The Doors of Trithius news & patch notes

Staffs

Continuing our rework of the weapon skill trees, this overhaul changes several abilities and introduces 8 new unlocks for the Staffs tree. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40847245/e0b8560396284dbaab77437f0581c859e578f8ad.png Staffs are designed to support a variety of builds: a glass-cannon mage, a front-line battle mage, or a pure bludgeon bonker. Our goal was to accentuate these styles and give you meaningful tactical decisions for each. The centerpiece of this update is a new mechanic: Movement Advantage. This is the first instance of a "turn action" bonus, which allows for multiple actions on the same turn. These bonuses appear in their own dedicated area above the hotbar on the right: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40847245/678900bf9474bcb4417c0f1fb4faa1ab451d4d1d.png As part of this shift, we've retired the "Retreat Chance" mechanic on Low Grip (which was always a bit clunky) and replaced it with Movement Advantage. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40847245/6ad8972aca7489faa6b3e8859a39cdf0a14377f1.png When attacking in the Low Grip stance, you now have a chance to gain a free tile of movement. You can use this to safely create distance after a strike (perfect for mages) or to aggressively close the gap for your next hit. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40847245/ea175be59e25bc315abe881bb2ddaf66a999a1c8.gif This mechanic also paves the way for some fancy stuff we have planned for upcoming magic skills. For now, it's a powerful tool that makes Staff combat feel significantly more fluid. We'll leave the rest of the tree for you to explore! Need to reset your skill tree? The Staff skill should reset automatically upon loading any v0.5.20 save, refunding your focus points. If necessary, you can manually reset this (or any other) skills using cheats:

• enable debug mode in Options -> General.
• open console commands using F8 or ~, and enter the command "skillreset " (e.g., "skillreset staffs") to refund your spent focus points.
• it's recommended to turn off debug mode afterwards.

Escaping Battles

In previous versions, once you joined a battle there was no escape: you either won or you died. My intention with this was to prevent cheesing by entering and exiting the same fight, and to ensure joining a battle was a commitment with some weight. As it turns out, being locked into battles is kind of lame! Feedback received. Now, you can step off the map edge to escape, assuming no enemies are in view. This also works for escaping normal wilderness tiles. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40847245/8d2363978f987c9edbc9e971d0910caaf8b0a127.gif

Furniture Rotation

All placeable furniture can now be rotated, using the key or right-click. Decorate your houses without limitation. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40847245/bfa79c3f5f81a488b1958e2ac52234283a3efa74.gif

Language Support

Added language support for 8 new languages:

• Polish
• Turkish
• Thai
• Ukrainian
• Italian
• Czech
• Hungarian
• Dutch

Other Changes

• Targeted melee and ranged ability ranges now scale based on the player's current attack range. In other words, weapons with +1 range, such as Zweihander, grant +1 range to targeted abilities.
• Status effect icons can now be hidden via right-click; hidden icons remain hidden until removed and can be made visible again by clicking the text at the top of the screen.
• Introduced smaller UI scaling options (down to x0.75) and smaller world scaling options (x0.75 and x0.5).
• Added a right-click context menu to lootable items, to allow bulk item operations ("Take 50", "Take 100", etc).
• Buying a house in a settlement now causes its prosperity to rise, with the amount of the increase depending on the cost of the house.
• Gremlin Researcher quest giver will now accept unidentified potions (if they are the correct type).
• Implemented background improvements in memory handling and caching to reduce garbage collection frequency (better performance).
• Limited the size of notification log text history to 100 messages to prevent excessive memory consumption.
• Ability cost reductions now apply to additional movement and attack costs incurred by specific toggle abilities like Low Grip.
• Updated the description of Overcome the Odds to better reflect that it cleanses all disabling effects, including sleep and various combat debuffs.
• Tumbling and Sprint tooltips now display their respective XP rewards.
• Item weight reduction is now capped at 100% to prevent equipped item weight from being calculated as negative.
• Added honey item to various shops and loot tables to make the Forest Tea medicine recipe more accessible.
• Black Bears now have a chance to spawn in forests and plains.

Bug Fixes

• Added a new Audio option "Audio Latency", along with audio changes to help address sound delay issues on Steam Deck (investigation into this issue is ongoing and will continue). For PC users it is recommended to use leave Audio Latency on the default setting.
• Fixed enchantments which apply a status effect missing an icon.
• Fixed some quest dialogue topics greyed out prematurely, despite player not having selected them.
• Fixed "Blurring Speed" and "Swift Economy" upgrade abilities not functioning while High Grip 2 or 3 were active.
• Fixed the starting town of Nerton occasionally having multiple bandit hunt quests simultaneously (these quests are intended to be spread out).
• Fixed a potential crash occurring when loading save games containing mutated creatures.
• Fixed selected text log group resetting to 'World' upon loading a save game.
• Fixed error screen text appearing as undisplayable characters for certain localizations, such as Chinese on Windows.
• Fixed defending faction always displaying as Verdant Guard in settlement defense battles due to incorrect guard captain spawning.
• Fixed Nyris Maw creature spawning partially out of bounds when its seed was adjacent to the map edge.
• Fixed Gremlin Terror quest dungeon name not matching the quest log description.
• Fixed game option changes sometimes triggering a "Restart Required" pop-up even when no changes were made.
• Fixed items stacking too eagerly in creature, NPC, and player inventories, which could result in lumping different item types together and losing unique items.
• Fixed player stats not updating immediately after enchanting an equipped item.
• Fixed dungeon floor visual artifacts in OpenGL mode that left black tile borders on certain floor types.
• Fixed Pyromancer and Fulminar backgrounds not receiving ascension checkmarks.
• Fixed invisible obstacles appearing in town squares where travelling merchant stalls were previously located.
• Fixed UI missing title text in overworld army battle infoboxes.
• Fixed legendary enchantments being usable without the Legendary Enchanting passive ability.
• Fixed "Requires N Focus Points" notification incorrectly displaying the required skill level instead of the focus point amount.
• Fixed ammo recovery triggering for abilities that do not use ammunition, such as Mark Prey or Renew.
• Fixed crossbow abilities failing to recover bolts, despite ammo recovery stat.
• Fixed player ability debuffs failing to apply if another debuff was already present on the target.
• Fixed Lingering Wounds not functioning with the Debilitated status applied by Debilitating Slash upgrades.
• Fixed error calculating estimate battle completion time when additional attackers joined an ongoing battles.
• Fixed supplies provided by Sagohai becoming unidentified upon interacting with a storage UI.
• Fixed pixel misalignment in ground rendering that caused visible lines depending on camera position.
• Fixed world rendering and centering not responding immediately to window resizing or maximization.
• Fixed killed creatures in some situations not being completely removed from the map, which could lead to various issues, particularly with summoned creatures.
• Fixed multistrike damage dealing full damage instead of partial damage to secondary targets.
• Fixed Flame Aura failing to log reflected fire damage and reflecting damage against non-melee attacks.
• Fixed ability XP rewards unintentionally lowering when an ability was upgraded.
• Fixed Cripple Defense not being unlockable after unlocking Exploit Weakness, despite the displayed upgrade path in the Maces skill tree.
• Fixed game getting stuck in a "moving" state when attempting to keyboard-move into an immobilized ally.
• Fixed potion Purifying Elixir unintentionally cleansing curses, marks, and item-based effects.
• Fixed mouse cursor not refreshing its icons when attack range was modified via keyboard hotkeys.
• Fixed town lamp posts spawning on top of other town features like job boards.
• Fixed path highlighting flickering during keyboard movement while the mouse stayed still on a UI element.
• Fixed unable to use keyboard shortcut keys to trigger actions while the action menu was open.
• Fixed ability Precision Flourish not requiring any weapon; it now requires a Blade type weapon (and works with any multi-target weapon ability usable with Blades).
• Fixed ability Noble Steel Resonance missing weapon requirement.

Coming Soon...

