We're hunkering down, sheltering-in-place, and fending off grouchy toddlers to bring you updates! We've got some new events, a bunch of tool improvement for starting your own campaigns and stories, and bug fixes/balance tweaks. Stay safe out there, heroes.

New Event: Lockwords
New Event: Answer to Austerity
New Mission Victory: Monstertalk
New Mission Victory: In the Dark Hours
New Mission Victory: Resistant
Add a random seed field to new game dialog that's used when generating map
Increase tier 3 one-handed axe shred to 2
Increase tier 2 and 3 two-handed axe shred to 2
Added shred to clockstopper
Bitter Scratch now a swift Action
Added confirm step to forget legacy hero, can now forget promoted heroes
Increased speed of XP and calamity card animations
Fixed several typos
Fixed a bug where skeleton could be selected for romance
Fixed a bug where monarchs ch2 recruit could be cancelled
Fixed a bug where you could pick the same legacy hero twice (crashed)
Tools: added many tooltips, especially for plots and scenarios
Tools: color coding for plot steps
Tools: New Campaign tool revamped, friendlier and more flexible
Tools: now possible to make mods that add hair, faces, heads
Tools: moved data out of humanSkin.json and into assets/data/peopleParts
Tools: improved order of entities when using inspect in comic tool
Tools: fixed a bug where scenario (e.g. roster) changes were not reloaded

It's our first patch since the latest campaign release, and we've got stuff:

• XP got a rework (making it easier to level up new heroes late-game) and XP gain is more visible now after battles.
  
• Transformed heads (the wolf, crow, & frog) have expressions now.
  
• Updated promotion screens show you exactly how your hero is getting cooler.
  
• Localization tech is in! It's now possible to localize the game, which is a huge first step towards.., you know, localizing the game. We'll follow up on that with more info over the next few weeks.
  
• Plus the piles of bug fixes you know and love by now!

PS- Thanks so much to all the people giving feedback and finding the bugs that we've been able to fix this patch as well. You all keep making this game better, week by week, and we're fortunate to have you.

Full Changelist:
New Event: Silver and Shadows
New Mission Victory: How it Begins
XP Rework - Adjusted XP rewards
Most missions now give 5 XP per enemy cards
Defense missions give 3 XP per monster card
Plot missions give custom amounts of XP
Experience Point gain now visible at end of missions
(placeholder sfx)
Added an experience bar to the character sheet
Promotion dialogs now show stat changes
Added a help page for Tile Defense, which shows up the first time
Replacement heads now can have facial expressions (wolf, crow, frog)
Prevent saving in the middle of animations, which caused some broken saves
Hook quests no-longer target family members
Fixed a bug where heroes could have kids at inappropriate ages
Fixed a bug where siblings could become lovers
Fixed a bug where "constructing mission" would show at the wrong time
Fixed a bug where the game could get stuck due to promoting a retired hero
Fixed a soft-lock when killing shadow messiah with archery
Fixed a bug where Monarchs final mission comic failed for some players
Fixed a bug in monarchs chapter 2 that caused a farmer to be recruited
Fix a rare bug where omen would not show
Fixed a bug where theme limbs reported wrong speed number
Fix a bug where Crow Theme would give a random limb instead of head or wings
Fixed a bug where 6,7 chapter campaings only gave 1 promotion (now 2)
Fixed several typos
Localization Tech! It's now possible to localize the game, including comics
Now possible to select an language form Options > Interface
Comic text is now stored in assets/text/effects/...
Use standard country code suffixes for properties files (java style)
E.g. dynamic_fr.properties or aspects_de_DE.properties
Possible codes: https://www.viralpatel.net/java-locale-list-tutorial/
Comic tool saves text to selected (or detected) locale
Comic tool can select a source language to translate from side-by-side
For now extra loc files can be stored in mods to deliver them to players
We don't yet have professional translations lined up
Added simplified chinese fonts
Tools: suppress log spam for wrong mod id for steam mods
Tools: added krfln ("kin or ship") split tag
Tools: fix a bug with <int:> tag

We're excited to announce our new campaign story, Monarchs Under the Mountain! It's a five chapter story that focuses on the Deepists, and allows you to start off with legacy heroes.



