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IMPORTANT: This update includes changes to how saving works in an attempt to prevent rare instances where save files became corrupted, but it's possible that these changes may affect your existing save file. If you are worried about this, I recommend that you wait for future beta patches or until this patch is out of beta.

Enemies

• Bonus base life per level reduced from 10 to 8 for all enemies.
  
• Giant Frog: Attack sound added.
  

Emblems

• Blessing of Power: Bonus power increased from 12 to 14.
  
• Emergency Supply: Minor healing potions created by this emblem now only last for 6 seconds.
  

Spells

• Base player power increased from 70 to 100 and all basic/primary spell damage power factors have been lowered accordingly to keep their starting damage roughly the same. [This effectively buffs all expert damage spells while reducing the power scaling of basic/primary spells.]
  
• Mana cost of all expert spells increased.
  
• Cooldown for most expert/defensive spells increased.
  
• Various rune descriptions updated for clarity.
  
• Dragon's Breath (Wildfire): Damage increased from 650% power to 700%.
  
• Drain Soul (Masochism): Damage threshold increased from 50 to 80, refresh duration increased from 3 seconds to 3.5, now triggers on-cast effects.
  
• Invigorate (Stimulant): Bonus attack speed increased from 40% to 45%.
  

Other

• Save data is now encoded again (as it was pre v0.1.00a).
  
• Challenge Level VII: Number of Sonic Turrets that spawn in the Catacombs increased from 2 to 4, added the second hazard to the Clock Room (Blade Turrets), added sounds for Rail Blades in the Sewers, added sounds for Tesla Coils in the Clock Room.
  
• Tome - Power: Bonus power increased from 4 to 5.
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed bug where Hubris emblem was not registered as an unlockable.
  
• Fixed bug where Electric Field spell would crash the game on cast if certain other spells/runes/emblems were equipped.
  
• Fixed bug where Starfall (Barrage) spell triggered mana costs and on-cast effects multiple times.
  
• Fixed bug where the Stone Skin spell's shield health would grow indefinitely when damaged.
  

IMPORTANT: This update includes changes to how saving works in an attempt to prevent rare instances where save files became corrupted, but it's possible that these changes may affect your existing save file. If you are worried about this, I recommend that you wait for future beta patches or until this patch is out of beta.

Enemies

• Clockwork Cannon: Attack cooldown reduced from 4 clock ticks to 3, missile damage radius increased.
  
• Clockwork Golem: Laser range increased from 16 tiles to 18, maximum and initial laser turn rates reduced, laser warning duration increased.
  
• Spinner: Maximum move speed while spinning increased.
  

Emblems

• Dark Thirst: Mana restore changed from 2% of max. mana to 1%.
  

Spells

• Rework - Stone Skin (Crash, previously Bash): While the shield is active, dashing stuns enemies within 2.5 tiles of the destination for 2 seconds.
  

Other

• Challenge Level VI: A banner message now appears when the invasion portal spawns.
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed bug where data was not being saved (introduced in v0.1.00b).
  
• Fixed bug where cooldown reduction was being displayed incorrectly in the player stat panel for cooldown speed.
  
• Fixed bug where Black Hole spell was incorrectly labelled as an arcane spell.
  
• Fixed bug where Static Discharge (Automatic) spell crashed the game upon use (introduced in v0.1.00b).
  
• Fixed bug where Clockwork Golem enemies weren't moving.
  

IMPORTANT: This update includes changes to how saving works in an attempt to prevent rare instances where save files became corrupted, but it's possible that these changes may affect your existing save file. If you are worried about this, I recommend that you wait for future beta patches or until this patch is out of beta.

Enemies

• Base maximum life bonus per level for all enemies increased from 6 to 10.
  

Emblems

• Blessing of Haste: Speed bonus increased from 0.8 tiles per second to 1.5.
  
• Tumbler: Heal increased from 10% of maximum life to 15%, effect now has a 2 second cooldown.
  

