Patch 1.0.1
- Fixed an issue with Second Sun not moving to the center when a the edge of the map
- Fixed an issue with Second Sun not moving to the center when a the edge of the map
Magecraft
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- Sep 26, 2023
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Developer postMagecraft 1.0 Release!!!
Hello all! Version 1.0 has been released! Thank you for your support during our early access period. 1.0 comes with new content including a new boss, new waves, new spells, major performance improvements, and bug fixes! New Content New Waves 6 new extremely challenging waves, fea
Original postHello all! Version 1.0 has been released! Thank you for your support during our early access period. 1.0 comes with new content including a new boss, new waves, new spells, major performance improvements, and bug fixes!
New Content
New Waves
6 new extremely challenging waves, featuring new mechanics leading up to the final boss. While we will keep spoilers to a minimum, here's some good advice: do NOT touch the lasers!
New Boss: Doombringer
A boss that can turn the tide by unleashing it's own bullet hell against you, this boss can be a difficult challenge to overcome. Only bring the most finely tuned spells to this challenge!
New Spell: Apocalypse
Rarity: Legendary. Rapidly generate high damage explosions that target completely random locations anywhere on the screen. Not the most powerful spell type on it's own, but it can get pretty insane with the right modding.
New Spell: Spectral Barricade
Rarity: Rare. The first of two completely new spell types, orbiters. Creates a sphere that orbits around the caster and damages whatever it comes into contact with.
New Spell: Disseminated Formation
Rarity: Legendary. The second new orbiter spell type, this one generates twin orbs that rotate at a much slower speed while also doing significantly more damage.
Balance Changes
Sunbeam
- Damage increased to 18 per tick.
Blood Burst
- Knockback increased from 0 -> 0.35.
Gravedigger
- Now turns invulnerable during it's screen wide summoning attack.
Beholder
- Now immune to slow debuff.
- Chaser speed reduced from 6 -> 5.
Water Tiles
- Healing amount for player now scales to max health, significantly increased healing amount.
- Healing cooldown for player increased from 3s -> 5s.
- Unchanged for mobs.
Toxic Tiles
- Damage amount now scales to max health. Applies to mobs.
Knockback
- Now adds a flat value to knockback instead of scaling by multiplier.
Slow
- Maximum movement speed reduction from 90% -> 80%
Duration
- Now stacks additive instead of multiplicative.
Speed
- Now stacks additive instead of multiplicative.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed Second Sun not moving to the center of the screen correctly when the fight starts at the edge of the map
- Fixed some issues were terrain tiles overlap in odd ways
- Fixed a rare issue where the third Beholder eye at the start of phase 3 wouldn't spawn correctly and be broken for the rest of the fight
- Fixed several typos and formatting issues in spell mod descriptions
- Fixed Sunbeam being completely uneffected by homing mods
- Fixed Fussilade not working correctly when cast as a While Alive spell
- Fixed a null error when mobs spawned outside of the playable area
- Fixed lifesteal ignoring cooldown if on a while-alive-cast subspell.
Developer postUpdate 0.7
New Content We've added a new terrain system so that the map doesn't always look like the same boring grass fields. Terrain is now dynamically generated for each run and has multiple types of terrain that have different effects when you or enemies step on them. Grass Has no effec
Original postNew Content
We've added a new terrain system so that the map doesn't always look like the same boring grass fields. Terrain is now dynamically generated for each run and has multiple types of terrain that have different effects when you or enemies step on them.
Grass
Has no effect, just like before.
Dirt
Slightly slows you and other mobs when you step on it.
Water
Slows you and other mobs substantially but slowly heals the player over time (and only the player).
Rock
Grants additional speed to both you and enemies.
Toxic
Slows and deal damage over time to anything that steps on it.
A HUGE shout out to ZeroByte011 for the original idea and initial code work on the new terrain system! Really amazing job he did. Loved that we were able to push it across the finish line and make something pretty amazing!
Developer postUpdate 0.6
Hello all! We hope you enjoy this new content update! New Content New Spell: Blood Burst Rarity: Common. A triangular burst of low damage homing projectiles that utilize a new lifesteal mechanic. New Spell: Fusillade Rarity: Rare. A strange spell that rapidly fires projectiles to
Original postHello all! We hope you enjoy this new content update!
New Content
New Spell: Blood Burst
Rarity: Common. A triangular burst of low damage homing projectiles that utilize a new lifesteal mechanic.
New Spell: Fusillade
Rarity: Rare. A strange spell that rapidly fires projectiles towards the caster from random directions.
