[Patch-Notes] February 22, 2026 - Demo

🛑Warning!

• We haven’t implemented automated and incremental single-player saves yet.

  Your offline single-player world state won’t carry over after the patch. If you have a game in progress, you may want to finish it before patching.

• Public games creations have been disabled.

  You can still create private worlds and have your friends joining you!

Highlights

• Added Endless Lair (see Dungeons below)

• Added Hardcore mode (see Gameplay below)

• You can now use dungeon entrances as waypoints from within the dungeon or from the

  overworld once you’ve been inside (see Dungeons below)

• Improved hero’s ability to traverse rough terrain (see Movement below)

• Made significant changes to earlier difficulty tiers (see Gameplay below)

Stability

• Fixed several crash bugs

Gameplay

• Added Hardcore character option

  • Hardcore characters are segregated from non-hardcore characters in multiplayer

• Renamed difficulty levels, set default difficulty to “Journeyman”

  • Heroes now start with a flask on “Peasy” and “Journeyman” difficulties

  • Decreased enemy damage in “Peasy” and “Journeyman” difficulties

  • Necropolis growth is slowed for “Peasy”, “Journeyman”, and “Normal” difficulties

• Reduced the cooldown and increased the healing rate for all flasks

  • Known issue: these benefits do not apply to flasks acquired prior to the patch

• Hero’s mana is restored on respawn

Skills

• Fixed an issue where skills for level 8 characters were being reset to level 1

• Increased skill cap from 7 to 9

• Decreased the amount of terrain damage done by Spine Breaker

• Blood Lash > Red Embrace now has a 50% chance to entangle (instead of 100%)

Graphics

• Adjusted bloom and fog settings in many overworld areas and dungeons

• Crypts can now randomly be foggy or not

• Improved various textures, optimized geometry for various objects

• Added target FPS option

Movement / Controls / Camera

• Allow jumping while entangled when in water or air

• Improved the ability for the character to navigate rough terrain

• Increased maximum camera pitch (for auto-tilt)

• Changed the algorithm for focusing with gamepad controls

• Unified controller camera controls for gameplay / map / build modes

• Allow navigation to empty equipment slots with controller

• Added zoom function while building

• Added option to disable camera shake

• Added camera rotation speed option

UI

• Ctrl-click to move items from equipment slots to inventory should now work

• Fixed scroll speed for character and world select UIs

• Legendary rings should now be the proper size when held by cursor

• Equipment slots when a dye or socketable item is held on the cursor over an item for

• which it can apply are no longer colored red

• Allow click on respawn button when there’s an item on the cursor when killed

• Added fixed rotation option for map (lock the map to north)

• Added difficulty selection on single player character creation / removed difficulty slider

  from the home menu

• Removed spurious WASD settings from controls UI

• Fixed various options not saving on start

• Added "thank you for playing demo panel" on exit

Dungeons

• Added first-pass “endless” dungeon after Narlathak

  • After killing Narlathak, the “Endless Lair” spawns in a random sector

  • This is a multi-level dungeon that goes down to level 100

  • Note: this is only partially implemented:

    • There is currently no mechanism for resetting it, so if you want to try again, you’ll need to create a new world.

    • It does not currently boot you out of the dungeon on death as intended

• Teleport back to the entrance of a dungeon (from within a dungeon) by clicking on it in the full map

• Teleport back to the entrance of any dungeon you’ve entered (from the overworld) by clicking on it in the full map

• Bogie dungeon no longer closes unless champion Tyrant is slain

• Added a signpost explaining shift-click to attack in place / destroy walls in crypts

Mobs / AI

• Mobs now have reduced aggro and follow ranges vs. players > 3 levels higher

• Removed strata damage from Disgraced Paladin

Online / Server

• Temporarily removed public game functionality

• Restored the ability to name worlds

• Add the last world player visited to the world list (even if private)

• Added an intermittent character save in online games

Misc

• Runes and Runeword items no longer despawn on regular depopulate

• Fixed various typos

• Game now properly reports what monster killed you when you’re killed by a projectile or status effect

  • Known issue: environmental deaths are not correctly attributed