- There is now a tutorial that happens when the game is started for the first time - All abilities are now dropped in the form of Ability Codices. These are dropped by bosses. - There are now 3 save slots that can be used to store different kinds of characters. - Added SPARKS to the dungeon.

[ 2022-08-24 23:35:04 CET ] [ Original post ]

- Added 4 new abilities - Added 11 new sigils - Added new sound effects to numerous things - Removed Sigils of Corruption, Reaper, Celestials, and Elements. These effects have been put on items instead as set effects. - The number of required items for the set effects on equipment has been increased (2/4/6 per tier, up from 1/2/3) - Decreased the loading screen time by a lot - Added new rooms - Changed the color and the lighting of the dungeon (once again) - Teleporting has been removed as it serves no purpose - Player level has been removed - Natural Health and Corruption regeneration are removed (might come back as passives later) - Nature typed attacks now have a chance of healing the player (instead of creating a small aoe around the player) - Abilities no longer have specific Element types, instead they use your primary element - Removed auto attacking - Corruption now starts at 0, every primary attack gives +10 Corruption (Experimental) - Bonfires no longer give full Corruption - Altars of Corruption are (temporarily?) removed from boss entrances - Music can now be muted - Music volume can now be adjusted - Leeching Strike has been removed - Drain Life has been removed - Ice Shard has been removed - Added two new weapon "types", main hand orbs and off hand orbs - Orbs can be equipped to get access to Elemental type attacks - A sword can be equipped with an orb for a hybrid style combat - Equipping two orbs at once makes attacks longer ranged - Every item has been updated in terms of stats, Legendary and Corrupted item stats now are randomized instead of being a set value - Shields and 2 handed swords have been removed for now - Added a text for gold pickups - Bosses no longer drop ores or crystals - Sigils can now be disassembled for crystals - Corrupted Spirit has been renamed to Blood Fury and is now a dual melee buff. The effect is the same (take 50% damage, gain 50% corruption) - Number of abilities on the action bar has been reduced to 6 (excluding primary attack, dash, and potion)

[ 2022-06-22 15:57:07 CET ] [ Original post ]

We got some new monsters and a better look for the dungeons themselves as well as the town. I will keep updating the way the town looks but for now I am happy with what I've added.

• Added 4 new monsters that can buff nearby monsters (these buffs are attack + movement speed, attack damage, increased armor, healing)
• Added 4 new "elite" monsters
• Elite monsters(Wardens) guard portals and doors found in the dungeon. Each has different effects based on the number of monsters surrounding them
• Added 3 new ranged monsters
• Added elemental versions of some monsters; Fire enemies have a chance of burning Ice enemies have a chance of slowing Nature enemies have a chance of lowering player's Corruption These chances scale with the player's elemental %, ie. if fire % is high, there's a high chance player won't be burned
• Added a new ability, Cleanse. Cleanse removes all the debuffs affecting the player and grants immunity to all debuffs for 5 seconds
• Passive skills now unlock with highest unlocked floor rather than player level
• Monster spawns now scale with floor, reaching maximum amount at floor 75
• Town has been updated a little
• Normal attacks can't proc Elemental effects anymore
• Removed the 25% Elemental base chance from Elemental Set [1], replaced it with "Normal attacks can now proc Elemental effects"
• Improved gameplay performance

[ 2022-05-02 09:49:24 CET ] [ Original post ]

There are now item sets in the game with the addition of sigils! Sigils can be put into the Statue of Death and provide small bonuses on their own. Statue of Death can hold up to 4 sigils with a slot being unlocked at every 15th floor. Sigils: Reaper's Sigil Set [1] Gain a burst of movement speed for 2.5 seconds after using Shadowstep [2] Shadowstep's range is extended by 50% [3] Shadowstep's cooldown gets reset after an enemy kill Elemental Sigil Set [1] All Elements get a 25% increase [2] Gain an Elemental Aura based on your strongest element [3] Elemental attacks and abilities can critically strike. The critical strike chance scales with an element's strength Corrupt Sigil Set [1] Enemy kills give 1% Corruption [2] All abilities cost Health instead of Corruption. All Corruption gets converted to Health [3] All attacks do double damage. Take double damage from all sources. Celestial Sigil Set [1] Every third auto attack always ignores the enemy armor [2] Gain 3% Attack Speed and 3% Critical Chance per auto attack for 10 seconds, stacking up to 10 times [3] Critical strikes deal 300% Damage if Critical Chance is above 50% Other Changes: - Increased bank space to 100 - Fixed a bug where if you quit the game with the Bloodlust potion equipped it would show up as Stoneskin on next session - Removed the RMB as a separate ability, basic slash (melee) is now a normal ability once again - Holding the mouse button won't move the player anymore during animations that are supposed to halt player movement - Right Mouse Button is now a possible keybind - Corruption per item upgrade is now +10% (down from +100%) - Using any ability now puts the basic attack cooldown to 0.5 seconds - Abilities can now be cast by clicking on the ability bar with the mouse (targeting doesn't work for now) - Some monsters have armor ratings now, which scales with the floor