Spells

• Rework - Chain Lightning (Amplify, previously Infuse): This spell now deals (120% power) arcane damage but casts increases the damage of the next cast by 30% for up to 1 second (stacks up to 4 times). Casting any other spell removes all stacks.
  
• Invigorate: Attack speed bonus increased from 25% to 30%, maximum mana bonus reduced from 100% to 60%, duration increased from 6 seconds to 6.5.
  
• Solar Beam (Prism): Beam range reduced from 4 tiles to 3.
  
• Storm Spear (Ricochet): Damage reduced from 40-130% of power to 30-110%, damage bonus per bounce reduced from 20% to 15%.
  
• Whirling Death (Pirouette): Instead casts spell whenever the player dashes, damage is no longer reduced.
  

Other

• Runes can now be viewed in the hub room spell encyclopedia. Use left click and right click on a spell page to switch runes.
  
• Hazard - Arrow Turrets (Sewers): Fire rate greatly decreased, only half of all turrets fire each volley.
  
• Further changed how saving works in an attempt to prevent rare save file erasure/loss.
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed bug where Burst (Demolition) would trigger on-cast effects (e.g. Time Leak emblem) multiple times.
  
• Fixed bug where Stone Skin (Trample) was dealing less damage while casting.
  
• Fixed bug where Stone Skin (Trample) was dealing damage every frame and causing the screen to shake aggressively while moving and channeling with the Levitation emblem equipped.
  
• Fixed bug where Hunter's Dash emblem was not applying damage bonus to Whirling Death (Pirouette) dashes.
  
• Fixed bug where Repear emblem was not applying resistances penalties.
  

IMPORTANT: This update includes changes to how saving works in an attempt to prevent rare instances where save files became corrupted, but it's possible that these changes may affect your existing save file. If you are worried about this, I recommend that you wait for future beta patches or until this patch is out of beta.

New

• Spell Rune System: During runs, you now choose runes from the choice altars that change how a specific spell works. Only 1 rune can be equipped to each spell.
  
• Challenge Level 7 - Arenas Evolve: After completing 2 rounds of combat in an arena, it gains a random hazard. [Note: Some sound effects for hazards are currently missing and the second possible hazard for the Clock Room has not yet been added. These will be added before this patch is out of beta.]
  
• Stat panel can be moused over for additional information.
  
• Emblem - Hubris: As long as you have no basic spells equipped, you have 45% bonus cooldown speed and your spells deal 20% more damage.
  
• Emblem - Meditate: After standing still and not casting any spells for 1 second, you gain 6 bonus life regeneration for 5 seconds.
  
• Emblem - Tumbler: Evading damage by dashing restores 10% of your life and 20% of your mana and refreshes your dash cooldown.
  
• Enemy - Screecher: Flies around the player launching piercing sound waves.
  

Enemies

• Reduced the move speeds and increased the attack cooldowns for most enemies.
  
• Catacombs arena enemy types all appear earlier (e.g. skeleton archers now appear on level 1).
  
• Clock Room enemies can spawn closer to the player.
  
• Changed how enemy pathfinding works which should increase performance.
  
• Elites: Maximum life bonus reduced from 40% to 20%, flat maximum life bonus increased from 200 to 350, power bonus reduced from 60% to 50%.
  
• Rework - Clockwork Golem (previously Beholder): Same laser attack but on a clock-tick based cooldown, now has jumping movement and longer moves while attacking.
  
• Rework - Giant Frog (previously Mutant): Now has jumping movement and spits a cone of poison that lingers for brief duration.
  
• Rework - Vulture (previously Construct): Now extends a damaging pitchfork towards the direction of movement instead of dealing contact damage, making it safer for the player to attack with melee spells.
  
• Clockwork Cannon: Appears less often and later in the Clock Room, base life increased from 600 to 700, base power increased from 25 to 32, attack cooldown reduced from 5 clock ticks to 4.
  
• Clockwork Soldier: Can now attack the player at any time they are in range instead of on clock-tick only, attack lunge range reduced.
  
• Skeleton Archer: Player follow range reduced.
  

