Rotwood news & patch notes

Changes:

• Made Power order in 'remove power' menu match other power lists

Fixes:

• Fixed an issue where the player's helmet could disappear during certain Striker attacks

• Improved the stability of phase transitions in the Imbued Enigmox fight

• Fixed a crash when using the 'Tether Ball' weapon power

• Fixed a crash when using the 'The Bodyguard' power

• Fixed a crash when viewing equipment in the market

Changes:

• Surging Circuit now applies charge every 4/2 seconds and deals 20/40 damage per hit

Fixes:

• Creeping Frost will no longer damage yourself when you are Cold
• Herd Growth, Destruction Therapy and Sheepdog now properly apply their effects to player minions
• Shocking Reflex will no longer attempt to apply charge to projectiles
• Static Buildup always triggers on bow and cannon heavy attacks
• Surging Circuit no longer damages player minions
• Fixed a crash when using Vault Strike with certain equipment pieces
• Fixed some text overflow issues with playing in Russian or Spanish
• Fixed various crashes

Hello hunters!

Today we’re launching the Powers-A-Plenty Update! This update aims to add variety to hunts by expanding the pool of powers and putting more of an emphasis on powers that change how you interact with the world instead of simply boosting the power of your hunter.

Powers-A-Plenty also adds an entirely new type of power: The “Weapon Power”. Weapon powers aim to change how you play for the remainder of the hunt by doing things like tweaking the core rules of your weapon’s move set, adding new attacks, or changing how existing attacks behave.

In addition to all of the tweaks to the powers in the game, we’ve also been fixing bugs and implementing QoL suggestions that we’ve seen reported or suggested. We've also updated localization support for Russian and Castilian Spanish.

Additions

• New power type to discover: Weapon Powers

• Many new powers, including within all four fabled power families

• New accessibility option: Hunter's Assist (local games only)

• Russian language localization

Changes

Powers & Skills

Electric

• Electric chain reactions now trigger every 7 charge stacks or when killing a target

• Static Shock: reduced the area of effect when heavy attacks apply charge

• Strike Twice has a chance to strike twice instead of all the time

• Reworked Split to Aftershock. Instead of a chance to split chain reactions, chain reactions have a chance to repeat upon finishing hitting all targets

Shield

• Powers that previously gave a full shield now give 4 shield segments so they can interact with powers that trigger on gaining shield segments

• Introverted has been moved to the shield family

• Iron Brew has been moved to the shield family

• Iron Brew now refills one potion charge instead of refilling all potion charges

Summon

• Reimagined the Summon family as a family that is based entirely on summoning and buffing minions

• Minions now gain additional health and damage in more difficult content

• With A Little Help now only spawns Melee minions (one of the new powers spawns the Ranged minions)

• Thinking with Portals has been moved to the general power pool

Cold

• Cold Snap now activates for every 10 enemies that get cold applied to them

• Cold Wave has a reduced cold area when activated

• Cold Storage now stores damage on cold or frozen enemies

• Chilly Response applies cold instead of frozen to enemies

• Snowball Fight has cooldown for snowballs thrown by it

• Reworked Glacial Armour

• Frozen Fatality now has a chance to trigger any time on frozen enemies instead of activating on low health frozen enemies

• Removed Glacial Rush power

• Ice Storm now activates on killing cold enemies, in addition to frozen ones

• Reduced the number of Icicles spawned by Desolate Imprisonment

• Ice Volley renamed to Snowy Salvo; it shoots Snowballs instead of Ice Chunks

• Cold status effect now lasts longer

General

• Perfect Pairing now refills an amount of potion charges with each upgrade level

• Extroverted now gives 2 seconds of additional time per kill, down from 5

• Straight to Business now gives 2 seconds of additional time per kill, down from 5

• Featherweight, Middleweight, and Heavyweight have additional stat bonuses added to them

• Body of Light returns your health to the previous amount if it was obtained and removed via the Quetzi Scalemail

