Dwarves: Glory, Death and Loot news & patch notes

⚒️ Update v2.1 - Season 5 is about to start!

Season 5 will arrive in early August, bringing a massive wave of new content, reworks, balance changes, and quality-of-life improvements.

🏆 Season 5 & New Challenge

The leaderboards will be reset and a brand-new challenge leaderboard, Conquest V, will become available. Conquest V changes up the rules of the game with thougher encounters and unavoidable boss battles - The ultimate challenge for experienced players!

Whether you're chasing world records or just looking to test new builds, this season introduces more strategic depth than ever before.

🔮 10 New Runes & 10 Reforged Runes

Clan costumization is getting a huge boost with 10 brand-new Runes, such as Damnation, Inner Piece, Elemental Equilibrium, Flow of Chi and many more.

Additionally, 10 existing runes have been reworked to fill a better niche, including Multishot, Parabellum, Conductor, Frostfire, Way of the Fist, Martial Arts and Ephemeral Echo, opening up entirely new playstyles.

⚔️ Massive Build Diversity Expansion

One of the primary goals of Update 2.1 is to increase meaningful build variety.

Many Artifacts have been redesigned, defensive rune options have been expanded, elemental interactions have been strengthened, and dozens of abilities have received adjustments or reworks.

Whether you enjoy Archers, Mages, Beastmasters, Warlocks, Cannoneers, or unarmed fighters, there are new combinations to discover throughout the entire game.

🐗🏹Beastmaster and Archer Improvements

Dwarven Archers had a hard time aiming at the oncoming Orc onslaught. With the upcoming changes, this should improve significantly.

Also, the Beastmaster has received some special attention:

• New inherent Block chance that opens up better Knight Rune synergies

• Additional off-hand passive options (including Holy and Dark element)

• Claw (off-hand) can now also be reforged with 2 matching elements

🔥 Major Battlerune Upgrades

While Battlerunes were cool to look at, they did not have as much impact as their time and build requirements would suggest. Therefore, all Battlerunes will be substantially improved:

• Celestial Arrows now fires twice as many arrows

• Cataclysm has greatly increased damage and projectile count

• Inferno now deals damage faster and starts immediately

🛠️ Forge & Item Changes

Forging will become less tedious towards the late-game with Mythic+ crafting always rolling maximum modifier values.

Multiple Artifacts have been redesigned or improved and all Artifacts will provide level-up growth benefits. This should address the problem of having to swap Artifacts around before every level up.

Additionally, 7 brand new Artifacts will be added to the item pool!

📊 Better Leaderboards & UI

Ever wondered what clan setup the top players were using for their runs? Well, soon you will get some insights! Several community-requested features will be available in Season 5:

• Expanded leaderboard information

• Clan details visible directly from leaderboard entries

• Steam usernames can now be changed at any time

• Supporter Pack owners can customize their username through the Wyvern Hatchling

✨ Quality of Life Everywhere

Update 2.1 contains a huge number of QoL improvements, including:

• Better loot handling in Eternal: Off

• Improved battle reports with MVP medals and amount-of-debuffs-applied statistics

• Protection against accidental progress loss in Loot Mode

• Improved 'Deserted Battle' detection

• Easier Artifact management via drag & drop

• Additional visual, audio, and interface improvements

🐛 Tons of Fixes

This update will also include a long list of bug fixes affecting abilities, runes, leaderboards, items, formations, companions, battle reports, progression systems, and more. Detailed Patch Notes will be released when the Update goes live.

Season 5 is our biggest balance and build-diversity update yet. With new Runes, new Artifacts, reworked systems, and countless improvements across the game, we're excited to see what crazy new strategies the community will discover.

In early August, we march for Glory, Death and Loot!

Season 5 is coming - and Update 2.1 will reshape the battlefield!

New Runes. New Artifacts. Major reworks to abilities, items, and core systems. Build diversity is about to explode with new synergies, smarter scaling, and deeper strategy across every run.

From reimagined Runes and Artifact growth to impactful QoL upgrades and balance changes - the next update will push progression further than ever before.

A new meta is rising. Are your builds ready?

Season 5 begins soon.

ETA: Probably around July/August.

P.S. If you have not already done so, consider leaving a review for the game as it would help me out a ton!

Patch Notes:

• Added option to mute application in the background

• Veteran pity will now get saved for each clan individually

• 'Doom' is now undodgeable and unblockable

• Orcs will now gain STA in addition to WGT after the 1000 sign in Eternal Battles (2000 -> 2x, 3000 -> 3x, etc.)