We're really happy with how it turned out. In addition, we've updated several events and added a couple new ones. And There's the usual raft of bugfixes, clarity improvements, and balance tweaks.

The Deepist Campaign is a major item off our roadmap as we continue to march towards 1.0. Next up we have a bunch of great work aimed and bringing the quality level of the game up to what we consider a "1.0 " standard. I personally am super excited about a lot of this stuff.

* Localization tech
* UI art skin overhaul
* Legacy Hero Improvements
* Theme advancement Improvements
* Tools and moddability improvements

We're really thrilled with how much people seem to like Wildermyth, and we're excited to have the chance to keep working on it. We've always nursed a secret ambition that this game could become more than just another RPG, that it could grow to be a storytelling platform that anyone can contribute to. We want to bring the best of tabletop roleplaying to the digital realm.



Of course we have a long way to go, but we're loving the process. Thank you so much for joining us in the Yondering Lands!

-Nate

• New Campaign! Monarchs Under the Mountain: a five chapter Deepist story
  
• New Event: Far We Go, High We Climb
  
• Reworked Quest: Wandering Church of Dale -> The Mending Path
  
• Reworked Event: Ghost in the Machine -> Kirdock's Tower
  
• New recruit event: One for the Road
  
• New recruit event: In Good Company
  
• Updated event: Remember This One
  
• Updated generic retake the station/town events
  
• Updated incursion defense event
  
• Updated ambushed event
  
• Added particles and feedback for enemy spawn zones in plot missions
  
• Improved overland objective feedback (new icons, tooltips etc..)
  
• Remove recruit cost penalty for large company size
  
• Guardian and Sentinel can now stunt
  
• Added particles for deepist abilities and auras
  
• Tweaks and improvements to party select dialog
  
• Star theme has legs now
  
• Having a hero escape now selects the next hero
  
• Sentinel now respects pinned status
  
• Adjust visual sizes of deepist figure
  
• Adjusted ui scaling threshold resolutions
  
• Attacking Father Fungus no-longer shows friendly fire warning
  
• Art cleanup for some hero facial expressions
  
• Fixed fireleash and steal fire tooltips to show correct damage
  
• Improved shardnado damage prediction
  
• Armor and warding icons in portrait now shrink to fit
  
• Added ability tooltips when picking legacy hero abilities
  
• Children will no longer generate same first name as parent
  
• Improved placement of bridge/pass jobs, should always be accessible now
  
• Clarified leg speed numbers (more clear prosthetic leg is a debuff)
  
• Fixed a number of memory leaks - particularly video memory
  
• Fixed a bug where Jigsaw mission victory would show dead heroes
  
• Fixed a bug where figures sometimes didn't block line of sight
  
• Fixed a bug with frog tongue move feedback
  
• Fixed a bug where left crow leg would not show up on male mystic
  
• Fixed a bug where Terms of Endearment could happen multiple times
  
• Fixed some typos and minor event issues
  
• Fixed a bug where heroes could show up as different ages in tidings
  
• Fixed bug where steal fire wouldn't work on fireplaces
  
• Fixed a bug where forgetting a legacy hero could lead to a crash
  
• Fixed a bug where a wrong version of an npc could show up sometimes
  
• Improved camera handling for Discus
  
• Tools: difficulty levels now work in battles (embarrassing!)
  
• Tools: changing an event id will now also change the source file

We aim to update Wildermyth every two weeks. If you're enjoying the game, you can help us out by leaving a review.

This update brings a rework to the Deepist monster group. In general Deepists will rely less on channelling and transforming, and should be more thematic and engaging. We're getting ready to release our Villain (campaign), Monarchs Under the Mountain, which features Deepists as the main antagonists, and we wanted to make sure they were in fighting shape :-)

Also, lots of other good stuff too!

• Many new mission victories (12?!) for when a hero dies:
  * The Long Struggle
  * Deliver a Message
  * Unprepared
  * Deliberations
  * Dark is Darker
  * I Believed
  * The Golden Mountain
  * Visible
  * Bellowing
  * Carried Out
  * When You're Ready
  * Words in Ash
  
• DEEPIST REWORK:
  
• Horn Child:
  * Gang Up: flanking attacks pin.
  
