v2.5.4 is probably the final patch for v2.5 before I start moving on to development of the next update. It's just a few bugfixes this time, plus one tiny misc. change.

Changes

Hey Dungeoneers! I've just released Shattered Pixel Dungeon v2.5.3! This patch includes a few changes in response to feedback and gameplay data from v2.5.0. There is a new way to identify items, a few items have been buffed/nerfed, and bombs have been buffed across the board!

Changes

Just a quick extra patch this time to fix a few more bugs: Caused by v2.5.1: - Crashes when using transmutation abilities (sorry!) - Shard of Oblivion description not using its new bonus loot rate Caused by v2.5.0: - Dark floors sometimes giving 1/2 vision instead of the new value of 5/8 - drop and throw actions not working on Shard of Oblivion - Some flying characters visually falling into pits when they die that shouldn't (e.g. ghosts) - Various minor textual errors Existed Prior to v2.5.0: - Various minor visual bugs with stealthy mimics

Hey Dungeoneers! The first patch for Shattered Pixel Dungeon v2.5.0 should now be out on all platforms! v2.5.1 includes an assortment of small fixes, and some balance changes to three of the new trinkets. I expect to make more changes in future patches as well, before moving on to work on v3.0.0.

Changes

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[/td] [td]Hey Dungeoneers, Shattered Pixel Dungeon v2.5.0 has been released! You can get it right now on Steam, or on any of the other platforms Shattered is distributed on. [/td] [/tr] [/table]

Whats new in v2.5.0

• Coming Soon to Shattered: New Trinkets and Splash Art!
• Coming Soon to Shattered: A Journal Overhaul!

• Ten Years of Shattered Pixel Dungeon!

• Developer Commentary [expand] - Released September 11th, 2024 - 119 days after Shattered v2.4.0 Dev commentary will be added here in the future[/expand]
• Journal Overhaul! [expand] The game's Journal interface has been completely overhauled! The Notes section has an entirely new grid-based UI with new icons, and support for custom notes! Custom notes feature user-enterable text and can be tied to a floor, specific item, item type, or just be plain text. The Catalogs section has also been moved to a grid UI, and has been massively expanded with almost 500 entries! The catalogs now contain almost every item in the game, and a bestiary featuring almost every character, plant, and trap! There are also 9 new badges which can be unlocked by filling the catalogs out! You can also now view badges directly from the journal, both the ones for your current run and overall badges. [/expand]
• New Trinkets! [expand] Four new trinkets have been added! Bringing the total to 15 trinkets. The Salt Cube extends the duration that food keeps you full, but also reduces HP regeneration. The Vial of Blood increases the healing granted by major healing sources, but also slows that healing down. The Shard of Oblivion increases the amount of loot you'll find from enemies when you are wearing unidentified equipment. The Chaotic Censer randomly spreads gasses nearby, that are harmful to you and to enemies. There is also now a fourth 'random' option when selecting trinkets, if you don't want any of the first three. [/expand]
• Region Splash Arts! [expand] New splash arts have been added to the game's loading screens! There's one for each of the five regions, once again made by Aleksandar Komitov! Loading times have not been increased, but the first loading screen of each region now pauses to display that region's story text. This gives an opportunity to appreciate the art without making players wait longer on every loading screen. The game will even start panning the loading screen art during this pause for mobile portrait users! [/expand]

• Interface Improvements [expand] In addition to the journal overhaul, there are several smaller UI changes and additions in this update too: Scrolls of Upgrade now have a preview window that appears when they are used, that summarizes how the stats of an item will change when upgraded. The main menu Badges Screen has been replaced with a new journal screen, containing the catalogs and guidebooks as well as unlocked badges. The Alchemy Screen has been adjusted, primarily for desktop users. The guidebook button is now more visible, and shows the guidebook to the side when used on desktop. The game now displays a little congratulations message after your first win, and clarity on what winning the game unlocks has been improved. [/expand]
• Cursed Wands [expand] Cursed wand effects have been massively expanded! There are now 16 new effects bringing the total number of effects up to 32. These include simple common effects like shooting bubbles and new super rare effects like a giant supernova explosion! A few existing cursed effects have also been changed: - Reduced healing from the uncommon health transfer effect by 50% - The uncommon 'shock and recharge' effect is now a lightning bolt, does more damage to a target and grants less wand recharge - The rare inter-floor teleport effect now caps at sending the player back 10 floors [/expand]
• Inventory Management Improvements [expand] I've made various smaller changes to make inventory management a bit easier: - The potion bandolier can now store the waterskin, and the scroll holder can now store arcane styli - Converting a potion or scroll into alchemical energy now also identifies it - Reduced the chance for multiple equipment drops from slimes, skeletons, guards, DM-200s, and golems - Increased the base drop rate of equipment from DM-200s and golems to compensate - Stones of Intuition now always get 2 uses each, even if the first guess is incorrect - Dark dungeon levels no longer contain a torch, but also reduce vision by 3/8, down from 4/8 [/expand]
• 30+ Misc. Changes [expand] Highlights: - Enemies are now less willing to follow the hero's movement path when approaching from a distance - Improved the quality of loot from tormented spirits - Traps which choose targets now have a max range of 8 tiles (or 6 on dark floors) - Burn and Ooze now end the moment water is entered, but still always do at least 1 turn of damage - Improved visibility of the ambitious imp - Trinkets can now be energized to get 5 energy back - Rings transmuted from artifacts can now be +1 or +2 if the artifact was +5 or +10. - Blooming now produces furrowed grass if regen effects are disabled during boss fights Characters: - Tengu no longer avoids ground-based effects as if he were flying - Flying characters now visually fall into pits when they die - Flying characters now only wake sleeping enemies they are next to - Shadow clone now inherits silent steps from the Rogue - DM-300 no longer spews gas at inorganic allies - Necromancers now interrupt the hero if they start summoning within vision Effects: - Drowsy debuff now states its remaining duration in its buff description - Thorns glyph no longer rebounds damage to allies Items: - Rapier's lunge ability no longer triggers weapon ability use effects when it is aimed at empty space - Warrior's broken seal now includes glyph info in its description - Added a cancel confirmation window to scrolls of enchantment - Armor now always takes 1 turn to equip, instead of 2 turns multiplied by movement speed - Minor visual changes to hourglass stasis effect - Potion of Storm Clouds no longer triggers traps when thrown Misc: - The game now remembers which monitor it was set to fullscreen on in multi-monitor setups - The journal window and hero info window can now be closed via key binding - Single wraiths can now spawn adjacent to their spawning cell if it is blocked - Added a little game log text when shopkeepers flee - Reduced the maximum size of some trap-filled rooms - Updated internal code libraries - Made slight tweaks to tutorial functionality - Added a new buff icon for wand-based buffs - Updated translations - Added dev commentary for v1.4.0 [/expand]
• 35+ Bugfixes [expand] Fixed the following bugs: Highlights: - Hall of Heroes pages 5-10 not syncing via Google Play Games on Google Play version - Incorrect behaviour when game is force-closed from trinket selection window - Scroll of remove curse not being consumed when freeing tormented spirits - Sleeping enemies not being alerted by allies in many cases Misc: - Various rare crash bugs - Various minor visual and textual errors - Surface victory badges not being added to the rankings screen - Very rare cases of players getting outside of boss arenas - Settings defaulting to audio tab and not languages tab when user is using a language with an incomplete translation Effects: - Warrior being able to gain extra upgrades on his armor via hero armor transfer effect - Earthroot and living rock armor not applying to bone explosion damage - Precise Assault not working with unarmed melee attacks - Deferred damage sometimes being delayed on save/load - Various situational errors when enemies are transmogrified over chasms - Challenge Arena effect briefly persisting between floors - Magically slept enemies waking up when terror expires on them - Duelist's Spike ability incorrectly triggering on-kill effects in specific circumstances Items: - Trinkets becoming unidentified when transmuted - Wondrous resin applying its effect to chaos elementals - Exotic crystals and Parchment Scrap trinkets affecting levelgen in some cases - Auto-aim not working correctly with cursed wands - Aqua brew always knocking hero up and left when thrown on self - Bomb fuses not being visually cleared when boss levels are reset by unblessed ankhs - Exotic crystals and Parchment Scrap trinkets affecting levelgen in some cases - Helpful darts dealing damage to allies in rare cases - Tipped dart cleaning window showing 'clean all' and 'clean one' even with just 1 dart - Death via a reclaimed trap not counting as dying to your own magic item Characters: - Final boss not immediately advancing to its final phase in some cases - Sad Ghost rarely spawning inside of walls - Ally position swapping working when allies are paralyzed - DM-300's exposed wire shielding mechanic and the vertigo debuff interacting incorrectly - Brutes not being affected by terror in specific cases - Enemies not properly prioritizing targets based on distance - Very specific cases where the hero would refuse to walk onto visible traps - Ripper Demons refusing to leap onto enemies above chasms [/expand]

• Trinket Buffs [expand] I'm handing out buffs to several trinkets that are underperforming: - 13 Leaf Clover upgrade cost up, but it now only affect the hero's damage rolls. It no longer applies to armor or enemy attacks. This should preserve the intended chaos of the effect without making enemies way more dangerous. - Dimensional Sundial upgrade cost up, but it now slightly reduces enemy spawn rates during daytime. 'nighttime' has also been adjusted to be 8pm-8am, from 9pm-7am. - Wondrous Resin's bonus cursed wand effects are now always neutral or positive. - Mimic Tooth now boosts loot from all mimics. [/expand]
• Duelist Buffs [expand] The Duelist is doing much better balance-wise since v2.4.0, but there are various specific abilities that are getting boosts this update: Weapon Abilities: - Lunge, Cleave, Spike, Retribution, and Brawler's Stance abilities all now deal more bonus damage - Crossbow's Charge Shot ability can now also cause a melee attack to knock back, or an untipped dart attack to deal bonus damage. Tipped dart benefits unchanged. Talents: - Liquid Evasion talent evasion at +1 reduced to 3x from 4x, but the talent now also grants bonus accuracy on the next attack. - Lethal Haste talent now grants instant movement, instead of haste. - Swift Equip talent's second use at +2 no longer has a 5 turn timer. - Deadly Followup talent damage per level up to +10% from +8%. - Precise Assault accuracy bonus increased to 2x/5x/inf., up from 2x/4x/8x. - Expose Weakness talent now applies weakness as well as vulnerable. [/expand]
• Monk Buffs [expand] v2.4.0's Duelist buffs were mainly focused on weapon abilities, which mainly benefit the Champion, so it makes sense that the Monk has fallen a little behind. I'm giving out several buffs and mechanics changes to boost the Monk back up, which should improve every ability she has, except meditate. - Removed ability cooldowns entirely, except for flurry which has a 1 turn cooldown - Flurry damage increased by 50% - Focus now works on magic attack and has infinite duration - Dash range increased by 33% - Dragon Kick damage doubled - Unencumbered Spirit energy gain changed to 50%/75%/100% from 40%/80%/120% - Combined Energy is now more permissive and reduces charge use by 1, instead of 50% [/expand]

