Hello Explorers! As you may have heard, we've recently been working on a new, experimental, free-to-play, multiplayer spin-off, called Curious Expedition RIVALS. In today's patch we're updating The Curious Expedition with some of the improvements and fixes we've made while developing RIVALS.

UI Changes

• Added smooth zooming
• Improvements to infection/death system
  • Infobox now shows the death chance for infected characters
  • A diary alert is shown before opening the diary when somebody is dieing
• Tin can items will only be shown as usable when they can actually be used (sanity less than 30)
• Added quick scroll to credits; added new entries for fan edition

Tuning changes

• Increased chance of catastrophic outcoume when sending claustrophobic person into cave without torch
• Waiting now costs the base trip cost in sanity
• Only one item per item category is now cooled down per turn, instead of all of them
• Changed jungle rot sickness to be potentially deadly
• Tweaked how often some events could appear on one expedition

Bugfixes

• Toughness can't be reduced below zero when contracting a disease
• The shop-specific item value bonuses are only displayed when at the shop screen
• Indicator for item usage in combat now matches the reality
• Various German typos fixed

Modding

• Added support for Character flags +noMirror, +noHealth and +noLoyalty
• Party buttons are refreshed when stats change
• Vehicles can't get infected