Hi folks,

Our 9th major update, titled "Hamor," is now live for everyone. We covered the main features in the last two development journals, which you can find below if you missed them.

We're now 11 months into Early Access, and it's safe to say that every core feature and region is in. This actually happened a bit ahead of schedule, though I always plan with a pessimistic timeline to avoid overpromising and underdelivering.

Which leads to the question many of you are probably thinking about. What about 1.0?

And what comes after?

You probably already know the answer. 1.0 will come when it is ready.

Whether that ends up being in 3 months or 5, or more, let me clarify something. Version numbers can be misleading. 1.0 sounds final, but in game development, that’s rarely the case. A game is done when its creators decide it is done, and that depends on vision, time, and resources. Ok, that is not entirely true. Many times it depends on external factors outside your control, like your bosses. But in this case, it is just me, and I sincerely hope 1.0 is just another beginning, but that’s not something I can promise right now.

We’ll of course talk more about what’s next in the coming weeks.

So let’s focus on the present.

With the roadmap complete, the focus now is on going beyond it. The foundation is strong. What remains is tuning, polishing, and expanding on what’s already there. That includes refining balance, improving and clarifying systems, adding more qol and tutorials, and more stories and events.

Just as important is your own feedback. Now’s a great time to jump in. Play, explore, and tell me what works for you and what doesn't. Do you feel the game is ready to graduate Early Access? If not what do you think is missing?

I’m here, and I’m listening. Whether it’s modding support, feature ideas, or tweaks you think belong in 1.0, I want to hear them. Your input has already shaped the game, and it will keep doing so. As for the rest of the summer, I’ll be taking it easy with the updates. You can expect the engines to run at full steam again come September.

In the meantime, you can find all the detailed changes and fixes in the patch notes below.

Patch Notes - 26/06/25 # 0.7.75 - Hamor Update

New Content

• Added a Quick Start option in Sandbox mode. It skips the quest to gather your party and significantly shortens the introduction, letting you jump into the action right away.

• Added tile and regional data for the Wasteland and Hamor regions.

• Added various merchants in Hamor.

• Added inn and shortcut interactions for Hamor.

• Added a harbor to access Hamor.

• Added discoveries for Desert, Dungeon & Ruin terrains.

• Added 10 new combat maps: Forest Encounter II, Arid Encounter II, Desert Encounter, Desert Encounter II, Cave Encounter 1,2,3, and Water Encounter, Ocean Encounter, Ruin Encounter

• New passive: {Terrain} Fatigue:x, traveling on the specified {terrain} causes x more or less fatigue.

• Added Codex entry for 'Terrain Fatigue' in passives.

• Added support for multi-environment camps. The SetCamp() Lua function will now automatically determine which camp to use.

• Added 9 new Camp maps: My Camp Ruins, Water, Arid, Forest, Plains, Desert, Hills, Cave & Marsh.

• Added a stash chest in the camp to store items for later use. Note that anything you place in it will only be accessible during camp downtimes.

• Added new camp duties: Gather Herbs, Gather Reagents, Harvesting, Catch Rats, Capture Thralls, Harvest Blood

• Added a Codex entry on camp duties, detailing their requirements and benefits.

Steam Deck Experience

• Slightly increased the size of tooltip text and other UI elements to improve readability on smaller screens, such as the Steam Deck.

• When using the Steam Deck, the game will display gamepad A & B icons instead of the mouse button icons.

• Settings will now be saved separately for the Steam Deck.

• Added support for displaying a floating keyboard on the Steam Deck.

• Moved the Save/Load input field to prevent the floating keyboard from overlapping it.

• The glyphs on the Continue Story button will now change based on whether you are using the Steam Deck or a mouse.

• Updated the tutorial images and texts to show the correct glyph for panning the map.

• Increased the relative size of various text elements to improve legibility.

• The glyphs on the Book descriptions will now change based on whether you are using the Steam Deck or a mouse.

• Increased the font size in the TileInspector.

• Added a setting to toggle the visual Fog of War on the world map. Unvisited tiles remain marked as unvisited.

• Added a setting to adjust world map graphic quality. You can choose between Quality, Balanced, and Performance.

Misc changes and Improvements

• While traveling at sea, Fatigue and Hunger will be restored automatically after a certain threshold.

• Slightly increased contract rewards.

• Tweaked regional economy profiles.

• Punch and Brutal Punch now have a cooldown of 1, they can be used once per turn.

• Increased the requirement for Galdorak War paint perks to level 2.

• The reward tooltip in Contracts will now also display any requirements and the base value of the item.

• Added a numerical indicator next to the SP and PP level-up arrows to show how many SP or PP you still have unassigned.

• Your party members now remember their duties and perform them automatically each time you end the day in camp.

• You can now assign limited camp duties to Brawn and Tricks (requires a new game or a save from before recruiting them)

• Any looted items from camp duties will now be properly logged

• Task difficulty now depends on the region's average level rather than your own max rank level. This means that an easy task in a low-level area like Llanford won't be the same as one in a higher-level area like Doven.

• In the Conversations UI, added a button to quickly show your skills, your combined party skills, or an individual party member's skills. Since they are displayed as icons, you can hover over them for more details if you're unsure which skill is which. You can also display the relative chance of succeeding in Easy, Moderate & Hard rolls at your level. The estimated percentages of success will take the current region into account.

