The Fight for Beardlandia

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• Patch Notes·11 Sept 2026Official

  Dev Update: A Tutorial, Beards, and a Week of Fixes

  🎓 A guided first run New players were leaving within five minutes, so the demo now walks you through its first run properly. Ten steps that hand you the game one piece at a time: recruit two Berserkers, watch your synergy climb, take a Healer, buy gear, equip it, pick a fightEverything you are not meant to touch yet is dimmed, and the thing you are meant to click is litThe Commander narrates it, typing as he goes, with a blinking caret and a pause at every full stop ⌨️It fires once per save slot, so it will not get in your way on a second run 🧔 Every dwarf has a beard The game is called Beardlandia and my dwarves were clean-shaven. Several of you pointed this out. Fair. Twelve Norse beard shapes, all hand-authored: braided forks, rope twists, square cuts, binding ringsThey roll per dwarf and tint to match, so a party of eight reads as eight individualsThey follow the head properly now, including the death slump, which took longer than the beards themselves did 🧪 Poison reworkPoison now scales off Dexterity, whatever weapon applied itIt used to read whatever stat your main hand happened to declare, so the same poison hit for a different amount depending on what you were holdingThe Toxic Vial had the same problem and never told anyone about it ⚔️ Combat and balance Weapon drops were far too generous. One tester got eight epics in ten fights. Now a 5% chance per kill with a proper rarity spread, chieftains still guaranteed Hjorvan at wave 30 was using the wave 50 boss's stats unchanged. He hit for 1,500 against dwarves with 200 HP. He is now scaled for the wall he actually guards ❄️The 2x speed button is back in the demo, running at a smoother 1.5xEnemies no longer fire item passives, so their gear does what its numbers say and nothing moreEnemy gear stat bonuses now actually apply, which they never did 🌳 Skill tree I audited every one of the 223 nodes to check they actually do something. Two real problems turned up. Arcane Momentum never fired. Fifteen gems of skill t...
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• Patch Notes·7 Sept 2026Official

  Demo Patch 1: Save Protection and a Stack of Fixes

  First patch since the demo went out 😁. Most of this came from playing it and finding things that had been broken for weeks without anyone noticing.SavesFixed a bug where every exported build lost all equipped items and inventory on load. The game looks up items by scanning a folder, and an exported build stores those files under a different extension, so the lookup found nothing. It worked perfectly in the editor and failed in every real build, which is exactly why it survived testingFixed a second bug where party members saved before a certain point were dropped entirely on load, taking their gear with them. Those units are now recovered instead of discardedIf a save ever fails to load properly, the game now tells you exactly what was lost, refuses to overwrite the file, and makes a backup first. Previously it loaded whatever survived and quietly saved over the originalRetire Early refuses to bank gems from a damaged save. It reads the total, banks it, then deletes the save, so a bad read would have banked the wrong figure and destroyed the evidenceThe build now refuses to upload unless every save loads whole. This is checked automatically against the actual shipped build, not the editor, which is the thing that would have caught the original bugStorageClicking an item shows its details again. Picking an item up returned early and skipped the line that fills the panel, so the panel had been dead since August 21InventoryEmpty party slots are dimmed so you see the dwarves you actually have. They light up when you drag a recruit, and only for a recruit, since items cannot be dropped there anywayNothing is selected when you open the tab, so the stats panel starts clean instead of silently showing your first dwarf. Clicking to equip with nothing selected now tells you to pick a unit rather than putting the item somewhere you did not chooseFixed scroll fades drawing over an empty stats panel, implying content that was not there. The same fix corrected the fade on a full ...
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• Announcements·7 Sept 2026Official

  The Demo Is Officially Here!

  Hey everyone! 👋 This is the big one. The demo for The Fight for Beardlandia is out now! 🎉⚔️ What's in itThe first 30 waves, from your first two dwarves to a full party Recruit, forge, imbue, and push your skill tree It all builds to a boss fight against Frostfather Hjorvan ❄️ Three heroes to unlock through summons 💎 Everything carries overThis is the part I'm most happy about. Every hero you unlock and every fragment you bank in the demo comes straight into the full game with you. Nothing you do here is wasted.🇨🇳 简体中文 is in. It's machine translated for now, so if something reads wrong, tell me and I'll fix it. 💬 Come say helloI'm in the Discord every day and I read everything that gets posted. Bugs, feedback, ideas, or just to chat: https://discord.gg/qcJuaxASEDThis is the biggest milestone the project has hit and I'd genuinely love to hear what you make of it. Go get it! 💛
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• Announcements·23 Aug 2026Official

  The Demo Is Almost Here!

  Hey everyone! 👋 We're nearly there. The demo for The Fight for Beardlandia is with Steam right now and lands in just a few days! 🎉⚔️ What you're gettingThe first 30 waves, from your opening two units to a party of eight Recruiting, forging, imbuing, and a skill tree to pour your gems into All of it building toward Frostfather Hjorvan ❄️ Free heroes waiting behind your summons 💎 Nothing you do is wastedHere's the bit I'm proudest of. Every hero you pull and every fragment you bank in the demo travels with you into the full game. Play the demo and you've already got a head start. 💬 Come hang outI'm in the Discord every single day and I read all of it. Bugs, thoughts, ideas, or just to say hi: https://discord.gg/qcJuaxASEDI've been building this solo since April and this is the first time anyone gets to play the whole opening stretch. Wishlist so you catch it the second it drops! 💛
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• Patch Notes·23 Jul 2026Official

  Dev Update: Weather, VFX, and a Big Systems Pass

  Hey everyone! 👋 Another big couple of days! Combat looks and feels noticeably different now, and there's a lot under the hood too. 😃🌨️ Weather in combatBattles have weather now, and it's one of my favorite additions so far.Snow falls on the winter map and leaves drift through the forestThree separate depths, so leaves pass behind the trees and in front of your dwarves at the same timeEvery battle rolls its own weather, anywhere from a gentle drift to a full blizzard ❄️It all lives in the world rather than being painted on the screen, so the camera moves through it as the fight pushes forward✨ Abilities you can actually seeA lot of abilities were doing their job with nothing on screen. That bothered me for a while, so I went through them one by one:Mage Staff 🔥 – now casts a single fireball that falls from the sky and explodes on impact, replacing the old three-orb rotationIce Staff 💠 – fires a comet that streaks across the field and bursts into frostHealing 💚 – shows a green burst, with a bigger one for Greater HealRevive – something finally happens on screen when a hero comes backInvulnerability 🛡️ – a shield and a glow, so you can tell at a glance when a unit can't be hurtCommander's Rally – draws a ring beneath every rallied dwarfShadowstep – leaves a mark where the dagger user vanishes and reappearsBarefist 💥 – his Shockwave finally shows the splash it was always dealing, and he now builds a purple aura that grows through three stages as his attack speed ramps💎 Gems and Remnants are properly separate nowThis one was a real bug and I'm glad it's fixed. They shared a single pool, which meant every gem you earned also handed you a hero pull, and every Remnant also paid for your skill tree. They're two currencies now, earned separately and spent separately, the way they were always meant to be.⚔️ Two losses ends the runOn Normal, losing two battles in a row now ends your runThe first loss keeps the gold penalty and gives you a warningA win resets the streak, so you'...
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