Hi folks, We just released a new patch for DemonCrawl that contains a number of improvements for the Arena gamemode! These improvements include 3 new homelands, 3 arena mods, new emotes/sign parts and various balance changes. Also, we are in the process of fine-tuning the autosweeper code to help it deal with certain boards more intelligently (e.g. it will try to avoid clicking burning cells when possible.) You can expect a follow-up patch sometime next week! The full changelog for v1.78 is available below. ---

New Features

• New Patreon rewards: Alien Lifeforms
• Updated GameMaker runtime to the latest version

Arena

• New homeland: Tribe - "Whenever the owner casts a magic item, it is cast here as well."
• New homeland: Sewer - "Whenever you lose an item, send it in a bubble to the owner."
• New homeland: Prefecture - "All heart drops are converted to Dark Hearts. Whenever a Dark Heart is collected, permanently increase the max stage power."
• Island homeland buff: "Any coins lost in this stage are sent to the owner at the end of the round."
• Shrine homeland buff: "At the end of the round, the owner gains souls equal to the amount of damage taken in the homeland."
• Graveyard homeland nerf: "Whenever a player dies, add the minimum power of their homeland to your homeland."
• Brink homeland nerf: "Whenever this stage gains a tier 1 mod, it gains the same mod again."
• New T1 arena mod: Peddler - "Stage contains an additional stranger. Whenever a stranger spawns, attempt to activate it."
• New T2 arena mod: Malice - "Stage contains 3 additional Dark Hearts times the homeland tier."
• New T3 arena mod: Downgrade - "At the end of the stage, reduce your homeland tier by 1."
• Reboot mod tier lowered from 3 to 2
• Updated sprite for Mill mod
• Lowered the re-roll price from 3 to 2 coins
• 12 new emotes
• 32 new sign parts

Quality of Life

• Redesigned sprites for Duster and Moon

Balance Changes

• Nightmare mod difficulty rating increased from 3 to 4
• Lofty mod difficulty rating increased from 3 to 4
• Snowglobe buff: duration increased from 3 to 5 turns
• Capitalism buff: "If you spend at least 25 coins in an Item Shop, it remains open."
• Unstable Compound and its divine variant have an additional effect: "Whenever an aura is removed, the cell explodes in a 3x3 area."
• Troll Cross price reduced from 29 to 23
• Troll Cross mana cost increased from 100 to 150
• Lowered Doctor's debt cost by a few coins

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue related to Human III mastery activation check
• Fixed an issue related to the Arena AI and the Ominous mod