V0.9.02-V0.10.00 (May 31, 2025)

New game features

- Some recruitment groups can now exempt the up-front recruitment cost (but not the daily payments)

-- This is used when recruit tomb raiders in the Giusburg Catacombs Treasure Vaults and when recruiting rescued pirates in Giusburg Outskirts

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

- Starting work on new main storyline quest, Spelunking for the Signet.

-- This quest begins automatically after Journey into the Ashes in completed. Level 12 is the minimum recommended level for it.

-- All existing save game files should have already had this quest started upon completeling Journey into the Ashes

-- Upon completing Spelunking for the Signet, the next main storyline quest, Friends in Far Away Places, begins. There is no content for this quest yet.

- New music for the Treasure Vaults and Catacombs. Music is by caeluswindcat

- Added in shades artwork by Icy

- Added in new tavern background custom-drawn by GlobbinArts

- Added new artwork for plague bimbo dynamic forms to differentiate that form from the recovered plague bimbo, which remains using the previous artwork. Plague bimbo art is by GlobbinArts

- Added in artwork for Neia post-transformation into a mermaid. Art is by GlobbinArts.

- Added in artwork for Lady Earwaine, bunnyknight of Queen Barthuria's court in Carrotlot. Art is by GlobbinArts.

- Added in more Vyndaii facial expressions. Art is by silververity.

- Added Slightly Contagious Bimbo encounter in Fort Veronica

-- This recovered plague bimbo can be found during sunrise or daytime once The Bimbo of My Enemy quest has been completed

-- Pleasing her allows the player to gain the recovered plague bimbo form once a week

- Added Moon Nymph mountain shrine encounter in southeast Giusburg Outskirts

-- This location can only be seen at nighttime

- Added lost ring encounter that rewards the party with a unique mermaid ring

-- This can be started by reading a poster in Fort Veronica

- Added rare Glowstone Headlamp, a headgear equipment item that improves the wearer's Perception at the cost of some Roguery.

- Added form-related random event for when the party has a Dragon Battlespouse or Dragon Eggspouse in the party who has been in that form for 3 or more days and the party has 3,000 or more gold

- Added form-related random event for when the party has one or more bee wildwomen

- Random events can now be linked to status effects

- Updated many map icons. Art is by Iridius

Miscellaneous:

- Some resource nodes can now play an override sound effect

-- Buried treasure, Sunken treasure, and Concealed Treasure Niches play a new unique sound to differentiate them from the far more common alchemy ingredient resource nodes

- The Crafting Panel now remembers the previous dropdown selection and restores it automatically the next time the panel is launched

- Hardened some of the text variable conversion and printing in point of interest panel to try and make some errors more recoverable

- Sparkletits artwork now shows on her trade panel

- Added more resource nodes in most world maps

-- Added many more Bloodroot Colony resource nodes around the Giusburg Outskirts and Ashe Woods maps

-- Added many more River Marsh resource nodes in Ashe Woods and Vivian Plains

-- Added some Lustrecia Flower Patches in meadows that provide a higher number of that particular flower

- Glabbardot portrait now shows up on her trade panel

- Map objects that emit looping sounds (such as magical barriers, waterfalls, and the new campfire crackling sounds) are now set to use the Ambience mixer group, allowing its volume to be changed independently of sound effects

- Slimegirl attack Gooey Bite now has a chance to cause the transformed victim to betray the party to be consistent with Goo Launch

- Goo launched betrayal chance slightly lowered when performed against allied units

- Some forms now have additional particles in battles

-- Shades emit a black mist

-- Plague bimbos sporadically emit small toxin symbols

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

- Giusburg Catacombs Treasure Vaults added to teleport target list

- Giusburg Catacombs added to teleport target list

Bugfixes:

- Bugfix for CompanionStatChangeEffect affecting companions not in the party at the time of its execution

- Bugfix for reading disgruntled engineer's journal from the Reprogramming In Progress for the first time after the quest is already completed causing the book panel to get stuck open

- Display fix for mouseover status effect start of turn damage display

- Fixed some issues on tilemaps using obstacle layers where incorrectly placed tiles could display overtop the the movement range hexagons and make certain tiles look unaccessible when they are

- Bugfix for some cases where Vyndaii was missing some face layers in various quests involving her

- Minor terrain fixes in Mead Madness Meadows map

- Fixed a bug where certain types of artwork were not recieving the foreground graphic animation as intended, notably when a follower or companion was displayed from an event position

- Fix for trader graphics overlapping with text

- Possible bugfix for Willow's Thirst random event incorrectly triggering when the party is sailing