Dungeonmans News

Pet Powers

There's a limit of 4 powers that a bird can learn. This was intended from the get go, and I slipped up. Those 4 do not count the autopowers pets get for being particularly tough or swift, those are free. But otherwise, 4 is the cap. If you *currently* have a bird with more than 4 powers, consider yourself lucky! But birds will no longer learn powers once they have 4, you'll to seal some away if you don't like what you have.

Bug fixes / Features

• Gotta be at least level 5 to see eggs and such, oops.
  
• Breeding when you owned exactly two eggs was broken, that's fixed now.
  
• Someone out there is getting a crash with dialog boxes, that's fixed.
  
• There's a crash with unequipping an egg that I think I fixed, probably.
  
• The Toss Fire Bomb power from the Gutter Chemist was pulled, it's not great on bird AI.
  
• All snake steaks give Swift now instead of whatever else they gave.
  
• You can no longer add Cosmic to your bird eggs. Instead, a Radiant Starshard will add two points to your pet's Pluck value, increasing max health by 2%
  
• Added Experimental Zoom View. If you're playing at 4k and need things to be bigger -- but a little messy -- turn this on.
  

This is where all the patch notes are supposed to go but I'm kinda waiting for the Summer Sale to be over before putting up a big announcement, otherwise who's gonna read it?

But yeah, Hatch and Slash. Once you reach level 5 and crush enough bosses you'll find a Mysterious Egg that'll get the ball rolling. You'll have the option of being followed around by a brave Battle Poultry who helps you crush monsters and get loots. They'll even pick up coins.

Monsters sometimes drop steaks made of themselves, feed those steaks to the bird and the bird grows accordingly. Steaks change different values (it's in the item card, I promise) and sometimes teach your pet a power that they use on their own. The banner one is pretty good.

I also nerfed one of the Dread Spire bosses, buffed Trigers, and made Real Armor a little tougher. Again, real patch notes later.

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Ironmans Mode now requires you to have advanced a hero to level 10 in Heroic Adventure Mode.

If you currently have no heroes of 10 or higher, then the mode is locked for you, even if you've already gotten a hero to level 10 many times. That is an inconvenience, and I apologize. But it shouldn't take you long to get another hero to level 10, right?

The Academy Battlemaster will now let you clear out all the stored proofs of stremf for your current hero.

If you want to start a hero and use none of the points from previous heroes for that run, now you can do so. This will not affect your future characters, they can spend proofs as they like.

Why?
I'm really tired of having people think that Ironmans Mode is the "real" roguelike and the actual game is some roguelite fluff. Ironmans mode is a smaller and less interesting experience, people who jump into it first are missing so much of what Dungeonmans is and they are more likely to be disappointed and refund the game.

Heroic mode is a mighty challenge as is. Sure if you're a deep RL veteran you're gonna have an edge, but the v a s t majority of players find the game to be a real meaty adventure. First time players should go nowhere near Ironmans mode, not because it's harder (it isn't) but because they miss out on the Academy and the cool gameplay that comes with it.

That's right, Ironmans mode is not harder. If you start a character in a brand new Academy and start a character in a brand new Ironmans world, the Ironmans player has a loot advantage -- they can use shovels right away, instead of artifacts that are preserved for future runs.

ːstremfː Players who say they want fresh starts and no carry over progression, I'm here for you ːstremfː
When you start a new character in the Academy, do the following:
* Don't go looking for any optional teachers / faculty to get their bonuses.
* Tell the Battlemaster to wipe out previous proofs of stremf. She will oblige.