Artifacts and Item System Improvements

Hero level 4. 8 mushroom monsters. Reward small Stone (prob. 10).

4 small muscards. 20 Iron.

Holding off on the dendrogs until rebuild army!

Hero level 50
Not paying much attention to who I send to battle. Usually 20 or so medieval foot units, some knights and nuns. I try to make the majority crossbowmen for the dragons. Four or five various items spawn each time a monster bunch gets killed. I only see dragons and worms.
Various items include learning speed-ups (bulbs vials computers that I would appreciate more if I could actually learn any more :) ) army power-ups, blueprints, figurines of learning, a lot of resources, some rage encaged, devil in disguise, etc. No chests have been opened because they require large amounts of fighting units or artistes, etc. (I am training units for this) I usually get two bulbs and vials in a set, but I have had two figurines with my blueprint. (that one surprised me). Raising level to obtain the goodies is definitely worth the effort.
Resources on the ground are larger now.

After several battles my armor is:
Royal Helmet 87%
Royal Shoulders 87%
Charlemagne Shield 84%
Lionhead Boots 97%
Royal Bottom 97%
Crusader Belt 98%
Forged Arms 90%
I guess I fight more than I travel :)

No need to post about every single battle, please aggregate your reports until you have at least 5-10.

Are you interested in the non-battle chests?  The changes here have had quite an effect on low-level gameplay.

Every so often I come here to check on the progress of the game. It looks amazing! I can't wait to be able to play.

Berserker, can you please give me an update on the probability of playing this game on a Mac? I have asked multiple times and gotten no answer. I apologize in advance if this is not the forum for that question, but, like I said before ,no answer. I appreciate any updates. Thank you much .... Keep the totem tribe going!

 I recently discovered that my Apa Dagger is no longer in Inventory's equipment. I suspect this is related to my level 4 Hero's latest resurrection--but what he was carrying when the dendrogs got him was a Spiky Club!

If this is expected behavior, that a random weapon will disappear rather than the one (if any) the Hero was carrying, this displeases me greatly. But if it's a bug, I'll willingly report it in the proper thread.

still level 37:

Chest 10 bells: 2000 wood, flying carpet, tiger hat of destruction (lvl 50, 25% army health, enhanced artefact), 2 x 100.000 research
7 small worms: 80 food
Chest 5k iron: constition pylyp orlyk, 100 k research, 130 k research, clockwork, speaker horn
1 small, 6 medium, 1 big worm: 2 onyx Crystals, 80 stone
Chest needing 10.000 lumber: 150 k + 75 k + 100 k research, jasper crystal, 1 scholar manual
6 small birdhouses, crude bow-attack 4, obsolete
3 Dragons: Nothing!!!!!
5 Medium, 1 Big worm: 300 iron, 350 food, long bow
6 Medium, 2 Big birdhouses: Nothing
4 medium, 2 big birdhouses: 1 speaker horn, 800 food, broad beret,
4 small worms: 10 food, metal shoulders.
3 small, 2 medium, 2 big worms: devil in disguise, 300 stone, rifle
5 medium worms: devil in disguise, 850 research, 450 food, 700 food
7 big worms: 1 fire works, 700 iron, 800 research
3 dragons: 350 stone, 100 k and 25 k research, nectar
2 small, 5 medium, 1 big muscard: 400 k research, 350 iron

flopped armlets 92%, armet helmet 85%, Legion. Scapular 84%, Flail 49%,  Wolf vest 84%, kite shield 84%,  centurion boots 79%, mail skirt 79%, plate belt 100%

Berserker, that's actually reassuring, if it disappeared because it was behaving like a collecting flask, nothing to do w/ resurrection.

In other news of my level 4 Hero vs. monsters--no reward unless noted:
8 mushroomers
1 small muscard
3 small muscards--minimal food
8 mushroomers
2 muscards, 158-point & 250-point
Dendrogs, 2 small, 1 medium, 1 large

Chest requiring 5 fish skeletons: Battle Cry
Chest requiring 5 Praetorians: Water Bucket (Note: Hero has yet to see any fire burning.)

