🎉 THANK YOU! 🎉

We just hit:
  🥇 #17 in Early Access – "Popular & Upcoming"
  🎮 Top 50 in "Popular & Upcoming – Singleplayer"
That’s wild. We’re a cursed little game about enchanted books and mining goblins — and somehow you made it climb the charts.
From the bottom of the forge: thank you. 🔥🖤

💾 The Anvil Speaks.

The sparks have settled. The runes are glowing. And your gear is no longer safe from magic.
A new age begins — one of steel, spellcraft… and chaos.

🎉 New Content

✨ Enchantments Activated:
  The Anvil now does what it was forged to do — enchantments!
  Your gear can now gain powerful new effects.
  Some will save your life. Others might end it faster. Use with caution. Or don’t.

📘 New Item – Enchanted Tome:
  An ancient book reforged with arcane power.
  Capable of holding multiple enchantments and transferring them between gear.
  It’s not weightless — but for future reference:
  Items that weigh exactly 0.0 will no longer display their weight in the inventory.
  Also: 15 enchantments were added.
  Perfectly balanced? Ha. That’s your job now, Beta testers. 😈

🧠 XP System Added:
  Fight in the Arena to earn XP.
  Use it to enhance your gear, unlock builds, and shame your friends with better stats.
  More uses for XP are planned — maybe even cursed upgrades?

🧱 10 Brand New Items:
  - Plastic Block (it’s clunky, it's cursed, it’s DIY)
  - Oil Blob (refined and slippery)
  - Copper Wire (for all your shocking needs)
  - Resin Lump (sticky and ancient)
  - Coal Dust (don’t inhale)
  - Selfmade Plastic (because industry waits for no one)
  - Cable Coil (plastic meets copper in a love story)
  - Battery Pack (small but unstable)
  - Lightning Shard (an upgraded Upgrade Shard – seriously)
  - Strom-Kern (silent, deadly, conducts very well)

⚒️ 12 New Crafting Recipes:
  More combos, more chaos. Some examples:
  - Oil + Resin = Primitive Plastic
  - Copper Wire + Plastic = Cable
  - Cable + Battery = Power Module
  - Upgrade Shard + Battery = Lightning Shard
  - Lightning Shard + Copper + Plastic = ⚡ Something spicy
  - And yes, one recipe literally involves coal dust and rage

🏆 New Achievement:
  🔋 “Fully Wired” – You crafted the battery… now feel the consequences.
  (And no, we won't tell you how to survive what happens next.)

🛠️ Updated Systems

🔨 Upgrade Button Relocated:
  All upgrades now happen at the Anvil.
  It’s loud. It’s smoky. It’s where upgrades belong.

🛡️ Item Reworks:
  - Armor can no longer boost mining speed. Nice try.
  - Several bugged items rebalanced or reworked.

🏆 Achievements & Quests:
  - 1 Achievement and 1 Quest have been reworked for clarity and reward flow.
  - Many more Achievements are on the way. Too many? We'll see.

🧪 Performance Optimizations:
  Our latest tests revealed:
  - CPU usage down by approximately 1 %
  - GPU usage down by up to 3 %
  - RAM usage is up by 10 MB... well, you can’t win them all.
  Consider it emotional memory.

🔧 Bugfixes & Cleanups:
  - Crafting + Autosave no longer duplicate or eat items
  - Items with weight 0.0 no longer display a ghostly “0 kg”
  - Future-removed items will now auto-clean from saves
  - Throwing items into lava no longer sometimes upgrades them (yes, that happened)
  - Fixed bug where workers restarted from 0 instead of resuming progress
  - UI scaling and Steam Deck support improved
  - Loading screen now faster (milliseconds count, ok?)

📅 What's Next?

🗓️ Coming Soon:
  - 6.7–13.7: Daily content drops begin → new items, monsters, quests & more
  - Possibly a secret project. Possibly another bug. Stay tuned.

💬 Share your cursed builds. Or your bugs.

Join the official Discord to report enchantment madness, XP farming exploits, or post screenshots of bugged floating anvils.
  👉 Enter the forge