The Biggest Challenge
This update brings Big Challenges’ biggest challenge yet: bringing his roller coaster dreams to reality atop the highest peak for Friendship Island.

Bestie Collection
Besties, Assemble! The gracious Island Spirit noticed how hard you and your friends work to collect items around the island. She wants to help, too! Find her in the Heart of the Island to organize your besties all at once. Collection has never been easier!

Item Overflow
Didn't make it to Friendship Island today? No worries! Items and pick ups now accumulate over three days to give you more to work with.

New Visitors and Quests
Retsuko’s free-spirited friend Puko is stopping by Friendship Island and ready to relax… but can Retsuko unwind, especially with her mom around? Meanwhile, track down some mysterious (and mischievous) missing deliveries, try to find a mysterious giant new critter in Gemstone Mountain, and hang out with Pekkle and Carl as they engage in some ‘friendly’ competition. Also, it seems like Gori and Washimi are… up to something…


Bestie Quests
Celebrate being best friends with Pekkle with… you guessed it! New dance emotes! As for Pompompurin, he has the coziest gift a bestie could ask for — Learn the art of the nap to find out what’s in store for you!

Sparkles
Introducing Sparkles! These special Sparkles appear all around the Island at their own pace -- collect and exchange them for game tickets, so you can play mini-games to your heart's desire!

Today we’ll be covering the legendary Bismarck! One of the most famous battleships of all time with a fascinating story.

At a glance:

• 380 mm (15 inch) guns
  
• Strong all-around armor layout
  
• High accuracy
  
• Limited anti-air protection

Vehicle History

Work on Bismarck began on July 1st 1936 at Blohm & Voss in Kiel, after several years she was launched on February 14th 1939. On May 18th 1941, she was sent out on her maiden voyage to the Atlantic together with the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen in Operation Rheinübung. Several days later, the pair would encounter HMS Hood and the new battleship HMS Prince of Wales, along with heavy cruisers Norfolk and Suffolk. Hood as the pride of the Royal Navy was famously sunk by Bismarck after only five salvos, with Prince of Wales able to disengage after several hits.

The sinking of the Hood ignited a fierce pursuit by the entire Home Fleet of the Royal Navy. Despite the victory Bismarck was not unharmed, one of her boilers was in critical condition and she was listing starboard, which forced her to head back towards occupied France for repairs. After an inconsequential attack from the aircraft of HMS Victorious, the British lost contact with Bismarck. Only two days later however, she was detected again by a PBY Catalina. Shortly after her position was relayed, HMS Ark Royal launched several Fairey Swordfish torpedo bombers to attack Bismarck, these old biplanes suffered no losses and scored several hits, with the most pivotal being to Bismarck’s rudder.

Unable to sail straight, Bismarck was cornered a British fleet of 2 battleships, 2 heavy cruisers and 8 destroyers. The battleships King George V and Rodney opened fire on Bismarck, which could not fire effectively due to her damaged control systems and crippled handling, rendering her useless. The British battleships fired around 700 shells of their main batteries at Bismarck, with the entire fleet firing around 2,800 shells in total. This onslaught turned the German battleship into a floating wreck within 90 minutes, but still did not sink. After orders were given to attack the German behemoth with torpedoes, it was already listing to the side and the deck was partly under water. At 10:40 on the May 27th Bismarck sank stern first. It’s still highly debated if the ship was ultimately sunk by scuttling from her own crew or from the damage. In 1989 the wreck was found in a depth of 4,800 m.




The time has come to talk about Bismarck, perhaps Germany’s most famous ship and one of the most famous in history, ultimately being a true household name. This epic ship is joining the top ranks of the German Bluewater fleet in the next major update, so let’s take a look at what she can do.



First up, let’s talk about the guns! Bismarck is equipped with eight 380 mm guns, known for their high power and accuracy. While they aren’t as large as many contemporary main batteries, their accuracy even at long range is particularly impressive, her reload speed is great too, up to 2.6 rounds per minute — the fastest reload for the caliber!

