Lootun News

I am pleased to announce that Lootun will be releasing into Early Access on August 31st at 8.00 AM PDT.


A demo version of Lootun is now available to download and play!

The Lootun demo provides access to all content up to character level 50 (approximately 2 hours). All progress made in the Lootun demo will be transferable to the full game, once released.


Over the next two weeks I will be making a few more announcements including:

Deep Dive #8: A look at the endgame Bounty system in Lootun.
Lootun Development Roadmap: An overview of the planned content updates for Lootun Early Access.

As always feel free to leave any suggestions or comments here, or on the Discord.

Discord: https://discord.gg/KmpBY9g7j6

Welcome to Lootun Deep Dive #7. This week we will be looking at the Glossary and Achievement systems in Lootun.


Lootun contains a comprehensive in game glossary filled to the brim with information that you may find useful during your time playing. The glossary is split into a large number of different categories allowing you to easily navigate to the information you need.



[h3]Game mechanics:[/h3]
The glossary contains information regarding all game mechanics found in Lootun. This category is a great place to look for information about specific mechanics such as the missions or combat system.

[h3]Attributes:[/h3]
This category contains a list of all attributes that can be obtained within Lootun and provides an explanation for what each attribute does and how it interacts and scales with other attributes.

[h3]Monsters:[/h3]
This category provides information regarding all the monsters available to fight in Lootun, split into two groups, regular monsters and bosses. Once a monster has been defeated it can be selected in the glossary to provide additional information such as the base hp, base damage, damage reduction from armour and the base experience granted.

[h3]Monster Abilities:[/h3]
Monster abilities are split into several groups, default abilities, cooldown abilities and empowered abilities. Once you have encountered a monster ability you will be able to view information about the ability in this glossary category. Each monster ability entry will provide information regarding it’s damage type, damage value, cooldown time and any bonus effects of the ability. This information will allow you to plan your defences to take on more challenging encounters.

[h3]Equipment:[/h3]
Every Weapon, Armour, Accessory, Offhand, Relic or Gem in the game can be found in the glossary. Once a piece of equipment has been discovered (by slaying a monster that can drop it) you will be able to view it’s drop location allowing you to target farm it. Additionally once an item has been obtained you will be able to view information regarding the items inherent stats, (Weapon Damage, Armour, Block chance, etc.) it’s bonus attribute, and how these scale with the level of the item.

[h3]Materials:[/h3]
The material glossary page will provide quick access to each materials description and drop location.




Achievements in Lootun serve the purpose of allowing you to track your progress through the game and to reward you for completing various tasks. As you progress through Lootun you will earn achievements and by doing so you will unlock additional attribute bonuses increasing the amount of experience and gold you find in addition to improving the quantity and quality of your item drops.



[h3]General:[/h3]
General achievements cover a range of tasks that you will complete as you progress through Lootun, these including levelling up your characters and skills, looting, equipping, and salvaging items.

[h3]Combat:[/h3]
Combat achievements track and reward your boss slaying capabilities.

[h3]Crafting:[/h3]
Crafting achievements cover all of the different types of crafting and upgrading techniques you can perform on your equipment.

[h3]Upgrades:[/h3]
Upgrade achievements will track your progress in constructing Upgrade Buildings as you progress through Lootun.

[h3]Collections:[/h3]
Collections are a set of endgame achievements that require you to complete most aspects of Lootun in order to obtain, such as slaying all monsters, collecting all weapons, as well as finding some extremely rare items. Due to their difficulty, completing collection achievements will reward the very powerful Fortune attribute.


Thank you for reading this weeks Deep Dive. This will be the final episode of this series for now, so far we have covered all the main features of Lootun. New Deep Dives will be released as new features are developed.

As always feel free to leave any suggestions or comments here, or on the Discord or Subreddit.

Discord: https://discord.gg/KmpBY9g7j6
Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Lootun/

Welcome to Lootun Deep Dive #6. This week we will be looking at the Flask and Gem systems in Lootun.


Flasks are an early game mechanic that can be unlocked in Lootun after building the Alchemists Hut. As you upgrade the Alchemists Hut you will be able to craft more powerful flasks and have more flasks activate at one time.

[h2]Basic Flasks:[/h2]
Basic Flasks are the first tier of flasks unlocked, these flasks make use of the standard materials gathered from the Farming profession. You should be able to keep basic flasks active most of the time without running out of the required refill materials.



