Hello everyone, I've been working a while on this content update as a big thank you to everyone for their support in helping Warsim reach 30'000 copies sold online! For a text based kingdom management game in 2021, that is surreal to me and it means I can work on this passion project for as long as I need!

I set out to do a number of things to celebrate this fantastic milestone and one of those was to make a 300 piece update, unfortunately I overshot it a little, so I added a few more things to push it to 333!

* Here's a video announcement about the 30k - https://youtu.be/iErWH8hmt1o

* And Warsim is currently 30% off for the 30k milestone. Though I will say, don't get your hopes up for 100% off if we make it to the 100k milestone, hahaha

Without further ado, here is the first section of the update, a new interesting character that will occupy and explore the realm.

ELYK THE MADMAN (32 features)

Elyk the Madman is a new character you may encounter in Warsim. He's a perpetual drunk and a wildcard that once befriended can pop up on occasion all over the game and help you out. Once met you can go and get drunk with him at the Three Blades inn at the Artifact Market anytime using the new 'Drinking with a friend' system I've added to the game.

* Added new character to the game 'Elyk the Madman'

* Added ability to encounter Elyk in the Skullfields

* Added ability to encounter Elyk in the Blackmarket Dark Alley

* Added ability to encounter Elyk after buying a drink at the Dragon's Kneecap

* Added ability to encounter Elyk next to the guard gate in Darkdale

* Added ability to encounter Elyk after buying all of the boxes at Gohran's Artifacts

* Added Elyk appears randomly at the above locations each year

* Added Elyk to the Three Blades in after you meet him in one of the other locations

* Added ability to tell Elyk to begone (never see him again)

* Added ability to accept invite to drink with Elyk

* Added special screen if you try to drink with Elyk while already at max drunk level

* Added 7 random pre drink dialogues to Elyk

* Added random toast event to drinking with Elyk

* Added ability to suggest toasting with Elyk

* Added 10 random toast dialogues to Elyk

* Added 10 random drink buying events to Elyk

* Added rare random event 'Puke glass' to Elyk

* Added rare random event 'Dagger Scrawling' to Elyk

* Added rare random event 'Slap' to Elyk

* Added chance Elyk tells you a random story while drinking

* Added chance Elyk says a random dialogue while drinking

* Added special screen if you get too drunk while drinking with Elyk

* Added 5 random dialogues to Elyk for when you ask to stop drinking

* Added ability to ask Elyk to tell you a story

* Added 22 random Elyk dialogues

* Added 10 random Elyk stories

* Added ability to ask 7 different questions to Elyk

* Added Elyk entry fee event to Arena once you've met him

* Added Elyk riding a bear into battle random battle event once you've met him

* Added Elyk tapestry incident end of turn event

* Added Elyk life debt knight end of turn event

* Added Elyk goblin bet end of turn event

- Hangover cures - https://i.imgur.com/9CDICZX.png

- A slumbering oaf - https://i.imgur.com/HV4a3Fv.png

- A new friend - https://i.imgur.com/a5WEykp.png

- Hmm - https://i.imgur.com/HdcW7Uu.png

- That's one mysterious way to get ale - https://i.imgur.com/ZyxiIkY.png

- Biggleroll you say? - https://i.imgur.com/ziAchYS.png

THRONE ROOM ENCOUNTERS (7 features)

Can never have too many of these, especially if you're the kind of person who deals with everyone in the throne room...*Shudders*

* Added throne room encounter 'Urine Bucket Crime'

* Added throne room encounter 'Fake Healing Potions'

* Added throne room encounter 'Egg the Castle'

* Added throne room encounter 'Dead Cult'

* Added throne room encounter 'I doth shout loudly'

* Added throne room encounter 'Makeshift watchtower'

* Added throne room encounter 'Trolls toll'

CHAMPION STATS SCREEN IMPROVEMENT (1 feature)

I saw a talk on game design recently that opened my eyes to instances where a generic number is used to convey something and it made me think, so I've added a new section to champion stat screens to show with extra text what sort of strength a champion is, there are now 13 different ratings a champion can be based on their total battlescore from Absurdly weak, puny and weak, up to Elite and Absurdly Powerful.

* Added 13 different strength indicator texts 'As strong as a soldier / Elite / Absurdly Weak' etc

- A weak hero - https://i.imgur.com/ZT3dx45.png

- A stronger one - https://i.imgur.com/fUPX1ts.png

- One of the best I found - https://i.imgur.com/aVbVf8t.png

BANDIT EXECUTION EFFECT (15 features)

It occured to me while watching a Warsim stream, that executing bandits in the throne room didn't have the effect it could, reducing bandit level. If you heard the king was giving the chop to every bandit in the throne room you might reconsider your ways!

