- Reworked looting tasks which now have a duration and hero animation.
- Reworked how fishing tasks finish to fix the casting while moving bug.
- Fixed a bug where the quests were not sorting correctly.
- Post session stats no longer count enemy reaps.
- Treks - > Runs.
- Autocasting now activates by default.
- Autocast should no longer get stuck on when wiping a save.
- Echo | Tasks is now the default starting buff.
- Fixed a bug where return on death would send the player back into a run after the death timer expired.
- Fixed an issue where the last saved was not accounting for auto saves.
- Library now shows quests instead of goals.
- Added new users top the credits.
- Steam cloud is now enabled fopr everyone.
- New save regression detection system. Wow that's a mouthful.

I am now working on a new gearing system. This means that for the next few days there won't be new versions on the main branch. You can get the latest unstable version if you're on windows under the games properties>Beta

- Slipstream bug is now fixed for trees and crops as well.
- Versioning updated to be a little more flexible, first number is the release, second is major updates and third is minor updates
- On your travels screen now has additional info about how many runs you did and how many kills you got when retreating.
- Reduced the stick counts for fence quests.
- Defense is now shown as a percentage on the heads up rather than a flat value.

- Fixed a bug where the hero wasn't visually depleting rocks when using slipstream
- Defense description update
- Now shows the percentage in the upgrade screen.
- Player scaler now buffed to 25 from 60
- Enemy scalar remains at 60

- Made a couple of backend changes to chest tasks to hopefully fix the issue with them.
- DeathUI is now correctly anchored to the left.
- Console is now password protected.
- Meet The Old Timer Achievement
- Potential fix for getting stuck on death.

Changes,

• Small trees are no longer tasks,

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• Quests that are ready to complete will now appear at the top of the noticeboard,

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Quests,

• 3 new fence related quests to get the farm protected, yields a total of 300 additional distance.,

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• Made some progress on quest descriptions/names. All the crop quests are now done!,

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Balance,

• Bones in chests 100% -> 10%,

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• More levels for regen and health,

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• Instead of onions for the first few levels echo duration now takes wheat,

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Milestones,

• Updated Combat Milestones,

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• Updated and added new Mining Milestones

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Changes,

• Best /m now shows on each resource in the resource tab of stats,

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• On windows the title of the window now shows the same status as steam rich presence,

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• Distance based buffs no longer expire based on time,

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• Reworked buffs to be quest rewardable, and quest upgradeable,

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• Goals -> Quests,

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• There is now a console command to abandon-run,

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• Skills window should now close on death,

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• Added decor for Farmlands, Woods, and River,

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• Removed non description upgrade texts.,

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Quests,

• Eva now gives tracking twins quest which involves meeting the Twins in the farmlands.,

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• The Twins now give a quest to fetch Eva's radish order for them.,

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• New Information quest after A Fishy Situation, Rewards the two echo buffs.

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• For now the rest of the buffs unlock when you get buff slot 2.,

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Skills,

• Farming now has Milestones up to level 50.,

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Bugfixes,

• Dice will now correctly enable itself again,

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• Trees now correctly show in the stats screen,

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• Removed the dead instance of the movement buff,

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• Hopefully fixed that pesky river bug,

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• The hero should no longer switch targets mid combat

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Changes,

• Various typos and grammatical changes. Thanks @tanty.,

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• Slimes now only have 3 spawn stages, one for small, one for medium, one for large. Their colours have different rarities, and higher tier ones scale faster with their level. Small slimes start at 50 and spawn all the way to 1000 distance, not accounting for any map offsets.,

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• The enemy you are currently fighting now shows its hp to the right of its health bar.,

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• The map start buttons now hide themselves while any town window is open.,

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• Valid Goals now automatically pin themselves.,

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• Buff slots are now able to be toggled to autocast specific slots. I call this Echo Casting.,

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• Enemies now show their name while you're attacking them.,

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• Added a new window that shows your total earned resources since beginning a run.,

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• Swapped the Settings and stats buttons.,

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• Floating text now shows your resources at the location you get them and has icons for each resource type.,

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• Added medium and large slimes back in.,

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• Added the rest of the crops back in.,

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• Added the rest of the ores back in.,

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• Added all Alter Echoes back, and added goals to get them.,

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• Added back the Medium and Large slimes.,

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• Alter Echoes have been overhauled, they instead now produce 1% of your best resource per minute of that resource type. This will scale with goals.,

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• Buffs no longer have a cost.,

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• Buffs are no longer able to be stacked.,

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• Another UI overhaul,

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• Reworked save system allowing for 3 save slots.,

