Key Features

• New Dynasties. Access the new Dynasty system to marry, have children, and raise them into champions or grow your dynasty

• Customizable Modding. Added mod uploading and subscribing, plus Workshop support for creating custom tiles, maps, particles, and more within Elemental Reforged.

• Improved Gameplay. Improved gameplay balance for spells and quest leveling, added new monster lairs, adjusted champion recruitment on the map, and enhanced AI player intelligence

Elemental December 19th, Hotfix

• Fixed visual rendering issues in the Research Tree screen
  

December 18th, 2025 Hot Patch

Graphics

• Fixed issues where Quendar helmets were clipping incorrectly

• Fixed issues where some pieces of armor were clipping on non-human factions

• Improved font rendering across resolutions

UI

• Fixed issue where minimap wasn’t able to be clicked on

December 16th, 2025 Change Log v0.6

Audio

• Added in more battle soundtracks

• Added in more general game music tracks

• Music system is smarter at music selection

• Crafting given a sound effect

• Replaced bad sound effects

• Fixed overlapping music

Crashes

• Fixed a crash triggered by if a quest has a capital city as a destination and the player has no cities

• Fix for a bug where Henchmen would cause the game to crash

Dynasties

• Added in the new dynasty system that can accessed through the new dynasty button on the main game screen

  • Players can start to marry when they reach at least 10 fame

  • Players will receive a notification on the Dynasty button if they can marry someone

  • Marriage candidates will gradually show up over the course of the game

  • Odds of a child per turn is about 5% and goes down over time. It is, however greatly increased if your character and your spouse are in the same city

  • Babies will age to be a champion after 64 seasons

  • Children will inherit the average of their parents' unit stats + a random buff improvement

  • Higher quality candidates are given additional abilities

  • Late game techs can now add essence

  • Champions, Children, Spouses, etc. can die. Each time they get an injury there is a small but growing chance that it will cause their death

Gameplay

AI

• AI players now intelligently craft items

• AI players now will equip their normal units with items

• AI crafting is now skill based on difficulty level

• AI players more aggressive about clearing out monster lairs

• AI is a lot pickier about where to found cities now that it costs essence to found them

Cities

• Founding Cities costs 1 essence

• Disabled City Sheild

Champions & Recruitment

• Stationed Champions get 1 XP per turn

• Champions that buff cities now have these as explicitly character abilities that can be easily viewed

• Fame to recruit champions increased

• First volunteer champion doesn't show up until players have 25 fame

• Player made characters can now be made into opponents for future games

• Starting armor that players can pick when they create a character are available at level 1

• Fixed issues where Magar the champion mentioned he used a hammer but did not have the correct weapon

• Henchmen are more expensive to maintain; it is now 1.7 wages to 3.0

• New sovereign ability - Inner Radiance, gives +1 essence when learned

Game Settings & Systems

• Max game length has been increased from 800 turns to 2000 turns

• Endar Race has been removed for now

• Abilities always cost at least 1 pick

Monster Lairs & Monsters

• Monster lairs get even tougher as they level up

• Based on map size, Monster lairs will slowly respawn in deserted areas over the course of the game

• Added in a system to access the game map and gradually updates what kinds of lairs will show up and where

• Additional monsters added

• Iron Golem is tougher

• Lots of new monster lairs brought back from War of Magic and pre-War of Magic release

• Monsters get faster as they level up

• Titans, if they appear are much more dangerous

• Monsters that are guarding a lair near a city have a tiny chance of moving to attack nearby cities

• Monsters who have lost their lairs to player’s who have claimed the goodie hut without killing the monsters now have a much higher chance of attacking that city

Quests & Goodie Huts

• Treasure chest goodie huts no long spawn monsters

• Fixed for missing chain armor treasure in one of the goodie huts

• Removed the old system where players had to have a certain level in order to interact with some goodiehut and quests

• Fixes to some quest items

• Fixed a quest where an Ex-Swindler appears incorrectly as a pioneer

• Most quests will give players at least 1 fame

Spells & Magic Items

• Lower land spell and scroll will now work on mountain sides

• Mana potions will now correctly provide mana to the global mana pool

• Scroll of essence removed

• Terrain spells with a radius now only affect tiles with the same terrain as the target tile

• Fixed an issue if a player runs out of mana and it dispels enchantments; it dispels enchantments that have 0 upkeep cost

Tactical Battles

• Fixed the issue with WASD controls in tactical battles stalling then moving

• Fixed issues where sometimes in tactical battles there are dead zones where players cannot click the screen

