Release Notes for Soulash

Update 1.0.12 (15/06/22)

Added

• New unique item Deck of Entities designed by Sinful.
• The delete key will now clear the contents of an active input field.
• Mouse wheel can now be used to zoom in or out in the Map Editor.
• Temporary entities now have information on when they will disappear in their tooltip.

Changed

• Improved navigation in Mod Editors and added hotkeys for New Entity, New Ability, and New Animation buttons.
• Items of type Resource like tree trunks that have Armor no longer display resistances in its tooltip.
• Recipe learning message during salvage now displays the base item name instead of the name changed by applied affixes.
• Increased backpack tabs from 2 to 4.
• Increased damage of Heavy Crossbow by 2.
• Enemies will now attack the player on different z-level when it blocks the stairs.
• The camera no longer changes position when moving between different region maps in Map Editor.

Fixed

• Fixed an issue with abilities not being learned by the player on killing gods by summons.
• Fixed the "on impact" and "inner animation" mappings in non-overwriting mods.
• Fixed AoE animations in mods sometimes being displaced and centered around the character despite correctly damaging a selected area.
• Fixed an issue in Map Editor that caused the last spawn group to not show up if there were more than 12.
• Some rings and amulets couldn't be crafted with affixes.
• Fixed sidebar scroll in Entity Maker not resetting position when creating a new entity.
• Fixed crash in Data Table modding screen.
• Fixed rare crashes during the new world generation.
• When Golden Lamp durability drops to 0, it's no longer possible to cast Summon Djinni that comes from the item.
• Having an ability from an item doesn't prevent it from being learned when leveling up.
• Fixed message for tile-based abilities to indicate they need to be cast on an unoccupied tile.
• AI with a light source will no longer keep spamming the Light spell on itself.
• Immobile enemies will no longer get stuck attempting to chase the player.
• Fixed an issue that prevented the display of some particles in Animation Editor on low resolution.
• Hidden enemies are no longer marked as valid targets on abilities, which previously allowed to determine where's the target by the color of the border.

Update 1.0.11 (20/05/22)

Added

• New unique item, Gauntlet of the Lich Lord - designed by Sinful.
• Added Unarmed, Improvised, and Natural weapon types to available ability requirements.
• Added the possibility to increase or decrease the craft counter in the Crafting screen with plus and minus keys when an item is selected and not currently being crafted.
• Added the possibility to change the z-level with plus and minus keys on the Map screen.
• Two new properties for Durability in Entity Editor.

Changed

• Look action can now be remapped in Keymap.
• Stackable items can no longer have affixes.
• Map screen keys used to move the map now correspond to the movement keys selected instead of wasd/arrow keys.

Fixed

• Fixed crash when the item being dragged no longer exists.
• Fixed wording on some abilities mentioning targeting enemies when they affect allies as well.
• Fixed missing background tiles in one of the regions of Yelling Mountains.
• Fixed graphic issue related to Mushman icon.
• Fixed Torch having ranged attack animation.
• Crafting recipes now properly show negative resistances.
• Kobolds now have unique names and no longer use goblin descriptions.
• It's now possible to drink when the thirst meter is at 100% while having a dehydration mark.
• Fixed victory tweet on Cemetery screen.
• Fixed true damage, sometimes removing background tiles.
• AI characters no longer use Break ability on the player.
• Fixed issue that prevented display of cemetery files when Windows user name had a dash.
• Fixed AI sometimes not casting debuff abilities.
• Numpad 0 - 9 keys are now considered different keys than numeric when assigning them in Keymap.
• Inventory, Map, Abilities screens key no longer work when in the Options screen, causing issues when remapping them.
• It's now possible to use Crafting screen key on Inventory screen to swap directly between the screen.

Update 1.0.10 (02/05/22)

Added

• New difficulty selection screen when starting a new game with customizable difficulty settings for additional easy and hard modes. Tweaking these options will affect the final score.

