Soulash 2

Devlog

• Soulash 2 v0.8.14 "Battle Reports"
  November 22, 2024 by Artur Smiarowski

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  Greetings fellow gods, Today's update introduces the first important step toward the upcoming War major update: battle simulation and reporting. NPC states now wage wars for profit and raid opposing s... Continue reading

  
• Soulash 2 v0.8.13 "New Weapons"
  November 07, 2024 by Artur Smiarowski

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  #minor

  Greetings fellow gods, Today's update adds new two-handed weapons like swords, axes, and crossbows to the roster and two new knowledge tabs for states and companies. Here's the full changelog: Added -... Continue reading

  
• Hotfix v0.8.12.2
  November 02, 2024 by Artur Smiarowski

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  #hotfix

  Changed - Having a dead spouse allows re-marriage. - Special characters are cleared from settlement names. Fixed - When marrying a companion, it gets properly removed from the party. - Fixed a bug tha... Continue reading
• Soulash 2 v0.8.12 "Map Filters"
  October 24, 2024 by Artur Smiarowski

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  #minor

  Greetings fellow gods, In today's update, I bring some utility improvements like filters to declutter the world map, per-race occupations for buildings in our settlements to be able to have different... Continue reading

  
• Soulash 2 v0.8.11 "Chromium"
  October 10, 2024 by Artur Smiarowski

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  #minor

  Greetings fellow gods, The work on wars slowly continues while we bring in some new content in preparation for the new civilization that should come in a few weeks. Please don't start a new world befo... Continue reading

  
• Hotfix v0.8.10.3
  October 03, 2024 by Artur Smiarowski

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  Added - 3 new easy special locations, 1 troublesome, 1 hard. - 1 new Adventuring recipe. - 1 new Carpentry recipe. Changed - Improved building icons for Orcs and Trolls. - Disabled sending player char... Continue reading
• Soulash 2 Hotfix v0.8.10.2
  October 01, 2024 by Artur Smiarowski

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  Changed - Hunting Ground location moved from Easy to Troublesome. Fixed - Fixed crash related to Old Village location. - Blue Flame Brazier doesn't require an anvil to build. - Fixed multiple Bone Thr... Continue reading
• Soulash v0.8.10 "Quivers"
  September 26, 2024 by Artur Smiarowski

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  #minor

  Greetings fellow gods, Today's update brings new items for the Ammo slot, including extra backpack slots and weight for throwing weapons. This will also likely replace the lone stat arrows for everyon... Continue reading

  
• Hotfix v0.8.9.2
  September 21, 2024 by Artur Smiarowski

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  Fixed - Fixed Smelter building icon. - Fixed auto-pickup for Throwing weapons that are not stackable. - Fixed missing occupation on NPCs when entering the world for the first time after generation. -... Continue reading
• Soulash 2 v0.8.9 "Stormthrowing"
  September 20, 2024 by Artur Smiarowski

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  #minor

  Greetings fellow gods, Not without some hiccups, but we're back at weekly updates with a new skill called [b]Stormthrowing[/b] that combines throwing weapons with electricity magic. It has some cool n... Continue reading

  
• Soulash 2 v0.8.8 "Storkism"
  September 05, 2024 by Artur Smiarowski

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  #minor

  Greetings fellow gods, We're slowly getting back into the weekly update routine, and today, we have a new special location for you inspired by our community's new High Priest of Storkism - Draken (yes... Continue reading

  
• Soulash 2 v0.8.7 "Legacy"
  August 22, 2024 by Artur Smiarowski

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  Greetings fellow gods, As the old saying goes: "Plant a tree, build a house, and father a son." - now we can do all three in Soulash 2! Something to do that outlasts our characters, now also with the... Continue reading

  
• Soulash 2 v0.8.6 "Married with Children"
  August 15, 2024 by Artur Smiarowski

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  #minor

  Guess who's back, Artur's back. Greetings fellow gods, It's good to be back after the break, recharged, and overly passionate again about pumping out new updates. Today, I have the first of the two pa... Continue reading

  
• Soulash 2 v0.8.5 "Trolls"
  July 25, 2024 by Artur Smiarowski

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  #minor

  Greetings fellow gods, We have a new civilization coming to the worlds of Soulash 2 today. This time, it's Trolls, and they will rise up on mountain regions to compete with Dwarves for the tastiest of... Continue reading

