Third time's the charm!
I've been trying to implement a new multiplayer backend for the past few months and my first two attempts did not succeed. This time I tried using Steam's Lobby backend to connect players and it worked.

[b]What this means:
[/b]If you use the new "Steam Lobby" option (still in Beta), you won't be sharing a Community Server with other players which means other players (not in your lobby) can't crash your game and the server is not sharing resources between everyone playing. The "Steam Lobby" option allows players to connect directly to each other. My initial testing looks really promising, however, I'm labeling this "Beta" because if history has taught me anything, no matter how hard I try I can't find all the edge cases that players do :D[b]
[/b]
Please give the "Steam Lobby" multiplayer option and try and let me know how it works in Discord.

This update is part 1 of a 2 part Major update with the second half planned in Late July. This update is mostly for stability and the second update is a content update that I'm really excited about.

Here's the full changelog:

-Network: Enable Steam Lobbies for improved multiplayer

-Balance: Restore "Undying" to Goru and modify Undying so it brings ressurrects with 50% health

-Quality of Life: F12 now takes Screenshots!

-Language: Pre-reform Russian

Thanks @nikitasss

-Menu: Redesign menu appearance

-fix: Remove redundant runPredictions which occurs in deselectCard() which is triggered on click

-fix: Prediction forceMoves from bloat (or any onDeath) simlulating on the NEXT call to runPredictions.

-fix: confirm discard hotkey label

-fix: bone shrapnel only select corpses

-fix: Overspend Rune upgrade bug

that resulted in negative SP

Thanks @BlackCobra22113 and others

Since I launched Spellmasons, I've released over 50 free updates. If you're enjoying what I'm building, you can help support my work at Patreon or leave a candid review of the game on Steam!

Last update I released experimental Enhanced Servers (player to player connections that don't suffer from heavy server load) - which worked for some people but not for others due to firewall issues. This update should resolve the firewall issue so the Enhanced Servers should now be available for everyone!

Please let me know about your experience with them on Discord.

Some other changes in this update:

Quality of Life:
- UI: Add additional side spell holders
- Game: Add singleplayer difficulty options after you beat Deathmason on Normal difficulty

Balancing:
- balance: Remove `undying` blessing from Goru
- balance: Siphon cost
to match the scaling structure of mana steal so it can't scale infinitely.
Thanks @Carlos

Fixes:
- fix: p1p connection not working on firewalls
- fix: Poisoner + Sharp Teeth Imbalance
Thanks @Yasu
- fix: Infinite Loop Contaminate, rez, suffocate
- fix: Armor now allows reducing damage to 0
Thanks RAHHHHHH :3

Good news for Spellmasons!

Patch Notes - Version 1.54.0

Balance Changes

• Adjusted loop difficulty scaling. The rate at which the difficulty increases on loop levels (+1, +2, +3...) will now grow faster
• Ensured bosses continue to spawn on loop levels beyond +3.
  

• Fixed an issue where quicksaves labeled "Last Turn" would save at the beginning of a level before any enemies were placed.
• Prevented unspawned players from taking damage.
  Thanks to Piratesaur from the Steam forums and others who reported this!
• Fixed missing "Damage" text in trap descriptions.
• Corrected "Miniboss" to "Champion" in Blood Archer descriptions.
• Resolved an issue where targeting spells sometimes lacked the "Requires Following" text if no non-targeting spell followed.
• Fixed minion runes not working on automated summons.
  
  Also fixed quantity power scaling so that Sharp Teeth and Harden Minions effects now apply [u]after[/u] quantity power from stacking summons.
  Thanks to @SquishyFishy!
• Updated player manaPerTurn when upgrading manaMax.
  This didn't affect players directly since their stat refresh logic doesn't consider manaPerTurn, but it did affect player clones.
  Thanks to @Tingora!
• Added a unit of measure to the Town Portal description.
  Thanks to @IVI and @Tingora!
  

• Added a "Give all runes" admin command for testing.
  

1.52.2 Update

New Content

Balance Changes

Bug Fixes

Optimization

Hello fellow Spellmasons!

I started working on Spellmasons 4 years ago because I love playing multiplayer games with my friends and I wanted to create a unique kind of spellcasting game that would make players feel like Wizards!

Spellmasons has been 100% self-funded and oh boy has it been a challenge. I've quit 3 separate jobs to resume work on Spellmasons and taken up new jobs when I ran out of money. But it has been totally worth it.

The player community has been so amazing - you all have really driven the direction of the game with lots of players suggesting spells, runes and features that made it into the game and a handful of incredible mods have been created.

If you want to help contribute to the future of Spellmasons, please nominate it for the "Labor of Love" category for Steam Awards!

Thank you all for your support!

Update v1.49.3

• New Content
  
• Add 3 new Champion modifiers: Curse Immunity, Unstable, and Double Damage
  Thanks Hex Obsidian for the "Displace" Champion Modifier idea
  Thanks Xulqulyat for "Curse Immunity"
  
• Add "Sell" spell which allows you to exchange spells for SP
  Thanks to @Vintage the skulldog, @Xulqelyat, and @Cake
  

• Balance Changes
  
  Remove random discount on Runes.
  Based on community feedback, discounts encouraged un-fun min-maxing where players would wait for the perfect discount, leading to regret when buying without one. Instead, we'll focus on providing more ways to earn extra SP.
  

• Optimizations
  
• Improve Siphon Spell (Bogiac's Spells mod) to not lag the game
  
• Community Servers now have a unit and pickup limit (1000 and 500 respectively) to prevent crashes affecting other players.
  
  If the limit is reached, dead bodies will decay to make room for new units; if there are no dead bodies, extra units beyond the limit will be merged. I believe this will result in a happy medium of non-crashing servers and also not affect the gameplay for players who want to push the game reeeeeeally hard.
  
  Self-hosted servers (LAN or otherwise) have no limit and you can push it to the absolute limit of your available CPU and memory :)
  

• User Experience (UX)
  
  Show mana cost for clones of taught spells
  Thanks @Brian for the suggestion
  

• User Interface (UI)
  
  Improve mana badge icon
  

• Major Fixes
  
  Determine rune cost on client
  Fixes "runes being undone" issue in multiplayer
  

• Bug Fixes
  
• Prevent Connect from targeting already targeted units (improves spell effectiveness)
• Dead units no longer block spawning
• Clones now use mana when casting
• Fix audio for Ancient
• Prevent Goru and Priest from resurrecting decoys, which confused players who assumed decoys were allies
  Thanks @Yasu
  

Welp the most recent build broke a few important things, but fortunately they are now resolved on v1.48.1!

The biggest fix:
Multiple places that needed to find spawn locations such as Deathmason portals, summoner teleport, summoner minion spawn locations, changeling rune and more were broken.
This is now fixed.
Thanks @Godspeed, @Xeno, @Bogiac, @Falontani, and @Haze for reports

fix: Allow cloning pickups multiple times
fix: space in save name ends turn
Thanks @Haze

fix: Death Wager to work when
greater than full HP.
Thanks @Xulqelyat

fix: Book glow to only occur
when player has stat points.
Before, DareDevil would make the book glow which was an obnoxious exception.
Now it will only show as glowing
if you have points unspent.


