Developer posts and news about this game.
## Weekly Challenge - Now starts with **2 Chonkzilla** on the 1st stage and goes up to **5 Chonkzilla** on the 4th stage. ## Characters - **Professor** is unlockable again — win a run on **bronze** difficulty. - **Chef** — **Cleaver** cooldown **15s → 12s**. ## Item balance - **M
## New - **Weekly Challenge** - A rotating weekly mode with its own leaderboard. - **Pill Bottle** - Enemies drop **1 ruby** (**+1** per stack) on death. - **Mystery Box** - Immediately gain a random **common item** and **consume this item**. - **Rare Crystal** - Immediately gain
Adjust difficulty scaling and reset save progress for everyone.
## New - **Running Shoes** (replaces **Smith's Hammer**) - Gain **10% move speed** (+5% per stack) every **0.5s**, up to **100%** (+50% per stack). - Resets when you **fire** or **take damage**. - **Ammo Box** (artifact) - Increase **magazine size** by **50%**, but decrease **rel
## New - **Demolitionist** - Starts with **Rocket Launcher**. - Replaces **bomb** with **TNT** — a heavier crate with +25% explosion radius and the same **2500%** damage, **2** charges, and **12s** cooldown. - Reduces **explosive damage** taken by **80%**. ## Reworks - **Plasma D
## New - **Chain Gun** - High fire-rate gun that **spins up** while held — each shot grants **+5% fire speed** and a bit of aim spread. - Damage **100%**. Mag **48**. Range **15m**. Reload **2s**. - Spin-up stacks decay while you stop firing / reload. ## Characters - **Beef** - S
- Fixed bug where portal was some times not spawning after you defeat the boss or was disappearing if you went far away and came back. - Fixed bug where things like anvils and vending machines would disappear if you moved them and then went far away and came back. - Fixed bug whe
- **Wormy** — copies spread out more after splitting and normal version is a bit slower. - **Difficulty** — overall difficulty ramps up slightly slower.
## Bosses - **Chonkzilla** - **New enrage attack**. - Deadlier version has a stronger boulder throw attack. - Earthquakes cause 1 additional block to fall. - Normal version should be slightly tougher and deadlier version should be a lot tougher. - **Queen Squid** - Rapid-fire att
## Bug Fixes - **Boss health no longer overflows and breaks the game around stage 10 or 11** (all boss/enemy/block/terrain health is capped at 2,147,483,647). - Fixed bug where difficulty icon was not showing up on the leaderboard. - Fixed bug where end run stats were not showing
Fixed death recap title
## Contribution Stats - **See how much each item contributed to damage, healing, and gold generation** (new game over ui at the end of each run). - Guns and bombs also have their damage tracked. - Ruby healing is tracked. - Gold generation from enemies, ore, and terrain (chests/v
## Combat - **One-shot protection** now has a **3s** cooldown. ## Reworks - **Ruby Ring** - Orb damage **150%** (+**100%** per stack). Max shards **6** (+**3** per stack). - Excess healing no longer banks while at max shards (this was the main thing causing the item to be broken)
Four Leaf Clover now effects Rare Ore and Cat Shrines
## Difficulty - Difficulty ramps up slightly slower. - Gas cloud stops a bit higher above each boss. ## Bug Fixes - **Ruby Ring** now only gives +2 max rubies per extra stack like the description says (was +3).
## New items - **USB Stick** (rare) — **+15% move speed**, **+15% XP multiplier**, and **+3m pickup radius** per stack. - **Smith's Hammer** (rare) — whenever you use a **furnace** or **anvil**, gain **8 gold** (+8 per stack, **x2 per stage**). ## Reworks - **Magician's Cloak** —
## Chests & Loot - Chests no longer drop a random item. They drop gold and rubies instead. - Bosses no longer drop a random epic item. They drop gold and rubies instead. - Gold drop scaling per stage **1.25x → 1.2x**. ## Vending machines - Costs reduced by **20%** — common **
## Bombs Bombs no longer run on emerald pickups. They have a fixed charge pool that regenerates on a cooldown. - **Bombs start with 2 charges** and regenerate every **12s** - **Emeralds no longer grant bomb charges** ## Gems and economy All gold dropped from ore and enemies incre
Bosses drop 1 random epic item when killed
## Vending Machines Playtesters keep trying to break chests and don't like paying to open them. In order to address this, we're adding vending machines and changing how chests work. - **Chests are no longer interactable** and instead drop 1 random item when you break them. Chests