Wildermyth News

Happy Holidays, Adventurers!!
We have a lot of exciting new things for the holiday season for you all. First up:

[h2]Our German and Spanish (LATAM) Translations are live![/h2]
Our translators have been busy, and the German and Spanish translations are finally ready! Thanks to our fantastic German translators: Nadja Sommerfeld, Christina Brombach, Alexander Engelhardt, and Manuel Krainer, and our incredible Spanish translators: Matías E. Desalvo, Guido Bindi, Laura R. Cariola, Luis Mormolini and Carolina Panero.
(As with the last patch, Russian and French are getting close, but aren't at the quality assurance step yet.)

[h2]Gorgon Changes[/h2]
Ah, Gorgons: everyone's favorite introductory enemy. We've decided to revisit them and make some changes to their abilities, mostly focusing on how corruption functions. We're hoping that these changes make combat with Gorgons more dynamic and interesting.

All Gorgons now leave paths of corruption when they are damaged, and they also leave corruption on tiles when they die. Corruption deals 1 magic damage when moving into a corrupted tile, so we've made the tile feedback more visible. Check out the patch notes for the other changes that we made!

[h2]New Stuff[/h2]
Freshen up your heroes for the holidays with six new hairstyles and twenty new augments! We've also added two new events, four new tidings, and New maps for Grove and Earthworks sites.

[h2]Winter Sale[/h2]
From 12/22-1/05, Wildermyth will be 25% off! Snag a copy for a friend as a Christmas gift, or just treat yourself by checking off your wishlist.


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[h2]1.11+460 Firlow[/h2]
Added official support for German and Latin American Spanish!
New Events:
* Moss
* Rings of Story (generic campaign start event)
4 New Tidings!
Gorgon Changes:
* Gorgons now have corrupt path when damaged
* Gorgons now leave behind corruption when they die
* Corruption now deals 1 magic damage when moving onto it
* Corruption no longer grants enemies temporary health
* Corruption stays on the map for two hero turns
* Corruption tile feedback is more visible
* Removed corruptionTouch calamities for gorgons
* Seacaller now appears earlier with reduced health and tentacles
* Gheist Maul no longer deals damage, only shred
* Bogmoor has a calamity that increases Noxious Tongue range
* Bogmoor "Bloated" passive: explodes into corruption on death
* Bartoth Thundering Blood Explosive enemies explode when
killed dealing full damage to heroes and half to allies
* New Noxious Tongue sfx and vfx
6 New Hairstyles!
20 New Augments!
Added tooltips for tile effects like fire, corruption, acid, etc.
Slight increase to hide & fabric costs on armors
Removed a few useless calamities like damage bonus to Kinnestend
Adjusted many abilities so audio plays at the target tile
Drathix and Terrorbird special abilities deal damage when they
receive a damage calamity
New maps for Grove and Earthworks sites
Adjusted How to Play page for retreating
Adjusted Ulstryx Hurl Beast ability animation
Fix a bug where Sharpshooter didn't work with Ambush or Burning Arrow
Fix a bug where Lover's Vengeance affected Shieldshear & Shadowchase
Fix a bug where hero would gain a tail too soon in the Merchant
Fix a bug with Child of Night history lines showing wrong hero
Fix a bug where 3 newest pets don't count toward achievements
Disabled retreat button in Ulstryx ch2 capstone
Fix a bug where progress toward "Thwack!" achievement didn't work
for multi-tile enemies
Fix a bug where Spiritchase would deal damage if a hidden hero used it
(It should only ever shred warding)
Fix a bug where Burning Arrow wouldn't work with theme attacks
on multi-tile targets
Fix a bug where branching attacks wouldn't show up in the combat log
Fix a bug where Wailing Trees couldn't be destroyed (hotfix 1.10-454)
Fix a bug where some theme ability sounds weren't playing
Fix some typos
Tools: Added audioAtPosition field to Animate outcome
Tools: Added appendHistory field for creating entities
Tools: Added rigOverride|RIG aspect to override a unit's rig
Tools: rigs.json and humanAging.json files now merge
Tools: Added nameFormulaOverride|FORMULA aspect that can be used to
override the default maleName/femaleName generation
Tools: Mods can now override images in human/unpacked by putting
images in human/misc
Tools: Unit skeleton data can now be loaded from mods
(e.g. spine/Bobblehead warrior.json)
Tools: History entry ids 500-599 now treated as gender/orientation

