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Finding Color in the Ashes Alpha 2.23
🕑 Added 2025-09-14 02:32:55 +0000 UTCHello 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
Comments
Jacob L
Probably next Saturday - provided nothing goes terribly wrong
Rc
When do you think you'll have your next big update - just wanting an estimate.
Rc
Also I LOVE the new ui for merchants! Very convenient and superior to the clunkier old system. I dont have to keep checking back and forth to see whatI have and dont have!
