Catacomb Kids News

• 4 New Boons!
  
  
  
  • Weapon Master
    
  • Living Weapon
    
  • Breakthrough
    
  • Spider Spin
    
  
  
• Completely rewrote level generator
  
• Completely re-made Normal Bear fight
  
• Added two new weapons, dropped by Normal Bear
  
• Added collectible learning points
  
• Added collectible blessing items
  
• Bunch of new premade rooms
  
• New type of treasure chest
  

• Raised followers retain weapon skills, boons, and spellcasting abilities
  
• Grumbuls no longer spawn with amulets, gorhounds, or small turrets in the Grumbul Tank fight
  
• If a player with undead followers dies, the followers will reassign themselves to any player who comes near that also knows Raise Dead
  
• Weapon's status effects only apply when an attack deals damage
  
• Grumbuls in the Grumbul Tank arena no longer spawn with amulets of any kind
  
• Completely re-made the Normal Bear boss
  
• Regenerate now makes slimes multiply
  
• New flame visual effect
  
• New "zapped" visual effect
  
• Made dipper effects last longer
  
• Decapitated enemies who aren't immune to bleeding will bleed out now
  
• Reduced damage frequency of acid
  
• Completely re-made the Encyclopedia
  
• Added the ability to specify potion, spellbook, and grenade types on custom kids
  
• Can now jump up to 1 tile higher by holding up when leaping out of whater
  
• Amulet of Force now slightly pulls usable items towards you when fully realized
  
• Campfires can now bake nearby things, as long as the food isn't directly on the fire
  
• More things cause detectable noise now - like being hit, bear-traps snapping shut, corpses falling, and weapons clashing
  
• Can now roll by sprinting while crouched
  
• Unstable plague now produces many fewer flies
  
• Increased drop rate of fishanha corpses
  

• Swarm Form is broken
  
• Grapple breaks if the thrower dies mid-throw
  
• The same items sometimes persistently appear across multiple floors
  
• Disowned player followers remain persistent across floors in co-op
  
• Crash if a corpse currently being looted is destroyed by plague blight or some other means
  
• Lightning Strike (Chain Lightning + Air-Dash multi-cast) sometimes places the player in walls
  
• Reaper deactivates upon leaving the view during certain attacks
  
• Water isn't spawning properly
  
• "fx_sound" surface crash
  
• Byat eye trails never disappear sometimes
  
• Typo "You knows [...]" when looking at oneself
  
• Bear traps draw at the wrong depth
  
• Bear traps continually re-attach to large enemies after falling off
  
• Dangersense only grants a speed boost when traveling to the right
  
• Orbis Malus orbs are affected by status effects
  
• Crash when using Break on arrow turrets
  
• Crash related to fx_sound
  
• Crash related to obj_creature_handle
  
• Tinkerbot weapons don't persist between floors
  
• Reaper can consume keys necessary for progress
  
• Fur Hoods and Coats prevent heat loss entirely instead of slowing it
  
• Crab's skittering sound continues to play even when it shouldn't
  
• One player's pause menu doesn't draw when both players pause in co-op
  
• Raising the corpse of a dead co-op player erases their traits
  
• Controller still rumbles for players using keyboard controls
  
• Crash when backing out of "enchant equipment" shop menu when equipment is all enchanted already
  
• Crash when tracking tunnel doorways
  
• Arrows hit walls immediately when fired up or down while too near to a wall
  
• Can no longer press esc to back out of starting a game, or move the selection left/right after a character has been selected
  
• Spell-dealers now have the proper text for the "Slow" and "Haste" spells
  
• Fixed bug with fire sound effect continuing after explosions
  
• Using poet's Tome ability as a spell while also having incantation causes the tome to always cast its charged version, even as a non-wordsmith
  
• Tinkerbot stops animating when heavy-lifted
  
• Gamepad input doesn't work in single player character select menu if the menu was entered via keyboard
  
• Boulders on pressure pads repeatedly press them instead of holding them down
  
• Sometimes get stuck to ceilings with the sticky feet meal
  
• Tinkerer's class ability was named different things in different places
  

• There are now Soul Chests, which are special treasure chests that power up by consuming the corpses of nearby slain enemies. The more corpses they consume, the better the loot they drop will be!
  
• In addition, you can now find extra learning points and free spells just floating around sometimes.
  
• I've also added a new kind of item called "Blessings", which are permanent passive powerups, sort of like never-ending trances but a bit less potent. You can only have one blessing at a time though, so choose wisely. There are only three implemented currently but more are definitely on the way.
  

• Weapon Master lets you use any weapon skill that you have access to with any weapon regardless of its type.
  
• Living Weapon lets you use weapon skills while unarmed and removes the damage penalty on unarmed attacks. When you first learn it, it forces you to pick a weapon class to hate, but you then gain that weapon class' full moveset as unarmed attacks.
  
• Breakthrough lets you charge up a super-jump to launch high into the air, bust through single-tile-thick walls and ceilings, and crash through crush traps and boulders.
  