[h2]We're Steam Deck Verified![/h2]
It's official! Wildermyth is now Steam Deck Verified so you can play on the go with ease.
Here's a look at Wildermyth in action on the Steam Deck:
[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]

[h2]Our Portuguese Translation is Live![/h2]
After over a year of hard work, we're so pleased to announce that our Brazilian-Portuguese translation is live! (Translation by Edson Belo de Oliveira Júnior - @mundonasher)

German and Spanish are right on its heels- they're currently going through localization quality assurance. Russian and French are both getting close, but aren't quite at the quality assurance step yet.

[h2]Merch Sale![/h2]
From 11/25 until 12/09, everything in our merch store will be 20% off. Order soon to make sure everything arrives in time for the holidays! Click here to shop the sale.


[h2]More Treats[/h2]
Our writers have been busy; we've added a new event, rewritten another, and added 10 new tidings. We've also added 3 new pets! You can find sneak peeks of them on our socials if you do some creeping around.

Additionally, you'll notice new VFX for some theme skins and abilities. We hope these will add some extra flavor to your heroes in combat.

In Multiplayer, everyone can now recruit from their legacies, not just the host. Now you can show off your hard earned Mythwalkers and take on Walking Lunch together. And, of course, we've squashed a lot of bugs and added some QoL Tools for us and modders.