Also I've been trying to add some "Juice" to the game and design to improve the "Feel" so there's a few improvements here:

• Add glow to prediction circles
• Make unit outline size relative to zoom so the outline doesn't look super chunky from far away and super thin when close up
• Add drop shadow and movement to cards
• Add subtle movement to the main menu characters
  

The new "Teach" spell allows you to instruct any cloned Spellmasons to use a spell combination for their default behavior!
Add "Teach" to the start of a spell combo and the rest of the spell will become the new spell of any targeted Spellmason NPC!

New mod: Bogiac's Spells!

Vastly improved FPS for the following Target Spells (especially when targeting TONs of units):
optimize: Clone FPS
optimize: Target Similar and Target Kind
optimize: Connect

Improved mod API
mod-api: Expose Obstacle in the API
mod-api: Expose seedrandom in the rand export for the API
mod-api: Add Upgrade.ts to spellmasons api
so that modded spells can grant other spells to player
Thanks @Rosan
mod-api: onLiquid event
The onLiquid event is called when a unit either first enters liquid, starts a turn in liquid or exits liquid.
For the first two scenarios `currentlyInLiquid` will be true, when exiting liquid, it will be false.
This is for the modder Rosan!
admin-toolbar: Add hotbar shortcut to give all cards
from a mod

Other Improvements
juice: Improve resurrect animation with outer glow (lightsaber style)
juice: Add a small pause after merge
and swap so you can take in what just happened

fix: BountyGolem's not triggering bounties
when they kill an enemy with a bounty.
Thanks Scojbo!

This patch contains LOTS of FPS optimizations and bug fixes! There's still more optimizations on the horizon but I wanted to get these into your hands!

Optimizations:
- Optimize: floating text so if there are more than 20 of
a single kind it will just aggregate a message
Thanks Xulqelyat!

- optimize: Target Circle

- optimize: Target Column

- optim: Throttle skybeam
This massively increases efficiency for when lots of enemies are teleported to the same place all at once.
Hugely reduces lag.

- optimization: Update server to run entirely on bun.sh
rather than just websocketpie (this should make many things on the server faster)

Gameplay Balances:
- balance: onKillResurrect Rune
to make it less high %. It was way too high (50% max is too much)
and you could get there too cheaply.
Thanks Xulqelyat!

- balance: Exploit: Repeated self rez for infinite mana
Prevent resurrecting player units more than once in one turn to disallow infinite mana exploit where resurrecting yourself gives you mana

- balance: Change Death Wager cost
"Reset all spell costs back to their default. Sets your current health to 1. You must be at max health to cast. This spell must be cast alone."

So it will no longer affect max health (no permanent effect).
I think this will make it much more viable and strategic.

fix: Always updateCardBadges after cast so spells like DeathWager that affect card costs will show the proper badges.
Thanks Jace, SquishyFish, Monarch and Xeno!


Bug Fixes
- fix: Un "frontload" plus radius
because it is in contradiction to how the spell's copy describes it and also users may want to use it more surgically.
Thanks Darth_Dan!

- fix: last will to only notify if it's able
to spawn a potion.
Thanks Darth_Dan!

- fix: prevent projectiles from colliding with caster
(because you can step in front of your own stream of arrows)
Thanks Xulqelyat!

- fix: Prevent infinite recursion with takeDamage events
Once the takeDamage events start to process, any further damage cannot retrigger takeDamage events
This ensures that a unit's onDamage events can't reflect damage back on itself which would cause infinite recursion
Removes `hasRedirectedDamage` which is no longer necessary due to this new method of `takingPureDamage` which covers
that case too
Also fix prediction units from having a ref to themself via prediction copy, only real units should have that ref.
Thanks Xulqelyat!

- fix: Prediction purify from actually removing
soul shard haver from units when soul shard owner was hovered
with prediction purify.

- fix: Far Gazer not showing stamina change on upgrade

- fix: Res immune applies to players only

- fix: Update mana badges when clearing
queued spell.

- fix: Logging death on prediction instead of only on real
Thanks Darth_Dan!

- fix: Increase potion spawn radius on alchemist so it
doesn't spawn on top of you

- fix: Increase spawn radius for purple portal
so that it doesn't spawn too close to you causing it to trigger immediately
In multiplayer, this made the game advance as soon as you cast the last kill spell.
Thanks @Jackson

- fix: findValidSpawn to use hex
so we don't get unexpected far-away clones

- fix: Remove "Choose a place to spawn" if player is already spawned on load

- fix: Prevent competing Goru's from using each other's
primed corpses.
Thanks FfrankF!

- fix UI: Unit attack range circle not moving with them

- fix: Server Loop: "Could not find valid spawn..."
To address infinite loop that reported 'Could not find valid spawn point in radius'
over and over, if no spawn point is found just return the center.

- fix Server Crash: If headless has to emergency exit force moves
clear all force moves so that they don't continue to emergency exit next time the function is called.

- dev: Drastically speed up starting up headless server using bun.
- fix: Save remembers camera location

Backwards Compatibility warning
Some of the optimizations in this update are not backwards compatible with
old save files. If you still want to play on an old save, you can do so by
right clicking on Spellmasons in your Steam library, choosing "Properties" >
then "Betas" then v1.43.4 and restart Steam. This will ensure your client is
on the previous update instead of this one.

FPS Optimizations

Major Feature: Runes

You can now upgrade Runes in the spellbook. Runes deeply expand the possibilities of your run: For example, "Inflict Poison" adds 1 stack of poison every time you deal damage. If you're going for an archer build, this makes all of your arrows poisonous. Combine that with "Endless Quiver" which ensures that your arrow spells do not get more expensive, and you've become quite deadly! I'll leave it up to you to discover more unique and clever rune combinations to elevate your build!

Major Feature: Champions

Champions (quietly released in the last update) provide a novel challenge, especially to seasoned players. They are larger, stronger units with special modifiers (like Damage Limiter, Slime, Target Immune - and more). You'll have to be extra clever to deal with them

Change log:

Features
- Runes can be locked so that when they reroll each level (or when you manually reroll), your favorite runes will stay put so you can continue to invest in them.
- Runes have a chance to be discounted for 20% or 40% off
- Deterministic events. Events (like poison on turn end) now trigger in deterministic order. This means regardless of which order curses or blessings are added to a unit they will trigger in a sensible order. This should prevent confused expectations
- Bosses (Goru and Deathmason) now spawn as Champions in the loop levels. Yikes!! Good luck...
- Healthbars now only appear if a unit is damaged (or an ally so you can tell they're an ally). I think this makes the game a lot prettier and less cluttered especially when there are tons of units on screen. Please let me know what you think of this.
Enhancements
- Removed shader that was causing FPS drops
- Note: I have LOTS of planned FPS / Optimization improvements that will be coming in the following update.
Fixes
- Swapping with pickups no longer triggers the pickup. Thanks @Liese!
- Displace's teleport location is now unique to each player
Balances
- Bolt has been rebalanced. It now starts with 1 chain and gets +1 chain per stack
UI
- Fix menu buttons highlighting on hover in the main menu
- Fix the alignment of the caution "Self damage / will die" popup underneath queued spell


Huge thanks to all the awesome folks in the Discord who helps beta test this.
Xulqelyat, Chain, Xeno, Whisky, SquishyFishy, SPGALTRM, Liese, NoZ, Baalstrum, Sippy, TheDocisHere, and others provided TONS of incredible feedback.
And extra big shoutout to SoulMuncher who has been absolutely instrumental in developing this update.

