Update v2.1

⚒️ Update V2.1.0 - Season 5

Season 5 has arrived! This update introduces new Artifacts, Runes, leaderboard improvements, balance changes, quality-of-life improvements, and a huge number of bug fixes.

🌟 New Features

Season 5

• All leaderboards have been reset.

• New Challenge Leaderboard: Conquest V

6 New Artifacts

• Runner Beans (Cave, Battle 50+)

• Marching Rations (Forge Crafting)

• Trolltooth Necklace (Forest) (Raid Reward)

• Trolltooth Necklace (Cave) (Raid Reward)

• Trolltooth Necklace (Ruins) (Raid Reward)

• Trolltooth Necklace (Glacier) (Raid Reward)

10 New Runes

• Damnation (Ultimate, Clear-Cut, T2-T3)

• Inner Peace (Defensive, Unique, Profession, T3)

• Warden (Defensive, Unique, Profession, T3)

• Elemental Equilibrium (Defensive, Unique, Clear-Cut, T3)

• Flow of Chi (Defensive, Unique, Clear-Cut, T3)

• Wisdom over Power (Defensive, Unique, Clear-Cut, T3)

• Experimental Growth (Support, Clear-Cut, All Tiers)

• Experimental Traits (Support, Clear-Cut, All Tiers)

• Experimental Rebirth (Support, Clear-Cut, All Tiers)

• Conquest V (Support, Unique, Clear-Cut, T3)

Leaderboard Improvements

• Hovering leaderboard entries now shows Clan information.

• Steam usernames can now be changed at any time.

• Supporter Pack owners can now change their username color by selecting a Wyvern Hatchling color.

Other Additions

• New audio option: Burp Sounds On/Off

• Added a community wiki link to the title screen (thanks der_kney!)

⚙️ Changes & Quality of Life

General

• Deserted Battles only increase when abandoning a battle with at least one fallen Dwarf.

• Eternal:on growth after battle now requires progressing at least one wave.

• Potion of Growth now drops from Spiders.

• Potion of Rebirth now drops from Wyverns.

• Slightly increased Potion shop appearance chance.

Battle Report Improvements

• Kill bar replaced with debuff display.

• Kill count remains available in tooltips.

• Added Gold, Silver and Bronze MVP medals.

Forging

• Mythic+ forging costs more Gold.

• Mythic+ modifier rolls are now always maximum.

Loot Mode

• Victory count can no longer fall below 1.

• Deserted Battles can no longer occur.

Beastmaster

• Now has an inherent 10% Block Chance.

• Added Rimu Harvest, Retaliation and Epiphany as Off-Hand passives.

• Off-Hand passives can now be reforged with matching Elements (or two Kakapo Staves).

Additional Changes

• Orcs now have access to Runner Beans.

• Reduced Troll and Dragon Thunder Resistance.

• Increased card reroll cost after battle 300.

• Increased Rare Orc Stamina after battle 1000.

• Veteran & Recruit helmet sprites updated.

• All items now sell for a small amount of Gold.

• Eternal:off late-game battles now drop Mythril instead of excessive Items.

• Added Mythril Motherlode to the Arkenstone Shop.

• Boldness Veteran stats now match Victory 50 Veterans.

🔮 Rune Changes

General

• Basic Defensive Runes now have Element-specific variants.

• Fully collected Rune variants now glow brighter.

• Updated numerous Rune descriptions.

• Rune count displayed in Rune selection.

• Rune variants now have unique borders.

Ephemeral Echo

• Added Thunder, Fire and Ice variants.

• Maximum proc chance increased from 20% → 24%.

• Works for all basic attacks.

• Thunder bounces reduced from 8 → 5.

Way of the Fist

• Flurry of Fists now counts as basic attacks (cannot self-proc).

• No effect while using a shield.

• Minimum Flurry increased from 3 → 5.

Other Rune Changes

• Multishot now supports Archers, Warlocks and Cannoneers.

• Parabellum reworked into Mana Cost Reduction + Ultimate Charge.

• Conductor now has a chance to spawn Kugelblitz.

