When you complete an epic (5-task) quest, a video will start generating in the background. You’ll get a notification when it’s done generating, and it will be viewable in the quest log. Note: In order to be eligible for video generation, a quest must be an epic quest and have been started after receiving this update.

There are currently two types of videos: High-cost and low-cost. Sapphire users get 2 high-cost per day and unlimited low-cost thereafter; everyone else gets unlimited low-cost videos. These limitations will be relaxed in the future as the technology gets cheaper.

High-cost videos are actual AI-generated videos paired with an AI-generated soundtrack. Due to frequent hallucinations and extra limbs, they are currently an experimental feature.

Low-cost videos are a slideshow of images accompanied by a Tiktok TTS narrator and a pre-made Max Loh soundtrack. They have less of a wow factor but are more grounded in reality than high-cost videos.

• Tweaked money change prompt to reduce false positives
  
• Fixed issue where faction change event would be surfaced even if NPC or place was already of that faction
  
• Added logic to make place initial generation respect a custom faction, should the player have edited it before venturing into that place for the first time
  
• Fixed issue where you couldn’t select “misc” when editing an item’s category
  
• Fixed copy button in story editor not working
  
• Added option to name a new sublocation during sublocation discovery in creative mode
  
• Fixed combat/ephemeral turns out of order after exiting combat
  
• Fixed starting faction bug when making a new universe via portal
  
• Added alternate parsing logic for small side quests for better compatibility with llama models
  
• Fixed issue where hotkeys wouldn’t work after pressing enter in conversation input
  
• Fixed adding a faction when there’s 0 factions
  
• Fixed a few issues when opening map/journal too fast after loading a game
  
• Fixed side quest delete button being obscured when opening the quest log for the first time

When starting a new game or a new universe, several factions will be generated. This is an optional feature that can be disabled by unchecking the checkbox. There are also 6 new faction-related Steam achievements.

Factions can be viewed in the journal view, on the 3rd tab. You can also use the hotkeys F for factions, J for quests, and L for story/log editor.

Locations and characters can be associated with factions. In rare cases, they can also change factions. New factions can also be formed during the story as part of an event check (up to a maximum of 10).

Faction reputation may be influenced by a faction member liking/disliking your actions, or after completing a quest. A positive faction standing grants construction and farming privileges for locations controlled by that faction, as well as providing a mood/hunger boost and reducing merchant restock time. As you gain reputation with a faction, you can also unlock up to 3 faction-related abilities.

New NPCs which spawn and belong to a faction that hates/admires you will have their initial sentiment set accordingly.

When talking to an enemy in a faction where you have high reputation, the game will use the prompt for NPC rather than enemy conversations (giving a bonus to the outcome).

Added faction-related cheat codes:

• Add a new faction: facadd [faction name],
  
• Set faction reputation: rep [0-indexed faction number] [reputation amount]

A new event check will trigger if you gained or paid money in the story, rated as one of 3 magnitudes (small, medium, or large). For game balance purposes, the game generally won’t follow any exact coin values mentioned in the story (e.g. “10 coins”).

• Slightly increased free cloud character/token limit
  
• Improved Sapphire image gen by increasing number of steps (server-side change, about a week ago)
  
• Moved Sapphire initial region/location and faction generation to the smarter model. Telling it to avoid certain words like “whispering” actually sometimes works now.
  
• Modified death event check to exclude sleeping
  
• Added explanatory help text for factions, quests, story editor, attributes, abilities, and skills.
  
• Fixed user experience when starting a new game by preventing the confirm button if required fields were missing
  
• Added warning for invalid save entities if playing a newer save on an older build
  
• Added “Import” button beside “Export” button for starting a new game
  
• Improved native monitor resolution detection, and also added “RESOLUTION_OVERRIDE” to config.txt which will be used if set to something other than 0,0
  
• For a1111 API, changed “sampler_index” to “sampler_name” and added it to moddable a1111-image-params.txt, to improve compatibility
  
• Fixed bug where you could force recruit a corpse