Exploration
→Old Gods and the Stone Tower: prepare for dangerous exploration
Separate alignment from combat objectives, follow the tower's task chain, and plan expeditions around verified progression.
11 min Launch editionCombat & mysteries
Prepare for encounters and understand the systems behind each turn.
Combat basics
- Turn-based combat: make every action count
Learn to read the battle screen, protect your next turn, and build a repeatable combat plan before spending rare supplies.
- Equipment preparation: compare the whole loadout
Choose weapons and armor by reliable results, useful properties, and the supplies needed to support them.
- Rituals, skills, and keeping enough magic for the next fight
Build a usable ability plan, choose when to spend magic, and prevent powerful rituals from exhausting an expedition.
- Difficulty and early planning: choose the pressure you want
Understand the launch difficulty choices, avoid irreversible Custom surprises, and prepare a farm and combat routine that fits your settings.
Combat basics
Combat & mysteries
Combat Points
Reference details
Points add conditional benefits to a battle. They are distinct from the Action Points spent on commands.
- Types
- Swift, Lethal, Defensive
- Historical behavior
- Their trigger effects involve evasion, critical hits, or health and magic recovery.
- Version context
- Introduced in developer notes for v0.2.6; check current descriptions for exact behavior.
Combat & mysteries
Combat Log
Reference details
Use the battle record to distinguish damage, status effects, and equipment triggers instead of judging animations alone.
- Documented keyboard input
- Hold Shift in the historical v0.2.6 controls.
- Later improvement
- v0.2.8 added clearer skill, item, and actor names.
- Current controls
- Check bindings if the historical input differs.
Equipment & supplies
Combat & mysteries
Battle Items
Reference details
Dedicated combat consumables can provide damage or disruptive effects when ordinary commands are unsuitable.
- Historical introduction
- v0.2.8
- Documented use
- The update described use while stunned or dizzy and against guarding enemies.
- Before using
- Read the current item target, cost, and restrictions.
Combat & mysteries
Equipment Slots
Reference details
Compare the complete loadout rather than a weapon's Attack bonus alone.
- Offense
- Weapon and offhand
- Clothing
- Head, top, bottom, feet
- Accessories
- Neck, two rings, trinket
Combat & mysteries
Light Equipment Property
Reference details
This named equipment property rewards item use. It should not be confused with an attack's Light element.
- Trigger
- Using an item in battle
- Documented benefit
- One Swift point per equipped Light piece
- Planning use
- Supports a routine that already uses recovery items.
Items & achievements
Ritual Tomes
Reference details
A tome teaches an ability when used; finding a book is not the same as crafting an item.
- Documented examples
- Lesser Mending, Dark Shield, Mana Drain
- First check
- Read the tome's use instruction and the learned ability's current description.
- Source caution
- Not every tome has a documented acquisition location.
Items & achievements
The Elder Gem
Reference details
Molly's long-term task connects exploration in the Mall Mines with a forge upgrade blueprint.
- Task giver
- Molly
- Progression
- Complete the earlier helping task and workshop introduction; follow her letter and journal.
- Reward type
- Forge upgrade blueprint
Enemy reference
Combat & mysteries
Cornstalker
Reference details
A familiar farm creature whose variants should be checked before a fight. Community entries agree on the elemental pairing but conflict on some statistics.
- Reported element
- Light
- Reported weakness
- Darkness
- Data note
- Historical community data; exact health omitted because entries conflict.
Mysteries
Story-sensitive sections are marked before you open them.
Exploration
→Quest and mystery guide: find the real next step
Understand letters, task hand-ins, the Amelia–Pumpkid choice and how to pursue Akira's investigations without wandering through every doorway.
11 min Launch editionRelated guides
Combat & mysteries
→Cornstalker and enemy variants: a practical observation guide
Prepare for the Cornstalker without trusting outdated health tables, and learn to read unfamiliar monsters safely.
11 min Launch editionExploration
→Quest and mystery guide: find the real next step
Understand letters, task hand-ins, the Amelia–Pumpkid choice and how to pursue Akira's investigations without wandering through every doorway.
11 min Launch edition
Combat & mysteries
→Turn-based combat: make every action count
Learn to read the battle screen, protect your next turn, and build a repeatable combat plan before spending rare supplies.
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