[Fixes]

• Fixed weapon skills not getting marked by icons in the skill list on Training-day.
  • Also made spell list have icons when Adv-Cast is on.

• Fixed receiving a small amount of Memorization skill experience from evade calculation even when not in combat.

 [Changes and additions]

• Added a new mechanic: DESTINY triggers. Activating 7 of these triggers causes 3 Godly pieces of equipment to spawn on the piles of gold pieces in random Nefia. (Since there are multiple items, they'll appear as a bag.)
  • This is to increase the relevance of Nefia and make it easier to gear up large parties of pets with elemental resist equips.
  • As triggers are activated, letters are added to a display in the top-left corner beside the date.

• Rate of increase in cost and the maximum cost in platinum pieces for skill training and magic practice have been approximately halved.
  • Panic quests gave a lot more platinum pieces than other quests, so the maximum payout has been reduced to 6.
  • The rate at which the number of platinum pieces paid by Panic quests increases with fame remains unchanged.
  • Skill bonus and spell bonus points now increase potential by a fixed 20% instead of a random amount between 2% and 15%.

• No platinum pieces/skill bonus/spell bonus points will be earned when your character already has 100 or more of it.
  • This cap works only to prevent any additional gains above 100; pp/points above the cap that a character already has will not be confiscated.
  • A warning sound will play and a log message will display in red when exceeding 100 and whenever it is already above 100.
  • This is to reduce hoarding of platinum pieces so that players don't inadvertently end up handicapping themselves. It should ensure that characters grow at a constant pace, and minimize the need for grinding so that players don't get bored or stuck in Act I or II.
  • They go over the limit a lot more easily on Overdose and Purge modes, and players are probably brute-forcing all the enemies anyway even if they're imposing some kind of handicap on their playthrough. As such, there will be no cap for these two game modes.

• The player's Record section in the journal now has the number of skill bonus and spell bonus points earned so far.
  • This number is cumulative so it does not decrease after spending. When updating the game from a previous version, the number of points the character already has will be added to the starting count.
  • If you have blown up any rogue ambushes with the land battleship, that number will also be recorded.
  • The journal will also record total arena and pet arena wins instead of current win streaks. This is to reflect the change in the way arenas work and also so that players don't save scum to preserve their win streak.

• Removed the feature that had a Learning attribute-dependent chance of increasing skill experience gained.
  • This is so that players don't have to hoard resources until the Learning attribute is high enough, or save scum until the skill experience increase procs.

• The number of times skill potentials are increased for players and pets when waking up now depends on amount of experience gained.
  • There is now also a Learning attribute-dependent chance of doubling potential gain for each separate skill.
  • However, this doubling will occur only if the rare loot trigger is on.

• Skill experience gained is tripled for different sets on skills on different days.
  • This is to decrease repetitiveness, increase the need for planning ahead, and to make up for the removal of the Learning attribute-dependent experience bonus.
  • The current group of skill is indicated beside the date, and each skill in this group by an icon in the skill list.

• Increased the duration of effect of Necro Force 'W'ide special action. It will also grant an Attribution Shield buff to buffed undead now.
  • Undead restore will now also grant Regeneration buff to undead.
  • The strength of both of these buffs depend on the player character's Control Magic skill level. When used, they give Control Magic experience per every undead buffed.

• Reduced the amount of gold earned by pets when selling ores to 80% of the base price.
  • There is then a small amount of gold added to it, dependent on Negotiation skill (Negotiation skill effect is not capped at any number).
  • The amount also has a multiplier to it, dependent on Jeweler skill (Jeweler skill effect is capped at level 300).

• Evasion stat is now decreased when standing on a water tile while Wet.
  • However, this decrease is ameliorated by Swimming skill, and at high levels may even cause evasion stat to increase instead.
  • The evasion stat is the one seen on the character sheet, so use that to check how much your evasion is increased/decreased.
  • This is simulate aquatic animals' advantages in water.
  • The increase in Speed given by [Swimming] skill was too high, and has been decreased from 50% to 40% of skill level.

• Changed how Artifact lottery works to remove the bias in results.

• Bed rank is indicated in their item description, but beginners won't know how good or bad the beds in town are. As such, the approximate quality of a bed the player character is standing on is now indicated in the log.

• Slightly modified how the descriptions of cards in a deck are displayed. Also made it work in the English version, and added just a bit of translation.

• Also incorporated some other translations.

• Clarified the UI for inventory mode swapping.

• Added Decorative arts shop and Junk shop to the shop types that your shop can be set to.
  • It would've been nice if the shop type selection matched the types of NPC shops, but making sure all items had their own type came first.

