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Minor bug fixes and minor art tweaks.

• Chaos Portal is now less consistent. It was creating the same tile and is now more random. It may be less consistent for seeding, but realistically the random tiles were not providing everyone the same stuff in 99% of scenarios anyway, and I'm sure no one will notice or care.
  
• You could somehow search with the enemy queue open and screw stuff up. Instead it will just close the queue now.
  
• Arsonist + Smith removed. I think. I went to change this interaction because while it made sense to me, it really made no sense to someone without behind the scenes info. Anyway, it was already changed and just never uploaded.
  
• Tweaked the Drifter trait. It now gives you 3 malignancies. It's just too strong, and frankly I think this isn't even close to enough. If you hate this change, come complain on the discord- I don't hate that some traits are better than others, but this one trivializes non-bosses sometimes. This was already done as a potential tweak, but I figured I'd let it loose on you guys and see how it fares.
  
• Changed the player icon in the chest room. It was the old jester hat.
  
• New crossroads art, beam of light art, player portrait cuz why not, and a few others I'm forgetting now. Most of these were spur of the moment changes; I felt like doodling. if you hate these, let me know via discord or email. I will genuinely take into consideration complaints, heh.

That's it for now. I was hoping to sneak something a little more interesting like a new tile, trait, or other little bonus, but I didn't have anything in the wings and I felt like pushing this tonight. It's possible this breaks something unforeseen; it's possible I left something weird in here that I forgot I added months ago... Hope not!

You should once again earn tokens for defeating the first boss.

Some minor updates here!

Added seed control. A few caveats- you need all tiles/traits unlocked and it only controls enemy queue, traits, and lattice. Other random effects will cause variance throughout the run beyond those things. You can see your seed while paused in the combat rooms, and you can see and copy your seed from the post game history (they'll start to appear there for normal runs once unlocks are done). Access this option from the acorn sprite in the unlock area.

Added another minor player aesthetic option just for fun. I was thinking these would be good uses for tokens once you've unlocked everything, but frankly I didn't feel like coding that in, so no need to unlock!

Added a tile. I don't plan to add many tiles, obviously there hasn't been an update lately. I think to keep some strategies possible I don't want to dilute things too much, but since I was pushing an update I did add one tile. For fun.

Tweaked how progressing from the lattice area works. It still happens automatically, but if you are right clicking or open the search up with enter it will be delayed. You can now read what the new tiles you have do. If it isn't progressing, make sure you exit the text search option! If you hate this, let me know.

Fixed a couple minor bugs. Maybe fixed take cover doing weird things in the lattice, definitely fixed the minor cursor draw issues while searching in lattice. Probably introduced more than I fixed with seeding, if you encounter hiccups, typos, or gamebreakers, let me know here (anywhere on steam related to the game) or in the discord found on the store page!


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The Scrappy trait was not functioning quite right. It would not trigger in the top right corner, and may have had other issues. This seems to have fixed it.
Also, the achievement for using Obliterate twice in one turn was being a bit too lax in its determining success and has been adjusted.

This update is small- I flipped a switch in Gamemaker. I suspect it will increase FPS for most people by a bit. Please get in touch if this patch causes any issues for you. You can respond here or get in touch via the discord link below, or by email to [email protected].

https://discord.gg/g7zr28Cs8

I changed a few visual items in the menu. Nothing groundbreaking. The icons for each area no longer stretch, I separated the actual sword/key/quill from the background and stretch just the background and word instead. The key/chest areas were changed to a solid brown background, chest art was slightly improved. That whole area looks a bit more interesting when the chests are still closed, but is still fairly underwhelming in totality.
However, two more traits made it in with the change of the randomize button allowing room for them. One changes some fundamental mechanics (more like Edgewalker or Thrifty perhaps), and I've locked that one away. Rather than ruining the symmetry of the unlock area, I've unlocked the Scrappy trait and swapped that out for the new Nomad trait. The new Bellringer trait introduces a new tile that is only available if you get this trait and can be built around.
Also just as a teaser- I added a hidden tile 'Morel' that has only one source a patch or two back.
There may have been a couple small little tweaks elsewhere, but these are the noticeable ones (I think).

