Review Roundup:

• Trade Routes: The recently introduced trade routes are a big step towards reducing micromanagement. These routes allow you to automatically stock your equipment vendors, ensuring your heroes have the gear they need to conquer any foe.
  
• Daily Quests: Focus on the bigger picture with daily quests! This feature lets you automatically post new quests as your heroes complete them, keeping your quest board full of fresh challenges.
  
• Crafting Templates: Crafting is a cornerstone of A Hero's Rest, and we've made it easier than ever with crafting templates. Now you can create and save your favorite equipment designs for effortless crafting.
  
• Custom Difficulty: The Mutator System lets you tailor your experience within the game. Whether you crave a challenging test of your skills or a more relaxed playstyle, the Mutator System empowers you to craft your ideal journey.

A Glimpse into the Future (Patch v0.9):

• Automated Refill for Consumables: Say goodbye to empty shelves! Patch v0.9 introduces crafting slots for the Innkeeper and Apothecary. Assign them specific recipes, and they'll automatically craft a set number of items to keep your stock brimming. Focus on your Heroes and their adventures, not your inventory!
  
• Party & Dungeons: A New Challenge Awaits! Prepare for epic adventures in v0.9! Dungeons are coming! Challenging group encounters designed to test the mettle of your most seasoned heroes. Equip your heroes for battle and face down formidable foes for legendary rewards!
  
• Quality of Life Improvements:
  
  
  
  • Enhanced UI Tooltips: Get the information you need, faster! Patch v0.9 brings improved tooltips across the board, offering clearer explanations of gameplay mechanics and features. No more hunting for details – make informed decisions with a quick glance!
    
  • Boosted Rewards: Get more out of your adventures! Patch v0.9 increases the rewards you earn from various activities. Expect faster progress and a more rewarding experience overall!
    
  • And More!

Stay tuned for more!

New Features:

• Show Your Prowess with Boss Rewards: Conquering fearsome Bosses now grants you more than just bragging rights! Each Boss will award a unique Medal, bestowing your Hero with permanent passive buffs that will solidify their place as a legend in your roster.
  
  
• Earn Epic Titles: Flaunt your Heros' accomplishments by displaying the new Title your Heroes earn for defeating each Boss, making your Hero a true force to be reckoned with!
  
  
• Craft Your Challenge: Unleash the New Difficulty System! The reins are in your hands! The revamped "New Game" screen allows you to personalize your experience. Select your base difficulty and shape it further with over 15+ Mutators. Want a faster-paced adventure? Amp up the exprience gains! Craving a tactical test? Activate "No Survival chance" for the ultimate challenge! Existing saves remain untouched, with their difficulty settings reflected in the new system.
  

Changes & Improvements:

• Mutator Transparency: Inspect your currently active Mutators with ease! A dedicated menu lets you review their effects while the game is paused.
  
  
• Red Mist Intensifies: The whispers grow louder as you delve deeper into the uncharted territories. The Red Mist's insidious effects intensify with each escalating difficulty, testing the resolve of even the most seasoned explorers. This adds a thrilling layer of challenge for those who crave the ultimate test of courage.
  
• Silence the Grumbling: Hero protests are now part of the ambient soundscape, creating a more immersive experience. You can also finally silence their frustrations completely with a new option in the Settings Menu.
  
• Navigation Made Easy: We've streamlined the Hero Manager for smoother switching between class and Hero management modes. Accessing Hero information feels effortless now.
  
• New Menus, New Possibilities: Dedicated menus have been added to both the Hero List and Hero Sheet, allowing you to effortlessly inspect and equip your Boss-earned Titles.
  
• Compendium Chronicles: All relevant Compendium pages have been updated to reflect the latest changes and additions.

Bug Fixes:

• Templates have been fixed: A bug affecting Heroes not purchasing class-specific templates due to skill updates has been resolved. Remember to re-save your templates after this patch to apply the fix.
  
• Trade Routes Back on Track: Trade completion times have been adjusted to their intended value, ensuring a smooth flow of resources.
  