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Balance,

• Enemies level now takes into account their starting spawn distance as well as the map offset so you don't start out fighting level 5+ slimes.,

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Resources,

• Chunk drop chance 50% -> 70%,

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• Crystal drop chance 20% -> 40%,

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Enemies,

• Skeleton Swordsman

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• Damage/lvl 0.1 -> 0.25,

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• Defense/lvl 0.05 -> 0.1,

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Bugfixes,

• Enemies now spawn on the river.,

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• Inventory is no longer incorrectly offset.,

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• All slimes now have drops.,

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• Hero can now once again get past 125 run distance.,

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• Hero now keeps a list of enemies that are engaged to avoid leaving combat unintentionally between skeleton fights.,

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Backend,

• Improved enemies to keep a list of themselves for access by the player instead of using findobjectsbytype constantly.,

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• Reworked backend to allow localization to be pushed to google sheets and pulled from.

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Changes,

• Runs are now abandoned in the stats when the application is closed mid run.,

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• "Distance Travelled:" -> "Distance Reached:".,

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• Wiki -> Library.,

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• Echoes now stay active up to 30 units ahead of the hero up from 20.,

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• Echoes now have icons instead of colours.,

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• Regen has been changed to a regular stat Upgrade.,

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• Donation quests and donation in general has been removed.,

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• Utoes removed from the game.,

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• Mildred is now Eva's cat.,

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• Entirely new quest line.,

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• Echoes now complete tasks on screen and return to Caleb if they cannot find any.,

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• Credits was moved to the settings screen.,

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• Disciples -> Alter Echoes,

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• Quests -> Goals,

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• Caleb now correctly paths around tasks.,

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• Ores now leave rock behind when they are mined similar to how tree stumps are left.,

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• New Maps

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• Farmlands,

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• Woods,

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• Mines,

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• River,

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Balance,

• Tasks no longer have a 0% chance to spawn after their maxX, instead their chance is reduced to 10%,

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• Defense has been buffed 0.01 -> 0.02,

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Bugfixes,

• Opening the stats window will no longer bug out the skills window.,

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• Large slimes now have the correct image in stats.,

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• Echoes are no longer multiplying Calebs stats.,

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• Rest of metal disciples have had their setup fixed.,

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• Echoes can no longer set the run distance.,

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• Autobuff no longer looks deactivated when returning to town after dying.,

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• A Slime in Time now correctly unlocks its disciple.,

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Backend,

• Swaped to a flags system instead of booleans for the can spawn areas. Before it was a bool for each "Grass" "Sand" "Water" flags scales far better and lets me add additonal ones. EG "Mines" "MineWalls",

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• Rewrote the procedural generation to be data driven rather than hardcoded.,

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• Doubled the fidelity of pathfinding, movement should feel less jankey, and this allows for tasks to be pathed around by Caleb and Enemies.

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Changes

• Echoes no longer also receive the Autocast Echo.

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• New settings button.

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• Moved the skills window to the left side of the screen.

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• Dad joke can now be closed by clicking on it, or right clicking.

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• Dad jokes are no longer so powerful that they can block the inventory.

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• Echoes are now colour tinted.

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• Farming only: Yellow.

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• Woodcutting only: Green.

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• Fishing only: Blue.

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• Mining only: Orange.

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• Looting only: Purple.

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• Combat only: Red.

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• Combination of any: Caleb's colour at 70% alpha.

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Balance Changes

• Updated Red and Pink slimes values.

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• Attack speed cost now starts at 2 and scales by 2 per level from levles 0-200 then starts at 5000 from level 201 and increases by 5 per level until level 1000 where it caps out.

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• Defense now scales up to 1000 where it maxes out.

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Bugfixes

• Radish no longer spawns everywhere.

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• Nori Crystal disciple is no longer there.

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• Echoes finishing tasks no longer interrupt Caleb.

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• Fixed an issue where some fish were not dropping before 10km.

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• Combat triggers from enemies should now work properly.

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• Should no longer be able to cast buffs when dead.

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Backend

• Documented enemy balance and updated the references to make them easier to edit.

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Changes

• Echoes are now a thing.

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• Added Disciples for remaining resources.

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• Added Quests for the new Disciples using placeholder names for the NPC's.

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• Added Steam stat tracking for Reaps, Total Kills, and Slimes Killed.

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• Instant task milestones will now instead spawn echoes.

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• New text in inventory shows the last selected resource.

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• 3 New Mildred quests for the remaining buff slots.

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• 2 New Buffs: Echo, and Combat Echo.