• Bomb Identification [expand] This is actually an exploit fix, but I'm listing the change here for clarity. Explosions will now avoid destroying any equipment, previously they would destroy un-upgraded equipment only. This led to some players purposefully blowing up un-identified items to see if they were upgraded. I've been hesitant to change this functionality as I know it lessened inventory congestion, but after taking in feedback during the beta it's become clear to me that some players were relying on it to effectively avoid ever equipping unidentified items. Apologies for letting this persist for so long, I would have removed this exploit much sooner had I known how dependant some players were on it. I am, however, considering some compensation changes to bombs (to make them more useful for their intended purpose), and to other items to lessen the risk of trying on unidentified gear a bit. [/expand]
• Grassy Floors [expand] The Mossy Clump is still far and away the strongest trinket, despite several nerfs since adding it. At this point it's clear the value of that trinket is more reflective of how powerful grassy floors are, rather than the trinket itself. So, I'm nerfing the drop-rate of dew from grassy floors by 50%, meaning that they will generate 2x as much dew as a regular floor on average, down from 4x. Seed drops from these floor are unaffected. This reduces the bonus dew granted by the mossy clump by 67%, which should hopefully bring it more in-line with other trinket. I've also reduced the upgrade cost of the mossy clump to compensate. [/expand]
• Other Item Nerfs [expand] - Whip's Lash Ability bonus damage reduced to 0%, from +20%. Ability still guarantees a hit on every target. - Ring of Haste bonus speed per level reduced to 17.5% from 20%. Elixir of Featherfall adjusted: - Output quantity reduced to 1 from 2 - Recipe energy cost reduced to 10 from 16 - Falling into a chasm now reduces effect duration by 10 turns instead of ending it. Total duration unchanged at 50 turns. [/expand]

What's Coming Next?

• The next major update to Shattered will be v3.0.0, which will add the game's 6th hero: The Cleric!
• The Cleric is going to be a divine spellcaster who focuses on defense and utility magic that they access through a unique item! I expect them to contrast best with the mage, who's arcane magic abilities enhance the power of wands. I expect to share more details about the cleric in blog posts when v3.0.0 gets closer to releasing. Like all other heroes, the Cleric will have 2 subclasses, 3 armor abilities, and 26 talents!
• v3.0.0 is also likely to feature some visual improvements, potentially including some of what I've teased in the recent 'Ten Years of Shattered Pixel Dungeon' blogpost, plus a few others I've not shared yet. Unfortunately the new art is still in the early stages, and so it's very hard for me to say where things will be when v3.0.0 releases, and what things in particular might be ready.
• As always there will be some smaller changes in v3.0.0 as well, including bugfixes and minor balance/mechanics tweaks. Given that v3.0.0 will take a while to make, I'll likely give v2.5.0 some bigger patches that usual, including any needed balance or mechanics tweaks that I don't want to delay into v3.0.0.

(For the best viewing experience, please read the original copy of this post on Shatteredpixel.com) Hey everyone, after a bit longer of a wait that I initially planned, Shattered Pixel Dungeon v2.5.0 is now ready for beta! In this post Im going to share some more of the new things coming in this update! [table noborder=1] [tr] [td]
[/td] [td]The beta for Shattered v2.5.0 is live right now! To access it on Steam, go to your game library, right click on Shattered and select 'properties' then go to the 'betas' tab and select the beta from the dropdown list.[/td] [/tr] [/table] Shattered is also on sale on Steam right now as a part of the No Time To Loot Festival from August 26th to September 2nd! During the sale you can grab Shattered at 40% off, which is a new all-time low price on Steam! There are also a bunch of other great dungeon crawler games on sale as part of the festival.

New Trinkets!

• The Salt Cube is a fairly simple trinket that makes satiety from your food last longer at the cost of reduced HP regen. At +3 your food will last 50% longer, but at the cost of no passive health regen while youre satiated.
• The Vial of Blood is another simpler trinket that enhances the amount of healing from major healing sources at the cost of also slowing it down. Youll get 50% more healing at +3, but youll need to plan around healing much more slowly.
• The Chaotic Censer produces puffs of different harmful gas near to you. With good positioning you can stay out of these gasses while kiting enemies into them. Higher levels make the gas effect more frequent and increase the chance of more powerful gasses.
• The Shard of Oblivion increases your chance of finding loot from enemies for each unidentified item youre currently wearing. The trinket also comes with a built-in way to turn off passive identification, making it easy to Minmax which items you want identified or not.

Content Changes

Region Splash Art!

(For the best viewing experience, please read the original copy of this post on Shatteredpixel.com) On this day, 10 years ago, I released Shattered Pixel Dungeon v0.1.0. This tiny initial release was my first serious attempt at gamedev and was distributed to maybe 50 people on the Pixel Dungeon subreddit.
Fast forward 10 years and Shattered is my full-time job, with roughly 5 million combined downloads and roughly 150 thousand combined sales over several platforms. Even after all these years, more new people are discovering Shattered now than ever before, and the updates I make are getting bigger and better. Join me for a quick walk down memory lane, and for a preview of something very exciting that's yet to come...

Ten Years Of Updates Visualized

Music

Game Icon

Title Screen

Hero Select

In-Game Visuals

New Graphics!

Items

Terrain

Characters

(For the best viewing experience, please read the original copy of this post on Shatteredpixel.com) Hey Adventurers, July is coming to an end and I owe you guys an update! Unfortunately, Im going to miss my earlier estimate of a beta during July. This is mainly due to v2.5.0 becoming a much bigger update than I originally planned. Im now anticipating v2.5.0 will be ready for beta around the second full week of August. In the meantime though, lets go over some of the new stuff thats coming soon! I was originally planning to make some targeted interface improvements to the journal in v2.5.0, but that slowly ballooned into almost totally overhauling it! In this blog post Im going to mostly focus on those journal changes and other UI improvements, but there are some gameplay changes coming too, which Ill cover in another blog post when the beta releases.

Adventuring Notes

Catalogs

Other Journal Changes

A New UI for Upgrade Scrolls

Hey Dungeoneers! ..And here's the second patch for v2.4! this one focuses a little more on balance tweaks, and I expect it'll be the last patch for the update.

Changes

Hey Dungeoneers! Here's a first patch for v2.4, mostly focused on fixing up bugs and some early balance tweaks.

Changes

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[/td] [td]Hey Dungeoneers, Shattered Pixel Dungeon v2.4.0 has been released! You can get it right now on Steam, or on any of the other platforms Shattered is distributed on. [/td] [/tr] [/table] Shattered is also 33% off on Steam right now as part of the endless replayability fest!

Whats new in v2.4.0

• Coming Soon to Shattered: Trinkets!
• Status Update: v2.4.0

• Developer Commentary[expand] - Released May 15th, 2024 - 118 days after Shattered v2.3.0 Dev commentary will be added here in the future. [/expand]
• Trinkets! [expand] A new category of item has been added: Trinkets! Trinkets are a new item type produced and upgraded via alchemical energy, and are more about tweaking gameplay variables than giving direct power or utility. Look out for a trinket catalyst in the early stages of the game, which you can use at the first alchemy pot to produce one of three trinket options. There are 11 trinkets in total. [/expand]
• New Rooms [expand] New standard rooms have been added to the various regions of the game! This includes one totally new room per region, and two new variants of entrance/exit rooms per region. Rooms that are mostly empty rectangles are now much less common, and there's a bunch of variety for which rooms can have entrance/exit stairs in them. Entrance rooms are now also capable of merging with other rooms in a dungeon floor, but there are some guarantees so that enemies won't ever be near you right after descending to a new floor. [/expand]
• More Holiday Items [expand] I've added more holiday items for the rest of 2024! Expect to see some new temporary holiday overrides for cornish pasties for: - Pride in late June - Shattered's Birthday in early August - Pixel Dungeon's Birthday in early December - New Years in late December and early January This is in addition to the usual pumpkin pie around Halloween and candy cane around the Winter Holidays. ...I may have also added a tiny little surprise for Rat King's birthday, but that won't appear until 2025. [/expand]

