v1.63 Patch Notes - Halloween Pt. 2

Hi folks,

To kick off the second week of our Halloween event, we have just released a big DemonCrawl update that includes 36 new items, 2 special chests, a new special stage, and an item archetype called Mastery Dolls! Ohh yeah!

Additionally, we have made the Maniac boss a bit less maniacal, giving you more counterplay even in bad openings. Some players have asked if the Maniac is a permanent boss - we can confirm that Maniac is not a standard member of the boss pool and will be disabled outside of the yearly Halloween event.

Read on to find out more:

Full patch notes are below. Enjoy!

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New Features

• Added Mastery Dolls (special passive items that enhance your ultimate mastery ability)

• 36 new items

• New special stage: Workshop - "Consume mastery charges to create mastery dolls"

• New special chest: Elemental - "Apply random elemental auras to all cells in this column and row when you open this chest. It contains an 'aura' item."

• New special chest: Mastery - "Gain 1 mastery charge when you open this chest. It contains a 'mastery' item."

• New glint: Geo - "Gain 5% pathfinding at the start of the quest."

• New glint: Doll - "Gain your mastery doll at the start of the quest."

• Added pathfinding Wishpool

• Added Hero Trial effect based on the number of times your mastery ability has been activated

Quality of Life

• You can now search for favored items in the Codex using the European spelling ("favour")

• Updated toast for Immutable Meteorite

• Updated toast for Surgical Saw with Guardian

Balance Changes

• We can now filter out items from the start of the quest based on profile conditions (e.g. Battery and Doll items will not drop if you don't have a tier 3 mastery selected)

• Maniac nerf: Dark Hearts will no longer spawn alongside the Maniac in your opening move

• Maniac nerf: "Whenever the last visible stranger is killed, you die."

• Pacifier price reduced from 40 to 36 coins

• Golem prices increased from 30 to 35 coins

• Hungry Plant's coin reward is now based on its item requirements rather than the stage power

• Replaced Bones with Magic Bones in the Mage's droptable

• Added various Dolls to stranger droptables

• Updated Fishing Pole droptable

• Loosened requirements for Halloween Chest

Bug Fixes

• Improved performance of item search script

• Tweaked wall collision for enlarged orbs

• Fixed Regal Chest conditions for blessing projectile

• Fixed Punching Bag Simulator achievement requiring 4 consecutive attacks instead of 3

• Fixed Babyface canker mutation

• Fixed Stake's description which stated cells opened rather than turns

• Fixed memory leak related to Deck of Cards

• Added sanity check for writing to log file in case it was already closed

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Community Shoutouts

We implemented several of your ideas this patch!

• Added Grim Pump omen created by juh9870

• Added Electric Eel omen inspired by NotAJumbleOfNumbers

• Added Wildcard item inspired by OneIsTheLoneliestNumber

• Added toast ideas by Samario and Zapo

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Note - Due to the size of this update, we're going to delay its launch on non-Windows platforms by a few hours in case there are any urgent issues that need addressing. Thank you for understanding!