Dive into the Brood Den... (v0.8)

The survivors keep coming! We see you and we appreciate you. There are lots of great things to explore in this week's update... if you're brave enough!

So let's get into what's new -

New Level: Brood Den - A festering nest of silk and shadow where countless legs skitter in the dark and the Brood Mother watches from the deep.

• Unlocked by killing 500 Giant Spiders in any level

• Includes a new boss, the Brood Mother, spawning at minute 15

• Watch out for egg sacs!

New Workstation: Blood Infuser - This greedy workbench lets you sacrifice one item to imbue its properties into another item. Use it to power up your weapons/armor or make legendary materials to craft with. You'll need to slaughter enough enemies in the area to complete each infusion.

New bosses to conquer:

• The Silverback spawns in the Plains at minute 20

• Thornwood Ancient spawns in the Forest at minute 15

• The Pale Sovereign spawns in the Cemetery at minute 15

• The Brood Mother spawns in the Brood Den at minute 15

Enemy changes:

• Giant Spiders now also shoot a web projectile

• Wolves will now periodically lunge at the player after circling them for a while

• The Chessland level has two new enemies: Pawns and Knights

• Rooks and Bishops no longer spawn in the Plains

• Slightly reduced Boar damage

Balance changes:

• Increased enemy spawn rate by 50% in all levels

• Enemies now squish up tight with each other, forming denser crowds

• Changed how enemies spawn to make just running away from everything less safe

• All characters now start with some amount of base Armor, which reduces damage from enemies

Item changes:

• The Alchemy Table and Crafting Altar can now create any kind of item based on the items you put in, instead of only creating weapons

• Added a rare "Freeze Chance" affix that adds a % chance to freeze enemies hit

• Added a rare "Gold Find" % affix that increases your chances of finding gold coins per kill

• Added a rare "Magic Find" % affix that biases dropped loot towards higher-rarity items

• Projectile weapons can now roll the "Area" upgrade to embiggen their projectiles

• Melee weapons can now roll "Speed" upgrades for how fast they swing

• Orbit weapons can now upgrade with bonus Armor and Recovery

• The "Speed" affix has been renamed to "Weapon Speed" to differentiate it from "Move Speed"

• You can now pick up dropped weapons even when your weapon slots are full. The weapons will go to your inventory as items, and if you find yourself with free weapon slots later, you can equip your collected weapon items.

Codex changes:

• Clicking any item in the codex will now open a new notes page with everything you've discovered about that item

• The codex now includes stats on how many runs you've done with each character

• The bestiary tab now includes a section about the bosses you've defeated

UI changes:

• Your character stats sheet now displays your current health

• Crafting workstations now display what type of item they create

• Clicking an inventory filter (Weapons, Equipment, Materials) now just shows that item type instead of toggling that filter on/off

• Indicators for items dropped off-screen now have a little picture of what item it is

• Added an indicator that points toward any spawned boss off-screen

Bugfixes:

• Fixed a bug where mashing OK during multiple level ups could freeze the game

• Fixed a bug where newly-acquired items from leveling up were sometimes invisible

• Fixed a bug where crafted items were sometimes invisible on future runs

• Fixed a bug where crafting stations would sometimes get stuck crafting forever

• Fixed a bug where trying to craft while offline would always give Arcane Missiles

One final note to leave you with -- enemies look so much better in these dense crowds now! I recommend a little bit of knockback for some fun!