Withering Rooms
1.06 - Upgrade Weapons & Spells
New Features
Melee weapons, guns, and spells can now be permanently upgraded using the new Weapon Upgrade Kit and Arcane Salts items. Each upgrade makes the item permanent and adds more base damage, up to +3. These upgrades are distributed throughout Chapter 3 & 4.
The Organ Chamber and Labyrinth Organ Chamber now only let you level up 5 times in Chapter 2. In Chapter 3 & 4, you can find schematics that let you level up additional times.
- Purchase the Organ Chamber schematic in Nowhere starting in Chapter 3
- Find the Labyrinth Organ Chamber schematic in the western Cave area starting in Chapter 3.
- Find the Advanced Organ Chamber schematic in the church passage starting in Chapter 4.
This means the maximum level you can reach in non-NG+ Chapter 4 has increased from 40->45.
Added a new item, the Safe Room Twig, which can be found starting in Chapter 2. Snap it to turn any smaller room into a safe room for 30 seconds.
Polish
- Walls, doors and barricades now play FX/sounds when struck or shot.
- Tall enemies, such as the Big Wretch, duck their heads when going through doors.
- The appearance of doors in the Attic and Basement in all chapters have been improved.
Balance Changes
- Randomized Labyrinth rings now cannot generate with multiple similar improvements(i.e. +4 bleeding to melee and +4 poison to melee), and in some cases overly powerful positive and negative effects have been capped to a lower level.
- Enemies proceed through doors much more quickly.
- Doors are marked as "in use" when an enemy is walking through them and cannot be used by Nightingale.
- Enemies are much more aggressive when coming out of doors, in some cases launching surprise attacks.
- Enemies are much more aggressive when waking from paralysis.
- Dafydd(the gun wielding zombie in Chapter 1) has had his behavior adjusted to fire his gun more often but give the player more time to stop him.
Bug Fixes
- Fix an issue where removing items that had negative effects could leave those negative effects in place.
- Fix the "Knife" prize at the prize wheel not making the player bleed.
- Fix an issue where enemy attack cooldowns were fully reset upon seeing the player in some cases.
1.05 - Village Pub & Bug Reporting Improvements
New Features
Some of the valley cottages in Chapter 3/4 now have basements, and one has a pub where you can gamble.
The Ambrosia Jar has been added to the game, only accessibly as a grand prize in the pub.
You can now report bugs directly from the pause menu.
Polish
* Save game size has been optimized, particularly when carrying photos - this should help with stuttering when saving on lower end PCs
Balance Changes
- You can now sell photos to anyone, although you won't get as much money
- Photos are hard capped to 8 in your inventory, and you cannot purchase more until you take or sell some
- The maximum sales price for photos is 8 coins
Bug Fixes
- Fix bug reports not properly filing when the save game was over a certain size
- Fix some lighting issues that could occur outdoors on Steam Deck
- Fix a crash that occur when using the teleport UI
- Fix assigning items to the second and third pages of the radial menu having odd behavior
- Fix the radial menu sometimes not displaying item quantities
- Fix extreme screen shake when using the curse jar
- Fix some character names missing from the map
- Fix the Cholera Clinic boss being re-engageable after beating
- Fix a rare graphics related crash on Steam Deck
1.04 - Item Shortcut Pages and AI Improvements
New Features
The Item Shortcut Menu now has 3 "pages", allowing for up to 24 items to be bound
Fashion Records can be bound to Item Shortcuts
Polish
- Monster health bars and statuses have been made much clearer and easy to see
- AI improvements
- Monsters are much more likely to engage with a Door Hex'd door
- Monsters are much more likely to attack any player decoys
- Monsters do a better job of switching targets
- Monsters do a better job investigating rooms and not just turning out around leaving
- Books reopen to the last page you picked up or were looking at
- Bestiary shows the number next to each monster's name now, making it easier to see what's missing and compare with https://witheringrooms.com/bestiary.html
Balance Changes
- Can now purchase another shield when the current one is below 50% durability
- Paralysis stays "active" until the monster is fully recovered, and their movement cooldowns are reset, to help prevent stunlocking
- The amount of paralysis tolerance for most monsters has increased
- Monster curse tolerance scaling in NG+ is higher
- You can now use Ancient Blood to craft Organ Grease and Starry Flesh(in NG+)
Bug Fixes
- Fix Spirit Twig still allowing monsters doing melee attacks to track
- Fix an issue where using Fixed Seeds could lead to a black screen softlock under some circumstances
- Fix memory leaks when dying frequently or quitting to title and loading back in
- Fix visual artifacts outside the Gatehouse
- Fix the Door Hex triggered FX not appearing
- Fix mirror cracks in dark areas appearing bright
- Fix swapping Left Hand items on/off making them disappear briefly
- Fix last equipped tool not being re-equipped upon load back in
1.03
Based on community feedback about the controls changes in v1.02, further changes have been made:
- The change to combine run/dodge/roll has been undone. Run and dodge/roll are separate buttons again.
