Balrum news & patch notes

Hello everyone! Great news! We've created an official Balrum Discord server as many of you have been asking for it. Join us on the official Balrum Discord server using this link: Balrum Discord Server {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/11086693/7804c62ad5c03907219e6b47fe4431121fb26c67.png It's a great place to connect with fellow Balrum fans and share experiences! Have a great day! Yours, Balcony Team

Balrum is 7 years old! We are celebrating with a new patch and a 75% discount! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/11086693/45ff9c1ae696fc87281fcf0344292603928fb560.gif The new patch contains the following improvements:

• The game now uses the latest libraries to ensure the best compatibility with modern systems.
• Modernized the underlying sound system to better handle modern audio configurations.
• Added sound effects to various game elements. Like opening a cauldron or picking up certain items that had no sound effect previously.
• Added a new conversation for Dudley. (this conversation should help newcomers to the game)
• Added a new map marker to the Darkwood map. (needs new playthrough)
• Small increases to text size in certain UI elements. (e.g. XP gained)

Thank you for your support over the years everyone! Follow us on Twitter! Have a nice day! Balcony Team

6 years ago today, Balrum released on Steam. Thanks to our Kickstarter backers we were able to create our dream old-school RPG. A big thank you to every single person who supported us either here on Steam and GOG or on Kickstarter. We are celebrating with a weeklong 75% Discount! Happy Birthday Balrum! :) {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/11086693/5ffb58106a267590146e65cef82bb3ca835e19c1.gif

Hey there friends!

We're happy to announce that this Sunday (March 21st), at 13:00 PT / 21:00 CET our friend and deckbuilding roguelike aficionado Northernlion will be doing a live playthrough of Deepest Chamber over on https://www.twitch.tv/northernlion {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/11086693/5e0a56f8ca911d90a6bfa1ab1a8c9572b0c38a08.png This marks the first ever live public viewing of the game and we're very excited for you to finally catch a glipse of what we're currently working on. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1552080/ Many thanks for following the game so early in it's lifespan. There's plenty more to come in the near future, so stay tuned! Follow us on Twitter! Join the Discord Community! - Deepest Chamber Team

Hello there everyone! We are super excited to tell you all that we partnered up with Those Awesome Guys for creating our second game called Deepest Chamber! Feel free to join our Discord! DISCORD https://store.steampowered.com/app/1552080/

Hi there! Balrum has just been updated to version 1.6! https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/11086693/07c4c6ccde31089d48ee13f1c0d84f08ff694f33.png First of all, a big thank you for everyone who submitted bug reports and feature suggestions! Here are the changes for patch 1.6:

GUI:

-The buildable objects inside the Building panel are now sorted for ease of use. -Right clicking on an Inventory tab now sorts the items in that tab based on name and value. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/11086693/c01ee5bccb678877774890558f5064ae4d8422a4.png -UI elements won’t reposition themselves when minimising/alt-tabbing the game.

Engine:

-The renderer now supports water reflections and bloom effects. The bloom effect is disabled by default. You can enable it via the video options menu. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/11086693/1fc6eaae1affc11e9a80e8119722b40b7c4ac5a3.png -The config.xml subsystem has been rewritten to be more compatible and efficient. -Improved performance on 4K systems. -Third party libraries have been updated to the latest versions.

Fixes:

-The marble hearth now costs the proper amount to build. -Some buildable objects have been moved to a different Building tab for ease of use. -All crafting tables have been renamed inside the Building panel to be more recognisable. -The Leader of the Pack boss now properly triggers the rewards dialog. (this was a regression)

Typos:

Basic text errors and logical errors have been fixed: -files/dialogs/en/gui/afterrelease.xml -files/dialogs/en/osric/packsandfires -files/dialogs/en/neil/history -files/dialogs/en/elestterr/elestterwelcome -files/dialogs/en/orran/orranwelcome -files/dialogs/en/bolt/boltifmage -files/dialogs/en/barnabas/youoweleonard -files/dialogs/en/helperdialogs/howtotaimanimals -files/dialogs/en/fox/golems -files/dialogs/en/walker/a_cape_of_a_warlock -files/dialogs/en/rod/rodimlookingforwork -files/dialogs/en/tina/tinamissingfriends -files/dialogs/en/kotf/reddragonwelcome

Thank you for your support everyone and have a nice day!

