[0.6.57] Improvements

Changes

• Improved visuals for getting items, spirit stones, sect favour, reputation, and favour during events.

• Refined translations for Russian, Chinese, and Korean.

• Improved clarity of damage reduction and status effect statistics in menus and tooltips.

  • Updated the statistics menu to display both raw Barrier Mitigation and effective damage reduction percentage.

  • Added clarification to the Barrier Mitigation tooltip regarding diminishing returns.

  • Added clarification to Weakness and Vulnerability tooltips regarding stacking behaviours.

• Added the Dense Toxin Pill to the celadon flame, that instantly fills the toxicity bar and gives an equal amount of barrier.

• Increased Stone Puppet round limit from 100 to 999 rounds.

• Improved the layout and functionality of the mod settings interface.

  • Moved the vertical scrollbar to the right-most edge and adjusted spacing.

  • Added a scrollable list of affected mod names to the "Cleanse Removed Mods" confirmation dialog.

• Added bulk interaction capabilities to shop menus, including right-click to buy or sell entire stacks and a 'Maps' option to the 'Add all' menu.

• Added a streamlined "Enchant" button to inventory items and active equipment slots.

• Added 'Missing Qi Droplets' as a new condition for stance rules.

• Added a "Used in loadout" filter and indicator to the crafting actions list.

• Added a variety of concoctions to body forging sect recipe library.

Balance Changes

• Added a Flow Mastery upgrade to Longma Stance.

• Reworked the Combat Meditation technique. It now gives a bonus to the stacks of deadly focus gained.

• Rebalanced the Martyred Zeal Talisman across multiple tiers.

  • Reduced protection strength of Tiers II and III by ~33%, and Tiers IV and V by 50%.

  • Increased the minimum potential for Tiers II, III, and V.

• Rebalanced the Spiritbound Garb equipment set.

  • Reduced the defense stat for all tiers by ~45%.

  • Normalized Guardian Intercept health scaling to a flat value.

  • Increased the minimum potential for tiers II, III, IV, and VI.

• Adjusted the Protection stat to require 999 protection to hit the cap, instead of 500.

• Reduced maximum damage reduction achievable through armour from 90% to 70%.

• Overhauled the Barrier Mitigation system and player scaling.

  • Changed the baseline for mitigation from 100 to 0.

  • The player now starts with 0 mitigation at Flesh 0, so most players will start the game with 10 mitigation.

  • Negative mitigation is now a linear effectiveness decrease.

• Increased power scaling of the Pinpoint Detonation technique by 100%.

• Increased the minimum potential for the Calamity Shard at tiers II, III, and V.

• Increased the minimum potential for the Tidal Harvest Cauldron at tiers IV and VI.

• Reality splitter now gives crit multiplier too.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a crash in the options menu when viewing the mods list before game initialization.

• Fixed an issue where the Escape key would not open settings on the Dual Cultivation screen.

• Fixed Heal Talisman triggering its effect after 2 rounds instead of 3.

• Fixed an issue where multiple Dancing Kukri buffs incorrectly shared the same state.

• Fixed an issue preventing screen readers from reading tooltip descriptions.

• Prevented players from closing the Enchantment Extraction interface during animations.

• Fixed an issue allowing players to exit Reforge or Upgrade menus during refinement animations.

• Fixed an issue where indirect stance buffs were missing from the condition selection menu.

• Fixed NPC and challenge board enemy damage reduction to cap at 90% to match the player cap.

• Fixed the 'B' key to correctly toggle auto-battle on or off.

• Fixed mod-triggered saves to correctly update their last played timestamp.

• Adjusted the position of meridian points on the knee and hand to prevent UI obstruction.

• Fix dialogs being stretched on very large resolutions.

ModAPI

• Removed the maxReduction parameter from the calculateDamage function.

• Expanded the combat modding system with state access and event hooks.

  • Added modAPI.combat for real-time access to HP, buffs, and the combat log.

  • Added turn interception hooks and round transition triggers.

  • Added event hooks for consuming pills and combat consumables.

• Expanded the utility API for character stats, cultivation mechanics, and entity generation.

  • Added createPlayerCombatEntity and createPlayerCraftingEntity.

  • Exposed getMaxQiDroplets to calculate capacity based on condensation arts.

  • Expanded coverage for relationship definitions and combat power calculation.

• Added a "Reset Tutorial" button to the debug menu.

• Added discountPercentage and freeCount fields to the stoneCutting event step.

• Added a system for persistent buffs that remain active after combat and decay monthly.

• Added a debug menu toggle to enable coordinate display on the world map.

• Added an "extend" mode for Guardian protections to add health to current values upon re-application.

• Updated abilities that modify buff groups to support targeting effects with the most or fewest stacks.

• Added shared consumption groups for pills with UI tracking for usage progress.