Patch notes

v0.29.0January 13, 2025

Update 0.29.0

Balance changes

Fixes

  • Fixed issue where a user could be stuck in attempting to log in to cloud (Error code RERE4).
  • Improved messaging for iOS users attempting to use GameCenter for cloud save, who on their device are either not logged into iCloud or have it disabled.
  • Fixed bug where inflicting a debuff on yourself could be resisted by the opponent’s debuff resists, and vice versa.
  • Fixed that Scalemail was erroneously locked for new users until they were Ronan level 2 due to recipe dependency of Armor Kit.
  • Fixed that Scroll of Binding where it would occasionally not target all items it could.
  • Fixed that Razorvine had a secret ability to do Poison per Thorns it shouldn’t have.
  • Fixed that Double Ender would highlight stars on e.g. bolts that had no cooldown to improve.
  • Fixed that Life Essence cooldown was level dependent.
  • Fixed that Timeless Hourglass was erroneously highlighting Star on Accessories
  • Fixed that Timeless Hourglass would display the heal amount for both players above the owner of the item.
  • Fixed that Holy Essence did not activate its Cooldown each time it could
  • Fixed that Holy Essence did not consume Mana for resist if player was at full health
  • Made wording of Cleansing Crown description more precise.
  • Fixed bug in Quests Popup where the two timers could override each other visually
  • Fixed bug in Item Screen where it would not update when new cards were unlocked in a Player Chest on top of it
  • Fixed bug where returning to shop from main screen would not carry over any locks on items in storage
  • Fixed that the item screen was not truly sorting items alphabetically before
  • Fixed unplayably uncentered progress bar text in different places
  • Fixed that shop items could have Quest icon on them despite being in Casual Mode
  • Fixed that items unlocked through Areas that could technically be obtained through other items or recipes would not be checkmarked if early-unlocked.
  • Fixed that loading a cloud save that had a different gamemode active would not update the trophy icons appropriately.
  • Ensured that players can’t get to impossible Player Levels
  • Melted all snowballs

This update ships with balance changes — see the full 0.29.0 balance breakdown.

Balance changes

  • Player stun no longer affects pets.

Burn Burn

Burn now applies 1 damage once per second and removes 1 Burn per second.

Fatigue Fatigue

The fatigue mechanic has changed.
It now starts applying damage 20 seconds into the fight, which increases in intensity and frequency over time.

Fishing

Reefspike

Cost: 6 → 7 Gold
Dev note: This puts the item out of range for Fisherman’s Hook and Fishing Rod.

Shared

Hag’s Hat

  • Enoch only → Shared item
  • Recipe change: Traveller’s Hat + Graveyard Soil → Traveller’s Hat + Watermelon

Coconut

Every 4.5 → 4.4 seconds:

  • Gain 5 → 6 Armor

Spicy Sausage

Every 5 seconds:

  • 50% chance to inflict 2 Burn → Inflict 2 Burn

Mallet

On hit:

  • 25 → 20% chance to stun for 0.5 second

Brainsquasher

On hit:

  • 50 → 33% chance to stun for 1.5 → 1 second

Speed Essence

Every 3 → 3.6 seconds:

  • Use 4 Mana to inflict 3 → 2 Burn

Life Essence

Every 3 → 3.6 seconds

Holy Essence

Every 3 → 3.6 seconds

Magic Essence

Every 3 → 3.6 seconds:

  • Use 4 Mana to gain 4 → 3 Buff

Death Essence

Every 3 → 3.6 seconds:

  • Use 4 Mana to inflict 4 → 3 Curse

Infinity Essence

Start of combat:

  • Gain 5 → 10 Buff and 50 → 100 Max Health

Every 3.3 seconds:

  • Use 8 → 4 Mana to:
    • Gain 8 Buff
    • Inflict 4 Debuff

Unholy Skull

Every 3.5 seconds:

  • Inflict 2 → 1 Poison to yourself

Bite Trap

When hit (MeleeRanged):

  • 10 → 5% chance to stun for 1 → 0.5 seconds

When hit (Pet):

  • 40 → 30% chance to:
    • Stun attacking Pet for 3 → 2 seconds
    • Removed: Inflict 1 Poison

