New Features

• The Desert map is now a brand new map type.
• The old Desert map has been reworked as a Canyon map with some differences in terrain and map objects generation.

Fixes

• Fixed wrong mouse cursor radius when resurrecting a minion that died while overgrown.
• Fixed issue in Spooky map where players could spawn in water (hopefully this time for sure).
• Fixed bots from bot battles using fractional hp.
• Fixed player still being controllable after sinking in the water.
• Lightning Rod no longer triggers arcane shields while attached to a player or minion.
• Fixed issue with resurrected flame imps not working correctly.
• Fixed Chain Lightning not working with Arcane Vision.
• Overgrowth no longer shrinks bot enemies in bot battles.
• Attempt at fixing a bug where casting a spell using a teammates minion did not end your turn if the minion died.
• Fixed a camera issue where it would get stuck focusing on the last friendly minion that died.

Balances & Changes

• Nerfed Arcane Vision by adjusting the damage and projectile count values for various spells it can use.

Hey all you Wizards! We've got some new stuff and we think you'll like it steamhappy

Patch 18 Notes

New!

• Normal Matchmaking will now queue you against bots if it can't find anyone. The difficulty of the bots will increase depending on how many spells you have unlocked and how many matches you have played. Experienced players be warned >:)
• Blizzard has been replaced with a new Yeti spell. Anyone who had Blizzard unlocked will have 250 essence refunded when they login.
• Chat messages can now be seen briefly even when the chat box is closed. This can be turned off in the options.
• Arcane Vision has been reworked! It now lets you craft a custom spell that you can cast a single time.
• New "Arcane Visions" gamemode has been added temporarily. This gamemode's arcane vision is completely unlocked, allowing you to create really crazy combinations. Have fun!

Small Additions

• Added some more achievements
• Beard color now matches hair color
• Bots now take their turn all at once to speed up gameplay

Bug Fixes

• Fixed target indicator being red when it shouldn't be
• Fixed undead wizards not working all the time
• Fixed camera going crazy on smaller maps
• Fixed workshop map creator names not always appearing
• Fixed "select one of three" UI not being centered on larger monitors

Balances & Changes

• Increased Lich Transformation's drain aura from 3 to 5 damage.
• Decreased Den of Darkness's aura damage from 25 to 15.
• Fire Bomb now has a 1-turn starting cooldown.
• Full Fire now gives you stun immunity to napalm.
• Full Arcane's empowered Glyph Ball no longer leaves behind a trail of glyphs.
• Decreased the number of extra arrows from full arcane's Arcane Arrows and Arcane Bomb from 2 to 1.
• Increased Fireball's base damage from 30 to 40.
• Increased Fire Arrow's maximum damage from 45 to 60.
• Ice Golem is now a normal summon instead of a projectile-based summon.
• Decreased the cooldown of Magic Sapling from 6 turns to 2 turns.
• Added the following bonuses for full Underdark: Dark Arrows shoot 1 extra arrow. Remove the cooldown for Resurrect.
• Reaper now has a base minimum of 50 HP.
• Added new spell for Dark Knight, Fear: cause all nearby entities to jump away from the caster. Does not work on frozen, stunned, and towered entities.
• Full Overlight's extra sky rays now deal 25 damage instead of 50.
• Decreased Guardian Angel's HP from 60 to 50.
• Made the following changes to Arcane Portal: The targeted portal can now overlap entities, but not terrain. The portal that spawns above you can no longer overlap entities.
• Piety now deals normal damage instead of directly changing a player's HP when used on players with HP higher than the average. In other words, it is now affected by Protection Shield, Stone Skin, towers, etc.
• (Temporary) Mushrooms are removed when their owner dies. They stop working when the owner dies in the first place, which is a bug that will be fixed in a future patch.

