Book of Travels News

As you may know, the video game industry is weathering a storm, and the team at Might & Delight have unfortunately not been spared from it.

Earlier this year, we had to make the incredibly difficult decision to scale down our team. It has been a rough year, and we’ve been silent on our social channels as we’ve been focused on our team – both the friends that we’ve had to say goodbye to, and the team that remains. We’re still settling into our new normal, but we wanted to let you know that we are here, we´re working on our games and there are some things that we want to share with you.

We’ve been around for nearly fifteen years as an indie game developer, and we have a long, proud history of making games. We believe in game preservation and we aim to make sure our games are available to anyone who has supported us throughout the years. As we make decisions for existing titles and future projects, please know that this will be our guiding principle.

Our team is smaller now, and we will need to be mindful of how many projects we work on simultaneously to ensure that we keep our team healthy and our projects manageable. However, our intention is to keep up maintenance of our existing titles, as well as finish development of projects that have been in the pipeline for a while.

Regarding Book of Travels, our main focus for the foreseeable future will be to roll out several patches that are in the making – including fixes and community requests – and we’re also aiming to, among other things, do a balancing pass for the inventory, and look into releasing some map updates. During the next couple of months, you’ll notice our activity picking up on Discord and Steam. We want you to know that we are here, we listen to your feedback and we’ll do our very best to keep you all in the loop as we roll out future patches.

We are excited to say that we have a new game project slated for release in the fall of 2025. When we were a bigger team, we worked on the concept of this game in parallel for a couple of years, and at the time of writing this, we’re already halfway through development. We look forward to sharing more about it with you in the new year. For now, however, our main focus will be on our existing game catalogue.

Also, for all you lovely people who supported Book of Travels on Kickstarter; please keep an eye on Kickstarter updates and/or your inbox. Beyond upcoming Steam updates, we will also be sharing some information directly with all backers early next year.

Throughout this year, the one thing we’ve always come back to is the fact that we have such an incredible community. We’re not exaggerating when we say that you are the main reason that we have managed to weather all the changes of 2024, and fight for a chance to not only continue the support of our previous games, but also to be able to release something new.

A studio is only as good as its players, and we’re incredibly proud to have your support. Know that you can expect to see a lot more from us from now on.

2024 has been a turbulent and chaotic year (for many, not just in the video game industry) so we want to wish you all a peaceful and cosy end of the year. We really hope to start off 2025 with a sense of normalcy, and we want to be more active – both with our online presence, and with our upcoming patches and announcements.

Have an amazing Holiday and we’ll be in touch soon ❤
Cheers from all the developers at Might & Delight



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[h3]Fixes[/h3]

• Fixed issue where certain combinations of pocketed items would cause character loading to fail
  
• Fixed issue where having too many items would cause character loading to fail
  
• Fixed issue where Passage sometimes failed to initiate
  
• Fixed issue where Letter Opener description would display incorrectly in some scenarios
  

[h3]Changes[/h3]

• Added button to the Trainmaster's Stash view which when used deposits all Excess items into the Stash (only available while inventory system transition grace period is active)
  
• Extended grace period by 30 days
  

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We have been hard at work redesigning the inventory, and we are excited to share with you the fruit of our labours!

The new inventory system is based around volume, with inventories having limited volume capacity. This translates to an updated gameplay where backpacks and pockets serve a greater purpose, and the trading of items comes with a new layer of strategy.

Reagents are now an item type; they can be placed in an inventory, and traded with. In fact, there might just be a secret society in Braided Shore looking to trade these exact objects – any traveller would be wise to keep an eye out for these herbalists.

Beyond the updates to inventory and trading, we also have a new item; the letter opener. Once found, this item will allow you to interact with many other items in the game, and its name gives some idea to what nefarious (or not so nefarious) purposes it can be used for.

Alongside the letter opener, we also expand upon the Postmaster questline, with new people to meet, and secrets to discover.

For details on the new inventory system and the changes that have been made, please reference the detailed lists below:

[h3]Reworked inventory system:[/h3]

• The backpack, the Trainmaster's Stash, and pockets now have an unlimited amount of slots.
  
• All items can now be stacked limitlessly unless they are classified as unique in which case stack size is limited to 1.
  
• All items now have a volume, and inventories have a limited volume capacity.
  
• Bag equipment now grants additional volume capacity instead of more slots.
  
