Dear Explorers,

This one is a smaller update, with a simple goal: make your expeditions a bit harder! It's titled Endless Hazards and features 3 new map hazards: Geyser, Fumarole and Magma Spout. Let's find out more...












Additionally, this update includes a number of changes and fixes — you can find the full change notes on our wiki (English only).





Adventure awaits!

Arrrr! Those Skeleton Pirates are very sneaky, swindling you for a useless Treasure Map! But - no more!

• Villagers will no longer bury weapons in fog
  
• It is now slightly more common to get a special location instead of a Sinking Tower

• Fixed not being able to use the Ancient Keys to get past the guardian in Act 4 Part 2
  
• Fixed pirate treasure map not placing treasure sometimes
  
• Fixed Jellyfish & Giant Tortoise buttons being offscreen when mounted in some languages
  
• Fixed some buffs not being properly applied in combat when mounted (eg the Cutlass' "Marine Bonus")
  
• Fixed losing proper Inspect focus when mounting using Controller
  
• Fixed not being able to fully boost or target in combat sometimes when using Controller
  
• Fixed walking animations playing when mounted and trading in some situations

Dear Explorers,

Another month, another free content update. This one is all about SKELETON PIRATES. Here's what we prepared for you:




New Location: Undead Pirate Shipwreck. This is a variant of the Shipwreck where you can encounter Undead Pirates and recruit them, or do some trading.




New Recruit: Undead Pirate. Has the ability to fight when at zero health and an Ambush attack, making it perfect for combat-focused playstyles.




New Enemy: Undead Pirates. Undead skeletons that fight in groups, they can return from the dead if not killed fast enough.




New Wandering Trader type: Undead Pirate Gang. Trade for valuable goods, or engage in a friendly challenge. How intriguing!




New Weapons: Black Powder Pistol (powerful, but beware of self-stuns) and Cutlass (does extra damage when equipped by Sailor or Pirate).



This week's Club Competition reward is also fitting the update's theme: a Pirate Bandana! It's the kind of fashion item that never goes out of style.

Additionally, the update includes a number of changes and fixes — you can find the full change notes on our wiki (English only).

On the technical side, we want to higlight in particular that savegame backups are now stored in a different folder to avoid potential data loss caused by Steam Cloud (since some of you reported problems where your progress got lost). You can now find ".bak" files in C:\Users\<username>\AppData\LocalLow\Maschinen-Mensch\Curious Expedition 2\backups (where <username> is your Windows user name)

Adventure awaits!

A few tweaks and fixes for your expeditions!

• When sponsored by Taishi, you will now get two different scroll types in the ship shop at once, rather than just one
  
• The healing mushroom now only has a 30% chance of having a side effect, down from 50%
  
• The Zouave Veteran will no longer start with negative ailments
  
• Regular treasure maps now have a larger view
  
• It is now possible to dig with your hands if you run out of shovels on a Missing Explorer expedition. Digging with a shovel will yield a better treasure.
  
• Fixed being unable to cleanse ailments from Pale Masks at a Pale Mask shaman
  
• Campsites are no longer ever on sale
  
• Fix for not being able to use Leeches if you didn't have any characters with diseases
  
• Fix for not being able to start combat sometimes
  
• Fix for the cave in Act 2 Island 1 spawning in the fog sometimes
  
• Fix for statuses that could be applied in the Tavern events before an expedition not being active when the expedition begun

Dear Explorers,

We just released Dark Caves, a small surprise content update themed around caves! The game is currently 25% off to celebrate.

Here's what you can expect:



5 new events for the Cave location, to increase unpredictability and encourage exploration. You will encounter bats, fireflies, hermits and of course treasures, so make sure to always carry some torches with you and enter any cave you find!




New enemy: Infested Moles. These are moles that got infested by mushrooms, which they use to mind control you in combat. They look pretty disgusting.




New item: Pneumatic Pickaxe. Can be used on the map to destroy mountains, or during combat.




Finally, we just launched a new weekly Club Competition, and the reward is... a Mole hat!

