Character Development

• Attributes instead of skills.
  
• Encumbrance system based on strength.
  
• Attribute requirements for talents instead of levels.
  

Bosses

• The Upper Dungeon: Bojacks the Berserker, dropping a Bloodstained Axe.
  
• The Upper Dungeon: Argyl the Swift, dropping a Goblin Swiftbow.
  
• The Sunless Desert: Synax the Snake Charmer dropping the Serpent Fang Dagger.
  
• The Swamp: Fergus the Fungal King dropping a Mushroom Cap Shield.
  
• The King of Thieves now drops boots instead of the Serpent Fang Dagger.
  
• The Vampire Bat now drops the ring of vampirism.
  
• A bunch of vaults were added for the new bosses as well as new vaults for some of the existing ones.
  

Balancing:

• Added restrictions to really weak items like (ex. short swords, short bows etc.) so they no longer drop in the deeper dungeon where they are pretty useless.
  
• Significantly reduced mana regen (back to where it was before) as part of the changes to character development.
  
• Added a ton of new tables for crystal chests, specifically for higher level items.
  
• Also added restrictions to crystal chests so they don't generate junk items at deeper dungeon levels.
  
• Reduced item drop rate a bit (way to many items in the late game).
  
• Reduced the frequency of Reward-Vaults a bit for the same reason as above.
  

Bugs and Crashes:

• Enemies will no longer try to buff or heal arcane arrows, fire orbs etc.
  
• Cone of Cold now works through opaque clouds.
  
• Cone of Cold and Burst of wind will no longer pass through pillars.
  
• Freezing Clouds will now be correctly created on platform walls.
  
• Chakrams can now be targeted over platform walls.
  
• Enemies that have a slight randomness to their movement will just move normally when dominated or charmed (they wouldn't follow you nicely due to their random movement).
  
• Javelins will now work with sneak attacks.
  
• Fixed crash: blinking onto pits.
  
• Fixed interactions with perfect aim and 'chest high walls / objects' like tables.
  
• Stairs will no longer be placed in view of drop walls.
  
• Killing an enemy that produces a gas cloud on death with fire will no longer immediately burn the gas.
  

Hot Fix 1.34.1

• Scaled enemy hp a bit higher, particularly in the later half of the game. Lots of people were noticing the game was a lot easier, myself included, so this should patch that up again. As is always the case, I'm just trying to keep balance 'good enough' until the game is basically complete.
  
• Dex now only grants a 1 movement point per 2 dex (as was the case previously).
  
• All staves now grant some kind of spell casting bonus (mana, magicPow, specific elemental focus etc.). This should provide some differentiation between staves and other range options, with bows and such always being superior weapons. I'm open to suggestions on how else to differentiate the two weapon classes.
  
• Level-up heal now also removes poison or any other negative status effects.
  

• Fixed all the attribute rings giving strength instead of the actual attribute.
  
• Gloves of strength and dexterity now give the attribute rather than raw damage bonus.
  
• The movement point bar was extending past the limits when placing points in dexterity.
  
• The players allies will no longer attempt to attack orbs or any indestructible 'characters'.
  
• Gold and items will not longer spawn on timed gates, making it impossible to read the time.
  
• Fixed: you could not use movement points to swap with an ally but you could swap if you just targeted past them.
  
• Spawners (ex. rat nests) now give exp for all unspawned creatures so its not beneficial to stand around farming them. This was already a thing but was commented out in the code for mysterious reasons now lost to the ravages of time.
  
• Arcane arrows were giving exp every time they 'burst'. Has this always been a thing lol?
  
• Fixed intelligence description to list magicPow as 5% rather than 10%
  
• Fixed characters not being able to raise attributes to the supposed cap based on their race/class.
  
• Group buffs (ex. shield of flames) were still being cast on invalid targets.
  
• Burst of Wind was not knocking back or damaging enemies that were stacked up.
  
• Enemies that blink their allies near the player will no longer blink those allies onto traps or over pits.
  

Hot Fix 1.34.2

• Shooting a trap w/ a Runic Staff of Death will no longer crash the game
  
• Upgrading a talent w/ a cooldown will now reset the cooldown to 0
  
• Enchanting a wand that is recharging will now reset its cooldown to 0.
  
• Using < to goto the upstairs while levitating over a pit will no longer cause you to descend the pit.
  
• Fixed a bug where storm shot on a reflective enemy would cause all subsequent arrows to fire in the reflected direction.
  
• Fixed blink not working past closed gates.
  
