I cant seem to figure out how to build moats. The manual indicates that they should be under castle defence and the ingame help menu says that men at arms eg. are good at digging moats. But how? Am i missing something here or are moats missing from the game?

Not added i think.

Building moats was not added??? Wow I am even more enraged and astonished....

Jaha,
I think you may need to demote your men at arms to sappers. Keep in mind I have not tried this yet. You may also have to build an engineers guild. Granted however I believe that is only available in free build. I have been making maps with the map editor and have placed my own moats around Castles I have made if the stone quarry is bugged. Anyhow if you haven't figured it out I will try it here in a few minutes and let you know if I came up with anything.

Firefly skipped a load of corners with this release of the game.. They missed content that people were looking forward to I.E Seige towers and other features such as moats so they can create good looking castles. Im hoping that they will have the brains to replace these missing features back into the game.

Llogeyr wrote:

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Jaha,
I think you may need to demote your men at arms to sappers. Keep in mind I have not tried this yet. You may also have to build an engineers guild. Granted however I believe that is only available in free build. I have been making maps with the map editor and have placed my own moats around Castles I have made if the stone quarry is bugged. Anyhow if you haven't figured it out I will try it here in a few minutes and let you know if I came up with anything.

Thank you for your suggestions. I tried building a engineers guild and a siege camp, then i trained some sappers but still nothing. The Sappers have a pickaxe icon in their hotbar but it says "Demote units to sappers" I'll assume this is, yet another, broken part of this extremely broken game.
A Stronghold game with no moats, useless walls (no prot for troops on them/destroyable with swords), rarely connecting stairs to walls so no troops on walls, no pathfinding/units getting stuck, troops who dont fight, wolves climbing stairs, missing sounds to alarm you of important events (like your lord beeing attacked) + heaps more gamebreaking bugs/ommissions. This is the worst release of a game i have witnessed yet. Time to put it away and convince myself i never bought this pos in the first place

Moats can actually be added in user made maps through the editor, but are not yet present in matches. One of the historical castles also has a moat around it.

About the 'useless' walls; walls themselves are currently just for blocking access (subject to change, considering the insane amount of feedback from the playerbase regarding the issue). However, keep in mind that you can add hoardings to your walls and, to be honest, those can absorb loads of projectiles before breaking.

EDIT: There are also screenshots available that display siege towers, which shows us the models for them already exist.

Doesn't seem to have been anything done about this!
Bought Stronghold 3 a couple of weeks ago from the Appstore...
Where are these updates please?

SH3 uses Steam.

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SH3 uses Steam.

Yeah... I had a good look around steam for a Macintosh compatible update.
Couldn't find one though! ~Needs to be compatible with my computer (specs at bottom!).

Bought my copy from the Appstore and played it before I ever downloaded any steam applications... To my knowledge! It's a brand new computer and I've never had a steam account before.
I've also vigorously searched my Mac for any other SH3 files... There are none but the application itself!