Dungeonmans News

4 July 2021 Patch Notes

New items and a shop:

Added a Poultry Protection Potion which gives your pet a heal over time and strong damage resistance shield for 5 rounds.
Added a Bird Rename Card for renaming your birds, in case the one you named Fartwing turns out to be an absolute unit and that name no longer works.
Hatch will now accept Unhatched Bird Eggs as currency. You can trade in 5 of them for a Passionate Poultry Poultice, Power Pruning Poultice, Poultry Protection Potion, or a Bird Rename Card.

Gameplay tweaks

When your hero dies, all eggs are returned to the Academy *except* Unhatched Battle Poultry. Those blanks are lost. However, eggs that are generated from breeding are not lost, even if they haven't been hatched yet.

Bug fixes

Teleporting with your pets would sometimes crash.
Fixed mouse support for dialogs with more than 5 lines.

2 July 2021 Patch Notes Part 2

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.

2 July 2021 Patch

Poultry Protection bug fixed, correct status effect now applied.
If a Mysterious Egg dropped for you, but you didn't turn it in -- or it broke or vanished or rolled off to some other game whatever -- another one will drop for you when you kill a boss or champion.
Eggs are no longer considered when melting down stuff at the blacksmith or auto-selling piles of loot.
If you press escape when the Feed Bird dialog is open you are no longer damned to crash.
The inventory remembers what tab was open when you last had it open. That only took seven years.
Using your Battlebird Whistle to summon a pet will display the pet's name in the log.
Fix for occasional crash when trying to seal away a bird's power.
Fix for Shield Rush crash, sorry about that one!

1 July 2021 Patch

Breeding works again, sorry about that.
You can no longer target your pet with ranged attacks.
When you go through a portal, your bird joins you.
Stick and Move once again Sticks as well as Moves.
Fix for rare soft lock when a bird is directly on top of a monster and uses a Bolt of Foom.

Content update: Hatch and Slash

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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