Yours, Balcony Team

Hello everyone! Patch 1.55 is now live with new features and a couple of fixes. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/11086693/82afe31ef49fcdf6146db95946f2e8bd6677a525.jpg

Features:

-New walls: We added a new type of wall to the building tab. These are brick walls and to build them you need to create bricks from clay. -New material: Now you are able to dig up clay at the waterside. -Bricks: Bricks can be made at a furnace from raw clay. -New plantable foliage: We added a few new flowers to the building panel. -New buildable furnitures: We added a few new buildable furnitures. -Jones now teaches a few new buildable items. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/11086693/df03bcd384413c094a4ac1f67df68539a6bb7d3f.jpg https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/11086693/9fc18b1051b765bfaaff4c84dbf97a3226632cac.jpg

Gameplay:

-Skillbooks now grant learning points if you already know the skill the book teaches. (the book will be removed on usage) -Wizard spells do more average damage. The maximum damage of offensive spells are not changed, but the minimum damage has been increased. -Easy difficulty: The enemy health reduction on easy difficulty has been increased. So enemies have slightly less health on easy difficulty. -Durability: Durability decreases slower on easy difficulty. -Pet recall is now enabled during combat. -Young animals now stack in a single inventory slot. -The fire damage reduction while it is raining has been reduced. -Osric now sells more chickens.

GUI:

-The save/load panel now asks you if you really want to load a saved game. So accidental double clicking a save slot when wanting to save won’t load that slot. -Some basic UI text has been altered to make things clearer. -Some NPC world dialogs are now colored. -Picklocking floating texts stay longer on the screen.

Fixes:

-Fixed the orientation logic for a few buildable furnitures. -The Close Shot ability now properly indicates usability when there are no arrows left. -Fixed a crash that could happen when teleporting to the safeplace during an item craft. -In certain situations your pet did not autoattack. This should be fixed now. -Sometimes when loading in a new map the system would dismiss your pet even when there was space around the player.

Engine:

-Updated the engine libraries. -Initialization of the sound system has been changed to increase compatibility. For translators: -The after_release.xml has been changed. -The gui_texts.xml has been changed.

We hope everyone is having a nice summer!

Thank you for your support! Yours, Balcony Team

Hello everyone! The 1.5 update is now available!

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/11086693/8aa213a2d8f4987605700a5f345761eae0acd106.jpg The patch will reset your config file! (new config file name: “config_new.xml”) Game file caches will regenerate so be patient on your first boot! :) As we promised a few years ago, we are going to support Balrum for a long time. This update will introduce a completely new windowing system that will help keep Balrum compatible with modern and legacy systems. So this update is a technical update rather than a gameplay update. If for whatever reason the new version does not work on your system. We added a legacy branch called "legacy". The legacy branch is version 1.31 with the old windowing system. Since changing the windowing system affects everything (input, sound, rendering) we took the opportunity to update pretty much all of our systems. List of changes: -The game now uses a more modern windowing system. -Much better fullscreen support. -Much better HiDPI support. -Better high refresh rate support. (120Hz+) -Rewrote parts of the renderer (both modern and legacy):

• fewer draw calls
• smarter buffer handling
• optimized shaders
• fixed legacy warnings

-Rewrote the audio system.

• better handling of multiple sound effects
• optimized buffer handling

-Better support for special keyboards. -Auto sharpen when zooming in. (both gameworld and GUI) -Improved the sharpen shader (sharpening is crisper). -Smoother framerate pacing. -Changed resource management systems for better compatibility and speed. -Updated libraries to latest versions. Fixes: -Fixed a rare lighting bug that affected certain light effects when drinking potions. -Picking up player placed pet traps now have a sound effect. -Fixed a bug that made the fireplace sound play twice. Gameplay change: -A certain green magical flame trap now does significantly more damage when activated.

Thank you for testing and for your support everyone!

Yours, Balcony Team

Hello everyone! The 1.5 update is now available!

