Build 14.1.21 Is Live! + New Discord Server and Early Access Release Date

Hey everyone!

We said it was coming and now it's finally here -- you can now actually get the artifact needed to complete the demo quest which was preventing you from progressing on the game.

As Maui said: "You're welcome!" (sorry Disney, please don't shut us down...)

Plus, we crushed a lot of other important pesky bugs:

Added: Ability to save games manually - Press F5 to quicksave at any time - this is for Kaylo7, Lord Blade, and others who were asking for multiple saves with such a buggy game
Added: New load save game screen. Shows valuable data like file save date/time, character name, world name, and total wealth (not just your current gold but TOTAL WEALTH)
Improved: The Worlds and Save Files list is now newest to oldest - eventually we come around to doing it right!
Fixed: Unable to get the artifact in the final room. We no longer put it in a chest, we just put it in your inventory. Even if your inventory is full you still get the artifact. Everyone will always get the artifact! Yay!
Fixed: Encounter system should no longer lock up now in a bad state, allowing the player to continue playing. This was the source of many many bugs
1. Fixed: Quest phases breaking resulting in Soft Lock and unable to move on map
   
2. Fixed: Soft Lock which caused menus to disappear
   
3. Fixed: Game crashes after sea travel
   
4. Fixed: Money disappearing after you add it to tower treasury
   
5. Fixed: Error when casting magic on a town from the map (hex casting)
   
6. Fixed: Errors fighting guards defending a town after you attacked it with spells from the map (hex casting)
   
7. Fixed: Playing a second life skips character creation
   
8. Fixed: Equipping armor now works the same as equipping weapons
   
9. Fixed: World generation crash while generating history
   
10. Fixed: World Gen screen could be clicked through, triggering items on Main Menu screen and just making a big mess of the game
    
11. Fixed: Player note map icons were failing to load from a save file, they should show up now
    
12. Fixed: Settings menu button highlights were not working properly
    
13. Fixed: Selling draft animals now works. It actually checks for creature’s inventory instead of player’s animal count :facepalm
    
14. Fixed: Clicking leave in a building and being sent all the way out of town
    
15. Fixed: Issue with game locking up when saving generated world after world generation
    
16. Fixed: reduced town music volumes for better balance
    
17. Fixed: Bug notification pop-up not working
    
18. Fixed: Game crashing when settings file doesn’t exist
    
19. Fixed: Broken choice in caravan encounter
    
20. Fixed: some inventory item movement errors
    
21. Fixed: Killing an NPC in a building led to bad recursive errors
    
22. Fixed: Various errors loading save files
    
23. Added more error tracking for dungeon issues, hopefully this will help in the future.
    
24. Removed: Email section to bug reporter: with the time delay from reporting an issue to when we work on it, it just isn't of practical use
    

Known Issues:

• Conclave ending does not fire the final boss fight, however the quest is complete and players can freely do what they want
  
• The guards in the final battle won't die. We thought we fixed it, but testing has proven we haven't. If you encounter this here is a work around:
  Open the console with ~
  Type in Combat.Win
  You will win the combat and can continue on with your life.
  I realize that is a crappy solve to this bug, but that's the best we can do for today.
  

We've also conjured up our new Discord server here if you'd like to join us: https://discord.gg/DUE2NYPrcQ

And good news, we can officially announce our Early Access release date: Archmage Rises is officially going to Early Access on Monday April 17, 2023 (only a few weeks away)!

We'll have another build for you next week so keep those bug reports coming (or not, hopefully you won't experience too many more bugs 😅).