Emblems

• Reduced the maximum rank for all “Affinity” emblems from 3 to 2.
  
• Reduced the maximum rank for all “Blessing” emblems from 2 to 1.
  
• Renamed the 3 “Elemental” emblems to “Invocation”, improved their emblem icons.
  
• Agony’s Insight: Damage threshold reduced from 30 to 20, cooldown reduction reduced from 2.5 seconds to 1.5.
  
• Patience: Instead grants bonuses based on the number of cooldown spells equipped: +15 resistances for 1 spell, +30% move speed for 2 spells, +50% cooldown speed for 3 spells, and +40 power for 4 spells.
  
• Sharpshooter: Maximum damage bonus increased from 20% to 25%, maximum bonus range threshold reduced from 12 tiles to 10.
  
• Time Leak: Cooldown timer reduction reduced from 5 seconds to 2.5.
  

Player

• Melee/ranged resistances: Now grants (100 / (100 + Resistance))% damage reduction instead of a flat % damage reduction, similar to other games such as League of Legends. This allows resistances to be uncapped with diminishing returns.
  

Spells

• Significantly reduced the cooldowns of most spells.
  
• Updated all spell descriptions.
  
• Rework - Dragon’s Breath (previously Acid Fire): No longer ignites enemies but applies a heavy knockback.
  
• Rework - Force Wall (previously Earth Wall): Now summons pillars of energy that repel enemies more consistently. The player can now freely move in between the pillars without colliding.
  
• Rework - Starfall (previously Shooting Star): You gain a marker that orbits you at fixed distance. Casting summons a star that crashes down on the marker's position after a brief delay, dealing arcane damage to enemies in an area.
  
• Rework - Storm Spear (previously Storm Bow): Visual rework, the mechanics of the spell remain unchanged except range is now infinite.
  
• Apparition: Damage increased from 75% of power to 90%.
  
• Black Hole: No longer deals damage, mana cost reduced from 50 to 30, improved radius effect.
  
• Drain Soul: Now grants you 3% bonus maximum life per enemy for 7 seconds instead of healing, radius reduced from 4 tiles to 3.5.
  
• Electric Field: Damage increased from 60% of power per second to 110%, radius increased from 5 tiles to 7, mana cost reduced from 40 to 30, duration reduced from 6 seconds to 5.
  
• Grasping Vines: Range increased from 14 tiles to 18, duration increased from 5 seconds to 6.
  
• Invigorate: Now grants a flat 25% attack speed bonus and a 100% maximum mana bonus for 4 seconds.
  
• Lava Chakram: Danage increased from 70% of power to 75%, mana cost reduced from 30 to 26.
  
• Power Fist: Changed colour of effects to blue to better match other lightning spells/effects.
  
• Solar Beam: Maximum damage increased from 520% of power per second to 550%.
  
• Static Discharge: Damage increased from 600% of power to 780%, damage radius reduced from 6 tiles to 5.5.
  
• Whirling Death: Mana cost reduced from 25 to 22.
  

Tomes

• Cooldown speed: Bonus increased from 12% to 20%.
  

Other

• All arenas are larger.
  
• Poison now deals damage based on current life instead of maximum life, added a unique poision damage sound, improved status effect icon and visual effects.
  
• Knockback effects all characters more.
  
• Reroll altar sprite updated.
  
• Object spawn effect updated.
  

Bug Fixes

• Changed how the save system works which should prevent a rare bug that caused the save file to be corrupted.
  
• Changed how dashing works which should fix a bug where the player became immune to all damage (even after restarting the run).
  
• Fixed a bug that would allow certain cooldown spells to be recast while already active if the cooldown timer was reduced to zero via cooldown reducing emblems such as Time Leak and Agony’s Insight.
  

New

• Challenge Level 6 - Invasions: Midway through each round of combat, a portal appears at a random position that spawns enemies from a different arena.
  
• New Emblem - Reckless Strike: Your basic spells drain 4% of your current life to deal bonus damage equal to 300% of that amount. Casting basic spells also grants you 1 bonus life regeneration for 5 seconds (stacks up to 5 times).
  