  
• Hotfix v0.8.4.2
  July 20, 2024 by Artur Smiarowski

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  Greetings fellow gods, Another batch of small tweaks and fixes today. Added - Added Gatherer building for Glowing and Paralyzing Mushrooms gathering to player settlements. - Added Mycelium Weaver buil... Continue reading
• Hotfix v0.8.4.1
  July 19, 2024 by Artur Smiarowski

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  #hotfix

  Greetings fellow gods, Don't mind me, I'm just decluttering the bugs list a bit before the weekend. Here's the changelog for today's hotfix: Added - Added Forest Gatherer building to player settlement... Continue reading
• Soulash 2 v0.8.4 "Cryomancy"
  July 18, 2024 by Artur Smiarowski

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  #minor

  Greetings fellow gods, Another week, another update. This time, we have a new combat magic skill - Cryomancy. Freeze your opponents with a new mechanic of stackable debuffs, cross the oceans without a... Continue reading

  
• Soulash 2 v0.8.3 "Pet Your Snake"
  July 11, 2024 by Artur Smiarowski

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  #minor

  Greetings fellow gods, This week, we have another delivery of smaller feature requests from you, dear players - petting animals, digging underground, and deconstructing floors were probably the most a... Continue reading

  
• Soulash 2 v0.8.2 "Kittens & Puppies"
  July 04, 2024 by Artur Smiarowski

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  #minor

  Greetings fellow gods, Today, we're continuing with the settlement-related improvements by adding some baby animals to be found, purchased, and captured and a few new buildings and resources. Here's t... Continue reading

  
• Hotfix v0.8.1.2
  June 30, 2024 by Artur Smiarowski

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  Greetings fellow gods, Here's a bunch of Sunday fixes to improve settlement-related stability and declutter the Discord bug reports. :) Changed - Mill is now on level 13 Construction and Alchemy Table... Continue reading
• Soulash 2 v0.8.1 "Settlement Tweaks"
  June 27, 2024 by Artur Smiarowski

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  #minor

  Greetings fellow gods, Today's update addresses smaller things, from bugs to suggestions, and adds new recipes to existing skills. The changelog is available below: Added - 11 new imbuing recipes for... Continue reading

  
• Soulash 2 v0.8.0 Settlement Management
  June 20, 2024 by Artur Smiarowski

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  Greetings fellow gods, We have finally arrived! The second major update to Soulash 2 Early Access introduces a huge change for mid to late game, where we can finally get some NPCs to our own settlemen... Continue reading

  
• Soulash 2 v0.7.13 "The First Temple"
  June 13, 2024 by Artur Smiarowski

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  #minor

  Greetings fellow gods, The final update of the v0.7.x line of patches is upon us. It brings new extreme special locations, new recipes, increased max potential, and some features that prepare us for n... Continue reading

  
• Soulash 2 v0.7.12 "Goblins"
  June 06, 2024 by Artur Smiarowski

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  #minor

  Zig Zag! Gobo attack! Greetings fellow gods, The goblins have attempted a sneaky takeover of the hills biome after a mere week of peaceful existence of the orcs. These slimy gits. The hills have becom... Continue reading

  
• Soulash 2 v0.7.11 "Orcs"
  May 30, 2024 by Artur Smiarowski

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  #update, #minor

  Greetings fellow gods, A new civilization of orcs has risen on the hills of our beautiful worlds and begun preparations for WAAAAGH!!! Luckily, it's still months before they decide who will lead them... Continue reading

  
• Soulash 2 v0.7.10 "Floromancy"
  May 16, 2024 by Artur Smiarowski

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  #update

  Greetings fellow gods, I know many of you have waited for this day. Today we have a new magic combat skill called Floromancy for you. It's, of course, the elven magic centered around poison, thorns, a... Continue reading

  
• Hotfix v0.7.9.3
  May 11, 2024 by Artur Smiarowski

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  #hotfix

  Fixed - The value of items doesn't keep increasing when entering new regions. - Eagle Feather and Weasel Tail can now be placed in a magic ingredient slot. - Runebearers have the correct units assigne... Continue reading
• Soulash 2 v0.7.9 "Loot Quality"
  May 09, 2024 by Artur Smiarowski

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  Greetings fellow gods, While the work continues on the next major v0.8 update (lots of GUI work, my least favorite), I've decided to address your feedback regarding loot. You'll be pleased to know tha... Continue reading

  
• Soulash 2 v0.7.8 "Gnolls"
  May 02, 2024 by Artur Smiarowski

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  Greetings fellow gods *cackling in gnollish*, Today, we have a new civilization of gnolls rising on Savannas. I'm sure many of you are familiar with the hyena-like humanoids, so I'll let you discover... Continue reading