• Duelist Weapon Abilities [expand] I'm making some overarching changes to the Duelist's weapon abilities, to make them stronger and feel more impactful: - Weapon ability charge speed down by 33% - Weapon ability charge cap reduced to 2-8, from 3-10 - Weapon abilities buffed across the board - Some talents adjusted to account for weapon charges being less frequent - Weapon abilities now directly state their damage ranges Check the buffs and talent changes section for specific weapon ability and talent changes. There are also some changes to the Champion subclass to go along with this: - Champion's two weapons now share a charge count, but Champion gets boosted max charges and charge speed. - Champion's secondary charge talent has been replaced with a new talent that encourages varied ability use. [/expand]
• Alchemy Changes [expand] I've made a bunch of changes to the alchemy system to streamline things and complement the addition of trinkets: - Catalysts have been removed entirely, recipes that required one now simply cost 8 or 9 more energy. - A new unstable brew and spell have been added, which give random potion/scroll effects. - Aqua Blast and Featherfall are now a brew and elixir, otherwise unchanged. - High value potions/scrolls now grant a little more energy if they are energized. - Alchemy pots now always spawn on the 3rd or 4th floor in each region. - Various UI improvements have been made to the alchemy screen. Various specific alchemy items have also received changes to their energy cost, output quantity, or mechanics. Check the buffs and nerfs section for more details on those. [/expand]
• Talent changes [expand] Duelist talents have been changed to account for adjustments to weapon charge mechanics: - Aggressive Barrier shielding increased to 3/5 from 3, threshold changed to 50% from 40%/60%. - Focused Meal charge boost reduced to 0.67/1 from 1/1.5. - Weapon Recharging boost reduced to every 15/10 turns from every 10/6 turns. - Counter Ability now grants up to 1.5 charges, instead of reducing cost. I've made some changes meant to improve some of the least popular T1 talents: - Cached Rations now awards a smaller number of unique 'supply rations'. These rations grant a little healing and cloak charge. - Test Subject and Tested Hypothesis have been replaced with two new talents that grant small combat bonuses. Plus one change to an unnecessarily complex T1 talent: - Hearty Meal has been simplified, now just has one threshold at 30% HP [/expand]
• Miscellaneous Changes [expand] Highlights: - Potion and Scroll talents can now trigger from elixirs, brews, and spells - Ankh resurrection window now warns if two items aren't selected - Trying to attack an enemy that has charmed you now shows a warning Heroes: - Gladiator and Monk now include brief ability descriptions in their subclass descriptions - Ability descriptions for Gladiator and Monk now change if their abilities are empowered Items: - Thrown weapons now state when they break in the game log - Tipped darts now last forever when reaching 100 uses, like other thrown weapons - Dried rose now includes the ghost's strength in its description - Plant effects (e.g. fadeleaf) now trigger before traps when time freeze ends Misc: - Updated various code dependencies - Slight optimizations to memory use - Improved the error message on Android when native code is missing - Removed the power saver setting on Android 4.4+ devices, if the user hadn't already enabled it. (Power saver was always meant for very old Android devices. It gives no real benefit for more modern ones.) [/expand]
• Bugfixes [expand] Fixed the following bugs: Highlights: - Ruins rooms in the last region using incorrect wall shapes since v2.2.0 - Rare cases where some victory badges would not save if game was immediately closed - Rare cases where game actors could continue to process for a moment when hero falls into a chasm - Various cases where characters would not play death animations if they died while paralyzed Enemies: - Newborn elemental boss rarely firing its attack through walls - Rare cases where the final boss could command minions to attack themselves - Gnoll geomancer and sappers potentially dropping boulders next to entrance - Gnoll sappers granting armor to corrupted gnoll guards - Necromancer skeletons not following necromancer's aggro in some cases - Teleportation effects not accounting for large characters in specific cases - DM-300 not becoming supercharged if exactly damaged to the supercharge threshold Items pt.1: - Armband not working on hiding mimics - Chilling enchant reducing chill duration in rare cases - Rare cases where lucky enchant wouldn't trigger - Runestones affecting terrain when thrown at a character - Thrown weapons sticking to downed ghouls in some cases - Camouflage glyph not working if hero uses ethereal chains to move into grass - Sandals of nature incorrectly interacting with artifact charging - Various specific errors with artifact charge boosting - King's crown not preserving armor hardening Items pt.2: - Brimstone glyph not benefiting from glyph power boosts past +50% - Errors when leaving/entering blacksmith's area while a boomerang was circling back - Transfusion not benefiting from wand damage bonuses - Dwarf King's crown automatically IDing armor - Armband allowing more than one steal in specific cases - Swiftness glyph ignoring nearby enemies in specific cases - Stone of fear applying to hero and allies - Spike ability overriding elastic enchant in some cases - Geyser traps and aqua brew not extinguishing flames Heroes: - Duelist's swift equip not working during time freeze - Monk's flurry of blows not using projecting enchantment when empowered - Various battlemage on-hit effects not showing as magical damage - Empowered strike talent not working with blastwave - Challenge ability incorrectly working on neutral mobs - Seer shot talent not working in blacksmith quest area Misc: - Various minor visual and textual errors - Various rare crash bugs - Specific cases where unbreakable traps could spawn in halls in the caves - Music not properly pausing in background on desktop in some cases - Various rare errors when game launches in fullscreen - 'taste vengeance' badge not being earnable in a run after unlocking it [/expand]

• Weapon Ability Buffs [expand] - Lunge damage up - Cleave damage up, is now instant if it kills, but no longer chains - Heavy Blow damage up, non-surprise penalty changed to no bonus damage - Sneak charge cost down to 1 from 2, invis duration now scales - Combo Strike damage up, combo duration now resets on hit (like gladiator) - Spike damage up - Defensive Stance charge cost down to 1 from 2, duration now scales - Harvest charge cost down to 1 from 2, bleed amount dealt is now constant - Sword Dance charge cost down to 1 from 2, duration now scales, ACC boost up to 50% - Block duration now scales, now keeps blocking until you attack - Lash now deals bonus damage and is guaranteed to hit all targets - Spin charge cost down to 1 from 2 - Runic Strike enchant boost now scales - Charge Shot AOE up to 7x7 from 5x5, dart durability boost now scales - Retribution is now instant if it kills - Brawler's Stance now deals bonus damage, reduces recharge speed instead of costing charge per hit [/expand]
• Alchemy Buffs [expand] Firstly, many items have received simple energy cost reductions. Note that all energy costs are after accounting for catalyst removal - Caustic Brew cost down to 1 from 2 - Blizzard Brew cost down to 8 from 11 - Shocking Brew cost down to 10 from 14 - Aqua Brew cost down to 8 from 11 - Elixir of Dragon's Blood cost down to 10 from 14 - Telekinetic Grab cost down to 10 from 11 - Beacon of Returning cost down to 12 from 15 - Magical Infusion cost down to 12 from 13 - Recycle cost down to 12 from 17 Some alchemy produce has also received bigger buffs: - Elixir of Toxic Essence cost down to 8 from 10, spreads gas quicker, and gives 5 turns of lingering gas immunity - Elixir of Icy Touch cost down to 6 from 14 and now applies 3 chill each hit, up from 2 - Wild Energy now requires a regular scroll of recharging, instead of mystical energy - Reclaim Trap cost up to 8 from 6, but output quantity increased to 5 from 4 - Alchemize has a new recipe, it is now much cheaper to make - Summon Elemental cost down to 10 from 15 and buffing the spell now persists after use [/expand]
• Ghost and Blacksmith Enchantments [expand] I've given a slight boost to the rewards of the Ghost quest and Blacksmith's smith reward, aimed at making enchantments/glyphs more likely. this should hopefully make these rewards a bit more interesting more. - Ghost reward enchant rate up to 20% from 10% - Blacksmith smith reward enchant rate up to 30% from 0% [/expand]

• Alchemy Nerfs [expand] - Elixir of Might cost up to 16 from 14 (after account for catalyst removal) - Phase Shift cost down to 10 from 13, but output quantity down to 6 from 8 [/expand]

What's Coming Next?

• The next update to Shattered will likely be v2.5.0, which will be a fairly small update focused on following up v2.4.0's changes and making some interface/QoL tweaks.
• v2.4.0 ended up being a pretty massive update balance-wise, with a new item category and sweeping changes to both the Duelist and alchemy. More fine-tuned adjustment will definitely be needed once the dust settles a bit, and so I expect that will be an important aspect of both v2.5.0 and v2.4.0's patches. Ideally most of the followup changes will be buffs, but we'll have to see how everything shapes up.
• Given that v2.5.0 won't have a new content focus, I'd also like to take the chance to make some smaller interface-driven changes that players have been asking me for. I can't guarantee what will be in v2.5.0 specifically yet, but frequent requests include better journal functionality (landmarks, catalogs, notes, etc.), a bestiary, and better support for controller users and keyboard users.
• The next major content addition I have planned is the Cleric, coming in v3.0.0. While I do think it's a good idea to do a small v2.5.0 update first, I will start actively designing the cleric now behind the scenes, so keep your eyes peeled for info on that as well!

(For the best viewing experience, please read the original copy of this post on Shatteredpixel.com) Hey Dungeoneers! After some disruptions back in February and March, Shattered Pixel Dungeon v2.4.0 is finally ready for beta! Read on for more details about what's coming in this update. [table noborder=1] [tr] [td]
[/td] [td]The beta for Shattered v2.4.0 is live right now! To access it on Steam, go to your game library, right click on Shattered and select 'properties' then go to the 'betas' tab and select the beta from the dropdown list.[/td] [/tr] [/table]

Trinkets

Alchemy Changes

Duelist Weapon Abilities

Side Content

• I've added a new standard room type to each of the five regions of the dungeon, and added two new variants for entrance and exit rooms to each region as well! These new rooms further increase level variety and substantially reduce the number of plain empty rooms.
• I've added a second batch of new holiday items for events later in the year. Expect to see holiday overrides to the cornish pasty during Pride, New Years, and the birthdays of both Shattered and the original Pixel Dungeon.
• In addition to Duelist talent tweaks, I've also changed up some of the less popular T1 talents. The Mage and Warrior get a new damage-boosting talent, and the Rogue's cached rations talent has been changed up.

(For the best viewing experience, please read the original copy of this post on Shatteredpixel.com) Hey Rat Punchers, You may remember that when v2.3.0 released I gave a rough ETA of 'early to mid March' when it came to hearing back from me on v2.4.0. Well, early March is here, so where are we at? Unfortunately, I've got some bad news when it comes to progress on Shattered: v2.4.0 has been substantially delayed. For pretty much the whole month of February I've been dealing with helping my family with a surgery recovery and recovering from getting sick myself. None of these things are life threatening or anything, but they have made work on Shattered almost impossible for the last month or so. In addition to all of that, I'm going to be steadily moving where I live over the course of March, which is sure to also get in the way of Shattered dev a fair bit.

A new ETA for v2.4.0

Hey Folks! I'm currently releasing the first patch for Shattered Pixel Dungeon v2.3 across all platforms! It's mostly internal code changes, but there are a few small fixes, technical additions, and QOL adjustments too. I expect there will be one more very tiny patch for v2.3 in another few days, as a couple more small issues have popped up since putting out this patch.

Changes

• Improved vibration on modern iOS devices
• Improved changing audio device behavior
• Misc. stability & compatibility improvements

• Magical fire is now cleared by frost next to it, in addition to on top of it
• Tengu's fire wall attack now ignites items
• Improved music transitions in main menu when game was just won
• Added support for controller vibration
• Added a vibration toggle in the settings
• Updated translators and translator credits
• Increased the minimum supported iOS version to 11, from 9

• Game unintentionally spamming new Google Play players with Play Games login requests
• Events which interrupt the hero not interrupting resting
• Rare cases where hero could lose a turn when moving between depths
• Transmutation removing items from quickslots in rare cases
• Incorrect death messages when player is killed by wards
• Amoked allies not being affected by aggression debuff

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[/td] [td]Hey Dungeoneers, Shattered Pixel Dungeon v2.3.0 has been released! You can get it right now on Steam, or on any of the other platforms Shattered is distributed on. [/td] [/tr] [/table] To celebrate v2.3.0s release, Shattered is also 33% off on Steam for the next week!

Whats new in v2.3.0

• Shattered Pixel Dungeon in 2024
• Coming Soon to Shattered: The Gnoll Caves Quest!