• Overlight and Underdark spells are no longer missing in Random Spells mode.
• Flying entities no longer get stuck in the map corners when teleported using Arcane Portal.
• Blink is no longer disabled when you cast Angel Transformation.
• Fixed wrong number in Light Castle's description.
• Updated Ice Tower's description.
• Fixed Mega Clam and Mega Waterball not working properly if used by a Reaper minion.
• HP draining no longer carries over if you died by self-damage and revived with a soul jar.
• Fixed the glowing effect for full underdark's icon not disappearing when the player's soul jar sinks.
• Fixed Aura of Decay preventing terrain from being created through effects such as empowered acorns and Vine Bridge.
• Fixed wrong order of operations for knockback on several spells (like Shock Bomb), causing momentum to be preserved if they triggered Soul Jar's effect or Substitution.
• You can no longer blink into the water and get stuck.
• Necro'd minions no longer get permanently frozen if they were previously frozen.
• Phoenix eggs no longer trigger Aura of Decay.
• Fixed necro'd flame imps not dealing the correct amount of damage.
• Fixed flame imps not being counted properly sometimes when sacrificed using Reaper or Dark Defences.
• Removed knockback resistance on Reaper when using Rocket Jump.
• Arcane Shield is no longer triggered by your own projectiles if they're moving away from you.
• Fixed Imp Explosion not killing the minion that cast it if protected by a Guardian Angel.
• Fixed bug where Arcane Shield and Shock Shield are removed if your last minion died.
• Fixed bug with arcane glyphs completely removing the light projectile that summons a Holy Knight, preventing it from spawning.
• Mounting a minion no longer removes any mushrooms attached to you.
• Fixed the poison visual effect affecting objects besides the player.
• Fixed bug where mushrooms would detach from entities if they were too close to each other after being hit by Overgrowth.
• Comet no longer ignores Tree of Life's terrain strengthening effect.
• Fixed mushrooms and lightning rod not detaching from a player that died and turned into a ghost.

Balance & Changes

• Removed the starting cooldown for Corruption.
• Increased Mudball's damage from 10 to 20.
• Greatly increased the accuracy of empowered mushrooms.
• Ent is now immune to spores and mushrooms.
• New spell for Ent, Empower Fungus: empowers all mushrooms within range.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed bug where the necro effect on a stunned minion would keep it stunned permanently.
• Protection Shield and Guardian Angel no longer block damage taken from activating a full book bonus.
• Arcane glyphs no longer block falling stars.
• Mushrooms no longer stun-lock your own minions.
• Fixed pebbles dealing double damage to players who have used Angel Transformation.

New!

• Added a different image asset for empowered mushrooms

Balance

• Nerfed healing from light spirit and regenerate to 5

Fixes

• Fixed soul jar stalling game when it falls into water
• Fixed shining bolt and light arrow increasing stacks incorrectly
• Fixed aura of decay stun locking
• Fixed resurrected minion from being controllable by the original summoner (Woopsies)
• Fixed ghosts sinking when they go below water

This patch will release at 6PM PST.

New!

• Added Underdark (Some assets are placeholder)
• Added Overlight (Some assets are placeholder)

Balance and Changes

• Spells obtained from using Arcane Vision can now be used immediately.
• Arcane Vision now has a 2-turn starting cooldown and 4-turn normal cooldown.
• Temporarily removed the trail effect when a full book bonus is activated.
• Flying no longer prevents an entity from riding a minion.
• Spell limit raised to 16

Fixes

• Fixed issue where Dive would sometimes not teleport you low enough if used above terrain.
• Fixed mushrooms not detaching from you if you lose your tower from damage.
• Critters no longer trigger portals.
• Fixed wrong collision check calculation for Arcane Portal causing you to still be able to place one on top of towered players.
• Fixed bug where more than one player can get caught by a single Mantrap.
• Fixed some edge cases with Mantrap and Arcane Portal causing crashes and sometimes continuing to damage whoever was mounted before sinking.
• Fixed edge case with Water Lord and Arcane Portal causing the game to crash.
• Fixed player shader effects disappearing while riding a minion.
• Fixed offset issue with Lightning Rod when the entity it's attached to changes size.
• Updated Volcano's description to specify how many turns it lasts.
• Fixed various bugs with player ghosts.

This patch will be coming out on December 7th at 10AM PST. Here are the patch notes.

New!

• Spells and bonus essence can now drop at the end of the round.
• Experimental: Players now turn into ghosts when they die. Ghosts can fly around and move through terrain but can't currently interact with anything. This is currently only enabled in the new game mode "Experimental". Please try it out and let us know if you notice any bugs with it
• Add a chat to the end of game screen.

