Patch 1.4 (27 November 2019)

Added new game mode: Curious Expedition: RIVALS

Bug Fixes

Fix for arctic claim positions not working if the tile they were on changed

Fix for status days remaining not updating while resting

Fix for Rasputin's "Wound treatment" status having the wrong description

Fix for pendulum shaking while in the harbor

Fix for zone borders not being properly shown when revealed sometimes

Many changes to French translation by Damn3D
Patch 1.3.15.3

Added Turkish and Japanese

Returning empty-handed from idol harbor quest no longer shows text implying that you kept the idol

Fix for loading very old savegames

Fixed some cases where the wrong gender would be displayed

Fix for being able to perform attacks or click the roll button during the enemy turn

Updated translations and fixed some typos

Fix for sprawl events happening while resting

Fix for red mushrooms usage event saying nobody requires treatment when they do
Patch 1.3.14.1 (08 May 2019)

Added Brazilian Portuguese & Ukrainian languages

New Main Menu background: Remastered London Skyline

Renamed 'Bipolar' to 'Mercurial'

Fixed some English and German text

Fix for damage particles being in wrong location when hitting mounted character

Mounted characters that have zero health are dismounted when entering combat

Fix for Expedition not being marked as aborted when using balloon

Fix for portals being placed always on grasslands

Minor Barter UI improvements

Fixed some missing status Notifications

Fixed bad Scottish names

Fixed various scripting/event errors

Updated Credits
Patch 1.3.13.5 (26 November 2018)

Added Russian translation

Added new Explorer character Rasputin
Tuning Changes

Tuned Slaver trading

Reduced the chance of starting a fire after resting
Modding

Fix for item 'addStatus' keyword not working

Fix for 'sprawlEvents' keyword not working

Barter and Loot events can now specify a 'invName' that will be used to determine which inventory in the location is used to contain the items
Bug Fixes

Fixed maps sometimes having blocking mountains that prevent exploration

Fixed Pack Ice sinking when it shouldn't have

Fixed some English and German language issues

Fixed Chinese language wrapping issues

Playing the tutorial no longer removes your savegame

Fix for tiles not correctly animating when replaced

Fixed cave giant spider event not triggering correct event after combat

Fixed unwanted camera panning when interacting with items

Fixed issue where cultist mission takeover would conflict with stash inventory

Haggle skill is now correctly evaluated when entering barter screen

Fixed victory screen chat position

Fixed combat dice shaking sometimes not behaving correctly

Fixed action buttons not always being visible

Fix for diary image going back when it's changed

Fix for game closing when quitting credits

Fixed corrupted sound issues on some machines

Fixed missing effect when uploading mods

Fixed graphical issues on Ranking screen when scaling mode is 3

Fixed party members not chatting

Party members now animate when chatting

Fixed wrong world start position
Patch 1.3.12.7 (29 October 2018)

fixed a bug in the Region infobox display that was missing vital information about undiscovered Locations.
Patch 1.3.12.6 (17 October 2018)

Fixed broken Chinese text
Patch 1.3.12.5

Fixed Combat particles not being displayed
Patch 1.3.12.4 Bug Fixes

Fixed Healing Springs not having follow-up events

Fixed particles not being correctly rendered during zoom changes

Fixed some missing Chinese texts (but not all yet)

Fixed wrong status being shown when you haven an Abomination in your party
Patch 1.3.12.3 (08 October 2018) UI Changes

Added smooth zooming

Improvements to infection/death system

Infobox now shows the death chance for infected characters

A diary alert is shown before opening the diary when somebody is dying

Tin can items will only be shown as usable when they can actually be used (sanity less than 30)

Added quick scroll to credits; added new entries for fan edition
Tuning changes

Increased chance of catastrophic outcoume when sending claustrophobic person into cave without torch

Waiting now costs the base trip cost in sanity

Only one item per item category is now cooled down per turn, instead of all of them

Changed jungle rot sickness to be potentially deadly

Tweaked how often some events could appear on one expedition
Bugfixes

Toughness can't be reduced below zero when contracting a disease

The shop-specific item value bonuses are only displayed when at the shop screen

Indicator for item usage in combat now matches the reality

Various German typos fixed
Modding

Added support for Character flags +noMirror, +noHealth and +noLoyalty

Party buttons are refreshed when stats change

Vehicles can't get infected
Patch 1.3.11.4 (17 July 2018)

Added Spanish translation
Patch 1.3.10.9 (18 June 2018)

Added Polish translation
Performance and Rendering

Added Low Graphics setting that reduced particles

If the game detects that it has no GPU, Low Graphics will default to on

Added support for 4K UHD Resolution (3840 x 2160): 1:6 pixel ratio

Can now toggle Stretching setting independently of Scaling

Improved rendering performance

Improved loading times
Modding

Achievements are now given when mods are enabled (but the debug bar must be disabled)

