Thank you for playing! This update includes an important bug fix.

🛠 Important Fix

• Fixed adventurers returning "dead" when they shouldn't have. On deeper dungeon runs, a knockout that should have only left an adventurer "injured" was being treated as a death — even an adventurer who went down in a battle you won. The cause: death was decided from the total damage taken across the entire dispatch. We removed that cumulative-death rule, so a normal knockout now returns as "injured" and recovers over time, and death only happens from a single devastating blow. This also addresses feedback about "too many deaths" and "adventurers rarely return injured, so I can't progress the tech tree."

✨ Improvements

• Improved the intro screen.

  • Added a note apologizing that the tutorial is still a simple version, with a proper tutorial planned for a future update.

  • Added the same [?] help button found on other windows to the intro screen.

  • Noted that you can reopen this screen anytime from the Encyclopedia (Intro) after closing it.

• Tidied the window title — the title bar now reads just "Ultimate Blacksmith Tycoon."

• Improved the bug-report form guidance — honestly explained that Japanese IME input can sometimes stop mid-way, and suggested writing your text elsewhere and pasting it in (and if you know a fix, we'd love to hear it!).

Thanks, and keep the feedback coming!