Patch notes

v2.1December 4, 2025

Update 2.1

Balance changes

Heistmas midseason update

Patch Notes 2.1

Features

  • New Crafting Hammer for instantly merging in the Shop for Gold It unlocks at player level 18
  • Hob’s first Heist in a Gauntlet is chosen from a selection of three in round 1

Quality of Life

  • New Quick Upgrade Mode in Item Collection
  • Option to filter items by Star favorite
  • Items can be upgraded directly from their cards
  • Updated Sabotage tooltip for clarity
  • Items in combat and match history are now highlighted when selected for tooltip
  • Daily Deals now reset at 02:00 local time like other daily timers
  • Changed visibility of a Season Hero to always show regardless of players progress
  • Improved the mid season experience and communication
  • Added Dodge to Tooltip information popup
  • Season leaderboard button added to the main screen
  • Random hero won’t roll the same hero twice in a row

Fixes

  • Win Streaks no longer reset if you have a positive ranking change, (“Victory”)
  • Disabled Drag Offset now holds items at the point where you tap instead of the item center.
  • Resolved edge case where Season Quest progress would be lost
  • Player Profile item count and levels now properly only count regular items and Relics.
  • Fixed various ranking desynchronization issues
  • Auto claim matching rewards now stack Hero Chests on both sides of the Hero Path
  • Indomitable Snowman no longer show absorb lines when full
  • Small Present now counts for Opening a Present
  • Shared Infernal Tide now behaves as its tooltip says
  • Enoch Trick-or-Treat Bucket no longer breaks Shop Effects if it can’t spawn anything
  • Morrow Card Trap no longer breaks Shop Effects if it can’t spawn anything
  • Hob Gang Sticky Stuff didn’t display updated visuals when absorbed on Pepper Head Chef’s Skewer, Charcuterie Shield, or Blind Bake Pie
  • Hob Gang Durable Matter Converter and Delicate Matter Converter now activate properly.
  • Sage Zephyr’s Edge was missing 3 Poison on critical hit
  • Sage Astral Gloves Cooldown properly resets now

This update ships with balance changes — see the full 2.1 balance breakdown.

Balance Changes 2.1

Pickaxe Relics

Healing Seed

On Star Type Food activation:

  • 8% chance to trigger Regeneration (was: 10%)

Eternal Heart

Health below 30%:

  • Heal for 3 Health per Star Type Food every second for 10 seconds (was: for 30 seconds)

Grandpaw’s Pepper Mill

  • Cooldown: 3.6 seconds (was: 3.0)

Level Bonus
Every 3.6 seconds:

  • % chance to heal for 6 Health per Star Type FoodType Ingredient (was: 4)

Pet Trainer’s Whistle

Level Bonus
On Star Pet critical hit:

  • % chance for that Star Pet to gain +3 Damage (was: +2)

Plaguebringer’s Pendant

Every 4 seconds:

  • Use 6 Mana to activate Poison on opponent (was: 9)

Pebbles the Golem Lord

On shop entered:

  • Find a shiny rock! (Was: Go mining (underground))

Rat King’s Crown

On shop entered:

  • 100% chance to catch 1 Brown Rat (was: 50%)

Shared Shared

Throwing Hatchet

On hit:

  • Remove 4 Armor (removed)
  • Inflict 2 Bleed (was: 1)

Tidepiercer

  • Cooldown: 3.2 seconds (was: 3.9)

Wooden Club

On hit:

  • 10% chance to inflict Stun for 0.5 second (removed)
  • 100% chance to remove 1 Thorns (was: 50% chance)

Magic Dagger

  • Cooldown: 2.9 seconds (was: 2.5)

On hit:

  • Gain 3 Mana (was: 2)

Bolstering Bag

Reduces Stun duration on items inside by 50% (was: 40%)

Deathhowl

On hit:

  • Inflict 1 Poison per Mana on opponent
  • Steal 4 Mana
  • Use 4 Mana to inflict 1 Curse per Star Type Rat

Axe of Abraxas

  • Price: 11 Gold (was: 12)

Creepy Doll

  • Price: 10 Gold (was: 12)

Seeds

  • Price: 7 Gold (was: 8)

Buzz Buzz

Caterpillar

On hit:

  • Gain 1 Mana per Star Type PlantType Food (was: StarType Food)

Brambleheart

  • Stars: 2 (was: 3)
  • New Star pattern

Start of Dawn

  • Gain 2 Thorns per Star Type Plant (was: 1)

Level Bonus
When time of day changes:

  • % chance to gain 2 Thorns per Star Type Plant (was: 1)

Pyrefly

  • Stars: 1 (new)

On hit:

  • Inflict 1 Poison
  • Inflict 1 Poison per Star PetType Plant (new)

Drakefly

On hit:

  • Inflict 2 Poison
  • Gain 3 Armor per Star PetType Plant (was: per Star Pet)

Scorpionfly

On hit:

  • Inflict 4 Poison
  • Remove 1 Buff per Star PetType Plant (was: per Star Pet)

Goliathfly

On hit:

  • Gain 6 Max Health per Star PetType Plant (was: per Star Pet)
  • Inflict 3 Poison per Star PetType Plant (was: per Star Pet)

Pollen Palace

When time of day changes:

  • Star Bees gain +5 Damage per Star Honey (was: +3)

Level Bonus
When time of day changes:

  • % chance Star Bees gain +5 Damage per Star Honey (was: +3)

Frostwing

On Star Bees hit:

  • 30% chance to inflict 2 Chill (was: 20%)

Lily Pad Prince

On hit:

  • Stun a random enemy Pet for 6 seconds (was: 10 seconds)

Celeste Celeste

Elementium Ore

Discharge (18 Static) (was: 16)
Level Bonus
On hit:

  • % chance to Stun an enemy item for 2 seconds (was: 3)

Thunderstrike Ring

On Star MeleeRanged critical hit:

  • Gain 4 Static (was: 3)

Discharge (40 Static) (was: 28)

Storm Lute

When Star items Overload:

  • Gain 8 Buff (was: 11)

Chana Chana

Cinderstaff

Per Burn on opponent:

  • Gain +0.35 Damage (was: +0.5)

Frostbite Wand

  • Cooldown: 2.6 seconds (was: 2.4)

Dorf Dorf

Steel Pickaxe

On critical hit:

  • Inflict 1 Bleed (was: 2)

Adamantite Axepick

On critical hit:

  • Inflict 2 Bleed (was: 4)

Gemforged Warpick

On critical hit:

  • Inflict 3 Bleed (was: 5)

Dark Iron Anvil

On Star Melee hit:

  • 30% chance for Star Melee to gain +2 Damage (was: 35% chance)

Baby Core Creeper

When hit (MeleeRangedPet):

  • 40% chance to:
    • Inflict 1 Burn
    • Star Molten Core Creepers gain +10% faster attacks (was: +5%)

Enoch Enoch

Soulharvester

Per Soul trapped:

  • Gain +1.5 Damage (was: +2)

Reaper’s Judgment

Per Soul trapped:

  • Gain +2 Damage (was: +3)

Purrfect Mask

  • Will no longer transform Star Brown Rats that are locked
  • Cooldown: 3.2 seconds (was: 4.3)

Per Luck on you:

  • Star Pet gains +0.5 Damage and +0.5% Crit Chance (was: +0.5 and +1%)

Unblinking Overwatch

  • Cooldown: 3.6 seconds (was: 3.3)

Rebirth Mask

When hit: (Melee):

  • 25% chance to gain 6 Max Health per Star Type Armor (was: 3)

When hit: (Ranged):

  • 25% chance to heal for 10 Health per Star Type Armor (was: 6)

Level Bonus
When this item activates:

  • % chance to heal for 10 per Star Type Armor (was: 6)

Harkon Harkon

Berserker Potion

Health below 30%:

  • Gain 2 Empower (was: 3)

Level Bonus
When consumed:

  • % chance to gain 2 Empower after 3 seconds (was: gain 5 Max Health per second for 3 seconds)

Ironhowl

  • Damage: 8-11 (was: 7-10)

Bonecrusher

  • Damage: 8-12 (was: 7-11)

Wolfstrike

  • Damage: 7-13 (was: 7-11)

Deathbringer

  • Damage: 12-19 (was: 10-17)

Doombringer

  • Damage: 9-17 (was: 8-14)