• Scrolls of teleportation will now search for a destination tile by flood searching the map starting at the up stairs. This will stop the player from teleporting into inaccessible areas while still allowing teleport to get you out of otherwise trapped positions. The issue here was that previously it was flooding from the players position so if you had blinked into a treasure vault, a teleport scroll wouldn't get you out.
  
• Fixed charging enemies passing through objects directly in front of them on the first turn.
  
• Fixed random attribute gains from fountains and levelups giving already maxed attributes.
  
• The Queen Spider will no longer lay eggs once dominated since the resulting spiders would either have to be hostile (not good) or else on the players side which would allow for infinite allies (also not good). Let me know if there are any other enemy abilities that might need to be flagged with this dontUseIfCharmed tag.
  
• Fixed charms being consumed when used rather than going on cooldown.
  
• Fixed issue with boss monsters dropping multiple copies of their items if killed by multiple damage sources at the same time.
  
• Fixed storm shot projectiles being blocked by low height objects when adjacent to the player.
  
• Fixed the librarian still listing level requirements on talents rather than the new attribute reqs.
  
• Fixed some drop wall rooms in the core that were not triggering and leaving the enemies trapped and visible via telepathy.
  
• Fixed a crash when using MvP to swap with a dominated enemy caster that is currently in the middle of casting fire storm.
  
• Fixed the movement bar extending past the bounds when upgrading the athletics talent.
  
• The level up message will no longer end the turn when clicking 'OK'. Technically what was happening was the player was leveling up on an enemies turn and then subsequent enemies in the turn order were making their moves when you clicked 'OK'. So now level up just forces it to be the players turn.
  
• Fixed a generation bug where 2 x copies of lockjaw would spawn on the same level.
  
• Fixed issue where cone of cold would not knock back 2 large enemies in a line.
  
• Fixed a generation bug where the merchant would stock his inventory multiple times. Previously the merchant would stock his inventory, adding new items to the global merchant inventory, when he was created. However, level-gen has many fail states that can cause it to re-gen multiple times behind the scenes and this was causing multiple stockings. So now the merchant inventory is only stocked once level-gen has successfully completed.
  

• As part of an overall push to remove obscure stats, resistance will now just display as a % (same underlying mechanics and values). There might be some slight discrepancies that will be balanced for over time.
  
• Slightly reduced some cooldowns on various enemies making them use their abilities faster.
  
• The Cat Lord now drops a Ring of Dexterity when killed
  
• The Slime King now deals damage when he tosses his baby slimes at you.
  
• Orc Armor, Elven Chain and Wizardry Armor now grants STR, DEX, and INT respectively rather than raw stats. I think the option to raise attributes with equipment is quite critical to broadening your build in the later half of the game.
  
• Attribute rings now grant +2 to the attribute
  
• Reduced the weight of all armor in the 'body' slot by a bit since a lot of it was a bit absurd.
  

• Some cleanup on the character screen, lining up the attribute and talent panels nicely.
  
• Moved the inventory to the center of the character screen to put some distance between all the text.
  

• The total number of vaults has gone from around 100 in update 1.32 to nearly 800. Many of these are now classified as "challenge-vaults" or "boss-vaults" which the many different level generators will try to control (not to few and not to many per level). The main idea here is that every level should contain at least one hard room or area.
  
• A whole bunch of mess was consolidated into "reward-vaults" which now include crystal chest rooms, enchantment table rooms, wishing wells, those little closets w/ a bunch of potions, food, scrolls or gold etc. These can now be blocked by key doors, switch activated doors, or timed doors. The number of keys and locked doors is now controlled for globally, with the key appearing either on the same level or deeper in the dungeon. Finally, there are 'hooks' in challenge-vaults so that something like the switch that unlocks a reward-vault can generate inside of a guarded challenge-vault.
  
• There is now a bunch of technical, behind the scenes tagging that goes on so that vaults can be general (placed by any generator) or special (placed by some kind of special generator) while still respecting overall mins/maxes on number of challenge-vaults, reward-vaults, boss-vaults per level.
  
• These three points, plus a bunch of general cleanup means I can pretty much write new generators, and add new content very quickly and it all just sort of integrates together as long as I tag everything correctly. This update is really just scratching the surface of whats possible since so much of the time was spent just laying this foundation. Expect a lot more 'stuff' with the next update as I can now turn my attention 100% towards new content creation.
  

• Removed attributes (strength, intelligence, dexterity) replacing them, where they appeared, with just raw HP, MP, meleeDmg etc. Rather than looking at a ring of +3STR and having to remember how much HP/meleeDmg that translates to, you'l just get a ring w/ +HP and +meleeDmg.
  
