Early Bird Update V0.18.01 (Patreon)

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V0.18.01 (May 2, 2026)

New game features:

- Implemented new statistic type, Critical Hit Negation

-- Critical hit negation is subtracted from the attacker's critical hit chance when dealing damage in battles

-- Critical hit negation is not currently gained from any combat attributes. Instead, it can be gained from using the new Potion of Critical Hit Protection (Brief)

New game content (quests/writing/art/etc):

- Added Awooo! encounter, found in the southwest of the Ice Roads

-- This random event grants the Tundra Wolf Snowstalker form. Art is by Rae

- Added Rollant and Johanna the slime siblings custom art. Artwork is by ClipTF.

- Added Frostdirge Root alchemy ingredient. Found in forests in the Ice Roads region

Miscellaneous:

- Changed game to use Unity sprite atlas packing. This adds a degree of future-proofing and should be slightly more performant, especially on screens like Inventory and Trading where many item graphics are displayed at once

- Tweaked map parsing process to allow for earlier player party pathfinding when entering a map

-- The player party now has complete priority over NPC parties when it comes to parsing map information, meaning the "analyzing terrain..." notification that blocks party movement clears much more quickly (typically in a fraction of a second)

-- NPC parties start parsing the map after a delay proportional to their distance from the player party. This soothes out a bottleneck that could result in a short-lived but significant slowdown to framerate

-- Large maps with many NPC parties spread far apart (such as the Giusburg Outskirts) will gain the most improvement from these changes

- Wolf Denmembers now have the Midnight Howl combat ability, allowing them to summon wolves similar to moon nymphs

- Added "Snowy Hills" battlemap for the Ice Roads region

Bugfixes:

- Summoned and reinforcing battle entities now also gain any battle modifier-related status effects when they enter the battlefield

- Bugfix for form-specific random events that can cause transformations occuring in maps where they are forbidden, such as in Dragonsbreath Cave