[0.6.62] Blood Rework

Changes

• Overhauled the Blood school entirely. It now has more methods for mitigating blood corruption damage, a large focus on life sacrifice, more healing, and more.

• Added LF progenitors

• Hide dialogue options requiring high affinity with Blossom during the Tidao Feng encounter if requirements are not met.

• Improved the Stance Editor by hiding technique tooltips while dragging.

• Added a charge counter to the Fragment Cannon buff tooltip.

• Increased the maximum stock of Cruiser Shots at the Falling Star Observatory market to 10,000 per refresh.

• Improved combat performance and reduced stuttering when multiple buffs and Blood Rituals are active.

• Added new rewards for completing Tai Kong puzzles.

• Updated the crafting item selection menu to remain open after using a pill or reagent if uses remain.

• Introduced a new Combat Zoom setting in the Game options menu allowing scaling from 50% to 150%.

• Reworked the Starlight mechanic into a system based on Eternal Sunlight and Eternal Moonlight.

• Updated the expedition map camera to maintain a wider view without automatic panning.

• Added several new discoverable locations to the Tai Kong expedition map including the Crafting Institute, Collapsed Sect, and Inheritance Grounds.

• Improved the expedition loot selection interface by making claimed items non-interactive and allowing returns from the 'Chosen Items' list.

• Updated dialogue sequences to support multiple character portraits on-screen simultaneously.

• Introduced new faction-specific local map variants with unique encounter scaling and themed buffs.

• Added a 'Tip on Ko-fi' button to the main menu.

• Enhanced the display and navigation of dynamic item tooltips with scroll arrows and edge fades.

• Synchronized the herb garden's harvest preview with the actual time-advancement simulation.

• The progenitor echo fights are now harder.

• Adjusted the calculation for overcrit hits to use the character's final critical hit chance (capped at 100) as the base.

• Increased the drop rate of Empowered uncut shards in the Yu Mai Jade Deposit.

• Added animations to entering crafting.

• Added music to the Yanshi Yun islands.

• Improved steam language settings detection.

• Added accept all button to the crafting hall.

• Changed fourth mountain compression altar reward to be artefact power.

• Allow entering the soul pillar/world during expeditions. Also added a hotkey (default w).

• Buffed the squid.

• Add many more primary enter button bindings.

• Auto-close character window after beating them.

• Improved expedition generation logic to be less uniform.

• Importing stances now validates the stance number and technique counts before allowing import.

• Grouped formation nodes so they are more logically ordered.

Balance Changes

• Made LF generally harder.

• Eternal immolation droplet-health spend now can only apply to ONE technique per round.

Bug Fixes

• Corrected the acquisition source for Heartbeat Echo, Fungal Heart, Frozen Stars, and Refusal to Fall to Progenitor rewards.

• Fixed an issue where companions and expedition members could participate in solo Progenitor Echo and Trial of Pure Mastery duels.

• Fixed the Jagged Transmutation technique to correctly convert Razor, Toxic, and Iron Blossom stacks into Jagged Blossom.

• Fixed persistence issues where mastery slot locks were not saved correctly.

• Prevented invalid mastery dialogs from appearing when right-clicking non-masterable lifeform techniques.

• Restricted Transcendent-only mastery visibility until the player reaches the Pillar Creation realm.

• Fixed a capitalization error in Zi Liang's patrol dialogue.

• Fixed an issue where the 'Increase maximum critical multiplier buff' mastery for Slipstream was non-functional.

• Fixed a tooltip error where Yu Mai Mine was displayed as "Yinying Mine".

• Fixed an issue where multiple active Dancing Kukri shared the tempering level of the highest-level instance.

• Fixed an issue where secondary effects of technique amplifiers would trigger even if criteria were not met.

• Removed 'hurt' animations from characters taking damage from self-inflicted ability costs.

• Fixed a visual bug in 'Instant (Animated)' combat mode where hit animations would loop incorrectly.

• Fixed the breakthrough completion screen to correctly display the "Items Per Round" stat.

• Corrected a typo in the First Elder's dialogue post-Life Flourishing breakthrough.

• Removed manuals that reference invalid techniques from the interface.

• Fixed raw formatting tags appearing in technique manual confirmation messages.

• Fixed an issue where the True Vastness Gem (Vast Health) did not fill the health pool at combat start.

• Fixed a bug in the Jade Cutter menu where closing during animation consumed resources without granting items.

• Updated the Read the Omens technique icon with its unique artwork.

• Prevented global character encounters from triggering during expeditions.

• Fixed non-functional offering rooms in the Soul Shard Delve.

• Resolved pill tooltip issues including raw stat update lines and missing percentage symbols.

• Fixed Copperedge Pill S displaying as "Unknown Item" after a Sublime Craft.

• Fixed stat bonuses from Core Formation altars to correctly integrate into total attributes.

• Fixed scaling descriptions for Devour Dreams and Tear Loose to clarify they remove all buff stacks.

• Updated Crimson Scribe descriptions to use the term "True Damage".

• Fixed techniques to immediately terminate if the user dies during execution.

• Fixed an issue where starting an expedition only disbanded one party member instead of the entire team.

• Corrected a spelling error in Xu Dong's Star Observatory dialogue.

• Fixed the Yu Mai mine to stop generating floors after the maximum depth for the current realm.

