There are new major changes that will require much more management of the mining. However this allows the players to better control which ore is being mined. Also, if you are in need of a specific ore quickly you can now spend more fuel to get what you need quicker.

This should lower any advantage in leaving the game running to mine as the mining needs more direction than before.


The 5 levels of panels have been completely redone:



This now includes an ore selection slider which allows you to manually select the ore type you wish to mine. This replaces the previous mechanic of unlocking various ores by Time chamber (TC) level.

For example, previously you needed to get to TC level 100 to get more nickel, now you need to buy the level 3 panel to allow nickel mining.


You can now choose to mine ore much more quickly in return for a very large usage of fuel. For every 5x usage of fuel you will double the speed of mining. The overdrive button will turn off after a certain amount of time; it will be up to the players to discover the amount of time it lasts and the correct manner to use this.


Certain panel types now require specific fuel types. Also higher level panels will use fuel quicker. This all equates to more money required for fuel, and rewards have been adjusted to balance for this.

Some gems now have unique animations when inserted into the fuel panel, and upon close inspection of the fuel gems you may notice a track which slides to lock them in place in the panel. If you insert an incorrect gem into a panel, it won't animate, and will also warn you with a message.


- improvements to textures and animations


- improvements to textures and animations



The fuel gems section in the store has been expanded to give you a new selection of the fuel gems required to control the washplant.


Information on each panel is now detailed in the panel upgrade book in the store. This paradigm will be used in the future to detail other upgrades.


- The Master Bladesmith tutorial has been adjusted to improve the spawn positions of the various MB avatars.

- The Master Bladesmith voice can now be adjusted up much higher than previous, and its nominal level at the start of the game is at the center to allow easy volume changes.

- The game will now close correctly and no longer hang in the taskbar upon exit.

- Cloud saves will now automatically restore the game across computers or upon windows file deletion, if you log in with the same Steam account (Steam auto cloud).

- The game has been updated to 4.27 to facilitate the above 2 changes. This then created a whole slew of secondary issues that needed to be adjusted including the lighting and cable components. Therefore there may be a slight change to the lighting brightness.

- Starting the game should no longer result in players falling out of the world, thus missing the starting tutorial

- If you do manage to fall out of the world before you have entered the TC for the first time you will be restored to the starting cave, instead of the TC area.

- Difficulty has been adjusted to make the game a little bit more challenging in the very early stages of the game 0 - 20. This will reset to how it was nearly a year ago, since the ease of these first few levels made the game too easy, and a lot of players were lost due to lack of challenge. Difficulty post level 35 is the same now as it always has been.

- Walls are now a collide-able object both via locomotion but also via walking with real-life head / body
- These changes make falling out of the world impossible or very hard to do
- if you still manage to fall out of the world, the game will reset you back up
- book menu changes to make locomotion options more functional, but also more legible.
- When scrolling through the backpack, rotation will now be disabled

- You will now rotate in one place, and can no longer rotate to traverse inside other objects via rotation
- Axis of rotation will always work correctly no matter where you stand in your VR area, or which way you're turning (even outside your VR area), this has greater reduced motion sickness for smooth rotation
- Default rotation speed has been approximately doubled - and greater option to adjust for speed
- You can no longer rotate and move simultaneously by default in smooth turn mode - this can be turned off
- You can no longer walk up onto forge
- You can no longer walk up onto wall baseboards
- Archways improved to allow very tall people to pass under



- You can no longer teleport through the floor at certain angles with the spline
- The teleport spline will do a much better job of keeping the doors open
- The teleport spline will do a much better job of finding spots on a staircase
- The teleport spline won't allow you to get too close to a wall

- The difficulty curve has been adjusted - the first 30 levels are now easier this should ease people into the game easier
- The first 4 relics have been made much easier to acquire
- Highest difficulty relics will now have a higher chance of spawning closer - making sword throws more possible and less frustrating - however rarity has been increased to compensate - easier to get relics remain unchanged
- The player will be rewarded with a small amount of arrows early on (before level 15)- to ensure they can't get stuck with no arrows and no money
- Arrows at the beginning of waves have been further reduced
- If the Auto Benchmark crashes the game (rare) when trying to determine your GPU on startup it won't attempt to determine it on new restart (keeping the max crashes to this at 1)



