Backpack Hero News

New Stuff:
New weapon - daisy blade

Changes:
Glove of Knives is now a weapon, armor, and a glove
Vorpal Blade gets 25% damage buff
Tote now starts with the Daisy Blade weapon

Bug Fixes:
Fixed the cloud sword
Fixed a glitch where "free" activations removed your energy
Removed the "Deck" button that could appear after saving as Purse/CR-8
Heavy and Floating items can no longer enter illusory spaces
Moving items can no longer enter illusory spaces
Stores now display the price of carvings
Your own items cannot be "on-sale"
Gold no longer displays a price
Fixed an error on the "Club" card that said +0 energy instead of +1 energy
Fixed a glitch where you couldn't move items that are spawned in combat
Fixed a glitch where you couldn't play wooden shivs because they were out of uses
Fixed a glitch where skipping a curse could delete a reorganization item for Purse
Fixed a glitch where the Honey Guide dying from poison or spikes could soft-lock the game
Fixed a glitch where reorganizing in combat could permanently delete Tote carvings
Fixed a glitch where the survival guide has no effect
Fixed a glitch where large items could make it impossible to summon some carvings
Fixed a typo on the Barbell
Can no longer swap items into Illusory spaces
Poison can no longer degrade into negative values
Fixed a typo in the translation file for the nunchucks
You can no longer expand CR-8s inventory to more than 5 tall

A new update to Backpack Hero has now been posted! This is a preview of the features that will be in the Early Access version of the game. This might be the biggest update we have ever released! Here's what is included:

New Stuff:
Added in an Item Atlas (It's cool!)
Added multiple Save Slots to the game
Added an ending screen for each character
Added in character specific text for some events and NPCs
Added in symbols on cards
Added Glory Hunters into the game
Completely redesigned Tote. Hope you like her!
Many new carvings were added!
Created a tutorial for Tote
Added in 11 new enemies!
Added in 3 new relics
Added in several new items -including the Venom Blade
Redesigned forges - one appears on each floor!
You now get a vision of danger on each floor!
Enemies have 3 new attacks

Changes:
Created many new enemy groupings for more interesting battles
Reduced the health of the Crow Bandit
Completely rebalanced fluffy cotton
Changed the slimes to snails
The Rusty Sword is now uncommon
Robot Toy does projectile damage
Enemies now always attack in order - from the left to the right
Added a new status effect - Tough Hide
Added social media links into the options menu
"View Card" now properly displays cards for carvings
Updated the "Lucky Dagger" to the "Lucky Shiv"
My first wand now does 3 regen
The Gemstone heart now only gets healing on kill
The effect of the barbell has changed
The Turtle Shaman can no longer spawn on a Pauper run
Cleansing Wand now removes 100% of status effects
Blade Summoner now costs 3 mana and no energy
Ethereal Whetstone now lasts the whole combat and is legendary and costs 0 energy
Buffed Crooked Arrow to get +2 damage for each open space
Necronomicon rebalanced
Poison now does its effect at the end of your turn

Bug Fixes:
Liquid armor is now a potion
Added additional protection against spawning invalid items
Fixed the typo on the Flame Gem
Fixed rare detection issues with bows and arrows
Fixed an issue with the potion event that could crash the game
Added logs when loading run types to see if they are properly stored
Fixed issues with "When attacked" and "on take damage" so they are more clearly defined


I'll be spending the rest of the week cleaning and bug fixing to prepare for Early Access!

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Early Access begins on August the 15th! Tell your friends!

Changes:
Moved all new content to the default branch. This is the first update to the default branch in a while.
Adaptive mode will not destroy gold, manastones, or CR-8's core

Bug Fixes:
Updated fonts - especially for Korean