Dimensional hooking
Throughout the world are scattered cracks in space. You can reach into cracks with a dimensional hook. The longer the hook reach is, the deeper you can reach. Interdimensional space contains things that can be of value but there are also dangers there. You may hook interdimensional beings or planar travelers. The deeper you go, the more dangerous it gets.
Hook reach
Every character has a specific hook reach, as shown in the character sheet. Hook reach determines how deep you can reach into the dimensional crack. The further you reach, the more events are possible. Greater depth offers greater rewards but also greater risks. Whenever you send the hook into a crack, a depth is chosen between 1 and the hook’s reach. Each depth has a specific event that will happen.
Each time you use the hook, there is 100% chance to increase its reach by 1. The chance decreases to 75% when the hook’s reach is 10 or higher. There is no maximum hook reach, nor is there a maximum depth to search. Difficulty and rewards continue to scale with depth indefinitely.
Bounty
Dimensional hooking always yields a gold bounty. In addition, there is a chance to drop bait.
Some events are solely rewarding without challenge. Some items cannot be obtained outside dimensional hooking.
Bait
If you have at least one bait in your inventory when you send the hook into the crack, the top-most bait in your inventory is consumed, adding its effect to the event. Not all effects are relevant to all events. Some bait properties are the same as beacon properties but they add abilities only to monsters that would spawn out of the crack, if any.
You can only carry three pieces of dimensional bait. If a fourth would drop, it’s destroyed instead. It’s advisable to keep up the quality by deleting bad ones so you get the most out of cracks when you find them.
Boss
Dimensional hooking adds another end boss. Winning the ladder entails killing all end bosses, including the new one.
The end boss appears on depth 20. Until you’ve killed the end boss, any depth above 20 is downgraded to 20.
Dimensional-only unique items
- Full Moon (Amulet): On kill, you have 5% chance to shapeshift into a Werebear for 12 seconds (attack speed set to 4 and magic/dark resistance set to 50).
- Whirling Whispers (Mask): Double crit chance. Half crit damage bonus.
- The Elephant (Oak Trunk). +100 strength, +200 life, +25 physical resistance.
- Umbog (Greataxe): Your highest crit chance is added to all non-physical resistances.
- Harvest Celebration (Scimitar): +20 pp to maximum block chance.
- Incandescence (Staff): Bolt skills deal splash damage.
- Old Akino (Ring): Double Ignite damage. Deal no other fire damage.
- Evanescence (Vambraces): +25% Cleave radius for 8 seconds on kill (max 200%)
- Euphoria (Ring): Trigger Nova on up to 2 Lightning Bolts instead of on yourself.
- 5 unique baits
Dimensional-only item properties
- Rebound (weapon): Every 3 seconds when you cast a spell, an additional copy of that spell is cast 1 second later.
- Fuse (weapon): Attack speed is half. Fuse onto fusable spells.
- Fork (weapon): Attack speed is half. Cast fusable spells an additional time.
- Exuberance: +30% divine damage while at full life.
- Suspend (wand, staff, ranged): -80% projectile speed.
- Shockwave (weapon): Whenever an enemy dies from lightning damage, they explode, dealing 1 to 2*CLvl lightning damage within 1 meter radius.
- Chemistry (gloves): +X% life and mana recovery from catalysts.
- Piercing projectiles seek new targets (ranged weapon, spear or mage weapon)
- X% chance to negate fire damage (armor)
- X% chance to negate cold damage (armor)
The game now has a more clear beginning and end
Winning means to kill all end bosses: Drex, Zirth, Venka, Calir, Targon and the new dimensional hooking boss.
Winning now shows a reward animation, a text, and plays a congratulatory sound.
Each character now tracks its own progress, which can be seen in the character sheet.
Each of the boss quests is now considerably shorter.
Other new features:
- 4 new subplane mods
- 3 new Sorcerer skills
- Added the ability to host third-party realms
- Quality-of-life improvements
- Balance changes
- Bug fixes
See the change log for a list of all changes.