「The Empress of The Pain」v1.1 Update

Thank you for patiently awaiting the v1.1 update of Shape of Dreams. Your passion, insights, and invaluable feedback have driven the creation of this update and allowed the world of dreams to grow richer and more expansive than ever. The time has finally come to answer your anticipation.

A new era of Shape of Dreams begins now.

Official Mods Support

Explore a wide variety of mods through the Steam Workshop and build your own dream world.

Limbo: the Ultimate Challenge

Limbo is a new game mode created for highly skilled veterans, featuring a difficulty level far beyond the existing “Nightmare”. Endure extreme agony and satisfy the Empress of Pain to earn exclusive rewards.

Hidden Boss: Companion of the Starry Sky

A new secret has been added to the world of the “Fragment of the Starry Sky”. Face the Companion of the Night Sky and claim special rewards.

Obliteration

Steam post imageExclude specific Memories or Essences from appearing in your adventure.

New Threats

• Added 5 new Mirage Skins

  • As you descend deeper into the Rapids, more diverse Mirage Skins will appear, offering travelers additional threats beyond the existing healing reduction.

  • Related descriptions have been added to the Guidebook.

Rich Randomness

• Added 6 new random events – more varied random events will threaten travelers.

  • Whispering Lotus Plateau – Black Rain, Giant Ink Drop Warning

  • Eroded Isle of Despair – Toxic Area, Symbiote Habitat

  • Land of Pyirana – Meteoric Life

  • Fragment of the Starry Sky – Gaze of the Abyss

New Items

• 2 New Memories – Judging Greatsword, Permafrost

• 5 New Essences – Essence of Domination, Essence of Reflex, Essence of Umbra, Essence of the Abyss, Essence of Stillness

• New Good Lucid Dream – False Lifeline

• 3 New Evil Lucid Dreams – Fish Scales, Marsh of Destiny, Prudent Jellyfish

• 4 New Life Common Stars – Combat First Aid, Wicked Vitality, Ragged Armor, Small Token of Gratitude

• 4 New Imagination Stars – Pickpocket, Trading Fates, Sparkling Clean Maw, Bizarre Spoils

• Added Vesper’s 2nd Ultimate

• Added 3 New Vesper Flexible Stars

• 2 New Souvenirs – Mini Ubar, Mini Vesper

• New Emote Set – Plague Doctor

Balance

Items

• Sparkling Water Gun

  • Now pierces all targets.

    • Cooldown 5 seconds ⇒ 4 seconds

    • Healing increased by 40%

    • Projectile size increased by 33%

    • For summons, healing is increased by an additional 40%.

• Pressure Point

  • Stunned duration 1.5 seconds ⇒ 1 second

    • Now, applies Stunned even without hitting a wall.

    • If the target is unstoppable, it applies Quick additional damage immediately.

• Bone Breaker

  • Wall and collision damage increased by 40%

  • Shield granted increased by 100%

  • Shield duration 1 second ⇒ 3 seconds

  • Initial speed increased by 100%

• Pew

  • Cooldown 14 seconds ⇒ 10 seconds

• Backstep

  • Explosion damage increased by 40%

• Ice Claw

  • Now restores HP equal to 12% of the damage dealt.

• Dark Bolt

  • Cast time reduced by 0.1 seconds ⇒ 0.05 seconds

  • Projectile size increased by 40%

• Flash Freeze

  • Now grants a shield to yourself and allies that lasts for 3 seconds.

  • Cooldown 5s ⇒ 9s

  • Charges are recharged all at once.

• Teal Blade

  • Damage radius increased by 25%

  • Cast time reduced by 40%

• Static Discharge

  • Gain Armor while charging and for 1 second after.