• Chosen:
  * Prophet's Fury: if start turn injured, gain fury, stacks up to 3x
  * Remove channel
  
• Murk Mother:
  * Pact of the Deep: spawn Horn Child when interfused ally dies
  * Remove channel
  * Gets her own spawn card track
  
• Father Fungus:
  * Staunching Spores: heal ally within range
  * Crotchety: counters missed ranged attacks against himself
  * Remove transformation to Mushrox
  * Gets his own spawn card track
  
• Shadow Hunter:
  * Goreleap: leap 3 tiles, damage and shred near landing spot
  * Unstoppable: can't be pinned or hobbled, reaction attacks miss
  
• Mushrox:
  * Remove ranged attack
  * Shouldersledge: charge through and knock back foes
  
• Crow theme now has limbs, crow claws pierce 1 and blind on stunt
  
• Frog head now has a tongue attack (similar to bogmoor)
  
• Legacy will now track which companies your heroes participate in
  
• New icons for quellingmoss, windwalk
  
• Tweak windwalk, longer range and can go through walls to visible tiles
  
• Increase throwing knife flanking damage
  
• Quellingmoss flank mark now from self instead of blast origin
  
• Tinker does not block end of turn anymore
  
• Mystic shackle recipe now deals damage
  
• Removed "shackled," use "pinned" instead
  
• Hooked up some missing sfx for monsters
  
• Implement status effect sfx (positive and negative)
  
• Fixed a bug where guardian/sentinel would not cover scenery tiles
  
• Fixed a bug with obscured heroes where monster turn would never end
  
• Fixed a rare crash if an incursion and a capstone started at same time
  
• Fix tidings firing when they shouldn't
  
• Fix bug where stormsend could go through walls
  
• Fixed bug where vigorflow didn't increase damage for ranged attacks
  
• Tools: improved validation of Mission and Combatant data
  
• Tools: improved feedback on which targets will be affected by outcomes

We have several new events and tidings in this patch, including a new pet introduced as a reward from one of our Discord contests!

We gave a lot of attention to movement feedback, so that you'll be able to get a better idea of, e.g. what sorts of scenery you can interfuse with if you move to a particular tile. There's a bit less variation on some of the strongest stats when you're rolling your initial heroes, so that you won't feel *obligated* to reroll until you get that mystic with mad potency or that warrior with the highest retirement age.

All that, bug fixes, tool improvements, and more!

New Event: Where We Find Ourselves
New Event: Hitching a Ride
New Event: The Heirloom Spring (Pet Contest Reward!)
Several new tidings
Tidings should be more consistenly relevant to chapter doings
Will now see movement feedback when using Zealous Leap, Silkstep etc.
Improved movement feedback for interfusion, off-hand/theme attacks...
Greatly reduced (nerfed) retirement age variation for new heroes
Also Reduced bonus damage and potency variation for new heroes
Game now autosaves upon reaching the Labors screen during intervals
Many mystic recipes now correctly use bonus range
Fireleash and steal fire no-longer pierce 1 warding
New history line origins for children of heroes
Wild Grasp now scales with potency like other recipes
Fix a bug where vinewrench used melee accuracy instead of ranged
Fixed a bug where npcs from missions would be forgotten
Fixed a bug with npcs swapping out in some events (great one)
Fixed a bug with throughshot and bowmaster
Fixed a bug with backslam and multi-tile enemies
Tools: added some family-related lookups HAS_PARENT, CHILD_OF, etc..
Tools: monster mod tweaks can now be stored with the monster definition
Tools: removed old deprecated stunt results from monsters
Mods: Company, Tiles, Towns and Sites now execute DAILY and MONTHLY effects

Note: we renamed a few event ids, which might cause these events to show up again if you started a campaign before the update. Should only affect save games once per renamed event.

We try to update every two weeks. If you're enjoying the game, pleases consider leaving a review!

This patch, we gave Hunter abilities and Common abilities a significant pass. Some are modified, some are removed, and some are brand new. The ranged Hunter should be more fun & balanced since we nerfed bows in the previous patch, and you should be able to make a wider variety of Hunter builds (including focusing on techniques like traps and poison.)

