• +15 Weapons
  
• +10 Materials / ingredients
  
• +9 Armor pieces
  
• +8 Foods
  
• +2 Spells
  
• +2 Potions
  
  
• Added several new crafting recipes
  
• Added pages to the crafting panel that can be flipped through with the 'Z' and 'C' -keys
  
• Added a new NPC with a unique shop mechanic
  
• Added Enemy: Rats
  
• Added Enemy: Bats
  
• Added enemy variant: Elite Duelist Skeleton
  
• Added enemy variant: Elite Ranged Skeleton
  
• Added enemy variant: Primeval Flesh
  
• Added trap: Ground Spikes
  
• Added weapon property: "Double Charge"
  
• Added several quality-related weapon prefixes
  
• Added elemental damage types for spells
  
• Added the possibility for enemies to resist elemental damage types
  
• Added 4 new original songs to the soundtrack
  
• Added 2 new songs by Shan
  
• Added 2 new volume sliders, one for sound effects and one for ambience
  
• Added tall grass that can be harvested
  
• Added twig bushes that can be harvested
  
• Added an armor weight meter
  
• Added new circular level indicator & XP meter
  
• Added the option to flip the order of the HP & MP bars by clicking on them
  
• Added text indicators for when the player tries to cast a spell that is on cooldown, or while out of mana
  
• Added a text indicator for when a spell comes off cooldown
  
• Added a text indicator for when the player has a negative status effect
  
• Added a pulsing vignette effect for when the player has a negative status effect, or is at low health
  
• Added a visual effect for walking on leaves
  
• Added a sound to using entrances
  
• Added grass patches that sway in the wind
  

Expanded Build-mode:

• New structure: Campfire
  
• New structure: Furnace
  
• New structure: Anvil
  
• New structure: Training Dummy
  
• New structure: Flag
  
• New structure: Torch
  

• Q & E are used to scroll structures
  
• Z & C are used to select the visual style of the structure being built
  
• Right-click is used to dismantle existing structures while hovering over them
  

• Most items can now be stored in belt slots
  
• Weapons can now be switched out mid-fight by placing them in belt slots for quick access. Note that the belt is not a typical toolbar, and does not maintain the position of stored weapons.
  
• Belt slots are now utilized to allow picking up items while the bag inventory is full
  
• Increased shop prices across the board (Base value x2 -> x4)
  
• Stacks of 100 silver can now be used in place of gold. Silver is automatically used first in transactions, reducing the build up of loose change
  
• Some status effects now override each other. For instance, Burn will melt away Frost and Chill effects, while inflicting either of the latter on a burning enemy will put them out.
  
• The mouse cursor now indicates attack direction
  
• While not recommended, it is now possible to attack without a weapon. Note that this is a rudimentary implementation and does not yet have its own animation
  
• Dropped items now appear visually unique and bob up & down
  
• The Torchlight indicator now displays a percentage
  
• Updated dialogue for the first NPC
  
• Dialogue bubbles are now black
  
• Player and NPC names are now displayed above dialogue bubbles
  
• Inventory panels now slide in and out of view when opened / closed
  
• Added a subtle sound effect to readying an attack
  
• Enemies in the background have reduced alpha values
  
• The layer that hides the floor above now fades out in the boss room
  
• Added unique sounds for skeletons, wolves and fleshies
  
• Wolf fur color is no longer randomized
  
• Made it clearer that items with stat requirements consider base stats instead of totals
  
• Moved the Accursed Reliquary in the Corrupted Orchard back so it appears after the relic chest
  
• Tweaked the position of some foreground objects
  
• Changing hairstyles now requires the help of an NPC
  
• Hitting a door with an attack will now cause it to fling open
  
• Dashing through doors now works even if the door is closing
  
• Spells have new and improved icons
  
• Status effect "Fire" has been renamed to "Burn"
  
• Cooldown numbers now fade away at the end of the countdown
  
• Improved readibility for long spell descriptions
  
• Added subtle audio feedback for dodging projectiles
  
• Attacks that deal no dmg to the player but apply knockback are considered "shoves" and have their own sound effect
  
