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0.1.3!

New
New Class! The TINKERER!
New Items - Grenades
Robot Follower
Catacoins!
Custom Kids!
Battle music!
AC Forts!

Changes
Oog now have energy for the void amulet to drain
Changed some reputation requirements
Large mushrooms are now heavier and bounce away creatures when not upright or when struck
Mushrooms are know knocked away by attacks
Improved Magic 101's charged tome attack
Improved Magical Combat's charged tome attack
As a Spellwright, projectiles from tome attacks will auto-aim
Undo is now removed from your skill grid when its max charges reach 0
Arrow types can be swapped by holding "Stow", even when having held/stown items
Made Anticropolis background details better and more unique
Added splash visual effect for entering water
Added bubble effect to lava surface
Changed explosion visual effect
Changed flame wave visual effect
Made icy slopes much more slippery
Added a V-Sync option in Graphics options for Windows users
Setting V-Sync to "ALT" should help WIN 10 users
with their black fullscreen issue but may introduce other issues
!!-This is only a temporary fix. A true solution is coming soon-!!
Added option to disable contextual prompts in Graphics options
Some changes to lighting in the Anticropolis
Orb of Leveling light now cycles through colors
Classing up as a wanderer more dramatically increases farsight distance
Improved camera point of interest functionality
Doubled charged duration of Soul weapons and added a damage penalty for losing charge
Changed behavior of shadow strikers for Soul weapons
Stronger enemies generate more shadow strikers when killed with soul weapons
Changed the behavior of lanterns to make them more useful
Lanterns now remove invisibility from lit enemies
Wearing sandals, going barefoot, or being naked in the AC increase heat loss
Sandals have less durability...
Sandals/bare feet kick faster and increase freerun wall-run speed
Boots have higher durability...
Boots kick slower, and decrease freerun wall-run speed
Heavy weapons and equipment increase freerun startup time
Boots reduce damage from ground spikes 1 at the cost of durability
Helms and Coifs reduce damage from ceiling spikes by 1 at the cost of durability
Slightly reduced input window for heavy lifting creatures
Added learned percentage of weapon skill to "Likes [Weapon]" description
Increased shop security
Shops now come in different types
Shopkeepers offer different services based on their store type
Added living space to shops
Added background details to shops
Merchants will buy your items for closer to their actual value with higher LUC
Mixed potions now identify if their components are identified after being made
Weapons clashing gains the attention of nearby creatures
Disarming enemies while you have [Pilfer] now [steals their weapon]
Using Grapple on enemies now [disarms them] if you have [Disarm]
Made gamepad input for mighty stomp harder to do accidentally
Refined Air Dash behaviour
Improved input responsiveness for quickly throwing things
after taking Trajectory or Deft Throw
Changed appearance of Trajectory throws
Trajectory now briefly slows time when initiated
Deft throw now has a slight auto-aim
Weapons thrown with trajectory only bounce once
Realized Amulet of the Void now only activates upon stealing energy/magic
Reduced Amulet of the Void's range
Increased INT requirement for enemy amulet use
Can now ride boulders
Can now initiate trajectory bow shots downward
Crush trap chain reeling sound is now emitted from the crushing head
Corpses are no longer valued by name length
Humanoid corpses' worth now take into account their equipped items
Added ruin structures to Anticropolis

Fixes
Fixed pools of water spawning incorrectly
Fixed amulets de-identifying when INT drops
Energy with Void Amulet drains one from max
Input icon for class ability doesn't display when using controller
Arrows behave a bit better in tight corridors
Crash when drinking Potion of Cleansing Flame
Icicles are fine in lava
Flame pipes add excessive "Charred"s to corpses
Teleport traps can spawn on the ghost and other "up-to-interact" features
Boulder traps don't trigger over too-short distances
Flame Wave, Infernus, and burning enemies don't properly produce light
Fixed a bug with disabling out-of-view instances
Interactable object title text is drawn in the wrong color
Burrah-boi meal doesn't work at all
Strange transparency artifacts with alphas while in fullscreen
Solidified Lava in reaper room is rendered incorrectly
Still climb up and down ladders while tracking/aiming lantern
Can heavy lift creatures while already holding an item
Heavy lifted creatures can be picked up by humanoids
other than the one who initiated the heavy lift
Ghost sometimes provides too many, too few, or incorrect trait options
All the music was in mono BECAUSE I'M AN IDIOT
Crash when ogo slime on feet explodes in a gas trap
Crash when losing one's weapon-arm mid-attack while using a bow
Potions are overly resource-intensive
Firing a bow homes in on switches even when they're behind you
Missing particle effect upon level up
Breathing Masks don't work
NB becomes unresponsive after being blocked or shield parried
Using raise dead on a player in co-op doesn't restore their charge stars
Dead things gain value as they degrade

Near Future TO-DO
The Deep Dark
Tier 3 Boons
More Minibosses

0.1.2b

Just some quick bugfixes, as well as getting Mac and Linux caught up!

Changes
Disarm now disarms upon critical hit

Fixes
Some particles are drawing incorrectly
Fixed 2-tile water flickering bug
Tracking off-hand items as Wanderer doesn't properly show items equipped by enemies

0.1.2

Ahh! Sorry! This build is kinda way overdue! I know the last build was pretty buggy and crashy, and this should hopefully fix a lot of that. It's only available on Windows for the time being, with Mac and Linux following sometime this weekend, hopefully.

There isn't too much new stuff to play around with yet, but I'm making very good progress on the upcoming Tinkerer class, as well as implementing a currency to be spent between runs.

New
New Reaper Spell!
New Amulet!

Changes
Can now aim Chain Lightning's trance downward
Reaper spells are now considered "Dark" for charge types
Fully realized Amulets now have a (Realized) tag
Push and Push trance now affect crush traps and falling icicles
Amulet of [Void] no longer drains energy
Absorbing magic with the Amulet of [Void] now restores energy to the bearer
Amulet of [Void] no longer disables the Orb of Leveling
Amulet of [Hunger] now has a fully realized version
Enemy amulet abilities now tied to enemy INT
Enemy amulet effects are now invisible unless you already know said amulet
Can skip logo intro on main menu
Blink trance now protects from projectiles and being crushed by the Grumbul Tank

Fixes
Pouncing with Chain Lightning's trance expends all minibolts at once
Crash when trying to display context button prompts for nonexistent objects
Tomed spellbooks sometimes the visual of being used when using another object
Spellwright shopkeepers crash when casting an aimable spell
Looting menu shows stats for last selected item when selecting Amulets
Sometimes the same amulet type will appear and identify as two separate ones
Sometimes two different amulet types will have the same appearance
Plague poisons allies
Plagued flame bodies are excessively explosive
INT requirement for identifying amulets was wrong
Another crash related to Reaper arena blocks spawning in
Get stuck in ceiling while standing on grumbul tank with extra tough while it jumps
The bottom row of tiles in a level is often cut off or misgenerated
Running Water Anticropolis transition freezes during generation
Thermal indicator shows during level generation

Near Future TO-DO
Next Class
Metacoin Currency
Flesh out Encyclopedia

0.1.1!

Have an update!

I've temporarily removed the Wayward kids from normal level generation since they were causing a lot of crashing issues. I'm gonna put some more work into them and hopefully they'll be back next update ready to rock 'n roll!

In the meantime, I'll be doing my usual dev-stream later today over at twitch.tv/fourbitfriday so feel free to come say what's up and talk about kids in 'combs and ask me why this game is taking so long to finish like I do every night as I fall asleep choking back tears.

MAC USERS: Please let me know if this update fixes the gamepad issues! If it does then I'll know what the problem was. If it doesn't then I'll rule out a possibility and know what the problem isn't.


Fixes
Pose doesn't change when climbing up onto ledges
Fixed a bug with giant arrow damage calculation
Arrows catch fire if stuck in someone who runs past a campfire
Player 2 Overheal UI is jank
Casting Raise Dead with overcharges costs no overcharge and ignores blocked energy
Negative status effects on allies may spread to you via Reciprocity
The number displayed for current energy when paused is incorrect when mp is blocked
Flames from Fire and Ice can also burn allies
Reaper room often reconstructs incorrectly after the battle
Goo meal can overheal for greater than ones INT
Teamed-up Wayward kids spawn as though fleeing when traveling to the next floor
Fire and Ice gave only Hot charges when picked up with Innate Power
Dark Arts gave the incorrect charge types
Eeol Labeled Eel in kixll list
Melting/dangerous slimeballs are not labeled as such
Crash when boiling an orb of leveling in a bottle of water
Can get pushed into walls by boulders and barrels
Cannot teleport out of a wall after surviving a teleport into one
Making soup from a frozen corpse makes potato and [thing] soup
Some kids don't drown
Melting and dangerous slimes are not properly labeled as such
Air Dash can be buggy at times
"Down" on keyboard still rolls/bashes even when roll/bash is bound to a different key
Extra Tough doesn't affect Bear Traps
Fixed some typos
Dark Phase has no spell description
Shops in the Anticropolis have no doors

New
New Anticropolis Transition Stages!
Amulets!
Added a few more Encyclopedia entries!

Changes
Increased arrow damage
Increased arrow accuracy
Reduced chance of enemies dodging arrows
Halved the rate at which bows degrade from use
Taunt now affects crabs and turrets
Increased frequency/severity of unstable undo's side-effect
Barrels are empty more frequently
of Health now heals to a minimum of 3hp, regardless of hp max
Spellbooks restore more charges and charge types when picked up with Innate Power
Added Teleport Overload
Added additional contextual button prompts
(Sorry, no way to disable them yet! But there will be!)
Temporarily removed Wayward Kids in order to address an abundance of crashes
Changed Frolix AI
Helms and Coifs now reduce stomp damage by 1
Non-"Hard Helms" and Coifs take a ton of durability damage when stomped
Removed STR requirement for pilfering enemies' weapons
Reduced frequency of barrel assassins
Improved warhammers' stats
Added "Farsight" to Wanderer's Instinct class ability
Spellbooks can be Tomed by using class ability while holding a book
Transition stages don't count against meal effect floor count
Added button prompts for actions
Encyclopedia entry requirements can be met over multiple runs
Animated title drop
Fat humanoids landing don't knock other fat humanoids into the air
Made fat grumbuls much less common
Added sound effects to crabs and eels
Added sound effects to laser traps
Skeletal mages now spawn in the Anticropolis
Made standing torches rarer in the Anticroplis

Near Future TO-DO
New Class!
Flesh out Encyclopedia