• Soulwurm associated crash is fixed
  
• Fixed a localization bug associated with the new buildings unlock in Upgrades menu
  
• Changed Sophy's Research Lab building:
  
  
  1. Time to produce blueprint 160 sec -> 140 sec
     
  2. Build cost 100 wood 80 gold -> 50 wood 50 gold
     
  3. The laboratory can produce any type of blueprint as before, including Tier 1 Resources and Troops

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• The new Volcano map centered around deals with Inferno. Hire nine new demon troops, fulfill the Worship Meter, and unlock Hellish rewards. You might need them to fight a new set of enemies, Scarlet Goblins and Lava Creatures, commanded by six new bosses. We've also added 20 new, unique themed narrative events. All of the above is exclusive to the Volcano map!

• Trader discounts, banning of buildings, upgrades for re-rolls, and many other new additions

• We've added 17 new artifacts to enhance your builds.

• 4 new advisors and improvements to a dozen existing ones.

• 4 new troops will be available throughout the entire game, and give necessary spice to some of the builds

• The game’s soundtrack is being updated with the tracks from the fresh update.

A new map, Volcano, has been added to the game. It’s accessible to everyone who has completed the Graveyard map on Threat Level 2.

• Ignahog, King of Cinderwilds

• Smokeeye, the Goblin Marksman

• Ashfeather, the Eternal Phoenix

• Skarkh, the Inferno Brood

• Goblark the Bellringer

• Solvurm, the Worm-Father

  

• Exclusive resource - Nether Runes. These runes can be gathered through sacrificial altars, battle challenges, or from the rune enchanter building. Runes fill up a Worship Meter, which unlocks your rewards, some exclusive to just the Volcano map, as you pass certain thresholds.

• 20 new narrative events and new functionality in these events (e.g., convert all blueprints into troops)

  

  9 new infernal barracks you can build if you claim a specific reward (only three barracks (one per tier) can be unlocked during one run):

• Fetus Field T1. Recruits Hellhounds. Upon death, heals 10% max HP of all allies.

• Nether Portal T1. Recruits Infernal Brutes. Upon death, gives a random non-legendary spell.

• Caludron T1. Recruits Hellpigs. At the start of each wave, it eats your weakest Grunt unit, increasing own health by 100 and giving you 30 gold.

• Hellish Tome T2. Recruits Cacodeamons. Consumes a body on the ground, giving all your troops 5/s regeneration for 3s and increasing their maximum HP by 1% permanently.

• Infernal Outpost T2. Recruits Infernal generals. All units have a chance to explode for 50 damage, 10% chance per Infernal General.

• Beholder’s Swamp T2. Recruits Beholders. Periodically enrages friendly troops, giving them extra attack and move speed for 3s and increasing their damage by 5% permanently.

• Fiend’s Skull T3. Summons Bone Fiends. All troops have a 10% chance to be resurrected per Bone Fiend.

• Torture Square T3. Summons Goliaths. Provides 2 Denarii per enemy hit.

• Bottomless Pit T3. Summons Hellheads. All troops' attacks burn enemies for 5 extra damage per Hellhead.

  

• A new enemy factions that oppose you - Scarlet Goblins and Lava Creatures - featuring unique skills and tactics in combat.

• New Threat Level progression. One of the modifiers is Volcanic Activity - the more severe it is, the earlier the effects of volcanic eruptions will appear as the worship meter fills.

• The trader will now have one good item always on discount. The number of discounts and how deep they are can be increased with artifacts and Councilors. For example, one of the councilors will now allow you to get one random item from the shop for free.

  

• You can now ban certain buildings from appearing in the rewards pool. You can unlock this ability and increase the number of uses through permanent kingdom Upgrades

• An upgrade that adds a free re-roll has been expanded into three updates at the Kingdom Upgrades tree, each giving a re-roll.

• Added an upgrade that allows for rerolling the artifacts (except legendary).

• Artifacts can now be exclusive to certain maps, like Nether Contract, which gives you 2 Nether runes when your unit dies.

• The research table can now also generate blueprints for Tier 1 troop buildings. To follow up on this change in the whole game, we reduced the chance of appearance of T1 troop buildings in optional waves. At the same time, we have increased the likelihood of other rewards appearing there.

• Most morale upgrades now provide morale passively, rather than when the building is observed.

• The Morale pop-up provides more info on where the bonus morale comes from.

• Newly unlocked paintings show an eye symbol to distinguish them from the ones you have seen already.

• New challenge and achievement given for defeating every boss of the Volcano

  

• Pangolin Stump – Poison specialists assisting your Riders whose upgrades add crippling debuffs.

• Paladin Campus – Warrior-mages who scale with your spell damage.

• Barbarian Tent – A furious leader who buffs your ranged units while smashing foes himself.

• Minotaur Camp – Tough bruisers who also empower your flying troops.

  

• Tome of Restless Souls. When one of your troops dies, it rises from the dead as a ghost and fights on your side for 7 seconds.

• Bandage of Dexterity. All units receive a 4% chance to evade the attacks. After evading an attack, units gain a temporary 50% damage bonus.

• Filtered Fuel. Each 1 water produced has 4% chance to produce 1 fuel.

• Super Metal. Every 1 metal produced increases all players' units’ damage by 0.05%.

• Healer Banner. Gives a 20% chance for friendly units to leave a lesser healing pool under them upon death. Healing per second 5 HP, duration - 4 seconds.

