Kaironia 0.1.6: Combat Cores, Item Automation & The Drowned Bellkeeper

Kaironia 0.1.6 is now live.

NEW CONTENT

COMBAT CORES

Equip combat cores from Rifting to add passive bonuses and special attacks to your combat setup.

- Added Echo, Cascade, Momentum, Rupture, and Fracture cores.

- Upgrade cores with Temporal Dust or exchange Core Fragments for your choice.

- Arm a special through the core orb, or enable Auto Special.

- Specials can be armed while charging and fire when enough charge is available.

- Cores switch with equipment loadouts; switching clears their charge.

- Core tooltips explain each rank's effects, activation chances, and charge costs.

ITEM AUTOMATION

Automatically bank or sell new rewards while keeping the supplies you need.

- Set inventory reserves and optional bank reserves before selling surplus.

- Start with three rules and buy additional slots at banks.

- Drag inventory items into empty rules to configure them.

- Pause individual rules or all automation.

- Open Item Automation at a bank or by right-clicking the Inventory tab.

- Automation also applies to Chronoburst rewards.

THE DROWNED BELLKEEPER

Challenge a new regional boss in the Soggy Fens, where failed rituals flood the arena.

- Dodge repeated bell slams, waves, and thrown clappers.

- Interrupt three flooding rituals to preserve dry ground and create openings to attack.

- Earn Clappers toward equipment, a Curio, cosmetics, supplies, and a pet.

- Three solo clears unlock automated hunts.

- Find the dedicated entrance under Boss Entrances on the World Map.

THE BLACKWATER PASSAGE — FULL GAME

Rebuild Orrin's ferry to unlock permanent travel between Fenwatch and Drowned Bay Isle.

- Gather Brineglass and oysters on the island.

- Added Brineglass bulk Leystone recipes.

- Ferry crossings show your traveler aboard the boat.

MORE ADDITIONS

- Added six waypoint flag families with unlockable color collections to Temporal Requisitions.

- Pin equipment loadouts to the Quick Bar, including for use during combat.

- Added Rift intensity controls for arrival speed, starting creatures, and active creatures.

ERRATA TRAILS

Casefiles now offer more varied assignments, clearer directions, and easier access to each lead.

- Added landmark clues, activities, deliveries, equipment checks, and item-use jobs.

- New cases contain three Routine, four Restricted, or five Impossible steps.

- Assignments are fixed when a case is opened.

- Routine cases stay within demo content, including on full-game accounts.

- Existing Routine cases may show different activities after updating.

- Search and dig steps use larger areas with hot/cold guidance.

- Casefiles and trackers provide lead actions and maps of the relevant area.

- Equipment checks complete automatically.

- Completed leads play a sound and highlight the carried casefile or chest.

- Opening a sealed casefile immediately opens and tracks it.

- Unopened reward chests no longer block new cases.

- Waiting chests retain their rewards and open oldest-first.

- Dropping an active casefile requires confirmation; casefiles can also be destroyed from the inventory.

- Chest rewards remain hidden until opening.

- Codex reward pages show possible loot and drop rates.

COMBAT AND BALANCE

- Manual eating now shares a 1.5-second cooldown across Inventory, equipped food, and the Quick Bar.

- Eating does not interrupt attacks. Auto-Eat retains its separate cooldown.

- Boss auto-hunts run at 70% of your average speed across your fastest three solo clears.

- Rootborn Colossus auto-hunts now account for expected food use.

- Reduced the Rootborn Colossus's melee defense.

- Aetherium Colossi now hit for up to 58 damage, with three seconds between attacks.

- The slower attacks give more time to recover with the shared food cooldown.

- Deepwater Rays now grant 97 Fishing XP.

- Leviathans now grant 356 Fishing XP.

- Sturgeon now grant 190 Fishing XP.

- Star-Core Veins now grant 1,125 Mining XP.

- Regional bosses now award varied loot bundles.

- Boss leystone rewards come through mixed combat-supply bundles capped at 300 leystones.

- Rifting is now the main source of Temporal Dust; merchants no longer sell it.

- Adjusted Rift Challenge Token rewards to account for combat cores.

- Auto-Retaliate handles nearby attackers before resuming your chosen hunt.

- Re-clicking your current enemy no longer resets attack progress unless you must move closer.

- Projectile XP uses the stance selected when the attack was launched.

- Attack targets are easier to select and highlight immediately.

- Ring of Life correctly stops your current action before teleporting.

- Defeated Overdue Tollbox latches stay destroyed.

- Tenets require enough Faith Points to trigger before they can be activated.

PRIVACY AND MULTIPLAYER

- Choose whether to share optional gameplay statistics to help improve the game.

- Change your choice anytime in Settings.

- Explored map areas stay revealed through multiplayer profile updates and reconnects.

- Server operators can grant a second Steam account access to a server-owned character.

- Both accounts use the same progress; only one can play that character at a time.

- Multiplayer clients and servers must update together.

GUIDANCE AND INTERFACES

- Reach the tutorial's first assignment sooner, with shorter handoffs.

- Added contextual tips for combat, equipment, crafting, travel, and other core systems.

- Tips remember completed lessons and support larger text sizes.

- Cooking guidance explains burned fish and how to replace missing supplies.

- Sickle objectives show remaining prerequisite materials and smelting batches.

- Tutorial notifications wait for appropriate moments; general tips wait until the tutorial ends.

- Open Codex entries directly from crafting recipes, ingredients, tools, and level-up unlocks.

- Level-up celebrations show newly unlocked recipes and gathering resources again.

- World Map searches temporarily override filters; clearing the search restores them.

- Searching Tillerman's Reach finds Heartlands Farm among discovered markers.

- Chronoburst responds on press and buffers one rapid repeat during gathering restarts.

- Pine tapping now supports Chronoburst.

- Chronoburst no longer expands the Time Bank with duplicate item totals.

- Completed cooking batches reopen at their original station and recipe.

- Expired crafting stations show a recovery message.

- Added a Scapelikes link and voting reminders to the main menu.

- The Discord link shows a Join badge until first opened.

VISUALS AND FIXES

- Refitted Battleweave, Brigandine, and Warden armor with matching inventory icons.

- Plate gloves now cover hands when worn with shorter sleeves.

- Equipment slot labels no longer stretch the grid.

- The Toolbelt has a distinct storage icon.

- Boss headers use consistent portraits and health displays.

- Boss warnings show consistent boundaries, countdowns, and lingering danger.

- Tollbox charge warnings remain visible until the attack resolves.

- Staggered bosses display orbiting stars.

- Clicking interactables briefly highlights their outline.

- Tutorial guidance outlines the complete Waystone Altar.

- Quest workstations display their artwork correctly.

- Granite Basin's secondary paths are easier to see.

- Removed a misplaced scarecrow from the river.

- Multiplayer inventory reordering persists through actions.

- Player-owned multiplayer characters save current progress after an unexpected server disconnect.

PERFORMANCE

- Reduced combat hitches during multi-hit attacks.

- Reduced unnecessary interface updates when crafting or collecting items.