Kaironia Demo 0.1.7: Focus Moments, Progression & Smoother Travel

Kaironia Demo 0.1.7 is now live.

FOCUS MOMENTS

Added optional timing challenges during skilling, rewarding well-timed inputs with bonus XP.

- Use the Focus hotkey to take part; the key can be rebound.

- Focus offers remain available while walking between gathering targets or switching non-combat activities.

- Focus moments do not appear during combat, boss encounters, or Rifts.

- Disable Focus moments in Settings; server operators can also disable them for their server.

- Added Finding Your Focus and Perfect Timing challenge tracks, awarding Temporal Tokens and Mastery XP.

PROGRESSION AND BALANCE

Rebalanced skill XP to give early and middle levels a steadier pace. Existing XP and levels are preserved.

Training targets below are cumulative from level 1, at base speed. Actual playtime varies; Hitpoints follows combined combat training.

- Level 20: about 30 minutes → 75 minutes.

- Level 50: about 4 hours → 7 hours.

- Level 75: about 20 hours → 25 hours.

- Level 92: unchanged at about 60 hours.

- Level 99: unchanged at about 100 hours.

- Hitpoints trains more slowly, reaching 99 around a full Attack, Strength, and Defense training path.

- Faith offerings grant more XP, making early training less dependent on rare bones.

- Gatherer's Rhythm I now unlocks at Faith level 1.

- Fractional XP carries over between actions and saves, including XP earned through Chronoburst.

MOVEMENT AND WORLD FIXES

- Map travel avoids unnecessary detours and backtracking.

- Characters turn more smoothly around waypoints, including during Chronoshift.

- Characters slide past small obstacles more reliably in boss arenas.

- Clicking near a wall stops your character at a reachable position.

- Fire and Earth Altars are now demo-accessible, swapping locations with Warp and Eclipse Altars.

- Moved the First Surveyor's Cairn inland and widened its dry approach.

- Footpaths remain visible across Granite Basin, including the trail to the Pale Observatory Mechanism.

MULTIPLAYER

- Server passwords can be remembered on your device; uncheck Remember password to forget one.

- Returning to Join Game after a rejected connection restores a usable menu.

- Movement corrections are smoother after delayed server updates.

- Auto-collection finds town trees on dedicated servers, including those beside the smithy in Lyra's Rest.

- Crafting sounds play for the correct traveler, including at anvils and furnaces.

- Clients and servers must use matching updated builds.

INTERFACE AND SETTINGS

- Level-ups use compact notifications that do not interrupt play, with a shortcut to the skill's Codex page.

- Your gameplay statistics choice remains saved through routine updates.