Major Changes

• The herb garden has been completely redesigned from the ground up.
  • It is no longer a queue, but a grid of tiles that take crops.
  • Crops take longer to grow but many can be grown at once.
  • Reworked some crop dependencies to make them flow better.
  • After harvesting the same crops are auto-planted, avoiding manual efforts.
  • New garden devices added to modify the behaviour of the garden.
  • Garden related trophies have been reworked.
• Backgrounds have been reworked
  • The child backgrounds now give more impactful stats, permanent changes on a variety of aspects of your character.
  • The background items can now be upgraded, each one having its own upgrade path through the realms.

Changes

• A new meridian opening quest has been added, that guides the player through the second mountain and to the observatory.
• Added filter for craftable recipes in the recipes list.
• Increased Pi Lip's crafting request cooldown.
• Increase max size of over-the-head buffs. You can now have a BEEEG SUN.
• Companions in combat animate their attacks too (if they have an animation).
• Added more cloud images for even larger stacks.
• Accepting a fallen star quest (such as those from the star observers) now unlocks fallen stars for you.
• Added a character to the mine that allows exchanging ancient shards for the other kind.
• Added ability to save/restore layouts for the pillar grid.
• Hua Tong is now LF.
• The sect no longer sells breakthrough pills after Body Forging. You need to make them yourself (or get Pi Lip to do it for you).
• The sect now sells an Empowered Fusing Cauldron in body forging, to help people get started.
• Added a new crafting action that allows using Brilliant to restore qi pool.
• The Gnawing Shadow Talisman now has hidden potential.
• The mastery tutorial now FORCES you to master a crafting technique.
• You can now select gifs to be uploaded as custom character images.
  
• Updated Runic Burst and Redirection talisman to be better.
• Skypiercer now has hidden potential (does not change existing ones). Acquiring it also unlocks the reforging workshop early.

Balance Changes

• Shadow artefacts now have caps on the vulnerability they can apply.
• Passive reagents now only apply their effects on refine/fusion not any action.
• Cleansed blood now stacks higher.
• Megavolt now scales to big numbers.
• Buffed the eclipse playstyle.
• Dayspring no longer requires no moon, just to be in sun.
• Twilight flare now gives buffs.
• Blazing Resurgence now stacks more sun.
• Heavenly Enhancement is now a barrier move not an attack.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed reforge workshop not appearing after unlocking the Skypiercer.
• Fixed reforge and upgrade dialogs not being square.
• Fixed a lot of enemies that still debuffed defense to give vulnerability instead.
• Fixed text of disabled menu options being difficult to read.
• Fixed star observers crane corpse enemies appearing in the wrong location.
• Fixed reforge workshop allowing upgrading without the right number of materials.
• Fixed many typos.
• Fixed Skypiercer buff to actually scale.
• The founder echo no longer drops shards.
• Fixed Tidao Feng art.
• Fixed Ratascar attack art.
• Fixed stance updating to early when an enemy dies.
• Fixed Qici Nierou barbs buff doing weird useless things. Now it stabs you.
• Fixed reflective curse to have flat damage instead of some broken scaling. Fixed Accursed Stars Grace max stacks to match tooltip.
• Fixed many buff descriptions to make order of operations clearer.
• Fixed crash on opening the reputation dialog.
  
• Fixed flat heal/barrier not appearing on many techniques bf masteries.