update · September 12, 2026
Dungeon Settlers Update v0.4.23 Overhauls Combat Balance and Storage Management
Dungeon Settlers update v0.4.23 arrives with major changes to melee weapon balance, expedition sizing, and quality-of-life adjustments for storage and crafting. The patch also splits the Consecration Lock setting across all management difficulties and reintroduces soulstone repurchasing mechanics.
Dungeon Settlers update v0.4.23 introduces broad adjustments to weapon damage coefficients, expedition limits, storage management, and user interface controls. The update addresses balance gaps between melee and ranged weapons while streamlining repetitive settlement tasks.
Combat Balance and Weapon Tweaks
Melee weapons receive direct adjustments to bridge the gap against ranged options. Bow base physical attack values are reduced across multiple wood and metal types, including drops for Bloodwood from 42 to 34 and Akron from 57 to 46. Conversely, Greatsword accuracy penalties are lessened from minus 20 down to minus 10 for materials like bone, carapace, and copper. Spear basic attacks, piercing thrusts, and twin thrusts feature increased damage coefficients. Active skill energy costs now scale down based on combat difficulty, granting a 25 percent reduction on normal and 50 percent on easy. Two Hand Grip now continuously increases physical attack when wielding a non-two-handed main-hand weapon with an empty off-hand slot.
Expedition Management and Exploration
Maximum expedition size increases to 6 members at Rank 2 and 8 members at Rank 3. When an enemy outside direct vision attacks an allied unit, the specific tile containing that attacker is revealed for approximately 2 seconds. Soulstones can be purchased from dungeon merchants in Regions 1 and 2 under specific campaign defeat conditions, provided the player does not currently own the matching soulstone or soul trait. Consecration result locking is separated into its own setting available across all management difficulty levels and can be toggled on or off during an ongoing campaign.
Storage and Crafting QoL
Players can enter crafting quantities directly as numbers, and holding Shift plus Click adjusts amounts in increments of 10. Multiple storage containers of the same type can be selected simultaneously to change batch storage policies, including allow and ban states, item permissions, and durability ranges. Trading systems recheck item quantities, available gold, space, and weight when confirming transactions. Pathfinding logic receives fixes to prevent units from immediately picking up items dropped due to blocked destinations.
Display and Controls
Display settings feature an option to adjust cursor size from 100 to 150 percent. Mouse side buttons Mouse3 and Mouse4 are assignable as hotkeys. Windowed and fullscreen modes remember their resolutions separately, and borderless windowed mode displays the actual display resolution. The mouse cursor is restricted to the game screen while in fullscreen mode until switching applications or opening the Steam overlay.
Why this patch matters
Update v0.4.23 delivers meaningful balance passes for physical weapons alongside practical interface controls that make managing large settlements smoother.