Things will be slowing down a bit from here on out, but I will be trying to keep having weakly (or fortnightly) patches for some time, just smaller ones. This one has a few more balance tweaks and fixes across the board.

-The Onmyoji can take Honed Strikes again (this was actually an accidental removal)

-One With Smoke is now a level 1 perk, but the fire resistance has been reduced to compensate.

-Hardening Steel has been nerfed:

---When adding stacks, there is a (current stack)% chance to fail. This effectively caps the max bonus at 10 and makes getting them harder and slower in general.

-\[GLANCING] has been changed to lower critical damage. This basically just nerfs shurikens and nothing else. They still have normal critical damage for the purposes of sneak attacks.

-Changed the "traps deal stun damage" perk to make it so smoke mines now deal a bit of poison damage as well. Also changed the name and increased the stuns.

-Buffed Trapmaster a little:

---Damaging a boss or unique enemy with a trap now permanently grants +1 CUN, once per enemy. (Doesn't work on 26 Martys, before you ask. But it should work on both Koma-inu!).

-Aura Master's Ki generation bonuses are now a bit less insane.

-Added a failsafe to prevent repeated door closing loops.

-Added an Onmyoji perk, Preservation. It gives a spell that lets you choose not to use Yin/Yang, for a cost.

-Reduced the paralyzation of Paralyze rooms somewhat.

-Renamed Deathblow (the Shinobi crit perk) to "Blood Geyser" and buffed it a bit.

-Crafting talismans when inventory is full now drops it on the ground.

-Fixed a bug where food crafting recipes would not fail (without Hocho Masamune).

-Fixed a bug where using Finality with excessive Yin would make you go over 100 purity.

-Fixed a bug where doors wouldn't close silently with high SOUNDSTEALTH(it was coded in but didn't trigger).

-Fixed a bug where Ascension removing equipped gear would sometimes not remove the effects of the gear.

-Fixed a bug where starting with leathers on ascension 10 as Iga would remove all leathers.

-Fixed an oversight where certain things could stop you from being able to offer sake to Shuten.

After many suggestions, this patch is largely a gameplay and balance patch. Several new additions have been made as well, including a few new artifacts and perks.
Patch wise, things are likely going to be slowing down from here on out, but there are still some fixes and changes to come. Stay tuned!

-Lowered the cost of Aim a bit.

-Monk may no longer take Stealthy. Stealth stance will have to do!

-Garrote has been reworked a little, it still stuns, but only does large damage upon a sneak attack. The death damage has been removed.

-Iga may now take Garrote to start.

-Nerfed entangling widows slightly.

-Monk's defense stance exit now grants a buff for 10 turns that makes status effects wear off much faster.

-Power stance exit now refunds 1 Ki level (in combat only)

-Re-buffed conservation to reduce break chance to 0, though it's now a level 3 perk again.

-Blood Flare now inflicts a debuff that prevents Breath use until your Ki is 0 and combat ends. The cost has been lowered to 8 to compensate.

-Added extra perks: Hardening Steel, Change of Plans, Flashing Knife, Lunging Strikes. These are all Ninja/Iga perks that should help develop a bit of playstyle variety.

-For bosses, sneak attack damage is now capped to 33% of their max HP. I don't really like brute force solutions like this, but bosses being nuked were a big reason why I made the recent sneak attack nerfs, and it seems like the changes weren't as effective as planned.

-The Shinobi's default loadout flash bomb has been replaced with a dried fish.

-The Onmyoji's "Mass dispel" spell will disable statues if cast in a statue zone. Doesn't dispel friendly effects and doesn't work on hallways.

---Mass dispel is now a starting tech option.

-Ronin now gets +1 base melee damage at levels 1, 6,and 12. He may no longer take Honed Strikes. This partially to buff him, partially for class identity reasons.

-Substantially increased the chances on Snake Drinker triggering.

-Reduced the costs of many bite-based mutations.

-Added 2 new legendary daggers! I said I wasn't going to, but honestly, it did feel like a pretty big oversight in the end.

---Hocho Masamune, a legendary kitchen knife that aids in food crafting.

---Kurikara-ken, a fire-based dagger that increases SPIRIT.

-Buffed Iai Master.

-Updated the tooltip for sneak attack damage.

-Spirit Requirement (on talismans) has been renamed to "Spirit ID".

-Updated Snakewell description.

-The barrel event no longer says "+7 sake" (it actually gives +2-4)

-Fixed a bug where Ki pulse did not do holy damage as intended. Also got rid of the vulnerability thing out of the description since it wasn't even coded in and I'm not sure why it was there.

-Fixed some bugs that were causing the game to think you were overencumbered when you were not.

-Fixed a bug where the EXP change from ascension would not apply to level 1.

-Fixed a bug where Kunoichi's Exploitation could trigger on weapon techniques. It also now reduces the extra damage from \[RENDING] by 2/3rds.

-Fixed a bug where \[RENDING] wasn't actually scaling with weapon quality.

-Fixed a bug where Aura Master and Duelist Technique could be taken together.

-Fixed a bug where giving certain pills to allies would crash.

-Fixed a bug where Strong Stomach for Kamikui would give incorrect messages. Also fixed a bug where it wasn't triggering for sapping pills.