[0.6.41] Bug fixes

Changes

• Renamed 'Buy all materials' to 'Add all materials' in the shop, reduced font size, and relocated currency displays to the bottom of the interface.

• Grouped distance (in days) and flare requirements under a unified 'Cost' header in the mining dialog.

• Updated Compression Altar screen text to clarify that the Unformed Core must be defeated to achieve compression and highlighted the specific challenge buff the enemy will use.

• Added a notification indicator to relationship progression buttons when a new event is available at the player's current location.

• Slowed screen transition fade speed to 180ms and lengthened the black-screen period for smoother navigation.

• Added support for the Escape key to close the Reforge workshop screen.

• Added support for selecting previous cultivation realms in the Cultivation Chamber that display exact physical stats, social stats, buffs, and items granted by those advancements.

• Qi Pool restoration mastery tooltip now clarifies that the restoration bonus is applied multiplicatively.

• Refining the Stellar Flame requires completion of 'The Path of Sublime Crafting' quest.

• Export Combat Log button in the Combat Log dialog that saves the current battle history into a plain text file.

• Added a prerequisite for 'The Corrupted Elder' quest requiring players to reach the Pillar Creation realm before proceeding.

Balance Changes

• Reduced the power of the Poisoned Needle artefact:

  • Reduced poison max health damage from 10% to 5%.

  • Reduced base attack damage from 45% to 31.5% of Artefact Power.

  • Reduced upgraded attack damage from 55% to 37.5% of Artefact Power.

• Adjustments to the Mobile Meditation Formation mount:

  • Replaced mastery points with an Exploration Bonus of 1 (2 for S-rank).

  • Grants the 'Still Mind' buff, which restores 5% (7% for Plus, 10% for S-rank) of maximum health every round for the first 5 rounds of combat.

• Adjusted masteries and base values for defensive and repair techniques:

  • New masteries for Living Metal Shell: a 'stacks' mastery (+1 per use) and a 'Barrier Effectiveness' mastery (+1% to 4% based on rarity).

  • Increased base power of Repair Puppets from 1.5 to 3.

  • Increased base power of Regenerative Metal from 1 to 2.

• Scaled quest rewards based on cultivation progress:

  • Eccentric Long's second trial awards a Five Colour V Key instead of a lower-tier key if the player has reached the Pillar Creation realm.

  • Jiaohua Lin provides a Lin Key V instead of Lin Key IV if the player has reached the Pillar Creation realm during their first meeting.

Bug Fixes

• Resolved issues with hotkeys and shortcuts:

  • Fixed Escape key and shortcut functionality on the Training Ground screen.

  • Fixed shortcut keys being disabled when Caps Lock is active or when using non-Latin keyboard layouts.

• Fixed technique behaviour and display issues:

  • Fixed inconsistent damage values for multi-school techniques between the tooltip and enhancement screen.

  • Clarified Stellar Attunement tooltip to show the boost is the sum of Solar and Lunar Attunement.

  • Increased Isolated Space priority to ensure effects trigger after all other end-of-round logic.

  • Improved deduplication of learned NPC manuals from generic characters with identical styles.

  • Replaced non-functional barrier mastery on Magnetic Repulsion with a mastery that increases inflicted debuff stacks by 1.

• Crackling Shield no longer incorrectly intercepts or blocks damage that the player deals to themselves.

• Fixed various typos in item descriptions and lore books, including 'Feitang Lake' to 'Feiteng Lake' and the spelling of 'casualties'.

• Adjustments to Shadow Sickness and Barrier mechanics:

  • Shadow Sickness self-damage no longer scales with the player's critical hits or damage boosts.

  • Clamped maximum barrier to 0 to prevent negative values from causing excessive barrier degeneration.

• Comprehensive UI bug fixes:

  • Removed 'remove all stacks' text from tooltips of non-stackable buffs.

  • Clarified Digestion stat tooltip regarding Item Effectiveness and Toxicity Handling.

  • Clarified Insightful Restoration and Explosive Release tooltips to show resource gains occur before stack removal.

  • Fixed infinite selling loops and crashes in the shop when handling items with 0 stacks.

  • Fixed a race condition preventing the '0' keybind from triggering during crafting and combat.

  • Removed an excessively large text gap in the Cloak of Shadows initiation event.

  • Fixed visibility of the 'Begin' button in Practice Crafting when using large font sizes.

  • Prevented inventory item count labels from overlapping item borders.

  • Fixed 'undefined' tooltips for puppet repair masteries.

  • Disabled the Escape key during house and crafting tutorials to prevent accidental skips.

  • Fixed the Nine Mountain Sect compression altar incorrectly appearing in World Events before meeting unlock requirements.

  • Fixed an animation bug when using 'Unveil All' on technique crystals where the wrong crystal type was displayed.

• Quest logic and dialogue corrections:

  • Fixed 'Escaped Stitch' quest failing to complete if Heart Fibers were already in the inventory.

  • Fixed 'You're might' typo in the Star Observers escort quest.

  • Corrected Tomb of Lu Bu Lin location to the west of Shen Henda City.

• Disabled Steam overlay to resolve window duplication issues when using Alt-Tab.

• Fixed item interaction and save data issues:

  • Fixed negative quality stars on legacy save items by clamping minimum quality to 0.

  • High Tide and Low Tide artefacts now consume stacks after technique execution.

  • Yichan Chakrams now consume Starshine stacks after technique execution.