- Gates added at entrance to the lower mine - (much more to come here)
- Ore on the conveyor belt will no longer float
- Ore getting dumped into the wash plant will now have correct physics always
- Ore falling into the grinder will now have correct physics always
- Texture animation on the wash plant conveyor has been improved
- Texture animation on the wash plant belt has been improved
- Ore will combine with stacks or like ores visually instead of disappearing
- Ore/Gems have a destruction animation now if destroyed by the grating instead of disappearing
- Cleaver graphic fixed in Cleaver blade page
- Missing polygons and Z-fighting on wooden pillar fixed
- Anything resembling a red cross has been changed to a red heart
- Z-fighting visual artifact removed in the museum
- Texture bleed though onto the back of the reward signs fixed
- Some other minor graphical improvements - walls lining up, unnecessary polygons



- Voice volume increased by 10%
- Voice specialization removed to allow those with only one working earphone to still hear the voice
- When tutorial voice is speaking it will now reduce volume of other sounds more
- When tutorial voice is speaking it will now reduce volume of ambience



- You can no longer lose the crucible to the wall in the smithing area
- You can no longer lose your sword or other items to the wall in the smithing area
- Increased price of the starting shield to prevent it being bought before acquiring one from the starter chamber
- The bow on your characters back can no longer collide with things
- Options book will no longer reset on top of the journal or vice versa
- Coin display shouldn't show backwards progression
- Coin display shouldn't show previous levels with irrelevant coin displays
- You can no longer take a single fake coin into the shop form the rewards bag
- You can no longer jump ahead from level 70 - 90 in rare cases
- You can now equip your shield to your left hand as well as your right hand on initial equip
- If you happen to drop string in the middle of the bow stringing into the bag it will reset the bow attachment, instead of bugging an attachment point
- Gear sounds improvement
- Can no longer pull an arrow out of quiver during pause
- Forge door no longer closable on crucible

This is a smaller update but includes a lot of essential fixes to help the game become more stable:


-Fletching skill requirements reduced for the final 2 arrow types
-Fixed chalkboard texture to match the above change
-The chance of getting smithing skillup from hammering a blade has been reduced by approx. 17%
-No room in inventory message will now show exactly which inventory type it's talking about
-Target armor textures corrected for levels 960+
-There is now a level 1000. Achievement has also been fixed.
-New desktop icon for the game.
-The game can no longer autosave before the crank attaches to the door, leaving you in a stuck state
-Autosave on weapon create was removed, as it was a minor feature that was causing a bunch of problems
-You can no longer hit targets with fuel gems
-Parts on the mining machine will no longer slowly drift out of place
-Arrows level 900 - 1000 have improved visibility
-Improved sale price of ore, ingots, crafted swords. Now you will make more money off swords and less money off ore.
-Improved animation for the mining machines belt and conveyor
-Sword will no longer pop into your right hand if entering the time chamber with it in your left
-The lids of the crates now have collision
-Your sword handle will no longer collide with stuff when sheathed
-You can no longer kick around relics with your player
-The battle ring will now highlight when you are inside in first person movement mode
-Removed visual artifact/LOD change on elixir games logo at start
-Fixed the player belt pouches flipping around at certain angles
-Cloth on museum tables will now remove correctly when you reach level tiers
-Coins that explode off of bullseyes will now show as the proper type
-Sword duplication from time chamber finally squashed
-The time chamber can no longer alter a blades appearance on exit
-Can no longer get a relic more than once
-Melting ingots can no longer destroy the crucible - leaving your hands floating
-Improvements to the coin display on the reward coins, removing errors

More bug fixes coming very soon - (battle bugs)

The Museum next to the starting area has been expanded to include multiple table displays. These tables are pedestals to display special relics that are collected in the time chamber.

The Hanging Displays in the Museum are now functional and will display a duplicate of any pristine sword you are able to create! These hanging displays will show the pristine swords of the best quality material you have ever created, so if you create one with a higher material it will replace it.

Upon reaching various tiers in the time chamber, the coverings on the table displays will be removed. The collected relics can be pieced together on the tables.

The bottom side of the relics are identified by numerals that match up to the tables.

Finishing each tablet will award powerful and unique items for each tablet collection completed (coming in update 15). All 10 tablets will be required in order to unlock the ultimate craft-able blade in future updates!

Relics collected in the time chamber will now show on the reward signs. There will also be a more accurate and detailed breakdown of the money collected from bullseyes vs money collected from level completion.
When bullseyes are hit now in the time chamber they will explode with coins that much better represent the amount and denominations that are rewarded for each bullseye hit.


