Hold The Mine News

[p]Hello miners![/p][p][/p][p]It's been a full month since the game released! There are a lot of things I want to add in the game, something I cannot do without your support! So thank you so much. [/p][p][/p][p]Hold The Mine is also currently on sale at 20% off for few days as part of the Steam Spring Sales.[/p][p][dynamiclink][/dynamiclink][/p][p]Today's patch is mostly focus on some quality of life improvements and bug fixes. I took a few days off after the last big update but now I'm back and fully dedicated to bring you the big update coming next month! I'll have more info to share really soon. You can expect a lot of cool stuff, including things many of you asked for![/p][h3]
Steam Reviews: Your Feedback Matters
[/h3][hr][/hr][p]I'd love to continue seeing more of your thoughts and suggestions! Your support is important and it helps knowing what to focus on for each upcoming patch.[/p][p][/p][p][/p][h3]Addition[/h3]

• [p]Added spell shortcuts for both QWERTY and AZERTY keyboards (from 1 to 6). [/p]
• [p]Added the mention of the max usage of each spell in addition to the amount of use available. [/p]
• [p]Added an extra screenshake state in the settings, allowing you to choose between Off / Low / Medium (standard) intensity. [/p]
• [p]Added the rarity of each relic in the tooltip.[/p]
• [p]Added a forced rotation to the hidden selection of a random biome when starting a new run to prevent the same biome from being selected multiple times in a row. [/p][p][/p]

[h3]Balancing (+)[/h3]

• [p]Decreased Piercing Shot (Huntress Power) chance malus from 20 to 15%, making her attack able to pierce a maximum of 6 enemies instead of 5.[/p]
• [p]Increased Thrilling Chase (Huntress Power) extra damage from 5 to 6.
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[h3]Misc[/h3]

• [p]Updated visuals for Toxic Well and Strange Glimestone buildings, so that the color is different from the one used on the elements related to the Curse synergy.[/p]
• [p]Slightly reduced the screenshake strength of several effects.
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[h3]Bug Fixes[/h3]

• [p]Fixed an issue allowing the visual of the Strange Glimestones at the surface once you build the linked building that could be rendered in front of enemies and bosses. [/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue making the Mountain Dragon Boss day effect not trigger properly when you go down with the camera. [/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue preventing certain duplicate gems to show in the shop. [/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue preventing the call for help from the prison in the mine to not show the next day even when it was visible before. [/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue preventing the Necromancer stat display to refresh properly after Spirit Lust power benefit is received.[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue allowing the escape menu to appear while the ending run sequence is playing. [/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue preventing the welcome panel to show the first time the game is launched.[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue with Death Mark (Rogue Power) when no enemy could be targeted.[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue that could make Minions (Necromancer Power) spawning in incorrect positions. [/p]

[p][/p][p]Not a lot of changes this time, as I mostly work on secret things planned for the big update coming mid April. That's all for today, thank you so much for all the support! [/p][p][/p][p]paci[/p][p][/p][p][/p][h3]Join the Hold The Mine Community
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[p]Hello miners![/p][p][/p][p]I hope you're having fun battling the bosses! Today I have small patch for you to buff several things (incl. heroes like Wizard and Huntress that are not as good as others) and address some bugs reported since the last update. [/p][p][/p][p][/p][h3]Balancing (+)[/h3]

• [p]Increased minimum poison stack applied with Toxic Concoction (Alchemist Power) from 1 to 2. Maximum poison stack is unchanged (3).[/p]
• [p]Decreased periodic cooldown of Ambush (Huntress Power) from 7 to 6 seconds.[/p]
• [p]Decreased piercing chance malus with Piercing Shot (Huntress Power) from 25 to 20% (meaning it’s possible with a single attack to deal damage to 5 enemies instead of 4 maximum).[/p]
• [p]Increased damage percentage of Bloodlust (Rogue Power) from 150 to 200% of Rogue base damage.[/p]
• [p]Decreased periodic cooldown of Polymorph (Wizard Power) from 12 to 9 seconds.[/p]
• [p]Increased damage percentage of Tornado (Wizard Power) from 25 to 50% of Wizard base damage.[/p]
• [p]Slightly decreased the Worm Boss base health during battle.[/p]

[p][/p][h3]Misc[/h3]

• [p]Slightly improved the visibility of difficulty modifiers.[/p]
• [p]The camera is now locked while the Dragon Boss intro is playing at the beginning of the day.[/p]

[p][/p][h3]Bug Fixes[/h3]

• [p]Fixed an issue preventing the amount of pickaxe available to show during Difficulty Selection details.[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue preventing the effect of Dragon boss to trigger during the day in some cases.[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue preventing screenshake from happening whenever the Dragon strikes the ground with its tail.[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue showing 4 damage per stack per second for Poison synergy instead of 1. Damage applied was correct.[/p]
• [p]Fixed several issues preventing texts from showing in some languages.[/p]

[p][/p][p][/p][p]So yes, no new content this time! The next big update is planned in April, but I have some new content and quality of life stuff coming before that, don't worry. That's all for today, thank you so much for all the support! [/p][p][/p][p]paci[/p][p][/p][p][/p][h3]Join the Hold The Mine Community
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[p]Hello miners![/p][p][/p][p]It's time for the first big update in Hold The Mine: the Chaos Beasts Update! [/p][p][/p][p]This update introduces the first two bosses: the Mountain Dragon and the Giant Worm Duo. [/p][p][/p][p]Available in Lord Of Stones and King Under The Mountain difficulties, those bosses are respectively actives in the Mountain and the Volcano biomes and are here to cause you some trouble both day and night. And before you ask, yes the Frozen biome is still boss free... at least for now... but maybe not for long. [/p][p] [/p][p]The update also includes new buildings and relics, to provide more ways to specialize your build. I know it's still impossible to rely entirely on one single synergy, but that's something I'll keep improving over the next patches without removing the ability to play a mix of some. [/p][p][/p][p]Some important balancing changes come with this update, including several hero buffs, a big improvement of the curse synergy and the hospital building among other things.[/p][p][/p][p]Hold The Mine released just 3 weeks ago and I feel like the game already improved a lot. Thanks to your feedback, I'm sure I can make it even better in the coming weeks and months. You guys really share some really cool ideas I can wait to work on. [/p][p][/p][p]It's still the beginning of the Early Access, there is so much things I want to make and implement into this project. [/p][p][/p][h3]Patch Highlights[/h3]

• [p]2 Regional Bosses[/p]
• [p]2 new Buildings[/p]
• [p]5 new Relics[/p]
• [p]Several heroes got buffs[/p]
• [p]Balancing Changes (incl. a major buff to Hospital building)[/p]
• [p]A lot of bug fixes[/p]

[p][/p][h2]Patch Notes - Early Access Version 0.7.34 [/h2][p][/p][p]The Leaderboard has been reset to take into account all of the changes![/p][p][/p][h3]New Content[/h3]

• [p]Mountain Region now has Mountain Dragon as regional boss event[/p]
• [p]Volcano Region now has Giant Worm Duo as regional boss event.  [/p]
• [p]Sealed Sewer (Uncommon Building): Whenever a stack of Poison is applied, 20% chance of triggering a toxic flood that deals 5 damage within a small area. Damage is increased by 3 per additional stack of poison on the enemy.[/p]
• [p]Electric Pole (Common Building): Periodically triggers a giant lightning strike every 10 seconds, dealing 25 damage and applying Shock to enemies within the area.[/p]
• [p]Poison Vial (Rare Relic): Poison status effect deals 1 more damage per tick.[/p]
• [p]Blunt Dagger (Uncommon Relic): All heroes' basic attacks have 30% chance of applying Knockback 1.[/p]
• [p]Mysterious Fruit (variant) (Uncommon Relic): Increases heroes' base damage by 2.[/p]
• [p]Ritual Dagger (Common Relic): All heroes' basic attacks have 20% chance of applying Curse.[/p]
• [p]Burning Sword (Common Relic): All heroes' basic attacks have 20% chance of applying Burn. [/p]

[p][/p][h3]Balancing (+)[/h3]

• [p]Slight reduction of the bonus health on enemies for the first 10 nights.[/p]
• [p]Reduced Curse trigger cooldown from 4 to 3 seconds.[/p]
• [p]Increased the Hospital (building) effect damage from 75 to 150% and decreased construction cost from 10 to 8.[/p]
• [p]Decreased Volcano Heart (building) construction cost from 10 to 9.[/p]
• [p]Decreased Giant Bellows (building) construction cost from 7 to 5.[/p]
• [p]Decreased Cursed Temple (building) construction cost from 10 to 8.[/p]
• [p]Decreased Ambusher Ground (building) enemy spawn trigger from 10 to 8.[/p]
• [p]Increased Unstable Furnace (building) damage from 6 to 8.[/p]
• [p]Increased Dragon Hunter base damage from 10 to 12.[/p]
• [p]Increased Dragon Hunter base critical hit chance from 5 to 10%.[/p]
• [p]Increased Fire Heater (Dragon Hunter Power) next attack cooldown reduction from 50 to 60%.[/p]
• [p]Increased Cursed Apostle base damage from 7 to 8.[/p]
• [p]Increased Cursed Apostle base attack speed from 0.55 to 0.65.[/p]
• [p]Increased Berserker base range from 6.5 to 7.[/p]
• [p]Increased Huntress base critical hit chance from 5 to 10%.[/p]
• [p]Increased Necromancer base attack speed from 0.6 to 0.7.[/p]
• [p]Increased Necromancer base range from 5 to 6.[/p]
• [p]Increased Necromancer base damage from 5 to 6.[/p]
• [p]A guaranteed Mimic spawns on the first night in Endless Mode (3% chance for one to spawn before that). After that it's 6% chance for to spawn and the percentage increases by 3% every 5 nights for a maximum of 12% chance. [/p]

[p][/p][h3]Balancing (-)[/h3]

• [p]Decreased the Harpoon Atelier (building) effect knockback strength from 5 to 3 and from 10 to 6.[/p]
• [p]Decreased the Windmaker (building) slow effect from 20 to 10% and increased construction cost from 5 to 8.[/p]
• [p]Increased Tax Collector (building) construction cost from 4 to 5.[/p][p][/p]

[h3]Misc[/h3]

• [p]The leaderboard has been reset to take into account all the changes introduced. [/p]
• [p]Building Information Panel has been updated. Building tooltip now displays the cost for building not built yet and linked synergies information, similar to relics and powers. This panel is accessible through the little House button near the Play/Pause button.[/p]

• [p]Flying Skull Heads can now be affected by Death Mark and Hunter Mark as it doesn’t do direct effect or damage to them. They are still immune to status effects (Burn, Slow, Poison, Shock, Slow) and Knockback. [/p]

[p][/p][h3]Bug Fixes[/h3]

• [p]Fixed an issue where the Siren Scream (Sea Witch power) visual effect would trigger as soon as you get the hero.[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue preventing stats of the hero in battle to show the real and updated numbers when mouse hovering a hero at the surface.  [/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue where the Group Pillar (Bastion power) bonus knockback would not be applied to Cursed Apostle and Necromancer.[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue where a tile covered by snow without something on the block would not show any tooltip, hinting it contains nothing.[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue preventing any digging after looting a blueprint even when expedition is available.[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue that could cause some music overlapping after the game is paused.[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue with the HP counter growing too much when taking multiple damage in a short period of time.[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue allowing more than 2 uses of each spell per night.[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue where an enemy could show damage numbers from previous death occurring once respawned. [/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue with the gem that adds a random status effect on basic attacks that would prevent any shock or curse application.[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue with the gem that adds a random status effect to apply 2 random status effects instead when the Gem Belt relic is active.[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue preventing 2 stacks of Burn to be applied with a certain gem once the Gem Belt and Sacred Torch relics are both active. [/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue preventing Death Mark (Rogue Power) to consider the Flying Skull Head as a top priority enemy.[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue allowing the Flying Skull Heads to spawn within the same short period of time at the start of the night. [/p]

• [p]Fixed an issue when Explosive Stash (Building) could trigger visual effects in the fog of war at a bomb location, revealing the position of the block. [/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue making a call for help in the mine disappear after an expedition.[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue with Berserker range calculation allowing her to hit enemies out of range.[/p]

[p] [/p][h3]Known Issues[/h3][p]Several people experienced a bug with the previous patch causing the game to be locked into a loading screen. After investigating, the issue seems to be linked to the save file. It could be that the game is unauthorized to write/read the file or the save itself got corrupted. [/p][p]I added several safe checks with this update to prevent this issue from happening, but It's possible it doesn't prevent every cases. [/p][p][/p][p][c]If it happen to you after today's patch, before restarting the game, access the game logs: [/c][/p][p][c]press Windows + R, then paste this text, "%USERPROFILE%\\AppData\\LocalLow\\Hookaria Games/"[/c][/p][p][c]Compress the entire folder into an archive and send us an email here: [email protected][/c][/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]This is only the beginning of Hold The Mine Early Access, tons of cool stuff are coming, including highly requested features:[/p]

• [p]Dwarf Perks - A unique meta progression system with choices to make and experiment with[/p]
• [p]New content - More heroes, bosses, buildings, relics, enemies and blocks[/p]
• [p]New shop - Destruction service[/p]
• [p]Endless Improvements[/p]
• [p]Mid Run Saving[/p]
• [p]Sandbox Mode[/p]
• [p]Conquest Mode[/p]
• [p]And much more![/p]

[p][/p][p]That's all for today, thank you so much for all the support![/p][p][/p][p]paci[/p][h3]
Steam Reviews: Your Feedback Matters
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[p]Hello miners![/p][p][/p][p]Today's patch is mostly about bug fixing, including a fix to lags introduce with the last patch, but I took the opportunity to make some extra changes, including the removal of scoring penalty from taking damage and increasing occurence of random events in endless among other things. [/p][p][/p][p]Next patch will be the Chaos Beasts update coming on March 9th. [/p][p][/p][h3]Steam Reviews: Your Feedback Matters
[/h3][hr][/hr][p]I've been reading through all your Steam reviews, and I appreciate the feedback we've been receiving. Keep in mind this is just the beginning of Early Access. I'd love to continue seeing more of your thoughts and suggestions! Your support is important and it helps knowing what to focus on for each upcoming patch.[/p][p][/p][p][/p][h2]Patch Notes - Version 0.7.32[/h2][p][/p][p][/p][h3]Balancing[/h3][p]- Removed point penalty for taking door damages from score calculation. [/p][p]- Each additional night survived in endless grants more points for the score calculation.[/p][p]- Increased Gem Specialist (Knight Power) rune cost from 3 to 5.[/p][p]- Decreased First In Line (Berserker Power) range bonus from 50 to 25%.[/p][p]- Decreased Venom Blade relic chance to trigger from 40 to 30%.[/p][p]- Removed a limitation preventing random weather events from happening after a certain amount of nights in endless mode.  [/p][p][/p][h3]Misc[/h3][p]- Improved loading time speed when starting a new run or going back to the main menu. [/p][p]- Reduced Special Beer Stash effect volume by 25%.[/p][p][/p][h3]Bug Fixes[/h3][p]- Fixed an issue where heroes’ stat would still show bonus from previous runs when you have to choose one from a prison. [/p][p]- Fixed an issue preventing critical hits triggered by Axe of Giants building effect to ignore heroes’ brutal hit chance.[/p][p]- Fixed an issue preventing new run loading. [/p][p]- Fixed an issue with some relic visuals being overpixelized. [/p][p]- Fixed an issue preventing Bastion to show in the first prison choice.[/p][p]- Fixed an issue with the Special Beer Stash building provoking undesired lags in battle.[/p][p]- Fixed an issue with the Special Beer Stash building preventing the visual effect from playing.[/p][p]- Fixed an issue making clicking on the restart button at the end of a run impossible in some cases.[/p][p]- Fixed the unnecessary Cursed Source (Apostle Power) text spam in endless waves.[/p][p]- Fixed an issue preventing enemies killed with the Heavy Anvil spell to count (including mimics for the quest requirement).[/p][p][/p][p]
That's all for today, thank you so much for all the support! Next patch will be the Chaos Beasts update coming on March 9th, including bosses and some other cool things. [/p][p]paci[/p][p][/p][p][/p][h3]Join the Hold The Mine Community
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[p]Hello miners![/p][p][/p][p]Today's patch is adding 2 brand new buildings and 2 gems to add some diversity. [/p][p][/p][p]Many people asked why summons were not benefiting from the gems with on hit effects equipped by the hero invoking them. A fair criticism, especially since only one building is available to boost summons. The Puppeteer Workshop is here now, making this kind of benefit possible! Necromancer's minions and Wizard's Crows will be much deadlier now![/p][p][/p][p]Another building, the Special Beer Stash and 2 new Gems are also included in this patch, providing extra benefit to critical hit and poison synergies. [/p][p][/p][p]This is a continuous effort, more buildings, relics and gems are coming. [/p][p][/p][h3]Steam Reviews: Your Feedback Matters
[/h3][hr][/hr][p]I've been reading through all your Steam reviews, and I appreciate the feedback we've been receiving. Keep in mind this is just the beginning of Early Access. I'd love to continue seeing more of your thoughts and suggestions! Your support is important and it helps knowing what to focus on for each upcoming patch.[/p][p][/p][p][/p][h2]Patch Notes - Version 0.7.31[/h2][p][/p][h3]New Content[/h3]

• [p]Special Beer Stash (New Building): Critical Hits have a 20% chance of triggering a blast which deals 100% additional damage and applies Knockback 2 to nearby enemies.[/p]
• [p]Puppeteer Workshop (New Building): Summons invoked by a hero benefit from the gems equipped on that hero. [/p][p]It means gems giving status effects on hit to heroes also apply to the hero summons. Gems providing flat stat bonus are not concerned, as they were already benefiting to summons invoked by heroes (taking 50% of actual hero stats). [/p]
• [p]New Gem: Hero Critical hits have 10% chance of becoming Brutal Critical Hits, dealing 500% of their base damage instead of 200%.[/p]
• [p]New Gem: Basic attacks reset the duration of all stacks of Poison on the enemy.[/p]

[p][/p][h3]Balancing[/h3]

• [p]Rogue base range has been increased from 6 to 8. [/p]
• [p]Dragon Pet (Dragon Hunter Power) rune cost has been decreased from 4 to 3 runes.[/p]
• [p]Fire Eater (Dragon Hunter Power) rune cost has been decreased from 4 to 3 runes.[/p]
• [p]Decreased the base health of the Skull Head enemies. Spawn rate starting night 25 has been slightly adjusted.[/p]
• [p]Increased damage numbers size and added a unique color to them when the damage is from a Brutal Critical hit.[/p]
• [p]Decreased the amount of enemies killed required to unlock the Berserker hero from 40,000 to 30,000.[/p]
• [p]Adjusted the minimum number of Bomber enemies on the first 10 waves. [/p]
• [p]Increased the base move speed of the Slime enemy from 4 to 5.5. 
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[h3]Misc[/h3]

• [p]Increased overall performances for enemies and visual effects in battle.  [/p]

[p][/p][h3]Bug Fixes[/h3]

• [p]Fixed an issue allowing identical relics to be obtained with the Scavenger Hideout building effect. [/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue with deeper mine chunks displaying an incorrect visual background.[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue causing a main menu soft lock when steam is not connected.[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue allowing a 6th prison to spawn in the mine.[/p]

[p][/p][h3]What's Next?[/h3][hr][/hr][p]Our first major update is coming on March 9th, introducing new content like relics offering more synergy specialization and also something bigger... run bosses (including a dragon?!). This update will also be an opportunity to completely reset the Leaderboard, as it will also include changes to the way points are calculated.[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]I hope you are as excited as I am for the future of Hold The Mine, we have a lot of cool stuff planned, players already provided a lot of really cool ideas I want to add into the game over the next months:[/p]

• [p]New Game Modes: Conquest (challenges) and Custom (sandbox) [/p]
• [p]Meta Progression[/p]
• [p]Mid Run Save[/p]
• [p]More heroes, buildings, relics,... and more![/p]

[p] [/p][p]That's all for today, thank you so much for all the support, it means a lot! [/p][p]paci[/p][p][/p][h3][/h3][h3]Join the Hold The Mine Community
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