Hello Riftanians! I made quite a few hotfixes on the Steam Version and figured I would bring these into the itch.io one in one big patch!
I am going to post all of the patch notes here in a organized manner!


SCRIBING:

After completing the Tower of Arms 4, unlocking Rifthaven Dungeons, and defeating the Sky Watcher for the first time, you may speak to King Leif in his house at Rifthaven to obtain the Attuned Quill!

Using this inside the Key Items page will bring up a new crafting menu, allowing you to create, and upgrade some Scriptures, theres always room for more Scriptures to be added into Scribing, so keep this in mind!

I added this because I felt lack of some scriptures and also in the early game its quite limited on getting like 1 or 2 of them so this gives more possibilities and can potentially make the Tower of Arms 4 a little easier!

New Items:

- Attuned Quill: Crafting Menu

- Blank Parchment: Used to craft new Scriptures from scratch

- Enchanted Ink: Used to create powerful scriptures that require extra magical enhancement!

Craftable Scriptures:

Scripture of Lesser Balance

Scripture of Balance

Scripture of Greater Balance

Scripture of Attuned Balance (New)

Scripture of Greater Elements (New)

Scripture of Attuned Elements (New)

Zephyrkin Scripture (New)

Oceankin Scripture (New)

Stonekin Scripture (New)

Scorchkin (Previously Campfire Scripture)

Frostkin Scripture

Statickin Scripture (New)

MAJOR GAME CHANGE:

I felt that restricting the entire Squire Class from wearing an accessory was harsh, so now Bernard himself has a Cursed Ring that is stuck in his Accessory Slot! If you are already past the point of acquiring Bernard, he will automatically acquire this ring upon stepping into the Riftania overworld!

- This ring can be broken for 200,000 Gold after level 30 by visiting the Recruitment Guild!

What this achieves is no longer messing up other characters from wearing rings and accessories while classing/subclassing as squire, and this also means Bernard can finally eventually wear some big stat upgrades!

NEW SKILLS:

- Added a NPC inside Rifthaven Inn and another inside the Recruitment Guild Basement that clarifies what Categorization Skills are!

- Added "Multi Strikes" and "Buff Prayers" category skills to Zeke for free at level 5 and 10!

Added 4 new Buffs to the game:

- Divine Strength: Shrouds the user in a Divine Light that strengthens all Light damage dealt by the User by 20% for 3 turns! (Buff Prayers)

- Occult Strength: Shrouds the user in a Occult Darkness that strengthens all Darkness damage dealt by the User by 20% for 3 turns! (Buff Curses)

- Dark Deflection: Deflects 20% Darkness damage dealt to the buffed target for 4 turns! (Buff Prayers)

- Magical Deflection: Deflects 20% Magical damage dealt to the buffed target for 4 turns! (Magic Buffs)

Misc Skills:

- Added Wind Water Earth Fire Ice and Thunder Magic categories to Mage Class!

- Fixed Light Slam not showing up if Offensive Prayers was learned!

BIG QUALITY OF LIFE CHANGES:

Title Screen and Game Over Screen:

- Changed location of Title Screen pop up for the options

- Also added a Exit option in the Title

- Added a "Last Save" option which will continue from Last Saved game!

- Game Over screen now has Return to Title, or Exit options!

CONTROLS:

- Changed the Controls section inside Options to be functional, allowing players to customize the keyboard however they would like.

AREAS:

Rift's Vertex:
Making Rift's Vertex a little easier:

- Removed Drones from Rift's Vertex random encounters, will still be in the Demon of the Forest boss fight.

- Lowered Prices in Rifthaven General Store (Rift's Vertex) until you leave Rift's Vertex for the first time:

- Potion from 350 to 150
- Magic water from 450 to 250
- Medium Potion from 800 to 500

- Added a Rift Materia Tutorial that you can repeat as many times as needed when talking to a
Rift Materia Allocator

Cradalios Canyon (Rabbit Tunnels):

- Updated Rabbit Tunnels, adding 2 more exits/entrances.