• Updated Orc spawn logic in Eternal Battles

  • Orcs will spawn slower in early battles and have their maximum number limited

  • Increased minimum number of enemies alive in Eternal:on for higher battles

  • If 100 Orcs are spawned without interruption, a short short "wave break" is triggered

• Sorting items in the Storage will now ignore the inheritance slot (if available)

• Unique Runes that have already been placed in the Rune Circle will now be marked in black

• 'Prodigy' Veteran Passive will now grant growth stats in the same manner as Artifacts with similar effects do

• Added gold counter to tooltip of the endless counter (top right on the Battlefield in Eternal:on)

• Your clan will now acquire half of the gems he would have gotten from retirement on Game Over (up from 0)

• Consumable Potions will now become available in the Shop after completing the first Raid they are featured in (instead of the third)

• Added more info to the Frozen debuff (it decreases damage by 25%, but can no longer block or dodge), no functional changes

• Unpausing the battle will now reset battle speed to 1

• Fixed an issue where the 'Blacksmith' Rune would not work for normal items when disassembling in the Battle Report

• Fixed a new issue with the 'Hold the Line' Formation

• Fixed an issue where you could not equip the 'Cursed Amulet' Artifact twice

• Fixed an issue where loot items were not saved when closing the game while still in the Battle Report

• Fixed some bugs with Orcs not spawning correctly in Eternal Battles

• Fixed an issue where some units were not respecting the border of the 'Hold the Line' Formation

• Fixed some issues that were impacting performance for ultra long battles (1h+)

• Fixed an issue where ravens would always pierce targets, even if they were not affected by fear

• Fixed some issues when trying to navigate the Title Menu with a controller

• Fixed an issue where the 'Elementalist' Rune was affecting all professions

• Fixed an issue with Thoradin Stormforged when using Polish localization

• Fixed a display bug that sometimes wrongfully showed a gem reward after retreating from a battle

• Fixed an issue where the Black Market could not be navigated with a controller

• Fixed a bug with the 'Potion of Rebirth' on 'Death' difficulty

• Fixed a bug when retiring Dwarves

Patch Notes

• When using the Free Black Market mode, you can now reset Raids

• Improved tooltip for Veteran rerolls

• Right Click can now be used to remove items from the Forge slots

• Renaming will no longer let you enter more characters than allowed

• Fixed some issues with tooltip positions in the Rune Circle

• Fixed several issues with the 'Restore Data' and 'Delete Game Data' option

• Fixed an issue where achievements for upgrading items were not granted in the Storage

• Fixed a bug where assigning hotkeys on the battlefield would not work

• Fixed some issues with the Rune Circle and Ultra Wide screens

• Fixed an issue where the 'Thunderstorm' Ultimate was not working against Spiders

• Potentially fixed an issue with performance for ultra long battles (1h+)

🔥The dwarven furnaces roar with fire as the FULL GAME RELEASE is finally here🔥

With the full release, Season 4 rises from the anvil. The leaderboards are reforged from scratch - only newly founded clans may carve their names into the highscores. Fear not, though: all your hard-earned progress remains untouched, including your Gems, your Runes, and your existing clans.

This update is packed to the beard with new content: 🔥 Full controller & Steam Deck support 🔥 The final Raid boss, the mighty Forge Demon, now awaits challengers 🔥 New Artifacts to switch up your playstyle 🔥 A wealth of new Runes to reshape your builds and strategies

We’ve also hammered in major Quality-of-Life improvements. Dwarves and items can now be managed with Drag & Drop, dozens of bugs have been crushed, and the entire experience has been polished to a mirror-shine.

And for the first time ever, the adventure marches beyond Steam: 🛡️ Dwarves is coming to Nintendo Switch and mobile, letting even more bearded warriors join the fray - wherever the road may lead.

Sharpen your axes. Rally your clan.

🍺 Season 4 is here - and the forge demands Glory, Death and Loot. ⚒️

Full Release Patch Notes (v2.0.0)

*New Features*

• Season 4 is here: Reset of all leaderboards

• Added controller and full Steam Deck support:

  • Added interface setting to disable controller rumble

  • Added interface setting to disable controller detection

• Added final Raid:

  • Forge Demon: Unlocks after clearing 'Storm Wyvern' Raid

• Added 3 new Artifacts:

  • Ham Hock: Cave, Battle 50+ \

  • Thornmail: Forest, Battle 140+

  • Arkenstone - Raid 'Forge Demon' reward

• Added 15 new Runes:

  • Martial Arts: Offensive, Unique, Clear-Cut, T3

  • Way of the Fist: Offensive, Unique, Element, T3

  • Iron Fists: Offensive, Unique, Clear-Cut, T3

  • Thornward: Defensive, Unique, Clear-Cut, T3

  • Crown of Thorns: Offensive, Unique, Clear-Cut, T3

  • Ephemeral Echo: Offensive, Unique, Clear-Cut, T3

  • Elementalist: Offensive, Unique, Clear-Cut, T3

  • Matyrdom: Defensive, Unique, Clear-Cut, T3

  • Chilled to the Bone: Offensive, Unique, Clear-Cut, T3

  • Hypothermia: Offensive, Clear-Cut, T3

  • Frostborn: Defensive, Clear-Cut, All Tiers

  • Absolute Zero: Offensive, Unique, Clear-Cut, T3

  • Shattering Ice: Offensive, Clear-Cut, All Tiers

  • Overcrit: Offensive, Unique, Clear-Cut, T3

  • Critical Thinking: Offensive, Unique, Clear-Cut, T3

• Added 2 new Steam Achievements:

  • For the Forge! - Kill the Forge Demon. Reward: 100 gems.

  • The Final Quest - Upgrade the Arkenstone to mythic quality. Reward: 100 gems.