[h2]1.10+453 Suna Lo Haster[/h2]
Added official support for Brazilian Portuguese!
Steam Deck Verified!
New Event: Shadow and Sly
Rewritten Events:
* Mooringlight (from: Star Dance)
Revised Events:
* Finders Keepers
3 New Pets!
10 New tidings/credits comics!
Multiplayer clients can now recruit from their legacies
Melee and Range accuracy stats merged into one "Accuracy" stat
(Upbringing stats should be properly merged for existing heroes)
Reduced critter and crow amulet accuracy buffs from 15 to 12
Credits comics can now be manually navigated, automatic time is
longer for comics with more text, and fewer snapshots are shown
Years of peace and Credits comics now have reduced chance of
showing ones you've seen in previous campaigns (like regular
comics) and have better weighting
Some armors now have Silver and Gold variations (in customize tab)
New VFX for Wolf Howl, Shard Skin, and some theme skins
New ability icons
Crystal Chrysalis now explodes and deals damage on hero's next turn
Comics will vertically scroll if too big to fit on screen
Overland job start events show the actual ability name as the title
Adjusted ability bar positioning for Jumpjolt and Witherbolt
Opening the Editor on Steam sets the controller to act like a mouse
Fix a bug where using Larger comics in Chinese would crash the game
Fix a bug where Sharpshooter could cause incorrect Ambush max range
Fix a bug where Temple of Silence attack was invisible + multi-hit
Fix a bug where Chinese difficulty settings in Options > This Game
could show up in English
Fix a bug with viewing the patch notes in the main menu
Fix a bug where hero level up dialog didn't show the upgraded stats
Fix a bug where Proud quest main and secondary heroes were swapped
Fix a bug with temp armor and warding being removed in wrong order
Fix a bug where Steam Workshop mod campaigns wouldn't load at start
Fix a bug where kill tracking would cause lag with large legacies
Fix a bug where Mythweaver ability text didn't fit on the button
Fix a bug with invisible tutorial tooltips in controller mode
Fix a bug where on kill effects wouldn't happen for hero who
killed Ecthis zombie mentor.
Fix a bug where Shieldshear plays wrong sfx if holding a crossbow
Fix a bug where Enduring War sacrificed hero was immediately put
into the legacy without promotion
Fix a bug where No Time for Clawmonsters achievement couldn't be
achieved by a reaction strike
Fix a bug where Passing Shadow achievement could carry over
between missions
Fix a bug where in The Offering, rat tail would show up too soon
Fix a bug with loading name data if some locales didn't exist
Fix a bug where Jumpjaw didn't apply the correct amount of poison
Fix a bug where gorgons wouldn't spawn in Temple of Silence
Fix a bug with jobs with long names that would go off the tooltip
Fix a bug where using Burning Arrow with Ambush prepared would
give the burning arrow +2 damage
Fix a bug where waterling history line could use wrong gender for
waterling if the hero is attracted to anyone
Fix a (mod?) crash if a promotion ability not in a pool is shown
Fix a bug with artifact weapon hero death choice "attack" option
Fix a bug where Ambush and Vost could hit multiple times
Fix a bug where frog tongue could pull some immovable enemies
Fix a bug where bow range would read as 1-8 instead of 2-8
Fix a bug where backend comic text could show for missing aspects
Fix a bug with Enter and Escape functionality in content editor
Fix some typos
Tools: Added CustomizeHero Outcome for customization of a hero's
head, face, hair, colors, and extra parts, or randomizing a slot
Tools: Added requireAspects field for HumanSkin Parts, for
customizations that only show up for heroes with certain aspects
Tools: Comic editor hovered objects now show a box around them
Tools: Comic editor Clickthrough view now jumps to selected panel
Tools: Comic editor now shows effect in side panel (also added
simple view, so it's easy to adjust event weights and scores)
Tools: Added TIDING_MISC_GENERAL and TIDING_WRAPUP_GENERAL types
(So they don't need to focus on a specific hero)
Tools: Improved Pick Events feedback for tidings and credits
Tools: Added several keyboard shortcuts for selected hero cheats:
(Bindings also viewable in Combat Lab) Ctrl+Shift+H/A/D/S/R:
Add Temp Health/Actions/Bonus Damage/Speed/Refresh Abilities
Tools: In editor, with Multi-paste enabled:
* Can now append multiple entries without closing window
* Can append entries after existing entries in lists via Paste
* Copied values now show more human-readable summary
Tools: Name generation files (like human.names.json) now merge
Tools: Added abilityForbidAspects field for ability aspects
Tools: Added toDegrees and toRadians expressions
Tools: Added between(x, min, max) expression
Tools: Added if(x, pass, fail) expression
Tools: Editor particle and audio fields now show suggestions
Tools: Added better logging for Test failures
Tools: Added scoreTiesTrueRandom option to BY_SCORE targets
Tools: Can now use Animate Outcome to spawn overland particles
Tools: Ability, Theme, and Gear cheats now execute immediately

Hail, adventurers! We have an update for you all that makes some big changes to attack synergies.

Previously, arm transformations would make certain abilities useless, which always felt a little bad. So this patch, we've made it so that ranged and melee theme attacks can often be used with certain abilities regardless of their melee/ranged status. We're hoping this allows for some more interesting build variety. (Quellingmoss + Cone of Fire? Sentinel + Chain Lightning?) More specifically: Most Ranged and Melee theme attacks will now work with Guardian, Sentinel, Broadswipes, Riposte, Ember Arrows, Piercing Shots, Quellingmoss, Archery, and Ambush.

For you controller and Steam Deck users out there, we made a ton of quality of life adjustments to bindings and UI, so controls should work better and smaller resolutions (like playing on the Steam Deck with the "bigger" UI option selected) should be laid out more nicely on many screens; you can check out the details in the patch notes below.

To better indicate some commonly overlooked UI, scouting and bridge/pass building options are much more clear on the overland, and we added sparkles to ability buttons for some non-turn-ending attacks (battledance attacks, swift action wolf bite, prepared shot, etc). Fire smoke particles have been greatly reduced when there's a bunch (no more blinding you while playing, yay!), and we created new VFX for star, vine, storm, fire, crow, hill, morthagi, skeletal, and tree theme skins. Plus, some abilities have new sound effects for some extra punch!




We've partnered with Makeship again for another limited edition plushie release.

