Noita Epilogue 2 Update

Noita Epilogue 2 Update is now available. To celebrate the update, Noita is 60% off at Steam!

This update includes a ton of new things, like new spells, new enemies, new bosses, a new area and new secrets. There's also a bunch of tweaks, updates and bug fixes.

Unfortunately your old save games won't survive the update. But there is now a new Steam beta branch called "update_20240214". It will allow you to finish your run with the old version of Noita.

GENERAL

• FEATURE: Spell - Sparkly bounce
• FEATURE: Spell - Lightning bounce
• FEATURE: Spell - Vacuum bounce
• FEATURE: Spell - Null shot
• FEATURE: Spell - Inner spell
• FEATURE: Spell - Giga white hole
• FEATURE: Spell - True orbit
• FEATURE: Spell - Hookbolt
• FEATURE: Spell - Anti homing
• FEATURE: Spell - Holy lance
• FEATURE: Added 8 modifier spells
• FEATURE: Added 6 new enemies
• FEATURE: Added 6 new spells
• FEATURE: Added 3 new secret spells
• FEATURE: Added new rare materials
• FEATURE: Added chemical reactions
• FEATURE: Added new small biome
• FEATURE: Item - Utility box
• FEATURE: Potion reactions
• FEATURE: Audio is muted when unfocusing the game if "Pause the game when unfocused" is On
• FEATURE: Amazing golden spell
• FEATURE: 3 new bossfights
• FEATURE: Added a new creature
• FEATURE: New materials and reactions
• FEATURE: New secret quest
• FEATURE: Added a new easter egg
• UPDATE: Dupe around and find out
• UPDATE: Better interaction with No Wand Tinkering and Tinker With Wands Everywhere perks
• UPDATE: Lukki Minion is slightly more powerful
• UPDATE: Spells can now be dropped from inventory at all times
• UPDATE: Spell drop rates rebalanced
• UPDATE: Explosive bounce's radius increased
• UPDATE: Shiny Orb is now more lucrative
• UPDATE: Moved a boss into a slightly more accessible spot
• UPDATE: Adjusted various spell mana costs and prices
• UPDATE: Adjusted weakness modifiers
• UPDATE: Updated the look of the Hiisi Alchemist's potions
• UPDATE: Potion content percentages are displayed now (Thank you Evaisa)
• UPDATE: Vomiting now requires eating a bit more nasty materials
• UPDATE: Buffed Vampirism
• UPDATE: A little surprise for the turophiles
• UPDATE: Audio - new sounds for , glue, eldritch portal, freezing gaze, barrier & wall spells
• UPDATE: Audio - bzzzt
• UPDATE: Audio - new sound for
• UPDATE: Audio - new music for a few side areas
• UPDATE: Powder pouches have a new functionality
• UPDATE: New enemies show their statuses in the UI
• UPDATE: Visual, audio and other fx when moving very fast
• UPDATE: Tele bolt resets caster's vertical velocity
• UPDATE: Less harsh sound for tele bolt for more pleasant tele spamming experience
• UPDATE: Improved camera tracking when moving fast
• UPDATE: Lukki Minion should no longer be killable to make it more useful
• UPDATE: Optimized file system performance when using mods
• UPDATE: Optimized performance of some game effect queries in various systems
• UPDATE: All bosses use final boss style health bars
• UPDATE: Added up to date localizations

