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Latest beta patch notes
April 1 2021 #3 - HOTFIXES
*GENERAL* UPDATE: Rooms holding secret items now look a bit prettier UPDATE: Explosive Box & Large Explosive Box should now work with more modifiers
April 1 2021 #2 - HOTFIXES
*LOCALIZATION* FEATURE: 100% Finnished localization (Options, Language)
April 1 2021 #1 - HOTFIXES
*GENERAL* UPDATE: Achievement localizations on Steam and GOG UPDATE: Buffed a couple enemies slightly *BUG FIXES* BUGFIX: A miniboss no longer shoots tentacles from [ehm] the wrong place *PERKS* UPDATE: Exploding Gold stacks; the damage increases per stack UPDATE: Plague Rats stacks, stacking any rat-themed perks increases the amount of rats as well as their HP and damage UPDATE: Stacking fungal-themed perks increases the amount of mushrooms spawned by Cordyceps UPDATE: Mournful Spirit can be stacked; stacks increase damage and amount of ghosts per killed enemy *MODDING* MODDING: Mod save slot support - via game_mode_supports_save_slots="1" in mod.xml. *MODDING - DOCUMENTATION* MODDING: Lua API documentation - added a "t" to a word that was missing a "t"
Mar 30 2021 - Epilogue Update
- Main article: Release Notes#Mar 30 2021 - Epilogue Update
Mar 29 2021
*GENERAL* FEATURE: New Steam Achievements! FEATURE: New Enemy: Pysäyttäjä FEATURE: New Enemy: Vakoilija FEATURE: New Enemy: Teloittaja FEATURE: New miniboss in a high-tech area FEATURE: New secret perk UPDATE: The powder pouch now spawns with some powder in it *SPELLS* UPDATE: Add Trigger, Add Timer & Add Death Trigger are now type 'other' instead of 'modifier' *PERKS* UPDATE: Extra Life marked as one-off UPDATE*: Eat Your Vegetables can't kill you fully and deals slightly less damage per tick *BUG FIXES* BUGFIX: Potions spawned by perks in Nightmare Mode were broken BUGFIX*: Suomuhauki was giving double progress entries BUGFIX*: Fixed a ghostly enemy needing air and getting stuck in walls BUGFIX*: Fixed an enemy not appearing in the progress menu BUGFIX*: Fixed Pollen not colliding with enemies properly
Mar 26 2021
*GENERAL* FEATURE: New secret spell FEATURE: New secret item FEATURE: New enemy: Kyrmyniska FEATURE: New enemy: Tarkkailija UPDATE: Brass is no longer walk-through UPDATE*: A lot of updates to the WIP area UPDATE*: Fungal shift - ends the trip *BUG FIXES* BUGFIX: Frog meat was improperly named BUGFIX: Steam version - Steam overlay wasn't enabled if game was started outside steam UI BUGFIX*: Fungal shift icon was offset weirdly BUGFIX*: Stacking lukki/leggy mutation affected the leg length of each other *MODDING* MODDING: Lua - added EntityRemoveIngestionStatusEffect()
Mar 25 2021
Also, some new Alchemy recipes were added
*GENERAL* FEATURE: New very WIP area UPDATE: Nightmare Mode now gives you the Tinker With Wands Everywhere perk by default UPDATE: Starting perks in Nightmare Mode no longer disappear after picking up just one *PERKS* UPDATE: Some new perks marked as one-off BUGFIX*: No More Shuffle was broken
Mar 24 2021
NEW BUG: "No More Shuffle" perk is broken
*GENERAL* FEATURE: A new very useful structure has appeared deep underground! UPDATE: There's a new type of gold nugget for the extremely greedy UPDATE: Small new pedestals to decorate certain areas a bit UPDATE: Slightly reduced speed variation of Heikko limanuljaska's projectiles UPDATE*: Localization for new text UPDATE*: Powders are now stored in a pouch instead of a box. The pouch doesn't break from throwing *PERKS* UPDATE*: Eat Your Vegetables damage buffed *BUG FIXES* BUGFIX*: Projectile status effects weren't always applied when they should
Mar 18 2021