This update is rather large and the big "Runes" update is not quite ready yet; but I wanted to get these fixes and improvements into your hands since it's been a while since the last update.

But this update does have some great new features! Thank you everyone for your continued support!

Change log:

Content:
- New Spell: Cursify
- New Spell: Add Ricochet
- New Spell: Add Pierce
- Split works on pickups
- New mod! DaiNekolchis Tome of Spells!
- New attributes for minibosses (Now named "Champions")
which make them much more formidible especially in the late game
- Target Immune
- Defiance
- Confidence
- Slime
- Damage Limiter
Thanks NoZ and Baalstrum

Improvements:
- Improve smoothness of camera when moving it with WASD
- Upgrades are now always available in the Spellbook via the yellow bookmark on the right
- Add Crown sprites to minibosses so they are easily identifiable
- Improved targeting prediction (#894)
- Frontload cards like "Plus Radius", "Add Bounce", and "Add Ricochet" so they can be added to the end of a spell instead of undoing the whole spell queue to put more at the beginning
- Protect user from accidentally ending turn while inventory is open. Inventory must be closed to use Spacebar to end turn.
- Show selectedUnit's prediction unit range
instead of the unit itself so that if you move them
with a movement spell it shows what their range will
be
- Lots of missing translations added
- Modifiers now have an explicit order so any given set of modifiers (e.g. Debilitate and Split) will have the same effect regardless of in which order they were added

Balance:
- Increase the number of minibosses on loop levels
- Make minibosses having multiple modifiers; probability increase drastically for each loop level
- Bolt deals more damage when more units are targeted

Music:
Normalized volume of tracks
Added "Spellmasons Theme" to soundtrack!!
(Theme plays only on the menu screen)

Sound:
Normalize all sound effects

UI:
- "Class" upgrades are now available in the persistent Upgrade Menu in the Spellbook
- Add modifier descriptions to tooltip content
- Color Blessings Gold and Curses Purple in tooltip
- Show inventory book icon glow if you are able to purchase an upgrade

Fixes:

- **BIG FIX**: unit and pickup id desync
HORRAY! This has been the cause of many-a-desync.
underworld's lastPickupId and lastUnitId are now only updated
if !prediction. This ensures that the headless server and the clients
always have synced ids.
- fix: Loading Hotseat Multiplayer games
in a singleplayer context.
Thanks Sippy for reporting!
- Modifier.Init wasn't using prediction in load unit (#823)
- Cards wont reappear after reroll within the same upgrade selection. Omitted cards reset each time an upgrade has been picked.
- Fixes an issue where player could get "No upgrades to choose from" even when there are upgrades left to get.
- Prevent showing upgrade button if there are no upgrades to choose from.
- modifier subsprites and visuals missing on load
Refactors modifier `init` to `addModifierVisuals` to better
describe what it does.
It is separate from `add` because `add` setup up state that
is still present on save/load, whereas visuals such as
subsprites or particles have to be reinitialized on load
- Fix shield and bloat not persisting through loads / mutliplayer late join
- Fix player being unable to cast while immune to freeze
- Polymorph preserves currentHealthRatio (#841)
- Clone supports pickup power property
- Fix: RecalcDifficulty no longer overrides Unit Stats
- Overriding unit stats based on source stats would cause modifiers and other stat changes to be "undone" any time the game difficulty was recalculated
- Blood Curse guarantees integer stats
- Fix an issue where the scale modifier applied by split was not changing properly with quantity
- fix: Soul Shard Owner purification from making soul shard havers invulnerable.
- fix: Consistent camera movement speed. Camera will move and lerp at roughly the same speed across all reasonable framerates
- fix Player Health/Mana bar visuals (#869)
- The value of incoming shield is now displayed during prediction
- Changes to max Health/Mana are now shown in the lower UI bars the same way they are shown in the overhead prediction bars (i.e. blood curse shows as doubling current hp and preserving max health ratio)
- Health/Mana gain visuals were swapped such that increases give a "fuller" looking bar, and decreases give an "emptier" one
- Fixed an issue where overfilling mana would always display mana cost bars, even when no prediction was running
- Fixed inaccurate and overlapping mana cost bars
- Overfilling mana is now much more clear, and you can see each stage of mana bar as it appears, instead of mana just appearing "full" until post-prediction
- The Health/Mana bars now look the same in prediction as they will after the effect occurs (predicting blood curse no longer shows hp going to full, overfilled mana displays correctly, etc. healing/damage and mana gain/loss visuals are still present)
- Fixed "sheild" typo
- fix: Player clones now deal damage
- fix: Don't restore freeze sprite
when in "freeze immune" state
Docs:
- Improve Modding Documentation (#870)
- Doc: Clarify why split does not affect max mana

Removed cooldowns
After considering, I've determined that the idea of a cooldown itself is
against the design of Spellmasons. This was just a bandaid to
a few select spells being overpowered. I've found it better to
alter the spell logic itself (in the case of freeze to not allow stacking)
and to make them more mana expensive (in the case of resurrect)
which will prevent them from just being cast turn after turn.

Also the modifier itself can prevent the unit from being
refrozen (see freeze) which is much better than cooldowns
because it also prevents refreezing in multiplayer.

Balance: Freeze
Removes cooldown
Freeze no longer stacks

Balance: Increase Merge spell rarity

fix: Prevent empower from targeting players to prevent confusion
i18n: Clarify that Empower does not affect players

art: Add slightly new cast animation

audio: Only play "endTurn" sfx once per turn
Thanks Hazzie and Nord from Youtube for
this suggestion!

fix: Backfill stat upgrades for players who
join late.
Thanks Waterbending Squirrel!
Fixes: #567

audio: Smoothly switch songs
Don't switch songs every time a level is beaten, switch
when the song is done
Closes #805

content: Add Ultra Clone as upgrade to clone
in order to balance out the clone + merge exploit which
was mainly possible because clone with adding the clone as a target
yields exponential results when stacked. Now the basic clone does
not add clones as a target

fix: Intercept END_TURN message
and do not send the original. Send a new END_TURN message as client with playersTurnEnded attached.
(Note: this already worked except it still sent through the original END_TURN message, this fixes the original from being
sent through and only sends the transformed one through)
Resolved: #811

log: Improve error message for proper aggregation
on remote logger

experiment: MultiColorReplaceFilter
Decrease epsilon for blood golem to see if
it resolves #695

UI: Fix default "Refund" text
Before if no text was provided, none would appear for refund.

balance: Exclude Execute from starting damage spells (#807)
- Since it cannot deal damage on its own

Mostly fixes and quality of life improvements in this patch.


fix: rare bug where game was stuck because NPCs didn't end their turns
Big thanks to Un4o1y, Xeddar and Adriller

ref: Remove client side timeout for cards.
When there are many enemies on screen the game's fps can slow
which can cause cards to timeout which means the result of a cast may not match the prediction. This is bad.
Instead, I will just leave the timeout on the serverside
so the server will not hang.

perf: Optimize ancient attack for FPS
also optimize Blood splatter.
Thanks @Whisky

ref: END_TURN syncing
Resolves the issue where 1 player ending their turn sometimes
just progressed the turn phase without the other players being ready

i18n: Translate card rarity
Update Polish
Thanks @Whisky!

