Kaironia Demo 0.1.8: New Curios, Focus Rewards & Quality of Life

Kaironia Demo 0.1.8 is now live.

NEW BOSS CURIOS

Added two very rare boss drops with permanent bonuses, also available for boss tokens.

- The Confiscated Minute: +30 minutes of ordinary offline Time Bank capacity (Overdue Tollbox drop or 60 Stamped Cogs).

- The Unbroken Growth Ring: 2% chance of an extra primary Woodcutting resource (Rootborn Colossus drop or 80 Rootborn Crests).

FOCUS MOMENTS

Focus bonuses now use XP earned between offers instead of one action, keeping rewards consistent across action speeds.

- Bonus XP: Good 15%, Great 30%, Perfect 60%.

- Invitations show a countdown and expire after three seconds.

- Manual movement or Stop cancels Focus.

- Automatic travel between gathering targets preserves Focus.

HUNTER BALANCE

Early Hunter unlocks now offer better training rates. Overall leveling pace remains similar.

Base XP per catch:

- Bramblewing: 5 → 3.

- Phase-Finch: 0.8 → 4.4.

- Warp-Wren: 2 → 6.6.

- Stutter-Swift: 11.2 → 14.7.

COMBAT AND CHALLENGE BALANCE

- Adjusted combat XP rates to maintain training pace with current equipment.

- Retuned monster health and damage, with healing time factored into champion difficulty.

- Adjusted monster gold drops.

- Adjusted Temporal Token rewards for combat and Rifting challenges.

- Reduced Temporal Token rewards for Hazardous Work Authorization, the general boss-clear challenge.

CODEX AND CRAFTING

- Item sources put crafting and shops first, with recovery methods collapsed.

- Source groups remember expanded and collapsed choices between items and sessions.

- Gathering source names link directly to their resource entries.

- Other source details appear inline, without an extra Details button.

- Removed redundant Codex heading tooltips.

- Hunter and Fishing bait uses are grouped by level, with resource links and map shortcuts.

- Crafting recipes show missing ingredient amounts and where to find them.

- Enlarged crafting recipe icons.

INTERFACE AND SETTINGS

- Track active quests directly from their journals, including travel directions.

- Added an Instant Dialogue setting.

- Rapid reveal clicks no longer skip newly revealed dialogue.

- Added Ambience volume and mute controls for rain, wind, and thunder.

- Lowered the default music volume for new installations.

- Challenge notices group rapid completions.

- Hovering the new View button keeps a challenge notice open.

- Fixed spacing between challenge reward badges and labels.

- Restored level-up fanfare and confetti.

- Bonuses & Curios buttons now match the rest of the interface.

WORLD AND MULTIPLAYER

- Trees and resources no longer overlap boss entrances in newly generated terrain.

- Playtest clients can find compatible Playtest Steam Relay servers in the server browser.

FAULT-EYE — FULL GAME

Added Fault-Eye, the Deep Surveyor: a Granite Basin boss recommended for combat level 45.

- Enter at the Survey Access Station and reflect its survey beam using lit prisms.

- Below half health, Fault-Eye overclocks with faster attacks and new patterns.

- Rewards include Basin caches, machine salvage, and combat supplies.

- Added the Calibrated Survey Visor and Faultline Cutter, two level-45 rewards included in equipment-discovery milestones.

- Added the Pocket Surveyor pet.

- The Unerring Plumb Curio permanently adds one effective Defense level.

- Spend Surveyor's Wedges on equipment, the Curio, the Survey Scan reaction, and the Deep Surveyor title frame.

- Added a 16-rank Fault-Eye challenge with repeatable Prestige rewards.

- Earlier rewarded clears count toward the new challenge.

RIFT BALANCE — FULL GAME

- Granite Basin Rift XP: 12,572 → 12,529.

- Sunken Sands Rift XP: 28,886 → 27,878.

- Volcanic Rift XP: 89,190 → 87,778.

QUEST IMPROVEMENTS — FULL GAME

A Span of Work, The Line That Holds, and The Blackwater Passage have revised dialogue and clearer repair instructions.

A SPAN OF WORK

- The opening survey now takes place at Nella's west-bank marker.

- Assemble the bridge on the bridge itself, with clearer click targets and a reliable walking path.

- Resized worksite props and added material-specific work sounds.

Required materials have doubled:

- Pine Logs: 600 → 1,200.

- Iron Ore: 400 → 800.

- Quartzite Ore: 300 → 600.

THE LINE THAT HOLDS

- Surveys take place at the two pass worksites.

- All work orders are reachable, with clearer directions for later steps.

- Loading and the proving run use the same sledge.

- Later inspections return to the structures you repaired.

- Resized worksite props and added matching work sounds.

- South Pass and Stonegate repairs appear at the correct quest stages.

THE BLACKWATER PASSAGE

- Channel markers stay in the water rather than continuing onto Fenwatch's bank.

- Fixed ferry crossings getting stuck before arrival.