It took me a while, but I finally got to implement the font selection and sizes in the options, including support for adding additional fonts through mods. There are a couple of other important changes in this patch, like leveling multiple times at once now provides an ability for each level. Thank you all for sticking around and I hope you're enjoying the game!
Added
- Added Fonts section in Options, allowing to modify the font and size used in different parts of the game. - New fonts can now be added through the assets.json "fonts" property in mods (see the core mod, for example).
Changed
- Angelic Wings now allow teleportation without durability. - Base recipes available to all starting characters are no longer spawning in the world. - The targeting line no longer stops on a valid target outside of the visible range, which previously helped determine the enemy's position. - Abilities that add extra damage on hit no longer cause split damage scaling (Int + Str or Dex) on physical abilities. - Leveling up is now processed one after another in case of gaining enough experience to level up multiple times at once.
Fixed
- Fixed crash related to the message log. - Fixed Deadly Grasp animation position when performed by AI entities. - Fixed message when using the action "Rest until healed" with full health. - Fixed map name mistake in one of the late game areas. - The experience bar doesn't go out of bounds anymore. - Fixed bounds of character statistics and resistances on higher resolutions, so they fit the inventory window. - Fixed position of event messages on higher resolution. - Fixed crash in the Ability Editor when core required mod is not chosen. - Fixed issues related to message log slider jumping out of drag position.
Update v1.0.7
Greetings fellow gods,
A couple of QoL improvements, buff to Bear Trap & Flame Pillar, and a bunch of fixes in today's patch.
Added
- Added Dialogues tab in the message log to filter out other messages than dialogues. - Added Cheat Console key to Keymap in Options, requires a printable character. - Added ability bar second tab, togglable with left ctrl key (available in Keymap settings).
Changed
- Bear Trap base damage reduced to 20 - 25 from 30 - 35, and added scaling of half of the caster dexterity. - Flame Pillar base damage reduced to 5 - 10 from 20 - 25, and added scaling of half of the caster intelligence. - In Equipment -> Combat tooltips, added information about the unarmed attack when applicable.
Fixed
- Fixed an issue that prevented walking over a bridge when there was a Blood Pool on it. - Fixed an issue that caused the crafting list to not refresh when learning a new recipe. - Pond of Blood now correctly contains blood instead of water and can be frozen. - Fixed Gigantic Dwarf achievement. - Fixed successful corruption message to indicate who gets corrupted by whom correctly. - Fixed Arrow Shrapnels ability targeting and damage. - Same abilities coming from different sources now share a cooldown. Unequipping an item no longer resets the cooldown of ability that it provides. - Fixed exp gain message and death animation when an enemy dies by a static entity like Bear Trap or Flame Pillar and when it kills itself. - Improvements in AI processing in enemy heavy areas. - Blocked extra unarmed attacks when wielding a two-handed weapon.
Update v1.0.6
The next update brings 2 new artifacts, new actions allowing to sleep through the day/night, buff to staves, and lots of fixes. As usual, some of the changes will not apply to already generated worlds.
Added
- New Artifact: Hood of a Thousand Eyes - designed by one of our Patrons - OccultOnion! - New Artifact: Smid's Hammer - New actions "Sleep until small hours" and "Sleep until evening". - Added Dead Oak Tree, and Opal entities. - Moon Amulet and Opal Ring are now craftable.
Changed
- It's no longer possible to summon on an empty spot where there's not at least a background tile available. - Updated Net Throw ability description to mention opposite immobilize effect check. - Having no weapons equipped will make two unarmed attacks instead of one. Having only one-handed weapon equipped without a shield will make an additional unarmed attack. - Some previously disabled artifacts can now be crafted after items become indestructible. - Increased damage of staves.
Fixed
- Iluvia can no longer be killed twice. - Updated Flame Pillar description to be more precise. - Fixed displayed drunk units of water / blood in the Cemetery entry. - Improved performance of Crafting screen with many recipes. - Fixed Angel of Vengeance achievement. - It's no longer possible to fly to the endgame areas. - Invisible tiles in the endgame area are no longer walkable. - No more male amazons. - Fixed Alchemic Fire area of effect. - It's no longer possible for the ability caster to immobilize self. - Underground River turns into blood after killing one of the gods. - Spruces now die after killing one of the gods. - Fixed some typos and grammatical errors in dialogues. - Stone formation now correctly breaks into Stone. - Fixed Armor Breaker durability reduction effect. - Fixed issue with dialogues not triggering after attacking a character that doesn't see the player. - Fixed crash on corrupted tutorial file. - Fixed crash on using a single-use ability from an item, then dropping it without canceling targetting. - Fixed crash in Cemetery on corrupted file. - Fixed rotating tile tooltips with mouse wheel or tab key.
