Major Changes

• The herb garden has been completely redesigned from the ground up.

  • It is no longer a queue, but a grid of tiles that take crops.

  • Crops take longer to grow but many can be grown at once.

  • Reworked some crop dependencies to make them flow better.

  • After harvesting the same crops are auto-planted, avoiding manual efforts.

  • New garden devices added to modify the behaviour of the garden.

  • Garden related trophies have been reworked.

• Backgrounds have been reworked

  • The child backgrounds now give more impactful stats, permanent changes on a variety of aspects of your character.

  • The background items can now be upgraded, each one having its own upgrade path through the realms.

Changes

• A new meridian opening quest has been added, that guides the player through the second mountain and to the observatory.

• Added filter for craftable recipes in the recipes list.

• Increased Pi Lip's crafting request cooldown.

• Increase max size of over-the-head buffs. You can now have a BEEEG SUN.

• Companions in combat animate their attacks too (if they have an animation).

• Added more cloud images for even larger stacks.

• Accepting a fallen star quest (such as those from the star observers) now unlocks fallen stars for you.

• Added a character to the mine that allows exchanging ancient shards for the other kind.

• Added ability to save/restore layouts for the pillar grid.

• Hua Tong is now LF.

• The sect no longer sells breakthrough pills after Body Forging. You need to make them yourself (or get Pi Lip to do it for you).

• The sect now sells an Empowered Fusing Cauldron in body forging, to help people get started.

• Added a new crafting action that allows using Brilliant to restore qi pool.

• The Gnawing Shadow Talisman now has hidden potential.

• The mastery tutorial now FORCES you to master a crafting technique.

Balance Changes

• Shadow artefacts now have caps on the vulnerability they can apply.

• Passive reagents now only apply their effects on refine/fusion not any action.

• Cleansed blood now stacks higher.

• Megavolt now scales to big numbers.

• Buffed the eclipse playstyle.

• Dayspring no longer requires no moon, just to be in sun.

• Twilight flare now gives buffs.

• Blazing Resurgence now stacks more sun.

• Heavenly Enhancement is now a barrier move not an attack.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed reforge workshop not appearing after unlocking the Skypiercer.

• Fixed reforge and upgrade dialogs not being square.

• Fixed a lot of enemies that still debuffed defense to give vulnerability instead.

• Fixed text of disabled menu options being difficult to read.

• Fixed star observers crane corpse enemies appearing in the wrong location.

• Fixed reforge workshop allowing upgrading without the right number of materials.

• Fixed many typos.

• Fixed Skypiercer buff to actually scale.

• The founder echo no longer drops shards.

• Fixed Tidao Feng art.

• Fixed Ratascar attack art.

• Fixed stance updating to early when an enemy dies.

• Fixed Qici Nierou barbs buff doing weird useless things. Now it stabs you.

• Fixed reflective curse to have flat damage instead of some broken scaling.
  Fixed Accursed Stars Grace max stacks to match tooltip.

• Fixed many buff descriptions to make order of operations clearer.