- 1.02b - 9 June 2026
Additions and changes:Added the team logo.Restored links to the SUNSET SURVIVAL STATION and Gothic Clicker pages for getting achievements.
- 1.02 - 27 April 2026
Additions and changes:Adjusted the scaling of the end-of-game dialog window for non-standard resolutions.Adjusted the calculation of the maximum number of items that can be purchased at the market.Fixed a bug where cheese was not given when writing the corresponding line of the ballad.Fixed an incorrect display of the value for the Imbalance rune.
- 1.01 - 23 December 2025
Additions and changes:New achievement addedLimited amount of gold on the battlefield (optimization/visual)Limited number of damage messages on enemies (optimization/visual)
- Leaving Early Access, Deep story, Coda - 28 November 2025
Leaving Early AccessDear bards, you have supported us all these years, and it seems we have grown up.We were able to finish what we started, and it only took us 3 years in early access instead of the previously announced couple of months ) Your ideas and your love for Bard allowed us to go through this whole journey together, making Bard what it is today. And it is worth it! Deep storyThe fog of uncertainty has been dispelled. All the signs have come together in one place. Jelly, books, guilds — all this is the legacy of a long-gone civilization of gnomes.Only one piece of the puzzle is missing to complete the picture - the answer to the question, where did the gnomes go? Prepare your equipment, gather the best of the best, and muster your courage. The final journey lies in a deep story, deep in the sea.CodaAfter Chapter 10 of the ballad, you can write one of 20 codas.The coda is the fi…
- 0.62b - 21 July 2025
Additions and changes:Fixed a bug with a negative number of candies.Fixed a bug with the game crashing after increasing the maximum possible number of pets.Fixed a bug with displaying less gold from the bank than is actually given.Now favorite pets increase their level.Fixed a bug with duplicate pets after a reroll.It is now possible to select a favorite animal while selecting other animals in the view open menu.Fixed a bug with passing the arena by 5 stages.Fixed bug when you can exclude all factions.Fixed a bug of a ballad line not working
- Treasure trove - 12 July 2025
While building castles on their lands, lords discover secret passages to infinitely large dungeon of once powerful Goblin King. Bards are already rushing to hire adventurers to explore this secret structure. Cunning Goblin King has hidden his treasures in smelly cheese, but he didn't realize that it's a delicacy for some! Finding them won't be difficult at all. Also bards will be waiting for 4 new DLCs:Emerald Key - set for those who want to shine in each of their adventures!Animal Lover - set will help you take better care of your pets.Artist - set of a true fine art connoisseur!Builder - make your workers happy with tasty sweets and fresh outfits, such stylish work bards have never seen before!Additions and changes:You can now hire heroes of any faction into one squad.Workers are available in faction menu for painting.Enemy strength has been slightly reduced to zone 75.Added a tooltip…
- Bard Roadmap 2025 - 6 June 2025
Hi, this is the Illegal Turtle team. We've come a long way, and we have a new milestone ahead of us. This year we want to release the game from early access. Bard will be all grown up! =) Here and there, bards are sharing their grand plans and and exciting fun, and we're not gonna be far behind. Patches before Early Access The Castle (~July) This year you'll be able to build a castle, the bard's private space, hidden from view. It will be the center point for new mechanics and development. The Treasury - this is where the most precious gifts are kept: gold, rare artifacts, forgotten tunes and, perhaps a few declarations of love. This place will generously reward those who know how to wait... and plan. You will be expected to: A massive enhancement for your collection An emerald key that will open some doors forever. New unique artworks - for true connoisseurs The dungeon is dark and mys…
- 0.61c - 28 April 2025
Additions and changes: Fixed a bug with inability to single improve multipliers in arena. Added shortened views for spice, jelly dwarfs, and magic stone selection menus. Confirmation action is now required before building in your lands. Next to the hero's weapon information, there is now a tooltip with critical damage information. In the squad window, when dragging an item, you can keep the mouse clamped on the item, and take a quantity greater than 1. (Experimental feature) It is now possible to manually enter number of items when buying and selling on the market. Option has been added to the advanced options.
