Banished Stone News

NOTE: This patch only applies to the full release version and not the demo version.

It contains the following:

• Mimic monsters may now spawn in a select few locations.
  
• Opal Charged Birthstone effect has been changed, you now get full fly time plus a 10 second fly time buff for 60 seconds.
  
• Consuming any kind of potion now gives an empty bottle at the end of it.
  
• Empty bottles are a crafting ingredient for Alchemy and needed to craft potions.
  
• Expanded crafting to allow for a third ingredient when crafting.
  
• When using a shovel, if you have unlocked the Lair of Mushy you'll end up there instead of the Lost Tunnels when the teleport triggers.
  

The change to potions is essentially to make it slightly more realistic but to also show you how recycling works!

This is a stability patch providing numerous fixes, including:

• Inventory Quantity and Power Quantity Stacking Glitch that may have meant the amount of items in your inventory was out of sync with your Power Bar Quantity.
  
• Energy Well may have been glitched for some and could not be picked up off the ground when it drops.
  
• Corrected a couple of grammatical issues with some of the quest screens.
  

Patch v1.07 adds the following features and changes:

• Added a Statistics button to the Achievements screen to allow you to see additional metrics that were previously hidden.
  
• Iridium armor is now visible as a crafting item when you go above level 7, previously it hid but as you need Iridium to make Stone armor it makes no sense for that to continue.
  
• Crafted (i.e. the number of times you crafted an item) is now recorded as a metric.
  
• Clicking on your Birthstone or Cataclysm on the Character screen will now repeat the text you saw when you were assigned that item.
  
• Birthstone powers now kick in more frequently.
  
• Completely redesigned the lighting system, lighting should now be a lot prettier.
  
• ESC key now triggers the game menu as well as the ~ key.
  
• Fixed and issue where the Change Log and Options menu items from the in-game menu may not have been selectable from keyboard or controller.
  
• Window Transparency setting in options has been replaced with Glow Effect, this option allows you to minimize the complexity of the glow bubbles for lighting. Setting it to reduced will improve performance.
  
• Added level 8+ combat power called Meteor.
  
• When a controller is in use (or on SteamDeck) the circle buttons will show the tooltip text on the button, it`s dawned on me that tooltip text will never show up when using a controller and some of those buttons were vague one word or even a symbol before, so the tooltip text was important.
  

[p]Sadly, out of the box we offer no guarantees on Steam Deck compatibility.[/p][p][/p][p]However one player has successfully managed to get the game to work on Steam Deck with the odd crash.[/p][p][/p][p]https://steamcommunity.com/app/2821720/discussions/0/592901757752929371/[/p][p][/p][p]According to Dreamerr:[/p]

• [p]Switch to desktop mode and get ProtonUp or whatever way you get/update glorious eggroll proton.[/p]
• [p]Install GE-Proton10-8 and set it as the games compatibility tool[/p]
• [p]Disable steam overlay.[/p]
• [p]It crashes every so often but not terrible[/p]

[p][/p][p]I'll update this post if new ways are discovered to get it to run.[/p][p][/p][p]Thanks for checking Banished Stone out![/p]

[p]A feature update primarily with a couple of bug fixes.[/p][p][/p][p]This update adds the PACS system which stands for Prophecies and Cataclysms.[/p][p][/p][p]You'll be randomly assigned a Birthstone (Prophecy) when you enter the Elder Forest for the second time. Old players simply go back to the Elder Forest after loading the update, new players do nothing and you'll eventually trigger it.[/p][p][/p][p]Later on you'll run into the Sayer NPC and will get a Cataclysm assigned to your character.[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]Also includes:[/p][p][/p]

• [p]Adjusted the baked on text feature, so the newbie tips will indeed go away at level 2 as expected. Seems like they were sticking till level 3 instead.[/p]
• [p]You now also have a Birthstone power bar, when this reaches full (which happens from combat) it will auto-trigger a new special power unique to that Birthstone.[/p]
• [p]Fleeing monsters now show a fright speech bubble before they run.[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue with some shadows on objects on the map not showing up correctly due to the image not being cached correctly while the shadow is loading.[/p]
• [p]Changing outfits now has a little more fancy effect, such as a sound and some visual changes.[/p]
• [p]Kinsman's Camp map has had a tweak to the background imagery.[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue with some ambient sound effects not stopping correctly.[/p]

[p]As part of your Birthstone (patch v1.05) you'll get a new power up bar below your energy bar in the top left corner.[/p][p]The POWER UP bar fills up as you deal damage in combat, when it reaches 100% it automatically triggers providing a unique effect specific to your birthstone.[/p]

• [p]Diamond, a magical protection shield.[/p]
• [p]Ruby, refills your health.[/p]
• [p]Amethyst, refills your energy.[/p]
• [p]Emerald, a 50 second boost to speed.[/p]
• [p]Opal, refill your flying timer.[/p]
• [p]Bloodstone, a 50 second boost to combat damage.[/p]