Eldara — Patch Notes
⚡ Performance — the stutter hunt
This patch targeted the freezes and micro-stutters directly:
- Smooth scrolling — an old anti-tearing mechanism forced the game to restyle the entire page every time a scroll started or stopped, on every tab. It's now scoped to the one background layer it was built for. Scroll feel should be dramatically better everywhere.
- No more interaction freezes — item artwork was being decoded on the game thread the moment it appeared, stalling tab switches and scrolling. All images now decode in the background and load lazily.
- Rhythmic background hitch fixed — the Bone Grinder was rebuilding your entire open tab every 5 seconds, forever. It now updates only what it actually changes.
- Opening and closing the Bank no longer forces a full page re-layout.
🕹️ New Content
- New hunting contract: "Ending the Undying" — Hunting Lv 80: hunt The Undying Lich ×8 for 3,000g plus void crystals, essence, bones and flawed diamonds. Grinding the Lich for its ultra-rare drops now pays Hunting XP and Points the whole way.
- Chapter VIII "The Seal" no longer requires clearing The Eternal Throne — the Ignarath kill requirement already proves apex readiness.
🐛 Bug Fixes
- Cremation pet now drops from offline Bone Grinder burning — Bone Grinder owners previously had a 0% offline pet chance (the "cremated 100k bones, no pet" bug). Long sessions now roll fair odds for every bone burned.
- Auto-dungeon fixes — checking story requirements no longer stops your run on Hardcore, and a full satchel now clearly tells you why auto-repeat paused instead of stopping silently.
- Auto-accept contracts no longer fires without the perk — dungeon auto-repeat was renewing hunting contracts for players who hadn't bought Auto-Accept.
- Cremation now benefits from skill-speed buffs (Ash Salts, the Hunting Store Skill-Speed Boon, and more) like every other skill — and bone cards show the buffed time with a hover breakdown of every active bonus.
- Removed the obsolete "Stop burying when CP is full" toggle — Pyre Charges are uncapped.
- Bank quality-of-life: a proper themed scrollbar, columns no longer shift when the scrollbar appears, and rarity glows stay contained to their own slots.