Patch Notes Version 37

A new update is live! This patch brings three new stones and some updated visual screens.

New Content

New Stone: Emerald

• New Stone: Amethyst

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• New Stone: Sulfur

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UI & Terminology

Visual improvement of end-of-match screens.

Thats all for this week!

New Features

• Dynamic tooltips on bags! eg. Party bag shows how many of each stone type you have

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• New epic stone - Moldavite

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Balance Changes

• Buffed Sugilite: Now gains 2 decay and 2 shine each turn

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• Buffed Torbenite: Activation now gives +8 power for the turn

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• Buffed Bag of Wealth: Now deals damage for every 5 coins and is 6 coin cheaper

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• Trade modifiers like e "Stones with X-abilities are 100% more common" increased to +200% more common.

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• Onyx, Sardonyx and Selenite is 1 coin cheaper

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• White Opal is 1 coin more expensive

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Patch Notes Alpha 35

A new update is live! This time with a focus on new content.

Will you shatter, or shine?

New Features

• Added run stats to lose screen as well

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New Content

• New bag: Echo Bag

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• New bag: Bag of Wealth

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• New bag: Humbling Bag

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• New bag: Mercenary's Bag

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• New bag: Bag of Humiliation

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• New bag: Bag of Sacrifice

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Patch Notes Alpha Version 34

A new update is live! This patch brings several quality-of-life improvements, new content, and gameplay tweaks. Here's everything that's changed:

New Features

Victory Screen Overhaul
We've added a detailed victory screen that displays stats from your completed runs.
You can now view your past victories under "Stats" on the main page (button only appears if you've won at least once).

Map Access During Beach Trading
You can now open the map while trading on the beach, making it easier to plan your route.

New Content

• New Bag: Ripped Bag

  

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• New Stone: Hematoid Quartz

  

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Balance Changes

Epic Frequency Modifiers
Epic modifiers are now more generous, giving you better chances to build powerful combinations.

Shop Improvements

Stone Rarity Indicators
Epic and rare stones now have a star behind them in shops, making them easier to spot.

Gameplay Updates

Path of Initiation Final Match Rework
The last match has been changed to something (hopefully) more fun than Cloudsurfer. Let us know what you think!

Magnetite Rework
Magnetite now gains 1 Glimmer every time any stone moves. This opens up new strategic possibilities.

• Buttons have received a visual refresh for a cleaner look.

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• We've updated terminology: "tile" is now used instead of "space" for consistency.

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Were also looking for some more testers, tell your friends!


Happy midsummer from the Pointless Games team.

Balance Changes

Amazonite and Selenite has been buffed

Other fixes

• Stone codex now scrollable with mouse wheel,

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• Lowered volume of coin-pickup sound effect,

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• Small UI-changes,

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• Enemy AI no longer freezes game while computing.

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New

• Added Stone Codex to main screen. The Stone Codex is an appendix where you can see all locked and unlocked stones
  

Art and other improvements

• Art update to Thunderberg, their stones and wellspring ground tile
• Starter stones now have markings to indicate their function
• After winning a run the user is returned to path-selection screen directly,
  

New

• Two new early paths have been added
• New enemy Thunderberg has been added
  

Balance Changes

• Stone and bag unlocks do now apply to previous paths
• Celestite has been buffed
  

Balance Changes

• Crystal-growing-bag was made 10 coin cheaper
• Iceland-spar was med 10 coin cheaper
• A second possible board added for The Hag
  

Other Fixes

• New sound effect for "drip" buff
• Slime sound effect for placing on slime and slug movement
• Stuff unlocked during a run does not appear in the ongoing run, but will show up in the next run.
  

Dropping in early with a lot of new content for this week's update!

Bags

• Bag of Bags - Beach traders always offer at least 1 bag.
• Bag of Savings - Energy and removals are saved between turns.
• Amber Bag - All your stones keeps all buffs and debuffs when removed and after match.
  

Enemy & Rivals

Balance changes

• Made Kyanite 4 coins cheaper
• Lapiz Lazuli costs 1 to activate instead of 2.
• Made Malachite better: gains +4 power (instead of +3) if it has at least 5 power.
  