• Melee Power and Range Power always annoyed me to no end since they acted as multipliers and due to rounding you'd get odd situations where say a ring w/ +2meleePow might not actually raise your damage at all due to subtle rounding. This is now replaced w/ just raw +DMG. So a ring of +2meleeDMG just adds.... +2 meleeDMG.
  

• The Dark Temple is now back in the game alternating w/ The Orc Fortress
  
• A bunch of new enemies and bosses
  
• A bunch of new items
  
• New talents or changes to existing talents.
  

Post Release Updates:

• Beast Master Nyx was crashing when throwing nets.
  
• Wand of lightning was not working at all.
  
• Extra stairs on UD:4 that led to.... UD:4 are now fixed (removed)
  
• Fixed an infinite loop (wouldn't actually crash, just complete lockup) in Yendor that was occurring due to portals.
  

• Fixed a crash that lots of people reported under different situations where mousing over certain items (ex. Ring of Learning) crashed the game. This was mostly reported in crystal chests but could occur anywhere the item was generated.
  
• The -HP mod on some rings was creating fractional HP like 20.2
  

• Removed staves as an option in acquirement menu since they have been rolled into ranged weapons. I'm considering ways to differentiate staves a bit from bows at least stat wise (maybe they generally have +mana or +spell power or element specific focus effects), so these may get split out on the summon menu again to allow mages to specify staves.
  
• Fixed the tome summoning on the acquirement menu.
  
• Fixed a missing switch for a locked gate in one of The Sewers levels.
  
• Fixed a level generation crash in The Core (would just lock up the game when descending and have weird walls and no stairs if you tried to reload).
  

• Pits on the last level of a zone (level 4) will not longer be treated as bottomless, instead dropping you to the next zone. Reported for example on Dark Temple:4.
  
• Wands are now enchantable, reducing their cooldown.
  
• Fixed descriptions on speed granting items to no longer say 'doubles movement speed' since this has been replaced by movement points.
  
• Fixed spike traps turning invisible when triggered.
  
• Projectiles from Storm Shot should now correctly travel and not just explode in front of the player. I assume this is what was being reported w/ "Storm shot is missing". From my testing it looked like it was working fine with arrows but staves were not behaving correctly. Please let me know if there is some other issue with this ability.
  

• Fixed crash when shooting shrooms with a heartwood bow.
  
• Being 'lured' onto a trap will now trigger the trap (ex. fire shrooms)
  
• Focus effects will now effect the damage of elemental staves.
  
• Fixed a giant ant glyph room that was missing walls, allowing the enemies to leave before opening the door.
  
• Fixed a vault in The Ice Caves that would explode walls but there were no enemies inside.
  
• Fixed a few vaults in The Sunless Desert in which opening one glyph door would not open all of them.
  
• Reloading the game will no longer clear the cold bar
  
• Shield of Ice will no longer block damage from hunger, poison and cannibalise.
  
• Shield of Ice will no longer stack with itself, allowing mummys to build up massive shields. I've mentioned before that Race's will eventually be getting a complete overhaul, so I'll be considering other broken interactions with the mummys infinite rest.
  
• Summoned battle spheres will hide their hit points since they are not attackable.
  
• An enemy fire mage that is casting fire storm (the multi-turn spell) will now stop casting if he gets blinked, knocked back or otherwise moved from the initial position.
  
• Fixed NPC fire storm passing through glyph doors (possibly walls at some angles).
  
• Gold will no longer spawn on top of gas vents in the sewers.
  
• Fixed storm shot always missing. The issue here was the interaction with the Perfect Aim talent.
  

• Random teleportation (either trap or scroll) will now perform a 'flood search' from the players current position when finding the random destination. This should stop teleportation from dropping the player behind locked doors, glyph doors etc.
  
• Same idea w/ falling down pits except that the flood search starts at the down stairs, so you shouldn't fall into locked areas or behind glyph doors.
  
• Added switches to the insides of locked downstairs rooms in case you fall down to the next level before unlocking the door.
  
• Fixed some portals that had their destinations reversed in one of the Arcane Tower final levels.
  
• Fixed a crash w/ the mossy branch creating vines. (Can't remember now if this crashed or just didn't work).
  
• Fixed a crash when arcane arrows (or any charging enemy) hit you while levitating above a pit.
  
• Arcane arrows now save their orientation when exiting and reloading.
  
• Fixed a level-gen bug where rivers were crossing over pits.
  
