Performance Optimization - Significant improvement in framerate due to optimization of floor tiles and building lights. More performance improvements are in development. Light Changes - We've added a mouse light to help you explore in the dark. Additionally, many buildings have had their lights adjusted to improve performance as well as visibility. Tutorial System - The tutorial system is now available. It teaches the basic elements of the game to new players. Tax System - Taxes: are automatically collected every 25 days. Houses and buildings that produce resources contribute to taxes. Buildings that produce more resources generate more tax revenue. Buildings - Treasury: has been re-worked and is no-longer a drop off point for miners. Instead, it doubles the amount of taxes that are collected. - Formation Grounds (New): allows you to organize military units easily. Units standing at formation grounds may eat as if at a tavern. - Cosmetic Buildings (New): we've added several cosmetic buildings such as the memory stone, ornate brazier, tablet of perseverance, and more. - Wooden Lamp Post: gold cost reduced from 25 to 20. Units - Axeguard: has a new model and animations to set it apart from other dwarves. Runeforge Talents (Infantry) - Headshot (New): provides a way for tunnel scouts to focus down low health enemies. - Executioner's Sentence (New): grants axeguard a way to finish off low health enemies. - Cleave (New): gives axeguards a way to damage and debuff multiple enemies. - One-Handed Axe Specialization (New): gives an offensive buff to an offensive unit (berserkers) as well as a defensive unit (ironguard). - Hack and Slash (New): creatures synergy between attack speed and crit chance for berserkers. - Defensive Parry (New): offers some defensive options for axeguard and longbeard units. - Berserker's Bargain: re-worked to grant crit instead of attack damage. Additionally, it also reduces their training cost. - Expedited Conscription: now also grants a free level. - Trail by Combat & Target Practice: grant 100% bonus experience, up from 50%. Runeforge Talents (Culture) - Shrewd Invesments: now triggers when taxes are collected. Runeforge Talents (Buildings) - Kingdom of Light: now reduces the gold cost of both wood and stone lamp posts as well as making the latter build instantly as well. Tech - Combat Training & Stonecrafting: now only grant a single free level, but the research time has been cut in half. Greenskins - Orc Executioners and Goblin Assassins now prioritize low-health dwarfs. New Background Art - Our artist has delivered amazing new background art for the intro sequence as well as main menu background. Bug Fixes - Fixed talents That's the Stuff and Hearty Meals to provide the correct resource production increases. - Fixed a bug that caused health bars to flicker briefly when a body was cleaned up. - Fixed a bug that caused walk animations to stutter periodically. - Fixed a bug that sometimes caused the king ability icon to show when the talent was not selected. - Fixed missing tooltip info for berserker's trail of strength talent. - Fixed an issue with the audio options that prevented full-mute. - Fixed king shout buff to provide correct stat buffs. - Fixed an issue that let miners sometimes ignore high priority cubes.