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Changes
• Added two new quests. For the Jam! & Gilliver's Travels.
• Improved intro message.
• Fixed level up alerts showing lower values than you had.
• Removed the Forge stats Quality Equipped block.
• Pinned quests now say "Ready to turn in" rather than "Complete.
• Added an overlay when loading a map.
• Added a new Mix All Button.
Backend
• Updated A* to a newer version.
Hey everyone!
I figure it's about time to share the direction I see for Echoes of Vasteria moving forward.
Major Update: Gill and Barkley will receive minigames similar in scope to Forge and Cauldron.
Major Update: Flora and Tillman will receive a farming‑focused minigame (details still TBD).
With the holidays coming up and the offspring due in January, I’ll be taking a little time off. A ~3‑month window also gives me a proper testing period to make sure content is ready.
I’m also juggling multiple projects, and EoV alone isn’t covering the bills right now—so spacing out updates keeps things sustainable.
Barkley will spend his time carving sticks and logs into fishing poles. He plans to use additional leather you bring him to create waders and wrappings, and bones to carve into hooks.
Gill will continue spending his days fishing—but now you can help him.
You'll be able to:
Watch his level grow
Choose which rod he uses
Pick between feathers and hooks to target specific fish types (including rare ones)
I also plan to rework how buff slots unlock. I'm currently considering adding 1–2 new slots, unlocked through Gill’s fishing level.
The twins’ minigame is still early in concept, but here’s what’s set in stone:
It will be farming‑related.
The Alter Echo system will tie into their design—potentially letting you strengthen resource income, but with selective slots instead of passive production from every resource.
These changes should neatly tidy up the remaining unused resources, and I’m excited to bring my own little take on fishing to an idle game.
I've also started streaming again! You can find me at
every day for about 3 hours. Check the schedule, swing by, and say hi!
Thanks for sticking with me. More updates soon!
Balance
• Chests are now guaranteed to have at least one core in them.
• Chests have had their spawn distances overhauled.
Changes
• Cores no longer have a chance of rolling gear above their rarity. EG Nori no longer rolls above Nori.
• Slipstream has been changed to multiply gamespeed.
• Tasks now show their chance to spawn in the tasks screen.
• Tasks can be toggled on to double their weight which increases their chance to spawn.
• Seasonal leaderboard has been retired and replaced with a total tasks completed leaderboard.
• The base leaderboard now tracks the fastest completion of all the quests.
Minor changes
• Crystal Chest is now named Erif, Golden is now Dlog, Metal is Nori, and Wooden is Eznorb.
I am definitely looking for feedback on this one guys! Thanks to everyone who plays and enjoy!
Right so in an effort to communicate my intent better I have made some changes on the beta branch and they're starting to feel really good. Thus it is time to alert you all to some changes that are coming soon.
This buff has always felt wrong, it makes task speed buffs irrelivant and overall I never really had a solution until now.
Slipstream is now a game speed modifier, it still only lasts to a certain distance but that distance isn't affected by cauldron cards anymore. Instead they affect the amount speed increases.
It was never the intention that you could get vastium super early game within an hour. As such we have decided to remove the chance for cores to roll gear above the rarity of the core you are using.
This change makes gear feel far more rewarding for far longer and as a result I have been able to increase the caps on Damage, Armor, Health, Movespeed, and Regen
Originally I tried changing tasks to be unlocked via milestones. This change felt good to me but would have required a rather big overhaul to the quest system. And ultimately it felt very overwhelming and had a huge chance of letting down people who love the existing questlines.
I reverted this change and instead I have added the weights and some toggles to the tasks tab in the statistics tab.
The way this works is that when you toggle the task to an on state its weight (A kind of chance mechanic) is adjusted to be double what it was. Along with this almost every task in the game has received new weightings as they used to all be 1.
A major impact of this is that later tier resources will now feel a lot more rare.
Along with the doubler I have added rewards to certain threhsolds of task completion
10% bonus base weight when the toggle is on per tier. starting at 10 completions and again at 100, 1,000, 10,000 and 100,000. For a total of 50%
Example
A task with 1000 weight and 0 completions would have 1,000 weight with the toggle off and 2,000 with it on.
That same task with 100k completions would have 1,000 weight with the toggle off and 3,000 with it on. 1000+50% bonus = 1,500 then doubled for the 3,000.