Changes

• Mega Boulder's damage is now the following: 5 at the start, then increases by 5 each time it increases in size, up to 20 per bounce max.
• Improved rematching. Rematches no longer happen if all players leave except one.

Fixes

• Fixed crashes from some edge cases when shooting a Rolling Snowball into mountable minions.
• Prevent players from being able to activate full book bonuses more than once.
• Attempt at fixing edge case where Fireball would spawn more than 8 napalm.
• Fixed bug where minions with multi-hit passives (e.g. Whale, Mantrap, Storm Wisp) would keep activating them even after dying.
• Fixed wrong radius for Ice Golem's freezing aura when overgrown.
• Fixed the position of the Storm Wisp's eyes when overgrown.
• Fixed slightly offset positioning of the particles for Ice Golem and Tree of Life.
• The Mantrap can no longer grab a Phoenix egg.

This update is a really big one! Here is a full list of all the patch notes. This patch will be going live at 8 PM PST. (In about 3 hours from the posting of this announcement)

Changes

• Teams can now be selected before the match starts in the lobby.
• Greatly increased the range of Phoenix's Fire Breath absorption.
• Nerfed Rain of Fire's damage from 15 to 10 per fireball.
• Buffed Comet's base damage to 90, and it now digs slightly into terrain before exploding.
• Changed Mega Boulder to 6 bounces x 20 damage per bounce.
• Nerfed Mud Blast's initial damage from 30 to 10.
• Removed the sandbox dummy's knockback resistance.
• Buffed Tree of Life's hp from 35 to 50.
• Increased snowflake count for Snowflake Blast from 16 to 20.
• Fissure will now spawn a minimum of 6 Rock Scatter projectiles on its 2nd turn.
• Increased the range of the toxic fumes for mushrooms.
• Storm Titan's thunderstorm now no longer activates immediately after the titan is summoned.
• Branch of Yggdrasil has been replaced by a new spell, Summon Ent, and its effects have been moved and modified into buffs for Full Nature (see Full Book Bonuses section).
• Added new minion spell Vine Bridge to the Ent minion.
• Added a visual effect to Ice Golem's aura.

Fixes

• Fixed wrong radius being used for the cursor after sinking while overgrown.
• Fixed wrong order of operations for if an entity with Substitute set up is hit by a Spore Ball.
• Clams now have a cap of 7 damaging bounces to prevent the infinite bounce bug.
• Arcane damage no longer hurts friendly minions.
• Fixed minion summoning radius being too small when overgrown.
• Fixed wrong radius values being used for most minion spells with a summoning range.
• Fixed lightning rod sinking through entities if on an entity that is mounted on a minion.
• Flying minions no longer lose their collision after not moving for a long time and then moving vertically only.
• Updated visual indicators for Fissure, Whirlpool, and Whale, to match Volcano's indicator.
• Fixed players continuing to move if pressing tab to open chat while still pressing left/right.
• Fixed Arcane Portals still being allowed to spawn on towered players.
• Added missing stun immunity for Rock Golem.

FULL BOOK BONUSES

Arcane

• Arcane Arrows and Arcane Bomb spawn 2 extra arrows.
• Arcane Glyphs spawn an extra outer ring of glyphs.
• Glyph Ball leaves behind a trail of glyphs.
• On activation, you and all your current minions gain the following passive: at the start of your turn, shoot an arcane arrow towards the nearest enemy.

Fire

• The Phoenix's egg form becomes permanently unbreakable.
• Increase the explosion radius of all your explosive fire spells by 50%.

Earth

• Gain permanent Stone Skin (with 2 instead of 5 damage reduction), and replace the Stone Skin spell with Rollout.
• Mud rock projectiles create more terrain.

Water

• Gain permanent Water Skin, and replace the Water Skin spell with Dive.
• Waterball and Water Jet spawn 10 extra droplets.
• Spring Shower spawns 10 extra droplets per turn.
• Whirlpool's height is increased.

Frost

• Gain immunity to being frozen.
• Ice Ring becomes a targetable spell.
• Ice Golem spawns a Frost Imp on death.
• Convert Comet into Mini Comet: drop a small comet that's half the size and damage of Comet, but with a 2turn cooldown and more digging.

