⚠ This update resets all save data.
The tutorial and the reworked building upgrades require a fresh start. Thank you for your patience!
- New biome (early draft): The Rotworks — flooded canals that pull you with their current, sluice levers to redirect the flow, and a new roster of enemies with full ambience and sound.
- New biome (early draft): The Ashen Tribunal — face the court's staff, its contracts, and its chains. Note: These 2 biomes are very much bound to change. They contain temporary art, some things are half broken and may be gone altogether. Please let me know what you think!
- Added tutorial scene: new saves now begin with a guided first run that teaches movement, combat, looting, and the loop back home.
- Added The Archive: a lore library in Ashenhold chronicling the monastery's people, events, places, and depths.
- Added unique weapons and glyphs: 11 one-of-a-kind items with their own powers.
- Added 4 new weapon types: the Censer, the Vesper Bell, the Tribunal Hook, and the Arbalest.
- Reworked spell progression: every spell now levels up through tiered upgrade choices instead of flat boosts.
- New spell: Umbilicus, a life-draining tether (replaces Divine Gambit).
- Added floor archetypes: about half of all floors now end in a fork of two exits leading to different challenges.
- Added the Wayfaring Step: teleport between landmarks you've discovered on the floor.
- Crit chance now overflows past 100% into double crits and beyond.
- Added two new hand-crafted rooms to discover: The Larder and the Unfinished Rite.
- Redesigned the building upgrade window
- Redesigned the level-up screen
- Redesigned the runic monolith
- Redesigned the death screen
- Redesigned crucifix selection screen
- Polished the everloving heck out of Ashenhold, with weather effects, actual villager logic (and dialogue) and more
- Reworked the HUD
- Replaced every emoji in the game with custom pixel-art icons
- Redesigned enemy projectile visuals for better readability in combat
- Major performance overhaul: floors run smoother, load faster, and no longer freeze at the end of loading.
- Juicier loot pickup: stronger magnet and better collection feedback.
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0.3.10.3.1 · Added reading options to the Archive: six fonts, several sizes, and line spacing · The current floor archetype is now shown in the pause menu's Floor Modifiers tab and in the info overlay · Reworked the Dark Vigil floor: torches are now scarce and the darkness is deeper, but each lit torch counts double toward Torch Vigil crucifix bonuses · Quests are now only generated for biomes you h…0.2.4Memory and performance improvements — foliage texture caching and centralized cleanup of world effects between floors. (This should help with crashes in Garden of Stillbirths) · Reworked the Loot Elevator to be a more fun physical representation and simplify picking different tiers · New Torch Vigil mechanic: Crucifix upgrades that scale with the number of lit floor torches · Added Spell Critic…0.2.3This update adds Sentry error tracking so I can get better ideas what's crashing for some players. · Added a "Return to Main Menu" button in the pause menu. · Loading screens now only show active quests that can progress in the biome you're entering. · Pact stones now reward resources from the biome you actually played in — no more Rotleaf payouts from a Catacombs run. · Examining your friend's…