Hello Rabbits!
The seasons continue to turn, and it is now almost winter in the Northern Hemisphere.
What that means for you depends on where you live. Maybe you're somewhere where all the normal monsters are replaced with slightly stronger ice variants.
As for me, I'm hard at work at Rabbit & Steel's DLC!
For those who've missed me talking about it before; I am, infact, working on a content update to the game.
However, unlike a lot of roguelikes that do a number of small patches that add items, bosses, whatever here and there, I am packing it all into one update! One chunky DLC. I figure it will be easier to convince your friends to come back and play for a large content update, rather than just one new boss or something.
I originally wanted to aim for the game's release anniversary of May, but at current pace that is definitely, definitely not happening. Late Summer 2025 to Fall 2025-ish might be a more accurate estimate. Hopefully not too much later (but who knows, life happens).
Today, a small preview! But first....
Following Heavyblade Rabbit, Tassha the Snowfur Wolf is now also a plushie!
https://www.makeship.com/products/tassha-plush
The perfect Christmas Gift! ....Though, she won't actually arrive at your door until a few months after you order.
She'll be available for the next 3 weeks, so pick her up while you can! It probably wouldn't be a good financial decision to buy 4 of them... but you could.
When I asked around what other characters people wanted turned into plushies, the answers were pretty scattered; but Tassha came up a lot! There seem to be a lot of other ones people would like though... so I'm sure Makeship and I can cook some more up as well. So pick up Tassha while you can, and comment below if there's a Rabbit or other character you want to see a plushie of next!!
If you're one of those who actually played through the base game's story, you know that there were a few unanswered questions.
It's time to find some answers... far below the Moonlit Kingdom.
New areas! The right half of the map is blurred for spoilers.
When you set your destination to a DLC area, you start in "The Crack in the Geode". This place functions like the Kingdom Outskirts, with a few easy enemies and chests to get your run going before reaching the harder areas.
Definitely something odd going on here.
The structure of the game is mostly unchanged; each DLC area will have a shop, enemies, a chest and a boss at the end. Like here, we see the shop....
Oh! Uh, hi Tassha.
I guess Tassha's running the shop now.
Hm, I wonder where Asha is then.
Hopefully she's not somewhere slightly off to the right, preparing for that all-too-tired "fight the shopkeeper" roguelike trope.
When playing through the DLC for the first time, you will be limited to the DLC areas. However, I do plan to add a setting to completely randomize the all the game's areas (base+DLC) once you beat the DLC. This setting won't make any canonical sense (as the DLC takes place after the events of the base game), but it'll be something you can do.
And again, aiming for late Summer 2025-ish for the DLC! Hopefully!
That's all for now, see you next time!