Xmas, Dungeon & Deutsch

It took six months, but I finally managed to get the Dungeon Update ready just in time for Christmas! This update continues the story, brings lots of new items to discover, and Sao has some new festive Christmas outfits for you.

The update has been tested over the past three weeks, allowing me to fixa bunch of bugs. As always, new features go deep under the hood, so if you run into any issues, please reach out to me on Discord. I can usually release a fix quickly.

You’ll need to start a new map for this update because some changes have been made to generated locations.

Have fun exploring and happy holidays!

WARNING: Spoilers ahead!

Old Mines

The first dungeon, the Old Mines, is finally finished! To enter the mines, you’ll need to progress in the main story and craft Winnibald's Great Kindle-Balls.

Getting through the mines will take more than just bombs, though. Some areas will only collapse further if things go boom.

Underground Lake

The Rift is slowly merging with the worlds. Deep underground, the effects are much stronger than at the surface.

Different mushrooms and even Rift creatures now roam the underground.

Lunari Palace

Long ago, when magic wasn't just a myth, some could use ether to power machines. The Lunari Palace still holds their ancient research.

You can even set up your own little dungeon base there. But your home totem won't work here.

Be careful! Under the portal ruins, ether currents run wild, and not everything is as it seems.

Etherite Tablet

The Aetherite Tablet lets you activate different mechanisms. Use your action button at the quick menu to activate it. Place the keystones in the right spots to activate machines.

You can put keystones into the tablet.

Approach mechanisms marked with ether symbols to interact using the Etherite Tablet.

Look for statues that provide you with keystones.

Christmas Costumes

It’s that time of year and there are new festive items! Visit Sao, and if you've saved up enough gold, you can buy new clothing and hats. Don't worry, both work with any character you choose.

German Translation

German, yay! Many of you have been waiting, and now it’s finally here. With the German localization, several English texts have also been improved for better clarity, new helpful item descriptions, revised lore, and updated character dialogue.

New Items

• You can now find, collect, and even grow Glowshrooms.

• Sell bronze Talm coins for gold.

• Get insect wings from bees, Stingbutt, etc. enemies.

• You can now craft paper and books.

• You can now craft laying barrels and barrel stacks.

• Many new blueprints now gradually unlock items, making early crafting less overwhelming.

• Grill some rats as dungeon snacks to satisfy your hunger.

• Shade Plums save you from starving in the Rift.

• Galvox now drops a pressure tank and a shield, which is not usable yet.

• You can now find Cave Slime hats.

• The Rift now infects oaks in Runika. These “Gloamed Oaks” can be planted if you find the right blueprint.

New Enemies

• Spewshade plants now spit nasty slime at you in the Rift.

• Stingbutt enemies in the Rift now try to sting your...

• Rats now roam some areas.

• Cute but dangerous: Cave Slime have friends.

• Bats and Dupflaps flutter around ears to bite your ears.

• Galvox the Faulted will be a real challenge.

New Features

• Your last selected quickbar slot is now remembered through level changes.

• Ovens continue processing even while you're exploring or indoors.

• Tari can now warp you out of dungeons.

Graphics

• Slime hats now have unique images.

• Improved some lighting effects.

• There actually now is a short death animation for your character!

Adjustments

• Running now consumes 20% less stamina.

• Stamina now starts to regenerate after just half a second.

• When you die, you keep your inventory, but your armor takes a bit of damage.

• Increased range for bone- and wooden-clubs.

• Improved attack area detection.

• Aztetor's balancing has been improved. Attacking broken crystals now deals more damage.

• The design of some special places has been improved.

• Tari now stays opposite your mouse cursor or behind your character when using a gamepad.

• Tari notifies you more quickly, when she has somethign to say.

• You can now enter outhouses.

• Some enemy groups have been combined for better damage logic.

• Large rocks have slightly less durability.

• You can now continue the loading screen with the space bar.

• The minimap is now exclusive to Runika.

• Some villagers got better fitting names.

Technology

• Some enemies were migrated to a new system.

• All remaining items were updated to a new config format.

• Various sprite tiling configs have been tweaked.

Performance

• Small optimizations for animated decorative elements.

• Dynamic pathfinding is now slightly faster.

• Music loading should no longer cause micro-stutters.

• Fixed a minor memory leak when breaking old barrels and crates.

Bugfixes

• Tari disappeared if you entered Jolana's tent before the intro finished.

• Danu statues would sometimes forget their linked fast-travel points.

• Playing with a gamepad occasionally caused trouble detecting the right interaction field.

• A rare deadlock could happen in entity dialogs.

• Tooltips could flicker at times.

• Chainmail armor could not be repaired.

• Couple of internal errors with no gameplay effect.

• Holding the key to collect didn't work any more.

• The loading menu looked buggy on the first game start.

• A rare location name deadlock would prevent location names to be shown.

Known Bugs

• Sometimes cliffs don't render correctly.

Coming Soon

• House building?