Alenir Idle v0.4.4 Devlog: Chat and Codex Clarity
Welcome to v0.4.4, the Chat and Codex Clarity update.
This release is built from what players told us in the World chat and the Astral Tavern. You asked for links you can click, a way to look at another hero, a Welcome Back screen that stops swallowing your loot, and explanations for systems the game never spelled out. All four are in.
Nobody loses a level, an item, an achievement or a prestige point in this update. Everything below applies to what you earn from now on.
1. Chat You Can Use
- Links are clickable. Web links (http and https only) in World, Union and Tavern chat open in a new tab. Nothing else is turned into a link.
- Tap a name to inspect a hero. The profile shows rank, combat power, highest Spire floor, total skill level, class, world tier and title. A Mention button puts the hero's name in your message box.
- Compact item popup. An item someone shows in chat now opens in a tighter window with less empty space.
- Hero levels are hidden next to names in chat, Union chat and the Astral Tavern. Your level is still on your own profile and in the Hall of Fame.
2. Offline Progress That Keeps Your Loot
When your bag is full while you are away, the items that did not fit used to vanish. Players pointed out that this threw away gold.
| Overflow item | What happens now |
|---|---|
| Common and Uncommon | Sold for gold when you return, with a notice showing how much |
| Rare and better | Waits in the Welcome Back screen so you can keep it or sell it. Leaving with "Sell & Continue" shows the gold first |
| Pet eggs and quest items | Never sold |
- The Welcome Back footer is slimmer and solid, so nothing shows through it while you scroll.
- Auto-sell is unchanged. It still covers gear only, live and offline.
3. The Grand Codex
The Codex has many tabs now, and Items was slow to open because it drew every item at once.
- A new first tab, the Grand Codex. It shows how far you are in items, monsters, lore and honors, and holds the Systems Glossary.
- The Systems Glossary explains how the Awakening Forge, pet expedition synergies, companion bonds and Eureka, sockets and glyphs, prestige and ascension, the Spire, astral rifts, combat power, offline progress, unions and world tiers actually work. You can filter by topic and search by keyword.
- The Items tab shows 48 items per page, so it opens quickly on phones.
4. Pet Expeditions Explained
- Pets in expedition team lists now show their element, such as [Fire] or [Nature].
- Hover or tap an active synergy badge to see its exact bonuses.
- The glossary lists all eight synergies with their element pairs and numbers.
5. Behind the Scenes
- Game timers are now checked against two separate clocks, so progress follows real time on every device.
- Some sections of the glossary were checked line by line against the game's own data, and a test now fails if a synergy name drifts from the real one.
What We Did Not Touch
Combat, drops, crafting, gold and EXP rates, the offline cap, trading and the Hall of Fame are unchanged. There is no refund or compensation, because nothing you own was reduced.
Thank you to everyone who reported things in chat and the Tavern. Keep it coming.
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