You'll probably notice some new events floating around, including a few of the Opportunity Quests that have gotten exciting new makeovers.

And of course, there's the usual heap of bug fixes, balance tweaks, small UI improvements.

New mortal choice and tidings for Turtle Guardian
New Event: Terms of Endearment
Reworked Quest: For an Old Wish Passing
Reworked Quest: The Lonely Cost -> The Prisoner
Reworked Quest: The Unstilled Heart
Reworked Event: ClockworkThieves -> Mark of the Times
Reworked Event: Music of the Night -> A Night Visitor's Song
Updated Event: One False Step
Common Abilities Rework:

• Viciousness is now +1 damage for melee attacks.
  
• Endurance now gives +2 armor
  
• Aid now removes negative status effects
  
• Removed Soulstrike and Divine Athlete from ability deck
  
• Windwalk: swift action, once per combat, mid-range teleport
  
• Tinker: swift action, once per combat, restore all armor to self or ally
  
• Bowmaster now removes the minimum bow range

Hunter Rework!

• Removed Phantomflare and Traverse from ability deck
  
• Ember Arrows now starts a fire on the destination tile
  
• Foxflight: activate -> now dodges the next two attacks, no time limit
  
• Archery now also procs if adjacent allies are attacked
  
• Quellingmoss now includes an active AOE poison bomb
  
• Crippling Strikes: attacks Hobble the enemy
  
• Piercing Shots: ranged attacks pierce 2 armor
  
• Jumpjaw: usable twice per combat, applies poison if have Quellingmoss

Mystic ability: Vigorflow: +1 damage on physical attacks per interfusion
Removed 'once per turn' restriction for offhand item actives
Tweaked largest text size to be a bit smaller.
Stacking status effects now show a stack number in tooltip
Improvements to combat camera for sequential attacks
Poison damage should animate faster
Reduced weight of +Range calamities
Improved look of +/- resource announcement panels
Slots dialog shows wounded heroes
Weapon categories and subcategories displayed in more places
Now cannot prepare defense on tile with lurking threat
Fire damage animation now won't play if no damage done
"Bury hero" jobs now autocomplete during intervals or on game victory
Jobs to build stations now show costs and build time in initial dialog
Fix broken text in "Mountain Mischief"
Fix typos
Fixed a bug where capturing a spirit in the final battle didn't work
Fixed a bug where failing a hook quest would grant a reward
Fixed a bug where prepare defense job was visible on unreachable tile
Fixed a rare crash bug when two missions happened at once
Fixed a bug where pressing Escape would prevent screen-edge panning
Fixed a bug where some theme arm abilities would be listed twice
Improved feedback for pierce
Improved feedback for enchanted barricades
Turned off "Heart of the Forest" campaign (should not have been on!)
Tools: fix performance issue in the Effects tab for certain comic events
Tools: fixed crash related to Skip Promotions cheat
Tools: added TRUE_DAMAGE_ROLL_INCOMING effect type
Tools: fixed RemoveTheme to not add weird prosthetics

We're trying to update every two weeks. This one was a couple days late but we hope to get back on schedule.

If you like the game, please consider leaving a review, they really help us!

The Wildermyth Team will be at PAX South in San Antonio later this week!

PAX South goes from Friday 1/17 through Sunday 1/19 this year, and we'll be at booth #25052 —a bit to the right of the escalators at the back, if you're looking in from the front entrance of the Expo Hall.

We'll have enamel pins and t-shirts for sale, so you can get them here first, before we figure out how to set up a real online store. ;) And frankly, we're thrilled to say hi to everybody and anybody, so give us a visit if you're attending the convention!

This updates collects a bunch of bug fixes and balance tweaks. We have increased armor overall for heroes, mostly via outfits. We've updated and reworked several stories. We've made a bunch of small improvement to the modding flow. Now that the holidays are done we'll be getting back to our regular two-week cycle.

• Reworked Event: Only Human
  
• Reworked Event: The Unstilled Heart
  
• Updated Event: The Geometry of Magic
  
• Updated Event: The Unstilled Heart
  
• Added larger font sizes for high dpi monitors.
  