• King's Call Heeded: A bug preventing the King's Requests event from appearing in corrupted saves has been squashed. Your loyalty will always be recognized!
  
• Grass Patch Persists: Rest assured, your carefully landscaped patches will remain untouched across save and load cycles.

Holiday Event

Play during the Holiday Event to unlock holiday-themed Items:

Halloween Event

Play during the Halloween Event to unlock the following Items:

• Limited-Time Halloween-Themed Items:
  
  
  
  • New Exterior Decorations: Carved Pumpkins, Spooky Tree Lantern, Wrought Iron Fence
    
  • New Interior Decorations: Candle-lit Pumpkin, Assortment of Jars
    

New Features:

Trade Routes:

• Defeating Bosses across the land made the road safer to allow for new trade routes!
  
• Trade Routes will appear in your Town Ledger after defeating a Boss & having Sam the Trader visit your Town.
  
• Sam The Trader will introduce the Trade Route system on his first visit and will inform you of any new trade route opportunities.
  
• Trade Routes require a small challenge to be completed before they can be set up. Once completed, the Trade Route can be put to use and repurposed at will without the need of completing any further challenges.
  
• To initiate a Trade Route, you will need to choose a Shop and Tier of the Items to trade for. After paying the upkeep cost, the Trade Route will start.
  
• Every time a Trade Route is completed, a random Item of Quality Normal or better, of the Tier of your choice, will be delivered to your shop's Inventory.
  
• You can pause Trade Routes at any time, or rush them to finish them instantly using a Focus Gem (which can be bought at the Trader for Royal Tokens).
  
• Every time an item is delivered a message will appear in the Report Window. If an item fails to be delivered, the reason will be shown in the Trade Route itself.
  
• Trade Routes will continue to deliver Items unless you stop them, can't afford them, or have no stock space. They will automatically resume if all their requirements are met.
  
• Trade Routes can be an excellent tool to keep your shops stocked!
  
  

Heroes Quest Behaviour:

• The Hero's Quest Behaviour dictates how Heroes choose their Quest before going on an Adventure.
  
• There are 4 Behaviours to choose from - Coward, Calculated, Brave & Heroic.
  
  
  
• You can switch your Hero's Behaviour by clicking on the new Behaviour Button in the Hero Sheet or through the Hero List.
  
• With the addition of the new Quest Behaviour System, overwhelming Quests had their completion bonus drastically increased!
  
• This new system allows you to send your heroes to take on more powerful Quests for greater rewards!
  
  

Hero Retirement:

• Heroes may now be retired from your Roster by selecting them in your Town and clicking the "Retire Hero" - Button, that has been added to the Hero Sheet.
  
• Heroes that are retired from adventuring will award you with Regrade Stones based on the Tier and quality of their Gear.
  
• Retiring a Hero will permanently remove them from your Roster.
  
  

Changes & Improvements:

• The Compendium has been updated to include the new features and changes.
  
• Increased the chance to upgrade a Tier 4 Item using Regrade Stones by 10%.
  
• Reduced the amount of Visitor Requests to make it less spammy.
  
• Increased the likelihood Visitor Requests will require food over Potions.
  
• Doubled the Time given to complete Visitor Requests.
  
• Increased the maximum amount of Resources that can be transmuted at once to 25 per stack.
  
• Tier 4 Materials will now transmute to Tier 3 Regrade Stones instead of Tier 4 to improve game balance with newly added mechanics.
  
• A new and improved Hero Sheet will allow you to access more of your Hero's Information with ease.
  
• Added Tooltips to Items in the Inventory Menu to improve the overall browsing experience.
  
• Added Tier Level Indications to tooltips at the Trader, Recycle Station, and more...
  
• Improved the readability of the Shop's Detail Panel & other UI Elements.
  
  

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a bug that Item Tooltips would display 1 point more on their main stat. This did not affect CR calculations.
  
• Fixed a bug where the shop's detail panel would sometimes not show the lifetime profit.
  