[ 2022-04-08 09:00:02 CET ] [ Original post ]

- Added an option to always show corruption bar above player - Fixed an issue where some monsters would spawn in weird places - Defence and block chance have been nerfed - Fixed an issue where trying to upgrade Celestian Ores and Crystals would make them disappear - Added an option to Mass Disassemble Legendary items - Added 2 new rooms - Overhead cages can now be clicked through - Forge has been moved to the Furnace interface (destroying things make more sense in a furnace) - The amount of coins dropped by monsters have been lowered - Added a furnace to the start of the dungeon, will likely be unlockable in the future with blacksmith levels - Added a loading screen to the dungeon - Added a brand new room type - Monster health now scales harder after floors 20 and 50 - Barrels and cages found in the dungeon now have a chance of dropping coins, ores, and crystals upon being destroyed - Dungeon start screen has been updated - Loot dropped from the boss now spreads out instead of being a big pile - Treasure chests have been updated graphically - Dungeon timer now stops as soon as the boss is killed - Earth (Element) has been renamed to Nature - Leeching Blow is now a Nature skill - Voracity (Passive) now gives 5/10/15% CDR per rank, down from 10/20/30% - Hovering an item in the inventory will also bring up the item stats of the equipped item now - Stackable items can now be picked up if the same item is already in the inventory and the inventory is full

[ 2022-03-26 19:33:20 CET ] [ Original post ]

Patch Notes:

• Base movement speed has been increased slightly
• Player model size has been increased slightly
• Almost every dungeon room has received a graphical update
• Wind has been removed as an element and is replaced with Earth
• Whirlwind is renamed to Firestorm and is now a Fire spell
• Leeching Strike and Drain Life are both classified as Earth spells
• Added multiple light sources and pillars throughout the dungeon
• Teleport VFX is now fixed
• Critical hits should be fixed
• Boss spawns are now fixed and will no longer cause the dungeon to not be proceedable
• Fixed the issue where the boss gate wasn't clickable
• Added an altar near the boss gate. Currently gives full corruption but in the future the % will scale with the amount of monsters that you kill in the dungeon
• Added an option to reset progress in the escape menu (demo only)
• All AoE ability damage has been lowered
• Monster health has been increased
• Added shadows to the dungeon once again

[ 2022-03-22 18:21:33 CET ] [ Original post ]

Sorry this took so long, but this is a big one. First of all, Elemental Stats: There are 5 new Stats. These are Fire, Ice, Wind, Radiant, Shadow. Fire: Burns the target for 5 seconds. Ice: Slows and Chills the target. Chilled targets shatter on death, dealing aoe damage. Wind: Creates a small whirlwind around the player. Shadow: Enemies take more damage Radiant: Enemies deal less damage All Normal skills, including auto attacks, can proc these effects, but their damage scales with their own elements. Patch Notes

• Added some 2h swords, they provide more damage and cdr but less attack speed (animations are not there yet)
• Added blood splatters on the floor when an enemy dies
• Added an outer glow to interactable objects on mouse over
• Added a small visual effect to monsters when they get hit
• Increased monster spawns within the dungeon
• Added an "out of combat" idle animation that triggers when there are no monsters nearby
• Weapons cannot be changed in combat now
• There's now a short global cooldown of 0.5 seconds when an ability is used
• Slash and stab animations now prevent the player from moving until the animations are over
• Fixed some enemies not acting properly with their hitboxes
• Added multiple new weapons and armor
• Crystal of corruption and Essence of corruption have been renamed to Celestian Crystal and Celestian Ore respectively
• Legendary and Corrupted equipment have static stats now (doesn't flactuate between two random values)
• Critical Damage has been removed all items. Exceeding 100% Critical Chance will now increase the damage of Critical Strikes
• Lifesteal has been removed from all items
• Attack Speed is now static across different weapons and can't be upgraded as a stat via the anvil.
• - Equipping swords now gives +10% Attack Speed (20% if both hands)
• - Equipping axes now gives +5% Attack Speed (10% if both hands)
• - Equipping two handed items gives no additional Attack Speed
• - There are still some weapons that have their own Attack Speed value
• Populated dungeon rooms with breakable barrels, chests, buckets, and some skeletons on the floor
• Added fog to various places throughout the game
• The floor tiles of the dungeon will now change colors every floor
• Added a buff bar above the health bar that shows all the active buffs (Probably doesn't show everything right now)
• Changed how resource nodes look
• Whirlwind is available at Level 1 once again
• Skills now have "Elemental Types"
• Elemental stats now boost the damage/effect of abilities of the same elemental type

