The big loot & tools update — this build never finished propagating, so its changes ship as part of 1.0.21.

• Procedural enchanted gear — randomly generated weapons & armor with affixes, eight damage elements, five rarity tiers (Common → Legendary) and collectible equipment sets with escalating bonuses.
• Magic Find & loot quality — lucky jewelry that boosts rare drops, element-tinted item icons, rarity loot pop-ups, and the ability to disenchant surplus gear into gold.
• Smarter gear screens — rarity-coloured names, an element line and set-progress on the inventory and character sheet, armor warding, upgrade hints, and merchants that now stock forged magic gear.
• Visible combat dice — every attack shows a two-line action / roll read-out, so you can see exactly why a blow landed or missed.
• Shareable world seeds — pick a seed for a New Game and for the end-game New Realm; the same seed always builds the same world.
• Scaling finale — the Shadow Sovereign now grows to match your party's end-game level.
• Three new Creation Tools (Pro) — NPC Editor, Shop Editor and Item Editor join the suite.
• Dozens of UI and spacing fixes across shops, the healer, the editors and on-screen text.

Previously the live build; now superseded by 1.0.21.

• Sprite Editor overhaul — a full pixel-art editor: brush, line, rectangle and circle tools, flood fill, dual mirror axes, undo, zoom-to-cursor and draggable scrollbars.
• Animation support — onion-skin frame layers with a play/stop preview and adjustable FPS, exported as a square sprite-sheet with a JSON atlas that reopens as frames.
• In-game file browser — open your saved custom sheets, auto-detect the grid, and rename / save under a new name.
• Fixed an unwinnable world — a newly generated realm now always guarantees the stabilizer tower is reachable.
• Launch splash art now matches the main menu.

The "Realm of Shadows" relaunch under Microsoft's new game format.

• Renamed to Realm of Shadows and migrated to Microsoft's new game category and GDK package format.
• Fresh world every time — each New Game re-randomizes the realm from a new seed behind a generation progress screen, with New Game+ after the finale.
• Procedurally placed world-map structure stamps (towns, keeps, dungeons, towers) and far richer dungeon decoration — themed props and multi-cell furniture.
• A large monster-sprite pass: hundreds of per-monster sprites with mis-generated art cleaned up.
• The Pro Editors add-on was re-created under the new Store product.

Story, quests, and the first Store builds.

• Main story arc — stabilize every realm, face the Shadow Sovereign finale, then carry on into New Game+.
• Dynamic fetch-quests — townsfolk hand out quests on the fly, tracked in a quest log grouped by area, with wilderness and dungeon targets hinted on the map.
• Per-monster sprite system with a generation pipeline, level-gated spell casting, and a Player Editor for reviewing the party.
• Extensive combat, camp and quest UI polish, plus cleaned-up spell descriptions.