• Status effects inflicted on the player use unique sounds depending on the type
  
• Crafing items no longer uses the shop buying sound
  
• If an armor piece gives 0 armor, it is no longer displayed in its info
  
• Made some adjustments to the stat panel
  
• Adjusted day/night cycle color blending
  
• Volume sliders now make sound while adjusting
  
• Made volume sliders easier to set to 50% while in windowed mode
  
• Added background and foreground details to the Corrupted Orchard
  
• Added detail to the foreground pillars in Forgotten Tunnelways
  
• Tweaked screen fade in and fade out effects
  
• Screen now fades out when changing location
  
• Added an animated indicator for saving
  
• Made some changes to the layout of the Forgotten Tunnelways
  
• Added a visual indicator for belt & spell slots that flashes whenever the corresponding hotkey for that slot is pressed
  
• Added a subtle sound for pressing slot hotkeys
  

Balance:

• Status effects inflicted on the player now tick at a slower rate
  
• Doubled the Strength stat's armor weight penalty reduction (STR builds will no longer be hindered by heavy armor nearly as much)
  
• Completing a Furnace now takes 40 stone (Down from 50)
  
• Increased the maximum stack size for several items
  
• DMG scaling of daggers nerfed (AGI/3 -> AGI/4)
  
• Slightly reduced the effect of AGI on attack readying speed (the time between the click and the attack)
  
• HP per point in CON (constitution) reduced (5 -> 4)
  
• XP loss upon death reduced: 100% -> 80%
  
• "Old Bones" -Boss now summons skeleton helpers in waves
  
• Bosses give less bonus XP for each time the area's dungeon has been cleared
  
• Player no longer loses their inventory when dying outside of a dungeon
  

Spells:

• Mana cost: 10 -> 8
  
• Missile count: 2+INT -> 3+INT/2
  

Relics:

• Pace per tier changed to +5% (down from +10%)
  
• Added downside: Prevents sprinting while equipped
  

• Now starts at +5% (down from +7%)
  

• Now gains 2% Dodge Chance per tier (up from 1%)
  

Enemies & Traps:

• Variant combinations (e.g. Armored + Colossal + Cursed) no longer appear until certain level thresholds are met
  
• Attack reach extended slightly
  

• Can now throw bones nearly straight up to hit the player when their personal space is invaded
  
• Bones no longer collide with ceiling tiles
  

• Bleed chance: 30% -> 20%
  
• Spell hits now cause wolves to run away, much like melee
  
• Added a half second pause in movement after turning around
  

• The player can now get slightly further away from the Nerocapra before triggering it to chase them down
  
• Now turns around if attacked from behind
  
• No longer spawns colossal variants
  

• Now leaves behind a useful resource upon death
  
• Reduced spawn chance
  

• Now pierces through armor
  
• DMG no longer scales with LVL
  

Quality-of-life:

• Crouched attacks now hit small enemies more reliably
  
• Chests in dungeons now take one less hit to break
  
• Charged attacks now count as two hits against chests and other breakable objects
  
• Quick-equip (alt + click) now works on spells, as well as items in the crafting menu
  
• Shift-clicking equipped items while a shop/chest is open will now sell/move them
  
• While dragging an equippable item, the matching equipment slot is now highlighted
  
• Equip options in the radial menu are displayed in red if stat requirements for the item are not met
  

Technical:

• Optimized a number of resource intensive systems
  
• Pressing F to "take all" no longer plays a sound if the chest is empty
  
• Changed location saving to use a string, removing the need to add compatibility code whenever new
  
• locations are added
  
• Added location specific compatibility checks when loading a save from an older version
  
• Spells can no longer be cast while looting a chest. Readied spells will be cancelled if a chest is opened.
  
