all updates for High Fantasy Idle

Fixes and Improvements Part 4 0.5.4 • 2025/10/20 October 20, 2025

• Rebirthing now resets the text in the event log - this will resolve the lag that would happen when leaving the game on a really long time
• Reworded the "level cap reached, rebirth now!" message on the rebirth tab to "level capped: cannot gain more rebirth stats" to make it clearer that you cannot gain any more rebirth stats that particular run
• Tweaked the UI on the rebirth tab to take a little more advantage of screen real estate
• Enemies no longer apply corruption when they get staggered
• When random corruptions happen from regular attacks, they will now display the corruption graphic and sound effect
• Skill cooldowns now save when you exit the game (cooldowns are still reset if enough time has passed since you were offline - this is to discourage people rebooting their game over and over again to reset cooldowns)
• You can no longer get the Unskilled Labor achievement using perks via autospending through loadouts
• Web backup save files now properly save with the .save file extention (prior files still work though)
• Fixed an issue where Tis But A Flesh Wound wasn't triggering even if the Squire didn't have any Damage Reduction (having the permanent perk that gives you 20% DR doesn't count toward this achievement's criteria still)

Fixes and Improvements Part 3 0.5.3 • 2025/10/18 October 18, 2025

• Researcher offline progression now factors in compounding stacks (based on the random research compounding stack value)
• Running the game in a non 16:9 aspect ratio no longer causes some map icons to be a little off from where they should be
• Skill cooldowns no longer get unintentionally reset when rebirthing a different class once class swap is unlocked
• The backup timer no longer restarts when you backup your save before the bonus is back
• Fixed an issue where rebirthing sometimes shuts off autofarm
• Fixed an issue where rebirthing during post battle recovery can lock out the dungeon select dropdown
• The Parry Swing and Don't Crit Yourself perks were moved lower in the perk tree so it's clearer that you need Autoskill: Brace for Impact in order to unlock Parry Swing
• Fixed a few typos

Fixes and Improvements Part 2 0.5.2 • 2025/10/15 October 15, 2025

• Activating Burning the Midnight Oil with autofarm on and while sleeping now causes sleeping to end
• Fixed an issue where some of the new researcher books are not giving gold gain as intended when complete
• Fixed an issue where Epiphany was not giving enough pages in certain situations
• Fixed an issue where Squires could end up in dungeon 4 much earlier than they should
• Minor UI fixes

Fixes and Improvements 0.5.1 • 2025/10/14 October 14, 2025

• HFI's UI will now scale up at resolutions above 1080p (this should resolve the small text issues that were reported by people using 4k monitors)
• The extra "tick" that was happening when sleep completely fills on Farmhand no longer happens
• Spamming the Buy All button really really fast no longer allows you to buy shop items you can't afford
• Research and You book now has a consistent tooltip for it's XP bonus
• The first hit an enemy does after the Squire auto advances now deals damage
• You are no longer able to change dungeons while in recovery (this was causing some issues)
• If you activate Spin Slash and are defeated before it goes off, Spin Slash is no longer carried over to the next enemy (this was also causing issues and didn't make a lot of sense)
  Story prompts will no longer prevent you from closing other open windows/popups

Demo V2 0.5 • 2025/10/13 October 13, 2025

This huge update wouldn't have been possible without all the feedback from the community. Thank you so much! This completes the content for the demo - hope you enjoy! <3