• Developer Commentary[expand] - Released January 18th, 2024 - 92 days after Shattered v2.2.0 v2.3.0 was originally going to contain two new variants for the caves quest, but after a longer than expected dev cycle plus the holidays, I opted to release v2.3.0 with just one more variant and move on to other content for a while, instead of spending even more time on the caves quest. More dev commentary will be added here in-game the future. [/expand]
• Gnoll Caves Quest [expand] A second variant has been added to the caves quest! This variant features gnolls and earth-moving magic. Expect to spend a bit more time digging, as this environment features collapsed walls, boulders, and angry gnolls wielding spears and earth-moving devices. Their magic is quite chaotic, so be ready to dodge and possibly get the gnolls caught in their own attacks. The boss for this variant is the gnoll geomancer, an experienced gnoll with access to lots of mobility and earth-moving power. [/expand]
• Remains Items [expand] Heroes remains now contain a new unique item that varies based on the class of the hero that died. These items are single use consumables that provide a small benefit that's themed after the hero who died. There are also two new badges relating to these items. Remains now always contain a signature remains item in addition to an extra item from the previous run, if one was chosen. This replaces the previous behaviour, where remains would contain 50 or 10 gold if no eligible item could be chosen. Additionally, remains which contain a stackable item from the previous run now cap the quantity of that item at 3. [/expand]
• New Holiday Items [expand] Shattered has had little holiday food items that temporarily replace cornish pasties ever since 2016, but only for Halloween and the Winter Holidays. Throughout 2024 you'll see a bunch of new items for more holidays through the year, which all have different tiny bonus effects when eaten. For now I have implemented items for Lunar New Years and Easter, with more on the way in future updates. I've also shortened the duration for Halloween and the Winter Holidays after 2023, so as not to make the game overly festive in the later months of the year, and nerfed the healing effect on Halloween pumpkin pies. [/expand]

• Floating Text Icons[expand] The little bits of floating text that appear above characters to indicate damage, positive effects, and currency gain now have tiny icons to indicate the type! For damage, it is now shown whether the damage is physical, magical, or if it comes from a particular debuff or DOT effect. There are separate physical damage icons depending on whether armor reduces the incoming damage. Armor never reduces magical or DOT damage. Damage text is also now always red, warnings and negative effects are always orange. For positive effects, icons are now shown for healing, shielding, and exp gain. Loads of healing or shielding effects which previously didn't show floating text now do as well. [/expand]
• 20+ Misc. Changes[expand] Highlights: - Improved the sprites for Armored Brutes and DM-201s - The troll blacksmith no longer works on cursed items - Reduced the chance for sleeping enemies to clump together in caves quest levels - Random scroll and potion drops are now more consistent throughout a run Enemies: - DM-300's rockfall attack now uses positional danger indicators - Improved visual clarity of sparks in the DM-300 fight - Removed unnecessary game log entries when DM-300 uses abilities - Phantom piranhas now die on land if there is no water to teleport to Items: - Added a warning when trying to steal from shops with less than 100% success chance - Curse infusion now preserves an existing curse on items that don't have the curse infusion bonus yet - long pressing on the ghost equip window now shows the stats of equipped items Allies: - Ghosts and Rogue's shadow clone are now considered inorganic (immune to bleed, toxic, poison) - Corrupted allies no longer attack passive enemies - Spirit hawk now interrupts the hero when it expires Misc: - Added a bit of clarity text to some parts of the blacksmith quest/rewards - Surface scene now shows night later in the evening as well as after midnight - Did a consistency pass on heal over time effects interrupting the hero resting - Long-press to assign quickslot now works in the full UI inventory pane, just like the mobile inventory window - Added support for themed icons on Android 13+ - Removed support for saves prior to v1.4.3 - Added developer commentary for v1.2.0 [/expand]
• 45+ Bugfixes[expand] Fixed the Following bugs: Highlights: - Enemies continuing to fight each other after amok expires in many cases - Some inter-level teleportation effects working inside caves quest level - Transmutation being usable on the pickaxe during the caves quest - Unintended changes to reforge functionality when both items are the same level - Rounding errors causing tipped darts to last longer than intended in some cases Quests: - Crystal spire being considered a mini boss, not a full boss - Crystal spire attacks ignoring damage-resisting effects - Cases where remains would fail to appear in the new mining level - Blacksmith landmark entry not clearing when you have spent all favor - Rare cases where hero could appear to be on top of crystal spire - Corpse dust quest tracking all wraiths instead of just the ones it spawned - Some cases where new rot garden room could spawn much smaller than intended Enemies: - Final boss fight not properly interacting with the into darkness challenge - Monk ability use disqualifying for dwarf king's 'no weapons' badge when a weapon was equipped - Tengu behaving slightly incorrectly when taking massive damage - Mimics not dropping their loot if corrupted while hiding - Rare cases where DM-300 finale music would play before the fight - Rare errors in DM-201 target selection Items: - Rotberry seed being deleted in rare cases - Rare cases where the game would freeze after reviving via unblessed ankh - Some bombs and explosion-spawning effects incorrectly dealing magic damage - Foresight effects not triggering after level transition - Projecting missile weapons not working on enemies inside solid terrain - Cursed wand of warding having different targeting properties than other wands - Thrown potions not clearing fire/ooze if they shattered out of view - Retribution and psionic blast not applying to all visible characters in very rare cases - Degrade debuff not applying to thrown weapons - Cloak of shadows not losing charge if it is dispelled as it is activated - Items being assignable to non-visible quickslots in specific cases - Rare quickslot errors when bags which already contain items are collected Hero & Allies: - Thrown potions not triggering Liquid Agility talent - Sneak ability working while Duelist is rooted - Damage from Body Slam talent ignoring armor - Lunge ability incorrectly interacting with movespeed in some cases - Cases where prismatic images could keep appearing and then disappearing - Hero not being able to self-trample plants when standing on stairs - Berserker being able to rage without his seal equipped in some cases - Allies rarely spawning on hazards after ankh revive - Ally warp working on corrupted DM-201s - Duelist's lunge ability not correctly applying range boosts in rare cases Misc.: - Various rare crash and freeze bugs - Various minor visual and textual errors - Tutorial becoming stuck in rare cases - Beta updates setting not working as intended - Music fading not working in rare cases - Scrolling pane in journal window freezing in rare cases3. [/expand]

• Hero Abilities[expand] No nerfs this time, and just a couple targeted buffs to hero abilities/talents. - Rogue's Foresight talent trigger chance increased to 60% at +1 and 90% at +2, up from 50% at +1 and 75% at +2. - Elemental Strike ability base range increased to 4 from 3. [/expand]

What's Coming Next?

• The next update will be v2.4.0, including a new type of item called trinkets!
• Trinkets are a new item type that are more about tweaking gameplay variables than giving direct power or utility. You'll be able to get one trinket per run (with some choice), which will change up the game slightly with effects such as increasing rare enemy spawn rates or making enchantments and curses more likely. Trinkets will be upgradeable via alchemical energy, increasing the strength of their effect.
• As always, v2.4.0 will include some smaller changes and fixes as well. Right now I'm considering making some targeted balance and design tweaks to various hero abilities, but I haven't locked that in yet as there are lots of little things I could choose to look into changing or improving.
• The next update will also be dropping support for iOS 9 and 10, which currently make up ~0.05% of Shattered's iOS playerbase. I'm making this change due to an update to Shattered's game library (libGDX), and to remove the requirement to include 32-bit iOS code with the game. iOS 9 and 10 players will still be able to continue playing Shattered Pixel Dungeon v2.3.

(For the best viewing experience, please read the original copy of this post on Shatteredpixel.com) Happy New Year rat punchers! After a busy holiday, and getting sick =S, I'm back with some news about v2.3.0 and my plans for the year ahead! This post starts with a year in review, and then lists the major changes and additions that I have planned for Shattered Pixel Dungeon in 2024 and beyond. I've written one of these posts every year since 2019, you can take a look at the previous ones here: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019.

2023 in Review

• In March we had the release of the Duelist, Shattered's first ever new hero!
• While it wasn't a game update, in April Shattered released on GOG.com and Itch.io.
• June saw the release of a followup update, with balance tweaks and a few smaller additons.
• In October the caves quest redesign started to release, alongside 20 minutes of new music!

The Plan for 2024

Releasing v2.3.0

Trinkets

Region Splash Arts

The Cleric

City Quest

Smaller Things

• Adjustments to hero and talent mechanics
• UI and UX improvements for larger screens, and keyboard/controller players
• More badges or a challenge to test the skill of experienced players
• A few more supporter benefits for users who've purchased the game
• Further streamlining to the alchemy system and tweaks to specific recipes
• Reworks, tweaks, and additions to existing item categories
• Further improvements to shops, possibly including some new ones
• New room types and general improvements to level generation
• And, of course, every update comes with a bunch of bugfixes and small QoL tweaks

Longer-Term Plans

Halls Quest

Hero-Focused Lore

More Subclasses

New In-Game Art

Endless Mode

Alternate Paths

(For the best viewing experience, please read the original copy of this post on Shatteredpixel.com) Hey Dungeoneers! The second variant of the new caves quest is now ready for beta! In this post I'm going to go over what this new quest area entails, and also share some other content coming in v2.3.0. [table noborder=1] [tr] [td]
[/td] [td]The beta for Shattered v2.3.0 is live right now! To access it on Steam, go to your game library, right click on Shattered and select 'properties' then go to the 'betas' tab and select the beta from the dropdown list.[/td] [/tr] [/table]

The Gnoll Mining Area

Gnoll Enemies

v2.3.0 Side Content

• Firstly, hero's remains now contain an extra unique consumable that's themed after the hero who died. These items replace the old boring 50 or 10 gold remains drop, and will also appear in conjunction with regular remains loot if the game selected any. You can use these items for a small benefit, or hold onto them earn some new badges.
• Next, Shattered has had little holiday food items that temporarily replace cornish pasties ever since 2016, but only for Halloween and the Winter Holidays. I'm finally expanding that for 2024, so keep an eye out for something for Lunar New Year in early February, and for Easter in late March to early April. I'll be adding more of these throughout the year too.
• Lastly, I'm adding new icons to the various numbers that indicate damage, positive effects, and currency gain. These icons make these text popups much cleaner and make it more clear where damage or healing effects are coming from. I've also taken the opportunity to add a bunch of text popups for various healing and shielding effects.

Hey Dungeoneers, Shattered Pixel Dungeon v2.2.1 has just released! This patch fixes various small bugs, and include some mild nerfs to the rewards of the new quest. I do want the new caves quest to be a lot more rewarding, but not so much that it makes the later stages of the game significantly easier. I'm also trying out a slightly new format for writing down changes here as well. You can now click on 'show details' under each entry to get a complete list of changes, instead of being forced to check them in-game.

Changes

• Cost for second reforge/harden up to 1500 from 1000
• Upgrade now caps at +2, down from +3
• Chance for smith to produce a +0 item up to 30%, from 20%
• Chance for smith to produce a +1 item down to 45%, from 55%

• The Crystal Spire now awards 20 exp when it is defeated
• Increased the amount of toxic gas that the rot heart can produce
• New quest bosses now interrupt the hero when they are telegraphing an attack
• Updated translations and translator credits

• Various rare crash bugs in new quest
• Hardening not being preserved when transmuting weapons
• Items rarely spawning on new quest entrance
• Hero getting teleported to quest entrance if game was loaded while they were inside a crystal spike
• Various minor visual bugs in new quest

• System gestures in iOS sometimes registering as taps within the game
• Endure ability not working properly when used twice quickly
• Melee damage of Mage's Staff benefiting from talents that boost wand levels
• Various blink effects allowing movement over magical fire
• Some game actions being possible while meditating
• Various minor visual and textual errors

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[/td] [td]Hey Dungeoneers, Shattered Pixel Dungeon v2.2.0 has been released! You can get it right now on Steam, or on any of the other platforms Shattered is distributed on. [/td] [/tr] [/table] Shattered is also 33% off on Steam right now, both to celebrate the release of v2.2.0 and as a part of the sale for Roguelike Celebration 2023! This update also roughly doubles the length of Shattered's soundtrack! You can get the soundtrack on Steam Here.