BUG FIXES

• BUGFIX: Nightmare mode - the boss arena and orb rooms could be overwritten
• BUGFIX: Nightmare mode - Orbs should now drop hearts even if the spell is unlocked
• BUGFIX: Nightmare mode - enemies no longer spawn with Attract Gold perk
• BUGFIX: Permanent polymorph is permanent
• BUGFIX: Carrying 5th wand by frame perfect swapping is fixed
• BUGFIX: Rare crash when enemy was converted to a ragdoll (text sprite) (Thank you Dexter Castor Döpping)
• BUGFIX: Fixed another inventory exploit, that allowed carrying of extra wands
• BUGFIX: Fixed Lukki Minion sometimes escaping and disappearing
• BUGFIX: Vaihdosmestari can no longer move cursed rock
• BUGFIX: Closing inventory while starting to drag items is fixed
• BUGFIX: Alt tab silliness is should now be fixed
• BUGFIX: Optimized particle effects
• BUGFIX: Player can no longer polymorph to Olematon
• BUGFIX: Runestone of edges could cause Puska to shoot forever
• BUGFIX: Mouse cursor displays the material even in the far lands
• BUGFIX: Optimized Circle of stillness and Freezing gaze
• BUGFIX: Fixed Null shot breaking modifiers cast after it
• BUGFIX: Cosmetic fix to the alchemist's background
• BUGFIX: More optimizations, including Freeze Field perk and Iceball spell
• BUGFIX: Fixed a rare crash that could happen with too many materials
• BUGFIX: Rare wand generation bug (the default green wand should be now fixed)
• BUGFIX: Minor - a perk icon was missing a pixel
• BUGFIX: Fixed a security vulnerability in the modding API (Thank you Dexter Castor Döpping)
• BUGFIX: Fixed Hookbolt having a buggy sprite
• BUGFIX: Fixed Giga White Hole not repelling projectiles
• BUGFIX: Fixed certain spell unlocks happening in an unintended way
• BUGFIX: Physics objects are less likely to fall through the bottom of the world
• BUGFIX: Fixed Explosive Detonator being bugged in certain circumstances
• BUGFIX: Fixed a boss not dropping all the spells it was meant to
• BUGFIX: Fixed a secret dropping spells that it shouldn't
• BUGFIX: Fixed multiple spells have some erroneous/missing data
• BUGFIX: Fixed a rare case of sky being black
• BUGFIX: Nullifying Altar did not remove the perk icons (Thank you Priskip)
• BUGFIX: Related perks should now be removed from the perk pool
• BUGFIX: Surprise puddles behind potions fixed
• BUGFIX: Certain endgame item can now be dragged in the inventory without TWWE
• BUGFIX: Saving and loading while stained caused extra status effects
• BUGFIX: Vomit based status effect glitch is fixed
• BUGFIX: Longer runs should be more stable and largely address aware thanks to Dexter Castor Döpping
• BUGFIX: Game mode selection UI has been optimized
• BUGFIX: Improved overall security of modding API
• BUGFIX: Audio - rewrote audio event stealing logic - should fix issues with audio sometimes "wrapping up" in a janky manner
• BUGFIX: Audio - ambience events no longer trigger lots of silent audio instances - reduces ambience CPU use
• BUGFIX: Audio - droplet sounds would rarely end up repeating without a cause
• BUGFIX: Audio - liquid flow sound was sometimes left playing
• BUGFIX: Fixed a potential issue in regards to file paths
• BUGFIX: Fixed an xml parsing issue
• BUGFIX: A fix caused more issues than it solved
• BUGFIX: A fix broke some translation mods that used custom fonts
• BUGFIX: Possible fix for "Game will restart due to mod changes" without changes
• BUGFIX: Fungal shifts rarely didn't occur
• BUGFIX: Fungal shifts that didn't fully realise still counted towards the maximum limit
• BUGFIX: Certain spells weren't keeping the ID of their caster around like they should've
• BUGFIX: These release notes were so long that the UI had performance issues
• BUGFIX: Some surface areas had no sky light after above areas had been visited, and were not counted as surface by audio etc
• BUGFIX: Final boss hanging around very far from the player could block mini-boss music
• BUGFIX: Wands retain cast delay, recharge etc over a game restart
• BUGFIX: A settings menu item was using a missing translation key when hovered
• BUGFIX: Infinite rain exploit
• BUGFIX: Some localization strings were incorrectly escaped
• BUGFIX: Text in tablets and books didn't display correctly in all languages
• BUGFIX: Fixed issues with UI in some languages
• BUGFIX: More robust mod check when saving bones files

