5.1.5

Highlights

• Company progression: earn Reputation through adventures, advance through Company Ranks I–X, and receive Field Pace I at Rank I.
• A tougher repeatable finale: Master Plus is the new final difficulty and can be replayed indefinitely while retaining Company progression.
• New Broken Wagon challenge: choose an approach, use party-specific advantages, and resolve the encounter once per adventure run.
• More meaningful resources: camps heal living heroes free once per run, some treasure shifts toward gold, chests can award shop consumables, and fleeing now costs a provision.
• Clearer play and presentation: consistent focus feedback, stronger selected targets, improved completion and character-sheet presentation, credits, refreshed lobby art, and an ultrawide dice-display fix.

Company Reputation and Ranks

• Your Company now earns Reputation for completing adventures, with higher difficulties awarding more.
• Progress through Company Ranks I–X, track your next threshold and advancement history in the Company Ledger, and receive a dedicated rank celebration.
• Rank I grants Field Pace I, increasing exploration movement speed by 20% without changing combat pacing.
• Existing Companies begin at Rank I with zero Reputation. Previous completions are not awarded retroactively.
• Reputation stays with its campaign and carries forward through subsequent runs. Later-rank benefits will come in future updates.

Adventure Progression and Master Plus

• The difficulty order is now Basic → Advanced → Expert → Master → Master Plus.
• Advance difficulty from the selected adventure’s page, where you normally start or resume an expedition.
• Advanced uses a red glow, Expert blue, and Master and Master Plus green. Completed labels display a checkmark.
• Unfinished expeditions appear first on the bookshelf, ordered by most recently played and marked IN PROGRESS.
• Master Plus is a much harder final challenge. Once completed, replay it indefinitely at the same difficulty while retaining Company progression; existing character and upgrade caps still apply.

New Broken Wagon Challenge

• Broken Cart now includes an optional encounter: search the wreck, follow the tracks, pull the wagon free, or—with a living Spargle in the active party—Ask the Vines.
• Relevant party members improve your chances. Each approach shows its difficulty and bonuses before a d20 roll reveals the outcome.
• Challenges resolve once per run. Leaving before rolling keeps the encounter available; returning or loading afterward preserves the result without repeating rewards.

Camps, Provisions, and Treasure

• Camps restore living party members for free, once per campsite per adventure run. Used camps display CAMP USED and refresh on a new run; fallen heroes still require resurrection.
• Old Road and Broken Cart chest rewards replace routine provisions with 15 additional base gold. Fallen Bridge retains its one-provision reward, and routine provision rewards no longer increase with difficulty.
• Noncombat chests have a one-in-six chance to award a bonus shop consumable, with equal odds for each available item. A full stack converts the bonus to difficulty-scaled gold.
• Fleeing now costs one provision plus the existing 5% gold penalty. The interface explains when you lack the required provision.

Clearer Controls and Combat Targets

• Blue hover and controller-focus feedback is now consistent across buttons, toolbar icons, adventure books, sliders, and lists. Touch interactions also clear lingering hover effects.
• Selected allies and enemies use a darker slate background with ivory text, keeping selection distinct from hover or controller focus.
• Shield Wall now counts as defended against effects such as Dreadbell, without stacking an additional damage reduction with Defend.

Presentation and Interface Improvements

• Adventure Complete is larger, more luminous, and centered properly, including on ultrawide screens.
• Dismissing a rank notice no longer restarts the completion celebration.
• The Character Sheet toolbar button now also closes the sheet. Its logo is larger and positioned at the bottom right, with spells and abilities scrolling above it.
• A scrollable Credits page is available from the Game Menu, and lobby artwork has been refreshed.

Dice Display Fix

Fixed an ultrawide layout issue where a two-digit dice result could display only its first digit, making a roll such as 14 appear as 1.

This was a visual problem. Actual combat rolls, calculations, and outcomes were unaffected. Dice readability now has dedicated regression coverage across multiple screen sizes.