Kaironia 0.2.0: Rookfall Mine and Two New Bosses

Kaironia 0.2.0 is now live.

THE MISSING SHIFT

Rescue a stranded mining crew and reopen Rookfall Mine in a new quest after reaching Ironcrag.

- Speak to Warden Tamsin Rook to begin.

- Reopen 200 ore veins and a smelting furnace.

- Earn 1,200 Coal Ore and the Shift Supervisor title.

ROOKFALL HORNBACK

Face a new boss at Rookfall Mine's Upper Landing, then return for repeat fights and rewards.

- Bait its charges into boulders to break its armor.

- Trade Hornback Plates for the Rookbreaker maul, Cragguard shield, and regional supplies.

- Find the Rookfall Calf pet.

- The Unbroken Horn Curio permanently adds one effective Defense level.

- Three solo victories unlock auto-hunt.

THE SUNKEN QUEEN

Challenge a new desert boss among half-buried royal ruins, where sunlight and shadows shape the fight.

- Take shelter in pillar shadows during High Noon.

- Find the real Queen among her False Court by reading their shadows.

- Spend Sunken Royal Seals on Sunneedle, the Shadeglass Diadem, and the Sun Court Frame at the Royal Exchange.

- The Unsetting Sundial Curio makes timed potion buffs last 5% longer.

- Find the Crowned Scarab pet.

- Earn the Sunwise title with 25 manual solo victories.

BANK, INVENTORY, AND CODEX

- Sort bank items by type or use.

- Bank tooltips now include item requirements, stats, and effects.

- Empty bank slots remain visible when sorting or filtering.

- Loot uses available Keyring, Toolbelt, Rune Pouch, and Potion Belt space before falling to the ground.

- The Skulduggery guide lists pickpocket, stall, and chest rewards, quantities, and drop rates.

- Skulduggery rewards link to item pages and discovered map locations.

- Athletics courses have Show on Map buttons.

- XP gains and skill totals display fractional amounts below 1 XP.

- Training statistics now account for fractional XP.

CHARACTERS AND TUTORIAL

- Character creation now fits on one screen, with visual appearance choices and clearer path comparisons.

- Added 240 suggested character names and an appearance randomizer.

- Character selection has a roomier list and simpler save-management controls.

- Exporting a character now confirms the save was copied.

- The cooking tutorial provides travel food and teaches automatic healing.

- New characters start with Auto-Eat enabled.

- Auto-Eat feedback uses the Hitpoints orb glow.

- New characters pause Time Bank while idle by default.

BALANCE AND RECIPES

- Rift equipment drops are rarer in the Heartlands and more common from Soggy Fens onward.

- Complex meals start at 25% burn chance, reaching zero 12 levels above their unlock or at level 99.

- Making buckets, flasks, pots, bowls, pie dishes, and plates awards more Crafting XP.

- Adjusted other Crafting XP rewards to keep the overall training pace similar.

- Eternium gathering tools use Elm Logs instead of Chrono-Oak Logs.

- Needle and Thread costs 30 Gold at general stores and 45 from Sylphina; it sells for 15 Gold.

- Defense Potion (T1) uses Ground Bones instead of Ground Primal Resin.

- Glow Fisherman's Potion (T2) uses Blue Flower instead of Glow-spores.

- Temporal Incident resources are capped at the connected players' average level in the relevant gathering skill.

- Eternium Shardlings, Fracture Lanterns, and Pale Lenses hit slightly harder to account for the new Cragguard shield.

COMBAT AND GATHERING

- Automatic gathering reaches the full search circle, including resources requiring small detours around its edge.

- Start combat here now works inside Rifts.

- Meriel's Arcane Reagents sells the level-1 Basic Wooden Staff.

- Autocast selection explains how to start casting and warns if no magic weapon is equipped.

- Starting a Faith offering cancels the previous gathering or combat respawn wait.

- Chronoburst correctly applies Faith speed, yield, and preservation bonuses.

- Fixed Faith Point costs and XP when using Chronoburst.

FIXES

- Fixed unreliable Load and multiplayer Select buttons.

- Tutorial tips wait until the loading screen fades out.

- Fixed footstep trails appearing below the player's feet.

- Multiplayer updates no longer move inventory-only items into the bank.

- Boss entry waits for death and respawn to finish.

- Fixed NPC conversations after leaving a multiplayer session and hosting another.

- Fixed trades completing twice after repeated confirmations.

- Trades require both players to be in the same world or encounter.

- No Easy Pickings is correctly restricted to full-game access.

- Fixed loading older saves with incomplete skill records.

- Invalid save progress is rejected before it can alter a character.