Mods now support spritesheets

Range syntax is now supported for replaceTile and removeZones; Radius is deprecated

replaceLocations range property supports bonus syntax

Runtime Mod event errors are correctly tagged with the mod

Localisation Mod errors are correctly tagged with the mod

Missing sound files are now correctly detected
Bugfixes

Fixed issues with mod language loading and improved logging

Fix for Forsaken shrine aftermaths not removing angry natives

Fixed village funeral event not allowing extra options when you have a missionary in the party

Fix for mousewheel not working on mac

Fix for treasure maps not being rendered correctly after loading a savegame

Left-clicking on an item while an item is currently being moved no longer attempts to use the clicked-on item, but will instead drop the currently held item if possible

When switching an item with one in a different slot while overburdened, the empty spot will no longer be removed

Ghost Quest and Giant Spider caves don't become other cave types when interacted with

Item and Character achievements work correctly

Explosion Expert perk removes locations in all effected tiles

Fixed villages always saying you were welcome even when you had a low standing

Fixed some unlocalised gameover texts

Reset Profile correctly resets Highscores and Achievements

Fixed seeing multiple notifications for the same achievement

Fixed character unlock notifications not being displayed when the character is actually unlocked

Fixed Trippy Trip achievement

Fixed Special Visit achievement

Fixed stats not being correctly incremented after switching difficulty levels

Fixed ranking display in Italian

Fixed some rest events not actually including a rest
Patch 1.3.8.8 (20 April 2018) Content

Forsaken villages spawn Abominations

Adjusted cultist coca stash

Adjusted Jungle Rot icon

The New Game gallery now can have multiple pages of explorers if more than 20 are unlocked

Can now have multiple custom explorers unlocked at once

The random character option is now the first one
Modding

Tile Border Sprites can now be modded, just add a borderSprites section to your tile (full documentation coming soon)

Improved warnings that are printed to the log when mod content contains errors

Fixed issues with the replace operator not always working

Game now longer creates a mods/mods folder

Fixed issues with mod localisation files

Loading mod data when starting a new game only happens if necessary, so there's not a large hitch by default

The small portrait image id will only have a file extension appended if necessary
Debug Bar

Expedition maps are now generated with using a seed.

While hovering over the "Test Game" button in the debug bar with your mouse, type to enter the string that will be used to generate the Test Game

A map generated with the same seed and parameters (Pocket, Difficulty, Expedition number etc) will always generate the same map layout

When starting a game, the seed will be printed to the log. This can help with reporting bugs.

Added a "God" toggle to fights: when active, your party cannot be harmed

Added a "Win" button to fights: when clicked, you kill all enemies

When spawning a tile, if that can't be spawned at the player location it will be spawned one tile north (instead of nothing happening)

Reloading mods now properly reloads images

Can now start a Test Game using a pocket that doesn't contain a goal (a goal will be spawned)
Bugfixes

Fix for game not respecting the OS scaling setting

Fixed scaling changes not taking effect immediately

Fixed debug bar not rendering correctly at some scaling settings

Fixed issue where small white dots would sometimes appear on the landscape

Fixed issues with tiles missing borders along the region borders

Fixed issues with tile borders still rendering even when tiles have been consumed by the void

Fixed Bug where forsaken Villages sometimes fire non-forsaken events

Fixed superstitious animals

Mission now checks if trek is full before offering to recruit cultist after cultist takeover

Fixed crash when entering item screen with mods that add items enabled

Fix for being stuck in a location if a mod has set the leave event to be invalid

Fix for the game not loading if an image is referenced by multiple sprites

Fix for compass not displaying correctly after loading a saved expedition

Compass is no longer 100% in the first expedition (unless playing on Easy)
Patch 1.3.7.1 (10 April 2018) Content

Added 3 new tome pages

Added triceratops
Bugfixes

Fixed issues with uploading new mods

Fixed cloud sync between different OS

Moved Linux save game path from ~/ to ~/.config/

Fixed some dice showing wrong number of faces

Fixed some typos
Patch 1.3.5.0 (07 February 2018)

Changed Lovecraft unlock condition to using Necronomicon instead of just finding it

On the world map extra worlds and unvisited worlds were shown in gold color. Now only extra worlds are shown in gold color. Unvisited worlds are marked with the fame badge, making it easier to distinguish between the two.

Bugfixes

Fixed golden pyramid not spawning in some special biomes

Fixed not being able to explore golden pyramid in some special biomes

Fixed broken names of special worlds on world map

Fixed Linux crash on startup
Modding

Added support for fallback entries in build lists
Patch 1.3.4.1 (02 February 2018)

Fixed green mushroom not giving sanity boost for shamans

Fixed stuck in celebration screen when no medals left

Removed report button as we are reworking them

Fixed performance issues on some machines
Mod Tools

Fixed game not loading when missing images, instead a proper error message will be printed

After refreshing all mods should be enabled again

Remember debug choices in main menu debug bar

Improved colors in the debug bar

Added clear button to log viewer

Removed some debug flags and set them to always be automatically enabled

Added "Event Checks" check box to log viewer, allowing to see very detailed event computation in the log and understand why exactly a event is failing or not