The coming new magic faction is well into in development and will be released as soon as possible. We have much planned for this year and thank you for your patience! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40847245/1390e31d28155d165a7a0621d56657249f47592e.png

Hotfix v0.6.0b

• Fixed workbenches and enchanting tables becoming invisible upon loading save games from previous versions.
• Fixed UI and World scale settings incorrectly defaulting to values other than x1.
• Fixed overworld quest markers vanishing on mouse-over.
• Fixed a potential crash occurring when exiting a map.

Hotfix v0.6.0c

• Fixed a potential crash occurring when Sand Wyrm used its area-of-effect ability near the map edge.

Hotfix v0.6.0d

• (likely) fixed sound effects becoming delayed over extended play sessions on Steam Deck OLED. This involves several changes to better sync audio buffer cycles with SteamOS's PipeWire audio timing.
• (likely) fixed a crash affecting macOS users. When newer Macs simulate Intel-based hardware repeated rapid audio requests would overtax the system's native memory allocator. To fix, we added smarter caching & reuse of audio resources to reduce hardware calls.

The Bludgeons & Maces skills have been reworked into a skill tree format with new abilities, icons, and improvements. Also included is a healthy serving of bug fixes. Save files from version 0.5.19 are compatible, however it is recommended to back up your saves just in case. If you'd like to continue playing 0.5.19, you can select it in steam options under betas.

Bludgeons

This rework introduces 9 new unlocks to the Bludgeons tree. As the parent tree to Maces, Staffs, and Flails, it was important to include bonuses that contribute to a variety of builds while maintaining thematic coherence. So, what defines the Bludgeons playstyle? While Blades focus on attrition through blood loss (DoTs) and avoidance (Parry/Dodge), Bludgeons excel at crowd control, defense reduction, and chaotic bursts of massive damage. Conceptually, the tree contains two distinct paths: On the left path, you will find debuffs and utility, such as "Head Trauma" and "Pest Control": The right path embraces chaos, featuring abilities like "Smasher's Delight" alongside a new set of passive upgrades that buff all stances. At the peak of the tree sits the capstone: Ripple Devastation. This grants a chance to trigger a cascading ripple on all Bludgeon abilities. The resulting "Vibration" is a powerful debuff that spreads to adjacent enemies, continuing the devastation even if you leave the fight. Need to reset your skill tree? The Bludgeons and Maces skills should reset automatically upon loading any v0.5.19 save, refunding your focus points. If necessary, you can manually reset these (or any other) skills using cheats:

• enable debug mode in Options -> General.
• open console commands using F8 or ~, and enter the command "skillreset " (e.g., "skillreset blades") to refund your spent focus points.
• it's recommended to turn off debug mode afterwards.

Maces

Alongside the Bludgeons rework, the Maces skill has been updated to a skill tree format. Maces are the kings of on-hit mayhem, capable of dealing double-hits with "The Beatdown" and gaining massive bonuses to stuns and cripples. 7 new ability upgrades have been added, reinforcing this theme while introducing new mechanics. Take Heroic Slam, for instance: Love sending enemies flying? -> Turn walls into AOE damage with Concussive Echo. Need to fuel for your follow-up? -> Refund energy for every enemy hit with Heroic Return. Likewise, the High Grip stance has been revitalized with two new upgrades, allowing you to specialize it into a defensive "Blurring Speed" buffer or a "Swift Economy" engine for relentless attacks. With a total of 58 focus points to spend, Maces is now one of the most expansive skill trees in the game. We'll let you discover the rest in-game!

Other Changes

• Updated Cave Wyrm attack sound to make it less annoying and sound more like water.
• Added sound effect for entering a stance: battle trance, fancy footwork, hold firm, mortar stance, unleash fury, street sweeper.
• The travel skill can now also be discovered by entering a desert biome.
• Introduced price scaling for the Chivalry rewards purchased from Altars of Ahnais. Prices now scale up based on the number of times this type of reward was already purchased. This prevents easily raising maximum health by a large number. When stacked, these purchases were more powerful than intended.
• Significantly increased chance of starting town Nerton being connected to the Greenhaven road network (in some cases, due how the map generates, it's still possible to start isolated).
• Changed ranged attack behavior: clicking to attack a distant enemy will now stop movement and attack as soon as the target enters range, rather than walking all the way to the target.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue related to how harvested plants display in Fog of War. Before the adjustment, when harvested plants or other map features were refreshed (becoming harvestable/ripe again) while in the fog of war, they would vanish from the map until rediscovered.
• Fixed energy bar in some circumstances not refreshing immediately.
• Fixed weight adjustment (e.g. from Grit enchantment) not shown in storage and shop UI.
• Fixed hotbar ability icon not refreshing when stance is deactivated.
• Fixed game crash due to destruction of larger multi-tile entities such as spider nests or FireStorms. In certain circumstances, these entities could spawn partially out of bounds of the map, which would cause a crash when the entity is later removed or destroyed.
• Fixed enchantment scrolls not being marked as studied when learning the enchantment.
• Fixed books in the inventory not marked as studied if the inventory pane was not open when a book study finishes.
• Fixed item Ayin's Plate having wrong art.
• Fixed numerous female armor items, displaying with male arm, instead of the intended female arm sprites.
• Fixed archery ability "Power Draw" not having any effect when Power Draw was already active. Before the fix, when you activated Power Draw with its effect already present from a previous usage, it did nothing, essentially wasting the activation. Now the effect's duration is refreshed.
• Fixed visual bug related to how leg armor was layered on top of other sprite components, causing the hands or arms to become obscured.
• Fixed upgraded renew ability not showing text "Cures Mutation" as intended (yes, Renew can cure mutation).
• Fixed quest "Blooming Dread" quest log displaying out of order.
• Fixed quest "Item Delivery" quest log missing the location name.
• Fixed quest "Advertising Assistance" quest log missing details for non-english languages.
• Fixed quest "Gremlin Terror" quest log missing the next entry after killing the Gremlin Chief.
• Fixed 6 different quests not showing in the quest log as completed, despite being non-repeatable (our intent is for dynamically generated quests which repeat to not show as completed, to avoid spamming the quest log with repeats).
• For quest "Oracle's Lure", added recently added items as another possible solution to the puzzle (since they made sense).
• Fixed upgrade "Unstoppable" not upgrading the base ability "Wild, Wild Swings" as intended, if the ability was upgraded.
• Fixed upgrade "Unstoppable" issue, causing the the damage received amount to calculate incorrectly.
• Fixed upgrade "Unstoppable" stacks accumulating indefinitely, carrying over stacks from previous battles.
• Fixed unable to sleep if player only had magic skills unlocked and no other skills.
• Fixed unable to sleep when you have travel weariness but hadn't discovered or unlocked any skills, you couldn't use a bed to rest to get rid of the travel weariness.
• Added scrolling to fix skill options going off the screen on the level-up window.
• Fixed buffs from abilities "Second Wind", "Renew", and "Surge of Replenishment" acting on the player for one less turn than intended. The reason was, player's health gain is processed at the start of the player's turn, while status effect turn refresh happened on the end of the player's turn, and status effect were removed before they could act one last required turn. This was fixed by marking these status effects as effects to reduce on start of turn.
• Repeat attacks will no longer trigger if the target is killed on the first attack. This prevents attacking of already killed targets (Note, for multi-target ability attacks there can still be spurious repeat attacks).
• Repeat attacks will no longer trigger when the target is knocked back out of range by the initial attack.
• Fixed combat log reporting a target's death twice if they were killed by a repeat attack.
• Fixed upgrading a Stance ability triggering its exit effects (e.g., Exhausted) even if the stance was not currently active.
• Fixed inaccuracies in systems that rely on time tracking (weariness reduction, study gain) when moving with modified movement speed. Previously, moving faster or slower than default speed could result in the game calculating time passed incorrectly for these systems.
• Fixed previously added character perk "Spot Weakness" inaccessible.
• Fixed interface issue where sub-panes (such as the Mastery Details view) would not properly reopen after loading a quick save.
• Fixed negative resistance values not functioning as intended. Negative resistance (e.g., on Faydes) now increase incoming damage, as intended.
• Fixed an issue where abilities with zero energy cost would incorrectly gain cost if the player possessed ability cost reduction stats.
• Fixed map generation issue causing spider nests to sometimes spawn in inaccessible locations.
• Fixed several map generation algorithms to prevent disconnected rooms or cut-off entrances (affecting Gremlin Fortresses, Auditoriums, Grand Hallways, and Inner Core layouts).
• Fixed an issue where stairs to the next floor could fail to generate in the Gremlin Fortress (Floor 2) due to blocked placement.
• Fixed the treasure gate in the Gremlin Fortress not properly blocking passage to the reward room.
• Fixed forced movement (Ctrl+Click) on the overworld stopping unnecessarily when enemies are visible, even if configured to ignore them.
• Fixed an issue where interactable features in caves (chests, crystals, harvestables) could spawn in inaccessible locations.
• Weight from the Grit enchantment is now also affected by Quartermastery's equipped item weight reduction bonuses.
• Fixed escape key order of operations. Now when escape key is pressed, the side-pane closing before open windows (such as the workbench).

