New: the Bard's Studio

There's a new corner in the Arcade. It's a small music studio where you write your own tavern tune.

• Three instruments: piano, folk harp and recorder. Each one sits on its own track with its own volume and mute.
• Piano roll: click to place a note, drag to make it longer, click it again to remove it. Space plays and stops, and Ctrl+Z undoes.
• Songs run up to 3:00. You can set the tempo, choose 3/4 or 4/4, and use a scale lock (D Dorian, G Mixolydian and more) so that every note sounds like it belongs in the realm.
• Examples to learn from: Greensleeves, Ode to Joy and Scarborough Fair, all public-domain tunes. Load one, listen, then make it yours.
• Save and export: keep your songs in My Songs and export any of them as an MP3 file to your computer.
• Share with friends: press Share to copy a song code. When a friend pastes it into their Studio, they hear your song and can edit it.

Music player, rebuilt

• 5 slots for your own music. Fill them with songs from the Studio or with audio files from your computer (MP3, OGG, WAV, M4A, FLAC, up to 40 MB). Your music shows in its own colour, and you can remove it at any time.
• What plays: Mixed, Only my music, or Only the game's music. The same choice appears in the player and in Settings, so both always show the same setting.
• The game's own soundtrack can't be removed and isn't changed.

Also in this update

• Loading screen: Sarah now meets you between the main menu and the game, with one of 20 tips. Click or press any key to skip it.
• End-of-run moments: holding the line or pulling out of a dungeon now plays a short scene before the results.
• 3·2·1 countdown is back as an option in Settings. It's off by default.
• "One more" button in the chest window opens another chest of the same kind.
• Quick theme button in the top bar (wide window) cycles through colour themes.
• Wide screens: a calm, slow ember drift fills the empty side margins and stays behind everything.
• Duel cards: descriptions now fit when you enlarge a card.
• Visual modes (Cinematic and others): the skill bar always sits above the HP bar.
• Balance: Drowned Sanctum through Hall of the Gods are a little tougher, with +5% enemy health and attack.
• New saves start with the "Compact" bag size.

Thanks for playing — and for every tune you write.