With the Kintsugi update, we would like to introduce to you a complete rework of the Dynasty Progression system in the game. Dynasty Progression affects things like quests, Special Projects, unlocking new recipes, as well as a Dynasty Legend levelling system. We had several goals in mind when designing those improvements:

Improved Onboarding: Our goal was to make the game more approachable in the beginning, thus we have reworked the onboarding experience, making some initial quests optional, increasing the ability of playing the game again, and speeding up the very first stages of your adventure.

• First off, recipes require less planks and other, more advanced resources.
• You can recruit wandering refugees from the very beginning.
• You can now truly build where you want and don’t have to backtrack to Toshichi to be able to build your first bell tower and house.
• You can skip Sosogi quests (and most other quests in the game, but you might still want to do them since they will give you Dynasty XP and can speed up your development).

Better Recipe Unlocking System: We wanted you, as a player, to feel a true sense of progression and growth, whenever you explore a new area, find new resources, loot new items, and complete challenges that the game throws at you. That’s why one of the most significant changes is the improved recipe unlocking system, which rewards you with new recipes after fulfilling specific criteria for that recipe. Until now recipes were unlocked only by achieving specific Dynasty Legend levels. New ways of unlocking recipes are:

• Acquiring specific items.
• Building certain structures.
• Purchasing the recipes directly on the Radial Menu.
• Buying recipe blueprints from a trader (or looting them).

Dynasty Experience Points and Levelling: We have completely reworked how Dynasty Legend levels are obtained. Dynasty Legend remains the crucial measure of your Dynasty's prestige, unlocking unique and useful recipes each time you level up, but now the progression feels more linear, and is divided into more milestones. Here are the details:

• Better progression - You can still complete quests and finish special projects to level up, but they will earn you Dynasty XP instead of giving you Dynasty Legend levels directly. When you amass enough XP, you will reach the next level.
• A new way to gain Dynasty XP - Recruiting more refugees into your Dynasty. Each time the number of your villagers reaches a new high, you will be rewarded Dynasty XP, making it the most reliable method of levelling, encouraging you to make larger and larger villages - or perhaps founding new ones.

More villagers mean a more prestigious Dynasty, but also means a lot more work to manage their needs. We know that this can be an issue, so stay tuned for more details about the Kintsugi update, where we will tell you about changes to the production system, needs consumption priority, Dynasty Storage, and more!