Hotfix v0.5.20b

• Fixed a potential crash related to a negative height exception occurring when alt-tabbing or resizing the game window.
• Fixed an issue with the ability picker where it would sometimes display an empty row or fail to appear when right-clicking hotbar icons.
• Fixed the creature info box sometimes displaying an empty "Status Effects" section when no effects were present.
• Fixed several Bludgeons and Maces abilities applying in unintended circumstances.
• Fixed pathfinding when interacting with map features to prefer directly adjacent tiles, as was always intended. Pathfinding will now only fallback to diagonally adjacent tiles if no directly adjacent ones are available.

Hotfix v0.5.20c

• Fixed energy bar UI sometimes not updating immediately when maximum energy changed.
• Fixed negative movement energy cost not resulting in energy gain on movement.

The Cave of Dreams

Location Images

Legendary Enchantments

Other Changes

• Support trading with the shop's owner if they are in the shop, even when they are far from the counter.
• Treat neutral creatures that visibly aggro to the player (with exclamation mark icon shown) or attack the player, even when player dodges, as a hostile enemy for the purposes of giving skill XP.
• Mute music when game window loses focus, e.g. on alt+tab.
• In the dream pane and level up pane primary, confirm, or confirm alt (keyboard E, Enter, Space by default) key presses initiate the continue action.
• NPC Dialogue - When there's only 1 dialog response, allow selecting it with primary or confirm / keys, so that the player can plow through longer dialog sequences by mashing .
• NPC Dialogue - Pressing numbers also continues NPC dialogue so that the you can continue through longer dialog exchanges after selecting the response by repeating the same key, e.g. .
• Localization - large number of language support improvements & fixes, adding localization coverage and translations where they were missing.
• Localization - Updated Chinese translation, which has now been 100% human reviewed (shout-out and big thank you to Rico).

Bug Fixes

• Further improvements to dungeon generation, reducing completely already miniscule probability of dungeons having disconnected rooms.
• Fixed possibility of an array out of bounds exception on farm dungeon generation.
• Fixed Blooming Dread quest generating quest location on an overworld tile with already existing settlement or dungeon.
• Fixed reflected damage (e.g. from attacking hardened Lamassu) not being processed, despite the hit splash being shown.
• Fixed possibility of War Plans quest breaking due to inability to acquire one or more Gremlin War Plans.
• Fixed small chance of exceptions on dungeon generation, in particular, with Gremlin dungeons.
• Fixed possibility of cave dungeons being impossible to fully traverse due to stairs not spawning.
• Fixed Gremlin Generals not dropping crowns, contrary to their sprite and their description.
• Fixed player placed campsites removed if Sagohai's stolen staff happened to be placed in the same tile.
• Fixed misaligned or floating objects caused by world scaling interaction.
• Fixed possibility of some creatures and NPCs spawning in inaccessible positions. Before the fix it was possible for an innkeeper, governor, civilian, Leafborn civilian, cave hideout bandit, cave snake, cave golem, an enemy in a crypt, an enemy in a central room of Arallu temple, adventurer Durk or a generic adventurer in Trahasis temple, magic mushroom or a farmer to spawn in such a way as to be inaccessible to the player. Now such is no longer possible, all these cases should spawn in an accessible way
• Fixed towns doors remaining locked after a battle. Additionally, added "battle_unlock" console command to fix saves where this bug already happened with doors in a permanently locked state.
• Fixed issue to do with how the bonus Damage stat was calculated, causing some abilities to do less or more damage then intended.

What's Next?

• Chinese (Mandarin)
• French
• German
• Japanese
• Korean
• Portuguese (Brazilian)
• Russian
• Spanish

Translation Process

• The amount of text: around ~103,000 words to translate.
• Unique vocabulary: hundreds of unique terms related to the game's lore or specific gameplay mechanics.
• Maintenance over time: since the game is under active development, we needed process to ensure translations are kept up to date every update as new content is added.

Context Clues

Initial Glossary

Glossary - Extraction

Glossary - Disambiguation

Glossary - Translation

Text Extraction

Lemmatization

Translation

On Using LLMs

Next Steps

Bug Fixes

• Fixed "Static Lance" exception when ability is used while completely surrounded by blocked tiles.
• Fixed "Reinforced Quarterstaff" not two-handed, as everything about it implies.
• Fixed Gremlin Totem still resurrecting Gremlins, even after being destroyed.
• Upon donating to the governor of a settlement, player reputation is now increased with the settlement's faction (in addition to the prosperity increase).

v0.5.17b

• Fixed Pyromancy and Fulmination gaining XP much faster rate than intended.

v0.5.17c

• Fixed "Chain Lightning" ability causing game crash if the combat log was not enabled in options.

v0.5.17d

• Fixed "Knight's Challenge" ability not rewarding bonus Oaths.
• Fixed issue with the "Combustion" ability, where stacks would get stuck at zero with the status effect still persisting, if ability when upgraded past level 1.
• Fixed condition reduced of your equipped weapon when casting Pyromancy or Fulmination abilities (Magic spells are not intended to degrade the equipped weapon).
• The "Illusion" status effect is now hidden, ensuring creatures spawned due to insanity are less obvious to detect.

v0.5.17e

• Druid characters ported from v0.5.16 or earlier will now have the newly introduced druid passive "Naturebound" automatically applied.
• Fixed unable to unlock reading attunement bonuses, even if the necessary number of insight had been gained.
• (Direct version only) The direct version of the game now displays a message on main menu if a newer version is available.
• (Direct version only) To disable version checking, disable "Check for Updates" in the Options menu.

v0.5.17f

• Updated Fulmination active ability icons to have better contrast.
• Fixed "Chain Lightning" ability causing game crash, due to targeting non-combat entities.

v0.5.17g

• Fixed storage bug. Previously, when adding or removing items from storage, if you already had a stack of the same item, weight limits were not checked and the inventory UI was not refreshed. Now, it works as expected.
• Fixed ability upgrades "Perfect Finish", "Killing Momentum", and "Relentless Assault" not reducing cooldown if the child ability was also upgraded.
• Fixed Chivalry health upgrades (purchased with Oaths of The fallen) lost on game save/load. This fix works moving forward, and also returns previously purchased health upgrades that were lost.
• Fixed travel experience gained by passing turns in the overworld without actually travelling.
• Fixed game sprite for Storm-Chaser Treads boots floating next to player head instead of displaying on the feet as expected.
• Fixed pixel offset issue with with certain male chest armors.
• Updated item stats for "Sagohai's Staff".

v0.5.17h

• Improved reliability of NPC selection for quest generation. Quests like "Bandit Hunter" now fall back to other NPC types if no preferred ones are available, preventing quest failure.
• Fixed issue where certain items were missing from shop buy-lists. Armorers, clothiers, and blacksmiths will now purchase appropriate items they previously ignored.
• Fixed ring duplication bug caused by equipping an already equipped ring.
• Fixed crash when loading a save with a left-facing Duudahl.
• Fixed "Coup de Grace" not correctly applying its bonus crit chance and damage to attacks.
• Fixed item duplication and disappearance when moving enchanted and unenchanted versions of the same item between storage and inventory.
• Fixed Silt Strider spawning with negative Turn Health instead of positive, causing him to slowly die over time.
• Fixed Cave Spider using aggressive behavior instead of intended Curious behavior module (should follow but not attack unless provoked).
• Fixed upgraded "Combustion" passive reducing its initial stack after 3-4 turns instead of intended 5 turns.
• Fixed "Echo Current" passive incorrectly triggering while in the overworld.

