Performance Optimization
- Significant improvement in framerate due to optimization of floor tiles and building lights. More performance improvements are in development.
Light Changes
- We've added a mouse light to help you explore in the dark. Additionally, many buildings have had their lights adjusted to improve performance as well as visibility.
Tutorial System
- The tutorial system is now available. It teaches the basic elements of the game to new players.
Tax System
- Taxes: are automatically collected every 25 days. Houses and buildings that produce resources contribute to taxes. Buildings that produce more resources generate more tax revenue.
Buildings
- Treasury: has been re-worked and is no-longer a drop off point for miners. Instead, it doubles the amount of taxes that are collected.
- Formation Grounds (New): allows you to organize military units easily. Units standing at formation grounds may eat as if at a tavern.
- Cosmetic Buildings (New): we've added several cosmetic buildings such as the memory stone, ornate brazier, tablet of perseverance, and more.
- Wooden Lamp Post: gold cost reduced from 25 to 20.
Units
- Axeguard: has a new model and animations to set it apart from other dwarves.
Runeforge Talents (Infantry)
- Headshot (New): provides a way for tunnel scouts to focus down low health enemies.
- Executioner's Sentence (New): grants axeguard a way to finish off low health enemies.
- Cleave (New): gives axeguards a way to damage and debuff multiple enemies.
- One-Handed Axe Specialization (New): gives an offensive buff to an offensive unit (berserkers) as well as a defensive unit (ironguard).
- Hack and Slash (New): creatures synergy between attack speed and crit chance for berserkers.
- Defensive Parry (New): offers some defensive options for axeguard and longbeard units.
- Berserker's Bargain: re-worked to grant crit instead of attack damage. Additionally, it also reduces their training cost.
- Expedited Conscription: now also grants a free level.
- Trail by Combat & Target Practice: grant 100% bonus experience, up from 50%.
Runeforge Talents (Culture)
- Shrewd Invesments: now triggers when taxes are collected.
Runeforge Talents (Buildings)
- Kingdom of Light: now reduces the gold cost of both wood and stone lamp posts as well as making the latter build instantly as well.
Tech
- Combat Training & Stonecrafting: now only grant a single free level, but the research time has been cut in half.
Greenskins
- Orc Executioners and Goblin Assassins now prioritize low-health dwarfs.
New Background Art
- Our artist has delivered amazing new background art for the intro sequence as well as main menu background.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed talents That's the Stuff and Hearty Meals to provide the correct resource production increases.
- Fixed a bug that caused health bars to flicker briefly when a body was cleaned up.
- Fixed a bug that caused walk animations to stutter periodically.
- Fixed a bug that sometimes caused the king ability icon to show when the talent was not selected.
- Fixed missing tooltip info for berserker's trail of strength talent.
- Fixed an issue with the audio options that prevented full-mute.
- Fixed king shout buff to provide correct stat buffs.
- Fixed an issue that let miners sometimes ignore high priority cubes.