Interesting: Bismarck gets her iconic name from German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck!



Bismarck can equip four primary shells, AP, and three HE types, regular, base fuse, and timed fuse for anti-aircraft. The AP rounds will be able to punch through just over 700 mm of armor max, with a decent helping of explosive filler. The base fuse HE will also form a nice middle ground between the AP and standard HE, with over 500 mm of penetration and around 32kg of explosive filler! These main caliber guns are complemented by twelve 150 mm guns in six mounts, able to provide shorter range fire against soft targets.

Much like real life, Bismarck is somewhat lacking in regards to anti-air protection, with only a handful of large caliber 105 mm AA guns, and a complement of older, smaller 37 mm and 20 mm cannons — effective in the right circumstances, but lacking the volume of fire necessary to form a strong air defense.



Interesting: Despite her strength, Bismarck’s rudder was disabled by old Swordfish aircraft, allowing the Royal Navy to finish her off.

Like all big ships, Bismarck is very well protected, there’s a lot of detail here but we’ll just give you the quick version! Bismarck is protected by about 320 mm of armor around the belt, the turret face and barbettes are similarly well defended at 360 mm and 340 mm respectively. While Bismarck may not have the thickest armor on paper, its protection is notable as it is very well defended across the board, with few areas that could be considered as pivotal weakspots. Although the standard armor plates are not angled like her contemporaries, the angling of the armored deck provides an extra 110-120 mm of internal protection.



In terms of speed and maneuverability, Bismarck is fairly effective. With a max speed of around 30 knots (56 km/h), this lets her traverse the map quickly. Her turning circle is also surprisingly good, being able to change direction relatively quickly for such a large battleship. This maneuverability is key to the playstyle, adjusting your heading and responding to new threats quickly is vital when cannons are this powerful, so keep this in mind and make sure to keep your armor effective against the enemy!



That’s all for today, thank you for being with us for another blog! Bismarck will be making her way to the German tree in the Leviathans major update, until then, we’ve still got more to share, see you back here soon for more devblogs!

Please note that this vehicle’s characteristics may be changed before it is added to the game.

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Commanders!

It wouldn’t be a U.S. Independence Day celebration without new American content and this year’s no exception. However, you might now be thinking, why take a look at it right now when we’re three days into June? Well, there’s a good reason for that, which we’ll explain below. Right now, we’re happy to introduce the newest skin that we will have for you – the Reaver for AbramsX.



Considering the vehicle choice, the skin is not exactly historical in the truest sense of the word. Rather, it is inspired by real vehicles and revolves around a specific theme:

“What would happen if the AbramsX prototype was adopted in U.S. service?”

This particular AbramsX, named “Reaver” by its crew, clearly served in some middle-eastern country.



It’s been painted with the same sand color as other American MBTs but the surface is scratched and worn by heavy use. The crew’s belongings are lying on the back of the turret.



We’ve paid extra attention to detail to make the skin look as realistic as possible and we hope you’ll enjoy it. But that’s not all we’ll have for you.



For the lovers of realism we have a new camouflage from the Reforger 83 family. The Reforger 83 exercise saw many U.S. tanks covered with unconventional camouflages, some of which we already introduced to the game. Like the others, this camouflage was seen on an Abrams MBT belonging to the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment.



And, last not but least, we’ll have some real-life inscriptions that were spotted on various Abrams MBTs across the years. We picked a few cool ones that we thought you’d like.

But the best part? You can get all that by simply playing the game. A new special event called “Operation Liberty” is starting on June 11 and if you play the game every day, you’ll receive the skin on July 4 (and by that time, you’ll have everything else as well). We’ll tell you more about the event’s prizes in the next article.

So saddle up, commanders, because with the new Battle Path coming as well, this summer’s going to be hot. We hope you’ll enjoy this content and, as always:

See you on the battlefield!