• "Static Field" now requires Thunder damage to trigger.
• Magic spells no longer include on-hit bonuses from non-magical sources.
  • For example, on-hit bonuses like lifesteal, knockback, crit chance, etc. from your equipped weapon will not apply when casting spells.
  • However, if the spell itself provides such bonuses, they are applied as expected.
• Buffed "Static Lance" ability, adding knockback chance of +30|35|40|45|50% depending on level.
• Buffed "Ignite" ability, increased range from 2 to 3 tiles.
• Added icon for the "Flame Instinct” passive ability.
• Increased fire resistance of the Golem, and Spire Golem.

v0.5.17i

• Added new icons for all character traits.
• Fixed "Oath of the Fallen" not rewarding Oaths for kills, with or without "Knight's Challenge".
• Fixed Sandscale Viper mirages dropping loot.
• Fixed crash when asking about Sagohai's artifact of ascension from locations not connected to the overworld (e.g., the WeaponMakers shop).
• Added fire and thunder resistances to: Thunder Spider, Lich, Moreld Rothk, Spirit Fire Elemental.
• Fixed melee energy cost reduction stat not actually reducing energy cost.

v0.5.17j

• Added new trait "flying" to flying creatures (Bee, Dune Flyer, Sky Hunter, Fayde, Hawk, Null Bungler, Null Flyer, Spiritfire Elemental, sprite). Flying creatures take no damage from ground environmental damage (fire, thunder). Right-click a creature to see traits, flying is shown with an icon the same as other traits.
• Converted all sound effects and music from 44.1 kHz to 48 kHz. This eliminates the extra resample + buffer delay that was causing a noticeable sync issue on some Linux systems.
• Fixed a sound sync issue which could cause sound effects to skip, when using the "Java Clip" sound engine option.
• Fixed issue where in some circumstances a zone's music would continue playing after leaving a zone.
• Fixed crash when using a hotbar potion icon through a keyboard shortcut without having the potion in the inventory.
• Fixed able to consume unlimited potions per turn via mouse from the hotbar (instead of the intended max 1 per turn).
• Fixed able to consume unlimited unidentified potions (instead of the intended max 1 per turn).
• Fixed certain statuses (e.g. steam vent, hexed) stuck permanently on summons.
• Fixed incorrect item icon for tempest robe.

v0.5.17k

• Fixed hawks infinitely flying away when low health, and then returning later to attack again making them very annoying to kill. This move was only intended by usable once per hawk.
• Fixed "overworldLocation null exception" game crash, triggered in some situations when a gremlin overworld army moved onto the player's tile to attack.

Pyromancy

• New Background: Choose the "Pyromancer" character background.
• Discover In-Game: Find any Tyros-attuned item on any character to discover the skill. Then invest a skill point when you sleep.

Fulmination

• New Background: Choose the "Fulminar" character background.
• Discover In-Game: Find any Tyros-attuned item on any character to discover the skill. Then invest a skill point when you sleep.

Attunement

Main Quest Update

Stealing

Other Changes

• Fires on the ground are now more dynamic, coming in three sizes (small, medium, and large) with different damage and burn chances. Combining fires on the same tile will upgrade them to the next stage of size and intensity.
• Creatures will now intelligently try to step out of fire during combat, provided a safe, adjacent tile is available that keeps their target in range.
• Town Prosperity - Governors will now list which shops are closed due to low prosperity and you can donate gold directly to a town to help it flourish.
• To prevent "stun-lock" situation's, knockback-induced stuns no longer re-apply if the target is already stunned.

• To accommodate the new off-hand Magebooks, all Mage Staffs have been rebalanced and are now one-handed weapons.
• The final chest in the Desert Crypts is now guaranteed to drop an attuned item, ensuring players can engage with the new magic system.
• Gold and Silver chests now have a small chance to drop attuned items.
• The "Scroll of Discovery: Nature Magic" has been removed, as magic skills are now discovered by finding and equipping attuned items.
• The libraries of Trithius have grown! Nine new lore books have been added to the world for you to discover: Adventurer's Creed, Philosophy of Magic, The Mother's Role, A Treatise on Realm Walkers (Part I & II), Walker Worship, The Roots' Riddle, The Crimson Soldier, and Tread Carefully Friends.

• Shops in towns with "Wealthy" or "Flourishing" prosperity levels now have larger gold reserves.
• The variety shop in Leafborn villages now holds more currency, making it easier to acquire Polished Stones.
• The chance Nyris seeds to spawn has been reduced. Furthermore, the Nyris Vine's growth now slows as more seeds become active and is capped at a maximum size. (Developer's Note: This should help with both balance and performance, but this is not the last word on the Nyris Maw!)
• Many monster stats have been updated to include Fire and Thunder resistances where appropriate. For example, plant creatures have negative fire resist, null creatures have negative thunder resist, etc.
• The Gremlin Brute's charge ability is now more accurate. Watch out!

• A new "Use last window size" option has been added for those who play in windowed mode. When enabled, the game will remember and apply your window dimensions on launch.
• Looting piles of sticks now yields 2 wood instead of 1.
• Added two new face options to character creation appearance options.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where attacking with an off-hand item equipped (like a shield or lantern) would incorrectly unlock the Unarmed skill.
• Fixed the 'Terrifying Cleave' ability applying an incorrect dodge penalty (-3500 instead of -35).
• Fixed the 'Curse of Greed' status effect incorrectly increasing move speed instead of decreasing it.
• Fixed an issue where 'Martial Flourish' could cause an error if triggered at the very edge of the map.
• Fixed the 'Terrifying Cleave' ability costing 0 energy if the 'Dreadful Impact' upgrade was not purchased.
• Stairs will no longer produce a sound effect if the player is blocked from using them (e.g., due to nearby enemies).

• Fixed an issue that caused shops to not charge or pay for an item if it was filtered out of view in the trade window.
• Fixed a visual bug where skill buttons in the "Discovered Skills" tooltip were rendered incorrectly.
• Fixed an issue causing tooltips to sometimes be missing characters (e.g., "staggered for turns" is now "staggered for 2 turns").
• Fixed the character appearance customization screen, which was not properly showing the last row of hair and beard options.
• Fixed the 'World Scaling' option in the Options menu not showing the "restart required" pop-up when clicking 'Apply'.
• Fixed an issue where mouse targeting could incorrectly highlight invalid tiles as grey.
• Fixed a bug that could add extra, spurious spaces in some combat log messages.

• Fixed the "Quest Failed" pop-up to report the actual amount of reputation lost and with the correct faction.
• Fixed a bug that could cause multiple NPCs in the same town to have the same name.
• Fixed an issue where female NPCs (such as guards) could sometimes be rendered with male sprites.
• Fixed the dialog with the guard captain being unavailable during the "Confidential Matter" quest in newly generated worlds. (Note: This fix does not apply to existing saves where the quest is active).
• Fixed a bug where quest stages could sometimes be listed in the wrong order in the quest log.
• Fixed an issue preventing some farms from being placed correctly in the overworld during world generation.
• Fixed the stairs down sometimes failing to spawn on the 2nd floor of the starting Ineo temple.
• Added more fallback options for any situation where a stairs fails to spawn, to ensure dungeons can always be completed.
• Fixed the character Torvin (from the Blooming Dread quest) from sometimes being generated with a female physique.

