The Commoner

The Commoner is a new character background designed to offer a heightened challenge. Starting with no skills or positive traits, this character receives negative buffs with each new skill unlocked.

Roll Appearance

During character creation, you can now preview and roll to change your appearance (rolling affects both loot and appearance).

Skill Trees

Most non-combat skills have been restructured into skill trees, with new icon art, additional abilities and passives, and balance changes.

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• 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.

While the above listed skills are closer to completion, more abilities and balance changes are still forthcoming. Future updates will similarly treat Reading, Travel, Athletics, and all Weapon skills.

Due to the extensive nature of these changes, some specifics are highlighted below, but we encourage players to explore the game to discover the full extent of these updates.

Quartermastery Satchels

The Quartermastery skill now includes satchels, a new equipment type that reduces the weight of specific items. For example, the Materials satchel reduces the weight of raw materials:

Once crafted, satchels can be equipped on your character.

Note that inventory slots for satchels can only be unlocked through the Quartermastery skill tree and are otherwise invisible.

Friendly Hedgehog

"Animal Companion" is a unique summon ability in the Survival tree. When toggled, a friendly Hedgehog will accompany you on your journeys, periodically bringing gifts from the forest.

The Hedgehog is resilient and will roll into a defensive ball when low on health.

Heal Summoned Creatures

Creatures you summon now have their health displayed and can be healed with medicine.

Using medicine on a summon requires you to be within 1 tile.

Keyboard Shortcuts

• New shortcut key: [Z] 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: [X] 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

The game now features a new client icon:

Sound

Sound has been an ongoing issue for some users (I blame our sound libraries).

1) Sound File Format

To improve robustness across Windows, Mac, and Linux, all sound files have been upgraded to .WAV format. This increases the game size but should enhance performance and reliability.

2) Music Player

You can now select music player. If music is not playing properly or causing stability issues, try switching to the other music player.

What's Next?

If you've read to the end, thanks for following along! Skill Trees will continue to be developed in future updates.

Also on the horizon are the new Polearm weapons and associated skill trees: Spears, Halberds, Tridents.

A poll on Discord determined which stance to use (the middle option won):

If you'd like to participate in community polls, feel free to join our Discord!

Changes

• 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.

Changes

• 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.

Changes

• 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.

Changes

• 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.