Whats new in v2.2.0

• Coming Soon to Shattered: The Crystal Caves Quest!
• Coming Soon to Shattered: A New Quest! Eventually
• Coming Soon to Shattered: Sub-Floors and Digging!

• v2.2.0 releases 138 days after v2.1.0.
• An entirely new quest in the caves, with a new environment, enemies, boss, and rewards!
• ~20 minutes of new music from the game's composer: Kristjan Thomas Haaristo!
• Extensive changes to all 3 prison quest variants

• Rebalanced the hostile champions challenge
• Redesigned T2 talents that trigger on potion and scroll usage
• 15+ misc. changes
• 35+ bugfixes

• Various weapon ability buffs, most notably to the sneak ability

• Mild nerfs to the katana, and to sacrificial and corrosion curses
• Reduced ascension enemy power scaling in caves and prison

What's Coming Next?

• The next update will be v2.3.0, and will add two new variants to the new caves quest!
• The first of the upcoming caves quest variants is an unstable gnoll encampment. The gnolls have taken to trying to mine out some gold themselves, but are preferring to use earth-moving magic with little care for cave stability. Expect a lot of closed in walls and fallen rocks, as well as gnolls that'll be able to use those rocks against you.
• The second upcoming variant is a mushroom forest. A large mycellium network has grown in this area, creating lots of hostile plant life. The abundance of tall vegetation isn't just pretty tough, you'll want to use it (or the cave walls themselves) to keep out of sight from the powerful, yet stationary, mushroom sentries.
• I also expect v2.3.0 will include followup changes to the initial new quest variant, as well as the usual assortment of other smaller improvements, fixes, and additions. I'd like for v2.3.0 to be fairly quick, so the other changes will probably be lighter than usual.

(For the best viewing experience, please read the original copy of this post on Shatteredpixel.com) Hey Dungeoneers! I've got some more news to share about v2.2.0. I have decided to split the release of the new caves quest into two updates. v2.2.0 is now going to include just one variant for the new quest: The crystal caves. The following update, v2.3.0, will include the other two quest variants. While this does mean a slight delay in getting all of the quest variants to you, it also means that v2.2.0 can release much sooner, in about a week in fact! [table noborder=1] [tr] [td]
[/td] [td]The beta for Shattered v2.2.0 is live right now! To access it on Steam, go to your game library, right click on Shattered and select 'properties' then go to the 'betas' tab and select the beta from the dropdown list.[/td] [/tr] [/table]

Why the Change?

The Crystal Caverns

The Other Variants

(For the best viewing experience, please read the original copy of this post on Shatteredpixel.com) Hey Dungeoneers! I've got some news to share about v2.2.0. The new caves quest isn't ready to show off yet, so in the meantime I am releasing the other content in v2.2.0 as an early beta! [table noborder=1] [tr] [td]
[/td] [td]This early beta for Shattered v2.2.0 is live right now! To access it on Steam, go to your game library, right click on Shattered and select 'properties' then go to the 'betas' tab and select the beta from the dropdown list.[/td] [/tr] [/table]

Caves Quest When?

So What IS in the Beta?

Social Media Changes

Hey Dungeoneers, here is likely the final patch for v2.1 before moving on to full work on v2.2. v2.1.4 includes a few smaller bugfixes and misc. changes, mainly focused on the new functionality added in v2.1.3. Here's a quick rundown of the most significant changes:

• The stairs down to the blacksmith tester area now use custom visuals
• The mining test area now has darkened walls at the non-mineable borders
• Fixed various rare bugs caused by the new tester area functionality
• Made the new boss regen limit vs. Tengu a bit less strict when badder bosses is enabled.
• Adjusted the new gold visuals to only appear in the mining test area for now.

(For the best viewing experience, please read the original copy of this post on Shatteredpixel.com) Hey Dungeoneers! In this blog post I'm going to go over some of the new technical additions to Shattered in v2.1.3, and how they're going to allow for future content. In particular, I plan to use these additions in a reworked blacksmith quest in the next major update! Shattered Pixel Dungeon is also 25% off right now, as part of the Steam Summer Sale!

Sub-Floors and Mining

Making a Quest

• A passageway blocked by traps or other hazards is a big annoyance in regular Shattered, but during the quest it would be possible to mine around them.
• A level usually has to be pretty structured and interconnected, but with mining these levels could be much more free-form, possibly including rooms that are totally isolated.
• Large enemies normally can't chase you into a hallway, but in a more free-form level the mining mechanic could be what controls which areas of the level they can access.
• If the player can see some parts of the level before they mine to them, they would be able to choose how the level becomes interconnected and traversible.
• Of course, the player's ultimate goal is going to be to mine for gold, so the way that resource is placed in a level will influence how the player wants to dig to reach it.

Hey Folks! v2.1.2 is a quick followup to v2.1.1 that fixes a couple of more serious bugs introduced in that patch. There are also a few smaller miscellaneous improvements as well. Expect more patches to v2.1 in a couple of weeks or so as I work on some technical improvements to support future content additions. You can check the in-game games screen for a full list of changes.

Hey Dungeoneers, here is the first of the patches for v2.1! As mentioned before, I expect there to be more patches than usual in v2.1 as I'm working on some technical changes to support future content additions. This time around there aren't too many user-facing technical improvements though, so the patch is mostly about QoL and bugfixes. Here's a quick rundown of the changes:

• Internal changes that will better support creating a sublevel for the blacksmith's quest.
• Barkskin can now stack from multiple sources. Only the strongest instance of barkskin is used when calculating defense, but this means that very strong short-term barkskin no longer totally overrides weaker long-term barkskin.
• Rooted has had a big consistency pass. It now properly prevents movement from dash, blink, and leap abilities. Teleportation still works while rooted.
• Various abilities that automatically move the hero closer to a target now consider whether the hero is levitating when determining what hazards to avoid.
• ~15 bug fixes, several of which are from prior to v2.1.0

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[/td] [td]Hey Dungeoneers, Shattered Pixel Dungeon v2.1.0 has been released! You can get it right now on Steam, or on any of the other platforms Shattered is distributed on. [/td] [/tr] [/table]

Whats new in v2.1.0

• Coming Soon to Shattered: Duelist Buffs and Additions!

• v2.1.0 releases 83 days after v2.0.0.
• 3 new weapons: Sickle, Katana, and War Scythe!
• 2 new exotic enemies: Tormented Spirits and Phantom Piranhas!
• There is now a dedicated shopkeeper interface with buyback.

• More Acension changes, including boosting enemy HP instead of reducing DMG taken.
• The Lightweight Charge talent has been replaced with Precise Assault.
• ~15 misc. changes
• 40+ bugfixes

• The Whip now deals 3-15 base DMG, up from 3-12.
• Almost every Duelist weapon abiltiy has been buffed.
• Mild buffs to Champion and moderate ones to Monk.
• Buffs to Elemental Strike ability, Expose Weakness talent, and Invigorating Victory talent.

• Nerfs to Monks meditate ability and Elimination Match talent.

What's Coming Next?

• The next update will be v2.2.0, and will include a complete rework of the blacksmith quest!
• There is a decent amount of technical work that still needs to be done for v2.2.0, and I can easily introduce that into the game via some patches to v2.1.0. Because of this, I expect that v2.1 is going to have a longer patch cycle than usual, as Ill be both including those technical changes and taking the opportunity to fix a bunch of smaller issues sooner than if I waiting to release them in v2.2.0.
• I plan to completely rework the blacksmiths quest in v2.2.0, to feature a new sub area and a unique mining mechanic. The player will need to mine out walls both to collect treasure and to navigate around hazards. I expect the quest will be notably more involved and challenging, but there will be new rewards on offer a well!
• As always, there will be some amount of smaller improvements, fixes, and additions both in v2.2.0 and during v2.1s longer than usual patch cycle. I expect that v2.2.0 is going to be mainly focused on the blacksmith quest though, so any new additions aside from that will be relatively minor. In terms of fixes, I plan to keep an eye on the Duelist and weapons in general after the changes in v2.1.0.

(For the best viewing experience, please read the original copy of this post on Shatteredpixel.com) Hey Dungeoneers, it's time for another beta release! [table noborder=1] [tr] [td]
[/td] [td]The beta for Shattered v2.1.0 is live right now! To access it on Steam, go to your game library, right click on Shattered and select 'properties' then go to the 'betas' tab and select the beta from the dropdown list.[/td] [/tr] [/table] In this blog post I'm going to go over the bulk of the changes coming in v2.1.0, including a bit of new content and a bunch of Duelist balance!

Duelist Changes

• The Duelist is played 33.7% of the time, quite a lot higher than the average of 20%. This makes sense of course, she is a new character.
• Her overall winrate is almost exactly 50% lower than the average. This seems to indicate that she is extremely weak!

• The overall number of runs studied increases by about 5x, there are lots of people who haven't gotten their first win yet!
• The Duelist becomes played 21.1% of the time, only slightly more than average.
• Her relative winrate shoots up to just 12% below the average. Still a little weak, but much better!

Other Additions

New Weapons

Exotic Enemies

Smaller Changes

Hey Dungeoneers! It seems there was enough for one more patch after all! v2.0.2 includes a few QoL improvements and fixes a bunch of very small issues that were added in v2.0.0, and a few more notable ones that have been around for longer. Here's a quick list of the most notable changes:

• Overhauled visuals for the action indicator. It now has different background colors for different actions, and supports a smaller secondary icon or text. Subclass abilities all make use of this new functionality, and some info has been moved from buff icons to this new indicator.
• The game's pixel font now supports Vietnamese!
• Rankings now attempt to show some basic information if loading full game data fails.
• Fixed the resistance from empowered meditate lasting 1 turn longer than intended
• Fixed the threshold for Monastic Vigor being lower than intended (95/75/55 instead of 100/80/60)
• Fixed various bugs with controller input which occurred when two or more inputs were entered at once.

Hey Dungeoneers! v2.0.0 ended up being a pretty stable update so (hopefully) I've just got one patch for you, a bit more than 2 weeks after the initial release.