New event - Red Mist:

• Red Mist is a new random event that can happen in your town.
  
• During Red Mist some of the land's foes will be empowered, making Heroes undertaking said objectives suffer from a 15%/20%/25% Penalty to Quest Success based on the current difficulty.
  
• The Red Mist effects will affect all questing Heroes as long as the Red Mist is active, even if the quest started before the mist affected the corresponding objectives.

• During Red Mist Heroes that successfully complete their quest will return with 15% more materials rewards than normally. This effect stacks with any further modifiers like Reward Bonus Potions & Challenging+ Quests.

• Red Mist lasts for 6 Days and a Notification will inform the player of its start & end.
  
• Quests affected by Red Mist will have a prompt on the various menus.
  

Improved Building System:

• Improved building system! Allowing you to re-place walls in a similar fashion to how replacing floors works, making the change of decoration a much more pleasant task.
  
• New Construction options with over 30 new pieces including new variations & a new set of walls, floors & doors for you to decorate your environments.
  

Changes & Improvements:

• New UI Elements were added to highlight Boss & Red Mist Quests.
  

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a bug where a prompt to take photos wouldn't appear in the Town Ledger.
  
• Fixed a bug where the Default hotkey for the town ledger was (Numpad 6) instead of standard (6) (this will not affect existing games)
  

New Features:

Town Ledger

Visitors' Orders:

• Visitors will now request special orders from time to time when they visit the Inn.
  
• Fulfilling Visitors' Orders will increase the Visitors' satisfaction. Higher satisfaction will lead to your visitors leaving Tips when buying Items in your Town.
  
• You can view all available Visitors' Orders and their current satisfaction in the Town Ledger or while crafting at the Innkeeper and the Apothecary.
  
• Orders are optional and will periodically appear in your ledger. They can be a great way to boost the gold income from visitors' purchases.

Expected Visitors:

• The Expected Visitors tab will allow you to add your own custom Heroes to appear organically in your town.
  
• You can use the tabs in the menu to assign specific names to your Visitors / Heroes and have your friends and characters from your favourite games join the town as fresh adventuring Heroes.
  
• Names can be removed and switched at any time.

Photo Gallery:

• Selecting the Photo Gallery will allow you to re-visit your favourite moments in your town.
  
• Whenever you take a picture with the Photo Mode H (default), it will be added to the Photo Gallery.
  
• Pictures in your Photo Gallery will appear in the loading screens and when placing down Framed Paintings in your Town's Shops.
  
• You can expand any picture in the Photo Gallery by clicking on them or permanently delete them by pressing the small X in the top right corner of every thumbnail.

Compendium:

• A New Compendium Page has been dedicated to the Town Ledger.

New Furniture:

• You can find over a dozen new Furniture Items in all building categories including sofas, counters & shop signs.
  
• A total of 6 new Shops for your visitors in the upgrades tab provide new services for your visitors.
  
• A new grass patch can be used to place grass around your shops.
  
• A new Category has been added to the build menu "Decorations" to improve the menu's navigation.

New Station Upgrades:

• The Innkeeper can now be upgraded with a Cartographer.
  You can restock it with Tier 2 Wood to sell Maps to your Visitors and make sure they (hopefully) never lose their way.
  
• The Apothecary can now be upgraded with a Dried Herb Rack.
  You can restock it with Tier 2 Herbs to sell some dried spices for your Visitors' home cooking.
  
• The Blacksmith can now be upgraded with a Potshop.
  You can restock it with Tier 2 Metal to supply your visitors' kitchens with knives, pots, pans, and more!
  
• The Woodworker can now be upgraded with a Furniture Stand.
  You can restock it with Tier 2 Wood to provide your Visitors' with some basic furniture to take home.
  
• The Tanner can now be upgraded with a Leather Goods Shop.
  You can restock it with Tier 2 Leather to make sure your Visitors return home with a new pair of boots and dry feet.
  
