Greetings, Oaklings

New day 9 encounter: Carmen

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Option 1: Walk on Water.

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Gain +750 max health and increase your health cap to 20.000

Option 2: Lucky Rerolls.

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This option gives your rerolls a 25% chance to become "lucky".

Examples are: "A random item is free"

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and: Shop only contains potions (including brand new potions).

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and: Shop contains a random tailored build.

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Quality of Life feature:

If you lose connection during a run, the game will prompt you with a "Reconnect" button.

The reconnect button will always appear if you lose connection, and you can keep reconnecting even if you lose connection many times during a run.

Balance:

Amethyst Bow: Common --> Rare | 25 gold --> 35 gold.

Ruby Knife: Rare --> Common | 35 gold --> 30 gold | 3.7s cooldown --> 3.4s cooldown | 3 bleed --> 2 bleed.

Elven Shield (Common): 25 gold --> 30 gold.

Molten Bow (Rare): 4.2s cooldown --> 4.1s cooldown.

Refined Bow (Epic): 20 damage --> 25 damage | "Has +1 multicast per other Elven item." --> "Has +1 multicast per Elven item." | 1 multicast --> 0 multicast. //Dev comment: The ability rephrase simply means that it will count itself in the multicast bonus. Therefore, the base multicast was removed. The only real difference from before is that it will now also count other refined bows in the multicast bonus - making it slightly better.

Life Essence (Epic): 0 heal --> 50 heal. //Dev comment: instead of just giving +50 max hp, life essence now also heals you for 50, giving it more value in-combat.

JOIN THE DISCORD: https://discord.com/invite/SFruNNHWbH //Bocary

[ 2025-06-10 15:13:57 CET ] [ Original post ]

v0.2.2.4 - Small balance patch

Redemption (Legendary): When you heal, permanently gain +2 dmg / +3 heal --> +1 dmg / +2 heal.

Cobalt Spear (Legendary): 4.1s cooldown --> 4.3s cooldown.

Wardbinder (Epic): 5.2s cooldown --> 5.6s cooldown.

Frozen Orb (Epic): 6s cooldown --> 5.8s cooldown.

Midas Diary (Epic): Ability rephrased to: "When this or a dagger triggers: Gain +2 gold."

Fire Mace (Epic): 7 damage --> 10 damage | 7 burn --> 10 burn.

Fire Orb (Epic): 6.5s cooldown --> 6s cooldown.

Eclipse (Epic): 20 damage --> 30 damage.

Ruby Knife (Rare): 3.8s cooldown --> 3.7s cooldown.

Arcane Cleaver (Rare): 3.9s cooldown --> 3.8s cooldown.

Mythic Rod (Epic): 3.8s cooldown --> 3.6s cooldown.

Twillight's Edge (Common): 55 damage --> 45 damage | 20 gold --> 25 gold | 5.5s cooldown --> 5s cooldown | Ability: "Start of Combat: Permanently gain +5 damage."

//Bocary

[ 2025-06-09 09:29:35 CET ] [ Original post ]

Patch v0.2.3.2

Balance:

• Some Forged Blades from the Anvil was buffed.

• Anvil (Legendary): 5s cooldown --> 4.8s cooldown. | 0 shield --> 50 shield. //Dev comment: You could theoretically use an anvil to block an arrow or two.

• Healer's Oath (Rare): 35 gold --> 40 gold.

• Redemption (Legendary): 4s cooldown --> 4.2s cooldown. | +2 dmg / +4 heal --> +2 dmg / +3 heal.

• Amethyst Bow (Common): 3.8s cooldown --> 3.9s cooldown.

• Molten Bow (Rare): 40 gold --> 35 gold.

• Lightblade (Rare): 50 heal --> 45 heal | 30 gold --> 35 gold.

Other:

• Added a 2x combat speed-up that automatically kicks in day 1 + 2.

Fixes:

• Decay no longer has an oversized projectile.

• When Wild Magic transformes a tripled item into a new tripled item, the item will now correctly have 2x damage and stats as if it was tripled.