Bugfixes and QoL

• Quickslot contents are now automatically swapped if a newly equipped item that is not quickslotted replaces an item that was quickslotted. This should make Duelist weapon swapping gameplay smoother.
• The changes screen now supports more text for a single entry. On mobile UI the changes window can now have multiple tabs, on full UI the changes pane on the right is now scrollable.
• Attacking an enemy now properly sets them as the auto-targeting target in all cases
• Fixed the duelist not being automatically unlocked for existing players with a win

Duelist Balance

• Weapon ability recharge speed increased by 12.5% at no missing charges, down to being unchanged when at 0/10

• Strengthening Meal bonus damage up to 3 from 2
• Swift Equip cooldown down to 20 turns from 30
• Unencumbered Spirit energy boost up to 33/67/100/150%, from 25/50/100/150%
• Monastic Vigor threshold changed to 100/80/60%, from 100/85/70%

• Sneak now grants 8/6/4 turns of stealth, up from 6/5/4
• Spike now deals +40/30% bonus damage, up from +15/10%
• Heavy Blow now deals +65/60/55/50% damage, up from +50/45/40/35%
• Combo Strike now deals +40/35/30% damage per stack, up from +30/25/20%
• Spin now deals +33% damage per stack, up from +20%

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[/td] [td]Hey Dungeoneers, v1.4.0 has been released on Google Play, the App Store, Steam, and GitHub! The game is also currently on sale on Steam in celebration of such a large update![/td] [/tr] [/table]

The Duelist! (and more fixes!)

• Coming Soon to Shattered: The Duelist!
• Coming Soon to Shattered: A New Hero!

• v2.0.0 releases 160 days after v1.4.0, and 413 days after v1.0.0.
• The Duelist has been added, with a unique ability for every weapon!
• The Duelist also releases with two subclasses: Champion and Monk.
• The Duelist also releases with three lategame abilities: Challenge, Elemental Strike, and Feint.

• Changes to the ascension challenge to better smooth out difficulty.
• 25+ misc. changes
• 60+ bugfixes

• Buffs to: pickaxe, rings of energy and arcana, glyphs of repulsion and flow, and horn of plenty.
• Buffs to: shrug it off talent and wild magic ability.

• More significant nerfs to: shields, wands of corruption and regrowth, chalice of blood, and ethereal chains.
• Smaller nerfs to: rings of furor and evasion, blocking enchantment, timekeeper's hourglass, alchemist's toolkit, and wand of fireblast.
• Nerfs to: Warrior's ID talent, heroic energy talent, double jump talent, and smoke bomb ability.

What's Coming Next?

• My current plan is for the next major update to be v2.1.0, which will mostly be focused on responding to any balance or general gameplay issues that appear as dust settles from the Duelist's release.
• The largest changes in v2.1.0 will be focused around the game's heroes, with a big emphasis on the Duelist. I'm generally happy with how she performed during the beta, but such a large addition to the game is definitely going to need some refinement over time. I may also make some smaller changes to the other heroes as well, depending on how things shake out.
• v2.1.0 will also include some amount of side content, but it will probably be fairly small. I plan to add a couple new exotic enemies, and there might be room for one or two other little things as well.
• There will also be more miscellaneous changes and bugfixes! Despite all of the fixes I've made in v2.0.0, my list of things to do has actually grown! I'd like to spend a bit of time keeping that list in check.
• And no I haven't forgotten about the blacksmith's quest! I will likely do some concepting or internal technical work for it during v2.1.0's development, but the quest rework itself is more likely to be part of v2.2.0.

(For the best viewing experience, please read the original copy of this post on Shatteredpixel.com) Hey Dungeoneers, the beta for v2.0 lasted a little longer than expected, but everything is now ready and I plan to release the update on Monday, March 13th at 1pm EDT! I've been pretty regularly updating folks with beta progress on Mastodon and Twitter, but thought it was a good idea to update everyone here as well. Since the beta started exactly a month ago, I've filled out the Duelist's remaining subclass and armor ability, made some critical balance changes, fixed a ton of bugs, and am in the process of making a few final visual refinements before I submit v2.0 for approval to the game's various platforms. Once v2.0 releases, Shattered will also be 25% off on Steam to celebrate. The sale will last for 10 days total, which includes Steam's regular spring sale event. [table noborder=1] [tr] [td]
[/td] [td]If you'd like to play the Duelist a bit early though, The beta for v2.0 is still available. To access it on Steam, go to your game library, right click on Shattered and select 'properties' then go to the 'betas' tab and select the beta from the dropdown list.[/td] [/tr] [/table] [hr][/hr] This post will be taken down once v2.0 releases.

(For the best viewing experience, please read the original copy of this post on Shatteredpixel.com) Hey Dungeoneers, v2.0 is finally ready for beta! [table noborder=1] [tr] [td]
[/td] [td]The beta for v2.0.0 is live right now! To access it on Steam, go to your game library, right click on Shattered and select 'properties' then go to the 'betas' tab and select the beta from the dropdown list.[/td] [/tr] [/table] In this blog post I'm going to share some more details about Shattered's first new hero! I expect the beta for v2.0 to last a little longer than usual, as there's still a bit of content to complete. Right now the Duelist herself is fully playable, along with the Champion subclass and two armor abilities. I expect to finish up and fully release in about 2 or 3 weeks. Just a quick note first: Please keep in mind that a new hero is a big undertaking. We are very close to release, but some details and visuals here may still change before v2.0 goes live. Also, while I always try to keep to the ETAs I provide, please remember that they are just estimates. If the update hasn't released yet, it's because I'm still working on it!

Introducing The Duelist!

Subclasses

• Flurry of Blows costs 1 energy and lets the Monk make a quick unarmed strike that penetrates armor. This strike is instant if it follows up a regular attack, making it a great finisher.
• Cleanse costs 2 energy and removes most harmful effects from the Monk, but takes a couple of turns.
• Dash costs 3 energy and lets the Monk instantly move to a location within a few tiles. This is great for a quick reposition, and even goes over hazards.
• Focus costs 3 energy and lets the monk prepare to dodge the next incoming attack, just like a dwarven monk would.

Armor Abilities

(For the best viewing experience, please read the original copy of this post on Shatteredpixel.com) Happy new year rat punchers! Just as with previous years, I'm writing a blog post at the start of 2023 to summarize my longer-term plans for Shattered Pixel Dungeon! This post starts with a year in review, and then lists a bunch of major changes and additions that I have planned for the game. These should end up being the focus of future updates both in this year and into the future. If you'd like to see my previous 'plans for the year' blog posts, you can find them here: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019.

Looking Ahead to 2023

The Duelist

Higher Priority

Caves Quest Rework

More Art!

City Quest Rework

The Cleric

Medium Priority

Shop Overhaul

New Item Type

Hero-Focused Lore

Incremental Additions

Lower Priority

Halls Quest

More Environment Details

More Subclasses

Stretch Goals

Alternate Paths

New Pixel Art

(For the best viewing experience, please read the original copy of this post on Shatteredpixel.com) Hey Dungeoneers! v2.0.0 is unfortunately still a little ways off, but I am far enough into development that I've got a bunch of details to share! While there are a few other odds and ends in v2.0.0, the major focus is a brand new hero! This blog will go over some of my design thoughts and early implementation work on this new hero.

What Should a New Hero Do?

Weapon Abilities!

• The Duelist can lunge with her rapier starting weapon. This attack requires an enemy to be 1 tile away, but is guaranteed to hit and deals a whopping +67% damage. This makes weapon abilities a significant part of the Duelist's earlygame power and encourage a little bit of early positioning gameplay.
• The Duelist can cleave an enemy with regular sword type weapons. This is a fairly simple ability that guarantees a hit and does a little bonus damage. It's best used as a finisher, as a kill makes cleave instantaneous and lets you cleave again for free. Lower tier swords get slightly more bonus damage.
• While it is a sword, the runic blade has a unique runic slash ability. This is still guaranteed to hit, but offers a bunch of extra enchantment power instead of cleave's other benefits.
• The Duelist can sneak with dagger type weapons, blinking her to a nearby tile and granting her 1 turn of invisibility. This is great for repositioning or guaranteeing a surprise attack hit. This ability costs 2 charges, and lower tier daggers get a bit more blink range.
• The Duelist can spike enemies with the tip of a spear or glaive. This attack doesn't work on adjacent enemies and deals reduced damage, but is guaranteed to hit and knocks the enemy one tile back. This is very handy for working around a spear weapon's low speed.
• The Duelist can guard herself with a round shield or a greatshield. This completely negates the next physical or magical attack made against her. Starting to guard spends a turn, so it's best used to block a single heavy attack or in anticipation of an approaching enemy.

Subclass Designs

• The Duelist's first subclass directly enhances weapon abilities, by letting her equip two weapons at once. This subclass will let the Duelist freely switch the weapon she is attacking with and use either weapon's ability whenever she wants. If one of her equipped weapons is higher level and the same or higher tier, it will also share its upgrade level with the weaker weapon!
• The Duelist's second subclass focuses on physical technique and martial arts. This subclass will build up power during combat, which can then be spent on a number of abilities, mainly focused around utility and defense. The class might end up playing like a more relaxed and utility-focused version of the Gladiator, where points are easier to build and maintain but are less useful for outright killing enemies.

Beta When?

Hey Dungeoneers! I'm releasing one final patch before moving on to working on the next update. v1.4.3 is a small patch that's entirely about bugfixes, including fixing a few significant crash bugs that were introduced in v1.4.2. You can check the in-game games screen for a full list of changes in this patch.

Hey Dungeoneers! v1.4.2 was delayed a bit due to Roguelike Celebration, but here it is! This is a slightly larger patch, with a few misc changes and balance adjustments in addition to the usual bugfixes. Here's a quick summary of the most important changes:

Balance:

• Sandals of Nature energy costs reduced by 20%
• Sandals of Nature seeds needed to upgrade reverted to 3/6/9 from 4/7/10
• Blocking proc rate scaling with weapon level reduced by 50%
• Empowered Strike special effect boost up to 50% per level, from 33%
• Deathless Fury cooldown reduced to 3/2/1 levels, from 4/3/2

Misc:

• The buff bar now condenses itself if many buffs are visible at once. This raises the limit of on-screen buffs to 15.
• Plants now trigger after time freeze ends, just like traps
• Yog's laser now deducts score even if the hero dodges it
• Goo no longer deducts score by healing in water
• 10+ bugfixes

(For the best viewing experience, please read the original copy of this post on Shatteredpixel.com) Hey Dungeoneers! In a few days, I'll be giving a presentation at Roguelike Celebration 2022! The presentation is titled "Smoothing the Sharp Edges of RNG", and will talk about some of the techniques I've used in Shattered to make the game's randomness feel more fair, without just making the game easier. The presentation will go from 4:15pm to 4:30pm EST on Sunday October the 23rd. There will also be a 30 minute Q&A period afterward, going until 5pm. Here's a full description of the presentation: Roguelike games involve a huge number of random calculations, from item and level generation to damage values in combat. We love this randomness because of the excitement and variety it brings to the Roguelike genre, but it can also bring unfairness and frustration. In this talk I'll go over some techniques I've used to 'smooth off' some of the more extreme and frustrating results randomness can provide. These adjustments can make the game experience feel much more consistent and fair without perceptibly affecting the things we like about RNG. As part of Roguelike Celebration's sale event, Shattered is also 20% off on Steam for the next week! I've made a bunch of improvements for desktop and controller users since Shattered's initial Steam release, so now is a great time to try Shattered out on a full desktop display! [hr][/hr] I also gave a presentation at last year's Roguelike Celebration. It was a longer talk titled "Community-Driven Roguelike Development", and talked about Shattered's growth alongside its community. You can watch a recording of that talk on Youtube: [previewyoutube=NMWQIdfCgQg;full][/previewyoutube] As for Shattered development itself, v1.4.2 will be releasing in another couple of days with a few more fixes and balance tweaks, and then it's on to v2.0.0 as I described it in the last blog post.

