Version 1.4: new procedural dungeon, Ability Tablets, cafe talks, and more!

A major content update is here, with a brand new port and attached dungeon! The dungeon is five levels deep, procedurally generated, and can be ventured into as many times as you want. At its bottom is a new kind of item: Ability Tablets! There are also tons of balance changes, new dialog, and a new trade mechanic!

Here are the details:

v1.4.04

FEATURES

• New port: Ahlvarza! ( Can be found southwest of Luss. )

  • This port contains a repeatable 5-level procedural dungeon filled with new enemies!

  • Delve in as far in as you can - Ranuz will pull you out with a 'Gate device' if you fall in battle.

• New item: 'Ability Tablets'! Every class ability has a corresponding Ability Tablet.

  • They can be equipped as an accessory or weapon/armor augment.

  • Tablets grant +1 rank to the chosen ability, even going beyond max rank! (for most abilities)

  • When equipped as an Accessory, they can be used to cast the ability, even without equipping the class.

  • Can be found at the end of the new dungeon, or as rare finds at the Salvage Station and certain groves.

  • Only one tablet of each ability can be found (no duplicates).

• Bored of the same old cafe chatter? Now you can ask Reeve about most journal entries!

  • 100+ new conversations!

  • Reeve will now chat every time you eat at the cafe, instead of skipping consecutive days.

  • "I wanted to ask something about you" options now disappear after the dialogs have been viewed.

• New trade mechanic: Market Rate!

  • Each port starts at 100% Market Rate.

  • Sell value of trade goods is multiplied by Market Rate.

  • Selling trade goods lowers Market Rate (to a minimum of 50%).

  • NPC fleet visits increase Market Rate (to a maximum of 120%).

  • Each day Market Rate shifts toward 100%.

  • Ports with higher wealth level and more nearby allied ports will recover from low rates faster.

• Trade goods now only sell for half value at non-port locations

• Increased all maximum trade good stock by 10%

• Selling trade goods at their port of origin now re-adds them to the port inventory

• Added dedicated 'Crew Inventory' button

• You can now convert XP into Stars (1000:1) at player-established Training Grounds

• Overworld discovery range increased by +1 for non-port locations

• Crew spawns at cafes now select randomly from the port list, instead of in order, increasing crew diversity

• New ship added as investment unlock at Trabenton (NOTE: only for games that haven't visited Trabenton yet!)

• New equipment added as investment unlocks at Bette Sands, Wraele, Fivili, Crubtown, Luss (NOTE: only for games that haven't visited those ports yet!)

BALANCE

• Gatekeeper's 'Gate: Magma', 'Gate: Storm', 'Gate: Flood', and 'Gate: Sky' can now be cast directly on obstacles

• Sailor's 'Heave' and 'Rope' now can't miss allies

• Sailor's 'Rope' now gains accuracy from Fist Skill instead of using weapon accuracy

• Elementalist's 'Windslash' base damage increased by +1

• Gatewarder's 'Gate: Barrage' MP cost increased from 7 -> 9

• 'Preserve' status now protects against the Max HP penalty from being KO'd

• Chain Shot damage increased by +1

• Ice Carapace now ignores half Magic Defense and half target's Ice Skill

• Ruin Aura Magic Attack and Ruin Skill scaling reduced from 1:1 -> 1:0.5

• Ruin Aura now ignores half Magic Defense and half target's Ruin Skill

• Reduced base healing of Bandages from 18 -> 16

• Reduced base healing of Splints from 20 -> 18

• Bandage and Splint Life Skill scaling changed from just caster 1:1 -> caster and target 1:0.25 each

• Reduced base healing of Lifeshards from 14 -> 12

• Reduced Lifeshard Life Skill scaling for both caster and target from 1:0.5 -> 1:0.25

• Increased value of Grubhusk from $15 -> $18

• Absorbent Mesh price reduced from $2500 -> $1500

• Anti-Boarding Net price reduced from $500 -> $250

• Gossip now only mentions location coordinates after reaching 200+ exploration fame

