Greetings, Adventurers! We're excited to launch THE SKINS UPDATE (v0.6.25), bringing new customization options, balance adjustments, and quality-of-life enhancements to Ancient Kingdoms. Dive in, style your hero, and conquer the battlefield! Here's what's new:

New Features

• Introducing the Ember Weaver, a new NPC in Milldenn offering exclusive skins!
• High-end bosses now drop Soul Embers!
• Use Wardrobes in your house to equip or remove skins effortlessly.
• Adjust screen resolution in settings, ideal for windowed mode.
• New Elixir of Restoration potion heals mercenaries for 1,250 HP (15s cooldown).
• New Veteran Skills: Gouge (Rogue) and Battlehoned Accuracy (General).
• Winterforge Update: Progress now at 80%!

Balance Changes

• Druid:
  • Flourishment: Improved mana regeneration.
  • Verdant Renewal (Merc): Reduced healing regeneration.
• Ranger:
  • Nature's Call: Increased mana cost.
• Wizard Mercenary:
  • Flame Blast: Decreased mana cost.
• Warrior & Rogue Mercenaries:
  • Now use a rage system similar to players.
• General:
  • Spirit of Wolf: Duration increased to 15 minutes.
  • Vowkeeper's Staff: Reduced spell power (was higher than intended).
  • Increased healing bonus cap.
  • Adjusted Arcane Resolution and Master of Arms bonuses by level.
• Mercenary Healing:
  • Scroll of Restoration: Heals 20,000 HP (120s cooldown).
  • Battlefield Restoration: Heals all mercenaries for 5,000 HP and restores 3,250 Resource Points (60s cooldown).
  • Elixir of Restoration: Heals 1,250 HP (15s cooldown).

Pet & NPC Behavior

• Pets now run away from area effects but won't move toward the player.
• Nyxarion & Formidrax: Increased follow distance to reduce accidental fight resets.
• Nyxarion: Slightly improved stats.
• Aggro Area no longer affects NPCs to prevent unwanted interactions.

Quality of Life & Bug Fixes

• Materials like Ethereal Hide, Essence of Pure Fire, Ancient Cyclops Bones, Black Dragon Scales, and Savage Blood are now unique and non-tradable.
• Reduced Adventurer Level required for Augments (Tier 1) and Radiant Emblems.
• Chest of Lost Adventurers now requires 5% Adventurer Level.
• Added protection to prevent launching multiple game instances from the same folder, safeguarding save data.
• Wardrobe price increased to 12,000 gp.
• Blazewalker Boots typo fixed, with adjusted stats.