We come with 2 NEW buildings, better help command and rewards.

Now every time you attack, you have a chance to heal some of your troops. For every attack, a portion of your troops are dead, instead wounded and so you can heal them by running /hospital with two different methods, either a surgical treatment which will heal them right away and they will be available for war again or with medkits, which will take 1/10 of the time it takes for them to recruit. You can build and upgrade this building on /construct and /upgrade.

• Surgical treatment costs 350 rubies
• Medkits cost 200 rubies and 1/10 of the time it takes to recruit them.

🎖️ HALL OF LEGENDS

Hall of Legends is the NEXT building. It allows you to upgrade your troops, which gives them certain bonuses (you will find out yourself) where some may be buffs and some may be a nerf. It requires a certain amount of silver to upgrade your troops each level, and you can do so by clicking the buttons in /hol. To access that command you need to build /hol using /upgrade and you can view its cost in /construct. You cannot upgrade Hall of Legends yet (as of now ....).

🎁 BETTER VOTE REWARDS

Every user that votes, now is going to surely win rubies and UP to 1000 of them.

🤝 BETTER HELP COMMAND

Help command changed, making it much more helpful considering the following updates. It includes more detailed explanations, links to forums and more sources of information regarding the bot. You may always refer new players to help now, since it's more useful now.

Huge thanks for your patience and feedback from the Dev Team. Kiss kiss ❤️

15/08/2024 - India celebrates its 78th anniversary of independence Our dev team, alongside a good amount of our players celebrate today as well. To honor such special day, Will of Steel has organized a new update with tons of giveaways as well!

Many of you suggested that the attack mechanism has become simpler or easier to think about rather than what it should be. Therefore we are introducing Tools! as a way to add more complexity and more fun to the game.

Tools are divided in two big groups:

• 1. Siege tools These tools give a significant attack bonus for your armies. Each tool requires a specific amount of gold and silver as well as about 1 hour to craft. You can select the yes option on the tools: tag the next time you attack, in order to show up the tools menu. Afterwards in the drop-down menu select all of the tools that you want to send to attack.

• 2. Defense tools These tools give a significant defense bonus for your troops. You can setup your defense by using /set command.

To view all the tools and their bonuses use /production.

🤝 Help and aid!

Alliance owners can aid their users now with resources from the alliance treasure. You can use /aid command to do so. Keep in mind that it has a cooldown, and in order to lower it you have to upgrade this in /bank upgrade menu.

Each upgrade reduces the aid cooldown by 1 day, which starts with 6 days.

🐛 Bug fixes!

Some terrible bugs that have been annoying since the last updates have already been fixed. You can now send goods and troops between outposts, and check your movement menu entirely with a summarized view alongside other small improvements.

Get ready a for a ton of 🎁 Giveaways until the end of the week. We will be spoiling every single member of this server with tons of free stuff. So don't forget to invite your friends so they can win as well.

**Happy Indian Independence day! 🇮🇳 **

Ever wanted to expand your castle? We've got your back with our newest feature, Outposts!

👀 What is a outpost?​

Outposts are a simpler version of your Castle, which allow you to improve your Castle even more! They have their own Farmhouses, Bakeries and Storehouses to help you with Food Production!

Before you start capturing Outposts, you should know that there are only 15 Outposts available GLOBALLY. That's a low number, so you might have to fight for claiming Outposts! One player can only capture 3 Outposts.

❔ How do I...​

• Claim an outpost using the /capture command
• Transfer Food & Troops between your Outpost and Castle using /transfer
• Switch to your Outpost or Castle using the /switch command (commands such as /treasure will now provide information about your Outpost, not your castle)

🍞 Food Production in Outposts​

Food Production works the same in Outposts as in your Castles, any troops that are defending your Outposts from attackers require Food, which can be either transferred from your Castle or produced inside of the Outpost itself.

• Any excess food that your troops don't require can be transferred to your Castle to use.
• Switch to your Outpost and run the /transfer command to transfer resources from your Outpost to your Castle.
• Upgrade buildings on your Outpost using /upgrade

🏃 Presets

Have you ever been annoyed that you need to enter an amount of troop for every attack you do? Worry no more, we got your back with Presets!