*GENERAL* UPDATE: Hiidenkivi no longer takes damage from Freezing Liquid & Freezing Vapour UPDATE: Kiukkukalma & Spiraalikalma are now counted as ghosts, not mages UPDATE: The nests in Coal Pits are no longer flammable UPDATE: Frog meat is now tastier than ever! UPDATE: Added Minä to the progress menu UPDATE: Certain artifacts could be lost forever due to being killed while polymorphed *SPELLS* UPDATE*: Summoned rocks can no longer be picked up and thrown BUGFIX: Fixed summoned rocks and explosive boxes not benefiting from homing (again) *PERKS* FEATURE: New Perk: Lukki Minion UPDATE: Several particle-heavy perks no longer add extra particles when stacked UPDATE: Removed redundant entity spawns from some perks UPDATE*: Gas Blood now lowers your personal gravity a little bit UPDATE*: Gas Blood now gives you toxic immunity UPDATE*: Changed Enemy Radar to display radar blips over enemies on screen UPDATE*: Tweaked Eat Your Vegetables satiation/starving percents UPDATE*: Hungry Ghost now grants a damage multiplier instead of flat damage+ when eating a projectile UPDATE*: Eat Your Vegetables now has a more appropriate icon BUGFIX*: Lukki and Leggy Mutations make it difficult to float up in water *BUG FIXES* BUGFIX: Fixed new giant mushroom props spawning slightly inside the ground and lagging the game BUGFIX: Fixed slowdown issues caused by enemies throwing endless physics-enabled projectiles BUGFIX*: Tiny Ghost was hanging on to the tip of the wand instead of floating around *MODDING* MODDING: Added pickup_count as a fourth parameter when picking up a perk MODDING: Lua - GameCreateSpriteForXFrames() - added optional 'emissive' parameter
Mar 16 2021
*GENERAL* FEATURE: New Perk: Gas Blood UPDATE: Small text adjustments UPDATE: A fog of war effect that appears in some biomes now has a biome modifier message UPDATE: Optimized some scripts UPDATE*: Glass shards from potions thrown by enemies disappear after a while UPDATE*: "Coctails" also break into pieces of glass *PERKS* UPDATE: Applied Lukki Mutation buffs to Leggy Mutation UPDATE*: Enhanced Lukki and Leggy Mutation controls UPDATE*: Lukki and Leggy Mutation limbs grow in length when perks are stacked *BUG FIXES* BUGFIX: Kiuaskivi and Ukkoskivi could be destroyed by explosions a bit too easily BUGFIX*: Fixed a miniboss being resurrectable *MODDING* MODDING: Lua - added GameGetCameraBounds() MODDING: Profiler displays LuaComponent 'script_source_file' names
Mar 12 2021
*GENERAL* UPDATE: Audio - droplets from barrel explosions, potions etc create the appropriate sound when splashing against surfaces UPDATE: No damage numbers from lanterns UPDATE*: Added deceleration to a couple floating objects so that they're less likely to fly away UPDATE*: Made unstackable perks yet less likely to be seen when rerolling *BUG FIXES* BUGFIX: Crash - fixed a possible, rare crash when starting a new game BUGFIX: Invisibility didn't turn lukki legs invisible BUGFIX*: Sädekivi could be activated also while it was in the inventory BUGFIX*: Sädekivi had effects after starting a New Game+ *MODDING* MODDING: Lua - Added GameGetOrbCountTotal() MODDING: Lua - Added OnCountSecrets hook (Accessible via init.lua) MODDING: Breaking - removed custom tags from entities under data/entities/misc/custom_cards/
Mar 10 2021
*GENERAL* FEATURE: New Spell: [REDACTED] UPDATE: Jungle statue visuals tweaked UPDATE: Tannerkivi activates only after being picked up UPDATE: Potions always break into pieces of glass *PERKS* UPDATE: Lukki Mutation buffed with ability to climb along walls UPDATE: Exploding Corpses now grants explosion immunity *BUG FIXES* BUGFIX: Inanimate objects could get various status effects, which often didn't work correctly or were outright buggy BUGFIX: Text in some potions wasn't localized, other unintended differences between potion types BUGFIX*: A biome modifier was forced on in all biomes *MODDING* MODDING: Breaking - projectile GameEffects and HitEffects are only applied to entities with "enemy" or "prey" tag MODDING: Potion entities were updated to inherit items/pickup/potion.xml for clarity
Mar 9 2021
*GENERAL* FEATURE: New enemy: Huhtasieni FEATURE: A new biome modifier UPDATE*: Increased Haamukivi's effective range after apparently nerfing it too much *SPELLS* FEATURE: New spell: Petrify *PERKS* FEATURE: New perk: Summon Sädekivi UPDATE*: Clarified Enemy Radar visuals by hiding the radar blips of enemies in camera view *BUG FIXES* BUGFIX: Add Trigger, Add Timer & Add Death Trigger should be a bit more consistent BUGFIX: Scroll container scroll speed adapts to lots of content BUGFIX: Venomous Curse now correctly tracks who cast it BUGFIX*: Fixed a nonfunctional secret feature broken in the previous patch BUGFIX*: A miniboss was giving double progress entries BUGFIX*: Increased the maximum simultaneous spirit cap on Mournful Spirit BUGFIX*: Tentacler didn't work 100% correcly *MODDING* MODDING/BUGFIX: Custom sounds didn't play after starting a new game, unless played before that
