Cleanup and Balance Update (v102)

Cleanup and Balance Update (v102)

Notice: save files are not compatible between game versions. If you want to keep playing an older run, switch Dragonwake to the matching older-version Steam branch before loading that save.

This is a broad cleanup, balance, and bugfix update focused on traps, doors, quest flow, shops, saves, encounter pacing, dungeon presentation, and many smaller playability fixes.

Added

• Added monster presence sound cues for many dangerous creatures.
• Added a blacksmith repair service for damaged, torn, and rusty equipment.
• Added a sell-all-junk shop action with confirmation text.
• Added procedural secret rooms to most dungeon floors.
• Added generic altar prayer interactions, with a one-time luck chance per altar.
• Added resistances to the character sheet.

Changed

• Reworked pitons into pry tools for doors and locked chests, while still supporting pit use.
• Reworked acid lock melting into a roll-based action, with stronger acid flasks added to loot and shops.
• Rebalanced door lockpicking and door-kicking DCs, including tougher story doors.
• Cheap lockpicks now carry an appropriate lockpicking penalty.
• Most dungeon chests are now locked more often.
• Reworked caltrops: they now last for three triggers, roll DEX saves, deal damage, and can apply a short ATK/DEF penalty.
• Tuned kit weight, durability use, first-aid pricing, ration prices, backpack carry support, and related inventory text.
• Rebalanced world-map random encounter pacing. Dragon hunts now replace successful random encounters instead of rolling as an extra layer, preventing excessive dragon spawns.
• Dragon hunt landings now appear closer and leave clearer impact tracks and rubble.
• Reduced overall dungeon spawn rates slightly and increased enemy XP slightly.
• Toughened Desolate Docks and improved its boss room setup.
• Reworked White Seal Tower generation into larger, more tower-like marble floors.
• Moved deep blackglass enemies out of Underway Pass and Starfall Burrow, reserving them for later scar content.
• Bumped several weak boss and quest rewards.
• Adjusted healing potion, ring, elixir, lucky affix, and resistance item pricing and frequency.
• Simplified merchant examine roles and improved shop, gamepad, and phone tab controls.
• Optimized save serialization and persistence, including raw payloads, bitpacked explored data, stable slot identity, and less save/archive overhead.

Quest, Zone, And Writing Cleanup

• Cleaned up Stonecleft Commons layout and dialogue.
• Clarified Stonecleft Lamp Run text and lamp oil reward dialogue.
• Clarified Beacon Prism and White Vault quest handoff text.
• Fixed White Seal amulet purification so it transforms the correct story amulet.
• Required the Starfall hand-in before the Underway gate opens.
• Improved Smuggler quest text and journal clues for the hidden lower floor.
• Clarified several quest journal entries, route directions, and story door cues.
• Improved Ser Caldus pre-quest chatter.

Fixes And Polish

• Fixed compact combat message formatting for attack, wound, kill, spell damage, chill, and resistance messages.
• Fixed PP level penalties incorrectly reducing max PP.
• Fixed autoexplore behavior around unrevealed traps, rope and piton-covered pits, boulders, decoys, secret doors, and unseen enemies.
• Fixed secret door and concealed feature visuals.
• Fixed water and acid traps applying same-turn standing-liquid effects after trap damage.
• Fixed trap disarm failures triggering traps too often on near misses.
• Fixed non-bleedable monsters gaining bleeding or spawning blood effects.
• Fixed several monster glyph and color inconsistencies.
• Fixed rubble spawning on walls or trap tiles.
• Fixed rest interruption and hostile checks.
• Fixed targeting camera behavior when opening target mode.
• Fixed Android and phone lifecycle, music pause, and shop shoulder controls.
• Added more dungeon decoration, blood decoration, Orc Fortress dressing, themed stair props, and cleaner container prop presentation.

Game version is now v102.