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Genre: Strategy, Indie

Bard Idle

Tarot Cards

Mysterious fortune-teller has joined adventures of heroes and now helps them to predict the trials of destiny.
At the bottom of interface appeared a crystal ball, which accumulates charges for passing zones.
You will be given a choice of 3 cards that will tell the future. You can only choose one.

In Candy House there is second page, where you can improve new multipliers for candy.
To access them you will have to fulfill some conditions.

Additions and changes:

  • «Don't shake the screen» option has been duplicated from advanced options to main settings window.
  • Now jelly dwarfs in army menu don't go off-screen.
  • Improved display of stones in hero panel.

THE ARENA

This mode replaces «Silverguard Arena» quest.
Competitions now take place in multiple arenas, and at the end of competition, glory points are awarded,
which can be spent on various improvements.



Additions and changes:

  • Added 2 new music tracks for arenas.
  • Fixed bug with the dragon eye, with which you could pass more zones than level of eye allows.
  • Fixed bug with megadwarfs, when number of required upgrades was reset to normal on restart.
  • Cultists accumulate damage while the dragon eye is active.
  • In quest «Under cover of night» you can hire cultists.
  • Added several parameters to customize game window.

Priest of Light, Cultist, Arena Announcement

Added two new classes!

Cultist


Possessed by rituals and divine providence, Cultists are able to build up damage for every hit they take against enemy.

Priest of Light


Auxiliary hero who casts aura of courage on his allies.

Arena Announcement
Council of empires has almost all necessary papers to organize tournaments in the Arena. For now, only information about how the Arena will work is available for you. Your achievements for «Silverguard Arena» quest are taken into account by council.

Additions and changes:

  • Auto Camp now has additional mode that will allow you to leave camp if you run out of soup.
  • In additional options you can now choose to display damage per hit.
  • Adjusted behavior of sliders of various menus.
  • Сlarified phrases of undead.
  • Game picture in fullscreen mode is now adjusted for screen formats which do not correspond to 16:9 format.
  • Fixed bug occurring when writing large number of ballad lines.
  • «In search of knowledge» quest now opens from zone 66.
  • Now you can use 25 soup if you hold down shift key.

Tour, Guilds, Comedy and Tragedy, Under cover of night

Reach zone 125 to give

Concert tour!


Tour replaces concert and gives 5 times more notes.

A new mechanic has been added:

Guilds


Assemble right squads of heroes to build 8 commonwealth guilds!
Guilds are available from zone 150. Each guild increases number of pages in certain books.


Starting in zone 175, you will receive

Masks of comedy and tragedy


Masks increase number of pens and unburnable manuscripts you receive.

Added new quest -

Under cover of night.


Reach zone 44 to access it.

Additions and changes:

  • Fire behavior changed during dragon eye action.
  • Fixed bug when timers for blessings were not written because of Cheese cellar illustration.
  • Megadwarf and Enhanced Weapon modes are now not reset after restart.
  • Changed notification about getting candy every hour if there is Candy box pack.

Page 6 of ballad, Way of Fortune, Specials

Continue writing your ballad on page six!



  • Added Path of fortune, which will allow you to multiply
    your quest bonuses. You can unlock Path of Fortune
    in quests menu.

  • Get unique bonuses in Special offers! Choose from one of
    four sets and make your journey even more exciting.
    You can find sets in candy house by clicking on Special offer tab.


Additions and changes:

  • Maximum life and damage of stumps matches druid if he has these parameters changed.
  • Candle masters doubles bless effect (only those which can create), rather than doubling bless duration.
  • Dagger masters now have a new attack animation.
  • Fixed a rare reroll bug where reroll was not working.
  • Fixed scroll bug in army section when displaying favorite heroes.

Illustrations and Megadwarfs

In the fifth chapter of the ballad, you will have to add an illustration


to receive one of twelve powerful bonuses.

A new Megadwarfs mode has been added!


Megadwarfs mode replaces regular dwarf mode.
Megadwarfs are very good at making jelly.
Reach the bronze league to unlock it.

Additions and improvements:

  • Fixed a bug with the Dragon eye that made it impossible to use the
    bonus after a concert or burning ballad.
  • Soup spice images no longer stick out of the button.
  • If you have a large number of spices, the description can be scrolled.
  • Now, when you open the achievement menu through a notification,
    you are taken directly to the achievement.
  • Achievements are divided into two screens - 'Achievements by zones' and 'Other achievements'.
  • In the quests menu, added the ability to see a total list of multipliers for all completed quests.
  • Made a scroll for the Hall of Fame.
  • Changed the algorithm for playing sound when quickly obtaining several levels of the ballad.
  • Desert worms shoot more accurately.
  • In the additional options you can choose a new look for your cursor.

Red Dragon

A new boss has been added - Red Dragon!


Defeat the fire-breathing Red Dragon and gain ancient
powerful artifacts:



  • Dragon Blood - a legendary substance that grants access to 8 unique bonuses.
  • Dragon Eye - An ancient talisman that helps you pass through zones much faster.

Also added new music track - The Dragon's Appearance!
A dragon appears every 100 zones.

Additions and improvements:

  • Sliders have been added to all menus where there are scrolls.
  • Ballad end hint no longer prompts more than twice.
  • Fixed bug with short sound playing at the beginning of the game when in silent mode.
  • Travel screen now opens from the area where the heroes are.

In search of knowledge!

A new quest has been added - in search of knowledge!

Also, the mechanism for turning into a flower has been changed,
which prevents some of the reported problems
(stopping work of miracles, etc.)

Happy monk, Quartet, Seals

Added a new class - Happy Monk.


The Happy Monk gets a significant bonus to strength if the monk has a large amount of health.

Other changes:


  • Sealed books have been added. You can unseal them with unburnable manuscripts (zone 75 or higher).
  • Added new quest: Quartet!
  • Added achievement that opens the new quest.
  • Added filters for achievements.
  • Changed the name of the auto-turn button, in order to avoid confusion.

Chiromancy

A new book has been added - Chiromancy!


Chiromancy reveals a system of magical hands - helpers.
Hands can automate many processes, as well as some
of them affect clicks.



Other improvements:



  • Music playback quality has been increased.
  • The visual effect of the pea extract has been changed.
  • Ressurect sound is now one volume.
  • The 'speed up healing' button now collects cheeses as well.
  • Ressurection now works with auto-soup
  • Added new option - CTRL heal.
    (additional settings in the options menu)
    CTRL heal allows you to use the speed up healing button only with ctrl hold.