Warbringer

  • Damage: 11-17 (was: 9-15)

Lost Runeword

When time of day changes:

  • Gain 4 Regeneration and 2 Empower per Star Rune (was: 3 and 1)

Pet Rock

  • Cooldown: 3.1 seconds (was: 2.8)

Hob Gang Hob Gang

Dagger

  • Recipe: Lockpick Dart + Iron Bar (was: Lockpick Dart + Iron Bar + Ball of Thread)

Trusty Trench Coat

When hit 5 times (MeleeRangedPet):

  • Gain 1 Resist per Star item from another hero
  • Cleanse 4 Debuff (was: 6)

Partial Invisibility Cloak

When hit 5 times (MeleeRangedPet):

  • Gain 2 Resist per Star item from another hero
  • Cleanse 5 Debuff (was: 8)

Concentrated Dilution Liquid

  • Cooldown: 5.8 seconds (was: 6.6)

EZ-Share Gas Mask

  • Cooldown: 3.8 seconds (was: 3.3)

Gobituary Dart

  • Quantity: 3 (was: 4)

On hit:

  • Inflict 1 Poison every second for 12 seconds (was: 4 Poison every 4 seconds for 44 seconds)

Heists

  • All Step 1 Heists now only require a Lockpick Dart

The Moonlit Drill Bit

  • Step 2 now awards a Refined Jade (was: Jade Stone)
  • Step 3 awards a Jade Stone and Gleaming Kunai (was: Magic Essence)
  • Step 4 awards a Magic Essence (was: Jade Stone and Gleaming Kunai)

Graveyard Skullduggery

  • Step 1 awards a Simple Sickle (was: Graveyard Soil)
  • Step 2 awards a Simple Sickle and Graveyard Soil (was: Grim Scythe)

The Cookout Break-in

  • Step 1 also awards a Bag of Flour

Morrow Morrow

Flamescale Seadrake

  • Cooldown: 3.8 seconds (was: 3.3)

Leaky Prototype

  • Cooldown: 3.2 seconds (was: 3.5)

Nymphedora Nymphedora

Poison Arrows

Level Bonus
On Star Ranged hit:

  • % chance to inflict 3 Poison (was: 2)

Pepper Pepper

Croissant Crossbow

On critical hit:

  • Gain +10% Crit Damage per Star Type Food (was: +8%)

Charcuterie Shield

When hit (MeleeRangedPet):

  • 15% chance to activate absorbed items (was: 10%)

The Tenderizer

On hit: (was: on critical hit)

  • Remove 15% Max Health

Rolling Pin Nunchucks

  • Cooldown: 2.9 seconds (was: 3.2)

Grape Juice Cask

On Star Type Potion use:

  • Gain 1 Buff (was: 2)

Ronan Ronan

Weapons Rack

On Star MeleeRanged hit:

  • 20% chance another Star MeleeRanged triggers a free attack (was: 25%)

Level Bonus
When time of day changes:

  • % chance Star MeleeRanged gains +25% faster attacks (was: 20%)

Sage Sage

Autotrigger

  • Shortcut Recipe: Whetstone + Iron Bolt (new)
  • Now unlocked from level 1 (was: 3)

Gleaming Kunai

  • Now unlocked from level 3 (was: 5)

Plague Ichor

Every 3 seconds: (was: 3.2)

Kitsune Spirit Mask

Every 3.8 seconds: (was: 4.2)

  • Star MeleeRanged gains +2 Damage and +10% Crit Chance (was: +3 and +10%)

Level Bonus
Every 3.8 seconds: (was: 4.2)

  • % chance Star MeleeRanged gains +3 Damage (was: +2)

Tink Tink

Enhanced Drillbot

  • Cooldown: 3.1 seconds (was: 3.7)

Start of Dawn:

  • Gain +15% Crit Chance per Star Type Tool (was: 10%)

Portable Siege Engine

  • Cooldown: 4 seconds (was: 6)

Sprint Bot

On hit:

  • Gain 3 Haste (was: 4)

Big Clockwork Bomb

Every 12 seconds:

  • Inflict 14 Burn (was: 20)
  • Use 2 Mana to inflict 12 Burn (was: 8)
  • Use 3 Mana to inflict 10 Burn (was: 6)

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