• New Emblem - Overgrowth: The next damage spell you cast roots enemies hit for 4 seconds. Each enemy can only be rooted in this way once per spell cast. This effect refreshes after 6 seconds.
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Emblems

• Battle Hunger (reworked - now "Dark Thirst"): Whenever an enemy dies you restore 2% of your maximum mana.
  
• Berserker: Kills required increased from 80 to 100, healing reduced from 1% of spell damage dealt to 0.5%.
  
• Blessing of Strength: Power bonus reduced from 14 to 12.
  
• Blur (reworked): While moving, you gain a chance to evade damage equal to 400% of your move speed, emblem icon updated.
  
• Bookworm: The next tome you collect grants you double the stat bonus. This effect refreshes at end of combat and can only occur up to 5 times.
  
• Essence Shift: Healing reduced from 20% of mana spent to 18%.
  
• Fairy Ring: Ring radius increased from 4 tiles to 6, effect interval reduced from 20 seconds to 15, bonus life regeneration reduced from 9.6 per second to 6, emblem icon changed.
  
• Levitation: You are immune to poison puddles while levitating, emblem icon updated.
  
• Mana Hungry (reworked): You have bonus power equal to 10% of your maximum mana.
  
• Mine Layer: Damage radius increased from 2 tiles to 3, damage increased from 35% of power to 50%, mine duration increased from 10 seconds to 12, emblem icon updated.
  
• Sharpshooter: Maximum damage bonus increased from 15% to 20%, maximum range increased from 10 tiles to 12.
  
• Simplicity: Damage bonus reduced from 25% to 20%.
  
• Spontaneous Combustion: Reduced number of particle effects for performance reasons.
  
• Sumo: Emblem icon updated.
  
• Time Leak: Clocks can now be caught while altitude is 1 tile or less (previously had frame-perfect catching at zero altitude), added a tall spike-shaped indicator to make it easier to see where clocks will land.
  

Enemies

• Enemy life scaling increased from +3.6% per level to +4.5%.
  
• Elites - Gembound (purple): Homing projectile fire cooldown increased from 0.43 seconds to 0.67 seconds.
  
• Elites - Illusionist (blue): Number of illusions spawned reduced from 4 to 2, illusion life increased from 35% of original to 40%, illusion power increased from 25% of original to 30%, illusion duration reduced from 8 seconds to 7.
  
• Elites - Toxic (green): Poison puddle spawn distance interval increased from 0.35 tiles to 0.5.
  
• Bloat: Base life increased from 170 to 220.
  
• Skeleton: Base life increased from 160 to 200.
  

Spells

• Added a small amount of knockback to most damage spells that didn't previously apply knockback.
  
• Acid Fire: Reduced number of particle effects for performance reasons.
  
• Burst: Damage reduced from 100% of power to 90%.
  
• Electric Field: Now applies a 25% slow to enemies, damage reduced from 70% of power per second to 60%.
  
• Ghost Form: All damage is now evaded for the duration, duration reduced from 3 seconds to 2, fear duration reduced from 5 seconds to 4, you are immune to poison puddles while in ghost form.
  
• Invigorate: Reduced bonus attack speed from 6% per excess mana threshold spent to 5%, reduced cooldown increase from 1 second per excess mana threshold spent to 0.7.
  
• Lava Chakram: Mana cost increased from 28 to 30.
  
• Power Fist: Third hit damage increased from 180% of power to 200%, base range increased from 2.3 tiles to 2.75 tiles, knockback increased slightly.
  
• Solar Beam: Mana cost increased from 30 per second to 34, maximum damage increased from 500% of power per second to 520%.
  
• Static Discharge: Maximum damage increased from 500% of power to 600%.
  
• Storm Bow: Maximum damage increased from 230% of power to 250%, perfect shot damage bonus increased from 75% to 100%, mana cost reduced from 40 to 36.
  
