Patch #09: Caravans from the other kingdoms!

[p]Hey everyone 👑[/p][p][/p][p]I slept for a whole day, went for a big walk with Mio and had a great dinner with my family. Then I wanted to fix one small thing and just could not stop again. It is hard to see you having problems that I can easily solve and just do nothing. But I had a blast! And it is much easier to work when nobody expects anything from you 😂[/p][p][/p][p]The big change is that the caravan feature gets unlocked after beating the second boss now. Each time you select your fate, you gain reputation with one of the other kingdoms. Once you have enough reputation they send a caravan with items. The feedback was very clear that build variety was lacking early, and items are a great way to give agency to the player. [/p][p][/p][p]Two often requested features were a catalog of bosses to see which ones still need to be beaten, and healthbars for mini-bosses. I'm happy I could implement that so fast. The resource UI was also improved to always display the current stars, and display the amount of super metal in overlays. The gamepad support has also been improved.[/p][p][/p][p]Most of the other changes are related to clarity, tutorials, and descriptions again. It is good to see fewer and fewer questions coming up, and I also got some great tips on how to explain things better from the community. One of those was to add help messages to the death screen. One could be "You can build the bonfire multiple times", shown after 400 glory. But of course it should start much simpler. Please share your ideas in the comments! What hint would have helped you?[/p][p][/p][p]And then we have a myriad of bug fixes. The balance adjustments also become a lot smaller. All together, a really good update, I hope.[/p][p][/p][h3]Steam Reviews[/h3][p]Please make sure to leave a Steam review, sharing your thoughts and feedback about Super Fantasy Kingdom. They're a powerful way to let me know what you think and help out quite a bit! I'll continue to look through them as more patches come out.[/p][p][/p][p]Now back to my break![/p][p][/p][p]Feryaz[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][h3]New features/QoL:[/h3]

• [p]The caravans get unlocked after defeating the second boss now[/p]
• [p]Added a catalog of all bosses to the unlocks menu[/p]
• [p]Added a tutorial for the first time a unit goes hungry[/p]
• [p]Added hint that you need to give items to units[/p]
• [p]The elemental tower can be clicked to read the tutorial again[/p]
• [p]Removed the word stars from evolution description to prevent confusion[/p]
• [p]Improved boss chest description to include that you get relics based on your units[/p]
• [p]Improved black market description to state it can only be used once per cycle[/p]
• [p]Improved relic tutorial to explain that every unit has one relic[/p]
• [p]Human road builder improved description to include how he targets[/p]
• [p]Human forager overlay displays amount of thickets[/p]
• [p]Undead improved thieves description[/p]
• [p]Undead Candy shop improved description[/p]
• [p]Undead Library improved description[/p]
• [p]Throne room canceling crafting opens the armory[/p]
• [p]UI minibosses have a health bar now[/p]
• [p]UI moved stars and banish amounts[/p]
• [p]UI added super metal to top bar where stars were before[/p]
• [p]UI Markers are white now[/p]
• [p]UI gamepad middle of the screen is not weirdly preselected anymore[/p]
• [p]Disabled resolutions below 720p[/p]
• [p]Disabled pause menu after game over[/p]

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[/p][h3]Balancing:[/h3]

• [p]Undead Candy shop increased candy capacity[/p]
• [p]Undead start with one bonepile less[/p]
• [p]Undead start with one rock more[/p]
• [p]Undead trader reduced coins received 10 > 9[/p]

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• [p]Item Overshield can only be given to units with shield[/p]
• [p]Qhela reduced poison stack potency effect[/p]
• [p]Abomination increased base damage 10 > 13[/p]
• [p]Bone Golem does not apply fatigue anymore[/p]
• [p]Book Bloat increased cooldown 2.5s > 3s[/p]
• [p]Miner has learned to aim[/p]
• [p]Swordsman reduced min range 10m > 5m[/p][p][/p]

• [p]Villain Butcher does not come as close[/p]

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Fixes:[/h3]

• [p]Fixed tutorials freezing the game if they display a button that was rebound to numpad[/p]
• [p]Fixed scientist eating a unit does not reduce count of hungry units[/p]
• [p]Fixed minimizing scientist and sending unit to dungeon before giving it to him[/p]
• [p]Fixed wizard cards to select not being shown if you did not finish a run with them yet[/p]
• [p]Fixed scientist and wizard choice resetting on entering unlock screen[/p]
• [p]Fixed scientist and wizard choice resetting when exiting throne room[/p]
• [p]Fixed planter growing wild wheat[/p]
• [p]Fixed upgrading a unit before selecting slot[/p]
• [p]Fixed moving a unit when fate overlay pops up[/p]
• [p]Fixed selection of middle option with gamepad[/p]
• [p]Fixed siege shop grayed out cards[/p]
• [p]Fixed evolution buildings vanishing[/p]
• [p]Fixed caravan not visiting on day 16[/p]
• [p]Fixed two caravans on the same day[/p]
• [p]Fixed midday caravan counting as reroll if there was one on the morning[/p]
• [p]Fixed empty save files being backed up (and overwriting the real backups)[/p]
• [p]Fixed throne room being able to click during kingdom leveling[/p]
• [p]Fixed Undead thieves hut only being upgradeable once[/p]
• [p]Fixed Undead thieves hut not clickable after canceling[/p]
• [p]Fixed Undead edge of map visual bug[/p]
• [p]Fixed Undead graveyard task[/p]
• [p]Fixed Undead bloat hunters not going for the same one[/p]
• [p]Fixed Humans thicket icon in hunter's hut is not updated[/p]
• [p]Fixed Humans watermill being clickable before reaching it[/p]
• [p]Fixed Humans watermill being called village[/p]
• [p]Fixed Archer evo attach description stating wrong amount of arrows[/p]
• [p]Fixed Banshee evo passive displaying wrong stat[/p]
• [p]Fixed Bee upgrades increased cooldown[/p]
• [p]Fixed Bee upgrades piercing stat not increasing[/p]
• [p]Fixed Endboss avatar[/p]
• [p]Fixed Crimson Heart relic[/p]
• [p]Fixed Kraken being stingy[/p]
• [p]Fixed Thorny Whip being displayed as belonging to Dryad instead of Treant[/p]
• [p]Fixed barrier causing an error sometimes maybe[/p]
• [p]Fixed something else but never wrote it down[/p]

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