Modding
- Abilities are no longer required for artifacts. - New Sight property: Ignore infra penalty, ignoring the daytime penalty of infravision. - Affixes and artifacts can now provide tool type properties to items.
Hotfix v1.0.4
Greetings fellow gods,
A very important hotfix today, addressing some of the major issues!
Added
- Added more inks and papers to some enemies. - Added Thorvall to available dwarf NPC names. - Added a list of unique physical features for mutant NPCs.
Changed
- Increased default tile dimensions on higher resolutions. - Iron Bars no longer leave iron ingots upon destruction. - Fishmen no longer Intimidate.
Fixed
- Fixed lag caused by stuck archer enemy occasionally. - Holding rest action no longer queues it multiple times, instead of stopping when the key is no longer pressed. - Continue screen no longer crashes when one of the save files gets corrupted. - Fixed crash on disarming enemy artifact weapon. - Improved performance with many summons during fights. - Fixed spawns of artifact shields and belts. - Removed invalid roof near the Cinder Keep. - Death of the Swamp God correctly replaces swamp grass tiles. - Fixed Human and Troll hunger passive. - Fixed "Unlimited power!!!" achievement. - Fixed crash when using Golden Lamp with a mod that removes its durability. - When loading invalid global config, the game now attempts to rollback to default settings and logs an error in logs/errors.log file. - Digging through piles of sand now correctly provides sand. - Updated Armor Breaker tooltip to mention extra damage when hitting a body part that's not covered. - Fixed Chain Lightning tooltip to indicate the jumps can happen on "beings" instead of only "enemies". - Fixed issues that could cause save desynchronization or corruption when changing the world region and abruptly exiting the game. - Fixed crash that could occur when having teleportation targetting selected on the World Map and removing the Angelic Wings.
Thank you all for your amazing support, it's been truly heartwarming to see so many of you having so much fun with Soulash, figuring out stuff, helping each other in the Steam Community and Discord, and enjoying the discovery of what the game is about, and why different systems work the way they do.
If you're wondering where things will go next, the current plan is to continue fleshing out the issues and adding quality of life features until the end of the month before I'll take a week of rest and figure out what to focus on next, to deliver as much more fun to you all as I can with the resources available. I'll announce when I know more.
Stay tuned, Artur
Hotfix v1.0.3
Added - Support for numpad keys in crafting screen input. - Added information about tool quality on crafting recipes.
Changed - Changed tiles for Cave Ascent, Cave Descend, Dirt Wall to help identify them easier. - Wheat flour and bread recipes are now available from the start. - Abilities and items with neutralize effect, like Cleanse or Antidote can now be used when under fear effect. - Changed the crafting speed formula, so that the quality of the tool affects the intelligence bonus. - More potential shovel drops.
Fixed - Fixed descriptions of Bone Bow, Succubus, Incubus, Torch. - Fixed Dryad group question marker color, to avoid confusion. - Fixed missing background tiles on some maps. - Fixed some errors in profession, race, and strength descriptions. - Updated tutorials "Welcome to Soulash" and "World map" with more information. - Crafting indestructible items effect correctly preserves in a save. - Fixed keyboard locking issue after filter input in Crafting screen didn't get deactivated properly. - World-wide teleportation no longer remains after starting a new game if it was unlocked previously. - Fixed description of the victory entry in the Cemetery. - When having two tools of the same type in backpack and one being destroyed, it will reduce durability from the second one on crafting. - Shooting trees no longer damages self. - Going back to the first page is no longer locked when number of abilities drop below 2 pages. - Fixed issue that prevented production actions to be performed after the specified delay, for example sheep skinning or milking cows.
Hotfix v1.0.2
Changed - Improved durability of some early game melee weapons. (applies only to new games) - Necromancer starts with a Command allies ability on action bar. - Crafting count limited to 1 - 100 on Crafting screen.