• Added prices to a bunch of items that were missing them (previously just 1gp)
  
• Fixed an issue where stairs would generate in 'boss rooms' in The Under Grove and The Ice Caves. Boss rooms were already flagged to disallow stairs but there was some crazy nonsense going on with the generation in these two zones in which I literally spent 10+ hours a few days ago tearing everything apart only to find a = where there should have been a == deep down in the bowls of some level-gen code.... good times :P
  
• Fixed a crash when the 'Special Stat' panel has to many effects listed. It will now just not display the overflowed stats but I'll have to add some up/down arrows for the odd cases when you actually manage to get this many special effects. Note: how the hell is this even possible lol? I had to work pretty hard to actually add the exact mix of talents and items to even get that many effects all at once.
  
• A dominated enemy with the NPC version of charm will no longer always target the player with charm.
  
• Using a scroll of acquirement on 'Armor' will no longer give you a shield (they have their own category).
  
• The entire floor space of a timed treasure room will now trigger the 'click' that stops the door from closing and will also open the door if it is closed. I assume people were getting stuck inside w/ teleports that skipped the actual door tile.
  
• Static levels (the hand made ones, with consistent layouts) were not being flagged as 'unique' so it was possible to get the same level twice in one dungeon run.
  
• Burst of Wind now works inside sand clouds, steam, smoke, etc, things that were blocking LoS but were otherwise 'passable'.
  
• Removed one way stairs from the archery range level that used to be a special level. I'm actually planning on adding back these 'special' challenge levels with one way stairs to all zones at some point in this final content push.
  
• There was a bug where hitting an enemy that blinks with an ability or weapon that causes knockback would cause the knockback to occur after the blink. I tried a few ways to handle this that all ended up looking odd, so now any ability or attack that causes knockback will simply never trigger the blink.
  

• Fixed shield wall always activating and making you effectively immune to melee.
  
• Equipping a Charm of Fire was causing a hard crash.
  
• Strafe attack was attacking Crystal Golems (or other reflective enemies) with range attack.
  
• Crossbow sprite was missing.
  
• Tough and fast elites were not getting the appropriate bonuses.
  
• Merchant was not spawning in his little throne room vault.
  
• The chest that spawned in the ant hill vault was causing a hard crash when opened.
  
• Trying to sprint while constricted was causing a soft lock.
  
• Same idea w/ bear traps.
  
• There was a missing portal in one of the Arcane Tower end levels.
  
• Changed the description of Swiftness to indicate it adds movement points.
  
• Additional levels of swiftness add more movement points.
  
• Thurg the High Shaman will no longer blink your inferno orbs next to you (he was treating them as allies).
  
• Inferno orbs will no longer get pulled along w/ the player across portals and stairs.
  
• Dungeon Sense talent is no longer up-gradable as it provided no new bonuses. I'll likely be doing something with this in the future.
  
• Simply comparing items that causes a change in Max Mana Points was causing charms to lose their charges.
  
• Using Fire Strike was setting the player mana to NaN (not a number).
  

UPDATE 1.32

Major Updates:

• Just a generally more streamlined character development process. Tell me the values of your 3 attributes, your talent set and your equipment and I know exactly what sort of character you have.
  
• The power gain from skills has been shifted to attributes, talents, and equipment making the choices you make in each system much more meaningful. Simply put the raw 'power' of each attribute, talent point, and piece of equipment has been increased.
  
• You are no longer able to 'build around' the RNG of the dungeon by just stacking points in any stat your lacking. This was a unique issue with skills since all characters started with all skills. There are a bunch of changes described below that will mitigate this somewhat.
  

• Strength based characters are very tanky with high hit points, melee damage and the ability to wear the heaviest armor.
  
• Dexterity based characters are very mobile and are able to setup fights from advantageous positions (stealth), move around and re-position themselves easily (movement points), and attack from range (range power).
  
• Intelligence based characters are spell casters with access to the most powerful abilities in the game.
  

• Its difficult if not impossible to predict and plan around.
  
• Since enemies tend to move towards you, even with a high speed you'd always just end up surrounded.
  
• You couldn't really position yourself to take out key targets like healers in the back line, since again, your still taking turns with the enemies who are going to swarm around.
  
• Its just generally the sort of arcane, obscure stat soup that I'm trying to avoid with Rogue Fable.
  

• Priest standing in the back line and healing his allies? Sprint around his tanks and nail him in a single turn hopefully insta killing him.
  
• Poisonous snake or beefy ogre about to maul you in melee? Sprint away in a single turn to a point of safety.
  
• Bunch of enemies clumped together in such a way that a spell or ability could hit them all at once? Sprint to just the right tile which will let you pull off that perfect blast.
  
• Cloud of gas filling the room? Sprint through it to safety, since you don't end your turn, you won't take any damage.
  
