Rift Wizard 3 news & patch notes

Hey folks! Another beta update, the focus this week has been on new level rewards and making those rare components feel truly rare. Enjoy! New Content: 19 Wardrobe outfits 10 Rare Components 3 Shrines 7 Monsters 3 pieces of Equipment 1 Vault Misc Changes: Wyrm Eggs upgrade costs rebalanced Mancer trials are now slightly more likely to have components matching the trial's tag Freecast staff damage counters now reset when a level is completed Journeystone's Translocation range and max charge bonuses increased +3 -> +6 Bugfixes / Performance: Watcher Form now fires on its final turn and keeps its resistances until the beginning of the turn when the Wizard regains control Fixed Slimes losing half their HP when there was no room to create the second Slime Improved performance for effects with radii large enough to cover the entire level, including Lightning Halo Nova Units and bosses that change forms now preload their alternate appearances to prevent mid-turn hitches Fixed several tooltip errors / typos

July 17, 2026 Hey folks! Another beta update! This time we're bringing you two new realm 20 bosses, a new vault, and a huge batch of Wardrobe outfits. We've also added a few QoL keybinds, adjusted several vaults and late-game encounters, and fixed a wide assortment of gameplay and UI issues. Enjoy! Misc Changes: Added a reselect-last-spell keybind, Q by default, which restores the spell's previous target location Added animation speed keybinds, \ by default, with a HUD popup showing the selected speed Equipment can now be searched by slot name, such as headwear or footwear Completed search terms now use exact token matching while the term currently being typed still supports prefix matching, i.e. 'heal ' will show things that have the word heal in them, 'sh ' will show shields! Realm 20 portals now lead to different bosses when possible Bestiary entries are now recorded when units are killed, including kills and transformations which do not use normal death events (looking at you Dominators) Remaining hostile units are now removed immediately when a level is completed Reverted Chronomancy Shrines to once again not cost SP Monster Changes: Added The Body Electric and Amaru as realm 20 bosses The Gardener HP increased 40000 -> 42000, healing increased 50 -> 100, and Brain Tree summoning increased to 3 trees with a 75% chance Odin's Gungnir damage increased 29 -> 180 Spell Changes: All Bears have 100 HP and Giant Bear's Mauler upgrade now makes 4 attacks Suspend Mortality can now target allies only Temporal Transfusion's Chrono Boost cost increased but now resets active cooldowns Temporal Transfusion's Temporal Mastery grants 5 extra turns instead of 4 Petrify's Arcane Conductivity now applies a separate stacking Arcane resistance debuff Equipment Changes: Earthmeld Boots healing increased 2 -> 3 and Any component cost reduced 3 -> 2 Robe of Storms shield cap increased 2 -> 3 and Any component cost reduced 2 -> 1 Boreal Armor level-start shields increased 3 -> 7 Crown of Ragnarok Any component cost reduced 4 -> 3 Armor of Nanuk's Armored Polar Bears now have 100 HP Wild Healing Staff and Numen Censer healing are now fixed at their listed values of 5 and 7 HP Razoreye attacks now resolve faster Vault Changes: Added the Vault of the Fettered Fae; defeat its Demons and keep the Great Faery alive to gain her as a permanent companion Vault of Arachnea, Lava Crossroads, Vault of Goblins, and Ice Vault have adjusted enemy, layout, and reward placements Several early vaults now begin appearing slightly later in the run Bugfixes: Fixed Dragon Roar failing to make the best use of its push distance Fixed The Great Pumpking summoning too many units while berserked Fixed Walk and Look actions paying spell costs Fixed several Wardrobe assets, unlocks, tooltips, and equipment descriptions Fixed UI text caching to be bounded to prevent memory growth and slowdown during long sessions

