From the workbench

Devlog

Day-by-day progress on Void Tales. Bigger announcements land in the news.

November 2025

Shin Snowly

In the tutorial of Falwhind, princess Lyara is now giving the player the Royal Dagger, so all 3 offhand types are there

All arrows as quest rewards or loot are removed from Falwhind

All arrow rewards are removed from the slot mashine

Buff food is now added to the slot mashine rewards

A new item can be obtained in the tutorial instead of arrows, Dorset Cheese

All arrow rewards are removed from quests

All arrows are removed from shops

All arrow rewards are removed from mob loot

All 13 new gemstones are implemented in the game now

All 13 new gemstones are now sellable at Agnes, too

The halloween event crate is now removed from the game

All 13 new gemstones are now available when assembling Glimmer

All 13 new gemstones are now upgradable to their fabled version

All 13 new gemstones are now available as a reward when clearing the dungeon

All 13 new gemstones + their fabled variants are now added to the achievements

Shin Snowly

A new gemstone type has been introduced: Celestial Gems, capable of channeling an aspect of the gods during combat.

The first Celestial Gem—blessed by Ibis—has been added. It lets you briefly recoil and hover when attacking from the air, perfectly reflecting the fighting style of an owl.

A brand new training area called Somewhere has been created.

New custom music has been added to Somewhere.

Somewhere is accessible to every player through a book purchased from the vending machine.

New training weapons have been introduced.

New training gems are available specifically for use in Somewhere.

New dummies with unique abilities have been added.

A new way to display damage and combos has been implemented on certain training dummies.

The new Combo Dummy has been added to both Soul Station and Falwhind (the old one still exists).

The Hunter Bell, used for bow training, now only shows its “Shard Bell” message in Ibya Forest and nowhere else.

A new (fun) Straw Dummy Boss has been added to Somewhere.

A new achievement has been created for defeating the Straw Dummy Boss.

A completely new Deflect mechanic has been added for shields.

Speed on a successful deflect gemstone is now here

Resistance on a successful deflect gemstone is now here

Blight on a successful deflect gemstone is now here

Pale on a successful deflect gemstone is now here

Scorch on a successful deflect gemstone is now here

Drift on a successful deflect gemstone is now here

Ticking on a successful deflect gemstone is now here

The dagger now deals damage while dodging.

The dagger now increases player speed for a short time after a dodge.

Added Cutback – resets the dodge cooldown.

Chance to gain a Tempest Quiver stack on a successful Cutback gemstone is now here

New mechanics have been added to the crossbow

Quickshot: automatically fires when dodging.

Heartshot: charge up a powerful piercing arrow.

Multiple Quickshots in a row gemstone is now here

Scattered Quickshot gemstone is now here

Restore HP on a Heartshot gemstone is now here

Restore Hunger on a Heartshot gemstone is now here

Exploding Heartshot gemstone is now here

All existing crossbows, daggers and shield are now updated and accessable for everyone (just hold the item in hand and it updates)

All quest rewards from existing crossbows, daggers and shields are updated now

the “bow changer” is removed now

Shin Snowly

The construction phase of Chapter 2 is progressing well!

Shin Snowly

The puzzle-door in the Fanged Peaks is finally fixed (Thank you @BlissedYui ) (10/10 tries worked with the new method)

Shin Snowly

Training dummys are now telling you the damage they receive

Shin Snowly

(Finally!) Spamming attacks on blocks which leads to bleeding ears is no longer possible ( A big thanks to @Looni )

Dual-Wielding is fixed now. It was possible to create incredible OP builds. I am sorry to ruin the fun but it was necessary!

There are no vanilla animals anymore in the Grove Of Deities

The reward message for the quest Cloudkissed got updated

Divine Gemstones are now in the game!

Phia has a new animation for rewarding the player when awakened a deity

Ibis is now giving you a present when talking to her

The damage that will applied at the end of the Ticking status, is now raised from 6 to 9. (Thank you @Counter )

There is now a message showing the top fighter in every bossfight and the personal damage from the one who is reading the message

The training dummy has now a larger activationrange, so it will be shown in the dialog