Mar 5 2021
*GENERAL* FEATURE: A new work-in-progress area UPDATE: Polished and clarified Toimari minion spawning UPDATE: Buffed Enemy Radar perk
- Enemies within the viewscreen are now fully visible even in dark/unseen areas, and during blindness
UPDATE: A certain artifact found in a snowy area now has a pair in a sandy area UPDATE*: Luminous Drill can no longer accidentally destroy certain items *SPELLS* UPDATE: Summon rock and other spells that summon physical objects now benefit from modifiers like homing *BUG FIXES* BUGFIX: Circe of Vigour shouldn't be able to deal damage instead of healing anymore BUGFIX*: Tentacler tentacles spawned from the shooter BUGFIX*: Players covered in a lot of glue could end up inside a wall when teleporting to Holy Mountain BUGFIX*: Player could only float up if polymorphed into a Skoude BUGFIX*: Prevented a softlock caused by [REDACTED] BUGFIX*: Fixed a certain artifact falling into the ground and disappearing BUGFIX*: Fixed guiding powder, again, again BUGFIX*: Fixed excrement disintegrating in sunlight the wrong way BUGFIX*: Explosive Box spells should no longer leave ghosts in the world
Mar 2 2021
*GENERAL* UPDATE: Sima stains give Wet status UPDATE*: Slightly tweaked how [REDACTED] works UPDATE*: Celestial bodies are now attracted to lunar energy BUGFIX*: Certain rare artifacts should be less likely to disappear *MODDING* MODDING: Perk progress logging can be turned off via GameAddFlagRun( "no_progress_flags_perk" ) MODDING: Creature progress logging can be turned off via GameAddFlagRun( "no_progress_flags_animal" ) MODDING: Spell progress logging can be turned off via GameAddFlagRun( "no_progress_flags_action" ) MODDING: ProjectileComponent - ground_penetration_max_durability_to_destroy MODDING/BUGFIX: GuiAnimateScaleIn() checked for 5 parameters while it required 4
Feb 26 2021 Build #2
*GENERAL* UPDATE*: Tweaked a text *BUG FIXES* BUGFIX*: Fixed a badly broken script related to new secret content BUGFIX*: Fixed some miniboss drops not working BUGFIX*: New item had an unintended effect
Feb 26 2021 Build #1
*GENERAL* FEATURE: New item: Kuulokivi UPDATE: Combined the Weaken and Wither status effects into one UPDATE*: Localizations for most of new content UPDATE*: Made Haamukivi less common and reduced its range greatly UPDATE*: Made Tuonenkone and Marraskone have a slightly lower range on their effect *SPELLS* UPDATE: Shuffled spell unlock pools a bit, hopefully for the last time UPDATE: Adjusted the Summon Explosive Box spells to be a bit less lackluster *BUG FIXES* BUGFIX: Potion aiming line dots left 1-frame trails BUGFIX: The "launch a spell upon bouncing" spells weren't always remembering who shot them BUGFIX*: Fungal friends created by perks should no longer be targeted by homing spells BUGFIX*: A progress icon wasn't loading properly BUGFIX*: A miniboss should be yet less likely to run away *MODDING* MODDING: "Cause of death" uses raw killer entity name if entity has the "ui_use_raw_name" tag MODDING/BUGFIX: StreamingGetIsConnected() returned an integer instead of boolean
Feb 25 2021
*GENERAL* UPDATE*: Lowered chances of [REDACTED] when [REDACTED] *BUG FIXES* BUGFIX*: Potions and [REDACTED] didn't always work correctly together *MODDING* MODDING/BUGFIX: ModDevGenerateSpriteUVsForDirectory() didn't generate UV maps if path didn't start with the mod directory ("mods/my_mod/...") MODDING: ModDevGenerateSpriteUVsForDirectory() - Improved error messages if invalid uv src files are detected MODDING: ModDevGenerateSpriteUVsForDirectory() - added optional 'override_existing' parameter MODDING: Lua API documentation - improved documentation of ModDevGenerateSpriteUVsForDirectory()
Feb 24 2021