[ 2022-02-05 00:11:23 CET ] [ Original post ]

• Total kills, deaths, dashes, ability usage, health gained/lost, corruption gained/lost, coins gained/lost, souls gained/lost are now being tracked
• Added a Noticeboard in town, it currently only shows the mentioned stats above
• Demonic Gaze's damage has been increased (by a lot)
• Removed ability: Swift Strike
• Swift Strike now triggers with Right Mouse Button. It costs no Corruption, might make it generate Corruption in the future.
• Still scales linearly with attack speed and damage
• Since Swift Strike occupies the RMB, interacting with objects using RMB is no longer possible. Only possible with LMB

New ability: Drain Life - AOE -- Drain Health from enemies surrounding you -- Cost: 100 -- Level: 20 -- Base Damage: 1x -- Drained Health: 20% of all damage New ability: Imbued Blades - Active -- Increase damage by 25% -- Increase corruption cost of all abilities by 25% -- Cost: 0 -- Cooldown: 0 -- Level: 15 New ability: Cull the Herd - Single target Previously known as Way of the Reaper -- Teleport behind your target (within a range) and strike instantly -- Level: 30 -- Cost: 40 -- Cooldown: 2 -- Base Damage: 2x Wishlist Nefarium here and join my Discord server to keep up to date with its development or to leave me some feedback!

[ 2021-12-29 23:24:28 CET ] [ Original post ]

I've updated the look of almost every room and the town graphically. There is still a lot of room for improvement but it's good to get this out of the way now. For comparison, Old Town:
New Town:
Patch Notes

• Updated most of the town and the dungeon assets graphically
• Swift Strike's cooldown is now the same as basic attack speed and scales with attack speed
• Swift Strike's cost has been lowered to 10 Corruption
• Swift Strike is now available at level 1
• Whirlwind's cost has been increased to 20 Corruption
• Whirlwind is now available at level 3
• Whirlwind's base damage has been increased by 1.5
• Fixed a problem with upgrading flasks
• Added a cat in town
• Added shields to the game
• Fixed Corrupted Spirit
• Removed the free soul button
• Removed the level up button

Next up I'll work on adding more abilities and 2-handed weaponry. Wishlist Nefarium here and join my Discord server to keep up to date with its development or to leave me some feedback!

[ 2021-12-28 09:28:19 CET ] [ Original post ]

• Passives as far as I can tell should now work and save properly
• Fixed teleportation issues with portals
• Added X to the corner to Blacksmith and Shop screens
• Fixed the black screen issues when entering the boss area
• Potion cooldown has been reduced to 1 second from 2
• Potions have changed slightly, there are no more tiers. Vitality and Corruption potions are unlocked by default. Changed effects are: Vitality: Restore 50% Health Corruption: Restore 50% Corruption Equilibrium: Restore 25% Health and 25% Corruption Stoneskin: Restore 25% Health and take 30% reduced damage for 10 seconds Bloodlust: Restore 25% Corruption and 30% damage for 10 seconds
• Potions should now save correctly after exiting
• In preparation for attempting to diversify weapons: Longswords and shortswords have been buffed to include attack speed buffs (existing weapons that may be in the inventory or equipment won't have these buffs)

[ 2021-12-21 16:34:37 CET ] [ Original post ]

Here are the patch notes for December 18, 2021.

General

• Crystals and ores can for real be used in the furnace now
• ESC menu can now be used to open Settings. Like the ESC menu, time now also stops when the Settings menu is active.
• Added an option in settings to toggle enemy health bars so that they always show up regardless of their health
• Added an option in settings to toggle a health bar above the player
• There's now natural health regeneration. Like Corruption, you will now regenerate 1% Health every 2 seconds (subject to change)

Dungeon

• Drops from bosses now scale with floors. Floors 1-9 will yield 1 drop, 10-19 will yield 2, 20-29 3, etc.
• A new enemy type has been added, Treasured Soul, which drops more coins than usual when slain (yes I'm great at naming things)
• Small portals have been added throughout the dungeon. An elite monster (formerly known as a miniboss) guards this portal, and portal can only be taken once the elite is killed. The portal leads to rooms that treasured monsters, chests, and bonfires
• Added variety to starting rooms
• Added some more normal rooms
• Updated how bonfires look

Skills and Attributes

• Whirlwind's Corruption cost has been lowered to 15
• Swift Strike's Corruption cost has been lowered to 20
• Reaper Call's Corruption cost has been lowered to 75
• Leeching Strike's Corruption cost has been lowered to 30
• Demonic Gaze's Corruption cost has been lowered to 20
• Monsters now will do damage within a range of (max hit / 2) and their (max hit) instead of always their max hit.
• Defence now provides another effect where it can cause monster hits to be 0. I do like an effect like this but might separate it from Defence to make its own stat later.