Mimic

On hit:
Removed: * 20% chance to stun for 0.5 second
Added: Inflict 3 Bleed
Added: When hit (MeleeRanged):

  • 5% chance to stun for 1 second

When hit (Pet):

  • 30% chance to stun attacking Pet for 1.5 → 3 seconds

Stunbreaker Shield

Start of combat:

  • Reduce stun duration by 20 → 30%
  • Removed: Reduce Damage taken by 30% for 5 seconds

When you get stunned:

  • Reduce Damage taken by 35 → 40% for 2 → 3 seconds

Added:
When hit: (MeleeRanged):

  • 50% chance to block 6 Damage

Level Bonus:
When hit: (MeleeRangedPet) → Every 4.2 seconds:

  • 6% chance per level to:
    • Reduce Damage taken by 20% for 1 second → Gain 18 Armor

Skull Cap

Level Bonus:
When hit: (MeleeRangedPet) → Every 4.5 seconds:

  • 4% chance per level to:
    • Reduce Damage taken by 20% for 1 second → Gain 12 Armor

Leather Armor

When hit (MeleeRangedPet):

  • 50 → 40% chance to reduce Damage taken by 5% for 2 seconds

Scalemail Armor

When hit (MeleeRangedPet):

  • 50 → 40% chance to reduce Damage taken by 10% for 2 seconds

Celeste

Galvanic Armor

When hit (MeleeRangedPet):

  • 50 → 40% chance to reduce Damage taken by 5% for 2 seconds

Stormbreaker Armor

When hit (MeleeRangedPet):

  • 50 → 40% chance to reduce Damage taken by 10% → 15% for 2 seconds

Fulmination Hammer

On hit:

  • 50 → 33% chance to stun for 1 second

Ronan

Piercing Lance

  • Removed: Start of Combat: This and Star Melee Ranged ignore enemy Armor

Ironwill Banner

On every Fatigue activation:

  • Heal for 3 → 2 Health

Removed other Fatigue activation effects

Chana

Mana Stew

  • Changed Star pattern (12 → 8 Star)
  • Cooldown: 26 → 27s Cooldown
  • Start of combat: Reduce Cooldown by 2 → 3 seconds per Star Food

Sigil of Eternal Frost

8 → 4 Star
Per 1 → 6 Chill inflicted by Star items:
50% → 75% chance to gain 7→ 45 Armor
Removed: On Shop Entered: 25% Chance to get 1 Frost Emblem
Added: While equipped: Increased Chance of Frost Emblem in the shop

Wildfire Essence

Per 2 → 6 Burn inflicted by Star items: Gain 1 → 3 Haste

Searing Wand

On hit:

  • Added:Inflict 1 Burn
  • On hit: Use 4 → 3 Mana to inflict 2 Burn

Hungry Wand

On hit:

  • Added: Inflict 1 Burn
  • Use 5 → 4 Mana to inflict 3 Burn

Blazing Rod

On hit:

  • Added: 50% chance to Inflict 3 Burn
  • Use 6 → 5 Mana to inflict 3 Burn

Cinderstaff

On hit:

  • Added: 50% chance to Inflict 3 Burn
  • Use 10 → 6 Mana to inflict 5 Burn

Conflagration Staff

On hit:

  • Added: 50% chance to Inflict 3 Burn
  • Use 14 → 8 Mana to inflict 7 Burn

Per Burn on opponent:

  • Gain +0.25 → 1 Damage

Marshmallow

  • Every 7 → 4.3 seconds

Fire Sprite

Per Burn Gain +1% → +2% Crit Chance and 1% faster attacks

Frostflame Orb

  • 50% → 100% chance to inflict 1 Burn or 1 Chill

Nymphedora

Dragonleaf

Cost: 3 → 2 Gold
5 → 1 Star
Start of combat:

  • Gain 1 → 3 Haste per Star MeleeRanged

Wilderness Potion

Cost: 7g → 5g

Hunting Knife

  • On hit:
    • 50% chance to gain 2 Haste → Gain 2 Haste

Added

  • On critical hit:
    • Inflict 1 Bleed

Elven Blade

New Recipe:

  • Hunting Knife + Eagle Eye → Hunting Knife + Wilderness Potion

Start of combat:

  • Gain +5% Crit Chance and +20 → 10% Crit Damage per Star Dragonleaf
  • On hit:
    • 50% chance to gain 3 Haste → Gain 2 Haste

Added

  • On critical hit:
    • Inflict 2 Bleed

Stalker’s Shiv

Cost: 13 → 15 Gold
Start of combat:

  • Gain +15 → 10% Crit Chance and +30 → 20% Crit Damage per Star Dragonleaf
  • On hit:
    • 50% chance to gain 4 Haste → Gain 2 Haste

Added

  • On critical hit:
    • Inflict 3 Bleed

Shadow Armor

Added
When hit (MeleeRangedPet):

  • 40% chance to reduce Damage taken by 5% for 2 seconds

Predator Scales

When hit (MeleeRangedPet):

  • 50 → 40% chance to reduce Damage taken by 10% → 15% for 2 seconds

Arrow Sheath

Cost: 7 → 8 Gold

Quiver of Speed

Cost: 12 → 15 Gold

Deathshot

Cost: 17 → 24 Gold

Dragonleaf Sapling

Added: On shop entered: Get a Dragonleaf

Evergreen Arc

On hit:

  • Gain +2 Damage → Gain 2 Haste and 3 Luck

Tink

Barbed Spring

Cost: 12 → 7 Gold

Forest Mower

Cost: 36 → 27 Gold

Buzz

Drakefly

Added recipe:

  • Pyrefly + Arcanefly + Arcanefly → Drakefly

Scorpionfly

Added recipe:

  • Drakefly + Pyrefly + Pyrefly → Scorpionfly

Goliathfly

Added recipe:

  • Scorpionfly + Drakefly+Drakefly → Goliathfly

Sage

Timeless Hourglass

Added
Start of combat:

  • Star MeleeRanged gains +1% Crit Damage per second for 60 seconds

Removed
Health below 20%:

  • Star MeleeRanged gains +6 Damage and +10% Crit Chance per second for 5 seconds

Enoch

Soul Stealing → Soul Trapping
Souls now keep counting upwards rather than get consumed by items.
Souls are now Trapped instead of Stolen to minimize confusion with steal buff mechanics
Ie:

  • Steal 1 Soul → Trap 1 Soul
  • Every 4 Soul stolen → Every 4 Soul trapped.

Pumpkins
The humble Pumpkin has been renamed to Harvest Pumpkin to make room for a Pumpkin item type, which has been added to

  • Harvest Pumpkin, Harvest Skull, Jack-o-Lantern, Haunted Bat, and Scarecrow

Items which care about Pumpkins will now care about them all.

Pumpkin Patch

MeleeRanged → MeleeRangedPet inside on hit:

  • 20 → 25% chance to gain 1 Regeneration

Bag of Lost Souls

Recipe change: Trick-or-Treat Bucket + Eye Ball Vessel → Trick-or-Treat Bucket + Eye Ball
Removed both “After X seconds” effects
Added
When Eyeball inside activates:

  • 50% chance to Steal 1 Max Health

On shop entered: Gain 1-2 → 1 Eye Ball

Bloodsucker’s Visage

On Melee → MeleePet hit

  • 50% chance to gain 1 Lifesteal

On Melee → MeleePet critical hit

  • Steal 5 Max Health

Gourd Grimace

Removed Start of combat effect.
Every 4.3 seconds:

  • StarMeleeRanged gains 3% Crit Chance per Star Pumpkin →

1% Crit Chance and +5% Crit Damage per Star Pumpkin.
After 19 seconds

  • Inflict 3 Curse per Star Pumpkin → Gain 3 Regeneration per Star Pumpkin.