• Fabled supporting powers now spawn for all selections when they appear

• Power Rerolls now stay within the family of the power being rolled when possible

Skills

• Polearm Vault skill does damage upon vaulting and landing on the ground

• Gourdo's Community Garden skill now reloads cannonballs if it damages an enemy

General

• Improved UI scaling when playing on handheld devices

• When joining a game in progress, new players will now appear near the entrance of the room

• Powers now spawn slightly closer together in multiplayer games

• You can now drink your potion when you have full health

• Improved the Castilian Spanish translation

Fixes

• Stop Loss no longer reduces maximum health in certain "?" rooms

• Fixed an issue that caused certain Teffra Anomaly effects to not appear in all locations

• Fixed issue where Shell Drake's bite could cause more damage than expected

• Fixed bug with Grimhollow's saplings that caused their shield to last for longer than intended

• Fixed bug where Rook would sometimes not topple after all crystals in the room were killed

• Fixed a bug in Phase 2 of the Tefframech fight where the boss would be unable to do its double swipe attack if players ran back and forth behind it during its attack hold state

• Improved game performance

The next (and final) content update will be larger than this one and focuses primarily on filling out the endgame with content that we've teased in the in-game cutscenes. We currently expect to release a beta for that update in September/October. 

As always, thank you all for playing and continuing to provide your feedback and suggestions!

Our annual publisher sale is back!

Klei Fest is our annual celebration of all things Klei. https://store.steampowered.com/developer/klei/sale/kleifest2026

This year, we've got a ton of updates, discounts, and freebies for you.

• To commemorate 20 years as a studio, we've made our very first game, Eets free for everybody, forever.

• A free game update for Oxygen Not Included with new buildings, bug fixes, and QOL!

• The Rotwood Powers-A-Plenty Update adds a new "Weapon Power" power type, QOL, and bug fixes.

• The Release of Aquatic Planet Pack DLC for Oxygen Not Included.

• The Lowest prices ever for many Klei Entertainment games

• 10 Years of Don't Starve Together - 90% off and a ton of Free exclusive Klei Fest Skins

• A bunch of great bundles with additional discounts up to 50% off!

• The Klei Shop has a big Klei Fest sale.

• The conclusion of our DST Interactive Lore story arc

• And DST Mobile is coming July, 21st!

We've also got more news from our published titles!

• Rift of the NecroDancer OST Vol. 2 Music Pack is out now!

• Beastieball has a new update, including workshop support and Portuguese localization

• Fretless is now Steam Deck verified! Check out the new Accolades Trailer!

• U.V.S. Nirmana has released a free bonus campaign update!

Check out more games published by Klei!

Fixes:

• Fixed a number of crashes related to players disconnecting mid-action.
• The power "Stop Loss" no longer ticks down during special encounter rooms.
• The "Add Multiple" modifier for the seed grinding screen will now work properly when playing with a controller.
• Fixed a bug that prevented queuing up skills when attacking out of a dodge when using the striker.
• Fixed an issue where a combination of cold powers could create an infinite loop of damage under the right circumstances.
• Fixed a soft lock that could happen when the player was killed while using certain weapon skills.
• Fixed some crashes and visual issues related to using certain weapon skills near the farming plots in town.
• The Ribbat Mirage was showing the wrong art, this has been resolved.

Changes:

• The power "Cold Wave" now applies cold around the target's location instead of the player's location.

Fixes:

• Fixed a bug causing the mastery to defeat the final boss to not complete for some players
• Updated translations to fix several typos and other errors that players have reported
• Fixed several issues related to players leaving at unusual times
• Fixed some strangeness with the Golden Zucco that could happen with particularly unstable network connections

Changes:

• Added a message clarifying how to reset your entire save file if you wish to do so
• Made it more clear which character is being deleted in the delete character confirmation popup
• Added a popup message for legacy files that explains how to enable proto-weapon crafting again

Fixes:

• Fixed a crash that would happen if you disconnected from an online game at the same time your controller disconnected.
• Fixed a crash when the game failed to retrieve the message of the day.