fix: Bolt radius increases for submerged units (#797)
Thanks R?c??l?sc?nc?/recoalescence

fix: Teleport pickup prediction (#787)
Fixes an issue that cause displace, teleport, and similar "set location" spells to trigger real world pickups while in prediction mode
Thanks @Whisky

fix: Primed Corpse particles not reinitializing on units that recently had them

fix: Player channeling animation while dead (#781)

content: Plus Radius can now be cast on its own (#786)
* Plus Radius can now be cast on its own
- To let players increase Urn Radius
* Add refund for plus radius fizzle

ref: Change up order of color replace colors
to see if it affects the bug where blood archers / golems aren't tinted

copy: Fix modifier name "Primed Corpse" since it is visible to players
Thanks Chumler

optimization: Save files take up less disk space

menu: Server list will be sorted by version number so servers on the latest version will be at the top

menu: Enemies are now shown in the codex

Big thanks to everyone who have been reporting bugs on Discord! There's some significant fixes in here relating to desyncs, the "turn wont continue" bug (hopefully), and the memory leak.

Changelog:
fix: Softlock fix attempt 2
All spells now have builtin timeouts with error reporting to prevent
softlocks (where the game is working but the turn wont continue).
This *should* resolve the softlock issue or in the least tell me what's
causing it.

fix: large memory leak
HUGE THANKS to DeathmonkeyJ (Github) and @Jace (Discord) for pointing me in the right direction

fix: Force Move desync fix
All spells that use force move (push, pull, etc) should be MUCH more reliable
in multiplayer now

Hello everyone!

It's been quite the week with lots of new folks joining the Discord. Thanks all for being a part of the community!

A number of players have reported irregularly getting stuck in multiplayer games where all players are ready but the game won't progress.
This update aims to fix that, but I have had a devil of a time reproducing the issue, so I am not 100% sure that it will. Fingers crossed.


Changelog

fix: Protect specific spells from potentially hanging server
Burst: 52
Bolt: 46
merge: 28
Connect: 11
Triple Arrow: 8
Multi Arrow: 4
clone: 4
Phantom Arrow: 4
meteor: 1


fix: Add end turn protection

Many players have been experiencing issues
where all players have turn ended on their clients
but the game does not progress

It seems there are multiple causes
> Re-readying up would have one of a few effects for us:
1: It unlocked for us
2: It made the noise over and over before unlocking after a 15-40 sec wait
3: It was completely stuck requiring us to save and restart the server completely (because when we would try to rejoin some players were in the game alone at the starting map even while others were still in the game)
4: A few of us had full whitescreens with a force quit required
~Wispy

This change handles Cause 1, where somehow the
clients have that everyone is readied up but the
server is missing one.
A client, when ending turn, also sends an array of
all clientIds that have ended turn.
If any of them are endedTurn == false on the
server is will end their turn.

This should prevent players from having to re-ready up

fix: NPCs casting on wrong faction units
- Thanks @Viz and @CandyKiller

ui fix: card-inspect scale
where cards had greatly varying sizes
(slash was super small)

menu: Update default ally unit outlines to be 2px
consistent with enemy default outline

fix: All bolts play at once

fix: Burst quantity damage (#736)
Stacks of burst were being double multiplied

fix: Arrows being slow to cast in multiplayer

fix: typos
Thanks to WestonVincze for contributing!

It's been a over a year since Spellmasons was released publicly and it's been a wild ride! I'm so grateful for the community - tons of suggestions (and bug fixes) from Discord have been implemented in the 33 updates that have been released since launch!

This is the biggest content update to date. Enjoy all the new spells and madness!

Here's the full change log:

New Boss!
Goru: the Corpse Warlock

New Spells!
- Alchemize
- Execute
- Merge
- Meteor
- Polymorph
- Recall
- Shatter
- Soul Bind
- Soul Shard
- Stomp
- Target Curse
- Target Injured
- Empower
- Enfeeble
- Bolt
- Dark Tide
- Blood Bath
- Fling

New Music!
2 new songs in the soundtrack

New Trailer!
https://youtu.be/NNAzAQcNUXc?si=PsdDjUjowZFW0B1a

Other changes
- content: Remove cursed mana potion
because it is anti-fun.
Thanks to Kyte from Steam Community
- i18n: Save dialog, modifiers, undying
- menu: Deduplicate previousCustomUrls
- ref: Allow purple portal to be used mid-game (#653)
- fix: Upgrades work in the + levels
- fix: shadows overlapping newly spawned units
- fix: Prevent units disappearing when too close to Wall
Thank you @Viz for reporting
- mods: Remove broken explosive archer mod
- fix: Protect against MessageQueue softlock
Thanks @JCDreamz for reporting

There's a big content update coming on April 27th, and this update contains all the fixes and improvements that SoulMuncher and I have been working on over the past few months while developing the new content.

Please let me know in Discord if you encounter any issues and thank you for your continued support!

Change log:

- art: Add particles to skyBeam
and reposition it slightly to better cover the player's feet
- art: Default to 1px unit outline
Unit outline can be modified or turned off in Accessibility settings.
I initially added the outline to help colorblind users distinguish between
enemies and allies (you can change the color and thickness), but I found it to be
very useful for me too as it helps distinguish units from the background so I've turned
it on to a default.
- art: Add shadows below walls
so they feel more connected to the environment.
- art: Update animated tombstone
Tombstone appears instead of a dead body when gore is turned off in settings
- art: Spellmasons play the bookIdle animation
when viewing their inventory.
Fixes bookOpen from playing every time a spell is cast in multiplayer
even if no other player is casting
- fix: poison bug
- fix: clone
Too many stacks would break the game due to the
absurd number (limit to 10 - which is still enough to practically cover the whole map).
Fix clone prediction badges, it now shows the actual number of
cloned units because they no longer overlap
- fix (IMPORANT): Synchronization bug
This one, I believe, is rather significant. It should dramatically reduce desync issues after casting where you would cast a spell and it would suddenly be "undone" as if it never happened
- fix: forceMove timeouts when multiple (#575)
force moves were added to a unit or pickup
- fix: flamestrike bug
- fix: contaminate extras
* fix: radiusBoost refactor for mods
* fix: Contaminate not spreading modifier "extras"
- fix: Targeting Unspawned Players
Fixes a bug that allowed unspawned players to be targeted, which could cause a desync in the game over state, and adds further support for additional universal targeting catches by passing underworld through as a parameter to the add target function
* Fix Target Similar Targeting Unspawned Units
* Added warning for future bug catching
* Fixed prediction discrepancy
- fix: "Good Looks" upgrade filters out Doodads now
So that choosing good looks doesn't explode urns
- fix: Units being removed for being "out of bounds"
when they were just close up against an upper wall.
Unit's center point is the center of their image, and since this game is 2D but
allow's "tile overlap" because it is appearing as isometric, the pathing bounds
are pulled up by 10 (-10) and so when checking if a units' center point is
inside a wall, we need to + 10 (down) to account for the fact that they can overlap
by 10 with a wall that is above them.
- fix: Squiggly force move lines
when multiple forces were applied to the same object.
Now forces get summed.
Also fix prediction and headless fully processing
forcemoves between units dying instead of letting all units die and then
processing all the force moves (like the regular game client always has)
- fix: await endPlayerTurn
This is not in response to a bug, but I noticed that endPlayerTurn
is async and not being awaited.
Based on a visual inspection this only effects hotseat
- fix: contaminate now spreads extra properties of modifiers (curses) such as expanded range
- Thanks to @theytookmysoul aka Wisky
- fix: Good Looks no longer explodes urns
- Thanks @Elvarien
- fix: Game soft locks if whole party is froze
- Thanks @Waterbending Squirrel for reporting
- menu: Add "recent custom server urls"
So that it is easy to rejoin a server with a custom url
- menu: Support quicksave at beginning of level
- menu: Add bookmarks to menu
to help find spells quickly by category
- menu: Style Accessibility menu so it's more organized
Add gore options to a11y menu in addition to
graphics menu
menu: Make actively selected buttons more obvious
- Optimization: makeManaTrail to lower particles
if number of trails gets large
- Optimization: Only run prediction calculations
if the player is hovering over the game space.
If they are hovering over the spellbook or toolbar,
it will not run predictions and thus not bog down
the experience of picking new spells when
the prediction calculation is hefty.
Thank you @Whisky for this idea!
- Localization: Polish
Update Polish translations with Whisky's translation
- Localization: Poison "start" -> "end"

