Soulash 2 News

[p]Greetings fellow gods,[/p][p][/p][p]Today, we have a new impossible tier special location featuring a very special being called a Mushdragon. I won't say more - you'll have to see it for yourself![/p][p][/p][p]Here's the changelog for today's update:[/p][h3]

Added[/h3][p]- New Impossible special location with a Mushdragon.[/p][p]- Settlement Screen: Rename Settlement Button is now available to change settlement names for player-founded settlements.[/p][p]- New Passive effect: Damage Negation - gives a chance to negate damage of a specific type.[/p][p]- You can now issue orders to your companions to wait/follow using the action context menu (via RMB). You can order distant companions to rush back to you by clicking the new wait icon on their portraits (it appears only when they are waiting).[/p][p][/p][h3]Changed[/h3][p]- Settlement designation icons sprites (capital, occupied, razed) changed for higher resolution ones.[/p][p]- Necromancy 'Turn Vampire' can only be used if we are vampires ourselves.[/p][p]- 'Turn Vampire' can be used on your party companions also outside of friendly settlements.[/p][p]- Resistance to specific damage type over 10k grants immunity to that damage type (applies mostly to selected, specific enemies).[/p][p]- New sound effects for Death Aura, Death Stare, and Necrotic Touch.[/p][p][/p][h3]Fixed[/h3][p]- Settlement name validation will once again allow spaces in between names.[/p][p]- Ressurected entities can be controlled by control undead.[/p][p]- Passives from artifacts were not refreshed when upgrading equipped artifacts.[/p][p]- Transforming self or other into vampires now properly replaces the parts of the portraits with vampiric features (red eyes, fangs).[/p][p]- When changing some portrait sprites during transformations, the drawing layer order is preserved.[/p][p]- You can only transform alive actors into vampires. (No more 'Turn Vampire' action showing on vampires, golems, or skeletal companions).[/p][p]- Permanently transforming into another race (lich or vampire) also changes your actor tags. No more self-healing divine fists necrotyrants.[/p][p]- Mroz (undead frost giant) boss cannot be controlled by 'control undead'.[/p][p]- List elements in the knowledge tab will not go out of bounds when scrolling while having filtering enabled.[/p][p]- Fixed crash when trying to resurrect a character with an unknown occupation "???".[/p][p]- Fixed game crashing on retired characters trying to transform into werewolves (and many other occasions).[/p][p]- Fixed crash when transformation ended on dead characters.[/p][p]- Manticore corpse is heavier.[/p][p]- Reptilian Carpenters will talk to you now.[/p][p]- Fixed incorrect selections of world map tiles under other UI elements, outside of the viewport (like claim settlement or uncovering resources).[/p][p]- The pending caravan is now reset when switching settlements in the Settlement Screen.[/p][p]- Fixed item duplication glitch while on the world map.[/p][p]- Fixed auto-picking up throwing weapons/bolts/arrows, which were thrown/shot at least once, after manually dropping them and moving away.[/p][p]- It's not possible to hire and take on adventure troll, orc, or gnoll settlement leaders anymore.[/p][p]- Fixed one of the Gatherer building requirements of Paralyzing Mushrooms.[/p][p]- Fixed tooltip position when wielding 2 items in each hand.[/p][p][/p][p]My main focus remains on gamepad support. I would say we're halfway there, and I hope that in 1 or 2 weeks, we'll have solid support for Steam Deck. This month, I want to see 2 other significant features added: an extension of Leadership to enhance army ordering, and an economy screen to better manage resource flow and trading. Next month, we'll begin work on the v0.10 major update: World Events.[/p][p][/p][p]Have a fun weekend,[/p][p]Artur[/p]

[h3]Changed[/h3][p]- Companions will no longer switch their locked weapons, e.g., when an archer companion is in melee, he will no longer switch to a melee weapon. If a melee companion has a fishing rod, he will no longer switch to the fishing rod to attack from range.[/p][p]- Locked items will no longer be auto-equipped.[/p][p]- Locked items will no longer be automatically eaten when traveling.[/p][p]- Equipment Screen: Fixed party slots going out of panel bounds if you end up with too many friends.[/p][p]- Multiplier for sold copies of the same item to family now reduces by 10% until 30%, then by 5% until the minimum 10%.[/p][p][/p][h3]Fixed[/h3][p]- Fixed Freezes when working in a building and sailing.[/p][p]- Fixed occasional missing information when drinking and advancing in Adventuring while traveling the world map.[/p][p]- Fixed 'Shining Star' passive skill effect.[/p][p]- When naming a state, it's no longer possible to open the Options or Tutorial screens.[/p][p]- Stone Bead Ring lacking Armor component.[/p][p]- Fixed Bone Wraith Head cannot be equipped on meat golems.[/p][p]- You can cancel orders from dead crafters now.[/p]

[h3]Changed[/h3][p]- While traveling the world map, the camera follows the player character.[/p][p][/p][h3]Fixed[/h3][p]- Fixed DataTable resources crash.[/p][p]- Fixed a crash related to NPC behavior.[/p][p]- Fixed glitches while traveling across the world.[/p][p]- Fixed world map navigation with WASD.[/p][p]- Names of recipes in tooltips no longer go out of the tooltip bounds.[/p][p]- Fixed the Werewolf transformation stat allocation being reverted and stats gained being lost bug.[/p]

