Adventure Mode Intro Update (v25)

Adventure Mode Intro is now added. This is the new guided start for Dragonwake: a short starting area that teaches the basics. You begin near Brindle Quay, before sailing to Valoria.

This update also adds a new Travellers Rest Inn, expands early guidance, improves quest journal readability, adds more control and display options, retunes several traps and monsters, and fixes a large set of world, UI, and procgen issues.

Adventure Mode Intro

• Added a new guided starter route before the existing Reedwater Docks opening.
• Added a separate starter island world map.
• Added Brindle Quay as a small dockside starter town with a dockmaster, provisioner, guard, innkeeper, town guide, etc.
• Added a short starter flow covering movement, looking, talking, class actions and spells, combat, first aid, hunger, eating, buying supplies, camping, and inn rest.
• Added tutorial starter quests.
• Reworked the storm arrival, intro text, quest timing, and continue prompts so the new opening flows into the main game cleanly.

New World Content

• Added Travellers Rest, a remote waystation with a large inn, outdoor seating, a mixed item shop, travellers, and several named NPCs for future quest hooks.
• Added a travelling warrior, an elf researcher, and a shady traveller at Travellers Rest.
• Cleaned up Travellers Rest roads, fences, inn doors, shop stock, outdoor seating, trees, edge detail, and collision.
• Added inn rest support to the Stonecleft waystation.
• Adjusted world map placement, including Ash Tower and the Travellers Rest road layout.
• Adjusted Havenford building placement.
• Reworked the Havenford peddler into a small wandering outdoor shop with more varied stock.

UI, Controls & Guidance

• Added an F1 help guide reference.
• Fixed the help menu close binding.
• Cleaned up the help keybind list so numpad movement is grouped instead of listed key by key.
• Improved options-menu movement hints.
• Added an option to hide the bracketed health meter.
• Improved expanded journal scrolling.
• Rewrapped expanded journal text from full quest strings instead of hand-split lines.
• Preserved expanded quest state across menu sessions.
• Added selected action help to the actions menu.
• Added semantic left/right menu actions for clearer keyboard and controller behavior.
• Added an auto-explore walk command.
• Improved item action hints and status feedback.
• Compact player status stats now take less space.
• Added phone map double-tap zoom.
• Improved web and sprite renderer behavior around color attributes, sprite fallback tiles, and audio startup.

Items, Loot & Survival

• Added procedural jewelry and more classic equipment.
• Trinkets now appear with armor instead of tools.
• Removed the shovel item.
• Retuned early dungeon loot, basic loot handling, monster drops, chest rewards, trade values, and special content rewards.
• Slightly reduced general monster loot spam.
• Tuned survival item behavior, including first aid, food, camping kits, and related starter guidance.
• Made coatings timed and improved channeled overlay closing.
• Adjusted affliction timing during rest and travel.
• Added equipment details to death obituaries.

Combat, Balance & Feedback

• Paladin Smite Strike and similar adjacent class actions can now be aimed in a direction even when no enemy is adjacent.
• Retuned arrow traps, spear traps, and pit traps around damage, penetration, and armor behavior.
• Stirge drain now replaces its melee damage instead of adding an extra damage roll.
• Added Wisdom-based warning messages when first entering a dungeon that is above the character's level.
• Improved rested XP, tired XP, early combat messages, and Adventure checkpoint reminders.
• Tuned Stonecleft and blackglass encounters.
• Improved monster combat side effects.
• Cleaned up corpse eating descriptions so they are more concrete and direct.
• Improved corpse effect messages for attribute, resistance, poison, and failure outcomes.
• Cleaned up corpse and undead presentation.

Generation, World & Bug Fixes

• Fixed goblin caves sometimes generating flush against the right edge of the screen.
• Fixed goblin chief encounters so the chief reliably has a nearby chest and chest room.
• Relaxed compact tower procgen validation where it was too strict.
• Fixed unsafe NPC swap movement.
• Fixed rest sickness and trap-safe idle movement issues.
• Fixed message ordering around breath visuals.
• Fixed several cleanup-pass visual hazards and prop issues.
• Improved dock music timing, continue timing, and Reedwater arrival presentation.
• Improved town guide hints and Brindle Quay starter dialogue.
• Improved NPC dialogue clarity across several areas.
• Added and routed more sparse area music cues.
• Softened shared music loops and raised music master gain.
• Fixed Android debug APK build issues.

Save Notice

• Saves from v24 are not compatible with v25. A new character is required for this version.