• Fixed visual inaccuracies in the hotbar rendering that could cause 1-pixel gaps to appear at certain UI scales.

• The 'apply' command now correctly applies status effects with a specific turn duration.
• Added the 'port' command to allow porting characters (skills, inventory, etc.) from other save files.
• Enhanced the 'spawn' command to allow spawning a creature at a targeted map position.

The Stormbringers

Pyromancy

Fulmination

Attunement

Main Quest Update

We now have a Wiki!

Looking Ahead

Female Appearance

Appearance Customization

• Enable debug mode in Options -> General
• Press F8 to open the console (or use ~)
• Enter "appearance male" or "appearance female" to swap your character's gender, or "appearance hair" to change your hairstyle.
• It's recommended to turn off debug mode after

Item UI & Hotkeys

• Click = take 1 item
• Shift + Click = take full stack
• Ctrl + Click = take 5
• Ctrl + Shift + Click = take 25
• Mouse controls apply to loot, storage, shops, and inventory (dropping).

• Enter (or space) = take 1 item
• Shift + Enter = take full stack
• Shift + Up/Down = move to start/end of list
• Ctrl + Up/Down = move 5
• Ctrl + Shift + Up/Down = move 25

• Quick-use item menu now scrolls when showing large item lists.
• Likewise, the loot window no longer overflows. It now repositions and/or adds a scrollbar.

• Loot and quick-item menus now display items with the same sort order as your inventory.

• Full keyboard navigation added to repair, curse removal, enchanting pool, storage, and shop windows.
• Loot, storage, and shop windows now remember your last selected item when reopened.
• Compare key now shows tooltip for selected item in list windows (just like in the hotbar).

Other Changes

• Ability tooltips now appear when navigating the hotbar with keyboard if the compare key is held, or if the newly added auto-show tooltip setting is enabled.
• The "Show Names" key now also displays names on the overworld for locations, armies, and creatures. Defeated locations are greyed out; settlements are tinted based on prosperity.
• Unidentified potions now have the same weight as their identified versions.
• Cause of death now reads "Killed by 0 life total" if health drops to 0 from max HP dropping (e.g., curse effects).
• Overhealing is now capped correctly: max HP + overheal bonus, preventing absurd stacking with potent elixirs.
• Quickload key now works even if a UI side pane (e.g., shop, storage, dialog) is open.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed rendering issue that sometimes caused thin black lines to appear.
• Fixed ability "Efficient Forager" not applying when harvesting strawberries, mulberry bushes, bird nests, and mossy rocks.
• Fixed hawk noise playing when harvesting a hawk nest even when no hawk appeared.
• Fixed size and position of wilderness danger icons when zoomed out on the overworld map.
• Fixed issue with curse icon display, where curse icons would group together when they are more than 5, despite being different types of curses.
• Fixed summoned plant sprouts following the player between dungeon floors and overworld tiles (despite being a plant, which typically cannot move).
• Fixed ability "Bond" not resetting correctly when used on a summoned hedgehog.
• Fixed issue with Nyris-cocoon and summoned hedgehog interaction. If a cocooned hedgehog is your active companion, toggling Animal Companion off will now cleanly deactivate.
• Fixed cursed wound icons not disappearing after destroying a cursed item via disenchanting.
• Fixed potential for gremlin fortress to spawn immediately adjacent to other overworld objects.
• Fixed an issue with the healing efficiency stat, which allowed the player to reach negative health without dying. Negative healing efficiency will now cause death if it reduces health to 0.
• When drinking from a well, the text log now reports the actual healing amount, factoring in healing efficiency.
• Fixed overworld HUD button alignments when UI scale is above 1.
• Fixed dialog box text not rendering correctly when UI scale is above 1.
• Fixed alignment of item condition icons (damaged, bolstered, cursed, favorite, etc).

Extendable Hotbar

Hotbar - Keyboard Navigation

Furniture

• Shopkeepers sell all types of workbenches, along with storage units (chests, cupboards).
• Rare furniture items, like enchanting tables, may take time to locate.

Innkeeper Dialog

Map Flags

Blood Creatures & Reputation

Status Effect Tooltips

Other Changes

• Improved shop distribution during world generation - ensures fair allocation across settlements, guarantees minimum shops per region, and balances total shops per faction.
• Recipes UI improvements - recipes with multiple crafting options now display as separate entries, and oversized recipe text is now scrollable.
• Added sorting options to Shop UI - items can now be sorted by price.
• Added favorites indicator for player items in storage UI.
• Added item Blink Potion (Potent) - unlike the standard Blink potion's random teleportation, this version allows selecting a destination tile.
• Improved Reputation system - passive reputation changes due to negative reputation decreasing over time are now reported to log.
• Reputation window now automatically selects previously viewed faction when reopened.
• Faster overworld inspection - right-click inspecting a new location no longer requires closing the previous location info window.
• Added new animation and sound effect for "Executioners Strike" ability.
• Added new animation for "Terrifying Cleave" ability.
• Blood Puddles now decay over time, with increased decay rate in towns.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed "Mordhau Bash" ability in wrong skill tree.
• Fixed "Deep Gashes" ability, infinite Hemorrhage stacking bug.
• Fixed consumables with incorrect accuracy bonuses: Da-Daa Doo Potion, Feverfew Ale, Ancient Wine, and Elderberry Wine.
• Fixed "Helm Splitter" not appearing in Blades skill tree.
• Fixed incorrectly rounded XP rate values in skill experience tooltips.
• Fixed UI scaling issues across multiple UI elements when UI scale set above 1.
• Fixed issue with "Blooming Dread" quest, unable to trade Vyrwort flowers for Vyrwort Potions after quest completion.
• Fixed level up screen not displaying wisdom summary after game load - wisdom summary now properly saved.
• Fixed item duplication exploit during character creation.
• Fixed world generation bias toward turkey farms instead of other farm types.
• Fixed player facing direction resetting after loading saved game.
• Fixed unable to learn "Conservation" enchantment from scroll.
• Fixed cooking buffs ("Double Down" passive and "Gremlin Spit") not applying to all output items in multi-output recipes.
• Fixed "Fireflash" potion providing less teleport range than intended.
• Fixed mouse cursor sometimes stuck with incorrect cursor icon.
• Fixed mouse clicks sometimes passing through UI elements.

Daggers

• Enable debug mode in Options -> General
• Open console commands using F8 or ~, and enter the command "skillreset ", e.g. "skillreset daggers", to refund your spent focus points.
• It's recommended to turn off debug mode after.

Axes

Balance Changes

• Fatal Undercut -> Reduced focus point cost from 3 to 2; increased crit reduction from 25% to 100%.
• Debilitating Slash -> Increased cooldown from 3 to 6.
• Perfect Finish -> Reduced focus point cost from 4 to 3.
• Decisive Edge -> Nerfed bleed damage per level from 0.50 to 0.20. (it's still quite strong).

Other Changes

• Added a console command "ignore abilityrequirements." When enabled, ability unlock requirements are ignored, allowing you to unlock any abilities in the skill tree as long as you have the focus points.
• Added a new "combat log file" option. When enabled, this creates a 'combat_log.txt' file in the game folder with detailed combat information.
• Removed the "performance log" option, which was not fully supported.
• Improved HUD rendering performance, particularly for the hotbar which now caches and reuses icon graphics (please report if you encounter any visual glitches).