Blocking formula: Roll a number x between 0 and 600 + Defence If x is lower than Defence, block

[ 2021-12-19 00:28:12 CET ] [ Original post ]

Buckle up, bucketload of changes this time around. Wishlist Nefarium here and join my Discord server to leave feedback!

• Cauldron of Eternity and the Furnace have been added.
• Potions have been completely revamped. We now have a more Souls-like approach.

Potions and Flasks

• Only one type of "flask" can be equipped and used in a dungeon run
• Potion cooldown has been lowered to 2 seconds
• Flasks are upgradeable and the contents are switchable to another one outside the dungeon
• Base flask has 5 charges. This can be upgraded to 10 with Crystals and coins
• Flask charges reset to maximum on a bonfire, inside and outside the dungeon.

5 different types of Potions have been added this patch. These are: Vitality - Increases Health by 25% per tier Corruption - Increases Corruption by 25% per tier Equilibrium - Increases Health & Corruption by 15% per tier Stoneskin - Increases Health by 15% and reduces damage taken by 10% per rank for 10 seconds Bloodlust - Increases Corruption by 15% and increases damage by 10% per rank for 10 seconds Note: Always open to suggestions for new potions, passives, and abilities

Crystals

• 5 new Crystals with different rarities have been added to the game and the drop tables
• Crystals can be used to upgrade flasks to hold more charges
• Some Crystals will likely be required to upgrade some potions in the future

Furnace

• Furnace can be used to upgrade ores and crystals into higher rarities. 3 of any rarity yields 1 of the next rarity. This as of now doesn't require any blacksmith levels but it might in the future

Other

• Bonfires in the dungeon will now go out after one use. The town bonfire will always remain.
• Leveling up has a text added to it on top of the player
• A small text has been added that appears on top of the player like health gain for corruption gain
• Small particles have been added to fires throughout the game
• Reaper and Angel gloves now cover the hand too (graphics)
• Moving right after basic attacking no longer shows the player as "skating", the legs should move properly now
• Death animations have once again been added to Urud and Necromage
• Wind Slash has been renamed to Swift Strike
• Monster health bars now disappear rapidly upon death
• Maximum camera zoom has been decreased
• Some fog has been added to the dungeon, making it darker
• A Passive list has been added along with a new tab to the Attributes screen that shows current attuned passives
• Cost text font on abilities has been increased
• Drops from monsters are now rarer (bosses are unaffected)
• Game now pauses when ESC menu is open
• Reviving is disabled. Dying in a dungeon means the player must go back to town. - EXPERIMENTAL
• Using the mouse wheel to move the Orb of Celestials interface will no longer make the camera zoom in or out
• Mouse wheel scroll sensitivity of Orb of Celestials interface has been increased
• Potions are no longer useable at max resources

[ 2021-12-15 23:40:05 CET ] [ Original post ]

Orb of Celestials

Orb of Celestials is here! Every 5 levels you can pick a passive skill and upgrade it to take better advantage of it. The Orb requires souls that you get from killing monsters. Right now there are 8 passives available, the number will increase as time goes on and more gets added. You can only pick one passive skill out of the two in the same level bracket. My own thoughts are some of these passives are rather "boring", and while that's not a bad thing I wouldn't mind looking into changing Fervor/Voracity/Bulwark/Fleeting later on to make them more interactable, such as giving the bonuses in smaller percentages which would build up to the bigger number after each enemy killed. (ie. Fervor gives 1% Attack Speed per enemy killed, up to 10%) Level 5 - Fervor & Voracity - Fervor gives 10/20/30% Attack Speed. - Voracity gives 10/20/30% Cooldown Reduction. Level 10 - Shadow Strike & Shadow Form - Shadow Strike causes an AoE attack to come out after using Shadowstep. (100/200/300% of Player Damage per rank) - Shadow Form gives 10/20/30 Corruption after each use and can gain up to 2/3/4 charges. Level 15 - Bulwark & Fleeting - Bulwark gives 50/100/150 Defence. - Fleeting gives 2/4/6 Movement Speed. Level 20 - Fury & Wrath - Fury - Deal more damage the lower Health you have. Maximum 10/20/30% more damage at 25% Health. - Wrath - Deal more damage the lower Corruption you have. Maximum 10/20/30% more damage at 25% Health.

