Alpha 0.0.25: Early Game Balancing

Alpha 0.0.25 is a game update released on 11 June 2026. This patch focuses on early game balancing and bug fixes.

Early Game Balancing

New characters now start with better armor and supplies, a better weapon, and rebalanced gold.
Rebalanced early creatures and characters to have less health and deal less damage.
Skill checks are now less punishing when you aren't specialized in the matching stat.
Early game enemies now drop more varied loot and weapons.
Hostile enemies appearing in early areas now stay within your level range.
Added a few new low-level elites to the early game. Take them on for some solid early gear before facing the tougher challenges ahead.
Added a new opening quest from Howoll the tavernkeeper at the Golden Barrel tavern.

Rooted, stunned, or immobilized characters (including you) can no longer attack beyond their reach.
Distant enemies now close in before striking, and attackers spread out to fit their roles instead of piling onto one spot.
Bleeds, poisons, and other ongoing effects now keep ticking on enemies as they close in.
Conditions like prone, grappled, or frozen now wear off in minutes instead of lingering all day.

Party companions now heal on their own over time.
Bosses now land few heavy hits instead of a flurry of smaller attacks.
Items crafted from legendary ingredients now match the power of their ingredients, not the base item.
Hiding mid-combat is now harder.
Environmental hazards no longer kill bosses and other powerful enemies outright.
Being heavily encumbered now slows your travel instead of blocking it outright, and travel confirmations show the slower pace.

Character creation now recommends a primary attribute for your class.
Dice roll outcomes are now more reliable, so succeeding a roll actually gets you what you rolled for.
Small missteps no longer push your alignment steadily toward evil, and a genuine change of heart now moves it back.
Movement commands like "go east" now take you the way you asked instead of the Narrator's guess.
When you can't move (wounded, grappled, or pinned), the game now tells you why instead of narrating progress that didn't happen.

Fixed a bug where inviting a new member could disband your party and block further invites.
Fixed a bug where a companion you dismissed could keep following you.
Fixed a bug where encountering a deity could freeze the game and lock you out of your character.
Fixed a bug where signing in with Google on some iOS devices bounced you back to the login screen.
Fixed bugs where you could get stuck inside a small room, or a group move could strand a party member in a different area.
Fixed a bug where entering narrow or curved areas like roads or rivers could drop you outside of them.
Fixed a bug where characters in your peripheral vision didn't show up in your location panel while indoors.
Fixed a bug where looting or handing over the same item repeatedly could duplicate items or gold.
Fixed a bug where a trader could take offense at you accepting their own asking price, or back out of an agreed sale.
Fixed a bug where handing an ally a weapon could leave them wielding something else.
Fixed a bug where enemies could hit you from far away, even as melee attackers.
Fixed a bug where enemies at a camp you already cleared kept respawning forever.
Fixed a bug where enemies could strike the moment they advanced, as if teleporting.
Fixed a bug where the Narrator could say you killed an enemy when you hadn't.
Fixed a bug where a character could misread the scene and react to things that weren't happening.