Wiki changelog

Wiki Updates & Changelog

A running log of new pages, guide releases and improvements to the Dawnwalker reference.

Tools

See Your Journey Goals on the Map and Back Up Discoveries

Filter the map to your current journey’s pending goals, switch plans and see which goals have no mapped location. Export or merge exploration backups directly from the map.

View your pending goals on the map
Quests

Tsarina’s Extra Day, Plant Growth and the Night Parley

Find the Tsarina’s special time reward, allow a day for the Hedgehog Herb to grow and plan the four-segment parley with Brencis without counting the signal preview twice.

Tsarina’s time and ring rewards
Gameplay

Wolf and Boar Materials, Plus Life Lock’s Base Cost

See which wolf and boar parts may drop and where they fit into alchemy recipes. Life Lock now shows its two-charge base cost, with charge reductions explained separately.

Life Lock costs and ranks
Tools

Find Items and Keep the Arbiter Armour Quest in Your Plans

Search names with either apostrophe style or a different word order. Save the armour quest from the saint relic guide, then return to My journey from the home page.

Choose a relic and plan the armour quest
Items

Bee Smoker, Ancient Fragments and Psoglav Materials

Connect the Bee Smoker to Ascar’s beehives, compare the ancient spearhead fragment’s trade value and choose how to use a Psoglav Heart.

Find the Bee Smoker’s quest
Tools

Read Books and Notes on Your Phone

Follow a link to a book and read its excerpt immediately. On a phone, descriptions, prices and related people now appear together in each entry.

Browse books and notes
Guides

Underground Treasures and Final Assault Routes

Follow the keys beneath Svartrau for The Hand of Fate and Ancient Hero’s Armour, find Erkas’s shrine, then compare departure routes and the decisions around Brencis.

Explore the Svartrau underground route
Bosses

Brencis and Xanthe: Attacks, Openings and Choices

Read Brencis’s two phases and learn how to avoid Xanthe’s glyphs, destroy her healing orbs and prepare for the post-fight choices.

Prepare for Brencis
Tools

Plan Journey Dates and Time Costs

Set your current campaign time, schedule goals by day and segment, compare planned and actual costs and see overlaps or plans beyond the deadline.

Open My journey
Skills

Compare All Nine Ultimate Perks Before Spending Points

A new comparison explains the 35-point and Corruption gates, charge discounts, cooldown resets and survival effects. Each Ultimate’s page now includes its own trigger and build notes.

Choose an Ultimate Perk
Quests

More Help with Quest Clues, Choices and Follow-Ups

Lost Blood now follows the cave clues to the merchant. The Lunar Game, The Price of Magic and three other quests have fuller route notes, alongside guidance for Premysl, Tonis, Lazar, Kostel and Zdislav.

Follow the Lost Blood investigation
Items

Potion Ingredients, Simeon’s Keys and Currency Explained

Keen Eye and Minor Vrakhiri Attunement recipes now compare ingredients, strengths and durations. New item notes distinguish Simeon’s keys, explain denarii and separate the two ritual bracelets.

Plan Keen Eye Potion ingredients
Gameplay

Save Backups and Torch Questions

Windows backup steps now explain which save files to keep together. The Torch reference covers its burn time, the oversized-torch fix and the separate Discarded Torch catalyst.

Save folders and backup steps
Official news

Official one-million-copy milestone added to the news index

The news index now includes the official one-million-copy milestone. Hotfix 1.0.5 remains the latest official patch note in the Steam feed.

Open the news index
Guides

Every Guide Now Shows Its Editor, Update Date and a Lead Image

All 16 guides carry a byline, a publication and update date, one lead screenshot or map, and Person authorship in their structured data.

Browse the guides
Navigation

Item, Skill, World and Quest Pages Link the Guides That Use Them

A short “Guides that use this” list now points from armour, manuals, ingredients, Vampirism skills, bosses, regions and quests to the guide that explains them.

Example: Armour penalties and Second Skin
Gameplay

How Shop Prices Are Built From Base Values

The systems page explains the two rounded steps behind a merchant quote: 3.69% per item level, then edict increases and Bewitching Influence discounts. Item pages link there instead of repeating it.

Shop prices and item level
Inventory reference

Item Rarity, Legendary Naming and Upgrade Costs Explained

The new rarity reference separates the five equipment tiers from Junk and Quest items, records the Legendary/Unique naming difference and shows how rarity, level and slot affect upgrade factors.

Read the item rarity reference
Items

Four Category Hubs for Keys, Quest Items, Trade Goods and Books

Filterable tables list every key, quest item, trade good and readable with its values, weight and related pages, so the thinnest item pages have a useful parent.

Trade goods hub
Editorial policy

Who Edits the Wiki, and Which Pages Stay Out of Search

The About page names the editor, lists the game builds behind the data and explains that entries holding only the game’s own description are kept for navigation but not offered to search engines.

About the editor
Player tool

Plan Day and Night Goals in My Journey

Give each goal a planned time and notes, filter the next visit by day or night, and find recently completed goals.