[ 2025-06-07 14:28:06 CET ] [ Original post ]

Greetings, Oaklings

New legendary item: Anvil

50 gold | 0 damage | 5s cooldown | "On Trigger: Gain +1 iron stack per sword. At 20 stacks: Gain a random Forge Blade"

Forge blades are strong blades that have sword synergy. If you somehow manage to get all 5 Forge Blades, you will have a dominating late game sword build.

Late game sword build with all 5 Forge Blades:

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New item: Healer's Oath.

Mace, Holy | Rare | 35 Gold | 20 damage | 2.9s cooldown | "When you heal, trigger this."

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Balance:

• Holy Sigil (Epic): 4.2s cooldown --> 3.9s cooldown

• Venomstrike (Epic): 5s cooldown --> 4s cooldown | 1 multicast --> 2 multicast | 7 poison --> 5 poison. | 50 gold --> 40 gold.

• Batwing (Legendary): 30 damage --> 40 damage.

• Wild Magic (Epic): If you use Wild Magic on a tripled item, the transformed item will now also be a triple.

• Fire Orb (Epic): 6.2s cooldown --> 6.5s cooldown | "On trigger: Permanently give flame item to the right +1 burn." --> "+2 burn."

• Frozen Orb (Epic): 6.9s cooldown --> 6s cooldown.

• Voidspike (Common): 2.9s cooldown --> 2.7s cooldown.

• Blazing Bull (Epic): 3s cooldown --> 3.2s cooldown | 5 burn --> 4 burn.

• High Blade (Epic): 4.8s cooldown --> 5s cooldown | "Start of combat: Permanently reduce cooldown by 0.1s per Elven or Moon item." --> "0.2s per Elven or Moon item."

• Warrior Shield (Legendary): When a shield triggers, deal 60 damage --> 50 damage.

• Lightblade (Rare): 0 heal --> 50 heal | 25 damage --> 15 damage | 3.3s cooldown --> 3.5s cooldown. | No longer has an ability. //Dev comment: This is going to be a great sword for survivability to get the anvil triggers in the Sword build.

• Hook (Rare): 10% crit chance --> 25% crit chance | 12 damage --> 10 damage.

• Redemption (Legendary): "Whenever you heal, permanently gain +2 damage." --> "+2 damage and +4 heal." | 120 heal --> 75 heal.

• Hunter's Tome (Rare): 3.3s cooldown --> 3.2s cooldown.

• Crystal Flare (Common): 5s cooldown --> 4.8s cooldown.

• Arcane Cleaver (Rare): 35 gold --> 30 gold.

• Wardbinder (Epic): 5s cooldown --> 5.2s cooldown.

Crystal archetype: Reworks and focus on bleed.

• Arcane bow ---> Renamed into Amethyst Bow. | No longer arcane --> Now crystal | 1 bleed, 1 multicast, 3.8s CD, 8 DMG, Common, 25 Gold.

• Shardfang rework: Now says "When another item applies bleed, trigger this.".

• Ruby Knife: No longer flame, no longer has burn. Dagger+Crystal, Rare, 3 bleed, 3.8s CD, 5 damage, 35 Gold.

• Emerald Sword: "Start of Combat: Give your crystal items +1 bonus bleed." | 20 DMG | 2.1s CD | 3 bleed | 40 gold.

Encounters:

• Celestia (day 9) wish option: 2 chest rewards + 25 gold --> 2 chest rewards + 20 gold

• Salesman (Day 6) bargain contract: items will be on sale, gain 20 gold --> items will be on sale, gain 10 gold.

• Elven Archer (Day 6) Take my bow: Gain a regular bow with +3 multicast --> +4 multicast.

Other:

• The word "Permanently" was added to Wild Magic's text.

• Refined Spear given a slight green tint to signal the "Elven" type.

• Silver Lance sprite completely reworked to better distinguish it from Refined Spear.

• The "Sharpen" and "Upgrade" encounter now works on Magic type items as well.

• Void Stinger sprite slightly changed so it doesn't get confused for a dagger.

• Added "." separation for damage on The Oak. (I.e. 1.000.000)

Fixes:

• Some items that triggered other items, didn't trigger them as many times as they were supposed to.

