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No intentional dying from my side. It is how it came out.

For that screenshot I assumed that I am missing letters because the ones I have are not turning orange/green. For example I haven't found the key to unlock P

Oh! I misunderstood how the teleporter works. OK, got it now. Umm ... is there a way to clone letters? Nothing is happening to confirm that I am on the right track.

My home:

I had a typo in the numbers puzzle so I thought that maybe I need to have that number in a single cell.

Very spoiler heavy image: 

Stuck again. Help please.

I want to bring some letters to a house across the river, but there is no raft to there. I can't jump with Uni while carrying a letter and I can't jump without Uni. How do I move those letters? I have a spare fox if that helps...

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Also, maybe unrelated, but I might have been cheating 

I carried them with my trusty unicorn caravan in two travels! 

edit: well it reminded me of something but my first thought was that since they are moveable objects they need to be moved or rearranged. Thanks for the tip. Now I have 2 more trophies and a fox.

anttihaavikko, I just wanted to say that I am humbled by your genius. Another 13kb masterpiece! If you ever write a book about your thought process how you come up with this ideas, I would read it.

Some non-breaking bugs: interactions at the edges of buildings can be wonky.

• Outside of home if you go behind it, you can activate the FAB from outside and you can pick stuff that is inside and touching the north wall. (No, you can't cheat and pick P this way)
• if you mount Uni while next to a south wall, it triggers the fade effect animation as if entering the house
• if Uni gets stuck at a side corner and you enter a building, you can see its cute face peeking through the walls, while it is technically still outside.

Hmmm.

Let me try another one. I think this one deserves its own column of signs in the hints house.

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I have generated so many things, yet I don't have a use for any of them at all. What do I do with all the words in boxes anyway?

I have many questions but I don't what to spoil too much.

Let me try with the easiest one. Expand the comment to see.

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How do you jump to that circle in the bottom right? It appears to be not connected to any island.

Barry Hooter spotted! (1:14)

Congrats!

I am surprised that stalemate detection would be challenging. Iterate over the current player's pieces and count the number of available moves. If they are fewer than 1 -> stalemate. What could I be missing? I assume that you have something that detects valid moves as the board tiles are properly highlighted when a piece is selected.

In terms of priorities , probably not the most urgent issue.

Wow great concept and the title gave me a chuckle.

You really love your tarot cards, haha.

I was able to break the game on the third attempt. I was already on island 16 or 18. I had 4-5 queens and a king. I was stacking a lot of extra turns, sometimes reaching 5 turns for a single piece. I had reached over 100 souls. The last thing that I did was rearranging my cards before leaving a friendly island. As I pressed embark some of my pieces disappeared and the game froze. (web build)

Still - had a good fun. The tarot upgrades make for some unusual puzzles with the enemies. Some of the upgrades are more troublesome than others. Does the difficulty progression account for that?

Oh, is it a jam game? Not mentioned in the description and not showing on itch's collection feature in the top right corner.

Loving how simple yet entertaining it is! I notice that over the years you have established and refined a certain style. Care to share what was your focus with this one?

Some minor problems that you might want to address in an update:

- scrollbar on boss description not needed for the web version

- When on the map, I can use dice to strike somebody off screen instead of moving (helps with recycling for free)

- After the first battle in "endless mode", the spoils offered included new dice and new rerolls. I couldn't pick either because "inventory full"

I guess you noticed this, but just to be sure - Excommunication blocks only the first stack of a relic. If you stack multiple times the same relic it will appear disabled, but will actually work (-1 stack)

What do you think about the sacrificial pit not appearing?

I was not happy that 6 people got 5k+ points today, while I could barely reach 200 in the daily today. I tried a few more times in different browsers.

I noticed that:

a) Sacrfice didnt create a sacrificial pit for me (bug)

b) If you play a run with Magna Carta (+1 hand size) and then play the same run without it, you will get different chest rewards and pylon placements. I guess that it is because of the different number of RNG calls. Not a bug, but something that makes me think about the daily challenge implementation in my own game. I am thinking about implementing separate RNG objects to keep the daily runs more similar between players regardless of choices (?)

Thank you for the lighting fast support!

I tried it on Chrome and Brave - it works. I tried it in Firefox incognito and the game works there as well.

My guess is that it might be related to my personal save - not many players have the grail hat, so maybe that is why it is not reported.

If there is a way to extract the save and you will need it to debug this, let me know how I can help.

This is repeating many times without stop. The number of lines with  gets longer and longer with the repetitions. This is on Firefox. 

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Am I the only one facing this problem (no buttons when I start the game)?

There are some problems with the collision physics. Jumping up - I get stuck in the air. I assume I am stuck on a pixel so I click around my character to dislodge myself. Finally loose, the character falls down, but falls through the solid ground and through the whole letter. Happened to me on my first 2 expeditions.

I would wait for an update before trying it again

Oh. I just assumed that it is a trinket that will have an immediate effect. Feels a bit underwhelming if I have to wait for new crew members

Some more things about 1.4.4:

- Changing between challenges would cause the game to hang. I am not sure about the exact steps to reproduce, but I think that if I finish a run, get back to the starting screen and then choose a new challenge I would get the game to freeze.

- If I enter a wish and the genie says "is this what you want or do you want to continue" , if I confirm my current wish - it gets granted, but the button to sail forward disappears. I have to go inside my ship and exit again to make the button available.