New Spell: Scintillating Beam
Rarity: Uncommon. A beam that fires in a clockwise pattern with high damage
New Spell: Sunbeam
Rarity: Rare. Fires a laser that persists on the screen for a period of time dealing constant damage to anything it touches.
New Modifier: Lifesteal
Grants health restoration on hit with a fixed cooldown. When at full health the healing is converted to "Overheal" which serves as an additional layer of duratility on top of max health. Each wizard has a fixed Overheal cap for that particular class.
UI Improvements
- Added the player's current status to the item equip window.
Balance Changes
- Fracture damage and knockback bonus from 20%, 30% -> 40%, 60%.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a duplication bug in level-ups.
- Fixed spell tooltip not accounting for play cooldown reduction
- Fixed Wizard Hat not using colored descriptions.
- Fixed some typos.
- Developer post
Patch 0.5.0.1
Negative armor is now capped at -90, this should prevent dealing infinite damage to an enemy with armor melt. Fixed scrolling not working on large inventories. Increased the width of stats tooltip.
Original post- Negative armor is now capped at -90, this should prevent dealing infinite damage to an enemy with armor melt.
- Fixed scrolling not working on large inventories.
- Increased the width of stats tooltip.
Developer postUpdate 0.5
We hope you enjoy this new round of changes and additions! Let us know if you have any issues on our Discord or in the steam discussions. New Content More Waves Enjoy 4 new waves of significantly higher duration, with much tougher enemies! New Boss After defeating the new waves,
Original postWe hope you enjoy this new round of changes and additions! Let us know if you have any issues on our Discord or in the steam discussions.
New Content
More Waves
Enjoy 4 new waves of significantly higher duration, with much tougher enemies!
New Boss
After defeating the new waves, encounter an entirely new hand-designed boss! Be sure to put your dodging shoes on.
UI Improvements
Tooltips
All descriptions boxes for items, modifiers, and spells have been replaced with tooltips that appear on hover. This should help the UI to feel a lot cleaner and only display detailed information at the player's request.
Descriptions
Additionally, all descriptions have been rewritten to be more detailed and better formatted, as well as color coded to highlight important sections.
Spell Stats
You can now see a detailed breakdown of the stats on your spell by hovering over it in the spell builder.
New Font
The old font has been replaced with a new, stylized font throughout the game.
Balance Changes
- Immunity time for enemies hit by landmine doubled.
- Damage mods now scale additively.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed some projectiles having the wrong layer.
- Fixed audio on railgun being too loud.
- Fixed some callbacks not being invoked correctly behind the scenes.
- Developer post
Patch 0.4.3.1
Changes: - Rainbow Ring armor increased from +40 to +60. - Rainbow Ring 30% cooldown reduction replaced by +60% damage output - Pierce scaling reduced from 4/6/8/20 to 3/4/6/16. Fixes: - Fixed damage reduction on Gravedigger building up way too quickly, leading to a 7 minute figh
Original postChanges:
- Rainbow Ring armor increased from +40 to +60.
- Rainbow Ring 30% cooldown reduction replaced by +60% damage output
- Pierce scaling reduced from 4/6/8/20 to 3/4/6/16.Fixes:
- Fixed damage reduction on Gravedigger building up way too quickly, leading to a 7 minute fight. 
Developer postUpdate 0.4.3
Hello all! Thank you so much for all of the feedback and bug reports! We hope you enjoy this round of changes and additions! New Content Today we introduce one new spell, and a new character that starts with it. New Spell: Arcane Slash Quickly fires high damage slashes in front o
Original postHello all!
Thank you so much for all of the feedback and bug reports! We hope you enjoy this round of changes and additions!New Content
Today we introduce one new spell, and a new character that starts with it.
New Spell: Arcane Slash
Quickly fires high damage slashes in front of you at a short range. A risk/reward spell with insanely high damage output, but requires you to walk towards your enemies to utilize it effectively.
New Character: Spellblade
Very durable and hits hard, but is slow at both moving and casting. Uses Arcane Slash spell type.
Spell Changes
Every spell in the game has been changed, some more than others. The goal of these changes is to increase player engagement by forcing you to play around your cooldowns more, instead of being able to easily spam the screen with projectiles. Every spell that has had it's cooldown increased has been made stronger to compensate. A side effect of these changes should be some moderate performance improvements as well, since there are fewer projectiles on screen generally.
Bloom/Blossom
- Angle increment degrees per shot from 10 -> 8.
- Cooldown from 0.2 -> 0.3.
- Duration from 1.5 -> 2.
Catalyst
- Cooldown from 1.15 -> 6.5.
- Damage penalty from 50% -> 30%.