• Improved tactile feedback for the hat hider button (very important)
  
• The game is now autosaved upon exiting a dungeon (does not apply to dying, yet)
  
• Dropped items no longer disappear when dying outside of a dungeon
  
• The game now auto-saves the state of structures in the area whenever a storage chest is broken
  
• If multiple instances of a hit sound would be played at the same time, the number is now reduced to one
  

• BUGFIX: Smelting iron with a full inventory failed to produce iron ingots
  
• BUGFIX: Breaking a chest outside of a dungeon while its inventory was open would result in a crash
  
• BUGFIX: Items could not be moved into the inventory by shift-clicking, in some circumstances
  
• BUGFIX: Backup skellies in the boss fight sometimes dealt way more damage than intended
  
• BUGFIX: Boss skelly sometimes appeared squat if reached quickly enough
  
• BUGFIX: Player was unable to sprint when not wielding a weapon
  
• BUGFIX: It was possible to have a two-handed weapon and a shield equipped at the same time by having a full inventory
  
• BUGFIX: The exit game prompt appeared anytime ESC was used to close an inventory panel
  
• BUGFIX: Equipping the Cryomancer Hood caused an error due to a missing sprite
  
• BUGFIX: Game did not save after loading a file from an old version (not that this was possible with the last update, but it would have been a problem going forward)
  
• BUGFIX: Blood did not properly stain the ground in places where the level underneath had a low ceiling
  
• BUGFIX: Fixed crashes relating to spell cooldowns while inventories were saving
  
• BUGFIX: The skelly hexanimal was not granting extra XP from ranged skellies
  
• BUGFIX: Patched up some memory leaks
  
• BUGFIX: Corrupted Orchard's ceiling tiles were missing collision
  
• BUGFIX: Removed a chest inside a wall in the Corrupted Orchard
  
• BUGFIX: The "Echoing Mirror" relic effect was guaranteed (instead of a chance) when using aimed spells
  
• BUGFIX: Due to how nearby foes were moved back when using an entrance, enemies could sometimes end up inside walls
  
• BUGFIX: Magic Missiles were not colliding with doors
  
• BUGFIX: Saves could become corrupted if the game was closed without saving after breaking a storage chest
  
• BUGFIX: Footstep sounds are no longer made while parrying
  
• BUGFIX: Wolves were immune to knockback
  
• BUGFIX: It was possible to get scammed when crafting items with a full inventory
  
• BUGFIX: Infinite loop crash related to stat requirements and having a full inventory
  
• BUGFIX: It was possible to stack items with different modifiers using right-click
  
• BUGFIX: Dying and respawning would sometimes put you outside of the play area
  
• BUGFIX: Fabled Whetstone was granting extra damage despite it no longer being part of its effect
  

• Added Save Slots, allowing for up to five characters!
  The player can now name their characters as well.
  

• All relics can now be upgraded to increase the potency of their effects. Many relics have been given new, additional effects to allow for this. For this first implementation, upgrading relics will be easier and faster than what is to be expected in later versions.
  

• Added a new enemy: Mimic
  
• Added 15 new armor pieces (Mostly footwear)
  
• Added a quick-stack button [R] for storage chests
  
• Added Sprint [hold Space] to reduce the need for dashing outside of combat.
  
• Items sold by the player are now added to the shop inventory, and can be bought back for no extra cost until the shop is refreshed (e.g. starting a new dungeon run)
  
• Shops now generate new items to sell between dungeon runs
  
• Resources like wood and stone can now be gathered by breaking down stones found on the surface, and chests within dungeons.
  
• Added a new system for casting aimed spells
  
• Aimed spells can now be cancelled [Right-click]
  
• Added a new song for the main menu, and 3 new songs to the Forgotten Tunnelways
  
• Added status effect "Slow" which limits movement, but unlike "Chill" does not affect attack or animation speed.
  

• Rebalanced most relics to account for the new tier system
  
• Items in belt (hotbar) slots are now considered equipped and will not be lost upon death
  
• Item and spell cooldowns are now displayed as countdowns
  
• Added new dialogue for the Forgotten Tunnelways NPCs, replacing the old lines
  
• Added a 2.5s cooldown to using entrances when enemies are nearby
  
• Magic Missile is no longer guaranteed to be one of the starting spells
  
• Magic Missiles now continue in a straight line once they have reached the center of their target
  
• Charged slime variants now move and attack faster
  
• Armored skellies now attack more often
  
• Adjusted boss behavior to reduce the viability of a certain cheese strat
  
• Added subtle camera movement based on the position of the mouse, and the direction the player is facing
  