We plan to release a couple more small content updates during the summer, and a few bigger ones afterwards, so stay tuned, the adventure is not over yet — there's still lots to come.

One last thing: thanks to everyone who played the New Director free DLC, the feedback has been overwhelming, we couldn't be happier about it!

As always, if you'd like to support us please make sure to leave a review (no matter how short), tell your friends about the game, ask your favourite streamers to play it and if you encounter any issues, you can submit them using the Bug! button in Options screen.

A few changes today to fix some of the various ways you could get into a sticky situation sometimes.

• Reworked Acrophobia
  - Will only instill loyalty loss when entering a elevated region initially instead of every day while being on it
  - Does now trigger always trigger when entering the elevated region instead of only 33% of times (which was confusing)
  
• You can no longer be surprise-attacked when returning to the map after some days have passed during an event
  
• The items for Unpredictable Conditions are no longer sellable (so they won't clutter the barter screen). They will also no longer ever have their price reduced in the ship shop before expeditions.
  
• Keys for the Sealed Pyramid can no longer be dropped. This prevents a number of ways in which it was possible to lose keys that were required to complete the expedition
  
• Recently recruited characters don't lose loyalty when you dismiss another character
  
• Improved performance on the map, in particular when revealing tiles
  
• Improved status clean-up after finishing a island
  
• Added new elephant attack animation
  
• Fixed treasure maps sometimes showing the wrong tile for treasure (again, hopefully)
  
• Fixed Scroll of Renewal being able to put you in an unreachable map situation
  
• Fixed a black screen when returning to the map sometimes
  
• Fixed missing text bugs in various events
  
• Fixed issue where the wrong tile was chosen in prehistoric for portals
  
• Fixed character being invisible when mounted in combat sometimes
  
• Fixed Japanese translation for "Mysterious Fog"
  
• Fixed some tiles in Cavern map being shown as having been discovered when they hadn't

Today's patch should hopefully finally get the last issue with the Missing Explorer. Turns out sometimes the treasure was in the correct place, but the map itself was wrong! Sorry about that! Please report any more issues you find with that one.

• Rebalanced the Jellyfish's combat combos
  The Jellyfish's emphasis on Burning means that it had a way higher potential damage output than we intended, especially when using multiple of them. We reduced the impact of boosting on its burn effects, but gave "Massive Electroshock" a chance to stun instead. That way it should remain a strong attack option, but without the same potential for stacking to unintended heights.
  
• Added new travel effects to the Corrupted biome
  
• Made some Wandering Islander events that only give standing not happen when you are already at 10 standing
  
• Fixed volcanos sometimes having traversable tiles within them
  
• Fixed treasure maps sometimes showing the wrong tile for the treasure
  
• Fixed the infobox for dice that come from character Perks not showing any details about where it came from in Event challenges
  
• Fixed some sorting issues in some events
  
• Fixed issue where the UI wouldn't appear when going back and forth between expedition and club selection screens
  
• Improved loading times on some larger maps

Another patch today, including a fix for the issue where the Lost Explorer's treasure map would be offshore. Doesn't he know you can't swim???

• The Duke will no longer buy back items he creates for you
  
• Can now use a Health Potion to help your Rival in Act 4
  
• Fixed the Missing Explorer's Treasure Map sometimes spawning offshore
  
• Fixed the Orb of Corruption removing the Prismatic Falls location
  
• Fixed not being able to send a bug report sometimes
  
• Fixed events not properly starting on the map sometimes, leading to a situation where you can't do anything
  
• Fixed Dinosaur Recruitment not always giving you the dinosaur you chose
  
• Fixed Escort ruler to Paris quest not counting towards anthropology checklist

A small update to brighten up your weekend!

