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Travellers of the Desert,
The desert winds have once again turned toward the East. We're delighted to announce that Sands of Salzaar has been invited to join 2026 Eastern Martial Artists Week.
From the sands of Salzaar to the flashing blades of the Jianghu, the spirit of the Xia knows no borders.
Meanwhile, we've been hard at work on the v1.3 update, aiming to bring new systems into the game and make both its content and mechanics richer. It's all still in development and testing for now — but the moment there's news to share, you'll be the first to hear it.
Until we meet again in the desert!
\ Faction siege notifications have been moved to the side panel and no longer appear as interruptive pop-ups.
\ Fixed an issue where event flags could prevent Arcane skills from being learned. Flags are now set after the event finishes.
\ Fixed a issue with the Berserker's Path of Awakening skill tab.
\ Fixed an issue where the Berserker's Awakening questline would not trigger correctly.
\ Fixed an issue where NPC weapons would not update automatically.
\ Fixed a compatibility issue that prevented some mods from modifying character attributes.
\ Fixed an issue where asynchronous loading could cause some character models to become stuck on screen.
\ Fixed an issue where follower count settings could fail to apply.
Hi everyone!
With the Year of the Horse fast approaching, we would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year in advance.
Sands of Salzaar will be participating in the Year of the Horse Spring Sale! From February 12 to February 26, the base game will be available at a 60% discount (matching its historical low), and all DLCs will be 50% off.
This story follows the Ursine tribe, whose future hangs by a thread after they are brutalized by a force even more savage than their own.
Now, as fate takes a sudden, violent turn, will he double down on this path, or will he seek a different way forward?
Added a brand-new in-party character interaction feature, giving heroes with different personalities and backgrounds completely new ways to converse.
Each character has their own story, and their relationships with one another are intricate. You can uncover these connections through their dialogues.
Previously, only the most renowned heroes had recorded stories. Now, many of the less important characters have their own backgrounds and personalities.
They too help bring life and color to the vast sands.
Previously, attack speed only affected the interval between your character's attacks.
We improved attack speed in a previous version, enabling it to affect heroes' basic attacks.
This time, we've taken it further: attack speed now affects most skills' fore- and backswing times as well as channeling durations.
We previously made it compatible with heroes; now, troops benefit from it too!
When using keyboard controls, movement is handled via WASD (or custom keybinds), while basic attacks are performed in place using the mouse or a bound key.
This can be enabled in the Hotkey Settings.
In the meantime, don't miss our bundle with Amazing Cultivation Simulator. You can grab both games with an extra 10% discount—the perfect chance to complete your collection!
The full patchnotes are as follows:
\ Added a story arc for Berserkers, featuring three distinct story paths and all-new skill trees.
\ Added a brand-new in-party character interaction feature, giving heroes with different personalities and backgrounds completely new ways to converse.
\ Added over a hundred random backstories and dialogues for procedurally generated characters.
\ Added attack speed and reworked hundreds of skill effects. The basic attacks of heroes and troops are now affected by attack speed.
\ Added a keyboard control mode for combat on PC. This can be enabled in the Hotkey Settings.
\ Greatly improved map loading times for much faster map switching. (Performance tests show roughly a tenfold improvement.)
\ Reworked the top UI information display to improve readability when obtaining large amounts of items.
\ Improved world map unit behavior logic, improving smoothness in late-game saves.
\ Improved the world map unit loading algorithm, reducing lag when large numbers of units appear.
\ Reworked the character pop-up dialogue UI, improving clarity and readability.
\ Restructured pathfinding and collision algorithms. This should fix issues where troops got stuck in walls and resolve other pathfinding problems.
\ Improved aura trigger checks for the user, which should reduce lag.
\ You can now rename randomized characters in the Intel menu.
\ Added a toggle for combat damage numbers in the settings, with options to customize which units' damage numbers are displayed.
\ Added a Screen Shake toggle, available under Settings.
\ The Berserker's Outburst (++++) can now be cancelled manually.
