Hi everyone,
We are ready with a new update. This is a major one with new content and lots of changes. The highlight of this update is a new resource called lore. Note that the older saves will not work with this update. The older version can be found under beta at the client.
Version 0.95.09
ADDITIONS
- A new resource added: Lore. Its counter is located on the main hud near the gold counter.
- Lore can be gained by reading books, inspecting statues, listening to bards and historians.
- Lore Mastery Skill added. This skill improves lore collecting abilities of the hero. Arcanist and Sage background starts with 3 points in this skill.
- Lore can be spent to purchase maps for treasure islands and dungeons or skill points.
- Treasure Maps added. Hero can right click these to examine and locate the whereabouts of the treasure islands or dungeons.
- Treasure Islands added.
- Ancient Tomb Dungeon added.
- Golden Citadel Dungeon added.
- Lost Library Dungeon added.
- Lore page added to do lore related things like purchasing treasure maps or keeping track of the books read, treasure islands visited etc. It can be accessed through a tab at the journal page or by clicking the lore counter near the gold counter on the main bottom hud.
- Ancient Library added. This is a new type of settlement on the overworld, the home of the new faction: Lore Wardens. Hero can take lore related quests, earn reputation and rewards. There are two types of quests for now: Saving an archeologist from restless spirits and investigating a forsaken library/dungeon.
- Arachne added.
- Mummy added.
- Mummy Lord added.
- Gold Golem added.
- Golden Sage added.
- A new curse added: Death Curse. Mummies utilize this curse to make hero’s life harder. Death Curse kills hero after 10 days. Every other Death Curse after the first one, reduces countdown by one day. It can be removed by Remove Curse Potion.
- 10 unique daggers added.
- 4 new ambient music tracks added for overworld travel.
CHANGES
- Elixir of Forbidden Knowledge is now a craftable potion at alchemy skill level 20. This potion gives a free skill point (perfect for power hungry alchemists).
- Quest icons at the right of the screen change to green and show a tick sign once the hero succeeds the quest objective.
- Hero can earn lore by examining the statues in the game.
- Hero can earn lore by listening to bards or historians at the tavern.
- Reduced the number of ingredient types to make potion crafting easier. This also reduced bloating of inventory and make it more managable.
- There are now two armor types instead of three: light and heavy. Armors made of wool/leather are light armor, armors made of metal/stone are heavy armor.
- Every point in light and heavy armor skills give 3% bonus defense instead of 2.5%.
- Every point of meditation reduces the stamina cost of talent stones by 2.5% instead of 2%.
- Reduced the stamina cost addition per rank from 20% to 15%. So talent stones will cost less stamina at higher ranks.
- There is now a jade chest with a unique item at the last room of the spider dungeon.
- Changed map opening sound with a more suitable one.
- Pickpocketing NPCs at tavern now gives more coins.
- Failing while pickpocketing an NPC at taverns now costs 2 reputation instead of 3.
- Fishing difficulty for common fishing spots is increased by 10.
- Increased the damage for explosive barrels.
- Altars have at least a silver valuable item.
- Load capacity is increased by 5 for all characters.
- Added sky to the background of the prisoner cages and locked chests GUI at the battlemaps.
FIXES
- Fixed some of the unique amulets' elemental damage calculations.
- Fixed an issue about map button. Clicking the map button while camping was not working as intended.
- Fixed an issue about saving unique items inside chests.
- Fixed an issue about amulets’ burn and freeze powers. They were disappearing after a new weapon is wielded.
- Fixed the sound of spider nest.
- Tomato soup recipe was showing olive oil as a needed ingredient instead of red pepper.
- Corrected typo in bottle of lavafall. It was saying poison damage instead of fire damage.