Farthest Frontier v1.1 Update Is Live, Adds Gridless Building and More

Crate Entertainment has released update v1.1 for Farthest Frontier, the medieval city builder’s first major update since launching 1.0 back in October 2025. The update is free for all players and is available now on Steam.

Here’s a rundown of V1.1, for full patch notes click here.

The headline feature is Gridless build mode, which gives players full 360-degree placement of buildings instead of locking everything to the grid. Grid-based building was a design decision Crate made early on, but the community made it clear they wanted more freedom. The new system also allows overlapping building footprints so you can close gaps with decorations and lay your settlement out however you want. For anyone who prefers the original method, you can toggle between free-build and grid mode at any time during placement. Bridges, crop fields, and walls still stay on the grid due to pathing, but everything else is fair game.

The other big addition is a Guided Journey mode aimed at new players. If you’ve been eyeing Farthest Frontier but felt overwhelmed by the depth of the farming systems and production chains, this gives you a set of objectives to follow as you get your feet under you. It’s a smart move considering how detailed this game gets with crop rotations, soil fertility, and disease management.

Beyond those two marquee features, v1.1 also packs in a building management tool for handling multiple structures at once, copy and paste for building settings, a new wooden bridge available at tier 2, new decorations like grass clearing and wildflowers, a rebuild all button on the destroyed buildings notification, a search function in the tech tree, and a pile of bug fixes and quality of life tweaks.

Farthest Frontier originally launched into Early Access in August 2022 and has sold over 1.2 million copies with another 1.6 million wishlists. Crate Entertainment is the studio behind Grim Dawn, an action RPG with a 95% score on Steam and over 5 million copies sold. The studio has also confirmed that two DLCs are in development: a smaller thematic DLC and a larger expansion-sized one.

If you’re a fan of city builders and haven’t checked Farthest Frontier out yet, a major free update is as good a reason as any to jump in. The game is available on Steam for $34.99.

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