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Finding Color in the Ashes Alpha 1.9
🕑 Added 2025-07-20 00:48:46 +0000 UTCHey everybody!
This build is focused around getting more systems implemented, and fleshing out Willow's skill tree. There's a new music track, some new SFX and audio adjustments. The forge is implemented in its most basic form, there are some new NPCs, a new weapon, a new armor, a new enemy, and some new resources.
A bunch of Winter systems have been implemented. These are far from complete, but they lay the groundwork for the next update which will really flesh out the winter gameplay.
There's a new alternate start available on the main menu, allowing you to start the game near the end of fall with Scout, Eleanor, and Willow already hired for anyone who wants to check out the newer content a little quicker.
Thank you so much for your support! Stay tuned, the next update will conclude the army's story line in fall and introduce the winter story arc.
NOTE: If you downloaded right when this post went up and are stuck on the companion screen, re-download the file! It is fixed.
1.9 Patch Notes
Added
New Music Track
New SFX
Combat art for Lucy's Fracture
New Events (3 New Willow events and some story events)
New NPCs (Bright + Fractured Dryad)
New skill on Ellie's skill tree
New skills on Willow's skill tree (almost all of them, just 1 missing now) - You can raise her affinity to max.
New tool: Fey blooms. Restores some health / mana / stamina and cures status effects.
New weapon: Fey Blades. An agility weapons with high crit modifier and the Mana Leech enchantment.
New Enchantment: Mana Leech: Recover mana equal to your Attunement dice whenever you attack.
New armor: Fey Armor. Strong armor with the Fey Touched enchantment.
New Enchantment: Fey Touched: Gain 1 bonus die to all spell rolls.
New Materials: Iron Ore, Coal.
The Forge is available.
You can forge materials using chopped wood and iron ore.
You can forge coal using chopped wood.
While the forge is running, your inn's temperature cannot fall below 40
A small troupe of prospecting dwarves will visit the inn on weekends. Invest in their mining operations with food, alcohol, and gold - and they will bring you ores and coals for the forge on their next visit.
Recoded the alert system that tells you when an inn project is ready
New optional Winter Start for those who wish to test late game content
A new enemy type arrives in winter
Adjustments
Reduced cost for 3 of Scout's skills.
Reduced the chances for guests to show up in Fall, and severely reduced the chances for guests to show up in Winter
Merchants only show up every other weekend in Winter
Cost of goods from merchants during winter are increased
Weather events / seasons will prevent some scenes from taking place outdoors
Audio adjustments
Willow's sex scenes are spaced out in her progression now
Fixes
Various Typos
UI tool tip fixes
Wight's combat skill was showing up on other monsters
Code cleanups
Comments
Jacob L
Katana is supposed to disappear after winter starts (different merchants) and I will take a look at the heart tree, thanks for the spot.
Rc
Two things the indicator for the greenhouse wont shut down after i get the heart tree and the katana disappears when winter starts.
Jacob L
re-download the file, the initial upload was bugged
Rc
Yay!! So when I try to use an old save and we get to the mill the window for spending time with companions pops up with no way to left click out. Im going to just start over.