• And of course lots more clever stuff like this.
  

• Wands were just behaving as a stack of scrolls, which isn't particularly interesting. I'm always looking for ways to try to get each 'system' in the game to be generally unique and orthogonal to all the others.
  
• Charms were just sort of an odd slot that was originally intended to be something you swapped around based on the situation but this never quite worked out.
  
• Mana points were basically useless to any character that wasn't intending to make use of magic talents.
  

• Talents now have attribute rather than level requirements. These are currently quite lenient and generally you should be able to get talents at roughly the same levels as before unless your doing something odd with your build but the idea here is really just to reinforce that idea of attribute arch-types. It should not be very difficult for a warrior to put a few points into say INT and take advantage of the lower level spells, but a pure STR build should not be able to pick up an end level spell and just instantly learn it due to his high character level.
  
• Talents are a lot stronger in general and scale much better with increasing rank.
  
• FUTURE TODO: given the new restrictions I'll be working in the future to make the higher tier talents even more powerful since their requirements are now more difficult to meet.
  
• Tomes now always drop in a mini-vault in which you can choose between 2 tomes.
  

• All characters have a melee slot and a range slot.
  
• Left clicking attacks with your melee, right clicking attacks with your range.
  
• The auto attack hotkeys work as expected.
  
• You can FINALLY use abilities with both melee and range without any inventory fiddling.
  
• Swapping weapons with your inventory uses 1 turn. In fact, swapping any piece of equipment now uses 1 turn.
  
• You can wield a shield as long as your melee weapon is 1 handed (ranged weapons no longer really have a 'handedness'). This is still a wee bit odd but is basically how most RPGs and MMORPGs handle it so I can live with this.
  

• Max ENC is determined by your strength
  
• Each piece of equipment has a weight which adds linearly.
  
• Exceeding the max incurs penalties to movement points and mana points
  

• A massive wall of fire in Yendor jetting up from The Core which can be removed by dong 'something' in The Core. Alternatively a character could stack rFire and health and just face tank the damage. A super fast character might be able to sprint his way through most of it. A spell caster might be able to 'negate' the clouds by summoning other clouds on top of them.
  
• Some kind of massive clockwork construct sitting atop the down stairs in Yendor that can be disabled by destroying something in The Iron Fortress. Alternatively have a massive fight and burn some consumables and just brute force him down.
  
• Huge toxic pool in Yendor that must be crossed with the water pouring out from a pipe. Doing 'something' in The Sewers to put a stop to it. Alternatively: levitate, face tank w/ resistance, make a bridge of ice using cold magic etc.
  

• Some monsters are now flagged as 'armored' and will have protection based on their level.
  
• Golem Unification: all golems are now armored, slow, high damage melee units, capable of grabbing (constricting).
  
• Slime Unification: all slimes now split.
  
• FUTURE TODO: where it makes sense, I'd like to do this sort of unification with certain 'classes' of enemies that share some kind of predictable base set of properties and abilities + extra stuff for each particular type.
  

• Significantly more item drops in general to take up some of the power lost from skill removal. There should be enough stuff dropping that the player has multiple choices in each equipment slot to make.
  
• Many of the simpler items (stuff that tends to just give some stats) are now roughly divided into 'tiers' so that you can actually get meaningful upgrades deeper in the dungeon. Of course many items remain 'special' in the sense that they do 'something' that isn't really comparable to any other item.
  
• Added a TON of new items, including armor sets to most of the deeper dungeon branches. Eventually I'd like to have whole sets of items that are unique to each zone so that the random selection of zones in each 'run' has a significant effect on what sort of equipment you'l have available. Of course this will remain balanced against the giant pool of general items that drop everywhere.
  
• Blunt weapons now ignore protection on enemies rather than doing knock back which should really be a more powerful magical effect on special weapons.
  

• NEW_TALENT: Killing Strikes, passive, attacks will insta kills enemies below a certain % of HP.
  
• NEW_TALENT: Gather Mana, ability, replaces the various elemental infusion talents with the intention of being useful to a wider variety of characters.
  
• NEW_TALENT: Rage, replaces the barbarian intrinsic rage (he starts with it though). One of my goals is to have nothing be intrinsic to classes since they are intended to be a 'starting kit' rather than something that locks you into a role for the entire game. Races will be the place where these sort of intrinsic, game altering, effects will be placed.
  
• NEW_TALENT: Discord, ability, enchanter starts with this in his set now. Deals some light magic damage but makes the target take 200% damage from all sources for the duration. Combined with confusion this gives enchanters a nice way to focus down priority targets.
  
