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v1.78 Patch Notes

Hi folks,

We just released a new patch for DemonCrawl that contains a number of improvements for the Arena gamemode!

These improvements include 3 new homelands, 3 arena mods, new emotes/sign parts and various balance changes. Also, we are in the process of fine-tuning the autosweeper code to help it deal with certain boards more intelligently (e.g. it will try to avoid clicking burning cells when possible.) You can expect a follow-up patch sometime next week!

The full changelog for v1.78 is available below.

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[h2]New Features[/h2]

  • New Patreon rewards: Alien Lifeforms
  • Updated GameMaker runtime to the latest version


[h2]Arena[/h2]

  • New homeland: Tribe - "Whenever the owner casts a magic item, it is cast here as well."
  • New homeland: Sewer - "Whenever you lose an item, send it in a bubble to the owner."
  • New homeland: Prefecture - "All heart drops are converted to Dark Hearts. Whenever a Dark Heart is collected, permanently increase the max stage power."
  • Island homeland buff: "Any coins lost in this stage are sent to the owner at the end of the round."
  • Shrine homeland buff: "At the end of the round, the owner gains souls equal to the amount of damage taken in the homeland."
  • Graveyard homeland nerf: "Whenever a player dies, add the minimum power of their homeland to your homeland."
  • Brink homeland nerf: "Whenever this stage gains a tier 1 mod, it gains the same mod again."
  • New T1 arena mod: Peddler - "Stage contains an additional stranger. Whenever a stranger spawns, attempt to activate it."
  • New T2 arena mod: Malice - "Stage contains 3 additional Dark Hearts times the homeland tier."
  • New T3 arena mod: Downgrade - "At the end of the stage, reduce your homeland tier by 1."
  • Reboot mod tier lowered from 3 to 2
  • Updated sprite for Mill mod
  • Lowered the re-roll price from 3 to 2 coins
  • 12 new emotes
  • 32 new sign parts


[h2]Quality of Life[/h2]

  • Redesigned sprites for Duster and Moon


[h2]Balance Changes[/h2]

  • Nightmare mod difficulty rating increased from 3 to 4
  • Lofty mod difficulty rating increased from 3 to 4
  • Snowglobe buff: duration increased from 3 to 5 turns
  • Capitalism buff: "If you spend at least 25 coins in an Item Shop, it remains open."
  • Unstable Compound and its divine variant have an additional effect: "Whenever an aura is removed, the cell explodes in a 3x3 area."
  • Troll Cross price reduced from 29 to 23
  • Troll Cross mana cost increased from 100 to 150
  • Lowered Doctor's debt cost by a few coins


[h2]Bug Fixes[/h2]

  • Fixed an issue related to Human III mastery activation check
  • Fixed an issue related to the Arena AI and the Ominous mod