### What’s New
**Battle overhaul — skills, VFX & clarity**
- **Class skill VFX** for Knight, Elf, Dwarf, and Wizard — procedural cast → travel → impact effects tuned per skill slot.
- **Expanded skill tree** with Attack and Rebirth tabs — rank class abilities with skill points; unlock prestige rebirth skills after your first rebirth.
- **Status effect HUD** — buffs and debuffs show icon chips with remaining round counts on player and monster lanes.
- **Companion skill bar** in battle — pick one active companion skill per round; passives stay always-on when unlocked.
- **Madness Tower / Endless Dungeon** at Hex Spellblock — Standard, Time Trial, Endless (F1↔F2 loop), and Milestone runs (caps at 10 / 30 / 50 / 100 stages).
- Battle presentation and mobile portrait layouts tuned — skill dock, monster HUD, and combatant lanes read cleaner on smaller screens.
**Rebirth — soft-cap prestige**
- At **level 100**, burn a **Rebirth Scroll** at **Guru Satoshi Sharma** to reset to level 1.
- Each rebirth permanently grants **+1 bonus stat point on every future level-up**.
- Unlocks your **class rebirth skill** on first rebirth; each rebirth adds **+1 rebirth skill point** to rank it in the Rebirth tree.
- Equipment, gold, learned skills, and companions are kept — allocated base stats reset to class defaults.
- Rebirth Scrolls sold by **Magister Templi** at the temple.
**Housing market**
- Buy homes with gold from **Blocky McChainface** — listings from **Dawn Cottage** through **Caldera Villa** across Fabled Dawn, Plains, Forest, and Obsidian Caldera.
- Place décor from Merrick Bidwell’s **Plots** shop inside your house — rugs, banners, crystals, stoves, and more add **house power**.
- **Owner aura** converts power into live **ATK / DEF / HP** bonuses on your character.
- **Invite friends**, **stake gold favor**, and visit hosted demo homes for a lighter **guest aura**.
- Enter owned interiors, manage plot slots, and place décor on the in-map grid.
**Farming system — Chainfield**
- Purchase farm plots at **Chainfield Farms** (via **Harvest Chainfield**) — Meadow Plot through Valley Estate with 4–10 land slots.
- Place **beds, fences, décor, and crops** on owned land; crops grow through visible stages until ripe.
- **Harvest** for might / vitality / ward produce used in crafting and progression loops.
- Farm décor and ripe harvests contribute to a **farm aura** (ATK / DEF / HP) while you play.
- Land level and XP track as you expand and harvest.
**Farm buff potion crafting**
- Craft combat tonics from harvest produce at **Elara Liquidheart**’s buff craft bench.
- Basic tonics: **Might**, **Vitality**, and **Ward** (timed ATK / HP / DEF buffs).
- Concentrated primes and hybrid cordials: **Bloodroot**, **Stonebloom**, and **Concord**.
- Drink tonics from inventory — active farm buffs show duration on the HUD and apply in battle.
**Weapon artifacts**
- Melt spare equipment into a **Forged Artifact** that stores a slice of the sacrificed piece’s combat power.
- Socket the artifact onto a **weapon** — one artifact slot per weapon.
- Artifact bonuses feed into live combat stats (ATK, DEF, HP, MP, crit, haste, block).
- Forge cost scales with sacrificed gear rarity; plot harvest is required alongside the sacrifice piece.
**Pierce system — armor sockets**
- Unlock pierce slots on **armor** (up to 4) with **Block Cubes** and gold at **Magister Templi**.
- Socket elemental **Pierce Cards**: **Volcano**, **Water**, **Storm**, **Frost**, **Earth**, **Nature**, and **Solar**.
- Flat and percent combat bonuses stack from equipped armor and show on item tooltips.
**Mini-games — six tables in the world**
- **Fabled Puzzle** — match combos and climb levels (Steam leaderboard + achievements).
- **Fabled Slots** — line bets and reel spins on the casino floor.
- **Fabled Blackjack** — beat the dealer to 21; naturals pay 3:2.
- **Fabled Bingo** — classic cards with manual or auto ball calls.
- **Fabled Mau Mau** — shed your hand first; specials, Mau calls, winner takes the pot.
- **Fabled Rummy** — build sets and runs against two AI rivals; empty your hand to claim the pot.
- Walk up to tables in the Fortune / casino area and press **R** — shared gold wallet across stake games.
### Improvements
- Craft / pierce / artifact / rarity mobile item pickers for cleaner phone and tablet inventory flows.
- Battle and world character HUD push clear of the iOS status bar / notch on mobile builds.
- Companion map followers, catch flow, and weather overlays (rain, snow, fog) continue to polish the overworld loop.
- Steam battle achievements for Jira, Lion, Lynx, Shamacoon, Squishy, and Boar families.
### How to try it
1. **Battles** — level up, open the skill tree, enter a fight, and cast ranked class skills; talk to **Hex Spellblock** for Madness Tower runs.
2. **Rebirth** — reach Lv.100, buy a scroll from Magister Templi, visit **Guru Satoshi Sharma**.
3. **Housing** — talk to **Blocky McChainface**, buy a listing, buy décor from Merrick, enter and place plots.
4. **Farming** — visit **Harvest Chainfield**, buy land, plant crops, harvest, then craft tonics at **Elara Liquidheart**.
5. **Artifacts & pierce** — forge at Magister Templi; unlock armor slots with Block Cubes and socket Pierce Cards from Misc.
6. **Mini-games** — head to the Fortune floor; press **R** at Puzzle, Slots, Blackjack, Bingo, or the Card Table (Mau Mau / Rummy).