• Enabled Drag & Drop for Dwarves and Items

• Clicking on a Dwarf Portrait on the battlefield will now make the camera follow that dwarf

*Changes and QoL*

• Obtainable modifiers will now be displayed when placing an item on the anvil in the Forge

• Changes to 'Worldbreaker' 2H Hammer (only applies to new loot):

  • Increased Stamina, Weight, Attack Speed and Attack Damage

  • New Ultimate: Earthquake

  • 'Titan Set' now additionally grants 'Earthquake' a 30% chance to cause Fractured

  • Will now be dropped from the Orc Chieftain with 'Earthquake' Ultimate

• Charge button will now become available after 60 seconds of battle as intended (up from 10)

• Reworked 'Shatter' Ultimate scaling and removed limitation against super heavy targets (e.g. Trolls)

• Orcs gained access to new Artifacts: Hot Coal, Tesla Coil, Frost Armor

• 'Frostbringer Ring' damage scaling changed from 1x INT to 2x WIS

• 'Stormbringer Ring' mana burn and damage scaling changed to DEX

• The Formation icon in the Inventory will now indicate if quests are available or completed

• Navigating to the 'Raid' hall will now always be possible once it is unlocked

• The result of a Forge Recipe will now show a preview on the anvil before forging

• Advanced Shop button will now be highlighted when activated for the first time

• Reduced base number of arrows from 'Arrowgance' from 7 to 5

• Orcs can no longer fire more than 20 arrows at once with 'Arrowgance'

• Memory optimizations for long battles

• Improved contrast for headline text

• 'Archangel Figurine' Artifact has been moved to Glacier biome

• 'Martyrdom' is now a standard T3 Defensive Rune and will be granted to new players

• Re-ordered Runes to always show clear-cut ones last

• 'Hot Coal', 'Tesla Coil' and 'Frost Armor' will now show their activations during combat

• Lowered Weight of Trolls

• Changes to Spider Raids:

  • Increased 'Nightfall' Ultimate cost of Spiders from 100 mana to 180

  • All Spiders will now deal Physical instead of Poison damage with all their direct attacks

  • Lowered Weight, Intelligence, Dexterity and Wisdom of Spiders

• Increased Stamina, Intelligence and Wisdom of all Wyverns and adjusted their weight

• Optimized battle performance and visuals

• Updated battle portrait sprites

• Potions given to a dwarf will now be listed in its History

• 'Potion of Growth' can now be used multiple times to override growth stat imprints

• Updated Rare/Elite/Champion Orc visuals on Battle Cards

• Added on hover color highlights for most item slots

• Tooltips will now be placed smarter to avoid overlap with the cursor

• Adjusted title menu layout

• Changed 'Spirited' Veteran Passive effect

• 'Thundering Shuriken' Ultimate is now undodgeable

• 'Thunderwave' Ultimate is now undodgeable and unblockable

• Increased text size in several areas

• Updated localization for German, French and Spanish

• Changed Orc spawn behavior for Eternal mode:

  • The wave should now be correctly completed at the exact threshold number

  • Elite Orcs will now spawn as the frontline of the wave (instead of the backline)

*Bug Fixes*

• Fixed an issue where class indicators would sometimes not update correctly in the Inventory

• Fixed an issue where Consumable Potions could not be sorted in the Storage

• Fixed an issue where Consumable Potions were not unlocked correctly in the Shop

• Fixed an issue when a Consumable Potion could not be given to a Dwarf

• Fixed some issues with the 'Chain Heal' and 'Kugelblitz' Ultimate behavior

• Fixed an issue where the hair of Dwarves with a blindfold was not shown correctly during combat

• Fixed an issue where the DPS Meter position would not be saved for the next battle

• Fixed an issue where Regeneration was not displayed correctly in the Battle Report

• Fixed an issue where the 'Jackpot!' achievement was not granted correctly when card animations were turned on

• Fixed a few minor bugs that might have caused small performance issues

• Fixed an issue where the death of a Beastmaster would not work correctly

• Fixed an issue where you could enter the leaderboards with the Free Black Market enabled

• Fixed an issue where the wrong music tracks were playing

• Fixed an issue when using the 'Ascension' Rune and trying to complete the Tutorial

• Fixed an issue where the gem reward after battle was displayed incorrectly

• Fixed a rare issue where the inventory could stop working if it got overfilled

• Fixed an issue where 'Deliverance' Ultimate description was not displayed correctly

• Fixed an issue with the 'Inheritance' Rune and Rune Circle Loadouts

• Fixed an issue where displayed gold was rounded up

• Fixed an issue where the 'Horror' Rune was not applying any damage

• Fixed an issue where the details for 'Punch' would not be displayed correctly

• Fixed an issue where the 'Toxic' Rune was not spreading poison correctly (it should deal more damage now)

• Fixed an issue where healing from the 'Kakapo Egg' Artifact was not affected by increases to heal from Runes

• Fixed a rare issue where the battle report was not shown correctly

Dear friends of the fiery furnaces, it’s time to give the anvil a proper cleanup too.

Progression and crafting are core parts of Dwarves: Glory, Death and Loot, but in previous versions we noticed several issues in some growth paths: too many steps, unclear feedback, and high cost of trial and error - one wrong choice could slow down the entire run.

