Release Notes for Spark in the Dark

Patch 0.3.17

• Added the new Hero Traits system. The hero can now develop permanent traits based on their actions, experiences, and combat style.
• Expanded the third tier with new creatures, ghosts, roaming enemies, books, notes, and revised creature generation.
• Completely redesigned Morrochs and added powerful reinforced variants.
• Undead can now run toward the hero and perform running attacks.
• Added creature immunities to poisons, Bleeding, and certain negative effects. Discovered immunities are recorded in the Bestiary.
• Added the Surgical Kit, which removes Deep Wounds and Chopped Wounds without requiring rest.
• Revised combat, including two-handed sword finishing moves, the influence of weapon weight, destructible object reactions, and the hero’s backstep.
• Revised armor skill progression, injury calculations, and armor enhancements.
• Rebalanced tier difficulty. Darkness now accumulates 25% more slowly on the first tier, while the third tier provides a greater challenge.
• Added new items, including Miruvor, Bronze armor-upgrade plates, and the reinforced Armor Piercer crossbow.
• Improved item interactions, including bandages, antidotes, bear traps, arrows, skill books, amulets, and movable cabinets.
• Blindness now affects lockpicking, rope descent, and narrow passages. The hero can also notice and avoid poisonous spiders in passages while carrying a lamp.
• Added the Recent Rest effect and increased the duration of Cheerfulness.
• Updated hero body types and moved Dagger Throwing from the Warrior’s and Thief’s starting skills to a skill book.
• Reworked all icons for items, attributes, classes, skills, effects, and creatures.
• Improved the interface, graphics settings, performance, generation stability, and persistence of world and tutorial states.
• Added Polish and Brazilian Portuguese localizations and improved most existing translations.
• Fixed visual issues with glowing blood on macOS and hidden passages.
• Numerous smaller fixes, text corrections, and gameplay improvements.

Patch 0.3.15.1

• Adjusted the death penalty in Seeker Mode. On Hard difficulty, up to two items can be damaged; on Normal, one item; on Easy, equipment is no longer damaged after death.
• Hunter experience is now awarded when a trap is triggered and deals damage, not only when a creature dies.
• Legendary weapon generation now depends on the hero’s preferred skill — one-handed or two-handed weapons.
• Weapon switching now generates noise within a small radius. The effect depends on the hero’s skill, armor type, and whether the hero is in stealth.
• Switching weapons while in stealth no longer breaks stealth.
• Added finishing moves with bare fists.
• Improved lock interaction for the Thief — the lockpicking window now displays the correct key name if one can be used.
• Improved item throwing, including coins — items are now thrown within the hero’s forward hemisphere.
• Reduced the weight of bandages.
• Optimized the game’s sound system, improving performance and reducing RAM usage.
• Fixed a possible hero freeze when switching between a crossbow and another weapon.
• Fixed a possible issue when changing Vertical Sync and FPS Limit settings.
• Fixed a hero freeze issue when interrupting drinking.
• Fixed loading of stationary light sources — some lamps could fail to turn on after loading a save.
• Adjusted secret area tracking on the 2nd and 3rd layers. Some passages are no longer considered secret, since they function as map shortcuts (applies to newly generated layers).
• Adjusted attack sounds for the flying creature.
• Increased the Bloodguzzler hitbox, making it easier to hit.
• Improved the appearance of Kort statues and updated textures for several mechanisms.
• Various minor fixes, stability improvements, and gameplay adjustments.