2026-09-09 12:59 UTC · Community Announcements · Kipwak Studio
Greetings, Headmasters! 🧙♂️Major Update 0.8.0 is now available for Wizdom Academy!This update brings a major overhaul to classrooms, character traits, village influence, mana management, quests, trials, and several core progression systems.Classrooms now have two live scores, Academic Excellence and Class Ambiance, which directly affect what your academy produces and how tiring lessons are. Characters now arrive with more meaningful traits, villages grant their own passive perks, and students or teachers can develop new traits from what they experience inside your academy.This update also in
2026-08-11 11:40 UTC · Community Announcements · Kipwak Studio
Greetings, Headmasters! 🧙♂️Hotfix 0.7.5 is now available for Wizdom Academy!This update focuses on improving camera controls, village influence, recruitment pacing, Headmaster’s Board readability, and several important UI and gameplay issues reported after the latest update.It also fixes character animation issues, room alerts across floors, teacher idle detection, classroom tooltips, and rooms incorrectly closing after loading a save.Let’s dive in!Building the Tower / Magical Lift now costs 10 Glyphites instead of 5.Academy Wealth in the Headmaster’s Board is now shown in thousands with a K
2026-08-10 15:56 UTC · Community Announcements · Kipwak Studio
Greetings, Headmasters! 🧙♂️Hotfix 0.7.4 is now available for Wizdom Academy!This update focuses on improving save reliability, damaged room behavior, construction guidance, world map exploration, Directorium systems, room placement, professor management, and several UI issues reported by the community.We also added new quality-of-life tools, including instant demolition with Shift, clearer floor and placement tooltips, better guidance during tutorial quests, more visible village expedition information, and stronger feedback around unpaid teacher wages.Let’s dive in!In demolish mode, holding
2026-08-08 15:01 UTC · Community Announcements · Kipwak Studio
Hello Headmasters!Wizdom Academy continues to grow and improve throughout Early Access, and your feedback is a huge part of that journey.If you’ve been playing the game and enjoying your time as Headmaster, we’d really appreciate it if you could take a moment to leave a review on Steam.Reviews make a real difference for a small indie studio like ours. They help new players discover Wizdom Academy, give them a better idea of what to expect, and help us understand what you enjoy and what we can continue improving.We’re working hard on the game, fixing issues, improving existing systems and conti
2026-08-06 18:44 UTC · Community Announcements · Kipwak Studio
Greetings, Headmasters! 🧙♂️Hotfix 0.7.3 is now available for Wizdom Academy!This update is a big one. It fixes several serious issues that could affect saves, main quest progression, trials, recruitment, storage capacity, damaged rooms, multi-floor academies, and interface behavior.We also made large performance improvements for late game academies, improved memory usage, added new feedback to the UI, and introduced new academy events tied to unpaid wages and professor wellbeing.Let’s dive in!The opening tutorial now teaches you about doors.The first time a ground floor room becomes cut off
2026-07-31 15:17 UTC · Community Announcements · Kipwak Studio
Greetings, Headmasters! 🧙♂️Hotfix 0.7.1 is now available for Wizdom Academy!This update focuses on fixing several issues reported after Major Update 0.7.0, especially around damaged classrooms, trials, teacher salaries, request timers, Learning Tree upgrades, Discord links, translations, and save/load behavior.We also added two new Trials Ground upgrades to the Learning Tree and made a few quality-of-life improvements to teacher profiles, graduate choices, memory management, and the end of demo screen.Let’s dive in!Added two new Learning Tree upgrades for the Trials Ground.Efficient Channeli
2026-07-29 15:24 UTC · Community Announcements · Kipwak Studio
Greetings, Headmasters! 🧙♂️Major Update 0.7.0 is now available for Wizdom Academy!This is a major update focused on early game progression, mana management, quests, trials, graduations, destinies, the world map, UI clarity, balance, performance, and a large wave of bug fixes.We also made major optimization improvements: the game build size has been reduced by 66%, loading times have been reduced by up to 90%, and overall performance has been significantly improved. Work is still ongoing on that front, but the game should already feel much smoother.Several important progression blockers have
2026-07-22 19:03 UTC · Community Announcements · Kipwak Studio
