Changes
The Celadon Flame Brewers, Immortal Fang, and Star Observers now have a new rank.
Added two new companions that can be found by exploring the lower realm areas of the world.
Added visual indicators to the combat preview bar for auto-use items to highlight toxicity-capped pills that will not fire, complete with a tooltip explanation.
Changed the Techniques window to remember the currently selected tab when closing the menu, opening other screens, or reloading the save.
Added auto-grouping, collapse, and group drag for stances.
Added an animated visual glitch effect to corrupted text, tooltips, keys, and mystical region elements.
Reworked Bloodmoon Vestment effect to match the Bloodmoon technique.
Allowed players to click active companion portraits to demote them to the inactive list when an inactive companion is available.
Updated tournament talisman recipes to allow using higher-tier technique crystals of the same element as substitutes when crafting.
Updated The Elder's Pattern quest to immediately grant the schema if the player already has Honoured or higher reputation with Jade Serpent and Heavenly Sword sects when visiting Gu Wanshu.
Added ctrl instant except to all guild task boards.
Updated the final reward icon on event and request completion screens to automatically trigger its fly-away animation to the bottom-left inventory anchor after a brief delay.
Updated the dialogue and description in the Shen Henda ward petition event.
Added hover tooltips to quest reward items in the quest log.
Reworked opening cinematic trailer handling and subtitles for smoother playback and better localization support during game startup.
Updated the expedition team display to wrap companion cards onto multiple centered rows when bringing teams of 5 or more members.
Added a notification log when a barrier is completely broken during combat.
Added a rebindable hotkey (default 'k') that toggles the 'Skip Previously Read Dialogue' setting while reading events.
Added an option to the bug report dialog to automatically post submitted bug reports to the public Discord bug channel.
Changed the Stabilizer role to reduce regional instability's negative consequences instead of slowing its accumulation.
Made Eccentric Long more common.
Added pity timer the Shard Hollow unlock event.
Changed high completion bonus to a new 'Perfection Boost' stat, instead of a control buff.
Balance Changes
Capped toxicity resistance at a maximum discount of 90%.
Increased the base toxicity cost of the Elixir Confluence technique from 25 to 50.
Changed Pinpoint Detonation to cost 3 Flow at the start of each round.
Added a round limit to the healing activations of Refined Plate Mail armor variants.
Fatecleaver no longer breaks on missing shards. Also doubled the reuse tempers.
Unstable Blademaster repairs after 2 rounds if broken.
'Building X' masteries now halve each round, instead of being fully removed. That makes them way better.
Bug Fixes
Fixed tooltips for multiple items and aspects displaying zero damage or effects outside of combat.
Fixed an issue where toggling the auto-use items setting during combat would not take effect until a new round started.
Fixed an issue where a toxicity-capped auto-use pill halted the entire auto-use item chain for the round.
Fixed a crash occurring when leaving combat if player stance data was missing or undefined.
Fixed technique tooltips on the Stances screen overlapping and blocking neighboring icons when hovered.
Fixed empty technique slots being skipped instead of executing Wait when stored stances were shorter than the player's current slot count.
Resolved various dialogue, typo, punctuation, and tooltip issues across multiple NPC interactions and events.
Fixed shops incorrectly inflating the 'Held' count of items by counting equipment loadouts.
Fixed condensation arts incorrectly appearing in higher-realm shop sections.
Fixed the harmony picker for ore extractors and devices displaying only Formless Way.
Fixed the harmony picker being hidden during event crafting for tier 4 recipes without an explicit sublime item defined.
Fixed a soft-lock when accepting crafting commissions before unlocking harmonies by providing Formless Way as a fallback.
Fixed the alchemy competition board at Shen Henda festivals restricting the harmony picker exclusively to Alchemical Arts.
Fixed the harmony upgrade preview displaying literal placeholder text instead of the 5% bonus increase value.
Fixed mines failing to generate adjacent tiles connected through unexplored ore veins.
Fixed an untranslated location string in the item tooltip for the bodyForging spirit core.
Fixed the Raid Fallen Star button remaining enabled while the player was injured.
Fixed closing a house compression altar briefly displaying the underlying location altar button during screen transitions.
Fixed market shops incorrectly selling higher-tier recipes above the player's current realm upon ascending.
Reordered choices in the Bone Pile compression altar event to place the safe retreat option before combat.
Fixed the Heavenly Sword Sect failing to unlock neighboring upper mountain passes.
Fixed the Max Qi meditation button queueing more than one year of meditation.
Fixed untranslated recipe names in the Flesh Annihilation Pill crafting tooltip during the Unbreakable Nephrite breakthrough.
Prevented the Gilded Transport Seal from being accidentally sold at the market.