In the full release, we focused on three main goals: reducing operation burden, improving result feedback, and increasing build tolerance. We’ve made multiple process and feature improvements to the forging and potion systems, so that every choice you make is clearer - you’ll better understand exactly how much stronger this step will make you.

New Content

• Forge recipes now show a preview of the final item on the anvil

• Potion usage will now be recorded in the dwarf’s history

Adjustments & Improvements

• Placing items on the anvil will now display obtainable stat bonuses

• Advanced Shop button will be highlighted when activated for the first time

• Potions of Growth can now be used multiple times to override growth stat imprints

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where potions could not be sorted correctly

• Fixed an issue where some potions could not be used

• Fixed an issue where potions were not unlocked correctly

Now forging is no longer blind hammering, and drinking potions is no longer pure gambling.

Fellows of the hammer, this time we’re putting the numbers and progression systems back on the anvil.

In the full release, we’ve made more detailed adjustments to growth curves and stat scaling across multiple popular build paths, with one core goal in mind: to let more builds come online at a reasonable pace, instead of forcing everyone into a single optimal path.

Whether you prefer skill bursts, basic attack chains, or status-effect stacking builds, you should all have stable performance in endgame content - not get filtered out by raw stat checks.

New Content

• Added new Steam achievement: The Final Quest

Adjustments & Improvements

• Frostbringer Ring scaling changed to Wisdom

• Stormbringer Ring mana burn and damage scaling changed to Dexterity

• Adjusted base arrow count for Arrowgance

• Added maximum arrow limit for Orc Arrowgance

• Formation icons in the inventory now show Quest availability and completion status

Bug Fixes

• Fixed incorrect regeneration values shown in the battle report

• Fixed an issue where displayed gold values were rounded up

Greetings, fellow dwarves — it’s time to give old gear and old builds a proper overhaul. In the full release, we’ve carried out systematic reworks to several core weapons, skill mechanics, and drop sources, aiming to solve two long-standing issues:

• Some classes had flat growth curves and lacked late-game impact

• Some key items had mismatched power and acquisition methods, causing fragmented build progression

This update is more than simple number tweaks — it’s a full pass on class roles, gear synergies, and burst timing, so every build can deliver a distinct and satisfying power spike once it comes online.

New Features

• ‘Worldbreaker’ now has a new Ultimate: Earthquake

Changes and QoL

• Changes to ‘Worldbreaker’ 2H Hammer (only applies to new loot):

  • Increased Stamina, Weight, Attack Speed and Attack Damage

  • New Ultimate: Earthquake

  • ‘Titan Set’ now additionally grants ‘Earthquake’ a 30% chance to cause Fractured

  • Will now be dropped from the Orc Chieftain with ‘Earthquake’ Ultimate

• Reworked ‘Shatter’ Ultimate scaling and removed limitation against super heavy targets (e.g. Trolls)

• Charge button will now become available after 60 seconds of battle as intended (up from 10)

• Lowered Weight of Trolls

Bug Fixes

• Fixed some issues with the ‘Chain Heal’ and ‘Kugelblitz’ Ultimate behavior

Greetings, fellow dwarves — new powers are awakening within the rune stones. As one of the core systems of character building, Runes largely define your combat style and growth path throughout a run. In the full release, the Rune system receives a major content expansion and structural improvements, with one clear goal: to help different builds come online earlier, follow clearer development paths, and enable truly distinct playstyles — not just higher numbers, but entirely different combat logic.

New Features

• Added 15 new Runes:

  • Martial Arts, Way of the Fist, Iron Fists

  • Thornward, Crown of Thorns

  • Ephemeral Echo, Elementalist

  • Martyrdom, Chilled to the Bone, Hypothermia

  • Frostborn, Absolute Zero, Shattering Ice

  • Overcrit, Critical Thinking

Changes and QoL

• Re-ordered Runes to always show clear-cut ones last

• ‘Martyrdom’ is now a standard T3 Defensive Rune and will be granted to new players

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the ‘Horror’ Rune was not applying any damage

• Fixed an issue where the ‘Toxic’ Rune was not spreading poison correctly (it should deal more damage now)

Cheers, fellow dwarves — your backpacks might not be big enough anymore. In previous updates, we received lots of feedback about Artifact progression and build variety. In the full release, the Artifact system gets focused expansion and structural improvements, making build paths clearer and choices more impactful.

New Features

• Added 3 new Artifacts:

  • Ham Hock — Cave, Battle 50+ \

  • Thornmail — Forest, Battle 140+

  • Arkenstone

Changes and QoL

• ‘Archangel Figurine’ Artifact has been moved to Glacier biome

• ‘Hot Coal’, ‘Tesla Coil’ and ‘Frost Armor’ will now show their activations during combat

• Orcs gained access to new Artifacts: Hot Coal, Tesla Coil, Frost Armor

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where some Artifact effects were not triggering correctly

• Fixed an issue where Artifact descriptions were displayed incorrectly

Cheers, fellow dwarves — the real fight starts now. 🍺 In the full release of Dwarves: Glory, Death and Loot, we’ve significantly expanded the endgame content to give fully built teams and late-game builds a true final challenge. Our goal is simple: make every successful run feel worthy of a victory drink.

