Map Changes

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• Maps now have a variable number of floors of increasing difficulty\n
• Each floor contains a boss, who will spawn portals to advance upon death\n
• Areas are significantly shorter and less branchy\n
• Maps end with a portal to a new Treasure Room area\n
• Maps now drop at a lower level than the current area, so reaching deeper floors is required to advance map tiers\n

Item Changes

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• Locking Orbs can now be used again to change which modifier is locked\n
• Added Stygian Shards, which increase the tier of a map\n
• Added a powerful new maximum-rarity Unique Belt\n
• Blue Gems now have more possible modifiers, including an Increased Mana Cost Efficiency prefix and suffix\n

New Runes

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• Magnetic Rune: Attract stackable items to you\n
• Rune of Guiding Hands: Attract stackable items and items with Favored Mods to you\n
• Protection Rune: Increased local Armor, Evasion, and Energy Shield\n
• Striking Rune: Increased local Physical Damage\n
• Avarice Rune: Increased Rarity of Items Found\n

Combat

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• All hits now deal Knockback, which monsters gain resistance to over time\n
• Fixed a bug where the Energy Shield regeneration delay could be reduced to 0\n
• Removed the cap of 90% Physical Damage Reduction from Armor\n
• Bosses now deal increasing damage for every Enrage stack they have. Monsters gain one Enrage stack per 10 seconds while in combat\n

Other Changes

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• Pressing B now creates an interactable portal instead of immediately returning to town\n
• Many other small bug fixes, performance improvements, and visual enhancements\n