Secrets and Story Update (v33)

Secrets and Story Update (v33)

This update focuses on secret rooms, item identification, quest flow, dialogue cleanup, and a broad round of balance and usability fixes.

Secrets And Dungeon Flow

• Added random secret rooms to many indoor dungeons.
• Added small themed secret annexes with loot, features, or encounters.
• Improved secret-door detection and Awareness scaling.
• Made hidden secret doors look more like ordinary walls until discovered.
• Expanded Sunken Crypt with a hidden cultist basement.
• Cleaned up older hardcoded secret-room layouts.

Main Story And Quest Flow

• Added the Watchtower Prism step to the early main story.
• Improved the route from Havenford to Traveller's Rest, Starfall Burrow, and Stonecleft.
• Tightened quest directions, map markers, and location catalog notes.
• Moved and clarified several world-map side locations.
• Reduced quest-giver chatter that was not relevant to that NPC.

Item Identity And Services

• Reworked unidentified item names and item property discovery.
• Improved Lore skill checks for item identification.
• Improved Arcana checks for sensing magical items.
• Added paid vendor Examine services for exact item identification.
• Added divine vendor Cleanse services for known cursed items.
• Moved shop services into cleaner dialogue choices and confirmations.
• Made unknown scroll reading riskier.

Items, Combat, And Balance

• Added critical-hit bonus stats for items and weapon skills.
• Added new spells, wands, potions, oils, rings, weapons, and utility gear.
• Reworked armor, armor penetration, shields, and related item stats.
• Reworked weapon skill training bonuses.
• Reworked early game encounters, loot, and general flow.
• Improved traps, treasure chests, and container placement.

Dialogue And Localization

• Rewrote and tightened a large amount of NPC dialogue.
• Simplified condition-heavy NPC conversations.
• Renamed Havenford's reeve title to elder.
• Cleaned up supported language overlays.
• Improved localization tools and validation.

UI, Controls, And Polish

• Added save-slot versioning.
• Improved item targeting, item comparison, and vendor confirmation screens.
• Improved dialogue choice formatting.
• Improved options menu organization.
• Improved gamepad controls, quantity controls, and input repeat behavior.
• Improved phone map and menu behavior.
• Improved remembered trap, blood, world-map, catalog, and shop displays.

Fixes

• Fixed several dungeon and wilderness connectivity problems.
• Fixed unreachable treasure chests and blocked stair placements.
• Fixed Smuggler Cove, Glassroot Hollow, and Orc Fortress layout issues.
• Fixed cleave follow-up targeting.
• Fixed decoys counting as magical or unidentified items.
• Fixed shopkeeper bumping and swapping behavior.
• Fixed Havenford lancer patrol behavior.
• Fixed opened door-trap markers and remembered visuals.
• Fixed item stock counts and ammo unequip restoration.
• Fixed shrine, phone map, options cycling, and save-list edge cases.
• Fixed completed Orders for Kestrel dialogue.