- If I have a bard in my crew and receive the "parasite" trinket, I expect my bard to level up and boost all crew members to level3 .  That didn't happen, but if I replace the bard with a new one - parasite trinket kicked in, and it worked as expected.

Not sure if this has always been there or only left unlocked in the latest version, but I somehow unlocked a debug mode where I could spawn cargo and crew with the keyboard.

Playing the 'what you wish is what you get' challenge - "RUM" is not a valid wish, game is literally unplayable 🤣

I came to report the same thing that @Requiem and @Henri-VIP already mentioned - delivering the prince from side boat to his father causes the game to glitch/freeze.

I recorded this from the steam version today (build  18419734)

Oh, wow! If I knew that about the mouse wheel, I wouldn't have asked about the right click. Maybe an omission on my part. 

Regarding the progress - exactly the special skills make me feel less certain about what counts as a valid contribution to the task. Ideally, once I place a piece it will add to the current progress, including all "power ups"

Hey, hey! Love the post-jam update.

A few quality-of-life feature requests:

- Right mouse button to rotate the piece that is selected/dragged (Backpack hero and Backpack battles have it)

- Show the target number and the progress for the current task (e.g. "3/5 white fuel cells")

- Quit button that returns to the main menu (useful for the web version)

Hey, I find this game very rage inducing, but I can't simply drop it.

What better way to show support then to send you a list of bugs?

This is from the Steam version 1.3.11, I made a recording as well 

- When inside the cabin, you can still interact with the boats outside - I could select letters from the genie boat, while in the cabin (not in the video)

- At one point, while having 3 dice, I rolled 3 or 4 consecutive times a total sum of 1. This would be around 0.1% chance of happening. On the other hand, it was in one of the last ships of the 13th fleet and I think that something was forcing the battle to go longer, as my parrots were very quick to destroy the enemy. (not in the video)

- Plated cargo doesn't get boosted by the crew member that adds value on blank rolls (05:00 in the video) ( could be intentional, but why would it be)

- Parrots get splash damage from Bob (earliest at 00:57) - I love that one, it got me to ∞x6

- I got into some weird infinite intimidation glitch at the end.  I guess 3 intimidations in a roll are statistically possible, but then the ship was too intimidated to sink, so there is definitely something going on there (starts around 12:00)

I like the luck stat idea - gives me a reason to hope and to continue playing. 

I still think that reducing the spread in the beginning might be good. But it is also true that I generally don't enjoy so rng-heavy games

Hey, I was showing the game to a friend today and we noticed that mobile full screen doesn't support landscape mode. 

If you plan to update the game more, maybe you could add that. 

Another mobile friendly feature would be to show pylon info when tapping on it

Hey, some feedback from me: 

* I wouldn't mind if the initial RNG is a bit "doctored". Like if the starting dice roll, first enemy cargo and the first loot are more favourable. I end up restarting runs that finish the first battle with less than 12 cargo points

* I noticed that the crew mate that upgrades cargo on blanks sometimes attempts to upgrade non-upgradeable cargo (pearls, special pieces, 9's)

* When some long ships pass by, they might disappear before they are completely off screen

A bug, I suppose:

I placed a tile with a green gem next to a brute's chest and walked there. Instead of the regular behavior of waiting for me to move away, the brute immediately appeared on a tile next to me.

It would be an interesting curse - heretics to immediately jump out of chests without delay, but in this case - I don't see why it happened.

Today's 3rd boss battle was insane!

The main point that I was trying to make is that, while the end animation is happening, you can drop one more tile, this will force you to skip the next level (if you have the hp to survive the level end)

Hey, I am back. This can be a nice game to relax with.

Did you know that when there are heretics involved, you can cause the level to change while still having valid moves to play? If you are quick with the mouse, you can place more tiles while the thunderbolts are flying. This way you can force two simultaneous level-changes and skip a level. Here is a gif I made to demonstrate. The first time, when I did it out of frustration, I skipped a boss level.

Sorry for breaking your game

You definitely should start putting games on Steam

It is great. I love the idea of relics having both positive and negative effects. It actually works in this case. I prefer shorter dailies than longer ones

One of the daily relics today doubles your starting HP to 10, yet none of the descriptions mentions that.

I wouldn't mind having a little more player agency by allowing me to rotate the pieces. I read your comment on this from 3 years ago, and I feel like people would play by randomly placing pieces because they often don't have any other choice.

In today's daily, I got so far, and it looked like I could continue going indefinitely (you might want to ramp up the curse chests after some point to make things more difficult). I was looking for ways to intentionally finish the run. This gave me an idea: how about a level on which you need to defeat your own character. Let's say that after countless attempts to find the holy grail and after mingling with too many heretics, our noble hero lost their mind and need to be stopped. Maybe each step could deduct points instead of granting points. All boons and curses are still in effect, but the goal changes.

Additionally, one edge case: if you have red+purple wildcard ; smite and the bonus that stuns heretics when they step on purple - they cancel out. Nothing happens to the heretic when they step on red (no stun, no death)

Thank you for your fixes. A few things that aren't really bugs:

1. In this boss battle, the level is wider than the game screen and the chest is not visible (it was on the left end below the boss position) ... Have you thought about zoom out / scaling down when the level gets above a certain size?

2. I believe that "amethyst resurgence" should be classified as a curse instead of a boon.