Curious Expedition 2

• Fixed freeze when maxing out club level
  
• Sealed pyramid key requirements are now also based on the size of the world to prevent rare cases where it was too difficult to find all keys
  
• Fixed not being able to interact with zones (eg enemies) when standing on a location
  
• Fixed bad character position when riding a mount
  
• Fixed party characters being hidden when they shouldn't in caverns
  
• Fixed bleeding & curse effects not being applied to characters whose dice are used to boost
  
• Fixed sanity changes in combat not being notified
  
• Fixed Saddles not getting levels nor displaying their full stats on the item info card

New

• The entire game is now translated into French, German, Korean and Japanese
  
• Added many new events triggered by ailments
  
• Added new tribe trait events, reworked a few existing events
  
• New hand equipment: Vulture
  
• Added more tutorials for common elements in the game (mosquitoes, butterflies, sulfur, deserts/water, etc.)
  
• You can now change campaign difficulty mid-campaign in the tavern
  
• New village quests to eliminate various elite enemies
  
• Your inventory is now visible in the Shop-Shop (but you can't sell it)
  
• Added images for the events that play after finishing the game
  

Changes

• The character promotion & item upgrade preview infoboxes now only display information about things that will change
  
• Cartography objective now displays a percentage of the total map completion
  
• Medals in the Difficulty & Explorer selection screens now display your best campaign fame score for that mode/character
  
• Tar Bog status is now permanent until washed off by resting or walking through water
  
• Reduced region size very slightly to reduce difficulty a bit
  
• Salamander Dowser now reveals waterfalls/oases/healing springs rather than water tiles
  
• All non-story expeditions now have the option to back away from the goal and continue exploring
  
• Buffed the Kong Ming Fan's bonus
  
• Electric Megaphone redesigned - this item now provides boost dice on a cooldown in combat
  
• Most expedition islands can now be generated with up to 5 regions
  
• Buffed Sandalwood bracelet
  
• Rabies can now be cured in the Avalon club hall
  
• New parties picked from 1887+ now start with equipment
  
• Increased speed of compass accuracy gain on Normal/Hard; Easy no longer gets automatic 100% accuracy
  
• Reduced Distrustful tribe starting standing penalty
  
• Reduced herbalist standing cost in village from -2 to -1 when getting herbs
  
• Robbing Desert Tombs now has a Standing penalty
  
• Slightly increased budget
  
• Recruits now have to be confirmed before they're added to your party
  
• Seashells are now weightless
  
• Promoting characters now grants +1 loyalty
  
• Reduced combat xp
  
• Native enemies now scale with the difficulty mode
  
• Lux upgrades are now cheaper (they are now always less than the cost of items until you go past max purchasable item level)
  
• Dice challenges are now a bit easier
  
• Increased Herb sanity/health/fame
  
• Various price adjustments on items / equipment
  
• Slowed down healing on Normal/Hard
  
• Salamanders/Moles/Human natives now use different price tables for items
  
• Characters now lose 1 loyalty when you dismiss someone outside of Paris
  
• Plunder Kit is now usable on the map
  
• Increased max map difficulty of 1888 and 1889
  
• Red Berries healing reduced and they no longer cure infection
  

Notable bug fixes

• Recruitable Club characters will now actually be available for recruiting in the Tavern
  
• Retaliation & Counter Attack no longer triggers on dead targets
  
• Retaliation now triggers when shield absorbed all damage and for hostile buffs
  
• Fixed flickering on camp fire
  
• Controller navigation and input is improved in many places
  
• Characters can now die from tiles that are on fire
  
• Annie Oakley's Sharpshooter "item" is now added correctly when she joins the party
  

0.12.9

• Fixed flickering on camp fire
  
• Fixed Arbiter not being considered as a human for certain events
  
• Fixed events sometimes not progressing when you click
  

0.12.8

• Fixed issues with equipping spear in tutorial
  
• Fixed stash not working during Act IV Part 2
  
• Fixed crash when mummy is killed by Counter Attack
  
• Fixed sandworm being able to devour special characters
  
• Fixed special locations not spawning sometimes like the cave in Act 2 Part 1
  

0.12.7

• Fixed crash when buying hats
  
• Fixed a blocker where you could use up club tickets in Taishi or Lux before buying the forced club item
  
• Fixed sinking shrine not disappearing after visit
  

• Fixed a blocker where you couldn't leave the Club Shop
  
• Fixed blocker in Act 2 Island 1 where final location wouldn't spawn if you'd destroyed all mountains on the map
  
• Fixed a blocker that would occur if you stole from story-critical villages and then refused to hand over the thief for punishment
  
• Fixed issue where you could save and quit in the middle of a Paris Club tutorial and then get a broken savegame
  