- Lord Bard part II - 21 March 2025
Bard was finally able to find full time workers to build Dark tower, Legatus house, Art academy, and Dragon monument. Dark tower - unlocks access to lost undead research. Legatus house - learn a couple new moves from an old warlord! Learn the history of an old man's, and dive into an epic campaign from the days of his youth. Art Academy - bard loves paintings that were shown at last royal exhibition. But to use them, you'll have to buy licenses! Dragon Monument - You can use it to perform 8 new rituals using dragon blood. Added one improvement to Manor. Added one improvement to Forge. Our name is Legion New quest for Legionaries. Defeat barbarian tribes that stand in your way and earn glory within the Empire. Additions and improvements: Animation of getting dragon blood bonuses no longer interrupts choices. Fixed a bug where illustration would not give out flowers in Chapter 10. Added t…
- 0.60c - 6 February 2025
Changes 0.60b and 0.60c - Cart of peppers no longer causes game to crash. - Lich interacting with caravan no longer causes game crash. - Turning dead heroes into a flower no longer causes game crash. - Creating a cart subtracts required resources. - In auto hand mode, chiromancy hands are no longer purchased in background when game has just started and there are no heroes purchased. - Fixed a bug where you could buy more than 24 heroes with a cart in a squad. - Fixed a bug where you couldn't finish a ballad in the quest without slogans. - Caravans now appear in quest. - Optimized fire and cheese shurikens, which should have a positive impact on performance. - Tarot card has been removed from deck. - Changed effect of line (Melee Heroes have a 10% chance to inflict additional damage to enemy. Damage equal to 10% of hero current HP.). Note: - As of version 0.60, you cannot collect trees o…
- Carts. Slogans. Cliche. - 31 January 2025
Carts Carts can now be assembled in the workshop! A cart takes up 6 places in a squad. The following carts are available for assembly: - Cart of fame - Сart of provisions - Magic cart - Cart of flags - Cart of songs - Cart of Wonders - Stargazer's cart - Cart of Peppers Slogans A new skill in the workers house - Slogans! Execute a plan, choose one of 10 bravura slogans and motivate your workers for new achievements! Slogans can also be used as lines for a ballad. Cliche A new book has been added - Cliche Why make up new characters when you have old ones? Memorize one character, give him a name, and use him in all your ballads! Unlock new strategic possibilities by taking your favorite on any quest where its presence is forbidden. (Does not apply to the working class) Additions and changes: Added a quick T key for the teleportation rune. Added button in the upper left corner of the scree…
- Lord Bard - Part 1 - 28 December 2024
Illegal Turtle team wishes you a Happy New Year! Thank you for staying with us and playing Bard Idle! We wish you prosperity and good health. Lord Bard is a big mechanic, and we decided to split patch into two parts, one to show you before the new year and one after. Meet...*the curtain opens* Lord Bard Part I The king has announced start bidding for land, to which the best bards from all kingdoms are admitted. Once you buy the land, you will own a vast plateau to build structures to suit your tastes. You can build a workshop to sew flags for your momentous campaigns, or you can learn alternative ways of forging weapons at the forge. New quest - Practice makes perfect! Hire workers to develop lands worthy of the King himself. Only carpenters, masons, and jewellers are available for hire to obtain resources for you and unlock building blueprints. P.S. Workers love jelly Caravans and Trad…
- Bard News. Preparing mechanics - Castle - 7 December 2024
- Pets - 1 November 2024
The College of Bards has allowed you to take magical pets from their own kennel on adventures! The cuties are very bored and need attention, hurry up to meet them, because a magical pet will always help their friends. Additions and changes: Fixed a bug where mages with a ban on casting spells could still cast spells. Corrected sequence of multipliers applied to heroes' characteristics. Additional option disables more effects. Changed condition of line. additional option is now called and has an additional mode. Caravans now start appearing less frequently in areas that have already been robbed.
