Game update
TOLL 1.1 — The Tribute Pays You Back
Toll: The Ferryman's Ledger · published · build 24780247
Update 1.1
Balance Adjustments
The Tribute
- Rivers you have opened now stay open through the tribute — it no longer closes everything but the Styx
- and now take effect the moment you buy them, not at the next tribute
- Shadows from the tribute: divisor 150 → 50 (about 1.7x more shadows per tribute)
- The Halls of Hades stay open after the tribute is paid, so the shadows are spent there and then
- The button on the rail now opens the Halls whenever there is something to do there, not only when the tribute can be paid
Relics of Hades
- Cost growth per level 2.0 → 1.5 for every relic (Ferryman's Cache 1.8 → 1.5)
- +25% per level, 5 levels → +40% per level, 8 levels
- Every relic now shows its full price ladder in shadows, with the levels already bought greyed out
- Every relic now shows what it gives at its current level, and what the next level would give
- Added a line for what the tribute takes and what it leaves, plus a forecast of the next crossing's start
- Added a confirmation for your first tribute
Charon
- no cap → caps at 20 steps (2,000 souls in one crossing)
The Rivers
- pay per soul x2.5 → x1.9
- pay per soul x5.0 → x3.0
- pay per soul x12.0 → x4.6
- pay per soul x25.0 → x7.3
- The thresholds that open the rivers are unchanged
The Ransom
- The ransom is now paid from what Death has counted, not from the purse: 500,000 earned in this cycle. The tribute no longer resets that progress
- A new cycle earns the price again from nothing
Bugfixes
- Fixed the issue where a joke from the dead, a farewell or a word from Death could be buried by a river's conversation and lost — the voices now take turns, and whoever was interrupted speaks again from the start
- Fixed the issue where a passenger's request opened on top of a conversation that was still fading out
- Fixed the issue where the price plate on the rail showed a total that could not pay the ransom
- Fixed the issue where the Halls of Hades closed the moment the tribute was paid
- Fixed the issue where relics that grant a head start did nothing until the next tribute
- Fixed the issue where saves from earlier versions were discarded instead of carried over — 1.0 saves keep their progress, and what you held in the purse now counts as what Death has counted towards the ransom
- Fixed multiple layout issues in the Halls of Hades, including clipped edges and a price ladder too dim to read
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