You can no longer duplicate swords by moving them to the secondary queue slot and removing your sword as you enter the time chamber.

More coming soon!

- Various causes of assert error signs appearing in the time chamber fixed
- Massive slowdown after leaving time chamber fix.
- The bow can now be thrown and retrieved inside the time chamber.
- Various sources of phantom damage corrected.
- The battle will tell you at the beginning if you are missing your weapon or bow, instead of halfway through battle.
- The time chamber door will open even if you don't have a sword now, however you can't start battle without it.
- The sword can no longer swipe through objects if swung late.
- Damage will not count against you if targets are hit a little late.
- A partially ajar time chamber door will now auto-close.
- Time chamber door audio fixes.
- Targets can no longer appear inside other targets in rare cases.
- You can no longer bring foreign objects into the time chamber.
( crucible, unequipped items etc. )
- You can no longer disarm targets with potion bottles.
- Bows can no longer be lost inside the time chamber.
- Dust in the time chamber will now act correctly.
- Flying targets can no longer spawn so far apart that they are impossible to hit.
- 2 adjacent flying targets will angle themselves so they are hittable without hitting their armor.

- Various visual errors during battle pause fixed.
- Various changes to the UI functioning in the time chamber.
- New animations for the UI in the time chamber.
- You can no longer lose a weapon out of bounds during a time chamber run if thrown through the world.
- Loot will stay in the reward area if you save and leave the game.
- Reward items are now calculated correctly.
- The arrow's grab circle will no longer appear right in your face when you shoot an arrow.
- Shader improvements on the back of the reward signs.
- You can no longer jump to level 400 in extreme rare cases.
- You will be rewarded with arrows appropriate to your level.
- You can no longer sheath a broken sword during a switch to a bow level.
- You can now adjust your position before you enter battle (now requires a button press in first person
mode)

- Various fixes to arrow grabbing during battle.
- Arrows will no longer bounce off targets. (coming soon)
- Arrows will no longer hang in mid air. (coming soon)
- Arrows can no longer pass through the shield.
- Multiple potion rewards from battle can no longer overflow your inventory.
- If you are holding the proper equipment for battle but it isn't equipped it will now auto equip it ( ie: bow)


- Items inside the time chamber (before battle) will act as normal and retrieve to your backpack etc.
- Sword pieces now have a properly calculated center and pommels and handles won't easily fall through tables anymore.

- There is no longer a weapon retrieve button.
- The sword can be retrieved like a boomerang outside of the time chamber as well as inside.
- The bow can be retrieved like a boomerang outside of the time chamber as well as inside.
- Walking away from your loose bow will now lerp to your back instead of your bags.
- Your sword will now lerp to your sheath if walked away from.
- Option book is no longer allowed in the backpack.
- Stamps are no longer allowed in bags.
- EXP scrolls will now auto combine correctly.
- EXP board will now round down instead of up.
- Swords can no longer generate a swing trail while sheathed in out of body mode.




- Aiming near a bag with teleport will show the bag ghost. activating teleport will spawn the bag.
- Smooth turning will now always rotate around the center of the players headset.
- You can now control the rate of rotation of your character to give the player more control of movement.
- New options in the options book to change this.

- Shader fixes on the backpack and coin purse that was causing random pixels dust on screen.
- loot restored for chests and crates.

A new options book is now available in the main area in the game!

The previously available locomotion options have been moved to the book.

These options include:
Resolution Scale
View Distance Quality
Anti Aliasing Quality
Shadow Quality
Post Processing Quality
Texture Quality
Shading Quality.
The game will auto detect your hardware and set the proper defaults for your system.
You can switch back to these defaults at any time. These options will all save.

These options include:
Master Volume
Music Volume
Sound Effects Volume
Ambience Volume
Voice Volume
These options will all save.

These options include:
Quiver On left Hip
Belt Height
Auto Saving on time chamber exit Toggle
New ability to auto save on weapon create
Jump toggle
These options will all save.



Fixes:

Copper coins will now save and load correctly!
You can now swap your sword from hand to hand and your shield will auto swap
There will no longer be a floating shield in space as an artifact of shield equipping
changes to the fletching skill levels to better balance fletching at arena levels 400+
armor in chests now give a more appropriate armor piece and have a smaller chance of dropping
can no longer open the debug menu
changes to internal book ui code
Paper in the mine will now save total chests
More small changes to the chest reward level
In end game you will always be able to buy 4 of each type of arrow wood instead of one
You can no longer leave your headset idle and beat very low levels with high armor.
Elemental arrows now exist in appropriate levels!
Fixes to arena level 210
Fixes to arena level 460
Fixes to arena level 570
Fixes to arena level 840
Fixes to arena level 960
Colliders removed in chamber levels 930+

Small Announcement:

I realize we should probably have had this from the start, and this is a long time coming.