• Whirling Death: Removed 2 frames from the cast animation increasing cast speed significantly.
  

Tomes

• Maximum Mana: Bonus increased from 20 to 25.
  

Other

• Improved how poison puddle collision detection is handled.
  
• New hidden achievements added completing victory laps and for completing a win on the new challenge level.
  
• Gems fall faster, reducing the time taken to collect.
  
• Healing potion expire delay reduced from 15 seconds to 12, drop rate reduced but is now less random.
  
• Unlockables are more expensive.
  
• Reduced time take for gem meter to progress in the post-game screen.
  

Bug Fixes

• Changed how invulnerability and other tags are applied which should fix certain bugs where characters would unintentionally be made permanently invulnerable.
  
• Fixed bug where FIreball spell critical hits were being checked separately for each target hit instead of having a single check for all targets.
  
• Fixed bug where poison puddles were being drawn under the clock face in the Clock Room, making them invisible.
  

• Endless Mode/Victory Laps - Removed: What was meant to be a little optional feature turned out to be quite contentious within the beta testing community and I also wasn't happy with either implementation. It felt like an unsatisfying band-aid fix to stretch out the game until more content could be added. Rather than continuing to try to make it work, I think it's best if the idea is shelved so I can focus on adding more content. I may revisit Endless Mode/Victory Laps in the future.
  
• Emblem - Dark Thirst: Changed to: Whenever an enemy dies you restore 2% of your maximum mana.
  
• Emblem - Blessing of Strength: Power bonus reduced from 14 to 12.
  
• Emblem - Levitation: You are immune to poison trails while levitating.
  
• Emblem - Mana Hungry: Changed to: You have bonus power equal to 10% of your maximum mana.
  
• Emblem - Mine Layer: Damage radius increased from 2 tiles to 3, emblem icon updated.
  
• Emblem - Overgrowth: Refresh time reduced from 7 seconds to 6.
  
• Emblem - Time Leak: Clocks can now be caught if altitude is 1 tile or less (previously had frame-perfect catching at zero altitude), added a tall spike-shaped indicator to make it easier to see where clocks will land.
  
• Spell - Electric Field: Damage per second increased from 55% of power to 60%.
  
• Spell - Ghost Form: All damage is now evaded for the duration, duration reduced from 3 seconds to 2, fear duration reduced from 5 seconds to 4, you are immune to poison trails while in ghost form.
  
• Spell - Static Discharge: Maximum damage increased from 500% of power to 600%.
  
• Spell - Storm Bow: Maximum damage increased from 230% of power to 250%, perfect shot damage bonus increased from 75% to 100%, mana cost reduced from 40 to 36.
  
• Spell - Whirling Death: Removed 2 frames from the cast animation (increasing cast speed significantly).
  
• Tome - Maximum Mana: Bonus increased from 20 to 25.
  
• Improved how poison trail collision detection is handled.
  
• Removed hidden achievements for removed Victory Laps feature.
  

• Unlockable Feature - Endless Mode (changed from Victory Laps): After beating the final boss, a second trophy appears. Interacting with it starts endless mode in which you face infinite waves of increasingly powerful enemies from any arena until you inevitably perish. See how far your build can take you!
  
• Fixed bug where poison trails/puddles were being drawn under the clock face in the Clock Room, making them invisible to the player.
  

• Changed how invulnerability and other tags are applied which should fix bugs where characters would unintentionally be made permanently invulnerable.
  
• Emblem - Fairy Ring: Ring radius increased from 4 tiles to 6, effect interval reduced from 20 seconds to 15.
  
• Emblem - Overgrowth: Changed to: The next damage spell you cast roots enemies hit for 4 seconds. Each enemy can only be rooted in this way once per spell cast. This effect refreshes after 7 seconds.
  
• Emblem - Spontaneous Combustion: Reduced number of particle effects for performance reasons.
  
• Spell - Acid Fire: Reduced number of particle effects for performance reasons.
  
• Spell - Fireball: Fixed bug where critical hits were being checked separately for each target hit instead of having a single check for all targets.
  