Print log output to tce-log.txt file as well
Patch 1.3.3.0 (12 January 2018) Modding Features

Added "reload mods" to in-game debug bar, allowing to adapt script and play the change without having to restart the game

Added support for reqXP and reqMapScore

Added support for specifying custom loyalty for characters

Modding recognized as disabled when all mods have been disabled manually

Added debug button N for enabling/disabling tile borders for debugging

Made parsing of mods more robust
Bugfixes

Fixed overriding image slots in mods

Fixed support for mods on OSX

Fixed stunned dice in combat were never reset

Fixed debug text showing up in game
Patch 1.3.2 (12 January 2018)

Made reset profile less likely to be hit accidentely
Bugfixes

Fixed altar broke when sacrificing certain items

Fixed window not covering whole game area

Fixed showing item count on actions with required items

Fixed unlocking characters

Fixed issues with steam achievement syncing

Reduced target count for explorer-collect achievement
Modding

Added refresh button to modding screen which allows to reload mods without leaving screen

Remember entity history for in-game debug bar

Add bonus syntax support for XP, compass score, karma

Print syntax parsing errors for mods in debug console

Added a warnings/error counter to the show-log button in the debug bar (gets reset on every mod refresh)

Fixed upload button

Fixed corrupted game state after deleting mods
Patch 1.3.1 (12 January 2018) Modding improvements

Added support for requirements for perks in the celebration screen. Possible use cases: only offering some perks for some explorers, having some perks as prequisite for other perks (e.g. level 1, level 2, level 3 perks), offering perks depending on visited terrain types, having a curse disallows choosing a new perk for one expedition, etc..

Added support for adding custom character buttons (in the same style as the promote or mount button). They can have their own requirements and can trigger a custom event when clicked. A new example mod slapFace showing how to use this can be found on our githug page https://github.com/Maschinen-Mensch/curiousexpedition/tree/master/mods

Added a new log viewer which is more stream lined than the previous version (more work to be done here). There is a new "Show Log" button on the modding screen to open it and also on the in-game debug bar. Also game events should now be contributed to the correct mod making it easier to debug things.

Fixed modding feature check only accounted for the first new entity type instead of counting all of them

Fixed mod version parsing was not working when the number was not written in quotes. Also reduced the amount of numbers designating the version to just two (A.B) instead of (A.B.C.D).

Fixed parsing mods without imgData breaking game graphics

Fixed importing files which had a single entry instead of a array

Fixed invalid character references crashing the game (should just be ignored now)

If mod does not designate a defaultLang property, 'English' is assumed

Added support for triggering chat lines from the entity search bar

Added support for gender-specific grammar in chat lines

Removed mod ID from info screen (not relevant to most users)

Made sure that delayedEvent is in the game scripts for events that may interrupt player movement. Events being triggered via delayedEvent show a diary alert first instead of opening up the diary right away. This mode should be used for any text events that are triggered during tripEvents or dayEvents. Maybe we'll come up with a way to detect this automatically, but this isn't trivial, so for now this has be designated manually.

Marked sp-ee-base as abstract so they can't be spawned directly into the game

Fixed color slots not being recognized correctly

Restricted shown mod name lengths on mod select buttons

Renamed blocksHealthRegen to blockHealthRegen for consistency

Added blockLevelUp property for temporarily blocking promoting characters via a status
Game Bugfixes

Fixed underground tunnel caves not working properly when revisiting

Fixed polyglot perk not working properly

Fixed villages having empty inventory

Fixed sprawl power not being stored correctly in savegame

Fixed legacy savegames not loadable anymore

Fixed some localization issues on the modding screen (more work to do)

Fixed localization on game over screen
Other changes

Cosmic Indifference perk should now also working if there are other human trek members. Raised the required sanity to use Necronomicon without burning it to 20

Corrupted sprawl should no longer kill zones
Patch 1.3.0.6 (22 December 2017)

Added modding support and in-game achievements
Main Menu

New background graphics

Added a news section allowing you to read about development news from within the game

Nicer UI elements (checkboxes and exit buttons)

Added animated campfire to several event screens

Added new secret explorers

Added new sound effects for some aftermath events

English text will be shown as fallback if no localized string is available
Tuning

Lone survivor perk fills up full sanity bar when triggered

Made climbing gear slightly stronger and climber perk slightly weaker

Increased ship water refill to 20 units

Angry native zones can never become unaggroed now (unless they are sleeping)

Restricted most quests to appear before final expedition

Missionary quest is now automatically resolved when entering the village

Remove local curses when stepping through portals

Corruption sprawls will no longer kill enemies

Tesla gun now benefits from gun expert perk

No random fires can happen when packing a camp up anymore. (Pyromaniacs still can lay a fire though)
Bugfixes

Fixed multiple bugs potentially causing being stuck in tutorial

Fixed flood curse following you beyond expedition end

Fixed ship getting destroyed

Fixed rare crash when having a empty slot in inventory

Konrad quest can now be completed even after leaving the village when first encountering him.