• NEW_TALENT: Inferno Orb, ability, summons a stationary, unkillable inferno orb which attacks nearby enemies every turn until poofing.
  
• NEW_TALENT: Flame Strike, ability, a smite targeted bolt spell allowing you to easily hit enemies hiding in the back line.
  
• NEW_TALENT: Dominate, ability, allows you to 'permanently' charm a monster but costs max mana to sustain the effect, similar to how necro skeletons currently work.
  
• NEW_TALENT: Cyclone Strike, ability, hits every enemy around you and knocks them back. Replaces powerstrike.
  

• Better talent panel that more clearly shows the current stats of a talent vs the change in stats when you upgrade.
  
• Hovering over a talent upgrade button, attribute button, or holding a piece of equipment over a slot will now show the changes in stats that will occur.
  
• Attribute points are now spendable in the character menu so you don't have to stop mid fight and make a hard decision.
  
• Merchant window now displays your equipment and inventory as it appears on the character screen rather than one big unsorted list.
  
• The damage of your current melee weapon and range weapon are now prominently displayed. Also the damage of any ability or item you are currently targeting.
  

• Disengage will now correctly show invalid targeting when an ally is behind you.
  
• Fixed the numbering on the text options after death (was previously 2, 3)
  
• Fixed an issue where it was possible to sprint through an enemy standing in a doorway. In fact, all pathfinding was apparently treating an open door + character as 'passable' so this likely fixed many other underlying issues.
  
• Lunging will no longer trigger traps in the path (assume the player is leaping over them).
  
• Items in the quick slot are now taken into account by the loot generator. It was previously possible to have say a +1 bow in the quick slot and then have the loot generator create a +0 bow.
  
• Fixed strafe attack attempting to trigger when reloading the game, teleporting, going up and down stairs or pits etc. This was causing a hard crash.
  
• Ring of storms now correctly adds storm focus.
  
• Fixed stairs spawning in the skeleton vault in the upper dungeon. Also falling into it from pit traps.
  
• Fixed: could not descend pits when levitating.
  
• Using a scroll of domination on a previously charmed enemy will now override the charm correctly (an old one!).
  
• Fixed energy shroom tea, potions of levitation, etc. not giving the status effect.
  
• Fixed the exploding walls trigger in one of the Yendor end levels.
  
• Items will no longer spawn on the portals in the Arcane Tower, rendering them unlootable.
  
• Charge crunch will now correctly crit the enemy.
  
• Fixed piranhas spawning on shock reeds in some Swamp vaults.
  
• Heavy brass boots now have a price (not 1gp).
  
• Targeting at max range of tunnel shot will now show the correct targets (was previously showing nothing, though it still worked as expected).
  
• Fixed targeting traps with projectiles weapons, consumable projectiles, spears, staves etc.
  
• Stopped vines from spreading onto lava (an old one)
  
• Guaranteed a path around the lava in one of The Core entrance vaults to stop your allies from getting stuck.
  
• Wishing well was reported as not spawning on OF:2. Apparently it was always spawning on OF:1, so I've now just set it to spawn with the library.
  
• Enemies will no longer initiate slow charges if there is a pit in the way.
  
• Spears no longer trigger damage shields (another old one)
  
• Fixed a hard crash when the unique ogre shaman in The Ogre Caves, tries to blink one of his allies.
  
• One way stairs now work with the stairs button (default s)
  
• Quitting the game after victory (by x-ing out the window) but before pressing OK will no longer leave a save game which you can continue (a VERY old one!).
  

• Fixed the description of protection. Protection was actually working, just a visual issue here.
  
• Added a proper screen fade transition when descending pits.
  
• Spiky shields now correctly show the damage shield stat in their description.
  
• Fixed the spacing on the ( and ) in skill text descriptions.
  
• Damage shields now show up in Status Effects window.
  
• Life Tap now shows up in Status Effects window.
  
• Added description to the reflection status effect.
  
• Inferno Rings and Rings of Thunder now use the basic damage shield system rather than creating actual fire / shock which can often kill the player. While I liked that these were unique I think its a bit silly to have a defensive, passive item, that is trigger by enemies, that can potentially kill the player. This sort of an effect would likely make more sense as some sort of short term, powerful buff spell that the player has no knowingly activate and only lasts for a short amount of time.
  

• Switching to text based hit point display will no longer break the game i.e. crash on startup.
  
• Charm now works again
  
• Fixed crash with the Swamp Siren (she kept 'luring' the player onto occupied tiles)
  
• Fixed crash when mousing over hell portals
  

• Fixed javelins (and other throwing weapons) consuming double ammo
  
• Fixed another crash regarding hp text (would occur when changing levels, also occurred on the main menu when the background would switch).
  