Finally I am considering changing leaderboards to submit your time when completing the final quest in the game which I feel would be a far more accurate representation of someones skill. And actually represent a competitive edge to the game. Realistically the current rank system is a glorified stat tracker and I feel this could be a lot more fun for everyone involved.
I need a bit more time to test this so we're looking at at least another week before I release this update. I would love any feedback if you're willing to try out the beta branch. Beta has completely separate save files to live and your progress will not be at risk. It is also now available on all 3 platforms!
Thank you for taking the time to read this, and a huge thank you to everyone who has and will support this project by purchasing it. You've made it possible for me to keep doing what I love. Making games!
This is still very much WIP
I will still be making loads of changes next week including but not limited to overhauling how resources are shown in a run, updating the death screen with more information about your AE power increases. Also cooking up some other ideas but we will have to wait and see.
I would also just like to alert everyone to the fact that the Event map wasn't meant to be in the current live build. This means that leaderboards will be stuffed up by people who sit on that map infinitely gaining distance.
Not to worry though as in 1.3 leaderboards are changing to be the best kills you can get on the new Spooky map.
I will release this map during October properly but it's no longer slotted as a timed event it's just going to be baked into the lore of the world. Changes
• Cauldron no longer has taste/stop tasting buttons. Tasting will begin immediately on pressing Mix and will resume when restarting the game automatically untill you run out of tastes.
• Skills have been overhauled along with Milestones.
• Crit damage has been added to stat pool for gear, added as a new buff, and in milestones.
• New map: Spooky!
• You can now tap and hold, or right click a buff slot during a run to enable/disable echo casting.
• New seciton in the forge stats that shows your total gear stats.
Minor changes
• The forge now shows Quality with a new icon in the first line of pending/equipped.
• In forge stats the Quality section has been moved above the Salvage section.
• Name moved to the Rank tab in statistics.
Bugfixes
• Caleb now properly relinquishes tasks when he engages enemies.
Okay, so I have now struck off most htings on my todo list.
I've been thinking that I will aim to do 1 news post like this per week rather than random updates whenever I feel like it. It becomes a lot to manage and frequent almost daily updates to the game can feel quite chaotic as a player.
Moving forward I would like to move towards a more strucutred approach.
Weekly news posts.
Weekly bug fix patches.
Monthly content drops. (This could be a little flexible +- a week or so)
I've spent some time talking on discord a bunch with people about where I see Carl's trails going My thoughts are still really chaotic around this system and I need a fair bit more time to think on it. The most recent thinking is to manage a group of echoes as your autobattler army procedurally generated skill trees for the roguelite runs and then skill points earned as carl levels up that can be used for meta progression. Another thing we've discussed which everyone seems pretty keen on is
Additionally you might earn some legendary cards at a low chance with different cards being found in different maps these would be unique effects perhaps things like speeding up the forge or cauldron. In other news I have a really solid idea thanks to jesperds here in the steam community which would involve Barkley and Wren along with a new fletching mechanic. I am curious how many of you would like to see that implemented before the Reaper Trials? My other main task that I have at the moment is preparing all the achievements for Google and Apple platforms. I am considering ditching steam leaderboards for a cross platform alternative like Playfab or Unity Gaming Services, which would also open up an avenue for account based cloud saving where you could swap between mobile and pc at will. Anyway I will catch you all next week and in the comments. its time for dinner!
Hey guys, I just got back from my holiday. So as promised I'm writing up my plans and this post is here to keep you informed. Over the next week I will be working on improving a bunch of the existing systems. My todo list is a bit of a mess but some notible things include.
Adding Cow, Sheep, and pig to the game.
A new tooltip for the cauldron showing what cards do.
Fixing a bug where the category boarders don't show up consistently.
Improved echo targeting when you have multiple combat echoes.
Making Alter Echoes, Skills, and buffs accessible from a new dropdown whether you're in town or not.
While I do that I will be designing the next big mechanic for the game... This is still relatively up in the air and I will make various posts about its progress over the next couple of weeks. I think its high time EoV got some sort of skill tree. However I don't want to make some massively branching tree nor do I want it to just be some generic thing based on the existing gameplay. I intend to give Carl a big part in this story and my current thoughts are some kind of trial where you will take on waves of enemies perhaps with mini procedural skill trees. Each wave you beat would give you a new skill point for your overall tree which might affect Carls trials in a permenant way as well as provide more stats and abilities for your existing runs. As you can tell it hasn't got any real substance to it yet and it will likely change drastically as I iterate and try different things. I hope you're enjoying the game as much as I enjoy working on it! Many thanks for all the support you've shown over the last few days! Regards Matt.