Freeing slots in the hot air balloon should now work more intuitively

Fixed exploit that allowed to return more items than normally allowed with the hot air balloon

Fixed issues with path finding in dog sledge

Improved camera behavior when panning to locations

Removed ability to dismiss character while a pending diary event is already waiting

Mount button is now greyed out when already mounted

Fixed mounted status not stored in savegames

Fixed issues with native visit event

Fixed event flow after fighting with giant spiders

Fixed shaman perk not working on all mushrooms

Fixed combat cursor picks new enemy when old target died

Fixed family amulet event line

Fixed wrong button help text on scale 3 setting

Fixed unlocalized texts in game over screen

Fixed being able to stop village spawn via mini puppets

Fixed failed idol quest was not handled correctly

Fixed vulture night event showing up even though player had no ammo

Fixed musician quest not always resolving properly

Fixed special friend event flow

Fixed Olivia not having a crystall ball at game start

Fixed same piece of meat being cooked by multiple cooks at the same time

Always show diary alert first before interrupting player action during travel

Fixed enemies killed by a debuff now don't supply dice in the next round anymore

Fixed window size issues

Fixed unusable items having infoboxes explaining how to use them

Fixed large inventories overlapping Flee or Roll button during combat

Fixed double epilogue caused by obsidian mirror

Fixed mini maps sometimes going blank or regenerating or crashing the game

Fixed some places being unreachable after world generation

Fixed parts of golden pyramids being missing sometimes

Fixed crash bug caused by (de)buffed characters entering combat

Fixed crash bug in tutorial caused by no place to spawn the ship being found

Fixed charismatic perk only working once

Fixed weird duplicated actions in queen conflict event

Fixed problem where two events could trigger at once
Patch 1.2.6.3 (24 October 2017) Translations

Supporting new crowdin.com format for languages

Added Korean translation

Improved Italian translation

Improved French translation

All enemies reachable within 2 tiles can now consistently be attacked (before that number would be between 1 and 3)

Highlight map location you are interacting with. Helps with knowing which of two enemies you are attacking for example

Added new treasure type (Golden Beauty)

Going to windowed mode with different scales now sets appropriate minimum window sizes

Savegames are saved in two steps now, making sure they don't get corrupted if something goes wrong during the save process (e.g. game is force quit via OS)

Add option to increase ranking screen animation by clicking

Tuning

Shaman hut charges less for healing infections and injuries

Hallucination status generates hallucinations more aggressively now

Healer perk is only usable by Feilong
Bugfixes

Fixed sometime travel via double clicking stopped working

Fixed loyalty was not properly restored from savegame

Fixed missing help text for barter bar

Fixed hallucinations status should disappear after expeditions

Fixed Geysir water never being replaced by shallow water

Fixed animals becoming paranoid when consuming red mushrooms

Fixed being stuck in sledge when there is no path

Fixed hovering over treasure maps crashing game

Fixed savegame not properly deleted on game

Fixed Allison Otting not being able to paint
Patch 1.2.5 (16 May 2017)

Certain disasters now scale up depending on expedition number

Expedition is auto-saved every couple of minutes and when shutting down game Bugfixes

Using portal tome page on top of ship should not replace ship anymore

Entering portals does not reset golden pyramid discovery state anymore

Entering portals does not reset compass progress anymore

Forsaken villages don't spawn angry villagers anymore

Snarfrattle was not attackable sometimes

Location hints are not drawn on top of water or chasms anymore

Fixed wrong page title when sharing report to twitter

Fixed crash when pressing keys during loading bar

Fixed graphical glitches when entering portal world

Don't show tree climb event in arctic worlds

Fixed forsaken disaster showing wrong text in shrine

Fixed harbor hunter becoming party member and crashing game

Fixed wrong "decreased loyalty" notification on max loyalty

Fixed rare crash when switching world

Fixed rare crash on game over after visiting portal world

Fixed rare bug that closed combats early

Fixed being able to use item during diary alert

Fixed being able to use camp site during build-up

Fixed multiple events happening at same time
Patch 1.2.4 (24 April 2017) French

We now added the first version of the French fan translation
Bugfixes

Fixed crash when hovering over wife NPC character

Fixed crash when starting new game after exiting previous game via "save&exit" while an event alert was shown
Patch 1.2.3.0 (19 April 2017) Bugfixes

Added a tab button allowing to flip through very large inventories. This also fixes the issue with unreachable buttons during bartering.
Patch 1.2.2.0 (19 April 2017) Chinese update!

Added new explorer Huang Feihong with special attacks

Added Traditional and Simplified Chinese language translation (Thanks so much to Project Gutenberg)
Tuning

Increased health bonus for regeneration blessing

Increased level health bonus for Marie Curie
Bugfixes

Fixed overlong text in epilogue screen

Removed pink pixel on Amundsen statue

Signature rifle was not using the proper die

Don't draw travel path when hovering mouse over action bar

Added some missing lines to German translation
Patch 1.2.1.0 (31 March 2017)

Fixed ship arrival in arctic regions was not always shown

Better support for legacy savegame files

Added missing strings to language tables

More characters are revivable through altars now

Fixed desert events having wrong background image
Patch 1.2.0.6 (06 March 2017)

New adventures await!

