Rustic Defense news & patch notes

Hi all, If you want to face the greatest enemy and finish the complete game, you'll have chance starting July 20th.

What’s in the Holiday update ?

• The final two chapters.
• A new helper.
• New achievements
• Few tweaks and fixes.

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News

• Bonus chapter - Dark Forest - The difficulty increases with each freed bird
• Thunderbirds - Valid helpers - you can train and set their the behavior
• Inventory - Access to the inventory is via the icon on the skills screen
• Smooth effects - They take a little performance, but you can turn them off in the settings
• Boss icons on the left side shows enemy HP when the pointer is over

Fixed

• ESC key behaviour in menu
• Tooltips no more stays on skill screen
• Start hints behaviour
• Music and sound volume slider (lower limit)

Access to inventory :

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Hello everyone Next update will be released at the end of April. What will it bring this time? A new chapter in which you can get a few helpers. With this, a inventory will be added where you can improve the helpers and assign them attack priorities. Smoke effects will be improved, no more cubes. They eat up a bit of performance but they can be turned off. Martin {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45368163/60f99d1200fb80d411c8cba685fc9e47a1116d8f.png

New chapter - Far oasis

• Undertake up to four expeditions for a powerful artefact
• The difficulty increases with each expedition
• The perks stay with you for the rest of the game
• Miniboss appear randomly throughout the game. If the miniboss is not defeated, he will take 10 militia.

Daily quests

• You can complete two quests every day and get bonuses to play on next map
• Good to use on the map where you got stuck

News

• Game selection panel is updated (clearer choice of hero and place for future chapters)
• Alternative mode of ALT key (press the key to switch highlight mode or hold it for quick view)

Fixed

• Fixed targeting weak enemies
• Fixed height of enemy healthbars

Hello everyone. A new update will be released this Sunday. It will include a new chapter, in which you will undertake up to 4 expeditions for an artifact that will give you a useful ability. This chapter will be available from the beginning of the game and each completion will increase the difficulty of obtaining the next ability. Another new feature will be daily quests, which can help you if you are stuck in the game and need to move on. Completing the quest will give you a bonus for the next map. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45368163/26b8a8cd929870a3b98b30c792ca53babdf081d1.png Martin

News

• Enemies and towers are bigger and more detailed
• The movement of enemies is smoother.
• Cloud saves - You can choose one of three slots where you will save your progress.
• Checkmark on an enemy card indicates a defeated enemy (preparation for later achievements)

Fixed

• Increased hero level cap
• Elf hero animation
• Enemy cards only rotates when a new enemy is discovered

Balance

• Adjusted the difficulty of higher levels in endless mode

How to use cloud autosave

• Enter settings menu - button Cloud settings
• Select a storage position and click on Create new save (it'll save your current progress, previous save in this slot will be overwritten)
• Click on activate button to set storage as default
• To synchronize on other device click on activate button of the same storage position
• You can also use this storage offline

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Hi everyone Updates are now coming with more thorough testing to avoid unnecessary problems. The next update is currently being tested and what will it bring?

• cloud saving
• more detailed and larger enemies and towers
• added some graphics details
• and a few fixes

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News

• Steam achievements
• Endless mode in chapter Invasion (click on reward icon on debriefing board to play)
• Endless mode leader board (experimental version now)
• Boss icon - click to focus camera on boss

Fixed

• Some bad descriptions
• Debriefing XP icons
• Debriefing freezes for a few seconds

Balance

• Alien alpha health increased
• Alien boss is able shock nearby towers for a few seconds

Hello, I wish you all the best for the new year. The December update, it was a little delayed but it will finally be released on January 3, 2026 and will include an endless mode for the Invasion chapter, leaderboard and Steam achievements. And now what are the plans for 2026

January

• Voxel graphics will be more detailed
• Closer camera zoom
• Cloud save

Februrary

Two new chapters :

• Sandstorm - reward will be epic skill trainer
• Dark Forest - with endless mode

March

• Terrain graphics improvements
• Effects improvements

April

Next two new chapters :

• End of the World - reward will be hero trainer
• Return of Ancient - final chapter

With Regards Martin

News

• Mana gem - source of mana (can be upgraded by crystals)
• The pop-up hints contains images and are clearer
• New hint screen in the game
• The tower can be selected using the hotkeys ~`,1,2,3,4 and 5
• Holding ALT key display the unoccupied tiles and heightmap The shift key now has two functions :
• Holding SHIFT key places multiple towers
• Pressing SHIFT key selects the last action (if is enough money)

Fixed

• Maps are slightly more compact
• Tower attack distance circle is more visible
• Towers description
• Epic button color on skill screen
• Issue where a card would not be added in some rounds
• Tiles where the fireball will land and you cannot build on them are marked
• Mining slowdown was misused
• Minor fixes around screen mode switching

Balance

• Epic level research starts at 200xp instead of 500xp but final skill cost 666xp
• Final epic skill causes more damage
• Epic skills are a bit charged over time

News

• Windowed mode (experimental function - may be a problem on a PC with multiple monitors, if so let me know.)