• Snowflakes, Moonveil and Lunar Codex projectiles sometimes moved slower than intended on 60 FPS. This has been fixed.

• Items gained from a triple chest no longer has a chance of being "on sale" from the salesman encounter.

Remember that the PvP environment might still contain old / unnerfed builds for an hour or two.

Expect balance changes / hotfixes in the next hours/days.

JOIN THE DISCORD: https://discord.com/invite/SFruNNHWbH

//Bocary

[ 2025-06-06 12:47:47 CET ] [ Original post ]

Greetings, Oaklings

Please wishlist the game https://store.steampowered.com/app/3400960/Oaken_Tower/ New day 6 encounter: Salesman
One of the options from the Salesman will give you discounts!

Balance:

Healing Word (Common): 5 heal --> 10 heal Void Stinger (Legendary): 0 burn --> 2 burn | 0 bleed --> 2 bleed | 0 poison --> 2 poison | 40 gold --> 50 gold | Text rephrased to: "When you apply a debuff, permanently gain +2 damage." Runic Shield (Epic): 10 heal --> 0 heal | 0 multicast --> +1 multicast //Dev comment: This makes Runic Shield perfect in a Warrior Shield build, or a Void Stinger build. Voidspike (Common): Text rephrased to: "When you apply a debuff, gain +2 bonus damage." | 30 gold --> 25 gold | 15 damage --> 18 damage. Cobalt Spear (Legendary): The word "Permanently" added to its text. | 30 damage --> 35 damage | 4.2s cooldown --> 4.1s cooldown. | Quality of Life: Cobalt Spear will now trigger AFTER your other items' start of combat effects, meaning Trident and Nightfall will apply their SoC effects before getting consumed. Warrior Shield (Legendary): 3s cooldown --> 2.8s cooldown | 80 shield --> 100 shield. Decay (Epic): 3s cooldown --> 2.4s cooldown. Elvish Orb (Epic): Gained the Elven tag. Text adjusted to: "On trigger: Give elven item above +1 multicast permanently (Except Elvish Orb)." Lost Fragment (Legendary): 65 gold --> 60 gold | 5.8s cooldown --> 4s cooldown | Ability changed to: "On trigger: Give item above +1 bonus multicast and increase this item's cooldown by 4s." Hunters Tome (Rare): 3.4s cooldown --> 3.3s cooldown. Venom Ring (Legendary): 5.5s cooldown --> 5s cooldown. Life Essence (Epic): 4.1s cooldown --> 3.9s cooldown. Shardfang (Legendary): 1.4s cooldown --> 1.2s cooldown | 15 damage --> 25 damage | 55 gold --> 45 gold. Redemption (Legendary): 4.2s cooldown --> 4s cooldown | 10 damage --> 25 damage | 55 gold --> 50 gold | 100 heal --> 120 heal. Doom Guide (Legendary): 1500 damage --> 2000 damage. Woodchopping (Epic): "On trigger: Give all axes +5 damage permanently." --> "On trigger: Give all axes +7 damage permanently." Arcane Cleaver (Rare): 4.3s cooldown --> 3.9s cooldown Emerald Sword (Legendary): 5.7s cooldown --> 4.1s cooldown | 10 damage --> 30 damage | 2 bleed --> 5 bleed | Ability changed to: "When you apply bleed, gain +1 bonus bleed." Holy Sigil (Epic): 4.4s cooldown --> 4.2s cooldown | 30 heal --> 40 heal.

Moon items rework and more refined direction: Focus on Multicast.

Lunar Codex (Rare): Ability changed to: "When you level up, permanently gain +1 multicast." //Dev comment: My personal favourite change. Not only does this comply with the new moon archetype, but it is also an elegant buff to Arcane Secrets (Legendary). Moon Knife (Rare): 15% crit --> 0% crit | 0 multicast --> 1 multicast | 12 damage --> 10 damage. | 2.1s cooldown --> 2.5s cooldown. Lapis Lazuli (Epic): 0 multicast --> 1 multicast | Ability changed to: "On trigger: Permanently give your other moon items +2 damage." | 3.4s cooldown --> 5s cooldown. //Dev comment: A great support item that ties the moon build together. The new Lapis also provides a new source of getting damage on Astral Hammer in a mace build. Moonveil (Legendary): Ability changed to: "Start of Combat: Give your moon items +1 bonus multicast." | 6.7s cooldown --> 4.2s cooldown. | 1 multicast --> 2 multicast. Crescentshot (Rare): 3.7s cooldown --> 3.5 cooldown.