New Features

New Path - Path of Hardship

Rivals

New Enemy - The Archaeologist

New Features

UI and Smaller changes

• Coin effect on end of match.
• Win summary now includes gold and stones gained during the match
• Preview now includes image of stones and not just arrows
  

Bug fixes and improvements

• You can now queue multiple actions, making the game smoother.
• Flint no longer crashes the game when having more than 9 smudge.
• Enemy brains are now more streamlined and improved.
• All stones have been removed and re-implemented using new data-driven system.
  

We are currently doing some backend changes which is why there is not a lot of new content right now but it is is coming! Can also mention that we've grown the team with another co-founder! Give him a welcome on our discord, where he may be a familiar face to some of you!

Balance Changes

• Buff [Drip] changed
• Debuff [The Mark] changed: Now stays until the start of enemy turn.
• Marble changed: Now rolls at the start of player turn instead of during preparation phase.
  

Visuals fixes

• Visual look of tooltips for special tiles ("Grounds") updated!
• Visual look of trader modifiers updated!
  

Here comes this weeks patch notes with the contest winner, updated tooltips and some balance changes!

Stone Winner

Serpentine

Tooltips

Other

As we didn't get enough submissions before the deadline, we will save the stone submissions we've gotten so far for the competition next week.

This week we have three new stones from us! Give them a try and tell us of the cool builds you create and if anything seems broken.

Flintstone

• On place: Gain 1 [u]Smudge[/u].
• On activate: Gain 1 [u]Smudge[/u]. For each [u]Smudge[/u] on this stone, apply 1 [u]Bleed[/u] to a random adjacent neighbour. Activation cost is 1
  

Kyanite

• On place: Charge a random adjacent neighbour by 1.
• On remove: Charge a random adjacent neighbour by 1.
  

Sugilite

• On activate: Transfer all [u]Decay[/u] on self to a random stone on the left or right. Activation cost is 2
• On preparation: Gain 1 [u]Decay[/u]. Gain 1 [u]Shine[/u].
  

Note: Short deadline for this week!

Have you felt that you wanted a specific stone but it doesnt exist in the game? Maybe you want a stone that pushes all stones to the sides of the board? Or a stone that adds random buffs and debuffs to all its neighbours? Or maybe a combo of stones that creates the craziest build if you can get it to work * just * right?

Now is your time to submit your stone/s idea to us! Submit your idea to have a chance to get it in this or next weeks update


How to submit to this week's update:
* Write your idea as a comment to this post before the end of today (Monday 17th Feb)

How to submit to next week's update:
* Write your idea as a comment to this post before Friday 21st Feb.
* Bonus points if you submit a picture of your stone idea in our Discord

If your stone idea wins, it will be added to the game and you will be credited in the patch notes for that week.

Hello everyone! Here comes this weeks update with more modifier variations and a reworked tutorial!

Note: Saved runs from previous versions are likely to break with this update.

Modifiers

• Spare Bag: Has at least 1 bag, and it's half price!
• Honest: Common stones are 25% off
• Careless: Three random stones are free (rare)
• Eye for Quality: Pays 50% more for your epic stones
  

Tutorial

Other

• Some more tooltip rework
• picric acid crystal has been nerfed and no longer renews
  

Sound Update number two with a few additional bits and bobs! Give it a listen and tell us what you think!

Sounds

• Gain Shine
• Gain Moon Shadow
• Gain Glimmer
• Gain Smudge
• Gain Static Charge
• Default sounds for gain buff/debuff
• Charge stone with energy
• Deal damage
• Gain gold sound effect (when gaining from Gold or Silver)
• Match victory!
• Match draw...
• Match lose
• Preparation phase start
• Enemy turn start
• Player turn start
• Stone removed
• Renewal stone usage
• Placing stone on grass patch
  

Bits & Bobs

• Music
• Ambient Sounds
• Sound Effects
• Master Volume Slider
  

The silence has been going on for long enough and its time for the first update with sounds that will let you really immerse yourself as you throw your combos on the beach!

This is the first update of two, targeting music and some sound effects. In this update we have:

• Background beach sounds and music
• Sound effect for drawing stones
• Sound effect for placing stone
• Sound effect for moving stone
• Settings to turn music and sound effects off and on
  

Alpha 20 is here and we've got some major additions to share with you all!

Linux & Steamdeck players: A fix for the progress not being saved has rolled out in this update - please tell us if you are running into any more issues!

