Ultimate Arena · Added a new Research Tree for the Ultimate Arena · Added a series of terrifying, yet rewarding, boss challenges to the Ultimate Arena, and optionally to bosses in the Nightmare difficulty. There are 61 special effects to find! · Reworked the Ultimate Arena coherence formula to more aggressively favor NM. This is a nerf, too Codex · Added a Monster Codex, which lists all availab…
Vendoring/Loot Filtering Ultimate Uniques now grants 1 Ultimate Token · Added an Ultimate Token display to the shop · Gold in the Shop window now switches to scientific notation at 1 billion gold, in order to keep the display readable · Ship Friend now fires considerably faster and its bullets are faster, too! · Fixed a bug with Ship Friend where it wasn't scaling damage properly · The "Magnum…
Welcome to 0.5.1, a surprise content update containing some exciting new features! Challenge the Ultimate Arena, find new Ultimate Uniques, craft in ways you've never imagined, and conquer new content! The Ultimate Arena When playing on high Nightmare levels at significant depth, you may encounter the Ultimate Arena when selecting a new area. This arena pits you against 3 random bosses back-to-…
Fixed some lag relating to enemies who fire projectiles · Fixed a bug where the +3% challenge chance Research Skill was not functioning · Fixed a softlock caused by selecting a new area and dying on the same frame · Further reduced Ultimate Unique drop chances · Added the framework for the Ultimate Arena, coming in a future patch · Updated some underlying code for boss telegraphs to enable more…
Increased the spawn rate of the 3 socket craft · Fixed 3 potential memory leaks · Improved the performance of Meteor burning ground · Reworked a modifier on Glass Eater (you'll have to find a new one, sorry!) · Fixed a potential level generation failure · Fixed a bug where Foreseen Ruin would not always apply · Reworked Foreseen Ruin and Prophesied Doom to apply a multiplicative increased damag…
Added new Ultimate Unique: Glass Eater · Fixed a bug with Kinetic Blades that caused each individual blade to count as the same damage dealer, substantially reducing their single target damage · Reworked Rain of Death to not perform potentially millions of calculations per frame. This is a buff? · Improved the performance of Meteor · Fixed a bug regarding minions and Aletheia's clones · Fixed a…
Adjusted the drop rates of some items · Fixed a bug where items could be generated strangely via one of the new events · Added some text color effects for ultimate unique item drops · Fixed a bug with the text on Limit Break skills not using the new skill tree renderer · Fixed the Shrine of the Swarm effect multiplying by 0 in many cases
Content · New Ultimate Unique: Triumverate Teachings · Overhauled Aletheia's reward system to more aggressively pay out for big wins · Increased the odds of the special Aqueduct event · Endless Nightmare Crafter events now award the correct amount of energy Balance · Inferno Shield (Conjuror) - Now also grants +3 Fire Damage added to Fire Elemental attacks per stack of Shock on the enemy · Hoar…
The Uber Boss Update Welcome to Don't Die, Collect Loot's next major update! This patch focuses on adding more to the endgame experience, giving players more of a reason to grind out all of that ridiculous loot. This includes a new "uber" boss, a revamp to the crafting system, a new tier of uniques, and more! As always, this game is in early access and I'm still (and always will be) the solo de…
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The Beastmaster Update (0.4.2) Welcome to the next major content update in Early Access! This one focuses on the weakest class, the Beastmaster. Additionally, I added some new features and QoL improvements based on community requests. Note that there is no ladder reset for this patch, and there won't be for 0.5 either. A Note from the Developer (Dan): This patch took about 2 weeks longer than I…
Added the ability to toggle skill autocast in the pause menu, as well as read skill tooltips · Fixed a bug where exp did not count for gained gold at max level · Fixed a bug where the "gain an extra shrine buff" research node wasn't working. Also re-wrote this garbage to be way more performant · Fixed a bug where old local conversion effects (Whirlwind and Hunting Shuriken) weren't working prop…
Added indicators to let the player know which area to tackle next · Fixed a bug where the Value Corruption craft had poor outcomes · Added 2 new Anomalous Gambler crafts · Anomalous Gambler is now very clear about Collapsing items · Added one secret craft · Added 3 new Huntress enchants · Fixed the Explorer's Tongs tags for sacrificing · Fixed a bug where the Huntress potion buffs were not alwa…