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/11086693/8aa213a2d8f4987605700a5f345761eae0acd106.jpg The patch will reset your config file! (new config file name: “config_new.xml”) Game file caches will regenerate so be patient on your first boot! :) As we promised a few years ago, we are going to support Balrum for a long time. This update will introduce a completely new windowing system that will help keep Balrum compatible with modern and legacy systems. So this update is a technical update rather than a gameplay update. If for whatever reason the new version does not work on your system. We added a legacy branch called "legacy". The legacy branch is version 1.31 with the old windowing system. Since changing the windowing system affects everything (input, sound, rendering) we took the opportunity to update pretty much all of our systems. List of changes: -The game now uses a more modern windowing system. -Much better fullscreen support. -Much better HiDPI support. -Better high refresh rate support. (120Hz+) -Rewrote parts of the renderer (both modern and legacy):

• fewer draw calls
• smarter buffer handling
• optimized shaders
• fixed legacy warnings

-Rewrote the audio system.

• better handling of multiple sound effects
• optimized buffer handling

-Better support for special keyboards. -Auto sharpen when zooming in. (both gameworld and GUI) -Improved the sharpen shader (sharpening is crisper). -Smoother framerate pacing. -Changed resource management systems for better compatibility and speed. -Updated libraries to latest versions. Fixes: -Fixed a rare lighting bug that affected certain light effects when drinking potions. -Picking up player placed pet traps now have a sound effect. -Fixed a bug that made the fireplace sound play twice. Gameplay change: -A certain green magical flame trap now does significantly more damage when activated.

Thank you for testing and for your support everyone!

Yours, Balcony Team

Hello everyone! We are back with a big update! This is a really big update so at the moment it will be available only on the BETA branch! To participate in the beta right click on Balrum in your steam library and select Properties. Go to the BETAS tab and select "beta" from the dropdown menu. If you find bugs with this new patch feel free to leave a comment. Thank you for your reports! As we promised a few years ago, we are going to support Balrum for a long time. This update will introduce a completely new windowing system that will help keep Balrum compatible with modern and legacy systems. So this update is a technical update rather than a gameplay update. Since changing the windowing system affects everything (input, sound, rendering) we took the opportunity to update pretty much all of our systems. List of changes: -The game now uses a more modern windowing system. -Much better fullscreen support. -Much better HiDPI support. -Better high refresh rate support. (120Hz+) -Rewrote parts of the renderer (both modern and legacy):

• fewer draw calls
• smarter buffer handling
• optimized shaders
• fixed legacy warnings

-Rewrote the audio system.

• better handling of multiple sound effects
• optimized buffer handling

-Better support for special keyboards. -Auto sharpen when zooming in. -Improved the sharpen shader (sharpening is crisper). -Smoother framerate pacing. -Changed resource management systems for better compatibility and speed. -Updated libraries to latest versions. Fixes: -Fixed a rare lighting bug that affected certain light effects when drinking potions. -Picking up player placed pet traps now have a sound effect. -Fixed a bug that made the fireplace sound play twice. Gameplay change: -A certain green magical flame trap now does significantly more damage when activated.

Thank you for your support everyone!

Yours, Balcony Team

Hello everyone! We are back with a big update! This is a really big update so at the moment it will be available only on the BETA branch! To participate in the beta right click on Balrum in your steam library and select Properties. Go to the BETAS tab and select "beta" from the dropdown menu. If you find bugs with this new patch feel free to leave a comment. Thank you for your reports! As we promised a few years ago, we are going to support Balrum for a long time. This update will introduce a completely new windowing system that will help keep Balrum compatible with modern and legacy systems. So this update is a technical update rather than a gameplay update. Since changing the windowing system affects everything (input, sound, rendering) we took the opportunity to update pretty much all of our systems. List of changes: -The game now uses a more modern windowing system. -Much better fullscreen support. -Much better HiDPI support. -Better high refresh rate support. (120Hz+) -Rewrote parts of the renderer (both modern and legacy):

• fewer draw calls
• smarter buffer handling
• optimized shaders
• fixed legacy warnings

-Rewrote the audio system.

• better handling of multiple sound effects
• optimized buffer handling

-Better support for special keyboards. -Auto sharpen when zooming in. -Improved the sharpen shader (sharpening is crisper). -Smoother framerate pacing. -Changed resource management systems for better compatibility and speed. -Updated libraries to latest versions. Fixes: -Fixed a rare lighting bug that affected certain light effects when drinking potions. -Picking up player placed pet traps now have a sound effect. -Fixed a bug that made the fireplace sound play twice. Gameplay change: -A certain green magical flame trap now does significantly more damage when activated.

Thank you for your support everyone!

Yours, Balcony Team

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Hello, everyone!