Fixes & Changes:

• Fixed an issue that would prevent you from interacting with anything for several seconds if you opened and closed the cooking menu rapidly.
• The Swarm weapons will now properly play the skill queued sound.
• The Ballmerang's passive effect of always returning to the thrower will now function when a Mirage is applied.
• Added a new explanation about how to continue crafting boss weapons for legacy save files.

Fixes

• The final location no longer incorrectly says you can get weapons & armour there if you are playing with a gamepad
• You can no longer charge a proto-weapon by killing Imbued Rook's Crow
• Fixed a few scenarios that could cause the camera to get stuck
• The Apex Predator power now correctly applies its critical chance bonus when entering a new room
• The game will no longer attempt to load data from pre-EA save files
• The Imbued Rook’s frost aura now correctly follows Rook in online games
• Imbued Shell Drake no longer plays the egg shell break animations multiple times
• Several typos and incorrect details in conversations have been corrected
• Fixed an issue causing certain character conversations to never happen
• Fixed an issue that would prevent the player from saving a new loadout

Changes

• Imbued Eggberts now spawn from nests while playing the Super Frenzy difficulty
• Made the hitstreak nullification effect on the Gloop Top Glaze more obvious
• When playing in the Ruined Capital on Super Frenzy 3 or higher, two minibosses will spawn in the miniboss room
• Imbued Rook:
  • Increased the amount of time Rook is "shattered" after destroying all crystals
  • Reduced how often the crow attacks players
  • While Rook is "shattered", the crow no longer attacks players

Fixes & Changes

• All players will now see the intro cinematic when playing an online game, provided all players join in the first room of the hunt.
• Killing a Super Frenzy version of a boss will now award credit for the "Kill Boss" steam achievements.
• The afterimages left when doing an agile dash will no longer display the player holding a striker when they are not.
• Fixed an issue where Rook wouldn't spawn crystals after finishing a shattered state.
• Fixed an issue where Rook would spawn the wrong reinforcement waves.
• Fixed a softlock that could occur during the final boss battle.
• Rewards can now spawn from Shiny Bushes during the final hunt.
• Fixed several issues/ typos with some translated text.
• Added the "Press F8 to submit feedback" message back to the pause screen.
• Improved lobby matchmaking stability.
• Fixed a crash when attempting to position notifications before the HUD had been created.
• Reduced the size of the high latency indicator

Fixes & Changes:

• Fixed an issue where the music in Grimhollow's fight could turn off if the fight progressed too fast.
• Lowered the volume of the Wollusk's Acid Vomit during Swarm's Super Frenzy fight.
• Newly added villager friendship rewards are now given out retroactively to legacy save files.
• Fixed an issue where some older save files would crash when trying to load their mastery progress data.
• Improved the stability of matchmaking through Steam.
• Lottie will no longer give the player a free proto-weapon if the player already has one.
• Fixed an issue where attempting to submit feedback through F8 while the screen is fading would result in the game appearing to freeze.
• Added additional logging to help track down issues with the camera that we have seen reported through the F8 feedback system.

Fixes:

• Fixed a crash that could happen when switching input types.
• Fixed a crash triggered by rapidly joining and leaving online games.
• Fixed a crash in Grimhollow's lunge attack.
• Fixed a crash that could happen when equipping one of the new Rook imbued weapons.
• Fixed some visual issues with Rook's imbued weapons.
• Fixed a crash that happened when applying a Proto-Weapon Teffra Mirage.
• Fixed a crash when trying to skip a cutscene in an online game.
• Resolved an issue that was causing the 'join game' feature on discord to not work.
• Resolved an issue that caused cutscenes to not display for some players.
• Players who have already completed every weapon mastery will now be granted the appropriate achievements.
• Fixes for various audio issues in the Grimhollow and Shell Drake fights.
• Fixed the torch sound in the market room.

