Ruby Season 1: Beginning

Ruby Shield

We're excited to finally release Ruby Shield! Kyle/darzuh spent a lot of time adding all of these new features and we all hope you enjoy the ruby shield, pets 2.0, and all the other changes! Shoutout Typ for his performance changes as well.

Immediate note: Ruby Shield attainments are meant to be difficult. Starting in Season 3, we plan to balance them around roughly four weeks to complete. Some attainments may feel easy for some players and nearly impossible for others, and that is intentional.

Season 1 will only last a few days so we can make sure everything runs smoothly. Season 2 will start immediately on May 1.

Ruby Shield Details

• Any player, regardless of shield rank, can progress Ruby attainments. However, you must be Purple Shield (max claims) to unlock Ruby shield visuals (shield display) and prestige visuals.

• Completing any available season's Ruby attainments unlocks your Ruby shield display.

• Completing all of a season's Ruby attainments increases your prestige counter by +1. This adds +1 on your player tooltip, gives your name a red outline under your character, and adds a red glow. In a future update, you'll be able to toggle the red glow for fashion.

• Seasons last 4 weeks. The remaining days in the month are a cooldown period to prepare for the next season.

• During summer months, we'll run a Summer Catch-up. This will feel a bit rough at first because we'll have about 1.5 seasons before going directly into the Summer Catch-up cycle. This is necessary long-term once players have many seasons of attainments to catch up on.

• Progress on previous seasons' attainments is saved and can be continued during Summer Catch-up.

• Under the Leaderboards object next to Semreh, you can compete to be the first person to unlock Ruby, the first to prestige each season, and the highest overall prestige.

• Have questions? Use the info (i) buttons in the Ruby Attainments category. You can also click the Shield Rank info (i) button on any Attainments page for your current status and details.

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Pets 2.0

In Pets 1.0, Lurkey Turkey was the dominant pet for years. Most players felt there was no reason to use anything else because it had the best stat split and was universally recommended.

Pets 2.0 is designed to fix that and let you use any pet you want. The idea was simple: take all existing stats, convert them into affixes, place them on tokens, and have those tokens drop from level-appropriate content. We expect tokens to become a strong long-term trading staple. Tokens are also purchasable in shops for gold.

Steam post imageWe also considered that higher-level pets previously had 3 stats. Going forward, you'll be able to purchase the 3rd slot per character with gold. To introduce everyone to the system, we've granted 4 free slot tokens. Future events will also include free slot tokens.

We've also added more affix types beyond the original 8 stat splits. Check them out in Mary's Shop, or by selecting the token slot while editing your pet in Character Customization (or at Mary's Pet Station).

Old Pet Stat Conversions

Old pets had stats attached to them. To not simply wipe out your purchases, upon login you'll be granted 1:1 stat to pet tokens for all unique pets you have. If you have more than 1 pet of the same type (e.g. Null Entity), you'll only be granted 1 set of pet tokens. The pet tokens you receive from this script will also be generator or single-use depending on the pet.

Pet Token Drops

There are 3 tiers of pet tokens: Basic, Enhanced, and Powerful. Powerful Pet Tokens will be released later. For now, Basic and Enhanced can be found by killing any boss (excluding minis) at their respective difficulty levels:

• Basic Pet Token: Intermediate/Experienced bosses

• Enhanced Pet Token: Advanced/Experienced bosses

Mary's Pet Yard

To the right of the Tavern Keeper, you'll find a brand-new Pet Yard. In the Pet Yard, you can display up to 50 of your own pets.

Mary's Pet Station

Mary's Pet Station gives you a place to feature your pet, view all basic pet token affixes in the shop, and customize your pet just like you can in Character Customization.

Feature Pet

For 25 gold, you can feature any pet in your yard for everyone to see for 12 hours. We wanted this to be a fun way to show off rare pets. Up to 10 players can feature pets at the same time.

Account Customization

Our planned Account Customization features are nearly complete.

You can access Account Customization by clicking the small spirit-head button in your UI. You can now see your account ID, account creation date, and recorded death count.

You can also now customize your containers, gravestones, and shields. More details below.

Character Customization

Similar to Account Customization, you can now customize your character by clicking the purple mage-head icon in your UI. This is a much faster way to customize both your character and pet.

It supports purchasing all cosmetic types, previewing them, and viewing your character ID, total experience, and birth/creation time.

Character Cosmetics

Customize your character from one screen with a full preview. Change particles, skins, textiles, title, pet, hats, front hats, and back hats.

Pet Customization

You can access your pet and all pet affix slots directly from here.

Custom Gravestones

Want to look extra special when you die? You now can.

