- Add toggle to skip title screen when you open the game
- "Exit" button will now exit the game rather than exit to title
- Remove "Erase Game" section from Options screen in lieu of the title screen controls
- Introduce new button in Options screen to go to the title screen (to switch saves)
- Add list of licenses in About
- Other minor bug fixes

A new version of Magic Research 2, version 1.8.2, is now out for everyone. This update introduces a title screen and the capability to have multiple save slots. It also introduces experimental modding support (it is still a work in progress).

Full patch notes below.

• Add title screen
  
• Add capability to have multiple save slots
  
• Add experimental modding support. See the GitHub[github.com] or the official Discord[discord.gg] for more details.
  
• Input modal for numbers now shows the allowed range and starts empty
  
• Income estimate from channeling now considers Essence caps in its calculation
  
• Strategy tab in Exploration now remembers scroll position for the session
  
• Random "A Book of {element}" events will no longer be considered actionable if not enough Coins are held
  
• Change Rituals view so you no longer need to expand them to toggle them
  
• New Game +: Storyline Oracle Lv2 now starts with "Simultaneous Channeling"; Storyline Oracle Lv5 now starts with "All the Elements"
  
• Quickbar action hotkeys should now work correctly and can be used even if the Quickbar tab is not open (as long as the Exploration screen is being shown)
  
• Action buttons should now span multiple lines, solving display issues mainly with translations
  
• Study is no longer badged when all elements are maxed out
  
• Fix bug where Mountain Grapes were not respecting the HP healing configuration
  
• Fix item "Dispelling Salve" incorrectly clearing effects of "Soak" and "Soar"
  
• Fix caching issue related to spell "Monstrous"
  
• Other minor fixes

As described above, version 1.8.2 introduces experimental modding support. If you are able to code, you can create mods that change various aspects of the game, add content, and so on. There is an SDK available[github.com]. It is still extremely early, so I'm still working on the development experience, both by improving the documentation and by making the SDK better overall.

Steam Workshop integration is planned, but it still needs some more work and testing.

- Fix UI bug in Inventory / Equipment screen when equipment slots are empty

A new version of Magic Research 2, version 1.6.3, is now out for everyone. This is a medium-sized update with mostly a lot of UI changes and improvements, with the goal of trying to reduce friction while playing the game.

Full patch notes below.

• Add new event that triggers if defeating Winged Sphinx a second time (on a different Retirement) and a new item
  
• Add ability to select equipped items by pressing on them
  
• Remove unequip buttons from equipped item display; items can be unequipped instead by double pressing them
  
• Add ability to jump to Transmute an item by clicking the item name in the cost display
  
• Sort Transmutations of materials in the Transmute screen by material type (Paper, gems, ores, ingots, etc.)
  
• Add ability to input a specific number quantity in a few areas in the game, including in the amount transmuted by Wizards
  
• If there are no empty slots, equipping a copy of a Pouch item that you already have equipped, instead of placing it in the first slot, it will instead replace the lowest quality equipped copy
  
• After clearing the "Convenience" Storyline, Enhancement purchases can now be queued
  
• Synchro grids can now be named
  
• Synchro bonuses can now be filtered by Element
  
• Synchro bonuses will reveal their effect if you have ever unlocked the requirements for its effect in any retirement, rather than at the current time
  
• Synchro UI for grids slightly improved
  
• Improve display of damage numbers in Exploration screen, hopefully also solving their performance issues
  
• Improve visibility of Familiar row swap button
  
• Reorder items in Strategy menu in Exploration screen, for better visibility of Exploration Config options
  
• Item quality no longer applies to items that do not get direct bonuses from it
  
• Auto-combine items will now unequip Pouch items outside of battle
  
• When specifically auto-combining healing Pouch items, it will now also unequip and replace the lowest quality item (outside of battle)
  
• Foresight now shows the timer next to the Events menu button if collapsed and on a wide screen
  
• The following menus are now badged: Study (if there are free researchers and they are not being auto-assigned), Familiars (if there are any idle Familiars), Rituals (if corruption is above safe limit)
  
• Small backend performance improvements
  
• Allow ability to load backup save data when facing an error (to prevent being permanently stuck)

• Fix display of critical errors (errors on loading saved data)
  
• Fix "dancing" Menu buttons when a different button is pressed
  
• Fix "Transmute, Channel and Purchase" button not appearing for Enhancements
  
• Other minor fixes

- Item Astrologer's Robe effect reduced (+1000% -> +500%) to compensate for the new item added

- Fix bug where saving Wizard strategies sometimes did not correctly save assigned Wizard amounts to spells
- Fix bug where specifically prioritized Perma-Cast spells (Wizard Focus, Enchant Mana Spouts, Enchant Mana Steamers) were not being prioritized in the back-end
- Fix Skullmass Familiar erroneously using Soul Collapse on bosses

- Add feature to further detail auto-usage conditions for healing pouch items
- Move "Quick Channeling" below favorite spells in larger screens
- Make manually pressing "Use Time Pieces (Event)" no longer always show the triggered event
- Other minor bug fixes

- Fix crash on startup for players who update to v1.5.4 with a version older than v1.3.0

A new version of Magic Research 2, version 1.5.4, is now out for everyone. This is a medium-sized update, with a few quality of life tweaks and small features, some balance changes to the early and mid-game (such as getting rid of some of the more annoying regular enemy attacks, or changing some Storyline unlock conditions) as well as a lot of bug fixes.