Bug Fixes

• Creature behavior - Fixed Vile Gremlin not running away when fleeing.
• Abilities - Fixed Cluster Volley 2 & 3 unable to select target area.
• Abilities - Fixed Achilles' Bane not consuming ammo.
• Abilities - Fixed Zero Hesitation status effect not stacking properly.
• UI - Fixed uncentered screen graphics on higher resolutions.
• UI - Fixed deaths from poison, bleed, or other status effects displaying as 'killed by unknown.'
• UI - Fixed mouse cursor remaining as attack or other icon when moving mouse cursor from the world onto a UI.
• Fixed "Inept" status effect incorrectly applying when equipping a weapon leads to weapon mastery unlock.
• Fixed reflection stat deal reflection damage on ranged attacks.
• Fixed hit splashes stacking on top of each other instead of spreading to multiple positions, causing damage numbers to sometimes be visible only briefly.
• Fixed healing efficiency not applying correctly to Potions, LifeSteal, Fountains, and the "Healing Attunement" passive.

What's Next?

Blades

• Enable debug mode in Options -> General
• Open console commands using F8 or ~, and enter the command "skillreset ", e.g. "skillreset blades", to refund your spent focus points.
• It's recommended to turn off debug mode after.

Swords

Other Changes

• Added upgrades to the Athletics ability "Tumbling".
• On launch, the game window size will now automatically increase to match UI scaling if uiScale is > 1.
• Innkeepers without movement or dialogue options will no longer prevent access to the inn room.
• Status effect durations are now shown in the right-click monster info window.
• XP bonus sources are now displayed in the skill XP tooltip, similar to the stat tooltips (hover your mouse over the XP bar for any skill).
• Weapon Mastery rework: Weapon Mastery—which is the required level to equip a weapon effectively—is now explicitly implemented via a stat and can be viewed in the character stat pane.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed lunges dealing extra damage to adjacent targets (Mighty Lunge, Vicious Lunge, Predator Leap, Gutting Reave, Heroic Slam, Vault Kick, Sliding Strike).
• Fixed ability "Guarded Wait" not refreshing when waiting multiple turns in a row.
• Fixed item "Snake Dice" not displaying its effect in the tooltip.
• Fixed non-aggressive attacks (Bond, Renew, Surge of Replenishment) or attacks without physical action from the attacker (e.g. Calming Touch, Counter Strike, Knight's Challenge, Mark Prey, Nature's Grasp, Noble Steel Resonance, Parry, Solar Flare, Toxic Plume) applying on-hit effects like bleed, cripple, or poison.
• Fixed ability "Toxic Plume" upgrades 2 & 3 not being able to target.
• Fixed the skill tree unlock window outside of bounds and not contained within the game window, on smaller screens.
• Fixed wound icons not scaling correctly when uiScale > 1.
• Fixed wisdom & skill XP bars mismatch at uiScale > 1.
• Fixed an issue where using ALT to compare two items caused tooltips to not fit on the screen. If tooltips are too tall, they will now appear side by side instead of going off-screen.

What's Coming in 2025?

• Skill Trees: four new weapons types, and new skill trees for all existing weapons.
• New Faction: Magic-wielding cultists along with their dungeons.
• Towns Update: New dynamic quests, town layouts, and NPCs.
• The roadmap is packed, you should check it out!

Winter Sale & Pricing Update

New Weapons

Here's to a Big 2025!

v0.5.12b

• Fixed exception when fighting Null Champions, due to their attack sound failing to load.
• Add new art for the Blooming Dread quest reward item.

v0.5.12c

• Fixed game crash on load when loading a v0.5.11 save, where player is standing the overworld.

v0.5.12d

• Improved the reliability of Steam Cloud syncing between devices. Zone files are now directly replaced instead of being saved and renamed, preventing Steam from mistakenly detecting deletions.
• Added new system for playing sound effects that streams sounds directly from your hard drive for faster performance and reduced memory.
• Added a "Sound Effect" option in the audio settings, allowing you to select the audio engine for sound effects, with the ability to switch back to the previous audio engine ("Java Clip") if needed.
• Fixed an issue where deflected arrows still dealt damage despite displaying "Deflected."
• Fixed a crash when targeting out-of-bounds tiles using lunge abilities.
• Fixed "Tumbling" ability never triggering.
• Fixed "Escape Attack" stat not causing entity to step back as intended when an attack is escaped.
• Fixed "Between the Eyes" ability at rank 3 not removing the speed debuff as intended.
• Fixed "of Grace" enchantment granting 100x less dodge than intended.
• Fixed an issue with Blood Worms. In some situations, after saving and loading the game Blood Worms could remain in partially loaded states causing them to become invisible.
• Fixed the "mutation effect" item, which was not intended to be accessible, dropping when a quest NPC was killed.
• Studied book completion percentage will no longer round up to display as "100%" when the study is not yet complete.
• Fixed some abilities giving reduced XP when upgraded. Upgrades that reduced cooldowns or energy costs were unintentionally lowering XP gains, as the calculation used upgraded values. The system now consistently uses the base 'root' ability for automatic XP calculations.
• Fixed swapped point costs for Pie and Cake Baking (Cake Baking should be 3 points).

Nyris Vine

• The Nyris Vine begins as a single seed, gradually spreading over time.
• Destroying seeds weakens the plant and clears nearby vines.
• Virelings spawn to protect the plant and assist in spreading its growth.
• Entities stepping on vines may become overgrown and mutated, turning hostile and gaining enhanced abilities.
• Flowers bloom near the vines and can be harvested for new crafting ingredients.
• The Nyris Maw spawns when the central seed matures and is destroyed, presenting a high-risk, high-reward encounter.
• New items and crafting recipes tied to this event provide valuable rewards.

New Quest: Blooming Dread

Insanity

Other Changes

• Items in your inventory that apply an effect even while not equipped, such as Decay Orbs, now will display a wound icon to clearly show an effect is being applied, and have had their tooltips updated to clearly state their "Carried Effect".
• Flying creatures (Hawks, Bees, Dune Flyers) will no longer set off traps.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed displayed energy cost on toggle ability tooltips not taking into account energy reductions.
• Fixed "Sparks" enchantment giving 100x too much stun chance (500% instead of 5%, 700% instead of 7%).
• Fixed weapon swap speed stat displayed as a flat number instead of a percent.
• Fixed "Mindmeld" enchantment giving 10x too much weapon swap speed.

Athletics

• Added 11 new abilities.
• Removed: "Evasive Maneuvers", "Feline Reflex", "Endurance Training", "Fleetfoot".
• Reworked: "Evasive Fury", "Sprint", "Tumbling", "Jump", "Aeralist", "Trap Reaction".
• Added upgrade path to Sprint.

Dodge and Accuracy

Save/Load Stability

• Added a new option, "Save Log," to enable detailed logging of save and load events.
• Zone files are no longer copied if no changes have occurred to that zone, improving performance.
• Added a 10-second timeout on auto-saves. If the auto-save fails for any reason, the save is skipped.
• Fixed the initial save directory being titled "player" instead of the player's name.
• Improved file handling to prevent corrupt files if an issue occurs during the save process.
• Added small millisecond delays between save file updates to improve compatibility with AntiVirus software and other processes.
• Improved error handling during save/load events. The error screen now provides more detailed information if something goes wrong.

Other Changes

• Added key bindings for zoom in and zoom out ("-" and "="). These can also be modified in options.
• Ability "Achilles Bane" - increased cooldown by 2 turns.
• Added new dash/jump animations to the following abilities: "Sliding Strike", "Duelist Advance", "Vicious Lunge", "Mighty Lunge", and "Gutting Reave".
• Updated open and close sound for doors.
• When a stun is applied due to a Knockback ability, "Wall Stun" text now appears above the player or monster's head.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed game crash that could occur during dungeon load due to attempting to place an entity before the map exists. (Exception: Cannot invoke "dot.tilemap.TileMap.isInBounds(int, int)" because "activeMap" is null).
• Fixed Dreadheart abilities "Savage Bleed" and "Savage Efficiency" missing upgrades.
• Fixed lore book "Voice of Khualexx" incorrect reading requirement; fixed "A New Magic" missing XP reward.