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Hi adventurers! Great news! :)

I added a bunch of features to the game!
You can update now, and enjoy them.
As the list may be boring to read, and it's better to show them,
I encourage you to visit my blog and see:
http://www.beautifulfantasy.art/2025/06/version-111-whats-new-inventory-combat.html

As always, comment on the Discussions here, or on this post, as you wish! I love reading your feedback! :)
The most exciting of all this is that they allow a lot of new things to happen in the game, that I will be developing next! Stay tuned!:) It's exciting to have you on board on this adventure!

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Here's the list of what's new if yo don't:

Version 1.1.00 - June, 2025
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- Now you can BUY AND SELL your loot in the cities' shops!
- New spell on sale on shops of the cities: Acidball!
- New wepon that you can find at cities' shops: ball and chain.
- Now you will be able to buy weapons at shops. No one wants to buy yours, though, because they are used. Maybe at blacksmiths in near future.
- Inventory shows main weapon (equiped) and secondary (not equiped) and you can swap between them clicking on any of them. Also, there's the weapons button to see the main weapon detailed stats.
- You can now swap your weapons in combat and use your inventory in the middle of combat, for drinkingpotions or change your weapon to the one that can harm the monster (or try!)
- Finding a new weapon in the dungeons now lets you choose to swap it with one of your weapons (main or secondary), or just continue walking.
- You can now re-enter the city in which you are in, without having to leave. Money is the only limitation for you there.
- Changed the icon on Windows for settings from a musical note to a cog, that is more conventional.
- Minor bugs.

Summer is here, and the Keepers are kicking off the season with an exciting update and awesome events. Shall we see what they are about?


Our 1.5 Update was released last week, with an exciting change – the Creative Mode is now immediately available. That’s right, under popular requests, we have decided to remove the unlocking condition for the game mode. Now you can sit back, relax, and build your garden to your heart’s desire without worrying about resources or corruption!

There are also a myriad of fixes and optimizations introduced in this patch. You can see here for the full patch notes.


At the start of May, Horticular was in the Indie Assemble event from May 5 to May 11, which more than 600 development studios took part to showcase over 1,000 upcoming or released titles. The Keepers were thrilled to join such a massive event for indie games!


An event with a focus on our adorable critters, the Little Critters Festival ran from May 13 to May 20, with numerous games featuring a reservoir of animal-themed titles. We were very happy to showcase our colorful collection of critters in this event!


That's all we have for May! Follow us on our Discord, Twitter and YouTube for more news on Horticular!

The Pistol is the first new mainhand weapon we’re releasing since the Sword. The Pistol operates with the following mechanics.



Each pistol comes with a certain amount of ammo slots. Playing a Shot card consumes one ammo, and once you’ve run out, a Reload card will be added to your hand. The Reload card will stay in your hand until you play it, even after you end your turn. Playing the Reload card replenishes your ammo, and you can play Shot cards once again.



Shot cards are the Pistol’s attack cards. Every Shot also has a Gripstrike mode, which you can access by switching grips.



Once you enter battle with a Pistol equipped, you will find its control element in the bottom left, in place of the Sword’s Heroic Strike. The Pistol icon shows which mode is currently active. The battle starts with the default, normal grip, which is used to play Shot cards. If you click the icon, the barrel grip will become active, and all of your Shot cards will turn over to become Gripstrikes. Toggling between the two modes doesn’t cost any resources and you can do it as often as you want.



Some shots will have a Gripstrike keyword in their descriptions; these cards will do something special in Gripstrike mode. The rest of the Shots’ Gripstrike mode will default to an 8 (for starter cards) or 10 (non-starter cards) damage melee attack.



When you play a Modification card, you’ll be able to choose a Shot card from your hand to improve for the rest of the battle.



Each Pistol also comes with a set number of Bombs. Bombs stun the target and deal 5 damage to them. The number of bombs you start your battles with will increase as you progress in the run.



Mark is a new keyword we’re introducing alongside the Pistol; Marking an enemy applies Vulnerability 3 to them. Further attacks to Marked enemies apply an additional Vulnerability 2 to them. Mark cannot be stacked.



Short-ranged cards can target enemies in the first three positions.