Fixed a bug where high damage (10E39+) was occasionally getting squished into a float, causing a sudden infinite damage spike · Fixed a bug where controllers could not reset their bindings · Fixed a few controller nav issues on options menus · When binding to an in-use key in the control binding menu, you will now swap with that key instead of getting annoying binding errors. This is particular…
Majorly reduce CPU usage for combat even more · Fix Shield Toss memory leak · Added a cooldown to Fire Burst proccing (.25s) to prevent lag · Fire Burst can no longer trigger Fire Burst · Improved some collision code performance · Fixed a bug where Ethical Trap Arm Rate was actually making it arm more slowly · Fixed a bad tag on the Blade Amalgam weapon mod · Removed references to 'Artificer' i…
Major CPU use reduction for all combat (70%). If you see anything wrong with how much damage you do, send me a report asap! · The camera now focuses on the Y position of the character when exiting secret areas · Reduced memory usage in the Nexus · Reduced the file size of the game substantially · Areas only load the monsters they have the potential to spawn · Reduced general memory usage of the…
Enabled 3 levels of scrolling smoothness . The default should be sufficient for 60 and 144hz monitors, but you may want to set it to "High" for 240hz. This had a major effect on how the game feels! · Fixed a lag issue with Ethical Trap · Optimized more Poison CPU use · Fixed some scrolling exit issues when leaving <REDACTED> · Fixed some boundary issues in secret areas and boss fights · Capped…
Fixed a few issues with the regex filter in shops · The Echo Forger now only shows items with sockets and memory crystals when in the Nexus (you can filter on top of this, too!) · Fixed a few stash bugs · Fixed a bug where very old characters that pre-dated Achievements could fail to load · Fixed a few bugs with the Shrine of Charity event · Fixed a few bad crush cases
Fixed a major bug reducing the damage dealt by very lategame (Nightmare 100+) players. If you were that high on the leaderboards, you might find yourself significantly buffed · Smoothed out the Depth scaling effect on Nightmare 50+. This should make Depth 100-200 less difficulty, but things will start to scale after that. As a note, this is EA , if things are too hard or too easy come yell at m…
Greatly improved the speed of the inventory filter box on large inventories · Improved the controller experience for the inventory filter box · Removed a useless Gambler Items mod from Yellow memory crystals. You will gain this affix slot back on your crystals when you log in · Fixed a bug where Raging Swarm was sometimes staying permanently snapshot on old damage values · Fixed a bug where pla…
Fixed a bug where Verdant Aegis might not recharge during a boss fight · Fixed a bug where inventory gaps could prevent the Echo Forger from displaying some of your crystals · Softlock prevention added for re-entering the same portal · Re-wrote Raging Swarm AI from scratch to use less CPU and perform better in general · Added a Halve Chaos craft to Charity's Reward · Fixed some crafts displayin…
Added some raycast magic to prevent players from super speeding into the abyss. If you see anything weird with movement after this, let me know! · Fixed a bug where some older skills had a minimum CD of .4s instead of .2s. This is probably a major buff, may have to address some fallout later! · Corrected CD displays on skill tooltips · Fate has arrived · Added the ability to toggle the News Fee…
Fixed a bug where the "Reset" button on the key rebinder was not always functioning properly · Fixed a bug where you could not bind to hidden reserved key bindings (like mouse clicks) even though this would not impact those bindings. You should now have full reign of the keyboard/controller to do as you please · Moved the Halls of Glory orb to the main Nexus area · Moved the Guidebook clickable…
Fixed a bug where an item could appear duplicated in your inventory rarely, causing some strange effects · Fixed a few bugs that could cause negative run scores · Re-enabled the icons on items that represent coherence, equipped items, etc · Echo Forger automatically applies a regex that displays Memory Crystals (yes, a UI version of this is coming! Consider it a sneak peek) · Fixed a bug where…
Fixed a bug where the Add Unique Modifier craft was not functioning · Fixed a bug where Controller users could get stuck in certain crafting windows · Fixed a bug where the "cancel" button was not escaping certain crafting windows · When a craft completes, the craft button will highlight again for controller users if the craft is still available · When opening a craft or equipment screen with t…
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