This update requires a new game. Saves from earlier versions cannot be continued.
Greetings, fellow cultivators. This update opens the game to mods: you can install mods, subscribe on the Workshop, or make your own. Tribulation and Dual Cultivation are now performed by your own character, and the Family tree reaches further into your relatives.
New Content
- The main menu now has a Mods entry. Enable, disable and reorder mods there, and save mod profiles. Drop a mod archive onto the game window to install it.
- Browse, subscribe to and publish Workshop items from inside the game. Once a subscribed mod has downloaded, click Apply to load it, usually without restarting. Mods with code, or mods that replace existing art and character assets, still need one restart.
- If a mod has errors, the game skips it and explains why and what to do. You can also choose Load Anyway.
- Saves made with mods are kept apart from unmodded saves. Achievements do not unlock in a playthrough that uses gameplay mods.
- For modders: turn on Creator Mode under Settings › Input. The Mods page then gains a Create tab, where you can make a New Mod, Export Base-Game Data, use Quick Play and open the Debug Console. The modding manual and example mods are in the modding folder of the game directory.
- Two official mods are on the Workshop to start: Faster Cultivation (x2), which doubles what you gain from seclusion, herbal baths and Dual Cultivation; and No Main Story, which skips the Broken Basin main story in a new game while side stories and encounters stay.
- Tribulation and Dual Cultivation are now performed by your own character: you meditate, endure the tribulation and collapse in person, and Dual Cultivation uses both characters' own portraits and figures throughout.
- The Family tree now includes uncles, aunts and their spouses, cousins, nephews and nieces, and your siblings' spouses. Ties has a new Extended Family section. Named story characters now have their own families too.
- An enemy who cannot yet beat you may bide their time, quietly asking after you, and come for you once they have allies or you are weakened, naming whom they avenge to your face. A victim's relatives who recognize the dead person's belongings on you will also hold you responsible.
- Hold W, A, S or D on the county map to keep walking along the road, one leg after another.
Changes
- Secret Realms open to you in order and stay open once opened. Each Secret Realm can be entered once in a lifetime, with no time limit inside. The Dead Furnace Caverns now admit cultivators from Qi Refining.
- At the start, most sect positions are filled, and characters' years in their posts reflect their histories instead of all being zero.
- Sect disciples now start with a storage item.
- Whirling Wind Sword Dance now layers its ring of blades in depth: characters behind the ring are covered by it, and those in front stand before it.
- The nearby characters panel stays empty when no one is around instead of showing a placeholder line.
Fixes
- Fixed large effects such as avatar manifestations occasionally flickering.
- Corrected how robes and hair lie when a character falls.
- Fixed some armor and outfits where the forearm seemed to come out from behind the sleeve when raising an arm.
Please report any issues in the Steam discussions with your version, location and what happened. If you use mods, please include the text from Copy Diagnostics on the Mods page. Screenshots, recordings and saves are welcome, but are not required.
With thanks,
Guixu Studio