Pyromancy

Pyromancy is our take on fire magic. It focuses on sustained fire damage and area control. It rewards aggressive casting and smart positioning, continually building up power as fights progress.

How to Play:

• 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.

Spells like Line of Fire and Ignite set the ground ablaze, creating zones of damage that can be used to layer on even more damage.

With Flame Aura you can absorb your own fire, converting it into a powerful aura.

When you've built up enough combustion stacks, unleash a FireBall for a devastating finisher.

Fulmination

Fulmination (thunder magic) focuses on burst damage, crowd control, and energy-hungry spellcasting. Unlike Pyromancy which builds up damage over time, with Fulmination you hit hard, stun fast, and burn through energy quickly.

How to Play:

• 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.

Use abilities like Static Lance and Galvanic Bloom to dish out damage and build overload stacks.

Magnetic Pull allows you to reposition, or to pull a group of enemies towards a single point.

Chain Lightning can jump to any number of targets. Use as a finisher or to handle large groups.

Jump into game to try out all the new abilities!

Attunement

As we're now seriously getting into magic, it's time to introduce our long-term plan for the magic system: Attunement. It not only anchors the in-world lore behind magic, but also directly ties into the mechanics of spells and magic equipment.

What is attunement?

In the world of Trithius, every spell draws its power from a magical Realm. Attunement represents your body's ability to channel and align with that Realm. In terms of mechanics, this means each spell now has an Attunement requirement, shown directly on the tooltip with specific icons:

To cast a spell, you must meet its Attunement requirement. Most low-level spells need just 1 Attunement. Higher-tier spells may require 2, or even 3. Both Pyromancy and Fulmination draw their power from the same realm, requiring Tyros Attunement.

How to Gain Attunement?

1) Attuned Gear
Many new items have been added that grant Attunement bonuses. These items are not typically offered in city shops. If you're eager to find attuned gear the most reliable source will be the desert crypts dungeons.

2) Magebooks
A new item type, Magebooks, provide an easy to find source of Attunement. Unlike lore book or skill books, Magebooks can be equipped in the offhand.

To accommodate Magebooks, all mage staffs are now 1h, and have had their stats rebalanced to be 1h. You can find these books are scribe stores, general shops, or in dungeon loot.

3) Reading and Insight
There's also the reading route. Look for books which grant "Enalia Insight" or "Tyros Insight", which will open up a path to gain insight via the Reading skill.

Main Quest Update

The main quest, "Ascension" is undergoing a significant rework. In this update, you'll find the first two stages of the revamped quest. Sagohai has moved from town to his new forest cabin, where your journey with him will begin.

This quest will eventually intertwine with the Stormbringer faction as we continue to expand the world.

Stealing

NPCs will now react when you steal items in their line of sight, costing you reputation based on the price of the item. Lower priced items have less of a chance to be called out. Town crate/barrel/chest loottables have been updated to include some new items.

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.

Developer Console Commands

• 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.

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

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

• 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.

• 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.

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

• 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".

Bug Fixes

Fixed issue with map generation occasionally producing disconnected rooms. All dungeons now guarantee valid connectivity between rooms.

While we've worked on dungeon connectivity issues in the past, this time the fix is thorough, having tested against 1000s of simulated dungeons and pinpointing the exact cause.

• 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.

Abilities & Balance

• "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.

• Added new icons for all character traits.
• Fixed "Oath of the Fallen" not rewarding Oaths for kills, with or without "Knight's Challenge".
• Fixed melee energy cost reduction stat not actually reducing energy cost.
• 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.

• 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.