You can purchase gravestone packs directly in the UI and set them however you like. Future updates will include free-to-play and event-specific gravestones for players who cannot support us financially.

For more details, check the info (i) button on the Graves page in the Account Customization menu.

Custom Shields + Display Shield

Stand out in chat and in-world with custom shields.

You can purchase Display Shield to show any unlocked shield visual. Shield visuals now appear anywhere other players can see your shield: character tooltip, chat, and under your character.

Want to use a Gold Shield look even if you're not currently Gold Shield? Go for it.

Read more in the info (i) button on the Shields page in Account Customization.

Custom Containers

Last for this round of account customization: custom containers.

Set container visuals by type and make your loot screenshots stand out. Item tooltips also update to match your selected container visuals.

For all OG white bag fans who want to support us, the OG white bag is now available in the Other category at the bottom of the Containers page.

April Fools... Kinda

We're a little late. But who says April Fools' Day has to be on April 1?

From now until May 1, enjoy the following:

• Dark Asura in Shrine of Devas drops his dagger in 2016 sprite form.

• Gradvale in Frost Cavern drops his heavy armor in 2016 sprite form.

• These items drop in addition to their regular versions, at the same drop rate.

Semreh's Seeded Runs

For a limited time, you can pay 100 spendable score in the Tavern to run a speedrun.

Compete for rewards on the Trials Leaderboard and complete 2 related event attainments for consultation rewards (for everyone who didn’t make leaderboard... or did they?). This mini-event ends at the same time as the April Fools' drops do.

Rewards are shown via the info button for each leaderboard position. Rewards are granted 1 day after the event ends. Permanent indicates how long rewards last.

Other Changes

Fixes

• Fixed a MonoGame-related catch-up spiral in frame pacing.

• Fixed render page sizing being dependent on resolution scaling.

• Fixed ally projectile opacity-related options.

• Fixed CapFPS/VSync interaction. CapFPS should no longer feel bad for everyone.

• Fixed a null-Player crash in world-radius character hiding on Android.

• Fixed a startup crash on pre-Android 11 devices.

• Fixed a startup crash on Android 16 devices.

• Fixed various additional Android crashes.

• Fixed disconnects and character data rollback on world switch.

• Fixed range calculation for projectile tooltips with multi-phase acceleration.

• Fixed some event attainments being pre-completed for some players.

• Fixed an issue causing negative platinum when using the platinum tax bypass in the Marketboard purchase alert.

Changes

• Changed the Darza kill Shield Attainment to be 100 kills total instead of 420.

• Changed the No Hit Shield Attainment to be squishing Crabs instead.

• Added a Windows-exclusive fullscreen option.

• Added real mobile frame pacing methods, including an Android limiter and iOS ProMotion/120Hz support.

• Raised the max FPS in graphics options from 200 → 500.

• Skipped invisible expensive post-processing options in FastGraphics.

• Implemented many rendering optimizations and changes.

• Adjusted Aim Assist to track movement more accurately.

• Reduced Spring Isles length from 5 → 4.

• Cythrall, Ocean Terror is now centered around an island instead of open ocean.

• Cythrall, Ocean Terror now only spawns on the island southwest of the beach village.

• Cythrall, Ocean Terror HP scaling reduced from 50% → 33%.

• Spirits can no longer get loot.

• Spirits can no longer be teleported to.

• Spirits can no longer use commands.

• Spirits can no longer see dungeon completion visuals.

• Spirits can no longer gain attainment progress.

• If we missed anything, let us know. We'll throw some platinum your way for helping.

• Hide the attainment tracker on the death screen.

• Disabled Claim All attainments in the Vault.

• Removed the event essence system. Essences were never meant to be used in Events. We have transitioned events over to server shops! You would have used this system if you played during our Valentine's Day event.

• Banned players are now removed from all leaderboards, and their Marketboard listings are removed and sent to their gift chest.

• Increased all Gladiator Helmet damage by 25-33%

Additions

• Added OnEnemyHit proc equipment trigger.

• Gated OnEnemyHit/OnKill procs to their source item slot.

• Added 4 new Special Weapons to the Aspects in the Dominion.

• Added a new item to Semreh's Obols shop.

• Added a new item to Semreh's Wares shop.

• Added 2 new crafting recipes to Semreh's Wares shop.

• Added Custom Gravestones under Account Customization, found through the blue spirit/head button.

• Added Custom Shields under Account Customization, found through the blue spirit/head button.

• Added Display Shield swapping, unlockable via platinum.

• Added Custom Containers under Account Customization, found through the blue spirit/head button.

• Added 4 new specials to various bosses.