SHEPHERDS OF HAVEN ALPHA PREVIEW UPDATE [05/28/26]
The Shepherds of Haven alpha preview has been updated here!
ESTIMATED WORDCOUNT: 1,471,000 WORDS WITHOUT CODE
11,000 words of new content
Third activity for Red's festival route (now officially complete)
Chapter 11 continues! Spoiler alert: it's not as fun as Red's stuff.
WHAT’S NEXT:
I'm going to try to power through a good glut of Chapter 11 and see if we can really set off this rollercoaster with a bang!
(I'm both because I'm scared.)
It's a pretty straightforward update, but I hope you enjoy!!! As always, please feel free to leave your thoughts on Patreon, our Discord, or right here on Tumblr! ❤️
The cave section completely locks me out of the rest of the game because I don't have enough physique. Not a single path I tried could get me out of there pretty much wasting all the time that I had put into that playthrough. It's pretty frustrating, am I missing something here or is there just no way to progress if I only invested in magic? I feel like there shouldn't be a check to dive into the lake at all.
Hi there, that point checks both your physique and your health, so even if you don't have enough physique (which is a scaling number: the more health you have, the less physique you need), using health potions or some other method to get your health up negates needing to use physique at all! Similarly, buying defensive armor means your health isn't as impacted by falling, etc... Hope that's helpful! 👍
SHEPHERDS OF HAVEN ALPHA PREVIEW UPDATE [03/28/26]
MC in the [REDACTED] knowing shit is about to go down
The Shepherds of Haven alpha preview has been updated here!
ESTIMATED WORDCOUNT: 1,433,000 WORDS WITHOUT CODE
6,000 words of new content
Chapter 11 begins
The first conditional companion joins the crew! (They've been added to the Relationships screen and Character Guide too, which I think is so novel... it's been a while!)
MC is not in a great spot...
...or are they? 👀 It really depends on your choices!
WHAT’S NEXT:
I (finally) got married a few weeks ago! 🥳 As such, this month was ridiculously busy, but next month's update should be a bit earlier as well as more substantial, since I foresee everything settling down now! I'm willing to bet that the next update will be a character interlude or festival route, though maybe not--sorry for any cliffhangers until then! 🙇🏻♀️
hi lena! do you happen to have exact numbers for how high MC’s magic stat has to be to murk each of the faceless lords without a WOP?
for some reason, i haven’t been able to organically pin down the numbers for clochus and jarkyth in my last few playthroughs where i didn’t use the quickbuild.
i know that for blaphamel it has to be higher than 35, and i was able to do quiall with a magic stat of 60. and then with buubas i usually just flood the caves. but when i’m at clochus and jarkyth my stats aren’t high enough to burn them out of existence without burning a WOP :(
i just wanna be able to build a landsmeet, save the tree, and burn the rot out of my new bestie’s body in peace and with more than 1 WOP leftover in case i wanna do stuff with it in the future like kill tapyt or give myself wings shhsndsjjdkd 😔
anyway, congrats on your upcoming wedding!
Hi, thanks so much for your congratulations!! Normally I don't tend to answer questions like this with really detailed specificity, because I mostly like to let players to figure it out among themselves rather than asking me directly--but since you’ve already put so much work into it and asked so kindly, I'll leave the current numbers under the cut. :) Please keep in mind that there's a high probability that these numbers will change by the time the game is completed and published--these are just the numbers as of right now, February 2026!
Blaphemel: 30 Magic
Clochus: 44 Magic or higher, AND his health has to be impacted through the right choices and attacks (invisible stat)
Quiial: 50 Magic or higher
Buubas: special case
Jarkyth: 77 Magic or higher, AND his health has to be impacted significantly (invisible stat)
hi so i’ve got a question regarding the promotion to commander. i just did a run and for the first time ever i was not made commander at all. is it a stat thing or did i screw up somewhere 😅
Hi, there are certain requirements you have to meet in order to be offered the position—I’m on my phone at the moment, so I wasn’t able to search extensively, but I think that should be described in more detail here!
Hi! So, I've gained the little cat's trust that likes to sneak through the window. ^.^ It said I should get supplies... but what is that? It's not.. the pet fish... from Chandry's shop... is it?? O.O
Hi, the cat storyline is supposed to continue for a bit, but more sequences haven't been written yet--supplies will be added to Chandry's shop down the road! You won't have to feed your poor fish to the cat! 🥹
Hey, thanks for the wonderful update! I have two questions that will contain heavy spoilers for the alpha. 1. How do I cleanse Croelle of his demonic rot with magic? My MC has over 90 magic and the option doesn’t appear for me. 2. The update ended with Croelle asking me to trust him after I saved him. Does the chapter end here, or is this one of the incomplete routes you mentioned? Anyway, thank you and keep up the wonderful work!
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(My answer): Hi, 1) you need a high relationship with Croelle (50 or more, which is an invisible stat), and a variety of stats, not just general Magic, in order to help him out. If you’re a Conjurer, you need over 90 Magic, over 90 Arcane, over 85 Psionic, and over 40 Astral. If you’re not a Conjurer, you need a maxed 100 Magic, over 95 Psionic, maxed Arcane, and over 50 Astral.
2) If you saw the “Chapter 12″ screen, which it sounds like you did, the update ends there--that’s the farthest the game has been written so far!