[h1]Beach Trade Upgrade
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Traders are getting a significant overhaul in this update, and updating their selling skills. They've heard about this new fangled thing called discounts and deals that gets more people buying and all the traders have made signs to show off what they uniquely offer! In patch note terms:

• There is now always 3 traders to choose from (exception is the first trader on Path of Determination)
• Each trader has one or more modifiers that impact what stones they offer and the price
• You can now only choose one trader
  

Modifiers

• Has 50% more stones
• Has at least 2 rare stones
• Minerals are 75% more common
• Crystals are 50% cheaper
  

QoL Features and Other Changes

• You can view all your stones by clicking on your bag
• Soapstone now only targets stones that actually have debuffs
• Added visual effect for gaining coin in match (eg Silver and Gold)
  

A new week and a new update with three new stones and a balance change!

Linux & Steam Deck players: Currently updates are resetting progress on Linux builds, including Steam Deck. We are working on resolving it but if you do not want to lose progress please hold on updating.

New Stones

Desert Rose

• On activate: Draw 1 stone for each [u]Bleed[/u] on this stone. Activation cost is 1
• On preparation: Gain 5 power per [u]Bleed[/u] for the turn.
  

Lapis Lazuli

• On activate: Charge adjacent stones by 1. Activation cost is 2
• On remove: Apply 1 [u]Static Charge[/u] to diagonally adjacent neighbours.
  

Tourmaline

• On place: Apply [u]Static Charge[/u] to 5 [Crystal]s in your bag.
• On activate: Draw 1 [Crystal]. Activation cost is 1
  

Balance Changes

• Red Garnet now also renews 5 on activation
  

Starting up our Tuesday releases again with some new stones and new bags.

New Stones

Bismuth

• On place: Gain 3 [u]Glimmer[/u].
• On preparation: Reduce power by 2 per [u]Glimmer[/u] for all neighbours for the turn.
  

Celestite

• On activate: Convert all [u]Glimmer[/u] to [u]Shine[/u] on all neighbours. Reduce power by 4 for all neighbours for the turn. Activation cost is 2
• On preparation: Apply 1 [u]Glimmer[/u] to each neighbour
  

Mystic Topaz

• On place: Gain 3 [u]Glimmer[/u] per adjacent stone.
• On activate: Draw 1 stone. Gain 1 [u]Static Charge[/u]. Activation cost is 2
  

New Bags

Electric Bag

Fuzzy Bag

Happy New Year and we are back with the first update of the year!

Balance Changes

• Rebalanced coin rewards after matches. Coin reward is now around the value of 1 stone at the start of the run and around the value of 2 stones towards the end.
• Starter stones are no longer offered by the traders
• Gemologist has been slightly nerfed
• Rebalanced Soapstone and tibetan quartz
  

New Stones

Cinnabar

• On activate: Apply 1 bleed to each adjacent neighbour. Gain shine equal to the total bleed on neighbours. Activation cost is 1
• On remove: Apply 1 bleed to each adjacent neighbour.
  

Citrine

• On place: Gain 4 energy if adjacent to 4 stones owned by you
• On activate: Transfer all buffs and debuffs of adjacent stones to the stones below them. Activation cost is 1
  

Dumortierite Quartz

• On place: Gain 1 removal and 1 static charge
• On remove: Draw 1 stone
  

Heliotrope

• On preparation: Apply 1 bleed to each adjacent neighbour
  

Ruby

• On activate: Gain 36 power. Activation cost is 6
  

Other Changes

• Added settings screen, including ability to set animation speed
• Updated tutorial and rebalanced Path of Initiation
  

Wrapping up the year with a few more stones that use the activation ability!

We will be taking a couple of weeks off over the holidays and will be back with a new update after the new year.

New buffs/debuffs

Bleed

Static charge

New Stones

Ametrine

• When activated gain 1 energy for each shine on this stone. Convert all shine to glimmer on this stone. Activation cost is 0
  

Red Garnet

• When activated convert all glimmer to Bleed on ALL stones. Activation cost is 5
  

Selenite

• When activated move all diagonally adjacent neighbours down. Activation cost is 1
• When removed apply 3 glimmer to adjacent and diagonally adjacent neighbours
  

• When placed apply 1 Static charge to diagonally adjacent neighbours
• When activated gain 1 energy for each static charge on this stone. Activation cost is 0
  

Hello everyone! A big update is here and we need your help to playtest living shadoodle out of it! This update comes with a complete new game mechanic and a rebalancing of more that 70% of the current stones in the game.

