Greetings fellow gods,
With a mighty productive week behind us, I bring you some long-awaited improvements that many of you have requested. From new athletics and leadership experience sources to new ways of earning sweet, sweet gold for crafters, the list is long and full of goodies.
But most importantly, you can now see the world wraps on the x-axis, so hopefully I won't hear about the lack of sea transports on remote islands ever again. ;)
Here's the full changelog:
Added
- New Location - Holy War in Snow biome.
- Added new conversation option for entities working in a military building that allows crafters to fulfill orders for weapons, armor, cloth, and jewelry pieces. Such orders have a price multiplier of 120% during times of peace and 160% during war.
- The Knowledge Screen Company section now has a tab for Known Orders of each company.
- The Knowledge Screen Company section can be filtered by battles or known orders.
- Added filter in Mods Screen to find specific mods to toggle.
- Added an option to rename any player relative in the Knowledge Screen.
- Ammo Counter next to stamina bar: If we have a bow/crossbow/throwing weapon equipped, there is an extra counter that shows available ammunition.
- Food and items granting ability effects have their ability descriptions written in their tooltips.
- New animated border for tier 5 artifact items.
Changed
- Products (not resources) crafted by players have their base sell price increased to 60% from 35%.
- Selling the same non-stackable item to the same family independently of the ingredients of the item reduces the base sell price by 10% per item to a minimum of 10%.
- New Leadership experience sources: Players gain additional Leadership experience when companions make the final blow and kill opponents, as well as when they finalize in-progress building orders.
- New Athletics experience source: Walking now provides 1 exp per 100 tiles traversed in region maps, up to level 10 of Athletics, allowing a natural but slow progression for early levels.
- Improved pathfinding for the exit region to find more optimal paths across multiple z-levels.
- Improved pathfinding of companions and NPCs when in need of changing z-levels.
- In Knowledge Screen, the Skills and Recipes tabs selection persists when selecting a new being, unless they don't have them.
- When a player or party member is attacked in a neutral town, the military units in it may join in to help.
- Improved caret behavior in inputs: holding arrow keys will move the caret through multiple letters, and pasting content into inputs moves the caret to the end.
- Passing by a town in the World Map triggers drinking and refilling, same as passing by the river - with the exception of aggressive towns or when the player character has a bounty in it.
- Portraits of dead NPCs are greyed out.
- Throwing weapons at range 1 (point-blank) no longer causes the equipped weapon to be thrown.
- Previously thrown weapons are now automatically equipped to the main hand upon pickup, provided it is not occupied by a locked item. Thrown weapons are also automatically picked up when moving onto an adjacent tile, similar to arrows.
- Unified World Map across all screens with functionality and improved rendering in some areas.
- When buildings consume food resources to produce better quality food, the used food reduces the amount of produced food, instead of getting added to consumed food, for the purpose of settlement food mechanics.
- Jadeite added to special location.
- Gees now leave feathers behind.
- Increased prices on artifact resources.
- Drinking whole water from Water Cactus doesn't remove it.
- Chain Effects will no longer target any non-hostile entities like allied soldiers or townsfolk.
- Modal windows in many places were updated to a new background.
Fixed
- Fixed maintaining workshop mods selection on game restart.
- Fixed icons under the Producing section going out of bounds in the Building tooltips.
- Pasting from the clipboard to the input adds text at the caret position, rather than replacing the input content completely.
- Multiple fixes to multi-tile issues related to movement and display.
- Traveling Armies and Settlers are once again visible on the World Generation screen.
- Keep Throwing: When throwing two weapons simultaneously, the new auto-equipped throwing weapons from inventory now correctly equip to both hands, allowing continuous throwing.
- Picked Bearberry Bushes and Picked Blueberry Bushes can now be used to build a farm building.
- Fixed overlapping military buildings on the Settlement Management Screen on 2560x1440 resolution.
- Names of entities and items in tooltips no longer go out of the tooltip bounds.
- Fixed some typos.
Modding
- In the Chained component, right-click removes the entity from the grid.
The development focus will remain on various improvements before I move towards the next major content update, with the major topic ahead that I'm eyeing right now being gamepad support. It's a tough one, given the size of our game and the number of GUI elements, but I would love to have Soulash 2 playable on Steam Deck in the foreseeable future.
Many of today's changes and improvements come from the #s2-suggestions channel on our Discord. Many of the points in today's changelog are your great ideas to make the game better, and I continue to encourage you all to keep debating and voting with emotes on the ideas you want to see as I scroll through them.
Thank you all for playing and sharing your thoughts, and have a fun weekend.
Artur