Update: Sanity and Curses

Patch Update – Madness Ascending

Greetings, wanderers. A significant update has emerged from the eldritch depths—bringing profound changes to the Sanity and Sanity Curse systems, alongside critical stability improvements and new dark mechanics.

Major Features & Systems

Sanity & Sanity Curse System Overhaul

• Replaced 10 old Sanity Curses with 15 new stackable Sanity Curses, dramatically expanding the dark bargains available

• Sanity Curses are no longer removed when sanity is restored—your sins persist

• Sanity now operates on an ascending system—the madness only grows

• Sanity is no longer restored on level start or boss kills—manage your mind carefully

• Overspending sanity is now always possible—if sanity reaches 0 when spending, you gain a new Sanity Curse

• Sanity Curses now affect defense context, making defensive builds riskier under affliction

• Added sanity volume fluctuation system with transition and variance parameters for more atmospheric audio

• Removed purchase gates from incantation window and item pickups for smoother progression

New Astral Damage School

• Introduced Astral damage school with complete damage calculation support

• Updated damage flow to properly display Astral damage

• Fixed Astral residue behavior on shotgun shells and rifle weapons

New Effects & Mechanics

• Added "Signed" effect for Sanity Curse-based mechanics

• Added green bottle graphic for sanity restoration items

New Sanity Curses

15 new stackable Sanity Curses replace the old. Each curse offers a powerful strength alongside a dangerous weakness:

• Hydrophobic Paradox - Standing in water deals Psychic damage, but grants massive damage increase while submerged

• Pyroclast's Oath - Lava burns you harder, but while standing in lava your Ignited explosions become devastating

• Glass Cannon Pact - Permanently reduces max health, but grants huge damage boost when below 30% HP

• Brittle Ascension - Enables fall damage, but jumping grants invincibility frames and increased jump height

• Hemophiliac's Hunger - Bleeding effects last longer on you, but each enemy bleed stack increases your damage

• Trapmaster's Bargain - Traps deal increased damage to you, but triggering them grants temporary damage buff

• Melee Martyr - Take increased melee damage, but reflect a portion back to attackers

• Kinetic Frailty - Kinetic damage vulnerability increased, but attacks gain bonus knockback

• Psychic Vampire - Slowed effects deal double damage to you, but slowed enemies heal you when damaged

• Occult Harvester - Occult damage vulnerability increased, but killing bleeding enemies drops sanity pickups

• Critical Conduit - Take increased damage from critical hits, but your crits mark enemies to take amplified damage from all sources

• Adrenaline Addict - Stamina regeneration delayed, but successful dodges grant stacking movement speed buffs

• Chaos Ascendant - Attacks have chance to damage yourself, but all self-damage permanently increases your damage output

• Blood Tyrant - Occult damage vulnerability increased, but killing bleeding enemies triggers Occult AOE explosions

• Slow Burn - Burn effects deal increased damage to you, but all attacks gain increased Flamed chance and damage

Combat & Damage System

• Added immunity filtering to damage calculation

• Fixed damage percent modifiers to properly filter out "None" damage type

• Improved damage calculation performance

Multiplayer & Networking

• Improved network stability and synchronization

• Fixed minimap synchronization issues

Bug Fixes

• Fixed dagonite label not showing actual value at start

• Improved level generator stability

• Added door lighting for better visibility

The madness deepens. Will you embrace it, or let it consume you? - The Dev Team