Here are some of the key updates to endgame gameplay and the Raid system in the full release:

New Features

• Added the Final Raid mode

• New Boss: Forge Demon

• Final Raid unlocks after clearing the Storm Wyvern Raid

• New Steam Achievement: For the Forge!

Adjustments & Improvements

• Once the Raid Hall is unlocked, players can always travel there directly

• Performance and visual effects of Raid battles have been optimized

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where achievements could unlock incorrectly during Raid battles

• Fixed an issue where Raid rewards were displayed incorrectly

Cheers, Dwarven friends! 🍺 The forge hasn’t cooled down for the past year and a half - to make your battles smoother, your progression more satisfying, and your builds more flexible, we’ve been continuously polishing and overhauling the gameplay experience, combat feel, growth pacing, and content structure.

Now, Dwarves: Glory, Death and Loot is about to enter its full release! This update will bring smoother controls, more stable performance, and a more rewarding overall experience.

Since there’s a lot packed in this update, over the next few days we’ll introduce the key changes and new content of the full release in stages.

Here’s the first batch of major improvements in this update:

New Features

• Full controller support added

• Full Steam Deck support added

• Controller vibration toggle added

• Controller auto-detection toggle added

• Drag-and-drop functionality for dwarves and items added

• Click on a dwarf’s portrait to follow them with the camera

Adjustments & Optimizations

• Most item slots now highlight on mouse hover

• Tooltip positions optimized to avoid blocking the cursor

• Main menu layout adjusted

• Improved title text contrast

Bug Fixes

• Fixed DPS tracker position not saving

• Fixed display issues in certain interfaces

Dear Players,

Thank you for your unwavering support! This year, 'Dwarves: Glory, Death and Loot' is eligible for the Steam Awards, and we would be honored to have your nomination! 🙏

🌟 Our Dedication to the Experience

• Rapid iteration based on community feedback

• Continuous polishing of art, gameplay, and performance

• Reworking old systems and adding new mechanics

If you feel this persistence deserves to be seen, please nominate us for the Labor of Love award.

🗳️ How to Vote

If you are willing to support us, please go to the Nominate Section at the top of this announcement (or on the Store Page).

Please nominate us for: Labor of Love

❤️ Your Support Means Everything

Every single vote fuels our passion to keep creating, updating, and perfecting the game.

Whether it's a nomination or a review on the store page, we appreciate you being part of our community.

Thank you for being with us. Let's make a splash at the Steam Awards together! 🚀

🔥🔥🔥 Season 3 is Live! 🔥🔥🔥

New threats creep from the dark! Face off in 3 brand-new Raids, uncover powerful Consumables and discover new Artifacts, Runes and the Demon Hunter Set. An improved Battle Report, several balance tweaks, QoL upgrades and a full cart of bug fixes round out this update.

⚔️ Ready your clan - and if you enjoy the game, consider leaving a review⚔️

Full Patch Notes:

*New Features*

- Added 3 new Raids: -- Black Widow: Unlocks after clearing 'Forest Troll' Raid -- Shadow Twins: Unlocks after clearing 'Black Widow' Raid -- Venomous Trinity: Unlocks after clearing 'Shadow Twins' Raid

- Added new type of Items: Consumables -- Clear Forest Trolls -> unlock 'Potion of Traits' -- Clear Venomous Trinity -> unlock 'Potion of Rebirth' -- Clear Storm Wyvern -> unlock 'Potion of Growth' -- Very low chance to encounter them in the Shop at any time -- Chance to encounter Potions is much higher during Artifact selection events (~3%)

- Added 4 new Artifacts: -- Blueberries - Forest, Battle 40+ -- Spider Idol (Lower Half) - Raid 'Black Widow' reward -- Spider Idol (Upper Half) - Raid 'Shadow Twins' reward -- Black Lotus Ring - Raid 'Venomous Trinity' reward

- Added 3 new Runes: -- Cleanse: On Ultimate, Profession, T2 - T3 -- Treasure Hunter: Support, Clear-Cut, All Tiers -- Challenger: Support, Clear-Cut, All Tiers

- Added 2 new Items: -- Demon Hunter Shoulders (Thief Shoulders, craftable) -- Demon Hunter Blindfold (Thief Helmet, craftable)

- Added 1 new Item Set: Demon Hunter Set

*Changes and QoL*

- Changes to Raids: -- Dragon Raids will now unlock after clearing all Spider Raids -- Dragon Raids levels have been increased

- Battle Report will now show more details when hovering over the respective bars

- When using a 2H weapon, the dwarf details will now show all item slots as occupied

- Increased idle gem reward on the Title Screen

- In Eternal Mode, Orcs beyond the 100 sign will gain increased weight based on distance

- Updated sprite for 'Scarab Brooch' Artifact

- 'Mug of Everlasting Bock' Artifact will now trigger on fatal blow instead of a health threshold

- Increased 'Venom' Rune damage gain against poisoned targets (8% -> 12%)

- Increased 'Plea' Rune Shield buff scaling (120% WIS -> 200% WIS) and fixed an issue with its targeting

