Patch Notes (version 0.8.x)

New Systems

• Darkness overlay: New system to tune darkness and brightness of the game.
• Mesh destruction: Certain breakable objects (such as crates) break apart into smaller fractures when destroyed with explosives or a sword strike.
• Location banderolls: Top-centered banners when entering certain locations (such as safe zones).
• Treasure maps: Collect and use rare treasure maps to reveal treasure locations.
• Enemy naming: Enemies take on new names depending on their abilities (for example, Berserker Slime instead of Slime). Battle portrait tooltips also show the abilities an enemy has.
• Cheat scripting: Create custom cheat commands.
• NPC ambient walking: Some NPCs walk around within confined patterns.
• Dialogue box: Replaces the old speech bubble. Speech bubbles remain for quips and reactions.
• Robot service kit: The repair kit is now a three-part puzzle that must be solved to repair successfully.
• Auto walk: Left-click a map tile to walk there automatically.

Enhanced Systems

• Magnetized drops: Dropped items are magnetized when nearby so they collect faster.
• Quest box: Considerably less text; quest text aims to be more to the point and useful.
• Audio options: New game settings for music volume and SFX volume.
• Fire burn: Fully percentage-based damage on health instead of flat damage.
• Keys: Automatically discarded when they unlock no further doors.

Improvements and quality of life

• Candles as a semi-rare drop from treasure chests.
• World interaction label and streamlined flow for the tractor quest.
• Several guided tutorial improvements (battle).
• Inventory collectibles spawn in an arch for better visuals.
• Help info for blank upgrade tokens.
• Hints for the trolling business quest.
• Arrow indicator for off-screen loot bags.
• Player can punch boulders and planks at the beginning of the game.
• Improved reveal audio cue when digging up valuables, dungeons, and similar finds.
• Improved visuals for the Power The Generator questline.
• Gathering ore and trees prefers the resource the player is facing, and otherwise goes counter-clockwise.
• New guided tutorial for how to use Upgrade Sigils.
• Upgrade Sigils now glow.
• Rewrites and clarifications across notes, how-tos, lore, and other in-game text.

UI Fixes

• Craft UI: Better button FX plus 2× larger buttons.
• Upgrade sigil UI: Better button FX.
• Notes UI: Cleaner layout with search support.
• Status UI: Cleaner layout with colorization.
• Map UI: Cleaner layout with added labels.
• Small caps applied consistently across in-game text.

Quests and contracts

• All directives grant +1 extra reward.

Game balancing

• Defenses, Immunity, and Pierce upgrade cards increased to 5%.
• Economy overhaul: adjusted prices, fewer buried treasure chests, and related changes to reduce inventory bloat.
• Emeraldite ore grants +20 XP (up from +10). XP progression is adjusted to account for the extra XP.

Bug Fixes

• Load Game button on the death screen.
• Battles no longer start while the player is in a safe zone.
• Exploration music no longer plays on the start screen after exiting during an active battle.
• Smaller scale on certain collectible items.
• Collision detection with crates.
• Green battle flee markers only spawn in locations the player can reach.
• Serum Component C is now accepted in the WITSA questline.
• Ore shattering during mesh destruction.
• Font Size setting renamed to Font & UI Size.
• House key sprite (in world).
• Bone piles no longer spawn on tiles that hold buried quest items.
• Tools and weapons cannot be sacrificed down to zero; at least two of each are required.