Fixed - Reduced time to craft Linen. (applies only to new games) - Changed the old "Only death would await you there!" message to a more accurate message. - Clicking drag action button when already dragging something will let go of the item. - Lich no longer regains life essence by drinking water. - Vampires no longer see drink blood button when near water. - Fixed world map position moving when the Map screen hidden. - Fixed a rare crash related to light source in equipment. - Fixed crash related to Modding editor. - Fixed Jump Pierce ability description of minimum jump distance. - Fixed some dialogue typos. - Staff of the Dead now properly requires some bones to craft, instead of duplicate Silver Bar requirement. - Fixed Tutorial screen scroll. - Fixed issue that could cause keyboard locking by not deselecting count input when closing the Crafting screen. - Fixed achievements "Where did the blood go?", "Lion's Sin", "Now you see me, now you don't!" - Updated tutorial about repairing options.
Things are pretty wild right now and I can no longer keep reading through Steam Community and Discord, so if you're experiencing a critical error, the fastest way to get help is through the #bugs channel on Discord.
I also got confirmation from Steam that everyone who owns the full game should have access to Workshop in the community - if you don't see it and you do own the game, please contact me so I can pass it along.
I would like to thank you all for your feedback, positive and negative, it may take me a moment to see the light as I like to think about how changes affect the whole game, but I'll do my best to improve the game so it's an enjoyable, but still challenging experience as it was meant to be.
Artur
Hotfix v1.0.1
Greetings fellow gods,
v1.0.1, a quick hotfix has just been deployed targetting mainly some of the issues with graphics mod setup, more to come.
- Fixed rare crash on god death. - Fixed core gfx mod not loading by default in some cases when only the demo was played before. And added additional checks to make sure core gfx is loaded after core. - Fixed Army of death achievement to unlock with 30 zombies. - Fixed "replace meat" action showing for races other than Abomination.
Thank you all for trying out Soulash! I've been reading as much as I could on your feedback since yesterday and I've been taking notes. It's pretty wild as you can probably see on Steam community and our Discord right now. It may take me a while to address everything, but rest assured improvements and fixes are coming.
Artur
Soulash v1.0 released with 10% launch discount!
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Greetings fellow gods,
The time has come to conquer the world! Soulash v1.0 is now available on Steam and Itch, with the long-awaited graphics mod, Steam Workshop, Leaderboards, and Achievements!
Below is the full changelog for the 1.0 release:
Added
Core gfx mod with pixelart tileset. Both core and core_gfx should be enabled unless someone would like to continue to play ASCII.
Steam Workshop integration:
Publishing mods to Steam Workshop.
Loading subscribed mods.
Steam Leaderboards integration:
Scoring per profession
Number of items crafted
Number of souls consumed
Quickest win (in turns count)
Placement will display in a notification when the player dies or wins.
Steam Achievements integration
Added 69 achievements
5 new enemies.
30 new alternative region maps
New tutorial entry about going back to Dreamworld.
Added "thumbnail icon" input in the mod edit form, that allows changing the Workshop thumbnail. The path to the image is relative to the mod folder.
Added notifications on publishing to Steam Workshop with the result.
Added mouse wheel scrolling on the Tutorial screen.
Changed
Javelin is considered a throwing weapon instead of a spear (being strength-based instead of dex).
Improved some entity animations.
Smite now scales with 20% weapon damage.
Fixed
True damage is no longer reduced by endurance.
Fixed rare crash when disarming weapon that provides access to an ability.
Fixed crash when attempting to shoot Lightning Arrow without arrows equipped.
Fixed issue causing Steam Workshop id to reset, publishing the mod twice.
Fixed copy-paste in modding between different region maps.
UI no longer stays hidden after winning the game and immediately starting a new one.
Some of you followed Soulash's development for years, and we're glad to finally leave the alpha and beta stages into the stable version. We're very grateful to everyone who tried the game, left feedback, and helped us get to this place. It's been a bumpy 5-year long journey. What comes next is yet to be determined, but what options we'll have is now up to you, our players. Please spread the word about the game, leave a review, tell your friends why you enjoy it, share it in communities you participate in, mod the game, join us on Discord or follow on Twitter, help other players with guides, share your creativity on Workshop and continue to provide us with your feedback!
