The main focus of this release is a rework of the fist school, adding new effects, changing mechanics, and generally making it more exciting to play.
Changes
Changed mod author names and version numbers to display in the Mod Manager and Settings menu.
Changed Enter key behavior to trigger the "Begin Craft" button in the crafting menu when it is the only available option.
Grouped mod-added keybindings by mod name in the Controls settings menu.
Improved combat UI performance.
Added explanatory side-tooltips for True, Corrupt, and Disruption damage types in buff descriptions.
Enhanced the combat log with detailed reporting for health and barrier mechanics.
Implemented a tooltip locking and scrolling system for long descriptions.
Added ability to lock tooltips exceeding screen height to enable mouse wheel scrolling and screen dimming.
Added animated arrow indicators for hidden tooltip content.
Added a setting to customize or disable the hover duration required to lock tooltips.
Added a customizable keybinding (default 'L') to instantly lock tooltips.
You can now use higher realm recuperation pills to heal. Using one above your realm provides no additional benefit however.
Added a duration indicator to Mystical Key tooltips showing remaining days for a region.
Doing a mystical key early now triggers Tidao Feng to give you her quest early.
Introduced 16 new blessings to the Mystical Region.
Being granted access to higher realm content through tournament victories now also unlocks the mine and herb garden.
The order of the options in the martyred zeal and spiritbound garb events are now randomised each game load.
Updated russian localisation.
Skypiercer can now be upgraded.
Adjusted encounter size for ancient maps.
Balance Changes
Overhauled fist school
Fist transitioned all barrier to a new mechanic 'temporary health'.
Fist gained a new focus on burst damage with single round damage stacking, crit, and a new stat 'overcrit'.
Pretty much every technique tweaked or changed.
Rebalanced Ignite Furnace self-damage to trigger per technique use and reduced damage from 15% to 3% of Maximum Health.
Increased maximum stack limits for celestial buffs.
Converting sunlight to moonlight or vice versa now gives and instant reward.
Made body forging and meridian opening realms slightly harder.
Damage reduction now scales multiplicately.
Reduced fungal techniques base power.
Bug Fixes
Fixed Blood Blade to correctly trigger after technique.
Fixed several visual and functional issues in the Mod Manager interface.
Separated mod author names and "Steam Workshop" labels with bullet points.
Fixed the Mod Loading dialog to correctly display failed mods and error messages.
Fixed an unnecessary horizontal scrollbar in the mod settings menu.
Fixed Blood Blade damage and resource consumption appearing in the incorrect section of the combat log.
Fixed the Mystic Realm blessing selection displaying four options instead of three when a curse was present.
Fixed off-center text and icons in the world map location selection dialog.
Fixed UI input reliability and standardized menu navigation shortcuts.
Fixed input registration in specific interface screens.
Restored global fallback keybindings for high-priority UI elements.
Standardized Escape key behavior across crafting, recipe, furnace, and reforge menus.
Fixed a potential game crash when encountering enemies with no defined combat stances.
Fixed character portraits displaying incorrect gender or appearance when loading battle saves.
Fixed relationship and approval tooltip logic errors and Rank availability messages.
Fixed a dialogue error where Jiaohua Lin thanked the player for items before they were delivered.
Fixed the Item Effectiveness stat not applying to tooltips of buffs from consumable pills.
Corrected Refuse Shower loot rewards to match the intended realm.
Fixed keybinding and navigation issues in the Mystical Region interface.
Added thousands separators to the barrier degeneration combat log for improved readability.
Fixed animation state issues by restricting menu navigation during reforge and upgrade sequences.
Fixed incorrect stat displays in Reforge and Upgrade menus for items modified by mods.
Fixed the event history log failing to automatically scroll to the most recent entry.
Fixed graphical stability issues on Windows, including blank screens after minimization and white borders in fullscreen.
Fixed saves made with mod bindings not sorting in last played order.
Fixed a bug where closing menus during enchantment extraction would cause a deadlock.
ModAPI
Added Mod API type definitions to the game installation directory for version-specific development.
Updated character relationship definitions to make the "progressionEvent" field optional.
Changed the developer tools shortcut (Ctrl+Shift+I) to toggle the inspector window from the main menu.
Overhauled the ModAPI.injectUI system to provide flexible UI modding options.
Added wrapElement, wrapContents, and replaceContents placement modes.
Added support for direct HTML element selectors and index-based child insertion. Note: The 'inside' position has been removed; mods should now use 'after' for the same behavior.
Updated the modding keybinding system to support physical codes and user rebindings.
Enhanced getRegisteredKeybindValue to return a RegisteredKeybind object containing display text and codes. Note: Modders using getRegisteredKeybindValue must update their logic to handle the new RegisteredKeybind object return type instead of a simple string.
Updated equipment modification hooks for precise control over potential and requirement persistence.
Expanded core Mod API hooks and lifecycle management utilities.
Added unsubscribe functions to all modAPI.hooks methods.
Added onNewGame, onGameLoad hooks
Added getMaxQi, and useGameSettings utilities.
Added new suite of in-combat hooks to allow listening to each step, each round, and modifying in-combat state directly.