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Steam News22 December 20256mo ago

Content upgrade & fixes | Major v0.1.94

A huge new update has arrived, bringing tons of new content, systems, balance changes, and fixes to greatly expand and improve the overall game experience.

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What changed

2 fixes11 additions10 changes0 removals
  • Balance
  • Gameplay
  • Events
  • Store
  • Fixes
  • Performance
addedA huge new update has arrived, bringing tons of new content, systems, balance changes, and fixes to greatly expand and improve the overall game experience.
added🌋NEW
addedLive Top 10 highest-level players can now be seen in the Rank Panel
addedDaily Quests and Group Quests have been added
addedSeveral new interactable objects have been added to the world, including crackable eggs, breakable nuts, and openable shells
changedThe number of unique items has been increased from 93 to 200+
number of unique items93200number of unique items increased, buffnumber of unique quests25101number of unique quests increased, buffSell value for all items50%10%Sell value for all items decreased, nerf

Swords & Crystals Online changes

addedA huge new update has arrived, bringing tons of new content, systems, balance changes, and fixes to greatly expand and improve the overall game experience.
added🌋NEW
addedLive Top 10 highest-level players can now be seen in the Rank Panel
addedDaily Quests and Group Quests have been added
addedSeveral new interactable objects have been added to the world, including crackable eggs, breakable nuts, and openable shells

A huge new update has arrived, bringing tons of new content, systems, balance changes, and fixes to greatly expand and improve the overall game experience.

🌋NEW

  • A real volcano is now visible on Dark Volcano Island

  • Live Top 10 highest-level players can now be seen in the Rank Panel

  • Daily Quests and Group Quests have been added

  • Several new interactable objects have been added to the world, including crackable eggs, breakable nuts, and openable shells

  • The number of unique items has been increased from 93 to 200+

  • The number of unique quests has been increased from 25 to 101

  • Seasonal events have been added for Valentine’s Day, Easter, Halloween, and Christmas

  • The Alchemy skill has been added, allowing players to brew their own potions with 10 unique recipes

  • The Smithing skill has been added, allowing players to forge their own gear with 25 unique recipes

  • Mining ores can now be forged into bars at Forge Ovens

  • Several new achievements have been added

⚖️CHANGES

  • Removed all pay-to-win in-game currency DLCs and replaced them with new cosmetic DLCs

  • Balanced all combat values, including gear, enemies, HP, damage, armor, food, and enemy abilities

  • Reworked several uninteresting achievements into more meaningful ones

  • Balanced XP gain across all 10 skills for a more consistent leveling rate

  • Alchemy, Mining, and Fishing skills are now required to gather certain herbs, ores, and fish

  • The entire economy has been rebalanced, with every item value and cost adjusted

  • Sell value for all items has been reduced from 50% to 10% of the purchase price

  • Leveling is now approximately 7x slower, providing longer progression per zone, more challenge, more quests, and a much longer overall gameplay experience

🛠️FIXES

  • Fixed all desync-related bugs, including rollbacks and lost items or progress

  • Fixed achievements that were not properly triggering

  • Reduced unnecessary transmitted buffers

  • Slight performance optimizations

🚧 CURRENTLY IN DEVELOPMENT

  • A first basic player-to-player item trading system

  • A more PC-friendly GUI using buttons instead of a scroll-based layout, while still maintaining a great experience on Steam Deck and with controllers

Source

Steam News / 22 December 2025

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