Travel Weariness

Travel weariness increases as you travel in the overworld. If it gets to 100%, you will pass out from exhaustion.

• Hunger no longer increases while travelling on the overworld.
• The rate at which weariness is gained changes based on the tile type, with mountain travelling causing the most weariness.
• Added 5 possible random events which can occur when the player passes out from exhaustion.
• New wound "Fatigued", which will always occur when passing out from exhaustion. This wound is a new type "Mental" and can only be cured by using a bed.
• Using a bed now shows multiple options. Rest to reduce weariness, or enter deep sleep when you're ready to level up.
• Added new HUD to the overworld.
• Weariness is displayed in the center orb, and changes color from green to red as weariness increases.
• Added travel mode options "Standard" and "Cautious". These can be changed at any time. Use cautious mode to decrease the chance of random events at the cost of increased weariness and slower travel time.
• Ways to remove weariness:
• Elderberries - added 5% weariness reduction.
• Elderberry Wine - new item which can be bought from any inn, and reduces weariness by 15%.
• Weariness very slowly decreases if the player has recently gained wisdom (in much the same way as studying).
• Weariness quickly reduces while spending time in a friendly town.
• Weariness is entirely removed by resting at a bed.
• Weariness Resistance:
• Weariness resistance slows the rate at which weariness is gained.
• Added +25% Weariness Resistance when travelling on roads.
• Added scaling Weariness Resistance based on the player wisdom level.
• Added new passive "Travel Fortitude" to the Travel Skill, which directly reduces weariness gain.

Map Changes

• Map will now spawn with more dungeons & cities.
• Factions now spawn in larger clusters of territories.
• Cities & connected towns and hamlets will spawn in hubs. These city hubs do not always connect to other hubs.
• Arallu Temple will tend to spawn closer to starting area.

Campsites

The Campsite Kit is a new item which places a bed, campfire, and storage chest permanently onto the map, offering a convenient way to reduce travel weariness or store items.

Placing a campsite adds a permanent icon on the overworld map.

• Added Campsite Kit to the General Store and Variety Store inventories.
• Added Campsite Kit recipe to the Survival skill.
• Campsites can only be placed in the wilderness - towns or dungeons are disallowed.

Weapon Skills

All melee weapon skills have been updated with new abilities, passives, and upgrades. That's right, upgrade-able abilities are now supported!

• Added upgrades for all active abilities.
• Passives are now sorted into two categories "Basic passives" and "Unique Passives".
• Blades
• Removed: Blade Precision, Honed Edges.
• New: Decisive Edge.
• Daggers
• Removed: Gouging Grapple, Bloody Murderer.
• New: Dagger Precision, Dagger Swiftness, Bloodletting, Heel Cut.
• Swords
• Removed: Expert Swordsman, Vital Strikes.
• New: Sword Precision, Sword Swiftness, First Strike, Disarming Strikes.
• Axes
• Removed: Trunk Splitter.
• New: Axe Precision, Axe Swiftness, Decapitate.
• Bludgeons
• Removed: Brute Force, Crippling Might.
• New: Bludgeon Focus, Bludgeon Specialist, Pain Bringer.
• Maces
• New: Mace Precision, Mace Swiftness, Cripple Defense.
• Flails
• Removed: Angular Momentum.
• New: Flail Precision, Flail Swiftness.
• Staffs
• New: Staff Precision, Staff Swiftness.

Crafting Techniques

Cooking and Alchemy recipes no longer require focus points to unlock. Instead, spend your focus points to unlock techniques, with each recipe requiring a set of techniques.

Techniques that are required to craft a recipe are shown in the recipe tooltip, and also in the recipe window.

• Added 11 Cooking techniques; rebalanced all Cooking recipes to use these techniques.
• Added 8 Alchemy techniques, and rebalanced all Alchemy recipes to use these techniques.
• Recipes are now immediately learned when clicked, and no longer require focus points.
• Updated recipe tooltip text to show required technique.
• Show all known recipes in the skill pane; icons are highlighted red if 1 or more required techniques are missing.

Food Update

Food bonuses rebalanced, and several new foods added.

• Rebalanced health & energy recovery for all foods. Tweaked special stat modifiers on special foods.
• Tweaked food drops rates, prices, and recipe ingredients.
• Added 3 new foods: Peasant Pot, Vegetable Stew, and Meat Pie.
• Added 15 food item icons. All foods now have a unique icon.

Skill Investment

Skill Investment is a new mechanic to help balance builds that use many skills vs. investing heavily into only a few.

