DemonCrawl News

Hi folks,

We just released a stability patch for DemonCrawl - full patch notes are available below. Enjoy!

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[h2]New Features[/h2]

• New Patreon rewards: Birthday Bash II
  
• New avatar: Year Two Cake

[h2]Quality of Life[/h2]

• Improved performance of cells and aura particle effects
  
• Improved performance of drawing colorized sprites in some areas

[h2]Bug Fixes[/h2]

• Fixed a visual glitch related to the Workbench inventory skin
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur when completing a quest with Infinity Key
  
• Fixed a crash that would occur when a stranger tried to equip a Halloween mask outside of the seasonal event
  
• Fixed an issue with "Spells" sigil triggering more often than intended
  
• Passive items that trigger when you enter a stage will no longer bypass passive negation effects
  
• Fixed a rare crash related to Makeshift Weapon

Hi folks,

We just deployed a new content patch for DemonCrawl! This update includes 5 new items, 3 new daily missions, some performance improvements and a secret stage.



The Friendly Mimic is an awesome new passive designed by Mythic Patron CaineSenpai. It transforms your chests into strong familiars that help you complete stages!

While designing this item, CaineSenpai made an important note:

"If you lost the ability to open the chests [and] got the item early game it wouldn't be very fun locking you from any new items"

We agreed on that, and decided to give the Friendly Mimic a bit of special functionality: even though it converts your chests to familiars, you can still open them as if they were regular chests! It's a lot of fun.

Full patch notes are available below. Enjoy!

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[h2]New Features[/h2]

• New passive item designed by Mythic Patron CaineSenpai: Friendly Mimic - "Your chests are strong familiars. You can still open them."
• New passive item: Fairy Queen - "When you enter a stage, reduce the minimum stage power to 1."
• New passive item: War Hawk - "Whenever a familiar dies or kills a monster, gain a soul. Spawn two familiars at the start of each stage."
• New passive item: Loupe - "Diamonds are worth 1 more coin."
• New consumable item: Small Star - "Launch a Blessing in a random direction from target visible cell."
• Added "Lazy Draw Timer" setting to adjust the frequency of updating calculation-intensive numbers
  
• New daily mission: Overflow of the Heart - "Collect 5 hearts while you are at full life."
• New daily mission: Armor Up - "Gain 40 armor."
• New daily mission: Hallowed Ground - "Apply Sanctified or Cursed to 20 cells."
• Added a secret stage...
  
• Updated GameMaker runtime to the latest version
  

[h2]Arena[/h2]

• Detour screen transitions have been streamlined a bit for comfort

[h2]Quality of Life[/h2]

• Improved performance on shop screens
  
• Familiar sprites will persist between stage loads

[h2]Balance Changes[/h2]

• Priest's upper price limit has been lowered from 40 to 30 coins
  
• Instead of sanctifying cells, the Priest will now get rid of any negative morality you may have
  
• Drill rework: "[90 Mana] For a number of turns equal to the value of target numbered cell, spawn loot in that cell each turn and conceal surrounding 5x5 area."
• Pickaxe price increased from 14 to 15
  

[h2]Bug Fixes[/h2]

• Fixed crash related to Ectoplasm
  
• Fixed Shiny mod currency drops
  
• Mobile: fixed a couple missing video settings
  

Hi folks,

We have deployed a number of hotfixes for DemonCrawl on Windows over the last several days. As of a few moments ago, these changes are now available on Mac and Linux as well!

The full patch notes are available below. Enjoy!

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[h2]Bug Fixes[/h2]

• Fixed a crash related to completing a stage with Maniac
  
• Fixed a few issues related to The Basement
  
• Fixed a rare crash that could occur when returning to the main menu after making orbs move erratically
  
• Fixed Demon Seed in Arena
  
• Fixed an issue related to Ectoplasm status effect
  
• Fixed Cullstone interaction with Mana Tank and Bow items
  
• The "searching for match" UI will not linger if the Arena server is found to be unresponsive

Hi folks,

We just released a stability patch for DemonCrawl that includes a number of important fixes for the Arena server, as well as a fix for the Endless Multiverse - please let us know if you continue having trouble accessing this gamemode.

Thank you! More coming soon.

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[h2]Arena[/h2]

• The Arena server is now capable of restarting itself within 5 minutes of a crash
  
• Improved server logs for debugging purposes
  
• We can now broadcast alerts to Arena players
  
• Reverted Arena queue timeout to 30 seconds

[h2]Balance Changes[/h2]

• Mildew can no longer bubble itself

[h2]Bug Fixes[/h2]

• Made some adjustments to score tracking code to help us debug Hero Trial leaderboard
  
• Fixed Endless Multiverse unlock conditions
  
• Fixed missing string for Divine Brain in a Vat
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur after completing The Basement

Hi folks,

We just released a new version of DemonCrawl for this year's Halloween event! Check out the sibling post for more details:

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1141220/view/4242946177710608525

Full patch notes are available below. Happy Halloween!

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[h2]Halloween Event[/h2]

• Spooky festivities have returned to DemonCrawl
  
• Complete the holiday questline to earn 4 new avatars and a new inventory skin
  
• Mysterious trapdoors have been sighted across the land
  
• Added rare, alternate Halloween stage
  
• Wickerwork inventory has been added to the Token Shop for a limited time
  
• New mythic emblem: Maniac's Heart
  
• New seasonal paint: White as a Ghost
  
• Added 6 limited time Halloween emotes in Arena prizeboxes
  
• Spookers can drop several more items, including the new Book of Ghosts
  
• Last year's Halloween avatars are now available in prizeboxes
  
• Added 7 new avatars to Halloween prizeboxes
  
• Added festive holiday signs and cell trims

[h2]New Features[/h2]

• New omen: Virtue Signal - "Whenever your morality increases, increase the stage power by an equal amount."

[h2]Quality of Life[/h2]

• The Arena server will automatically restart every night at 2 AM EST - this should improve overall uptime while we work on stability fixes

[h2]Balance Changes[/h2]

• Maniac now spawns with 2 strangers instead of 1
  
• Increased Spooker spawn rate
  

[h2]Bug Fixes[/h2]

• Fixed a crash related to the stage power label script
  
• Fixed a rare quest softlock
  
• Fixed an issue related to strangers and the Ghost mastery