Cleanup and Balance Update (v102)

Cleanup and Balance Update (v102)

Notice: save files are not compatible between game versions. If you want to keep playing an older run, switch Dragonwake to the matching older-version Steam branch before loading that save.

This is a broad cleanup, balance, and bugfix update focused on traps, doors, quest flow, shops, saves, encounter pacing, dungeon presentation, and many smaller playability fixes.

Added

• Added monster presence sound cues for many dangerous creatures.

• Added a blacksmith repair service for damaged, torn, and rusty equipment.

• Added a sell-all-junk shop action with confirmation text.

• Added procedural secret rooms to most dungeon floors.

• Added generic altar prayer interactions, with a one-time luck chance per altar.

• Added resistances to the character sheet.

Changed

• Reworked pitons into pry tools for doors and locked chests, while still supporting pit use.

• Reworked acid lock melting into a roll-based action, with stronger acid flasks added to loot and shops.

• Rebalanced door lockpicking and door-kicking DCs, including tougher story doors.

• Cheap lockpicks now carry an appropriate lockpicking penalty.

• Most dungeon chests are now locked more often.

• Reworked caltrops: they now last for three triggers, roll DEX saves, deal damage, and can apply a short ATK/DEF penalty.

• Tuned kit weight, durability use, first-aid pricing, ration prices, backpack carry support, and related inventory text.

• Rebalanced world-map random encounter pacing. Dragon hunts now replace successful random encounters instead of rolling as an extra layer, preventing excessive dragon spawns.

• Dragon hunt landings now appear closer and leave clearer impact tracks and rubble.

• Reduced overall dungeon spawn rates slightly and increased enemy XP slightly.

• Toughened Desolate Docks and improved its boss room setup.

• Reworked White Seal Tower generation into larger, more tower-like marble floors.

• Moved deep blackglass enemies out of Underway Pass and Starfall Burrow, reserving them for later scar content.

• Bumped several weak boss and quest rewards.

• Adjusted healing potion, ring, elixir, lucky affix, and resistance item pricing and frequency.

• Simplified merchant examine roles and improved shop, gamepad, and phone tab controls.

• Optimized save serialization and persistence, including raw payloads, bitpacked explored data, stable slot identity, and less save/archive overhead.

Quest, Zone, And Writing Cleanup

• Cleaned up Stonecleft Commons layout and dialogue.

• Clarified Stonecleft Lamp Run text and lamp oil reward dialogue.

• Clarified Beacon Prism and White Vault quest handoff text.

• Fixed White Seal amulet purification so it transforms the correct story amulet.

• Required the Starfall hand-in before the Underway gate opens.

• Improved Smuggler quest text and journal clues for the hidden lower floor.

• Clarified several quest journal entries, route directions, and story door cues.

• Improved Ser Caldus pre-quest chatter.

Fixes And Polish

• Fixed compact combat message formatting for attack, wound, kill, spell damage, chill, and resistance messages.

• Fixed PP level penalties incorrectly reducing max PP.

• Fixed autoexplore behavior around unrevealed traps, rope and piton-covered pits, boulders, decoys, secret doors, and unseen enemies.

• Fixed secret door and concealed feature visuals.

• Fixed water and acid traps applying same-turn standing-liquid effects after trap damage.

• Fixed trap disarm failures triggering traps too often on near misses.

• Fixed non-bleedable monsters gaining bleeding or spawning blood effects.

• Fixed several monster glyph and color inconsistencies.

• Fixed rubble spawning on walls or trap tiles.

• Fixed rest interruption and hostile checks.

• Fixed targeting camera behavior when opening target mode.

• Fixed Android and phone lifecycle, music pause, and shop shoulder controls.

• Added more dungeon decoration, blood decoration, Orc Fortress dressing, themed stair props, and cleaner container prop presentation.

Game version is now v102.