Gobs and Gods — Update 1.4: God’s Path Rework

Update 1.4 brings a major rework of the God’s Path system, new quests and lore, and a few new achievements to challenge you!

God’s Path Rework

When making choices in many dialogs, you may get the opportunity to advance one of the three God’s Paths: Nurturing, Nerdy, or Sadistic.

These paths already change the gobs available for hire, but we felt, and some players told us, that following a path should bring more meaningful rewards

What's new:

• the God’s Path window lets you track your advancement on each path (Sadistic / Nerdy / Nurturing).

• Killing a gob, overfeeding, or inventing potions now grants an advancement only the first time.

• The new Path Altars on the worldmap allows you to advance a path of your choice.

• Advancing on a path now grants:

  • Free skills and spells

  • And a new unique passive bonus specific to each path

Quests

There is now one late-game quest associated with each path, all granting unique rewards:

• "Merry Footmas"

• "Sadism Contest" (actually already in patch 1.3.9, but unannounced so far)

• "Unhanging the Moon" (which was already available since a few patches ago)

And a long quest chain deepening the lore of the goblin world. It starts with 3 "normal" quests proposed by npcs:

• "Writing History"

• "Enemies of Old"

• "The Unexpected Downsides of Geology"

Completing all three unlocks the late-game quests "Kingly Blessing" and "Deposing the tyrant, also with their unique rewards.

New achievements

• One achievement has been added for each late-game quest.

• "Around the world in 80 days" challenges you to finish a run in less than 80 days.

Looking Ahead...

I hope you will enjoy this update, and as always, feedback is welcome!

I’ll now focus on preparing the next patches. I heard a gob prophet whisper of animation improvements (with goblins finally opening their eyes!), as well as new alternative starts to diversify your runs. Stay tuned!