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Your tiles, including upcoming tiles, refill at the start of your turn if you still have health, and then effects like ! tiles falling off happen during your turn.

To activate equipment that require manual activation you click/press thier icon.

There are plans to release the OST when my brother is happy with it, although he's currently sitting on a big music rework that should be coming soon™.

For most enemies where defeating them counts as murder, you can make them run away by hurting them enough (enough usually being less than half health). Enemies that count as murder that wont run away only happen if you're already on a murdery path or choose a murdery event option. They'll have if they will run or not listed in their statuses with a little exit icon.

No worries. Thanks! Feel free to report any issues or missing words you find, or anything else.

I've not added Steam keys for Itch to distribute to you yet; since it's not released on Steam yet they'd function just like pre-order keys so it wouldn't let you play it there anyway yet outside of the demo. IIRC the claim button would be through your non-demo download link.

Well that's problematic. Thanks. I'll get a patch out shortly. At least it's only a one time error. It's the warning I added about when the demo ends.

There already is a free download demo. Unless you're after one for a different platform?

Web demo I've tried in the past and it didn't work; the java emulator for the engine can't handle it.

So after looking through the logic of how that could have happened, you must have gotten to a forest, had an event that wasn't the hell opens event, then entered the forest.

I'll add a clause preventing it from happening in subworlds. In the meantime a workaround is to avoid level 4+ nodes in subworlds until the hell opens event has actually happened. Hopefully you can either get through or get to another place where it's safe to trigger it.

For whatever reason it likes to run Proton instead of the Linux native version by default, which is definitely a choice, and based on the fact that that compatdata path includes the Steam AppID it'd load a different folder for the full game when running on Proton. (Demo is 2570560, and full version is 2562130)

Linux native version in and out of Steam and/or the demo should hit the same ~/.local/share/SternlyWordedAdventures folder regardless.

Love to hear it! In theory it should just load from the same folder. If not you can just copy paste the save files over. If you open the parallax viewer on the almanac then tell it to save it will load the save folder for that version without having to go digging for it.

I've just done a re-upload of V40 with a few fixes that were important enough to get out now, but not big enough to do a full hotfix for.

This was enough to track it down and fix it, thanks.

Removing it or reordering the list will affect the RNG for everywhere else, and it's an alphabetised list, so it's now Gyattsville.

Do you have the text of the bluescreen? If it's not rendering correctly you can press C to copy it to clipboard.

I guess that doesn't look good, although it is a real place in Yorkshire.

An easy way to handle this that doesn't require waiting for me to get the fix out or edit save files, is to load the Steam demo, then quit and go back to the itch version.

It's a script that affects migrating old save data, that had a last minute addition specifically for the Steam version that shouldn't have been enabled for the Itch version.

The same crash or a different one?

The button to download purchased games is at the top of the page on itch.

I've found the source of both bugs and fixed them. I'll get a hotfix out shortly.

Not intentional, I'll investigate both.

I'm trying to work out how this could have happened unless you managed to download v37 in between me checking the analytics and seeing no downloads, and finishing uploading and publishing the amended version (that I thought I'd only privately referred to as 37.1).

Can you confirm that the issue persists on the currently available version? And if so could you describe the game state when it occurred?

Other than using the capital city to regenerate the world you don't really. Have you found one of the rare seeds where there's a disconnected land mass?

This appears to be a conflict between the voiceless rough stone charm and the bronze bonsai. If you're able, unequip one of them until I can get a fix out.

Edit: I have a fix, I'll see if I can easily untangle it from the unfinished new update for a hotfix, or finish the update in the next day or two.

I introduced the Bookworm Adventures speedrunning discord to this, and this was one of their results:

That is the current end yes. More is planned later, but I can't say when that will be. There should be an unlock the first two times you do it though. Depart essentially takes you to a fresh world for a newgame+ on a new seed. The option is technically available the whole time, but costs 1000g if you've not done that fight. Explore is currently unimplemented.

Yeah, those can sometimes throw some super obscure words at you. If you check the stats, it'll tell you what they were on there. I should probably add a postgame screen to them.

Latest update should solve this.

I've got plans to make enemies not always do the same damage each turn which should help mitigate that, but I'll make a note to take another look at spider balance.

The fix is out. Sorry it took a few days; busy weekend, and had a few other things I wanted to get done for this update.

Okay, I see the issue. It looks like you have the gilded leaf teabag, and it can't find any tiles to gild on resting. I'll add a fix for that.

It accepts both UK and US spellings. A few Canadian ones too.

I myself am British, but a large portion of the audience is American. Gameplay wise the British spellings are usually worth more points, just because they are usually longer.

Looks like an Arabic loan word. I used wiktionary to cross reference all the entries, so they're in there with an English definition at least.

At a guess, when it's having issues you're either inputting upper-case, or some other letter-character other than basic lower-case latin script that it has no info on how to render. I'll add something to sanitise that input.

Hints already only searched a fraction of the dictionary, and the next version uses wildcards for hints as of about 20 hours ago.

It never seemed worth specifying that it doesn't include wildcards, since if you have enough that it can't find anything outside of them, then you can probably put anything in and the wildcards will figure it out.

I've already agreed to a publishing deal with 2LeftThumbs.

The first one probably isn't that useful given that most crafts are permanent. I'll see if I can find a diegetic way to include some hints. though

Thanks for the report, I've identified and fixed the problem. I'll probably drop the fix later this evening so I can get some of the new things I'm working on in the same update.

Word frequency is not a good statistical metric for a game where you care about letter frequency within words. If you use word frequency you end up drowning in H's and T's unless every other word you make is THE or contains TH. If you can track down a pre-V23 copy you can feel that first hand.

I is less common in shorter words than it is in longer words. Considering only words of 3-6 letters length it's around the 5th most common letter. Above that it's the most common letter by an increasing margin as the words get longer.

Making it less common on its own would make it harder to make 7+ letter words. Having the algorythm consider what's already on the board would be a possiblity, but that might inadvertedly nerf things like the Book of 4-heal.

As it currently stands for I, it's the third most common letter, which is a middle of the road compromise between short words and long words.

I'll add it to the questionmark button for the to left corner of that screen that I'm working on.

Impressive.

Hints exclude wildcards altogether, same for the insight potions and similar. I could experiment with enabling wildcards for hints since it doesn't do a full dictionary search, although for insight potions including wildcards makes the function take about a second on my hardware, rather than a few miliseconds.

Being a vowel, I is more common than most, but it's not the most common letter. You're statistically more likely to see E or A.

You can see a breakdown of the odds in the V23 devlog.

Yes.

I've considered multiplayer, but I've not come up with an idea that's distinct enough from just streaming your game to the other person to be worth the netcode. It's admittedly not been a focus of my thoughts though.

It was my worst fears realised; a critical bug slipping through right before the game got some actual coverage.

Thank you for commenting, otherwise this could have been a total disaster.

Fixed.