• Respec cost has been reduced from 50/15/10 to 35/0/0.
  
• Arboreal Shaman now only summon Poison Flower when they see you.
  
• Poision Flower active and primed durations reduced from 10/20 to 6/12.
  
• Lantern Magus now only summon Lanterns when they see you.
  
• Spider-Mine Clockworks now explode after 5 seconds if they cannot reach their target.
  
• Earth Spirits now blow up if they cannot reach within a lifetime (20 for regular, 12 for Boss summons).
  
• Lecture Room Booby Trap challenge number has been fixed.
  
• Some missing descriptions have been fixed.
  
• Potential fix deployed for Royal Guard invincibility bug.
  

Here comes the great 1.0 update to finalize Castle of Alchemists Early Access period!!

Thank you people for sticking with us through this 6-month-planned-actually-took-22-months-23-days journey!

Here are the patch note:

CASTLE OF ALCHEMISTS 1.0 PATCH NOTES

TECHNICAL

Cloud Saves

NEW ENEMY FACTION : DRUIDS!

NEW BOSSES : BALOR & YMIR!

NEW LEVELS

• Crystal Mines, populated by Druids.
  
• South Warehouse, populated by Druids and Arctics.
  
• Old Mines, populated by Druids.
  
• Crossroads, populated by all the factions coming at once, final doorstep before Ymir!
  

ENEMY POWERUP: DEBUFFS

• Impairment : Heavily reduces vision of Bellator.
  
• Weakness : Reduces weapon damage of Bellator by 50%.
  
• Blaze : Burns and deals 20 damage per second to Bellator, bypassing absorption.
  
• Frostbite : Reduces movement speed and increases stamina consumption by 50%.
  
• Curse : Increases the damage Bellator takes by 50%.
  

XP & SKILL REVAMPS

Revamped Skills

• Eyes Mutation : Reduces the effects and duration of Impairment on Bellator by 50 percent.
  
• Bones : Grants 4 damage absorption per level.
  
• Bones Mutation : Reduces the effects and duration of Frostbite on Bellator by 50 percent.
  
• Lung Capacity : Increases Stamina by 10 percent per level.
  
• Lung Capacity Mutation : Reduces the effects and duration of Weakness on Bellator by 50 percent.
  
• Reflexes : Increases Dodge chance by 8 percent per level.
  
• Reflexes Mutation : Reduces the duration of Blaze on Bellator by 50 percent.
  
• Muscle Density Mutation : Reducing your weight increases your Melee Damage, up 50 percent at half weight.
  

• Vial Training : Reduces cooldown 7 percent per level.
  
• Clockwork Training : Increases duration 10 percent per level.
  
• Turret Training : Increases radius by 10 percent per level.
  
• Booby Trap Training : Increases damage by 10 percent per level.
  
• Booby Trap Advanced Training : You longer play an animation while deploying booby traps.
  
• Alchemical Training : Increases elemental damage of weapons by 10 percent per level.
  
• Alchemical Advanced Training : Dealing elemental damage with weapon grants 1 charge. At 10 charge, an elemental explosion occurs on the enemy same as the weapon element.
  
• Mechanical Training : Increases physical damage of weapons by 10 percent per level.
  
• Mechanical Advanced Training : Reduces your active cooldowns by 0.5 second per critical strike.
  
• Melee Weapon Training : Reduces stamina cost of the melee weapons by 10 percent per rank.
  
• Melee Weapon Advanced Training : Killing enemies in melee increases melee damage by 5 percent, stacks up to 5 times seperately.
  
• Ranged Weapon Training : Increases crit chance of the ranged weapons by flat 2 percent per rank.
  

We are about to bring full pain to invaders with upcoming 1.0 release of Castle of Alchemists at April 10th!

• Support for cloud saves!
  
• Brand new levels with revamped level progression
  
• A whole new faction with 13 new enemies
  
• 2 new bosses
  
• Revamped Skill Trees
  
• New abilities for enemies to debuff Bellator
  
• A long list of balance changes
  
• A closure to the events at the castle.
  

Get ready to rumble!