• Added a unique travel icon for the Fish Lantern
  
• Added a unique effect to Egg of Corruption usage on map
  
• Improved Chinese translation of the Wandering Duke and Rampaging Duke on the map
  
• Stability improvements for Club Competitions
  
• Reduced memory usage on large maps
  
• Characters can no longer leave the party due to Anger in the tutorial
  
• Fixed losing standing with Polyglot when resting at 10 standing
  
• Fixed only path to ship or objective being blocked by falling lava in some situations
  
• Fixed invalid "party full" message after combat sometimes
  
• Fixed the item vibration being incorrect when scrolling in the Duke's gifting interface
  
• Fixed lost explorer map sometimes not digging treasure
  
• Fixed sounds being playing multiple times at the same time when leaving locations sometimes

Welcome to all the new players who've joined us since the free DLC launched last week! We hope you're enjoying the game — we've already published a couple of updates over the weekend for some of the bigger issues, and today we've released another patch.

Thanks to everyone who's been sending us bug reports! If you find a bug, please report it in-game using the button in the Options menu. That way, we get your savedata, logfiles and other useful information that helps us solve the problem faster.

If you haven't done it already, please remember to leave a review for the game on Steam, it really helps other people discover it!

Here's the changelog for the latest patches:

• A trek member now always gets only 1 Loyalty for being promoted
  
• Increased the price of the items for "Unpredictable Conditions" from 15 to 25
  
• Reduced the Sanity cost of Glowing Maggots to 5
  
• The Jellyfish's "Gatherer" perk now kicks in more frequently
  
• Items from the Jellyfish's ability will now be given at the end of the trip instead of during it (which could cause you to be overburdened during a trip)
  
• When all dice and rerolls are used in combat, an "End Round" button appears instead of "Choose a Dice" prompt
  
• Items that are part of the Unpredictable Conditions Director Mode Modifier can no longer be dropped or traded
  
• Malin can no longer be sent into the Cenote location
  
• Club Inspector will no longer ask to stay at a village
  
• Lemonade can no longer ever be on sale
  
• Animal Scent can now be used to add a dice when attempting to tame roaming wildlife
  
• You can now skip the tutorial as long as you've started it once (you don't need to finish it)
  
• Reroll Retaliation glossary entry now mentions that Stunned characters won't retaliate

• Fixed Fog Infected status not being curable at Avalon
  
• Fixed not being able to loot a Shrine Altar Room sometimes
  
• Fixed abandoning game during first expedition allowing you to continue playing after Hall of Fame
  
• Fixed Egg of Corruption not being properly exchanged for Fame during Triumph
  
• Fixed Egg of Corruption being able to remove objective-relevant locations
  
• Fixed Shrine aftermaths sometimes blocking off the only path to the objective
  
• Fixed being able to open Manage Trek while travelling
  
• Fixed objectives not being properly setup when using Restart Expedition Death Consequence and restarting the same expedition
  
• Fixed data from Club Competitions that have ended being used
  
• Fixed some levels of corrupted equipment not having the new corrupted effect
  
• Fixed Corrupted equipment being able to apply the Fog Infected status to invalid characters
  
• Fixed the extra teeth that the Taxonomist gets after combat not being given at the correct time
  
• Fixed being able to give a Native Trinket to a character without loyalty
  
• Fixed characters without loyalty being able to be Mercurial
  
• Fixed standing not being revealed when appropriate in some rest events
  
• Fixed characters sometimes floating in the tavern after recruiting the Mercenary
  
• Fixed standing-related achievements not being possible to get in Director Mode
  
• Fixed inventory & back button sometimes being hidden in Manage Trek screen
  
• Fixed missing mousewheel icon in map zoom tutorial
  
• Fixed making an offering at a Stone Statue while being Followed not having the correct effect
  
• Fixed combat item cooldowns not being properly decremented when getting a Free Round in combat
  
• Fixed wrong or no item infobox being shown when cooking meat sometimes
  
• Fixed Annie Oakley's perk causing non-hostile zones to be bigger (eg butterflies)
  
• Fixed bad cropping of character portraits in Leader Selection screen
  
• Fixed not always getting treasure when completing the "The Guardian and the Treasure" expedition

• Fixed game not starting sometimes after posting a score to the Hall of Fame

• Fixed not being able to finish expeditions when the Club Inspector is not in the party sometimes
  
• Fixed characters losing their perk levels when becoming Pale Masks