Iron and Blood

Iron and Blood — Beta 0.5.1

Blood and visuals

• Added configurable ground and wall blood expiration. Timed removal is disabled by default.
• Blood exposed to fire now loses 1% opacity per burning tick and disappears after 5 seconds at normal TPS.
• Fixed blood remaining suspended in the air after its supporting block is destroyed.
• Improved compatibility with Stealth and Detection footprints to prevent them from covering blood decals.
• Improved armor blood patterns with irregular splashes, drips, and more variations.
• Improved equipment blood rendering in Epic Fight when wearer wound data is unavailable.
• Enabled weapon blood rendering with irregular, consistent sampling.
• Weapon blood visuals now update in 10% steps. At 50% blood coverage and above, an additional blood layer increases coverage.
• Reduced the facial red filter by 60%.
• Blood volume now scales with creature maximum health, reducing oversized blood pools from small creatures.
• Improved corpse blood seepage integration with Corpsebound.
• Added configurable armor cleaning requirements. Armor can be washed while worn by default.
• Fixed repeated equipment sounds caused by bloodstain updates.
• Improved blood decal rendering to reduce interference from other particle effects.
• Hidden bloodstain tooltips when their displayed value rounds to 0%.
• Added compatibility with Icon Leading Tooltip.

Combat and stealth

• Fixed light blunt attacks being incorrectly discarded against armor. Valid positive-power hammer and staff hits retain a small minimum armor-transmitted damage.
• Added a configurable rigid armor defense multiplier. Default armor protection remains unchanged.
• Fixed custom boss health settings being overridden by built-in defaults.
• Added optional Stealth and Detection integration:
  • Unaware enemies receive 20% less defense.
  • Suspicious or investigating enemies receive 10% less defense, including enemies alerted by corpses.
  • Newly alerted enemies receive 10% less defense for 1 second.
  • Unblocked rear melee attacks against completely unaware enemies have a 30% minimum body-damage ratio.
  • Stealth bonuses share a 1-minute cooldown per enemy. Values are configurable.

Stability

• Fixed a FakePlayer-related crash in downed-state handling.

Related update: Parry and Riposte 1.0.4

• Usable offhand shields now take priority over weapon blocking, addressing the reported Epic Knights flail, morningstar, and mace behavior. This requires updating Parry and Riposte separately.

Update notes

• Update both client and server to this build.
• Stealth and Detection and Corpsebound remain optional.
• Build and automated checks passed. Full in-game compatibility testing remains pending.