Adventure Mode Intro Update (v25)

Adventure Mode Intro is now added. This is the new guided start for Dragonwake: a short starting area that teaches the basics. You begin near Brindle Quay, before sailing to Valoria.

This update also adds a new Travellers Rest Inn, expands early guidance, improves quest journal readability, adds more control and display options, retunes several traps and monsters, and fixes a large set of world, UI, and procgen issues.

Adventure Mode Intro

• Added a new guided starter route before the existing Reedwater Docks opening.

• Added a separate starter island world map.

• Added Brindle Quay as a small dockside starter town with a dockmaster, provisioner, guard, innkeeper, town guide, etc.

• Added a short starter flow covering movement, looking, talking, class actions and spells, combat, first aid, hunger, eating, buying supplies, camping, and inn rest.

• Added tutorial starter quests.

• Reworked the storm arrival, intro text, quest timing, and continue prompts so the new opening flows into the main game cleanly.

New World Content

• Added Travellers Rest, a remote waystation with a large inn, outdoor seating, a mixed item shop, travellers, and several named NPCs for future quest hooks.

• Added a travelling warrior, an elf researcher, and a shady traveller at Travellers Rest.

• Cleaned up Travellers Rest roads, fences, inn doors, shop stock, outdoor seating, trees, edge detail, and collision.

• Added inn rest support to the Stonecleft waystation.

• Adjusted world map placement, including Ash Tower and the Travellers Rest road layout.

• Adjusted Havenford building placement.

• Reworked the Havenford peddler into a small wandering outdoor shop with more varied stock.

UI, Controls & Guidance

• Added an F1 help guide reference.

• Fixed the help menu close binding.

• Cleaned up the help keybind list so numpad movement is grouped instead of listed key by key.

• Improved options-menu movement hints.

• Added an option to hide the bracketed health meter.

• Improved expanded journal scrolling.

• Rewrapped expanded journal text from full quest strings instead of hand-split lines.

• Preserved expanded quest state across menu sessions.

• Added selected action help to the actions menu.

• Added semantic left/right menu actions for clearer keyboard and controller behavior.

• Added an auto-explore walk command.

• Improved item action hints and status feedback.

• Compact player status stats now take less space.

• Added phone map double-tap zoom.

• Improved web and sprite renderer behavior around color attributes, sprite fallback tiles, and audio startup.

Items, Loot & Survival

• Added procedural jewelry and more classic equipment.

• Trinkets now appear with armor instead of tools.

• Removed the shovel item.

• Retuned early dungeon loot, basic loot handling, monster drops, chest rewards, trade values, and special content rewards.

• Slightly reduced general monster loot spam.

• Tuned survival item behavior, including first aid, food, camping kits, and related starter guidance.

• Made coatings timed and improved channeled overlay closing.

• Adjusted affliction timing during rest and travel.

• Added equipment details to death obituaries.

Combat, Balance & Feedback

• Paladin Smite Strike and similar adjacent class actions can now be aimed in a direction even when no enemy is adjacent.

• Retuned arrow traps, spear traps, and pit traps around damage, penetration, and armor behavior.

• Stirge drain now replaces its melee damage instead of adding an extra damage roll.

• Added Wisdom-based warning messages when first entering a dungeon that is above the character's level.

• Improved rested XP, tired XP, early combat messages, and Adventure checkpoint reminders.

• Tuned Stonecleft and blackglass encounters.

• Improved monster combat side effects.

• Cleaned up corpse eating descriptions so they are more concrete and direct.

• Improved corpse effect messages for attribute, resistance, poison, and failure outcomes.

• Cleaned up corpse and undead presentation.

Generation, World & Bug Fixes

• Fixed goblin caves sometimes generating flush against the right edge of the screen.

• Fixed goblin chief encounters so the chief reliably has a nearby chest and chest room.

• Relaxed compact tower procgen validation where it was too strict.

• Fixed unsafe NPC swap movement.

• Fixed rest sickness and trap-safe idle movement issues.

• Fixed message ordering around breath visuals.

• Fixed several cleanup-pass visual hazards and prop issues.

• Improved dock music timing, continue timing, and Reedwater arrival presentation.

• Improved town guide hints and Brindle Quay starter dialogue.

• Improved NPC dialogue clarity across several areas.

• Added and routed more sparse area music cues.

• Softened shared music loops and raised music master gain.

• Fixed Android debug APK build issues.

Save Notice

• Saves from v24 are not compatible with v25. A new character is required for this version.