Desktop idle loop

Patch 0.1.9 is the window contract: the game can be resized and dragged so combat lives on the desktop instead of a full-screen takeover. Steam screenshots show a dark horizontal fight band with loot beams and a dense action bar along the bottom. That is the intended layout. Ultrawide cropping and “clicking the game pauses video sites” bugs were patched in 0.1.13f, which matters if you park the strip on a wide monitor beside a browser. 0.1.9 also added buybacks, so a misclick sell in town is not a permanent loss of the piece you meant to keep.

Steam Cloud save arrived in the same 0.1.9 drop. Cloud does not replace local backups; a later hotfix moved backup saves to a more secure folder after crash-during-save corruption. If you idle overnight, let the client sit in town periodically so auto-save can fire. The strip is the product, not a overlay widget: it is still the full ARPG, just scaled to live under your other windows. Buybacks from 0.1.9 recover a mistaken town sale before you leave the merchant.

Life Skills landed in patch 0.1.10 specifically for carriage auto-filter and auto-sell. The Jack of All Trades achievement is to unlock every Life Skills node. You do not need a third-party loot filter: the first-party tree is the auto-vendor. Exact node names beyond those patch blurbs are not printed on Steam, so no skill grid is listed here. 0.1.12 bundled more Life Skills content with Ancient Legendary items, so the tree grew after the first auto-sell drop, not only on 18 June.

The cart is the bottleneck. Minions haul it; overloaded carts and revive-in-combat loot bugs were hotfix targets in 0.1.13a through 0.1.13e. If unattended runs stall, check cart capacity and whether a revive dumped duplicate piles. Auto-save while in town was added in 0.1.13e after revive-in-town save loss. Park the strip, keep a hauler unlocked, and let Life Skills sell junk so the ground does not fill faster than the cart.

Patch 0.1.13 added Online characters, a Treant Boss clear-time leaderboard, and client anti-cheat. The 28 September 2026 hotfix then defaulted character creation to Online Mode and fixed connections for very old Steam clients, while still recommending a Steam update. A blinking yellow dot in the lower left marks server talk; during that wait the client may sit on a black screen rather than spawning you into a desynced fight. 0.1.13c claimed more regions could connect without a proxy and added resilience against disconnects.

Online Mode is the default path, not an optional extra, unless you still have an older offline character. Ban appeals sit on deskrawl.com, not in the Steam client. Discord is the feedback channel named in beta posts. If a connection error appears, read the detailed message the hotfix added before you assume the strip itself froze. Cloud save from 0.1.9 still applies; 0.1.13e added auto-save in town after revive-in-town save loss, so a parked strip should visit town rather than sitting on a corpse screen for hours.

Park order that matches the published systems: resize the window, pin it to the bottom or a second display, confirm a minion with a Rein is hauling, and unlock enough Life Skills nodes that the carriage auto-sells junk. Then walk the named ground you actually need for the next slay seal instead of idling in a finished woods node. Forest Raptor at 92.2% is the first hunt; later grounds on the Maps ledger are where unattended time is wasted if you never click travel.

Watch three failure modes named in hotfixes. Cart overload (0.1.13a) fills the ground while combat continues. Revive with no loot (0.1.13d) or duplicated loot after revive (0.1.13e) looks like a drop-rate bug and is a client bug. Clicking the game pausing video sites (0.1.13f) matters if the strip shares a machine with a stream. None of those are solved by a third-party overlay. If Online Mode cannot handshake, update Steam and read the launch-day connection text before you roll a second character.