- Marmalade League - 22 October 2024
Honor and glory awaits everyone who conquers the heights of poetic art! All bards who have reached Marmalade League receive a letter from the College of Bards from its director. In letter is an invitation to a fateful meeting that could change course of history. Additions and Changes: Added an alternate effect for some class items that did not work with certain factions. Changed class item effect for cheese mages. Added option to skip illustration animation to advanced options. Option is available if player has drawn an illustration at least once. Some illustrations have been improved. An option . Adjusted behavior of heroes with silver weapons. Added book . Added new spells for butterfly mages, bubble mages, and cheese mages in their respective books. is now subdivided into ranks. Each new rank increases inflow of pens and unburnable manuscripts. Adjusted initiative of enemies' moves.…
- 0.56b - 15 September 2024
Clarified class item description for happy monk if a faction cunning monk or monkey king is selected. Lich's wand now gets a bonus from line . Lich's wand now receives a bonus from line . Lich's wand gets a bonus from line . Description of lines related to priests has been clarified. Line now applies to master candle. Line now applies to master candle. Butterfly katana gains bonuses from “Moisten the blades”. Carp seasoning now always applies effect on soup. Improved auto stone algorithm. Fixed a bug with heroes being able to infinitely swap places. Fixed a bug with negative damage associated with tarot card DEATH. Dark hand no longer tries to raise dead hero that have just been raised. Fixed a bug causing critical error when taking damage from Grozny rune dragon and having JUSTICE card. Fixed a bug with inability to get turquoise glowing dye. Fixed a bug with inability to get green X-r…
- New Zones, Dyes, Cookbook, Secrets of the Hand - 6 September 2024
New zones From zone 200 heroes' path runs through the orc lands. The thirst for profit makes the heroes visit more and more dangerous places. Monks of soaring Semaran do not welcome visitors, and some treasures of Ar-Bazar ruins have been enchanted and are to be feared. An additional 10 more marvelous compositions have been written by bards of kingdoms. Dyes In factions menu you can now dye various parts of class equipment with available dye. There are 96 dyes in game, each of which you will have to unlock by completing a special task for it. Cookbook and Mystery of the Hand Two more books have become available for learning, which will help you automate obtaining of spices and chiromancy hands. Additions and changes: - Auto-select filters in jelly dwarf and stone selection menu have been improved. You can now mark selected stones/dwarfs as favorites to prioritize them even higher. - Des…
- Dragon obelisk. Double roast. Mechanization. - 10 August 2024
Recent earthquake near ancient Basilica has revealed a secret passage to a long-forgotten dragon utopia. There dwell rune dragons with incredible and mysterious powers. Some ancient civilization has also left its mark in these lands in form of Dragon obelisk. Obelisk grants great power to whoever can complete it. Added new mechanic - Dragon obelisk Collect rune dragon blood and basalt to fill Dragon obelisk with magical runes. Each rune path contains its own unique set of bonuses, and all paths converge at top of obelisk. Added new mode - Double roast It can be unlocked by reaching the diamond league. In this mode, twice as many enemies appear and they are stronger. There are twice as many Dragons and Toads. Added new book - Mechanization It will automate the selection of stones and jelly gnomes, distribution of stones and flowers between heroes and upgrading of jelly gnomes in candy ho…
- Factions - 15 July 2024
The High Magi observe unnatural fluctuations of power in all corners of the world. Ancient secrets are slowly coming to light, and with them various factions from distant lands that many have never heard of. Their outfits are made by the best of the best fashion designers and blacksmiths. It's not easy to weave a fireproof cloak or forge a heavy-duty helmet that can support the full weight of a forest toad. A faction menu has been added to the candy house, where you can select the available faction looks for the respective class. Additions and changes: Fixed a bug with auto gnomes where selecting auto gnomes only for your favorite heroes would still distribute jelly for everyone. Fixed a bug when you write a line of ballads and while viewing another chapter, you are not thrown to the chapter you are filling, but to the next chapter. The tourmaline description takes into account the effe…
- Enchanted Box - 6 June 2024
Outlaws from around the world have banded together to rob caravans from kingdoms. The kings are not happy about this, so they enlist the help of outside organizations that optimize routes to make it harder to rob caravans. Bearded Joe says that the Kings have reached out to the Adepts of Bubic faction and the Mountain Alliance, but few believe him. Also, Joe tells of a certain Enchanted Box that the Goblin King personally sent by secret route to the Elf King. Whoever solves the riddle of the box will be rewarded. At the same time, the box every 3 days changes the riddle and updates its reward. Additions and changes: Minimize window option now applies to hiring window as well You can't give a flag to a hero unless the squad can deal damage.