• Fear now working correctly on enchanter
  
• Fixed Elemental Magic Focus ex. Fire Focus, exceeding the III cap and displaying incorrectly.
  

• Extended the length of tier III zones (Orc Fortress and Dark Temple) to 6 levels. This gives more room for the entrance vaults, special levels, special branch levels etc. described below.
  
• Temporarily removed The Dark Temple from the random rotation (it needs a whole set of content to bring it up to the level of The Orc Fortress, which will be coming next update).
  
• Added entrance vaults for The Sewers, The Core, and The Ice Caves into The Orc Fortress with appropriately themed terrain and monsters. (Entrance vaults for the 2nd set of branch zones coming next update.
  
• Added a special 'gate' level to Orc:5. Basically a big, challenging fight. There are only 2 of these right now in random rotation, but I'm planning on adding lots more including ones that are linked to the branches. These branch linked ones would be things like giant walls of fire that are disabled by destroying some Totem or Altar in The Core.
  
• Added new "special branch levels": The Ogre Caves and The Archery Range. Again, the plan here is many more of these in rotation, and many variations of each.
  
• Added new special branch level: The Orc Kings Hall. Same idea as above, will need more types and more variations within the type in the future.
  

• Generally make the dungeon layout more readable.
  
• Give the player more options (within a zone) as far as which level to tackle next.
  
• Open up the possibility of gating within a zone ex. finding the switch in one level to unlock a gate in another.
  

• 28 new special vaults spread across the zones. Lots of tricky little challenges and traps here.
  
• 13 new static levels spread across the zones. Some are just 'generic' layouts that the generator would otherwise be unable to produce. Some are, like the vaults, tricky challenges.
  

• Dark Temple - Arcane Archer: fires a volley of 3 slow moving arcane projectiles. Will likely do a number of different elemental themed versions of this later.
  
• Yendor - Fire Lich: powerful undead spell caster that can flame shield his allies (making them resistant to fire) and has a powerful new spinning flame attack (not sure how to describe it :P).
  
• Yendor - Storm Lich: similar to the fire lich but storm themed.
  
• Yendor - Vault Chaos Priest: end game priest type that casts group heals and torment (deals 50% of the players remaining HP). I've been immediately burning everything I have to get a quick kill whenever I run into one of these suckers.
  
• Ice Caves - Gnoll Warrior: mostly used in special vaults right now
  
• Ice Caves - Gnoll Archer: mostly used in special vaults right now
  
• The Ice Caves - Frost Vortex: uses a cold melee attack and has a powerful cold based damage shield.
  
• The Core - Fire Vortex: uses a fire melee attack and has a powerful fire based damage shield.
  
• The Sewers - Sewer Rat: spawns in swarms, has a poisonous bite.
  
• Enemies in The Orc Fortress, Yendor and The Dark Temple will tend to start spawning more in groups in the later levels.
  

• The Under Grove: Centaur King
  
• The Swamp: Witch Doctor
  
• The Swamp: Swamp Siren
  
• The Arcane Tower: The Arch Magi of Flame
  
• The Arcane Tower: The Arch Magi of Storms
  
• The Ice Caves: Grax The Frost Shaman
  
• The Orc Fortress: The Crystal Captain
  
• The Ogre Caves: Thurg the High Shaman
  
• The Archery Range: The Archery Captain
  
• Added drops and new vaults for: Corrupted Ent, Spider Queen, Kasic the Mosquito Prince.
  

• The player will now take damage when falling voluntarily jumping down or being knock down a pit (not trap pits). Damage is 50% of your remaining hit points and will never kill you.
  
• Added a new enemy "meta-ability": curses. A curse will be some detrimental effect that will be maintained until you either kill the caster, or break LoS for a few turns. Currently only being used for The Archery Captains "Bulls Eye Curse" but will be adding more of these later.
  
• Enemies can now have elemental damage melee attacks. Used for fire and frost vortices, slimes, etc.
  
• Enemies can now have elemental damage shields. Used for fire and frost vortices, slimes, etc. These also now scale in damage in accordance with the monsters level.
  
• Reduced LoS distance from 8 => 7. This is in preparation for a future rework to stealth mechanics but generally just means the player tends to be a little further inside rooms when he 'spots' enemies.
  
• Tomes will now go into the player inventory and must be 'used' to make the talents available. This helps to keep the available talent list from becoming cluttered with talents you don't want and also allows you to sell tomes.
  
• Enemy trample attacks will now crunch crit the player if you have your back against a wall, making positioning critical.
  