We hope Soulash will bring you many hours of joy,
Artur & Xiclu
Soulash v0.7.3 Gnolls released!
Greetings fellow gods,
This is the last planned minor patch before the 1.0 release scheduled for the 4th of March, introducing a new playable race designed by DeltaBoss, one of our Patrons! The patch focuses on quality of life updates, and overall polishing.
If you've missed the new trailer, you can watch it below
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Just 3 more weeks to go!
Below are patch notes that are relevant for the demo:
Added
- Playable race: Gnoll - Added 4K resolution option. - Added Animation speed option, allowing to speed up ability animations up to x4. - Added 64x64, 80x80, 96x96 tile dimension selections in options. - 1 new alternative map.
Changed
- Instead of using a weapon with the highest average damage for ability calculation, the weapon in the main hand is chosen (the one with the sword icon, not the shield). - Spear weapon type physical damage now scales with dexterity instead of strength. - Chain Slash can be used with a Spear. - Summons attack the closest enemy of the caster immediately upon creation. - Production actions (butchering, woodcutting, etc.) targeting can be canceled with the right mouse button. - The Light spell can also be cast on objects instead of only on living beings. - Weapon damage buffs like Bless Weapon apply to ability damage. - Broken Sword weight reduced to 0.5 from 1.0. - Goblins start with Humanoid Leg and Broken Sword. - Bless Weapon duration increased from 10 to 20 turns.
Fixed
- Fixed some Blood tiles spawning above the characters. - Added missing Rest until Healed circle action icon. - Fixed overlapping tooltips when looking at the very bottom of the screen. - Hidden entities don't show up when they move. - Fixed ranged enemies sometimes get stuck when not having a clear line of sight. - Zombies are no longer afraid to go through the bloodied tiles. - Fixed AI behavior when feared while having nowhere to escape. - Debug is no longer enabled by default. - Tile dimensions selection applies the change immediately instead of after exiting options. - Damage buffs now correctly display damage scaling in the Equipment Screen Combat section if half of the damage is magical. - Fixed world map issues when changing z-level. - Ability damage applies bonuses from Demon and Bone Wraith passives. - Added back missing map for the second level of Inn in Mensfield village.
The time of reckoning is upon us! The long-awaited Soulash v1.0 will be released on Itch and Steam on the 4th of March 2022, including the graphics known from the Steam demo, Steam Workshop integration, Leaderboards, and Achievements. The price will be set at 14.99$.
It's been a long road to get here, and the date is very special to me personally, as almost exactly five years ago, on the 5th of March 2017, my son was born, and I've decided to start working on a game engine that would become the fundaments underneath Soulash. It's truly a miracle that after countless prototypes I've attempted over the last decade, I figured out how to keep working on the same project for over 7000 hours and deliver a complete game with 20 - 30 hours of single run gameplay and additional replayability through alternative world regions, professions, enemies, multiple paths to victory and in-game modding editors.
As for the extra Steam features - the upcoming Steam Workshop integration will allow us to share our mods quickly, by publishing, and updating them from within the game. We hope this will give you, our community, additional opportunities to expand the world of Soulash, to create custom worlds or game modes, or easily disable supplementary mechanics that you don't enjoy, be it durability or hunger.
The Steam Leaderboards will allow us to have a little competitive fun. Leaderboards are set up to rank our runs by in-game scores, separate per profession, number of turns for a speedrunning competition, total items crafted, and souls consumed. If it's better than our previous attempt, the game will show our position at the end of the run (death or victory).
And finally, the Achievements will allow us to try something new and strive for different goals during a playthrough, maybe explore some less obvious places, hunt down specific gods, or look for hidden secrets.
Both Leaderboards and Achievements will count only for runs with core mods (core and core gfx) and will be disabled on debugging mode or after using the Cheat Console.
Thank you all who joined us on this journey, supporting us with early purchases of the alpha, providing us feedback, spreading the word about the game, wishlisting the game, supporting us on Patreon and Kickstarter, and feeding us with fantastic ideas along the way. The game would not be as good without you. We hope you'll enjoy Soulash as much as we've been enjoying making it!
Less than five weeks to go! Wishlist now and don't miss the launch!