• Dueller Pistol
  
  
  • Good Ol' Dueller
    
  • Fine Dueller
    
  • Battle-scarred Dueller
  
  
• Service Pistol
  
  
  • General's Pistol
    
  • Legate's Pistol
    
  • Sergeant's Pistol
  
  
• Rifled Pistol
  
  
  • Mercenary's Pistol
    
  • Long Barrel Pistol
    
  • Headhunter's Pistol

The Pistol comes with 48 new cards, along with the earlier mentioned Reload and Gripstrike.

• Supply
  
• Destiny
  
• Barrel
  
• Ape
  
• Heap
  
• Paint
  
• Teeth
  
• Explosion
  
• Sanctuary
  
• Hawk

• Telescope
  
• Voodoo Doll
  
• Spring
  
• Empty Bottle

• Reach Master of Dueller Pistol level 5
  
• Reach Master of Service Pistol level 5
  
• Reach Master of Rifled Pistol level 5
  
• Max out all your Pistol Masteries
  
• Obtain all Dueller Pistols
  
• Obtain all Service Pistols
  
• Obtain all Rifled Pistols
  
• Complete a victorious battle using only Gripstrikes
  
• Mark every single enemy in a victorious battle

Attack cards now show a damage preview when they are selected and you hover over targetable enemies. The values on the preview are calculated for the hovered enemy. AOE attacks will display a damage preview next to every affected enemy’s health bar. The values are (in descending order) the damage you will deal, the crit chance you have against that specific enemy, and then finally the damage you deal if you manage to land a critical hit.



We have also simplified the card design by moving the range and type indicators above the description box for a simpler look and shorter texts.


This patch also introduces a giant list of balance changes, as follows.

• Throwing Dagger Upgrade I - Poison doubling chance increased from 50% to 60%.
  
• Leather Armor Upgrade I - Health loss increased from 2 to 5.
  
• Leather Armor Upgrade II - Stamina gain removed. The first guaranteed Step card’s cost is now decreased by 1.

• Swift Thrust - Critical chance value increased from 5 to 10.
  
• Precise Thrust - Critical Hit damage increased from 5 to 8.
  
• Touché - Damage increased from 1 to 3.
  
• Build Rage - Damage gain increased from 10 to 15.
  
• Battleshout - Power increased from 3 to 5.
  
• Vendetta - Cost decreased from 1 to 0. New ability: “Whenever you take damage, gain +2% Critical Chance.”
  
• Aggression - Gained “Draw 1”.
  
• Bloodfury - Cost decreased from 1 to 0.
  
• Battle Fever - Power increased from 2 to 3.
  
• Vanguard - Critical chance increased from 5 to 10
  
• Rage - Cost increased from 0 to 1 and now has “Draw 1”.
  
• Build Up Spin - Gained “Duplicated”.
  
• Hunger - Cost decreased from 1 to 0.
  
• Obliterate - Damage increased from 25 to 35. No longer has “Draw 1”. New ability: “This is always a Heroic Strike”.
  
• Overwhelming Defense - Cost increased from 1 to 2. New ability: “Gain Armor equal to half your Critical Chance.”
  
• Finishing Blow - Damage increased from 35 to 40. Critical chance has been increased from 25% to 40%. Now has “This attack has +40% Critical damage”.

• Aggressive Tackle - Damage increased from 5 to 7. New ability: “Gain 10% Critical damage”.
  
• Concentrate - Block decreased from 30% to 20%. New ability: “Increase Critical chance by 20% this turn”.
  
• Dead Weight - Damage gain for every Weight card increased from 4 to 6.
  
• Smaaash! - Moved from the Heavy Armor card pool. Cost decreased from 4 to 3.
  
• Recoil - Damage increased from 20 to 25.
  
• Bolster - Armor gain increased from 1 to 3. Block threshold increased from 15% to 20%.
  
• Turtle - New ability: “Guard Stance”. Draw amount decreased from 3 to 1.
  
• Avenger - From now on, you lose 3 less Retaliation at the end of your turn, instead of 2.
  
