SNEAK PEEK into 0.81: Campfires, Save Game, Gear Rework, Legendary Sword & More!

CAVE CRAWLERS!

Greetings Crawlers! We have been slowly but surely working on our next content update for cave crawlers, update 0.81. We are very excited to showcase just SOME of what we have been working on over the past two months.

Discord:

To stay up to date on what we're actively working on, feel free to join our Discord, where we post regular development updates in our #development-updates channel, and often we pop in chat to chat with players or answer questions!
https://discord.gg/bUPT3bT7hk

Campfires/Save Game System:

A major new addition coming in 0.81 is campfires. You can find a campfire at the start of every floor. Campfires serve as a rest spot before you begin a floor. When you first sit down at a campfire, you will have various actions you can choose to do at the campfire. Currently, there are two possible actions a player can take, but in the future, we may add more! You can only take one action at each campfire. The two actions currently are:

• Heal, which can heal up to 2 missing HP, depending on how much missing HP you have in total.

• Sleep, which saves and exits your character from a run. This is NOT the same as extracting, as you are unable to take that character into another, different run. If you would like to use that character, you must continue that specific run you exited from. You are unable to bring NEW players into a saved run, but if multiple people decide to sleep at the same campfire, you will all be able to continue that run together so long as you all saved and exited on the same floor.

Gear and Equipment Rework:

Armor is getting a major change in 0.81! We are removing your character's helmet, boots, backpack, and trinket slots to replace them with Equipment slots. Equipment slots allow you to equip ANY piece of gear previously equipable to those specific helmet, boots, etc slots. In addition to this, we are adding a restriction on how many of a specific item type you can equip. For example, items such as boots and helmets will have a restriction of one equipped at a time, but items such as rings or trinkets will have NO restriction on the number you can have equipped at once.

This change will allow players to diversify what equipment they would like to use, being able to use 5 rings or 3 trinkets and a helmet + backpack if they would like! There will also be multiple new item types added, such as back, belts, and bracers.

Finally, nearly every piece of gear has been significantly changed. Most items have had their stats and procs adjusted or completely changed. To supplement this change, we have removed proc restrictions from gear. If you have two Gold Rings equipped that both have a 35% chance on hit to proc a 1% crit buff, each hit on a mob will now proc BOTH equipped rings, instead of previously rolling just once, giving you two separate 35% rolls to gain 1% crit.

New Legendary Weapons:

As requested by the community, multiple new legendary weapons are in development! One legendary coming in 0.81 is "Nezyeck’s Tribute", a legendary broadsword with the ability to spawn horrifying tentacles and portals from the void.

Torch Update:

As you may have noticed in one of the previous pictures, torches are getting a visual update! Most torches will have this new animated fire effect to them that will shrink and get dimmer as the torch runs out of torch duration.

Large Chests:

Large Chests are a new type of chest that will rarely spawn instead of a regular chest. These large chests, when opened, reveal TWO different items, but only ONE can be taken from the chest.

New Music:

Watch on YouTube
Two new tracks are currently WIP and are likely coming in 0.81! Above is a demo of "Into the Embers", a new track for the Molten Collapse.

Sneak Peek:

A mysterious new goblin roams the caves...

Final Thoughts:

0.81 is a sizable content update primarily focused on adding highly requested additions the community has been asking for, as well as new content introducing more player decisions to make within a run. There are many other additions we didn't discuss: new prestige rewards, new rooms, many new items, and much more! We are very excited to see what you think of the Sneak Peek, so please discuss your thoughts in the comments below as well as in our official Discord.