Desert Crypts

Dungeon Difficulty

XP Rebalance

• XP Curve Adjustments: Increased the XP required per level after level 15 to smooth progression.
• Dynamic Skill Caps: Skill caps are now tied to character level, with an additional +3 per skill point invested.

Equipment Animations

Activated Items

Other Changes

• Wound icons now stack if there are 5 or more of the same wounds.
• Added unique effect to Sun Amulet item (starting item for the Commoner).
• Blood pools now increase in size (up to 5 times) as more blood is added to a tile.
• Summon Brambles (Nature Magic ability): Bramble bushes can no longer stack multiple times per tile.
• Increased accuracy of Vile Gremlins (from 0.85 → 1.10).
• Gremlin Shamans now deal hex damage for their primary attack.
• Gremlin Shamans hex tiles now apply a status effect that increases damage taken instead of dealing direct hex damage.
• Gremlin Trapmaster will place a maximum of 5 traps while out of sight of the player, preventing floors from being overrun with traps.
• Elderberry wine now grants mental warding.
• Fear status effect (Fayde's Fear) adjusted: -20 attack speed → -10%, -20% dodge chance → -10%, and now reduces vision by 1.

Bug Fixes

• Major fix for dungeon generation, resolving a longstanding issue where rooms would sometimes fail to connect to the rest of the dungeon.
• Fixed arrow hit animations displaying in the wrong direction.
• Fixed Commoner Ascended icon not showing after beating the game with the commoner.
• Fixed Surge of Replenishment and Renew abilities granting momentum stacks.
• Fixed incorrect percent values shown on attack speed and movement speed tooltips.
• Fixed a crash caused by saving the game during a temporary animation.
• Fixed misaligned HUD status effect icons.
• Large monsters can no longer be hit multiple times with AOE abilities.
• Fixed piercing skewer animation showing in the wrong direction.
• Fixed a quest dialog bug in the Gremlin War Plans quest, making player unable to accept the quest.
• Fixed Leafborn shops having far less currency than intended.
• Notification log now supports line wrapping, preventing text from being cut off.
• Fixed unable to join Aridax settlement battles.
• Fixed overworld tile faction info UI glitch, not showing faction influence.

v0.5.9b

• Fixed game launch issue on Arch Linux due to "undefined symbol" error.

v0.5.9c (MacOS only)

• Fixed an issue migrating save files, causing new saves to be overwritten when the game is launched.

• Only save files are synced, not game settings. This allows you to maintain different configurations on Steam Deck and other platforms.
• macOS: Previously, save files were stored inside the app bundle. They are now located in the same folder where the game is installed. Existing saves will be moved to the new directory the next time the game is run.

v0.5.8b

• Fixed "Primal Fury" giving 500% crit chance instead of 5%.
• Fixed typos in ability descriptions.
• Fixed Basic Attacks shortcut key targeting summoned creatures and traps.

v0.5.8c

• Updated Dreadheart ability icons. All Dreadheart abilities now have a new icon.
• Fixed game crash due to player vision going out of bounds.
• Fixed "Prepare for War" passive not unlockable due to invalid requirements.
• Fixed game crash related to exploring Mountain Biome with the Friendly Hedgehog spawned.

v0.5.8d

• Fixed item icons not scaling to match UI scale setting.
• Fixed status effect icons not scaling correctly to match UI scale setting.
• Fixed able to target creatures out of vision using attack keys.
• Fixed unable to attack enemies standing on a trap with keyboard directional inputs.
• Fixed red temple traps playing no sound when activated.
• Fixed UI scrollbar glitch in options menu.
• Fixed War Plans quest not possible to complete in some cases due to the war plans not spawning.
• Fixed tooltip for blight wound recommending to use the wrong kind of medicine.
• Summoned bear no longer makes noise while not in combat.

v0.5.8e

• Fixed a cacophony of traps and other sounds sometimes playing all at once when loading into a new zone.
• Fixed a game crash when clicking or using a keypress repeatedly on dungeon stairs, causing multiple zone loads to be triggered simultaneously.
• Fixed killed NPCs that are protected not respawning, or respawning without knowledge of their associated quest, making quest completion impossible.
• Fixed issue where if a battle resolves (without the player present) and is won by the defenders, the local defenders (local guards, adventurers, civilians) would not take any losses.
• Fixed edge case where a battle loss occurring in a settlement before the player had ever visited could cause quests to permanently disappear.
• Increased max armies per side in battles of 4 (from 3).
• Fixed game crash when buying the Machinist Amulet from the collector.
• Fixed satchels showing in the item list when enchanting (no satchel enchantments exist).
• Weapon experiment quest - show text message for each killed enemy.
• Fixed campfire incorrectly gives +25% cooking double chance.
• Quest "The Oracle" will now respawn a Null Bouncer as backup if player has not yet broken through the barrier.

The Commoner

Roll Appearance

Skill Trees

• Converted to Skill Trees: Dreadheart, Warrapt, Enchanting, Chivalry, Quartermastery, Survival, Medicine, Botany, Cooking.
• Rebalanced, added, and removed abilities across these skills.
• Added hundreds of new icons for passives and abilities.
• Medicine and Quartermastery recipes are now unlocked by learning techniques, similar to cooking and alchemy, making all recipes consistent.

Quartermastery Satchels

Friendly Hedgehog

Heal Summoned Creatures

Keyboard Shortcuts

• New shortcut key: for "Basic Attack." Use this to perform a basic attack on nearby targets without using the mouse. If there is more than one valid target, target selection mode is activated.
• New shortcut key: for "Basic Attack (Nearest)." Use this to perform a basic attack on the closest nearby target. If more than one target is tied for nearest, target selection mode is activated.

Client Icon

Sound

What's Next?

v0.5.7b

• Fixed save files from v0.5.6 failing to load, if the quest "The Collector" had been started.

v0.5.7c

• Fixed issued with dungeon generation where the stairs entry room would be blocked and not connect to the rest of the dungeon.
• Fixed dead NPCs would never respawning, making quests not possible to complete. Killed NPCs will now respawn in 8-16 ingame hours.
• Fixed certain abilities targeting not activating if the target was selected with the mouse, includes: "Heroic slam", "Mighty Lunge", "Gutting Reave", "Vicious Lunge", "Vault Kick", and "Sliding Strike".
• Tweaked appearance of several armor items: fancy doublet, scout's cap and wildwood cap.

v0.5.7d

• Travel Weariness:
  • Limited the number of items stolen after passing out from weariness to a maximum of 3, and ensured the player's weapon is never stolen.
  • Removed the chance to critically fail and lose all gold (10% chance) when passing out from weariness. Now, only a percentage of the player's gold will be lost, up to a maximum.
• Duranki Temple: updated Dyeia's riddle text to make the riddle clearer. Added riddle hints to the adventurers.
• Limited the maximum number of armies that can join each side in a battle to 3.
• Fixed issue where Sand Wyrms would not trigger aggro from any monsters.
• Fixed overhead "!" aggression indicator not moving when the entity moves.
• Fixed visual glitch on the "Disenchant" tab of the enchanting table.
• Fixed "Achilles' Bane" ability only targeting animals; it should now be able to target any entity.
• Fixed governors not wearing their new outfits (applies to newly generated towns only).
• Fixed issue where Multistrike ability was dealing damage to allies.
• Fixed possible exception when showing ability tooltip if unlock info is missing for that ability.
• Added additional handling to ensure save failures are logged to the error log.
• All errors are now combined into a single log file to prevent creating multiple files.

v0.5.7e

• Fixed issue causing save files become corrupted, making it not possible to load your saved gamed.

v0.5.7f

• Fixed bug where Garrick's dialog would not open.

Gameplay Trailer

15% Discount & Endless Replayability Fest

Today’s Update - v0.5.7

Duranki Temple

Death Screen

v0.5.6b

• Fixed quest markers not appearing up on the overworld map.
• Fixed Gremlin Trapmaster appearing one tile north of where he is actually standing.