New Evergreen Features

• Class Swap - Allows all classes to be running at once, with the ability to hot swap between them. This also means that rebirthing only rebirths the currently active class, and the other classes see the immediate benefit of improved rebirth stats without having to rebirth themselves! This feature is unlocked through new Researcher content.
• Multi-point Perks - Most perks have been changed to allow you add multiple points to them. This allows you to both reach further perks in the tree sooner, and allows for a great deal of additional build diversity. Each point you add to a perk also gives a bonus! Permanent perks work they same way they used to and skill perks / skill rank up perks still require the full investment of perk points all at once.
• Perk Loadouts - This feature allows you to save up to 3 perk builds for each class. Not only does it save your build for future runs, but the autospend feature allows you to automatically spend your perk points as you level up based on your saved build. Convenient! This feature is unlocked through new Researcher content.
• Game Profile - The achievements menu has evolved! The profile page shows everything you can possibly collect and unlock in the game, sorted by categories. All of these new things being tracked** fill the ultimate progress bar at the top of the profile page**. If you get 100%, you get a shiny gold star - neat!
• Inventory - The inventory shows key items and additional lore about items you have found through your travels. If you're looking for extra HFI lore, this is the place for you!

Farmhand

• Content has been updated to level 80 - this includes perks, shop items, story, etc.
• XP buff from Wisdom now rewards a bonus sooner, but scales slower
• HFI now remembers if you had autofarm going when you rebirth and when you reboot the game

Squire

• Content has been updated to level 80 - this includes perks, shop items, story, dungeons, etc.
• XP buff from Wisdom now rewards a bonus sooner, but scales slower
• Base Squire Min/Max Damage increased to 4-6 damage (was 2-4)
• Defense has been reworked into a new stat called Damage Reduction (Damage Reduction simply reduces the damage the Squire takes by a percentage)
• Brace for Impact simply doubles your Damage Reduction when used, and now costs 15% Stamina at Rank 2 (up from 10%)
• When autoskill is on for Brace for Impact, it no longer disables the button (in case you want to use it on non-special attacks)
• Thorns damage is now based on both how many points you have in Armor of Thorns, and how much Damage Reduction you have (This means Brace for Impact doubles thorns damage!)
• A Thorns Damage stat now appears in the stat tab, showing how much thorns damage you are doing
• When you defeat the final enemy, a message appears letting you know that you have completed the demo. (You are free to continue playing if you want to max things out!)
• HFI now remembers your autoskill and auto advance checkbox selections between rebirths and reloading the game

Researcher

• Balance of rebirth stats was changed in a major way. Now that Researcher is on par with content with the other classes, it no longer needs the huge rebirth stat boosts it used to get
• XP bonus gained from Hardiness is removed
• Base XP Per Research and sources of this stat have been buffed significantly to compensate for the above.
• Hardiness scaling for focus drain reduction has been reduced
• Might scaling for page gain has been reduced
• The Gold Per Second rebirth stat bonus has been moved from Might to Wisdom
• Content has been updated to level 80 - this includes perks, shop items, story, books, research subject, etc.
• Epiphany now has a 1 min cooldown and gives 200 secs of pages instantly (rank 2 is 400 secs) - tooltip was updated with this info as well
• Professional Development rank 1 now awards 3x XP (down from 5x), but only reduces pages gain by 50%. Rank 2 brings the XP bonus back up to 5x
• Books are no longer reset on rebirth. You now decide when to reset them by clicking the Start New Edition button. This allows you to publish multiple editions of a book in one run, and allows you to decide when you want to forego your gold bonus to get a new edition upgrade
• Now starts with 1 Gold Per Second
• Added base Pages Per Research to each subject in the stats tab (Base Pages | Boosted Pages)
• HFI now remembers your selected researches between rebirths and reloading the game

Quality of Life and Other

• Shop items that are not affordable yet have their Buy button disabled
  ​- Save files can now be loaded in the browser version of HFI. Woo hoo!
• Save file name now has a timestamp when performing a backup
• In game links to the HFI Discord and Steam page!
• Added 40 new achievements and achievement ranks, including new secrets!
• Improved Controller Support (still consider this in beta)
• Updated resolution options to work better with different sizes
• Backup bonus timer reduced to 23 hours (was 24 hours; now there's a little bit of padding to get your daily bonus)
• Offline progression now shows progress bars and no longer freezes the game for a few seconds while it is calculating
• Is This A Clicker? achievement criteria for rank 4 now only requires 30,000 clicks, down from 100,000