Prevented the Cinder Crane artefact from being accidentally sold at markets or put up for auction.
Fixed Zi Liang incorrectly wielding a lower-realm Qi Condensation artefact during all Core Formation stages.
Fixed an issue where dismissing companions via events left their party status flags active.
Fixed multiple localization and translation issues throughout the tournament system.
Fixed the recovery pill being selectable from the tray between rounds when the player was already at full health.
Fixed tournament crafting rounds using Formless Way resulting in a loss or zero quality.
Fixed untranslated text in the crafting statistics tooltip for critical multipliers.
Corrected punctuation errors in Pi Lip's dialogue during the Echoes of the Forgelord quest.
Updated dialogue choice text when interacting with Pi Lip at Life Flourishing to correctly state the current realm.
Fixed the Purity bonus quality star from reaching maximum crafting perfection granting Potential Tier instead of Quality Tier.
Prevented active companions and following characters from contributing crafting buffs during the Shen Henda festival alchemy competition.
Fixed a visual bug where the Perfected Understanding crafting technique displayed two stacked Insight tags on its action card.
Fixed the Forge Compression crafting buff completion gains and stack loss triggering incorrectly.
Fixed delivery quest step hints displaying 'Craft or collect' instead of 'Collect' for items lacking recipes.
Fixed an issue where pressing the M key to open the calendar failed while viewing the request board.
Fixed hotkeys triggering background actions while the bug report menu was open.
Fixed the vault curator incorrectly addressing mundane realm characters as being in the Body Forging realm during Sect Resource Distribution.
Prevented disciples from approaching the player with worried dialogue about Tidao Feng's quarters after banishment.
Fixed Shen Tian Court House crafting commissions allowing infinite retries on failure and basic craft selection auto-failing the quest.
Fixed removed or unknown crafting techniques from older saves appearing as unknown placeholders.
Fixed completed event names in the month-end summary dialog appearing in raw English.
Fixed interface lag when dragging the expanded buff bar or crafting effects popout.
Fixed main action buttons on location dialogs appearing off-centre due to differing text lengths.
Fixed a typo in Mo Haolang's first Star Raiders dialogue.
Fixed the combat results barrier breakdown for Meridians showing a generic person silhouette.
Updated the ending dialogue of the rogue trader beast wave event to acknowledge volunteers and gambling den staff separately.
Fixed an exploit using temporary Charisma gear to exceed party capacity and bring inactive followers into star raids.
Fixed a softlock during the progenitor echo realm qualification event when unlocking Pillar Creation tier shop access.
Corrected the realmbreak shop unlock dialogue to state that three echo victories across three separate years are required.
Fixed regular transport seals incorrectly consuming omni-seals when checking travel destinations on the world map.
Fixed Zi Liang's portrait disappearing in the background during the Xidian Outpost beast wave event choice screen.
Fixed combat auto-use items like Cluster Bombs triggering extra phantom uses beyond inventory count.
Fixed the expanded combat buff panel appearing in front of the bug report dialog and other modal windows.
Fixed buff and technique tooltips displaying incorrect zero values for damage, healing, and barrier amounts.
Fixed Shen Tian Court commissions being incorrectly capped at a 200% Perfection limit.
Fixed a text duplication typo in the Heavens' Orrery rotation technique tooltip.
Fixed an issue where clicking crafting, combat, and advancement pills in the inventory opened an empty popover.
Fixed combat statistics and logs display issues.
Fixed item-comparison tooltips for Woven Remnant S (IV) Inscribed Patterns harmony.
Fixed Remnant Cycle buffs so that Cycle 3 triggers properly.
Fixed an issue where the Karmic Reprise buff incorrectly accumulated multiple extra stacks during a technique.
Fixed crafting research glyphs from the Vault of Infinite Reflections incorrectly displaying a Craft Skill reward on completion.
Added a one-second lockout to the confirmation button when rolling masteries to prevent accidental clicks.
Fixed the gilded transport seal to teleport players to anywhere with a transport seal.
Prevented rare pillar patterns from being sold at markets or put up for auction.
Fixed an unintended behavior where permanent stat upgrades from the Incursion Deflected reward picker incorrectly scaled player character stats, restricting these bonuses exclusively to the figment companion.
Fixed crafting action internal names appearing in various screens.
Fixed expedition confirm dialog being too small.
Fixed filtering logic for pillar shards.
Fixed long crafting loadout names breaking the ui.
ModAPI
Replaced the 'removeEqnForTooltip' field with a 'keepEqnForTooltip' which does the opposite.
Exposed mod UI components globally and added support for custom background colors on neutral techniques.
Exposed parseTooltipLine, expandTooltipTemplate, and expandTooltipTags util functions.
Added new crafting boost stats.
