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.
  

New Features:

Crafting Templates:

• It is now possible to save your favourite gear designs as Templates in the Crafting Menu
  
• Templates will allow you to quickly access different designs you made and assign them to specific active Classes to improve the overall dress code of your town.
  
• You can have up to 8 Templates per item type which can be distinguished by different Badges, for more than 100+ Templates in total.
  
• To Craft a Template select one of your Templates from the flags on the left side of the Crafting Menu, and click the craft arrow as you would with any other item.
  
• Templates can only be equipped by the classes selected, Heroes whose class is not assigned to the template will not consider those items as valid purchasable options.
  
  
• Once a Template is saved, its appearance can't be changed, but you can further modify the template's settings at will.
  
• Classes may have multiple Templates assigned to them.
  
• Template items will have a distinguished Template Logo appear in all the Inventory windows.
  
• Deleting a Template will cause all crafted items still in the Inventory crafted from that Template to reset and no longer have any Template associated with them.
  
• A New Compendium Page has been dedicated to Template Crafting.
  

Changes:

• A New Filter has been added to the Tailor's "Extras" inventory to filter between Foci and other accessories, in the same fashion items are filtered for the other shops.
  
• Heroes that die in combat while on a quest, will now have the quest's name displayed in the retired screen.
  
• The Compendium Entry about Heroes' needs has been updated to include the changes added with the Template System.
  

Fixes & Improvements:

• Improved Vendors' AI & Pathing to restock production farms allowing them to restock in more complex scenarios.
  
• Fixed a crash that would happen when trying to customize T4 Heavy Armour.
  

New Upgrades:

Potion Distillery:

• This new Upgrade can be placed at the Apothecary and will use scraps from your regular Potion crafting to periodically produce a random Potion of any Tier.
  
• The Potion Crafted will not exceed the crafter's tier level.

Banner of Arms:

• Place the Banner of Arms at your Training Grounds to inspire your Heroes and increase the experience they gain while training.
  
• Heroes under the influence of the Banner will receive a 25% Experience bonus and it will stack with other bonuses gained from Potions or Legendary Items.
  
• Effects gained from overlapping Banners will not stack.
  

Noticeboard:

• Place the Noticeboard at your Inn to inform your Heroes of their Tasks and increase your Daily Quest Limit.
  
• If the Noticeboard is removed while Daily Quests are assigned with the bonus quests it grants, the latest Daily Quests will be reverted to regular Quests.
  

Spinning Frame:

• Enhance the quality of the cloth you produce by upgrading your Tailor with this state-of-the-art Spinning Frame, allowing your Farms to sometimes generate Tier 2 Cloth.
  
• Once the spinning frame is placed in the shop, it will provide a passive 20% chance to receive Tier 2 Cloth from the shop's production farms.
  

Leather Soaking Tub:

• Add an extra Step to your Leather processing and sometimes generate Tier 2 Leather from your Rabbit Traps.
  
• Once the Leather Soaking Tub is placed in the shop, it will provide a passive 20% chance to receive Tier 2 Leather from the shop's production farms.
  

Compost:

• Create a sustainable supply of fertilizer for your Herb Gardens to increase their Quality and sometimes generate Tier 2 Herbs.
  
• Once the Compost is placed in the shop, it will provide a passive 20% chance to receive Tier 2 Herbs from the shop's production farms.
  

New Features:

Compendium:

• The Compendium is a new tool to access detailed information about the different systems in the game.
  
• The Compendium can be accessed at any time from the new side menu and while performing any action in the game.
  
• With over 20 pages you can find information on Crafting, Inventory management and more.

General:

• A New menu has been added to the top left of the screen to allow the player to access the "ESC Menu" & the Compendium
  

Changes:

• The Experience Icon Floating over the Heroes when they receive XP from training has been changed.
  
• The Feedback Envelop that was in the left corner of the screen has been removed & replaced by the new Menu.
  

Fixes & Improvements:

• Fixed some spelling mistakes, particularly regarding Hero's Thoughts.
  

Fixes & Improvements:

• Fixed a bug that prevented the player in some situations from receiving rewards from Threats & King Requests.
  
• The fix will not work retroactively for rewards that were created before the hotfix was deployed.
  
• There's NO need to start a new save for the hotfix to take effect.
  
• Corrected some Spell Mistakes in the inventory window.
  

New Features:

• Vendors have been completely overhauled and now feature the station specialization system which can be accessed from their detail's menu.
  
  
• By clicking on the Vendor you will now be able to open the Details menu and choose from over 50 perks spread across all the crafting stations, which will allow you to focus your stations on doing what you want them to, in the most effective way possible.
  
• As Workstations level up their progression is measured in their detail's panel. As this increases, they will be able to unlock up to 4 tiers of perks that you can set your station to specialize on.
  
• Mr George will introduce the player to the new system once it becomes relevant in their game.
  

• Once the Specialization is chosen, the option is locked and if you wish to change the station specialization you will need to buy a Focus Gem from the Trader the next time he is in town. But be mindful that as this gem is scarce & his stock is limited.
  
• Using a Focus Gem to Reset your station specialization will reset all of its current selected options.
  
• Focus Gems can be purchased for 10 Royal Tokens across all difficulties.
  

• For a small fee, you will now be able to send your vendor to restock your production farms through the Detail's Panel
  
• Restocking fee varies on the Game Difficulty, and the vendor will be unavailable to serve your customers while taking the task. Making sure you have Shop Displays available, will ensure that customers stay entertained during this time.
  
• Before Sending the Vendor to Restock the farms a tooltip will display the estimated price for the restocking, if the vendor fails to restock any of the farms you will receive a notification for a reason & no cost will be deducted from the player.

Changes:

• The Daily Hero attribute bonus report will now include bonuses earned by the station specialization perks.
  
• The Vendor Detail Panel now Features the Station Specialization Perks & The ability to send your vendor to restock production farms.

Fixes & Improvements:

• Fixed a bug where the Trader would not load after loading a save where the trader was in town during the save.