Early Access Moved Up!

Big news — Early Access has been moved up to March 11th, 2026. We’re ahead of schedule and ready to get the game into your hands sooner.

11 New Tutorial Hints

First-time encounters with major systems now trigger helpful hint toasts. New players will see guidance the first time they:

  • Complete an Ascension — learn about Ascension Points and permanent perks
  • Establish a Trade Agreement — tips on upgrading trade tiers
  • Craft a Runestone — equipping and combining runestones
  • Craft a Gem — gem bonuses and Gemcutter Polish
  • Forge a Mythic Upgrade — Shadowsteel costs and prestige persistence
  • Receive Quests — quest rewards, free rerolls, and mithril rerolls
  • Start a Challenge — difficulty modifiers and bonus Ancestral Knowledge
  • Use Time Warp — simulated offline production
  • Activate a Beast Ability — Beast Den worker scaling
  • Hire Mercenaries — temporary production boosts
  • Build the Dwarven Tavern — hire cost reduction and worker assignment

All hints respect the existing Show Hints toggle in Settings and can be reset with the Reset Hints button.

Critical Bug Fix: Expedition Prestige Exploit

Fixed a game-breaking exploit where workers sent on expeditions before prestige could be collected after the reset, effectively duplicating your entire workforce. Expeditions now properly clear on prestige, ascension, and full reset.

Hiring Discount Cap UX

The Beast Den and Dwarven Tavern now clearly communicate the 90% combined hiring discount cap:

  • A “90% max combined” label appears when the global cap is reached
  • The assign button disables when adding more workers would have no effect
  • No more wasting workers on discount rooms past the cap

Runestone Fixes

  • Relic slot removal fix — Unequipping a relic that grants an extra runestone slot now properly removes the 5th slot and any runestone in it. Previously, the slot and its runestone persisted, showing “5/4” slots
  • Superior combine cost increased 100x — Combining two matching runestones into a Superior now costs 500,000 mithril (was 5,000). Superior runestones are meant to be a significant late-game investment

Expedition Collection Fix

Completed expeditions in depth-locked slots (e.g., slot 6 requiring depth 15) can now be properly collected after prestige resets your depth. Previously the collect button was hidden even though the expedition was complete.

Early Access: March 11, 2026. Wishlist on Steam if you haven’t already.