The update also includes a first iteration of a new player tutorial so if you havent tried Stones of Power yet, now is a great moment to try it out and give us all the feedback you can.

[h2]Energy and Activation
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The biggest change in this update by far is the introduction of energy. We wanted to add more interesting choices for the player in the core game loop in addition to placing stones. This feature has given us a broader design space to create new and interesting stone abilities but also enabled us to balance some problematic stones (looking at you Hematite ). Activated abilities also open up new opportunities for players to be smart.


Energy in Stones of Power is used to activate the abilities of your stones on the board. They require different amounts of energy and once the stone is activated the ability happens directly


This game mechanic changes the dynamic of the game a lot and we would love to hear what your thoughts are around this system. Share a screenshot of you defeating the Abyssal OP AF in our Discord and you will be granted the role of Abyssal slayer for the ultimate bragging rights!

Added Tutorial

New Stones

Amazonite - Common Stone

Yellow Stone - Starter Stone

Game Balance

• Aquamarine
• Blue stone
• Clear Quartz
• Fluorite
• Gold
• Hematite
• Magnetite
• Marble
• Moss Agate
• Onyx
• Picric Acid Crystal
• Pietersite
• Purple Fluorite
• Pyrite
• Pyrrhotite
• Red Stone
• Sardonyx
• Soapstone
• Stalactite
• Torbernite
• Tungsten
• White Opal
  

Other changes

• Ground animations sped up even more
• A bunch of bug fixes
  

We asked for bag ideas and wow, the community delivered! There were so many great suggestions from the community that we decided to add not only one bag, but three. Enjoy trying out these amazing new bags in the latest update!

Thiefs Bag

Bag of Overpowered Removal

Party Bag

Hey all!
We dont have enough bags in Stones of Power and we need your ideas! Were inviting you to pitch your bag idea and we will choose one to add to the next release (planned for tomorrow so short timeline here!).

We can also mention we have something big in the works and we will share more once we get closer to releasing it!

Heres how to pitch your bag idea:

• Write a reply either to this post or in our Community Discord
• Propose a bag mechanic that you would like to see in the game and why you think it would be fun.
• Optional: Tell us what types of builds and stones you think it would work well with.
  

A smaller patch rolling out with some balance changes and QoL features

Game Balances

• All traders will now offer the same amount of coin when you sell your stones
• Reduced spread of coin rewards
  

QoL

• Shift-clicking stones when trading will automatically move them
• ESC now backs out of trader screen
• Ground effect animations are slightly sped up
  

Linux

• Linux build should work now. Was definitely not at all bundled with the windows version of java we would never make a mistake like that
  

Hello all alpha testers!

Weve been getting some great feedback from you all and it's having a direct impact on the direction were taking Stones of Power. As we have both new and veteran players to the rogue deckbuilder genre, one of the difficult things has been ensuring a fun game balance that works for everyone. This update includes some pretty major rework to make balancing this easier in the future. Please give the update a go and send us your feedback, either in the comments here or any other channel of your choice :) For those who would like to become a alpha tester, join our Discord and give us a poke.

Introducing Paths

• Path of Initiation
• Path of Curiosity
• Path of Determination
  

Added Unlocks

Other changes

• Several stones have been rebalanced
• There is now a hint on how to speed up animations
• A few bug and grammar fixes
  

Small update with 2 new stones!

Sardonyx

Benitoite

Hello everyone!

It's been 10 weeks since we put up the first closed alpha of Stones of Power on Steam and every single week we've been pushing new updates with features and changes. Its been really cool to see you all trying it out and we now want to make sure we are communicating the changes regularly. Moving forward you will find the Patch Notes for each update in the News feed here

We're going to use this News post to summarise all the changes that have happened since August

Where we started

• 1 Placeholder Enemy (Rocky) that went up to 100 prestige
• 20 stones
• Super annoying tooltips with a lot of text
  

Where we are at

New enemies

The Abyssal

The Gemologist

Drifter and Cloudsurfer

New stones

Bags

UI and Visuals