Small Changes

- Changed the main menu to include Discord/Steam links - Pressing F1 will now bring up the notification board - The old dash has been removed and has been replaced with Shadowstep. This has a shorter cooldown and a shorter range but feels better to use. - Potion icon has been updated - Some more visual effects have been updated - Urud has a new weird animation now for his Slam attack - Mages should no longer slide around the floor while moving towards the player

[ 2021-12-08 12:02:43 CET ] [ Original post ]

Bank Chest

I've finally gotten around to adding a Bank Chest to the game. You can see the chest directly to the south of you in the town. The Chest currently can hold up to 30 items. In the future this number might be increased but right now it's mostly there for testing purposes. There is currently not a way to withdraw/deposit X amount of items, so everything is either in or out.

Other Changes/Fixes

• Added a Mass Disassemble window. Blacksmith level 2, 3, and 4 is required to mass disassemble common, rare, and epic rarities respectively. There is no confirmation box but will probably add one later if necessary
• When the Forge/Anvil/Bank interfaces are open, clicking on an item in the inventory will send it straight to the Forge/Anvil/Bank
• Added new animations for almost every current skill
• Added a new type of mini-boss that can spawn in the dungeon, will likely make it so the mini-boss guards a door or a chest
• Added new graphics for Orb of Celestials
• Made an interface for Orb of Celestials

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[ 2021-11-30 15:57:05 CET ] [ Original post ]

The Blacksmith brought a new feature a couple days ago, called the Forge where you can disassemble your items. I'm pretty happy with how it works, but I thought it would be nice to add an option which searches through your whole inventory and finds every item with the selected rarity and disassembles them all a the same time with just one click. There isn't a confirmation box or anything right now but something like this probably requires one eventually.
You can Playtest Nefarium right now for free since an Open Beta is going on. Feel free to join my Discord server and let me know if you have any feedback. Discord server: https://discord.com/invite/6vQYS7yBFA Don't forget to Wishlist Nefarium to help me with its development and keep up to date with how it's going!

[ 2021-11-24 21:31:34 CET ] [ Original post ]

Playtesting is here! You may now request access to playtest Nefarium! This has been in development for months, and while it's still missing some important features, I wanted to get a first version out of the way in order to collect some feedback from a variety of players. Don't forget to check the chest for free starter items! Your ability bar is keybindable in the settings, you can drag and drop abilities into it once you unlock them. Clicking on the bar to use the abilities right now is not a thing, but it can be. What features are missing and are on my to-do list? - Sound/Music - More bosses, more monsters - More abilities, more items - Appearance changer + female model - Better animations overall - "Puzzles" or rooms with more variety in them, as well as traps And more! Your goal begins in the dungeons. Each dungeon is randomly generated and once you leave it you can't return to it. To beat a dungeon, you must kill the boss at the end. If literally anything comes to your mind about how some thing can be implemented better, or if you have any ideas about my current to-do list, or if you wish to discuss some other topic, then please let me know. Don't forget to Wishlist Nefarium on Steam to support its development and feel free to join my Discord to contact me! The contact information is available on Nefarium's Steam page.

[ 2021-11-23 19:41:31 CET ] [ Original post ]

A way to get rid of the excess items is soon coming to the game. The way it works is simple. You put an item that you picked up during your adventures in the dungeons into the Disassembler, and the Disassembler will provide you an ore of the same rarity as the item that you are disassembling. The ore amount depends on the tier. An example, if you're disassembling a tier 3 rare longsword, then you will receive 3 rare ores. Preview of the disassembler

I might add a way to "Mass Disassemble" items so that every item in your inventory with a specific rarity gets disassembled instantly, though I'm not sure if that's exactly a safe thing to implement so I'll be keeping an eye out for this. Don't forget to Wishlist Nefarium to keep up to date with its development!

[ 2021-11-21 22:28:55 CET ] [ Original post ]

I've finally gotten around to updating the game's User Interface! Some might have slipped through the cracks which I hopefully will fix eventually, but overall I'm very happy with how it turned out. Below you can find some comparisons of how it used to be and how it is now. There is still a lot to improve on but I will take a break from the UI part now to focus on other parts of the game. Old - The Bottom UI Bar, Equipment and Stats Windows
New - The Bottom UI Bar, Equipment and Stats Windows
Old - Item Upgrade Screen
New - Item Upgrade Screen
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[ 2021-11-18 21:04:47 CET ] [ Original post ]