• Boiling Rage. Enrages 3 random Infernal units for 20s at the beginning of a wave (Volcano exclusive)

• Demon Wings. Increases damage dealt by all Infernal units by 30% (Volcano exclusive.)

• Clay Treasure. Producing 1000 clay after equipping this artifact grants a legendary artifact.

• Wine Cup. Every 30 wine spent permanently grants 1 morale.

• Sacrificial Vessel. Increases spell damage by 0.1% per enemy killed.

• Free Coupon. Grants a 100% discount for one good at the trader.

• Magic Acorn. Producing 1000 wood after picking up this artifact grants an extra 500 wood.

• Nether Contract. Gain 2 Nether Runes when your unit dies. (Volcano exclusive)

• Cheaper Housing. -25% to the construction cost of all buildings.

• Flour Deity. Every 1 flour produced increases all player units’ HP by 0.05%.

• Comfortable Handle. All wells have a 10% chance of producing one piece of furniture.

• Unexpected Finding. When an excavation is completed, a weak undead unit rises to join your army. (Graveyard exclusive)

  

In this update, we’ve added 4 new advisors:

• Moralin: increases morale by 1 for the rest of the run for each spell cast

• Chicken basket: Summons a temporary chicken rider to fight for you at the start of every wave

• Doctor: Your troops and buildings heal 20% more. Receive 1 Healer mage and Hospital blueprint at the start of the run

• Gold digger: Places a Small gold mine in your castle at the start of the run

  

We’ve also changed how some of the existing advisors work to make them more viable in the game and remove unintended behaviour from Betty and Wise Tree.

• Twins: Receive 1 Basic construction. Developing Basic construction is free.

• Zeus: now strikes the enemy with the most HP. Damage increases after each strike. Bosses receive reduced damage.

• Wise Guy: choose 1 spell at the start of the run and 1 spell every 5 waves

• Sophy: Grants a separate building "Research laboratory", which costs more than a Research table and generates blueprints more slowly, but can still generate blueprints in the category of your choice

• Golem: Increased building cost discount 10% -> 20%

• Phoenix: Ressurection chance 7% -> 10%, all resurrected troops become enraged for 5 seconds. Buff is granted if resurrection is performed by other means as well.

• Panther: Bonus increased 10% -> 15%

• Jacques: A random item at the trader becomes free

• Court Harpy: See all upcoming bosses. Summons harpies to aid you at the start of each boss fight

• Jester: places a Wheel of Fortune building in your castle at the start of the run.

• Accountant: Increases the selling price of furniture on the market from 1 -> 2. Receive a carpentry at the start of the run.

• Wise tree and Betty: Basic construction no longer offers correlated buildings with these advisors equipped.

  

We’ve heard your feedback that the difficulty curve from Threat Level 5 to Level 6 is a bit too steep, while the final threat levels feel relatively similar in terms of difficulty. We will implement the following changes to address this issue.

• Dark Rites' amount of tiles covered changed from 100% to 80%

• Modifier Enemies Damage II now gives a 40% bonus instead of the previous 60% bonus

• On the contrary, the enemies' HP III modifier was slightly buffed and now gives a 70% HP bonus instead of 50%

• Additional changes to the Enemies Damage modifier on different Tiers

  

• Some underused buildings have been made cheaper or stronger

• Slightly decreased build costs for some tier 1 troop buildings

• Buffed some building upgrades to provide more stats

• Buffed both fireworks spells' duration

• The tile enchanter cost has been changed from gold to crystals

• Tavern changed: While the building is active reduces wine consumption by 50%. Increases morale received from wine by 20. Only one Tavern can take effect.

• Added a trait for Relicts. They now give 1% hp, damage, and attack speed to all troops on the battlefield. The endless mode enemy wave generation has changed: it will now start with easier enemies and progress more smoothly. Units that appear early have been nerfed, and the ones that appear later have been buffed. Overall, the endless mode is made easier.

• Endless mode is now accessible after beating Threat Level 2.

  

All bosses are affected by pushing forces a lot less now.

Malathrax

• Increased damage from his fire slam by 100

• His modifier for gaze movement changed; the movement is less frequent now, and the tiles in the moved area are temporarily cursed with lower production speed.

• His scream now only frightens half of the troops, allowing him to keep hitting his enemies while not receiving as much damage.

Volkar

• Attack damage decreased from 250 to 200, slightly decreasing his flame damage.

Lich

• The amount of HP decreased from 4000 to 3500.

• Damage and attack speed have been slightly reduced; his attacks push your troops 75% less.

Graveyard golem

• No longer spawns regular zombies; instead, it spawns Necro Horsemen.

  

Baldwin

• The number of trees required in First Quest has been reduced from 15 to 10. The reward was also reduced from 400 wood to 300 wood.

• The second ability duration increased from 10 seconds to 20 seconds.

Leonid

• The second ability cost changed from 10 wine to 20 gold, and the duration increased from 10s to 15s.

Spellus

• Third quest spell requirement changed from 100 to 80, while the number of summoned mages decreased from 12 to 10.

Alucard

• The second Quest requirement to lose 150 units decreased to 120 units.

Leo

• The first ability costs 20 water and starts granting 30 resources instead of 40.

• Second ability cost is now 15 wheat.

• Amount of morale received per upgrade of the first ability reduced: 1 -> 0.5.