Changelog

Alpha 12: The New Explorers

Released November 17, 2020

“	“There's so much new content for you to discover in this update: 4 leader classes, 4 recruitable characters, 2 new famous explorers, plenty of items, equipment, enemies and more... on top of that, another big addition is controller support!”

0.12.4

New

• Added controller support
• New explorer types that must be unlocked by performing certain tasks
• New leader class: Red Flag Pirate
• New leader class: Nahua Seeker
• New leader class: Taxonomist
• New leader class: Shennong Herbalist
• New hand equipment: Whip
• New hand equipment: Rope
• New hand equipment: Hunting Knife
• New hand equipment: Ornamental Revolver
• New hand equipment: Magma Thrower
• New hand equipment: Coral Bludgeon
• New famous explorer: Wong Fei-hung
• New famous explorer: Sacagawea
• New enemy: Tiger
• New Salamander enemy types: Sea Priest, Claw Master
• New Mole enemy types: Battle Mechanist, Burrower, Headhunter, Tinkerer
• New hazard: Magnetic Mountain
• New shrine aftermath: Volcanoes
• New location: Mole Outpost
• New location: Sinking Shrine
• New recruitable character: Street Rat
• New recruitable character: Mole Tinkerer
• New recruitable character: Mole Headhunter
• New recruitable character: Mole Burrower
• New village quest: Deliver Gift
• New village quest: Dig up Artefact
• New Lux Labs item: Electro Barrier (club levels have been slightly changed to accommodate)
• New items: Cheese, Cow Hide, Metalsmithing Kit, War Horn, Religious Icon, Horse Pelt, Theodolite
• New hub narrative events
• New optional tutorial boxes

Changes

• Club Shop items are now split into categories
• Reduced base expedition fame/ticket rewards to emphasize other sources of fame more
• When using the "Wipe Year" death consequence, restarting the year will reset your tickets to the number you had at the beginning of the year, instead of zero
• Reduced difficulty of expeditions in 1886
• Improved pacing of Paris location unlocks
• Recruitable Club characters will sometimes be available for recruiting in the Tavern
• Unused tickets are converted to fame at the end of the Campaign
• Can now sell Equipment at the Shop in Paris for tickets
• Significant retuning of fame rewards - expeditions now grant less tickets/fame, but fame items grant more
• Doubled health bonus of equipment that grants health (Girdle, Harness, Kara Bracelet)
• Late game dice challenges are now a bit easier
• The Sandalwood Bracelet now also changes the sanity threshold where you'll get negative events while resting
• The Giant Crab Pincer is now usable as hand equipment instead of being a fame trophy
• Hunter's Cunning perk now has a limit to how many dice can be rerolled
• Hiking Stick now only reduces per-tile cost partially
• Increased price / upgrade price of Heavy Crates
• The Shipwreck now has a rare special location variant
• Added a reminder to the Ship Shop about the current island's objective and biome
• After completing the campaign, you get medals in the Difficulty Selection and Leader Selection screens

0.12.5

Bug Fixes

• Fixed some savegames not being loadable
• Fixed some events that could kill a character that shouldn't be killable
• Fixed an issue where some special village enter events would play repeatedly if you exited and re-entered the village
• Fixed problems that could occur if combat ends with the Electro Barrier still up
• Fixed incorrect Electro Barrier positioning and selection with controller
• Fixed getting multiple Tactical Mastery uses in combat sometimes
• Fixed issues in the 2nd island of a multi-island expedition where your trek would walk across the map at the start of the island
• Fixed black screen when starting an expedition sometimes
• Fixed freeze during combat attacks
• Fixed event action buttons not being visible if entering Manage Trek while they were fading in
• Fixed an issue where old saves would be forced to buy an item the first time they entered a club shop after starting the new build
• Fixed Cartography checklist not correctly counting the number of Locations on the map

