Kaironia 0.1.6: Combat Cores, Item Automation & The Drowned Bellkeeper
Kaironia Demo · published
Kaironia 0.1.6 is now live.
NEW CONTENT
COMBAT CORES
Equip combat cores from Rifting to add passive bonuses and special attacks to your combat setup.
- Added Echo, Cascade, Momentum, Rupture, and Fracture cores.
- Upgrade cores with Temporal Dust or exchange Core Fragments for your choice.
- Arm a special through the core orb, or enable Auto Special.
- Specials can be armed while charging and fire when enough charge is available.
- Cores switch with equipment loadouts; switching clears their charge.
- Core tooltips explain each rank's effects, activation chances, and charge costs.
ITEM AUTOMATION
Automatically bank or sell new rewards while keeping the supplies you need.
- Set inventory reserves and optional bank reserves before selling surplus.
- Start with three rules and buy additional slots at banks.
- Drag inventory items into empty rules to configure them.
- Pause individual rules or all automation.
- Open Item Automation at a bank or by right-clicking the Inventory tab.
- Automation also applies to Chronoburst rewards.
THE DROWNED BELLKEEPER
Challenge a new regional boss in the Soggy Fens, where failed rituals flood the arena.
- Dodge repeated bell slams, waves, and thrown clappers.
- Interrupt three flooding rituals to preserve dry ground and create openings to attack.
- Earn Clappers toward equipment, a Curio, cosmetics, supplies, and a pet.
- Three solo clears unlock automated hunts.
- Find the dedicated entrance under Boss Entrances on the World Map.
THE BLACKWATER PASSAGE — FULL GAME
Rebuild Orrin's ferry to unlock permanent travel between Fenwatch and Drowned Bay Isle.
- Gather Brineglass and oysters on the island.
- Added Brineglass bulk Leystone recipes.
- Ferry crossings show your traveler aboard the boat.
MORE ADDITIONS
- Added six waypoint flag families with unlockable color collections to Temporal Requisitions.
- Pin equipment loadouts to the Quick Bar, including for use during combat.
- Added Rift intensity controls for arrival speed, starting creatures, and active creatures.
ERRATA TRAILS
Casefiles now offer more varied assignments, clearer directions, and easier access to each lead.
- Added landmark clues, activities, deliveries, equipment checks, and item-use jobs.
- New cases contain three Routine, four Restricted, or five Impossible steps.
- Assignments are fixed when a case is opened.
- Routine cases stay within demo content, including on full-game accounts.
- Existing Routine cases may show different activities after updating.
- Search and dig steps use larger areas with hot/cold guidance.
- Casefiles and trackers provide lead actions and maps of the relevant area.
- Equipment checks complete automatically.
- Completed leads play a sound and highlight the carried casefile or chest.
- Opening a sealed casefile immediately opens and tracks it.
- Unopened reward chests no longer block new cases.
- Waiting chests retain their rewards and open oldest-first.
- Dropping an active casefile requires confirmation; casefiles can also be destroyed from the inventory.
- Chest rewards remain hidden until opening.
- Codex reward pages show possible loot and drop rates.
COMBAT AND BALANCE
- Manual eating now shares a 1.5-second cooldown across Inventory, equipped food, and the Quick Bar.
- Eating does not interrupt attacks. Auto-Eat retains its separate cooldown.
- Boss auto-hunts run at 70% of your average speed across your fastest three solo clears.
- Rootborn Colossus auto-hunts now account for expected food use.
- Reduced the Rootborn Colossus's melee defense.
- Aetherium Colossi now hit for up to 58 damage, with three seconds between attacks.
- The slower attacks give more time to recover with the shared food cooldown.
- Deepwater Rays now grant 97 Fishing XP.
- Leviathans now grant 356 Fishing XP.
- Sturgeon now grant 190 Fishing XP.
- Star-Core Veins now grant 1,125 Mining XP.
- Regional bosses now award varied loot bundles.
- Boss leystone rewards come through mixed combat-supply bundles capped at 300 leystones.
- Rifting is now the main source of Temporal Dust; merchants no longer sell it.
- Adjusted Rift Challenge Token rewards to account for combat cores.
- Auto-Retaliate handles nearby attackers before resuming your chosen hunt.
- Re-clicking your current enemy no longer resets attack progress unless you must move closer.
- Projectile XP uses the stance selected when the attack was launched.
- Attack targets are easier to select and highlight immediately.
- Ring of Life correctly stops your current action before teleporting.
- Defeated Overdue Tollbox latches stay destroyed.
- Tenets require enough Faith Points to trigger before they can be activated.
PRIVACY AND MULTIPLAYER
- Choose whether to share optional gameplay statistics to help improve the game.
- Change your choice anytime in Settings.
- Explored map areas stay revealed through multiplayer profile updates and reconnects.
- Server operators can grant a second Steam account access to a server-owned character.
- Both accounts use the same progress; only one can play that character at a time.
- Multiplayer clients and servers must update together.
GUIDANCE AND INTERFACES
- Reach the tutorial's first assignment sooner, with shorter handoffs.
- Added contextual tips for combat, equipment, crafting, travel, and other core systems.
- Tips remember completed lessons and support larger text sizes.
- Cooking guidance explains burned fish and how to replace missing supplies.
- Sickle objectives show remaining prerequisite materials and smelting batches.
- Tutorial notifications wait for appropriate moments; general tips wait until the tutorial ends.
- Open Codex entries directly from crafting recipes, ingredients, tools, and level-up unlocks.
- Level-up celebrations show newly unlocked recipes and gathering resources again.
- World Map searches temporarily override filters; clearing the search restores them.
- Searching Tillerman's Reach finds Heartlands Farm among discovered markers.
- Chronoburst responds on press and buffers one rapid repeat during gathering restarts.
- Pine tapping now supports Chronoburst.
- Chronoburst no longer expands the Time Bank with duplicate item totals.
- Completed cooking batches reopen at their original station and recipe.
- Expired crafting stations show a recovery message.
- Added a Scapelikes link and voting reminders to the main menu.
- The Discord link shows a Join badge until first opened.
VISUALS AND FIXES
- Refitted Battleweave, Brigandine, and Warden armor with matching inventory icons.
- Plate gloves now cover hands when worn with shorter sleeves.
- Equipment slot labels no longer stretch the grid.
- The Toolbelt has a distinct storage icon.
- Boss headers use consistent portraits and health displays.
- Boss warnings show consistent boundaries, countdowns, and lingering danger.
- Tollbox charge warnings remain visible until the attack resolves.
- Staggered bosses display orbiting stars.
- Clicking interactables briefly highlights their outline.
- Tutorial guidance outlines the complete Waystone Altar.
- Quest workstations display their artwork correctly.
- Granite Basin's secondary paths are easier to see.
- Removed a misplaced scarecrow from the river.
- Multiplayer inventory reordering persists through actions.
- Player-owned multiplayer characters save current progress after an unexpected server disconnect.
PERFORMANCE
- Reduced combat hitches during multi-hit attacks.
- Reduced unnecessary interface updates when crafting or collecting items.