• Player: Reverted base power and base mana regeneration reductions.
  
• Spell - Invigorate: Fixed bug where Invigorate spell cooldown was not being increased based on excess mana spent. [Bug introduced in beta patch.]
  
• Spell - Invigorate: Reduced bonus attack speed from 6% per excess mana threshold spent to 5%, reduced cooldown increased from 1 second per excess mana threshold spent to 0.7 seconds. [Bug introduced in beta patch.]
  
• Spell - Shooting Star: Fixed bug where remaining mana spent was being calculated incorrectly. [Bug introduced in beta patch.]
  

New

• Unlockable Feature - Victory Laps: After beating the final boss, a victory lap trophy will spawn in addition to the regular trophy. Interacting with it will open a portal to the first arena, starting the run over while retaining all collected spells, emblems, and tome stat bonuses, but enemies retain their life and power scaling and will continue to scale. The player will gain no additional rewards during victory laps.
  
• Challenge Level 6 - Invasions: Midway through each round of combat, a portal appears at a random position that spawns enemies from a different arena.
  
• New Emblem - Reckless Strike: Your basic spells drain 4% of your current life to deal bonus damage equal to 300% of that amount. Casting basic spells also grants you 1 bonus life regeneration for 5 seconds (stacks up to 5 times).
  
• New Emblem - Overgrowth: Spell damage you deal has an 10% chance to root enemies in place for 1.5 seconds.
  
• Reworked Emblem - Dark Thirst (previously Battle Hunger): Whenever an enemy dies, you gain 0.3 bonus mana regeneration for 3 seconds (stacks independently).
  

Emblems

• Berserker: Kills required increased from 80 to 100, healing reduced from 1% of spell damage dealt to 0.5%.
  
• Blur: While moving, you gain a chance to evade damage equal to 400% of your move speed, emblem icon updated.
  
• Bookworm: The next tome you collect grants you double the stat bonus. This effect refreshes at end of combat and can only occur up to 5 times.
  
• Essence Shift: Healing reduced from 20% of mana spent to 18%.
  
• Fairy Ring: Bonus life regeneration reduced from 9.6 per second to 6, emblem icon changed.
  
• Levitation: Emblem icon updated.
  
• Mine Layer: Damage increased from 35% of power to 50%, mine duration increased from 10 seconds to 12.
  
• Sharpshooter: Maximum damage bonus increased from 15% to 20%, maximum range increased from 10 tiles to 12.
  
• Simplicity: Damage bonus reduced from 25% to 20%.
  
• Sumo: Emblem icon updated.
  

Enemies

• Enemy life scaling increased from +3.6% per level to +4.5%.
  
• Elites - Illusionist (blue): Number of illusions spawned reduced from 4 to 2, illusion life increased from 35% of original to 40%, illusion power increased from 25% of original to 30%, illusion duration reduced from 8 seconds to 7.
  
• Bloat: Base life increased from 170 to 220.
  
• Skeleton: Base life increased from 160 to 200.
  

Player

• Base mana regeneration reduced from 10.5 per second to 9.
  
• Base power reduced from 70 to 60.
  

Spells

• Added a small amount of knockback to most damage spells that didn't previously apply knockback.
  
• Electric Field: Now applies a 25% slow to enemies, damage reduced from 70% of power per second to 55%.
  
• Lava Chakram: Mana cost increased from 28 to 30.
  
• Power Fist: Third hit damage increased from 180% of power to 200%, base range increased from 2.3 tiles to 2.75 tiles, knockback increased slightly.
  
• Solar Beam: Mana cost increased from 30 per second to 34, maximum damage increased from 500% of power per second to 520%.
  

Other

• New hidden achievements added completing victory laps and for completing a win on the new challenge level.
  
• Gems fall faster, reducing the time taken to collect.
  
• Healing potion expire delay reduced from 15 seconds to 12, drop rate reduced but is now less random.
  
• Unlockables are more expensive.
  
• Reduced time take for gem meter to progress in the post-game screen.