0.12.6

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a blocker where you couldn't leave the Club Shop
• Fixed a blocker in Act 2 Island 1 where final location wouldn't spawn if you'd destroyed all Mountains on the map
• Fixed a blocker that would occur if you stole from story-critical villages and then refused to hand over the thief for punishment
• Fixed an issue where you could save and quit in the middle of a Paris Club tutorial and then get a broken savegame
• Fixed a blocker where expedition selection would be locked if you played until the end of 1888 and then quit in the hub without visiting the tavern first
• Fixed an issue where dismounting in Paris could cause game to get into a broken state
• Fixed Strength being removed immediately at the end of the turn (so it didn't work for Counter Attacks)
• Fixed generic Stone Disc appearing in Act 3 Island 3
• Fixed bad combat slot group assignment for Snarfrattle

0.12.7

Bug Fixes

• Fixed crash when buying Hats
• Fixed a blocker where you could use up club tickets in Taishi or Lux before buying the forced club item

0.12.8

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issues with equipping Spear in tutorial
• Fixed stash not working during Act IV Part 2
• Fixed crash when Mummy is killed by Coutner Attack
• Fixed Sandworm being able to devour special characters
• Fixed special locations not spawning sometimes like the cave in Act 2 Part 1

0.12.9

Bug Fixes

• Fixed flickering on camp fire
• Fixed Arbiter not being considered as a human for certain events
• Fixed events sometimes not progressing when you click

Alpha 11: The Engine of Creation

Released October 20, 2020

“	“This update includes the fourth and final story mission, Act IV: The Engine of Creation. There are also new events, tribe types and other content to discover.”

0.11.0

New

• Added Act IV: The Engine of Creation
• New Explorer Select screen
• New Difficulty Select screen
• Added "Death Consequences" options
• New setting: "Instant Text" that makes event text appear instantly
• New setting: "Fast Rest" that makes resting & waiting happen much faster
• New setting: "Travel Speed" that makes moving on the map faster or slower
• New setting: "Challenge Notifications" that toggles notifications about new club challenges on or off
• New option: "Reset Clubs" to reset all your club progress (available in the main menu only)
• New hand equipment: Parrot
• New tribe type: Distrustful
• New tribe type: Pacifist
• New tribe type: Unisex
• New event type: Dreamscape
• New map zone: Human Exposition Recruiter
• Added hub narrative for 1889
• Lots of new events

Changes

• New combat UI
• New dice challenge UI, including chance display for each required colour and information about how many bonuses are possible
• New map travel UI
• Hovering a character's Promote button will display a preview of the character after promotion
• After an expedition you can look around the map
• Reworked the tribe trait system so that each tribe has a single standout trait instead of combining 3 different ones
• Stunned Panthers no longer do Reroll Retaliation
• Villages become angry more easily now, unless they have the Pacifist trait
• Can no longer interact with locations or zones when party is overfilled with people
• Maps are slightly smaller on "Tourist" difficulty and slightly larger on "Lunatic" difficulty
• Improved art for the Scout Post and Huntmaster locations
• Geo Machine now always has 2 different actions available out of a pool
• Added a congratulations message shown in the main menu when completing the campaign
• Added a display for current fame and total fame this campaign when hovering over the fame bar in Paris
• The shape of an island is revealed at the start of the expedition when in Tourist difficulty (except Caverns)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Cartography and Anthropology bonuses that increase the fame for their Studies and Kit items
• Fixed some items not being usable in dice challenges, or being usable but not adding dice
• Fixed not being able to upgrade Curious or Improved items to level 8
• Fixed Caverns map overlay not showing the difference between tiles you have never explored and tiles that you did explore but are now in darkness again
• Fixed Lost Explorer map not generating or not being diggable with shovels
• Fixed Trader being attracted by the Phonograph and interrupting movement

0.11.1

Changes

• Highlighting dice in combat will highlight the owning character
• Dice in combat are now laid out in the same order as characters in the scene
• Reduced spawn frequency of Exposition Recruiter

Bug Fixes

• Fixed some issues in Act 4 Island 1

0.11.2

Changes

• Elderly status adds +5 to travel cost
• Reworked Exposition Recruiter event flow
• Bonuses and total values are now better separated in item info boxes

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Impetus status modifier not applying correctly
• Fixed view distance modifiers not applying correctly
• Fixed duplicate characters in Exposition Recruiter event
• Fixed some weird labels showing up in item info boxes

0.11.9

Changes

• Combat actions that must be confirmed without an explicit target can now be confirmed by clicking the attacking character, or an enemy/ally if the attack effects the whole team

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Club Challenge UI not showing score or clubs
• Fixed combat getting stuck when using an item after changing savegame slot
• Fixed not being able to finish Act 3 (Repair the Ship) sometimes

Alpha 10: The Cost of Greed

Released September 7, 2020

“	“The most notable additions this time are a new story mission (Act III: The Cost of Greed), two new famous explorers (Annie Oakley & Jules Verne) and the introduction of the difficulty modes.”