Hey Dungeoneers! v1.4.1 is a small patch that fixes several minor bugs, quite a few of which weren't even caused by v1.4.0. I'm planning on making one more patch in about a week, which should include any balance tuning that's needed for the new and changed item in v1.4.0. You can check the in-game games screen for a full list of changes in this patch.

(For the best viewing experience, please read the original copy of this post on Shatteredpixel.com) Hey Dungeoneers, v1.4.0 has been released on Google Play, the App Store, Steam, and GitHub! Note that v1.4.0 is currently held up in review by Google on Google Play, it should become available there within another day or two tops.

Whats new in v1.4.0

• Status Update: v1.4.0
• Coming Soon to Shattered: Lore and the Big Patch!

• v1.3.0 is releasing 105 days after v1.2.0, which released on Mar 23rd, 2022
• Support for user-enterable custom seeds
• Offline daily runs with local score history
• An overhauled scoring system to go along with seeds and dailies
• New mechanics that make ascension a proper challenge
• Improvements to UI/UX, mainly for desktop and controller users
• ~15 new badges, ranging from easy to extremely hard
• Reworks and replacements for several curse effects

• v1.4.0 is releasing 90 days after v1.3.0, which released on July 6th, 2022
• A new lore system has been added, with 30 pages of lore text to find
• The Ring of Arcana has bee added, itpowers up enchantments and glyphs
• The Sandals of Nature have a new active ability based on seed effects
• The Berserker has been been partially redesigned, berserking is now manually activated
• A new short guided tutorial has been added at the start of the game

• Some T3 talents have been redesigned
• The blocking enchantment has been redesigned
• Hero select now has a new interface for landscape/desktop users
• 30+ misc. changes
• 50+ bugfixes

• Ring of Wealth now gives better equipment when highly upgraded
• Buffed wand of transfusion damage vs. undead
• Telekinetic grab now grabs all items at a location, not just one
• Annoying curse has more dialogue

What's Coming Next?

(For the best viewing experience, please read the original copy of this post on Shatteredpixel.com) Hey Dungeoneers, v1.4.0 is ready for beta! The beta for v1.3.0 is live right now! To access it on Steam, go to your game library, right click on Shattered and select 'properties' then go to the 'betas' tab and select the beta from the dropdown list. In this post I'm going to go over what's coming in this update. The headline content is new in-game lore, but there's a LOT of other changes as well.

New Lore!

Other New Content

The Big Patch

• I'm redesigning the subclass talents Empowered Strike, Excess Charge, and Bounty Hunter to be more varied/interesting, and to better encourage interaction with other subclass mechanics.
• The blocking enchantment is being redesigned to sometimes grant a barrier instead of always boosting armor. This should make it feel a lot stronger.
• There are a few more minor item balance changes as well. Most notably, the ring of wealth is getting a sizeable boost to the power of the equipment it drops at high levels.
• Players can now replay daily runs if the daily is still available. Replay runs won't stay in your daily run history, but will briefly show up so that can view rankings info about them.
• Lots of QoL tweaks have been made to player actions, enemies, and items. Most notably, allies have better AI behavior when they are told to hold a position.
• There are several small visual tweaks and improvements, including better indications when thrown items are about to break.
• Several smaller quality of life tweaks have been made for controller and desktop users, including new options for camera following behavior.
• I've made over 50 bugfixes, many of which are for smaller hard to fix bugs and inconsistencies that have been in the game for years.
• Lastly, I am hoping to make a few desktop-focused interface improvements over the course of the beta or following the update in patches.

(For the best viewing experience, please read the original copy of this post on Shatteredpixel.com) Hey Folks, I'm making a quick status update blog post as my plans for v1.4.0 have changed a bit, and so the information I gave when releasing v1.3.0 is no longer accurate. Despite my attempts to keep the scope of v1.4.0 limited, the amount of smaller content additions I want to add to it got pretty large. At the same time, I've been running into some delays with implementing the new blacksmith's quest. Previously this would have just led to 1.4.0 being delayed, but I want to try something different. v1.4.0 is going to be split into two updates. The blacksmith quest overhaul will now be in v1.5.0, and v1.4.0 will instead contain all of the smaller content additions and changes I'm currently working on. This way v1.4.0 will release on schedule and I will be able to focus exclusively on the blacksmith's quest once v1.4.0 is done. This does delay the quest rework slightly, but there will still be plenty of things to look forward to in v1.4.0.

So What is Coming in v1.4.0?

• Loads of Smaller Fixes (100%): I maintain a list of small low priority changes and fixes that I want to investigate, but over the last two years or so I've let that list grow and grow. for v1.4.0 I've chewed through that list, knocking it down to about 1/8 of its previous size.
• Ring of Arcana (100%): A new item! The ring of arcana will passively enhance the power of enchantments and glyphs, letting them activate more often and with stronger effects. This one has a lot of interesting gameplay potential.
• Footwear of Nature Rework (80%): I'm also planning on reworking the footwear of nature! The item's active effect is a bit phoned in currently, so I'm going to expand it to allow for a lot more flexibility based on the seed you've most recently fed the item.
• Berserker Rework (60%): I'm planning to change berserking around so that it is manually activated, which will let me give it a significantly larger power budget. Players who like the automatic berserk safety net will still be able to access it via a talent.
• Tutorialization Improvements (50%): Shattered plays pretty intuitively on touch screens, but really needs a little more of a lead-in for users on mouse/keyboard or controllers. I plan to add a very short initial tutorial that guides the player though the game's basic controls.
• Lore Additions (40%): I'm planning to finally expand the game's journal system beyond just guidebook pages. Each region is going to have a separate bit of lore text to find, which will give more details about that region and the people who were there before the hero.
• Interface Improvements (20%): Just like with the changes screen in v1.3.2, I'd like to expand a few of the game's interfaces to convey more information, especially for users on large screens. Big candidates are the alchemy screen, hero select, and the rankings screen.

Hey folks, here's the final planned patch for v1.3! You can check the in-game changes screen for a full list of changes, but here's a summary of the most important adjustments, which are more significant than usual for a patch:

UI Adjustments

• Boss health bars have been expanded to show current health and active buffs/debuffs.
• The Changes scene has been expanded on large enough displays. This is the first of several UI expansions I'd like to make over time.

Seeded Run Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where colors of potions, glyphs on scrolls, and gems on rings could vary between runs with the same seed.
• Fixed a bug where the number of enemies spawned over time could affect item generation on the next floor.

Misc Changes

• Characters with guaranteed dodges (e.g. spirit hawk) can now evade Yog's laser beam
• Dates and countdowns for daily runs are now language neutral (only use numbers)
• The rankings scene now automatically opens the daily run window if you just ended a daily
• Minor visual improvements to the amulet scene
• Fixed ~10 bugs, including incorrect button prompts for controller users (I'm working towards getting Steam Deck verified!)

Hey folks, a small patch today to fix a few bugs with v1.3.0's release and update some translations. Expect another patch in about a week that will include some UI improvements, then It's on to v1.4.0! You can check the in-game games screen for a full list of changes.

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Hey Dungeoneers, v1.3.0 has been released on Google Play, the App Store, Steam, and GitHub!

What's New in v1.3.0

• Coming Soon to Shattered: Seeded Runs!
• Coming Soon to Shattered: Badges and Ascension!

• v1.3.0 is releasing 105 days after v1.2.0, which released on Mar 23rd, 2022
• Support for user-enterable custom seeds
• Offline daily runs with local score history
• An overhauled scoring system to go along with seeds and dailies
• New mechanics that make ascension a proper challenge
• Improvements to UI/UX, mainly for desktop and controller users
• ~15 new badges, ranging from easy to extremely hard
• Reworks and replacements for several curse effects

• Added several more talent options to the scroll of metamorphosis
• Lots of adjustments to existing badges
• Additions to several buff and spell effect icons
• 10+ misc. changes
• 10+ bugfixes

• Buffed several armor abilities
• Buffed the wand preservation talent
• Buffed crystal path rooms
• Buffed a few underused alchemy items

• Nerfed smoke bomb and heroic leap armor abilities
• Nerfed (i.e. made weaker) a few curse effects
• Reduced elemental spawn rate on floor 16

What's Coming Next?

(For the best viewing experience, please read the original copy of this post on Shatteredpixel.com) Greetings Dungeoneers! After some delays, v1.3.0 is finally ready to go to beta! The beta for v1.3.0 is live right now! To access it on Steam, go to your game library, right click on Shattered and select 'properties' then go to the 'betas' tab and select the beta from the dropdown list. In this post I'm going to detail some more of the new content coming to Shattered, with an emphasis on the challenging content additions coming in in v1.3.0!

New Badges and High Scores

• The first row contains some new or heavily reworked 'cause of death' badges that are a little harder to get than the bronze ones. Most of them involve death by some special magical means, such as to your own item or to a grim trap!
• The second row are badges for earning a score of 5k, 25k, 100k, 250k, and a whopping 1 million in a single game. They run the gamut from easy to extremely hard, with 5k being achievable by Goo and 1 million probably being the new hardest badge in the game.
• The final row is a set of new boss challenge badges! They are all harder than fighting the boss normally, and keep ramping up as they progress. For the final one you'll need to win with all four demon spawners alive AND the badder bosses challenge enabled!

Ascension

Other Changes

(For the best viewing experience, please read the original copy of this post on Shatteredpixel.com) Greeting Dungeoneers! I've got some news to share about v1.3's development! I've implement support for custom seeds, a new scoring system, and a few other miscellaneous changes. However, development on v1.3 has been going slower than planned, so I don't have a beta or release date to share yet. Also in non-development news, Shattered is part of Steams Going Rogue sale that runs this week! The game is 15% off on Steam during the sale, and Ive taken the opportunity to spruce up the games store listing as well.