  • Easy: The durability selection screen (100% - 500%) will increase the base durability of items in the game.
  • Easy: Pick starting Phoenix Feathers (0 - 3) to prevent death.
  • Easy: Change enemy health (100% - 50%). If you would like to speed up the fights, be aware, however, that his option affects summons as well.
  • Easy: Change enemy stats (100% - 60%). If you find enemies too difficult to progress in the game, this option will reduce their base stats resulting in lower damage and resistances. This option affects summons as well.
  • Hard: Spawn groups per region (1 - 3). More enemies will spawn when more than one alternative spawn group is available in the region. This will result in a more dense world with more enemies in some areas.
  • Hard: Enemy random abilities (0 - 2), every enemy created during world generation receives additional abilities. This affects regular enemies and minibosses but does not affect summons or gods.
  • Hard: Enemy gear level (0 - 10). The quality of items used by enemies depends on their level. This attribute will bump that quality by up to 10 levels, giving them a higher chance to wield magic and artifact items.
  • Hard: Extra consumption (100% - 350%). This setting affects how quickly hunger, thirst, bloodthirst, and other consumption-related mechanics will be reduced.

• Data Table option is now available in Mod Editors, providing a lot of information about entities and abilities in the mod. Beware, this screen contains massive spoilers! You can access Entity Editor from these lists by selecting a specific entity.

  • List all AI actors with the ability to filter them by level. The list includes their health, stats, speed, and worn items.
  • Abilities list is split by profession and level, as well as universal level 0 abilities available only on items.
  • List of all weapons in the game with additional filter by type, including all weapons statistics and information about who wields them.
  • List of all armors in the game with additional filter by type, including all statistics of armors and information about who wears them.
  • List of all resources in the game with information about the value, weight, and their usage in crafting.

• Added Spawn Group editor documentation in Soulash/data/docs/index.html modding documentation with instructions on using modding tools to create new enemy groups.

• Added Affixes documentation in Soulash/data/docs/index.html modding documentation with instructions on adding your own prefixes, suffixes, and artifacts.

Changed

• Changed the Stone Stairs graphic to be more visible in the Forgotten Temple location.
• Candles and Lanterns now have durability.
• Draw All Glyphs is now selected by default in the mod creation screen so that Core GFX works correctly by default. It should be disabled for ASCII mods.

Fixed

• AI no longer constantly attempts to summon a zombie on top of an existing zombie.
• Giant Spider no longer leaves a humanoid corpse.

Update 1.0.9 (17/04/22)

Added

• New playable race - Mushman, designed by Thorvall!
• Added Clean Up action icon on the equipment screen when a liquid container is selected.
• Player character will pick up shot arrows automatically when walking in range.
• Added the "Max count" button to the crafting screen to fill in the count input considering the available resources.
• Added filter buttons to the crafting screen to easily filter craftables by item types.

Changed

• Lizardman now has his bonus movement speed while under Wet effect instead of only when walking on the water tiles.
• Repentance now scales off enemy intelligence and 300% of its base weapon damage instead of scaling from caster intelligence. Cooldown increased from 4 turns to 10.
• Potions are not of item type Usable instead of Resource.
• Slightly increased chance for Elven Villagers and Human Peasants to have Scissors.
• Destroying Bookcases can now provide Paper.

Fixed

• Fixed missing background tiles under the fence on one of the regions.
• Fixed drunk liquid counter on the death screen.
• Fixed frames drop on AI archer getting stuck on attempting to attack the player.
• Gigantic Dwarf achievement correctly works when playing as a dwarf only.
• Fixed some dialogue typos.
• Fixed crash that happened when dragged corpse got butchered.
• Fixed a rare crash related to AI attempting to stash loot without a proper place in the area.
• Fixed a rare crash during the liquid changing tile (for example, blood tile changing to when exceeding a certain limit).
• It's no longer possible to drop the stack of items while splitting it, causing a crash.
• Fixed Cheat Console crash when attempting to spawn without providing an entity id.
• Fixed issue that sometimes caused teleportation to unload parts of the region nearby and caused a crash when attempting to teleport into that region.