0.10.0

New

• Added Act III: The Cost of Greed
• Added Paris narrative events for 1886
• Added difficulty modes
• New expedition type: The Sealed Pyramid
• New famous explorer: Annie Oakley
• New famous explorer: Jules Verne
• New item: Moonshine
• New item: Escape Hook
• New item: Booby Trap
• New item: Loyalty Bracelet
• New item: Fog Burn Scroll
• New item: Thumper
• New location: Geo Machine
• New location: Cave
• New location: Crystal Mine

Changes

• Some expeditions will now have a spinning Gimbal instead of the compass: the faster it spins, the closer you are to the goal
• Plunderer has been significantly reworked: they now can no longer rest in villages, but can use treasures to regain sanity
• Horn Flute now gives sanity / increases aggro instead of disabling zones
• Can now click to skip event dice challenge results
• Can no longer sell items to the Ship Shop
• The Moon Stone item now changes the moon phase
• Prey are now shown on the map as little characters instead of icons
• Club Unlocks and Club Shops have been merged into a single screen
• If you particpate in a Club Challenge but don't win, you can now buy the hat at the Hatter rather than at the winning Club
• Once you've completed the story expedition that includes a biome for the first time, that biome type is then unlocked for other campaigns from the beginning
• Lucky Rabbit's Foot now allows for a limit number of dice to be rerolled per turn
• Giant Mushrooms now spawn spores during the full moon that give sanity when passing through (rather than the mushroom collapsing)
• Various UI improvements, including a new Settings menu

Bug Fixes

• Pyromaniacs can once again start fires randomly as you leave locations
• Fixed bug where interacting with the Palikao Gate in Act 1 did nothing

0.10.1

Changes

• Improved Plateau combat slots placement
• Balance pass on Strength combos, mostly making them a bit weaker

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where the Animal Bonding rest event would show invalid text
• Fixed missing Cave music
• Fixed game not loading when a character has Jungle Fever
• Fixed characters not playing Injured animation

0.10.2

Changes

• Increased health drain rate while Infected
• Reworked Key Staff Stasis so that it can only be targeted on friendly characters, but heals; also swapped face types for the combos
• Disabled unfinished Abduction event
• Health gain given during resting is now per-day
• Enabled Simplified Chinese (many missing texts though)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where Annie Oakley's Trick Shot had no gameplay effect
• Fixed a bug in rest event, where explorer wouldn't recieve Pearls after successful dice challenge
• Fixed a bug where the Keys for the Locked Pyramid couldn't be found in Easy difficulty
• Fixed a bug where the Cenote wasn't spawning in Easy difficulty
• Fixed a bug where abandoning the expedition in Act 3 would end up with a blocker in Paris
• Fixed a bug where it was possible to stop resting/waiting before a single day had passed

0.10.3

Bug Fixes

• Fixed memory leaks
• Fixed Insanity event chance not being stored in savegames
• Fixed hitches when ending travel
• Fixed enemy positions being wrong in combat
• Fixed sanity events getting no mood

0.10.4

Bug Fixes

• Reduced memory usage
• Fixed wrong mood being used when combat starts in tutorial
• Fixed game not being saved when interacting with location
• Fixed freeze when entering Old Camp
• Fixed Crystal Mine not yielding new loot after first use
• Fixed Chieftain quest character keeping equipped items

0.10.5

Changes

• Added all Chinese text

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Electric Beacon map location sprite size

0.10.6

Bug Fixes

• Fixed loading old savegames not unlocking the explorer clubs
• Fixed Transporter Beacon map location sprite size
• Hopefully fixed vertical text

0.10.7

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Ferry Turtle taking the party off the map sometimes
• Fixed regular Shrines in Act 3 Island 1 not triggering aftermaths
• Fixed missing Cave location marker in Act 3 Island 1 for final objective
• Fixed Key Staff being in party inventory after Malin leaves party
• Fixed wrong enemies being awakened or put to sleep for Rainbow Orchid expedition