Hey folks! Just a few changes but we're excited to share some new outfits with y'all and a couple of new beasties and some love for Boiling Blood and Hydras. I'm looking forward to sharing the next patch which should have a handful of new penultimate bosses for you to test your magics against! Achievements: Added new Steam achievements and Wardrobe outfits for winning with themed equipment sets and fully upgraded spells Monster Changes: Added Orochi as a 3x3 Hydra enemy Berserker health increased Scuttler Ice resistance reduced to -75 Spell Changes: Boiling Blood has been reworked with new behavior and has a new Escalating Fury upgrade along with reworked Combustion Point behavior Frostfire Hydra has had its base behavior reworked and two new upgrades: Double Dragon and Orochi Blood Bullet's Blessed Blood upgrade now always adds Holy damage and penetrates Dark, Demon, and Undead units Void Drake's Void Mutations upgrade now improves health, damage, and range each level Equipment Changes: Banner of the Horde renamed to Warlord Banner Arcane Shield now triggers only from manual Arcane casts but removed the 1 SH cap Warlord's Skull now converts num_targets bonuses into num_summons bonuses Level Generation: Level 2 now always has 3 monster spawners Bugfixes: Fixed victory screens drawing turn stats instead of level stats Fixed Boiling Blood's Endless Fury upgrade not working

July 5, 2026 Now that people have bought the game and are hopefully enjoying it, we'll be putting any new content and features in the beta branch first to ameliorate any possible anguish from new bugs or unexpected issues that come along with this. We're a small team and the community is always finding new ways to break the game! So if you want to break the game with the new stuff, hop on into the beta and enjoy the Wardrobe and the improved Bestiary along with a handful of new equipment! The new content might be a trickle for now as work continues to sort out the existing issues of the game, but we're looking forward to cooking up new spells, equipment, monsters, and level rewards to bring you in the future! Behavior Changes: Levels now have slightly fewer monsters and spawners, especially later in the run - this will continue to be adjusted as the danger level of the individual enemies changes Completed levels now immediately clear non-player units and clouds, and then save - should cut down on accidental post-level deaths and save time UI Changes: Added Wardrobe option for selecting unlocked character outfits Bestiary previews now draw centered 2x creature sprites Added achievements for defeating each level 20 boss Monster Changes: Added Toad Knight Added Gryla and Trollet Fae Sniper silence duration reduced 3 -> 1 Mordred's corruption effects now have a broader selection pool so its not all max tier monsters Gelid Mirror now stores debuffs and delivers them to its next attack target instead of instantly reflecting them Gaia's Blessing now uses a single duration stacking buff that heals based on remaining duration and grants 3 SH each turn Spell Changes: Mystic Vision duration 8 -> 6 Mystic Vision's Truesight upgrade cost 7 -> 8 but the effect is attached to the Mystic Vision buff so it doesn't have a separate duration and can be granted to allies via Vision Aura Void Drake's Void Mutations upgrade now triggers once at the beginning of each level and scales with Arcane mastery Lightning Spire can no longer be cast on a chasm Equipment Changes: Added Archangel's Halo Added Doombrand, Lightbinder, The Lodestar, and The Haemanthus freecast staves Oculus equipment now costs 3 Any tags instead of 4 Reworked Cracklevoid, Crackledarkener, and Hemocorruptor targeting and stats Equipment crafted after a cleared level which normally deactivate on clear are inactive until beginning the next level Sigils and Rift Key Staff now create their rift if crafted after the level is cleared Modding Changes: Added mod helpers for registering tags, components, and wardrobe outfits Example mod now demonstrates custom tags, components, ritual upgrades, and wardrobe outfits Bugfixes: Fixed Lava Spitter having Slime resistance instead of Poison resistance Fixed spellbook deconstruction leaving orphaned spell upgrade buffs Fixed Blood Meridian's wide upgrade crashing near level edges Fixed crashes when no audio output device is available Fixed Pathing Probe initialization when saving or loading Fixed Soulbound death protection using a name lookup instead of the Soulbound status Improved breath weapon targeting performance Fixed repeated music playback writing options when changing tracks Fixed several missing Always Active labels and component tooltip wording issues