Ascend From Nine Mountains

ChangesAdded multiple vaults to both mines, at least one per late strata.Converted the Pulsing Tower and Wound into vaults.Added an All option to the shop's add-all dropdown to allow staging and purchasing all available items at once.Updated elixir tooltips to display the final Qi amount with the Qi Absorption bonus already applied.Formation puzzle and pillar layouts are now shared automatically a

ChangesWhen breaking through with 21 compressions, First Elder now gives you more pillar tiles.Added support for ally-targeted health and expression conditions on technique effects, buffs, and technique masteriesAdded a live month countdown directly beneath sect promotion tournament objectives in the quest journalChanged the year display in the date ribbon to match your current school's elementUpd

ChangesFully overhauled combat effects and audio. Added nearly 100 unique attack animations, passive effects, and impacts to differentiate different schools.Added experimental controller support throughout the game. This is only partially tested, so please do report places the controller flow is iffy.Implemented major performance improvements across the game.Improved opening cinematic video playba

ChangesOverhauled the main menu.Added a custom cursor.Altars that require realmbreaking, and the blueprint altars, have been removed from the game. If you already acquired them their bonuses will stay, but no new players can reach them. These will be reincluded in the eventual hard mode.Improved the readability of the Favour Exchange screen tabs.Added an Elixirs bulk-purchase option to the shop Ad

First, a quick update. We have listened to the issue with cultivator resistance being confusing, so we have a potential change to address it. You can try this beta out using the 'unified-health' branch on steam. It unifies health across players and enemies, removes cultivator resistance, and generally tweaks balance. It would be greatly appreciated if you could give it a go and report how it feels

ChangesThe Celadon Flame Brewers, Immortal Fang, and Star Observers now have a new rank.Added two new companions that can be found by exploring the lower realm areas of the world.Added visual indicators to the combat preview bar for auto-use items to highlight toxicity-capped pills that will not fire, complete with a tooltip explanation.Changed the Techniques window to remember the currently selec

ChangesBuffed Charisma:Charisma now controls the maximum size of your party. You party can be filled with any companion, not just permanent ones.Charisma now grants a bonus to the buffs of a party member.Charisma now grants a dual cultivation buff to satisfaction gains.Shen Tian now has its own reputation ranks, and an exalted reward.Buffed the crafting Insight package, including overhauled techni

ChangesAdded proper crafting tournaments. These are available in the mid-year Shen Henda open bracket, and reward unique crafting gear.Reworked the Shen Henda festival crafting tournaments to instead be a crafting 'challenge'.Added preset switcher and auto-use toggle controls directly to the Stances, Crafting Actions, combat, and crafting interface bars for quicker access.Added a desperation mecha

ChangesTournaments have been overhauled.They are now 5 rounds, with placement based rewards.New visuals showing the tournament actually simulating.The option to heal or buff between each round, the same given to the other npcs.A crowd that reacts to your actions.New exclusive rewards.Reworked the Flame of Discordance to manipulate condition probabilities, and reduced its penalties.The True Bifang

ChangesReworked research to be a queue-based system, with craftable upgrades via harmony.Added the crafting loadout selector to the Choose a Harmony dialog.Added random chance for harmony and quality to auction-spawned equipment.Added a Favourites tab and inline star toggles to the sell list. Added a Sell All Favourites option alongside the Sell All Treasures button in the market shop interface.Re

ChangesAdded a 'Rumours' journal tab to review purchased rumours and track completion status.Overhauled the crafting buff ui to work like the combat one.Improved save system robustness.Updated stance rule system to include gear-granted buffs.Reworked the mining extractor interface.Added an optional Discord connection to the bug report screen for player credit tracking.Balance ChangesIncreased heal

ChangesMassively optimised combat. May have broken it too, who knows. Please do communicate any regressions found.Added an in-game bug reporting tool accessible via the F8 hotkey.Stacked artifacts visually in the combat interface to match player loadout order.Displayed tooltips on disabled crafting buttons explaining restriction reasons.Renamed the "Overheal" stat to "Bulwark Overheal" across all