  
• Hotfix v0.7.7.1
  April 28, 2024 by Artur Smiarowski

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  Hotfix to address the lag in settlements caused by an update to party members pathfinding in v0.7.7. Added - Added a sleeping animation. Changed - Looted Chests can now be demolished in claimed region... Continue reading
• Soulash 2 v0.7.7 "Lich's Phylactery"
  April 25, 2024 by Artur Smiarowski

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  #update

  Greetings fellow gods, As I hinted last week, after a few days of rest, I jumped on the pending issues you reported, so we'll have a longer changelog this time. The main addition is secret, so I won't... Continue reading

  
• Soulash 2 v0.7.6 "Imbuing"
  April 18, 2024 by Artur Smiarowski

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  #update, #announcement

  Greetings fellow gods, In today's weekly update, v0.7.6, we have a new crafting skill for you called Imbuing. It allows crafting amulets, rings, headgear, and new magic ingredients by combining them... Continue reading

  
• Soulash 2 v0.7.5 "Badgers & Weasels"
  April 11, 2024 by Artur Smiarowski

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  Greetings fellow gods, My whole week was spent on a technical task, so the changelog will be short. I've decided to add multithreading to history simulation to animate what's happening during world ge... Continue reading

  
• Soulash 2 v0.7.4 "Ursans & Sea Travel"
  April 04, 2024 by Artur Smiarowski

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  #update

  Greetings fellow gods, I've got two major additions for you this week! First, a new civilization of humanoid bears from cold tundra regions - Ursans! These reindeer farmers are known for their berserk... Continue reading

  
• Soulash 2 v0.7.3 "Stability"
  March 28, 2024 by Artur Smiarowski

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  #update

  Greetings fellow gods, This week, I worked hard to solve some technical issues I've been putting off forever: x64 architecture migration and UTF-8 character rendering. The x64 migration solves our lac... Continue reading

  
• Soulash 2 v0.7.2 "Hunting"
  March 21, 2024 by Artur Smiarowski

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  #update

  Greetings fellow gods, Today's update brings the 3rd dexterity-based skill - Hunting. Centered around bows and crossbows, the skill offers a variety of tools to track beings, tame animals to become yo... Continue reading

  
• Soulash 2 v0.7.1 "Skill Mastery"
  March 14, 2024 by Artur Smiarowski

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  #minor

  Greetings fellow gods, Today's update focuses on addressing your feedback and reported bugs, with the main addition being craftable skill books on level 44 of every skill that goes up to 50 to allow m... Continue reading

  
• Soulash 2 v0.7.0.1 released
  March 08, 2024 by Artur Smiarowski

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  Greetings fellow gods, Following the feedback, I've updated the experience gained from crafting to include resource quality to promote crafting better items to advance rather than spamming trash and t... Continue reading

  
• Soulash 2 v0.7.0 "Adventuring Parties"
  March 07, 2024 by Artur Smiarowski

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  #major

  Greetings fellow gods, The time has come for our second milestone update v0.7 "Adventuring Parties" introducing party mechanics, hireable and constructible companions, and Leadership, a new skill to s... Continue reading

  
• Soulash 2 v0.6.6 "Pole Fighting"
  February 22, 2024 by Artur Smiarowski

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  #update

  Greetings fellow gods, It's another great Thursday today, with some fun new content for Soulash 2. This time, I felt it was about time to add the second Dexterity combat skill to the game, and since H... Continue reading

  
• Soulash 2 v0.6.5 "Mushmen"
  February 15, 2024 by Artur Smiarowski

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  #update

  Greetings fellow gods, Another civilization rises in the Boreal Forests of our procedural worlds - Mushmen. They live in an underground network of caves and come with new bows, clothing options, and u... Continue reading

  
• Soulash 2 v0.4.6 "Family Relations"
  February 08, 2024 by Artur Smiarowski

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  #update

  Greetings fellow gods, Smaller update this week as I've been hit by the flu. This update adds a few improvements for starting family relations, allowing us to work in the family buildings without comm... Continue reading

  
• Soulash 2 Hotfix v0.6.3.4
  February 03, 2024 by Artur Smiarowski

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  Quick hotfix to address crashes related to the orc, gnoll, and goblin locations and added a training option to unoccupied Reptilions... Continue reading
• Soulash 2 Hotfix v0.6.3.3
  February 02, 2024 by Artur Smiarowski

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  #hotfix

  Greetings fellow gods, A few more fixes today to address the new issues reported on Discord. Fixed - Mods were causing names to clear out, resulting in a lack of names for NPCs. - Fixed issue with ord... Continue reading
• Soulash 2 v0.6.3 "Reptilions"
  February 01, 2024 by Artur Smiarowski

