v1.6.0 — the Alfar, an eleventh race

A new race. The Alfar are grey, tall and thin casters with eyes of solid black. Eitr is their armour, a lethal blow sends them home once every twenty minutes, and instead of troops they build a base that runs itself around a crystal core.

One pool for everything

Every food an Alfr eats also raises their maximum eitr, by the smaller of its health and stamina. That pool takes blows before health does, one eitr per point of damage (lightning and spirit cost double). While there is eitr in it, falls are free and slow, and holding Jump in the air lifts you. Every power draws on the same pool, so each cast leaves you with less shield.

When a blow gets through and would kill you, Heimkall wakes you at your bed with one health and five seconds of invulnerability. Then it waits twenty minutes, fifteen after Yagluth and ten after Fader.

Powers, one per boss

Boss	Power
Eikthyr	Skrid (G), a blink · Grafvaettir (H), drones that dig out the ore around where they land
The Elder	Utsog, 15% of the damage you deal comes back as eitr
Bonemass	Kall (J), pulls every dropped item within 15 m to you
Moder	Ljosstorm (K), a lightning storm over an area
Yagluth	Geisli (O, hold), a beam from the hand
The Queen	Kyrr (U), stasis on what you look at
Fader	Sameining (I), the archon: bigger, faster, flying, a pulse instead of weapons, and a trip home at the end

Each wait shows on screen as a countdown.

A base that runs itself

The Ljoskjarne is the core, one per 1.6 km². Press it for a store paid out of your pack: drones that do the Bone Smith's and Bone Cook's jobs together, plus farming, sorting and repairs; a crystal upgrade that makes the core grow crystals; and from Yagluth three constructs for defence. The Ljosgard turns Mistlands mushrooms into Sap, and the Prismavard is a bronze lightning turret.

Everything is on the new Alfar page, and the compendium has their page in English, Italian and Russian.

Also

• Switching Summon on Kill back on now says "Thy shall raise again."