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| Published | Kind | Announcement | Build |
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| Major update | Leaving Early Access, Deep story, Coda Leaving Early Access Dear bards, you have supported us all these years, and it seems we have grown up. We were able to finish what we started, and it only took us 3 years in early access instead of the previously announced couple of months ) Your ideas and your love for Bard allowed us to go through this whole journey together, making Bard what it is today. And it is worth it! Deep story The fo… | — | |
| Game update | 0.62b Additions and changes: · Fixed a bug with a negative number of candies. · Fixed a bug with the game crashing after increasing the maximum possible number of pets. · Fixed a bug with displaying less gold from the bank than is actually given. · Now favorite pets increase their level. · Fixed a bug with duplicate pets after a reroll. · It is now possible to select a favorite animal while selecting… | — | |
| In-game event | Treasure trove While building castles on their lands, lords discover secret passages to infinitely large dungeon of once powerful Goblin King. Bards are already rushing to hire adventurers to explore this secret structure. Cunning Goblin King has hidden his treasures in smelly cheese, but he didn't realize that it's a delicacy for some! Finding them won't be difficult at all. Also bards will be waiting for 4… | — | |
| Community | Bard Roadmap 2025 Hi, this is the Illegal Turtle team. We've come a long way, and we have a new milestone ahead of us. This year we want to release the game from early access. Bard will be all grown up! =) Here and there, bards are sharing their grand plans and and exciting fun, and we're not gonna be far behind. Patches before Early Access The Castle (~July) This year you'll be able to build a castle, the bard'… | — | |
| Game update | 0.61c Additions and changes: · Fixed a bug with inability to single improve multipliers in arena. · Added shortened views for spice, jelly dwarfs, and magic stone selection menus. · Confirmation action is now required before building in your lands. · Next to the hero's weapon information, there is now a tooltip with critical damage information. · In the squad window, when dragging an item, you can ke… | — | |
| In-game event | Lord Bard part II Bard was finally able to find full time workers to build Dark tower, Legatus house, Art academy, and Dragon monument. Dark tower - unlocks access to lost undead research. Legatus house - learn a couple new moves from an old warlord! Learn the history of an old man's, and dive into an epic campaign from the days of his youth. Art Academy - bard loves paintings that were shown at last royal exhib… | — | |
| Game update | 0.60c Changes 0.60b and 0.60c - Cart of peppers no longer causes game to crash. - Lich interacting with caravan no longer causes game crash. - Turning dead heroes into a flower no longer causes game crash. - Creating a cart subtracts required resources. - In auto hand mode, chiromancy hands are no longer purchased in background when game has just started and there are no heroes purchased. - Fixed a b… | — | |
| In-game event | Carts. Slogans. Cliche. Carts Carts can now be assembled in the workshop! A cart takes up 6 places in a squad. The following carts are available for assembly: - Cart of fame - Сart of provisions - Magic cart - Cart of flags - Cart of songs - Cart of Wonders - Stargazer's cart - Cart of Peppers Slogans A new skill in the workers house - Slogans! Execute a plan, choose one of 10 bravura slogans and motivate your workers… | — | |
| Major update | Lord Bard - Part 1 Illegal Turtle team wishes you a Happy New Year! Thank you for staying with us and playing Bard Idle! We wish you prosperity and good health. Lord Bard is a big mechanic, and we decided to split patch into two parts, one to show you before the new year and one after. Meet...*the curtain opens* Lord Bard Part I The king has announced start bidding for land, to which the best bards from all kingd… | — | |
| Community | Bard News. Preparing mechanics - Castle | — | |
| In-game event | Pets The College of Bards has allowed you to take magical pets from their own kennel on adventures! The cuties are very bored and need attention, hurry up to meet them, because a magical pet will always help their friends. Additions and changes: · Fixed a bug where mages with a ban on casting spells could still cast spells. · Corrected sequence of multipliers applied to heroes' characteristics. · Ad… | — | |
| In-game event | Marmalade League Honor and glory awaits everyone who conquers the heights of poetic art! All bards who have reached Marmalade League receive a letter from the College of Bards from its director. In letter is an invitation to a fateful meeting that could change course of history. Additions and Changes: · Added an alternate effect for some class items that did not work with certain factions. · Changed class item… | — | |
| Game update | 0.56b Clarified class item description for happy monk if a faction cunning monk or monkey king is selected. · Lich's wand now gets a bonus from line <Magic is welcome on our friendly team>. · Lich's wand now receives a bonus from line <A wise man sheds no blood>. · Lich's wand gets a bonus from line <When one wand is not enough>. · Description of lines related to priests has been clarified. · Line <T… | — | |
| In-game event | New Zones, Dyes, Cookbook, Secrets of the Hand New zones From zone 200 heroes' path runs through the orc lands. The thirst for profit makes the heroes visit more and more dangerous places. Monks of soaring Semaran do not welcome visitors, and some treasures of Ar-Bazar ruins have been enchanted and are to be feared. An additional 10 more marvelous compositions have been written by bards of kingdoms. Dyes In factions menu you can now dye var… | — | |