Update Highlights:

• Narrative Conclusion and Cinematics (Surprise!)

• Final boss, including a new unique location

• Three new superfrenzy runs + Bosses (Frenzy Rook, Shelldrake, and Grimhollow)

• Weapon and equipment tuning adjustments

• Teffra Mirage system, allowing armor and weapon appearance swapping

• Mirage-specific visualizations for weapons and armor

• Progression adjustments and tuning

• Overall power tuning and droprate adjustments. (Pushing more builds around fabled powers)

• Quality of Life changes around game systems like farming, cooking, and relationships

• More relationships in the diary and relationship rewards

• Rebalance / Rework existing armors

• Rebalance / Rework of existing powers

• Steam Achievements

• Steam Trading cards

• Steam Points Shop Items

The actual changelist is absolutely massive. We have compiled a list as best as we could, but there are probably some other changes that are not on this list as well. For those of you curious about the gory details, check out the spoiler below.

• Added new conversations, cinematics and character moments throughout the entire game, including a new final boss in its own unique hunt.
• Added a Super Frenzy difficulty to Bonechill Quarry, Splintershard Cavern, and Ruined Capital
• Added new Imbued Bosses Rook, Grimhollow and Shell Drake
• Added new weapons for Rook, Grimhollow and Shell Drake
• Added the Teffra Mirage Station, a new placable town building
• Added friendship tracks to every Villager
• New main menu!
• Added Steam Achievements, Trading Cards and Point Shop Items

• Reduced the amount of health that Super Frenzy bosses have across the board.
• Grimhollow: Reworked bombard attack patterns
• Grimhollow: Added short range drill attack
• Grimhollow: Adjusted firing patterns of turrets in fight
• Grimhollow: Now spawns Immorels instead of shielding self during special attacks
• Shelldrake: Adjust timings on bite attack
• Ruin Warden: Adjustments to attack priorities so it will better mix up its use of attacks in various situations
• Rook: Adjust number of icicles spawned via fissure attacks
• Reinforcement rots refill more consistently during 3 and 4 player boss fights

• Bulbin Stack: Adjusted attack prioritization so they perform more stacked attacks before splitting apart
• Meowl: Adjusted attack prioritization so they perform other attacks more often before falling asleep
• General: Adjusted various monster projectile vfx to make them more readable
• Bullrog: Increased maximum health
• Floracrane: Increased maximum health
• Boarfrost: Reduced lifetime of ice spines on the ground

• Bulbin Longcoat: Changed effect to “When you Perfect Dodge, your next Focus Hit has increased Critical Hit Chance. Extend your Perfect Dodge Window”
• Gourdo Elasti-Shorts: Increased the Heal on Enter amount from 20 to 50
• Mothball Ushanka: Changed effect to “On Kill, end your Hit Streak and deal Damage to all targets hit during the Hit Streak.”
• Mothball Fur Coat: Changed effect to “Reduce your Weapon Damage, but gain a chance to Multistrike”
• Mothball Fur Leggings: Changed effect to “Whenever a Hit Streak ends, Heal for each target hit during the Hit Streak.”
• Bulbug Eyes: Changed weight class from H to M
• Bulbug Exoskeleton: Changed weight class from H to M
• Bulbug Tarsi: Changed weight class from H to M
• Bulbug Tarsi: In addition to old effects, now also causes you to gain a Shield Segment on Kill.
• Snortoise Helmet: Now prevents acid damage when below 30/40/50% health, up from 10/20/30%.
• Wollusk Helmet: Changed effect to “Heal for a percent of Acid Damage dealt.”
• Wollusk Aketon: Changed effect to “Apply Slow to the target when you deal Acid Damage.”
• Gloop Laurels: Changed effect to “Gain temporary Runspeed Bonus after dealing Acid Damage.”
• Gloop Top Glaze: Changed effect to “On Kill, your attacks apply Acid for a period of time. You cannot gain Hit Streak.”
• Gloop Slimekilt: Changed effect to “Gain a temporary Dodge Speed Bonus after dealing Acid Damage.”
• Ballmerang: Adjusted Dribble skill hitboxes to better match visuals
• Boomball: Adjusted Lob skill so it has more assisted aim to the target
• The Jackalope: No longer mentions a “WIP Power”
• Striker: Increased flight speed of non focus striker projectile by 15%
• Striker: Reduced bounce height of standard rebounding strikers so they return quicker
• Bow: Added new vfx to a fully charged arrow

