Patch Notes 2.0.0-BETA-1b

Changes & Updates

**Open Beta Day One Batch **

• Diplomacy status goes down from neutral to war directly and skips truce now. Truce is only required when going up again towards neutral
• Diplomacy page now has new buttons: propose, accept and withdraw relations right from the Info Card
• NPC-only villages answer your truce/neutral proposals on their own after a few minutes; alliances only if nobody in your village is wanted there
• Running more than 150 blocks from a boss or Kage you challenged forfeits the fight: he heals and the cooldown starts
• Clan bosses now follow challengers up to 80 blocks from their compound and always return to their post after the fight
• Guards, patrols and outposts now attack hostile mobs on their own. NPC editor got a "mobs on/off" toggle under Enemies
• Updated default configs: NPC patrols (increased per-player cap, added all default affiliations to potential squad spawns), tailed beast raids (2h grace after server start, 60 min timeout, 4096 announce radius). Only applies if you didn't edit those files
• Thrown tools (kunai, shuriken...) now drop after hitting an entity. Configurable per tool via drop_chance
• Bingo Book is now an item. Recipe: Book + Gold Ryo (you might get a ForgeModLoader warning)
• Bingo Book Stand is now craftable (Bingo Book + Lecturn) and sits in every newly generated Kage estate
• Amaterasu: right-clicking your own black fire extinguishes it
• Picking up items with an empty hand while max stamina > 0 keeps the hand empty
• Flying Thunder God renaming menu: Jutsu Picker → right-click the technique → Marks…
• Skill Tree search: just start typing, Enter cycles matches, Escape clears
• New xp_multiplier in the general config
• Quest Journal now scrolls
• Jutsu Picker scrollbar can be dragged
• /nd stat now accepts intelligence
• Sage Soup accepts brown mushrooms as well as red

Balancing Changes

• Taijutsu: every ability hits harder, cooldowns roughly halved, Combat Stance now multiplies abilities and landed abilities add to your combo chain
• Summon chakra upkeep: every standing summon seals a share of your max chakra (clones 2-5%, normal 8%, sage 20%, big 15%, reducing with mastery)
• Summon JP Cost: JP costs to unlock summons has increased considerably for many summons that were obtainable a bit too early
• Curse Mark now stacks with every mode except Tailed Beast Chakra Mode
• Bijuudama capped at 60 block radius with damage dropoff
• Thrown tools (kunai, shuriken, senbon, wire, bomb) +1 base damage
• Clan bosses now also drop Unidentified DNA sample and World Mystery
• Uzumaki clan boss now loses 10% HP per Reaper Death Seal

Bug Fixes

• The first tailed beast you seal chakra from automatically becomes your active one
• Summon Management Menu remembers your stance and target filter. Default filter is now mobs only
• Many sword's on-hit effect was dead (Samehada, Executioner Blade, Kiba, Shibuki, Nuibari, Scythe). They work now and blades lose durability per hit again
• Rasenshuriken carry froze the projectile mid-air
• Black Hunting, Black Spider Lily and Shadow Sewing no longer fizzle when they catch late
• Akimichi clan boss now uses his giant and butterfly forms (they tried to use both at the same time)
• Village NPCs and Kages no longer hit allied players or their summons
• Removed clone death chat spam
• Sanshouo auto-shelter is off by default
• DNA samples no longer vanish with the last vial
• Fixed buyingPerfected Sage Mode after completing imperfect
• Yamanaka: Mind Body jump improvement
• Broad Axe swing delay shortened
• Karma Seal texture moved from leg to arm
• Mode Wheel and summon manager text no longer cuts off
• Blades from OtherSwords count for sword quests
• Tailed beast raids ended while the beast was still alive
• Flying Thunder God marks were lost on relog
• Bijuudama did no damage after touching water
• Tengai Shinsei hit bodies multiple times per tick
• Kage vote reminders sent with no candidates
• Yin Healing nindo tree node description
• Your summons never turn on each other any more, and you can hit your own summons without damaging them
• Kages no longer vanish and if they do, failsafes are in place
• Nara clan boss's Black Spider Lily no longer clings to you forever
• Hopefully fixed the occasional fall damage coming through
• Village bounties posted without funds now show "(posted on credit)"
• Various syncing and performance fixes