We now have a discord channel.

All community members or those interested in learning more about the game are invited to join us:

https://discord.gg/pAd63NAYk2

The game has reached a point where it really needed to have a concentrated effort on reducing some of the Issues and bugs. Therefore this is a smaller update which addresses some of the long standing bugs. It's important to keep the game as playable as possible to the highest reasonable quality while in early access. The biggest change that players may notice are some visual fixes to the lathe and cooling pond.

Major updates for the game are continuing to be developed simultaneously to bug updates including the new Mining and Boss systems!




Crafting:

-Steam particles will now draw in the more realistic place ( over the hottest item in the cooling pond )
-The cooling pond will now continue to cool objects when you walk away without sacrificing optimization.
-You can no longer piece together a blade if your ~crafting~ skill is < than possible
-Chance of crafting skill up has been slightly increased
-Chances of pristine weapons has been very slightly reduced.
-Over rotations fixed on weapon builds
-Iron symbol now shows correctly on falchion blade

Lathe:

-Lathe clamp moves to correct place on larger wood drop now
-Lathe belt moves correctly now
-Can no longer drop multiple lathe blades onto the lathe
-Arrow wood lathe blade with now animate correctly next to the block of wood
-Book placement on anvil stand fix
-Failed ingot will no longer flip faces on left hand grab

Shop:

-Walking out of shop with a purchased string will no longer disappear
-Price fixes, including:
-Gem prices
-Armor prices
-Weapon queue prices
-Rare money duping exploit fix
-Coins can no longer transform into tiny coin when attached to the scoop
-Hand floating in space is no longer possible
-No longer can you grab coins out of your hand with the scoop causing transform errors attaching to the scoop
-No longer can you retain items from the shop if you teleport to the mine from the shop.
-Coin stacks losing interaction in certain cases now fixed

Mining:

-Chests will now be saved if unopened before save and restart
-Chest queue removal as it is useless to the game in its current state
-The mine details will now show a much more accurate kg of ore processed.
-Ore processed value is now saved

Battle:

-Sliced targets will ALWAYS disarm now

Textures:

-Book textures leaking into other books fixed
-Exp text leaking into other exp scrolls fixed
-Exp scroll texture memory has been reduced significantly
-Gems changing materials fix
-Various Texture optimizations

Code:

-Eliminated source of rare game crash related to objects grippable meshes
-Optimized internal string hash lookup





A special thank you to all the players who helped find these bugs!

Many players asked for this, so it's been made a reality. Once you unlock it by purchasing the voucher, you can now use a shopping crate to hold multiple items at once. You can throw as many items as you like into the crate and bring it to the scale with you to purchase multiple items at once!


Coins and coin stacking have been completely reprogrammed from the bottom up to optimize stacking and eliminate frame dropping for large stacks of coins ( a must for end game ). Removing a coin from the stack will drop coins and line them up unevenly as they fall using custom physics.

Coins are now more fluidly animated on battle rewards:


The shopping scale code has been refactored. The rewrite improves item and coin parsing and optimization. The scale now supports better physics and the new coin stacking algorithm.


Physics have been improved and instructions have been added for new players to explain use.


- The game now support Vive Cosmos
- The knapsack will now always combine coal correctly into one stack
- The tongs now work in the right hand for WMR headsets and controllers
- The chalkboard now lists the bows correctly
- OnDrop will proritize combines correctly over bag dropping now
- On final blade combine it will now say "chance of pristine" if you have a pristine blade and good handle combine
- Success message on lathe fixed
- Experience scroll hand transform improvements, now legible in both left and right hands
- Experience scroll texture optimizations
- Lathe blade hand transform improvements
- Arrow lathe blade can be grabbed correctly now
- Bow visibility fixes on the equipment stand
- Improved stat listing for bows and arrows
- Physics on the coin side of the scale will no longer freak out if certain items are placed there
- Bow shows correctly after hide
- Scoop coin sliding improvements
- Deatched hand on pedestal in shop bug fixes
- lighting LOD fixes
- Shop lighting improvements