- Increased chance for 'Fatality: Shock' Rune from 8% to 10%

- Increased chance for 'Fatality: Freeze' Rune from 8% to 12%

- 'Frostbringer Ring' Artifact will now scale with damage multipliers

- 'Stormbringer Ring' Artifact will now scale with damage multipliers and deal damage regardless of mana burned

*Bug Fixes*

- Fixed an issue where several AoE effects were unable to hit bosses

- Fixed a bug where DoTs would tick an additional time when being re-applied while still active

- Fixed an issue where the Hard Training achievement would be granted incorrectly

- Fixed an issue where boars could spawn slightly above ground

- Fixed an issue where 'Kugelblitz' Ultimate always had double crit chance

- Fixed an issue where 'Chakram Throw' Ultimate would not work against Dragons

- Fixed some issues with Raid DPS Bars for Dragons

- Fixed an issue when displaying the Raid abilities 'Trollblood', 'Spiderblood' and 'Dragonblood'

- Fixed an issue where the 'Execute' Ultimate would not work correctly

- Fixed a bug where the Debuff duration Mythic Forge Modifier did not work correctly

- Fixed an issue when trying to display the Troll Ultimate details

- Fixed an issue where the 'Execute' Ultimate description was missing

- Fixed an issue where Thorn damage was not applied on melee defense

- Fixed an issue where all Orcs would equip 'Scarab Brooch'

- Fixed an issue where the Passive of 'Eagle Talon' and 'Tailpipe Shoulders' would change when downgrading

- Fixed an issue where Fatality Runes would not trigger correctly from DoTs

Greetings, fellows of the hammer!

The ale’s gone flat, several boars are missing, and someone woke up the mountain again. You know what that means… Season 3 is about to begin!

Here’s what’s new (and possibly dangerous):

🕷️ New Raids – Face off against massive, skittering spider bosses. Bring bug spray.

⚛️ New Runes – Power up your clan with ancient symbols that probably aren’t cursed.

🍺 Consumables – One-time-use items for big effects. Use wisely… or just drink them.

💍 Fresh Loot – New items and mighty artifacts to hoard, equip or accidentally sell.

So grab your gear, tighten your boots and dive beard-first into the chaos. Glory, Death and Loot await!

🔥 Season 3 starts August 5th🔥

Update v1.20.0 - Achievement Hunters - is here!

Full Patch Notes:

*New Features*

• Added 25 new Steam Achievements

• Adjusted old Steam Achievements to grant more gems and have less requirements

• Added 'Free Black Market' (unlocks after 150 victories)

• Updated several ability descriptions and added tags to all abilities in the Dwarf details

• Added 1 new Artifact: Gauntlet of Swiftness (Cave, Battle 30+)

• Added Rune Circle Loadouts after completing the Rune Circle (obtain 12510 Rune Points)

• Added 'Data Settings' to the Settings Menu:

  • Restore default settings

  • Reset all game data

  • Try to restore old game data files

• Added 6 new Formations:

  • Holy Alliance

  • Dark Pact

  • Riders on the Storm

  • Squires of Fires

  • Icebreakers

  • Bludgeon Company

• Added 3 new craftable Items:

  • Serpent Staff

  • Hat of the Serpent

  • Gown of the Serpent

• Added 1 new Item Set: Serpent Set

• Added Chieftain items to obtainable item preview and slightly adjusted victory requirements

• Added visual effects for all basic melee attacks

• Added new type of Quest: Disassembling

• Added 'Fractured' debuff

• Added more info to Status Effects in the Dwarf Details

• Added 'Range' stat to Dwarf Details

• Added debuff indicators to all characters on the battlefield

• Added more info to Dwarf Portrait Battlefield tooltips

• Added setting to always show Item and Dwarf details in tooltip

• Added setting to mute Menu Button sound effects

• Added new basic attack for Fists: Punch

*Changes and QoL*

*General*

• Right clicking on an equipped Artifact will now send it directly to the inventory

• The game will now save the current clan status when confirming to close the game window

• Adjustments to mage basic attacks (Weapons have been changed accordingly):

  • Frost: Slow AoE attack with lower scaling

  • Fireball: Balanced single target attack with high burn chance

  • Thunder: fast attack speed, low minAtk - high maxAtk, cannot be dodged

• Resistance scaling has been reduced for everyone:

  • Old: % resistance = (1 - (100/(100 + resistanceValue)) * 100

  • New: % resistance = (1 - (200/(200 + resistanceValue)) * 100

• Reroll costs will now scale more smoothly up to victory 100 and will start to increase afterwards:

  • Victory 100: 190 -> 216

  • Victory 200: 390 -> 625

  • Victory 300: 590 -> 1211

  • Victory 500: 990 -> 2649

  • Victory 1000: 1990 -> 7168

• Damage type will now always follow the Pattern: Veteran Passive > Shoulders > Offhand > Mainhand

• Increased damage of Crusader Hammer from 8% to 10% of weight

• Burn damage tick rate will now always be affected by the lowest tick rate for the full duration (instead of last attacker)

• Changes to 'Burn' debuff:

  • Stacks now count as regular stacks and removing a debuff will generally only remove 1 stack

  • 'Healing Rain' Ultimate will remove all Burn stacks at once

• Damage and defensive multipliers have been adjusted:

  • All damage multipliers of the same category (e.g. damage from status effects: damage vs poison and damage vs fear) are now additive instead of multiplicative

  • Total damage formula: sum of flat/permanent damage increases (e.g. from Runes) * sum of temporary battle damage boosts (e.g. Orb of Mana, Attack Up buff) * sum of on hit damage boosts (e.g. depending on target status)

  • Total defense formula: all effects are multiplicative as long as they are unique

• 'Eternal' clan setting option now has an unlocking condition

• Formation 'Wizardry' now scales with 5% per Wizard

• Formation 'Rangers' now scales with 5% per Ranger

*Items and Abilities*

• Updated several sprites

• 'Archangel Figurine' will now display its activations during battle but no longer has a growth effect

• 'Razorblade Ring' now additionally has a chance to apply the 'Fractured' debuff

• 'Phoenix Feather' is now limited to 3 total uses

• 'Pinned' Debuff additional effect: Reduce dodge chance by 30%

• 'Frozen' Debuff additional effect: Receive 25% less damage, but unable to block, dodge or parry

• Reworked 'Amulet of Warding'

• Adjusted stats for 'Cane of the Ancient'

• The following artifacts are now available after 20 victories (instead of 25): Amulet of Warding, Ring of Blood, Razorblade Ring

• The poison debuff of 'Toxic Flask' and 'Gas Grenade' can no longer be resisted/blocked/dodged

• 'Bloodseeker' now has an additional effect: cannot be blocked or dodged

• Artifact 'Kakapo Egg' will now only grant +1 STA after battle (down from +2 STA)

• Passive 'Frost Blade' now adds magic penetration instead of armor penetration

• 'Orb of Mana' (level 100 -> 110) and 'Pickaxe' (level 110 -> 100) have swapped unlock positions

• Ultimate 'Pyromaniac' is no longer blockable

• 'Storm Cowl', 'Storm Shoulders' and 'Moonlight Hood' have been moved one tier up in the shop

• 'Serpent Staff' has been removed from the normal shop, but sprite and stats have been updated for crafting

• Slightly decreased number of target scaling for 'Thunderstorm', 'Phoenix' and 'Piercing Arrow'

• 'Thunder', 'Thunderstorm' and 'Kugelblitz' will now deal damage based on 0.5 * INT - 2 * INT damage

• Updated 'Tornado' description and slightly lowered its damage scaling

• Reduced life regen mythic forge modifier from 5% to 4%

• 'Djinn Set' chance to remove a debuff increased from 15% to 20%

• 'Doom' damage now increases with the damage modifier, but only deals 0.5*(INT+STR+DEX) dmg per debuff (down from 1.0)

• 'Battlerune: Cataclysm' additional damage now scales with the amount of debuffs on the enemy, similar to Doom

• Changed 'Dragon Set' bonus to: Regenerates an additional 10 mana per second and buffs last 25% longer.

• Changed 'Divine Set' bonus to: Stossgebet now also restores 30% of the target's max Mana.

*Professions*

• Changes to Beastmaster:

  • Off-hand will now have a random Passive (same as Knight/Thief off-hands)

  • Off-hand can now be reforged to change the Passive by combining it with two Knight/Thief off-hands

• Changes to Cannoneer:

  • Attack Speed will now start at 100% (up from 50%) and increase to 200% over 10 seconds (unchanged)

  • Increased Speed on gear

  • Reduced base attack speed for 'Cannon (2H)' from 1.5 to 1.0

  • Increased required mana for 'Gas Grenade' Ultimate from 100 to 200

  • Added 8 Passives for 'Tailpipe Shoulders':

    • Corrosive Shells: Physical Element. 20% chance to apply Poison. Reloads at 110% of attack speed.

    • Disruptor Shells: Dark Element. 20% chance to apply Silence. Reloads at 90% of attack speed.

    • Explosive Shells: Physical Element. 20% chance to explode. Reloads at 60% of attack speed.

    • Galvanic Shells: Thunder Element. 20% chance to apply Shocked. Reloads at 150% of attack speed.

    • Incendiary Shells: Fire Element. 20% chance to apply Burning. Reloads at 125% of attack speed.

    • Shattering Shells: Holy Element. 20% chance to apply Fractured. Reloads at 80% of attack speed.

    • Shrapnel Shells: Physical Element. 20% chance to apply Bleeding. Reloads at 130% of attack speed.

    • Subzero Shells: Ice Element. 20% chance to apply Frozen. Reloads at 100% of attack speed.