Fixes:

• Frozen Orb no longer activates frosty items outside of the tower.
• Glacier and a few other items no longer get buffs from outside combat.
• The ability text of items was not always in the intended spot on the infobox.
• Sometimes, all items would not be uploaded to the database from your build. This bug has been fixed.
• Chests gained from events now correctly spawn all the way to the right.

Other:

• Directional arrows of items now show in the end screen as well.
• The victory/defeat text after battle will now stay behind item infoboxes.

Remember that the PvP environment might still contain old / unnerfed builds for an hour or two. JOIN THE DISCORD: https://discord.com/invite/SFruNNHWbH //Bocary

[ 2025-05-24 13:18:24 CET ] [ Original post ]

Greetings, Oaklings

Please wishlist the game https://store.steampowered.com/app/3400960/Oaken_Tower/

Balance:

• Warrior Shield (Legendary): 45 damage when you shield --> 50 damage when you shield | 70 shield --> 80 shield | 3.5s cooldown --> 3s cooldown.
• Cobalt Spear (Legendary): 4.5s cooldown --> 4.2s cooldown.
• Emerald Sword (Legendary): 5.5s cooldown --> 5.7s cooldown | 20 damage --> 10 damage | No longer Elven.
• Amber (Epic): 3.5s cooldown --> 3.7s cooldown.
• Venom Ring (Legendary): 5.8s cooldown --> 5.5s cooldown | Now has the Elven tag.
• Protector (Legendary): 30 shield --> 50 shield | "On trigger: remove 8 burn, 5 poison and 3 bleed." --> "On trigger: remove 20% of your debuffs." | 20 heal --> 30 heal. | 60 gold --> 50 gold.
• Redemption (Legendary): 4.4s cooldown --> 4.2s cooldown | 25 heal --> 100 heal.
• Flamy War Axe (Legendary): 12 burn --> 15 burn. | Ability rephrased, now keeps the optained bonus damage throughout the combat.
• Executioner (Epic): 50 gold --> 40 gold | 80 damage --> 70 damage | 0% crit --> 40% crit
• Lost Fragment (Legendary): 5.3s cooldown --> 5.8s cooldown.
• Frozen Orb (Epic): 7.4s cooldown --> 7.1s cooldown.
• High Blade (Epic): 5s cooldown --> 4.8s cooldown | 25 damage --> 30 damage.
• Mace Study (Rare): 5.8s cooldown --> 6s cooldown | "On trigger: Give adjacent maces +2 damage permanently." --> "On trigger: Give mace below +4 damage permanently."
• Darksteel (Common): 80% crit --> 75% crit.
• Bone Club (Common): 3s cooldown --> 3.2s cooldown.

Encounters:

• Elven Archer: "Take my bow" now gives an elven regular bow with +3 multicast instead of +2.
• Blacksmith: "Heavy Armor" 120 shield --> 130 shield.
• Shieldbearer: "Dark Path" option removed and replaced with: "Shield Mastery: Give a shield +1 multicast".

Other:

• Triple chests now appear on the far right of the inventory, while items does not appear in this spot.
• Trigem and Mythic Rod now has a green/red indicator showing if you have only unique item types or not. Their ability texts slightly rephrased.
• Directional arrow indicators made brighter.
• Now shows a gold icon instead of "$" at the reroll button.
• Leaving or losing connection mid-game no longer removes a flat 100 rating, but rather calculates your rating gain/loss based on trophies. I.e. leaving with 5 trophies result in no rating change.
• Time Tonic encounter now states what Time Tonic actually does.