| In-game event | Dragon obelisk. Double roast. Mechanization. Recent earthquake near ancient Basilica has revealed a secret passage to a long-forgotten dragon utopia. There dwell rune dragons with incredible and mysterious powers. Some ancient civilization has also left its mark in these lands in form of Dragon obelisk. Obelisk grants great power to whoever can complete it. Added new mechanic - Dragon obelisk Collect rune dragon blood and basalt to fill D… | — | |
| Major update | Factions The High Magi observe unnatural fluctuations of power in all corners of the world. Ancient secrets are slowly coming to light, and with them various factions from distant lands that many have never heard of. Their outfits are made by the best of the best fashion designers and blacksmiths. It's not easy to weave a fireproof cloak or forge a heavy-duty helmet that can support the full weight of a… | — | |
| In-game event | Enchanted Box Outlaws from around the world have banded together to rob caravans from kingdoms. The kings are not happy about this, so they enlist the help of outside organizations that optimize routes to make it harder to rob caravans. Bearded Joe says that the Kings have reached out to the Adepts of Bubic faction and the Mountain Alliance, but few believe him. Also, Joe tells of a certain Enchanted Box tha… | — | |
| Community | Bard News: Preparing the faction system | — | |
| Esports | Sunset's Birthday! Dear Bards! Today, May 10, is the birthday of the composer of Bard Idle and Sunset Survival Station, Mark. And on this occasion we decided to release Sunset Survival Station game from Early Access! We've done a lot of work trying to keep you happy with new Bard updates, and not forgetting to work on Sunset. Sunset Survival Station is a teeth-grinding RPG in the vein of Vampire Survivors. We've… | — | |
| Game update | 0.52b Automatic use of soup works with line "The power in food!". · Drawing an illustration does not overwrite lines from previous chapter if they were printed by press in either mode. · In tarot card THE WORLD, cheese is changed to carrots if there is a line "A world without cheese we will build". · Line "Line up in the turtle!" will trigger if a free legionnaire appears after it. · Fixed descriptio… | — | |
| Major update | Chapter 9, Magic of inspiration, Monk's diet Chapter 9 of ballad is available! Discover useful world of carrots or put knights on horses. Caravans will fear you, because you can become even more ruthless. Added a new quest - Magic of inspiration Mages inspire bards with their magical abilities to new poetic achievements. The longer bard travels with mages, the more he can come up with new things. Go on a quest and unlock new lines for old… | — | |
| In-game event | Caravans Silverguard's diplomats believe that the golden age of trade between kingdoms is upon us. More and more caravans begin to bring goods from different countries, enriching the treasury with ringing coin. At same time in every alley appeared and more dubious personalities who want to take all most valuable caravans to themselves. Collect squads of brigands, mug caravans to get class items, not for… | — | |
| Game update | 0.50c fixes Fixed a bug with army freezing caused by Cheese mage's actions. · Fixed a bug with mouse freezing when saving game and minimizing window. · Fixed a bug where default Printing Machine template was incorrectly changed when other template was deleted. · Now when Undead Archmage rebirths into an elf, butterfly mages get a katana if the right skill is available. · Fixed description for flowers in ar… | — | |
| In-game event | Happy New Year! New Year's Eve is upon us! That means it's time for presents! Collect balls from Christmas trees and break them. For this you will get gold or inspiration. When you've broken enough, it's time to pick up a special gift! A new book has been added - The Spice Book! There are 10 new spices waiting for you in it: Cherry, Laurel Leaf, Coffee Bean, Shrimp, Pineapple, Carp, Garlic, Pumpkin, Kiwi, Corn… | — | |
| Game update | v 0.49 Magical improvements A small technical patch, designed to solve problems associated with the primal magic! We have also added several options to reduce the amount of visual information. Additions and changes: · Game engine has been updated! · Fixed an issue with steam inventory · Added more options in adv. settings: Transparent gold, Less text, Less particles. · In the Writer's shop, books will now have gray text i… | — | |
| In-game event | Guild of mages Enemies are not slumbering. Mages of ancient knowledge have decided to join confrontation to help fight forces of evil: Cheese mages are ready for battle, nothing is stronger than their love of cheese and bludgeoning damage. Butterfly mages are lovers of scaly wings and tinkling coins. Bubble mages will give you a hot bubble bath and tell you how to protect yourself from pests. Archimagister of… | — | |
| In-game event | 1 year. Dragon slayer Dragons began to attack nearby villages more frequently! Kingdoms, realizing threat, turned to a secret order of dragon slayers to subdue the rampaging monsters. Dragon slayers can master any weapon. While slaying a dragon, dragon slayer absorbs its soul and becomes many times stronger. Added a new quest - Blood Enemy. In this quest you can hire up to 10 dragon slayers and get 2 dragon's blood… | — |
Announcements are the developer’s own posts to the game’s Steam news feed: updates and their patch notes, in-game events, releases and sales. The important ones are marked on the players chart.