Graphics

• Updated the rock textures

• Fixed snow mountain textures

• Fixed seam issues on statues in game

• Added in new textures for chasms

• Updated textures for caves

• Updated the pine trees

• Updated river waterfalls

• Fixed issues where cliffs would cause holes

• Fixed recruitable champions missing heads and hair

• Cloth map is a higher resolution

• Fixed issues with broken wolf models

• Fixed seam issues on snow on top of mountains

• Fixed issues where monster lairs did not have missing tiles

• Spell effect update

• Fog of War now updates as units move instead of when they complete a move

• Fixed corrupted particle effects on starting a new game

Localization

• Added in new localization for

  • Chinese

  • Korean

  • Japanese

  • Italian

  • Portuguese

  • Polish

  • French

  • German

  • Spanish

  • Russian

Modding

• Added in the new mod manager window to sort installed mods and upload mods to steam

• Added in the ability to subscribe to mods on Steam and sync them with the game through the mod manager

• Enabled the workshop allowing access to the in-game Tile Editor, Map Creator and Particle Editor

• Activate mods by turning on the Use Mods toggle in the options menu

Optimization

• Performance improvement for units

• Quicker late game turn times

• Improved camera drag/pan with left mouse button

• Improved camera rotation with middle mouse button

• Added in support that if a save game is not compatible it will correctly bring players to the main menu again

• Removed the Windows Key from being used as a hotkey

• Added in performance optimization to get a few more frames per second in the late game

• Performance optimizations for the map editor

Text

• Fixed missing fonts on Windows 11 machines

• Fixed the Lost Knight Quest having a character with 2 different names causing confusion

• Faction changed to Civilization

• Fixed lots of text clipping and sizing throughout the game

• All of the screens have been updated to consistent fonts to address text clipping issues

• Fixed duplicated text on the economy screen

• Fixed a bug where having conversations could appear as blank

• Made sure that any text referring to a season is consistent throughout the game

• Fix for conversations listing the variable instead of text

• Fix for bug where switching characters in the unit details window didn't update their backstory or tech tree

• Default font sizes set to 1.0

• Text updates to make it clear that the city enchantments slots are Radiance. Essence is the core ability of the Channeler.

• Fix blurry text rendering when running at lower resolutions on high-DPI displays

UI

• Quest screen has been made more wide

• Adjusted UI scaling to better fit general text layout

• Cities at unrest will correctly show penalties

• Abilities/talents that cost 0 won't show up in a design unit screen

• Added a confirmation message when deleting a custom sovereign

• Added in a Delete confirmation when deleting saves

• Fixed issues were holding down the esc key will cause the screen to flash really fast

• Fixed bug where AI crafting would give the player a crafting notification

• Train Unit screen is taller to allow for more units to be displayed

Icons

• Fixed issues with missing icons in the tech tree

• Icons have been updated for spells

• Added in a new icon for the language button on the title screen

• Added in more scrollbar support throughout the game

• Restored the village icon

Inventory & Items

• Fix for cases where some quests give items, but they don't show up in a player's inventory

• If a resource is missing, it now tells you how much you need to train that unit in the UI

• UI will pop up only once when given multiple of the same item

• Fixed issues in the tech tree where weapon and armor icons were missing

Options

• Borderless window is now an explicit option and is the default

• Option Screen will automatically select the appropriate UI scaling based on the resolution picked, this can be manually changed by player after

• Edited the options screen by moving and hiding obscure options, they can still be edited in the prefs file

  • Basic Options Removed

    • Unit Movement Within Tile

    • Tool Tip Delay

    • Research and Taxes Info

    • Terrain Window

  • Advanced Option Removed

    • Follow selected unit

    • Zoom limiting

    • Smart player colors

    • Zoom to Cursor

    • Scale Units when Zooming

    • Screenshot format

    • Amount of ground cover

    • Unit Scale

  • Moved to Advanced Options

    • Faction Power Window

    • Particle Effects

    • Pedestrians

Tooltips

• Research per turn on the resource bar now has a breakdown of the sources of research in the tooltip

• Addressed the bug when clicking down on a button cause a tooltip to appear in the top left corner of the screen

• Implemented nested tooltips

  • Players will need to hover while holding down shift to see the nested tooltips

• Fixed issues where the brilliant tooltip was inconsistent in multiple places

• Fixed tooltips becoming extremely large when scrolling through the Load Game list

• Fixed extremely large tooltips in the tactical battles

• Fixed issues with the attack tooltip not showing the critical hit % chance

• Tooltips now more reliably size based on the content within so that there's less clipped text