They'll only be made if the campaign is 100% funded, so be sure to order and share so this huggable monster can get home to you! The Gorgon will be available to order from August 25 to September 16.

Order one here!


[h2]1.9+438 Eve Vallenlong[/h2]
Theme attacks now work with more abilities:
* Ranged attacks work with Guardian, Sentinel,
Broadswipes, and Riposte
* Melee attacks work with Ember Arrows,
Piercing Shots, Quellingmoss, Archery, and Ambush.
Cone of fire and thorn lash now get +2 damage from upgrade
(instead of damage scaling)
Ember Arrows now grants theme attacks a flat +1 damage
(instead of + potency damage)
Protector ability now works with ranged theme attacks
Crossbow damage increased by 1, accuracy buff removed
Spelltouched stats adjusted:
New: +2 Potency, -1 Bonus Damage, +10 Recovery Rate
Old: +2 Potency, -0.5 Bonus Damage, +5 Recovery Rate,
+10 Retirement Age
Spiritblade attacks trigger actual hero attacks
(and uses those heroes' passives: thornfang, broadswipes, etc)
Battledance Whirl now always lets you move at least one tile
Scout/Build Bridge/Pass banners now show up on unscouted tiles
Weird, Shame, and Slacker quest buffs don't persist over legacy
Build Bridge/Pass options show up when clicking scouted tiles
if heroes are closer to source tile than target tile
Overland tile glowing now renders above unscouted fog of war
Fire smoke particles greatly reduced when there's a bunch
Skeleton curse ability is now a swift action
New sound effects for some abilities
Hook quests now require relationship tiers 3/3/4 instead of 3/4/5
Completed Hooks now show checkmarks in character sheet History
New VFX for star, vine, storm, fire, crow, hill, morthagi,
skeletal, and tree theme skins
Gear comparisons now show gear abilities and special aspects
Personality stats now have button to move a stat to the top
Personality stat buttons are now aligned next to each other
Controller adjustments:
* Split "Next Hero or Target" binding into separate bindings.
* Previous Bindings:
- Next/Prev Hero (when on Move) or Target (when on Ability):
Right/Left Bumper or Down/Up D-Pad
- Next/Prev Ability: Right/Left D-Pad
* New Bindings:
- Next/Prev Hero: Down/Up D-Pad
- Next/Prev Ability: Right/Left Bumper or Right/Left D-Pad
- Next/Prev Target: Unmapped by default
* Ability tooltips disappear when you move the cursor or camera
(and reappear after 1.5s, or when switching abilities)
* Right joystick now scrolls UI scrollbars
* Camera movement & selection now respects camera orientation
* Overland auto-selects the tile with the most heroes on it
* Target selection angles now based on center of entities
* Tooltips that are too large don't show up centered on screen
* Fixed controller navigation for calamity card screen
* Controller no longer auto-focuses on company button.
Added feather icon next to abilities that are swift by default
but are now single because you already used a swift action
Added sparkles to ability buttons for some non-turn-ending attacks
(battledance attacks, swift action wolf bite, prepared shot, etc)
New image for the Great One
Adjusted keyboard bindings screen to be more organized
Steam Deck and Steam Big Picture Mode:
* Selecting a textbox with a controller now shows Steam keyboard
* Many screens fit better at smaller resolutions (see below)
Adjusted some UI to work better at small resolutions/large UI size:
(Specifically, these screens should work better at a 1080x720
resolution with the "Bigger" UI option selected; useful for
small screens like the Steam Deck)
* Gear Upgrades
* Party Select
* Character Sheet
* Calamities Popups
* Interval Summary Screen
* Promotion Dialog
* Replace Item Dialog
Fix a bug with controller camera movement when switching units
Fix a bug where Engage prevented stonewalling
Fix a bug where Hago cub could be kept permanently
Fix a bug where lonely cost history lines were incorrectly applied
(helper and main hero lines were swapped)
Fix a bug where Batchby engage procs protector
Fix a bug where some comics were missing chinese translation
Fix a bug where armor category headers could appear multiple times
Fix a bug where Ticking Tomb victory wasn't disabled
Fix a bug where a hair option was showing up twice
Fix a bug where hovered overland abilities didn't show tooltips
Fix a bug with button prompt positioning and size
Fix a bug where piercing shots didn't work with all ranged attacks.
Fix a bug where controller could open non-hero character sheets
Fix a bug where missing mods box appearing caused a crash
Fix a bug where interval could crash if a non-hero retired.
Fix a bug where Spiritblade attacks worked on stunned heroes
Fix a bug where ambush worked while stasised
Fix a bug with low stunt chances for Chain Lightning and Discus
Fix a controller bug with some scenery with diagonal footprints
(stuff like barriers couldn't be selected)
Fix a few places that would show keyboard hints in controller mode
Fix a bug where switching heroes didn't properly show hero tooltip
Fix a crash with the interval
Fix a bug where dev option confirmAbilityUse could softlock games
Fix some typos
Tools: overrideParticleScript option to allow particle overrides
Tools: Debug ability target fail log info is now more clear
Tools: Added ifOwnerAspects and ifNoOwnerAspects arrays to Skinlayer
Tools: Can now use feedback.onlyShowIfVisibleTerrain on regions

