Major update

Weekly Update — Orbits, Scaling & POIs

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🛠️ Weekly Update NotesThis week brought many improvements to POIs, weapon scaling, orbits, tooltips, and the overall build system.🧩 POIs / Spawning
• Mushroom Ring no longer floats in the air
• Mushroom Ring now uses a new ground-snap method when spawning🔊 Audio / Performance
• Burned ground no longer breaks the sound system by creating hundreds of sound objects at once🪨 POI / Ritual Stone
• Ritual Stone adjusted
• Stones now have a hint that shows which stone is the correct one
• This means you no longer have to randomly guess to get the reward🕳️ Void / Debuff Feedback
• Void debuff from the player effect is now visible on enemies again⚔️ Starter Weapons / Tooltips
• Element descriptions in the starter weapon selection now work again when hovering over weapons
• Passive item descriptions no longer visually bug together with background objects📈 Scaling / Difficulty
• Enemy HP scaling increased after Wave 50👑 Bosses / Drops
• Maze Warden no longer gets stuck on maze decoration
• Waldschrat Boss now also drops a Reaper Token🌍 Terrain / Orbits
• Orbits now adapt to rising/sloped terrain
• This makes orbit weapons work much better on slopes
• Affected weapons: Ice Blade, Infernal Torch, Dark Orb, Flamethrower, and Ember Whirl
• Ember Whirl is now an orbit around the player and no longer stays at the shot location⚔️ Weapons / Fixes
• Dark Orb fixed: no longer sits too close to the player on certain skins
• Vampire Orb base range increased from 25 → 50
• Jack-o’-Lantern buffed and description adjusted
• Weapons no longer fire unnecessarily when no enemies are nearby
• Every weapon scaling is now visible🧪 Synergy / Item Pool
• Internal synergy tags per item adjusted
• The system should now offer items that better match your current build📝 UI / Tooltips
• Tooltip size adjusted to make descriptions easier to read⚔️ Passives / Weapon Scaling
• Inferno Salvo: now starts with 3 fireballs and gains +2 per pickup
• Ash Spear: Level 1–10 scaling added
• Blood Bolt: Level 1–10 scaling added
• Bone Saw: fully reworked into an orbit weapon + Level 1–10 scaling added
• Empty Hooks: improved + Level 1–10 scaling added
• Acid Fountain: Level 1–10 scaling added
• Black Splinter: Level 1–10 scaling added + visually improved
• Splinter Crown: Level 1–10 scaling added
• Dark Orb: Level 10 scaling added
• Ice Shard: Level 1–10 scaling added
• Ice Blade: Level 1–10 scaling added
• Ice, Fire, and Poison Tornado variants: different Level 1–10 scaling added
• Grenade Launcher: Level 1–10 scaling added
• Poison Cloud: Level 1–10 scaling added
• Vampire Orb: Level 1–10 scaling added🏆 Leaderboard
• This week’s winner is Magister — Wave 70 with the skin “The Exiled” and the Ice Wand!
• Congrats! 🏆❄️Thanks to everyone who tested and gave feedback this week.
Have fun in your next run through Umbra! 🌑⚔️

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