There were two important issues reported. Thank you for your detailed reports! Fixes: -When defeating the boss in the wolf's cave the player is now able to speak of this deed with the villagers. -When smelting metals, only silver and iron critical crafts produce spotless metal bars.

Have a nice day folks and thank you for your support!

Yours, Balcony Team

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Hello, everyone!

There were two important issues reported. Thank you for your detailed reports! Fixes: -When defeating the boss in the wolf's cave the player is now able to speak of this deed with the villagers. -When smelting metals, only silver and iron critical crafts produce spotless metal bars.

Have a nice day folks and thank you for your support!

Yours, Balcony Team

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Hi, everyone!

Patch 1.3 is here with a few bug fixes! Thank you all for your bug reports! Fixes: -No more slight illumination hiccup in the morning time. -Piercing Arrow now does proper weapon damage + bonus damage. -Remaining strings in the code are now editable. (XML) -Trinkets with lighting effects now properly cancel themselves when swapping similar trinkets. -Fixed issues related to the “really interesting” book. -Modernised the filesystem. (this change should minimise the file corruption issues) -Auto rebuild of the config.xml if something goes wrong. For translators: The after_release.xml has been changed.

Have a great day everyone and thank you for your support!

Yours, Balcony Team

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Hi, everyone!

Patch 1.3 is here with a few bug fixes! Thank you all for your bug reports! Fixes: -No more slight illumination hiccup in the morning time. -Piercing Arrow now does proper weapon damage + bonus damage. -Remaining strings in the code are now editable. (XML) -Trinkets with lighting effects now properly cancel themselves when swapping similar trinkets. -Fixed issues related to the “really interesting” book. -Modernised the filesystem. (this change should minimise the file corruption issues) -Auto rebuild of the config.xml if something goes wrong. For translators: The after_release.xml has been changed.

Have a great day everyone and thank you for your support!

Yours, Balcony Team

http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/11086693/217129d0d7c612426768d481e9908b222267d5a8.jpg Hello everyone! We hope all of you are having a nice summer. During the past months there were a few reported bugs which needed fixing. Thank you to everyone who sent us detailed bug reports! Fixes: -When an npc's talking panel had a lot of conversation options, scrolling trough them with the mouse wheel could caused problems. -In rare occasions when multiple containers were open and item divides were issued, ability selection could end up selecting the wrong slot. -The auto closing of multiple containers (when the player moved away from the containers) sometimes could cause a freeze. -The game now detects if the desktop resolution is really high and warns the player of the possible DPI scaling issues. -Minor character panel tooltip fixes. Gameplay: -Mana now regenerates every 4 turns instead of 5 turns. -Added graphical effects to some repair/build interactions. For translators: -The "after_release.xml" was modified. Feel free to send us bug reports via email. http://balconyteam.com/contact/ As always, thank you for your support and have a nice day! Yours, Balcony Team

http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/11086693/217129d0d7c612426768d481e9908b222267d5a8.jpg Hello everyone! We hope all of you are having a nice summer. During the past months there were a few reported bugs which needed fixing. Thank you to everyone who sent us detailed bug reports! Fixes: -When an npc's talking panel had a lot of conversation options, scrolling trough them with the mouse wheel could caused problems. -In rare occasions when multiple containers were open and item divides were issued, ability selection could end up selecting the wrong slot. -The auto closing of multiple containers (when the player moved away from the containers) sometimes could cause a freeze. -The game now detects if the desktop resolution is really high and warns the player of the possible DPI scaling issues. -Minor character panel tooltip fixes. Gameplay: -Mana now regenerates every 4 turns instead of 5 turns. -Added graphical effects to some repair/build interactions. For translators: -The "after_release.xml" was modified. Feel free to send us bug reports via email. http://balconyteam.com/contact/ As always, thank you for your support and have a nice day! Yours, Balcony Team

Hello there everyone! We hope you are all well. We are back with another small update. This update includes bug fixes for various systems and minor improvements to building. Also a handful of you suggested that when you enter combat with only “prey” type enemies the combat music should not start playing. This should make hunting deer a bit more enjoyable. Fixes: -There were times when some of the shield abilities miscalculated cooldowns. -The Piercing Arrow ability disregarded it's cooldown. -Sometimes when deleting furniture while on the floors tab the system would not give back materials. -Fixed a crash while deleting decals from walls next to doors. -If you were really fast with your clicking, sometimes you were able to get duplicated materials back while deleting certain furnitures. -The animation and sound while placing down berry bushes have been adjusted. -The smelter sometimes had a crafting material icon when you loaded a game with a character who has no smelting skill immediately after playing with a character who has smelting skill. Thank you for your support everyone! Have a nice day! Yours, Balcony Team