• Salvage Shipwreck job base reward increased from $1150 -> $1250

• Morale boost of most +Element cafe foods increased by +1%

• Ships with a minimum crew of 1 no longer suffer the normal cannon damage penalty for having only 1 crew

• Defeating a pirate fleet now also gives +1 favor with all 3 nations

• Burst Pod and Blast Pod damage now ignore half Physical Defense

• Burst Pod, Sickly Pod, and Blast Pod now explode when struck by Wind (which means they can explode each other, causing chain reactions)

• Reduced XP cost of Sage's 'Green Touch' from 350 -> 275

• Increased XP cost of Sage's 'Critical Recovery' from 250 -> 400

• Reduced XP cost of Ravager's 'Indomitable' from 400 -> 250

• Reduced XP cost of Balancer's 'Geomancy' from 600 -> 500

• Increased XP cost of Balancer's 'Life Mirror' from 450 -> 500

FIXES

• Increased animation speed of Lifeshards

• Enemy passive 'Setae Aura' now only plays an animation when it hits a target

• Character-change keybinds now function normally when holding an item instead of giving the item

• Closing the journal after 'Look'ing with a controller now automatically re-enters 'Look' mode

• Controllers can now scroll crew inventory lists

• Improved keybinds for controllers! This ONLY takes effect for new installs or if you reset to Default keybinds.

  • Changed default controller keybind for 'Look' from (LB) -> Left Stick / Right Stick

  • Changed default controller keybind for 'Command Select' from (Y) -> (LT)

  • Changed default controller keybind for 'Ability Select' from (LT) -> (Y)

  • Changed default controller keybind for 'Crew Inventory' from (LB) -> Start

  • Added default controller keybind for 'Prev Party Member' to (LB)

  • Added default controller keybind for 'Next Party Member' to (RB)

• Fixed visible debug messages when scrolling menus with a controller

• Reeve now warns about the endgame point of no return even if she is not in the party

• Fixed 'Victory' message occasionally getting stuck off-center

• Fixed ships getting stuck in static pose after being damaged in the overworld

• Fixed neutral fleets occasionally spawning at certain remote ports and getting stuck there

• Fixed investments in enemy ever-loyal ports granting favor with your nation

• Sealed Chests can no longer be pushed

• Crew can no longer be rearranged on the fleet window while they are incapacitated

• Searth now shows that it has 2 trainers in its map tooltip (new games only)

MODDING

• Landing Party max UI now reflects any globalVar 'partySizeMod' changes

• Items that no longer exist because their source mod was disabled now become 'Junk'.

• Fixed crash when applying permanent effects to Actors using mod-defined ActorValues

• Added SpawnData.extraSpawnDataMins, SpawnData.extraSpawnDataMaxes, SpawnData.extraSpawnDataChances, and SpawnData.spawnExtraSpawnDataInOrder

• Added SpawnData.forbiddenAbilities to prevent specified abilites or passives

• Added SpawnData.forcedSupportAbilities to equip specified passives

• Added formulas 'm:enemyPower' and 'm:partyVsEnemyPower'

• Added SetPiece.canBeRotated, SetPiece.canBeFlippedX and SetPiece.canBeFlippedY

• Added ItemType.defaultQuantity and ItemType.defaultQuantity_rand

• Added support for 'cloneFrom' for SetPieces

• Added Task 'travel_procedural_point'

• ItemType.drawSprite now works properly

• TerrainType.canJumpOverFromAngle is now a list and can include multiple values

• TerrainType 'caveWallLedgeN' can now be jumped across from the left or right

• Added Action.canExceedMaxRankBy property (defaults to 0)

• Ability Tablets are automatically generated for mod abilities, but will not exceed max rank unless Action.canExceedMaxRankBy is set to 1 or more.

• Added ActorValue 'star' which grants +magnitude Stars to the current primary class

v1.4.05

• Cleaned up old Junk objects from wrong IDs spawned in pre-existing groves

• All Greatswords now have 2 augment slots

• Spidest now gain +3 defenses in RUIN mode instead of +30 Max HP

• (Modding) 'resetloc' no longer resets ALL locations when no location ID is specified.

• (Modding) 'resetlocations' is the new console command for resetting ALL locations.