[0.6.61] Improvements

Changes

• Added bulk production buttons for Transport Seals at the Transport Array.

• Changed the Heaven's Storm manual reward from the Celestial Turncoat quest to an inventory item.

• Added explicit rarity tier labels (I-VI) and text to unveiled stones in the jade cutting UI for colour blind accessibility.

• Enhanced the stone gambling entrance with staggered character fades and sequential stone drop animations.

• Updated the jade cutting interface background to the Celestial Jade Pavilion.

• Expanded the Pillar Control Panel with layout management and statistical analysis tools.

  • Added export and import functionality for saving and loading pillar layouts.

  • Added a Pillar Details view for stability, generation, and resource statistics.

• Added Old Huo the Altar-Mapper as a source for compression altar location hints.

• Added a progress counter to relationship progression tooltips for unmet requirements.

• Adjusted interaction cooldowns to trigger only after an event is successfully completed.

• Added simultaneous 'Enter' and 'Explore' buttons to locations containing both buildings and enemies.

• Introduced dynamic entry animations for combat participants and the combat UI.

• Added descriptive tooltips for Qi Pool Cost Multiplier and Crit Multiplier.

• Updated the Petrified Mantle Gem tooltip to clarify guardian health scaling.

• Introduced a flexible Rule Block system for combat automation using AND/OR operators.

• Capped negative healing boost to reduce to 0 not negatives

• Improved the appearance of social links on the main menu with branded buttons and animations.

• Updated the expedition healer role to grant the Vital Surge buff instead of flat health restoration.

• Updated the expedition Surveyor role to reduce travel time between tiles.

• Added "Instant (Animated)" combat speed option for instant rounds but some animation.

• Added a free room slot to the Sect Disciple Room.

Balance Changes

• Overhauled Meteor.

  • Reworked Meteors to fall over 3 rounds, absorbing stats from Attunements before detonating.

  • Added the Refusal to Fall technique which consumes Meteor stacks to increase mass.

  • Redesigned the Terminal Impact technique to increase active Meteor mass.

  • Added a unique visual icon for active Meteors in combat.

• Increased the minimum toxicity cost for items and techniques to 1 point.

• Increased the base number of 'Sealed Meridian' stacks applied by Meridian Wounding to 2.

• Changed Blood Corruption to no longer increase damage taken, now only dealing True Damage.

• Reduced defense bonuses across all clothing-type equipment to be consistently lower than armour type.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed highlight box display issues in specific tutorial steps.

• Fixed translation errors for physical stat reward names on results screens.

• Fixed a bug where cost reductions only applied if equipment modifiers were present.

• Resolved an issue preventing multi-step quest recipes from appearing in the crafting list.

• Fixed Space/Enter key functionality for starting crafts in sect events.

• Fixed the application of Control bonuses from Golden Path: Fourth Peak.

• Fixed shard grid panning and zooming while dialog windows are open.

• Fixed an issue where high resistance caused pills to grant negative toxicity.

• Corrected misleading delivery quest hints on the request board.

• Fixed a bug allowing the 'Accept All' button to remain active after quest completion.

• Fixed character avatar layering issues on the combat screen.

• Resolved character scaling inconsistencies and abrupt size changes during combat transitions.

• Removed misleading '+' prefixes from multiplier values in the breakthrough preview.

• Resolved excessive decimal artifacts in percentage-based healing and barrier tooltips.

• Fixed a crash when opening technique crystals with invalid data.

• Fixed market pricing logic to ensure buy prices remain above sell prices and capped sell values.

• Fixed the Flame of Discordance explosion to correctly reduce health to 1 HP.

• Fixed a bug where negative healing modifiers could cause healing to deal damage.

• Restored the intended symmetric layout of the Jingdi Rise formation puzzle.

• Fixed an issue where Sect Favour Exchange shops would appear empty with high reputation.

• Fixed an issue where the Deep Chasm Sanctuary quest failed to trigger alongside the compression altar quest.

• Fixed a bug where Woven Remnant clothing skipped the third stage of the Remnant Cycle.

• Fixed a naming conflict causing Calming Mind Pill recipes to disappear or become "Unknown Items".

• Fixed Jade Forest visual effects breaking when changing settings.

• Fixed a white flash glitch during full-screen overlay transitions.

• Fixed the 2-stack limit on the Evasive Strike protection buff.

• Fixed Tornado Kick to correctly consume all Momentum stacks.

ModAPI

• Added "isRegisteredAltarLocation" and "getLocationAltarReward" functions to query the altar system.

• Enabled automatic rebuilding of the altar reward registry after mods are loaded.

• Updated breakthrough definitions to combine base statistics with dynamically calculated statistics.

• Crafting actions can now have droplet costs, and can specify other usage restrictions like 'first action only'.

• Added support for custom speaker names in dialogue events.