❔ Cool, but how do I use it?​

• Commander: Select a commander for this preset!
• Commands: Select which commands this preset should apply to!
• Troops: Select your army for this preset
• Edit Name: Ofcourse, you can edit the name here! what else would we do

We've got really cool menus for you to use in Presets this time, we've spent so much time perfecting them!

Finally, send GOLD!

If one of your friends is in some trouble and needs some quick gold, you can now send it to them!

Run /send along with filling the gold option. BE WARE that you need to send some troops with it aswell! Just enter the gold without entering any troops & the bot will tell you how many to send for each troop type!

👟 View your Queues!

Ever wondering what you've started a recruitment for, what troops are being sent to your friends? Now you can know!

Run the /movement command and look at all the movement happening around your Castle!

Realism

• NPCs now show lost troops on Battle Reports.
• Units are now sorted using the attack -> defence method instead of alphabetically

We've got more updates for you this month, so be prepared with your Troops!

About us​

Before we tell you about the making of Will of Steel, let's introduce ourselves!

Neil​

I am Neil, a software engineer with a passion for gaming. I have been working on Discord bots for a while now and when Dust reached out to me, I was super excited to work on this project.

At that time, I was getting into strategy games, a famous game "Age of Empires II". It looked like a 20s game (it was released in 1999).

If you've looked at any of the announcements, you'd probably have seen me by now. I'm the one who's been working on the backend of the bot, making sure everything runs smoothly. Meanwhile, dust does all the frontend and design of the bot.

Dust​

Hello, hello, I'm the Fabolous Dust (intentionally misspelled) or you can just call me Dust. I've been a bit of a fan of Discord Bots and I tried to make my own strategy game in the form of a bot back in 2020 or something (which I miserably failed).

Since I was no good to do this alone, I thought of giving up. Until I contacted this intelligent man called Neil. We've been going pretty rock solid on the game and can say that this is the best (and most underrated the moment I'm writing this) game on entirety of Discord Bots Library.

I am usually doing the outside look of the bot and you can see me on the community server throwing rubies and stuff for free.

What do we do?​

We work on Will of Steel (obviously 😂). I do all the backend/programming and system administration to make sure Will of Steel is online for you all to play!

Meanwhile, Dust does all the frontend, design and the brain-work of thinking of new features and improvements for the bot. (I also do that but Dust is the main one 😂).

If you've ever used the bot, you've probably interacted with one of Dust's embed, image, and EVERYTHING!

How we created Will of Steel​

Now let's get into the making of Will of Steel!

Planning​

Dust first reached out to me about this crazy idea of a strategy game inside Discord on 06/04/2023. We chatted for a bit and then he explained the whole idea about the bot to me.

We had the first prototype of the bot ready by 07/10/2023. Will of Steel™️ was released to the public on 07/19/2023.

Development​

Development from then on was super fast. We had a TON of plans for the bot, so there was always something I wanted to do.

We released our first "update" on 08/06/2023. Almost a month after our release, this update introduced Alliances!

About 11 days after that, we hosted our first Event for India's Independence Day.

We released 3 updates in the span of 1 Month (September).

Update Cycle​

We never had a update cycle, we didn't have a day of each monh that we'd have to release update. We focus on quality more than quantity.

We've always been working hard trying to provide the best update for you guys. Nowadays, we're revisting old featuers to update & give our users a fresh look of every feature.

With that said, that doesn't mean we'll ignore updating the bot for months and saying "We're focusing on quality over quantity". We don't want to become Geometry Dash.

How do we do updates now?​

This is how we do updates now:

1. We plan the update very cautiously. We think of everything that the user may want to do with the feature we're adding. Once we're done planning an update, we add it to our BackLog.

2. Development Begins, usually takes a week for bigger updates, a day for smaller updates (I barely get sleep during this time 😂, seriously.)

3. By this time, I've handed over the work to Dust to implement the frontend (through GitHub).

4. Once Dust is done adding all the Frontend & Images, we vigorously test the features added, and perform a Quality Check on the update.

5. Everything is done! This is the fun part, now, we release this update to you guys!

A downtime is planned for the release on our backend systems so that the Status Page automatically updates, I also let you guys know in the status channel once it's started.

Once we begin the update, we perform any database changes required, turn on the bot & announce the update!

Questions?​

First of all, thank you for reading the whole blog post. If you've still got some questions that you'd like answered, let us know by DMing any one of us on Discord or emailing us at office@willofsteel.me.