Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles News

Hey Oracles,

We are are working on reworks and balancing for each oracle and all other mechanics that are feeling a bit off, we want to make the game as much polished as possible. ✨🎲✨

We will make a beta period to test out those changes and our community feedback will be very much appreciated. Therefore this patch has been uploaded to our beta branch.
You can share your feedback here on steam or on Astrea Discord where is usually a easier place to discuss about the changes (also in our discord you can receive the role Astral Tester and we can add your name to Astrea playtester credits).

In this first beta patch we focused on reworking/balancing out actions (or even add new actions 😱) from Neutral⭐, Moonie :moonie: and Cellarius :cellarius:.

Hope you all have fun testing out the reworks and new mechanics/interactions. 🎲✨

Important Note: All new actions currently have temporary icons/names and all of the new text is currently only available in English. All of the changes in the beta version are subject to change.

To access Astrea beta version:

• Right-click Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles in your Steam Library
  
• Select Properties...
  
• Select the Betas tab
  
• Click the Beta Participation dropdown and select the "beta" branch
  

[h2]Patch Notes[/h2]
[h3]General[/h3]

• Now it is possible to skip destroy die and forge die rewards/events.
  
• Now it is possible to go back to previous screen when forging, duplicating or destroying a die on shop/events.
  
• Now it is possible to go back to previous screen when on choose/change one of your current sentinels screen.
  

[h3]Balancing[/h3]

• Added a new mute system based on chapter where some dice and blessings won't appear on certain chapters. Dice and Blessings that appear only on certain chapters have a "C" letter with a number beside the name of the Blessing and beside the owner of the die, this represents in which chapter that Blessing or Die can appear. For instance, C1C2 means it can appear only on Tainted Reef or Astropolis Ruins. If there is no "C", it means it can appear in any chapter.
  
• Now dice rewards won't ever have 3 Neutral dice at once.
  

Neutral

• Buffed Perpetual Clock now it also draw 1 additional per turn.
  
• Buffed Cryptic Memento, increased Max Overcorruption addition from 2 to 4.
  
• Buffed Apprentice's Card Star Blessing, decreased from 8 to 6 Starter Die.
  
• Buffed Zenith Ring, increased additional Purification from 2 to 4.
  
• Buffed Dicesmith Helmet, decreased amount of dice in player dice pool to start increasing Purification from 30 to 25.
  
• Multiverse Cube won't appear on Chapter 3 anymore.
  
• Arcanist's Orrery won't appear on Chapter 1 anymore.
  
• New action Reroll Purify (Beta name): Whenever you reroll a die, a random enemy receive X Purification for each die rerolled.
  
• Buffed Timeless, now it has the Timeless keyword on itself. Changed Timeless to apply 1 Light Shield to player instead of dealing 3 Purification. Removed Balanced Die. Buffed Safe Die values.
  
• Buffed Reduction, now it deals 2 Purification to the owner of the die for each point of Corruption decreased on each die.
  
• Buffed Invoke, increased Epic chance from 25% to 100%. Now it also draw 1 die.
  
• Changed Calm to apply Light Shield to player instead of dealing Purification. Removed Balanced Die. Buffed Safe Die values.
  
• Buffed Purify Safe Die, Balanced Die and Epic Die values. Purify dice won't appear on Chapter 3 anymore.
  
• Buffed Quick Strike Safe Die and Balanced Die values. Added Draw 1 to 1 die face on Safe Die.
  
• Buffed Punch dice values. Added Draw 1 to 1 die face on Safe Die. Punch dice won't appear on Chapter 3 anymore.
  
• Buffed Meditate Safe Die and Balanced Die values. Added Draw 1 to 1 die face on Safe Die.
  
• Turned Weak Mass Cleanse die into Mass Cleanse Safe Die.
  
• Buffed Mass Cleanse Risky Die and Epic Die values.
  
• Removed Cleave Safe Die. Buffed Cleave dice values. Cleave dice won't appear on Chapter 3 anymore.
  
• Psychic Blow dice won't appear on Chapter 3 anymore.
  
• Buffed Excruciatus dice values.
  
• Nerfed Incorruptible Risky Die values. Added Unforgeable Corrupt to 2 die faces.
  
• Buffed Light Shield Epic Die values.
  
• Buffed Defensive Boon dice values. Added Draw 1 to 2 die faces on Safe Die and Balanced Die. Added Purify 1 to 1 die face on Safe Die.
  
• Buffed Shield Boomerang dice values.
  
