 mo, now never runs out, and a Minister with Governance B proposes three plans in the bottom row. Values are still being tuned and may change.

Opening the research screen meant waiting with nothing on it. Once it appeared, it was still hard to tell which research led where, or why a project could not be reserved. This round of development made four changes to the research management screen to address that.

The screen now opens faster, the research graph can be zoomed, the projects before and after the one you point at are picked out in color, and the reason a project cannot be reserved is shown right where you look.

The research management screen, captured for verification in a development debug build (2026-10-22). Starting from Sealed Power Transmission, the research it unlocks next and the links to it are highlighted in green. Research names and values are still in development and may change.

Can copper output rise without opening a single new mine? This development round fixed a case where the raw materials factories needed on the previous day never reached the mine allocation. That fix had a small side effect on charcoal, so we also revised how fuel-producing facilities decide how many workers to hire. Here are the numbers that improved, and the ones that got worse.

If a wheat harvest falls, is the dinner table the only thing affected? Ashwind Chronicle’s development data connects wheat to animal feed, then feed to wool. With three existing resource illustrations and a worked example of 100 wool, let’s follow the ingredients one step further.

How much remains when crop failure and an insect invasion hit farmland producing 100? Adding the damage percentages is not the answer. This time we look past the disaster names and follow the small multiplication that connects severity, facility type and harvests.