Milky Way Idle news & patch notes

Added 9 permanent Labyrinth Shop buff upgrades.

Scroll buffs no longer function inside the Labyrinth.

Scrolls can now be decomposed into 5 Labyrinth Tokens with Alchemy.

Labyrinth full automation upgrade limit increased from 12 to 15.

Labyrinth now requires a total level of 1000+ to enter. Existing characters who have entered labyrinth previously are unaffected.

Travel time between rooms reduced from 3s to 1s.

Rush to exit now takes a more optimal route that also tries to maximize the number of visible rooms revealed.

Enhancing rooms now have a fixed target of +5, making difficulty consistent with other skilling rooms.

Labyrinth item and XP gains are now included in offline progress tracking.

Loot tracker for Labyrinth condensed to 1 row per full run.

"Dungeon Refiner" achievement renamed to "Refiner" and now includes labyrinth items. (Anyone who qualifies will be granted the achievement.)

Mimic minimum attack interval lowered from 1s to 0.5s, allowing Bulwark to be more effective against it.

Steam Client:

Redesigned the built-in extension manager for installing and updating userscripts. It should support all browser extensions directly now.

Note: You have to reinstall existing extensions due to format changes. Your previous scripts can still be found under %APPDATA%\\milky-way-idle\\scripts\\ if you need to reference them.

Steam client remembers window position and size across restarts.

Fixed a rare issue where some players could see a white screen due to an anti-virus or computer security policy false positive.

Rebalance:

Sinister Cape: Defensive Damage 6% added.

Anchorbound Plate Body: Defensive Damage 6% added.

Anchorbound Plate Legs: Defensive Damage 5% added.

Fighter Necklace: Defensive Damage 4% added.

Philosopher's Necklace: Defensive Damage 4% added.

Sundering Crossbow: Ranged Accuracy increased from 145% to 160%, Ranged Damage increased from 118% to 120%.

Soul Hunter Crossbow: Ranged Accuracy increased from 132% to 140%.

QOL:

The game can be added to the home screen and launched like an app.

Allow queuing Party Ready multiple times for certain rare use cases.

Zero-cooldown abilities are now automatically placed in the last ability slot in battle so they don't block other abilities if positioned incorrectly.

UI:

Added a global Help chat channel.

Misclick Warnings: warns if the protection item used is priced much higher than the cheapest valid option, and warns if coinifying an expensive item at a loss.

Queueing actions will no longer open the full action list (which could get in the way).

Other:

Added Rule 2.4 forbidding coordinated market manipulation (such as pump and dump schemes).

Expanded FAQ in Game Guide with a Support section and additional questions.

Bug Fix:

Defensive damage from Defense Coffee now updates on the first battle instead of the second.

Correctly validate whether the character has enough items to initiate enhancing when the protection item and the cost item are the same.

Header success rate display now correctly reads 100% when using Philosopher's Mirror.

Personal buff expiration no longer briefly displays 0s for a few extra minutes.

Can now add labyrinth to the action queue when only party combat is running.

The Labyrinth consists of floors of skilling and combat challenges with increasing difficulty. Navigate through a grid of rooms to progress, collect loot, and advance to deeper floors.

Each floor contains skilling challenges, combat encounters, treasure rooms, and a floor exit.

Bring supplies into each run: Torches, Shrouds, Beacons, and Crates. Each comes in three tiers.

Earn Labyrinth Tokens, Purdora's Boxes, and Labyrinth Refinement Chests. Rewards increase with floor depth. Spend tokens in the Labyrinth Shop on upgrades and unique items.

Item rewards include: 4 Skilling Capes, 3 Combat Boots, and Seals which is a new type of item that grant timed personal buffs.

Automation system with per-room loadouts, skip thresholds, and full auto-pathing.

4 new achievements related to the Labyrinth. Achievement tier buffs will require the completion of newly added achievements, although they should not be too difficult for those who have the rest of the tier completed.

New collection items and bestiary entries for labyrinth monsters and items.