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  #update

  Greetings fellow gods, We're back after a short break with a substantial update to kick off February with style. Today a new civilization of humanoid lizards rises on the swamps of Soulash 2. Reptilio... Continue reading

  
• Soulash 2 Roadmap to v1.0
  January 25, 2024 by Artur Smiarowski

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  #roadmap

  Greetings fellow gods, I've spent some time planning the extended scope for the Early Access to share with you in the form of a Roadmap, expanding on what I've described in the EA Announcement and add... Continue reading

  
• Soulash 2 v0.6.2 "Settlement Stability"
  January 18, 2024 by Artur Smiarowski

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  #update

  Greetings fellow gods, Today's update focuses on addressing some simulation issues, like the settlement's downfall during a playthrough, recovery of ruined settlements during simulation, optimizations... Continue reading

  
• Soulash 2 v0.6.1 "Agriculture"
  January 11, 2024 by Artur Smiarowski

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  #update

  Greetings fellow gods, Today, I have a new skill for you - Agriculture. It's been a while since we had one, the last time being Thievery before the EA release, so it felt like a good time to finally e... Continue reading

  
• Soulash 2 v0.6.0.3 Hotfix
  January 08, 2024 by Artur Smiarowski

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  #hotfix

  Greetings fellow gods, This time I'm tackling some of the pending major bugs reported on Discord. Unless some significant issues need addressing, we'll return to weekly Thursday updates from here. Cha... Continue reading

  
• Soulash 2 v0.6.0.2 Hotfix
  January 06, 2024 by Artur Smiarowski

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  Another day another hotfix. 2 isn't that bad (yet) for a big update, right? ;) Fixed - Fixed crash related to Wildfire passive. Modding - Fixed crash related to Ability Editor. - Fixed conversations i... Continue reading

  
• Soulash 2 v0.6.0.1 Hotfix
  January 05, 2024 by Artur Smiarowski

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  #hotfix

  Hotfixing some of the issues from yesterday's update. Fixed - Fixed NPC crafters not being able to find their workstations. - Fixed tooltips of Hell, World in Flames and Explosion. - Fixed some abilit... Continue reading

  
• Soulash 2 v0.6.0 "Modding Tools"
  January 04, 2024 by Artur Smiarowski

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  #major

  Greetings fellow gods, Late Happy New Year everyone, let's start 2024 with a bang! Today, I have for you the extended Modding Tools that some of you may be familiar with from the first game and Steam... Continue reading

  
• Soulash 2 v0.5.2 "Bugfixing"
  December 21, 2023 by Artur Smiarowski

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  #update

  Greetings fellow gods, As I grind away at the modding tools, I have a bunch of stability improvements, bug fixes, and small tweaks and improvements for you in today's weekly update, most of them comin... Continue reading

  
• Soulash 2 v0.5.1 "Multi-Cooking"
  December 14, 2023 by Artur Smiarowski

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  Greetings fellow gods, Thank you all for supporting the game in its early form and offering time to provide feedback. As mentioned in the last hotfix, the game's development will continue in weekly up... Continue reading

  
• Soulash 2 Hotfix v0.5.0.7 & v0.5.0.8
  December 12, 2023 by Artur Smiarowski

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  #hotfix

  Greetings fellow gods, Today, I have the final post-release hotfix for you. From here, I'll transition into more sustainable and substantial weekly updates on Thursdays. Thank you all for sharing your... Continue reading
• Soulash 2 Hotfix v0.5.0.6
  December 09, 2023 by Artur Smiarowski

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  #hotfix

  Changed - NPCs no longer gain experience while fulfilling orders for crafting and upgrades, they continue to progress during history simulation. - Changed True Damage amplifier icon. - Increased the s... Continue reading
• Soulash 2 Hotfix v0.5.0.5
  December 07, 2023 by Artur Smiarowski

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  Added - Added "ask for trainers" conversation option to all NPCs which will list all trainable skills in the settlement and point to the best trainer's work building. Fixed - Fixed crash related to Gr... Continue reading
• Soulash 2 Hotfix v0.5.0.3 & v0.5.0.4
  December 06, 2023 by Artur Smiarowski

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  Greetings fellow gods, This hotfix improves on world traversal to help with issues where you might get stuck by disabling the lock on level 4 starvation/dehydration on High Fantasy mode, as well as ch... Continue reading
• Soulash 2 Early Access Begins
  December 04, 2023 by Artur Smiarowski