0.10.8

Bug Fixes

• Fixed some errors in Chinese translation
• Fixed not being able to start an expedition when resuming a campaign saved from Alpha 9
• Fixed Treasure Maps not being generated sometimes
• Fixed character portraits not being visible when first resuming a savegame
• Fixed temporary characters not being removed from the party when returning to Paris

Alpha 9: The Search for the Stolen Staff

Released August 11, 2020

“	“The most notable additions are the Mesoamerican-themed human tribe and a new story mission, but you'll also find several new locations, events, items, characters, animals and hazards.”

0.9.0

New

• Added Act II: The Missing Director
• New Mesoamerican-themed human tribe type
• New expedition type: Buried Pyramid
• New Avalon character: Treasure Corgi
• New tavern character: Travelling Quack
• New tavern character: Roma Trader
• New pack / prey animal: Oryx
• New rare pack animal: Red Elk
• New map hazard: Mosquitos
• New map feature: Butterflies
• New character: Abomination
• New village quest: Escort the Chieftain to Paris
• New Avalon item: Heavy Carrier Pigeon
• New Archipelago item: Conch Shell
• New location: Altar
• New location: Stone Disc
• New item: Coca Wine
• New item: Tanning Kit
• New item: Pitch Pot
• New body equipment: Heavy Leather Apron
• New body equipment: Lodestone
• Several new events including a full moon village ritual
• Added a confrontation with your rival at the end of Act I and removed the time limit

Changes

• 1886 story mission is now "Act I: The Ruined Gate"
• Giant Mushrooms tiles in the Prehistoric biome cost less sanity to traverse during the full moon
• Improved load times
• Various UI improvements
• When selecting a new party after losing your previous one, the new leader will have a set of random perks
• Aborting an expedition will now skip the Triumph sequence
• Huntmaster and Scout Post locations now send out a zone that replicates their previous gameplay effect
• Island outlines are no longer visible at the beginning of an expedition
• New recruits are now more appropriately levelled
• Wolves now have different aggro range and stronger attacks during the full moon
• Meat is no longer weightless
• Characters that find Meat will now instead find Quail, which are weightless
• Zone movement is now animated
• Standing is now reset at the start of each island

Bug Fixes

• Fixed ship not spawning sometimes, or spawning inland
• Fixed enemy zone "Sleeping" state not being saved/loaded correctly
• Fixed Promote button being visible when it shouldn't during tutorial

0.9.1

Changes

• Cartographer Shield combo weakened slightly
• Set Tea calm chance to 100%
• Increased light radius of Pitch Pot and Beacon slightly
• Reduced Elixir value from 8 to 5
• Buffed the Mother of Spiders and gave it a higher Danger rating
• Added Stash to cavern exit in Act 2 Island 2
• Switched Salamander Guardian's plain Shield combo to be Targeted Retaliation + Armor

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where the Scout Post and Huntmaster wouldn't count for the anthropology checklist
• Changed altar default camera to bottom alignment
• Re-enabled Needle Plant shrine aftermath
• Removed confusing/buggy Malin armor status
• Replaced all remaining in-use CE1 icons with CE2 placeholders
• Fixed Betel Nuts combo name
• Added missing boost to Talwar
• Added missing actionText to Alchemist location
• Fixed a bug where the rescued Salamander Prince would thank you every time you left a ruler hut for the rest of the game
• Removed CE1 background from "last entry" death event
• Removed accidental Lux Labs background sfx in the Taishi club hall
• Hooked up Elephant Gun icon
• Fixed a bug where Raptor Hides couldn't be tanned
• Fixed Ferries taking you off the map
• Fixed map movement sounds not playing correctly
• Fixed missing ticket notifications
• Fixed zones not sleeping after fleeing combat sometimes
• Fixed weird items during altar interaction

Bug Fixes

• Improved map performance
• Malin can no longer by killed by Mosquitos
• Fixed Golden Seal being visible before it should be
• Changed bug-reporting back end so hopefully it's more reliable

0.9.3

Bug Fixes

• Improved map performance
• Malin can no longer be eaten by Abomination
• Fixed Malin's Tracks sometimes not appearing in Act 2
• Fixed travel particles not being played
• Fixed missing custom cursor
• Fixed triumph crowd in Paris sometimes being visible in the main Paris screen

0.9.4

Changes

• Added Simplified Chinese support

Bug Fixes

• Fixed hitches when travelling around the map
• Fixed overburden warning not being displayed

0.9.5

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a memory leak that could lead to crashes

Alpha 8: The Island Before Time

Released July 14, 2020

“	“This update features a brand new prehistoric landscape type with its own set of creatures and items. New locations and events are also included, in addition to several improvements, adjustments and bug fixes.”

