Sanctuary Update 2025.01.25 Now Live

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Build and upgrade your outpost, hire a crew, enjoy an expanded crafting system and the revised main quest. All this an more is now available with the release of the long-awaited sanctuary update (formerly known as Update 6).

Here is the full list of changes:

Base Building:

Replaced player cabin with outpost
Added bedroom facility
Added ability to sleep to heal and forward time
Added equipment displays to bedroom
Added loot displays to bedroom
Added treasure chests to bedroom
Added quarters facility for crew members
Added alchemy lab facility for alchemy
Added garden facility producing plants
Added trading post facility
Added ability to order specific items
Added builder guild facility
Added workshop facility for crafting
Added blacksmith facility
Added tavern facility
Added chapel facility
Added builder guild facility
Added ability to order building material
Added laboratory facility
Added runeforge facility for enchanting
Added explorer guild facility
Added outpost tunnels for quick access
Added outpost surplus chest
Implemented build menu
Added lumber, stone, and metal resource items

Crew System:

Added crew recruits to city
Added alchemist for potion production
Added herbalist for garden nurturing
Added pawnbroker for selling valuables
Added architect for better construction
Added mercenary for looting
Added blacksmith for crafting ingots
Added craftsman for crafting items
Added runesmith for crafting runestones
Added cartographer for making maps
Added priest for gathering souls
Implemented crew recruit dialog menu
Added crew member NPCs to outpost

Intro Overhaul:

Completely rebuild intro level
Increased size of intro level and added much more detail
Added ambient NPC to intro level
Added more hidden treasures and items to intro level
Rewritten intro quest dialog
Rerecorded intro quest voice over
Added workbench to player quarters
Added new objective to intro quest for crafting
Added drunk effect
Renamed Sir Rainald to Commander Reynald
Improved Commander Reynald mesh
Changed Commander Reynald giving player potions
Implemented player and NPC teleporting events
Added new segments and events to intro quest
Removed letters and mailbox

Main Quest Overhaul:

Permanently moved Aurelia to outpost
Rewritten main quest dialog
Refined story and pacing
Added new twist to the story
Rerecorded main quest voice over
Added 23 new quest stages
Improved and added quest descriptions
Implemented ritual mechanic
Implemented soul extraction mechanic
Added soul essence item
Added soul extractor item

Crystal Hearts & Possession:

Changed crystal heart to be invulnerable while minions are summoned
Changed appearance of crystal heart depending on its vunerability state
Added counter attack dealing possession damage when in invunerable state
Added four possession stages
Added attack speed debuff possession stage
Added protection debuff possession stage
Added damage debuff possession stage
Added notifications for possession stages

Crafting Overhaul:

Separated crafting into alchemy, smithing and upgrading
Added smithing workbench
Added alchemy workbench
Added anvil for upgrading
Added upgrading menu
Added scrapping menu
Added ability to scrap equipment
Removed upgrade kits
Removed static limit from upgrading equipment
Added power limit for upgrading equipment
Added increasing cost with each consecutive upgrade
Added mastery requirement for upgrading equipment
Changed upgrade level indicator

Enchanting Mechanic:

Added runeforge anvil for enchanting
Added runestone items for each enchantment
Added 21 new enchantments
Added ability to enchant equipment
Added ability to disenchant equipment
Implemented enchanting menu

Dungeons & Loot:

Added loot affinity mechanic
Added common plants affinity
Added rare plants affinity
Added crafting materials affinity
Added building materials affinity
Added legendary affinity
Removed banes from quest dungeons
Added legendary dungeons
Added banes to legendary dungeons
Implemented new map item
Added common plants map
Added rare plants map
Added crafting materials map
Added building materials map
Added legendary map
Changed dungeon discovery notification to show affinity
Added chance for boss enemies to drop equipment

Skills:

Changed equipment upgrading skills
Changed smithing mastery skill to reduce upgrade cost
Added enchanter skill tree
Added enchanter skill to unlock runeforge
Added enchanter skill to increase soul extractor durability
Added enchanter skill to gather more soul energy
Added enchanter skill to disenchant equipment
Added enchanter skill to decrease cost of enchanting
Added craftsman skill to unlock forge
Added craftsman skill to scrap equipment
Removed some craftsman skills
Added alchemist skill to unlock alchemy lab
Removed some alchemist skills
Added skill to increase max combo point
Changed assault skill to increase two handed armor damage
Changed carnage skill to one handed bleeding damage to assault tree
Added move speed skill to rage mode tree
Removed combo gain skill from rage mode tree
Removed parry stamina damage skill from counter tactics tree
Added ability to reflect parried projectiles
Added skill to reflect parried projectiles to counter tactics tree
Moved skill to increase combo decay time to counter tactics tree
Added skill to increase critical chance while the combo is peaked to carnage tree
Removed skill to increase critical chance from carnage tree

