# Blade and Sorcery 1.0 - The End Update, is now available! - Product: Blade and Sorcery (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/blade-and-sorcery) - Vendor: WarpFrog - Date: 2024-06-17 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/629730/view/4193494635164886421 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/blade-and-sorcery/releases/2024-06-17-1.0-the-end-update-is-now-available What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog. Reuse: the summaries, labels and curation here are © What's New. Quote freely with attribution and a link back; wholesale republication of the corpus is not permitted — terms: https://whatsnew.fyi/terms. The vendors' own release notes remain their publishers'. --- - **added** — Add Crystal Hunt progression game mode where players start as a lowly warrior or mage and unlock new skills to increase character power - **added** — Add Dalgarian Dungeon, an entirely new dungeon biome featuring the ancient Dalgarian race with larger room layouts and open spaces compared to Outpost - **added** — Add Skill Tree system with 5 branches (Fire, Gravity, Lightning, Body, and Mind) containing 78 total skills that players can unlock throughout Crystal Hunt - **added** — Add 78 new playable skills where each skill is a tangible game feature rather than stat modifiers, with many skills featuring synergies that stack with each other - **added** — Add physical store in dungeons where players can buy and sell weapons and armor - **added** — Add lore and story context to Crystal Hunt and the world of Byeth, including secrets of the ancient Dalgarians - **added** — Add character creation customization options including damage modifiers, Dalgarian language translation toggle, and death consequence settings such as losing gold or permadeath - **added** — Add definitive game ending to strive for in Crystal Hunt mode - **changed** — Separate Crystal Hunt character progression from Sandbox character progression Hello mates, The Baron here carrying the good word from KospY and the Warpfrog team. How can this possibly be... the day has arrived. Blade & Sorcery 1.0 is now available! ːamadeus_happyː What a journey, guys... From a one man project started by KospY to a studio of +20 fulltime developers. From a little indie arena sandbox to the beginnings of a fantasy IP. All of us at Warpfrog are blown away by the events of the past 5 years, and we want to truly thank all of you guys who supported the game in Early Access. We carry some cynicism for common practices in the modern game industry, so when Warpfrog was founded we pledged to reject what we always hated as gamers ourselves and do things on our own terms. Through your support, you guys let us remain independent from shareholders and publishers, and enabled the studio to become the truest and most authentic version of itself. Now lets set the celebrations aside as you have waited long enough; let's get into the 1.0! ##### Before you begin If you are moving from Early Access to the 1.0 Update, do yourself a favour and solve your troubleshooting issues before you they begin - **Remove all of your U12 mods!** U12 mods will not work on 1.0, so as usual, mods will need an update. ##### MAIN FEATURES _As a caution I should warn that anything past this point may be considered a spoiler for those who wanted to play the update as a blind experience! Be warned!_ ##### Crystal Hunt Game Mode The all new Progression Mode is now in the game - start as a lowly warrior or mage and increase your character's power by unlocking new skills. Find loot in the dungeons to buy and sell weapons and armor in a physical store. Delve deep into the lore which gives context to the events of Crystal Hunt and world of Byeth. Uncover the secrets of the ancient Dalgarians! We are delighted to add this gamemode for folks who always wanted a little more out of Blade & Sorcery than the default sandbox experience. Staying true to the Warpfrog way and our beliefs on game design, this is not a hand-holding experience. However, Crystal Hunt will give motivation for the player to progress and develop through the game, as well as now having a definitive game ending to strive for. Your Crystal Hunt character will be separate from your Sandbox one. We added some option goodies on character creation so you can customize your game and difficulty level; for example you can tweak the damage received or dealt modifiers, determine if Dalgarian language is automatically translated into your language, or enable death consequences if you please, such as losing gold or even permadeath. Crystal Hunt was truly nuts for us to work on, because it was like dropping a new game on top of the established Blade & Sorcery game that you already know. The Warpfrog team really worked hard on this as we wanted to do justice with our final major content update. We hope you like it! ##### Dalgarian Dungeon The Dalgarian Dungeon is an entirely new dungeon biome to explore, revolving around the ancient race of Dalgarians; a highly advanced and magical people, now extinct. The most notable difference about the Dalgarian dungeons compared to Outpost is the sheer scale; you will notice the "rooms" are not just physically bigger in terms of structure sizes, but also much larger in terms of space, with more open layouts. This should give a different vibe to exploring the Dalgarian Dungeon as compared to Outpost, which has a more linear sense of progression through it. ##### Skill Tree Your Crystal Hunt character will start off as a no-skilled warrior or petty mage. Prepare to have the rug pulled from beneath you when you realize how complacent you have likely become to being OP in sandbox mode! Over the course of Crystal Hunt, you will earn the ability to unlock skills, steadily increasing your power. These skills correlate to the 5 branches on the Skill Tree - Fire, Gravity, Lightning, Body and Mind. A player could choose to go _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/629730/view/4193494635164886421]_