New

• New map type: Prehistoric, unlocks in year 1888
• New terrain: Volcanoes, massive mountains that erupt with fire that burns the landscape
• New enemy / companion animal: Raptor
• New enemy: Pteranadon
• New enemy: Giant Bird
• New enemy: Panther
• New enemy: Giant Snake
• New neutral animal: Ankylosaurus
• New prey / pack animal: Parasaurolophus
• New hazard: Giant Wasps
• New location: Dinosaur Nest
• New items: Raptor Claw, Obsidian Spear, Ankylosaur Shield, Obsidian Shard, Amber Goggles, Raptor Coat, Fishing Waders
• New location: Scout Post
• New location: Huntmaster
• New location: Cenote
• New location: Monolith
• New shrine aftermath: Lava Rivers
• New Paris location: The Hatter, where you can change your hat! (replaces the Cosmetics action in the Club Halls)
• Lots of new events

Changes

• Many balance changes - in general, the game now is significantly harder in the mid- to late-game
• Tutorial can be skipped now
• Extended tutorial with new sections for promoting characters and boosting dice in combat
• Can now dismiss characters in Paris
• Improved dice-rolling physics
• Added infobox for base move cost and wait cost
• Improved treasure map visuals
• Slow fade-outs of events can now be skipped by clicking
• Hunting Dog ability "Protect the Master" only triggers once
• Clicking an objective that is referencing a known location will center the camera on that location
• Some objectives now display the days remaining when highlighted
• Prey Animals show how long tracks will remain
• Players now get to choose from all 4 explorer types after restarting the campaign
• Added compass to single-location expedition goals
• Club leaders can now chat
• Club ranks are now shared between all savegames; loading an old savegame with higher club ranks will set those ranks to be your new, global ranks
• New "night" map visuals when resting
• The Equipment Dealer now has his own location in Paris
• Most XP now is given to the party as a whole; some events will give XP to a specific character
• You now must manually choose who to promote in the Manage Trek screen
• If a character doesn't have enough of their own XP to be promoted, XP will be taken from the party's shared XP
• New combat music
• Attack animations in combat can be skipped by clicking
• Enemy zones now display a rating of how difficult you can expect combat to be
• Dice that have been cursed by the Mummy now show a Curse effect on the dice
• Characters that are Bleeding now take damage when they try to use an action in combat
• Big Game Hunter now gets a free single attack at the beginning of combat instead of an entire round
• Consumable item attacks now display their boost colour instead of the leader portrait
• Dire Wolf now has a new attack: a chilling howl that depletes sanity and focuses the pack on a single target
• Various combat tuning changes

Bug Fixes

• Fixed duplicate characters in combat when combat is triggered by an event
• Fixed multiple Walking Sticks causing you to gain sanity while travelling
• Fixed combat buffs not being removed when appropriate
• Fixed Survey Points not being properly set visible in Trials and Triangulations
• Fixed Turtle Ferry sometimes taking you to the wrong place
• Fixed black screen that can happen when the leader dies of an infected wound

0.8.1

Changes

• Removed Shovel special action from shrines since it is used as item bonus now
• Show amount of remaining days in status infobox
• Added info about relationship characters to infobox
• Buffed Sandworm enemy
• Reduced general rate of XP
• Reduced number of required expeditions per year

Bug Fixes

• Fixed button positions in loot screen so they don't overlap your items
• Fixed burning not working correctly
• Fixed status duration not being displayed
• Fixed relationship status partner not being displayed
• Fixed lead character getting wrongly infected in shrines
• Fixed tiles being free when they shouldn't when Malin is in the party
• Fixed expedition selection screen sometimes not properly starting the expedition or showing any options
• Fixed a rare tutorial blocker where you could lose your native party member by walking into the fog after recruiting