*GENERAL* UPDATE*: Fire spark particles are snapped to the pixel grid when rendering them *BIOMES, AREAS AND STRUCTURES* FEATURE: A new hidden structure *BUG FIXES* BUGFIX: Worms attacked some traps BUGFIX*: A certain miniboss could not be spawned as expected when player has traveled far away
Feb 23 2021 - 2
*GENERAL* UPDATE: Fire emits occasional cosmetic spark particles *BUG FIXES* BUGFIX: Fixed one cause of 'Cause of death: "" ' BUGFIX: Cape lagged behind character when moving quickly BUGFIX: Wands and other items lagged behind character when moving quickly *MODDING* MODDING: Game mode menu dynamically scales to fit up to six game modes without scrollbar
Feb 23 2021
*GENERAL* FEATURE: Item: Cruel Orb FEATURE: [REDACTED] might affect your reality! UPDATE: If you're polymorphed into a sheep, minions created by perks should no longer attack you UPDATE*: Shiny Orb and other money-generating items now beautifully throw the gold around *SPELLS* FEATURE: Spell: Summon Explosive Box FEATURE: Spell: Summon Large Explosive Box BUGFIX: Projectile Area Teleport no longer targets charmed or friendly units *PERKS* FEATURE: Perk: Cordyceps FEATURE: Perk: Fungal Disease UPDATE*: Perks produced by Gamble are automatically given to player BUGFIX: Spontaneous Generation and Fungal Colony no longer randomly light stuff on fire BUGFIX: Rage-Fueled Levitation should work properly with Stronger Levitation *BIOMES, AREAS AND STRUCTURES* FEATURE*: Fine-tuned a structure in the Vault *BUG FIXES* BUGFIX: Enemies with immunities weren't displaying the 'blocked' message properly BUGFIX: Freeze immunity also granted melee immunity BUGFIX: Multiline perk description rendering was broken BUGFIX*: Fixed a missing enemy progress icon *MODDING* MODDING/BUGFIX: GameRefeshSprite() didn't always refresh sprites MODDING/BUGFIX*: Fixed an overeager error when generating UV maps
Feb 19 2021
*GENERAL* UPDATE*: Made Liimahiisi spawns more common UPDATE*: Made Golden Orbs be more likely to give gold before expiring UPDATE*: Clarified some text *SPELLS* FEATURE: Spell: Rainbow Trail FEATURE: Spell: Glue Shot FEATURE: Spell: Short-range Homing FEATURE: Spell: Iceball UPDATE*: Finetuned Expanding Sphere sprite *BIOMES, AREAS AND STRUCTURES* FEATURE: A new structure in the Vault *PERKS* FEATURE: Perk: Gamble FEATURE: Perk: Fungal Colony FEATURE: Perk: Rage-fueled Levitation UPDATE: Attract Gold gains additional range when stacked *BUG FIXES* BUGFIX: Some disabled teleporters started playing audio after loading game BUGFIX: End of Everything spell was prematurely unlocked BUGFIX*: Crash on autosave restore menu BUGFIX*: Material box powder spraying had liquid sound BUGFIX*: Made one of the minibosses not be able to suffocate or take falling damage BUGFIX*: Fixed typos that affected the order of enemies in the progress list BUGFIX*: Wand traps in the mines were too rusted BUGFIX*: The lightnings caused by Cursed Orbs' clouds appeared slightly too high BUGFIX*: A miniboss should be less likely to wander away *MODDING* MODDING: Lua API documentation - added a warning about a weird case of GameShootProjectile MODDING/BUGFIX*: Lua - Removed BiomeMapGetSize() assert
Feb 11 2021
*GENERAL* FEATURE: Enemy: Liimahiisi FEATURE: Spell: Remove Bounce FEATURE: Item: Auringonsiemen FEATURE: Something to find in a cold area UPDATE: Progress menu shows how many times an enemy has killed the player UPDATE: Progress menu enemies are sorted better UPDATE: There's a UI hint to enter New Game+ BUGFIX*: Fixed stats BUGFIX*: You can run "noita.exe -fix_stats" to fix lost stats and progress
Feb 10 2021
