Finding Color in the Ashes Alpha 2.23

Hello again, we've got a new build for Finding Color in the Ashes.

The 2.2 build is mostly focused around systems updates. There is a new merchant UI and some under-the-hood changes to go with it. The merchants are going to be expanded further in future updates, but for now you should enjoy having a lot more information readily available each time you interact with them.

There are a new class of weapons available as well - polearms. The spear and halberd use your defense dice pool for their attacks, and gain a damage bonus from agility. The first craftable boss weapon is working now as well - the wightblade. You'll need Ailis and a working forge to use it.

On that note, Ailis can now upgrade your gear up to +5 and can craft armor and weapons for you. You'll need ores and coals to make this happen - and to that end there are new ores and ways to get those ores.

There are a few other goodies and fixes in there as well.

Thanks for checking out our game, and thank you for the continued support! As always, stay tuned for more!

Alpha 2.23 Hot fix

Fixes

• Armor crafting was resulting in weapons being produced.

Alpha 2.22 Hot fix / Mini patch

Added

• New night POI for Scout (forvalaka hunting)

• New Event art

• New Sex Scene (Scout)

• Temp fix: If you are playing an old save where you missed Ailis during the winter, a button to add her to the party will show up starting in spring. Has not been thoroughly tested, use at your own risk.

Adjustments

• Companion POIs on the patrol map have a small animation to make them more obvious

• Weighted chances of unlocking some scenes quicker

• Adjusted inn guest payouts. The reputation level of your inn has a bigger impact.

• If you choose not to fight the Wight with Scout, you can still do night patrols until you're ready to face it

Fixes

• Possible to be blocked from donating to the dwarves even if you had enough resources

• Spell tomes were missing from the merchant menu

• Willow's scene picker wasn't working

• Scout was generously contributing more rent than intended

• Greenhouse was giving false positives on finished projects (blades + armor)

• Could go negative gold bartering with soldiers

• UI bugs

• Various Typos

Alpha 2.21 Hot fix

Adjustments

• Complete redraw of sex scene with Lucy+Ellie

Fixes

• Using spacebar to progress dialog during events could soft lock the game (caused by a default key binding in godot).

• Could not use the guests quick-buy options after winter

• Fracture art showing up scout's in combat portrait

• A sequence break that could lock you out of late-night reading during scout's questline

Alpha 2.2 Patch Notes

Added

• New SFX

• New Music Track

• Audio options menu. You can now set master, sfx, and music volume.

• 3 new weapons: Spear, Halberd, Wightblade

  • Spear and Halberd are polearms. They roll from your defense dice pool. They give you +1 dice when blocking, and gain +1 damage for each 2 agility dice you have

  • Wightblade rolls from your magic dice pool. It deals magic damage instead of physical, restores mana on attack, and gains +1 damage for each attunement dice you have

• New Gear screen: gear screen now has tool tips for equipment traits + enchants.

• New Forge Materials: Deepiron and Mithril

• Dwarven expeditions will get more ambitious as time goes on, offering better rewards.

• Forge upgrades: Ailis can upgrade your weapons and armor at the forge - raising the max upgrade rank from =3 to +5.

• Forge Gear: Ailis can forge armor and weapons for you. This takes time, coal, and ores.

• Complete merchant rework. The UI is much nicer and the merchants have portraits now. This will be expanded on in the future.

• New Sex Scene (Lucy + Ellie)

• New Event

Adjustments

• Redraw of hardplate armor

• Ability to adjust storage bonus provided by the Cellar

• Your friend-shaped lizard has expanded their inventory to include shinier rocks

• The Patrol POIs for recruiting Scout, the Dryad, and Ellie now show up in both patrol and hunting modes

• You can forge coal and materials at the same time

• Adjusted forge times and outputs

• General goods are available for purchase even when the road is dangerous

• Slightly lowered the maximum food and alcohol cost for the army staying at the inn

Fixes

• Gear screen wasn't showing player + lucy spell bonuses correctly

• It was possible to go negative into your patrol notes

• The game could crash in some instances when you encountered a wolf at too high of a level

• Various typos