Hello there everyone! We hope you are all well. We are back with another small update. This update includes bug fixes for various systems and minor improvements to building. Also a handful of you suggested that when you enter combat with only “prey” type enemies the combat music should not start playing. This should make hunting deer a bit more enjoyable. Fixes: -There were times when some of the shield abilities miscalculated cooldowns. -The Piercing Arrow ability disregarded it's cooldown. -Sometimes when deleting furniture while on the floors tab the system would not give back materials. -Fixed a crash while deleting decals from walls next to doors. -If you were really fast with your clicking, sometimes you were able to get duplicated materials back while deleting certain furnitures. -The animation and sound while placing down berry bushes have been adjusted. -The smelter sometimes had a crafting material icon when you loaded a game with a character who has no smelting skill immediately after playing with a character who has smelting skill. Thank you for your support everyone! Have a nice day! Yours, Balcony Team

Hello there everyone! Update 1.21 has been released bringing a decent amount of fixes and new features. 1.21 also introduces Achievements. Thank you for everyone who sent us bug reports and suggestions! Thankfully there were no major bugs reported in the last couple months but if you think you found a bug please contact us. As you know save game compatibility is a very important element for us and we are glad to say that this patch (like every patch before) is compatible with old saves! Just as a reminder you can find community made translations for the game here: Translations (Please note that you need to put every translation mod inside its proper folder. Do not overwrite the “en” folder. Some mods use the “en” folder so you need to manually fix this!) Some of the more noteworthy new features:

Achievements! (There are a total of 42 achievements to acquire.)

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Added comparative tooltips for equipments.

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You are now able to delete custom made recipes.

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Grandmaster difficulty! We added an even more challenging difficulty mode to Balrum for those who seek an even greater challenge.

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By pressing Shift + F2 you can disable/enable the interface.

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Reworked a part of the GUI. (panel focus and responsiveness improvements)

Small additions: -ALT + click now puts materials inside crafting tables intelligently. -Autosaves won't happen when the player is below 10% health. -Cheat death now gives back more health. -Fields no longer get diseased if they are properly tended too. -Enabled numpad walk commands. -Tutorial popup when your pet dies or gets automatically dismissed. -Reduce Gore option is available in the options panel. -Game saves now show the chosen difficulty. Issues fixed by this patch: -Fixed a rare issue when some sound effects could stuck in a loop. -Sometimes certain bosses did not use some of their abilities as frequently as intended. -Damage absorbed text now shows the proper amount of absorbed damage. -Deep wounds ability cooldown now properly activates. -Mirrored monsters cannot cause a 0 damage critical bleed effect any more. -Disabled green cursor (usable) indicator on some unusable objects. -Fixed a graphical glitch when some late game NPCs did not render their staffs. -Mannequins now properly render their inventory outside of the safe place. -Fixed the ambient sounds of the island map. -Fixed the ambient sounds of the desert maps. -The GUI scale slider sometimes had problems setting the value. -Various small visual map changes. -Removing weapons while chopping down trees sometimes caused a visual glitch. -Fixed a rare player and pet collision problem. -Fixed a visual glitch in the last cutscene. -Fixed a color issue with the repair panel's equipped items list. -Fixed a rare issue with cleaning dust from ancient lore papers. -Fixed a few typos. -Fixed a number of other small things. (text/button positions adjusted..etc) For translators: -Tent tooltips are now editable via the after_release.xml. -Nightfall level “1” (dialogs/en/gui/spells.xml) -There are numerous new lines in the after_release.xml. -Changes were made in the gui_texts.xml. (difficulty texts, level up text, tutorialpet) Just a friendly reminder to everyone! If you installed translation mods inside the "en" folder you might experience problems (because the "files/dialogs/en" folder is the main text folder of the game and should not be overwritten). Supported translations should always install inside their own folder! (example: ru, de, ..etc) If you are experiencing issues with translation mods delete the "en" folder and run Verify Integrity of Game Cache from Steam! Thank you all for your support and have a nice day! Yours, Balcony Team

