SoulScroll Patch 0.1.007 – Villagers Fight Back!

New Content

Villagers Can Defend Themselves

• Villagers can now fight attacking enemies on their own.
• They can defend themselves and help protect the settlement during attacks.

Last Man Standing

• If the Great Hall is destroyed while another player is still alive, the run no longer ends immediately. Surviving players can rebuild the Great Hall and make respawning possible again.
• Permadeath only becomes unavoidable when no living player remains. If the host abandons the run during Last Man Standing, the run also ends in permadeath.
• After a confirmed permadeath, the death screen now shows whether any run-bound Owned Items were lost and lists each lost item and quantity.

Three New Head Starts

• Forged Ahead: Replaces your starting axe with a Tier II axe.
• Fate's First Scroll: Choose one of three randomly selected Tier III Soul Scrolls at the beginning of the game.
• Gilded Sackrunner: Summons a special enemy with exactly 777 health. It drops one coin every five seconds and rewards 777 coins and 777 experience when defeated.
• Only the player who summoned the Sackrunner can damage it.

New Siege Trolls

• Specialized trolls carrying heavy siege hammers can appear from Siege Tier 3 onward.
• They primarily target buildings, walls, and gates.
• Stronger variants and larger groups appear during higher siege tiers.

Five New Siege Hammers

• Siege Troll weapons can be found and used by players.
• Tier VI enemies use and can drop the strongest Tier V version.

New Rare Enemy Weapon Drops

• Eligible enemies now have a 1% chance to drop their signature weapon.
• Goblins and Warriors can drop Iron Legacy.
• Archers can drop the Hunter's Longbow.
• Trolls and Boyars can drop the Troll Club.
• Siege Trolls can drop a Siege Hammer.

New Rune Shield

• Successfully blocking an attack charges the shield with the prevented damage.
• The shield can store up to 50 damage.
• Releasing the stored power damages enemies within a 5-meter radius.

Six New Hunter's Longbow Soul Scrolls

• Each scroll tier progressively reduces the bow's draw time.
• The highest tier reduces draw time by up to 100%.

Two New Settlement Upgrades

• The Settlement upgrade pool has been expanded from 38 to 40 options.
• Village Militia I: Villager attacks deal an additional 2% to 4% of the enemy's maximum health.
• Village Militia II: Increases this additional damage to 4% to 6%.

Improved Item Pickups

• Targeted items are now highlighted more clearly.
• The item name, icon, tier, and required interaction key are displayed when picking it up.

Clearer Villager Tasks

• Icons above villagers now show whether they are working, fighting, carrying resources, or heading toward storage.
• Breaks, recovery periods, and missing assignments are easier to recognize.

New Connection Overview

• The pause menu now displays the connection status, host or client role, connected players, and ping.

Separate Dialogue Volume

• Voices and character vocalizations can now be adjusted independently from music and other sound effects.

Stability and Quality-of-Life Improvements

• Improved WorldTimer handling and Steam leaderboard submissions so completed runs are recorded more reliably.
• Loading and continuing a game now restore the world, settlement, warehouse inventory, villagers, and equipped items more reliably.
• Players joining an ongoing co-op game now receive the correct world state, enemies, and current siege progress more consistently.
• Ongoing jobs, carried resources, and special enemies such as the Gilded Sackrunner are restored correctly after reconnecting.
• Villagers are less likely to become stuck while traveling to storage or depositing resources.
• Villagers no longer incorrectly appear empty-handed after loading while carrying a resource.
• Bow projectiles, equipped weapons, hotbar displays, and damage values are now more reliable.
• Maximum stamina scroll bonuses are calculated more consistently and remain correct after loading.
• The death screen now displays total damage dealt more accurately.
• Building previews, road connections, and navigation around newly placed buildings have been improved.
• Reduced short stutters in dense forests, large settlements, major sieges, and situations involving many dropped coins.
• Failed online item actions are less likely to leave items in an incorrect or incomplete state.

Thank you for playing and supporting SoulScroll! If you encounter any issues after the patch, please let me know in the Steam Discussions.