When I was a kid there were lots of games that I wasn't allowed to play and so I empathize with young gamers who face restrictions. Thanks to the request of MrMarblz from the community I was reminded of this and so have added a "No Gore" mode accessible in Options > Video > Blood and Gore.

No Gore Mode
- Removes Blood
- Removes Death animations
- Replaces corpses with Tombstones
- Removes gory sound effects
- Removes gore-containing tutorial and tooltip gifs.

Also in this update:
- Feature: Purify now works on Cursed Mana Potions
- Thanks @Koliostro for this AMAZING idea

- Fix: prevent network messages from old levels from executing
on a new level.
- Thanks @ReddPine, @Raven, @MrMarblz and others for reporting

- Fix: player stamina unexpectedly getting set to 100
- Thanks @Innonminate for reporting

- Fix: Potions spawned from Urns with Last Will from appearing at 0,0
- Thanks @Innonminate

- Fix double decoy scaling

Hello all!

Update 1.28.2 was a pretty huge refactor to stabilize some of the more important systems of the game and there were a few small issues that came with that update. Thankfully they are now fixed!

- UI: Add hotkey numbers to side card holders
Update hotkey numbers of spellbar if they change in controls
Thanks MrMarblz!

- fix: Server Crash due to broken kill switch (#490)

- fix: Ally deathmason not summoning
ally units on levels with Natural blue portal pickups.
Thanks Raven and Isneverthere!


- Deathmason On Death Event Fix (#467)
- Killing the original deathmason will now slay all enemies on the map like it used to
- Killing the original deathmason will now spawn his 3 brothers like it used to

- fix: Waves
- In plus levels, players get full mana before additional waves spawn

- fix: Players suddenly at -1000,-1000

Thanks as always to all the amazing players for your support. Checkout our discord community to be a part of the happenings! https://discord.com/invite/q6sUCreHeJ

Version v1.28.1 lays the ground work for a large upcoming content update with some important stability improvements. Additionally, a new spell has been added along with some balancing and a dramatic boss intro. Stay tuned for our largest content update to date, coming soon!

- Added Spell: Potion Shatter
- Shatters a potion to apply its effect to all nearby units
- The area of effect increases with each stack of the spell
- Mana Vampire Changes
- No longer reduces maximum mana
- Steals up to 40 mana from its target with each attack
- Can spend up to 40 mana each turn to heal itself
- Deathmason
- Spawns after the players have taken their first turn, as to not reveal his location early
- Has a sick intro animation
- Steam Overlay
- Pressing [Shift+Tab] in the Steam verison of the game will open the steam overlay
- Tutorial Improvements
- Players start the tutorial with Target Cone, Slash, and Push
- Stat points earned in the early stages of the tutorial are auto-allocated to Max Health instead of being removed entirely, as to not make players' first sessions more difficult
- Many other Tutorial fixes: Most listed at the bottom of the changelog
- Huge Game State Refactor: This refactor encompases many different game systems and fixes. It should make the game much more stable and prevent softlocks
- The end turn logic accounts for unspawned players, players that can't act (due to being frozen, dead, etc.), and should handle other edge cases more consistently
- Players can end turn without needing to enter the portal and should never have to end their turn multiple times to progress the level
- Fixes an issue that sometimes caused players to choose their classes at different times - Thank you @Moonlighter
- Ally units have their end turn effects applied at the end of their turn, instead of at the end of the enemy turn
- Improved unit turn order. Ex. Ranged units will always complete their action before Priests take their turn
- Smart targeting factors in unit turn order, making it much more predicatble
- Units are much less likely to make targeting mistakes, such as targeting an enemy unit that's already been killed by another unit
- Planning view attention markers consider smart targeting, fixing an issue that rarely caused false prediction markers, especially with decoys around
- Additional waves spawn the turn after all enemies are killed, instead of spawning immediately - Thank you @BrewBreuw
- High scores are reliably tracked in online multiplayer, and for all hotseat players
- Completing a level and dying within the same series of events should favor the player and progress the level, instead of ending the game immediately
- Rework for client ID's, which should
- Improve lobby handling for online lobbies to prevent issues such as duplicated players
- Allow saved hotseat games to be loaded in an online multiplayer lobby
- Ensure spells and network messages always target the correct player in hotseat (I.E. Freeze and admin commands)
- General stability improvements

Other Fixes
- Fixed an issue that allowed players to skip the Deathmason's second phase. Deathmason now enters the second phase via the OnDeath event - Thank you @tennun.
- Fixed an await issue that prevented "Slash" from resolving correctly, which could sometimes lead to desync
- Fixed an await issue that prevented "Arrows" from resolving correctly, which could sometimes lead to desync
- Fixed a pathing issue that caused desync in online multiplayer games where gripthulus or resurrections were involved
- Modifier keys are ignored if there isnt a bound action. I.E. [Shift+A] will move the camera to the left, unless you have [Shift+A] specifically bound to something else - Thank you @innonminate
- Fixed a bug that caused the some tutorials to not be completed when they should
- Fixed multiple tutorial display issues, such as explain prompts not showing up, completed tasks not appearing, and the tutorial not appearing correctly in multiplayer
- Fixed an issue that caused urn explosions to disappear too quickly - Thank you @blue1760
- Improved debug and logging
- Temporarily removed LoS targeting lines in preparation for an AI Refactor

Hello everyone,

There's a lot of good stability fixes and refactoring in this update. (And a new Spell!)
One notable change is that there is now a one-time privacy policy popup; this is because I'm collecting detailed logs for multiplayer games so that I will better be able to debug issues that are reported.

Some game engine systems went through whole rewrites to be more stable and to improve predictions.
A few important desync issues were resolved too.