• Fixed Dart Spray to consistently calculate damage based on Metal Shards held at the start of the cast.

• Updated the Enforce Repulsion mastery tooltip to use 'barrier effectiveness cap' for consistency.

• Fixed a technical placeholder appearing in the final hint of 'The Old Way' quest.

• Resolved an issue where Shrine Ruins, Combat, Boss, Challenge, and Tai Kong puzzle tiles failed to spawn in expeditions.

• Adjusted Life Saving Talisman to trigger healing immediately upon taking damage below the threshold.

• Removed the unintended Void Fracture passive buff from Void Ripper and its variants.

• Fixed name placeholders appearing as raw text in event dialogue.

• Resolved rendering issues for character portraits including blank displays after resizing the window.

• Fixed an issue where Flame of Discord success rate penalties were rounded incorrectly.

• Added the Refinement Crucible Recipe to the Sect Recipe Library for the Life Flourishing tier.

• Fixed an exploit where Isolated Space negated HP sacrifice costs for Eternal Immolation.

• Fixed visual formatting tags in relationship progression tooltips for Jiaohua Lin and 'Shape of Us'.

• Reduced the size of Orbiting Peaks floating rocks to prevent UI obstruction.

• Fixed high-realm players being offered Body Forging tier missions in the Sect Mission Hall.

• Fixed tooltips for Perfected Heliolunar Heartstone and Perfected Hemomancer's Seal to display numerical values.

• Adjusted 'The Wound' world map position to prevent overlap with the Yinying Mine.

• Fixed the Spirit Herb Garden Market and Carpenter shop to correctly stock items for the Life Flourishing realm.

• Fixed the Cosmic Vine buff to trigger after technique performance.

• Fixed the "Advance Round" button in manual combat to respond to mouse clicks.

• Fixed rank displays for Twisted Fallen Star raid enemies.

• Fixed tags displaying as plain text in the character expiration dialog.

• Corrected typos and logical errors in the Stone Tapestry and 'Life' lore books.

• Resolved Alchemical Arts cost reduction calculation issues when using the Refined Cauldron.

• Fixed Sigil of the Court and Sigil of the Ruler appearing as "Unknown Item".

• Fixed fallen star notifications appearing for locked or undiscovered locations.

• Corrected a visual inconsistency where the Research Log discovery count displayed in red when complete.

• Fixed combat layering issues where Cloud effects and the action bar frame blocked interaction.

• Fixed buttons retaining focus highlights after closing dialogs with the Escape key.

• Fixed a formatting error in the Lunar Feather Plume robe tooltip.

• Fixed a number of Tai Kong formation puzzles to be solvable.

• Fixed many typos.

• Fixed Starshatter Palm tooltip.

• Fixed stray 0 in pill tooltips.

• Fixed jadebane rot tooltip.

• Fixed pressure forge cauldron stats.

• Fixed blood reservoir orb in light mode.

• Fixed ctrl-place in formation stopping one early.

• Fixed technique rewards in expeditions.

• Fixed lifesaving talisman tooltip to make it clear it only applies to normal damage.

• Fixed game slowdown/crash on HUGE numbers of inscriptions / marks.

• Fixed harbingers sight.

• Fixed realm display for manifestations.

• Fixed weave torment.

• Fixed transcendent ascension.

• Fixed tighten grip.

• Disabled essence upgrade button when fully upgraded.

• Fixed exploring of event-only locations.

• Fixed market category selection to reset to all when on an empty tab.

• Fixed marrow essence.

• Fixed Cascading doom tooltip.

• Fixed accidental map pan when clicking in expedition.

• Fixed festival branches being marked as completed when the player says 'later' because of lacking requirements.

• Fixed lifeform buffs not appearing in stance rules editor.

• Fixed transcendent potential.

• Fixed being able to enter WS tier of the jade mine.

• Fixed many icons.

• Fixed Fate Entanglement infinite mark stacking.

• Fixed Pulsing Vitality stacking.

• Fixed Forge Stabilization stacking.

• Fixed Suffering echo stacking.

• Fixed Wrath Builder stacking.

• Fixed Immutable Defense stacking.

• Fixed Prophetic Leech chaining.

• Fixed parts of the combat screen not accepting mouse events (such as hovering buffs).

• Fixed 'ally' healing/barrier breaking lifeforms.

• Fixed awarding of unbloodied hand trophy.

• Fixed delve rewarding techs that are intensity rewards.

• Fixed forge heat degeneration.

• Fixed gaps in herb field.

• Fixed images of soul shard enemies.

• Fixed soul shard enemies having wrong stance lengths.

• Fixed progenitor fights not taking spirit stones.

• Fixed performance of opening large numbers of rewards in soul shard delve.

• Fixed horde allies not attacking in combat.

• Fixed empathy capstone not triggering.

• Fixed combat log display of crit mult.

ModAPI

• Added a 'soloOnly' flag to combat event steps to disable external character and expedition buffs.

• Updated the getGameStateSnapshot function to always return a valid state object.

• Added [c]setMapViewport[/c] action to the mod redux api that allows moving the world map viewport.

• Added [c]addTab[/c] api to allow injecting new tabs into existing screens (such as the journal).

• Added a new stat [c]vitalOverheal[/c]. This is overheal but it applies the excess to temp hp instead of barrier.