Can You Survive the Elements? (v0.10)

The 0.10 update to Alchemy Survivors is live now on Windows and Mac. It has a ton of stuff; arguably too much stuff... Lets get into it all!

11 New Characters

• Epoch, a master swordsman from another time (unlock: survive 20 minutes in any level)

• Pyke, a stout dwarf who just wants to mine shiny things (unlock: survive 25 minutes in Quarry)

• Mortis, an ephemeral scythe-wielder from another realm (unlock: survive 20 minutes in Cemetery)

• Roto, a young hero with a boomerang and a dream (unlock: defeat King Slime)

• Mandy-1, a stranded space-farer armed with only a plasma pistol (unlock: kill 100 Aliens)

• Harle, background unknown, throws a fan of deadly cards (unlock: defeat 1,000 Mysterious Coats)

• Tara, a celestial wizard that throws stars from the sky (unlock: kill 100,001 enemies)

• Nez, a young boy with a psychic blast (unlock: survive 20 minutes with Basil)

• Shrap, a grenadier who throws... grenades (unlock: survive 20 minutes with Sarge)

• Guile, a shadowy magician that makes enemies go splat (unlock: survive 10 minutes with Epoch)

• Tellah, an ancient sage that rains meteors down on foes (unlock: survive 20 minutes with Tara)

Other Character Changes:

• Increased Buck's starting armor (6->7) and health (50->70)

• Reduced Father's starting armor (15->5) and health (180->80)

New System: Elemental Damage

• All weapons now have an elemental damage type (Fire, Ice, Earth, Light, Dark, Psychic, or Physical)

• All existing enemies have been assigned an element that dictates their damage type and given a related elemental weakness (+50% damage from weapons of that element)

  • Fire is strong against Ice

  • Ice is strong against Earth

  • Earth is strong against Fire

  • Light and Dark are strong against each other

  • Psychic and Physical are strong against each other

• Added 7 item affixes that can appear on equipment that grant increased damage for a specific element

• Added 7 item affixes that grant resistance to damage from a particular element

New equipment slot: Feet

• Instead of just Head/Chest/Legs armor, there is now a new equipment slot on players for feet with a slew of new armor to find for that slot (mostly shoes...)

• Find boots and other feet-armor or craft your own at the Anvil

New equipment slot: Accessory

• All characters now also have two accessory slots.

• Find accessories or craft your own at the new Jeweler's Bench

New Interactable: Bloody Chest

• The Bloody Chest is very similar to the regular chest, except it only opens when it's covered in blood.

• Trying to open a Bloody Chest will spawn 3 waves of enemies to attack you. Defeat them all and the chest will open!

New Workstation: Jeweler's Bench

• Take your gems here to cut them into rings or amulets and fill up your new Accessory slots.

New Level: Frostfall

• Survive in this freezing level where not only will you need to manage your life against the frozen monstrocities in this tundra, but you'll also need to manage your warmth -- or freeze to death trying.

• Make sure to check the new map feature to see where the nearest heat sources are!

• Includes 11 new enemies: Frostbiter, Ice Slug, Glaciate, Snowmother, Campuskin, Iceblink Wisp, Rimebound Hollow, Skreigh, Iceburst Ranger, Permafrost Sentinel, and the Wendigaunt.

• Includes 1 new boss: Glacial Colossus (at 15 minutes)

New Level: Char Wastes

• Good luck surviving in this volcanic, swarm-infested wasteland, unlocked by surviving 20 minutes with Char.

• Includes 10 new enemies: Skreeling, Subspawn, Bilesac, Razorwing, Spitterspine, Quillbeast, Whelpling, Husklord, Plaguebearer, and Tuskhide.

• Includes 1 new boss: The Carrion Apex (at 15 minutes)

New Level: Outremer

• The sun-bleached siege camps of a dynasty too proud to die now await you, unlocked by killing 1,000 Bishop enemies in any level.

• Includes 7 new enemies: Peasant Levy, Stablehand, Crusader, Templar Knight, Pilgrim, Heretic, and the Mercenaries.

• Mercenaries can spawn with one of seven new enemy traits that affect their stats and behavior:

  • Brave

  • Craven

  • Zealous

  • Wrathful

  • Drunken

  • Stubborn

  • Greedy

• Includes two new bosses: The Chancellor (at 5 minutes) and Pope Urban the Many-Faced (at 25 minutes)

New Level: Shahaz Desert

• Extremely hot during the day, extremely cold at night.

• Includes 7 new enemies: Sun Scarab, Frostbiter, Dune Reaper, Carrion Vulture, Sandtide Scorpion, Sand Cobra, Frostfanged Jackal.