Complete notes below:

feature: Add spell: Bone Shrapnel
- Destroy corpses to damage nearby enemies
- Thanks Ry for inspiration
feature: Clones added to target list (#298)
So now when you clone a unit or pickup it is automatically
a target for subsequent spells in the same spell group
balance: Reduce with of collision radius for
ghost arrow
It was far too wide

admin: Add arrow keys to navigate power bar
admin: Add "Give Card", "Level up"
and new level skip admin commands
admin: Add powerbar
Accessible via Ctrl + Space
admin: Add admin tools for testing desync
Closes #315
admin: Warn about needing a selectedUnit
for admin functions that require one.



menu: Add Privacy Policy and EULA popup

a11y: Add font selector for accessibility
#365
@Tatapstar

fix: Jan 10 Fixes (#370)

* Burst VFX Fix

* Some distance optimization

* Targeting spells sort added units by distance

* Swap targets last unit instead of initial

* Distances and Optimization

* Distances and Optimization 2

* Target Similar and Kind consistency

- Target Similar ignores factions when targeting dead units
- Target Kind uses the same logic target similar does, and removed multiple filter overlap to make it more readable

* sortClosestTo Function

* Removed Sqr Calcs for code clarity

- SqrDist and SqrMagnitude have been removed. Turns out they provide negligible levels of optimization, and is not worth the maintenance/readability of the codebase

keybind: Add Reset button to return
to defaults.
Allow 'Esc' to clear current key
Thanks @BigRedCat

i18n: Fix missing localization

Note: the " spellmasons " class upgrade has spaces so as to not conflict
with the summon spellmason upgrade so I had to add
an extra line of localization

fix: Impact Damage Fix (#353)
* Arrow speed fix and slight optimization

fix: Health potion capping blood curse health overflow
Note: Regular healing over max is still denied in the takeDamage function.
Tested with health potions and the healing spell
Fixes #346

Further QA and Quick Fixes (#351)
* Fixed Ice/Poison urns pushing units
* Re-enable gripthulhu
* Fixed blue circle issue
* Gripthulhu uses LOS and correct movement/mana
* Fixed poisoner using incorrect mana
- Temp fix, used same workaround as the priest
- Needs better fix in the future
* Orient to match other LOS enemy behavior

fix player teleporting back to cast location when moving

during long-lived cast in multiplayer. This ocurred because MOVE_PLAYER is handled syncronously (in queue) on all clients and the server except the client of the player whose moving and by the time they are triggered the SYNC_SOME_STATE occurs and resets the player position.

Now MOVE_PLAYER is handled immediately so players can move while casting on all screens (but still handled without the MOVE_PLAYER message on the current client for their own player to prevent stuttering while moving themselves).
Fixes #329

fix: awaitForceMoves timing out for long arrow spells

Now that projectiles work with the forceMove system, and because stacked arrow spells can continue to add force move projectils over time, the awaitForceMove timeout must be reset
everytime a new forceMove is added since its completion can last an arbitrary amount of time, but it still needs proecting against an erronous forcemove that never ends.

Fixes #352


UI: Fix missing spellIcons
Closes #320

fix: Prevent tooltip stutter when scrollbar appears
Fixes #211

src: Allow backups of the same day and name
to overwrite each other.
Tested in multiplayer.

Closes #345

clean: Prevent meaningless error on client
`process is undefined`

content: Add spell icon recall

fix: runTurnStartEvents should complete for all units
before moving on.
This was not previously a problem because there weren't any onTurnStart events that were using async code, but
to support that potential, all onTrunStart events should be
awaited and completed before moving on in code execution.
Thanks MattTheWaz
Closes #326

a11y: Choosing default outlines saves your setting
Closes #338



fix: Force Move Improvements (#341)

fix: Quick Fixes (#342)
* Max mana no longer scales with strength
* Resurrect sets endedTurn to false
api: Add `pull` and `makeForcePush` to the api
Thanks MattTheWaz
Closes #326

fix: Refactor Force move projectile (#303)
* src: Add Event.onProjectileCollision

* src: Projectile:
- Support pierce
- Clean up image when done
- Fix firing multiple arrows in sequence
- Clean up projectile on collision

* ref: Rework arrow spells to use forceMoveProjectile

* src: Add gameloop delta time to forceMoves

* log: Report loop count limit

* fix: Headless not having element.querySelector

* fix: Pull typing after refactor

* clean: Remove unused import

* wip: Build system for using setTimeout in headless and prediction

* fix: pull distance due to forceMove refactor

* balance: ForceMove impact damage scales a lot
stronger than it used to

* log: Remove dev logs

* fix: Restore timeoutToNextArrow

which was changed for testing purposes

* fix: ArrowEffect takes the card id

so it triggers the right projectile collision function

* fix: pierce hitting the same unit multiple times

* fix: arrow not being awaited

* fix: shove magnitude after forceMove refactor

* fix: velocity falloff should take deltaTime into account

so that regardless of the deltaTime passed into
runForceMove and the number of times it's called, it will
have consistent results between clients

fix: Significant movement desync

Where if units started their turn already with a path, on headless,
as soon as they got stamina they'd start and complete their movement,
all before unit.action was invoked. This is different than on
client because the server executes the gameLoop all at once.
The solution is to always clear the unit's path at the start
of their turn so that they don't start moving unless unit.moveTowards
is invoked inside their .action function.

log: reduce logging noise for server

Related #291

fix: Dark priest and ghost archer action desync

Closes #291

menu: fix codex UI issues

Closes #311

menu: Disable multiplayer game name
and password fields
once the client has joined the room
since changing them won't have any effect

Closes #297

fix: Clear inventory
in new underworld without calling syncInventory which requries a globalThis.player
Fixes #305

npm: @websocketpie/client@1.1.3
Fix clientId being set to '' on roomLeave
Fixes #292

Colorblind support (#314)
Ref: #293
* src: Customizable color and thickness outlines
* menu: Add outline accessibility controls
* src: Persist accessibility outline to disk

Fixed Target Similar (#307)
* Fixed Target Similar
* Removed workaround and prediction copy
* Updated pickups to match unit behavior
* Initial Targets [] for multi-initial targets
Fixed target similar adding the same target multiple times
Fixed clone not adding pickups to target list
* fix: Restore use of lastPredictionUnitId
predictionUnitIds should be incremented differently from
unit ids.
This is because prediction loops can run different amounts on
different clients, but all clients should call create for real units
the same number of times, keeping the unit ids in parity.

fix: planningView graphics shouldn't use the prediction unit id to
find the corresponding real unit id, so I added `real` as a reference
to the original just like pickups.


End Turn Sfx plays when an ally ends their turn as well (#309)

Resurrect requires a valid corpse (#308)
Res requires a valid corpse
Fixed an issue where you could resurrect a unit after using bone shrapnel on them, which could lock the game in the case of a player character

fix: Reset out of bounds players
This should never happen but to prevent
the game from getting stuck,
if a player gets out of bounds, reset them.
Closes #277

fix: Multiple priests targetting the same corpse
Fixes #247

fix: Prevent target similar from
mutating targets array while iterating targets array which resulted
in undesired extra targeting because the targets array is refreshed inside of
every loop.