Greetings, Headmasters! 🧙♂️A new hotfix is now available for Wizdom Academy!This update focuses on destiny readability, world map polish, fog of war, classroom reliability, Prestige display, UI improvements, and several important fixes.Most importantly, this hotfix resolves a major issue where classroom student capacity could gradually decrease over the course of a game, eventually preventing classrooms from welcoming any students at all.Fog of war has been added to the world map.World map locations now have three states:HiddenHintedDiscoveredAt the start of a new game, only the academy’s st
2026-07-22 12:02 UTC · Community Announcements · Kipwak Studio
Greetings, Headmasters! 🧙♂️A new hotfix is now available for Wizdom Academy!This update focuses on construction rules, buildable areas, teacher behavior, doors, world map improvements, UI polish, bug reporting tools, and several smaller fixes following the latest updates.Shimmer stone, the desert map, is now selectable as a starting map for a new game.A new setting has been added to invert the mouse buttons used to rotate and move the camera.A new in-game bug report panel has been added to the Settings menu.The bug report panel now gives easier access to the studio Discord, the save folder,
2026-07-20 18:17 UTC · Community Announcements · Kipwak Studio
Greetings, Headmasters! 🧙♂️A new hotfix is now available for Wizdom Academy!This update focuses on corridor placement, construction flow, teacher behavior, movement speed, map building areas, room destruction, UI feedback, and several important fixes following Update 0.6.0.And yes… corridor placement lag is gone!Corridors now cost resources.Corridors are now instantiated with a dedicated particle effect and animation.Corridors now increase student movement speed.Rooms now play their construction animations dynamically, with a different behavior than before.Destruction can now be performed on
2026-07-19 11:16 UTC · Community Announcements · Kipwak Studio
Greetings, Headmasters! 🧙♂️A new hotfix is now available for Wizdom Academy!This update focuses on the well-being system, quest progression, save reliability, world map navigation, UI clarity, text polish, and video quality settings.Most importantly, this hotfix resolves a major quest issue that could prevent the game from progressing beyond the “Build an Alchemy Classroom” step.New quests have been added when a character sleeps on the floor.New quests can now appear when a character becomes the victim of a prank.New quests can now appear when a teacher is alone in their work room without an
2026-07-18 11:27 UTC · Community Announcements · Kipwak Studio
Greetings, Headmasters! 🧙♂️A new hotfix is now available for Wizdom Academy!This update focuses on world map navigation, ruins, room movement, mana storage, Headmaster’s Board polish, school identity, and several UI fixes following Update 0.6.0.World map icons now allow quick navigation between villages, teachers currently exploring, and the player’s academy.World map icons now react properly when hovered with the mouse.Next and previous buttons have been added to navigate between explored villages.A confirmation window now appears before destroying a room, displaying the amount of resources
2026-07-17 16:31 UTC · Community Announcements · Kipwak Studio
Greetings, Headmasters! 🧙♂️Update 0.6.0 is now available for Wizdom Academy!This is one of our biggest updates yet, bringing a large wave of bug fixes, quality-of-life improvements, balance adjustments, UI polish, performance improvements, and new systems that should make the academy feel clearer, smoother, and more alive.A lot has changed again in this version: the Directorium has a stronger presence, graduate destinies are more meaningful, villages now offer deeper strategic choices, mana management is easier to read, the onboarding flow has been improved, and many frustrating issues repor
2026-06-17 15:46 UTC · Community Announcements · Kipwak Studio
Greetings, Headmasters! 🧙♂️A new hotfix has arrived for Wizdom Academy!This update focuses on improving trials, recruitment, mana display, ruins destruction, tech tree feedback, and several issues that could block progression or create confusing UI behavior.The red notification bell now has an animation when a new alert is added to the red alert list.A new graduate button now appears when a trial is finished.Clicking the graduate button now opens the Graduate Panel, allowing you to choose the fate of recently graduated students.The graduate button now disappears once there are no more studen
2026-06-16 18:53 UTC · Community Announcements · Kipwak Studio
Greetings, Headmasters! 🧙♂️A new update has arrived in Wizdom Academy!This patch brings improvements to the Directorium system, village contributions, recruitment, trials, UI feedback, save loading, visual polish, and several important bug fixes. We’ve also added new quality-of-life features to make academy management clearer, smoother, and more responsive.Selection windows can now be moved by clicking and dragging them.Moved windows now keep their position when reopened, between sessions, and after loading a save.Error and confirmation popups can now be validated with Enter and cancelled wi
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