Throwing Weapons and Adventure Improvements (v126)

Throwing Weapons and Adventure Improvements (v126)

Experimental save upgrade: Saves from v120 can now be upgraded and will be backed up first, but some bugs may persist. Older versions remain available through Steam branches.

This update adds full throwing-weapon support, expands rogue and fighter options, improves monster combat behavior, retunes several quests and encounters, and includes a broad collection of item, world, and quality-of-life fixes.

Throwing Weapons

• Added the Throwing weapon skill.
• Added throwing knives, throwing axes, javelins, darts, and throwing stones.
• Added throwing weapons to character starts, shops, loot, and generated magic-item systems.
• Added dedicated throwing-weapon icons and improved ammunition presentation.
• Improved thrown-item targeting, including cycling between valid enemies.
• Added clearer thrown attack and saving-throw roll details.

Classes and Combat

• Reworked the rogue's high-level Vanish action into Shadow Rush, granting invisibility and two immediate actions.
• Reworked Distract to briefly blind enemies and enable a melee backstab.
• Granted rogues additional skill choices and improved stealth behavior when changing floors.
• Improved backstab messaging and armor penetration.
• Added a fighter weapon-generalist progression option.
• Adjusted weapon training costs, proficiency bonuses, shield training, and several class starting proficiencies.
• Made passive equipment attack bonuses work correctly.
• Added an enemy flanking attack bonus and adjusted repeated melee attacks.
• Changed silver weapons to bypass physical resistance on appropriate monsters.
• Corrected numerous class features whose descriptions or effects did not match.

Magic and Monsters

• Improved monster spell selection so powerful casters use stronger spells more reliably.
• Improved lich spell selection.
• Added or retuned reactive behaviors for several monsters, including berserk, haste, fear, and enrage effects.
• Made Ice Storm leave temporary ice patches.
• Improved hidden escape behavior so enemies lose pursuit more quickly after the player disappears.

World, Quests, and Encounters

• Added structured furniture, debris, work areas, burials, storage, and environmental detail across many dungeons.
• Improved fortress, crypt, quarry, monastery, tower, aqueduct, cave, and ruin layouts.
• Reworked the Floodgate valve interaction and added alternate ways to force the gate.
• Improved Oldroot Temple floors, entrances, and floor labels.
• Improved Runeforge Core discovery and related quest guidance.
• Opened Dorran's armory earlier and retuned its stock progression.
• Retuned the White Seal Tower encounter as an early introduction to dragons and shock resistance.
• Improved several shop inventories, quest rewards, encounter densities, and zone layouts.

Items and Economy

• Improved protection against severe carried-item damage and destruction.
• Retuned gray ooze corrosion and elemental item hazards.
• Allowed valuable monster corpses to be sold and improved preserved-corpse rewards.
• Made black venom phials correctly poison weapons on hit.
• Implemented Stillwater's potion-doubling effect.
• Converted Lucky Find into a delicate gold necklace.
• Corrected various artifact description and effect mismatches.
• Expanded enchanted cloth, leather, ammunition, container, and specialist shop stock.

Fixes and Quality of Life

• Improved Knock, Greater Knock, cone spells, charm behavior, autoexplore, and auto-travel.
• Improved training dummies, spell effects, pickup identification rolls, skill-roll messages, and quest updates.
• Fixed numerous stairs, room stamps, props, movement bindings, equipment effects, and progression edge cases.
• Improved sprite validation, material variants, item icons, and world presentation.