- Changes to the radial item shortcut menu:
- For keyboard players, only bound to R now, not the middle mouse button
- There is a Hold vs. Toggle option in the Input Options in case holding down the button while selecting items is uncomfortable
- Keyboard hotkeys are back: you can now press the 1-8 keys to instantly save and recall shortcuts.
New Features
You can now display up to 5 of your favorite photos in Nowhere in the floating gallery.
A new area, Anne's Respite, has been added to the hedge maze in Chapter 1/2. Look for the entrance with stone surrounding it.
A new area, Bryn Bach Abbey Outskirts, has been added on the road to the arena in Chapter 3/4.
Polish
- The postprocess chain has been rewritten to be much faster - this will particularly help high resolutions such as native 4k where framerates may increase by as much as 40% depending on the graphics card
- Volumetrics have been boosted in many areas, particularly in Chapter 1
- Merry Band flags have been added to areas the Merry Band controls
Balance Changes
- Gentleman's Outfit has a much lower curse tolerance penalty
- More First Aid Kits are distributed as random loot in Chapter 1
Bug Fixes
- Fix the options.json and saves_options.json saving to the wrong place in some circumstances after v1.00. You may need to reconfigure graphics/input/etc. options. Please reach out to support if you have any issues.
- Fix clicking on an item at the edge of the Inventory menu making it scroll, making it difficult to double click to equip.
- Fix machine gun bullets not drawing.
- Fix the Options menu not being useable with a controller during Chapter 0 and the initial tutorial.
- Fix using Pocket Nowhere or Starting a New Night from a boss fight being possible(which can lead to odd behavior).
- Fix several areas where Pocket Nowhere could be used when it shouldn't.
- Fix map letters being cut off or displaying strangely for particularly small rooms.
- Fix some controls such as Use Left Hand Item mapped to the space bar activating upon dismissing a new item/lore.
- Fix the piano in the Seance puzzle becoming unusable upon an incorrect guess.
- Fix Goat's Fashion Record being re-awarded in NG+.
Gentleman's Outfit
v1.02 - Shortcut & Controls Changes
- Hotkeys have been eliminated in favor of an 8-way radial quick select menu that pauses the action. Hold Middle Click (Mouse), R (Keyboard) or R1/RB to bring it up.
- Dodging and running have been combined into a single button, mapped to Left Shift (Keyboard) or Circle/B (Gamepad). Tap while still to dodge, tap while moving forward to roll, and hold to run.
- Reloading is no longer a button. Guns must be aimed to fire, otherwise they will reload.
- Minimap toggle on Gamepad is now L1/LB.
- The D-Pad now always works the same for movement as the Left Analog Stick, so you can use either.
Please try the new scheme before modifying the keybindings, and definitely give feedback via bug reports(press / in-game), e-mail or Discord if there's something you don't like!
