Changelog v1.6

New Features and Additions

Gameplay Enhancements

• New Trap: Magic Drain – drains charges from magical items (staffs and pendants).
• New Trap: Disarmament – unequips all your items and drops them to the floor.
• Fortune Cookies – heals 8 HP, shows a humorous message, and has a 1% chance to grant +1 Luck.
• Apples now drop when chopping trees and heal 12 HP.
• New system for displaying defense stats of armor on the ground.
• Magic Find Scroll – reveals all item positions on the current floor.
• Wish Fountain – throw an item and get a random item of the same category.
• Night Cycle Messages – new messages appear when entering the dungeon at night or midnight.
• Own Items after Death – you may find your previous character’s items marked with your name.
• Poison Staff now also deals 2d8+2 instant damage upon hit.
• Water Potions now extinguish fire in a 3x3 area and make monsters more susceptible to electric damage.
• Dungeon Ice Blocks can be melted to reveal hidden loot or monsters.
• New Decorative Elements – spider webs, dirt and wall holes add visual variety.
• Enhanced Dungeon Loot System – item generation now depends on dungeon level and depth.
• Autowalk Improvements – now moves over player bones and messages.
• Examining Enemies now shows improved threat level assessment.
• Max charges for staffs and pendants increased to 50.
• Teleport Trap now has a 50% chance to confuse the player.
• Monster detection an event is now shown when they detects you.
• Scroll of Fire now burns enemies around the player on use.
• Scroll and Potion of Wisdom now grant slightly more XP.
• Staffs now deal slightly less base melee damage.
• Ranged enemy attacks now deal slightly more damage.
• Thrown objects may miss with a 12% base chance; accuracy scales with Luck and Strength.
• Perception Ring effect slightly reduced.
• New Status Effects:
  • [Flanked]: Surrounded by 2+ monsters increases your chance to be hit by 35%.
  • [Open Stance]: Axes gain +15% hit chance when not near walls.
  • [Closed Stance]: Polearms gain +15% hit chance when near 3+ walls.

Items and Equipment

• New Tools added:
  • Shovel: Allows digging in grass and unearthing graves.
  • Pickaxe: Breaks graves, ice blocks, and walls.
  • Flute: Puts snakes (and other monsters) to sleep, reveals exit location.
  • Bell: Slows visible monsters, may teleport them.
  • Feather: Restores health, grants strength and defense, and teleports the player.
• New Crowns:
  • Mindveil Crown – prevents confusion.
  • Blinkstep Crown – teleports player when HP is low.
• New Cloaks:
  • Blightward Cloak – resists poison and corrosion.
  • Emberguard Cloak – protects from fire and slows its spread.
  • Spellvoid Cloak – resists magic and boosts staff damage.
  • Shadow Cloak – grants invisibility.
• New Gloves:
  • Lich Gloves – may prevent charge use on staffs/pendants.
• New Shoes:
  • Evasion Shoes – may avoid trap activation.
• New Weapon:
  • Silver Lance – low melee damage, strong ranged throw.
• Item Descriptions Overhaul – armor, shields, and many other items now have updated descriptions.
• Wisdom Potion/Scroll – now also identifies one random item.
• Awareness Potion renamed to Telepathy – only reveals monsters.
• Pendant of Awareness renamed to Twin Veil – randomly grants Awareness or Telepathy.
• New Scroll – Scroll of Awareness: reveals traps.
• New Inventory Slot – inventory increased from 20 to 21 slots.
• Visual Equipment – helmets and cloaks now display on the character.

Monsters and AI

• Floating Eye – now uses ranged attacks and causes confusion 75% (was 100%).
• Beholder – now detects invisible players and causes confusion 75% (was 100%).
• Myconids – drain magical equipment more often and more severely.
• Centaurs – shoot more frequently.
• Skeletons – increased defense (6 → 7) and drop bones instead of blood.
• Gelatinous Cube – now red, increased HP and defense, steals an item on hit.
• Hellhounds and Dragons – explode with fire on death (explosive trait).
• Ghosts – reduced base damage and spawn rate in early levels.
• Fire Orb – slightly nerfed.
• Monsters now speak/shout more often and patrol less.
• Ranged Monster Attacks – increased base damage and shoot every 16 turns (was 18).
• Minimum Monster Hit Chance increased from 15% to 18%.
• Minimum Player Hit Chance reduced from 16% to 15%.
• Stealers always steal on first attack, even on a miss.
• Heavy Monsters only trigger revealed traps.
• Spike Traps may now poison.
• Increased chance to miss ranged attacks while confused from 75% → 80%.
• All mid and late game monsters have slightly increased base damage and/or defense.
• Burning or poisoned monsters have their condition durations reduced by 2 turns.
• Monsters now patrol slightly less.