*GENERAL* FEATURE: Enemy: Tuonelankone FEATURE: Enemy: Marraskone FEATURE: Enemy: Pienkätyri UPDATE*: Miniboss drops adjusted to have a couple more variables UPDATE*: Finetuned a new enemy's attacks and behaviour UPDATE: The Vault is rusted UPDATE: The game tracks streaks for normal runs UPDATE: Boss' minions don't drop gold anymore UPDATE: Teleportatium & polymorphine are less likely to affect you with just a couple pixels of them *PERKS* UPDATE: Removed Worm Detractor from the perk pool UPDATE: 'Remove Worm & Lukki Digging' renamed to 'Feared by Worms'; it now has the Worm Detractor effect as well *BUG FIXES* BUGFIX*: Paha Silmä caused a misplaced sprite to appear in the world before the item was picked up BUGFIX*: Fixed Projectile Area Teleport teleporting to a slightly wrong spot sometimes BUGFIX: Fixed Teleport Cast teleporting to a slightly wrong spot sometimes BUGFIX: Resetting the game after a certain win would crash the game BUGFIX: Game stats handle a certain end condition better BUGFIX: Sauvojen Tuntija spawn fixed BUGFIX: New Game+ - there was a chance that the boss arena had a wrong biome BUGFIX: UI - maximum hp was not displayed if your hp was less than 1 *STREAM INTEGRATION* FEATURE: Stream event: Friendly Contact Damage FEATURE: Stream event: Enemy Contact Damage *MODDING* MODDING: Lua - added EntityGetFilename() MODDING: Lua - added EntityGetClosestWormAttractor() and EntityGetClosestWormDetractor() functions MODDING: Lua - added GetParallelWorldPos() MODDING: Lua - BiomeMapGetSize() returns the biome map size everytime MODDING/BUGFIX: MagicNumber - DEBUG_PAUSE_SIMULATION is set to false during loading
Feb 5 2021
*GENERAL* FEATURE: Enemy: Elvytyskristalli FEATURE: Item: Shiny Orb FEATURE: Item: Hiidenkivi UPDATE: Options - Gamepad auto detection is now the new default UPDATE: UI - SHIFT CLICK now does the auto dragging UPDATE: UI - Auto drag now supports spells going to the selected wand UPDATE: UI - Gamepad - Spells can now be dragged with also A button UPDATE*: Reverted the Greed Curse to how it was before due to mystery bugs UPDATE: Testing a slight material change to make certain biomes less laggy BUGFIX: Fixed the transition between two biomes having a seam on the background BUGFIX*: Minibosses should now actually drop the same thing when using the same seed *PERKS* UPDATE: Extra Potion Capacity removed from perk pool for now UPDATE: Homunculi no longer take damage from Contact Damage UPDATE*: Eat Your Vegetables nerfed a bit BUGFIX*: Eat Your Vegetables should no longer affect healing spells BUGFIX: Attempt to further decrease the probability of getting perks you already have *BUG FIXES* BUGFIX: Key binds for open inventory should work better now BUGFIX: Minor issue - the background colors were very slightly wrong BUGFIX*: Lightning spells should now have normal range *MODDING* UPDATE: LifetimeComponent now has kill_parent and kill_all_parents flags UPDATE*: Log spam reduced
Feb 3 2021
*GENERAL* UPDATE: Effects that increase/decrease spell damage can't wrap from negative to positive and vice versa *SPELLS* FEATURE: Spell: Black Hole with Death Trigger UPDATE*: Renamed the Withering Curses to Weakening Curses to better indicate their effect UPDATE*: Venomous Curse should no longer require a 1-frame wait between stacks BUGFIX*: Fixed Gold to Power doing a minimum of 10000 damage on every shot (whoops) *PERKS* FEATURE: Perk: Eat Your Vegetables (very WIP) UPDATE*: Fast Projectiles no longer stacks due to some odd behaviour it caused UPDATE*: Buffed Boomerang Spells *BUG FIXES* BUGFIX: Fast Projectiles perk sometimes caused crashes and lag BUGFIX*: Rare potions could include a material that should not have been there *MODDING* UPDATE: MagicNumbers now has DEBUG_LUA_REPORT_PRINT_FILES for tracking down lua log spam
Feb 2 2021
*GENERAL* UPDATE: Minibosses should now drop the same loot every time when using the same seed *SPELLS* FEATURE: Spell: Withering Curse - Projectiles FEATURE: Spell: Withering Curse - Explosives FEATURE: Spell: Withering Curse - Electricity FEATURE: Spell: Withering Curse - Melee UPDATE*: Gold Magic renamed to Gold to Power to be more consistent with the naming UPDATE*: Added a maximum of 24 000 gold spent on a single cast of Gold to Power UPDATE*: Adjusted how Withering Curse works to make it less laggy UPDATE*: Withering Curse renamed to Venomous Curse to better indicate its effect BUGFIX: Fixed a rare speed multiplier-related slowdown issue BUGFIX*: Fixed Freeze Charge adding its damage wrong *PERKS* UPDATE*: Angry Ghost has a small 4-frame minimum delay between shots UPDATE*: Risky Living renamed to Close Call to be more different from Living On The Edge UPDATE*: Close Call's effect range