• Buffed Restoration dice values.
  
• Buffed Draw Balanced Die values.
  
• Forge Purify dice won't appear on Chapter 3 anymore.
  
• Changed Forge Area Purify to be a Neutral die instead of Cellarius die. Forge Area Purify dice won't appear on Chapter 3 anymore.
  
• Buffed Copycat Safe Die values.
  

Moonie

• Balanced Haunted Chalk, it only works when the Enhanced die Purify value was a 1.
  
• New action Forge Dissolve Life (Beta name): Change a die from your hand into Dissolve Life action for the rest of the run. Deal 10 Purification to all enemies for each Dissolve Life action in your dice pool.
  
• Buffed Enhance, Ascend and Bright Enhancement, now it can be used in Purify actions of any value.
  
• Buffed Crescent Beam, now it has the Timeless keyword on itself. Crescent Beam Risky Die won't appear on Chapter 1 anymore.
  
• Buffed Silver Snare, now if player change an enemy die, it also Refresh Virtues.
  
• Buffed Selenic Domination, now if player change an enemy die, it also Draw 3 dice.
  
• Buffed Amplify, increased Area Purify 6 to 10. Now it can be used on Purify 1 from any target.
  
• Moonlight Wrath dice won't appear on Chapter 3 anymore.
  
• Full Moon Ray dice won't appear on Chapter 1 anymore.
  
• Buffed New Moon Ray dice values. Added Draw 1 to 2 die faces.
  
• Buffed Owl-light Charge Safe Die values. Added Draw 1 to 1 die face.
  
• Buffed Scholar Charge Safe Die values. Added Draw 1 to 1 die face.
  
• Buffed Nocturnal Updraft, now player gains 1 Doom. Removed fixed Purification.
  
• Buffed Blasphemous Shriek, increased Purification from 7 to 15.
  
• Buffed Eclipse Gaze dice values.
  
• Buffed Scarlet Sigil Safe Die values. Added Draw 1 to 1 die face. Added Purify 1 to 2 die faces.
  
• Buffed Moonlight, now it adds a Wound Hex Die to player draw pool if player has no Hex Die in his dice pool. Buffed Safe Die values. Added Draw 1 to 1 die face. Added Purify 1 to 2 die faces.
  
• Buffed Research Safe Die values. Added Draw 1 to 1 die face. Added Purify 1 to 2 die faces.
  
• Buffed Twilight Sigil Safe Die values. Added Draw 1 to 1 die face. Added Purify 2 to 2 die faces.
  
• Removed Forge Purify Safe Die (Forge Purify 1).
  
• Buffed Convert dice values.
  
• Buffed Cosmic Wisdom, now it changes the Corrupt action to Area Enemy Purify instead of Purify.
  
• Buffed Ingenious Touch Safe Die values.
  
• Moon Bath Safe, Balanced and Risky Die won't appear on Chapter 1 anymore.
  
• Ominous Conjuration dice won't appear on Chapter 3 anymore.
  
• Buffed Lunar Alignment dice values.
  

Cellarius

• Buffed Odd Seaweed Star Blessing, decreased from 6 to 5 Risky Die.
  
• Reworked Golden Tooth, now player gains 3 Apex Instinct if he plays 8 Virtues in the same turn.
  
• Balanced Ancient Helm, now player gains 1 Empower instead of gaining 3 Empower and 3 Apex Instinct.
  
• Reworked Trident of Depths Black Hole Blessing, now it increases Wave applied by 4 and decreases the Purification dealt by the player by 1.
  
• Buffed Wave, now it triggers when Wave amount is at least equal enemy’s current Corruption (Like when player has Trident of Depths Black Hole Blessing).
  
• Balanced Tidal Jet, now it applies 2 Wave and decreases Wave by 4. Increase additional Purification from 3 to 4.
  
• Balanced Refreshing Headbutt, now it applies 3 Wave and decreases Wave by 6.
  
• Balanced Geyser Uppercut, now it applies 3 Wave and decreases Wave by 6. Increased draw from 1 to 2 dice.
  
• Nerfed Maelstrom Impact Risky Die values. Removed Balanced Die. Maelstrom Impact Risky Die won't appear on Chapter 1 anymore.
  
• Reworked Apex Instinct, now a random enemy receives X Purification whenever player plays a Virtue.
  
• Buffed Reef Song, now it always increases Virtues Purification by 1 in addition to Empower.
  