• Fermented Brew: Now always heals you/ increases your health by the maximum amount that the potion will heal for
• Coin Purse: Increase the base tier of the power to Gold
• Desolate Imprisonment: Reduce diameter of prison icicles
• Increased the cumulative chance for Gold tier powers to drop

• The player’s movement speed is now ‘soft capped’, preventing situations where multiple movement speed powers could combine together to make your character uncontrollable. Powers that scale with your movement speed still use the old, uncapped movement speed number.
• Farming tools are now auto equipped based on the state of the current plot.
• You can now dodge through objects in town if your weapon is sheathed.
• The Cooking Pot is now marked in town when a new recipe is available
• Changed how “Proto-Weapons” are unlocked to work with the new story flow.
• The “Power” weight class now increases your weapon damage by 20%.
• Added additional hair styles to Amphibee characters
• Reduced the “First Craft Bounty” to 1 corestone for all buildings
• Meeting a new villager on a hunt will now add that villager to your town, even if it happens in an online game.
• Villagers can appear in different locations around your camp

• Performance improvements
• Load time improvements
• Renderer optimizations
• Attack and collision detection performance improvements

• All superfrenzy hunts now unlock at once upon completing the final hunt
• Fabled powers now spawn in the entrance room during hunts in a Boss Rot Lair
• Earning the maximum possible reward during an Anomaly hunt is now easier
• Increased chance of mystery rooms being something other than the wanderer

• Equipment Menu: Moved upgrade menu to be a selection in upper level tabs instead of a sub menu of equipment details.
• Seed Grinder: Handles large amounts of seeds better.
• Character Customization Screen: Colours are now laid out in a consistent manner.
• Market equipment stalls display their price only if they are unowned
• New stat icons added to Hunters Path menu
• Commonized buttons and design across screens
• New location icons for super frenzy boss rot hunts

• Many new sounds added to interactables throughout the game
• Unique music tracks added for npcs in town
• Added a new volume setting for cinematics in options menu

• Fixed possible crashes in Rook fight on phase change
• Fixed issue where ingredient amounts would not update in Food Combine and Seed Grinding menus in town
• Fixed various issues where FX would not show up for some players in online games.
• Fixed some situations where selecting a larger text size would cause text to overflow in certain screens/ widgets.
• Fixed a screen pop in that occurred on clients when returning to town
• Fixed a network desync that could occur between host and clients after prolonged periods of play
• Fixed a large performance hitch when stalactites would spawn in Enigmox boss fight
• Fixed boss healthbar not always appearing when two separate bosses are active
• Fixed network issues with the freeze behavior
• Fixed some cases where the character selection screen could get stuck when using a controller
• Fixed issue with screen flash setting where it would not take effect until the game was restarted
• Fixed bugs with the ghost anomaly turning certain rots into ghosts
• Fixed weapon combo guides not updating when changing weapons in town
• Fixed npcs not updating their conversations upon returning to town in some cases
• Fixed a crash with the mastery board when displaying some rewards
• Fixed responsiveness of map screen when all hunts are unlocked
• Many other fixes

What’s next?

Bugs & Crashes

• Fixed a crash that happened when the Anomaly Progress UI was updating as the room changed.
• Fixed a crash that happened at times when attempting to remove a local player.
• Fixed an issue where an invalid keyboard input could be added when playing on a steam deck.
• Fixed an issue where killing destructible objects could cause a crash when playing online.

