We have released a patch (1.8.25866) for Stronghold 3 on Steam. To download the patch, simply run your Steam client and the patch will download automatically..

Read more to view notes and a list of fixes for this patch as well as a preview screenshot of the new rally points.

We get a lot of cool stuff sent to us at Firefly, but nothing makes a developer smile quite like seeing their game recreated in glorious Lego stop motion! Over Christmas one individual, who it’s safe to say is one of our biggest fans, sent us such a video.

Click the link below to see a bustling Lego village built around one very drunk, sleepy bumpkin. See resource gathering, weapon making, castle building and cow catapulting all rendered in this wonderful bricky animation.

The attention to detail is fantastic, as are the sound effects. There’s even a “Making of” feature for what must have taken the creators many, many hours (and bricks!).

You can watch the video here: http://bit.ly/SHKLego

Please note: This Stronghold 3 Patch will now be released mid-next week. The extra time will however allow us to implement barracks assembly points.

We are currently finishing up work on a new patch for Stronghold 3 that includes fixes relating to walls in both single and multiplayer, stuck woodcutters and crashes with the ATI x1950 video card. We've also fixed a number of crashes from savegames sent in by players and sync issues in multiplayer.

A full list of additions, tweaks and bug fixes will be provided in the patch notes once the patch goes live toward the end of this week.

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Happy New Year everyone. We will be releasing a small patch later today to fix a few issues reported over the holidays, including a fix for the missions not unlocking bug. Check out the patch notes below. We are currently working on the next (more substantial) patch to be released soon.

Read more to view notes and a list of fixes for this patch.

We have released a 1.7.25308 patch for Stronghold 3 on Steam. To download the patch, simply run your Steam client and the patch will download automatically.

Read more to view notes and a list of fixes for this patch.

The Stronghold team would like to thank you for your support this year. Today’s patch, which adds new multiplayer maps, new historical sieges, tweaks, fixes and a choice of different multiplayer Lords (and one Lady!) to the game, has been submitted to Steam so we are waiting on them to make it live. This will be the last patch released in 2011, but don’t worry! The patching process will resume in January 2012.

Until then we’d like to wish you a very Merry Christmas and a cracking New Year.

Happy Holidays,

Firefly