Gears of Prosperity, the new free content update for The Settlers: New Allies, is out now. The update adds new buildings, gameplay features, and balancing updates to the real-time settlement building strategy game. True to its almost 30 years legacy, the latest entry in the series combines in-depth build-up experience with real-time strategic battles. Choose among 3 unique factions and explore this whole-new world powered by state-of-the-art graphics. Your settlement has never looked so lively.

The Settlers: New Allies is available now on Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, Amazon Luna, and PC through Ubisoft Connect. A Ubisoft+ Premium subscription includes access to the Deluxe Edition, which includes the Deluxe and Explorer packs as well as the main game. Read on for a full list of all the new featuresNew Gameplay Feature - Gadgets
Gadgets are limited items that grant players consumable powers. Four gadgets have been added:

• Boom Drill: Accelerates the extraction of underground deposits by unearthing multiple ores.
• Smokescreen: Provides temporary invisibility to stationary military units. Effect stops once they move or attack.
• Emergency Alarm: Provides 18 temporary citizen guards that are very weak outside of their own territory.
• Mechanized Training Dummies: Instantly finishes the recruitment process or spawning timer for all recruitment buildings or residences in range.

New Buildings

• Water Well - Water is used in all classic recipes and has new uses in research. Farm, Bakery, and Ranch now all take an additional input of water to produce.
• Finesmith - the Finesmith produces Gears from Iron Bars, Coal, and Gold Ore. Gears replace gold as the recruitment cost for Faction Units.
• Decorative Buildings - These ornamental buildings brighten up the look of any settlement. They are cheap to build, have low health, and offer no competitive advantage.

Workshop
Workshops are used create different Gadgets, including the ones mentioned above.

• Gadget costs vary by type.
• Gears are always part of the cost.
• Gadgets have a maximum storage of charges, regardless of the number of Workshops or Warehouses built.
• Gadgets have a long production time.

Balancing Highlights

• Population limit for all 1v1 casual and PvP maps is increased to 999.
• Farms can no longer be placed near the coast.
• Replaced Advanced Alchemy with Defense Draughts, a new research option for Alchemists/Shamans/Mystics.
• Added a second rank to Focus Crystals
• Engineer vision range increased from 3 to 5.
• Recall cooldown increased from 15 minutes to 20 minutes.