Finally got the chance to test and deploy a number of significant changes. There's a bunch more fun stuff in the works, but I wanted to get this out sooner to get more feedback!

World

• Added another area to the Lost Forest- The Ruins. This area utilizes some improved tile management tech, so it should be the nicest looking one yet!
• Minor/Major orbs no longer drop. You can now use Gold to modify levels. It felt confusing to have multiple currencies that had no real distinct value behind them
• Added the "Explorer" NPC to the Nexus, assuming you've unlocked him. Once he's unlocked, you'll gain access to the Exploration tree for any region you've unlocked
• Added the "Explorer" event. If you haven't unlocked this NPC yet, this event will unlock him. If he is unlocked, you'll receive a selection of interesting modifiers that may change the way you interact with the region you're in. It'll be up to you to find him and check these out!
• Added support for "Conflict" events. Two NPCs may compete for your favor, choose wisely!
• Added the initial Exploration Tree for the Lost Forest. Spend research points on this new tree to improve your experience as you play
• Something is off about these memories we're exploring together, but it's probably best not to worry about it and keep playing the game
  
• Added "Experience Gained" to the Lost Forest Exploration Tree
• Added "Gold Gained" to the Lost Forest Exploration Tree
  
• Added "Research Gained" to the Lost Forest Exploration Tree
  
• Added "Skill Points Gained" to the Lost Forest Exploration Tree
  
• Added "Pack Size" to the Lost Forest Exploration Tree
  
• Added "Powerful Monsters" to the Lost Forest Exploration Tree
  
• Added "Burning" weather. Spawns various fire effects that can apply the burning debuff to the player, buffs monster fire damage, and causes monsters to burn the player frequently

Audio

• Added an in-development music track to the Lost Forest
• Rebalanced some audio
• Added pitch variance to repetitive hits like monsters taking damage to avoid weird multiplicative effects when you hit a ton of monsters with one attack

Monsters

• Added "Evades Attacks" to the monster modifier pool
• Added "Resists Elements" to the monster modifier pool
  
• Added "Poisonous Attacks" to the monster modifier pool. Also added the ability for all damage types to have after-the-fact damage addition like this. In this case, the sum total damage the monster would deal is multiplied by 1.1x, and the added damage is exclusively Poison damage
  
• Fixed an issue where monsters could spawn with two different "Quick" modifiers. This was not cosmetic, monsters in this case would receive a double speed multiplier!
• Magic monsters cannot spawn under monster level 3, and Rare monsters cannot spawn under monster level 5. This makes the early game a bit more reasonable for new characters
• The Treant Boss and its minions should no longer become immune to damage when poisoned

Misc

• Combat text now correctly indicates when an attack was evaded
• Fixed a tooltip overlap when comparing items
• Fixed a bug where controller users could not dismiss the post-run unlock menu in some situations
• Optimized some area loading code
• Removed some unused content