Quality of Life Updates

• Trap Selection section of the Workshop now displays what the trap does with a video when you hover over type selection for the trap.
  
• You can now skip tutorials indivually at main base. You still need to play the movement tutorials and introduction level at the beginning. We are working on a way that you can skip whole tutorials when you start a new save file.
  
• Win Screen at the end of the level now shows how many Dual Mix, Triad and Elemental Flux combos you got. Hovering over the combo symbols now shows a small description for what you need to do to achieve these combo types.
  
• Hovering over Victory Skulls at the Win Screen now displays a small information screen right below, showing what needs to be done for Flawless Victory and your score compared to that.
  

Bug Fixes

• Bug where you cannot sell traps after building a tower; unless you right click, has been fixed.
  
• Bug where Bird Clockwork - Electric does not apply conditions have been fixed.
  
• Bug where Acid Tower's range is not shown correctly through ground layers have been fixed.
  
• Some localization has been fixed for items.
  

• Ironworks Storage wave balance has been adjusted. It no longer has Lantern Magus (lantern summoning mages), instead Veiled Magus (fire ball throwing mage).
  
• Iron grates on the ground that are present in the levels (Warehouse Floors, West Warehouse, Blacksmith Wings and Magma Reserves) now conduct electiricity.
  
• A bug where the new levels do not count towards finished levels for 2nd scroll has been fixed.
  
• Main menu visuals have been updated.

NEW BOSS : GRINNING SULTAN

NEW ENEMIES

Ice Faction Enemies

• Added a new enemy, Arctic Jotun Warlord. Armored version of the Jotun with a devastating area of effect ice attack.
  

NEW LEVELS

• Added a new level to the 2nd scroll, Iron Mines, as a branch for Blacksmith Wings.
  
• Added a new level to the 2nd scroll, Magma Chambers, as the arena of the new boss.
  

NEW TRAPS

Trap Bases

• Brand new trap type, Impaler Trap, has been added to the game. Hits a single enemy for massive damage, if it kills a non-heavy unit, its corpse is impaled on the trap. After a brief moment, it fills the corpse with chemicals and primes itself. Default version explodes the corpse dealing massive damage around with pieces of it.
  
• Brand new trap type, Peg Top Trap, has been added to the game. It is a ceiling trap, releasing a giant peg top, which can bounce off the walls. Default version releases a knocking peg top, which pushes enemies back with each hit and can bounce more than other versions.
  

Variant Traps

• Impaler - Poison, variant for Impaler trap. Fills the corpse with toxic fumes, when primed explodes the corpse, releasing poisonous gasses.
  
• Impaler - Marking, variant for Impaler trap. Fills the corpse with fluids which increases the blood viscosity, when primed explodes the corpse, applying Marked condition in a large area.
  
• Peg Top Trap - Blades, variant for Peg Top trap. Giant peg top applies bleed as it passes through enemies.
  
• Peg Top Trap - Dynamo, variant for Peg Top trap. Giant peg top that gains electri charge as it gains momentum, and shocks nearby enemies.
  
• Cannon Shooter, variant for Shooter Trap. A giant cannon with a trigger area further from the trap. Bombards the area when triggered.
  
• Iron Fist, variant for Mechanical Ceiling Trap. A giant iron fist, pounds the ground with extreme force, dealing massive damage directly below and applies Slow condition to enemies in large area.
  
• Cyro Bellows, variant for Furnace Trap. Instead of burning enemies, it applies heavy chill to them.
  

NEW CANNONS & CONSUMABLES

• Added a new shoulder cannon, Gatherer Shot. Gathers enemies in front of you and stuns them.
  
• Added a new shoulder cannon, Toxic Blast. A heavy blast that deals acid damage, leaves acid puddles and poison clouds behind.
  
• Added a new consumable, Focus Pellets. Consuming one allows you to crit every ranged hit for 8 seconds.
  
• Added a new consumable, Iron Skin Syringe. Using one grants damage reduction, fast healing and immunity to poise break for 20 seconds.
  