• Player recovers slightly sooner after parrying
  
• Made it less easy to quit the game accidentally
  
• Sigil of Safety activates slightly faster
  
• Added a smarter ID generation method for chest inventories
  
  
• Visual improvements to the Bleeding Brothers NPC
  
• Added a new background for the Woods
  
• Visual overhaul for the Firebolt
  
• Adjusted shop visuals
  
• Updated health bar visuals for bosses
  
• Updated the look and sound of doors
  
• Enemies that join the fray from the background now display their HP as soon as they can be attacked
  
• Enemies now walk through open doors instead of behind them
  
• Added a visual afterimage effect for the player's weapon when it is charged
  
  
• Tweaked some weapon stats
  
• Slightly buffed relics that depend on collecting drops of blood
  
• The "Bleeding Antler" -relic no longer allows you to inflict Bleed on Skeletons.
  
• Frozen Heart no longer benefits from Clover Charm
  

• BUGFIX: A door could be heard opening when entering the dungeon after having been to the boss room.
  
• BUGFIX: The "Axe Head" -relic was not granting attacks 'cleave' as intended.
  
• BUGFIX: Illusory enemies were able to deal damage
  
• BUGFIX: Dropping an item by dragging it outside of the inventory triggered the player character to attack
  

Well, it would seem the content update has been received well!

• Axe Traps turned out to be rather trivial to avoid, so to reduce the number of "solutions" to this trap and make sure they are a unique threat, crouching down is no longer a guaranteed dodge. (The player was previously impervious to traps when crouched. Now whether this is still sufficient depends on positioning and the height of the trap.)
  
• With the recent changes to DMG reduction, it became clear that things could get a bit stale in the late game when the player had enough armor to negate nearly all damage. With this in mind, enemy DMG has been made to scale up a bit more aggressively to make armor increasingly important, but less of a permanent solution.
  
• Skeletons no longer turn to face the player while stunned or frozen
  
• Tweaked the color of Workday's Forgehammer to match the new inventory sprite
  
• Added missing info to a certain food item's description
  
• Added a potential fix for unintended behavior with Colossal Nerocapras
  
• Fixed a crash caused by the Hexboy relic when the player got hit by a projectile whose source no longer existed.
  
• Fixed an issue with beards getting reset to the default beard style at times.
  
• Fixed a bug with built chests generating loot if the game was saved & loaded before opening the chest for the first time.

Ruine's first content update is live! Let's go through the major changes together, shall we?

• 1 new NPC
  
• 2 new enemies
  
• 6 new Foods
  
• 5 new Potions
  
• 18 new Weapons
  
• 23 new Armor Pieces
  
• 20 new Relics
  
• 12 Relic Variants (more info below)
  
• 7 new original songs to the OST, +remastered an existing track
  
• 2 new weapon prefixes: "Small" & "Large"
  
• Silver coins to allow items to have <1g value.
  
• Cooldowns for spells and consumables
  
• New enemy health bars
  
• Inventory sort button
  
• A day / night cycle
  
• Torchlight meter
  
• Bloodstains
  
  
• The ability to crouch down and perform low attacks:

Enemies:

• Visual overhaul
  
• Added new walking and laughing sound effects
  
• Added a sound cue to help with predicting attacks in the dark
  
• Lowered the drop rate of bone clubs. Added a chance to drop a bone shiv.
  
• Increased the drop rate of gold

• Adjusted color and animations
  
• Added a chance to drop gold
  
• Attacks now have a short cooldown to allow the player to pass safely if timed well, and to reduce overall damage output.
  
• Made the small slime's jump attack easier to interrupt
  
• Added a "charged" -variant that deals +50% dmg
  
• Added a "frigid" -variant that inflicts chill, and is immune to chill and freeze
  
• Small slimes can no longer spawn as "colossal" -variants

• Wolves now have to get slightly closer to the player before they can charge and deal damage, giving the player a bit more time to react.
  
• Turning away no longer causes the wolf to charge.
  
