Hello! Today I’m here to announce the second official content update for Seeds of Calamity!
Unlock the Mystery! In early winter you should receive a letter from Erik asking for your help in opening some ancient ruins. These ruins unlock the Challenge dungeon. Please note, you must also have completed Erik’s quest “The Start of a Discovery” and have repaired the bridge south of your farm to receive the letter.
Test your Skills! The Challenge dungeon is a gauntlet designed to test your mettle against Elite foes.
You will have to fight through 10 rooms plus a final boss to get a reward.
Once rewarded, you can choose to continue fighting or teleport out.
There are 3 bosses in total.
Defeat them all to receive the final reward!
New Elixirs! One of the rewards you can receive in the Challenge dungeon are new recipes for better health and combat elixirs.
Combat Rebalance! I have made all enemies in the game (not just in the Challenge dungeon) hit harder and have more health!
I’ve gotten a lot of feedback that the combat is fun but not very challenging. My goal for the combat was to make it feel approachable but I made it so approachable as to not be very satisfying. I hope with this change it will feel like more of an accomplishment to defeat each level of the dungeon.
So this is a friendly reminder to take some healing food items with you the next time you go dungeon diving. :)
Thank you for all your feedback and I hope you enjoy this new content. <3
With this update I also did a bunch of bug fixes and other minor feature changes:
Game Play:
Pickling Jars and Wine Barrels and Spinning Wheels will no longer show invalid items.
Increased the frequency that Attuned crystals will appear in the dungeon mining rooms (there will be more changes to Attuned Crystals in the future).
You will now be effected by status effects when your Shadowed status doesn't trigger a dodge.
Minor updates to the Snowtop sheep companion animations.
Fixed the bridge by the north pond being unpassable for some players.
Fixed a game crash that could happen sometimes when placing archways near fence gates.
The rare spots on the island below Jorund's house should now give the correct rarity of fish.
Sprinklers placed on top of paths will water as expected.
UI and Controller Support:
Fixed a display issue for the Spinning Wheel products in the Journal menu.
Prevented the Return Crystal tutorial pop up from incorrectly showing multiple times.
The festival HUD icon will now be hidden during the evenings and night to prevent confusion.
Status descriptions in combat will now display correctly when multiple status effects are present.
You can now craft with higher qualities of Snowtop Wool.
Minor text changes
Talk to you soon,
Jenny
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