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Patch 1.3.0

Contains:

- 3 new achievements
- 1 new challenge stage
- 2 new relics to get a new PowerUp and something special

Quick content walkthrough:

- Reach Level 80 in Inverse Mad Forest: Unlocks Bat Country
- Find the Apoplexy relic at minute 09:00 in Bat Country: Unlocks Charm Power Up
- Find the Chaos Malachite relic at minute 18:00 in Bat Country: Unlocks morph ability for Mortaccio

Tweaks:

- Items not necessary for the Queen Sigma unlock have a yellowish background color in Collection
- If you have at least 1M gold, the Eggman appears in Moongolow
- The game should remember the skins you've been using for each character
- "spoopyseason" spell should permanently unlock new skins for Mortaccio, Yatta Cavallo, Bianca Ramba, and O'Sole Meeo
- Added a team member to the credits (hi everyone!)

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Full spoilers:


Bat Country
New challenge stage!
- trippy
- contains the 2 relics needed to unlock the Charm power up and Mortaccio's morph ability
- very low XP gain, but high enemy density
- not many light sources, but items can be dropped by diamonds
- please remember that in stages where the background moves, there in an option to disable such movement
- pizzas appear on new runs after getting both relics. They simply allow to change the background and have no other effect


Apoplexy relic: unlocks Charm PowerUp. It increases enemies spawn quantity, for each single wave, by 20 per rank (max +100).


Chaos Malachite Relic When reaching Level 80, Mortaccio morphs into a big bone boy and his Bone weapon evolves into Anima of Mortaccio
- He gains +2 Armor, +1 Amount, and +100 MaxHP. He fully recovers HP.
- Anima of Mortaccio fires bones just like the base Bone weapon, but the bones accelerate after every bounce. Big spinning arms appear around the player. Sometimes they detach and start flying around, dealing base damage times Amount. It's currently obtainable only by morphing Mortaccio.






Vampire Survivors updates can't stop here, this is Bat Country

There's a new Vampire Survivors update in town, and it's a rather chaotic one. The Chaotic One, in fact, as that's the title for Vampire Survivors patch 1.3.0, which brings a bat-filled new challenge stage to one of the best roguelike games on PC along with additional relics, achievements, and some suspiciously Sonic the Hedgehog-themed secrets.


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