We have released our first major update, which introduces:

Arctic regions

More characters

Valuable Items

Deadly Enemies

Useful Perks

New things that will very likely cause your expedition trek to die a gruesome death and many, many more things!

It's hard to describe how excited we are to release this first major update after releasing the 1.0 version of The Curious Expedition. We have still so many ideas to extend the game, which is why we spent the last couple of months on this update. Arctic Expanse not only introduces a whole new region, the arctic, but also many improvements and additions to the previously existing areas of the game.

This is a full fledged DLC update, and it's free - because we love working on this game and are thankful for your support.

We have fine-tuned the balancing, added many UI and Interface improvements, added new treasures and godly curses and items and perks, sound effects, events, ailments, quests ... it's too much to list. We'll provide you with a detailed changelog of all the new things and improvements in the coming days.

Until then, have fun exploring the new content and get yourself lost in new adventures. We're looking forward to your feedback!

Adventure awaits!

Patch 1.1.2 (1st December 2016)

Support for translating explorer names
Bugfixes

Fixed some sites exiting event flow instead of returning to morning event after camping

Fixed crash when entering combat with zero health characters

Fixed item info box showing item "cost" instead of "value"

Fixed old save game states not properly cleared sometimes

Fixed some event text typos

German: Fixed crash in one positive night event
Patch 1.1.1 (3rd November 2016) Bugfixes

Fixed travel cost/days shown in German

Fixed OSX version black screen on startup

Fixed characters with hybrid gender crashing game in final screen

Fixed crash after restoring game

Fixed crash when finishing expedition

Improved browser compatibility for web version German

Improved some texts based on feedback

Mount/Dismount buttons were not translated
Patch 1.1.0.1 (31 October 2016)

This update is for the Windows & Linux version of the game. The OS X version will be updated as soon as possible.
Support for translations

Added full German translation of the game

You can add more translations by following the intructions in the langs folder

You may use http://forums.maschinen-mensch.com/viewforum.php?f=9 to announce new translations
Performance

There should be considerably less frame drops while traveling over the map now.

Also better performance in general.

Added various new custom explorers
Tuning

Polyglot perk removes standing cost for resting in villages, but it does not give sanity bonus anymore

Increased chance of negative loyalty impact when ignoring joke night event Tome page of random teleportation now only teleports to reachable areas
Bugfixes

Volcano shrine aftermath effect would most often not trigger properly

Fixed everybody becoming angry during sexist night event

Fixed being able to trigger invalid tutorial actions using keyboard shortcuts

Added proper icon for purple mushrooms

Fixed gun kill night event was triggered even when player had no gun in inventory

Fixed villages only having male inhabitants

Simplified savegame creation, will not try to use the SavedGames folder in windows anymore and simply prefer the Documents folder instead

Fixed exploit of being able to get negative travel costs

Player progress was only stored when starting a new map, but not when finishing a map, resulting in potential progress loss of found item stats

Triumph music volume is now controlled by music volume slider instead of sound volume slider

Fixed various typos
Patch 1.0.0.4 (06th September 2016) Added newly rewritten event texts by Luke Openshaw New Tome pages

Homebound

Extended Vision
Bugfixes

Added fame back to idol

Stone Circles also reveals missions and not just villages

Fixed music tracks not stopping and overlapping each other

Fixed music restarting repeatedely

Fixed weird glitch sound in music

Fixed missionaries losing spiritual solidarity perk

Fixed occult vision perk

Fixed missionary getting angry when you say that evolution is wrong

Fixed not being able to enter golden pyramid when being alone

Fixed space key sending trek to wrong location

Fixed inconsistent number of funds shown in harbor text

Fixed rare case of missing native character portrait

Fixed not being able to trade in village when low standing

Fixed events with dropped items should not appear if no items in inventory
Patch 1.0.0.0 (02 September 2016)

THE FINAL RELEASE! The Curious Expedition is now officially released!
Patch 0.30.0.0 (15 July 2016) The last big update before FINAL RELEASE! Exploration points

You will no longer receive a region point only when discovering all locations within a region. Instead, you will receive an exploration point (same function, just different name) for every three uncovered locations, independend from in which region you have found them.

We removed the preview of the locations that can be found in your current region, as we didn't find a visual representation that we were happy with and that justified the visual clutter and redundancy. The info box of the region now states the number of locations in the region.

The 'Geography' perk is now exclusive to scouts (can't be chosen as medal for the explorer) and was reworked to 'far' reveal all available locations when entering a region.
Sanity events

Added lots of new zero-sanity events, resting events and phobias.

Tuned probablity of all already existing events, evening out their appearance out a bit.

Anger events are not triggered as part of regular resting events anymore, but run on their own timer now and can interrupt your regular traveling.

