Patch Notes

New and improved

• Soul Trap marks last until the monster dies instead of timing out. Leaving combat, retreating to safety or a boss reset clears the mark. Capture odds and shard rules are unchanged.
• Rune gear is renamed Runestone, with new black, brown and red inventory icons. Existing saves and items carry over.
• New inventory icons for the dragon gear sets. Equipped character art is unchanged.
• Holy and Dark Dragon gear gains 5 extra Constitution per piece, and their weapons roll +20 to +25 damage. Runestone and Void stay above them.
• Taverns and the Archdemon now get world map and minimap markers once discovered, alongside dungeon entrances. Unexplored secrets stay hidden.
• PC controller support: movement, targeting, combat, all 24 hotbar slots, inventory, menus, the world map and on-screen text entry. Defaults are in Help, Controls. Keyboard, mouse and touch still work.
• Recorded spell casts, impacts and boss spells replace generic dings, along with the stat, buff, loot and notification beeps. All original music is unchanged.
• Faster inventory refresh and map loading.
• An Updates panel for Windows builds, groundwork for downloading smaller updates in the future. Android keeps updating through the full APK.
• The in-game Help Guide covers controller controls, Soul Trap, Runestone, landmarks, audio and Updates.

Compatibility

• Saves carry over, and the Android update installs over the old app.

New

• Dragon and Rune gear is now top tier. Frost and Fire Dragon weapons always roll +15 to +20 damage, and Rune weapons +20 to +30, so even the weakest roll beats the best crafted legendary. Dragon and Rune armor starts at legendary strength, and crafting can still add extra stats. Gear you already own is upgraded.
• Void weapons now add 4% of their damage as each of the seven elements (down from 20%), making them roughly 30% stronger than any other weapon at weapon skill 120 (about 11% at skill 100). Rune is the best armor set.
• Set masteries: wear a full set to keep its bonus on and learn its own ability for 100 AP. Elemental sets give +5% resist, dragon sets +7%, and the other sets +5 armor.
• Inspecting an item shows it side by side with what you have equipped, with gains in green and losses in red.
• Glacite can be socketed for Frost resistance and Bloodstone for Fire.
• All 16 soul shards have their own art and no longer look like gems.
• A first-time tutorial, a highlight on things you can Use (E), a clearer AP bar, and monster HP in the info popup.
• Bigger, shorter text across the game.
• The Lord of the Black Tower is much tougher: double HP, harder hits and stronger spells.

Fixed

• Carpets no longer draw over your character.
• A warning sign now stands at the Haunted Isle pier.
• Infused gems were removed. Any you have turn into gold.
• Saves from 1.0.36 load normally, and the Android update installs over the old app.

New

• A long plank pier runs from the Desert of Tombs' south coast to the Haunted Isle. The isle's spirits are level 40 to 52, so come prepared.
• Void weapons add 20% of their damage as each of the seven elements, each resisted separately. Against an ordinary monster that is +140% damage per hit. This replaces the old dark element and the Void Bolt proc.
• Infused gems are now weapon materials. Crafted Poison, Earth, Storm, Holy and Dark dragon weapons take one infused gem of their element instead of 3 bars. Fire and Ice weapons keep their bars.
• New Infused Void Gem for Void weapons, made at the jeweler from 1 Cut Voidstone and 8 Void Shards (Jewelcrafting 60).
• The Archdemon of the Rift drops 3 Void Tokens, enough for one full trade.
• Buff durations grow with Intelligence and the matching skill, up to 10x. Recasting refreshes the timer without stacking.
• Vendors have a quantity box and a Max button.
• New art for all eight dragon armor sets and the Rune set.

Mining and ore

• Mining levels faster, especially in the high skill range. Ore per swing is unchanged.
• Low-tier ore was phased out of high-level zones. No iron in the winter zones.
• The Tundra has fewer sapphire geodes and more emerald and ruby geodes.
• Cut Glacite needs Jewelcrafting 75, down from 80.

Armor sets

• Armor sets are defensive only: stats, armor, health, mana, light, regeneration and resistances.
• Completing a set permanently teaches its resistance: +5% for elemental sets, +10% for dragon sets, all seven elements for the Rune and Void sets.
• Set helms and chests take ore instead of infused gems.

Combat and companions

• Damage-over-time spells and soul-shard summons work instantly in combat.
• Priest companions cast Greater Heal and Heal All. Older saves no longer lose these spells.
• Companions level on their own.
• Soul shards are sold by a mage in every town, including new mages in Bogwater, Sandmere and Cinder Camp.