• Spinning Whirlwind

  • Damage increased by 40%

  • Attack Effect intensity 25% ⇒ 35%

• Essence of Composure

  • Critical chance granted increased by 50% (base 20% ⇒ 30%)

Common Constellations

• Cold Affinity

  • Damage reduction 12% ~ 21% ⇒ 25% ~ 40%

• Elementalist

  • Damage increase 12% ~ 18% ⇒ 18% ~ 24%

• Blurning Bloodlust

  • Temporary Attack increase 10 ~ 16 ⇒ 14 ~ 20

  • Duration increased from completing 2 Worlds ⇒ 3 Worlds

• Elemental Resistance

  • Elemental effect mitigation 25% ~ 40% ⇒ 40% ~ 55%

• Suspicious Mixture

  • Potion healing increase 40% ~ 70% ⇒ 55% ~ 85%

• Awakened Magic

  • Temporary Spell Power increase 10 ~ 16 ⇒ 14 ~ 20

  • Duration increased to completing 3 Worlds instead of 2

• Strength Enhancement

  • Attack increase 5 ~ 12 ⇒ 8 ~ 15

Travelers

Lacerta

• Quick Draw

  • Maximum charges increased from 2 ⇒ 3

• Dirty Gunpowder

  • Movement speed reduction 50% ⇒ 75%

  • Duration of Movement Speed reduction 2s ⇒ 4s

• Wild Monster Hunter

  • Boss kill gold gain 30 ~ 60 ⇒ 45 ~ 75

• Barasus’s Fury

  • Damage increase changed from 80% ⇒ 150%

• Indiscriminate Barrage

  • Now reduces final charges by 1 instead of setting it to 1, changing the final charge count to 2.

Mist

• Charged Sabre

  • Shield amount increased from 100% ⇒ 250% of reflected damage

  • Shield now fades over 4 seconds, and each Parry enhancement increases duration by 0.5 seconds

  • If monster damage increases due to Lucid Dreams, random events, or special abilities, the shield is now based on final damage rather than base damage.

• Noble Lineage

  • Gold gain 90 ~ 180 ⇒ 150 ~ 240

• Determined Explosion

  • Duration reduction 50% ⇒ 30%

• Cat Lover

  • Petting the cat now grants 400 ~ 800 ⇒ 800 ~ 1200 Gold and Dream Dust

Yubar

• Cataclysm

  • Spell Power gained now increases by 5% per enhancement of Cataclysm.

• Choosing Violence

  • Now increases Attack Speed equal to the Attack bonus.

• Flexible Mind

  • Shield granted increased from 40% ⇒ 100% of Max HP

Vesper

• Cruel Sun

  • Damage 100%~350% ⇒ 150%~450%

• Discipline

  • Damage 110% ⇒ 125%

• Cold Fury

  • Stun duration increase 1s ⇒ 2s

  • Cruel Sun’s Defense bonus increased by 50%

• Pride Flare

  • Cruel Sun’s damage increased by 25%

  • Penalty for removing Unstoppable removed

• A Touch of Altruism

  • Cooldown is now reduced based on the number of allies and enemies hit by the first explosion of El’s Sanctuary.

• Embres

  • Buff duration 1.5s ⇒ 2.5s

• War Chest

  • Gold gain 50 ~ 150 ⇒ 100 ~ 200

• Heavy Armor Mastery

  • Shield amount 30% / 40% / 50% / 60% ⇒ 45% / 55% / 65% / 75%

  • Duration increase 25% / 50% / 75% / 100% ⇒ 75% / 100% / 125% / 150%

• Hammer of Divinity

  • Conversion ratios 20% / 30% / 40% / 50% ⇒ 25% / 30% / 35% / 40%

  • No longer loses Spell Power through stat conversion.