Changes:

• Reduced the physics size of the signs near farming plots to prevent getting stuck on them.

Bugs & Crashes:

• Fixed a crash that could happen when loading into certain hunts.
• Fixed a crash caused by an entity's GUID becoming invalid.
• Fixed a bug where you could become stuck on the Gem Screen while using a controller.
• Fixed a crash caused by a room change timeout happening while a player was still speaking with an NPC.
• Fixed cases where projectiles (such as those spawned by the power Shrapnel) could cause poor performance or even crashes when hitting closely packed targets.
• Fixed a bug where some legacy saves could be prevented from crafting proto-weapons until they progressed their relationship with Hamish.
• Fixed a crash when joining a game in progress that was in the game over hunt summary screen.
• Fixed instances where the UI that previews how much Anomaly Progress you will gain upon exiting a room would not appear.
• Fixed a case where then Imbued Gooseberry explosion would not deal any damage.

Changes:

• Changed the first Hunter's Path challenge in the Thorned Quagmire
  • "Purchase a Power Item from Nimble!" -> "Take a Power sold by Nimble!"

Bugs & Crashes:

• Fixed a crash that could happen in the Hunt after you harvested a Teffressence Container Gem in your town.
• Fixed a crash when trying to uncover a shiny bush.
• Fixed a soft-lock with the Ghost anomaly when clearing a combat room.
• Fixed a crash caused by upgrading low level weapons to a higher level.
• Fixed some crashes that could happen when using specific startup flows.
• Fixed a crash caused by interacting with something as the game shuts down.
• Fixed various crashes caused by picking up a Mannequin while someone else was using it.
• Fixed a crash related to the off-screen indicator widget.
• Fixed bugs where the following pieces of equipment could be reset by unequipping and reequipping them in the market:
  • Funguile Sailor Cap
  • Bullrog Gauntlets & Bullrog Headgear
  • Immorel Trunk Hose
  • Ribbat Surcoat & Ribbat Wings
  • Antleer Hide
  • Scrambler Shellcap
• Fixed a bug where the Bullrog Gauntlets and Ribbat Wings would not display their current status properly.
• Fixed a bug where the Ribbat Wings would fail to grant their bonus if you left the room before it was applied.
• Fixed a bug where the Funguile Sailor Cap would not remove the health penalty if unequipped during a Hunt.
• Fixed a crash when trying to view a loadout that contains a gem that had been destroyed.

Changes:

• Reduced the amount of Level 3 Anomaly rooms required to completely fill the Teffrometer during an Anomaly Hunt.

Bugs & Crashes

• Fixed a crash when trying to load a save file that contains invalid equipment
• Fixed a crash when Snortoise Armour tried to damage a vending machine
• Fixed a crash when entering Brambleside Footpath with over 75% Runspeed Bonus

Bugs & Crashes:

• Fixed a bug that caused Teffra Anomaly progress to not show up at times
• Fixed a bug that caused Ambush Predator to not count towards the critical chance modifier total for Hunter's Path
• Fixed a bug where the Deus Ex power would activate while donating health at a random encounter vending machine
• Fixed a bug where powers could sometimes spawn out of the level
• Fixed a bug that prevented multiple players from unlocking the same weapon at the same time while playing local multiplayer
• Fixed a bug where Glorabelle wouldn't speak to you while out on a Hunt
• Fixed a crash when trying to equip an invalid loadout
• Fixed a crash when interacting with health vending machines while wearing Funguile Sailor Slacks
• Fixed a crash when opening a flying treasure chest
• Fixed a crash when launching the game with online features disabled
• Fixed other various crashes

Bugs & Crashes

• Fixed an issue where the game would consider one controller to be two different controllers, making it impossible to progress past the main menu.
• Fixed a crash that could happen when viewing certain loadouts.
• Fixed a crash that could happen when joining another player's game through an invite.

Today, we are releasing The Hunter’s Path update.