0.8.2

Changes

• Increased equipment value increase by level
• Significantly decreased Lux Labs upgrade cost

Bug Fixes

• Fixed not being able to start a story expedition with some 0.8 savegames
• Added the missing Parasaurolophus Pack Animal perk
• Fixed getting stuck in combat with Lava Crocodile
• Fixed incorrect XP being loaded in some cases

0.8.3

Changes

• Monolith should only teleport to reachable areas

Bug Fixes

• Fixed characters losing loyalty when promoted at 3 or 4 loyalty
• Disabled Dead Friend Memorial event until bug is fixed

Alpha 7: Steam Early Access!

Released June 17, 2020

“	“Curious Expedition 2 is now available on Early Access!”

0.7.6

New

• Added intro mission / tutorial
• Added first Campaign story expedition
• New location: Meteor impact

Changes

• New art for explorer classes: Anthropologist, Cartographer
• Many minor polish improvements and tweaks

0.7.7

Changes

• Reduced screen transition times (fade-to/from-black) significantly
• Added a help feedback box for equipping
• Show version number in main menu

Bug Fixes

• Fixed getting stuck in tutorial when equipping Spear really quick
• Fixed a rare bug causing immediate game over on certain combats
• Fixed Discord link on bug button
• Fixed a few wrong character positions in events
• Fixed a few badly-behaving events
• Fixed a bug where pressing ESC dismisses the initial Early Access info box
• Fixed issues when gamepad was attached while playing game

0.7.8

Bug Fixes

• Fixed not being able to equip or fight after overburden warning showed up
• Fixed some overly long or missing description texts

0.7.9

Changes

• Improved feedback messaging for when equipping item is not allowed

Bug Fixes

• Fixed not being able equip anymore after modifying Famous Explorer items
• Fixed some font rendering issues
• Fixed black screen crash in Paris bar location
• Fixed occurence of character not getting a proper name
• Fixed crash for certain character configurations
• Fixed crash when loading a profile
• Fixed a few wrong icons in tutorial

0.7.10

Changes

• Added Tent item to Ship Shop and Trader
• Reduced sanity gain from Meat item
• Reduced trading value of Meat and Fish
• Disabled Carrier Pigeon and Claw status for now until we have reworked them
• The Shaman will no longer sell hand equipment in the tutorial

Bug Fixes

• Fixed some occasions of game getting stuck when triggering zero-sanity tutorial
• Fixed Snarfrattle quest costing you standing for killing her
• Fixed Lost Explorer location being visitable infinite times
• Fixed floating beer foam
• Fixed game getting stuck when opening settings during dice rolling
• Fixed wrong Pyramid type being spawned
• Fixed double spawning for Ancient Machine in tutorial
• Fixed phantom question marks in second island of an expedition
• Fixed Weather Balloons not revealing locations

0.7.11

Changes

• Whenever the game saves, a backup is created first of the existing savegame

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue where the tutorial wouldn't progress if you had a Turkish windows system
• Fixed issue where no savegames could be loaded if there was a corrupted savegame
• Fixed issue where combat wouldn't properly start

0.7.12

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue where you couldn't drop items if you had a Turkish windows system
• The Forsaken aftermath is disabled for Act 1

Alpha 6: The Academy's Challenge

Released April 21, 2020

“	“The final explorer club has arrived at the expo: the Taishi Academy. This mysterious organization seeks to uncover the hidden secrets beyond ordinary reality...”

0.6

New

• New Explorer Club: The Taishi Academy
• Added online Club Challenges
• New Taishi character: Taoist Monk
• New Taishi character: Academy Master
• New enemy: Giant Centipede
• New Tashi items / gear
• Many new / improved events

Changes

• Items can now be used in event challenges to add extra dice
• Major visual improvements to Triumph screen
• Added Saddle variants
• New Barter/Loot UI layout
• Various UI tweaks and improvements
• Many new sound effects and pieces of music
• Tweaked character infobox layout
• Prey Animal design change: these no longer leave tracks, but instead are unidentified until you come close
• Prey Animals automatically move to a new location if not approached within a set time

Bug Fixes

• The "Prove the Existence of the Monster" and "Guarded Treasure" expedition types are now completable

Alpha 5: Caverns of the Mole People

Released March 17, 2020

“	“Explore the mysterious new landscape type: Caverns. Don't forget to bring a light!”