[p]Greetings fellow gods,[/p][p][/p][p]With a mighty productive week behind us, I bring you some long-awaited improvements that many of you have requested. From new athletics and leadership experience sources to new ways of earning sweet, sweet gold for crafters, the list is long and full of goodies.[/p][p][/p][p]But most importantly, you can now see the world wraps on the x-axis, so hopefully I won't hear about the lack of sea transports on remote islands ever again. ;)[/p][p][/p][p]Here's the full changelog:[/p][p][/p][h3]Added[/h3][p]- New Location - Holy War in Snow biome.[/p][p]- Added new conversation option for entities working in a military building that allows crafters to fulfill orders for weapons, armor, cloth, and jewelry pieces. Such orders have a price multiplier of 120% during times of peace and 160% during war.[/p][p]- The Knowledge Screen Company section now has a tab for Known Orders of each company.[/p][p]- The Knowledge Screen Company section can be filtered by battles or known orders.[/p][p]- Added filter in Mods Screen to find specific mods to toggle.[/p][p]- Added an option to rename any player relative in the Knowledge Screen.[/p][p]- Ammo Counter next to stamina bar: If we have a bow/crossbow/throwing weapon equipped, there is an extra counter that shows available ammunition.[/p][p]- Food and items granting ability effects have their ability descriptions written in their tooltips.[/p][p]- New animated border for tier 5 artifact items.[/p][p][/p][h3]Changed[/h3][p]- Products (not resources) crafted by players have their base sell price increased to 60% from 35%.[/p][p]- Selling the same non-stackable item to the same family independently of the ingredients of the item reduces the base sell price by 10% per item to a minimum of 10%.[/p][p]- New Leadership experience sources: Players gain additional Leadership experience when companions make the final blow and kill opponents, as well as when they finalize in-progress building orders.[/p][p]- New Athletics experience source: Walking now provides 1 exp per 100 tiles traversed in region maps, up to level 10 of Athletics, allowing a natural but slow progression for early levels.[/p][p]- Improved pathfinding for the exit region to find more optimal paths across multiple z-levels.[/p][p]- Improved pathfinding of companions and NPCs when in need of changing z-levels.[/p][p]- In Knowledge Screen, the Skills and Recipes tabs selection persists when selecting a new being, unless they don't have them.[/p][p]- When a player or party member is attacked in a neutral town, the military units in it may join in to help.[/p][p]- Improved caret behavior in inputs: holding arrow keys will move the caret through multiple letters, and pasting content into inputs moves the caret to the end.[/p][p]- Passing by a town in the World Map triggers drinking and refilling, same as passing by the river - with the exception of aggressive towns or when the player character has a bounty in it.[/p][p]- Portraits of dead NPCs are greyed out.[/p][p]- Throwing weapons at range 1 (point-blank) no longer causes the equipped weapon to be thrown.[/p][p]- Previously thrown weapons are now automatically equipped to the main hand upon pickup, provided it is not occupied by a locked item. Thrown weapons are also automatically picked up when moving onto an adjacent tile, similar to arrows.[/p][p]- Unified World Map across all screens with functionality and improved rendering in some areas.[/p][p]- When buildings consume food resources to produce better quality food, the used food reduces the amount of produced food, instead of getting added to consumed food, for the purpose of settlement food mechanics.[/p][p]- Jadeite added to special location.[/p][p]- Gees now leave feathers behind.[/p][p]- Increased prices on artifact resources.[/p][p]- Drinking whole water from Water Cactus doesn't remove it.[/p][p]- Chain Effects will no longer target any non-hostile entities like allied soldiers or townsfolk.[/p][p]- Modal windows in many places were updated to a new background.[/p][p][/p][h3]Fixed[/h3][p]- Fixed maintaining workshop mods selection on game restart.[/p][p]- Fixed icons under the Producing section going out of bounds in the Building tooltips.[/p][p]- Pasting from the clipboard to the input adds text at the caret position, rather than replacing the input content completely.[/p][p]- Multiple fixes to multi-tile issues related to movement and display.[/p][p]- Traveling Armies and Settlers are once again visible on the World Generation screen.[/p][p]- Keep Throwing: When throwing two weapons simultaneously, the new auto-equipped throwing weapons from inventory now correctly equip to both hands, allowing continuous throwing.[/p][p]- Picked Bearberry Bushes and Picked Blueberry Bushes can now be used to build a farm building.[/p][p]- Fixed overlapping military buildings on the Settlement Management Screen on 2560x1440 resolution.[/p][p]- Names of entities and items in tooltips no longer go out of the tooltip bounds.[/p][p]- Fixed some typos.[/p][p][/p][h3]Modding[/h3][p]- In the Chained component, right-click removes the entity from the grid.[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]The development focus will remain on various improvements before I move towards the next major content update, with the major topic ahead that I'm eyeing right now being gamepad support. It's a tough one, given the size of our game and the number of GUI elements, but I would love to have Soulash 2 playable on Steam Deck in the foreseeable future.[/p][p][/p][p]Many of today's changes and improvements come from the #s2-suggestions channel on our Discord. Many of the points in today's changelog are your great ideas to make the game better, and I continue to encourage you all to keep debating and voting with emotes on the ideas you want to see as I scroll through them.[/p][p][/p][p]Thank you all for playing and sharing your thoughts, and have a fun weekend.[/p][p]Artur[/p]

[h3]Changed[/h3][p]- Changed precipitation algorithm in world generation to improve biome edges on big maps - the algorithm change will affect the results of map seeds.[/p][p]- Ores are now grouped under the resource type Ore.[/p][p][/p][h3]Fixed[/h3][p]- Improved stability of history simulation.[/p][p]- Workshop mods now correctly load on game start, instead of potentially being disabled when one of them is broken.[/p][p]- Fixed passive description of new artifact-tier resources.[/p][p]- It's no longer possible to access the State Management screen with a hotkey before conditions are met.[/p][p]- Fixed Durability being displayed in black on the crafting recipe.[/p][p]- Removed black commas from recipe tooltips.[/p]