Demo Patch Notes for 2026-04-04 (Permanent Spellcrafting)

Today's update is a small patch, but includes major infrastructure changes that will be the backbone of the next upcoming major game update: Permanent spellcrafting.

• The next major update will include significant changes to spellcrafting, and many spells will no longer be consumed each time they are used (i.e., craft once, use forever)

• These permanent spells will be powerful, one-off craftables with special magic abilities that can be re-used indefinitely without losing the item (with varying length of cooldown periods and/or some magic attribute pool cost, depending on the spell). Crafting them will require special drops from rare enemies.

• Added support for magic ability cooldowns for spells that are reusable (not consumed each use, but have a cooldown timer between uses)

• Added new 2D UI elements to the HUD for the cooldown functionality; active cooldowns will be displayed in the bottom right corner of the screen

• Added a new spell type "Hand of Fate" that can be used to grab enemies from afar

• The 'Grotesque Hand', required to craft the new spell, now drops from Pucas

• The new spell shoots a projectile that, when hitting an enemy, will instantly grab them and move them close to the player (does not affect bosses / giants / trolls)

• Made significant improvements to magic projectile spell targeting; spells will now be able to more accurately target enemies uphill/downhill and across much larger distances

• Made changes to the demo map showing other cities that will be available in the full game when released