* Fixed text bug with bandit execution event

* Added -1 bandit level drop if you select execute in 'Road robber' throne room encounter

* Added -1 bandit level drop if you select execute in 'Banditry' throne room encounter

* Added -1 bandit level drop if you select execute in 'Egg Stealer' throne room encounter

* Added -1 bandit level drop if you select execute in 'Guard killer' throne room encounter

* Added -1 bandit level drop if you select execute in 'Anarchist' throne room encounter

* Added -1 bandit level drop if you select execute in 'Peasant Killer' throne room encounter

* Added -1 bandit level drop if you select execute in 'Jester Killer' throne room encounter

* Added -1 bandit level drop if you select execute in 'Weapon Robber' throne room encounter

* Added -1 bandit level drop if you select execute in 'Caravan Robber' throne room encounter

* Added -1 bandit level drop if you select execute in 'Joker' throne room encounter

* Added -1 bandit level drop if you select execute in 'Farm Burner' throne room encounter

* Added -1 bandit level drop if you select execute in 'Bandit Revolt' throne room encounter

* Added -1 bandit level drop if you select execute in 'New gang' throne room encounter

* Added -1 bandit level drop if you select execute in 'Bandit Rebel' throne room encounter

THE WORDS OF HEROES (5 features)

Added some more words that can be said in the arena or in battle by heroes and champions!

* Added new champion insult 'I'll break your skull and drink the juice within!'

* Added new champion insult 'I'm gonna eat your fingers!'

* Added new champion insult 'I'll burp on your corpse!'

* Added new champion insult 'My sword is named death, and soon you shall meet it!'

* Added new champion insult 'And so we dance with death!'

NEW ITEMS (17 features)

A heap more items to discover in the world!

* Added 'a silver skull ring with black diamonds for eyes' (Worth 610 gold)

* Added 'a gold skull ring with emeralds for eyes' (Worth 350 gold)

* Added 'a steel skull ring with amber for eyes' (Worth 60 gold)

* Added 'a silver snake ring with emeralds for eyes' (Worth 350 gold)

* Added 'a silver snake ring with diamonds for eyes' (Worth 510 gold)

* Added 'a gold snake ring with emeralds for eyes' (Worth 390 gold)

* Added 'a gold snake ring with diamonds for eyes' (Worth 690 gold)

* Added 'a large black diamond' (Worth 650 gold)

* Added 'a strange floppy sword that is soft to touch' (Worth 110 gold)

* Added 'a small golden duck statue' (Worth 110 gold)

* Added 'a cactus made of gold' (Worth 256 gold)

* Added 'a cactus of tiny swords' (Worth 145 gold)

* Added 'a crude wooden statue of a rattlesnake' (Worth 7 gold)

* Added 'a frozen dragons tongue' (Worth 156 gold)

* Added 'a cursed gold nugget' (Worth 25 gold)

* Added 'a pair of lace stockings' (worth 10 gold) (credit Cat)

* Added 'a rabbit's foot' (worth 4 gold) (credit Cat)

HERO NAMES EXPANDED (246 features)

Name suffix additions are thing that can be added to random name suffixes. For example a character could be called Jorg the Ugly, but the suffix 'The Ugly' itself can be further randomised so it could be Jorg the Ugly Staffmaster, etc. With 100s of new additions to the many pre-existing name suffixes there are now 1000s more possibilities!

There were too many to include directly in the changelog so I've had to remove them, to see the full list of all 246 of them see this new wiki entry - https://warsim-the-realm-of-aslona.fandom.com/wiki/New_character_name_prefixes_added_in_Warsim_0.8.4.8?venotify=created

* Added 246 new hero name suffixes

BUGFIXES (3 features)

* Fixed issue with some drinking events being overwritten by Nairolfs Party drinking text

* Fixed raid system crash bug (credit u/ThusSniffedZizek42)

* Fixed champion banner bug

EVERYTHING ELSE (5 features)

* Removed two awful name suffixes (credit Leechgirl)

* Added 5 new arena insults

* Added 5 new kingdom names (Hyrkhan, Hyrkania, Losaria, Pridar, Trevara)

* Removed redundant screen in Blackmarket alley

* Added new reworked option for sending a soldier through the alley

WHAT'S NEXT

A lot more to work on after this little bout of celebrating, it was just too good a milestone to pass up! And again, thank you all who contributed to that figure, every single copy in that 30k is a chunk of this dream come true scenario for me so thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Viva Warsim