Overland travel

• Expanded mouse and keyboard travel across the regional map.

• Added route planning with clearer travel paths and estimated journey times.

• Travel speed now reflects terrain, weather, time of day, and chosen pace.

• Added cautious, normal, and forced travel options.

• Added travel endurance and fatigue mechanics.

• Added options to camp before fatigue or automatically stop at dusk.

• Overland travel fatigue can now be disabled from the Game options.

• Added day, night, weather, time, and regional dread indicators.

Camping and recovery

• Added dedicated wilderness camping.

• Party activities can be reassigned during each hourly rest period.

• Added automatic resting until dawn or until travel endurance is restored.

• Wilderness encounters are checked during each hour of camping.

• Improved reporting for healing, condition removal, poison, and recovery.

• Critical-success Competency Points now require the attempted action to succeed.

Settlements and services

• Added regional settlements throughout the overland map.

• Settlements can provide different combinations of taverns, inns, stores, blacksmiths, temples, and party storage.

• Shop inventories and services now vary by settlement.

• Added regional price adjustments.

• Improved travel between settlements and adventure locations.

Wilderness encounters

• Added biome- and dread-based wilderness encounter tables.

• Added a pre-combat encounter screen showing the creatures encountered.

• Parties may fight or attempt to evade using Sneak against the creatures’ awareness.

• Camouflage and muffling magic can assist evasion.

• Added creature portraits to encounter cards.

• Added biome-specific outdoor battlefields for grasslands, forests, mountains, foothills, swamps, deserts, wastelands, tundra, and ashlands.

Combat AI

• Added streamlined Swarm Rush behaviour for vermin and massed creatures.

• Added Simple Melee behaviour for straightforward combatants.

• Improved performance and reliability in large battles.

• Improved healer AI so support-focused casters recognize and treat injured allies.

• Improved automated movement toward missile and spellcasting positions.

• Fixed cases where automated turns could stall combat.

Spells and combat

• Improved missile, cone, beam, sphere, and other spell-targeting calculations.

• Corrected line-of-sight behaviour around allies and solid obstacles.

• Improved combat spell filtering and menu responsiveness.

• Improved spell and condition visual effects.

• Fixed several missing or incorrectly scaled effect images.

• Improved outdoor-combat creature placement and targeting.

World detail

• Added substantial regional lore throughout the overland map.

• Lore markers now provide additional information about notable locations.

• Explored regions reveal nearby dread levels without exposing exact encounters.

• Expanded the Creature Compendium and associated creature artwork.

Additional fixes

• Improved save compatibility when official adventure modules are updated.

• Fixed several encounter completion and one-shot encounter issues.

• Improved settlement service availability.

• Fixed missing encounter portraits and creature icons.

• Numerous interface, combat, resting, spellcasting, and authoring reliability fixes.