Storm

• Lightning Bolt and Lightning Bomb shoot 2 extra bolts.
• All your Chain Lightning projectiles bounce an extra 8 times.

Nature

• Acorns create terrain around where they spawn.
• Overgrowth makes entities even larger.
• On activation, all your existing mushrooms gain the following passive: at the start of your turn, shoot a spore ball towards the nearest enemy.

Thank you everyone for waiting. The next patch is finally here! Let us know what you think in Discord or on our Steam boards steamhappy The patch will drop at 3:15PM PST today.

Cosmetics

• Added Beta Hat and Patreon Supporter Wand to the game. If you played a few games during the beta you will receive the hat. If you supported us on Patreon you will also receive the Supporter Wand.
• Added Mushroom Costume which drops like other items.

Changes

• Added player counts to the mode select menu
• Replaced Leaf Arrow and Leaf Storm with new spells Spore Ball and Spore Bomb.
• Spores deal damage on impact and spawn fungus (mushrooms).
• Fungus deals damage to anyone nearby at the start of your turn, every turn, and they cannot be destroyed except by sinking.
• Replaced Nature's Touch with new minion Mantrap: a mountable minion, but every turn it deals 30 damage to whoever is mounted on it. Only entities smaller enough than the mantrap can mount it. The mantrap is also unable to jump.
• New minion spell Vine Tunnel: tunnel through terrain and teleport to where the spell leaves terrain.
• The sandbox dummy now has several of the Tier 3 spells equipped.
• Enabled camera focus by pressing C for missiles, bombs, and environment objects (clouds, whirlpool, volcano, etc).
• Changed Water Troll's HP to 60.
• The Water Troll and Whale now won't have Waterball unless you have it equipped yourself.
• The Storm Wisp now won't have Blink unless you have it equipped yourself.

Fixes

• Fixed bug where a mountable minion can steal a player from another mountable minion, causing the minion stolen from to become unmountable.
• Updated Hailstorm's icon.
• Fixed camera shaking bug when zoomed all the way out in some maps.
• Lightning bolts no longer have a small limited range.
• Removed the outdated ice shield background on the Ice Golem.
• Fixed the black texture bug in the map editor.

This weeks rotating gamemode is Ultra Rapid Fire Mode

• Everyone shares a turn and turns never end.
• You can keep shooting spells and moving until you are dead!
• Spell cooldowns decrease over time instead of turns.
• This mode is now available to play in custom lobbies.

To keep things fresh while we develop more spell books and other content, we'll be rotating in and out different gamemodes for you all to try out. This weeks gamemode is Boss Battle. One player will selected to be the boss. They'll get increased HP for each other player in the game. The boss player also gets to cast 3 spells per turn. On the other hand, all the other players will get some bonuses too. The biggest one being they get to all take their turn at the same time. We're excited to see what everyone thinks of these different modes. Be sure to let us know what you think on our Discord or in our Steam forums! steamhappy

This is a small patch to update storm graphics and fix some bugs in the game. This patch also has a few minor balance changes which should improve some degenerative gameplay. Regarding nature, we are still unhappy with how it turned out and will be releasing a rework for the book next. The rework will change a bunch of the spells as well as add minions into the book. We know content has been a little slow. To help this we'll be releasing some fun temporary gamemodes in the next few days. We plan to rotate them in and out to see what players enjoy and to keep them fresh. Stay tuned for more news on the rotating gamemodes. If you have any ideas for a rotating gamemode let us know! This patch will be dropping at 1PM PST (about 30 minutes after this announcement goes live).

Storm Book

• Most visual assets have been finished. We still would like to add some custom explosion animations but we are happy with what we have for now.

