Patch Notes
⚔️ NEW: Boss Update — The Arena Awakens
The Boss Arena's three dragons have been dethroned. Six all-new bosses now await, each with its own moveset of telegraphed, dodgeable attacks — watch the warning rings, learn the patterns, and don't stand in the glowy stuff.
Boss Arena (portal in Town):
- 🔥 Pyroclast, the Molten Heart — calls down meteor storms that leave burning ground, sends shockwaves racing along the floor (jump them!), and lobs arcing magma volleys.
- ❄️ Frostmaw, the Glacier Tyrant — fires ice-shard fans, drops slowing Blizzards on your position, and erupts chasing ice-spike prisons under your feet.
- ⚡ Voltaic, the Stormcaller — unleashes a drumroll of lightning strikes that marches toward you, launches static orbs that hunt you down, and electrifies the air around itself when enraged.
NEW ZONE: The Boss Gauntlet — a three-chamber proving ground through a portal on the Arena's left wall (it's on the World Map once discovered):
- 🍄 Gloomspore, the Rotwood Colossus — lobs spore pods that burst into lingering poison clouds, exhales a miasma ring, and calls sporeling minions when wounded.
- 🌈 Prismarch, the Radiant — a bullet-hell duelist: rotating rainbow spirals, radial novas, and blink teleports that reposition the fight.
- �s Voidmaw, the Hollow King — conjures gravity wells that drag you in, tears open delayed void rifts, and vents slow-moving umbral novas.
Boss fight rules of engagement:
- Every big attack is telegraphed — a shrinking ring marks where (and when) it lands.
- Bosses still enrage at 50% and 25% health: more damage, faster attacks.
- All six drop boss-tier loot — epic and legendary gear, with each boss favoring its own specialty (Pyroclast hoards warrior gear, Frostmaw caster gear, Voidmaw has the best legendary odds…).
- Defeated bosses respawn at their arena position after a short delay. Farm away.
🗣️ NPCs Found Their Voices
- NPC dialog now plays soft typewriter "talk blips" as text reveals — and every NPC has their own voice pitch. Ellipses read as actual pauses…
🎒 Quality of Life
Hotbar & building
- Your held tool/placeable now works from any hotbar bar, and scrolling cycles only through tools and placeables — no more scrolling past potions to reach your pickaxe.
- Out-of-range block targets show a red preview instead of spamming "Too far away." chat messages, and helpful hints now appear above the hotbar instead of in chat.
- Placing your last block automatically clears its hotbar slot.
- No more accidentally mining through open menus or the hotbar itself.
- Axe swings now face the direction you're swinging.
Crafting & shops — fewer clicks
- Selections are sticky in the crafting and shop menus.
- Shift+click to craft-all, sell a whole stack, or buy five at a time.
Inventory
- Drag-to-place: right-click while dragging a placeable block out of your inventory to place it directly in the world — no hotbar binding needed.
- Drag equipped items straight onto hotbar slots to bind them without unequipping.
NPC dialog rework
- Brand-new dialog window: character portraits, gold name plates, typewriter text, and context-aware Accept / Turn In buttons.
- Double-click an NPC to talk from up to 6 tiles away — no more pixel-perfect positioning.