Petrified Pawns Patch Notes — January 21, 2026
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This update brings a few minor improvements.
Player Units
Bears can now move one tile in every direction instead of just diagonally but after moving there is a one turn cooldown.
Witches teleport now has a one turn cooldown and their health is slightly increased.
Too many cooks in the kitchen
When you have too many units and need to leave a chess piece behind... The piece you chose to abandon will now be colored in red and you can undo this choice by moving that unit.
Enemy Knights
Improvement to the AI so that knights will move more often.
Laser Orb
The laser orb obstacle now disables when you have cleared the chessboard. The fire damage visual effect now ends after a turn.
Interface
Next to each chess piece icon on the left hand side of the UI there's now an ability slot, to make it easy to see what the units special healing spell does.
There is also weapon and armor icons next to the portraits when you open up the equipment menus.
When you abandon a chess piece it will now disappear from this panel.
Armor Items
Added color to some armor items icons to make them easier to differentiate.
Achievement
The achievements "Calculated Moves 1" and "Deathless Run 1" should now work properly.
Languages
Added localization for Russian, Polish and Italian.