On shop entered: Get 1-2 Pumpkins → Get 1 Harvest Pumpkin

Powersurge Mask

On shop entered: Get 1 Water Potion → 1 Potion

Web-Slinger Cover

Reworked
Removed the after 12 & 26 second effects.
Added
On StarPet hit:

  • 50% chance to inflict 1 Chill per Star Spider Web

Bat Visor

Removed cooldown effect
Added
On Star Pet hit:
33% chance for all Star Pet gains +1 Damage and +1% Crit Chance

Unblinking Overwatch

Star pattern changed
Every 4.3 seconds:

  • Removed: Cleanse 4 Blind
  • Added: Cleanse 3 Debuff per Star Eye Ball
  • Added: Gain 10 Max Health, 2 Regeneration, 2 Luck, and 2 Haste

Removed: Every 4 Blind inflicted to opponent-effect
On shop entered:

  • Get 1-2 → 1 Eye Ball

Flying Broomstick

  • Recipe change: Broom + Hag’s Hat → Broom + Hag’s Hat + Graveyard Soil
  • Added: On Hit: Inflict 1 Blind or Curse

Simple Sickle

  • Renamed: Simple Scythe → Simple Sickle
  • Cooldown: 2.7 → 2.5s
  • Stamina cost 1.4 → 1.27 Stamina

Added

  • Per Soul trapped:
    • Gain +1% faster attacks.
    • Gain +0.25 Damage

Removed

  • Every 4 Soul effect.

Grim Scythe

  • Cooldown: 2.7 → 3.1s

Added

  • Per Soul trapped:
    • Gain +1% faster attacks
    • Gain +0.5 Damage

Removed

  • Every 4 Soul effect.

Duskreaver

  • Cooldown: 2.7 → 3.1s

Added

  • Per Soul trapped:
    • Gain +1% faster attacks
    • Gain +1 Damage

Removed

  • Every 4 Soul effect.

Soulharvester

  • Cooldown: 2.8 → 3.1s
  • On Hit: Inflict 2 → 3 Curse

Added

  • Per Soul trapped:
    • Gain +1% faster attacks
    • Gain +1 Damage, +1% Crit Chance, +3% Crit Damage

Removed

  • Every 4 Soul effect.

Reaper’s Judgment

  • Renamed Reaper’s Judgement → Reaper’s Judgment
  • Recipe Change: Soulharvester + Death Essence → Soulharvester + Spiderweb
  • Stamina cost 2.4 → 1.8 Stamina
  • Cooldown: 2.75 → 3.1s
  • On hit: inflict 3 Curse → 4 Curse, 2 Chill
  • Per Curse on opponent: +4% → +5% Crit Damage

Added

  • On critical hit: Trap 1 Soul
  • Per Soul trapped:
    • Gain 1% faster attacks
    • Gain +2 Damage, +1% Crit Chance, +5% Crit Damage

Spider Web

  • Rarity: Legendary → Epic
  • Cost 11 → 9 Gold
  • Start of combat: Inflict 2 Chill → Inflict 1 Chill per Star Pet

Harvest Skull

Every 4.8 seconds

  • Gain 1 → 2 Regeneration

Black Cat

Removed Start of Combat effect
On hit: Steal 1 Luck → Buff

Cat-o-Lantern

Removed Start of Combat effect
Every 3.9s:

  • Steal 2 Luck → Buff

Crowbane

Removed Start of combat: Steal 20 Max Health
Every 3.8 → 4.2s:

  • Steal 2 Luck → 3 Buff
  • Inflict 4 Curse or 4 Blind → Inflict 2 Curse and 2 Blind

Bat

Enoch Shortcut recipe added:
Brown Rat + Boo Bar

All-Seeing Bat

Added

  • On critical hit: Gain 1 soul

Haunted Bat

Added

  • On hit: Gain 1 Regeneration

Graveyard Soil

Added:

  • 3 Star
  • When StarMeleePet: traps a Soul:
    • 50% chance to trap an additional Soul

Candy Corn

Every 3.6 seconds:

  • 50% chance to inflict 2 Curse to both players →
    • Inflict 1 Curse
    • 50% chance to inflict 1 Chill to yourself

Bucket of Nightmares

Reworked.
Recipe: Trick-or-Treat Bucket + Boo Bar + Cursed Candy → Trick-or-Treat Bucket + Black Cat + Cursed Candy
New ability:
Start of combat: Inflict 4 Blind
Every 2.6s:

  • Steal 2 Buff
  • Inflict 2Debuff

Whenever an opponent overheals: Inflict 1 Curse
On Shop Entered: Get 1-3 Cursed Candy → 1-3 Treats

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