increased a bit *BUG FIXES* BUGFIX: Fixed a miniboss spawning endlessly BUGFIX*: Fixed some erroneous coordinate math BUGFIX*: Attempted to make the greed curse behave more reliably UPDATE: UI - extremely large numbers are now displayed with numeric abbreviations UPDATE: NG+ now cleans up the old world files BUGFIX: More Blood -perk didn't always work BUGFIX: Unstable teleportatium is now more unstable BUGFIX: Game reset - perks are now more deterministic regardless where you reset the game *MODDING* UPDATE: ControlsComponent now has mButtonDownLeftClick UPDATE: ControlsComponent mButtonDownRightClick should now work UPDATE: gun_actions.lua now lists related_extra_entities for easy listing of modifier entities
Jan 29 2021
*GENERAL* FEATURE: A new runestone has appeared! FEATURE: Gamepad - analog flying can be enabled from options *BUG FIXES* BUGFIX: Throw potion and switch to wand quickly bug is fixed BUGFIX*: Material Box tooltip stays quiet about drinking BUGFIX*: Some final progress menu enemy entry fixes BUGFIX*: Guiding powder should work better *SPELLS* FEATURE: Spell - Gold Magic FEATURE: Spell - Withering Curse *PERKS* FEATURE: Perk - Mournful Spirit FEATURE: Perk - Risky Living UPDATE*: Hungry Ghost now grants you temporary extra damage each time it eats
Jan 28 2021
*GENERAL* FEATURE: Item - Material Box FEATURE: A very rare and powerful artefact, dropped by a powerful monster FEATURE: A high-risk, high-reward variant of an item for the exceptionally greedy UPDATE: Fixed Vuoksikivi not offering underwater breathing like it was meant to UPDATE: Slight adjustments to the mana costs and other details of several spells UPDATE: Enemies are holding wand graphically better UPDATE: Performance of some rare spell combos has been improved UPDATE: Gamepad - aiming cursor now displays materials and items *PERKS* FEATURE: Perk - Hungry Ghost BUGFIX*: Multiple Angry Ghosts now work as they should *SPELLS* UPDATE: Tiny Ghost may cast stronger spells depending on how much damage you have suffered UPDATE: Removed mana cost from Tiny Ghost *BUG FIXES* BUGFIX: A rare crash with stacked Faster Projectiles perk *MODDING* BUGFIX: GameGetPotionColorUint() now returns an unsigned int
Jan 27 2021
*GENERAL* UPDATE: The Greed Curse effect now disappears unless you destroy the related crystal, instead of the other way around UPDATE: UI - Gamepad - gamepad aiming stick is now rebindable UPDATE*: Tweaks and buffs for a new enemy UPDATE*: A small structure spawns less covered in snow *PERKS* UPDATE: Angry Ghost now shoots in sync with the player instead of autonomously *SPELLS* FEATURE: Spell - Slow But Steady UPDATE: Updated Sawblade Orbit to include slightly deadlier sawblades BUGFIX: Made Fireball Orbit slightly less particle-intensive BUGFIX: Tau should behave better *BUG FIXES* BUGFIX*: Playerghost should spawn now BUGFIX*: During [SPOILER] - static gold was turned to dynamic gold BUGFIX: Enemies hold the wands at a more reasonable height *MODDING* UPDATE: Larpa spells (and Quantum Shift) now add the tag "projectile_cloned" to all entities created using them
Jan 26 2021
*GENERAL* FEATURE: A new enemy UPDATE*: Tweaked electric trap box damage and range UPDATE: Alt + Enter now toggles between fullscreen and windowed mode UPDATE: F2 screenshot key is rebindable UPDATE: UI - Options - right clicking on language takes you back UPDATE: UI - Gamepad - now you can set the game to use a specific controller UPDATE: UI - Gamepad - gamepad ui keys are now rebindable UPDATE: Options - added Open Gif Directory shortcut to options UPDATE: Hiisi's weakness should now work everywhere UPDATE: Made a miniboss drop some spells to make all optional bosses behave similarly *SPELLS* FEATURE: Added 5 funny modifier spells UPDATE: Dormant crystal detonation has been reworked and renamed to Explosive Detonator *BIOMES, AREAS AND STRUCTURES* FEATURE*: Another new structure in Mines UPDATE*: Made a certain cold area have a slightly nicer layout (still WIP) *PERKS* UPDATE: Exploding Gold now makes gold explode when enemies go near the nuggets UPDATE: Certain perks may now remove other perks from the perk pool if their effects are very similar *BUG FIXES* BUGFIX: Fixed Thundercloud's lightning strikes appearing way too high up BUGFIX: Some rare named wands could end up with duplicate always cast spells when game is saved BUGFIX: Fixed game trying to open an extremely small resolution window BUGFIX*: Fixed a key rebind bug in wand selection UI BUGFIX*: Mouse cursor reappears faster in menus when using a controller