• Frostfire now shatters Frozen enemies for AoE damage.

• Martial Arts now doubles Helmet & Shoulder stats but damage bonus reduced 200% → 120%.

• Increased thresholds for Fatality Runes.

🛡️ Item Changes

General

• All Artifacts now grant growth on level-up.

Reworked Artifacts

• Tome of Insight

• Amulet of Warding

• Dragon Bacon

• Poison Vial

• Sanctified Amulet

• Dice of Fate

• Blueberries

• Hot Coal

• Tesla Coil

• Frost Armor

Trolltooth Necklace

• Added STR, DEX, INT and WIS variants.

• Reward preview shown on Boss Card.

• Reward depends on current biome.

• Increased defensive stat.

• Added total main stat increase bonus.

Additional Changes

• Gauntlet of Swiftness jump-back scales with weight.

• Heart of Iron damage reduction now applies before shield buff.

• Reduced Ring of Thunder resistance.

• Artifact unlock requirements adjusted.

• Dark Crystal now uses the Dwarf's Element.

• Updated Black Lotus Ring and Dragon Bacon descriptions.

⚔️ Ability Changes

Battlerune: Inferno

• Hits 5 times instead of 4.

• First hit now happens instantly.

Battlerune: Celestial Arrows

• First arrow fires slightly ahead of the frontline.

• Arrow count doubled 20 → 40.

Battlerune: Cataclysm

• Base damage doubled.

• Skulls doubled 10 → 20.

• Removed Fear and Doom secondary effects.

• Fixed Spider damage issue.

Thunderstorm

• Repeated hits deal only 25% damage.

• Stops when no targets remain.

• Reduced target scaling.

Other Ability Changes

• Chakram Throw now activates on melee hit, scales with DEX and has longer range.

• Nightfall now scales with DEX.

• Avatar of Fire damage reduced.

• Command: Charge now removes movement debuffs every second.

• Axe Throw now jumps backward before activation.

• Spirited Veteran passive adjusted.

• Reduced Paladin/Beastmaster charge impulse.

• Increased Piercing Arrow range.

• Improved Archer and Mage targeting.

• Toxic Flask & Gas Grenade no longer bounce.

⚔️ Battle Changes

• Dwarves now spawn with a slight delay.

• Glacier Snowstorm now applies Chilled every 3 seconds (lasting 5 seconds).

• Pausing battle only resets speed to 1x if battle speed was above 1x.

• Battle tooltip now displays current Animal Companion count.

🎨 Miscellaneous

• Champion Items cannot accidentally be sold or dismantled.

• Correct % display for Crit Chance, Crit Damage and Ailment Chance.

• Champion Items excluded from random reforges.

• New "Text Only" combat text option.

• Battlerune auto settings are now saved.

• Artifacts can be dragged directly onto Dwarves.

• Added green and white Supporter Pack boars.

• Endless counter improved.

• Updated Holy and Dark explosion effects.

• Added Save Slot Banner sound.

• Updated Off-Hand inventory icon.

• Bosses now display "Enrage" text.

🐞 Bug Fixes

This update fixes 30+ bugs, including:

• Execute damage now appears correctly.

• Healing modifiers now affect Life Regeneration.

• Forge Demon scaling fixed.

• Champion Item duplication fixed.

• Black Hole acceleration fixed.

• Veteran pity fixes.

• Gold bounty display fixed.

• Black Lotus leaderboard issue fixed.

• Quick Learner Veteran exploit fixed.

• Artifact selection fixes.

• Elementalist Rune now works correctly.

• Mend now uses healing multipliers.

• Formation loading fixed.

• Beastmaster boar scaling fixed.

• Damage report fixes.

• Hotkey fixes.

• Avalanche Ultimate placement fixed.

• Artifact unlock timing fixed.

• Beastmaster Off-Hand Element reforging fixed.

• Boss enrage scaling fixed.

• Healing Rain audio fixes.

• Background audio fixes.

• Unarmed Rune shield interaction fixed.

…and many additional stability and gameplay improvements.