• Slightly reduced movement speed

Gameplay:

• Did a balance pass for weapons, armor and relics, with the goal of making less used items more viable, and moving modifiers around to distribute gear for different builds more evenly.
  
• Slightly increased stat requirements for gear across the board
  
• Reworked armor calculation, previously percentage based, now a flat DMG reduction.
  
• Increased base enemy DMG to account for DMG reduction being easier to gain.
  
• Lowered the base health of early game mobs
  
• Made enemy health bars only visible if they have been attacked recently
  
• Many INT-based items now give a reduction to spell cooldowns and / or mana cost.
  
• Doubled the mana cost of all spells, as well as the size of the player's starting mana pool. This should bring the scaling speed of INT more in line with other stats.
  
• Ice Spike now gains an additional spike at INT milestones 2,5,9... (and so on) up from 2,4,8...
  
• Added a short delay before the player is able to turn after casting an aimed spell, much like with melee attacks.
  
• Area spells like Radiant Blast no longer turn the player around to face the cursor.
  
• Added sound indicator for trying to cast a spell while out of mana / on cooldown
  
• Added a sound for when an enemy is about to unfreeze.
  
• Lowered the max stack size for most item types
  
• Weaker enemy attacks may now apply a shorter hurt animation
  
• Made Forgotten Tunnelways boss less tanky but more hurty
  
• Coins now fly out of enemies instead of being dropped as a bag
  
• 3 Relics reworked: Lillendandie, Experimental Spices, Charred Skull
  
• Wood required to build a chest reduced from 50 to 30

Visual:

• Made adjustments to several item sprites
  
• Coin stacks now visually represent the amount of coins in the stack
  
• Firebolt now leaves a trail of sparks that give off light
  
• Added open / close animations & sounds for chests
  
• Torchlight now has a subtle flickering effect
  
• Added a color grading shader to change the mood of the scene during night / low light
  
• The player character's breathing now gets faster when running, and slows down when standing still.
  
• Added visual effect for frozen enemies
  
• Adjusted the motion of floating text (dmg numbers, etc.)
  
• Added detail to the Furnace sprite, added smoke effect when used
  
• Items in the inventory are now outlined when hovered over
  
• a_QG NPC now removes his hood during the day
  
• Gave some NPCs a breathing visual
  
• Slight changes to the player character's appearance without armor
  
• Adjusted beard styles, added a new beard option

Technical:

• Manual saving no longer needed to fix object corruption when loading an outdated file
  
• Improved object saving / loading, making future versions almost automatically compatible.
  
• Added functionality for new help button & menu
  
• Added sounds for dying and respawning
  
• Added screen fade to respawning
  
• Added a parallax rotation to background and foreground layers when zooming
  
• Spell descriptions now include damage numbers and other useful information.
  
• Relic descriptions support colored text to highlight keywords and separate positive & negative factors
  
• Player can now be chilled
  
• Added physics for dropped items
  
• Player's HP bar now has a maximum (visual) size limit
  
• Sliders (like volume or hair color) can now be grabbed at any part of the slider
  
• Max HP can now be gained temporarily, decaying over time at a rate of 1 point per 2 in-game hours (=30 seconds.) Max HP can also be reduced temporarily, to be regained only via resting or death. Which is really just another type of rest.
  
• Significantly reduced the size of the player's hitbox.
  
• Status effects now have distinguishable tick sounds depending on their type.
  
• Weapons can now hold attribute modifiers
  
• Added functionality for one-way doors
  
• When crafting, applicable ingredients in the belt (hotbar) now count towards the recipe.

BUGFIXES

• Fixed a layer depth issue with wall torches
  
• Removed an infinite item generation method. Chest "Genes" are now saved upon interacting with them, so as to ensure that new loot is not generated even if the game is re-loaded.
  
• Fixed a number of issues with attacking, including getting stuck in the held attack pose, being able to charge weapons without the charge property, and shortened attack recovery time in specific circumstances.
  
• A new failsafe attack cooldown was added to prevent unintended animation canceling in various circumstances. As the Twitch dagger's combo property relies entirely on animation canceling, it clashed with the new system, but fortunately got away with only a minor technical nerf.
  