Hello there everyone! Update 1.21 has been released bringing a decent amount of fixes and new features. 1.21 also introduces Achievements. Thank you for everyone who sent us bug reports and suggestions! Thankfully there were no major bugs reported in the last couple months but if you think you found a bug please contact us. As you know save game compatibility is a very important element for us and we are glad to say that this patch (like every patch before) is compatible with old saves! Just as a reminder you can find community made translations for the game here: Translations (Please note that you need to put every translation mod inside its proper folder. Do not overwrite the “en” folder. Some mods use the “en” folder so you need to manually fix this!) Some of the more noteworthy new features:

Achievements! (There are a total of 42 achievements to acquire.)

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Added comparative tooltips for equipments.

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You are now able to delete custom made recipes.

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Grandmaster difficulty! We added an even more challenging difficulty mode to Balrum for those who seek an even greater challenge.

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By pressing Shift + F2 you can disable/enable the interface.

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Reworked a part of the GUI. (panel focus and responsiveness improvements)

Small additions: -ALT + click now puts materials inside crafting tables intelligently. -Autosaves won't happen when the player is below 10% health. -Cheat death now gives back more health. -Fields no longer get diseased if they are properly tended too. -Enabled numpad walk commands. -Tutorial popup when your pet dies or gets automatically dismissed. -Reduce Gore option is available in the options panel. -Game saves now show the chosen difficulty. Issues fixed by this patch: -Fixed a rare issue when some sound effects could stuck in a loop. -Sometimes certain bosses did not use some of their abilities as frequently as intended. -Damage absorbed text now shows the proper amount of absorbed damage. -Deep wounds ability cooldown now properly activates. -Mirrored monsters cannot cause a 0 damage critical bleed effect any more. -Disabled green cursor (usable) indicator on some unusable objects. -Fixed a graphical glitch when some late game NPCs did not render their staffs. -Mannequins now properly render their inventory outside of the safe place. -Fixed the ambient sounds of the island map. -Fixed the ambient sounds of the desert maps. -The GUI scale slider sometimes had problems setting the value. -Various small visual map changes. -Removing weapons while chopping down trees sometimes caused a visual glitch. -Fixed a rare player and pet collision problem. -Fixed a visual glitch in the last cutscene. -Fixed a color issue with the repair panel's equipped items list. -Fixed a rare issue with cleaning dust from ancient lore papers. -Fixed a few typos. -Fixed a number of other small things. (text/button positions adjusted..etc) For translators: -Tent tooltips are now editable via the after_release.xml. -Nightfall level “1” (dialogs/en/gui/spells.xml) -There are numerous new lines in the after_release.xml. -Changes were made in the gui_texts.xml. (difficulty texts, level up text, tutorialpet) Just a friendly reminder to everyone! If you installed translation mods inside the "en" folder you might experience problems (because the "files/dialogs/en" folder is the main text folder of the game and should not be overwritten). Supported translations should always install inside their own folder! (example: ru, de, ..etc) If you are experiencing issues with translation mods delete the "en" folder and run Verify Integrity of Game Cache from Steam! Thank you all for your support and have a nice day! Yours, Balcony Team

Hello there everyone! Patch 1.21 is nearing completion and will bring small fixes and new features to Balrum including

Achievements!

We have been looking at what our players would like to see added to the game and 1.21 will introduce new features suggested by our community. Thank you all for your great suggestions! If everything goes well the patch will be out very soon! (hopefully a few days from now) Have a nice day everyone! Yours, Balcony Team

Hello there everyone! Patch 1.21 is nearing completion and will bring small fixes and new features to Balrum including

Achievements!

We have been looking at what our players would like to see added to the game and 1.21 will introduce new features suggested by our community. Thank you all for your great suggestions! If everything goes well the patch will be out very soon! (hopefully a few days from now) Have a nice day everyone! Yours, Balcony Team

Hello there everyone! Version 1.12 is here. It fixes a few issues and adds a new config.xml switch for Linux users. Changes: -The "crystal golem's cave" puzzle is now resettable with a switch near their cave. -Linux users can now disable the forced window mode startup. Please see the config.xml (DisableFullscreenStartupOnLinux) Fixes: -On rare occasions the French translation mod was selected automatically by the engine but the text remained English. Thank you for your support! Yours, Balcony Team