Jan 22 2021
*GENERAL* FEATURE: Controller auto detection now automatically switches between keyboard and gamepad controls UPDATE: Wand selection UI - hot keys (1,2,3,4) now work with it *BUG FIXES* BUGFIX: Wand selection UI - wand now goes to the requested empty wand slot BUGFIX*: Gamepad item quick selects are rebindable BUGFIX*: Gamepad rebinds some button names were missing
Jan 21 2021
*GENERAL* FEATURE: Two new biome modifiers! FEATURE: Controller buttons are now rebindable FEATURE: Two new enemies! FEATURE: Made a certain cold area more interesting... UPDATE: Player Ghost is back UPDATE: Pause menu now displays NG+ counts and far away lands UPDATE: The perk reroll machine no longer stops working if there are still perks to pick up *BUG FIXES* BUGFIX: Fixed a rare crash, caused by explosion being too tiny *SPELLS* FEATURE: New Spell: Mana To Damage FEATURE: New Spell: Projectile Area Teleport *PERKS* FEATURE: New Perk: Healthy Exploration UPDATE: Wand Experimenter now heals three times what it used to *MODDING* MODDING: MagicNumbers - added DEBUG_PERSISTENT_FLAGS_DISABLED - allows for disabling of permanent unlocks MODDING: DamageModelComponent - added healing_particle_effect_entity
Jan 19 2021
*GENERAL* UPDATE: Reduced electric trap box damage *SPELLS* FEATURE: New spell: Tau FEATURE: New spell: Sigma FEATURE: New spell: Plasma Cutter FEATURE: New spell: Plasma Beam Enhancer UPDATE: The Duplicate spell is no longer a modifier to avoid some recursion-related crashes *BIOMES, AREAS AND STRUCTURES* FEATURE: New structure in Mines *BUG FIXES* BUGFIX: Fixed a rare instance where casting a specific combination of spells could instantly kill the player BUGFIX: Guiding powder was pointing wrong in certain cases BUGFIX: Chain Spell was lagging heavily with certain spell combinations BUGFIX: More hatred perk affected relations of player and plague rats BUGFIX: Replay edit progress display was missing a '%' character BUGFIX*: Concentrated Mana was no longer melting certain metals BUGFIX: Cursed Orb's effect didn't work when combined with other effects like Necromancy BUGFIX: Font rendering - on some graphics cards text rendering would cause nasty vertical glitches *MODDING* MODDING: Lua - added GetMaterialInventoryMainMaterial() MODDING: Lua - added ConvertMaterialEverywhere() MODDING: Lua - added CellFactory_GetUIName() MODDING: Lua - added ConvertMaterialOnAreaInstantly()
Jan 13 2021
*GENERAL* FEATURE: New enemy: Suur-Ukko FEATURE: New item: Paha Silmä *PERKS* UPDATE: Removed Low and High Gravity perks for now *SPELLS* UPDATE*: Liquid Detonation no longer affects magical liquids UPDATE*: Glimmer spells are slightly more consistent *BIOMES, AREAS AND STRUCTURES* FEATURE: New structures in Coal Pits and Snowy Depths *POLISH* UPDATE: The Nightmare Mode map has been updated with some of the newly-added biomes *BUG FIXES* BUGFIX: Several enemies had broken progress menu icons BUGFIX*: Normal fire melted metals BUGFIX*: Some wands spawned with multicast Always Cast spells *MODDING* MODDING/BUGFIX: LaserEmitterComponent didn't set damage based on damage_to_entities
Dec 21 2020
*GENERAL* FEATURE: A new miniboss FEATURE: A new side area and two enemies to go with it FEATURE: Some new items to make looking for secrets a bit easier *PERKS* FEATURE: Perk - Contact Damage UPDATE: Clarified the descriptions of the Concentrated Spells & Pinpointer perks *SPELLS* FEATURE: Spell - Vacuum Field FEATURE: Spell - Liquid to Explosion FEATURE: Spell - Plasma Beam Cross FEATURE: Spell - Plasma Beam Bounce FEATURE: Spell - Plasma Beam Thrower FEATURE: Spell - Concentrated Explosion FEATURE: Spell - Aimed Arc *STREAMING INTEGRATION* FEATURE: Stream event - Holiday Mood *POLISH* UPDATE: Moved miniboss spell unlocks around a bit *MODDING - DOCUMENTATION* MODDING: Lua API documentation - removed a duplicate comma