Balance Changes

• Blink can no longer be used while in a tower
• Blink now has a 2-turn cooldown
• Chain Lightning now bounces 14 times

Fixes

• Fixed napalm not triggering acorns
• The water lord's version of Waterball now has the right description
• Bombs now have the same weight as normal projectiles
• Fixed substitute triggering during your turn

New

• Added keybind setting for switching minions

Thank you to @everyone for your patience. Today's patch will drop at 8:00 PM PST (about 3 hours from time of posting). Login Servers will go down at 8:00 PM PST for about 30 minutes in preparation for the patch. This patch will mark a small break in-between new spell books. We will be using the next update(s) to begin removing any rough edges currently in the game. We will continue to incorporate feedback into our development! Keep posting your thoughts, comments and ideas in the appropriate channels! Storm The storm spellbook will be making its debut. Storm spell art assets are currently work-in-progress. Nature Nature fell flat a little on release. We've adjusted many of its cooldowns to better match the power level of the spells. Damage has been added to a few of its spells and increased on ones that already dealt damage. Nature's gameplay will continue to be a work-in-progress, stay tuned for more info regarding changes to the nature spells.

• Natures Touch and Enchanted Sapling have swapped places in the spellbook.
• Empowered Acorn Bomb now creates a ring of terrain when it explodes
• Empowered Mega Acorn Bomb creates a large amount of terrain when it explodes.
• Acorns deal 10 damage up from 5.
• Acorn Bomb deals 10 damage upon explosion.
• Vine Whip deals 50 damage up from 25.
• Leaf Shoot is now a quick cast with 5 max casts.
• Empowered Overgrowth now greatly increases the size of things hit.
• Leaf Storm has been completely reworked. It now causes bombs and missiles inside it to explode early.
• Tree of Life now has a nearby aura that reduces the size of nearby projectiles significantly. Damage dealt within this aura is halved. Tree of Life HP has been upped to 50.
• Branch of Yggdrasil now has a starting cooldown of 5 turns.

• Arcane Vortex now has Arcane Gate.

• Fixed ice minions duplicating
• Fixed ice ring missing the bottom iceball
• Weather objects can no longer be moved around with Arcane Portal (you wish!)
• Fixed players looking off-center in some towers
• Substitute can no longer be cast in terrain

• Napalm ripple effect has been made more apparent

Thank you to everyone for your patience. Today's patch will drop at 5:30 PM PST. Login Servers will go down at 5:30 PM PST for about 20 minutes in preparation for the patch. Next week we hope to have another spell book coming out as well. Can you guess which one? ! Nature ! The nature spellbook will be making its debut. It contains 12 new spells, each very different from anything currently in the game. Nature spell icons and object assets are work-in-progress. We plan to update them next week. Balance

• Buffed fissure to reach higher and shoot more scatter rocks.
• Whirlpool starting cooldown changed to 3 from 4.
• Fissure starting cooldown changed from 3 to 5.
• Firework now shoots out 2 napalm if it hits ground early.
• Phoenix now revives with 30 hp up from 15.
• Ice arrow now has a cooldown of 2 turns and no limit to how many times it can be cast.
• Increased water jet knockback.
• Added a speed limit to how fast flying minions can move.
• Rock Golem now rolls slower when frozen.
• Ice shards now scatter a little less.

• Napalm that is on the ground is no longer affected by ice castle.
• Fixed aerial aiming being incorrect sometimes.
• Fixed deluge description being incorrect.
• Rolling snowball now properly sinks flying minions.
• Napalm bomb now correctly spawns 20 napalm as the tooltip suggested.
• Fixed spell book menu sometimes having duplicate books.

This is a small patch to improve the game. We understand players are patiently waiting for some more content. We will be releasing a larger content patch soon. Stay tuned for more. Login Servers will go down at 5:30 PM PST for about 20 minutes in preparation for the patch. (about an hour from when this message is posted) New Features

• Added profanity filter. You can disable it in the options at your own risk

• Buffed Arcane Bomb's explosion damage to 20
• Changed Water Skin to the following: lets you walk on water for the next 5 turns
• Ice Tower's freezing ability is now aura-based: Projectiles that get close enough to an ice tower gain the freezing ability

• Fixed first player's cooldowns being 1 less than everyone else
• Fixed aerial spells shooting towards the wrong direction sometimes
• Various crashes have been fixed
• Fixed some hats rendering incorrectly
• Fixed bug where you could summon minions partially outside of the map bounds (also caused flying minions to get stuck)
• Fixed Glyph Ball sometimes spawning glyphs twice
• Fixed minion arcane damage (e.g. from Arcane Vortex) dealing no damage to enemy arcane towers
• Fixed glyphs not absorbing waterballs
• Fixed description of Fissure being inaccurate
• Fixed keybindings not working or not saving

• Arrow spells are now much much much more intuitive to use.
• Tutorial has been redone
• Added explosion visual indicator for Imp Explosion
• Added direction indicator for aerial spells (Meteor, Comet, Rain of Fire)

• Time Attack has been temporarily disabled.