Fixed a few bugs and tile descriptions.
Added a new tile, Encamp. The design behind this tile may be a bit transparent- I'm looking to shore up the End Adjacent to and On Drain synergies.
Added two new traits for fun.
Added a new enemy in the tier before the first boss.
Tweaked some enemies slightly. The troll will offer less powerful turns just a little more frequently. Lowered the hp of the void demons noticeably (the later stage fog-adding enemies). A couple other numbers were very slightly tweaked.
Added some bugs very probably.
Have any feedback regarding this patch or in general? Let me know in Discord[discord.gg].

More of the same here. To catch up on the last bunch of descriptionless updates- bug fixes. Mostly. I also added a few reskins for stuff this time and a new player icon. I was having fun goofing around in my sprite editor and tweaked a few of the more boring images. May be a few more of those coming down the pipes still, as it's been an enjoyable simple task lately.
Someone also pointed out how obviously abusable Cannibalize is against the Crystal. For now, it's capped at 4 triggers per battle. It's still very good in that battle, and really capping healing in the game is generally going to be healthier so I don't feel too bad about it.
Things will generally still function as expected, though give something a reread if you're surprised. For the most part though, eventless updates are probably just me cleaning up some unusual scenario that had been playing out unpredictably.

Hey guys. Been a while, but I've got some changes here for you.

Enemy changes. This one may be confusing for the first few runs... I added two new enemies. A third final boss, and a new tier 2 enemy (as this tier was long and had the least diversity). The confusing part? I actually took the enemy that gave you +1 to your hits sometimes and put those on the new enemy. I took the old art from that guy and put it on the new one. It just felt right thematically, but I apologize for the confusion that may cause initially.

That is the biggest change for sure, but I have a number of smaller things in here as well. Some of these may be tweaked or reverted or updated, if you strongly disagree with anything here come let me know in the discord or on steam and I'll take everything into consideration.
Some minor visual tweaks. I added a new type of visual reminder for the new enemy as well as for the red dragon's limit 3 turn. I also added a couple teeny tiny enemy sprite tweaks for special turns.
Hearty Breakfast has a 1 turn cooldown now. Why...? Well, I had an infinite move combo a while back and realized I definitely could have generated 1000 moves and full healed eventually with breakfast (if I had the patience). I actually tested removing healing tiles entirely, and that may still happen, but I ended up going here with it for now.
In a similar vein, the Witch now prevents all healing. This is another stab at reducing grind potential.
On a related note, Grimoire is now once per combat. I recently had a run where I got a grimoire in the first tier of enemies and decided to try grinding it. I didn't like the results. I know there are scenarios it is possible, and douse existing will always allow some niche corner grind build, but my goal is to make it not feel like it is reliably a go to strategy. Once in a blue moon if you are on the lookout for it, fine. This again had several iterations and is not exactly locked in.
Backtrack additions. Well, first of all, I changed +BT/MV tiles to use those abbreviations more consistently to allow easier searching in the lattice. Bury now gives +1 BT. Bone Darts now gives +1 BT. Double Swing now gives +2 BT. Bone Darts now offers some way out if you go all in on it. Bury giving 1 BT not only makes it more appealing in the Lattice, but also gives it some neat little plays in combat even if you have nothing good to drain, and Double Swing was just kinda bad. Some of this is in response to people clamoring for more BT. Well, here's a little bit more.

I also fixed the funky animation on using the home tile if you've changed its art. Super Excavator achievement was minorly bugged and has been fixed (I think there was another that went off a bit prematurely as well, but I didn't make a note, so yeah).
I've enabled tokens in the labs. It should give you the tokens for beating the bosses but not touch your normal streak.
That's all I wrote down, I'm sure other minor changes snuck in, I haven't been very vigilant with my patch notes. Probably a few bugs joined us as well- let me know if you find any or if I missed a huge one that makes the game unplayable!

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