Fixed

• Fixed an issue with displaying arrows to send the next wave (the map generator was bugged).
• Fixed an issue where pressing the Esc key at the wrong time would cause the game to crash.

Hi, Your responses required some corrections, here they are:

News

• Added boss status icon in boss level

Fixed

• Negative experience issue
• Card deck - sometimes a used card was drawn and took the place of another card
• Two top level Archery card values
• Hover text over objects shows earlier now
• Totems now have a description
• Some descriptions were fixed
• FX when increasing the hero's attack multiplier

Balance

• Experience gain in lower levels has been increased
• Mines will be a little cheaper

Take to the ever-expanding field and employ a variety of different towers and heroes and upgrade them to grand heights over multiple playthrough. Fight off dozens of different foes deployed from multiple biomes, each with unique defenses, forcing you to vary you tactics as the situation demands. And ultimately let fate decide your strategy as the hand you're dealt empowers your towers, giving constant small advantages against the incoming horde. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45368163/5726719d2393b657c08de24734427c7f2bbd1389.png

What are the next plans?

December

• Achievements
• Endless mode
• Ingame boss icon
• Maps will be more compact

Until March

• Two new chapters
• And then we'll see, maybe localization

Cheers Martin

Small update

A small update was made today. Regarding the lighting of the game. The game will now be a little darker and have more shadows. And few typos was fixed.

A new demo will be released on Friday the 21st.

News

• Three playable chapters to wave 33.
• Up to three heroes.

Note : Saved progress from the older demo version will be lost.

Hi everyone The game is finished, full version of the game will be available on November 24th, 2025. Thanks for the support and comments. There will be an update in December, that will add achievements and an endless mode to the game. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45368163/b0f8d296ef34f3cbdb457a42d6c7368bdc01ecf3.png

Endless Mode

After completing the Invasion chapter, you can stay in the game and face a new threat. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45368163/7c9b50473f57bd0f8f9c7eff3c0b19dd2ec0a004.png Cheers Martin

Pre-release update

News

• Graphics quality settings low / medium / high
• Preview of full version chapters
• Partially playable (to the wave 33) new chapter "Scorched Earth"
• A player can obtain bonus coin by completing chapters, that give bonus to selected branch of towers
• Adjustable map view angle
• Short intro animation
• Epic hero skills

Fixed

• Fixed destroyer animation bug
• Some graphics improvements and UI changes

News

• Player can obtain bonus gold from starting next wave early
• Show info of map objects (if pointer stays on object)
• Towers showing special ability
• Changed debriefing screen

Random encounters

• Hero portal - teleports unused hero on the map
• Power up - adjacent towers get double bonus damage (not base damage)
• Old bastion - give 1.5x range bonus to tower built on top
• Wasp nest - poisons nearby enemies
• Golden veil - 3x gold gain to mine built here
• Gnome engineer - choose and build level 5 top tower
• Priest - towers of chosen kind gain 3 levels

Fixed

• First levels music (not in loop now)
• Crash after selecting share damage cards
• Build tower SFX
• Tower clicking accuracy
• Changed graphics of Vulcan turret
• Changed graphics of swamp platforms
• Overtime damage indicator
• Skill tree respec behaviour
• Damage bonus after tower upgrade
• Improved scene lighting (SSAO -> HBAO)

News

• MacOS support (Apple M1 and later)
• Mousewheel reverse option
• When a player leave game early, he will receive some XP
• New hints after start game
• New boss special behaviour
• Some visual improvements

Fixed

• Deathray sound is less annoying
• Adjusted some sounds
• Sand platform tower placement
• Some VFXs changed
• Some minor bugs fixed

News

• New heroes are playable (Druid and Tesla), player can combine two heroes on map
• Crytals now adds hero power instead attack count
• Enabled tower targeting switch (player can choose between near, first, slow, strong and weaks targets)
• Enabled tower selling
• Respec button (player can forget skill and gain half XP value)
• Changed two cards Goldmine and Reroll, goldmine is default now
• Next 10 epic cards are functional now (16 in total)
• Added ingame tooltips

Fixed

• Cursor behaviour
• Throwing weapon aim prediction
• Frozen card deck after epic card draw
• Some control changes (escape, selecting towers)
• Towers show range circle correctly
• Some tower and hero balancing
• Some visual improvements
• Few more bugs fixed