[Patch-Notes] March 17, 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.

Secret Shark Level contest:

• Find Sharks, and become one yourself forever! More information:

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Summary

Bit of a short patch cycle as we were at GDC. However, we did manage to sneak in a new

dungeon and several new runewords and crafting recipes as well as doing a bit of fine tuning

and bug fixes.

Dungeons

• Added a new “secret” shark level (well, its existence is no longer a secret, but how to get

  there is…)

Singleplayer

• Added character and world selection UI to singleplayer mode

  • You can now play more than one character and/or world in singleplayer

    • You can now bring a single-player character into a new (or existing) world

    • The last world for a given character is shown in blue

  • The latest singleplayer character should be converted and appear in the

    character selection list

  • 🛑 WARNING: Singleplayer worlds from before the patch do not carry over!

Multiplayer

• Private worlds can now be manually deleted if they have no active players

• Improved reconnection protocol in the event of dropped connections

• Fixed issues with progressing the Necropolis quest in multiplayer games

• Synchronization errors now write game state diagnostic data to the Logs folder to help

  bug reporting

Items

• Increased prevalence of sockets / unique sockets

• Pick axe regular attack is now differentiated from dig – regular attack only destroys

  terrain in front of the character

• New runewords

  • Blood of Lambs – 3 socket dagger: elm | bat | ash

  • Tender are Their Eyes – 4 socket dagger: bat | elm | ash | ka

  • One Hard Knock to the Head – 5 socket staff: deb | ash | bat | bat | ash

  • Skyfather, Heed My Call – 6 socket staff: ash | elm | deb |ash | ka | ash

  • One Thousand Stars – 3 socket belt: deb | elm | ka

  • Mandate of Heaven – 4 socket helm: deb | bat | ka | ash

• Note that the old runewords are:

  • Unforgivable Act of Violence – 2 socket weapon: ash | ka

  • Faith Is My Shield – 2 socket armor: ash | bat

• New puzzle box recipes

  • Add socket: item w/ no sockets + elm rune

  • Reroll magic amulet: item + 2 dull gems

  • Reroll magic ring or flask: item + 2 flawed gems

  • Reroll magic weapon or armor: item + 3 cracked gems

  • Reroll rare amulet: item + bat rune + dull gem

  • Reroll rare ring or flask: item + bat rune + flawed gem

  • Reroll rare weapon or armor: item + bat rune + 2 cracked gems

  • Fire imbue: common item w/ >= 1 empty socket + heart (bogie feral or skeleton

    mage [fire] or ember ghoul) + cracked ruby

• Note that the old recipes are:

  • Reroll dye: 2 dyes

  • 3 cracked gems of the same type → 1 flawed gem of that type

  • 3 flawed gems of the same type → 1 dull gem of that type

  • Downgrade rune → rune + 2 cracked gems

  • Upgrade rune → rune + 2 flawed gems

  • Destructive unsocket → socketed item + cracked gem

  • Preservative unsocket → socketed item + ash rune

• Allow multiple gem & rune upgrade/downgrade recipes with a single Puzzle Box

  activation

• Char Root / Sizzle Bough now drop flame hearts (instead of nature hearts)

• Assigned abilities to Goke and Endless Boss hearts

• Vendors can now restock every 4 hours (instead of 1/day)

• Fixed a bug where items on the ground could get randomly destroyed

UI / Controls

• World name is now prepopulated with a random generated name

• Call to Action UI can now be closed using the controller's back button

• Improve camera auto-movement to better detect when the player is blocked

• Controller:

  • Improved item pickup logic

  • Improved weapon set switching

  • Added support for Puzzle Box

Other

• Renamed Normal difficulty → Veteran

• Fixed issue where the simulation position of a unit could be under the terrain while

moving

• Added a system such that units can now be buried and unburied

  • The waystones in Necropolis are now buried when taken over by shadow and

can be dug back up to reactivate them

• Endless bosses (with the exception of skeleton mages) now have their own quality,

which is the equivalent of unique (instead of champion)

• Renamed some of the endless bosses, tweaked size and speed of gulpjaw boss