• Increased outfit armor across the board -
  
• Warrior Ability - Untouchable - On kill, evade the next attack within 1 turn
  
• Adjusted character sheet text so it doesn't overlap head so much
  
• SFX for spirits
  
• Hook quests now grant a full level instead of just an ability
  
• Hook quests can now only happen once per relationship per game
  
• Hook quests now grant + retirement age
  
• Hook resolution now stored in legacy
  
• Add monster group name to calamity cards
  
• Added Character Sheet and Skip buttons to story dialog
  
• Added "Blackhorn" rank localization (top rank was previously unspecified?)
  
• Fixed a bug where the "increased range" calamity had no effect for most monsters.
  
• Added "attack range" for factions that were missing it (all except morthagi)
  
• Fixed a bug where broadswipes didn't work for theme attacks
  
• Fixed a bug where stone stunt could hit through walls
  
• Fixed a bug where pin did not affect some thrixl abilities
  
• Fixed a bug where pilot "dispirited" effect was not working
  
• Fixed several events that used Inhabited
  
• Fixed a bug where crag eagle tiding was not happening when it should
  
• Made Mo-Atona non-interactive
  
• Fixed a bug where missing items (inactive mods) would break saves, legacies
  
• Fix a bug that caused problems when multiple steam mods were enabled
  
• Fixed a bug where wardrobe could spawn twice in some circumstances
  
• Fixed a bug where pinned warriors were losing their turn
  
• Calamity buff icons and blurbs are more consistent
  
• SFX for infestation
  
• Bard and Wisdom buffs more visible in slots dialog
  
• Spirit objective now shows turns left
  
• Wall caps should look better
  
• Health bar now shrinks armor and warding to fit
  
• Visual clean up in various comics
  
• Generated children should not have history that claims they are orphans etc..
  
• Added smoke vfx for haberdasher
  
• Better feedback and animation for Raider
  
• Showing better range info for several monster abilities (Bogmoor, Scorier)
  
• Viewing character sheet for party now shows a hero in the party
  
• Can now enable cheats after starting a game
  
• Better feedback for unreachable tiles
  
• Slots dialog now shows better travel time estimates
  
• Modding: images from mod folders can now be used in comics
  
• Modding: encounter and tiding effects show warnings if not enabled
  
• Modding: Added many tooltips to the editor
  
• Modding: History lines now correctly store localization in mod folder
  
• Modding: pick events fail reasons are more accurate and helpful
  
• Modding: can now do lookups on other roles from score functions
  
• Modding: Better logging when an event doesn't fire
  
• Modding: relationships tab in dev mode now shows tier 0 relationships

Since we released we've been getting a lot of questions about various features, bugs, and additions to the game. We've created a roadmap so you can see what we plan to add for our 1.0 release.

This does not include bugfixes or small improvements that we will continue to work in as we go along. It's also, to be honest, just our best guess, in terms of exact features and also in terms of timing. So expect it to change over time as we learn more.

Note: this will be updating as time passes! But as of December 2019, this is where we are:

Happening over the next couple months

• Deepist Campaign
  
• Finish opportunity quests
  
• Refine/update old & unsatisfying events
  
• "Legacy Hero" mode for generic campaigns
  
• Develop tech for translations
  
• Some modding improvements
  
• Deepist ability rework
  
• Follow-ups for TurtleGuardian (mortal choice + tidings)
  
• UI art reskin
  
• Overland map UI cleanup
  
• Advance transformations during intervals
  
• Bigger fonts for high DPI monitors

Happening through spring-ish

• Thrixl campaign
  
• Intro/capstone/finale events for generic campaigns
  
• "Undo" system in-mission
  
• Upgrade graphics library
  
• Borderless window
  
• Cross-class abilities rework
  
• XP more visible
  
• Back button in comic panels
  
• Better resource-get comic panels
  
• Revisit incursion/defense comic art
  
• Customize pronouns & orientation for heroes
  
• Customize facial hair
  
• Persist family relationships across legacies

Happening over the summer

• Drauven campaign
  
• More combat maps
  
• Performance improvements
  
• Drauven ability rework
  
• Legacy Improvements (sorting, using as NPCs, weapon unlocks)
  
• Ironman mode
  
• Controller Support
  
• Steam Achievements
  
• Major modding improvements

Sprinkled in between the other bigger chunks of work

• More events: parent/child
  
• More events: lost lovers/rivals/parents/children
  
• More events: follow-ups for heroes w/transformations
  
• More events: player determines a relationship
  
• More events: arriveAtSites & wildernessEvents
  
• More music (for boss fights in particular)
  
• More sound effects
  
• As always, balance and bugfixes

The living version of the roadmap is here.