The sanity bar info box now shows additional info about what kind resting events to expect.

The sanity bar starts to blink when on zero sanity

When hitting zero sanity there is a random amount of days that the player can still move before being interrupted by a catastropic event. That delay was in the range of 5-10 days. It has been reduced to 0-5 days. Events after the first catastropic will still trigger 5-10 days later.
Epilogue

We've finally added the long awaited image of the statue that shows the best explorer in the world.

Instead of showing all of the epilogue texts at once, you can now click through them in sequence. You can go back to previous entries by clicking on the small rectangles.
Altar

You will now be able to trade certain items at the mysterious altars. In order to receive special items, you will have to find the patterns of objects that need to be sacrificed

We plan to extend the altar even further after the 1.0 release.
Camp Site

It is now possible to pack up a camp again, which will remove the camp from the map and add the item back into your inventory

It is no longer possible to stash items in a camp

The value of the camp item has been increased
Art

Improved event image of shrine interior

Improved event image of elephant graveyard

Improved image of giant scorpion enemy

Added new image for fire sprawl death

Animated gentleman background scene with a flickering fire effect
UI

You can now switch off the custom mouse cursors in the main menu in case your recording software is having trouble displaying it

Item usage of machete, rope and climbing gear is now shown directly on your travel path

In case that there are too many characters in your trek to fit on the screen, a tab switch button appears that allows to change between visible characters.
General

Added icon for family amulet item

Tomepages can now be used without a range limitation

Made infections deadlier and less random in duration

Added final steps to tutorial - it should explain all the basic things now to get going if you have never played the game before

You can now tell the current difficulty level from looking at the HUD background elements. Also it is now stated in the info box of the day counter.

Added a few new secret explorers

Hard mode: Added a sanity boost when reaching the pyramid

Increased the minumum travel speed for party

Added support for funds to the notification system

The missing wife that can be found in the first expedition does not use up unit slots anymore
Bugfixes

Fixed a problem in the slaver event chain when not looting after combat

Fixed certain volcano aftermath was not always triggered

Fixed missing combat slots in cave event image

Fixed chasm borders from overlapping on map background

Fixed treasure map tiles not having proper tile borders

Fixed diary jumping into screen immediately instead of popping up on left screen border first

Fixed being able to have more than standing 10 by bartering

Fixed info box for dice challenges now says 'No fitting dice' instead of showing an empty info box

Fixed item notification should not use the fame mini marker

Fixed missing background image on beaches

Fixed club music did not stop when exiting from game via settings screen

Fixed creation of savegames that could not be continued
Patch 0.29.1.0 (17 June 2016) Bugfixes

Fixed crash under certain circumstances when adding character to party

Fixed diary closing after resting in village

Fixed save games becoming corrupt when saving on game over screen

Fixed no zero sanity event appearing
Patch 0.29.0.0 (16 June 2016) Notifications system

Shows changes to sanity and standing

Show added and removed characters

Show lost items

Show added and dropped statuses Redone slaver

New event flow. Can now be attacked by the player

Added new event image

Added new weapon: the whip Highscores

Your final game points are now shown on any game ending screen

Final points are scaled by the difficulty level Tuning / Game Content

Beast master extended to support additional animals. Tuned dice.

Added status 'spiritual solidarity' as visual representation of the fact that missionaries can rest for free in missions.

Increased amount of trader barter items by one.

Changed world regeneration tome page completely. It now acts as a sprawl effect which will restore the land to its original terrain.

Multiple natives might now stay behind at the end of an expedition.

Changed animal eating event to reduce loyalty instead of hard triggering a character leaving party

Stone circles now allow to select from different styles of map reveals.

Reworked alcoholic status to work with loyalty.

Tuned starting equipment of Darwin and Burton

Ships now allow to rest and to refill water. Water may now also refilled in non-desert expeditions.

Tunnel caves now explicitly handle the case that the other exit might have been destroyed.

Reduced resell value of treasure maps

Fixed rivals starting in golden locations

Binoculars might now be found earlier in the game

Added some new secret item usage UI & Visuals

Show item cost in info box while in harbor

When hovering over a dice you will see the relevant dice that you own.

Added gender icons to character info box.

Moved standing icon next to sanity bar.

Fixed certain locations (usually village or stone circle) already using used-up marker at start of game

Fixed buttons drawn on top of cloud entrance scene when restoring from save game

Added new font for game over screen.

Added support for character info box portraits for enemies

Impoved spacing between action buttons that have associated items or dice.

Improved mouse box handling for info boxs of mounted explorers

Made reset-profile button in settings only activate when held down for some time (should make it really hard to accidently reset your progress). Also added text feedback when profile has been reset.

Added animated fire to night event images.

New graphic for the question mark icon

Reworked voids graphical representation which should make rendering a lot smoother. This should especially remove any performance problems on portal worlds.