• Fixed a blocker where expedition select would be locked if you played until the end of 1888 and then quit in the hub without visiting the tavern first
  
• Fixed issue where dismounting in Paris could cause game to get into a broken state
  
• Fix for Strength being removed immediately at the end of the turn (so it didn't work for Counter Attacks)
  
• Removed generic Stone Disc from Act 3 Island 3
  
• Fixed bad combat slot group assignment for Snarfrattle
  

• Fixed some savegames not being loadable
  
• Fixed some events that could kill a character that shouldn't be killable
  
• Fixed an issue where some special village enter events would play repeatedly if you exited and re-entered the village
  
• Fixed problems that could occur if combat ends with the electro barrier still up
  
• Fixed incorrect electro barrier positioning and selection with controller
  
• Fixed getting multiple Tactical Mastery uses in combat sometimes
  
• Fixed issues in the 2nd island of a multi-island expedition where your trek would walk across the map at the start of the island
  
• Fixed black screen when starting an expedition sometimes
  
• Fixed a freeze during combat attacks
  
• Fixed event action buttons not being visible if entering Manage Trek while they were fading in
  
• Fixed a bug where old saves would be forced to buy an item the first time they entered a club shop after starting the new build
  
• Fixed Cartography checklist not correctly counting the number of Locations on the map

New

• Added controller support
  
• New leader class: Red Flag Pirate
  
• New leader class: Nahua Seeker
  
• New leader class: Taxonomist
  
• New leader class: Shennong Herbalist
  
• New hand equipment: Whip
  
• New hand equipment: Rope
  
• New hand equipment: Hunting Knife
  
• New hand equipment: Ornamental Revolver
  
• New hand equipment: Magma Thrower
  
• New hand equipment: Coral Bludgeon
  
• New famous explorer: Wong Fei-hung
  
• New famous explorer: Sacagawea
  
• New enemy: Tiger
  
• New Salamander enemy types: Sea Priest, Claw Master
  
• New Mole enemy types: Battle Mechanist, Burrower, Headhunter, Tinkerer
  
• New hazard: Magnetic Mountain
  
• New shrine aftermath: Volcanoes
  
• New location: Mole Outpost
  
• New location: Sinking Shrine
  
• New recruitable character: Street Rat
  
• New recruitable character: Mole Tinkerer
  
• New recruitable character: Mole Headhunter
  
• New recruitable character: Mole Burrower
  
• New village quest: Deliver gift
  
• New village quest: Dig up artefact
  
• After completing the campaign, you get medals in the Difficulty Selection and Leader Selection screens
  
• New Lux Labs item: Electro Barrier (club levels have been slightly changed to accommodate)
  
• New items: Cheese, Cow Hide, Metalsmithing Kit, War Horn, Religious Icon, Horse Pelt, Theodolite
  
• Added new hub narrative events
  
• Added new optional tutorial boxes
  

Changes

• New explorer types must be unlocked by performing certain tasks
  
• Club Shop items are now split into categories
  
• Reduced base expedition fame/ticket rewards to emphasize other sources of fame more
  
• When using the 'Wipe Year' death consequence, restarting the year will reset your tickets to the number you had at the beginning of the year, instead of zero.
  
• Reduced difficulty of expeditions in 1886
  
• Improved pacing of Paris location unlocks
  
• Recruitable Club characters will sometimes be available for recruiting in the Tavern
  
• Unused tickets are converted to fame at the end of the Campaign
  
• Can now sell Equipment at the Shop in Paris for Tickets
  
• Significant retuning of fame rewards - expeditions now grant less tickets/fame, but fame items grant more
  
• Doubled health bonus of equipment that grants health (Girdle, Harness, Kara Bracelet)
  
• Late game dice challenges are now a bit easier
  
• The Sandalwood Bracelet now also changes the sanity threshold where you'll get negative events while resting
  
• The Giant Crab Pincer is now usable as hand equipment instead of being a fame trophy
  
• Hunter's Cunning perk now has a limit to how many dice can be rerolled
  
• Hiking Stick now only reduces per-tile cost partially
  
• Increased price / upgrade price of Heavy Crates
  
• The Shipwreck now has a rare special location variant
  
• Added a reminder to the Ship Shop about the current Island's objective & biome
  

New

• Added Act IV: The Engine of Creation
  
• New Explorer Select screen
  
• New Difficulty Select screen
  
• Added 'Death Consequences' options
  
• New setting: 'Instant Text' that makes event text appear instantly
  
• New setting: 'Fast Rest' that makes resting & waiting happen much faster
  
• New setting: 'Travel Speed' that makes moving on the map faster or slower
  
• New setting: 'Challenge Notifications' that toggles notifications about new club challenges on or off
  