Other Changes in 1.02
- Fix an issue introduced in 1.01 where keybindings did not save
- Fix some untranslated quest text in the Night Mother Quest series
- Rogue Ring has been buffed: does 40% extra damage and works with either regular or heavy attacks
- Added the Vampire Locket, an amulet which adds vampirism to your melee weapon - random loot in Chapter 3/4
- Fix some strange IK moments when aiming the gun while not looking at any enemies
- Fix a crash on some GPUs in some seeds on Chapter 4
Cholera Clinic Update
The Cholera Clinic contains:
- A new boss with associated achievement
- 3 new monsters
- 2 new NPCs
- Corpse Hand - left hand item that slows enemies
- Cholera Patient Head - reusable projectile that deals poison damage
- Necrotic Ring - 75% necrosis resistance
- Unlucky Outfit
- New puzzles
Other Changes in v1.01
A new item - the Coin Purse - has been distributed throughout each chapter and is infinitely purchasable in New Game+. These are permanent upgrades that allow you to keep an additional 10 coins upon dying each.
- Added 3 Expedition Note lore entries to the Byzantine Labyrinth
- Pottery shards do scaling projectile damage now
- Fix a hard lock when talking to Margaret after rescuing Felix
- Fix a crash on some GPUs in Chapter 3 on some seeds
- Fix a missing Bestiary entry for a pair of enemies in Chapter 4
- Fix some treasure not awarding on interacting with the furniture
- Fix music and ambient tracks always playing from the beginning, and sometimes not properly looping
Thanks for your patience over the last month as this update has been developed. Regular weekly bug fix and polish updates will now resume. Please keep reporting bugs and making balance suggestions by pressing / while playing - they really help!
v1.00 - New Laboratory Crafting Recipes & Balance Changes
- A new Advanced Lab Manual can be found in the Organ Processing room in Chapter 2(or bought from Tomos in Chapter 3)
- Curse Jar - Empty Jar + Spectral Remains
- Elixir Jar - Empty Jar + Medicine Leaf + 2x Ancient Blood
- Flaming Grease, Cutting Grease and Poison Grease which enhance melee weapon damage
Balance Changes
- Gun and projectile damage have been tuned to make jars continue to be useful in Chapter 3 & 4
- Fashion Records are now more gradually introduced throughout Chapter 1 & 2 rather than being all available for purchase at once - any that were missed can be purchased by Tomos in Chapter 3
- Randomly generated rings now generate in a more balanced fashion, so no ring can generate with all low or all high stats
- Nail and Paralysis traps no longer count as projectiles(and do not scale with projectile damage) - can now be found in the Tools section of your inventory
- Floor traps can no longer be placed on top of each other
- Only up to 3 floor traps of each type can be crafted and carried at a time
- Certain valuable items, like the Shotgun Shell, Webley Bullet, and Grenade, now no longer spawn when already possessed in large quantities
Polish
- Optimized volumetric fog in reported situations where it would previously be very slow at high resolutions or high MSAA - you can help identify areas that are still slow by pressing / to report a bug
- Randomly generated rings now each have a custom appearance
Bug Fixes
- Fix an issue where the New Game + boss could not be challenged again after leaving the boss area
- A few item effects were doing a different amount of damage than they displayed in the inventory menu, which has been fixed
- Fix the player being able to visit the Silent Study in Chapter 2 in New Game + (note: existing playthroughs will still be able to access it, but subsequent ones will not)
Alice Outfit
"An old Alice in Wonderland costume originally made in 1876 for Margaret Blackett's 15th birthday.
The likelihood of the wearer receiving half damage increases with additional Luck.
One shouted that Alice wears red, and another said yellow. The only thing they could agree upon was that Alice definitely did not wear blue."
0.99 - Small Hotfix
- Fix an issue introduced in 0.98 where the Firework, Spirit Branch, and NG+ Projectile weapon would not fire