Accelerate cloud movement during traveling Added random explorer selection button to explorer selection screen. Updated credits, added special thanks Bugfixes

Fixed dead enemies still doing damage

Fixed jerky animations of characters during combat

Fixed secret sites that were unlocked during an expedition were not correctly restored from save game

Fixed that in hard mode Some events where already triggered when arriving the pyramid instead of at the ship

Fixed changing pixel ratio during run-time broke chat layout

Fixed attack button being shown for butterfly zone

Fixed followed-by-natives event could happen in portal worlds

Fixed fire should not destroy buried treasures anymore

Fixed machete stopping fire

Fixed after combat all zones within one tile distance were removed. Now only the actual zone will be removed

Fixed last machete in player inventory did not remove jungle tile properly

Fixed animal and explorer not being drawn properly after animal went down in combat

Fixed waiting in portal worlds would never teleport the party back to the real world

Fixed buying multiple treasure maps at the same time caused them to point to the same location

Fixed last expedition still offering perk selection

Fixed old combat particles still appearing when entering new combat

Fixed action buttons not updated after teleporting

Fixed potentially losing items when cancelling a balloon escape

Fixed harbor music still playing when going from harbor into main menu

Fixed character health bars not centered during combat

Fixed white tigers not being spawned

Fixed player always starting in special region when going into unlocked site

Foxed changing zoom factor reseting particles

Fixed explorers riding on animals should still use explorer image slot in event graphics

Fixed dead people chatting in event image

Fixed item fade out effect being used while bartering

Fixed single punctuation appearing on a new diary line

Fixed map pins being drawn too big on map stats screen

Fixed region points being farmable by saving/loading save game endlessly

Fixed impossible blank dice faces appearing in dice challenges if the player was in a combat before

Fixed pressing ESC in highscore screen

Fixed volcano aftermath not always being spawned. Generally relaxed the reachability rule on a per-location base

Fixed treasure map preview image is now restored more exactly from save game (before the random offset could change when restoring savegame)

Fixed gender changing randomly during event flow of village-love event

Fixed a lot of typos
Patch 0.28.0.2 (12 May 2016)

"For this release we're mostly focussing on replacing the remaining art placeholders. Thank you for all your support! Enjoy Alpha 28!"

New Art

New stone forest art

New desert art

New desert cactus art

New desert pyramid art

New scorched earth art

New cave hole art

New cave mummy art

New cave corpses art

New cave paintings art

New tomb art

New stone statues art

New portraits for hyena and raptor

Tuning

Tweaked starting trek setup for Kingsley and Huizinga

Restricted pacifists from using more weapon dice

Bugfixes

Fixed pyramid staying buried (thanks to Charles Watkins for the help)

Fixed flickering character info box for mounted characters. Also rider and mount have separate hit boxes for their individual character info boxes now.

Fixed shields in combat being covered by large inventory

Fixed treasure map being covered by large inventory

Fixed info box for character unlocks and site unlocks not appearing

Fixed overlong text in harbor

Moon stones were not correctly removed from inventory after entering pyramid

Increased performance

Fixed various typos

Patch 0.27.2.2 (06 May 2016)

We've added a hotfix that should fix the progress corruption bug. In case you've lost your progress in the game please email us at info@curious-expedition.com so that we can try to restore your progress.
Patch 0.27.2.0 (04 May 2016) Bugfixes

Fixed character cloning bug issue when missing "Saved Games" folder on Windows
Patch 0.27.10 (18 April 2016) Hard Mode

Zero starting funds

Zero starting fame

Return to your ship after finding the golden pyramid. If your ship is destroyed there is nothing you can do but use the balloon, so be careful!

Unlock platinum frames for beating hard mode

Improved scrolling with cursor keys

Performance improvements

Butterfly perk now yields more sanity

Added more epilogue entries

Bugfixes

Not successfully completing the Konrad quest will no longer skip all further events in the harbor

Large enemies now have a proper portrait in their infobox
Alpha 27.1

Fixed travel reports.

Fixed being stuck in ranking screen on certain occasions.
Patch 0.26.0.1 (18 March 2016)

As our first step in supporting difficulty modes we are introducing the "easy" mode. One might think we do this to make the game easier, but honestly this is just our excuse to introduce the dreaded "hard" mode in the next update.
Easy Mode

Increased starting funds

Increased loot in many occasions

No standing loss when killing animals or blowing up mountains

Starting compass accuracy is always 100%

More places to rest and regain sanity across all landscapes

No seal or moonstone pyramids - just find the pyramid and you're golden (heh) on all expeditions

Less enemies will appear in combat

Mummies will never attack you when you are carrying them in your inventory

No spider encounters when exploring caves in darkness

No void will be triggered from looting a shrine

Resting in missions is cheaper

No portals or altars will be spawned
General

Improved feedback when using the Necronomicon

H.P. Lovecraft now needs to be unlocked

World generation tuning improvements

Tome pages now are also weightless items

Added a dice check when trying to steal an idol from a village

Added a new treasure item: The Golden Slokra (Treasure Edition Item)

Improved inventory - when inventory slots exceed a certain amount, multiple rows will be displayed. Added a proper icon for discarding objects. Added a frame around the inventory slots.

