Hi, all! Lets cool off in the heat of summer with a bone-chilling Draft of Darkness update! This update adds two new challenges, several new consumable items, and new moves (cards) to the game. It also includes multiple bugfixes to improve your overall experience.

Survivor's Consumable Pack

Consumable items are essential tools for survival and strategy, adding variety to both exploration and encounters. This update introduces a few new consumables with simple but powerful effectsperfect for filling the gaps in your strategy at just the right moment.

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• Ammo Box: Gives you permanent resources during exploration or temporary ones in encountersthis might just be the lifeline that saves your run.

• Inspiro-Berry: A refreshing drink that grants inspiration. Use it during exploration to reach that epic card youve unlocked and want to build your strategy aroundor during encounters to select and play a card for free when youre in a tight spot.

• Wooden Plank: Simple but effective. Grants Block, whether for tanking a boss hit or triggering a Block combo.

These new consumables can be obtained in two ways:

Punch, Kick and Learn in New Ways

Ive been wanting to expand the unarmed move set for a while. Its a category that all characters can use, and I think it benefits greatly from more variety and combo potential.

This update adds two epic moves and three rare moves, including new Combo moves and a move that lets you upgrade your deck in a new way!

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The epic moves are unlocked using Challenge Gems in the Credits Shop. The rare moves are added to the drop pool by default.

New Challenges Bring New Opportunities for Epic Unlocks

Two new challenges await: Survive a run in an atmosphere filled with deadly Radiation, or escort a heavily wounded companion to the Lair. If youre short on Challenge Gems for unlocking the new consumables and moves, these challenges might be your ticket!

Closing Thoughts

As always, the update includes various fixescheck out the Changelog below for full details. If you come across any bugs or want to share feedback, feel free to reach out on the Steam Forums or our Discord Server.

While Im currently focused on new and exciting projects, Draft of Darkness will continue receiving small maintenance updates like this. It's not set in stone, but I might aim for another such update soon... maybe around a certain spooky time of the year? *wink wink*

Thank you for your support. Take care!

Update Notes for Patch v1.2.14

Content

- Added 2 new Challenges:

Nuked City: Survive a run where the atmosphere is filled with deadly Radiation.

Blood Candy: Escort a heavily wounded companion through their journey to the Lair.

- Added 3 new Consumable Items. New consumable items will appear during runs after "Survivor's Consumable Stash 1" is purchased with Challenge Gems in the Credits Shop. They are also available as starting items in the Credits Shop.

Ammo Box: Exploration: Gain 12 random combat resources. Encounter: Select and give a Stash 10 to the target ally. Can be used 1x per turn.

Inspiro-Berry: Exploration: Add a random rare or epic move to the trunk. Encounter: Select and draw a typeless, Volatile, zero cost clone of a move you can use from a random selection of 10. Can be used 1x per turn.

Wooden Plank: Exploration: Give Thick-Skinned 10 to the target ally. Encounter: Give 10 Block to the target ally. Can be used 2x per turn.

- Added 3 new Rare Unarmed Run Moves: Scrap Bomb, Rotating Kick, Fake Slap. Rare moves will appear during runs.

- Added 2 new Epic Unarmed Run Moves: Punch of the Champion, Self-Teach. Epic moves can be purchased with Challenge Gems in the Credits Shop to appear during runs.

- (Card/Shield) Concussive Bash: Damage 1x->0.5x.

- (Card/Syringe) Serotonin: Energy Cost reduction now applies to the next 3 moves.

- (Card/Shotgun) Come With Me If You Want to Live: Energy Cost 5->3.

- (Enemy) Cian / Ruin: Physical Defense 42->60, Dark Defense 42->60.

- (Status) Thick-Skinned now decays every 2 steps during exploration instead of every 5 tiles revealed.

Fixes

- Fixed an error where Daemon Horn A and B descriptions were wrong. Daemon Horn A increases only Crit. Chance while Daemon Horn B increases only Power.

- Fixed a typo in the Camper Van event.

- Fixed a bug where enemies using Coherence move to activate card effects would trigger card choices, making the player select the card effect. Now the choice is made randomly.

- Fixed Lock and Load not being able to draw moves in conservation mode. Added the missing weak version to it.

- Fixed an issue where the Punching Machines Immovable status was not working correctly and was making it immune to disabilities. Its now properly unaffected by Stagger, Push Back and Advance.

- Fixed an error with Duct Tape item description, clarifying it only triggers with critical mend effects.

- Fixed an issue where Cian and Visage wouldnt use Decoherence and de-transform.

- Fixed an error where acid and dark power and defense values were able to go below 0. (Needs new run)

- Fixed a missing text error in the Captured condition.

- Fixed an error in the Burrow condition text.

- Fixed an issue where Concussive Bash damage didnt scale with Power.

- Fixed a bug where Payment +1 didnt give Kickstart.

- Fixed an issue with gamepad navigation in the decision event window that occurred while trying to navigate back from the magnifying glass button.

- Fixed a move name error for the Sewer Disease enemy.

- Fixed issues with Refill move where it didnt update Repeat amount in certain cases, such as when its cloned to hand or when non-move draw and discard effects change hand count.