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Amplified v2.42 & 2.43: New Character, New Mode, New items + Bugfixes!

2017-03-08: 2.42

New character: Diamond
- Complete zone 5 to unlock
- Use key combos to move diagonally
- Up+down uses bomb
- Left+right uses item

New mode: hard mode
- More enemies in each room
- Most rooms have a sarcophagus that spawns enemies and is immune to weapon damage
- Exit rooms have two minibosses instead of one
- Boss floors have minibosses added
- No trap doors
- Moddable via necrodancer.xml

- Add items: monkey paw, bomb charm
- Update art: cookies, ice familiar
- Update localizations

- Add seeded version of no return mode
- Courage: protect against gorgon & water ball attacks
- Cursed wraith: change to be consistent with monkeys/gorgons/etc (the wraith won't die if its attack fails because of courage iframe, and non-courage iframes don't protect against it)
- Change rat familiar hit direction to point away from the player
- Change's harp's diagonal attacks to use diagonal hit direction
- Modify BasicSeek to correctly chase diagonal movement, leaping boots movement, lunging boots movement
- Enchant weapon scroll on dagger: allow all the special daggers as results (not only jeweled)
- Fortissimole: adjust FM3 & FM5 misc enemy types to be more fair
- Fortissimole: adjust stage position slightly to give one more row of tiles in arena
- Fortissimole: destroying speakers stops spawns from them
- Fortissimole: clear more of the stage when battle ends
- Fortissimole: destroy floor gold when digging
- Fortissimole: enemy spawns have a longer delay before movement

- Make replays work for no return mode, hard mode, and their seeded versions
- Give no return mode & hard mode their own leaderboards
- Fix crash when dead ringer is non-fatally knocked back by earth spell after the player skipped the previous beat
- Fix trap door miniboss not working with shrine of sacrifice
- Fix shopkeep ghost existence changing which shrine is present
- Fix leaderboard select menu to make more sense for story mode, deathless, all chars
- Fortissimole: fix bug where if he is frozen on stage and bombed out, he is invulnerable until unfrozen
- Fix Fortissimole dirt pile showing on wrong tile after being knocked back (such as by ring of war)
- Don't spawn grenade charm for dove & eli
- Fix horizontal jitter of text in lobby

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2017-03-09: 2.43
- Revert accidental change to dragon seeking behavior in arenas & Dead Ringer
- Eli: remove bomb charm from his item pool
- Fix frozen Fortissimole burrowing when hit
- Fix shrine of rhythm not skipping trap door penalty box
- Don't use half localization for no return stairs (they require re-localization)