• Fixed inaccurate hitboxes for bloodied weapons. (This granted an unintended advantage against small enemies)
  
• Fixed an issue with the player's attack hurtbox not existing for long enough to collide with enemies in some circumstances.
  
• Item tooltips showed up on the wrong side of items if the game window was moved to the side of the display.
  
• Patched up a number of memory leaks (big oof)
  
• You can no longer dash through locked / lever-operated doors
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented non-cleave attacks from connecting if another enemy was considered to be closer, despite not colliding with the hurtbox.
  
• Relics were unable to be unequipped via the right click menu

Happy new year, everyone!

• Added water to the environment, using a shader by GamingReverends
  
• Added basic backwards compatibility to the save system, making it possible to carry saves over to new versions (in theory)

• Visual improvements to the surface environment
  
• Adjusted the rate at which enemies scale. Tougher enemy types are slightly less common and start spawning 1-2 levels later.
  
• Adjusted surface enemy spawn rates
  
• Wolves now have a 100% chance to drop a pelt on death. (+Large fang if colossal)
  
• Increased the size of the safe area around the campfire that prevents enemies from spawning
  
• Nerfed frost and stun duration scaling on Snap Freeze and Radiant Blast
  
• Decreased the starting radius of Snap Freeze
  
• Game is now saved immediately after starting a new game
  
• Added a warning that will appear when hovering over the New Game option in the menu if a save exists
  
• For technical reasons, the drawing order of inventory panels needed to be changed. This means they are not currently affected by the lighting system.

• Following the fix to character customization at the start of a new game, it was possible to load incomplete save files containing nothing but hair & beard data.
  
• Helmet hider button was misbehaving
  
• Stat tooltips did not appear correctly at some zoom levels
  
• Parts of larger weapons did not get covered in blood
  
• Potential fix for desynced wolf eyes
  

• Toggle build-mode by pressing 'B'
  While in build-mode, click to construct objects.
  Currently limited to wooden chests.
  

• Alt-clicking now works in shops (= buy & equip)
  
• Adjusted the spawn rates of large gems, ingredients, and some armor pieces
  
• Placed a fallen tree to block the way to the right so players don't wander too far, for now
  
• Range from which a chest can be opened has been reduced. Nearest chest in range is now highlighted.
  
• Tweaks to chest ID assignment
  
• Version number is now displayed in the menu
  

• Character appearance got wiped after choosing it at the beginning of the game
  
• Chest types are now saved correctly and will spawn the loot they're supposed to.
  
• Fixed a crash when opening a chest that had not saved it's storage correctly
  
• Dying near a chest triggered a save loop which caused the game to slow down
  
• Weapon inflicted status effects dealt no damage due to a typo in the code. (dor =/= dot)
  
• Weapons may once more be cleansed using rags
  
• Eating a Candy Cane while another Candy Cane was equipped consumed both Canes.
  
• Unintended behaviour when right-clicking an equipped 2H weapon
  
• Repeating sound and text indicator when trying to pick up items with a full inventory
  
• Fixed unfair deals when trading with a full inventory. If necessary, gold and bought items are now put into the cursor slot if free, and dropped onto the ground otherwise.
  
• Maximum torch level can no longer be exceeded by using Radiant Blast
  
  Thanks to Nameless, Zeronium and Crash Frequency for the bug reports!
  

• Radiant Blast now restores 20% torch level
  
• Saving of weapon surfaces added. (Blood, slime, etc. persists across play sessions)
  
• Storage inventories are now loaded when opened, and auto-saved when closed.
  The player inventory is also saved in conjunction, but only outside of dungeons.
  
• Tweaked some code to prevent various item duplication methods
  
• Made weapon hitboxes more consistent
  
• Small slimes jump from further away
  
• Firebolts now collide with the ground outside
  
• Sound added for Firebolt impact
  
• XP orbs create some light
  
• Applying a status effect now creates a floating text indicator
  
• Armor sets may now come with different colored pants (very important!)
  
• Attacking is prevented after UI interactions until LMB is released
  
• Toned down the surface rain effect, needs further optimizing
  
• The 'Continue' menu button is now greyed out if no save exists