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Started up the game again now, and stuff is gone once again, even worse this time.

- Buff tab in Mage Tower is reset.
- Artifacts from Digging Site has disappear so I have to start digging from the top again (was at depth 90).
- All extra Slot Machines in the Casino are gone.
- Booster packs in the Casino has been reset.
- Casino Token Shop has been reset (all spent tokens are lost).
- Equipment log in Vault has been reset.
- Bestiary in Vault has been reset, along with all buffs.

Hopefully your latest fix will prevent this from happening again.

Yes, I saved via the settings tab, playing on Firefox 152.0.4 (newest version as of now).

The most weird stuff seems to be related to the casino. As I mentioned, the casino shop got reset, but I still had 6 slot machines at 1-13 as well as autoplay enabled, though those also reset down to 1 when I tried to buy more.

The booster pack got reset to 100 tokens again, but it seems I kept all the cards I'd gotten (I just hadn't unlocked the Trophy Vault in my last post).

I tried reloading the game again right now to see if anything similar would happen, but this time it looks like everything is ok. Maybe it was a one-off weidness or something?

I did run into a bug before I reloaded. I have the Get Arch Gold quest where I need to earn 138 Miner's Respect, and for some reason it stopped counting at 92 no matter how much I turned it. Reloading seems to have fixed that though.

Anyway, it's a fun game to have running in the background and checking in from time to time, so keep it up! Having trouble beating the Mountain though, even at level 40 with all adventurers (lvl 7, 7, 5, 5), maxed out Skill Tree, all spells maxed, all runes running (though most only at lvl 1-2) and some buffs from here and there like the Trophy Vault.

Seems like a lot of stuff isn't saved. After reloading I lost the following:

- 1 minion in the Mage Tower (went from 3 to 2)
- Ongoing research was reset
- All buffs and buff upgrades went back to not being purchased
- All artifacts from mining are gone
- Buffs from daily spin in Casino is gone
- Booster packs has been reset
- All trading cards are gone
- All purchased Casino upgrades are reset to 0

I'm sad :(

Another thing that's really needed is a way to know which size of stand each skeleton needs. I've saved up and bought two different sizes of stands in the second room, but apparently the unicorn needs the biggest and most expensive one, so I still haven't been able to display it. Guess it's another hour saving up money for me -_-

Impressions and thoughts after about 3 hours playtime:

- The game is INSANELY slow and I'm anticipating I'll have to play for many, many more hours before I hopefully can get things sped up. After 3 hours I'm only making $17/min with a single zombie on display, so it takes forever to afford upgrades and stuff.

- It's very easy to mess up since there's no form of guide, hints or tooltips how things work after "click rat/spider" and you have to figure it out yourself. You will most likely screw up and waste tons of time waiting for money because you bought something you can't use yet.

- There's really no way of knowing which thing goes where. I ended up buying a unicorn, after cleaning I realized I had to buy the second room to display it, after buying the second room I realized I had to buy a stand for it as well. I'm not there yet, but I have no idea which size of stand the unicorn needs, so I'll probably end up buying the wrong one and have to wait another hour before I can afford to try again. I assume now that the T1 and T2 under the buyable corpses means the first room and second room respectively, but I have no clue what the Q## means.

- The load function doesn't seem to work. I had made a save before I bought the unicorn and wanted to reload that because of the point above to better my strategy now that I know, but couldn't get it to work.

I do, though, feel the concept, the game just needs more proper explanations and a quicker progression pace.

Can't buy Speed for the Gofers. The menu just disappears when clicking on Speed without buying it.

First impression, the game balance feels absolutely horrible to the point where it's basically impossible to do any progress. I've been grinding between the training yard and constantly failing quests for like 20 hours and I still can't clear the first non-tutorial story quest.

Heck, I've barely been able to clear two commissons from the guild board where I had to beat 20 waves, and I only managed that by constantly repeating them and beating 1-2 waves at a time. Other commissions are impossible at this stage. Stat increases and equipment seems to only give miniscule boosts in power, and it takes an eternity to level up, plus after buying all the wooden equipment there's nothing else but weeks or months of stale grinding to maybe perhaps be able to actually clear something and progress to the next close to impossible task.

I tend to enjoy grindy games, but there needs to be frequent progress to feel worthwhile. I'm sorry to say that this just isn't fun or rewarding at all. I can see some potential here, but for now, I'm out.

Missions seems to be broken. I've tried a few times with different objectives. Every time I'm sent to a floor 100+ battle, but nothing is happening. I'm just standing there. Pausing and unpausing does nothing, clicking on enemies does nothing, clicking on the object to gather if that's the mission does nothing, there are no apparent way to engage in battle, I can't select any other floor, and the only option I seem to have is to abandon the mission or wait until the time runs out...

What are worker skill levels and how do you raise them to max? Can't find anything about it anywhere except for the only locked achievement I have left and it being mentioned in the game description...

Also there seems to be a bug with morale which never exceeds 90% except for Drone Cleaners which are always at 100%. Only way to get that achievement seems to be to fire every single worker except Drone Cleaners.

Well, you're not wrong about the music being addictive... like, dang!

Some quick feedback after having completed everything so far:

- Some dishes have icons in the feeding area while some don't have icons.

- When unlocking the third set of ingredients (Tier 4), their icons will overflow over the fridge and slightly under the Depart button in the Kitchen. Maybe split the ingredients into two lines, one for proteins and one for condiments?

- T4 doesn't have its own button on the fridge after clearing Jakarta. Tier 4 recipes are only visible under the All button.

- The purpose of the stars you can gain in each level is very unclear, both how they are scored and what they are for. Like, I can feed every cat their favorite and it seems random if and how many stars I get.

- It would be nice to see how many I have of each dish while in the Kitchen so I don't have to go back and forth between the Vehicle and Kitchen to check all the time.

- It would be nice to see what each cat's likes are when you are feeding them (sort of like it shows in the wiki, but of course only after having discovered them, this could for instance be a purchaseable upgrade). I had to take notes of each cat's favorites and alt-tab back and forth which isn't very intuitive.

- I'm assuming the Pantry isn't implemented yet? I can't figure out how to transfer dishes from the Vehicle to the Pantry.

- Maybe add more kitchen helpers as you get further, example like a Cutting Helper that removes the click-to-cut action for proteins and at the endgame a Chef that lets you automatically complete a recipe by just clicking one button?

Ah, and then it goes from High to Earth to eventually Heaven you mean? That makes sense, I must have missed any explanation of that.

Not directly related, but in the vincinity, it would be nice if you could add a check when buying essence so that you either get a warning when trying to buy essence for something that's already maxed or completely remove maxed essences from the pool so you don't waste stones needlessly on that.

Anyway, keep it up, looking forward to what's next :)

Whenever a spirit stone surpass 100 in the reserve, it will restart from 0. Example: if you have 99 Mid stones in the reserve and get 3 more, your inventory will reset down to 2 instead going up to 102, thus losing you 100 stones. This happens with all grades, so idling in order to gain stones becomes completely pointless as you will lose out on hundreds of them while afk.