With this release, we’ve done a ton of work to improve character progression so that players have more opportunities to grow and expand their skills while also providing us more room to keep things interesting as players progress through the game.

• New Minibosses and Hunts

• Hunter’s Path

• Frenzy System Changes

• Anomaly System Changes

• Market Room Changes

• Relationship System

• Character Selection and Creation Flow

• Mannequin Changes

• Equipment Screen Improvements

• New Character Customization Options

• +More!

For more detailed information, see below: New Minibosses and Hunts

• Added 9 new minibosses to the game, for a total of 16 minibosses

• Added "miniboss hunts" for each miniboss in the game

• Hunter's Path challenges have been added to each hunt

• The Heartstone system has been replaced with a new "Hunter's Path" talent system

  • Earn Heart Shards by doing the Hunter's Path challenges in each hunt

  • Heart Shards can be spent to create talent builds that increase your hunter's power

  • Unlock new talents by collecting Heartstones from Boss Rots

• The idea of frenzy 1 - 3 is gone, being simply replaced with "Frenzy"

• Miniboss Hunts with Anomalies are always frenzied, with increasing difficulty as you progress through the story

• Boss Hunts become permanently frenzied after the final Boss Rot has been defeated

• Super Frenzy is unlocked after completing a boss hunt's frenzy mode

• Multiple anomalies can be active at the same time

• Anomalies will only be active on miniboss hunts, boss hunts cannot have anomalies

• Additional Heart Shards can be earned by doing Anomalied hunts

• Each Boss Hunt (and it's related Miniboss Hunts) now sell specific sets of armour and weapons that will only appear within those locations

• You can now give gifts to the villagers in your town to increase your relationship level with them & get various benefits

  • Access the relationship screen through your Diary, located near the Chest

• Faster creation of characters, and allows multiple characters to be created or selected at the same time

  • Full character creator still accessible in town

• The mannequin is now used to access the new Loadout system

• Loadouts save equipment, gem and talent selections

• Your loadouts can be accessed from any mannequin

• You can now upgrade & equip armour and weapons from the same station

• Added new customization options to the Ogre species, allowing creation of a character that looks human.

• QOL changes throughout the UI and Town

• Added many new random events

Hello hunters!

New Minibosses and Hunts

• Added 9 new minibosses to the game, for a total of 16 minibosses

• Added "miniboss hunts" for each miniboss in the game

• Hunter's Path challenges have been added to each hunt

Hunter's Path

• The Heartstone system has been replaced with a new "Hunter's Path" talent system

  • Earn Heart Shards by doing the Hunter's Path challenges in each hunt

  • Heart Shards can be spent to create talent builds that increase your hunter's power

  • Unlock new talents by collecting Heartstones from Boss Rots

Frenzy System Changes

• The idea of frenzy 1 - 3 is gone, being simply replaced with "Frenzy"

• Miniboss Hunts with Anomalies are always frenzied, with increasing difficulty as you progress through the story

• Boss Hunts become permanently frenzied after the final Boss Rot has been defeated

• Super Frenzy is unlocked after completing a boss hunt's frenzy mode

Anomaly System Changes

• Multiple anomalies can be active at the same time

• Anomalies will only be active on miniboss hunts, boss hunts cannot have anomalies

• Additional Heart Shards can be earned by doing Anomalied hunts

Market Room Changes

• Each Boss Hunt (and it's related Miniboss Hunts) now sell specific sets of armour and weapons that will only appear within those locations

Relationship System

• You can now give gifts to the villagers in your town to increase your relationship level with them & get various benefits

  • Access the relationship screen through your Diary, located near the Chest

Character Selection & Creation Flow

• Faster creation of characters, and allows multiple characters to be created or selected at the same time

  • Full character creator still accessible in town

Mannequin Changes

• The mannequin is now used to access the new Loadout system

• Loadouts save equipment, gem and talent selections

• Your loadouts can be accessed from any mannequin

Equipment Screen Improvements

• You can now upgrade & equip armour and weapons from the same station

New Character Customization Options

• Added new customization options to the Ogre species (now called the Neander species), allowing creation of a character that looks human.