Rejoice, GOG users- Wildermyth is now available to purchase on GOG! We've been working on this for a while, so we're excited it's available to you all at last.

For the longterm players whose Legacies are bursting with heroes, we heard you; we've made some quality of life updates to the Legacy Browser! You can now filter by legacy tier, class and playability, and search by aspects to help find that one specific hero. We added a hero list view where you can scroll through and search for heroes by name, and set whether or not they're playable more easily. You can also see what past versions of your legacy heroes have looked like (and what companies they've been in), and what heroes will look like when you recruit them in a new campaign! And for those of you tired of seeing your heroes in their 80's and 90's, there's now an age customization option.

As for controller improvements, during missions the controller cursor now snaps to targets rather than needing to move the cursor across the board. (The old functionality is still available by turning off the "Snap Controller Cursor to Ability Targets" interface option)

You'll also find four new events, and all hairs have been updated to fit all heads so there shouldn't be any more wonky barber jobs.


[h2]Wildermyth's Future[/h2]
Phew! That's a lot. What about going forward, though? What can you expect to see from Wildermyth for the rest of 2022 and beyond? You can check out our new roadmap here for those answers!


[h2]1.8+428 Mara Mallard[/h2]
GOG Integration!
Legacy Browser Improvements:
* Filter by legacy tier, class and playability
* Hero list view for easier playability setting
* Search bar to filter by aspects, e.g. wolftouched
* Past versions of a hero can be viewed
* Heroes should move around less when customizing
* Option to customize hero age
New Events:
* Early to be Alone
Rewritten Events:
* Phantom of the Range (from: The Shape of Things to Come)
* Paradise
* Flowers For No One (from: Ticking Tomb)
Improved controller functionality
New sfx for certain abilities
Added option to hide in-game console
Overlapping ability buttons look better
Moved star in gear upgrades to top left
Crag Eagle roll difficulty adjusted
Controller navigation now wraps on in-game menus
All hairs should appear properly on all heads now
Added custom Dreamloom map
Fix a bug with Pulling Threads skipping in multiplayer
Fix a bug with legacy file saving in multiplayer
(earning achievements, legacy heroes, completing tutorial)
Fix a bug with premature comic skips in multiplayer
Fix a bug where base monster calamities could never be removed
Fix a bug where lower tier calamities removed before higher ones
Fix a bug where calamity cards could jitter up and down at lwo fps
Fix a bug with stone stunt pin range on multi-tile enemies
Fix a bug where Needed Elsewhere choice didn't recruit a hero
Fix a bug with incorrect station job names
Fix a bug where acid damage was reduced by walling
Fix a bug with the Low Road missing escape regions
Fix a bug where Harvest kills wouldn't proc vfx
Fix a bug where shooting star feedback was incorrect
Fix a rare bug where the gear dialogue wouldn't show up
Fix a crash from movement prediction
Fix a bug with Silver and Shadows pet targeting
Fix some typos
Tools: Theme skin data now stored in aspects, for modding support
(no longer hooked up directly to themes)

It's been one year since we went live with Wildermyth 1.0. In some ways it feels like only yesterday, and in others, it feels like years. Wildermyth has been in development for over six years. To have it released to the world, experienced by others, enjoyed by so many... it's been incredible, humbling, overwhelming at times, and generally just really dang cool.