Full patch notes below.

• All actions in Home and several other screens now also have a "Channel and Build" or "Transmute, Channel and Build", for similar functionality to the "Transmute Materials and Item" button
  
• Improve Transmute search box: will now also search the list of materials needed to transmute an item
  
• Item Compendium now also shows what Transmutation spells is an item used in as a material
  
• Auto-combine all will now also combine buffing or debuffing Pouch items
  
• "Hide locked" in Transmute UI now persists when closing the game
  
• Favorite Transmutation spells now persist through Worlds
  
• Other minor changes

• Fix options disappearing from Options menu's theme selector in certain conditions
  
• Fix warning for Universal Challenge not correctly disappearing after the effects are gone
  
• Fix DPS measurement in Timed Challenge
  
• Fix display of Study screen in small device screens
  
• Fix bug with some enemy attacks, like Mana Burn, that could cause player to get stuck in a reviving state until reloading the game
  
• Fix caching bug related to Max Mana on Perma-Cast spell display
  
• Attempt to fix various caching issues in Study and Transmute screens
  
• Fix Classic Mode showing incorrect warning about demolishing furniture
  
• Fix enemy Ritualist's "Absorb Familiar" healing over their HP limit, causing Curse to remove too much of its HP at the beginning of the battle
  
• Fix display of specific UI element in Exploration screen
  
• Translate the hotkeys for menu items
  
• Accessibility: Fix elements in various screens (Exploration, Familiars, Spellcraft, Rituals) not being possible to press with NVDA
  
• Other minor bug fixes

• Increase Attack and effect of Harpoon by 50%
  
• Enemies Psion Cobra and Crocopriest no longer use Mysterious Glow
  
• Enemy Scissors no longer uses Burn Poison Essence
  
• Storyline "Essence Artifact" (of all four Elements) now requires only 20 successful Explorations instead of 60
  
• Storyline "Types of Wizards" will now skip all early game progression up to unlocking Exploration
  
• Storyline "All The Elements" can now be triggered and unlocked much earlier (Storyline now requires fully unlocking Mind, having all fully unlocked elements at Lv25 or higher, then Exploring the Pyramid)

A new version of Magic Research 2, version 1.5.1, is now out for everyone. This version introduces a small bit of new content: a new enemy that lets you measure DPS, and a new Storyline to go with it. There are changes to some of the icons and colors, a convenience feature to auto-combine all items, many bug fixes, and a few more things.

Full patch notes below.

• One new Storyline and enemy
  
• Add cause of enemy death to Exploration log
  
• Add way to measure DPS from various attacks (only on a specific fight, and only on completion of a Storyline)
  
• Add feature to auto-combine all items to the "More actions..." menu in Inventory
  
• Change icons of a few items to make it easier to distinguish between them, or to see them
  
• Tweak the colors of the themes for Earth and for the late-game Elements Death and Holy for better readability and function
  
• Tweak the icons for the Elements for consistency
  
• Show the Element icons in the Study screen
  
• Enlarge pressable area of Familiar row swap button
  
• Add warning to Retirement screen if a Pilgrimage is unlocked but not completed
  
• Do not allow selling Storyline reward items via Market Stalls
  
• "Ethereal" enemies no longer appear in Exploration after you finish all Ethereal Truth Storylines, unless you have the Mirror of Truth equipped
  
• Add option to wait until Familiar is fully healed before exploring
  
• Ending history will now also record total amount of Storylines available in the game at the time the ending was achieved
  
• Spell "Status Shield" no longer affects the effects of spells "Soak" and "Soar"

• Fix Spellcraft Configs not correctly saving the last used slot
  
• Fix position of Spell and Events menus in RTL layouts
  
• Fix ghost items appearing in Inventory when removing Spellcrafts under some circumstances
  
• Fix Wizards being removed from rules when Wizard Chambers are disposed of, even if there are free Wizards
  
• Fix caching bug when evolving a Familiar
  
• Fix post-game Universal Challenge hints not disappearing after the constraints disappear
  
• Fix many strings that were not being translated
  
• Other minor bugfixes

• Make spell Enchant Spell Catalysts scale logarithmically
  
• Furniture Spell Catalyst now also has a Max Mana penalty