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Steam News26 May 20261mo ago

V52: The Hammer is my Dr Horrible Reference

!!! is barely even cold already, unlike the weather, and already a new update; most notable new additions this time are the new skeleton, and the three new slimes. Starts Added a new intro quote.

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What changed

6 fixes12 additions3 changes1 removal
  • Gameplay
  • Performance
  • Balance
  • Workshop
  • Fixes
  • UI and audio
added!!! is barely even cold already, unlike the weather, and already a new update; most notable new additions this time are the new skeleton, and the three new slimes.
addedStartsAdded a new intro quote.
fixedStartsFixed a potential 50/50 crash on starting a new adventurer because of a syntactically valid but incorrectly formatted intro quote.
fixedOverworldFixed an unintentional case of unavoidable murder where an enemy with 'fear' generates with less than 3 max health because some of its starting health was generated as armour instead.
addedEnemiesAdded a new skeleton variant; a big one with a hammer and shield.
addedEnemiesAdded 3 new slime variants, a small slime, a large slime, and a large lava slime.

Sternly Worded Adventures changes

added!!! is barely even cold already, unlike the weather, and already a new update; most notable new additions this time are the new skeleton, and the three new slimes.
addedAdded a new intro quote.
fixedFixed a potential 50/50 crash on starting a new adventurer because of a syntactically valid but incorrectly formatted intro quote.
fixedFixed an unintentional case of unavoidable murder where an enemy with 'fear' generates with less than 3 max health because some of its starting health was generated as armour instead.
addedAdded a new skeleton variant; a big one with a hammer and shield.

!!! is barely even cold already, unlike the weather, and already a new update; most notable new additions this time are the new skeleton, and the three new slimes.

Starts

  • Added a new intro quote.

  • Fixed a potential 50/50 crash on starting a new adventurer because of a syntactically valid but incorrectly formatted intro quote.

Overworld

  • Fixed an unintentional case of unavoidable murder where an enemy with 'fear' generates with less than 3 max health because some of its starting health was generated as armour instead.

Enemies

  • Added a new skeleton variant; a big one with a hammer and shield.

  • Added 3 new slime variants, a small slime, a large slime, and a large lava slime.

  • Fixed the top layer of some enemies, notably spiders, not getting drawn.

Combat UI

  • Changed the letters on the 'destroys the bottom row of tiles' attack icon to ones that still look correct when mirrored.

  • Fixed characters with absolutely no passives not getting tile board background graphics.

  • Keyboard input now prioritises corner tiles.

Bestiary

  • The bestiary no longer gives ranges for gold given at 40 health for enemies with a minimum higher than 40, and instead rounds up to the nearest 50.

Sprite test screen

  • Fixed very large sprites drawing over the colour/parallax selection.

  • Added bespoke scripted layer drawing capability, such as the new potion layer on slimes.

  • Added the ability to (sort of) define the item inside the slime.

  • Fixed being able to desync the left selection list from the screen resolution by selectively hiding and resizing.

  • Selecting a skeleton sprite now gives it gear.

New achievements

  • Cronch wrap supreme: Defeat a large slime.

  • Slime sovereign supreme: Defeat a large crowned slime.

Mod support

  • Added additional verbose logging.

Words

  • Added: refactor, refactors, refactored, refactoring, refactorings, refactorability, refactorable, refactorer, refactorers, unrefactored, yesterly, legbone, legbones, rebreak, rebreaks, rebreaking, rebroke, rebroken, reblacken, reblackens, reblackening, reblackened, icecream, icecreams, orly

  • To the frost dictionary, added: taboggan, tabogganed, tabogganing, taboggans, icecream, icecreams, avalanche, avalanched, avalanches, avalanching, lauwine, lauwines, lawine, lawines, valanche, valanches

  • To the curses dictionary, added: bonerfart, bonerfarts

  • To the fire dictionary, added: toasty, toaster, toasters, toastie, toastier, toasties, toastiest, toastiness

  • To the bones dictionary, added: legbone, legbones, rebreak, rebreaks, rebreaking, rebroke, rebroken

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Steam News / 26 May 2026

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