Aurena

• Reduction

  • HP sacrifice 10% ⇒ 8%

  • Cast time 0.15s ⇒ 0s

  • Hit effect crispness increased by 20%

• Golden Wind

  • Cooldown reduction on kill 10% ⇒ 15%

• Anguilian Hypersenses

  • Revealed locations 2 ~ 4 ⇒ 3 ~ 5

• Feather Oil

  • Defense gained 15 ~ 25 ⇒ 30 ~ 40

  • Max HP threshold for gaining Defense 30% ⇒ 40%

• Follow-up Research

  • Cooldown penalty 2s ⇒ 1s

Bismuth

• Warped Mind

  • Damage increased by 33%

  • Movement Speed reduction while casting 30% ⇒ 15%

• Infernal Tale

  • Damage increased by 40%

• Brave Heart

  • Movement Speed gain per enhancement 3% ⇒ 2%

• Artillery

  • Projectile count 4 ⇒ 7

• Self-Writing Story

  • Cast frequency capped at 5 per second in co-op, 20 per second solo

  • Memory Acceleration 15/20/25/30 ⇒ 8/12/16/20

  • Uses Memory with a random 0.25–0.75s delay instead of instantly after a monster spawns

• Pure Soul Missile Damage Scaling per Stack 25% ⇒ 10%

  • Late-phase max damage during enhanced states was about 2.6× higher than normal Memories; now adjusted to ~1.5×

Nachia

• Reaping Life

  • Fixed bug where it granted no Movement Speed increase

  • Dream Dust gained on kill 1 / 2 / 3 ⇒ 0.5 / 0.75 / 1

• Nature'sCommand

  • 1.5s cooldown penalty removed

• Micromanaging

  • Cooldown reduction effect 70% ⇒ 80%

  • Attack Speed penalty reduced 70% ⇒ 50%

Shell

• Base HP 230 ⇒ 250

• Base Attack 60 ⇒ 64

• Base Spell Power 27 ⇒ 32

• Frenzied Blade Dance

  • Attack Speed 50% ⇒ 100%

Fixes

• Added One-Shot Protection

  • When HP is above 80%, sudden heavy damage will not reduce HP below 15% for 0.7s.

  • Activates once per location and recharges when traveling through a Rift.

  • Does not activate under certain debuffs, such as Amplified Damage curses or Execution curses.

• Blessed Guidance Guidance now fully restores HP, ignoring healing reduction from Nightmare, Lucid Dream, etc.

• Improved mid-game join settings – a new option has been added that disables new player entry while allowing only returning players to rejoin.

• Dark Urge Curse now has a 3-second grace period before applying.

• Pyrana's Fireball can now be canceled by recasting.

• Lucid Dream “WILD” category changed from Evil ⇒ Chaos and slightly adjusted.

• Pitch-Black Ore drop rate 5% ⇒ 8%

• AdjustedDream AfflictionInductive Curse lightning frequency increased by 75%

• Total and single target damage score contribution reduced by ~60%

Bugs & Performance

• Fixed Shell’s passive Attack gain not interacting with Essence of Voracity’s percentage Attack increase, causing lower-than-intended Attack.

• Fixed Apple of Discord usage limit being restricted to 1 when used with certain Essences.

• Fixed Apple of Discord not interacting correctly with Essence of Viture.

• Fixed issue where defeating a Heroic Boss with no Memories or Essences prevented game progression.

• Fixed bug where Memory or Essence selection shrines reset after saving/loading.

• Fixed tooltip values displaying ±1% higher/lower numbers for damage, healing, etc.

• Fixed infinite visual effects when canceling long-cast Memories, such as Doomsday Meteor during casting.

• Fixed Shell’s dodge VFX misalignment from cast direction on the client.

• Fixed occasional digging visual effects remaining after defeating Azraq.

• Fixed Lacerta’s Special Operation Star cooldown reset not functioning.

• Many minor bug fixes.

• Reduced memory usage.

• Improved freezing and stuttering.

Your support and presence have always been the driving force that propels Shape of Dreams forward. May this update enrich your journey even further, and rest assured, we will continue expanding the world of dreams alongside every step you take. A new adventure awaits you.

See you again in the realm of dreams.

Thank you!

– Lizard Smoothie 💫