Hello there everyone! Version 1.12 is here. It fixes a few issues and adds a new config.xml switch for Linux users. Changes: -The "crystal golem's cave" puzzle is now resettable with a switch near their cave. -Linux users can now disable the forced window mode startup. Please see the config.xml (DisableFullscreenStartupOnLinux) Fixes: -On rare occasions the French translation mod was selected automatically by the engine but the text remained English. Thank you for your support! Yours, Balcony Team

Hello there everyone! Version 1.1 is here with fixes and translation support! From now on you will be able to play the game with unofficial community made translation mods. Please note that these translations are not official translations. They are community made translation mods. There is a Steam Discussion about the available community translations. We will update that Discussion with new translations as they become available. http://steamcommunity.com/app/424250/discussions/0/364040166672294575/ At the moment we received a link to the French translation: -https://mon-partage.fr/f/XMgjdwFk/ We know about a Russian translation but we haven't received a link to the files. If you create a new translation please send us a link to it so we can add it to the available translations list. (our email: [email protected])

How to install translation mods:

Extract the downloaded translation files. Copy all files into the appropriate files/dialogs/* folder. If you did everything correctly the folder you just copied files in should look similar to the files/dialogs/en folder. Launch the game and you should be able to select the new language at the Main Menu. (lower right corner) Fixes: -Honey and Milk won't allow you to exceed the maximum amount of hunger. -When creating Ancient Linen armours the selectable icons are now fixed! For translators: The “after_release.xml” file has changed. A huge thank you for our great community for their hard work! Thank you very much guys! Have a nice day! Yours, Balcony Team

Hello there everyone! Version 1.1 is here with fixes and translation support! From now on you will be able to play the game with unofficial community made translation mods. Please note that these translations are not official translations. They are community made translation mods. There is a Steam Discussion about the available community translations. We will update that Discussion with new translations as they become available. http://steamcommunity.com/app/424250/discussions/0/364040166672294575/ At the moment we received a link to the French translation: -https://mon-partage.fr/f/XMgjdwFk/ We know about a Russian translation but we haven't received a link to the files. If you create a new translation please send us a link to it so we can add it to the available translations list. (our email: [email protected])

How to install translation mods:

Extract the downloaded translation files. Copy all files into the appropriate files/dialogs/* folder. If you did everything correctly the folder you just copied files in should look similar to the files/dialogs/en folder. Launch the game and you should be able to select the new language at the Main Menu. (lower right corner) Fixes: -Honey and Milk won't allow you to exceed the maximum amount of hunger. -When creating Ancient Linen armours the selectable icons are now fixed! For translators: The “after_release.xml” file has changed. A huge thank you for our great community for their hard work! Thank you very much guys! Have a nice day! Yours, Balcony Team

Hello there everyone! We are back with a small update. Language mods support is almost ready! Pretty much everything is working. We are waiting for the translation mod teams to finish so we can add a GUI option for language selection. Some of you reported that you are having problems running Balrum when certain Overlay Programs (fps, temperature) are running. We also recieved reports informing us that the AMD Gaming Evolved (overlay) program can interfere with Balrum. Please disable these programs and check if it solved your problems. Fixes: -A more appropriate floating text will tell you about the requirements to use special books which grant you a skill. -Sometimes wrong LP and Thaler costs were displayed in the Talking Panel. Features: -Added support for additional languages font kerning. (translators should notice a difference in font kerning) To translators. These files changed: gui/after_release.xml gui/floating_texts.xml Thank you for your support everyone! Have a nice day! Yours, Balcony Team

Hello there everyone! We are back with a small update. Language mods support is almost ready! Pretty much everything is working. We are waiting for the translation mod teams to finish so we can add a GUI option for language selection. Some of you reported that you are having problems running Balrum when certain Overlay Programs (fps, temperature) are running. We also recieved reports informing us that the AMD Gaming Evolved (overlay) program can interfere with Balrum. Please disable these programs and check if it solved your problems. Fixes: -A more appropriate floating text will tell you about the requirements to use special books which grant you a skill. -Sometimes wrong LP and Thaler costs were displayed in the Talking Panel. Features: -Added support for additional languages font kerning. (translators should notice a difference in font kerning) To translators. These files changed: gui/after_release.xml gui/floating_texts.xml Thank you for your support everyone! Have a nice day! Yours, Balcony Team