Eldara Update
A new comfort setting, offline progression, balance passes, and a stack of fixes from your reports. Thank you all!
🆕 New
- Windowed Mode — a toggle in Settings to swap between fullscreen and windowed, so you don't need to know F11 / Alt+Enter. It remembers your choice and stays in sync however you switch.
🌙 Offline Progression
- Bone Grinder runs offline — leave it on with bones in your pack and it keeps burning them while you're away (Cremation XP + Pyre Charges), highest tier first.
- Auto-Farm runs offline — your farm now keeps harvesting AND replanting the whole time you're gone instead of maturing a single crop. Spends a seed per replant and stops when you run out.
Both are capped by your offline limit and the bones/seeds you actually have — same as leaving the game open. Hunting Points still don't accrue offline.
⚖️ Balance
- Smithing is quicker — every smelt (ore → ingot) is ~25% faster. Smelting was sitting at ~55% of mining's XP/hr across the board; it's now ~75%, with the tier order unchanged. (e.g. Emerald Ingot 18k → 24k XP/hr.)
- Shiny gear completes regular sets — a single shiny piece now counts toward the normal set bonus, so it's never wasted or forcing you back to the plain piece. Wearing the full shiny set still grants the stronger all-shiny bonus.
- Two quests un-wasted — The Emo War and Deadly Dish required level 100 in skills they then rewarded XP in (wasted at cap). Lowered those requirements to 95.
🛠️ Fixes
- "Prosperous Market" no longer sticks forever — a faction sell perk was keeping the timed banner up permanently. The perk still works; it just stops pretending to be a timed event.
- Quest panel no longer freezes on hover — timers and gathered-material counts keep ticking even while your cursor is over the board.
- Blacksmith refining reads your Bank — with the Quartermaster's Ledger, gear-upgrade materials now count what's stashed in your bank/bags like every other recipe.
- Ash Salts actually speeds up skilling — it showed in the tooltip but wasn't really applying. Fixed.
- XP / speed tooltips read true — quest XP boons now appear in the XP breakdown; the Woodcutting speed breakdown lists every bonus; the "% Faster" panel notes bonuses multiply (so six "-10%"s aren't "-60%"); and a shiny piece's tooltip now reads as part of your set's 3/3.