- Rarity from Rare -> Uncommon.
Chain Lightning
- Damage from 5 -> 10.
- Knockback from 0.05 -> 0.
Chaos Blaster
- Cooldown from 0.1 -> 0.2.
- Damage from 25 -> 35.
Explosion
- Cooldown from 2.5 -> 7.25.
- Damage from 40 -> 90.
- Size from 1.75 -> 2.
Hornets
Reworked. Now fires a burst of low damage and piercing/homing bullets that last for a long time on a high cooldown. Burst is independent of multicast and split shot.
- Cooldown from 0.08 -> 6.
- Damage from 8 -> 13.
- Speed from 6.5 -> 5.
- Duration from 4 -> 9.
Landmine
Unlike other spells, Landmine actually gets a cooldown decrease here due to it severely underperforming compared to other spells.
- Cooldown from 3.5 -> 1.25.
- Changed visuals to look less like gold.
Laser Cross
- Cooldown from 1.45 -> 4.2.
- Pierce from 0 -> 2.
Magic Missile
- Cooldown from 0.8 -> 2.1.
- Damage from 50 -> 70.
- Duration from 2.5 -> 3.
- Pierce from 1 -> 3.
Orb
- Cooldown from 8 -> 12.2.
- Damage from 200 -> 275.
- Duration from 6 -> 9. (nice)
- Pierces from 13 -> 25.
Portal
- Cooldown from 2.2 -> 21.
- Damage penalty from 45% -> 40%.
- Duration from 4 -> 13.5.
- Speed from 2.5 -> 2.
Railgun
- Cooldown from 2 -> 5.75.
- Pierce from 8 -> infinite.
- Size from 1.5 -> 2.
Splitting Shard
- Cooldown from 0.5 -> 0.9.
- Pierce from 0 -> 1.
X Shot
- Cooldown from 1.45 -> 3.75.
- Damage from 80 -> 65.
- Pierce from 0 -> 3.
Other Changes
- Rebalanced the health and speed values on a number of enemies
- Lowered the health on all bosses
- Bosses now get a damage reduction bonus when damage is dealt to them that consistently goes down over time. This is to help keep bosses alive longer even in godlike runs, forcing the player to actually fight the bosses instead of just insta killing them (no more steamrolling Gravedigger).
- Multicast damage penalty from 40% -> 20%.
- Split Shot damage penalty from 60%, 40%, 20% -> 40%, 20%, 0%.
- Spells that cast a sub-spell while alive now start with that sub-spell on a half duration cooldown.
- Adjusted descriptions on debuff mods to make them more understandable.
- Added border change on hover for button.
- Added photosensitivity warning scene before start menu.
- UI Tweaks.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed menu sounds not utilizing new audio system.
- Fixed status effects on spells being overwritten. This was causing a number of issues, including Kindling Spirit and Gravedigger not applying their status effects.
- Fixed null reference to owner in spell.
- Fixed Audio Master not playing sound when timescale is 0.
- Fixed some steam achievements not unlocking with in-game achievements. They will now automatically be unlocked upon starting a run.
- Fixed doubling audio on Kindling Spirit attacks.
- Fixed AoE attacks having their hitboxes removed after cycling through the projectile pool. This was causing Explosion to basically not work at all.
- Fixed margin issue with start menu.
- Cleaned up Start Menu layout for new character and fixed several minor styling issues.
- Developer post
Patch 0.4.2.3
Changes: - Added audio settings to adjust music and sound effects separately. - Completely rewrote audio system behind the scenes. You likely won't see any immediate improvements, however this will make it much easier to fix audio overlapping issues in future updates. - Added rar
Original postChanges:
- Added audio settings to adjust music and sound effects separately.
- Completely rewrote audio system behind the scenes. You likely won't see any immediate improvements, however this will make it much easier to fix audio overlapping issues in future updates.
- Added rarity colors to borders of equipped items/mods/projectiles.
- Made drops offset their positions randomly.Fixes:
- Fixed achievements involving killing enemies with a specific item equipped not working.
- Fixed armor break only stacking once.
- Fixed status effects that apply multiple stacks simultaneously only applying once.
- Fixed status effects with more stack applications then remaining stacks to cap not applying at all.
- Fixed spells duplicating status effects behind the scenes.Unless we need to push some more fixes in the meantime, the next update should contain significant balance changes and some new content, so look forward to that!
- Developer post
Patch 0.4.2.2
Changes: - Added support for resolutions greater than 16:9. - Added drop down UI notification panel for when you can't purchase a character for some reason. - Changed exit button visuals. - Changed the draw order for projectile to make enemy attacks easier to spot. - Lowered the
Original postChanges:
- Added support for resolutions greater than 16:9.
