Patch Notes

Beta 0.25.2 - Polishing???

October 30, 2025	Beta 0.25.2	Polishing???
hello Lots of polishing work by f1sh this week! Woohoo! UI Changes Enabled selling into a buy order with items exclusively in market listing Fix ordered queue ordering (augmenting/scrapping) Corrected the descriptions for a handful of affixes Fixed +25 achievement description F1sh's Massive Click Overhaul Aims to prevent accidental clicks for the most common cases. Primarily aiming to prevent accidental double clicks from having a difficult or impossible to reverse action, and aims to give the user time to recognize that new elements have appeared before they can interact with them. For example: Accidentally selling into a buy order as the order appears. User never sees the "Offline Progress" dialog when logging in. Users with motor impairments can accidentally close dialogs as they appear. User clicks "Start" on an action and believes the action is going, then clicks away. This could also be improved by creating contrasting button states (eg. green/blue vs red) that are easy to distinguish from a glance. Lag spikes causing user to attempt initiating actions or dialogs. All interactable elements have been evaluated for whether they should receive an initial delay upon the elements creation, a debounce delay for repeated interactions, or no delay. Most form elements, especially those with easily-reversible click effects (eg. checkboxes, text fields, etc...) do not receive a delay. All dialogs/modals/prompts now have a delay preventing closure before the user has time to register their fresh existence, and automatically propagates that delay to applicable child elements. Some dialogs, such as achievements, level messages, and offline progression, receive a longer delay to give users more time to mentally register them. Actions with an effect, such as starting/stopping an action or donating gold, receive a debounce delay. Actions with a reversible effect, such as sorting or filtering, receive no delay. Other Changes Change maximum number of action queue failures from a hardcoded 5 to match the user's queue length Shrimp no augmenting kill augmenting shrimp no more shrimp Adjusted how inventory updates are sent to reduce network traffic and bandwidth usage; this was a much smaller part of a larger project that's not ready yet unfortunately goodbye!

Beta 0.25.1 - Tweaks and Fixes

October 17, 2025	0.25.1	Tweaks and Fixes
hi align total levels and player count in header added missing shop items to group ironman mode other backend stuff bye, until next time!

Beta 0.25.0 - Group Ironman

October 10, 2025	Beta 0.25.0	Group Ironman
GROUP IRONMAN??? yes, 5 people what else stuff idk

Beta 0.24.4 - The Sun Is Setting

October 1, 2025	Beta 0.24.4	The Sun Is Setting
Sunsetting Hey everyone, Idlescape will be entering the sunsetting stage after this patch goes live. This means we'll stop accepting microtransaction purchases and move from active development to just maintenance. The game will continue running until our rented time expires on the last day of November. IS+ will be globally given to all players until the time expires and I will manually cancel further recurring payments for all existing subscriptions. Working on Idlescape and playing with you all has made for an incredible last few years, but with growing time constraints IRL and the volunteer-style team backing the game it is no longer feasible to continue supporting the game as it is. A couple weeks ago we explored the option of pushing to 1.0 once legal hurdles had been handled, but the sheer amount of work we have to do with the little time we have to do it means this year+ indefinite pre-1.0 state would keep going. Not only this, but if we did push to 1.0, the workload would only increase. The scope of the game is just excessively large for a purely volunteer team to handle without burning out. That said, with the last legal hurdles (TL;DR IP Rights) handled, there are still several avenues for Idlescape to continue, even if only spiritually. The existing codebase and assets will continue to exist so that personal projects from the team may pop up; I (Nick) will probably start tinkering with a much more limited scope game using what I've learned and made over the last few years, but I don't expect to have something playable for a while. The Discord will remain open and what we do is up to the community. I'm leaning towards keeping the main chat channels open and archiving the rest. I'm personally going to share whatever I'm up to there and to keep up with y'all and the team. I will continue to restart the server to keep it running (mostly) smoothly, as well as push any patches that the CCs prepare. Who knows what the future holds, though? Today's Patch Adjust disconnect sometimes killing sessions Fix some farming issues Fix dungeon key drop level Fix some cases of sapphire rolls in smithing

Beta 0.24.3 - FINE YOU CAN HAVE THE BACKPACK AUG COST CHANGED

September 25, 2025	Beta 0.24.3	FINE YOU CAN HAVE THE BACKPACK AUG COST CHANGED
UI Changes Improve season league info display Small simplification to fishing info box Center markers on thumb when min=max Bug Fixes Fixed a backend crash Fix double shrine reminders Fix weakening enchantment equipping Fix some listing issues Balancing Dwarven Adventurer's Backpack lowered from 2 styg bars and 15 scales to 3 styg bars, 3 scales, 3 leather, and 3 chitin Totems stack additively Farming mastery no longer double boosts loot rolls Don't consume Chances stack on every action Remove second geode roll from myst seeds Made it easier to roll perfect affixes by reducing the decimals and adding larger intervals Nerf unstable totem drop rates Multiplied all instances of corrupted totem droprates by 10x, but halved aug roll Other News f1sh has joined the team as a community contributor! say hello!

Beta 0.24.2 - New Old Management

September 18, 2025	Beta 0.24.2	New Old Management
Fixes Refactored a bunch of backend functionality that was problematic, especially related to socket message spam. This should fix a bunch of high prio issues. Yes, market is being re-enabled. Game News So as y'all have known for a long while, 1.0 / Steam have been on the horizon for over a year. The primary blocker for this hasn't been a technical one for a long time, but has been a management/legal issue (the hopefully final of many). Without going into too much detail, the company ownership was split in such a way that made finalizing things difficult, but everything is getting fully consolidated by the end of this month. This may result in some service hiccups as we have to transfer some technical things around / get new contracts setup, but I don't expect that to take more than a day (if things go smoothly). This may not immediately affect the game development, but that frees us up to do what we need to do to further the game. So, Steam Soon? It's still next up after C3.0, which is still under development. Things have been going at a steady pace for that project, but things have continued to be busy IRL which limits my time to work on it.