Version 0.23 is filled with various fixes and improvements. Most notable is the new gun-based battle system. There are also various QOL improvements and bug fixes of all sorts.
The full update list can be found here:

4/20-26

• Put together most of the battle system. It's gun based, shoot your foes to oblivion and avoid being defeated yourself.
• Added sound effects and damage numbers to battle.
• Tweaked a few more of the battle mechanics. Firing Bullets drains your stamina. This gives the gameplay more of a stamina management aspect.
•  Damage dealt in evasion switch is lowered to 70%. Damage dealt during defense mode is lowered to 50%. Nerfed offense mode damage to +25% instead of +50%.
•  Nerfed the amount of stamina (from 5x fatigue to 3 x per)
•  0 stamina results in less damage dealt during battles. (20% les)
•  Firing rates and reloading times now come into play during combat.

4/27-29

•  New enemies. This will be expanded upon later.
•  Added stamina regeneration to the combat.
•  Placed in the new battle system and worked out a few kinks.
• Fixed an issue where potions would not get consumed properly.
•  Made the enemies a bit harder to defeat in the Cavern and Beach stages.
• Updated status screen so that you can see your current level cap as well as current level.(in red).
•  Further tweaked some elements of battle.
• Added new enemies in the other stages.
• You now gain small amounts of experience towards your training level by defeating enemies.
•  You now gain small amounts of alchemy experience by recycling items.

4/30

Extended the story further.

Version 0.24 will be released soon! You can find it here, as a patron. You'll also get to experience patron exclusive content like this:

P.S. - Don't forget to join the Hom Factory discord channel so that you can keep up to date with all of the new content as it is created.

- Ren