MODDING

• MODDING: Lua - added PolymorphTableAddEntity
• MODDING: Lua - added PolymorphTableRemoveEntity
• MODDING: Lua - added PolymorphTableGet
• MODDING: Lua - added LoadRagdoll
• MODDING: Lua - GameCreateCosmeticParticle - now with gravity_x and gravity_y
• MODDING: Lua - LoadPixelScene - now with allow_duplicate param
• MODDING: Lua - added PolymorphTableSet
• MODDING: Lua - added ComponentGetTags
• MODDING: Lua - added InputIsKeyDown
• MODDING: Lua - added InputIsKeyJustDown
• MODDING: Lua - added InputIsKeyJustUp
• MODDING: Lua - added InputGetMousePosOnScreen
• MODDING: Lua - added InputIsMouseButtonDown
• MODDING: Lua - added InputIsMouseButtonJustDown
• MODDING: Lua - added InputIsMouseButtonJustUp
• MODDING: Lua - added InputIsJoystickButtonDown
• MODDING: Lua - added InputIsJoystickButtonJustDown
• MODDING: Lua - added InputGetJoystickAnalogButton
• MODDING: Lua - added InputIsJoystickConnected
• MODDING: Lua - added InputGetJoystickAnalogStick
• MODDING: Lua - added PhysicsComponentGetTransform, PhysicsComponentSetTransform
• MODDING: Lua - added PhysicsPosToGamePos, GamePosToPhysicsPos
• MODDING: Lua - added PhysicsBodyIDGetFromEntity, PhysicsBodyIDQueryBodies
• MODDING: Lua - added PhysicsBodyIDGetTransform, PhysicsBodyIDSetTransform
• MODDING: Lua - added PhysicsBodyIDApplyForce, PhysicsBodyIDApplyTorque
• MODDING: Lua - added PhysicsBodyIDGetWorldCenter
• MODDING: Lua - added PhysicsBodyIDGetDamping, PhysicsBodyIDSetDamping
• MODDING: Lua - added PhysicsBodyIDGetGravityScale, PhysicsBodyIDSetGravityScale
• MODDING: Lua - added PhysicsBodyIDGetBodyAABB
• MODDING: Lua - added ModDoesFileExist
• MODDING: Lua - added RemovePixelSceneBackgroundSprite and RemovePixelSceneBackgroundSprites
• MODDING: Lua - added EntitiesGetMaxID
• MODDING: Lua - added ModMaterialFilesGet
• MODDING: Lua - added ModRegisterMusicBank (init.lua) and example in mods/example
• MODDING: Lua - added GameGetSkyVisibility, GameGetFogOfWar, GameGetFogOfWarBilinear, GameSetFogOfWar
• MODDING: Lua - added DEBUG_LUA_DONT_REPEAT_ERRORS magic number to log recurring, consecutive errors only once (defaults to 1)
• MODDING: Lua - lua error stack traces
• MODDING: Lua - added ModImageMakeEditable, ModImageIdFromFilename, ModImageSetPixel, ModImageGetPixel
• MODDING: Lua - added ModImageWhoSetContent, ModImageDoesExist
• MODDING: Lua - added ModLuaFileGetAppends, ModLuaFileSetAppends
• MODDING: Lua - added ComponentGetEntity
• MODDING: Lua - added optional 'tag' parameter to EntityGetAllChildren
• MODDING: Lua - exposed ModTextFileGetContent and ModTextFileWhoSetContent to all lua scripts
• MODDING: Lua - made ComponentGet/SetValue2 up to 300% faster. Old ComponentGet/SetValue API is also a bit faster
• MODDING: Lua - added GameSetPostFxTextureParameter, GameUnsetPostFxTextureParameter
• MODDING: Lua - added PhysicsBodyIDApplyLinearImpulse, EntityGetHotspot, EntityRemoveStainStatusEffect
• MODDING: Lua - added use_material_colors & replace_existing_cells parameters to EntityConvertToMaterial
• MODDING: Lua - added font and scale options to GuiText, GuiButton and GuiGetTextDimensions
• MODDING: Lua API documentation - improved documentation of some functions
• MODDING: MagicNumber UI_WAND_TAG_OVERWRITES_NAME has been added
• MODDING: MagicNumber DESIGN_ALLOW_INVENTORY_CLOSING_AND_DRAGGING_GLITCH has been added
• MODDING: MagicNumber DESIGN_ALLOW_FULL_INVENTORY_SPELLS_DRAG has been added
• MODDING: MagicNumber DESIGN_TELEKINESIS_GLITCH_FOR_TABLETS has been added
• MODDING: MagicNumber DESIGN_TELEKINESIS_GLITCH_FOR_ITEM_PHYSICS has been added
• MODDING: MagicNumber GLITCH_ALLOW_5TH_WAND_CARRY has been added
• MODDING: MagicNumber GLITCH_ALLOW_ALT_TAB_SILLINESS has been added
• MODDING: MagicNumber GLITCH_ALLOW_STAIN_DUPLICATION_GLITCH has been added
