5 Days to Full Release — Rune System Expanded, Build Freedom Upgraded!

Greetings, fellow dwarves — new powers are awakening within the rune stones.
As one of the core systems of character building, Runes largely define your combat style and growth path throughout a run. In the full release, the Rune system receives a major content expansion and structural improvements, with one clear goal:
to help different builds come online earlier, follow clearer development paths, and enable truly distinct playstyles — not just higher numbers, but entirely different combat logic.

New Features

• Added 15 new Runes:

  • Martial Arts, Way of the Fist, Iron Fists

  • Thornward, Crown of Thorns

  • Ephemeral Echo, Elementalist

  • Martyrdom, Chilled to the Bone, Hypothermia

  • Frostborn, Absolute Zero, Shattering Ice

  • Overcrit, Critical Thinking

Changes and QoL

• Re-ordered Runes to always show clear-cut ones last

• ‘Martyrdom’ is now a standard T3 Defensive Rune and will be granted to new players

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the ‘Horror’ Rune was not applying any damage

• Fixed an issue where the ‘Toxic’ Rune was not spreading poison correctly (it should deal more damage now)