Fixed

• Yellow lines across monster sprites.
• Bushes drawn cut in half.
• Black blocks over dungeon floors and the player.
• The anvil has its own sound.
• Frostforged and Hellstone bars show up when searching "frost" or "fire bar" in the crafting window, and the Help guide explains them.
• Bow companions face the right way. Level-up notices appear only for real skill and stat gains, with a new chime.

Unchanged

• The 1.0.34 difficulty curve.
• Saves from 1.0.34 and 1.0.35 load normally, and the Android update installs over the old app.

Balance

• Monster toughness now rises steadily with monster level and zone, so later areas are much tougher than the Starting Island (at the 1x difficulty setting). XP rewards are unchanged.
• The difficulty slider still scales everything on top of this curve.
• Existing saves load with no changes needed.

World and art

• Smooth, curved transitions between water, forest, rock and road everywhere. Houses keep their blocky look.
• Mountain and cave wall tops show a short visible band with a soft fade before line of sight cuts off.
• Cliff faces smoothed, up to 8 tiles tall. The starting mountain outline was cleaned up.
• Bushes beside paths no longer block line of sight.

Places

• The Void boss arena was redesigned with a jagged ritual platform, bridges, pillars and violet lights. The Black Tower now has different layouts and elites on each floor.
• Hoarfrost Keep and Pyrehold have new, winding layouts with natural moats and paths.
• A crafting workshop now sits near the starting spawn, with the furnace outside.
• Three overworld secret rooms stay dark until you open them, with loot and monsters inside.

Crafting

• All enchanting tables were removed from Home and the seven towns.

Bug fixes

• Fixed the potion cooldown display on the hotbar.
• Fixed errors in the crafting window.
• Fixed loading of the smooth-edge terrain art.

Crafting

• Enchanting was removed. Enchanting scrolls are now junk. Socketing at the jeweler remains.

Companions

• Companions no longer automatically match your level.
• Priest companions heal earlier, put you first, and use Heal All or Greater Heal when they know them. Wenna starts with these spells, and Heal All is a new spell.

Quests and world

• Champion kill quests spawn the champion near you when the quest starts.
• Town guards stay at their posts instead of patrolling.
• Monsters summoned at altars are always champions.

Combat and balance

• The difficulty slider now goes from 0.1x to 10x, with a rebalanced curve.
• The spell cooldown overlay on the hotbar now matches the cast timer.
• Soul summons can be used in combat. The summon panel and glow were cleaned up.

Items and audio

• Unique and set items can no longer be duplicated in the bag.
• New, shorter bow sound.

Art

• Walk and attack animations in every direction for 90 monsters.
• New Arcane Dust and Spider Legs icons. Sand meets water cleanly, cliff caps are rounded, and roof eaves are fixed.
• Real plank drawbridges at the four castles.

Interface

• Windows can be dragged by their title bar or frame with a mouse or touch. Positions are remembered, and the Esc menu has Reset windows.

Combat

• Most spells now have cast times. Damage-over-time spells, Blink and Curse of Weakness stay instant.
• Taking a big hit pushes back or restarts a cast. Moving still cancels it.
• Short lockouts after melee swings and casts. Spark: 0.6 s cast, 1.4 s cooldown.
• Wands, staves and bows reach 9 to 10 tiles. Spells stay at 7.

Classes

• Vanguard talents cover every melee weapon except daggers. Archer talents cover bows and daggers.
• Archers can carry a bow and a dagger. The dagger comes out in melee range and the bow beyond it.

World

• Deepdelve, Frostwatch, Farmhold, Hunter's Lodge, Bogwater and Sandmere were redesigned with unique layouts in the new house style.

World and art

• Smoother edges on water, chasms, cave walls, mountain rock, cliffs and dungeon walls across every zone.
• Cinder Camp was the first town redesigned in the new house style.

Help

• The Help Guide explains Export and Import Save.

Performance

• Big fights run more smoothly: the minimap, hotbar, character window, companion logic, target panel, sounds and quest icons do much less work each frame.

World

• Every town house interior now fits inside its roof.
• Removed a grey grid from the Hallowed Reach ground.

Performance

• New Lighting quality setting, Low or High, to reduce lag on phones. High keeps the previous lighting.

Bug fixes

• Monster pathfinding no longer throws errors or leaves tiles blocked when a monster is boxed in by its pack.