100% Durability: Leaf Bracers
99%: Plebeian Helmet
98%: Plebeian Collar and Coat, Spartan Shield
95%: Spiky Club
68%: Sandals, Plebeian Skirt

Lvl 10 Hero

3 sm birdhouses:  50 stone, composite crossbow

1 med, 1 sm birdhouse:  15 food

3 med, 6 sm muscard:  Daj'bogs pickaxe

3 sm birdhouses:  Lorica segmentata torso, 15 food

1 med 5 sm muscard:  3000 tech points, 10 wood

1 lg, 3 med, 3 sm dendrog:  clockwork

3 sm birdhouses:  10 wood, 10 iron

1 med, 2 sm birdhouses:  nothing

Chests:

1 had 4000 tech points, needed nothing to open.

2nd had 400 food, 150 stone, took 5 shells to open

forgot to document equipment damage  :(

level 8 hero

5 small muscards : nothing

1 big dendrog, 2 medium dendrogs and 4 small ones : nothing

Small chest :  mask of the many, 1 potion of reconsideration, 45 stone

2 small birdhouses :  nothing

Chest -  250 wood

5 small muscards - nothing

3 medium dendrogs and 5 small ones – 10 wood

3 BIG DENDROGS AND 4 SMALL – 15wood

Chest – chain breaker, leaf skirt

Chest – figure of enlightment, curved bow, novice manual

Level 5 hero in second town fought three groups of muscards.

2 small - nothing

2 small, 2 medium - nothing

2 mall, 1 medium, 1 big - level 13 (!) Enhanced Artifact 'Leaf Chest of Fishing', requires hero level 13 :(

When posting about chests please mention what kind of chests they were - regular wooden ones, iron one, dark wooden, silver, silver and gold, pure gold, etc.

sorry for that, all the chests were small ones, silver and they were either unlocked by 200 wood gathered, 200 food, 200 stone. Next time will write the whole description:)

I'm running four heroes that have second towns (two of them only kept active to test the caves and artifacts).

They've had a large number of fights with dendrogs and small/medium muscards to tedious to record in detail and yielding no loot, and the one fight I posted recently that included one Big muscard and gave an artifact way above my level.

What I have noticed since the artifact update is a difference in the regular wooden chests often found lying around in second towns when monsters appear.  These are now frequently giving useful adventure items that clear obstacles - Torch twice, Bucket of Water (all at level 5), and just now a level 6 hero used 5 Snail Shells to get a Mystic Chisel.  None of these heroes had previously found any obstacle clearers.  This meant in particular that none of them had been able to explore Small Cave.

Hy,my hero is level 6. Loose speed from 100 to 1.

-second town: 4000 tech points in a chest that I open with five ladybugs; torch in a chest that I open with my hero;

-third town: mystic chisel in a chest that I opened with 5 legioneers; a water bucket in a chest that I open with my hero

in the Keepers village: 4000 tech points in the chest behind the ice block

Fighting monsters:  muscards (1-2-4): crude axe and microscope; dendrogs- nothing; muscards : microscope

Hope it will helps

Really good job, thanks a lot

Arya

Hero level 43:

Battle hammer of brutality

hero attack 36

+4 hero attack vs foot units

Ankh pendant of treasure

+4% treasure hunting speed

Plate belt of speed

army upkeep cost -12%

+1 hero movement speed

+0.5% magic find chance

+1% iron income in your town holding hero

+2% picking research point amount

Hero lvevl 41:

Accelerated fencing gloves

army attack 12%

+2 hero attack vs heavy units

+4 hero attack vs closein units

+3% army movement speed

all from monsters and all blue

Apology: My hero reported as Level 4 in my previous posts was very likely Level 5 or 6 in at least the later ones.
Declaration: All chests I've ever reported here have been light-colored wood.

HERO L.7

Chests
5-Centurion: Clockwork
5-twisted horn: Yarilo's Saw
5-snail: Minimal Stone, 750 Research
5-Archer: Culverin, 10K Research

Monster battles--no reward unless noted
(S = Small, M = Medium, L = Big)
4 S, 1 M muscard
6 M, 1 L muscard
2 S birdhouses
2 S birdhouses
2 S, 5 M, 1 L dendrogs--10 stone

HERO L.3

Chests
5-horseshoe: 2K Research
5-f.b.(?): Potion of Re-Imagination

Monster battles
3 S, 1M dendrogs
2 M muscards
3 mushrooms
2 S muscard, 2K Research
6 mushrooms
3 mushrooms
2 M muscards, 850 Research