• Buffed Soothe Mind and Tonic Trance, now it deals Purification to all enemies for each point of Corruption decreased on each die.
  
• Nerfed Forceful Stream, now enemies receive Purification equal half the amount of Wave they have instead of the full amount. Buffed Forceful Stream Safe Die values. Added Draw 1 to 2 die faces.
  
• Eridanian Wrath Balanced and Risky Die won't appear on Chapter 1 anymore.
  
• Purging Anchor dice won't appear on Chapter 3 anymore.
  
• Buffed Wave Crasher dice values. Wave Crasher Safe and Balanced Die won't appear on Chapter 1 anymore.
  
• Buffed Voracious Sense dice values.
  
• Vortex Bubble dice won't appear on Chapter 1 anymore.
  

[h3]Bug Fixes[/h3]

• Fixed Madness Surge being affected by Electrostatic Field.
  
• Fixed Madness Surge causing a softlock when it is copied by a Copycat action and the player has no Hex Die in his dice pool.
  
• Fixed player being able to apply Electrostatic Field in multiple targets.
  
• Fixed Corrupted Moonie converting a die second action to Corrupt + Cosmic Wisdom interaction.
  

May Astrea bless you 💙 ❤️
- Leonardo Castanho, community manager and lead dev of Astrea

Hey Oracles,

As I mentioned in this post from November 2023.
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1755830/view/5849674468181968436
I (Leo) ended up getting sick and needed to work on Astrea post release updates slower to take care of my health. 🤒
Because of that, many bug reports ended up piling up. 😭
But I'm feeling better (not 100% though) and I decided to tackle a bunch of those bugs. 💪
So this patch is just a bunch of bug fixes! There are still more bugs to be fixed though, but they will be fixed eventually.

Other than that, we are working on the v1.2, our next Major Update and I hope to have more news to share about it soon.
Here is a screenshot with a little spoiler about the v1.2, can you guess what it will be?
🧐🧐🧐🧐



[h2]Patch Notes[/h2]
[h3]General[/h3]

• Now when creating a mod there is no need to add "+" to the die name of Balanced, Risky and Epic versions, the game will automatically do that using the "DieTier" field.
  

[h3]Bug Fixes[/h3]

• Fixed Champion and Mastery achievements not being unlocked after disabling mods if player reached Astrea's Heart and reached Max Level with mods enabled previously.
  
• Fixed Create New Character Die mod not adding ""+"" to the die name internally on Balanced, Risky and Epic versions. This was making the dice appear normally on the compendium, but during the run, the dice with same name, but different tiers, would override each other.
  
• Fixed softlock when Sands of Time triggers Cursed Prediction.
  
• Fixed Apian Drone drawing die outside of player turn.
  
• Fixed Outbreak VFX remaining on the battle forever if the Doom applied by Outbreak was denied by Protection.
  
• Fixed Smoke Bomb not being stackable when it should. Smoke Bomb die was changed from 4 x Smoke Bomb, 2 x Corrupt 1 to 1 x Smoke Bomb 2, 3 x Smoke Bomb 1, 2 x Corrupt 1.
  
• Fixed Deadly Oscillation Action changed by Defiant Alarm being affected by doom.
  
• Fixed Atrocious Decimator and Collapsed Astrea not being affected by start of enemy turn and end of enemy turn effects (like Relief, Decay, etc).
  
• Fixed Forged Auto Turret softlocking the game when the die with it was drawn.
  
• Fixed Prediction Convergence softlocking when there is no die on dice pool or discard.
  
• Fixed Bottled Aurora softlocking the game when player pressed Reroll Hand button with no die on his hand.
  
• Fixed Anomaly Control and Anomaly Master achievements not being unlocked if player win a run on higher anomaly than the achievement requests.
  
• Fixed Heart Fragment sometimes activating Hypersensitive Aura at the start of the battle when Devotion Orb is active.
  
• Fixed Wave Bender achievement not being unlocked in a specific situation.
  
• Fixed Reflexive Mind achievement being unlocked when player moved his orbs during battle if he already had unlocked The World Goes ’Round... achievement.
  
• Fixed Spectral Harvester blinking even when it is not about to trigger.
  
• Fixed Spectral Harvester softlocking when triggered with Shamanic Whispering or Dangerous Excavation with no die on Draw Pool.
  
• Fixed Calm dealing 1 fewer Purification than it was supposed to deal.
  
• Fixed Obscure not hiding Astrea Avatar Overcorruption Meter when she resurrects from her Collapsed Astrea state through Solar Rebirth.
  