• Changes to Reaper:

  • 'Harvest' Ultimate now executes targets below 10% max health

  • 'Harvest' Ultimate bonus damage vs low health targets increased from 0.25% to 1% per 1% of missing health

  • 'Crimson Set' Reaper bonus now additionally grants 'Harvest' a 50% chance to Silence for 5 seconds

  • Fixed a bug where 'Harvest' would sometimes deal way too much damage when striking multiple targets

*Runes*

• Updated visuals for inactive Advanced Profession Runes in the Rune Circle

• Rune 'Horror' damage increased from 200% to 400% INT when more than 5 stacks of 'Fear'

• Rune 'Judgement' and 'Plea' now affect the Holy Element instead of the Priest Profession

*Battle*

• Removed automatic Sudden Death from Card Battles:

  • After 1 minute of battle, you can now order your Dwarves to stop healing and charge forward

  • Orcs will automatically stop healing and charge forward if they only have healers left \

  • Bosses will enrage after 3 minutes, increasing their damage by 2% for every second that passes thereafter

• Removed mana bar indicators from all characters on the battlefield

• Slightly increased base range of Archer, Mage and Priest

• Elite Orcs now have the Passive 'Bleeding Blade' and wear the 'Pickaxe' Artifact after battle 100

• Reduced knockback factor of 'Thundering Shuriken'

• Stamina value of Orcs will start to increase significantly after victory 1000

• Priests and Supporters now need to be close to the ally with the lowest HP or the enemy frontline in order to perform their healing

• True damage can no longer be absorbed by 'Holy/Dark Crystal' Artifacts or 'Void Slash' Ultimate

• Changes to knockback during combat:

  • Now has some diminishing returns towards the late game

  • The knockback of attacks and abilities is now always based on their damage scaling stat (STR, DEX or INT)

  • Changed several abilities to be affected by the correct modifiers

• Changes to Speed stat:

  • Now has some diminishing return for the actual movement speed on the battlefield

  • This should help managing large speed discrepancies within the clan better

  • This should lead to an overall less chaotic behavior, especially towards the late game

• Decimate (damage beyond the skull sign) is now multiplicative and can no longer be dodged or blocked

• All thieves will now jump back less when below 20% health

• Limited the max amount of Rimu berries Orcs can throw to 20

*Raids*

• Increased gold reward for Dragon Raids

• All Wyverns - Dragonscales no longer prevents sharp projectiles, but instead increases physical resistance and reduces damage from projectiles

• Flame Wyvern - Ashbringer now removes all buffs before applying burn

• Flame Wyvern - Dragon Curse now hits the CLOSEST target with increased knock back effect

• Flame Wyvern - Slightly lowered Stamina

• Ice Wyvern - Frozen Tomb can no longer be removed via debuff removal

• Storm Wyvern - Manaburn has been reworked and renamed to 'Lord of the Storm'

• Storm Wyvern - Slightly increased Stamina

• All Raid exclusive Artifacts with effects are now unique

• Increased Wisdom of Dragons

• Forest Troll Raid will no longer drop an additional 'Trolltooth Necklace' Artifact

• Raids are now harder (higher level) in Eternal Mode

• Changes to boss debuff resistances in Raids:

  • All bosses now have an additional chance to resist debuffs, additional to some immunities

  • Debuff resistance will be checked after an attack was successful, i.e. it is easier to inflict debuffs with certain elements

*Miscellaneous*

• In the Battle Report, Artifacts will now only be shown if they granted or gained stats

• 'Thorns' will now always be shown as a passive abilitiy, if the dwarf has any source for thorn damage

• Updated descriptions of block/dodge/resistance to list their caps in the Dwarf Details

• Updated order of secondary stats and added increased damage stat in Dwarf Details

• Increased maximum weight for Tavern Brawl from 10k to 100k

• Clarified tooltips for all Battlerunes and Doom

• Renamed 'Damage Type' to 'Element'

• Updated a few UI sprites

• High numbers will now always be displayed shortened

• Updated scroll bar sprites

• Updated text input fields

• Optimized performance when using the 'Phalanx' Formation

• Added animation for picking up loot items

• Added new in-game hints

• Added new section to Guide: Forge

• Added info message when an item gets send to Storage

• Added damage info to Champion Shoulder Passives

• Further optimized several battle effects

*Bug Fixes*

• Fixed an issue where bows would state that they scale with Strength (they never did)

• Fixed an audio issue with 'Thundering Shuriken'

• Fixed a bug where the wrong Artifacts could show up in Quests

• Fixed a bug where Highscores for the Challenge leaderboard would not be recorded

• Fixed an issue where the Paladin basic ability was not displayed

• Fixed a bug where mythic forge modifiers would disappear when transforming between Golden Shield and Golden Aegis

• Fixed an issue where Artifacts could be placed in the inheritance storage slot

• Fixed an issue where 'Blizzard' and 'Avalanche' would deal less damage than intended

• Fixed a bug where DoTs could hit critically

• Fixed a bug where knock back of 'Avatar of Fire' and 'Meteor Strike' was based on STR instead of INT

• Fixed an audio issue with 'Thundering Shuriken'

• Fixed a bug where cancelling the difficulty selection would create a new clan in 'Glory' mode

• Fixed a few issues where items could disappear when you did not have enough inventory space

• Fixed an issue when displaying the 'Pinned' Debuff in the Dwarf Details

• Fixed an issue where 'Poisoned' would always show up as possible Status Effect in the Dwarf Details

• Fixed a bug where the Rune Circle Summary would not update after changing Runes

• Fixed a few issues with the 'Inheritance' Rune

• Fixed an issue where the chance for increased Veteran rerolls was not applied

• Potentially fixed a bug where the savefile could become corrupted when exiting the game unexpectedly

Season 2 is here!

Full Patch Notes:

*New Features*

*Changes and QoL*

*Bug Fixes*