Additions:

Implemented ability to deposit items in the outpost chest
Added active effects display in character menu
Added possession value to character stats
Added teleport system to city
Implemented new selection popup
Added building materials to city tower chest
Added outpost tutorial
Added crew tutorial
Added runestone tutorial

Improvements:

Added ability to sell non-unique quest items
Implemented automatic bug report feature
Improved controller compatability
Made unrecognized controllers fall back to xbox controller layout
Added color indication to combat challenge objective descriptions
Changed crafting menu tabs to icons
Changed unread notes notification to be more clear
Added grass to upper district city hall
Replaced flowers in city to fit the grass
Changed health and stamina stats in character menu showing current and max value
Removed wealth bane because it wasn't very fun
Changed crafting menu to show value of resulting item
Increased max possible locations on the map
Added hand icon for usable misc items
Added ability to faster increment count slider with controllers
Made parry faster and more responsive
Increased cap for crafting cost display to 999
Improved combat challenge variety
Changed save game format for better compatability in the future
Implemented more safety measures for save game loading and saving
Revised static quest framework
Improved skill descriptions
Updated possession tutorial message
Updated intro tutorial messages
Updated crafting tutorial message
Updated parry tutorial message

Balancing:

Rebalanced equipment upgrade costs
Increased enchanted equipment upgrade cost
Increased and rebalanced quest rewards
Decreased max possible attack speed
Decreased mind bane possession damage
Decreased pestilence bane disease damage
Increased power attack speed
Increased power attack damage and armor penetration
Increased XP gain from high level enemies
Rebalanced enemy damage and health values
Increased hunger disease damage
Increased Behemoth attack range
Decreased stun time of enemies
Increased combo gain with bow
Increased blade and bolt arrow yield
Increased blade and bolt arrow damage
Rebalanced crafting costs
Increased forge hammer durability
Rebalanced armor protection value
Decreased effect of wealth protection enchantment
Increased valuables sell value
Decreased other items sell value
Slightly increased required level XP
Increased gained XP in early game
Increased skill book rarity
Increased knowledge tome rarity
Significantly increased trap damage
Significantly increased parry damage
Significantly increased parry stamina damage
Changed plant double drop skill to be chance-based
Decreased time to kill creatures for combat challange to 5 seconds
Slightly increased stamina costs
Increased effect of Intimidating enchantment
Removed arrows from quest rewards
Rebalanced gift box prices
Increased stealth damage for bows and one handed weapons

Assets:

Added new outpost architecture
Added facility icons
Added construction sounds
Added sleeping sound
Added blessing sound
Added new furniture meshes
Added new prop meshes
Added new dummy mesh
Added notice board mesh
Added surplus chest mesh
Added trading desk mesh
Added alchemy workbench mesh
Added new door meshes
Added new king npc mesh
Improved Commander Reynald mesh
Improved bucket mesh
Improved blood splat texture
Improved map texture
Added new blood explosion particle effect
Added crystal counter attack sound
Added enchanting sound
Added disenchanting sound

Fixes:

Fixed compass marker of quest givers not updating
Fixed incorrect calculation of upgraded equipment stats
Fixed higher level chests not spawning
Fixed bugged equipment drop chance
Fixed alchemical enchantment not working
Fixed bug with quest givers not talking to the player
Fixed overflowing text and incorrect font sizes
Fixed alchemist skill to improve potion sell prices not working correctly
Fixed blacksmith skill to improve crafting resources sell prices not working correctly
Fixed trading skill not working correctly
Fixed herb witch not restocking
Fixed bug with enchantments not being disabled
Fixed HUD staying visible in menus sometimes
Fixed wrapping version text for steam deck
Fixed a number of typos
Fixed incorrect controller sensitivity calculation
Fixed wrong combat speed tooltip
Fixed weapon remains not disappearing from corpse loot
Fixed being able to pick up invalid items
Fixed shields getting unequipped when loading a new scene
Fixed player equipment having interaction glow
Fixed npcs sometimes getting stuck while sheating or unsheating weapon
Fixed npc markers not at their actual position when ragdolled
Fixed damage screen effect stuck sometimes
Fixed being able to pick up invalid items
Fixed incorrect calculation of health skill buff
Fixed incorrect projectile reflection direction
Fixed parry damage not having a physical force
Fixed some weapon meshes
Fixed quest menu info not scrolling with controller
Fixed dialog zooming stutter
Fixed falling back to wrong default language
Disabled main menu button hover scaling
Fixed boss disappearing sometimes when you load a dungeon