Custom Seeds!

A New Scoring System

• Progression, which determines most of the score; it maxes at 78k.
• Treasure, which is just equal to total gold collected.
• Winning will also double your score.

• Progression will be scaled back to make room for more score categories.
• Treasure will include held items and will have a cap to prevent score farming.
• Exploration will grant a bonus for each floor thats reasonably fully explored.
• Bosses will grant a bonus based on how often you were hit by avoidable attacks or hazards.
• Quests will give a fixed bonus for completion, but may be performance-based in the future.
• Winning will still double score, but youll get a slightly bigger multiplier for a surface win.
• Challenges will provide an additional multiplier that stacks with itself.

Other Changes

Still Some Work To Do

• I'm going to be making several UI and UX improvements as a followup to v1.2. In particular I want to add better enemy info in the new full UI, radial menu support for controller players, better controls tutorialization, a better settings menu, and support for 6 quickslots on the mobile portrait view.
• I'm also making some more incremental badge improvements in v1.3. Expect some adjustments to existing badges and several additions. In particular I'm adding some more 'death by X' badges, and a new challenge badge for each of the game's bosses.
• A few curses are also getting improved in v1.3. Some curses are a lot more interesting than others and so I'm going to be taking the most boring and directly harmful ones and change them to give the player a little more to work with.
• Lastly, I'd also like to make some specific changes to the game's ascension route to make it more challenging. Currently it's too easy to simply run back to the surface, and enemies become trivially weak after only a few floors. The changes in v1.3 won't be a full rework, but I would like to improve on these issues.

I lied, v1.2 gets one more patch! v1.2.3 is almost entirely bugfixes (about another 10 of them), but there is one tiny tweak to sacrifice rooms: you now get a little progress from sacrificing fly swarms after they split, instead of only getting progress from the initial swarm. You can check the in-game changes screen for a full list of changes.

Hey Dungeoneers, one more patch before I move on to v1.3.0! v1.2.2 fixes up a few things left over after v1.2.1 and makes a few more tweaks to some of the new levelgen features. You can check the in-game changes screen for a full list of changes, but here's a quick summary of the most important adjustments:

• Sacrifice rooms now require slightly fewer enemies at lower depths
• Sacrifice rooms now accept sacrifices that are adjacent to the fire
• The game can now only spawn one room that requires a solution potion per floor
• Moved Steam notification location to bottom-left from top-left
• Updated translations.
• Fixed ~10 bugs, including a couple crash bugs and various other issues

Hey Dungeoneers, I've got a small newspost for you today. Over the last few updates Shattered's soundtrack has slowly grown from having just two tracks for the entire game to having an entire soundtrack with 20 minutes of combined audio! Now that Shattered has a proper soundtrack, it needs a proper release! [hr][/hr]
If you enjoy this new music, you can now purchase it as a soundtrack on Steam! If you're not a Steam user, you can also purchase the Soundtrack from Bandcamp. The soundtrack is also available for streaming on Spotify. Finally, if you haven't purchased Shattered on Steam yet, You can buy both the game and the soundtrack together at a slight discount! My apologies to Steam users who have already bought the game and would have preferred to grab the bundle. I originally planned to release the soundtrack at the same time as the game, but I ran into some logistical issues that held it up. All revenue from soundtrack sales goes to its excellent composer, Kristjan Thomas Haaristo. We hope you enjoy it! [hr][/hr] And that's all for now! Look forward to a blog post about the next game update toward the end of this month or in early May. Lastly, while we don't have any active plans for more music yet, Shattered is always growing and there will definitely be opportunities for new music to be added to the soundtrack in the future.

Hey Dungeoneers! v1.2.1 has taken a bit longer than a patch usually does for me, but contains a bunch of fixes and a few little UI improvements as well. You can check the in-game games screen for a full list of changes, but here's a quick summary of the most important adjustments:

• Added a 'new game' and 'menu' button when the player gets a game over.
• Reduced huntress unlock requirement to 10 enemies hit with thrown weapons from 15.
• Made surprise attack VFX a bit more obvious.
• Removed gold as a possible random loot from crystal choice rooms.
• Updated translations and translators credits.
• Fixed ~20 bugs, including a few crash bugs, several quirks with the new interface, errors with the new magical fire rooms, and various other issues.

(For the best viewing experience, please read the original copy of this post on Shatteredpixel.com)
Hey Dungeoneers, v1.2.0 has been released on Google Play, the App Store, Steam, and GitHub! That's right, after almost eight years of development, Shattered Pixel Dungeon is available for purchase on Steam!

Steam Release!

What's New in v1.2.0

• Coming Soon to Shattered: New Content and Steam!
• ShatteredPD will be at Steam Next Fest!
• Shattered Pixel Dungeon is Coming to Steam!

• v1.2.0 is releasing 103 days after v1.1.0, which released on Dec 10th 2021
• A bunch of UI/UX additions have been made for desktop users!
• 6 new special rooms, and a new terrain type: crystal doors
• The Master Thieves' Armband has been reworked
• Badges now have names, 8 new badges have been added
• New music has been added for each of the game's bosses!

• 5+ misc. changes
• 20+ bugfixes

• Many alchemy recipes have had their costs reduced. Bombs especially
• Many alchemy recipes have been buffed
• Several tipped darts have been buffed
• Some talents have been buffed

• Some alchemy recipes have been nerfed
• Dreamfoil no longer puts enemies to sleep
• A few talents have been nerfed

What's Coming Next?

(For the best viewing experience, please read the original copy of this post on Shatteredpixel.com) Hey Dungeoneers! Sorry for the wait, but v1.2.0 is finally getting close to release!
The beta is available now, and v1.2.0 will be fully launching on all platforms on Wednesday March 23rd at Noon EDT! Most notably, this will be the first version of the game to release on Steam! The biggest story with v1.2.0 is definitely the Steam release, but I've already spent a lot of time talking about that. For the rest of this blog I'll be focusing on the other game content coming in v1.2.0. If you want to learn more about the Steam release, consider reading these past blogs, or trying out the demo!:

• ShatteredPD will be at Steam Next Fest!
• Shattered Pixel Dungeon is Coming to Steam!

New Boss Music!

Alchemy Item Balance

• Exotic bombs are getting big cost reductions across the board, and several brews and spells are getting smaller cost reductions.
• Elixirs are actually doing fairly well, so I'm not planning any direct changes there yet, as I wanted v1.2.0 to focus more on buffs.
• Caustic Brew is getting a flat +1 to its damage, which should let it more effectively out-pace the damage from potions of toxic gas.
• Curse Infusion is going to boost an items level by a small % instead of just +1. This makes it a lot more worthwhile on highly-upgraded gear.
• Phase shift is going to actually properly clear enemy aggro and stun its target for 10 turns (bosses are immune). This makes it much more effective at delaying enemies, but also makes it quite dangerous to use on yourself.
• Aqua blast is going to get a larger water AOE and will throw targets around like a geyser trap.
• Summon elemental is getting more uses and scaling stats depending on the dungeon region. Newborn elementals in particular are getting buffed to start at full health as well. The spell will also be re-castable, to return a summon elemental to your position.
• Lastly, while they don't use any energy, I'm also making a bunch of buffs to a variety of tipped dart effects. Ally effects in particular are getting big duration boosts.

New Special Rooms!

Armband Rework!

(For the best viewing experience, please read the original copy of this post on Shatteredpixel.com) Hey Dungeoneers, I've got some news to share on the Steam release! Development has been progressing well, and Shattered Pixel Dungeon will be participating in Steam Next Fest, running from Feburary 21st to 28th. During this time there will be a free demo of the game, letting people try the desktop version out before it fully releases with v1.2.0.

Demo Details

Desktop Enhancement Progress

After Next Fest

• Balance adjustments to alchemy recipies following the changes in v1.1.0
• A redesign to the Master Thieves' Armband to make it useful outside of shops
• Various levelgen improvements, mostly focused around special rooms
• New music for Yog-Dzewa, and probably music for each other boss as well
• Various smaller tweaks, fixes, and improvements as usual

(For the best viewing experience, please read the original copy of this post on Shatteredpixel.com) Hey rat punchers, happy new year! Just as with previous years, I'm writing a blog post at the start of 2022 to summarize my longer-term plans for Shattered Pixel Dungeon! This post starts with a year in review, and then lists a bunch of major changes and additions that I have planned for the game. These will end up being the focus of future updates both in this year and into the future. If you'd like to look at my previous 'ShatteredPD Plans for the Year' blog posts, you can find them here: 2021, 2020, 2019.

2021 In Review

• Of the high priority items, The talent system was finished, alchemy was improved, and new music was added! In medium priority, v1.0.0 was released, and some improvements were made to the new player experience (Though there is still more that could be done there).
• Shattered also released on iOS, which was one of the two new platforms I discussed in 2021. The Steam release is next and is the primary focus for the beginning of this year.
• Finally, there was also some incremental progress on challenges, with the new badder bosses challenge added in v0.9.3.

Looking Forward to 2022

Higher Priority

Full Desktop Support and Steam Release

Smaller Additions

• Improvements to alchemy recipes following the v1.1.0 changes
• Rebalances or reworks to items/talents/subclasses/abilities
• Expansions to level generation
• New challenges
• More new music and SFX
• Incremental lore additions
• New badges
• New items
• Various QOL and new player experience improvements

Quest Improvements

Better Shops

A New Hero!

Medium Priority

Another New Hero

Lore System

Dailies or Weeklies

Overhauled Badges

Lower Priority

New Item Type

More Subclasses

Alternate Paths

New Pixel Art

(For the best viewing experience, please read the original copy of this post on Shatteredpixel.com) Hey Dungeoneers, Ive got some more exciting news, Shattered Pixel Dungeon is coming to Steam in early 2022! Im moving so quickly on this due to a mix of the games success on the iOS App Store, and a promotion from Roguelike celebration 2021! As I mentioned in the last blog, Ill be giving a presentation at Roguelike Celebration 2021 tomorrow, titled Community-Driven Roguelike Development, you can find more details about it Here. Roguelike Celebration will also be running an event on Steam this week, which Shattered is a part of! While the game wont release for another few months, it already has a page on Steam! If you have any interest in the Steam version of the game at all, please considering adding it to your Steam wishlist. The game will be paid on Steam just like on the App Store, costing $10 US when it releases. Just like with iOS, I want to give PC users a first-class experience. This requires some more direct changes than iOS though, as user-interaction is fundamentally different on PCs. I want the game to play just as well on big desktop screens as it does on tiny phone ones, and that means I can't just scale up the game's current mobile UI. Because of this, I have a bunch of plans for improvements to make before release. I hope to get most of all of them done in time for a release in early 2022.

New PC Features

Other Plans