[h2]Advanced Flasks:[/h2]
Advanced Flasks are the second tier of flasks unlocked, these flasks provide much more powerful bonuses and as such make use of rare materials gathered from the Farming profession, making the use of these flasks much more limited.



[h2]Refilling Flasks:[/h2]
As you complete missions with flasks equipped you will consume some of their charges. The number of charges consumed varies from flask to flask and depends on the power of the effect that the flask grants. Flask charges can be refilled from the Flask Menu if you have the required materials. A late game upgrade will allow you to automate the process of refilling your flasks.



[h2]Upgrading Flasks:[/h2]
As you progress through Lootun you will be able to upgrade your flasks using your spare materials.

[h3]Flask Strength:[/h3]
Flask strength determines the power of a given flask. Higher flask strength will result in a flask granting more of an attribute or healing for more.



[h3]Flask Capacity:[/h3]
Flask capacity determines the number of charges a flask can hold. Upgrading the capacity of your most used flasks will result in you having to refill them less often.





Gems are a mid game mechanic in Lootun that allows you to equip each adventurer with up to 24 gems provided you have the required gem sockets.

[h2]Gem Sockets:[/h2]
At level 50+ equipment can begin to drop with gem sockets. Gem sockets on items are denoted by small white dots on the items icon. Equipping items with gem sockets will allow the use of gems which can provided powerful bonuses to your adventurers stats.



[h2]Gem Equipment Tab:[/h2]
Unlike most games, gems in Lootun are equipped to each adventurer directly. All 24 gem slots can be filled regardless of how many gem sockets you have unlocked. Equipping or removing items that provide gem sockets will simply lock or unlock the gem sockets on the menu. Only when a gem socket is unlocked will you gain the benefit of the gem placed inside it.



[h2]Gem Attributes:[/h2]
Most gems will provide basic, fixed attributes tailored to the gems theme.



However some gems will provide randomised attributes allowing you to min max your build by stacking certain attributes.



Set Bonus:
Some gems will provide a set bonus when a number of them are equipped. These set bonuses are generally much more powerful than the standard gem attributes.





Thank you for reading this weeks Deep Dive, next week we will be taking a look at in game Glossary and Achievements provided by Lootun.

As always feel free to leave any suggestions or comments here, or on the Discord or Subreddit.

Discord: https://discord.gg/KmpBY9g7j6
Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Lootun/

Welcome to Lootun Deep Dive #5. This week we will be looking at the Building Upgrades and Profession systems in Lootun.


As you progress through Lootun you will unlock the ability to construct and upgrade certain buildings. Constructing these building will require many different types of crafting materials and currencies. Constructing these buildings will unlock new gameplay features and upgrade existing features to be more powerful.



[h3]Scrapper:[/h3]
The Scrapper is a very important building that you will want to construct as soon as possible. The Scrapper will unlock the ability to salvage your spare equipment, which in turn will provide materials that you can use to construct more buildings. Further upgrades into the Scrapper will grant the ability to automatically salvage items of a lower quality.



[h3]Blacksmith:[/h3]
The Blacksmith is a key building for those wishing to craft or upgrade equipment. As you upgrade the Blacksmith to higher ranks you will unlock powerful tools for upgrading your equipment.



[h3]Barracks:[/h3]
The Barracks is a very important building for players intending to make full use of Lootun’s automation features. Upgrading the Barracks will grant the ability to automatically cast all of your skills and select the auto targeting priority for each character.




The professions system in Lootun provides a way to passively obtain crafting materials. Once you have constructed the Profession Hall you will be able to upgrade the profession specific buildings Mine, Forest and Farm. Upgrading these buildings will grant additional worker slots and provide the ability to gather higher tier materials.



[h3]Harvesting:[/h3]
Once you have unlocked a profession you will begin to automatically acquire materials based on what tier you have set your workers to harvest. By default each harvest will take 20 seconds to complete but this can be sped up with upgrades.

[h3]Tools:[/h3]
Once you have unlocked a profession you will begin to occasionally receive profession tools from slaying monsters. These tools follow the standard rarity system in Lootun but have their own set of tool specific attributes. Tool attributes can grant significant bonuses to your material gathering rate.



[h3]Rare Materials:[/h3]
As you harvest materials you will have a small chance to obtain rare materials. These rare materials can be used to craft gems and flasks. The chance to find rare materials can be improved by finding tools with the right attributes.