I’ve heard a lot of feedback here on the steam community that the resets and issues with saves as well as the massive amount of content changes that have been happening are upsetting for a lot of you.
First of all I want to say my bad guys…
I’ve been really engrossed in expanding the game because I am actively playing it too. I got carried away and made too many changes too fast. I also lost track of time and thought that it had been longer than it had since I made the save announcement and kinda jumped the gun on releasing that patch.
If you still have your old save files you can jump on the unstable beta branch and import them there. If not or if you already restarted for the fresh experience please accept my apology with a promise to do better moving forwards. The save system is already orders of magnitude more stable than it was before and I will only keep improving on it. You can also use the import and export feature to back your saves up if you are concerned about it.
I will do better about communicating changes in advance moving forwards.
I am on vacation for the next couple of days then I am going to spend some time iterating on the existing content polishing it off a bunch.
Over on discord we are working on plans for a fletching system that Barkley and Wren will be part of. And potentially a skill tree system managed by the reaper for late game.
I do understand why it has felt like early access to some of you and as such I do want to clarify that I expect to continue adding content for the foreseeable future. This is after all my dream game and I want it to be perfect. So once again I am sorry and I will learn from your feedback, thank you for taking the time to be part of this journey.
• Chickens!
• I forgot to mention, cauldron is now locked behind some buff quests.
• If you have save migration issues, switch to the unstable branch on steam to import your old save.
• Extended the Cauldron window to be 6 slots wide.
• Animations now speed up with task speed!
• Added the next 5 tiers of Resource Tiers.
• Crafted items have no bonus, are set to max tier background and listed as "Crafted" in the items panel.
• Fixed a bug where dice wasn't working properly.
• 13 New Achievements.
• 34 New Quests.
• New Tiers for resources, low chance to tier up every time they're collected naturally.
• Updated the Quest window to be more clear.
• Echoes no longer expire while on task, instead they wait till their task is complete and then expire.
• Echo bars now show as Green till 50% health, Yellow till 10%, and Red till they expire.
• A Matter of Health, and Tracking Twins now award: 0.5% Increased Alter-Echo power. These are not retroactively granted, you will require a new save if you want these rewards and have completed the quest.
• The Resource Doubler buff is now a Resource Multiplier buff so that it can scale with quests!
• Added indicators to the pie charts to show that you can hover over them or tap on mobile.
• Major FPS performance improvements across the whole UI.
• The farmlands no longer have enemies or increase your reap distance when being reaped.
• Removed local avoidance from Caleb, echoes can now pass through him.
• The Vast One has given Carl the secrets to defense, he can now bypass enemies defense to reap them correctly for you.
• Vampirism has been changed. We no longer have lifesteal, instead its a percent regen buff. It has been renamed accordingly.
• Buffs now have their cooldowns cleared when a run is longer than their cooldown.
• The Cauldron now only accepts food items.
• The Cauldron now shows all available slots instead of only 6.
• 0 Count items are no longer selectable in the Cauldron.
• Removed Onion.
• Added collection completeion bonus to AE categories buffs the Echo Power in the AE screen.
• Adjusted the overall curve of stat distribution on gear. It will now be much harder to roll perfect Vastium gear. And we should see less of a jump in stats on the earlier gear.
• The forge now shows the tier of gear that you have equipped and roll.
• You can now upgrade cores in the forge.
• Forge Stats now shows a Quality section which works properly unlike the old score system which was comparing your best upgrade rather than the best it could be.
• The bonus damage from the dice now just shows on the value itself, removed (+{bonusValue}) from the end.
• Fixed an issue causing multiple save events to trigger in a single frame during AE collection.
• New enemy balance standard damage scaling for Skelly Mage and Large Slimes 5 damage per level.
• New enemy balance standard damage scaling for Skelly Archer and Medium Slimes 2.5 damage per level.
• New enemy balance standard damage scaling for Skelly Swordsman and Small Slimes 1 damage per level.
• Removed migration systems.
Next update I will be retiring the old save system and the migration logic will be going away, I suspect this will happen in the next 1-2 days. I am in the process of testing some enemy balance changes on the unstable branch. When they're ready I will push to live and anyone who hasn't played since before 1.2.1 will lose out on their save data from that time. The game will just create a new save.
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