• Added tooltips to all XP bars. Hover your mouse over the XP bar to see details regarding XP, Skill Cap, and Investment.
• Non-combat skills gains +1 Skill Investment for each Skill Point spent. Levelling a skill through other means does not.
• Added a level 15 cap to all non-combat skills. SKills cannot be levelled beyond their cap, except through focus points.
• Each Investment in a skill increase it's skill cap by +2, and XP gain rate by +10%.
• When making a new character, skill investment is gained equal to the starting level.
• As part of this change, XP gain is now possible for all skills.
• All activated abilities now provide XP to their associated skill.
• Travel - gain XP by travelling in the overworld.
• Chivalry - gain XP by using abilities.
• Survival - gain XP by making camp fires, crafting Campsite Kits, or harvesting Berries/Strawberries.

Trap Highlighting

When a path would take the player through a tile with a discovered trap, the path will now turn red with traps clearly highlighted.

XP Rate

The formula behind the XP curve has been modified. Level 30 requires the same XP over all, but more spread out over the levels.

Quality of Life

• The text log window can now be clicked and dragged to any position on the screen. This position is saved with the save file.
• Added a sound effect and text log message when a trap is avoided by the player.
• Added tooltip to player wisdom (on the player pane), which shows exact wisdom amount.
• Added tooltip to all skill XP bars. For weapon skills, show sources of bonuses XP in the tooltip.

Other Changes

• Entering a mountain biome tile now discovers the Travel skill.
• Reduce hunger increase rate by half when player is full health.
• All characters now start with the Jump ability.
• Doubled Cripple Chance on all bludgeon weapons.
• Reduced Weapon Category (example, Blades) xp gain by ~10%, Weapon Types (example, Swords) is unchanged.
• Slightly reduced cooking experience for multi-ingredient foods (12 -> 10 for 2 ingredients, 20 -> 18 for 3).
• Updated Travel Skill to include upgrades for several abilities.
• Reduced weight of all arrows and bolts by 90% (from 0.1 to 0.01).
• Reduced sell price of Iron Bolts and Iron Arrows (from 1 to 0). This is because with the new weight, arrows would have had an insanely high price-to-value ratio, making them too strong as a loot item for selling.
• Restock quests - reduced the maximum possible amount required for most items.
• Skin Rash wound - reduced maximum health modifier to be less punishing (from -4 to -2).
• Traps avoided with "Trap Avoidance" now enter their sprung state, and will not trigger again.
• Blood Leeches will now wait some time before starting construction of a new Blood Cocoon.
• Added +50 reading experience as a reward for studying any skill book.
• Removed item "Scroll of Discovery: Travel". Travel can now be discovered by entering a mountain biome.
• Removed item "Scroll of Discovery: Athletics". Athletics can now be discovered by using the Jump ability.
• The Ranger background now starts with a Campsite Kit, and has Survival as a major skill.
• Unleash Fury (and other stances) now trigger their post-stance effect if the player turns off the stance.
• Smooth out differences between music volumes, more of the volume options are now in within the mid range, with the difference becoming more extreme as volume increases.
• Map Events - made low level events easier: fewer bees in bee attack; fewer wolves in wolf attack; bear attack cannot happen until level 7; fewer gremlins in gremlin attack.
• Map Events - rework event chance; increase event chance overall; decrease event chance after an event recently happened, up to 40%; decrease event chance up to 25% base on player weariness (less is better).

Bug Fixes

• Fixed gremlin chief (and other creatures) in some cases not spawning.
• Fixed bonuses from arrows stacking for every equipped arrow.
• Fixed weird path selection in the overworld, where paths would not prefer roads when a valid road path is available.
• Fixed repeat attacks causing more attacks to be written to the log than actually occurred.
• Fixed alchemy ability "Ingenious Augmentation" giving bonuses more often than intended.
• Fixed alt+tabbing causing the game to continue to register the alt key as pressed when re-activating the window. All held keys now reset when window focus is lost/regained.
• Fixed "Unknown Entity" hits you when plants or traps deal damage. Show the plant or trap name instead.
• Fixed traps checking multiple times if they trigger, causing the "Trap Avoidance" stat to be far weaker than intended.
• Fixed unable to sleep in some NPC beds.
• Fixed Lamassu spawning on invalid tile locations.
• Fixed enchanted jewelry drops instead not being enchanted.
• Fixed Faydes cursing equipped ammo. All ammo is now immune to curses.
• Fixed weapon skills in some cases not becoming discovered after the weapon is equipped.
• Fixed wrong faction name showing in the inspection window for some dungeons.
• Fixed bleed doubling effect of "Deep Gashes" ability not working; show in log when a bleed is doubled against an opponent.
• Fixed free 5% melee reduction being applied to all abilities, even if no melee reduction bonuses are on character.
• Fixed players able to salvage or sell the required item for Haunted Cave quest, causing the quest to become impossible.
• Fixed multistrike not writing to combat log.
• Fixed skill and skill details windows not refreshing immediately when XP is gained; fix button weirdness in skill pane.