• New option: 'Reset Clubs' to reset all your club progress (available in the main menu only)
  
• New hand equipment: Parrot
  
• New tribe type: Distrustful
  
• New tribe type: Pacifist
  
• New tribe type: Unisex
  
• New event type: Dreamscape
  
• New map zone: Human Exposition Recruiter
  
• Added hub narrative for 1889
  
• Lots of new events
  

Changes

• New Combat UI
  
• New Dice Challenge UI, including chance display for each required colour & information about how many bonuses are possible
  
• New map travel UI
  
• Hovering a character's Promote button will display a preview of the character after promotion
  
• After an expedition you can look around the map
  
• Reworked the tribe trait system so that each tribe has a single standout trait instead of combining 3 different ones
  
• Stunned Panthers no longer do Reroll Retaliation
  
• Villages become angry more easily now, unless they have the Pacifist trait
  
• Can no longer interact with locations or zones when party is overfilled with people
  
• Maps are slightly smaller on 'Tourist' difficulty and slightly larger on 'Lunatic' difficulty
  
• Improved art for the Scout Post and Huntmaster locations
  
• Geo Machine now always has 2 different actions available out of a pool
  
• Added a congratulations message shown in the main menu when completing the campaign
  
• Added a display for current fame & total fame this campaign when hovering over the fame bar in Paris
  
• The shape of an Island is revealed at the start of the expedition when in Tourist difficulty (except Caverns)
  

Notable Bug Fixes

• Fixed Cartography and Anthropology bonuses that increase the fame for their Studies & Kit items
  
• Fixed some items not being usable in Dice challenges, or being usable but not adding dice
  
• Fixed not being able to upgrade Curious or Improved items to level 8
  
• Fixed Caverns map overlay not showing the difference between tiles you have never explored and tiles that you did explore but are now in darkness again
  
• Fixed Lost Explorer map not generating or not being diggable with shovels
  
• Fixed Trader being attracted by the Phonograph and interrupting movement
  

0.10.8 (September 21 2020)

• Fixed some errors in Chinese translation
  
• Fixed not being able to start an Expedition when resuming a campaign saved from Alpha 9
  
• Fixed treasure maps not being generated sometimes
  
• Fixed character portraits not being visible when first resuming a savegame
  
• Fixed temporary characters not being removed from the party when returning to Paris
  

0.10.7 (September 19 2020)

• Fixed Ferry Turtle taking the party off the map sometimes
  
• Fixed regular shrines in Act 3 part 1 not triggering afterma
  
• Fixed missing cave location marker in Act 3 part 1 for final objective
  
• Fixed Malin's staff being in party inventory after Malin leaves party
  
• Fixed wrong enemies being awakened or put to sleep for Rainbow Orchid expedition
  

0.10.6 (September 18 2020)

• Loading old savegames unlocks the explorer clubs
  
• Fixed Transporter Beacon map location sprite size
  
• Hopefully fixed vertical text
  

New

• Added Act III: The Cost of Greed
  
• Added Paris narrative events for 1886
  
• Added difficulty modes
  
• Some expeditions will now have a spinning Gimbal instead of the compass. The faster it spins, the closer you are to the goal.
  
• New expedition type: The Sealed Pyramid
  
• New famous explorer: Annie Oakley
  
• New famous explorer: Jules Verne
  
• New item: Moonshine
  
• New item: Escape Hook
  
• New item: Booby Trap
  
• New item: Loyalty Bracelet
  
• New item: Fog Burn Scroll
  
• New item: Thumper
  
• New location: Geo Machine
  
• New location: Cave
  
• New location: Crystal Mine
  

Changes

• Plunderer has been significantly reworked: they now can no longer rest in villages, but can use treasures to regain sanity
  
• Horn Flute now gives sanity / increases aggro instead of disabling zones
  
• Can now click to skip event dice challenge results
  
• Can no longer sell items to the Ship Shop
  
• The Moon Stone item now changes the moon phase
  
• Prey are now shown on the map as little characters instead of icons
  
• Club Unlocks and Club Shops have been merged into a single screen
  
• If you participate in a Club Challenge but don't win, you can now buy the hat at the Hatter rather than at the winning Club
  
• Once you've completed the story expedition that includes a biome for the first time, that biome type is then unlocked for other campaigns from the beginning
  
• Lucky Rabbit's Foot now allows for a limit number of dice to be rerolled per turn
  
• Giant Mushrooms now spawn spores during the full moon that give sanity when passing through (rather than the mushroom collapsing)
  
• Various UI improvements, including a new Settings menu
  

Notable Bug Fixes

• Pyromaniacs can once again start fires randomly as you leave locations.
  
• Fixed bug where interacting with the Palikao Gate in Act 1 did nothing