• Fixed Blighted Soul not hiding Astrea Avatar Corruption Meter when she resurrects from her Collapsed Astrea state through Solar Rebirth.
  
• Fixed Obscure turning only half of the Overcorruption Meter black.
  
• Fixed Blighted Soul turning only half of the Corruption Meter black.
  
• Fixed Zenith Ring (and any other Blessing) blinking outside of battle.
  
• Fixed Purification preview from dice like New Moon Ray, Bloody Moon Ray++, etc. outside of battle not working correctly.
  
• Fixed derivated dice from Solar Cradle not being shown as discovered on Compendium.
  
• Fixed Hourglass Mastery no triggering when player have no Sands of Time.
  
• Fixed Hourglass Mastery triggering itself when playing it for the first time.
  
• Fixed Inventive counting as two actions and making Anomaly 9 and Crimson Solstice tick twice.
  
• Fixed playing a Copycat from Charged Pylon sentinel on a dice with forged faces making the Charged Pylon die stick with the forged faces forever.
  

May Astrea bless you 💙 ❤️
- Leonardo Castanho, community manager and lead dev of Astrea

Hey Oracles,

Few more high priority quick fixes!

[h2]Patch Notes[/h2]
[h3]Hot Fix[/h3]

• Fixed Desecrator Blob not being defeated when it overcorrupts.
  
• Fixed Affliction Action changed by Shamanic Domination being affected by doom.
  
• Fixed Refresh keyword appearing multiple times on specific Virtues.
  
• Fixed Japanese character missing on Corrupted Meissa event.
  
• Fixed Simplified Chinese character missing on Incorruptible name.
  

May Astrea bless you 💙 ❤️
- Leonardo Castanho, community manager and lead dev of Astrea

Hey Oracles,

Mod Support Update implemented on v1.1.0 introduced a new softlock on the tutorial, so we sent this hot fix. Sorry about it!

[h2]Patch Notes[/h2]
[h3]Hot Fix[/h3]

• Fixed modded sentinels not appearing on Sentinel Shops and Sentinel Rewards.
  
• Fixed softlock in the middle of the Tutorial.
  

May Astrea bless you 💙 ❤️
- Leonardo Castanho, community manager and lead dev of Astrea

Hey Oracles,

I'm supper happy to announce the official release of Mod Support for Astrea!!
🤩💻🎲😱😎

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We had a mod support open beta period and some modders already created some mods, head to the Steam Workshop to check them out!

An important note is that we created a system for non-programmers to be able to create mods without programming knowledge, using a simple text file (this method uses JSON, a text format).
We called them JSON Mods.
These are the JSON Mods supported right now:

• Create New Character Die
  
• Modify Die
  
• Create Starter Dice Sets
  
• Create Virtues Sets
  
• Create Blessings Sets
  
• Create New Sentinel
  
• Create Sentinels Sets
  
• Modify Sentinel
  
• Mute Dice and Blessings
  

Also for those that want to make deep changes to the game, we already added the BepInEx for creating mods. But we are still trying to make modding as easier as possible for modders. For instance we created a template for creating new actions.

For more informations about mods, check out Astrea wiki Mods section
https://astrea.wiki.gg/wiki/Mods

Join our discord to talk about Mods (this link leads to the mods channel that we are using for discuss mods).
https://discord.gg/Y5EZ4nV2pB


[h2]Patch Notes[/h2]
[h3]General[/h3]

• Mod Support Release!
  
• Updated Credits. Added Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Korean translators Credits.
  

[h3]Bug Fixes[/h3]

• Fixed softlock when destroying dice on Forge Shop/Event/Map Node after getting the Elder Dicesmith event to destroy 3 dice.
  
• Fixed Credits skipped without holding the skip button and just pressing it once in Final Cutscene.
  
• Fixed controller highlight not appearing after inspecting and returning on dice reward.
  
• Fixed controller highlight not disappearing sometimes when pausing and returning to Pause Menu.
  
• Fixed Sea Requiem + Empower interaction denying each other instead of both increasing the value of the die.
  
• Fixed Aerial Needle + Dazed interaction not increasing Random Purify dice values.
  
• Fixed Doom not increasing the second action value of enemy die.
  
• Fixed Empower on player being applied to enemy die when converting an enemy die.
  

May Astrea bless you 💙 ❤️
- Leonardo Castanho, community manager and lead dev of Astrea