• To make skills useful in more situations, Sense Quality skill has been renamed as Analysis in both the Japanese and English versions.
  • When receiving a regular attack (both getting hit and evading it will work) it will add to an analysis counter. The higher the receiver's Analysis skill, the faster the analysis counter increases.
  • The receiver's ability to evade the attacker's attacks increases as the counter increases. Memorization skill increases the effect.
  • Enemies have a circular gauge displayed with their HP bar that displays their analysis counter in increments of 20.
  • The analysis counter will increase even faster for characters who also have the Memorization skill.
  • The analysis counter does not get reset when moving to a different map, so when used in conjunction with Defense mode it may be helpful for scouting out bosses that use physical attacks.
  • Added a new special action related to this mechanic.
  • For roleplaying analytical characters and stuff.

• Characters in Defense mode now gain a Constitution attribute and Shield skill-dependent increase in evade.

• Decreased the chance that the Dream? sleep event will occur.

• Successfully decoding ancient books now give a rank-dependent amount of Abyss power.
  • There are is no use for Abyss power at the moment, but you can start accumulating it now.
  • A use for it should come in the future - hopefully as a reference to something.
  • For giving non-Mages Guild members a reason to decode ancient books without making Mages Guild members choose between one of those uses.

[Fixes]

• The custom text txtDialogH is not enclosed by quotation marks [unlike txtMizuAsobi], the contents didn't match up to the very special session of tail you just had, and it was just inconsistent. Thus, instead of txtdialogH, use the new TxtMizuAsobiEnd for customizing the text spoken at the end of the little tail session.

• Fixed the year check for initiating birthday event.
  • Also made the informer display the birthday you've registered with them when the same option is selected.

• Fixed gauge attacks that aren't procs (i.e. the gauge attacks that only certain NPCs have) activating in Intercept battle mode when they shouldn't.

• Fixed the sprites for flesh dolls of some wider or taller NPCs getting cut off.

• Fixed fires from thrown suigara burning indefinitely until put out.
  • Existing fires from previous versions won't go out, so please put those out manually with potions or by other means.

• Fixed the game using a shop's display tiles as display tiles for all other shops if the player is in that shop when determining items to be sold.

• Fixed summoned undead sometimes falling asleep when entering a town at night.
  • This is a different fix from the one in 1.56 that stopped them from falling asleep after a few turns at night in town.

• Fixed the code for generating the large figurine sprites that would also fetch the sprite for a panty because it was fed a larger-than-expected range of values to lookup, causing a panty to appear on top of a shaved ice.
  • ...people are probably going to be even more confused after reading this.

• Fixed some map data.

• Fixed swamp tiles on the world map acting like roads.

• Fixed healing rain animation playing for characters out of its area of effect.

• Fixed using a high potion of wisdom with alchemical rain attempting to play the animation for the high potion for all characters and the shortened alchemical rain animation at the same time, causing the game to act as if Effect Speed had been set to 0.

[Unofficial changelog pertaining to English version]

• book.txt edited to match 1.99's changes in Japanese version
  • Museum guide: added the reward for displaying unique figures, <decorative board> -> <house board>, <register>
  • Herb Effect: stomafilia's speed increase added, some minor edits
  • Shopkeeper Guide: Yaca points paragraph added
  • Easy Gardening: rewritten from scratch
  • Mission Briefing: Talking directive added
  • You dig mining?: lake, nest, cemetery, mine nefia added
  • Questing advice: added
  • Fishing introduction: added

[Skill groups that a day can have]

• Training-day
  • Weight Lifting, Healing, Meditation, Magic Capacity, Heavy Armor, Medium Armor, Light Armor, Faith experience is tripled.

• Combat-day
  • The 12 weapon skills, Tactics, Dual Wield, Two Hand, Shield, Evasion, Eye of Mind, Greater Evasion, Marksman experience is tripled.

• Jobs-day
  • Negotiation, Investing, Carpentry, Tailoring, Alchemy, Jeweler, Gardening, Performing, Cooking, Fishing, Pickpocket experience is tripled.

• Exploration-day
  • Stealth, Lock Picking, Detection, Mining, Disarm Trap, Traveling, Swimming, Riding experience is tripled.

• Study-day
  • Literacy, Gene engineer, Anatomy, Analysis, Memorization, Casting, Magic Device, Control Magic experience is tripled.

• One of these groups is picked at random when the day changes.
• However, if the condition listed below has already been met for the selected group, it will attempt to pick a random group again, but only once.

[The 7 DESTINY triggers]

• When the sum of experience earned for a group of skills by the player and all pets is above a threshold, +1 letter is gained for its corresponding group.
• The experience earned for a group is tripled when it's that group's day. Experience gained from Traveling is also counted, so these conditions are easily met if you have a lot of pets with high potentials but lots of room to grow. (This should be when the player lacks equipment the most.)
• Clearing at least 1 random Nefia grants +1 letter.
• Sleeping 3 times grants +1 letter.
• All conditions will be met eventually even if the player makes progress at a slow pace, unless it's a solo run and the player doesn't touch significant parts of the game. Which wouldn't be too bad either, since solo runs don't lack equipment as badly as large parties anyway.
• When all 7 letters in DESTINY are displayed in the top left corner and the player character enters a newly-generated random Nefia floor, a sound effect will play, "You felt destiny on this floor...!" will display, 3 Godly pieces of equipment will be placed on the tile with gold pieces in the current floor, and all triggers reset. This will not happen on floors that do not have the gold piece tiles.
• Grabbing these equips and clearing that Nefia while you're at it will cause the corresponding trigger to get activated again, as well as give debris for more skill experience.

