Kaironia 0.1.9: Combat Targeting, Smarter Gathering & Faster Loading

Kaironia 0.1.9 is now live.

COMBAT TARGETING

Added targeting controls for hunting a single monster type or clearing an area.

- Selected keeps hunting the type of monster you click.

- All nearby includes passive monsters, livestock, and combat NPCs.

- Right-click near monsters and choose Start combat here to hunt around that spot.

COMBAT AND HEALING

- Ordinary monsters now have distinct melee, ranged, and magic defenses, making combat style choice more important.

- Retuned monster health, damage, and respawn rates around these matchups.

- Equipping or restocking food triggers Auto-Eat as soon as its health and cooldown conditions are met.

- Eating cooldowns now scale with Chronoshift speed, including Auto-Eat.

- The Potion Belt can automatically use Protective Antipoison when you are poisoned.

GATHERING AND ATHLETICS

- Automatic gathering favors shorter routes and skips long detours around rivers or cliffs.

- Gathering continues to reachable resources near obstacles instead of waiting for depleted nodes.

- Fixed search-circle flashes between gathering targets.

- Run energy recovers while standing still, including while gathering with running enabled.

- Run-energy tooltips explain energy bonuses.

- The Athletics Codex previews next-level energy bonuses.

- Added a one-time Athletics guide hint when run energy first runs out.

- Fixed nearby Athletics obstacles sometimes failing to start a course.

BANKING

- The bank remembers your preferred grid width.

- Fixed-width bank grids are centered.

- Extra sorting spaces appear with dashed outlines only while dragging items.

- Dragging items into your inventory withdraws the correct item without moving unrelated items.

CRAFTING AND PROGRESSION

Ingredient preparation now unlocks in time for the recipes that need it.

- Cotton: Foraging level 15 → 1, making linen materials available to beginners.

- Cheese: Cooking level 15 → 10.

- Sugar refining: Cooking level 30 → 24.

- Grinding Green Moss: Herbology level 10 → 5.

- Grinding Primal Resin: Herbology level 15 → 9.

- Cloth weaving and leather tanning unlock earlier to match the equipment they supply.

- Adjusted activity XP for the revised unlock levels.

- Rebalanced item values and monster rewards.

- Updated combat and Rift challenge milestones and Token rewards.

CODEX AND ITEMS

- Recipes in skill lists show their ingredients.

- Portable recipes have an Open Crafting shortcut.

- Failed crafting-tool combinations link to compatible recipes and tool uses.

- Added an Owned Only filter to the Pets Codex.

- Fixed errors when opening elemental staff entries.

- Surveyor's Wedges have their own icon, distinct from Guardian Cores.

PERFORMANCE

- Faster startup and world entry.

- Crafting menus update more smoothly when inventory contents change.

NO EASY PICKINGS

Help Nahla protect her water carriers in a new Sunken Sands combat quest.

- Start at Sundial Waystation after completing A Span of Work.

- Earn 25,000 Gold Coins and the Worth the Weight title.

- Receive The Unbroken Buckle Curio, permanently adding two effective Defense levels.