0.5

New

• New map type: Caverns
• New tribe type: Moles
• New enemy: Giant Bat
• New Cavern / Mole-related items
• New Archipelago / Salamander-related items

Changes

• Pack Animals can now be mounted for an additional dice - just find a Saddle and equip it on the animal
• Dice now have different effects on the same dice
• Items with dice now have an Inspect mode - right-click to get info about the dice faces
• To drop items (or move a whole stack in Barter), hold right-click (instead of single-click)
• Characters now stand in water instead of on it
• Added a News box to the main menu
• Various other UI improvements

Alpha 4: Mystery of the Salamander Isles

Released February 19, 2020

“	“Ride massive sea turtles between the scattered islands of an all-new landscape type: the Archipelago.”

0.4

New

• New map type: Archipelago
• New tribe type: Salamanders
• New leader class: Cartographer
• New map feature: Prey Animal
• New neutral animal: Elephant
• New enemy: Giant Crab
• New pack animal: Giant Tortoise
• New tavern character: Cook
• Several new rest and insanity events

Changes

• Big Game Hunter has been upgraded and reworked to be a leader class
• Characters now level up automatically without a pop-up
• Added multiple save slots
• Started pass on major UI improvements
• Expedition goals and side-quests are now tracked in the map UI
• Various event reworks and polish improvements
• All characters can now cook Meat (but Cooks produce higher-quality cooked meat)
• Clever Trap combat ability now places a trap on the ground that triggers once when another character is attacked
• Characters now level up more slowly
• Certain core items are now never on sale
• Many new musical themes and sound effects
• Marbles item is now significantly less powerful (more expensive / less of a trading markup)
• Improved look of Swamp tiles
• Add visual feedback for characters affected by Tar Bogs
• Treasure Hunter renamed to Plunderer to prevent confusion with the Big Game Hunter
• Combat consumable items can now be boosted
• Sandstorms are now much more visible
• Added color variants for leader classes

Alpha 3: Bird & Fawcett

Released January 22, 2020

“	“This release introduces famous explorers Isabella Bird & Percy Fawcett, new characters & treasures.”

0.3

New

• New character type: Famous Explorers
• New famous explorer: Percy Fawcett
• New famous explorer: Isabella Bird
• New Avalon character: Big Game Hunter
• New Lux Labs character: Kinetographer
• New rest events for Friendship and Hatred

Changes

• Anthropologist core mechanic reworked - now based on completing a randomized checklist of native interactions
• Buffed Protective Charm
• Improved dimensional fog visuals
• Cost for upgrading items at Lux Labs now scales with item power
• Location marker is no longer shown if a location can't be visited
• Improved dice rolling physics
• Club Shop expo ticket costs now have variable amounts
• Players are now automatically prompted to promote their characters
• Starting character XP is now randomized
• Some characters are now immune to certain status effects (Stun, Poison, etc.)
• Lots of new tile stamps for locations
• Removed Binoculars from Ship Shop
• Players can now leave most goal locations instead of being forced to finish the island instantly
• Shamanic Staff now buffs damage instead of heal/shield to reduce overlap with main Shaman ability
• Damage-over-time combat effects now split into Poison, Bleeding and Burning types
• Mummy is now immune to Poison and Bleeding
• Sandworm is now immune to Stun
• British Hunter's Gun Expert ability is now percentage based
• Pith Helmet now provides Armor in combat
• Improved Baby Spider hatching visuals
• Map info boxes now split between tile/character/location
• New sound effects and music for various locations

Bug Fixes

• Fixed items disappearing when unequipping them

Alpha 2: Shifting Sands

Released December 18, 2019

“	“The Drylands are harsh and unforgiving... Survive petrified forests, tar bogs, and barren deserts. Don't forget to bring water!”

0.2

New

• New map type: Drylands
• New tavern character: Missionary
• New enemy: Mummy
• New enemy: Giant Scorpion
• New enemy: Sandworm
• New Animal equipment