Thank you. Thank you to everyone who has been here since our early days, those who have been following us since Early Access, and all the players still discovering our game. We have been blown away by your support and love for Wildermyth; you have all truly made the work worth it.

That being said, this isn't the end for Wildermyth! We're still developing really exciting stuff behind the scenes, and we'll have a patch out for you all this month. In the mean time, we put together a list of highlights of all the things we've released in updates over the past 12 months. This list isn't comprehensive- it just covers our most snazzy content. For more minutia, you can check out individual patch notes in their respective update announcement!


[h2]One Year Retrospective[/h2]
Here are the highlights of all we’ve done since our 1.0 release!

View this list in Google Docs

[h3]New Art
[/h3]New Theme Skins!
New Artifact Weapons:
* Baleblade
* Eaglewing
* Firling Wand
* Frostfang
* Winterfur Staff
* Sojourner
* Icebreaker
* Longwatch Lamp
* Mothbite
New Hairs!
New Achievements dialog art
New male face option
New scenery

[h3]New Writing[/h3]
New Campaign!
* The Sunswallower’s Wake, a three chapter legacy story unlocked through play
Hook Proud update
6 new generic chapters
* The Ghost Town (mid)
* The Library (mid)
* The Potionry (mid)
* The Temple of Silence (final)
* The Unseen Orchard (final)
* The Warren (final)
New Events
* New Event: Bad Mustard
* New Event: Bones and Crows and Nightly Things
* New Event: Token of Affection
* New Event: Flickerings
* For Their Own
* Houses in the Heights
* For the Scavenging
Revised Events:
* Hidden Passages
* Heart of Stone
* Down The Hatch
* Family Business
Added credits comics
* Generic Campaigns
* Ulstryx, Enduring, and Monarchs
Lots of new Tidings and Wrapups

[h3]Design & Gameplay Updates [/h3]
Design changes to retirement and years of peace
Better feedback for several dialogs in multiplayer games
Incursion maps edited to be smaller and more focused
New Boss monster
Map Edits
* Night Altar
* Lifeforge Keystone
Added 26 New Theme Upgrades!
(These can appear in the upgrade slots when leveling)
* (Bear) Ursine Hunger
* (Botanical) Fatal Flora
* (Celestial) Meteor Strike
* (Crow Wings) Fly
* (Wolf) Howl
* (Elmsoul) Deep Roots
* (Fire) Living Hearth
* (Foothill) Shard Skin
* (Gem) Crystal Chrysalis
* (Morthificial) Salvage
* (Shadow) Shadestride
* (Skeleton) Curse
* (Storm) Feedback Loop
* (Sylvan) Chaos Whorl
* (Hawk Wings) Talon Dive
* (Scorpion Tail) Prehensile Piercer
* (Pilot Wings) Airlift
* (Skunk Tail) Staggering Spray
* (Frog Head) Tongue Whip
* (Fox Tail) Nimble Nature
Pet Upgrades!
* (Fire Chicken) Covering Fire
* (Rat) Erratic Movement
* (Bird) Mark Prey
* (Duck) Alarming Quack
* (Avenger) Protector
* (Critter) Trinket Hunter
Added combat map to Out of the Rain event
Warding Rework:
* Each piece of warding absorbs one damage
* Warding regenerates at the start of the unit's next turn
* Removed pierce from magic abilities
* Tuned down some monster magic damage
* Tuned up some monster warding
Added new icons to some abilities
Crossplay with Epic Games Store
Added Colorblind options
Can now set custom hero turn order via Options > This Game

[h3]Misc. Content[/h3]
Critter Plush released!
Merch Store Launched!
Released vinyl stickers!