v0.6.0

New Features

• Added holdable items. Bombs are now carried and can be triggered manually with Spacebar (remappable).

• Added new holdable item types: Shield, Hammer, and Shoe.

• Added a score display to the in-game HUD.

Gameplay Changes

• Bombs no longer detonate immediately on pickup. They are stored as the current held item and used on demand.

• Only one holdable item can be carried at a time. Picking up a new one drops the old one.

• Added Shields: absorb incoming damage and visually degrade as they weaken.

• Added Hammers: smash nearby wall tiles on impact.

• Added Shoes: grant a movement speed boost while carried.

• Larger snakes and minions now apply a small movement speed penalty after a certain size.

• Self-collisions no longer block the snake (but still deal damage same as any other collision), so that snakes won't get totally blocked.

• Phylactery now restores the snake to 4 pending segments instead of a single segment.

• Portia now has bouncing attacks.

• Widow now has bouncing multi-hit attacks instead of wall-ignoring attacks.

• Manual aim mode no longer fires on treasure levels, or before any enemies have spawned.

Balance

• Previous level bosses now appear less frequently as normal spawns.

• Wave names were simplified.

• Fewer monks spawn.

UI and Stats

• Level and run records are now displayed more clearly.

• All-time best records get more prominent formatting.

• Record stats are shown before normal stats in results screens.

• Level records no longer count the first recorded value as a new best.

• Combining minions now preserves the selected minion's custom name when possible.

Fixes

• Fixed a crash in enemy chase path handling when paths were too short.

• Fixed enemy state loading to fail gracefully if a state script cannot be loaded.

• Fixed electric debuff spreading so it cannot recursively spread forever.

• Fixed enemy nearby detection group name mismatch.

• Fixed pooled objects not restoring physics processing correctly.

• Fixed pooled objects being reset at the wrong time when returned.

• Fixed invalid pooled instance handling.

• Fixed minion pickup parent checks.

• Fixed projectile trap placement to use the global grid size instead of hardcoded 16.

• Fixed several Vector2/Vector2i type mismatches.

• Removed debug logging and unused pathfinder/debug code.

Performance

• Cached upgrade filtering lookup data.

• Cached minion line-of-sight checks briefly instead of recalculating every frame.

• Switched several distance checks to squared-distance comparisons.

• Reworked blood decals to use a circular buffer instead of repeatedly shifting arrays.

• Avoided unnecessary copies when retrieving inspectable sprites.

• Improved spawner placement setup by avoiding redundant wall-position duplication.