This is our second regular update since Early Access. We plan to ship updates every two weeks. This update focuses on balance and difficulty feedback that we've been getting both here on the Steam discussion boards and on Discord.

We've nerfed bows, because they were too dominant especially at higher difficulty levels. We've also removed wield. It was poorly understood and really just not making the game better.

There are a bunch of other changes that address feedback about the game (or particular monsters) being too deadly, especially on C.S. Lewis and J.K. Rowling difficulty. (Higher difficulties have not been impacted much, outside of a few particular monsters being adjusted.)

We have some exciting new boss music in the game, and we've also added two new stories that give you relationship choices, and fixed a bunch of bugs. Lots of stuff for everyone, we hope! Coming soon, we should be able to announce a roadmap for future work.

• New Story: Settling In
  
• New Story: A Novel Decision
  
• New Music for gorgon and morthagi boss fights!
  
• Special Boss Death animations + sfx
  
• Several new tidings & retirements
  
• Overall Balance and Difficulty Changes
  * Reduce all bow and crossbow damage by 1!
  * Remove wield from the game!
  * Adjust various items in response to changes (dueling swords)
  * Fire abilities can now be blocked (mystic nerf)
  * Decrease monster damage generally in JKR and CSL difficulties
  * Nerf specific outliers like Watchman, Batchby, Bartoth that were too lethal
  * Reduce calamity frequency in JKR an CSL
  * Getting a maimed arm now replaces 2H weapon with equivalent 1H version
  * Start with more LP in Age of Ulstryx and Enduring War on JKR and CSL
  * Stone Stunt now pins nearby units in addition to shred
  * Fire Stunt now deals magic damage pierce 1 instead of true damage
  * Nerfed Wardrobe - reduced health of spawned units
  * Open Door is now a swift action instead of totally free
  * All attacks that fail to get through armor now shred 1
  * Increased tier 0 mace knockback to 1.6
  * Snakestrike deprecated, riposte now happens on both block and dodge.
  * Removed possibility of dodging when walking through fire
  * Shieldshear no-longer benefits from ranged weapons - uses melee range
  
• Now possible to delete player accounts from the account menu
  
• New Hairstyle (reward - blame Jargo :-)
  
• Fire Chicken SFX
  
• Mystic abilities like splinterblast now properly take advantage of flanking
  
• Fixed a bug where recruited legacy heroes would not have their levels or stats
  
• Fixed a bug where legacy heroes would get different off-hand items
  
• Legacy heroes now only keep off-hand items if recruited in chapter 2+
  
• "Blinded" now correctly affects all AOE targets (e.g. Drathix)
  
• Fixed a bug with Starheart
  
• After chapter end, secure/research/repair jobs are removed (will be completed)
  
• Fixed a bug where monsters spawned by summoning did not have calamities applied
  
• Fixed targeting on wolfFriend tiding
  
• Fix a bug where gear pop ups in combat lab would cause a soft lock
  
• Fix a bug where editing an event from in game would cause a soft lock
  
• Spirit capture dialog more clear
  
• More clear that Seacave fight is endless and escape is the only option
  
• Reduce difficulty of Enduring Ch2 capstone (poison gas) on JKR and CSL.
  
• Fix a bug where riposte would keep attacking
  
• Fixed a bug where some item stat boosts would affect other (non-weapon) attacks
  
• Fixed a bug where the name of the wrong town would show in a tooltip
  
• Fixed a bug where the generic gorgon campaign said "Age of Ulstryx"
  
• Fixed many typos, missing tags, and instances of dev text
  
• Several improvements to Steam Workshop integration (edit image, name/blurb, tags)

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