Fixed #299

fix: Timemason on Hotseat
loses mana when other player is active

Fixes #302

Contaminate Exclude Corpse Decay (#287)
* Contaminate exclude corpse decay
* Corpse Decay can't affect players/living

- feature: Waves added in Plus levels, each subsequent Plus level gets one extra wave before the Portals appear
This should make end game much more challenging.
Also: Units in the Plus levels get "Corpse Decay" when a new wave begins so their corpses don't stick around long
- feature: Added In-game chat (accessible via the "t" key)
- Thanks Couls for this awesome feature!
- content: Add "Teleport" spell
Thanks Meme_Man

- balance: Target Similar and Target Kind
Thanks Meme_Man
- balance: Significant Mana Steal rebalance
- balance: Heal Alllies now requires Heal Greater instead of fully replacing it when upgraded.
- balance: Send Mana: Cost is now increased to 30 and it scales in cost when used like other spells.
- balance: Improve Contaminate, stacks now cause the curses to continue to spread
also contaminate now overwrites lower level curses with higher level curses when it spreads, instead of ignoring already inflicted units.
- balance: Significantly rebalanced Stat gain amounts: health, stamina and cast range are now greater per point spent.
- balance: Casting Blood Curse on an ally Spellmason no longer grants them the Blood Curse spell
- balance: Buff suffocate and poison
- Also they now proc at the end of a unit's turn instead of the beginning
- balance: Repel and vortex now require push and pull (respectively)
- Repel and vortex mana cost increased slightly
- balance: Target cone now increases it's arc much more when stacked.
- balance: Target column now extends farther when stacked
- balance: In Plus levels, units no longer get "Immune"
- balance: Target Similar, Target Kind
- balance: Reworked Connect spell algorithm for better targeting
- balance: Enemy Mana Adjustments

- improvement: Rejoining existing games should be much more reliable
The clients have been improved to use the same clientID between reboots. This means that if you rejoin a game after a disconnect (or a saved game - after version 1.26.0) it should automatically give you back control of your original character instead of making a new one.
- i18n: Russian translation
Thanks sevagog and tatapstar!

- fix: Prevent ending your turn while you're picking upgrades
- fix: Multiple issues on Hotseat Multiplayer with major refactor
- fix: Cloned or Summoned Spellmason now correctly deals the damage listed in their tooltip
Also stacking a summoned spellmason increases it's damage output
Thanks Meme_man
- fix: Purple portals stick around after a player enters one. This resolves the occasional issue where one player would trigger both portals in multiplayer and the other player would have to end their turn to recreate a new purple portal so they could proceed
- fix: The back button on the Load menu going to a multiplayer lobby menu even if you were in singleplayer.
- fix: Spell smuggling between new games
Thanks WildBerryBlast
- fix: Vampires keep blood curse on death
- fix: Split hack allowing infinite splits
- fix: Incorrect damage dealth when combining Dash then Burst
- fix: darkPriest sometimes displaying with wrong colors
- fix: bugs where client's local player state would get overwritten by server
I believe this will resolve the issue where summon spells would sometimes disappear
- fix: Ensure clientId remains consistent, even in singleplayer
- fix: Persist removing cards from toolbar
- fix: desync in slash
Where slash would return before all damage
was done being dished out.

- visual: Added suffocate display to health bar
- visual: HP and MP bars now have a dark, partially transparent background and healing / gained mana is displayed in a spell prediction in addition to damage / spent mana.
- visual: Spells in inventory are more sensibly grouped together
- visual: Urn explosion radius now shows when selected
- visual: Fixed urns losing red tint if damaged/killed
- visual: Fixed issue where sometimes blood golem, blood archer, dark priest, etc didn't get properly tinted and appeared to be vanilla units
- visual: Add Spell details to Unknown cards in the codex so you can see if they require other cards to get them or if they belong to a mod.

- accessibility: Darken background colors even more when the option is enabled
- accessibility: Added dedicated accessibility menu. If you need additional accessibility options, please let me know!

Staff update!
Soul Muncher (from Discord) has joined the team as a developer and is doing awesome work!

feature: New class: Witch!
feature: New Spell: Long Arrow
feature: New Spell: Send Mana
Thanks @meme_man for the suggestion!
feature: Some card upgrades now "require" other cards in order to appear as upgrades but will not remove them when chosen.

balance: Necromancer's Capture Soul now costs a static 38 hp instead of 90% health so you can upgrade your health to make it less dangerous to use.
balance: Target Column now increases in length when stacked making it a viable targeting spell.
balance: The mana cost of summon spells has been completely rebalanced, making many of the summon spells much more viable than they were before
balance: Timemason has been reworked so that you get double mana and lose mana over time rather than gaining mana over time and losing health. This increases pressure and challenge rather than encouraging stalling and waiting.

big fix: Prevent clients from timeing out from servers due to idleness. This has been a big issue in multiplayer games where lots of folks were getting disconnected. Big thanks to @WhiteScythe , @Gumby and others for reporting this
fix: Manual camera controls that skip the camera cinematic at the start of each level now allow you use to choose your spawn immediately rather than waiting the same amount of time that it would take for the cinematic to finish.
Thanks @Skillo for uploading a video that showed this issue
fix: Resolved issue where dashing to a pickup caused it to just disappear on multiplayer
fix: Burst now deals the max damage when you are close enough to touch another unit rather than having to be right on top of them
fix: Dash spell desync where dashing to multiple targets would cause a desync. Now dash only dashes to the first target if multiple targets are selected.
Thanks @TheyCallMeWitch for reporting
fix: Harvest + Push causing a crash
Thanks @White Rider for reporting

improvement: Explains why saves may fail due to lack of space
improvement: Add speed run time to game over screen
Thanks @WildBerryBeast and @Skillo
improvement: New spells are now chosen via a level up button (shown where the "End Turn" button usually is), so that leveling up doesn't cover the screen just as your cool spell is finishing.

stats: Gather stats for language use
stats: Gather stats for upgrade choices so I can determine which spells are so unpopular that they need reworking. Your vote counts!

- balance: Deathmason
- Deathmason now actually uses mana and can be prevented from spawning portals if he has insufficient mana
- Deathmason no longer casts slash
- balance: resurrect weak so that you can cast it on yourself

- Improve: joining saved games so that you automatically assume control over your old saved player character. This should resolve the issue of people joining saved games and not having control of their old, saved player character.

- optimize: Improve server lag

- Big Fix: Network messages being missed when game is alt-tabbed
- Fix: red and blue portals not getting cleaned up when they are removed
- Fix: invisible portals
- Thanks SoulMuncher and Skillo for reporting this
- Fix: Pickup bugs. Completely redid pickup code to resolve desyncs when colliding with pickups especially when using movement spells
- Thanks WildBerryBlast


Huge thanks to everyone who reported issues and gave feedback!

This patch fixes a significant server crash bug.

Change log:
fix: Infinite server loop that occurred after you summoned
an urn and then died

fix: Cards in your inventory not decrementing in cost
when your turn ended
Thanks Matt_97 for help debugging this

fix: Resurrect Weak sometimes leaving enemy health and mana
at non-whole numbers

fix: Prevent Upgrade random number generator from showing the same upgrades if you get multiple level ups on the same level with a full toolbar

Hotfix: Spell Predictions

Spellmasons Update v1.23.3

Improvment: New experimental server build running on US-West and Europe regions. These should result in faster communication to clients. Please report any new issues with these servers on the Discord.

Performance: Improved performance when determining spell predictions. Previously when the game had a huge number of enemies, preparing to cast a large spell could cause the framerate to tank. This has been much improved. It has further to go, but the game won't slow down to a crawl when trying to cast large spells in the late game anymore.

