G’day our desert travelers!

Since the last update, we’ve kept hearing feedback from y’all, and devoted our efforts to adding new content and optimizing the gameplay experience. Now please meet our new character Spirit Witch, together with new quest lines about NPCs Mathali and Umara, the inventory sorting functions and more!

Spirit Witch Coming to the Desert！

Spiritmancer is always ranking one of the player-favorite roles, and we’ve kept receiving the expectation for adding a female Spiritmancer in-game from the community. And now our new heroine Spirit Witch is available in-game! For this time, players will be the apprentice of Storm Archmage, and the story follows the adventures for becoming the most powerful and skilled Spiritmancer. In addition to her all-new skill pages and storylines, you can explore a series of new gameplay elements exclusive to this character!

By playing the role of Spirit Witch, you are able to randomly skip the combat with bandits by using her arcana, or, recruit them as your troop. Also, you could have fun with her skill of crafting various potions with items in your inventory at the later stage.

In addition to featuring the new character in-game, here come new quest lines of NPCs Mathali and Umara for you to explore.

Pack Up Everything Nicely

Since we continuously received feedback that the sorting function in the inventory is highly expected among the players, by restructuring the inventory system and making lots of changes on the user interface, items now are sorted by types and much more clear to view items in your bag. And especially, we designed a storage area for travelers' food items.

No More Getting Lost

In addition to having your bag better organized, we optimized the quest index as well. Travellers now are able to view and track the quests by clicking “L” as the default hotkey. The compass mark on the mini-map will help tell your current tracking quest with its location info.

And lastly, as our following roadmap, we will commit to achieving a major update including more character stories and side quests. We are also planning to work on enabling playing with controllers, optimization on the gameplay, more interaction with NPCs and other contents that are highly anticipated by you guys, and will share our future development plan with you promptly.

As always, you are welcome to report the in-game issues encountered or give any your suggestions for Sands of Salzaar, join us on Discord or contact us through indie@xd.com.

For more details of this update, please read the patch notes below:

2021-4-20 Codename: Battle of the Black Sun (0.8.3.1)

New Additions

• Added the new character Spirit Witch with all-new skill pages, storylines, and a series of new gameplay elements.

• Added sidequests of NPCs Mathali and Umara.

• Added new portraits and models for Spirit Witch and Spiritmancer.

• Reworked skill pages of Berserker.

• Added a Repair button to the interface of locations. Click this button to enter the Repair interface. In this interface, you can repair all or a single gear by buying necessary materials and resources.

• Added a special food inventory system which expands the old inventory with an additional section specially used to store food items. Food items will be automatically moved to these food slots until filled. When trading or storing food items, players can drag and drop food items from the food slots to the normal inventory slots for further actions. When actions are completed, the rest of the food items will be automatically moved back to fill the food slots.

• Added the hotkey to open the Quest interface on the map.

• Added team BUFF for consuming certain food and adjusted food prices.

• Added models for several capitals in Redstone Keep and Crying Rock with three different tiers.

Adjustments

• Balanced cooldown values of consumables that could be used during combat.

• Fully adjusted the prices of gears and relevant resources for repairing gears.

• Adjusted durability of certain gears in-game and added more types of items sold in capitals.

• Now all those medicines for recovery can be bought in major cities.

• Reset the Inventory UI and trading UI with the new GUI framework, adding functions like categories to sort items in the Inventory.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the missing collision layer of a rock in the east of Redstone Keep.

• Fixed a few errors in English translation.