Congratulations you filthy casuals, now you can sign out safe and secure with your items. This style of play is nice for people who just want to pop in now and then to level or see what’s happening without the stress of perma-login. You can still stay in game by logging out in your bed – necessary if you want to show on the leaderboards. You can also keep your items 100% secure with the new locks by risking a tiny bit of gold. See below for more changes. 

• If you log out you will still be in game for 1 minute so you can’t use it to escape a dangerous situation. When you log back in after being out of game you will be moved off of floor tiles. Note that to stay in game you have to log out in your own bed, not one someone else made.
• Updated how locks work. They can only secure 5 items (of any quantity) per tile, 6 items if you include gold. When looting a lock, if there is any gold it will be prioritized over the items – providing 2 gold at a time. When the gold runs out then it will give the items like usual. This way homeowners can guarantee complete safety of items for long periods of time while not completely depriving thieves who manage to break in.
• New hotkeys: I for stats, K for skills, comma and period to switch inventory page.
• Now when your repair kit or bandage is low on uses it will show a red border like damaged equipment. Thanks to Native for the suggestion 🙂
• Damaged items only show the red border when they are equipped now, to clear up confusion on whether they are equipped or not.
• Bone piles will no longer consider dead or logged off players items (if they have logged on since this patch). From now on they will fill with dead player loot that expired on the ground. Depth in the underworld still corresponds with hero level at death. New body and hair potions will no longer be added to bone piles.
• Item drop chance on death has been reduced to 1 in 5 from 1 in 3. For players under level 10 it is even more rare.
• True fullscreen is available as a toggle button in the menu. May not work on some phone browsers yet.
• Another round of sprite updates.
• New button clicking sound.

Half of my time working on this patch was spent on the new upgrade system, but it’s not quite ready yet so I decided to release this update which is one of the milestones towards the phone app. You will see the upgrade and appearance buttons in the character dialog, but they are disabled at the moment.

Reincarnation will release before or at the same time as upgrades. I’ve also been considering doing the new mapping system before upgrades, so everyone has more places to farm and so newbie village can be added. Though I’m not sure if people will want to wait.. the underworld might be sufficient to farm until then.

Some special abilities are in planning stages, like ‘Disorient’ from Legends and AOE abilities to farm faster. There is another fun feature that will most likely be another incentive to stay in game with a house, but I’ll give details for that in a later patch. Certain skills like repair, assassin, and several others are going to get an experience boost in the next patch so it will be possible to blue star them during reincarnation. As always everything is subject to change.

Thanks for checking in, especially supporters as I know this is a slow time waiting for new content to play with. I’m just one developer, but Kaylovespie is doing great work with the graphics transition and even our daughter wants to help but hasn’t learned english yet 😛 See you next patch!