Dec 17 2020
*SPELLS* FEATURE: Spell - Powder Vacuum Field FEATURE: Spell - Liquid Vacuum Field UPDATE*: Expanding Sphere deals more damage and takes damage modifiers into account *BALANCE* UPDATE: Polymorphine and Chaotic Polymorphine need more than 1 pixel to take effect UPDATE*: Extra Potion Capacity stacks and is more powerful UPDATE*: Returned Stronger Hearts to its previous strength *POLISH* FEATURE: A new guiding alchemy reaction UPDATE*: Added more audio when triggering a certain new secret *BUG FIXES* BUGFIX: Sauvojen Tuntija gave another miniboss' drops by accident BUGFIX: Rat minions won't attack you when berserk BUGFIX*: Prevented creatures from polymorphing into Veska, Mokke, Molari or Seula BUGFIX*: Fixed an error in the description of a new spell BUGFIX*: Attempted to make a miniboss less likely to drop through the ground BUGFIX*: Rat minions from new rat perks will get the same stats as Plague Rats *MODDING - DOCUMENTATION* MODDING: Lua API documentation - has type information for all functions MODDING: Lua API documentation - improved some function descriptions MODDING: Lua API documentation - added generate_lua_documentation.lua which will some day implement API doc generation
Dec 14 2020
*PERKS* FEATURE: Perk - Item Radar FEATURE: Perk - Extra Potion Capacity FEATURE: Perk - Spontaneous Generation FEATURE: Perk - Revenge Rats UPDATE: Stronger Hearts can now stack, but starts out giving only 50% extra hp from hearts UPDATE: Perks that do not stack should no longer appear ever again when rerolling UPDATE: Certain stackable perks (such as Low Gravity) appear less often when rerolling UPDATE: Perks that can only stack a specific number of times should no longer appear after that UPDATE: The Always Cast perk has a new spell pool to pick from *SPELLS* FEATURE: Spell - Remove Explosion FEATURE: Spell - Plasma Beam FEATURE: Spell - Expanding Sphere FEATURE: A selection of 6 absurd spells FEATURE: A selection of 8 whimsical spells *STREAMING INTEGRATION* FEATURE: Stream event - Always Cast *BIOMES, AREAS AND STRUCTURES* UPDATE: New props and structures in Snowy Wasteland and Desert *BALANCE* UPDATE: Stacking multiple Permanent Shield perks works better UPDATE: Essence to Power now counts player summon -like spells UPDATE: Hiisi Base lamps give weaker electric jolts UPDATE: Retired multicast spells from the always cast spell pool (for now) due to certain bugs UPDATE: Added new spells to the always cast lineup *POLISH* UPDATE: Underground Jungle's trees should no longer suddenly start blocking projectiles UPDATE: Added a particle effect for Projectile Repulsion Field UPDATE: The teleportation and blindness statuses now have an HUD element UPDATE: The perk reroll machine's cost is now centered! Isn't that beautiful? UPDATE: Slightly adjusted a secret UPDATE: Slightly adjusted another secret *BUG FIXES* BUGFIX: Fixed an odd interaction between increased explosive damage and certain projectiles BUGFIX: Fixed a rare error with the Wand Refresh spell BUGFIX: Prevented a certain cube from spawning in nightmare mode BUGFIX: A miniboss couldn't be targeted by homing BUGFIX: A miniboss didn't spawn its rewards correctly BUGFIX: Extra Wand Capacity counted Always Casts when deciding what the maximum wand capacity could be BUGFIX: Armed Creature streaming event would give wands to too many creatures BUGFIX: Fixed a rare crash with streaming event chat names *MODDING* MODDING: Perks now more clearly indicate whether they stack or not MODDING: Added stackable_is_rare for stackable perks that only seldom reappear MODDING: Added stackable_how_often_reappears for changing how quickly a perk can reappear when rerolling (default value 4) MODDING: perk_list.lua now has STACKABLE_YES and STACKABLE_NO to make the stackability more obvious MODDING: Steam Workshop uploader now supports .plz files MODDING/BUGFIX: Lua - GuiImage() rect animation layout calculation used size of whole sprite sheet instead of a single frame