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Hello everyone,
As we pass the first week since release, I am already working on the next major addition to Grim Reach Idle.
My goal is to give the game its own identity among idle RPGs. New Haven will not be the only feature that defines Grim Reach Idle, but it will be an important step toward giving the game more personality and making its world feel truly connected.
Before getting into the details, I want to thank everyone who has supported the Early Access launch, left a review, or submitted bug reports through the in-game tool. I often wish I could respond to every report personally and thank you directly.
Feedback is one of the most valuable resources an indie developer can receive, so please keep it coming. You are also welcome to submit improvement ideas and other suggestions through the in-game “Report Bug” feature.
Patch 0.3.0 will introduce:
The world of Grim Reach Idle is a dark and unforgiving place. Adventurers need somewhere they can recover, prepare their equipment, trade, store their belongings, and craft the supplies required for the journey ahead.
New Haven will become that place.
You will begin with little more than a humble hut. As you progress through the game, you will construct new buildings across the settlement. Each building provides permanent passive benefits that support your adventures throughout the rest of the game.
Every building has three upgrade tiers, with increasingly demanding construction costs and more powerful effects.
The Watchtower is one example. Each upgrade extends the maximum duration of your offline progress: (Tier 1 Watchtower)
Tier 1: +1 hour
Tier 2: +2 hours
Tier 3: +3 hours
At Tier 3, the Watchtower therefore allows you to accumulate three additional hours of offline progress.
New Haven is also designed to connect the game’s different systems more closely.
Woodcutting, for example, is being expanded with new materials used to create Building Supplies of different tiers. These supplies are required to construct and upgrade buildings throughout the settlement.
However, not every construction material can be gathered through skills alone. Some resources may only be obtained as enemy drops, giving you additional reasons to venture out, defeat specific opponents, and gather everything New Haven needs to grow.
The camp will offer two different views:
A List View for quick and convenient management
A Map View where you can watch your settlement develop
The Map View includes dedicated models for the camp itself and all 12 buildable structures—each represented across all three upgrade tiers.
To make New Haven feel more alive, the map also features a day-and-night cycle based on your local time. When night falls, every building model is replaced by its individually illuminated nighttime version.
I currently expect to need another three to four days to finish the update, polish the remaining elements, and ensure that New Haven integrates smoothly with the game’s existing systems.
I hope you enjoyed this first look at what is coming in Patch 0.3.0. Thank you again for your support, your reviews, and all the feedback you continue to send my way.
Feel free to share your thoughts here, in the forums, or through the in-game reporting tool.
— Adhavar
• Combat Queue — Fights now queue like everything else: pick 1×, 25×, 50×, ∞ or any custom number of kills, chain them with your crafting plans, and jump urgent fights to the front with Shift-click. Dying pauses the queue until you resume.
• Mass Sell — Tick items in the shop and sell them in one click, with a stack slider and a single gold total. No more one-by-one selling.
• Champion Victory Ceremony — Beating an elite now ends in a proper victory moment with your loot laid out. The elite tracker is a floating mini-window you can drag and collapse.
• Combat Log Filters & Resizing — Filter the log by category (your hits, enemy hits, healing, loot, XP and more) and freely resize the log and loadout panels.
• Character Screen Tabs — Equipment and Stats are now full-height tabs: a bigger equipment view and a clean, grouped stats ledger with proper tooltips.
• Readable Dungeon Cards — Every dungeon now shows its zone, a recommended combat level, and the actual creature levels inside. No more guessing.
• Blood Moon Rework — The Saturday world blessing is now a jackpot: every kill has a 15% chance to drop its ENTIRE loot twice, legendaries included.
• New Look — New game logo and application icon.
• Dungeons are no longer level-locked. Only story progress gates them — the level on the card is a recommendation. The creatures inside are as deadly as ever; enter early at your own risk.
• Loot worth fighting for — Elite unique drops now match the level of their zones, high-level zones drop modern crafting materials, and dungeon clears can award on-level armor. Anything you already wear stays wearable.
• Healing rebalanced — Potions now scale meaningfully tier by tier, and all 46 foods have their own identity instead of healing nearly the same.
• Thieving is honest — Cards show your real success chance with a full breakdown, and loot odds are clearly marked "on success".
• Bank overhaul — Whole stacks move together when dragging, free quantity input, and a clear warning when your bags are full.
• Interface polish everywhere — New button set across the whole game, warmer wood-and-leather panels, bigger headers, unified typography, full keyboard navigation, and redesigned monster cards with grounded creatures and cleaner layouts.
• Performance — Significantly higher FPS in combat (especially on ultrawide screens) and a much cheaper combat log.
• Monster cards no longer clip their name or hide drop icons behind the quantity buttons.
• Character stats no longer overlap at 1080p, and are no longer tiny on ultrawide screens.
• Elite portraits are consistent between the selection card and the battle screen.
• The floating champion window no longer sticks to your mouse.
• Card artwork no longer zooms in awkwardly — you see the full scene, with the creature standing at the bottom edge.
• Dozens of smaller consistency fixes across menus, modals, and tooltips.
See you in the Reach. More is already in the works.
TL;DR
• Champions of the Reach: 28 named elite monsters now roam the world, each with a shot at its own personal unique item. Based on random encounter timers for each zone.
• Blessings of the Reach: a different world-wide bonus every weekday, shown right in the sidebar.
• 14 new weapon drops across all level bands. Spears, two-handers, war axes, staves, scepters, and more.