• Includes 1 new boss: The Sphinx (at 15 minutes)

New Level: Bovine Pastures

• Nothing to see here, just a lot of cows (unlocked by surviving 30 minutes in Tristram)

• Don't worry about it.

Existing Level Changes:

• Armor Racks now spawn throughout Tristram, which drop a random piece of armor when destroyed

• Weapon Racks now spawn throughout Tristram, which drop a random weapon when destroyed

• Doubled the amount of fire in Tristram

• Reduced the variety of crafting workstations that appear in the Plains and Forest levels

• Shrines are now twice as common in Tristram and Cemetery

New Shrines - Added the following new shrines, which can appear in any level.

• Shrine of Healing

• Shrine of Perseverance

• Shrine of Conflict

• Shrine of Fire

• Shrine of Darkness

• Shrine of Sanctuary

Merchant/Economy Changes:

• Instead of always buying items for 2 gold and selling them for 1 gold, item values now scale based on that item's rarity (Common = 1 gold, Uncommon = 2 gold, Rare = 4 gold, Epic = 7 gold, Legendary = 12 gold). Buying an item costs 2x its value.

• Every unique affix on an item increases its value by +1 gold.

• Currency drops (gold and souls) now have a chance to drop even when enemies also drop an item, making them slightly more common drops.

• Added 7 new merchants: Baldwin the Leper, Conrad the Bastard, Old Duke Godfrey, Raymond the Penitent, Sibylla the Thrice-Widowed, Sister Melisende, and Tancred the Heir.

• Some merchants may now have a line of dialogue or two when you talk to them.

• Merchant windows now have icons for how much each specific item is worth.

• Most merchants now start with 5 items to sell instead of 3.

• All merchants have 3x as much starting gold to make trades with than before.

Crafting Changes:

• The Blood Infuser has been reworked:

  • The item to receive new stats is now restricted to only Weapons or Equipment

  • The sacrificial item is now restricted to only Materials

  • An item with 4 or more affixes already cannot receive additional affixes from the Blood Infuser

  • Enemy spawn rates are now increased while any infusion is in progress

  • Now tracks your total kills per enem during the infusion and gives you a kill summary after

• Changed the time the Furnace cooks an item for from 30-60 seconds to 60 seconds

• The fuel slot in the Furnace now only accepts flammable items

• Crafted weapons can now have explosive on-hit effects

Weapon Changes:

• You can now manually unequip and equip specific weapons from your inventory (still 6 weapons max equipped at a time).

• Added a new Freeze Ray base weapon that can appear for any character while leveling up.

Enemy Changes:

• Reduced Quartzite projectile speed by 50% (6 -> 3)

• Reduced Mysterious Coat damage by 50% (50 -> 25)

• Increased Ape projectile size by 50% (1 -> 1.5) and projectile speed by 40% (2.5 -> 1.5)

• Tripled the distance you need to be away from a boss for it to despawn

UI Changes:

• There's now a minimap for the world in the pause menu.

• You can now access the Codex from the pause menu during any run, instead of only from the title screen.

• The Codex experience has been completely redesigned to feel more like a journal of all your notes as you discover the weird items, enemies, bosses, etc in this world.

• The player equipment window has been completely redesigned and now highlights your stats while showing both equipment and weapons.

• The character select screen has been redesigned.

• The location select screen has been redesigned.

• The death / game over screen has been redesigned and now highlights what new things you've unlocked.

• The Anvil has a new icon and a few items do too

• The level timer now renders on top of off-screen indicators for dropped items

Performance:

• XP gems off screen will occasionally merge into fewer, larger XP gems. Total amount of XP does not change.

• Regular enemy spawning now temporarily scales down when your screen is already full of hordes of enemies to mow down.

• Summoner enemies will now have their summon attacks fizzle if you're already at a maximum number of active enemies nearby.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed a bug where item tooltips could cover the last item in your Stash and not let you withdraw it

• Fixed a bug where the Grindstone would show the Furnace icon instead in some cases

• Fixed a bug where Grindstone upgrades weren't selectable when playing with a controller

• Fixed a bug where damage from TNT barrels was counting toward the player's Total Damage Done stat

• Fixed Fallen Shamans summoning Skeletons instead of Fallen

• Fixed a bug displaying gold/magic find affixes as 100x more effective than what they actually did

• Fixed a bug where lava pools in the quarry were invisible

• Fixed a bug where +projectile count upgrades sometimes would stop working at some max cap of projectiles

• Fixed a bug that prevented some items crafted from the crucible from having any affixes transfer from the material used

• Fixed a bug that caused projectile enemies to sometimes shoot giant fireballs instead of their normal attack