UI: Add unit stats (health, mana, etc) to summon cards
Thanks Lemdoran for this suggestion

fix: Spells from Rene's Gimmicks not showing up in multiplayer thought bubbles
fix: Auto-rejoining doesn't work if the game has a password
Thanks Manman
fix: Summon card descriptions update
when difficulty or language changes
fix: Urns don't take poison damage
Add Doodads to action loop so that their
onTurnStart triggers which is used by poison
and other modifiers
fix: urns' additional onDeath events (such as bloat)
not working because the unit was cleaned up before
it triggered
fix: Skipping player turn on load
when you load into a saved game and choose
"join game as player"
fix: Hotseat players not getting mana back
after one player died
Thanks Genthru
fix: Not being able to capture soul ally spellmason
fix: Hotseat players not getting stat upgrades
fix: prevent calamities from affecting Urns
Thansk PandaPhilly for reporting
fix: Prevent friendly npcs from attacking
urns.
Thanks MattMellow
fix: prevent ally npcs spawning from Blue Portals
that are supposed to be used for teleporting

Spellmasons Update v1.21.2

feature: On loop levels, half of the enemies are
immune for 1 turn.
This makes levels after the deathmason a better challenge

balance: make Necromancer class summon spells 30% cheaper
Thanks Antonio! and Expresso Depresso and others for feedback

balance: Temporarily remove bloodmason class
until he can be properly balanced.

improvement: Ally deathmasons now summon
blue portals which heal you if you walk through them instead of
hurt you like red portals do. (If you do not walk
through them, they still spawn allies)

fix: Prevent Deathmasons from health-sapping each other.
Thanks Antonio! for reporting this!

fix: Calamities not increasing health and stamina stat of enemies
Thanks Antonio! for reporting this!

fix: Spawn locations for deathmasons' brothers

fix: Cloned player blood cursed
also secretly blood cursed player without reporting in UI.
Thanks MeBeDerp for reporting this!

fix: Enemy priest resurrecting Player
and changing player's faction.
Thanks Ian for reporting!

fix: deathmasons teleporting to the same portal
causing them to overlap

UX: turn off player damage sfx for timemason
so it's not annoying

UI: Add TIMEMASON_DAMAGE_AMOUNT to timemason card
UI: Fix size of mana badge
modified by usage when large in card-inspect
UI: Limit uiZoom lower bound to 0.1
Thanks Hagbard from Discord for reporting the issue

Spellmasons Update v1.19.1

- balance: Prevent deathmason from purifying self
- balance: change decoy health from 20 to 70
- Thanks Krowbar for this suggestion!

- UI: Cast Range perk displayed as % instead of meaningless number
Thanks Krowbar for this suggestion!
- menu: Show mod contents in description
- UI: Add mod name to cards

- fix: Make lastWill immediate so it doesn't
cause desync on multiplayer
- fix: mods registering multiple times
which messed up probabilities (especially with pickups)
- fix: Prevent allowing rejoin to failed game
by changing difficulty.
Thanks Krowbar for finding this bug!
- fix: Prevent Split players from being permanently
split when they die
Thanks to sJacob for pointing this bug out!

- Feature: Smart Targeting
Improve AI targeting so that AI battles are more realistic.
AI units will not all focus on the closest enemy and overkill them
making AI battles take forever.

- balance: Make summon spells cost less mana
- balance: Keep Capture Soul spell after use
Capture Soul no longer disappears from your spells when used
- balance: When Ancients spawn, spawn more of them.
- balance: Higher difficulties now make harder enemies spawn on earlier levels and allows for spawning more enemies than it would otherwise

- i18n: Add German translation from Feilz.

- accessibility: Touchpad move keypress support
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1618380/discussions/0/3810656323972884104/

Feel free to join our Discord to let me know what you think of the update! Spellmasons Discord

Rene's Gimmicks adds 5 new spells:

• Burning Rage
• Caltrops
• Sadism
• Summon Trap
• Vampire Bite
  

content: Add new unit: "Gripthulu"
Thanks MrMarblz and scojbo for encouraging me to resolve issues with "enemies that move players"
content: Add spell: Explosive Arrow

balance: Ancient can attack 3 targets simultaneously (previously only 1)
balance: Adjust unit spawn budget for multiplayer
so that there will start to be more enemies in games of 3 players and beyond
balance: Make Ancient cheaper in level spawn budget
balance: Fortify so it stacks 50%, 75%, 87.5%...
Thanks TonyFTW

src: Resolve desyncs
between spells cast during player turns

fix: Resolve some users getting a blank page in the mods menu
fix: Spell cooldown decrementing in multiplayer
right after you end turn which allowed casting it again.
Thanks The Joe for this bug report
fix: Target Cone odd targeting when stacking
Thanks MuditaMan
fix: (spell) Prevent suffocate from ever
increasing turns left to live.
Thank you scojbo
fix: Scroll disappear particles showing
when hovering prediction spell (undead blade) over portal.
Don't check if should spawn portal (or check game over) for prediction cast
fix: Priests getting damage boost from Calamities
Also add stamina as calamity to boost enemies
Thanks TonyFTW
fix: Able to kill unspawned allies with targeting spells.
fix: "F" to see range when spawning
Thanks to MrMarblz for pointing this out
fix: Aberrant UI line when simulating force move
into liquid.

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Spellmasons Update v1.14.0 - Wode's Grimoire

- Spellmasons source code is now public. Check it out at https://github.com/jdoleary/Spellmasons
- Balance: Add cooldown to some cards to make players wait a number of turns before casting them again
- Balance: Make fortify more meaningful
- Balance: Made capture soul's cards more affordable (Necromancers rejoice!)

- fix: hotseat multiplayer skipping player turns after any player dies
- fix: hotseat multiplayer loading and forgetting which spells were in the toolbar
- fix: Once you hit 0 health from using Death Wager you can no longer cast any spells. Thanks ObsuredCrow
- fix: errors in Copy
- fix: issue where game wouldn't change turn phase if a non spanwed player was disconnected from the game in multiplayer
- fix: Deathwager allowing player health to go to 0 and preventing them from casting (now it won't let you cast it if you have only 1 health) - Thanks ObscuredCrow
- fix: "Insufficient Mana" warning to allow for spells that give you mana to affect the chain. For example, if you mana steal in a chain of spells you are now able to use that new mana in the rest of the chain - Thanks MuditaMan for reporting this issue.

- i18n: fix: newlines messing up localization for some languages

- UI: Add cooldown badge to cards that have a cooldown
- UI: Fix alignment of modifier icons in tooltip

- Menu: Add "Source Code" link to the Mods menu to take players to the github

- Mod: Expose Events.ts in API - Thanks Blood Spartan
- Mod: Allow F12 key to open console at any time

Spellmasons Update v1.12.0

• Blood Spartan
• Vivid Empress
• MrMarblz
  

Spellmasons Update v1.11.0

Spellmasons Patch v1.10.1

Spellmasons Update v1.9.1

Resolved "infinite spell upgrades" bug
Resolved bug where players could skip multiple levels when going through a portal

Spellmasons Update v1.8.0

Spellmasons Update v1.7.1

Spellmasons Update v1.6.1

Spellmasons Update v1.5.2

Spellmasons Update v1.4.0

Spellmasons Update v1.3.1

Spellmasons Update v1.2.0

Improvements and Fixes

Spellmasons Patch Report v1.1.0

Improvements and Fixes