V0.4.3 to 0.5.00 (Dec 4, 2024)

New game features

- Some traits now block characters that possess them from ever gaining certain status effects in battle

-- Bleeding Immune blocks the Bleeding status effects. Owned by automaton species.

-- Poison Immune blocks the Bleeding status effects. Owned by automatons and arachnids.

-- Gooped Immune blocks the Gooped status effects. Owned by slimes.

-- Webbed Immune blocks the Webbed status effects. Owned by arachnids.

- Added No Passive Healing and No Passive Soothing form traits to the automaton species.

-- These prevent automatons from benefiting from the party's best Healing and Soothing skills the way most followers do.

- Some combat abilities now restore some of the attacker's health based on a random percentage between a minimum and maximum of the actual damage dealt

-- Currently the only units using this are the slimegirls' Gooey Bite and the Arachnid Morphling's Vitality Drain

New game content (quests/writing/art/etc):

- Added Strange new Silk quest

-- This quest can be found in the northern edge of the Giusburg Outskirts when the spider theme tag is enabled

- Added Sorrowful Seamstress Escapee Den popup dungeons that can be found after Strange New Silk is completed and the spider theme tag is enabled

- Added Coralia artwork into Amour Aquatic quest. Artwork is by MohMohpd.

- Added new dungeon exploration theme by Caelus Windcat

-- This theme plays in the new map as part of Strange New Silk and the labyrinth in Reprogramming In Progress, as well as the ruined castle and spideer den popup dungeons

- Added Bracelet of Vitality Siphon which grants the Vitality Siphon combat ability. Currently found as popup dungeon rewards.

- Added Bracelet of the Black Widow which grants the Venomous Bite and Websling combat abilities. Currently found as popup dungeon rewards.

- Added Sorrowful Seamstress Escapee Den popup dungeon

-- This can be found along the south of the Ashe Woods and the north side of the Giusburg Outskirts when the spider theme tag is enabled and after Strange New Silk has been completed.

- Added artwork for Sir Borgan la Feet by Icy

-- Sir Borgan is now one of the enemy combatants in the throne room fight in The Sword in the Grass and is tougher with his own set of combat abilities and form traits

- Added Elf Cap'n boss-level enemy type. These can be found in the small pirate cove popup dungeons and in the Free Merchants patrol in Giusburg Outskirts

-- Currently this unit reuses the Elf Seadog artwork but will gain its own unique artwork by silververity soon

- Added dark elf disguise seller in the south of Giusburg Outskirts who sells potions that can transform companions or followers into the land-based dark elf forms

- Added recipe books for the Potent and Powerful versions of the Potion of Vitality and Potion of Lustrecia

-- These are more rare are will not be as commonly found on merchants or as loot items

Miscellaneous:

- Updated second stage text in The Seeker's Sorrow to state that Vyndaii must be in her base form to discover the locations where her siblings met their fates

- Added E to interact functionality on buttons that show up on the bottom of the screen when the party enters certain interactive area radii

-- This includes embark / disembark spots, loot containers, resource nodes, crafting stations, points of interest, and map connections

-- This functionality is disabled when more than one button is displayed at a time

-- Some buttons do not have this functionality by design such as when entering popup dungeons

- More boss NPC in quest-related battles have the Hero trait, increasing their health and lust maximums

- Pressing E when an unlocked loot container panel is open now automatically takes everything inside and closes it.

- Similarly, pressing E when a resource node panel is open collects everything and closes it

- Pressing E when at a locked door panel unlocks it and closes it if the party has the necessary key or keys

- Pressing X when any of the three above panels are open closes the panel without taking anything

Bugfixes:

- The game pause should now activate upon failing to navigate to somewhere on the map due to invalid terrain or access blocked due to doors or barriers

- Fixed a bug causing merchants to ignore spawn rates, causing them to spawn in every item type possible each refresh

Cheat/Debug controls (patreon-backer builds only):

- Added toggles to control the level of logging in battles

-- Previously almost every battle move and possible attack calculation was printed out to the player.log file, creating excessively long files

-- By default, only error logging is enabled