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• Buff autocasting unlocks after casting 100 buffs.

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Balance Changes

• Reduced the rate of chests by 25%-90% scaling with rarity. so whilst wooden chests had a rate of 0.2 before they now have a rate of 0.15 and Vastium chests have gone from 0.01 to 0.001 with the others having similar reductions in-between those values.

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• Fish have gone from 1.5 up to 2 across the board.

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Bugfixes

• Dice now works again.

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Backend

• Reworked Disciple data into scriptable objects to make expanding the system easier, and the workflow is now in line with how the rest of the projects data management works allowing for an expandable system and a LOT less work in the editor.

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• Refactored Buffs, Quests, and Disciples to pull directly from the resources folder rather than manually managing a list of each that can be set wrong by the designer. (Not me I swear!)

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• Another rework on the map generation. Task categories now have their own set of weights which are iterated over first when choosing a task.

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Changes

• Quests now highlight with a star when you have one able to be turned in.

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• Quests now display their type category.

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Minor Changes

• Chest opening sound.

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• Watering Sound.

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• Hero death sound.

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• Animated Swan.

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Bugfixes

• Quests now properly update their icons when you discover resources.

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• Distance buffs now properly reset when you restart a run.

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Backend

• Shifted task distance logic to task data and tidied up the formatting to make balancing easier in the future.

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• Created documentation for tasks.

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Changes

• Added patreons to the credits

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• Reduced enemy density 0.2 -> 0.18

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• Remade the inventory UI

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• Movespeed now caps out at level 250

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• New drop icons for Run Drop UI

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Minor Changes

• Version number finally in options.,

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• Better watering can icon.

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• Retreat button now reflects that it is queued.

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• Fixed the shadow on the distance UI.

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Bugfixes

• Clouds are now on the correct layer.

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Restarting is recommended for this patch.

Changes

• Reworked movement and Health costs.

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• Added the rest of the crops to the spawn logic (Oops)

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• Chests can now spawn on grass as well.

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• Caleb's shoes now require metal to break the sound barrier. You will still need plenty of sticks and slime to distribute the heat that is generated and avoid burns.

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• New meeting system for NPCs

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• Enemy Balance | Vision no longer scales with their power, should help avoid offscreen swarming.

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• All enemies now have a vision range of 7

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• All enemies now have an assist ally range of 5

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Minor Changes

• Preferences are now saved when wiping

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• The reaper can now enter from the right as well!

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Bugfixes

• Invisible buttons no longer have shadows.

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• Mildred can now walk backwards.

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• Fixed shadow on the buffs display in run.

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Backend

• Caleb now targets any enemies who engage with him rather than ignoring them till they hit him.

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Notice!

• All tasks are now in the game, I have shuffled the ID's which means that your statistics will be all messed up. I'm not going to force a wipe but I do strongly encourage you to start over.

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• Upgrades for Attack, Attack Rate, and Defense have had their recipes changed so a fresh save will give the intended experience on those. However I still need to do health and movement, so feel free to wait till next patch.

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Changes

• Attack speed now entirely upgraded using feathers.

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• Damage now upgraded using various chunks and crystals.

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• Added 7 new chests.

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• Chest types are now guaranteed to spawn Bones, and Leather. As well as all ingot types at a 80% -> 10% chance at their respective distances from earlist to latest game ores.

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• Rarer chests provide more resources, rather than different ones.

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Minor Changes

• New descriptions for the Stat upgrades.

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• Shadows for run UI

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Bugfixes

• Inventory no longer appears behind start run and other buttons.

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• Discord button was squished thanks Parzival

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Backend

• Created a bunch of chest animations.

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Changes

• 7 New Ores

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• Nerfed Red Minislime

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• HP 100 -> 75

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• Defense 3 -> 1.5

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Minor Changes

• Eznorb ore now spawns from 40, down from 100.

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• Discord button

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• Slowed down the reap animation

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• Added a shadow for town buttons.

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Bugfixes

• Hero health can now reach 0% on the healthbar.

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• Fixed a bug where duplicate entries would happen with the stats screen.

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Backend

• Separated the weight logic for tasks between Sand Grass and Water, we can now set density of tasks on each area separately.

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• Split fishing tasks so that they can show up correctly in the Tasks stats.

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• Split the tasks list into separate skill based lists to make setup of tasks far easier to manage as well as balance.

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Changes

• Quests window now shows completed quests.,

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• Quests

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• Daily Bread,

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• Sweet Summer,

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• Another fishy situation,

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Minor Changes

• Town windows now properly close when selecting stats, and visa versa,

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• New visuals in town for the disciples.