[Analysis counter mechanics]

• Counter increases by a greater amount when evading a regular attack than when getting hit by it. There is a cap of 100 on it.
• The higher the receiver's Analysis skill compared to the attacker's Analysis skill, the greater the increase in the counter.
• When counter is less than 100, it gives a small amount of Analysis skill experience. When counter is greater than 1, it gives a small amount of Memorization experience.
• However, Continuous attack, Knockout, Shadow rush, Fire a volley, and critical hits will not increase the counter.
• Analysis counter is shared by all allied characters.
• It would be weird for characters of different factions to share their analysis, so non-allied characters will not analyze.

[New special actions]

• Advanced Casting
  • Learned upon leveling up with Memorization skill level 10 or greater and Casting skill level 10 or greater.
  • Use it to activate Adv-Cast status for the player character. Use it again to disable.
  • When affected by Adv-Cast, casting difficulty and spell experience earned is tripled.
  • It does not increase spell experience earned from magic practice.

• Data scan
  • Learned upon leveling up with at least Analysis skill level 30. Gives a buff of the same name when used.
  • When characters other than a character with the buff gets attacked, they will contribute more times to the analysis counter, making it go up quicker. However, the character with the buff will have his SP decreased by 2.
  • When doing a regular attack, the effective accuracy and evade will also be displayed in the log while the buff is active.
  • The accuracy will then be rolled against the evade. These values are not displayed for critical hits which are guaranteed to hit anyway or when the attack is evaded by special means.
  • Using Data scan when the buff is active will get rid of the buff.
  • When NPCs have the buff and the player uses it, the player character will be buffed and NPCs will have the buff removed.
  • Of the existing NPCs, lothrian agent, metal zilla, <Melget> the informer, <Mobile Communication Equipment>, and doctor <Gavela> now use this special action. (Only if they are spawned in this version.)
  • Pets with this will have a chance of using it when their SP is 80% or higher.
  • When used by non-allied NPCs, they will not buff themselves, instead resetting the analysis counter for themselves to 0. They will have a chance to use it when the analysis counter is 50 or greater.

[In progress]

• Act III final battle settings. (3/4)

• Act III final battle effects. (3/5)

• Act III main quest progression triggers. (7/8)

• Act III final battle cutscene dialogue. (5/5)

• Act III final battle map-making and customization. (4/4)

• Act III final battle special actions. (7/7)

• Ending cutscene. (1/1)

[Changes and additions]

• Shortened the number of turns needed between cutscenes in an Act III event boss battle by quite a fair bit.

• Changed how skill-training days are selected. If the skill-training trigger for the previous day has been activated, it will select the next one in a list.
• If it has not been activated or if all skill-training triggers have already been activated, a random skill-training day will be picked.

• The character sheets of allied characters (includes pets, summoned undead, and friendly NPCs in quests and such) are now viewable by selecting an option when 'i'nteracting with them. This also allows you to spend their bonus points.
  • Informers will now offer info about adventurers instead.

• Analysis immediately reaches 100 when using an insight lens on a hostile NPC.

• Information on adventurers costs 100 gold at an informer, and their character sheet can be viewed by selecting them from the list shown.
  • This should make their individual characteristics more apparent. They may also belong to a guild or worship a particular god - these are also displayed on their character sheet.
  • The list of adventurers now display their Impress instead of their level.

• The character sheets of NPCs other than pets no longer have their karma.
  • The karma of pets is now always the same as the player's.
  • Character sheets of NPCs other than pets and adventurers will not display the guild they belong to.
  • Non-pet NPCs will now have fame - also viewable - based on their level and character quality. When recruited [as a pet], their fame drastically falls.

• Pets who have won in the pet arena will gain fame themselves. They do not lose fame after losing a battle.

• Edited the descriptions of several items to make their effect clearer.

• To make the various types of chests more valuable, bejeweled chests now have a 100% chance and regular chests a 25% chance of yielding 1 herb.
  • Regular chests also have a 50% chance and safes a 25% chance of yielding 1 bronze coin.
  • Reduced the range in quality of spawned items [from opening chests].

• Changed the calculation for cost of increasing Speed and Life. It is now based on the starting value, not the current value.
  • It is now a fair bit more expensive at the beginning compared to previous versions, but this cost will never increase.
  • This is so that players don't need to hold off on evolving pets until they have bought all the upgrades they can with AP to lower costs.
  • The player character's Speed will now increase in increments of 30.

• The Wet status counter no longer decreases while standing on a water tile.

[Fixes]

• Fixed some descriptions.