HedgeTale - Dark Arts & Old Magic

HedgeTale 1.0.1: The Fae Arrive

The Old Wood: the Fae are here

• The Leshy: the first Ancient Fae boss. A gaunt, antlered forest horror waiting in a new Leshy's Hollow, deep in the forests. It fights with its claws, grasping roots and bursts of thorns, and calls Thornlings and wolves to help.

• Lesser fae at night:

  • Pixie swarms in the woods.
  • Redcaps in the hills.
  • Thornlings, walking briars.

  Each drops its own reagent.

• Imbuements: bind fae reagents into your weapons and armour for bleed, thorns, life steal, speed, damage resistance and more.

  • Witches use the new Rites of Imbuement.
  • Hunters use the new Alchemist's Crucible.

• Path attire: the Witch's Regalia and the Hunter's Garb get stronger as you rank up your path. They have new hand-made designs, too.

 Fae Rifts: a new world event

• Once you've slain a fae boss, rifts can tear open near you: "The Fae Realm spills into yours!"
• Fight three hard waves of new Unseelie fae: Gloam Hounds, Sidhe Archers and Sidhe Blades.
• Then face the boss, the Unseelie Knight.
• Every rift fae drops random loot. The Knight drops a reward for your path:
  • Witches: the Starthorn Crown (cheaper rites, more mana).
  • Hunters: the Gloam Glaive (hits witches, fae and the dead harder, and slows them).
• Walk away and the rift collapses.

Choose your side

• You no longer become a witch automatically. You only become one by opening a Grimoire, and you only join the hunters by swearing to the Order.
• To start fresh on an old save: /ht playtest calling reset.

Visual fixes

• The Bone-Mother has a new look.
• Outlander witches are rebuilt: no more goggle eyes or half-dressed robes.
• NPCs use their proper names in chat.