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Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue where the wrong skill was selected when reopening the skills window.

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Changes,

• Buffs

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• Vampirism,

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• Lerp

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Minor Changes,

• Skills window now show the skill name just above the experience,

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• Skill experience now properly uses calcutils,

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• Buff time now shows as a time rather than a straight up number.

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Bugfixes,

• Slots that are not assigned, and unavailable buffs are now greyed out.

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Backend,

• Distance based buffs are now possible.

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• Lifesteal buff now possible,

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• Instant tasks now possible,

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• Split Health into two components with an abstract base class. Now theres HealthBase, Health (For enemies) and HeroHealth

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Timeless Echoes Cumulative Patch Notes (5 11 July 2025)

Patch 9 | 11 July 2025

Features

• Reworked buffs

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• New **Combat Enhancer** buff (testing-only; will change)

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Minor Changes

• Tooltips now trigger on hover (not click)

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• Dedicated tooltip for buffs

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• Combat sounds

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Bugfixes

• Random loud-sound spikes removed

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• Achievement manager no longer gets destroyed

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Backend

• Large refactor for the buff system

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• Removed diminishing curve on buff durations now grant a flat value

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Patch 8 | 10 July 2025

Features

• New Quest **For the Jam!** (unlocks Corn)

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• Corn crop

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Minor Changes

• Feed the Masses now unlocks after **For the Jam!**

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Bugfixes

• Health-milestone bonus now applies correctly

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• Turning in quests now subtracts required resources

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• SFX correctly routed to the mixer

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Backend

• Quests now use prerequisite lists (no more `NextQuest` field)

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• Tasks can optionally check for quest completion

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Patch 7 | 10 July 2025

Features

• Skills: +1 % faster task completion per level (Combat: +1 % resources per level)

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• Most tasks persist through combat (Fishing still resets)

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• Options screen with audio sliders

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Minor Changes

• Stats panel now shows **Steps Taken** instead of distance

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• Wipe Save button (no warning... yet)

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• NPC dialogue text turned white

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Bugfixes

• Tooltips no longer show decimal values

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Patch 6 | 9 July 2025

Features

• Cloud saves

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Minor Changes

• Ivan now spawns at distance 40 (down from 50)

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• Replaced multiple `FindFirstObjectByType` calls with static refs; added missing-ref logging

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Bugfixes

• Calebs healthbar now shrinks to 1 % (was 5 %) to avoid misleading fullness

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Patch 5 | 8 July 2025

Changes

• Bonus-resource scaling: +2 % / mob **only** if you retreat manually risk reward

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• Resource graph now uses a separate colour for bonus resources

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• Overhauled Run UI

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• New Achievement **Meet Ivan**

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Minor Changes

• New gravestone on death

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Bugfixes

• Fish values now load correctly on game start

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Patch 4 | 8 July 2025

Changes

• New quest for Ivan kill slimes to earn the dice

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• Manual return-to-town now grants 50 % more resources

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• Dying now shows a death screen (retry / return) auto-retry after 20 s

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• New blacksmith art

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• Return-to-town button now shows bonus resources

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Minor Changes

• Quest reward line now prefixes with Reward:

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Bugfixes

• Quest enemy-kill counters now track correctly during play *and* after loading

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Patch 3 | 6 July 2025

Changes

• Healthbars no longer look empty on very low HP

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• Town window manager opening any non-inventory window closes others

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• Tasks no longer spawn on the first 15 tiles

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• Large Fruit Tree task time 7 s 3 s

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• All task progress bars now use blue

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• Stats screen converted to a window

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• Reduced stick-scaling below level 50 (still wild above 50)

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Bugfixes

• Dad-O-Cado button now refreshes (right-click to close)

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• Tasks now sort correctly

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• Quests hide until their NPCs are met

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Save-Location Note

Patch 2 | 6 July 2025

Changes

• Separated enemy vs. task spawn density

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• Replaced Tavern scene with a small Town

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• Dedicated **Dad-Ocado** button in Town

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• Reworked Witch UI + added **Disciples** (online/offline passive gen)

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• Added Windmill

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• New Quest UI & system

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• Added Quit button

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• Added Credits button

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Bugfixes

• (None please report any!)

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Save-Transfer Tip

Patch 1 | 5 July 2025

Changes

• Drops during a run now shuffle to the front

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Bugfixes

• Drop text now spawns in its new location (thanks BluSkyBun)

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• Task progress bars hidden by default (thanks again BluSkyBun)

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• Buff bar now hides when no buffs are active (cheers BluSkyBun)

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