UnderMine 0.4.0 | Crystalline Update

Features:

• Added the Shimmering Caverns, UnderMine’s fourth zone. It features new encounters, new traps, new enemies, new music, and more!

• Added Ponzu, Scaled Assembly, lord of crystal, and boss of the Shimmering Caverns

• Added over 200 encounters, spread across The Goldmine, Dungeon of Delvemore, Halls of Din, and The Shimmering Caverns

Added 13 new enemies

• Glimmerweed

• Churchbell

• Lucent Imp

• Sand Skulker

• Ogre Bombardier

• Troll Bombardier

• Ogre Annihilator

• Unbreakable Scale

• Toxic Scale

• Winged Scale

• Scale Tunnel

• ??

• ??

Added 7 new achievements

• Challenge Accepted - Lifted the Summoning Stone for the first time

• Hurt Me Plenty - Lifted the Summoning Stone 10 times

• Let’s Suffer Together - Lifted the Summoning Stone 30 times

• An Unlikely Alliance - Hidden

• All that Glitters is Not Gold - Entered the Shimmering Caverns

• Hydra Slayer - Defeated Ponzu, Scaled Assembly

• A Herculean Labor - Defeated Ponzu, Scaled Assembly without upgrades

Peasant Variation has been added

• Peasants now come in all different color combinations

Bug Fixes:

• Reflections have been fixed on several assets

• Lurkers can no longer impale themselves

• Fixed an issue preventing fire crystals and lightning crystals from spawning in the Dungeon and Halls

• Gargoyles now indicate that they are immune to fire damage

• Load order of certain relics and blessings has been improved, resulting in more accurate save restoring

• Fixed a bug related to Compulsion making you drink a potion that would remove Compulsion

• Fixed a soft lock that could be caused while dying with both Lucky Charm and Resurrection

• Plague now works as intended on food purchased from the shop

• Fixed an exploit allowing you to get an arbitrary number of Shiitake mushrooms by talking to Matsutake repeatedly

• Fixed an issue related to rotating enemies with off-center collision shapes

• Fixed a rare bug that could cause you to hit yourself if swinging and jumping on the same frame

• Fixed numerous crash bugs across multiple systems

Balance Changes:

• Increased the difficulty rating of Tickers, causing them to spawn in lower quantities

• Increased the difficulty rating of Gargoyles, causing them to spawn in lower quantities

• Footmen are now strong to ranged attacks

• Many encounters that could only spawn a rare chest now spawn a random chest instead

• Rare chest contain slightly less thorium

• Duration of Battle Standard has been reduced

• Inner Fire cast by Ardor Priests increases health and damage more

• Damage from spikes and falling in holes increases with zone progression

• Transmut3 Machines and “Health Levers” now have a chance to break after a certain number of uses (randomly decided on encounter start)

• Thunderbird, Firebird, and Nikko take slightly more exp to gain level 2 and 3

• Sylph requires more exp to gain level 2 and 3

• Djinn requires slightly less xp to gain level 2, and slightly more exp to gain level 3

• Spirit requires slightly more exp to gain level 2 and 3

Other Changes:

• An improvement to skeletons

• Gold cost scaling in the shop has been reworked. It increases at a slower pace, but reaches the same level at its current maximum

• Added an extra arm to the Crypt Lurker

• Spikes now have a unique look in each zone

• Object occlusion has been standardized across objects

• Items, enemies, and the Peasant now occlude environmental objects like pillars. Meaning you can see a silhouette of them.

• Environmental objects no longer occlude other environmental objects

• Cleaned up reflections and shadows on several objects

• Our shader and material system has been overhauled in order to support faster and better visual effects, including better reflections

• Wall and pillars have been rebuilt for most rooms, resulting in fewer texture layering issues

• Cleaned up the navmesh, hazard grids, and added pilfer exits to nearly every room

• Player HP bar is now capped at a maximum width (note that your Max HP can continue to increase as usual)

• Improved detection and recovery of corrupted save files

• Galoshes now leave oil on sand