Aggression Indicator

Civilian clothes

• Civilians in each of the three human factions dress with their own distinctive look.
• The new clothing types can also be found at Clothing shops.

Job Board

New Items

Other Changes

• Massively reduced the view distance of gremlins; Brute 7 -> 3, Experimenter 8 -> 5, Flinger 7 -> 4, Grunt 6 -> 3, Sergent 8 -> 4, Vile Gremlin 7 -> 5.
• Added new creature: "Gremlin Butcher", along with their new dropped item "Bloody Cleaver".
• Wild Turkey's are no longer aggressive by default. Instead, they have a small chance to become aggressive when a target is nearby, and will stop attacking if not being hit back.
• Gold's item icon now changes based on how much gold you have.
• Wild Turkey - increased chance to drop feather and raw meat.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed harvested plants not refreshing, even when enough time had passed for them to reset.
• Fixed bones & blood not being removed from the ground over time.
• Fixed jump ability allowing you to jump beyond the max distance.
• Fixed rare crash which happens when the game window height resets.

v0.5.5b

• Fixed cooking stations not working when loaded from a save file from the previous version.
• Fixed crash when upgrading or using an upgraded "jump" ability.
• Fixed "Test Sword" item inadvertently spawning in shop inventories (if it's already spawned it will stay until the shop refreshes).

Visual Effects

Keyboard Targeting

• Use numpad directional keys to move the target cursor.
• Press to cycle through potential targets.

Keyboard Controls

• Use to talk to any adjacent NPCs.
• Use to access any adjacent lootable containers.
• Use to interact with any object, such as workbenches or beds. Also can be used to loot.
• If multiple options are available, target selection is activated. Use to cycle through targets and to select.

Quaff, Feed, and Medicine

List Navigation via Keyboard

Other Changes

• Memory management improvements: the game now only loads the current dungeon floor into memory, significantly reducing overall memory usage and improving performance on systems with limited memory.
• If an error occurs while saving a zone, it will now be logged and reported to the user. Previously save file failures would go unnoticed until an attempt to load a corrupted file was made.
• Nerfed Gremlin Experimenter: reduced maximum health from 105 to 65 and burn chance from 15% to 12%.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug causing ring duplication.
• Fixed an issue where rings could get stuck and become unequippable.
• Fixed player summons disappearing when entering a new zone.
• Addressed several issues related to time simulation when entering a zone, which caused some entities to skip turns. This issue made them vulnerable to attacks without the ability to move or retaliate.

v0.5.4b

• Fixed crash during faction battles
• Fixed in some cases unable to re-enter a settlement after a battle had occurred there.

v0.5.4c

• Fixed error loading into battles.

v0.5.4d

• Fixed null exception when loading into zones, after a battle has taken place.
• Fixed duplicate shopkeepers spawning after battles.
• Fixed quests spawning for NPCs that do not exist either due to leaving from low prosperity, or death in battle.

v0.5.4e

• Fixed after entering the inn room, unable to reenter.
• Fixed crash when leaving inn room.

v0.5.4f

• Fixed Grimjaw's defeat not marking fortress as defeated or removing faction influence.
• Fixed player unable to complete quests due to faction battles. NPCs required for a quest which have been killed (from a battle or otherwise) will now automatically respawn upon reentering the town.
• Fixed all doors in a settlement are open and unlocked after a battle is finished, even doors that should be locked.
• Fixed issue where locations currently in battle would be invisible to the quest system, causing various unintended effects.
• Fixed killed npcs permanently disappearing after a battle is resolved. NPCs killed in battle will now always respawn after enough time has passed, given the town has the required prosperity.
• Faction armies can no longer walk on top of locations. This fixes an issue where battles could be started while standing on a location, which technically was not a siege (attacking from a city, or attacking an army that happens to be standing on a city).
• Bandit armies will no longer chase the player while standing on a town (or other location).
• Fixed battles (in the case where the player is attacked by an army) taking place on the tile of attackers, instead of defenders tile.
• Fixed bug allowing player to keep receiving rewards for a successful battle.
• Fixed crash "Attempt to enable respawn for NPC with respawn info".

v0.5.4g

• Fixed summoned animals attacking guards in Aridax and Stonewarden towns.
• Fixed mail courier (part of "Gremlin's Grief" quest) stuck always following the player.
• Fixed quest "Confidental Matters" missing the dialog option for the Guard Captain.
• Fixed some parts of the character creation user interface not scaling correctly, according to the "UI Scaling" setting.
• Fixed array out of bounds exception to do with field of vision attempting to refresh partially outside the map bounds.
• Fixed crossing paths with an allied armies will initiate a battle (against no one).
• Fixed shops not selling or buying some rare animal materials (beetle wings, spectral remains, etc).
• Ethereal Gremlins no longer can spawn decay roots.
• Removed text "World Turns: X" from overworld HUD, which was intended for debug mode only.
• Reduced speed and view distance of bandit armies to make them less punishing (more balancing changes to come).
• Speed up influence decay rate, so influence recedes faster when a location is defeated.
• Tweaked army compositions for more variety, reduced chance of armies comprised only of archers or melee units.

v0.5.4h

• Faction structures (Bandit Camps, Gremlin fortresses) now spawn in wilderness tiles, as they did prior to v0.5.4.
• More improvements to simultaneous turns for faster gameplay. Enemies chasing the player now move simultaneously if out of attack range.

Faction Warfare

• Factions spawn armies based on their wealth. Wealth is gained over time based on the number of tiles controlled by that faction.
• Unless completely defeated, wounded armies will slowly regenerate their troops over time.
• Multiple armies can join the same battle, assuming they are allied with one of the sides.
• To join a battle, one of the sides must be your enemy and one must be your ally (no joining Bandits vs. Gremlins).
• If a town is under attack, fire will be visible on the world map, even if it's on an unexplored tile or outside your view radius.
• The armies of enemy factions will chase the player, but tend to move slower than normal movement.

Human Factions

Bandit Factions

Desert Towns

Prosperity

• Settlements start with a hidden base prosperity amount. This amount is increased or decreased over time based on the number of nearby tiles controlled by the faction.
• Completing quests for a settlement causes prosperity to go up.
• Defeating nearby enemy dungeons makes space for factions influence to spread, causing prosperity to increase.
• If a settlement is attacked by a faction army, all local town guards and adventurers will team up to fight the invaders. If the battle ends in defeat, the town's prosperity is reduced to 0 (Destitute).
• If a settlement is under attack, it can be seen with a burning fire, even if the settlement is in fog-of-war or unexplored tiles.
• If a settlement loses shops, guards, or other NPCs due to low prosperity, they will return once prosperity has improved.
• Inns will never vacate a town, regardless of prosperity. This means you cannot lose your belongings if they're stored in an inn.

• Destitute (0-10) The settlement is nearly abandoned. It exerts no influence on the world map.
• Impoverished (11-30) Limited resources and low morale.
• Stable (31-60) The average, everyday life of a settlement with basic amenities available.
• Prospering (61-85) A flourishing settlement with abundant resources.
• Wealthy (86-100) The pinnacle of prosperity, featuring the best goods and services available.

Gremlin Dungeons

Simultaneous Turns

Other Changes

• Reputation is no longer per settlement but is instead per faction, meaning reputation gained in one settlement unlocks bonuses for all settlements of that faction.
• Time now passes in the overworld while in dungeons. For example, if being chased by a bandit army, you can escape to a nearby town or dungeon. If enough time has passed, upon returning to the overworld, the army will have wandered away. Note this is up to a maximum number of turns, to ensure there is time to return to help defend nearby settlements while you are in dungeons.
• Added 2 new poisons: Jester's Toxin and Red Spigot.
• Added 8 new armor and weapon items: 3x Stonewarden Armor, 4x Dual-wielding axes, Furyforge Crown.