There will be downtime today from 5:30 PM to 6:00 PM PST for updates. Patch Notes: New Features:

• You can now see matchmaking 'progress'
• Added "Rematch" button to custom lobbies and normal matchmaking
• We've increased the size of maps (except for small)
• Map props can now spawn in at different sizes and angles
• Sandbox is now a separate button on the Main Menu
• Added options menu w/ keybindings

• Decreased explosion size of "Dive" to better match the casters size

• Fixed some effects from 'blocking' targetted spells
• Adjusted Ice Castle HP to match tooltip
• Slightly lowered the ocean waves to improve visibility
• Added missing sound effect to napalm bomb
• Fixed bug where players could spawn whales on top of other players/minions
• Lowered the bottom camera bounds a bit for better visibility
• Fixed wrong cursor color shown when it overlaps particles like falling snow and the stunned particles.
• Added missing explosion sound for Napalm Bomb
• Fixed double spellbooks issue in the spells menu
• Added visual indicators for Arcane Glyphs
• Fixed Quake sometimes never knocking away a player/minion
• Nerfed the volcano, fissure, and meteor armageddons

• Removed particle effects from main menu for now
• Fixed game using a ton of memory on some computers
• Wizards now loads faster on startup
• Added options menu and keybindings
• Reduced snowflake effect on winter map

We hope you had a nice new years! Wizards will be releasing under Early Access on January 15th. The game will launch with five spell books: Arcane, Fire, Water, Earth and Frost. There will also be normal matchmade games and custom lobbies. Ranked will come out shortly after launch. We'll be answering questions in our Steam discussion boards and also on our Discord. Thank you to all those who supported us throughout our alpha and beta.

Wizards will be having an upcoming open beta from the 17th to 18th. If you didn't get a key for the first period, no worries, we're making it really easy this time around to get a beta key. Use the command !key in our Discord server and our trusty Imp Bot will dispense a key for you. Beta Times will be as follows: October 17th - 12:00PM to 8PM PST October 18th - 12:00PM to 8PM PST This time around there will be an additional spell book for players to test! You'll have to wait and see which one it is. We're excited to see what everyone thinks of the new spells. steamhappy We are also considering doing an additional beta period for users outside the Pacific time zone. Stay tuned for more information.

Wizards will be holding a beta this August (exact dates to be released soon). During the beta, our main focus will be stress testing the servers and fix bugs. To help with this we will be taking the following measures.

• Custom lobbies will be open but ranked matchmaking and normal matchmaking will be disabled.
• The map editor and workshop will also be enabled so go crazy.
• Only 4 of the 9 spell books will be enabled.
• Spells will need to be unlocked using in-game currency that can be earned from just playing.
• Item drops will also be enabled so you can begin to earn cosmetic upgrades.
• Cosmetic micro-transactions will most likely be disabled so we can focus on improving game-play

This is our first Steam announcement and we thought it would be most appropriate to make it about our community. Everyone's support has been absolutely astonishing on Discord, Twitter, and even a few posts on our Steam discussion boards. In our opinion, some of the best games out there are ones that allow players to create content within them. As developers, we want our players to be able to shape their experience playing Wizards to their liking. Luckily, that's where giving power to our communities really shines. We want to empower our community with workshop tools. Our game will come bundled with a map editor so you can submit maps easily for all to play. I've put up a few test maps on the workshop, and obviously they are horrible but I am a programmer not an artist. steamhappy In the next few weeks we are hoping to release a map editor tool early so everyone can start brainstorming and uploading maps to the workshop. In addition, costume editors are free to submit their costume designs on the workshop as well. The community will be able to vote on their favorite designs. We will hand pick the top voted items and make sure they get into the game. We hope you are as excited as we are to see what everyone thinks up. See you soon, Wizards Team