Fixes:

• Removed the "Dark" tag from Coldshot, which had been added by mistake.
• Coldshot and Midas Diary no longer work from inventory during combat.
• Cobalt Spear now correctly consumes bleed as well.
• "Heavy Armor" and Dusk Shield now trigger Warrior Shield damage on start of combat shielding.
• Pausing and then entering a new screen (like the combat screen) before unpausing no longer causes bugs.
• Projectiles no longer slow down a lot when playing with 60/90 FPS.
• The Elven tag and other added tags to items will now properly work on enemy items.

Remember that the PvP environment might still contain old / unnerfed builds for an hour or two. JOIN THE DISCORD: https://discord.com/invite/SFruNNHWbH //Bocary

[ 2025-05-20 15:01:20 CET ] [ Original post ]

Patch v0.2.1.1

Balance:

Executioner: 70 damage --> 80 damage. Nature's Call: "After 5 seconds in combat: Give item below +1 multicast." --> "After 3 seconds in combat: Give item below +1 multicast." | 7s cooldown --> 3s cooldown //Dev comment: The cooldown change is a QoL change so you can see when the Nature's Call gives multicast. Lost Fragment: 5s cooldown --> 5.3s cooldown. Emerald Sword: 5.3s cooldown --> 5.5s cooldown. Dusk Shield: 2.3s cooldown --> 2.6s cooldown | 20 shield --> 25 shield. Cobalt Spear: 6.7s cooldown --> 4.5s cooldown | "Start of Combat: Permanently gain the attack from other adjacent spears." --> "Start of Combat: Consume adjacent spears to gain their stats." Ice Spear: 2.2s cooldown --> 2.4s cooldown Encounters: Elven Favor: Make an item Elven and gain 20 gold --> Make an item Elven and gain 10 gold. Shieldbearer: Gain a Dusk Shield/Lifeguard with +10 shield --> Gain a Dusk Shield/Lifeguard with +20 shield Fixes: Mythic Rod text in the shop has been fixed. The new encounters now show the encounter tooltip at the correct position. //Bocary

[ 2025-05-18 15:36:19 CET ] [ Original post ]

Greetings, Oaklings

Remember to wishlist Oaken Tower if you havent already, it helps A LOT https://store.steampowered.com/app/3400960/Oaken_Tower/ New day 4 encounter: Blacksmith New day 6 encounter: Elven Archer

New stuff:

• The game now supports 60/90/120 FPS rather than being hardlocked to 120 FPS. The game will check your monitor refresh rate at startup, and set FPS accordingly. If you change the FPS manually, the game will save and remember it.
• The Oak now has a different Tower skin. Big thank you to SwordInTheDuck!
• Removed the option to toggle off item stats in the tower.
• Added visual indicators to items that buff other items in a certain direction. "Give item to the Left X.." will show a left arrow.
• Astral Hammer now shows a small number telling how many maces you have. It lights green if you have the 4 required for its effect.
• High Blade now shows a small number telling how many Moon/Elven items you have.

Balance:

• Nightquill: Legendary --> Epic | 60 gold --> 45 gold | Ability rephrased to: "Your start of combat effects trigger an extra time."
• Cursed Necklace (Legendary): 9s cooldown --> 8.5s cooldown.
• Nature's Call: "Start of Combat: Give item below +1 multicast." --> "After 5 seconds in combat, give item blow +1 multicast." | Legendary --> Epic | 60 gold --> 55 gold.
• Lunar Codex (Rare): "When you level up, permanently gain +15 damage" --> "When you level up, permanently gain +20 damage" | 40 gold --> 35 gold.
• Hunter's Tome (Rare): 3.5s cooldown --> 3.4s cooldown.
• Trigem (Legendary): Gives unique items +4 permanent damage --> Gives unique items +5 permanent damage.
• Arcane Secrets (Legendary): 3s cooldown --> 3.3s cooldown | "When a magic item triggers, permanently gain +2 damage." --> "When a magic item triggers, permanently gain +3 damage."
• Woodchopping (Epic): "On trigger: Give all axes +4 damage permanently." --> "On trigger: Give all axes +5 damage permanently." | 50 gold --> 45 gold.
• Batwing (Legendary): 65 gold --> 50 gold. | 6.7s cooldown --> 6s cooldown. | 15 damage --> 20 damage.
• Amber (Epic): 3.3s cooldown --> 3.5s cooldown.
• Refined Spear: 2s cooldown --> 2.2s cooldown.
• Arcane Bow (Common): 0 burn --> 1 burn. //Dev comment: This makes Arcane Bow play more into the arcane "rainbow" debuff build.
• Fire Orb (Epic): 6.4s cooldown --> 6.2s cooldown.
• Flamy War Axe (Legendary): 10 burn --> 12 burn.
• Doom Guide (Legendary): 1200 damage --> 1500 damage.
• Mythic Rod (Epic): "Start of combat: Permanently gain +35 DMG if you have only unique item types." --> "Start of combat: Permanently gain +40 DMG if you have only unique item types."
• High Blade (Epic): 6.2s cooldown --> 5.7s cooldown.
• Dagger Manual (Epic): 3.4s cooldown --> 3.3s cooldown. //Dev comment: This unnoticable change was made to have Dagger Manual and Hook at different cooldowns.
• Crescentshot (Rare): 3.8s cooldown --> 3.7s cooldown.
• Ice Spear (Rare): "On trigger: Permanently gain +1% crit chance." --> "On trigger: Permanently gain +2% crit chance."
• Lost Fragment (Legendary): 60 gold --> 65 gold.

Fixes:

• Lifeguard triple text fixed.
• Astral Hammer triple no longer has a 0.5s cooldown UNLESS the 4 mace requirement is fulfilled.

Remember that the PvP environment might still contain old / unnerfed builds for an hour or two. JOIN THE DISCORD: https://discord.com/invite/SFruNNHWbH //Bocary

[ 2025-05-18 14:08:03 CET ] [ Original post ]

Greetings, Oaklings

Encounters enter the oaken woods!

I managed to sneak in some more content. There are now 10 different encounters in the game, 5 of which will appear in a run. You can see your encounter history beside the tower, as well as your opponents encounter history.



Day 3: Always Priest (gives Max HP) Day 4: Pirate Potion Seller Shieldbearer Warrior Day 6: Chronomancer Elder Enchanter Day 8: Always Cleric (Gives Max hp / regain hearts). Day 9: Celestia Master Aldros

Balance:

• Darksteel (Common): 25 damage --> 20 damage.
• Cursed Necklace (Legendary): No longer works on Natures Call.
• Emerald Sword (Legendary): 3 bleed --> 2 bleed. | 4.4s cooldown --> 4.8s cooldown.
• Nightquill (Legendary): 55 gold --> 60 gold.
• Venom Ring (Legendary): 6.1s cooldown --> 5.8s cooldown.
• Cobalt Spear (Legendary): 6.2s cooldown --> 6.7s cooldown | 50 gold --> 55 gold.

Fixes:

• Moon knife triple weren't actually fixed last patch, but now it has been fixed for good. Triple moon knife gives +32 XP.
• Protector and Lifeguard now removes temporary damage/shield from Flamy Way Axe and Blazing Bull.

Other:

• The Max HP cap has been increased to 15K.
• You now gain +30% max health on level up rather than +25%.
• The medic has gotten a new job as a priest.
• Items now show a gold coin icon instead of "$". A dollar sign? Come on that was kinda troll.

As always, the PvP environment will take an hour or two to flush out old/unnerfed player builds from the pool. Early round builds will be flushed quicker. Expect balance/changes to the new encounters. //Bocary

[ 2025-05-15 13:14:38 CET ] [ Original post ]

Greetings, Oaklings

New items:

• Bulwark: Epic | 2.8s cooldown | 0 damage | 25 shield | "On trigger: Permanently gain +1 shield."
• Venom Ring: Legendary | 4.5s cooldown | 0 damage | 5 poison | "On trigger: Permanently gain +1 poison per poison item."
• Wardbinder: Epic | 5s cooldown | 0 damage | "On trigger: Trigger adjacent shields."
• