Oaken Tower News

[h3]Hi Oaklings,
[/h3][p]Thank you for all the feedback on the Spooktober event!
I'm stoked you like it 🎃[/p][p][/p][h3]Balance:[/h3][p]🔴Blueberry Burst (Candy) now gives "cheap" rerolls instead of free. (Half price rounded down).[/p][p]🔴2/3-Star Silver Lance (Common) --> "On Trigger: Deal 10/20 bonus damage."[/p][p]🟢3-Star Regular Bow (Common): Start of combat 20 dmg / 2 multi --> 25 dmg / 3 multi.[/p][p]🟢Venomstrike (Epic): 4s CD --> 3.8s CD.[/p][p]🔴Toxins (Epic) 1.3s CD --> 1.4s CD.[/p][p]🟢Brew Today (From Mr. Spook): 8.5s CD --> 8s CD.[/p][p]🟢Wish (Celesita): Upgrade an item from ** to *** in 3 days ---> 2 days.[/p][p]🟢Exaltation (Bishop): Gain +9 free rerolls and +5000 Max Health --> +5200 Max Health.[/p][p][/p][h3]Adding a bit more early game scaling items:[/h3][p]🟡Darksteel Rework: Sharpsteel | Common | Dagger | 30 gold | 3.2s CD | 20 dmg | 25 crit | "When this crits, permanently gain +1 damage."[/p][p]🟡Petal Staff rework: Common | Magic, Elven | 25 gold | 4.1s CD | 2 Poison | "On First 2 Triggers: Permanently gain +1 poison."[/p][p]🔴 Jade removed from the game. //Dev comment: Jade didn't serve a purpose, and the Elven category had too many items in it.[/p][p][/p][p]To make the amount of items in each category closer to each other, and keep it at a max of 9, Nightquill is no longer dark and High Blade is now only moon.[/p][p]This is essentially preparation for the "deckbuilding" mechanic in the future, where you will be able to choose 8 types to play with when more new types are introduced. With this, all types need to have roughly the same amount of items.[/p][p][/p][p]Frosty has the fewest items, so to keep Frosty in line with this, a new item is introduced:[/p][p][/p][p]Sapphire Amulet.[/p][p]Legendary | Artifact, Frosty | 45 Gold | "Increases your critical strike damage from x2 to x3".[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][h3]Other:[/h3][p]🔸Lowered required candy amount to unlock avatar from 100 --> 75.[/p][p]🔸Mr. Spook now always has a 50% chance of appearing on day 6.[/p][p][/p][h3]Quality of Life[/h3][p]🔸You can now right-click shop items to buy them, and instantly put them into your tower.[/p][p]🔸You can now right-click all potions to use them. If you do so on weapon-buff potions, it will be applied to the last item that you used a potion on. This shortcut does not work on Ink, Potion of Appearance, Crownforge Brew and Morph Vial so you won't use them accidentally.[/p][p][/p][h3]Fixes:[/h3][p]🔸Fixed an issue that caused lag in the main menu after about 30 seconds.[/p][p]🔸Fixed a bug where 3-Star Brew Today would produce shop potions rather than just normal potions.[/p][p]🔸Fixed a bug where candies would show a different wrong amount in the shop.[/p][p]🔸Fixed a bug where the candy buff would carry over between Oak fights, allowing you to stack them infinitely.[/p][p]🔸If you enter combat while an item is still spawning other items (Anvil etc.), it will now stop spawning.[/p][p]🔸Fixed a bug where you couldn't triple an item if you got the 3rd one from Wild Magic or Morph Potion.[/p][p]🔸Fixed a bug where upgrading Moon Knife through the enchanter encounter would not give the correct amount of XP.[/p][p]🔸Fixed a crash caused by Morph Potion and Morph Vial if you had also picked the Trick or Treat encounter option.[/p][p]🔸To further avoid game crashes, the maximum amount of items than an item can generate in 1 combat is now capped at 10.000.[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]//Bocary[/p][p][/p]

[h3]Greetings, Oaklings! [/h3][p][/p][h2]🎃 Spooktober Event Live! 🎃[/h2][p]The Spooktober event is now live! It will end on November 2nd.[/p][p][/p][p]🔸New Spooky theme, music and backgrounds.[/p][p][/p][p]🔸New encounter: Mr. Spook. (Day 6)[/p][p]Mr. Spook will only be available during the Spooktober event.[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]🔸New limited edition Spooktober player icons![/p][p]These are unlockable in various ways. They will carry over to the full release if unlocked.[/p][p][/p][p]🔸Fight the Gremlin.[/p][p]To unlock the Gremlin player icon, you have to beat the Gremlin! He has a pretty nasty dark build...[/p][p][/p][p][/p][h2]New general encounter: The Bishop[/h2][p]🔸The Bishop is similar to the Priest and Cleric. He will always appear day 11 and will boost your Max HP and either give you free rerolls, or some lucky rolls.[/p][p][/p][p][/p][h2]Balance:[/h2][p]🟢Venom Ring (Legendary): 50 gold --> 45 gold.[/p][p]🟢Venomstrike (Epic): 2 multicast --> 3 multicast | 15 damage --> 10 damage.[/p][p]🔴Ruby Knife 2-Star (Rare): Ability --> "On First Trigger: Permanently gain +3 bleed."[/p][p]🟢Woodchopping (Epic): Ability --> "On Trigger: Give your axes +3 damage permanently per unique axe." | 45 gold --> 40 gold. | 4.5s CD --> 4.2s CD[/p][p]🔴Icy Axe 2-Star (Common): Ability --> "On First Trigger: Trigger this an extra time." [/p][p]🟢Arcane Orb (Epic): 6.1s CD --> 5s CD.[/p][p]🟢Hook (Rare): 25% crit chance --> 30% crit chance.[/p][p][/p][h2]Other:[/h2][p]🔸New Carmen lucky reroll: Candy Shop.[/p][p]🔸You can now right-click utility potions (those that give XP, Gold, Max HP etc.) to instantly use them.[/p][p]🔸You can now press the space button to Fight the Oak and "Continue" after oak fight.[/p][p]🔸Increased the "soft cap" of HP to 20.000[/p][p]🔸The Soft Cap has been slightly weakened. (Gives 2K hp at 20K scaling down to 1200)[/p][p][/p][h2]Fixes:[/h2][p]🔸Fixed an issue where the music volume would change to wrong values sometimes.[/p][p]🔸Gold and Income are now reset after fighting The Oak.[/p][p]🔸Fixed a bug where 2/3-Star Modern Archery would still show an arrow indicator.[/p][p]🔸Amethyst Bow (Common) 3-Star now correctly gains temporary bleed rather than permanent.[/p][p]🔸2-Star redemption now only triggers when another item heals.[/p][p]🔸Fixed typo in the Dusk Shield text.[/p][p]🔸Fixed lag when having multiple Garnets generating items.[/p][p][/p][p] Expect follow-up balance changes in the coming weeks. [/p][p]//Bocary[/p]

[h3]This patch comes with a good bunch of QoL[/h3][p][/p][h3]Balance:[/h3][p]🔴Hook (Rare): 35% crit chance --> 25% crit chance.[/p][p]🟡3-Star Cursed Garnet (Cursed): "Start of Combat: Gain 6 random Dark or Cursed items."[/p][p]🔴2/3 Star Ice Spear (Rare): Now gains less damage on trigger.[/p][p]🟢2-Star Crescentshot (Rare): No ability --> "On Trigger: Gain +1 bonus damage."[/p][p]🟢2/3-Star Soulsplitter (Legendary): +4 / +12 permanent DMG at start of combat --> +5 / +15[/p][p]🔴2/3-Star Boneclub (Common): +4/+8 dmg on trigger --> +3/+6[/p][p]🔴2/3-Star Refined Spear (Common): +15 DMG --> +12[/p][p][/p][h3]Other:[/h3][p]🔸Items that generate other items now have a cap of 500.000 generations per round (to avoid crashes).[/p][p]🔸Items that generate other items now generate twice as fast during shop phase, if the queue is above 30. (>30 = generate every frame.)[/p][p]🔸Crownforge Brew added to the item codex.[/p][p]🔸You can now toggle on 1-Star / 2-Star / 3-Star items in the item codex![/p][p][/p][p]🔸Carmens lucky shop "Chronomancer's Shop" now has a new potion "Ink" that sets an item's cooldown to 100 seconds. This is essentially a nerf to the Chronomancer's shop lucky roll, but also functions as a creative way to achieve record runs.[/p][p][/p][p][/p][h3]Quality of Life:[/h3][p]🔸Added \[SHIFT + T] hotkey for quick-level.[/p][p]🔸Added \[CTRL] hotkey for sort inventory.[/p][p]🔸The shop and encounters now open faster when you click them.[/p][p]🔸When you upgrade an item (1,2,3 star) it will remain in the tower.[/p][p]🔸Upgrading an item to a new star now has a sound cue and animation.[/p][p]🔸The game now remembers the "Always show Carmen in casual" option between sessions.[/p][p]🔸Items that generate stuff during combat (gold / items) will now show how much they generate during combat.[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][h3]Fixes:[/h3][p]🔸3-Star Trident now works as it is stated on the text.[/p][p]🔸Using Enchant/Ascendence/Crownforge Brew on a Brass Knife will now give it the supposed effect.[/p][p]🔸3-Star Void Stinger no longer gives debuffs to all your items.[/p][p]🔸Shardfang now properly queues its triggers from bleed items.[/p][p]🔸2-Star Anvil now gives +3 iron stacks per sword as stated.[/p][p]🔸Moon Knife now provides the correct amount of XP when upgraded using encounters/crownforge brew.[/p][p]🔸Upgraded Voidspike now gives the correct amount of damage.[/p][p]🔸Fixed a typo on Brass Knife text.[/p][p]🔸Fixed a typo on Blazing Bull 2-Star text.[/p][p]🔸"Enchant" (day 6) and "Ascendence" (Day 9) now says *Max 2-stars in their descriptions.[/p][p]🔸Cursed Shield (Cursed) Now gives the correct amount of multicast at start of combat.[/p][p]🔸Paladin's Hammer (2/3 star) now properly gives the heal stated on it.[/p][p][/p][p]//Bocary[/p][p][/p]

[p]Oaken Tower reached 10.000 wishlists, the Discord server passed 1.000 members, the Steam reviews are more positive than ever and the newest update has recieved super positive feedback!

A huge thank you to every single one of you! ❤️
[/p][p]As some of you know, I am a solo developer from Denmark.[/p][p]I try to push more content and balance the game, while juggling my university studies in software engineering.[/p][p]Your continued support and encouraging comments is what keeps me extremely motivated at pumping out new content every month![/p][p]I read every single Steam review and suggestion, and I do my best to accomodate all player concerns 🙏[/p][h3]

If you haven't left a review on the demo page yet, please consider doing so. It helps SO MUCH ❤️[/h3][h3][/h3][h3] [dynamiclink][/dynamiclink][/h3][p][/p][h3]Here are some fun facts about Oaken Tower:[/h3]

• [p]13.437 unique lifetime users.[/p]
• [p]~1.500 daily active users.[/p]
• [p]Average time played: 31 h 58 m.[/p]
• [p]Encounter that took the longest to code: Carmen's Lucky Rerolls. (Followed by King Midas' offering)[/p]
• [p]Item that took the longest to code: Anvil.[/p]
• [p]Biggest update so far: The introduction of encounters (May 15th).
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Shoutout to all Oaken Tower content creators! ❤️[/h3][p]Bozidar: [dynamiclink][/dynamiclink][/p][p]S1Lf3R: [dynamiclink][/dynamiclink][/p][p]Michuu: [dynamiclink][/dynamiclink][/p][p]Super Auto Gaming: [dynamiclink][/dynamiclink][/p][p]William: [dynamiclink][/dynamiclink][/p][p]vXentronium: [dynamiclink][/dynamiclink][/p][p]Gaming with Jeff: [dynamiclink][/dynamiclink][/p][p]LTG Auto-Battles: [dynamiclink][/dynamiclink][/p][p]Monkey: [dynamiclink][/dynamiclink][/p][p]Zev: [dynamiclink][/dynamiclink][/p][p]Fluffehjuju: [dynamiclink][/dynamiclink]
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Discord server[/h3][p]The discord server reached 1.000 members![/p][p]Go join and have a blast. We play Oaken Tower Scribble, discuss strategies in the voice chat, and post our coolest builds.
https://discord.gg/SFruNNHWbH[/p][p][/p][p][/p][h3]Oaken Tower SubReddit[/h3][p]Follow the Oaken Tower subreddit for even more oaken goodies.[/p][p]https://www.reddit.com/r/OakenTower/
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The Official Oaken Tower Wiki[/h3][p]Give a helping hand over at the wiki if you want to :)[/p][p]https://oakentower.wiki.gg/[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]Again, thank you so much for your continued support of Oaken Tower ❤️[/p][p]
//Bocary[/p]

[h3]Fixes:[/h3]

• [p]3-Star Modern Archery now works as intended.[/p]
• [p]Fixed a bug where using the enchanter or Master Alderos option would not properly combine items into 2-star.[/p]
• [p]Fixed a bug where multiple Conjure Spear / Anvil etc. would not properly triple items when spawning many of the same one.[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue where 3-Star Dark Orb would trigger from inventory.[/p]

[p]//Bocary[/p][p][/p]