0.5.0 - Resonant Airwaves

Steam post imageA Mysterious Face

A new Survivor appears upon the Isles, offering to trade an abundance of foreign, rare, and exotic goods in exchange for the resources you have on hand. With a mix of upgrades, enhancements for your Hunters, and familiar cosmetics, her ever-expanding stock will surely have something that catches your eye.

Resonate your... Armor?

Looking to take your Skills above and beyond? Help Minrah discover the secrets of the Crystil Spire, and - actually, that's all I'll say here.

Better Golems

With the ability to Craft finally here, it seems the Golems have a few new tricks up their sleeves (arms?)! A full re-work of the levelling system brings with it new milestones, as Golems will learn new tricks in each skill the more experience they have.

Full Changelog

NEW CONTENT:

• New Weapons for the Rivik and Shrist, as well as the Drodden

• Added 2 New Mechanics to Isle 3:

-- RESONANCE to provide universal buffs at a cost

-- TRADER to turn trade your excess items for mysterious goods

• Shipyard to build new ships

• Expanded Story across all the Isles to round out content and push further

-- This includes several new Objectives

• Several new recipes, mainly focused on expanding the village and shipyard

• New Locales on Isle 2

• New Monster

• 4 new Achievements

NEW QOL:

• Wishlist! Right-click any recipe/upgrade to pin it to the right side of the screen

• Golems' capabilities grow as they advance in a skill

• New Golem tasks have been added (Refinery output, Crafting Golems)

• Can now click a Hunter's damage/defense icon to see a break-down of their stats

• Added a 'Load from File' button

• Upgrades to Max Offline Time, the first of which unlocks shortly after Quest Automation

• Dual Objectives, to allow for better guidance through the branching parts of the story

• 'Golden Questies' - A completely original system where you can click little circles on the Expedition screen for a reward; in this case, a 2x gathering speed boost. They appear more in the early game and then taper off

CHANGES:

• Slightly nerfed Rivik's health to hopefully be less of a roadblock

• Wrydd Clot drop chance has been buffed 3x to ensure smoother progression

• The 6th and 7th Hunters rely on each other

• Crafting Recipes are now alphabetized

• Items now show if they're refinable

• Item amount numbers are bigger by default

• Golems require an extra story beat to be formally unlocked

• Changed how internal time is counted, which may initially result in visually inflated numbers until the save is loaded

• Layered Armor always appears under 'normal' Armor on the Forge page

• Finally remembered I could bulk-resize with Python, so many images are now compressed, with the new size being an average of 30% of the previous with minimal to no visual changes outside of 4k (better loading and performance)

• 'Reinforcing' button now glows until you click it, as it was easily missable before

• Lowered some of the first village upgrade costs. Also guarantee first hardbark and erron even earlier

• Hunter Level Milestones no longer show up as skills. This gives the level 20 skills a slight buff, since it multiplies with 'Focus' now

• Full Golem Exp rebalance

• Right-clicking to assign a Golem now prioritizes Golems without jobs

• Tweaked some recipes, such as adv. kits and the 'Reinforce Boat' upgrade

• Pages with subtabs won't show their subtab selection if no other options are unlocked

• Only one ship without a Golem assigned will be loaded at once automatically

• Updated Isle images on the Expedition screen

• Golem Levels are capped

• Hunters no longer pulse when hovered over

FIXES:

• Re-fixed the shipyard 'passenger' upgrade not updating properly once purchased (broken since 0.4.0)

• Isle 3's expedition screen finally uses the correct white highlight

• Characters no longer show up on incorrect Isles, and their speech bubbles do the same

• Isle 3's secret character stays better at being secret

• Fixed boat's being locked onto the Auto-Dest path even when no Golems are assigned

• Golems will now always release Farm Plots when you tell them to

• Quest timers are now on game-time and not real-world time (purely visual, should result in less bloated numbers on Quests)

• Should have resolved a memory leak that could cause crashes in long sessions

• Continued notable optimization in offline progress loading and general gameplay

• Dialogue will now exit if a Story Textbox pops up

• Library now correctly shows Bonus Drops with 0 item minimums

• Library Familiarity pop-up when hovering over Hunters is no longer hidden

• You are now actually slightly slower before the first cart upgrade so that it finally does what it says it does

• 'Minimum Tool to Auto-Equip' setting correctly starts at the lowest value

• Fixed some Library formatting issues that could happen on certain fonts

• Fixed a bug where you could spend one more Spire Heart than you had