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  Greetings fellow gods, Early Access has just begun! The time has come to explore the procedural worlds of Soulash 2! The road so far It's been such a wild ride to get to this point, with so many diffi... Continue reading

  
• Soulash 2 Demo v0.4.6 "Favorite People"
  November 30, 2023 by Artur Smiarowski

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  #update

  Greetings fellow gods, A final demo update is upon us, it's now just 4 days till Early Access begins, and I've been hard at work with the final tests, fixes, and balancing passes. I hope you're excite... Continue reading

  
• Soulash 2 Demo v0.4.5 "Settlement Growth"
  November 23, 2023 by Artur Smiarowski

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  Greetings fellow gods, As the EA release approaches in just 11 days (time flies!), my work was mainly focused on balancing the harder special locations and improving the history simulation to stabiliz... Continue reading

  
• Soulash 2 Demo v0.4.4 "Aging"
  November 16, 2023 by Artur Smiarowski

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  Greetings fellow gods, Only 18 days till EA begins, who's excited? Time flies as I'm keeping myself busy with work. We'll have one or two more demo updates and shift entirely to EA. Full changelog of... Continue reading

  
• Soulash 2 Demo v0.4.3 "Demolition"
  November 09, 2023 by Artur Smiarowski

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  #update

  Greetings fellow gods, Today, we have a regular weekly update with many fixes and improvements, including critical stability fixes. The main addition is Demolition action for removing constructions in... Continue reading

  
• Soulash 2 Early Access Date Announcement
  November 03, 2023 by Artur Smiarowski

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  #announcement

  Soulash 2 Early Access will begin December 4, 2023 on Steam and Itch and is planned for at least a year of active development. The game will have a base price of $17.99 . There will be a 10% launch di... Continue reading

  
• Soulash 2 Demo v0.4.2 - Bags
  November 02, 2023 by Artur Smiarowski

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  #update

  Greetings fellow gods, Regular update today, introducing Tailoring bags as well as inclusion of more recipes into crafting skills. There are also a bunch of minor changes and fixes from your reports o... Continue reading

  
• Soulash 2 Demo v0.4.1 released
  October 29, 2023 by Artur Smiarowski

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  Added - Shear action to acquire wool from sheep. Changed - Removed the laws against vandalism in player settlements. - Leather Boots and Shield now require a workbench instead of anvil or tailor workp... Continue reading
• Soulash 2 Demo update v0.4.0 - Thievery Skill & Crime System
  October 28, 2023 by Artur Smiarowski

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  #update

  Greetings fellow gods, Today is a great day! In celebration of reaching 7,000(!) wishlists, a critical milestone for any indie developer, and to thank you all for taking your time to hunt down bugs an... Continue reading

  
• Soulash 2 Demo v0.3.5 released
  October 10, 2023 by Artur Smiarowski

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  #update

  Changed - Ending world travel on an Ocean tile is no longer possible. - Added water sources to dwarven settlement centers. Fixed - Fixed crash related to stack splitting. - Fixed crash related to miss... Continue reading

  
• Soulash 2 Demo v0.3.4 released
  October 07, 2023 by Artur Smiarowski

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  #update

  Changed - Changed the empty equipment slots to be more easily differentiated from the equipped slot. - Training conversation options don't show up if the NPC can't offer training above the player's sk... Continue reading

  
• Soulash 2 Demo v0.3.3 released
  October 05, 2023 by Artur Smiarowski

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  #update

  Greetings fellow gods, Another batch of fixes today. Changed - Goat Milk and Cow Milk are now drinkable single-use items that quench thirst instead of hunger. Fixed - Fixed an issue that caused every... Continue reading

  
• Soulash 2 Demo v0.3.2 released
  October 03, 2023 by Artur Smiarowski

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  Thank you all for the incredible reception! Please keep sharing the demo with your friends and on social channels so we can have a great start of EA in December! Here's the changelog for today's patch... Continue reading

  
• Soulash 2 Demo v0.3.1.1 released
  September 30, 2023 by Artur Smiarowski

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  First batch of fixes. Thank you all for your help with reports, feedback, and suggestions! Changed - Waterskin now requires any leather instead of specific leather items. Fixed - Disabled the frenzy m... Continue reading

  
• Soulash 2 Demo Available!
  September 29, 2023 by Artur Smiarowski

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  #release

  Greetings, fellow gods! After 1.5 years since the release of Soulash and the destruction of the world, the time is almost upon us to grab our trusty jester's hat, reattach the fake mustache, and begin... Continue reading