Early Access 0.7.052

This is the first update on the main branch after Early Access 0.6.1.

New and Changes

Added spell system with 18 new spells

• Build the church to gain faith and access to spells
• You always start with two spells, one for combat and one for the economy
• The kings have different default economy spells
• Every hero has his own default combat spell
• Added random event to find spells from other kingdoms to replace yours
• Spells are cast with by pressing the button C by default

Kingdom Traits

• Having multiple units (2/4/6) of any kingdom grants you a special buff
• Every kingdom has a different trait
• Only the hero normal units that also eat count
• But the effects apply to every unit including siege engines

Catching monsters

• To unlock units you need to catch the monster now
• The trapper gives you one free trap per run
• When a monster walks over the trap there is a chance they will be catched
• The chance increased the less health a monster has
• The fate selection displays which monsters already already have been caught

Permanent Buffs

• Solving the achievement quests will grant you a small permanent stat buff for all units
• Buffs from the achievements from both kingdoms are applied
• Thus playing both kingdoms is still not required, but motivating again
• The ALT menu displays all those buffs

Unit upgrades

• Upgrading is called promoting now
• Units get promoted at night in the tavern
• Promoting units costs coins
• Only one unit can be promoted each night
• You can reroll the selection
• Added a new NPC, the General, to upgrade another unit during the day for a small additional fee
• Hero upgrades cost ingots now

Reworked how taxes work

• Every building generates taxes in the morning instead
• Decorations drop coins now

New buildings

• Added new human building: Shard Foundry to make shards out of ingots
• Added new human building: Coin Stamper to make coins out of gold
• Added new undead building: Shard Foundry to make shards out of books
• Added new undead building: Alchemist to make coins out of blood

Final Day

• The final day is an endless challenge to test your build now
• You earn more shards and a super metal the longer you survive
• You can upgrade units during the day to keep up with the scaling monsters
• The portal can also be used without any limits

Glory and Time

• Rush waves to gain more glory and make the run faster
• Rushing bonus glory starts at 5%, increases when rushing up to 10%, but decreases when not rushing
• Once all monsters are defeated you can directly enter the tavern and end the day
• Workers still working will finish their jobs instantly
• Removed a phase of the night to speed up your runs even more
• Added an option to skip parts of the tavern (up to the promotion phase)
• Monsters do not evolve when reaching a new glory highscore anymore
• Evolved monsters have a chance to drop coins instead of shards now!
• Minibosses do not count for glory anymore
• Provoking is also possible on boss days
• Provokes are always angry
• Ritual does not increase chance for provoke events
• Added the monster bell to guarantee a provoke event for the next day for a high coin cost
• You need a little more glory to face the final boss now, so it cannot happen before C5

Rage

• Rage is more of an offensive stat now, not reducing incoming damage by default anymore
• Full rage grants 10% extra damage, increasing by 1% per 5 rage
• The defensive buff of rage is the barbarian kingdom trait now

Progression

• Added more roads in both kingdoms
• Added another village to both kingdoms
• Added another pasture to human kingdom
• Added plenty more starting resources in both kingdoms
• Roads glory requirement does not take past highscores in consideration anymore
• Roads do cost stone to build again

World buildings and Guests

Portal

• The portal is not a city building anymore, but is placed in the world instead
• Changes stock daily

Trading Post

• Added a new world Building: The trading post to sell your resources for coins
• You can sell all basic unrefined resources
• The more of one resources you sell, the less you get for it
• But they recover slightly each week

Guilds

• Added four new world Buildings : Warriors Guild, Rangers Guild, Mages Guild and Summoners Guild
• Each run you can get one random unit from each guild, but only after you already have two of the type
• Removed the old Guild

Spell Shop

• Added a new world Building: The spell shop
• You can choose between two random spells to replace yours

Super Metal Trade

• Added a new world Building: Super Metal Trade
• You can trade a ton of ingots or books to get a Super Metal once per run

Quest Buildings

• Added two new quest buildings that challenge you to pick certain types of monsters
• Removed the shard quest

General changes

• Shops display the full body artwork of the actor
• Voyage chests cannot be rerolled
• Amayas stock cannot be rerolled
• Amayas stock changes daily
• Amayas costs ingots now
• Merchant gives three ingots now
• The store only sells refined resources now
• The siege shop costs boards now
• The curiosity shop costs faith now
• The targeting items shop shop costs stone now
• The tailor costs wood now
• The black market costs gold now
• The wizards tower costs banish now
• The hospital costs coins now
• The training grounds costs beer now
• Calling a miniboss costs one of the resource he is guarding now
• New sprites for many world buildings

• Added a new world event to find spell scrolls
• Removed XP scroll random event (will come back later)

QoL

• Targeting items have their own slot now
• Task board gives new tasks on the next day now, so you do not have to check it all the time
• Task board has a marker on the next day, so you do not forget it
• The default key for opening the Calendar is K now
• Entering the tavern has its own key binding now
• Clicking on the tavern at night does not enter it anymore, so you can still use it properly
• Researcher also takes not unlocked units (which is not as important anymore since unlocking units is easier)
• Unbefriended Orc and Wizard respawn weekly

