Version 0.9 Alpha Released

# Knights of Crystalis - Alpha 0.9 Changelog

## Alpha 0.9 - Forgotten Horizons

### Campaign and story

• Added Chapter 8, The Shattered Firmament.
• Added Chapter 9, Chronicle of the Deep Star.
• Added Chapter 10, The Crystalis Reckoning.
• Added 36 regions and 288 campaign objectives.
• Total campaign size is now 10 Chapters, 120 regions and 960 objectives.
• Added a dedicated Story screen explaining the Crystal Fracture, Job Cards, Colossal Beasts, wandering Labyrinths, raids, the Dead Star and the Atlas Map system.
• Veteran recommended levels now display a larger, difficulty-specific requirement.
• Campaign loot levels are restricted to the level band of the current region instead of following an overlevelled account.

### Party equipment and Job proficiency

• Every party member now has an independent eight-slot equipment profile.
• Added a party-member selector to the Gear screen.
• Equipment automatically transfers safely when assigned to another card.
• Gear loadouts are stored per character card.
• Added Job-specific Weapon Proficiency bonuses.
• Matching a primary weapon grants +12% Attack and partial Skill Damage.
• Shield-specialist Jobs gain an additional +8% Attack contribution when a Shield occupies the Relic slot.
• Added ordinary Shield equipment bases so Paladin-style builds are not dependent on a Unique item.
• Added scaling explanations to each Job's All Stats screen.
• Added safeguards preventing equipment worn by any party member from being sold, traded or listed.

### Crystalis Smithy

• Added a dedicated Forge navigation screen.
• Reforging rerolls base and affix values appropriate to the current item level.
• Reforging preserves item identity, level, rarity, Set identity, Ancient status, Quality, sockets, socketed materials, lock state and acquisition history.
• Added Reforging Orbs.
• Added Quality Stones.
• Quality can be raised to 20%.
• Every Quality action now visibly increases the primary roll and Item Power.
• Fixed Set-item reforging, which could previously call an invalid item-base lookup.
• Corrected initial Quality scaling so affixes and new Unique primary rolls respect Quality.

### Forgotten Relics

• Added six extremely rare Forgotten Relics.
• Forgotten Relics grant a weakened borrowed skill from another Job family while equipped.
• Added borrowed healing, protection, assassination, fire magic, Dragoon and Bard abilities.
• Borrowed skills use independent cooldowns in automatic combat.
• Added unique historical lore text to every new Relic.
• Forgotten Relics cannot be normally reforged because their rolls are fixed historical artifacts.

### Atlas Map Items

• Added a dedicated Maps screen and Atlas Vault.
• Chapter 7+ encounters can drop sealed Map Items.
• Added five Map themes and four Map tiers.
• Opening a Map consumes it and creates a temporary procedural dungeon.
• Map runs include a live grid, explored route, random encounters, treasure chambers and a final guardian.
• Map bosses use increased Set and Unique weights.
• Higher-tier Maps can release Forgotten Relics.
• Map treasure and guardians can award Smithy materials.

### Abyss Tower

• Expanded the Abyss Tower from 300 to 400 floors.
• Increased late-floor and century scaling.
• Added the Floor 400 apex challenge.
• Added the Tower-only Abyss Insight Tree.
• One Insight point is earned every 30 cleared floors, for 13 total points at Floor 400.
• Added nine Tower nodes across Offense, Defense and Discovery branches.
• Added a paid Insight reset.

### Friends, chat and social simulation

• Friend names and Inspect Team buttons now open a full friend profile.
• Friend profiles show the current three-Job party, levels, roles, elements, Card Grades and equipment in every slot.
• Expanded contextual NPC advice for difficult quests, raids, Labyrinths, party composition and overpowered-build questions.
• Role detection now recognizes hybrid Tank, Healer, Support and damage Jobs correctly.
• Added Silvernite87, a recurring Arena-obsessed NPC who challenges players and mocks opponents.
• Added Alpha 0.9 patch conversations and Map/Relic/Smithy discussions.
• Increased the simulated online population range.

### Collections, equipment and balance

• Added a Unique Binder and Set Binder.
• Monster Cards now have a dedicated inventory subtab.
• Added 6 equipment Sets and 12 fixed Unique items.
• Added 6 ordinary Shield bases.
• Total equipment bases: 199.
• Total Sets: 58.
• Total fixed Uniques: 32.
• Added explicit Unique lore text and Forgotten Relic markers.
• The Rusty Fish Blade is now strictly achievement-exclusive.
• Old erroneous random Rusty Fish Blades are removed during migration with Gold compensation unless the achievement was legitimately unlocked.
• Narrowed random roll bands and reduced percentage-stat level inflation.
• Added save migration caps for obviously impossible legacy item rolls and sale values.
• Strengthened the item-level component of Item Power so equivalent Level 84 Ultimate Relics reliably outrank equivalent Level 24 versions in stress tests.
• Item Power details now explain the level budget, weighted rolls and special multipliers.
• Added 12 new achievements, expanded campaign and account-level achievement series and removed a duplicate Floor 400 achievement ID.
• Total achievement definitions: 153.

### Aquarium and interface fixes

• Fixed Aquarium filter and tank upgrades so the buttons perform purchases and show clear error messages.
• Raised Aquarium filter and tank maximum levels to 8.
• Improved navigation alignment and responsive wrapping for the enlarged 21-section main menu.
• Tested all major screens without horizontal page overflow at 320, 390, 768, 1280 and 1920 pixels.
• Updated all visible version labels, patch notices and descriptions to Alpha 0.9.

### Save compatibility

• Added save schema 9.
• Migrates legacy single-character equipment into per-card equipment.
• Removes duplicate ownership of one item across multiple cards.
• Preserves cards, talents, campaign progress, collections, Housing, Village, Aquarium, friends, market data and prior achievements.
• Preserves the historical browser storage key for in-place itch.io upgrades.