• Action Queue: chain up activities (e.g. "100x copper, then 100x iron") and your character works through them, even offline.
• Mailbox: a full inventory or bank no longer blocks progress, overflow is saved for later.
• Dozens of bug fixes, including missing backgrounds on the default Steam install path.
• Named elite "Champions" now roam the world on a per-zone schedule, deliberately staggered so activity drifts between zones. A corner alert ("A powerful enemy has been sighted in...") jumps you straight there, the zone gets a pulsing sword banner, and the champion's card sits at the top of the zone with a live countdown — it sticks around for 15 minutes, max.
• Champions carry titles ("Greytooth the Famished"), hit noticeably harder than regular monsters, but stay soloable in zone-appropriate gear. Rewards: a fat material bundle, a big boost to that zone's chase-item odds, and a 20% shot at the champion's personal unique — 28 new named items with their own effects, from Hungerfang (heals you on kill) to the Hollowveil Locket (converts damage into your own ward). Every drop is individually rolled. New characters meet their first champion within roughly 20 minutes, and champions only spawn while you're actively playing — going offline costs you nothing.
• The Hunt Package builds five systems on top of Champions: Brenna's Bounty Board (Slayer page) shows live champion locations with countdowns and a jump button — every champion kill pays 1 bounty token. Traces & Omens flash a subtle sign on the zone map shortly before a spawn. Blessing synergy: Blood Moon raises champion unique odds from 20% to 25%, Wild Hunt shortens their respawn. The new Champion Codex (Bestiary) tracks sightings, kills, uniques, and fastest kill per champion — unseen ones show as "???". Your first champion kill and first unique find each deliver a letter from Brenna to your mailbox.
• Your very first equipment drop on a new save is now guaranteed to roll a suffix, so you see the item-instance system in your first few minutes instead of hour ten.
• Blessings of the Reach: the sidebar now shows a card for today's active world blessing. Every weekday brings its own mild bonus — Blood Moon (+15% beast loot, Sat), Ashfall (+15% gathering speed, Tue), Deadstill (+10% crafting speed, Wed), Rotmist (+10% rare drop chance, Sun), Foghold (+10% XP, Mon), Reach's Greed (+20% gold, Thu), Wild Hunt (+10% attack speed, Fri). It changes at local midnight; hover or click for flavor text, the exact effect, and a countdown.
• NPCs now comment on what's happening in the world — the Steward, the Merchant, Brenna, and the Warden react to today's blessing, an active champion, your death streak, or your Slayer streak.
• The Warden now speaks up at two of the most-seen moments: the offline report opens with a line about what really happened while you were away, and the death popup logs your death into the chronicle by enemy family.
• Equipment now has a third tool slot, so pickaxe, axe, and fishing rod/sickle can all stay equipped at once.
• Monster names in the zone overview are now color-coded by predicted difficulty (grey = no XP, green/yellow/orange/red), with a hover legend. The overview also shows 4 monster cards per row instead of 2.
• Action Queue: chain activities with target amounts and your character works through them automatically, even offline. Every gathering/crafting card now has a 1x/25x/50x/infinite grid that stacks straight into the queue. Right-click the running action to stop it.
• New Mailbox (4th menu entry, with a counter badge): if your inventory or bank fills up while gathering, crafting, or fighting, the overflow now goes to the mailbox instead of being lost.
• Crafting menus now start collapsed, with a search bar that finds recipes instantly. The inventory header got a full-width search, scaling category chips, and sort icons in one row.
• Item Wiki sources are now clickable — a recipe jumps to its skill page, a monster jumps to its zone and flashes the monster card.
• Enemy wards are readable now: a visible shield bar, "Absorbed" instead of a confusing "0", and a tooltip explaining that warded enemies take +20% damage from poison, bleed, and burn.
• Attribute cards on the character sheet explain what each stat does on hover, and guardian/tutorial boxes are noticeably bigger.
• Players updating from the previous version get a short "What's New" tour.
• Download size cut from ~684 MB to ~130 MB — the entire art pipeline moved to modern WebP (and 7 bronze armor pieces that had shown as white boxes since launch are fixed).
• Save loading after time away: 14.5s down to 1.5s. Even a full 8-hour offline catch-up now loads in under 2 seconds instead of freezing the game.
• Combat animations now run on the GPU — no more micro-stutter from health bars and damage numbers. The Achievements page opens in 0.2s instead of 0.9s.
• The main menu now idles at effectively zero CPU cost, and the game window only appears once the first frame is ready instead of flashing up blank.
• Fixed missing background images on many installs — backgrounds could vanish entirely when the game was installed to a path containing parentheses, including the default Steam path (C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Steam). This likely affected the majority of Steam players.
• The second ring slot can now be filled by drag-and-drop.
• Crafted bows are now grouped under their wood tier, and elemental weapon materials were renamed from "...rune" to "...shard" so they're no longer confused with enchanting runes.
• Fixed a wand + off-hand focus exploit: all wands are now consistently two-handed; existing saves are cleaned up automatically.
• Auto-Eat now switches to your next available food when the selected one runs out mid-fight, and Auto-Potion no longer chain-drinks healing potions at full HP.
• Combat pets now only drop for their matching combat style, fixing the first pet dropping roughly 7x too often.
• The "New" marker on items now only fires for genuinely new acquisitions.
• Attribute descriptions corrected to match what stats actually do.
If you run into anything weird after the update, tell us — Steam discussions, a review, wherever. Patch #1 was built from your reports. Patch #2 will be too.
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