Clarity

• You cannot reroll when there are just three (or less) options to prevent wasting of resources
• It displays the amount of possible options when rerolling
• Throne room curse screen display total glory calculation now
• Unit sheet UI improvements
• Unit sheet added weakness
• Added check so you cannot resume old incompatible runs after big updates
• Added message to flag mode to explain it
• Added message below give up button
• Added tutorial for saving and exiting the game
• Added tutorial for the chruch and spells
• Added tutorial for rushing
• Added tutorial for game over
• The caravan tutorials opens after the boss animation, not during it
• Term workshop is called siege works now
• Term attack type magic is called magical now
• The geologist hut, forager and fisherhut jobs can be deactivated now
• Relics that change a buildings recipe clearly say so now
• Reduced chromatic aberration visual effect
• Disabled language switching in experimental builds
• Modded clients cannot unlock achievement
• Instead of resetting the leaderboard, bigger updates (and the experimental branch) get their own new leaderboard

Balance

• Humans moved food market
• Humans moved targeting items shop
• Humans moved black market back to its original position
• Humans upgrading Geologist huts costs boards now
• Humans Bakery requires 2 flour to make 2 bread now
• Humans Fields of Glory is unlocked at Kingdom Level 22
• Humans Fishing net is unlocked at Kingdom Level 20
• Humans Greenhouse is unlocked at Kingdom Level 34
• Humans Scissors is unlocked at Kingdom Level 2
• Undead reduced stone cost of Abomination greatly
• Undead do not get one faith for every idle worker anymore
• Undead Sweet Tooth relic only comes up if you have the candy store
• Upgrading Tavern is cheaper now
• Workers and carriers are a bit slower
• Changed a few building costs to include multiple resources
• Increased some buildings harvesting times slightly
• Geologists signs stay for a day

• Boosting is also increasing damage again
• Reduced duration of fear status effect 3s *> 2.5s
• Generic items effect reduced 30% *> 25%
• Item Axe increased effect 5% *> 10%
• Cooldown reduction only counts for the active ability
• Boss Blob increased health 1425 *> 1500
• Boss Blob reduced minion health scaling by 33%
• Boss Blob spawns three minions instead of one
• Boss Goblin King increased health 246 *> 300
• Boss Goblin King increased minion health 1 *> 5
• Villain Vagabond reduced damage
• Minibosses are slower
• Hero Selene reduced damage scaling by 12%
• Unit Clown increased crit chance moderately
• Unit Dancer reduced cooldown
• Unit Dinosaur reduced damage scaling by 15%
• Unit Djinn increased damage scaling moderately
• Unit Druid reduced damage by 10%
• Unit Flamewalker increased range
• Unit Flamewalker increased health considerably
• Unit Frost mage reduced damage scaling slightly
• Unit Ghoul increased base damage slightly
• Unit Ghoul increased piercing 5 > 6
• Unit Halfling increased damage scaling moderately
• Unit Headless achievement reduced requirement to 20 fields
• Unit Jailer increased base damage slightly
• Unit Jester reduced cooldown considerably
• Unit Magus reduced damage scaling slightly
• Unit Marksman removed damage multiplier
• Unit Marksman increased damage scaling considerably
• Unit Marksman increased cooldown 2s *> 2.2s
• Unit Paladin reduced cooldown by 0.5s
• Unit Paladin increased base damage slightly
• Unit Rogue reduced cooldown
• Unit Runescribe reduced damage scaling by 5%
• Unit Satyr reduced damage scaling slightly
• Unit Satyr reduced knockback
• Unit Satyr increased cooldown slightly
• Unit Shaman increased base damage moderately
• Unit Swordsman increased cooldown by 0.25s
• Unit Swordsman increased damage scaling moderately
• Unit Stormcaller increased damage scaling moderately
• Siege Holy Tree increased mana by 25%

Fixes

• Fixed graveyard not preventing glory loss
• Fixed errors when getting to the limit of units at the end of a run
• Fixed settings persistent game speed option being tied to game focus option
• Fixed settings refresh rate option not applying
• Fixed miner and quarry jobs not ending properly sometimes when a mineshaft was opened
• Fixed relic Crimson Heart
• Fixed nature kingdom caravan still offering targeting item
• Fixed throne room play label talking about c0 before the first win
• Fixed throne room changing starting unit/relic with little starting coins left over
• Fixed snowstorm also being called snowy in the ALT menu
• Fixed building church showing incorrect weather early in a run
• Fixed building graveyard buried units still counting as death for glory
• Fixed building tavern incorrectly showing thunder warning
• Fixed undead bloat leaving multiple corpses
• Fixed pirates marker sometimes not vanishing on days where they come back with loot maybe
• Fixed pirates sending them out makes click and confirmation sound
• Fixed ALT overlay staying up when pressing ESC
• Fixed building overlay displaying button prompts for assigning workers even when its not possible
• Fixed catalog tooltips still being display after closing it
• Fixed all relics hovering an opened relic would hide its keywords
• Fixed title screen kingdom switcher not showing the requirements to unlock undeads
• Fixed newly added roads causing visual problems when build out of order
• Fixed needing to have faith to melt an item in the church
• Fixed unit Clown not attacking on level 1
• Fixed unit Djinn not attacking on level 1
• Fixed unit Ghoul spreading status effect, by limiting it to one at a time

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