• Spider-Spin lets you charge up a roll that clings to surfaces as you zip around.
  

• I've completely rewritten a certain boss enemy from scratch, so look forward to that.
  
• I've completely overhauled the way the encyclopedia looks, and added a few new illustrations and entries to it.
  
• I've added a stats screen on the encyclopedia where you can see things like your best depth, total kills, and most frequently cast spell.

Fixes
	Crash when wraiths have no target
	Player is annihilated upon entering a floor in a snowdrift
	Humanoids trying to chase through locked doors constantly jiggle the doorknob loudly
	AI_action_backhop crash
	Energy bar looks weird when you changing to equipment with less MAG
	Regeneration overwrites owl wings when flying
	Ceiling spikes draw beneath jump-thru platforms in the AC
	Lava bridges are now destroyed when lava loses it heat (Reaper fight, siphon, etc)
	Pressing select+cancel at the same time over a gravestone select backs to class select but still shows the custom kid dialog
	Backing out of kid select shows particles for destroyed mana batteries
	Shopkeepers get mad at you if you're infected with any plague flies
	Pressing select+cancel at the same time on the level-up screen levels the selected stat without advancing its tier
	Flame cone traps shoot at the wrong angle
	Crash when going through the tank door in co-op

Fixes
	Fishanha crash when eating corpses

New
	Added "Look" menu! 
		(default bound to "tab" on keyboard or "select/option" on controllers)
	4 New Boons!
		Multi-Cast
		Siphon
		Dangersense
		Calculations
	New shop type - Gadgeter!
		4 new arm types!
		4 new leg types!
	2 New tinkerer items - Mana Battery, Spring

Changes
	Reduced amount of durability damage done to shoes from mighty stomp
	Throwing enemies upwards with Grapple no longer tumbles the player
	Slamming enemies into walls with Grapple now deals 1 damage
	Can more precisely place where enemies are thrown with Grapple
	Increased time to aim grappled enemies
	Added boon icons to level-up menu
	Rewrote flame cone code (Dragon breath, fire pipe traps, etc) 
		It should behave mostly the same but perform much better
	Plague now persists after creatures die rather than needing to re-plague corpses separately
	Changed appearance of plague flies
	Increased damage dealt by plague flies
	Grumbul Tank Cannonball no longer destroys bridges
	Slight changes to Grumbul Tank behavior
	Reduced size of holes in side of Grumbul Tank arena
	Water washes off acid
	Kicks deals damage based on which leg is kicked with (differs based on facing direction)
	Added gamepad rumble enable/disable option to controls menu
	Grumbul turrets are now battery-powered
	Grumbul turrets now have sfx when drawing and firing
	Increased power of zap grenades
	Gas grenades now continue to emit their gas for several seconds
	Empty grenades can now be refilled if you have Alchemy
	Armor of reflection now reflects boulders
	Tracker and Pathfinder no longer stop tracking any items when descending floors
	Increased distance of wanderer's farsight
	Lanterns no longer reduce their effective distance when low on fuel
	Rewrote screen split handling
	Co-op split screen bubbles are now a constant size
	Reaper platforms once more disappear after a moment when stood upon

Fixes
	Spell inspection doesn't work from the skill grid
	Undead creatures can drown
	Screen steps back a frame when paused
	Anticropolis ruin generation crash (for real this time)
	Inputs are sometimes ignored when the player is Slowed
	Tank door no longer spawns
	Grappling enemies can cause the player to shift around strangely
	Traveling through lava with Dark Phase still lights you on fire
	Crash with certain bow shooting animations
	Crash when trying to access a clogged pipe
	Eating gorhounds and burrahbois doesn't heal with butcher meal effect
	Gorhounds and burrahbois can't be cooked, and don't reflect seasoning in their names
	Can no longer manually dodge with Acrobat using keyboard
	More gamepads should be compatible, now/gamepad detection should be better maybe???
	A shopkeeper crash
	Not immune to fire or ice while in Dark Phase's dark phase
	No spell description for Orbis Malus
	Learning free spells (from the reaper pearl or spell-dealers) doesn't work in co-op
	Tracking doors and crush-traps doesn't properly work when using a gamepad
	Ceiling-portals repeatedly warp items in 1-high corridors
	Crash when trying to track Grumbul Tank door
	Screen sometimes continually splits and un-splits in co-op
	Orbs summoned by soul weapons can take damage
	Striking enemies while pouncing degrades your weapon and counts towards skill increases
	Reaper platforms can be destroyed by fire
	Reaper rooms don't remove lava drips from vanished platforms
	Crush traps stuck between vanishing platforms shake the screen like crazy
	Fixed crash upon resizing, moving, alt+tabbing, etc. the game window
	Summoning the reaper destroys co-op ghost players if they're in the room
	Slimes become faux-blighted when nearly but not-quite destroyed by crush traps
	Stone platforms are discolored by burning
	Frozen water surfaces can cause the player to clip into walls