I'm back! Finally ready to go, this release brings with it a major rework to crafting and a whole host of changes beside it.

Features

• Crafting now only ends when stability reaches 0.
• Added a new concept, 'max stability', that decreases by 1 each action.
• Both completion and perfection now roll at the end to see if the craft succeeds.
• Reworked crafting conditions. You can now see multiple conditions in the future, and they follow a more predictable pattern.
• Sublime crafting is now a new type of crafting, with new mechanics for each type of recipe. You can unlock this by following the quest from the Forge Spirit.
• A new stat 'harmony' has been introduced for sublime crafting, that controls how beneficial conditions are.
• Equipment items can now be crafted with 'quality', with each tier of quality increasing all the item stats by 10%. Quality can only be added when doing sublime crafting.
• Stack based items gain bonus stacks instead of quality, allowing for far greater returns for an expert crafter.
• Crafting actions can now be mastered.
• All reagents have been reworked to be more impactful.
• Craft skill now has diminishing returns, but provides more crafting loadout slots for each 250 you gain.
• Instant craft now unlocks after a single craft. It also stores the best perfection result you achieved and uses it when crafting.
• A lot more cauldron recipes have been added to all realms.
• Added a lot more crafting actions to a variety of locations.
• Rebalanced all the existing crafting actions.
• Removes sublime tiers from recipes that only increased the stacks rewarded.

Changes

• Replaced the save system to one that should scale better with auto-clickers.
• You can now ask Pi Lip and Lingxi Gian to stop asking you for things.
• You can now hold ctrl to instant buy the max of an item.
• Improved crafting log readability.
• Tooltips in the crafting screen are now auto-collapsed, but can be expanded by holding ctrl.
• You can now scroll any list of tabs with the scroll wheel.
• You can now pin recipes, to make them easier to access.
• Made item sorting in shops consistent with other locations.
• The shadow cloak quest has been extended slightly.
• Sect missions now overlap with the previous realm when breaking through, so you don't have a sudden cut off.
• Recipe screen start crafting no longer has a keybinding to avoid it clashing with search.
• Shugou Chasm now offers the option to skip 10 floors at a time.
• The Shugou Chasm debuff is now harder.
• Tweaked tutorials to give the player a better new game experience.
• Added meditate to max qi button.
• Pillar Fragments are no longer auto-sold.
• Added wait to next month button to calendar.
• Consumable pills now show preview of the max consumption.
• Added an import save button.
• Made the Fist and Blossom ancestors normal enemies instead of map events, to make the Body Forging experience smoother.
• Tweaked icons for PC soil conditions.
• Reagants are now their own item type.
• Made dissolving concoction cheaper to craft.
• The victory dialog now shows the combat title.
• Eon Glass now sells for more.
• Renamed None techniques to Neutral techniques.
• Buffed the relic keys to only drop Tier V and VI items.
• Allowed delivering more inheritance shards to get multiple keys.
• Increased Burning Blood drop rate.
• Separated Item Effectiveness from Toxicity in the stats screen.

Balance Changes

• Spinning Kick now only stacks up to 8 times.
• Dual/Origin techniques now use the maximum affinity of their constituent parts, instead of the average.
• Neutral techniques now scale with the player realm, keeping them relevant as the game progresses. Nerfed their base values to take this new scaling into account.
• All buffs no longer scale off affinity, removing the exponential power they were giving.
• Make enemies in higher realms slightly harder.
• Buffed defense enchantments.
• Chance buff masteries now scale over 100%, giving a chance for two stacks.
• Buffed Armoury Core.
• Reworked the Pattern Loom Nexus.
• Made legacy defense buffs to all scale off power.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed condition for entering the Founders Trial.
• Fixed reinforcement talisman recipe.
• Fixed two pillar shard types vanishing from the inventory after acquiring.
• Fixed formation parts not scaling off artefact power.
• Fixed time passing even when choosing to delay doing a crafting hall mission.
• Fixed a LOT of typos.
• Fixed Storm Surge to actually scale off power.
• Fixed compressed plate to not send you into negative power.
• Fixed bug where new game techniques tutorial would auto-select the wrong tab filter.
• Fixed Serrated Transmutation misleading the player into thinking that you can have more stacks of it.
• Fixed Retreating Flash buff to work.
• Fixed Shadow Sacrifice healing mastery to have the correct scale.
• Fixed wrapping of mystical region curses and rewards.
• Fixed double advance bug in events that give items.
• Fixed Dragon Infusion power mastery.
• Fixed Droplets being constantly reset to max.
• Fixed opener and finisher techniques placing themselves into the wrong slots.
• Fixed crash in beast wave crafting branch.
• Fixed gentle stabilize not being dropped at the end of the Fairy quest in PC.
• Fixed Seek Danger finding enemies that haven't been unlocked yet.
• Fixed breaking through on legacy characters setting certain stats to NaN.
• Fixed reputation of the Sect Branch in Shen Henda.
• Fixed the player being considered injured when they shouldn't be.
• Fixed concentrate force scaling off the wrong stat.
• Fixed the weak mastery filter to work with tier VI masteries.