\ Fixed a bug where missing character attribute fields could prevent battles from starting, and then ultimately the game crashing.
\ Fixed an issue preventing the Tavern Girl from triggering quest prompts, which affected the Spiritmancer and Bounty Hunter main quests, among others.
\ Fixed an issue where scroll dialogues were misaligned on PC at non-16:9 resolutions.
\ Fixed a bug where character entries could appear blank when joining a faction.
\ Fixed a bug where some character action sets (e.g., hammer, harp, dual blades) lacked transition animations.
\ Fixed an issue causing skill tree lines to render incorrectly when node order was inconsistent.
\ Fixed an issue preventing auto-equipment updates for characters able to wield all weapon types.
\ Improved an issue where the Mod Editor UI could behave incorrectly after reloading mods.
\ Increased the amount of debug information cached in the Mod Editor UI.
\ Attempted to fix a crash that could occur when logs were refreshed via the console.
\ Now you can define how much each point in Strength, Agility, Stamina, or Spirit increases the corresponding character attributes in the initial settings.
\ Reworked the value configurations for Block, Critical Hit, and Dodge, allowing for more flexible attribute effect tuning.
\ Added new trigger types for character attribute fields.
place_add_stat_leader: Adds specified attributes to a location if the character is the location's faction leader.
place_add_stat_lord: Adds specified attributes to a location if the character is the location's Sultan.
\ Added a character attribute field \ (never rebel), which controls whether an NPC can leave a faction or rebel due to low loyalty.
\ Added columns for randomly bound dialogues and randomly bound tags in the character template table, used to control background-matching dialogue and personality generation.
\ Added new built-in character attribute fields:
bf_无视敌兵碰撞: Ignore collisions with enemy troops.
bf_无视敌将碰撞: Ignore collisions with enemy heroes.
bf_无视己兵碰撞: Ignore collisions with friendly troops.
bf_无视己将碰撞: Ignore collisions with friendly heroes.
\ Added new in-combat queries:
\: Returns the remaining duration of the specified BUFF_ID on the current source object. Minimum value is 0. Supports decimals. Buffs with infinite duration return 999999.
\: Returns the remaining duration of the specified BUFF_ID on the current source object, same as this_buff_time, but as an integer rounded up.
\: Returns the remaining duration of the specified BUFF_ID on the current target object. Minimum value is 0. Supports decimals. Buffs with infinite duration return 999999.
\: Returns the remaining duration of the specified BUFF_ID on the current target object, same as aim_buff_time, but as an integer rounded up.
\ Added skill tag \, which controls whether the skill can be used while silenced. Note: Skills previously using the attribute \ need to be migrated to use this tag.
\ Added channeling and casting action settings in the skill table. Prefix an action with a half-width exclamation mark "!" to allow its casting speed to be affected by attack speed (shortened or lengthened).
\ Added combat command settings in the skill table. Prefix a skill command time with a half-width exclamation mark "!" to allow its cast time to scale with attack speed.
\ Added new combat commands: block_act_atk_rat, play_sk_act_atk_rat, timeline_atk_rat, and timeline_anim_atk_rat.
These are variants of the block_act, play_sk_act, timeline, and timeline_anim commands, allowing bind duration, action playback speed, and skill command speed to scale with attack speed.
Greetings, Travelers of the Great Desert!
We are excited to announce a new collaboration bundle with Windstop Strategy! Through this bundle, you can grab both Sands of Salzaar and Windstop Strategy at a 10% discount!
This is a "Complete the Set" bundle, meaning if you already own one of the games, you can still use the bundle to pick up the other title at the same discounted price.
Sands of Salzaar is a fantastical tale of an exotic land. Bringing you to an exotic desert where you’ll recruit, train, and guide your troops into battle against rival cities and factions. Embark on an adventure that’s uniquely yours; Customizable characters, professions, and factions. The land is filled with a variety of hidden secrets.