• Reagents are now actual items that can be placed in any inventory space.
  
• Some item exchanges now require the player to freely select an item - that may or may not be accepted - to offer from their backpack.
  
• Some inventory-related traits have had their behaviour modified to work with the new inventory system.
  
• Added a new dialog window to facilitate moving or discarding of items of custom stack sizes.
  
• A new "Excess" inventory has been added to the backpack view, which will hold items that are received but do not fit in the backpack. While there are items in this inventory the backpack view may not be closed until the excess items either have been discarded or have had space made for and moved into the backpack.
  
• Characters created before this update will have a month long grace period during which they may forgo the deletion of excess items, to allow for inventory management.
  

[h3]Other changes:[/h3]

• Added the letter opener item in a chest next to the Kasa Postmaster.
  
• Added new items gained from using the letter opener.
  
• Added a final envelope along with a couple of events to the Post Master questline if the player has delivered a letter each day (players may need to redeliver the letters to activate the flags).
  
• Added the wine cellar room.
  
• Added character terrain interaction vfx, e.g. dust clouds, water ripples etc.
  
• New events for Secret Society of Herbalists questline have been activated in the West and Outmark regions. They work with using reagents in trade.
  

[h3]Reworked feature: Combat[/h3]

As you might be aware, we've been working hard on a complete rework of the Book of Travels combat system. Some of you have tried it out on a preview server, and as a result of your feedback (which we thank you kindly for), several adjustments have been made to enhance the experience.

• Combat has been entirely reworked with a new gameplay system, new visuals, new sound effects and new animations.
  
• The old system is entirely replaced, and all events featuring combat now use the new system.
  
• If you need some know-how in how the new system works, you can either visit our steam page for the initial reveal of the feature, or maybe find a certain Warden in Bat Saha that could teach you…
  
• We have not translated the existing combat skills into the new system just yet, so there is only plain sword fighting for now. Feel free to unequip these skills in the meantime, while we redesign them. We apologize for the inconvenience.
  
• We have temporarily disabled every non-humanoid fightable creature. This includes Kettems, Maisu and Wolves. This is due to technical reasons, but expect them to return sooner rather than later. We are working on it!
  

Here are changes we've made since the new combat made it's debut in preview:

• Completely new Combat UI.
  
• New Visual Effects.
  
• Additional sound effects.
  
• Additional animations.
  
• Added Duels.
  
• Added an interactive tutorial, given by the Duelist Warden in Bat Saha.
  
• Added around 10 new Combat events.
  
• Added a new music track that plays during Duels.
  
• Streamlined joining process.
  
• Easier to participate in multiplayer battles.
  
• Fainting in a multiplayer battle does not remove you from the battle. If your standing allies secure victory, they can help you back up and you won't lose a life petal.
  
• Added loot from combat encounters.
  
• Tied fainting and death functionality to combat.
  

(The following in particular were very much based on your feedback)

• You will be able to see your allies' and enemies' stats while in combat
  
• Targeting is easier to do, and easier to visually follow
  
• Health has been reworked to synchronize better with other combat features
  
• The defense skill is longer in duration
  
• More feedback when making actions in combat
  

Note:
The revamped combat feature is still a work in progress. It’s been tested internally but we may discover new issues as it goes out to our players. We’re ready to revert these changes if they prove to impact the experience in a negative way.

[h3]Other Changes[/h3]

• Added new events relating to the sudden disappearance of the Kettems and Maisu.
  
• New room: "Stairwell" accessible via West Wind Shores.
  
• Added the Head Apprentice event to West Wind Shores stairwell along with a new ring...
  
• Added various new rings to the game.
  

[h3]Fixes[/h3]

• Fixed a bug that caused NPC's to sometimes say the wrong lines.
  
• Fixed a Resna exploit with the Recreated masterpiece brew
  
• Fixed broken link to the game page.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused traveling shopkeepers to sometimes wander away in the middle of trading.
  
• Various typo fixes for items/poems/skill cards.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused intro pages to appear after a delay after starting a new character.
  
• Fixed the order of trade interactions with the Kasa postmaster when delivering the Weekly missive.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused NPCs to not hand out rewards when they should.
  
• Fixed various bugs that caused fishing graphics and sound to not play properly.
  

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Fixes:

• Fixed a launch issue on Linux.