• Hard Mode option has been added to the Game settings (modern renderer only)
• Something peculiar is going on but I just can’t put my foot on it!

• The Combat Update is now live.

• General combat changes:
  • Separated defensive stances from attack stances
  • Defending the direction a creature attacks is key to winning the fight
  • Defending any of the adjacent directions will defend against diagonal attacks (for example, defending either top or left to defend against an upper-left attack will be effective)
  • Autofight will now use the new stance system, however with a lesser effectivity than a player would
  • Critical hits are now enabled in PvE combat and deal 150% of the original damage
  • Shield blocking rate when fighting multiple opponents at once was increased

• Visual changes:
  • Added in-world combat text that shows attacks that are being performed (“Show in-world combat log” in UI tab of the settings)
  • Added optional screen shaking when being hit in combat (“Enable screen shaking” in Graphics tab of the settings)
  • Added a circular indicator on the top of the screen to show the location of attackers hitting you (“Show hit direction indicator” in the UI tab of the settings)
  • Added a new blood vignette effect on hits and as a general damage indicator
  • An approximate creature difficulty indicator has been added and will appear next to their in-world health bar. This is a relative indicator, compared to your strength, skills and equipment
  • Creature status icons will show under their health bar, showing things like focus level, attack stance, defense stance, stun, bleeding (details visible upon mouseover)
  • Added sound effects for glance and stun

• Special moves rework:
  • All special moves are stronger and more useful
  • There is now a single set of special moves, instead of having different set per template kingdom
  • Slash moves will give the opponent a CR penalty for a short period
  • Crush moves will stun the opponent
  • Pierce moves will cause bleeding, which deals more damage than normal, but it is applied over time as a bleed effect
  • All weapons have access to moves that drain opponent’s food and stamina
  • The client shows details of given special moves as a tooltip

• Change: Edibility of plant-based food items
  • Mixed grass is no longer edible except by grazing animals such as sheep and horse
  • Acorns are now edible by omnivores and herbivores
  • Fruits, nuts, and herbs are now edible by herbivores such as horses and cows

• Change: While holding Alt to show details, hovering over a piece of body armour in the inventory will now show what type of armour it is classified as, such as “leather armour” or “dragonscale armour”.
  • This includes all clothing that functions as armour, as well as special items like summer hats, demon helms, and kingdom equipment. Equipment that is classified as “armour” in the inventory but does not provide protection will display “cosmetic armour”.

• Bugfix: Locate Soul runes will now function properly instead of failing without a message.
• Bugfix: Corrected the repair timer after burning wooden items
• Bugfix: Crafting recipe for Dioptra now shows correct metal
• Bugfix: Find Route should no longer cause lag on heavily populated servers
• Bugfix: When logging off a boat on a PvP server as the captain you will now disembark, to allow any would-be thieves to drive the boat off once lockpicked (PvP only)
• Bugfix: Rakes will now take damage when tending a large planter.
• Bugfix: Fixed Nolocate rings not affecting Reveal creatures properly
• Bugfix: Ritual of the sun will now only repair things in the deity’s domain
• Bugfix: Zombie deer will no longer show as cows
• Bugfix: Horses will no longer turn to face north when unhitched.

Client Changes:

• New: 80 Steam achievements have been added to the game
  • These new achievements can also be viewed and achieved without using the Steam client, via a new window opened through the main menu through the “Goals” button

• Change: Improvements have been made to the village plan export feature
  • The on-screen, console, and event log messages have been improved for readability and to properly filter the OS username.
  • The file name now follows a similar format to screenshots and skill dumps, including the village name and the current date and time, and will no longer overwrite a previously exported village plan.

• Change: Screenshot location will now also be shown in the Event tab when the screenshot is taken.
• Change: Tortoise shell description now shows correctly.