Beneath the Mountain update for 12 March 2023

Geomancers

• This new unit harnesses earth magic to strengthen allies and defeat foes.
• Earthen Assault: baseline ability for Geomancers that lets them throw additional stones for each spell cast.
• Soften Rock: baseline ability for Geomancers that lets them reduce the hardness of stone cubes permanently.
• Earth Shield: baseline ability for Geomancers that offers sustain and mana regen.

Geomancer's Sanctum

• This new building allows you to train up to 4 Geomancers.
• Earthcaster's Amulet: grants critical strike and buffs their base ability.
• Manacrystal Band: grants mana regeneration to both Geomancer's and Runepriests.
• Runes of Roknir: grants cooldown reduction and makes Earth Shield better.
• Earthbreaker's Staff: grants crit and gives Soften Rock a chance to reset itself.
• Obsidian Geostave: gives a way to apply consistent area based damage on the Geomancer's base ability.

Alchemist's Lab

• The new Alchemist's Lab lets you research potions and explosives.
• Health Potions: grants a small heal over time consumable to Dwarf Warriors and Axeguards.
• Ragefire Flask: grants Berserkers a way to buff themselves at the cost of significant health loss.
• Potion of Strength: gives Clanspear and Longbeards access to powerful attack-damage buff.
• Stoneskin Potion: grants Axeguard and Ironguard access to Stoneskin on-demand.
• Manastones: when a mana potion is consumed, gain some mana immediately.
• Manabrew Mastery: doubles the effectiveness of mana potions.
• Advanced Health Potions: when a health potion is consumed, gain some health immediately.
• Health Potion Mastery: doubles the effectiveness of health potions.
• Glowby Petals: gives some small healing on mana potion consumption.
• Bogstool Spores: creates synergy with mushroom farms and increases research rate at the alchemist's lab.
• Runic Convergence: creates synergy with magic builds and alchemy.
• Elderleaf Satchel: gives some experience whenever a unit uses a potion.
• Advanced Alchemy: a requirement tech that unlocks better tech.
• Gunpowder: unlocks other gunpowder-related tech.
• Blasting Charges: gives a small explosive to miners and ironguard.

Runeforge Talents (King)

• Earthwarden's Runestone:
• Lead by Example: XP gain increased from 20% to 50% and threat buffed to 100%.
• The Mountain Walks: threat buffed from 50% to 100%.
• Dire Repercussions: reworked (again). Now does more consistent damage and has more threat.
• Ferocious Assault: now gives additional attack range, which helps the king immensely in large fights.

Runeforge Talents (Buildings)

• Alchemical Mastery: makes various potions available to new unit types in addition to the standard ones.

Runeforge Talents (Infantry)

• Aimed Shot: gives Tunnel Scouts a powerful cooldown-based damaging ability.
• Shrapnel Clusters: offers a way to get Shrapnel Bombs early and make the ability much more powerful.
• Tenacity: absorb value increased from 10% to 12%.
• Tenacious Defense: cdr increased to 3 seconds and buff duration increased to 15 seconds.
• Headshot!: now gives 10% crit up from 5% crit.
• One-Handed Axe Specialization: now gives 7% crit up from 5%.
• Unbowed and Unbroken: now gives block/crit instead of block/threat.

Runeforge Talents (Magic)

• Stonemending: converts shield effects to heal-over-time effects.
• Stoneskin: gives physical damage reduction to a nearby ally.
• Earthspikes: grants a strong area-based damaging ability and ties in with bleed builds.
• Earthshards: grants armor penetration and greatly increases their baseline ability damage.
• Kinship Pendant: makes Earth Shield free to cast and lets the Geomancer cast it on allies as well.
• Forgefire Enchantment: allows Geomancer's to buff nearby melee units.
• Auric Extraction: grants Geomancer's a way to extract gold when casting Soften Rock.
• Stonemender's Geode: ties in a number of benefits to other talents (Stoneskin, Stonemending, Earth Shield).
• Battlepriest's Pendant: now also gives access to health potions.
• Summon Earth Elemental: summons an Earth Elemental to aid you for 30 seconds. Can be manually cast.
• Nullward Aura: provides a very strong anti-magic option for Runepriests.
• Rune of High Order: now applies to both Runepriests and Geomancers.

Blacksmith

• Nullification Shielding: gives some early-game magic resist options for all infantry units.
• Lesser Warding Bracers: is a rework of some older tech. It now gives magic resist instead of fire resist.
• Runesteel Armor Crafting: another tech rework. Different name and icon, same stat buff.
• Reinforced Gauntlets: the last tech rework, granting reduced damage from melee attacks.
• Masterwork Tools: now applies to both the Blacksmith and Masterwork Blacksmith.
• Masterwork Anvil: now applies to both the Blacksmith and Masterwork Blacksmith.

Workshop

• Shrapnel Bomb: a powerful explosive that also applies bleed in an area.

Mining Camp

• Masterwork Mining Carts: now costs less and takes less time to research.

Temple

• Ring of Protection: now applies to both Runepriests and Geomancers.

Mana

• All magic using units (dwarven and hostile), now have mana bars and use mana as a resource.

Map Generation

• The entrance can now be from any direction (North, South, East, West).
• The starting room is more likely to be away from the entrance.
• Caves on floors -1 and -2 and more likely to be circular and are larger to accommodate larger enemy counts.

UI

• Combat Status Indicators
• Notifications in the top left are now limited to a maximum of 15 at a given time.
• It's now possible to see how much time is left for a unit to train or for tech to be researched.

AI Improvements

• AI for all units (player and hostile) has been improved significantly.
• AI is more efficient and runs more smoothly.
• AI is more advanced and considers more factors than before.
• Units that are out of combat are now able to eat immediately without any additional delay.

Unit Caps

• Runepriests are now capped at 4 per Temple.
• Geomancers are now capped at 4 per Geomancer's Sanctum.
• Berserkers are now capped at 10 per Berserker Hall.

Engineers

• Well There's Your Problem: gives Engineers a way avoid combat while punishing those that do enter combat.

Poison and Bleed Immune Creatures

• Creatures that are spectral, undead, or elemental are now immune to poison and bleed effects.

Unit Audio

• When units hit buildings, additional combat/fighting/impact sounds are now played.

Bug Fixes

• It is now possible to tell units to stand in a position that is blocked (visually) by a rock cube.
• Fixed several issues with hostile creature line-of-sight checks which allowed them to cast abilities through rock cubes and buildings.
• Unit-on-unit collisions are handled better when one of the units is idle (better unit pushing).
• Improvements to path rounding which caused units to get stuck going around corners.
• Fixed an issue where control groups didn't work after initially setting them.