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Fixed the bridge disappearing when loading old saves. This does not fix the problem retroactively, so please load an untouched save from 1.7.1...

Gemma-4-Sparse now uses its new QAT version. This is an upgrade in both speed and quality, but requires redownloading the model Removed Qwen 3.5 Added Gemma 4 12B for 16 GB VRAM cards Custom NPCs can...

Added the "Say" action, which lets you take the first turn of a conversation NPCs are now aware of how long the current weather has been active. For example, they now know that it started raining just...

Fixed the high relationship plot unlocking event triggering for custom NPCs...

Fixed custom NPCs having a relationship cap of 0 on the first day Fixed the "Random Path" "Interval" field only accepting single digit values Fixed %PLAYER_NAME% not being an allowed value in characte...

Added the custom NPC editor. Create entirely new NPCs or, with some limitations, modify the default NPCs. Additional features for this will follow in minor updates Improved long-term memory Improved f...

Fixed temp folder access permission issue Fixed custom player character definitions not properly getting unloaded when loading a save from the main menu...

Significantly reduced the amount of RAM and VRAM the game itself uses, which gives the backend more space to reliably load the model, and improves AI processing speed Faster text animation for Mandari...

Up to 30% faster AI processing for non-Blackwell NVIDIA cards...

Gemma 4 related tweaks Removed "Gemma-4-Dense-Small" because it was having coherence problems due to the heavy compression Readded Qwen 3.5 as a replacement for 16 GB VRAM cards (though I personally p...

Added context-aware two-way dialog translation for Russian, Mandarin, Japanese, Spanish, French, German, and Italian Added Gemma 4 26B A4B and Gemma 4 31B Removed Nemo and Qwen 3.5 Bug fixes...

Qwen 3.5 related improvements Removed Mistral Small Bug fixes...

Added Qwen 3.5 (27B) as a model option. This will probably become a drop-in replacement for Mistral Small Fixed the custom character editor sometimes locking up after encountering an error while impor...

Fixed the inventory UI still being broken in the final IL2CPP build...

Fixed an oversight related to the new inventory UI optimizations Fixed NPCs not being able to interact with objects if a potential location change is detected on the same dialog turn...

Improved dialog quality Added the full range of facial expressions to Oriana Added two additional facial expressions to Celandine You can now book a room for multiple days at once at the tavern "Disab...

Dialog related tweaks Rolled much of the 1.6.1 change regarding NPCs paying more attention to your character description into a racial (Imposing), because it seemed to negatively affect dialog quality...

Dialog related tweaks for Nemo Increased internal reasoning effort for non-dialog AI features. 1.6.1 made it too performance focused Dialog will (attempt to) not mention hair if neither the player nor...

Fixed dungeon chests spawning strange objects instead of armor...

Made the conditions under which NPCs start following you more accurate Made the conditions under which location changes are triggered more accurate Added a rare dungeon loot item that lets you interac...

Fixed one of the new NPCs not existing at all on old saves, and his house disappearing on new saves. Please load your untouched version 1.5 save file after updating the game, as this can't be fixed re...

Added 2 new NPCs, one of them can be found in Gareth's tavern once a week Added the deep forest zone Added the "Medium" and "High" effort modes to the NPC action system NPCs can now follow you anywher...

Fixed relationship levels getting lowered to 50% when loading pre-1.5.0 saves Added a cross-fading animation to facial expressions Reverted the demo server model to Nemo (for now)...

Added a player character facial expression system Significantly improved dialog quality for Mistral Small Added relationship level caps. The game now analyzes the interactions between NPCs and the pla...

Improved verbosity control Further reduced verbosity and repetition for Mistral-Small-3.2 You can now hold any key to speed up dialog NPC action system improvements Location changes now work more reli...

Bug fixes...

Added a system that detects scene changes. E.g. if you ask Gareth to show you the tavern's rooms and he goes there in RP, there will now be a fade to black, and the conversation will continue in a dif...

Narration now directly addresses the player as "you" (1.4.4b) The game now asks you to confirm the amount of VRAM it's seeing 5000 series RTX GPUs now use MMQ, which may result in speedups Fixed Rosal...

Added Mistral Small 3.2 as a new model option for systems with 12 or more GB of VRAM Redid Mirel's dialog portrait and added 3 more expressions Fixed Remy's dialog portrait not being consistent in sty...

Fixed the game being able to "give up" while finding a best match for the item an NPC intends to give you, and doing so very often. If this hasn't been an issue to you, feel free to skip this update,...

Made OpenRouter error handling more robust The automatic model download can now handle unstable connections like VPNs, and will continue where it has left off Fixed a number of world sprites that were...

Updated the example custom character's sprites Updated Kane's dialog portrait Added a streamlined "one click" OpenRouter setup Sunrises/sunsets last slightly longer Fixed NPCs giving the wrong categor...

Fixed not being able to use the letter "I" in save names Fixed daily events not resetting properly on loaded saves...

Improved save system that allows for keeping many saves instead 3 slots only Custom descriptions for custom items are now back in a more meaningful way NPCs can see custom item descriptions Added quic...