Update Changelog

Quality of Life: Research

• Research now allows freeform queueing and automatically handles prerequisites. There is a drag and drop list to rearrange the queue.
• Selecting a Research node provides a dedicated area for information instead of relying on hover text.
• New visuals for the research tree and background.
• Find functionality more prominent with improved presentation.
• The research hierarchy has been modified slightly. If this directly affects your save game, you will get a notification when you visit the Research screen to explain what has changed.

Quality of Life: Groups

• Improved layout throughout with options for condensed view and showing built-in groups.
• Updated UI and logical consistency for conditions.
• Added picker to replace the dropdowns and the ability to search for Statuses, etc.
• New conditions added: Time of Day, Wand Type, Trial and Medallion type.
• Each Quilted helper type now gets its own built-in group.
• Ability to enable and disable conditions without deleting them.
• Ability to Export and Import groups to clipboard or preferences.

Quality of Life: Task Type Priorities

• Added default rows for Staff and Students.
• New Advanced Mode allows for using Groups in Task Type Priorities and ability to remove individuals so they use their first matching Group.
• In Advanced Mode, option to auto-add staff or students to the Task Type priority list. Defaults to off.

Gameplay Changes

• Made breaks generally more robust so they have their intended effect more often.
• Binge break has additional Mage penalties if there is nothing to eat.
• Added custom difficulty option to start with just one staff.
• Haul Tasks now try to deliver larger amounts of resources to Refining Beasts so fewer trips are required.

Fixes & Improvements

• Show Lightning Rod ranges during placement and when selected. More to come on Lightning gameplay in a future update.
• Improvements to many UI sounds.
• Sounds for phase-in / phase-out audio when ghosts pass through solid blocks.
• New feed notifications sounds for Mages achieving Fully Trained and Full Honors.
• Enchantophone music can now be muted in audio settings
• Added a new audio queue when Dusk falls.
• Mage/Creature sounds can now be controlled in UI settings.
• Tasks that use placemarkers (like Move) now use the priority of the placemarker.
• Fix inconsistent Access order in UI (mainly Staff/Students on teaching stations).
• Re-rolling Mages no longer changes manually set Mage names.
• Reduced length of Trial & Medallion names for a better fit.
• Fix to not being able to click on some auto-pause options in the gameplay settings.
• Fix animations when a Mage dies while At Death's Door.
• Move Task now has a right-click option for direct order on placemarker.
• Hauler Helper range and animations fixed.
• Fix for Underschool Doors and staircase animations so they start opened on game load if they should be opened.
• Loves Mining Medallion is no longer mis-named as Loves Harvesting
• The Light / Clutter / Filth filters will now say "will spawn when able" when the Voidshroom / Gremlin / Ooze is blocked from spawning in a room, rather than displaying a negative timer value.
• Roof pieces fixed so they do not overhang the back of the school
• Direct room upgrades will be prioritized for display by the room filter when showing possible changes.
• No longer show the Medical Rest alert for Mages already doing Medical Rest.
• Support for Thai glyphs.

What's In The Works?

• Regular Release: Fast Travel #1 will include a couple of tools for speeding up movement above ground.
• Major Release: Student advancement changes.
• Major Release: Dragons!! Always with an exclamation. Or two.