• The Tailor can now be upgraded with a Clothing Shop.
  You can restock it with Tier 2 Cloth and fulfill your visitors' wishes for some new fashionable clothes to take home.

Changes:

• The Music Button has been moved to the top left Corner Menu, and its functionality has been left unchanged.
  
• A New button has been added to the Recipe Crafting Menu to open the Ledger's Visitors' Orders.
  
• All Original Shop Stands had their Class Requirements reduced to 1 down from 2 to match those of the Beehive.
  
• Blacksmith's Tools Shop is now an exterior shop stand.

Fixes & Improvements:

• Fixed a Bug that happened when moving objects and the control's tooltip wouldn't show.
  
• Fixed an issue causing Daily Quests limit to sometimes become minus.
  
• Improved the Visuals of Effects in Various Items.
  
• Cecil will now introduce the new Order System.
  
• Added an Option to Disable the Lightning Flashes during Thunderstorms in the Graphic Options.

Known Issues:

• Fruit Juice crafted before this patch, will count for Visitors' Orders requesting apples. This will not occur with Fruit juice crafted after this patch.
  
• Existing versions of the game might need the Town's Ledger Hotkey to be manually assigned in the setting menu.
  

• You will be able to receive Trade offers, which allow you to send your Heroes on a journey to exchange Materials for other goods.
  
• New Events will present a great Threat to your Town, so make sure to be prepared!
  
• Heroes will be able to undertake Trials, which, if successful, will upgrade their Equipment and grant them a lot of experience.
  

New Upgrades:

Recycle Station:

• The Recycle Station is a new upgrade that can be placed at the Training Grounds to Recycle Unwanted gear into resources.
  
• You can Filter the items showing at the station by Shops, Item categories, Gear quality & Tier.
  
• Every Item has a chance to return some of the resources that were used when crafting it, the item will be lost in this process.
  
• You can select multiple items to recycle at once.
  
• A New Compendium Page has been added for this station.
  
• This is a Unique Upgrade and therefore only one can be built.
  

Beer Keg:

• The Innkeeper has been working hard to bring a Beer Keg to always have a fresh Tankard of homebrewed goodness prepared for its customers.
  
• The Beer Keg will periodically generate Beer for you, which you can collect by clicking on the Beer Keg.
  
• To ensure you have the best Beer in Felonia, you will need a large amount of High-Quality Materials to add this boon to your Inn.
  

Iron Mine:

• Your blacksmith dug deep to study the land and uncover hidden Ores, which allows you sometimes to find higher-quality metal from Ore deposits.
  
• Once built you will have a 25% chance to find Iron (T2 Metal) from the Natural Ore deposits scattered around the map.
  
• New Workstation Perk: Miner's Diary - increases the effects of the Iron Mine by an extra 15%.
  
• This is a Unique Upgrade and therefore only one can be built.
  

Saw Station:

• The Saw Station allows your Woodworker to unlock their hidden potential and sometimes gain higher Quality Wood from Trees.
  
• Once built you will have a 25% chance to find Yew (T2 Wood) from some Trees scattered around the map.
  
• New Workstation Perk: Reforestation - increases the effects of the Saw Station by an extra 15%.
  
• This is a Unique Upgrade and therefore only one can be built.
  

Changes:

• The amount of potions crafted to get the free potion from the Potion Distillery has been reduced by 50%
  
• When Creating a new Template, the Template will now inherit the current name of the Item that is being saved.
  
• When Crafting a Template, the Template's name will now replace the current item's name. You may still randomize each craft's name in the same manner that you would randomize any other item's name.
  
• The Blacksmith's Crystalized Dragon Essence Perk has been replaced with Miner's Diary.
  
• The Woodworker's Crystalized Dragon Essence Perk has been replaced with Reforestation.
  
• The Blacksmith's and Woodworker's Perks have been reset in line with the new perks' arrival.
  
• New Icons have been added to the building tooltips to hint at whether the Item can be built Outdoors or Indoors.
  
  
  

Fixes & Improvements:

• Fixed a Bug where the notice board would generate more daily quests than intended.