Windstop Strategy is a region-suppressing strategy RPG. The young master of Hu Yan Men, SITU's peaceful life has been overturned, by a sudden massacre. As the new leader of Hu Yan Men, can you bring glory back and dominate the Windstop Valley？
Travelers of the Desert,
We’ve received your reports about the building upgrade issue — and here comes the fix!
This update also adds a handy new Quick Sell feature to make trading smoother.
Huge thanks to everyone who took the time to report these issues to us!
Fixed a bug that caused abnormal building upgrades.
Added a Quick Sell feature to the selling interface.
Fixed a bug that caused coloring issues.
Travelers of the desert,
Hi! Steam Autumn Sale is coming, and our base game is having a 60% off discount. Also, DLC4 is having a new historically low price at 50% off.
We've also launched a new patch, and here the patchnotes:
A brand-new building interface: the entire building panel has been redesigned with improved information display.
Dual skill bar: players can set up two different skill layouts and switch between them at any time during combat.
New capture toggle: a setting option to enable or disable the capture feature.
Key mapping: supports freely adjusting button positions on mobile devices.
Hello travelers of the desert,
Sands of Salzaar is joining the Steam Publisher Sale by XD, and a limited-time discount across all platforms is just around the corner! The sale will run from September 15 to October 6 (10 AM PT). On Steam, the base game will be 60% off, and our DLC Land of the Eclipse will hit a brand-new historic low at 50% off.
We’re also teaming up with Three Kingdoms Mushouden to bring you the “Hero of Chaos” bundle, available at an additional 10% discount. We hope y'all will enjoy carving out your own legend in these turbulent times.
Meanwhile, we’ve been cooking on some new content for Sands of Salzaar. Development and planning still need a bit more time, but we’ll be sharing updates as soon as we can!
\ Increased the limit on auto-generated random NPCs and added an option to toggle random NPC generation. This can be adjusted in Settings → Game.
\ Added an option to change the game difficulty in Settings → Game.
\ Resolved a bug where entering battle with more than 255 combat skills caused the game to freeze.
\ Fixed a bug where persuading a captive with a full party could cause the captive to disappear.
\ Fixed an issue where recruited characters could join the team in a broken or glitched state.
\ The in-game configuration file IntvalConfigs.xlsx is now re-enabled, allowing mods to add options to the Settings menu.
\ Fixed a bug where players would sometimes enter Tournament matches with troops.
\ Improved the layout of the Land of the Eclipse's equipment forging interface.
\ Adjusted difficulty selection so the lowest difficulty now starts at Normal.
\ Reduced the materials required to forge advanced equipment.
\ Increased drop rates for Land of the Eclipse materials, with higher difficulties yielding more rewards.
\ Fixed a bug where loading a save after challenging a Land of the Eclipse boss could cause the boss to appear with zero HP and MP.
\ Fixed a bug where defeating Land of the Eclipse bosses using special mechanics could prevent normal loot drops.
\ Fixed a rare bug that caused heir character models to have incorrect genders.
\ Fixed a bug where heir characters could spawn in the wrong location when entering the sandbox world.
Dear Desert Travelers,
In this update, we’re introducing a new feature: randomly generated NPCs, along with new talents related to captives.
Once the “Execution” feature is enabled and the game progresses, players who prefer a swift and decisive approach may find that some factions don’t even have anybody left. To prevent this situation, we’ve designed a new automatic NPC generation system. The generated NPCs will come with different skillsets and outfits based on the starting region of their faction.
As the months tick by, the world will once again bustle with life no matter how many NPCs you execute. However, newly generated NPCs are based on models and might only have access to a few set talents and skill pages, meaning that they'll be inferior to the original NPCs.
Added new talents related to Captives.
Added a character creation system that populates different regions and factions with randomly generated NPCs.
Added a character avatar coloring system, allowing color customization for certain components:
Male avatars: two new dyeable hair styles and two dyeable clothing items.
Female avatars: one new dyeable hair style and two dyeable clothing items.
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