• Ground Pound - Cost decreased from 3 to 2. Damage decreased from 3 to 2. Block decreased from 3% to 2%.
  
• Warmachine - Retaliation increased from 4 to 5.
  
• Mirror Shield - Cost increased from 0 to 1. New ability: “Guard Stance”.
  
• Shelter - Cost decreased from 1 to 0. Draw amount decreased from 3 to 2.
  
• Rumble - Moved from the Heavy Armor card pool. Removed “Draw 1”. New Ability: “Gain 10% Block for each Weight card in your deck.”
  
• Giant Growth - Moved from the Heavy Armor card pool.
  
• Elimination - Cost decreased from 2 to 1.
  
• Shield Bash - Block gain increased from 15% to 20%.
  
• Riposte - Removed “Duplicated”. From now on, the next attack will be guaranteed Critical hit, even in Guard.
  
• Blunt Tactics - Cost decreased from 2 to 1.

• Spiked Guard - Armor decreased from 3 to 2. Thorns increased from 2 to 4.
  
• Vigilant Guard - Power increased from 2 to 3.
  
• Puncturing Guard - Thorns increased from 3 to 4.
  
• Ordered Guard - Block increased from 15% to 20%.
  
• Armor Up! - New ability: “Lose half your Armor in the next turn”.
  
• Sharp Metal - Thorns increased from 4 to 5.
  
• Hulk - Armor decreased from 12 to 10. Stamina loss decreased from 2 to 1.
  
• Bodycheck - Moved from the Shield card pool. Damage increased from 5 to 10.
  
• Armorsmith - Cost decreased from 2 to 1. Removed “Draw 1”.
  
• Plan Ahead - Moved from the Shield card pool. Removed Block gain. Armor increased from 2 to 3
  
• Spike-apult - Damage gain increased from +5 to +10.
  
• Stakes - Thorns loss decreased from 10 to 5.
  
• Warden - Armor increased from 8 to 10. Thorns increased from 8 to 10.
  
• Brace Oneself - Armor increased from 4 to 5.
  
• Iron Ram - Moved from the Shield card pool. Cost decreased from 1 to 0.

• Power Potion I. - Power increased from 2 to 3.
  
• Power Potion II. - Power increased from 3 to 5.
  
• Power Potion III. - Power increased from 3 to 5.
  
• Hidden Knife - Damage increased from 12 to 15. Stance effect damage increased from +8 to +10 and the stack effect can be gained twice.
  
• Smoke Bomb - Damage increased from 12 to 15.
  
• Shuffling - Weakness increased from 2 to 3.
  
• Reflect - Brews twice instead of once.
  
• Tracking - Weakness increased from 1 to 2.
  
• Retreat - Block increased from 40% to 50%. Critical chance increased from 30% to 50%.
  
• Battle Stance - Critical chance gain increased from 3% to 5%. Attack damage gain increased from +1 to +2.
  
• Trap - Health loss increased from 2 to 3.
  
• Cut Through - Damage increased from 15 to 20.

• Wolverine - Power increased from 3 to 5.
  
• Skull - Block value gain increased from 15 to 20.
  
• Calm - New ability: “Draw 2 extra Talent cards at the start of every battle (if you have any).”
  
• Wave - New ability: “Gain 3 Stamina in the first turn of every battle, and +1 in the second turn.”.
  
• Wind - New ability: “Gain 3 Focus in the first turn of every battle, and +1 in the second turn.”.
  
• Guidance - Torch amount increased from 2 to 3.
  
• Pyre - Torch amount increased from 2 to 3.
  
• Brick - New ability: “Draw a card and gain 1 Stamina for the first Talent card you play in every turn.”
  
• Dragon - New ability: “Gain 2 Torches immediately. Deal 15 damage to every enemy when you Scry.”
  
• Gold - Bloodshard gain increased from +5 to +10

• Shock damage decreased from 10 to 5 (+ Rage level).
  
• Berserk Stance - Your attacks don't decrease Power, but you cannot have Block or Protection. Stacking Berserk grants you Power 2.
  
• Stealth stack effect damage gain increased from +3 to +5.