• Updated the Codex entry on Skill Checks.

• Supply contract Farthings reward will now be set to the base value of the requested items plus a 25% profit.

• Highest estimated success chance in the skills popup will now display as 95% to reflect that it's an estimated average and that failure is still possible.

• When harvesting blood from Thralls in camp, there is now only a 50% chance to lose the Thrall.

• Enemies will no longer attack you while you're standing on outer "Town" or "Harbor" tiles.

• If your character is a vampire and hungry (hunger >= 16), interacting with random NPCs will skip any random event and go straight into interaction mode, where you can choose to feed.

• Discovering the 10 deities' statues across the world will now grant a boon of 1 SP to each party member, along with a small amount of XP.

• When asking for directions or viewing fast travel options in Shortcut, you will no longer see options unavailable in your current town.

• Added a small delay before hovering over an item and showing its description in the Inventory and Barter UIs. While you won't notice much difference in practice, this change allows you to pass through items without losing focus on the selected one, for example when you want to inspect its abilities.

• Removed the limit on setting camp duties once per day. While in camp and before resting, you can now change your mind and reassign duties as many times as you like.

• Added the option to relieve a party member from all camp duties.

• Significantly increased the variation of names for randomly generated NPCs.

• Increased the number of NPCs generated right from the start.

• Tiles that were saved without random NPCs due to none being available will try to repopulate automatically.

• If the system runs out of cached random NPCs, it will now generate more on the fly as needed.

• The pool of events for Strangers, Acquaintances, and Friends will now reset after you experience a set number of them, rather than being permanently unique. This should offer more variety without making the world feel empty.

• NPCs you pickpocket, even if successful, will instinctively dislike you a little.

• Added a hard cap per pickpocket rank on the amount of wealth that can be stolen per attempt from wealthier targets like merchants.

• You can now interact with merchants in more ways, similar to random NPCs. Pick their pockets, feed on them, blackmail them, romance them, and more. But most importantly feed on them.

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue where experiencing certain nightmares wouldn't advance the clock or run the PartyRest code. A fatigue value of 6 is now applied afterward as a result of the nightmare.

• Fixed some typos in the Discoveries database.

• Fixed a layout issue with the Mod Template Wizard on resolutions other than 16:9.

• Fixed a rare issue where allies-turned-enemies spawned on incorrect tiles during combat, sometimes ending up on barriers and breaking the encounter.

• Fixed a bug in RequirementsMet where duplicate keys weren't handled correctly, preventing recipes e.g. Lockpicks from working.

• Fixed an issue where imported Workshop mods assigned sources for Actions and Perks to the Workshop folder, preventing exports. They now correctly use a local mod path instead.

• Fixed an issue where custom species could be selected as perks by characters outside of character creation.

• Fixed an issue where Charm and Wits bonuses were not always applied when gaining influence with an NPC.

• Region simulation data missing from a save file, for example because it was added later, will now be initialized with default data if needed.

• Active discoveries will now properly hide after switching from the world map to a downtime activity.

• Fixed an issue where the actor actions panel and the Explore action behaved incorrectly in certain cases.

• Fixed an issue with Camp not having enough tiles to accommodate all party members.

• Fixed an issue with Wastelands mobs spawning at lower levels.

• Fixed an issue with the Henchman summon.

• Fixed an issue where loading a map could report incorrect tile types.

• Fixed an issue where resource nodes from a previous downtime could persist into the next.

• Fixed an issue where a certain unique event could be repeated.

• Fixed the requirements for recruiting Friend NPCs that prevented recruiting them in Sandbox.

• The reward for revealing fog of war tiles during discoveries is now displayed in a more human-readable way.

• Fixed an issue with the Respec shell command. It will no longer refund background perks like "Aspiring Adventurer."

• The reported max region level in Settings will now correctly take the Wastelands into account.

• Fixed an issue where unequipping the offhand wouldn't properly remove the bonus action it granted.

• Fixed an issue where unequipping the offhand by dragging it out of its slot wouldn't register in some cases.

• Fixed an issue in Sandbox mode that allowed a small part of Story mode's main quest to trigger.

• Fixed an issue where some event penalty rewards could reduce HP/Max HP instead of inflicting Wounds.

• Actors entering the camp with 0 HP or less will now be set to 1 HP instead. This shouldn't happen, but it's a safeguard just in case.

• Fixed some inconsistent responses while asking around for directions.

• Fixed an issue with certain camp scenes being repeatable instead of unique and/or having incorrect conditions for triggering.

• Fixed some typos and grammar mistakes.

Modding Related

• Heritage and Physiology tag exclusivity is now generated automatically based on relevant perks, improving compatibility with custom Heritage and Physiology mods.

• Added a fallback mechanism when loading downtimes to accommodate potentially larger parties than expected.

• Added a fallback mechanism when loading encounters to ensure at least the MC is placed if no ally slots were specified.

• Added Lua extensions: AssignDuty(actor, duty), PerformDuties, DisplayDuties

• Added Lua extensions: `PartyHasItem(item, amt)` and `PartyRemoveItem(item, amt)`

• Added Lua extension: `Artwork(artwork)`. Will only work on Ink stories. Changes the portrait artwork to `artwork`.

• Custom artworks placed in Artworks/Places and Artwork/Placeables will show up in respective editors.