Art by Joe Gribbin

SO.

It's been a minute, eh? A minute and a half, even. That's fine though, because I'm still alive, and this is still happening. That's right! As a beaten, bleeding, heart-still-beating Kid once said; "I'm not dead yet!"

So what have I been up to, you may be asking yourself. Maybe you aren't. How would I know? I'm not your brain. I'll tell you anyway though:

Wandering is what I've been up to -- as in, making the new Wanderer class. They're speedy and have senses sharp as knives, they do. I hope you enjoy them. As well I've laid the groundwork for unique weapons and added a few, and made some not insignificant changes to the level generator, not least of which are locked doors and new premade rooms. It may have taken a while but I can say at last that the generator is ready to be iced over and flipped upside down for the coming Anticropolis.

I've also added Alchemy and Dipper, the two second-tier INT boons, which marks at last the implementation of all the first two tiers of stat boons. Some of the other boons, spells and skills have also been updated and improved.

For the next update (IN A MONTH I SWEAR) I'll be working on finishing the things I didn't manage to for this update: Daily run leaderboards, more and better transitional stages, and certain talked-about changes to magic that those who watch the dev streams might be aware of.

Full changelog below:
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Casting Flame Wave burns your own shield
Several crashes
Kept gaining overheal even after hitting max hp limit
Max mp doesn't increase with the proper meal
Poets' tome is unwielded after going through a level door
Class Input method doesn't save for gamepads
Class ability icons appear incorrectly in the spell slots
Third spell slot miscolored when low on spell charges
Issues with using tome as a 'Skill' class input
Food queue doesn't show up in pause menus
Eating twins results gives a grumbul food instead of undead
Heavy Lifting doesn't properly override normal object pickups when grabbing enemies
Certain spells show a charge star when they shouldn't
Tome attacks hurt your own followers
Footwear with stats don't apply their stats

New Stuff
New Class! -- Wanderer
New INT Stat Boons
Dipper
Alchemy
Waterfalls
Couple new weapons
Locked doors and keys
Wooden barricades
Stairs
Intra-floor doors
New premade rooms
Many changes to level gen

Changes
Sticks burn
Fire spreads more from enemies to you
Being struck physically by burning enemies has a high chance to burn you
Limited foes' ability to spam kick
Infernus flames start blue, but turn orange quickly
Infernus now burns the caster once orange
Sword Skill 3 (Hack 'n' Slash) is easier to use:
Strikes at least 3 times in succession upon hitting an enemy
Additional enemies caught in the flurry add more strikes
Stun upon missing or ending the flurry is longer
Gorhounds have more hp, more DEF, and are more evasive
Crush trap chains behave more predictably when struck
"Poised" now reflects knockback from attacks back upon the enemy
A few new things
Changed the way levers spawn and are placed
Changed the way ladders/elevators spawn and are placed
Improved Air Dash
Now chains from enemy to enemy
Added trances to Blink and Frost Bolt
Left joystick now triggers class abilities on gamepad
Class ability trigger now defaults to "Button" rather than "Combo"
Poet's Tome behaves differently
Activating Tome uses the books' ability rather than wielding/unwielding
[except on 'combo' input]
Charged Tomes follow behind the player charged until used again
Grumbuls will stow items that spawn near them
Relatedly, added two new grumbul types (based on what they grab)
Grumbuls no longer wield bardiches
Normal Grumbuls sometimes occasionally wield hammers
Grumbul assassins slightly more common
Blue slime balls (now "mucus") have their own properties
Reaper no longer immune to invisibility
Grumbul Turrets can now spawn on main floors
Shop doors lock behind you
Stat loss from severed limbs is now repairable
Stat loss from severed limbs doesn't stack through repeated dismemberments
Regeneration only restores one limb at a time
Losing an arm penalizes both STR and DEF
Learning points now appear next to the orb of leveling icon in the hud
Haste is slightly slower
Haste grants the auto-dodge from Freerun
Haste auto-dodges jump attacks
Removed auto-dodge from Freerun
Extra Tough protects from death as long as your hp is over 75%
Regenerate heals more slowly
Overload Break deals more damage to equipment
Jumping will cancel trajectory throws
Stampede no longer runs through cornered enemies
Stampede tramples multiple enemies at once
Poison Blob bounces off of walls
Temporal Tricks tome time bubble bigger by bunches
Increased range of Slow
Lucky footwear is luckier
Byats are more evasive

Next Build TO-DO
Changes to Magic
Daily Run Leaderboard / General Stat-Tracking (for realsies!)
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