Open My journey
Equipment guide

Choose the Second Skin Skill for Your Armour

Compare Medium and Heavy Armour penalty reductions, rank costs and manuals, with a separate explanation of inventory weight limits.

Armour and Second Skin guide
Weapon references

Compare the Five Sword of St. Mihai States

Move between the Broken, Partly Restored, Mostly Restored, Restored and Imbued sword pages to compare their base damage, weight and bonuses.

Sword of St. Mihai comparison
Exploration guide

Compare Region Levels Before Your Next Visit

Find the base enemy ranges for ten regions, open their quests and landmarks, and use area filters on the Vale Sangora map.

Compare all region levels
Trading guide

Find the Silver Trader and Unlock His Shop

Use a written clue or Notorious Infamy to open the Neustadt shop, identify nine silver valuables and work toward the Smuggler achievement.

Find where to sell silver
Quest choices

Klaus the Brave’s Choices, Rewards and Later Reports

Find Klaus inside Ambrus’s blood shipment, compare the dialogue choices and follow the different reports beyond the immediate reward.

Read the Roadside Surprise reference
Quest rewards

The Ring: Recipient Rewards and Farkas’s Later Story

Compare the purple-eye ring’s recipients and equipment rewards, with the later story of Farkas and Dusan behind a spoiler toggle.

Compare The Ring’s rewards
Ability guides

Boss Blood Unlocks and Equipped Passive Abilities

Match five named blood phials to vampire powers, compare later-rank Corruption and find the eight passive abilities that need an equipped slot.

Find the blood for an ability
Gameplay guides

Court Anger and All Nine Edicts

Find the activity groups linked to each boyar and understand why higher Infamy changes patrols, shop prices, curfew and Svartrau’s gates.

Read the Infamy and edicts guide
Story guides

Romance Quests and Their Reward Choices

Find Anca, Lacra and Crake’s romance opportunities, prioritise A Closer Look’s one-day deadline and distinguish relationship decisions from perks and abilities.

Read the romance guide
Story guides

Lacra’s Questline, the Village and the Hive

Follow Lacra’s quest order, understand the two separate peaceful outcomes, find Ocha’s independent quest start and connect equipment, relics and recovery perks.

Explore Lacra’s questline
Guides

Quest Perks and Skill Book Teachers

Find the choices that grant Font of Life and Mandrake Ward. Skill book pages now explain access to seven teachers and vendors, with map links and searchable book selections.

Compare quest recovery perks
Guides

Night Healing, Blood Reserve and Recovery Skills

Compare feeding, quickslot blood vials, segment regeneration and blood infusions. See the Blood Craving threshold and practical advice on seven recovery skills.

Read the vampire healing guide
Gameplay

Time Costs, Shrine Travel and the 30-Day Deadline

Read the eight-segment time bar, distinguish objective costs from whole quests and check shrine discovery or inventory weight when fast travel is unavailable.

Read the time and shrine guide
Guides

Skill Books, Manual Ranks and Learning Costs

Search 49 manuals by skill, effect, possible seller or place. Find camp chests, Ancient Circles and other book sources, check rank requirements and learning costs, and follow map links.

Find a skill manual
Guides

Crafting Recipes by Effect and Ingredient

Compare 44 preparations, find recipe books and their map locations, and check ingredient quantities before adding crafting goals to My journey.

Open the crafting guide
Guides

Saint Relic Choices and Armour Components

Compare relics for A Bulwark Against Darkness, with expanded pages for the components, Vault Key, vampire equipment and Keen Eye Potion.

Compare saint relics
Official patch

Hotfix 1.0.5 improves shader compilation

The latest Steam hotfix improves the shader compilation pipeline and may reduce stuttering for some PC players.

Read the Hotfix 1.0.5 notes
Official milestone

The Blood of Dawnwalker reaches one million copies sold

An official Steam announcement marks one million copies sold and thanks the community. It does not publish a platform split or sales-period breakdown.

Read the official milestone
Wiki

All Good Things Prologue Walkthrough Expanded

The prologue guide now follows Lunka through the forest tutorial, with PC combat controls, three short gameplay clips, Shadowstep and the return to the church.

Read the walkthrough
Wiki

Launch, Skills and Patch-Note Reference Expanded

New dedicated pages cover the global PC unlock time, three character progression paths and the official Hotfix 1.0.2 notes.

Read the latest news
Wiki

Prologue Opening Guide Published

The opening guide now covers four early moments in Vale Sangora, with full-size images for each entry.

Read the guide
Official media

Opening Cinematic Added to the Story Reference

The game overview now pairs its story primer with the official Opening Cinematic from the Dawnwalker channel.

View on YouTube
Wiki

Dawnwalker Wiki Goes Live

The first release brings together the game overview, editions, preorder information, PC requirements and the opening guide.

Browse the game overview
Sources

Official Site and Steam References Added

The source index now links the official game website, Steam store page and official video channel used throughout the wiki.

Open the source index
Official channels

Where we check new announcements