ITEM REWORKS

Alchemical Greatsword

• Alchemical Greatsword Poison, has been reworked to apply Poison all the time for 2 seconds. When charge is activated, it applies Poison for 8 seconds and leaves behind small poison clouds with each swing.
  
• Alchemical Greatsword Corrade, has been reworked to apply Corrade all the time for 2 seconds. When charge is activated, it applies Corrade for 8 seconds and leaves behind small acid puddles with each swing.
  
• Alchemical Greatsword Frost, has been reworked to apply Chill all the time for 2 seconds. When charge is activated, it applies Chill for 8 seconds.
  
• Alchemical Greatsword Marking, has been reworked into Slayer Sword. It has now very strong physical stats with an increased weight. When charge is activated, it drains health by 35 per second but increases the damage it deals by 50%.
  

Spider Clockwork

• Spider Clockwork Acid has been rework to work like shooter turret. It targets the furthest enemy within range. While it travels towards to target, it deals acid damage around. When it reaches target and explodes, applies Corrade to enemies.
  
• Spider Clockwork Oil has been rework to work like shooter turret. It targets the furthest enemy within range. While it travels towards to target, it applies Oiled to enemies. When it reaches target and explodes, leaves behind an oil puddle.
  

Shooter Turret

• Shooter Turret Piercing has been reworked into Shooting Turret Saws. Now it sends out saws that travels on the ground till it hits a wall. See the saw rework below.
  

Core Hammer

• Furnace Hammer's final hit while its charge is active now sends out flames that deals damage and can ignite flammables.
  

Shoulder Cannons

• Heavy Blast cooldown has been reduced from 90 seconds to 60 seconds.
  
• Freezing Blast cooldown has been reduced from 60 seconds to 45 seconds.
  

SKILL REWORKS

• Tough Skin's level 5 mutation has been reworked. Previously it granted damage reduction on certain conditions. Now it directly increases the number of consumables you can use by 2.
  

CONDITON REWORKS

• Poison condition now doubles the effects of bleed.
  
• Bleed condition now deals damage according to movespeed of the enemy, while they move. You can apply multiple stacks of Bleed, up to 5. Applying Bleed refreshes the duration for all stacks.
  
• Saws that travel on the ground now apply Bleed condition. This works for Saw Shooter Trap, Shooter Turret Saws & Mechanical Trap Saws. It does not work for Saw Trap and its variants.
  
• Marked condition now effects turrets too.
  
• Wet condition now amplifies the applied Chill by 100 percent rather than immediately freezing chilled enemies.
  
• Caltrops no longer applies Bleed, only Slow.
  

QoL OPTIONS

• We have added a new option to both main menu and pause menu, Aimed Camera. You can now toggle between the current aim system where the camera moves towards your aim in combat mode, or a static one where the camera is fixed to keep Bellator at the center.
  
  This has been request to reduce the amount of motion sickness. We are still working on that.
  

New Melee Weapon - Power Gauntlets

• Power Gauntlets - Quake
  Alternative hits pounds the ground, dealing damage in a large radius. Each hit requires 25% charge, and can be alternated withouth breaking your attack combo.
  
  
• Power Gauntlets - Smash
  Alternative hits smashes the ground, slowing enemies in a large radius for 10 seconds at 50% charge, stunning them at 100% charge.
  
  
• Power Gauntlets - Haymaker
  At 100% charge, alternative hit kills the first non-heavy enemy it connects, sending its corpse flying back damaging any enemy it hits for 350 physical damage.
  

Quality of Life Updates

• All Crank Gun versions now go into reload when you hold down the attack button and have no steam pressure (ammo) left. Meaning, you can hold down the attack button and you will attack-reload without interruption.
  

Bug Fixes

• Frozen Kills not registering properly has been fixed.
  
• Team Machiavelli intro video sound now is tied to Music Volume slider.
  
• On Hop Cluster bombs not working for Repeater Crossbow has been fixed.
  

A brand new bundle!!!

Festivals!

Steam Tower Defense Fest & PixElated Festival !

What we are working on!

Power Gauntlets - Quake

Power Gauntlets - Smashing

Power Gauntlets - Haymaker