Player Abilities and Mechanics

• Miss Chance when Throwing: 12%, reduced by Luck and Strength.
• Grave Exploit Mitigation: Player only drops loot on death if carrying 3+ items.
• Lunge Attack Fix – breaks invisibility, deals x2 damage, applies leeching.
• Counter Attack – daggers, swords, sabres may retaliate 25% of base damage when hit.
• Shield Bash – Iron and Knight Shields may knock enemies back when dodging (50%).
• New Mechanic – haste twice causes instant death (player and monsters).
• Improved Leech/Regeneration Feedback – messages now appear on healing tick.
• Regeneration Ring – now ticks 20x per level (was 30); cursed version now properly drains life.
• Luck System – used to recover faster from confusion: chance = (Luck * 10) / 2.
• Confusion Duration reduced by 5 turns.
• Attacking while confused now has -20% hit penalty (was 18%).
• Invisibility Duration reduced to 5 turns. Actions break stealth.
• Attacking while invisible guarantees at least 75% hit chance.
• Sound and Strip Traps now cancel invisibility.
• Timeout for server requests increased from 5s to 10s.
• Sanctuary glyphs improved – better protect the player and correctly prevent monster attacks.
• Invisibility now prevents detection even by Alarm Traps.
• Item Use Disabled while Slimed.

Environment and Balance

• Grass Reduced slightly in the dungeon.
• Fire Spread slightly slower.
• Corrosion Chance on hit increased from 10% → 15%.
• Reduced Graveyard only 1000 grave entries shown. Your grave will be the first one.
• HP Gain on Level Up slightly reduced.
• Vampire Healing reduced.
• Pendant/Life Potions heal slightly less.
• Weapon Enchant Scaling nerfed: +1 damage per 4 enchants (was 3).
• Reflect Damage from Spiked Shield slightly increased.
• Only monsters with blood leave blood pools.
• Water Potions appear 5% more often.
• Crystal Shield breaks 5% less often.
• Initial Javelins reduced from 6 to 4.
• Spider Webs reduced density and radius; spiders leave fewer trails.
• Dungeon walls may now contain visual cracks and holes for added variety.
• Particle effects added when using magical items, teleporting, and more.
• Updated loot pool under God Statues – new items can now spawn.

NPCs and Dialogue

• Vesper has new lines regarding mechanics and lore.
• New Coop Messages added.

UI and Audio

• New Title Art.
• New Sound System – better variety and handling.
• Enhanced Tooltips and Item Examination.
• Sound Feedback for Shield Bash and hammer push.
• New itch.io Button – vote and rate the game.

Bugs Fixed

• Wall message bug after demolish.
• Bone tile projectiles blocking.
• AC miscalculation after corrosion.
• Leeching not applied correctly.
• Ring of Masochist with negative enchantment.
• Regeneration Ring cursed logic fixed.
• Trap damage under certain ring effects.
• Gas poison timer exceeding expected duration.
• Decimal number damage bug.
• Awareness not revealing traps on new floor.
• Translocation Staff bugs resolved.
• Items no longer spawn over walls or NPCs.
• Writing now prioritizes floor over walls.
• Potion throw crash after canceling staff use.
• Phase moon calculations for timed events.
• Navigation left/right in message selection did not respond.
• Incorrectly calculation weapon damage with negative enchantments.
• New Year's event granted too many life potions.
• New RNG seed system that reduces chance of trap desync issues.

Explore, survive, and experiment – Coop Catacombs 1.6 is packed with danger, secrets, and fresh dungeon depth!