• Machine waves have been updated
  
• Techmaster gained Absorb 2.
  
• The damage of Mines placed by Techmasters has been increased by 2 and 3

• A Corruption icon has been added to the top panel in battle
  
• For the end of run reward, if an item is received, it can now be hovered over and a popup will appear with its description
  
• Updated the Dodge, Evasive and Stun resist handling for enemies; they can only Dodge, Evade or resist Stun once per turn
  
• Shock and Acid damage now increases with Rage level
  
• Merchant background has been updated, now gives 10 extra shards
  
• In the inventory, when you click on the equippled item, it will now focus on the part of the category that the item is in
  
• In the mastery panel you can now hover over boons - popups will appear corresponding to keywords
  
• Whenever an effect is removed from a card, the popups also update to reflect this

• Fixed Throwing Dagger Upgrade II not working
  
• Burden Boon now works with Throwing Dagger Finishing Move Poison
  
• Fixed abandon button handling, it's no longer possible to click abandon twice in a row
  
• Fixed Brew adding Potions to the hand when it was already full
  
• Fixed the Trinket filtering in the inventory
  
• Leather Armor Upgrade II has been fixed, now the free Step card will not deduct stamina
  
• Kunai on Chain no longer pulls Coward enemies when they switch sides
  
• Gold boon now works for every single card reward
  
• Fixed a bug in the transformation of Weakened - If it dies while being Pushed from the first position, the transformed Crawler remains in first position
  
• Fixed the HQ settings panel; it can no longer be opened directly after starting the battle
  
• Branch boon will no longer copy cards when the hand is full
  
• Scry button can no longer be pressed while Brewing

On behalf of the teams at Lycan Studio, thank you all for playing Monastery and for providing valuable feedback to help us improve the game!

What are next?

Huge thanks to everyone who helped bring DFDT to life!

This project is doing MUCH better than I thought it would, which means I'll be adding to it to make it even better!

Here's what I have planned:


MAIN PLAN:

• - I will be swapping up my work hours so that I can focus on clearing out my commission queue!
  
• - I not only have a some unfinished commissions, but also I have had a lot of requests for additional slots.
  
• - DFDT will still be worked on, just not full time.
  

DFDT Additions & Fixes:

• - Achievements! Because it's on Steam, it needs achievements!
  
• - Missing cameos! A few cameos got in their forms extremely late, so these will be added post-release.
  
• - Dialogue handler overhaul! This is mostly a "me" thing but the dialogue handler needs a serious overhaul.
  
• - Ending cutscene polish! I'm not much of an animator so these def. need a third pass.
  
• - Controls rebinding! It's there, just commented out since I need to reconfigure it for gamepads as well
  
• - More Mari Expressions! The system is there, it just needs more sprites!
  
• - Additional levels! Add more variety to your playthrough with RNG-based levels!
  
• - New butt sprites! I had originally intended for Hoodie's ass to grow w/ her chest, but didn't have time to make new sprites for it.
  
• - New tiddy sprites! Courtesy of BeePunz, I still need to animate these before they can be added.
  
• - And plenty of other additional tweaks & bugfixes!

THE BIG ONE: ENDLESS MODE!

• - This is the big addition :V
  
• - This will be a mode unlocked after you complete the "campaign" that will turn the game into a full endless roguelike.
  
• - It will take a LOT of work (a month, most likely) but will add even more goodies to the game.

UPCOMING PROJECTS:

• - fertility_tracker.exe! Currently in the works, this is a short pseudo-horror interactive experience involving, of course, massive bits! :V
  
• - Turn the Lights On! This is another short horror game and my first major foray into both Godot and 3D game dev.

Remember a legacy of conquest with Guilliman's alternate artwork, now available in the Webshop! Become a protector of the Five Hundred Worlds with a new artwork, usable in Standard if Guilliman is in your collection or in Legacy mode. Do not miss this chance to stock up on gold or buy the current premium Battle Pass with exclusive high-value weekly offers in the Legions Webshop.

For Ultramar!