• MODDING: MagicNumber GLITCH_ALLOW_VOMIT_BASED_STATUS_EFFECT_GLITCH has been added
• MODDING: MagicNumber DEBUG_DISPLAY_INTERNAL_ID_IN_PROGRESS_MENU has been added
• MODDING: Components - GameEffectComponent - polymorph_target should now work
• MODDING: Components - LaserEmitterComponent - ConfigLaser - added damage_apply_hitbox_dmg_multiplier
• MODDING: Components - PhysicsKeepInWorldComponent - added
• MODDING: Components - AttachToEntityComponent - added
• MODDING: Components - BiomeTrackerComponent - added
• MODDING: ComponentGetValue2() and ComponentSetValue2() now work with types::iaabb
• MODDING: Components - LuaComponent - added limit_all_callbacks to allow limiting of all callbacks
• MODDING: Fixed DEBUG_DISPLAY_INTERNAL_ID_IN_PROGRESS_MENU
• MODDING: Updated debug_keys.txt
• MODDING: Added support for static_tile biomes, that are like wang biomes without randomization, consisting of one large tile
• MODDING: Added support for static_tile_bg_mask, that are repeating backgrounds with a rough mask that defines the visibility
• MODDING: Added audio_music_trigger_without_danger to Biome. Used in watercave. Also added other new audio-related properties
• MODDING: Added intensity2 parameter to GameEntityPlaySoundLoop
• MODDING: IKLimbWalker, IKLimbsAnimator - exposed ray_skip_material
• MODDING: CharacterPlatforming - added audio_liquid_splash_intensity
• MODDING: PhysicsAI works better with non-levitating creatures
• MODDING: Added auto-generated any_liquid any any_powder Material tags
• MODDING: Audio - reports filename on bank load error
• MODDING: Improved init.lua API documentation
• MODDING: Fixed a possible rare crash when using the mod API in not recommended ways
• MODDING: CharacterData/CharacterCollision - added dont_update_velocity_and_xform
• MODDING: Exposed some path finding debug rendering features in F7 menu
• MODDING: Materials.xml loading - doesn't log error if a material would have reaction to itself because of a reaction with duplicate material from tags
• MODDING: Entity xml - added _remove_from_base (on Base components) to exclude components from base entities
• MODDING: Added 'json' to accepted file types of ModTextFileGet/SetContent and workshop uploader
• MODDING: Default biome map loads via 'data/scripts/biome_map.lua' (makes biome map multi-mod editing less of a hassle)
• MODDING: fungal_shift.lua doesn't call CellFactory_GetType on file scope, so mods can use the file before that function is ok to call
• MODDING: Added AUDIO_PLAY_GAME_OVER_SOUND and AUDIO_FADE_MUSIC_ON_DEATH magic numbers
• MODDING: Biome - added parameters to control parallax bg look
• MODDING: MaterialAreaCheckerComponent - added always_check_fullness & count_min
• MODDING: IKLimbsAnimatorComponent - added is_limp,
• MODDING: GameStatsComponent - dont_do_logplayerkill
• MODDING: PhysicsShapeComponent - added material
• MODDING: AnimalAIComponent - added keep_state_alive_when_enabled (without this AnimalAI can get stuck in no state when Disabled & Enabled)
• MODDING: VegetationComponent - added random_flip_x_scale
• MODDING: CellData - added vegetation_random_flip_x_scale
• MODDING: CellData - added is_grass_hashed (for more natural look when grass grows on a long, flat horizontal surface)
• MODDING: PotionComponent - added custom_color_material
• MODDING/BUGFIX: Removing a game mode mod while there was an active run with it could make the game crash or behave weirdly
• MODDING/BUGFIX: Pressing "Install mods..." in mods menu would take one back to the main menu
• MODDING/BUGFIX: EntitySerializer couldn't always update entities on hot load changes
• MODDING/BUGFIX: Fixed a warning on game start if MaterialAreaChecker.material2 is not set
• MODDING/BUGFIX: ModSettingGetNextValue returned setting key if no next value is set for the setting (now returns nil)