Happy new year! We're excited to be back and giving you a new alpha. A favorite change of ours is the new collection item mechanic which finally buffs up painters and allows for a better non-aggressive game play. We didn't get to do our usual video today, but we'll update this post as soon as we have the video. Alpha 23 (Jan 1st, 2016) "Collector's Edition"

• New final swamp and sulfur swamp art backgrounds
• Collection items
  • Painter now creates a single stack of paintings
  • Butterflies are now also collected in item
  • Anthropological studies now show the portrait of a tribe member
  • Collection item's worth depends on the collected items
  • Fame/Fund tuning remained the same as before
• Combat
  • Auto advance if all enemies are dead
  • New health bar graphics
  • Increased health of all player characters
  • Show full character info box when hovering over player character
  • Dice that were pinned, are auto rolled when unpinned
  • New particles
  • Added new stun effect to headbutt attack (more special effects to come)
• Loyalty
  • Removed chance for internal loyalty boost when promoting characters
  • Added new perk 'careerist' which always add loyalty boost when promoting
• Events
  • New events for Tim/Luis
  • Added new nature resting events
  • New secret alternative game ending
• Added wiki button to main menu
• Cleaned up font usage in the game, reducing visual clutter (ongoing)
• Added new blessing "leather skin"
• Bugfixes
  • Bongos should not stack
  • Removed binoculars from Earhart starting equipment
  • Fixed NaN output when doing events in warp worlds
  • Clear chat queue when entering combat
  • Fixed enemy head shown in combat instead of body