- Added drop down UI notification panel for when you can't purchase a character for some reason.
- Changed exit button visuals.
- Changed the draw order for projectile to make enemy attacks easier to spot.
- Lowered the volume for hit sound effect.
- Substantially increased the drop rates for high rarity items
- Reworked An Explosion in this Wonderful World achievement
- Nerfed Quick Cast++.
- Reduced the number of bounces from the Bounce mod across all tiers.
- Various UI tweaks.
- Minor performance improvements.Fixes:
- Fixed a couple of broken achievements.
- Fixed multiplicative mods with values less than 1 giving you worse stats for having multiple of them (e.g. Duration)
- Fixed modal border bug.
- Fixed Achievements UI content bug.
- Various UI fixes. - Developer post
Magecraft has launched!
Magecraft has launched! Here to show a bit of gameplay in celebration.
Original postMagecraft has launched! Here to show a bit of gameplay in celebration.
- Developer post
We Are Live!
We are now live! Thank you to everyone who has helped us along the way in getting to where we are now. We still have a lot of work to do! Expect many updates with fixes, improvements, and new content in the coming weeks. Join our discord to chat with us and see what we're current
Original postWe are now live!
Thank you to everyone who has helped us along the way in getting to where we are now. We still have a lot of work to do! Expect many updates with fixes, improvements, and new content in the coming weeks.
Join our discord to chat with us and see what we're currently working on, as well as report any issues or suggest ideas you have!
- Developer post
Patch 0.4.2.1
Changes: - Added quit button. - Disabled on hit visual effects, replaced with global sound effect for hitting enemy. - UI Tweaks Fixes: - Fixed some harmless null errors that pop up after the player dies. - Fixed gem gain not being displayed properly in game win screen.
Original postChanges:
- Added quit button.
- Disabled on hit visual effects, replaced with global sound effect for hitting enemy.
- UI TweaksFixes:
- Fixed some harmless null errors that pop up after the player dies.
- Fixed gem gain not being displayed properly in game win screen. - Developer post
Update 0.4.2
Changes: - Massively increased the durability of Second Sun. - Massively increased the durability of Gravedigger and his minions. - Massively increased the health, speed, and spawn rates on waves after Rock Titan. - Adjusted how mobs are spawned to be more likely to surround the
Original postChanges:
- Massively increased the durability of Second Sun.
- Massively increased the durability of Gravedigger and his minions.
- Massively increased the health, speed, and spawn rates on waves after Rock Titan.
- Adjusted how mobs are spawned to be more likely to surround the player.
- Re-added the reroll button for level ups.
- Main bosses now only drop 1 item instead of 2.
- Changed sound effect for X Shot hit to be less bombastic.
- Bosses can no longer be corrupted.
- Increased gem gain ratio.
- Shortened some descriptions.
- Significantly reduced the slow effect of the Slow mod line.
- Player sprite now flips with direction.
- Enabled cloud diagnostics automatic error reporting.
- Portal can now be affected by bounce and reflection.
- Changed the requirements on some achievements.
- Various UI Tweaks.Fixes:
- Fixed game win screen not appearing after beating Gravedigger.
- Fixed some broken achievements.
- Fixed Bounce getting stuck in the walls for beam type weapons.
- Fixed new spell level up offering a mod if there were no projectiles available in that rarity category. - Developer post
Update 0.4.1
Small but significant patch. The purpose of these changes was to make the early game far more interesting by providing a lot of build variety early on. This has the obvious side affect of making the game significantly easier overall, and we will be addressing this in future updat
Original postSmall but significant patch. The purpose of these changes was to make the early game far more interesting by providing a lot of build variety early on. This has the obvious side affect of making the game significantly easier overall, and we will be addressing this in future updates.
Changes:
- Each wave has now been split into 2 waves of half duration, doubling the number of rewards you get.
- Minibosses now provide a new spell slot, no longer opens an item shop.
- You now get a guaranteed item drop after beating a boss or miniboss.
- Nerfed some of the overpowered legendary mods.
- Slightly reduced the chance of getting a legendary drop.
- Reduced the rate of gem gain.Fixes:
- Fixed being able to change projectile.
- Fixed arcanaologist having incorrect default drop types.
- Fixed homing allowing projectiles to exist off screen.
- Fixed boss bar not going invisible after boss is defeated.
- Fixed immunities not being checked correctly.
- Fixed some UI alignment issues.
- Temporarily disabled rerolling while bugs are being fixed.