• As part of cleaning up the character stat menu: Reflection has been removed as a base stat and made a tiered 'status effect'. Reflection I = 20%, Reflection II = 30%, Reflection III = 40%.
  
• Resistance also moved from stats to status effects.
  
• Removed the +fire magic +storm magic etc. from items and talents and replaced with a tiered status effect i.e. Fire Focus I, Storm Focus I etc. with a % based bonus to magic power. Again this helps declutter the stats menu and also makes focus effects more valuable all the way to end game.
  
• Hidden enemies will now alert their hidden buddies resulting in a proper 'Ambush!'.
  
• Charging enemies will eventually come to a stop after passing the player (I'm intending to have them damage themselves if they run into a wall before stopping).
  
• Charging enemies can now fall down pits.
  
• Flying characters can now pass over platform walls (I'm thinking of some kind of dex based mechanic to allow characters to climb these as well).
  

• Increased the hitpoints of higher level enemies to keep up with increasing player power caused by all the new unique items, special levels, additional levels etc. Balance, as always, will continue to be one of those ongoing things, so I'll be continuing to adjust this as I build up the dungeon.
  
• Reduced the number of monsters in some of the later levels to reduce absurd swarms and balance against the increasing power of individual enemies.
  
• Piranhas are now 'fast'. There are a couple 'fun' swamp vaults to take advantage of this.
  
• Slimes are now resistant to toxic waste.
  
• Turtles now deal all critical hits when they are hiding in their shells.
  
• Trap door spiders now spawn in groups and, using the new agro mechanic, will actually ambush together.
  
• Charge now requires at least a single tile run up and has had its base range reduced by 1 (there was no real need to upgrade it to get more range).
  
• Reduced the scaling on consumable (wands, scrolls etc.) damage at high levels since it was getting out of hand.
  
• Storm orbs are now shock resistant. Higher level monster casters have resistance to their element.
  
• Duelist now starts with a Small Sword w/ 5DMG and upgraded the rapier to 7DMG in order to align this weapon class with the others.
  
• An enchanted wand now has a lot more charges then it did before (part of a long term project of trying to get a +1mod on the different item types to be roughly equal in value).
  
• Player will now receive a talent point EVERY level after level 10. This is just a minor, temporary tweak to char build since I'm intending to do a massive rework of this in the next update.
  
• Disengage and Lunge are quite a bit weaker now to start (they were crazy OP compared to other talents), but scale to the same damage when adding ranks. Also, a short term tweak before the char build rework.
  
• Opening doors now takes a turn.
  
• Chaos Portals now spawn an imp every 3 turns and have a longer duration (makes them a much higher priority to kill quickly).
  
• Slimes now split to 75% of their total HP (instead of 50%). Generally makes them a lot more nasty to deal with.
  
• Bloats now shoot bolts of toxic gas (still burst into gas upon death).
  
• Smite now deals 'Magic Damage' which is not blocked by Protection.
  
• Water now reduces fire damage by 75% instead of 50%. Fire magic will be getting a bit of boost in raw damage with the upcoming character build rework to compensate.
  
• Wolf spawners now spawn 3 wolves instead of 2.
  
• Lava and toxic waste damage now scales correctly with dungeon level. This generally results in higher damage.
  

• Now using bitmap fonts everywhere to reduce a slight blurriness on text that has been driving me crazy for a looong time.
  
• Reworked the character menu a bit, just cleaning things up a bit. The character menu interface is going to definitely be one of those constant work in progress things pretty much up until release. I'm very hesitant to devote to much time to this right now before the char build system gets finalized. That being said, its quite a bit cleaner and less cluttered now.
  
• Detrimental status effects like constrict, curses, charms etc. will now highlight the 'casting npc' when you mouse over them. This makes it easy to see who you need to kill in order to remove the effect.
  
• Mousing over the poison status effect now shows the total amount of damage it will deal.
  
• Added the option to switch back to text based HP (instead of bars). Note you will need to restart the game for these changes to take effect.
  
• Fixed: canceling a scroll of domination or blinking would previously lose the scroll.
  
• Lots of enemy abilities now have better descriptions when mousing over the monster.
  
• Lots of player abilities now have better descriptions when mousing over the ability.
  

• A giant list of bug fixes that I'll omit so that this post isn't an extra 100 lines long.
  
• A bunch of little tweaks and improvements to graphics, spell effects, sounds etc.
  
• A whole bunch of behind the scenes improvements that will allow me to make more interesting vaults, static levels etc. This mostly involves triggers, bits of scripting etc. to add special traps or encounters.