Labyrinth points and labyrinth depth leaderboard.

See the Game Guide for more details.

Seasonal:

New Spring Festival seasonal cosmetics: chat icon, avatar, and avatar outfit.

QOL:

Browser notifications for various events. Configurable in Settings. (experimental)

Allow "Start Now" to optionally insert actions to the front of the action queue instead of replacing it. Enable this in Settings -> Game.

Queue Party Ready can now be queued after solo actions, so you can automatically return to party combat without being present.

Unrefine alchemy action: converts refined equipment back to its base version, preserving enhancement level and returning half of the refinement shards.

Party combat experience debuff now requires a minimum of 10 level gap before it can take effect. This prevents low level players partying together from being debuffed.

Increased the number of buyable loadout slots by 10.

UI:

Special chat icons now display in most places with character names, not only in chat.

Level up messages in general chat now only show for level 150+ or TL2000+, as lower level messages were too spammy.

Other:

Creator code program: revenue share for partnered content creators. If you are a content creator and are interested in promoting the game, email [email protected] or contact us on Discord.

Hourly marketplace.json API data now includes volume and average price.

Achievements:

73 Achievements spanning 6 tiers of difficulty.

Completing each tier grants permanent buffs.

Achievements are synced with Steam achievements when playing from Steam client.

View other players' achievements on their profile.

Most achievements are not retroactive and must be earned again.

Ironcow-only: Elite and Champion tier item-related achievements will be retroactive if you have earned the item previously.

Collection:

Track all items you have collected throughout your adventure.

Collecting 1, 10, 100, 1K, 10K, etc of each item grants increasing collect points.

Earn milestone rewards based on collection points.

Collection progress is displayed on leaderboards.

Share collected items in chat by linking them.

Marketplace and General Shop purchased items do not count toward collection.

Task badges and back slot items owned will be retroactively added to your collection.

Ironcow-only: a number of rare items owned will be retroactively added to your collection.

Bestiary:

Track all monsters you have defeated.

Defeating 1, 10, 100, 1K, 10K, etc of each monster grants increasing bestiary points.

Earn milestone rewards based on bestiary points.

Bestiary progress is displayed on leaderboards.

Higher tier monsters count as 1 extra defeat per tier.

When in a party, bestiary credit is divided among party members.

Philosopher's Mirror: Allows merging equipment to enhance with 100% success. (ex: +13 item, +14 item, and Philosopher's Mirror -> +15 item)

Community buffs can now be purchased using supporter points.

QOL:

Loadouts are now editable - modify saved loadouts directly without recreating them.

Combat triggers can now be saved and loaded with combat loadouts.

Click your avatar in the top right corner for a quick menu for faster navigation.

Market listings now show all of your own listings even if they are below the top 20.

Added real-time market price warnings when creating listings significantly above estimated fair price. (experimental)

Added double confirmation for unreadying from party combat.

Bug Fix:

Fixed loadout visual bug incorrectly displaying missing item.

Fixed various localization and translation issues.

Other:

Custom cosmetic requests will no longer be available after end of the year.

Chat Report System: Players can now report rule-breaking messages in the chat.

1.1. Reports are sent to moderators for review and potential action.

1.2. Automod may be applied to messages that receive enough reports. Penalty can still be adjusted after manual review.

1.3. Sending correct reports will increase the weight of your future reports and incorrect reports will significantly reduce it.

You can now delete character in Settings.

Added special icons (Contributor, Bug Finder, etc) that can be granted to players for significant contributions. They will display as a second icon.

QOL:

You can now reorder action queues.

You can now link market listings in chat. This should improve trade chat experience with different languages.

Other:

Added official market data that can be accessed at https://www.milkywayidle.com/game_data/marketplace.json. This is updated every 6 hours (with some randomness and delay to prevent manipulation) and contains a snapshot of the top ask and bid prices for each item.

Removed @mod command from the chat as it is no longer needed.

Server optimizations to improve backend performance and support additional players.