⛏️ Patch v0.1.5 — Automation, Expedition Danger & More

✨ New Features

  • 📖 Guided Tutorial — New 8-step interactive walkthrough that guides new players through their first mine tap, hiring workers, upgrading, and building rooms
  • 🔓 Feature Unlock Popups — When you unlock a new system (expeditions, runestones, artifacts, trade, gems, beasts, etc.), a full-screen popup explains what it is and how to use it
  • 📚 Knowledge Base / Encyclopedia — A new in-game reference with 16 categories covering every system. Entries unlock as you discover new features. Access it from Settings
  • 🔀 Automation Purchase Priority — Drag your auto-purchases into the order YOU want. Arrows let you reorder pickaxe, worker, and upgrade buys so the most important one fires first
  • 💾 Automation Profiles — Save up to 5 named automation setups and swap between them instantly. Perfect for switching between early-game grinding and late-game optimization
  • 💀 Expedition Worker Death — Expeditions are no longer risk-free! Workers on Standard+ tiers now face death rolls. Higher tier = higher danger. At least 1 dwarf always makes it home. Deaths reduce future hire costs and are tracked in your lifetime stats
  • 🎮 Discord & Website on Main Menu — Jump straight to the community from the title screen

⚖️ Balance

  • 💎 Artifact costs ~3x increase — Artifacts persist through ascension, so their prices now match their permanent power (e.g., Foreman’s Signet: 1,800 → 5,000 mithril)
  • 🔮 Rune shards capped at 1 per expedition — No more stacking rune shards from lucky rolls or event bonuses. Hard cap of 1 per expedition across all tiers
  • 🔧 Worker assignment default priority bumped from 3 → 5

🎨 UI / QoL

  • 📋 Notification Log Categories — The game log now has filter tabs: All, Combat, Expedition, Crafting, Progression, Events, and Production. Find what you’re looking for without scrolling through everything
  • ⚠️ Runestone Remove Confirmation — Clicking an equipped runestone now asks for confirmation before removing it. No more accidental unequips
  • ✨ Quest Claim Pulse — Completed quests now pulse to grab your attention when they’re ready to claim
  • 🌐 Quest Descriptions Localized — Quest text now properly translates to all supported languages

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • 🔮 Rune shard expedition fix — Rune shards are skill tree points, not a room resource. No longer incorrectly filtered by room gating
  • 🔒 Locked resource filtering — Expeditions no longer sneak you mithril, shadowsteel, or trade points before you’ve built their rooms

🐧 Linux / Compatibility

  • 🔤 Bundled Noto Sans + Symbols2 font — Full Unicode coverage so Linux/Proton players see proper music controls (⏮ ⏭ ▶ ■), settings gear (⚙), and UI arrows instead of garbled squares

Your feedback shapes every update. Join us on Discord or post in the Steam Community forums.