Monster lairs now feature greater variety with new creature types including Ghouls, Bone Hounds, Feral Slaves, Embers, Prowlers, and Herglings. Lairs also drop more loot, with specific monster types tending to drop specific types of rewards and crafting ingredients. Guardian monsters will no longer wander away from their lairs.
Four new step-by-step tutorials have been added covering terrain and movement, items and equipment, city building, and research and economy.
Monster defense and combat speed has been rebalanced across all levels. City economy has been adjusted with reduced food and gold multipliers, lowered food per grain bonuses, and adjusted city hub gold output. The AI is now more likely to research companies to field larger armies, and elemental attacks now correctly benefit from generic attack boost traits.
Cities no longer lose food and resources when leveling up, and clearing army bases now properly rewards loot, including rings, amulets, belts, and rare crafting ingredients from Krax and Wraith bases. Thank you to everyone playing and sharing feedback during Early Access, it's shaping the game heading into launch. Elemental: Reforged officially releases on March 17.