[h2]Material Donations:[/h2]
Once you have constructed the Community Project building you will be able to donate spare materials in exchange for a new currency, Donation Credits.



[h3]Donation Passives:[/h3]
Donation Credits can be used to upgrade a variety of material and profession related passives. Allowing you to acquire more materials and higher quality tools.




Thank you for reading this weeks Deep Dive, next week we will be taking a look at the Flask and Gem system in Lootun.

As always feel free to leave any suggestions or comments here, or on the Discord or Subreddit.

Discord: https://discord.gg/KmpBY9g7j6
Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Lootun/

Welcome to Lootun Deep Dive #4. This week we will be looking at the missions and combat system that Lootun has to offer.


Missions in Lootun are a collection of Monsters and Bosses that you can send your adventurers to go face alone or in a team of up to 3. Lootun currently offers 15 campaign missions and several post campaign missions that offer greater difficulty and rewards.



[h2]Mission Expertise:[/h2]
Most missions in Lootun are comprised of 15 stages, culminating in 1 Boss stage. As you complete these stages you will gain Mission Expertise which can be spent on passive upgrades allowing you to augment the challenge and rewards granted by each mission.



[h2]Adventurers:[/h2]
You may select a team of up to 3 adventurers to tackle each mission. In addition, with enough building upgrades constructed, you may take up to 4 flasks to each mission to aid you in combat.
Adventurer and flask loadouts can be saved, allowing for you to easily send your favourite teams off to run new missions.



[h2]Monsters:[/h2]
Each Mission stage will pit you against a number of monsters that you must defeat in order to progress to the next stage. The number of monsters you face will be determined by the number of adventurers you have sent to clear the mission.



Lootun currently has over 80 different monsters each with their own set of abilities and item drops providing a large variety of combat possibilities.

[h3]Monster Rarity:[/h3]
As you progress through Lootun you will begin to encounter Magic, Rare or even Nemesis monsters. These monsters have more hp and deal more damage than their regular counterparts but provide extra rewards for defeating them including exclusive item drops. Nemesis monsters in particular are very challenging to defeat but reward very powerful items that will roll with higher than normal attribute ranks.



[h3]Monster Empowerments:[/h3]
In addition to monster rarity, monsters can be Empowered meaning all of their skills will deal a specific damage type corresponding to their empowerment. Empowered monsters also gain a new skill based off their empowerment type and can drop exclusive elemental themed equipment.



[h2]Bosses:[/h2]
Upon reaching the final stage of a mission you will be faced with a Boss. Bosses are challenging monsters with a high hp pool and a variety of powerful abilities. Should you be successful in defeating a boss however you will be well rewarded in the form of a Reward Chest.



[h3]Reward Chests:[/h3]
Reward Chests provide an item of a certain quality based on the quality of the chest. Reward chests typically reward weapons but also have a high chance to reward monster exclusive drops. Reward chests also have a high chance to provide a bonus Class / Ascendancy Relic.



Combat is Lootun is a mostly automated battle between your adventurers and the mission monsters.



[h3]Buffs / Debuffs:[/h3]
As you progress through a mission you will likely find that abilities used by your adventurers or the monsters are granting buffs and debuffs. Buffs and Debuffs are generally temporary increases or reductions to attributes.



[h3]Auto Casting:[/h3]
By default your adventurers will charge up and use their default attacks automatically allowing you to progress through missions with limited or no interaction required. As you unlock Cooldown Skills you will gain the ability to manually cast these skills at strategic moments providing the ability to push further into a mission than you might otherwise have been able to. Alternatively with some early game upgrades you will be able to set these Cooldown Skills to be automatically cast allowing you to focus your efforts on managing your incoming equipment, or even leaving the game running on it’s own should you wish to.

[h3]Auto Restarting:[/h3]
In addition to automated casting Lootun offers a number of options for automatically restarting missions should you be defeated. This is exceptionally useful once you have multiple missions running at once as each team of adventurers will be capable of looking after themselves.


Thank you for reading this weeks Deep Dive, next week we will be taking a look at the Building Upgrades and Profession systems in Lootun.

As always feel free to leave any suggestions or comments here, or on the Discord or Subreddit.

Discord: https://discord.gg/KmpBY9g7j6
Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Lootun/