Enter the Nexus

We've made many other fixes, balance, and QoL changes in this update. Cheers to everyone who entered the Nexus to test it in Beta/Prerelease.

Up Next

Endgame

• You can expect a new introduction to the game and improved help to learn the game.
• The Nexus will grow even further to reveal who or what created the curse afflicting the school.
• Tons of bug fixes and QoL.

You may notice some deviations from the roadmap in this release. We'll post a roadmap update along with dev notes discussing our choices in the next few days. Have fun in the Nexus!

Full build notes below. Happy Holidays!

The Nexus

• New Underschool rooms to explore in the Nexus zone.
• Infinite Hallways give endless rooms to battle for Mages of all Levels.
• The Altar of Fate allows customization of Relic Slots, Relic Legacies, and Uncompleted Trials.
• Nexus Gateways allow traveling directly to key points in the Underschool.
• Three new enemies to battle.
• The Nexus will grow even more in the Endgame update.

New Quests / Jade Dragon

• Complete quests in the Human and Vivified lands at the Jade Dragon. Mages can gain extra potion slots and immunity to pain!
• Blooming, Hatching, and raising a Jade Dragon takes a little less grinding now.
• Blooming does not require planting any plants nearby, but now requires Apprentices.
• The baby and juvenile stages require 3 days instead of 4 to grow.
• The Affection Need now fills in 2.5 hours of work instead of 6.

Seasonal

• It's Holiday Season!

Quality of Life

• Plots and Planters now have a Harvest (or Chop) Limit that can be set. When you have more than the limit of a Reagent, Mages will not Harvest that plot or planter.
• Plots and Planters no longer display a Harvest icon when growing or waiting for Harvest. Instead they show a Disabled icon when harvest has been disabled by pressing Cancel Harvest. This was both a visual and performance improvement.
• Mages should now much less frequently get stuck behind furnishings when Assembling.

Gameplay and Balance

• Dragon Wok recipes that require Crabbage, Meat, Jumping Nuts, or Rock Candy output two meals per cook instead of one.
• Fine Kitchens now allow a Gruel Pot so that you do not need a lower tier kitchen as well.
• Standard Difficulty will no longer get multiple Invasion, Breathstealer, or Bramblespawn events on the same day.
• Slightly nerfed enemies in higher level parties that appear from Corrupted Mana Lanterns because they were a bit harder than intended.
• Made the deepest Corrupted Mana Lanterns wait a little longer before appearing.
• Attuning is now about 75% faster than before.
• Staff can now use the Statue Carvery and Easel.

Fixes and Improvements

• Adding text to Mage Needs regarding whether they pause/change during sleep.
• Statues and paintings of founder ghost should look like the ghost looked at time of painting/sculpting, not like the original dead mage looked like.
• Don't allow Shapeshifting setup when having a Break.
• Turn off Idle changes being logged in the Logbook to avoid some spam.
• AIs not controlled by the player (ie, croa) will ignore Never player priorities on entities/errands.
• Changed "Enemy Level" text for battle start UI to say "Recommended Mage Level" to more accurately describe what that means.
• Added a multiple effect icon for Job Type Priority buttons to handle the case where several effects are active and not just a Love or Hate.
• Red feed alerts now all share the same sound to make it more clear when an important event is occurring.
• Audio mix improvements across all sounds.
• Founder ghost now properly changes faction when using the Magic Mirror.
• Mages will now properly do Low Priority Tasks before filling Mana. If they are below 50% Mana and Idle, they will still fill Mana. Thanks, @Ugly.
• Updated visuals for Crystal Prophecy and Crystal Portent.
• Perf improvements related to shadows that help large schools.
• Remove debug recipes that could appear on the Meals UI.
• Fix the Quest UI sometimes overflowing.
• Fix for Messy Meddlers missing their status icon in Advanced Combat.
• Fix for hover text link explosion on Periodical Kiosk.
• Fix for Wolfkin using some incorrect animations (Hunt, for example.)
• Fix for Mana Lantern sometimes looking like it's empty, but still allowing a charge.
• Fix for issue where sometimes Shrinks could not be stored after cancelling an Un-Shrink.
• Fix Disable World Camera Shake not being saved between sessions.
• Added linked text to Attuned, Painter, and Sculptor Trials to make it more clear where to accomplish them.