Reduced price of native trinket

Lower value treasure items will now stack up to 10 times
Bugfixes

Blue Mushrooms and weather baloons are now improving your range of vision upon usage again

Fixed multiple music tracks playing at the same time

Fixed promotion stars not placed properly

Fixed missing particles in combat

Fixed offset zone icon positions

Fixed drawing of shield icon in combat

Improved position of health bars

Fixed bongos did not reset enemy-attention counter always

Improved info box for statuses that change travel base cost
Patch 0.25.1.0 (01 March 2016) Bugfixes

Fixed treasure map not scaled properly

Check unlock conditions after ranking screen instead of before

Fixed random crash when having abomination in party

Fixed scaling issues after changing resolution during a running game
Patch 0.25 (01 March 2016) Dice actions

Some diary actions now depend on dice rolls!

These actions will portray the required dice face required on the action button. All dice of your party are rolled exactly once.

If you get all required faces a positive outcome is triggered. If not a negative outcome is triggered.

This makes its easier for you to understand what the odds are for certain actions to succeed depending on your trek setup.

We've updated various old events to use this new mechanic. More events will be added in the coming updates.
Resolutions

So far the game had two resolution modes. Stretched and native. If you played on higher resolutions (i.e. 1080p) both of these modes had disadvantages: Stretched mode made the pixel art appear blurry, while native mode was hard coded to a 1:2 pixel ratio, making the HUD elements and event images appear relatively small to your display size.

The new version now supports 4 modes and allows to set custom pixel ratios, resulting in pixel perfect art, big event images, proper HUD element sizes and sharp text.

When you play on 1080p the game has literaly never looked as good as it does with this new version. Hundreds of changes where necessary to make this work, so please excuse any hickups that might still have made it through our testing. Let us know if you're missing any more options.

Also the size of the info box now adapts properly to the resolution.
Persistence

The player data and save game data is now stored inside a TheCuriousExpedition folder inside your user data folder. In case you want to move your profile to another computer simply copy that folder. Also this should make it easier to create backups of your data.
Phobias

When ignoring phobias of party members, they will reduce their individual loyalty instead of reducing the overall party sanity. This should make phobias more readable and relevant.

We added a new phobia Dendrophobia, which is the fear of trees.
New content

New item: voodoo dolls curse your rivals

New item: tin cans are nutrious, but pretty bland in flavor

New quest: a gentleman may ask you to escort a native to London

New blessing: your trek member might grow some animal claws

New perk: ruffian, adds a attack die

New perk: protector, adds a defense die

New perk: adept, adds a support die
Tuning

Buffed native enemies, they have spears now!

If overburden, mounted animals don't yield extra dice. This counters the exploit of mounting the animals while overburden and then unmounting them after combat.

Rivals don't all start at the same time, spacing them out more on the race track bar
Misc

There is a screen prompt warning you about stashes that were destroyed in the world containing items of yours

Reworked the gentleman scene at the start of a new game
Bug fixes

Fixed musician quest could not be completed correctly in some situations

Certain disasters like voids were spreading way to fast and have been reduced to their original growth speed.

Fixed some overlong description texts in world map screen

Fixed lots of typos

Fixed overburden status was not properly updated after putting items into stash

Fixed character unlocks were not checked when using hot air balloon during final expedition

Fixed sometimes unreachable villages were spawned in tutorial

Fixed additional trek members not shown in side bar when trek was already at regular maximum size
Patch 0.24.0.7e (8 February 2016)

bufixes and performance improvements
Patch 24 (4 February 2016) Added a new tutorial:

Completely reworked the old tutorial

The new tutorial now is more fail-safe and guided

The tutorial now includes a basic combat description

We'll extend the tutorial further in the next update Harbor improvements:

You can re-enter the harbor shop now

Fame/funds are shown at all times in harbor

Failed quests give negative fame UI updates:

The maximum/current party count is shown when recruiting units

The party side bar is hidden during events now, allowing to see more of the event image

You can inspect character boxes in events directly now

Trimmed character boxes size and don't show description text anymore New events:

New resting events

New mysterious dowsing item

New totem stick item

New sickness

New secret locations World:

Added new preview images to the world map

Tuned neigbhors of locations to make patterns more recognizable

Tuned biomes Combat:

Enemies now have different length for how long they seek the player

Added small delay between aggroing enemy and their first movement

Added new buff effects to various attacks

Retuned enemy dice with aim to nerf head butt attack a bit Misc:

Dice are not auto-rolled again when they were pinned before

Doing the initial missionary quest now also gives +2 standing

Automatically stop traveling when traveling into deadly terrain Bug fixes:

Fixed Mac performance issues

Fixed stuck when dismissing units during travel

Fixed aborting resting before spending one day

Fixed empty diary with infected units

Fixed crash when restoring save game

Fixed collection items were not saved properly when stored in ship

Fixed fire works item not working correctly

Fixed some typos