Wartorn 1.0 Arrives - Patch Notes

Welcome to Wartorn 1.0! Your caravan's epic journey culminates as you explore the new desert island of Thyssic, conquer three brutal new bosses, and finally reach the ancestral fortress of Beynün for legacy-building rewards. Rescue family members to make them permanent, convert end-run resources into Chord Crystals, and push units to Tier 5 with new traits, abilities, and trinket slots. Dive in now to claim victory!

New Features

• AddedThyssic Desert BiomeExplore a brand-new overworld map with fresh places to explore, quests, events, and encounters tailored for every battle mode.

• Reach Beynün Endgame: Guide your caravan to the fortress for true run completion.

  • End-of-Run Resource Conversion: Leftover caravan resources (food, hope, coins, refugees) transform into Chord Crystals at Beynün. Build your meta-progression!

  • AddedRescued Family PermanenceFamily members in the caravan when reaching Beynün are rescued and marked with a star on thier portraits in the Villa. Rescued family members are available to start future runs in the caravan. Bring as many of them as you like.
• AddedTier 4-5 Unit PowerEvolve squads further—T3 grants a new selectable trait, T4 unlocks a fresh ability, T5 adds an extra passive trinket slot for ultimate builds.

• New Bosses: Battle Brutality, Greed, and a secretive third foe with unique challenges and rewards.

• AddedNew Family members and heirloomsFind 7 new family members and unlock their heirlooms in your adventures on the Isle of Thyssic.
• AdjustedNew Names & Warlord EpithetsReworked name fragments for goblins, trolls, pheign, and stygs. Warlords get custom epithets per mantra.
• AddedPainterly Effect ToggleNew button in the first tutorial level to enable/disable the painterly effect on the fly.

• Match & Overworld Zoom Settings: Separate controls for keyboard/gamepad to customize your view.

• AddedNew AchievementsChallenge yourself with fresh achievements stretching across the new biome!
• AdjustedSimplified ChineseAdded localization to support Simplified Chinese.

Balance Changes

• Hope Scaling: All hope losses/rewards from events now percentage-based on max caravan hope for late-game relevance (e.g., small losses: -1/-3/-5; large rewards: 8/10/11/13/15). Community Tree upgrades gain value!

• Starvation Hope Loss: While starving, the caravan now loses a % of max hope with each passing day. ⚔

• AdjustedRefugee Food CostsDramatically reduced at encampments (40-60 → 8-12 food). ⚔
• AdjustedPositive Hope EventsRandom chance of these events reduced by 5%. ⚔

• Food Rewards: Scale with difficulty (day-based curve).

• Battle Rewards: Higher-tier squads offered as the run progresses.

• Merchant Squad Tiers: Higher tiers unlocked via run progression.

• Shop Hope Items: Grant % of max hope for better scaling.

• Hope Adjustments: All hope rewards and losses are now based off of the caravan’s Max Hope so they scale with run progression. ⚔

• Defend battles: Made adjustments to Defend battles to make them easier. ⚔

  • Dev note: We felt that Defend battles were causing a significant and random spike in difficulty during runs and have made some adjustments to enemy spawning and the damage the wagon deals to help smooth out these spikes.

UI Improvements

• Trinket Rarity Coloring: Merchants now colorize trinket icons by rarity. ⚔

• Squad Avatars: Impact shake on HUD when a squad dies for better feedback.

• FixedTrait DisplayMouseover tooltips in squad inspector; multi-trait support; fixed template text hover bug.

• Family Tokens: Family tokens on the map are hidden for equipped and rescued family members, since you cannot meet them on the road if they are already in your caravan or safe in Beynün.

• FixedSquad Advance ScreenShow base details, trinkets, tiers; fixed innate skills stacking/UI.

• Toasts: Overworld toggle option; hide 0-cost refugees/hope; squad wipe hope loss is now shown.

• View Heirloom Details on Gamepad: Press RS in the Family tab of the caravan menu to view heirloom details.

Progression

• AddedEndgame Family MembersRescued family members can be invited to join caravan (instead of auto-added).

• Expanded Stories:

  • Voxyra/Inkyra scenes expanded.

  • Clucks’s story expanded.

  • Additional scenes for Time after run failures.

  • Additional scenes in the Villa with Yara and Elani reacting to Time.

Bugfixes

Soft Lock & Crash Fixes

• Fixed hangs in Voxyra and Inkyra scenes.

• Added a fail safe against soft locks when meeting Voxyra.

• Fixed wagons flying into the air at the end of Jhix map.

Narrative & Event Fixes

• Removed Turfus from caravan in "Heart for the Homeless" quest.

• Fixed Turfus’ name and phantom options.

• Fixed various typos.

• Pheign squads are properly returned to duty after being sent on the "A Grisly Request" quest.

• Fixed no fireplace objective on new games.

• Fixed instances where you could get two copies of the fireplace objective.

• Fixed incorrect scene the 4th time you meet Redjirx.

• No refugee-required events appear if no refugees are available.

• Fixed duplicate Inkyra grants.

UI & Input Fixes

• All listed under UI; plus painterly toggle in tutorial.

• Fixed overworld objectives not being displayed properly.

• Allow Give Up button in raid maps.

• Fixed "Leave" button appearing at crossroads without a choice being made.

• Fixed bug where squad indicators would get reused and the squad stance icon would appear incorrectly over squads.

• Fixed scrolling data errors in Battle Reports.

• Suppress post-match toast notifications so they don’t appear in Battle Reports or Time scenes.

• Fixed reward spacing overflow in journal events.

• Fixed reward selector overlapping with resource bar.

• Fixed bug where squad HUD would shift up if the squad has passive abilities but no active abilities.

• Better text clipping.

• Fixed non-English text overflow.

• Added which type of battle you are entering on the battle squad selection screen

Other

• Fixed issue with Mantra Merchants not opening or playing correct audio.

• Fixed issues where certain rare trinkets were not being granted / offered as rewards.

• Fixed units running in circles after knockback/stun/fear.

Feedback

This 1.0 release is one that we are proud of, refining the core loop while adding layers of replayability and satisfaction. We hope that you are excited to check it out!

We cannot thank you enough for being on this journey with us throughout Early Access. It is with your feedback, videos/streams, and ideas that we were able to adjust the experience along the way while adding and implementing the new Overworld map, bosses, Tier 5 units… and more as we came to 1.0! Be sure to continue sharing with us in the Discord so that we can continue to refine the experience.

The Stray Kite Studios Team