Combat

• New 1.5x game speed step.
• New "Show Miss text" setting, off by default.
• Looping buff glows were replaced by a one-time ring when you cast. Buffs show time left in the buff bar.

Party

• Buffs you cast also land on your active companions.
• The Party window (Y) has Gear and Skills tabs and highlights upgrades for each companion. Weapons a companion can't use well are marked "Poor fit".

Map and movement

• The world map zooms properly on phones.
• New "Auto-move to target" setting, off by default.

Loot and spells

• Spell tomes you already know no longer drop or appear in shops.
• The spellbook colors spells by type and has a legend.

Art

• Tome icons are back. Town plazas, bridges, roofs, house floors, cavern and castle floors were cleaned up.

Art

• New, more detailed pixel art for monsters, weapons, armor, spells and the hero.
• Monsters walk, idle and attack with animations.
• Helmets, armor, shields and weapons show on your hero, companions and guards.
• Spells have their own animated effects.
• Full walk and attack animations for the hero in all four directions.

Characters

• Character creation offers one look, Male, for now.

World

• New Map of Aldmarrow in the starting chest reveals the terrain and zones of the whole world. Existing characters receive one.
• Each zone now connects to the next by one clear walking route along the main roads. Off-road gates became cliff plateaus.

Quests

• The Hollow Below is now level 16 and The Elder Treant Stirs level 20, matching their bosses.
• Old Halla in Frostwatch tells you which level to come back at.

Items and crafting

• The War Axe is now an axe.
• Mountain Sage is sold in every General Goods shop. Earth Gems are sold at the Mountain Pass and Desert smiths.
• 12 new recipes make the smaller drop-only sets craftable.

Monsters

• The Elder Treant wakes from a shorter distance.

Performance

• Monster spawners sleep until you are nearby, which greatly reduces lag in the Mountain Pass.

World

• Floor traps were removed from the game.

Balance

• A single item gives at most 10% resistance to any one element. Set bonuses are not capped.

Interface

• Zoomable world map.
• Clearer talent point notices.
• Salvage all button. Worn and locked items are hidden from salvage.
• Boss level tags, death tips and drop-only labels on sets.

Bug fixes

• Fixed the Stoneguard Helm crafting window and the Gorrik's Bite icon.

Quests

• Crafting objectives name the station and recipe, and show the skill required.
• The next-town hint points to a waypoint. Quest gathering nodes are marked on the map.
• Quest levels are shown when you accept and in the tracker.

Balance

• Hunter's Stew needs Cooking 15, down from 40.
• Seven new copper and tin nodes west of Farmhold.

Interface

• Dangerous monsters show a red name and DANGEROUS tag, with a warning sign near the Goblin Chief's Cave.

Detailed notes for this version have not been verified yet.

General

• The game was renamed from Atraxia to Aldmarrow. Saves are unaffected.
• New Credits screen with full art and audio licenses.

Items and balance

• Elemental weapons deal +50% damage to monsters of the opposing element.
• Armor never boosts its own element's damage. Armor is defensive and weapons carry the elements.
• Former set weapons became uniques.
• Vendors sell only basic generic stock.

Fixes

• Rowboats face the right way.
• Footsteps are quieter.

Detailed notes for this version have not been verified yet.

Detailed notes for this version have not been verified yet.

World

• A main road links the towns in order: Starting Island, Farmhold, Hunter's Lodge, Bogwater and Deepdelve, then splits toward Frostwatch, or Sandmere and Cinder Camp.

World

• Ore and gem nodes were restored on natural mountain ridges and rock formations.

Art

• Nearby lights no longer stack into white blobs.

Interface

• The character panel shows a resistance grid for all seven elements.
• On PC, I opens the bag.

World

• Two new zones beside the Void Rift: Hallowed Reach (holy) and Gloamreach (dark), each with a mini castle, dungeons and caves.

Monsters

• Every element has a full lineup of elemental, knight, mage, drake and dragons.
• Holy and Dark Golems replace the Sun and Shadow Golems.

Combat

• Elemental weaknesses work both ways: x1.5 against the opposite element, x0.75 against the same. Void monsters resist every element.
• Holy and Dark resistance are now real stats.

Items

• New Dawnbound and Gloomward sets, plus Holy and Dark Dragon Regalia.

Art

• Thunder gets a deep navy and electric blue palette.

Combat

• Damage types, elements, resistances and element sets were introduced.

World

• Two walkable mainland castles with their own bosses and moats.