Hey all,

Tonight, we have a patch ready that fixes that pesky invoking bug among lots of other small fixes and improvements. As per normal, there are also a few new things thrown in for good measure. More to come soon!

Have fun!

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New

• You can now squish slime balls, which will slow down the movement and skip turns of things that move over it.

• Added a new magical property to do with decay values for items and doodads.

Improvements

• The "Glowing" magical property now works for items placed onto armor stands.

• Overfished areas can now regenerate in larger batches.

• Random events now run more frequently in the game.

• It is now revealed how much time has passed approximately after traveling.

• Open fires and doodads that provide fire now have a maximum stoking value (equal to their maximum decay).

• Slime "gelatin" has been renamed to "Slime Ball" and can rarely, passively/actively drop from slimes and jelly cubes.

• Contained fire sources like furnaces or kilns for example will no longer share a decay value with any fire that is "on top" of them unlike open fire sources like campfires.

• Contained fire sources like furnaces or kilns for example will no longer create fires due to other objects on top of them.

• Fire will no longer overflow or propagate onto tiles that have puddles or are water tiles, and doodads that simply provide fire (like furnaces) will no longer be inherently flammable.

• Improved shipper performance issues.

Balance

• Magical Twine can now improve the minimum and maximum durability of items as it enhances them.

• The time (in turns) it takes to travel to another island has been significantly increased.

• Paper molds now require fabric to craft.

• Some wooden crafts now require wooden dowels.

• Open fires now burn out faster than doodads for cooking or using the fire in recipes/disassembling/repairing.

• Made some adjustments to the randomness that could add too many creature tiers to islands too close to the starting island. (Thanks Franzi!)

• Built torches (doodads) are now considered flammable and can burn (without being lit).

• You can no longer add fuel or stoke torches past their normal maximum decay.

• Each time an NPC is killed, it takes longer for them to spawn per island.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an error when attempting to invoke runes. (Thanks Words Words Words!)

• Fixed many issues with durability when using "Magical Twine". (Thanks riftborn!)

• Fixed magical motes being able to generate without magical properties when using the "Thaumaturgic" milestone modifier. (Thanks Echora Tallit!)

• Fixed some crafts that used wooden planks still requiring a sharpened item instead of a hammer for crafting and disassembling.

• Fixed a rare multiplayer desync that could occur when connecting to a game.

• Fixed the "Treasurer" milestone modifier incorrectly mentioning "remarkable" piece of armor. (Thanks Lemonboy_free!)

• Fixed merchants not dropping their inventory when killed.

• Fixed recipes not unlocking properly when using the "Rouseabout" milestone modifier in the "Challenge" mode. (Thanks Vallivanting!)

• Fixed fire sometimes spreading or being started on tiles that were already on fire.

• Fixed fire elementals being able to light things on fire that shouldn't have been flammable.

• Fixed disabling fog in Debug Tools stopping Shippers to navigate towards ports.

• Fixed the cloth shirt appearing over pants in some directions. (Thanks Echora Tallit!)

Technical

• Upgraded to TypeScript 5.9.