Misc

• QOL changes throughout the UI and Town

• Added many new random events

How to play

Bugs & Crashes

• Fixed crash that can occur when a remote player is disconnected during a revive
• Fixed crash when interacting with objects in unusual states
• Fixed crash when dodging with an invalid mouse position
• Fixed crash that could occur when defeating Grimhollow with the More Loot gem equipped
• Fixed crash when charming a Zucco over the network
• Fixed soft-lock that could occur with Bulbin or Snoball stacks
• Increased maximum amount of powers a player can have to prevent a crash when playing online
• Fixed farm crop UI getting stuck on screen after removing a player

Bug Fixes

• Fixed scroll bar in the Food Selection Screen
• Fixed crash when removing a player during character selection
• Cleaned up quest management code to prevent stale data from persisting
• Added fallback to English when selected language is not found
• Added client force reset for first room change to ensure clean Lua state when connecting to a new host
• Fixed crash a crash that could happen when a when Bulbin Tower was knocked down
• Fixed misc. crashes

Fixes

• Fixed issue where players would sometimes get less power options than intended.
• Fixed a bug that could cause farming to be unavailable to certain players.
• Fixed a bug that could cause the food menu to load incorrectly when playing online.

Fixes

• Fixed crash occurring when Rook's crystals are killed and damage is applied
• Fixed remote players not correctly hearing Superfrenzy Bandicoot / Thatcher music
• Fixed issue where players could sometimes not pick up their farming loot
• Fixed Bulbin Sash not working while in a Hunt
• Fixed crash when leaving a room while coin flip is resolving
• Fixed a soft lock caused by activating the player status inspector while planting a seed
• Fixed various other crashes
• Cleaned up some unused icons to reduce VRAM usage

Hotfix 3: 661655

Changes:

Farming/Food:

• Added missing Garnished Squash Puree and Fruit Salad art
• Adjusted color of farm crops to improve visibility

Teffra Anomolies:

• Iterate on Laser Trap Teffra Anomolies

UI:

• Seed planting menu shows Right Stick navigation hint more often

Performance:

• Reduce texture usage in dungeons to prevent crashes due to low VRAM

Fixes:

• Fixed found Glorabelle (food NPC) as client and now she never appears on overworld map in local game
• Fixed gave Spoon to Glorabelle as client, now can't cook in local game
• Fixed can talk with Glorabelle in Ruined Capital infinitely
• Fixed crash when navigating screens
• Fixed startup hard crash due to invalid hypervisor data
• Fixed crash using Inequivalent Exchange power with Bulbug Tarsi

Crash Fixes:

• Fixed a crash that could happen on startup for certain save files.

Hotfix 1: 661292

Changes:

Boss:

• Imbued Swarm: Reduced the amount of Wollusks that spawn in 3 and 4 player games
• Imbued Swarm: Reduced the amount of acid attacks that happen in 3 and 4 player games

Equipment:

• Voice of the Myriad: Lowered volume of poison application sound

Fixes:

• Imbued Swarm: Fixed an issue with the target indicator of the Wollusk where it could sometimes be on the wrong player in online multiplayer games.
• Fixed issue where some attacks from enemies were either undodgeable, or dodgeable but would not trigger a perfect dodge.
• Fixed various day one crashes.

• Farming and Cooking
  • Plant crops to gather materials from any region
  • Start runs with powerful meals
  • Meet Kuma and Glorabelle, your new members of camp!
• Frost Power Family
  • 17 new powers focused on battlefield control
  • Freeze enemies, create ice explosions, and turn the tide of battle
• The Molded Grave
  • Face Frenzied Swarm in an all-new Super Frenzy run
  • New Swarm boss weapons
  • Rebalanced Super Frenzy difficulty in all locations for better progression

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Farming

Cooking

Frost Power Family

Frenzied Swarm and The Molded Grave

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