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BACKING UP YOUR CHARACTERS

• Locate Forge Quest in your Steam library
  
• Right click Forge Quest and select properties
  
• A window will appear, in there select the "Local Files" tab and hit the "Browse Local Files..." button
  
• A OS window will open to where Forge Quest is located. In this folder you will need to make a copy of the "characters" and "worlds" directory. Store these copies anywhere except the Forge Quest directory.
  
• If you are on Mac, you will instead see the application package. You can access the files above by right clicking the app and selecting "Show Package Contents" and navigating to "/Contents/Resources/".
  

Updating to 1.49b

• Locate Forge Quest in your Steam library
  
• Right click Forge Quest and select "Properties"
  
• In the new window, select the "Betas" tab
  
• There is a input field, put the text "cluckinsrules" without quotes and hit the "Check Code" button
  
• Steam will notify you that you have unlocked the beta. You can then choose to update to that build using the drop down list in the same tab.
  
• If Steam doesn't automatically update the game, you can use the "Properties" -> "Local Files" -> "Verify Integrity of Game Cache" to force an update
  

• Fixed, tombstones being placed in puzzle rooms. This caused some un-solvable rooms that prevented playing the game. This fix only affects the generation of dungeons which are done when creating a new character. If you experience this issue, use the world rebuild feature to force re-generate the world.
  
• Fixed, crash in multiplayer when non-hosting client would dodge and attack. This was kind of a big one.
  
• Fixed, hotkeys 5-8 were not properly saving to disk, making user need to re-configure them each time.
  
• Updated input code to handle all keycodes coming from system input. This should allow non-QWERTY and other forgein keyboard to configure the game properly.
  
• There were also a handful of small bugs that got patched, not big enough to mention.
  

• Player revive. While in multiplayer, when a character dies he will now go to a fainted state. Other players have a short window to revive this player by interacting with him. Reviving is not instant, so you may have to kill an enemy or two before returning to your friend. Reviving only puts the player back up to half maximum health. (A few sound effects for this process are not yet complete, they will come later)
  
• Huge story update. There are now several story points in the game that have been added which trails the progression of the game until the final boss. We already suspect we may need to trim some of the length, a lot of that will come with player feedback. Because of these changes, a world rebuild is required.
  
• Final Boss version 1.0. The final boss has finally been added to the game, he is fought right after the fire dungeon and a few storyline moments. He is being labelled as 1.0 as his mechanics and level are likely to change in future updates. Also many of the sound effects for the battle are not yet complete, those will come in later updates. If you have feedback about the boss fight please let us know in the forums!
  
• Achievements! Yes they are finally here, you can find all of them along with their requirements on Steam. It's likely we will be adding and tweaking a few of these. If you have any comments or have any good ideas for ones you would like to see let us know.
  

• Fixed, crash when you would open menu while in the middle of a sword swing
  
• Fixed, error caused level up effect to show on player and pets at inappropriate times.
  
• Fixed, swamp overworld not having as many enemies as it should.
  
• Fixed, petshop merchant now lets you know if your inventory is full when giving you the pet dragon.
  
• Fixed, runes will no longer have sockets. This was never intended.
  
• Fixed, after forging an item the component values were not being properly updated.
  
• Fixed, pilliars could sometimes obscure button puzzles.
  
• Fixed, in multiplayer, Terry could sometimes spawn multiple copies of himself when he fights you before the earth dungeon.
  

• Push Block Puzzles - These are your classic Zelda style push block puzzle. Much like monster trap rooms and the floor button puzzle, you will encounter them in dungeons and will need to push the blocks to the correct location to continue. We have created a number of puzzles which increase in difficulty through the dungeons.
  
  Keep in mind that to see the puzzle, you will need to rebuild your world. This can be done as an option when you select your character to play.
  
  
• UPNP Network Routing - To improve network connectivity we have included the ability for the application to use UPNP. If your router supports and has this feature turned on, it allows your to host a game without needing to manually port forward the port to your machine. This is done automatically in game, so there is nothing you need to change in our settings. When you start a public game we will attempt to configure UPNP and let you know the results in a message window.
  

• Fixed bug that may cause jittering of player's actions when they pick up an item.
  

• Item "Recover Runes Greater" was not doing anything when used. It works now.
  
• Fixed error that caused some melee attacks to hit twice.
  
• Fixed player health bug, caused players who sometimes equipped +max_health items to have less max health then expected.
  
• Fixed several issues with UI elements that were acting funny.
  
• Pet dog wasn't showing his true model, now it does.
  
• GUI would sometimes flicker, or elements would show incorrectly for one frame. This is now solved.
  
• Minimap icons now-again are saved to the level vision, and will show up next time you go to that zone.
  

• Linux 32 bit version now available.
  
• Monsters now intelligently path when they pursue a player. This should make monsters a bit harder to get away from, and make mazes much more of a challenge. This doesn't affect pets right now, as we are in the middle of reworking that system completely.
  
• Treasure and hearts drops are now local to each player, not shared. If an item drops on screen, only you can see and pick it up.
  
• Hearts are now picked up automatically like all other treasure.
  
• Inventory tabs are now big icons. Looks much better then text tabs we had before.
  
• Item drops in world are now billboards instead of models. Should give slight render improvement.
  

• Skeleton now attack faster after coming out of the ground
  
• Necromancer spawns skeletons immediately after seeing player. Necromancer also now has x1.5 health.
  
• Large jellies health was reduced form 2.5 to 2 times.
  

• Fix bug that prevented certain items from showing in shops. Affected all shops.
  
• Fixed bug that prevented monster trap rooms from spawning enemies.
  
• Fixed bug that prevented players from getting past the kobold in front of the fire dungeon entrance.
  
• Fixed display bug with the monster trap door model.
  
• Fixed a few misc scripts that were acting weird to updated AngelScript API.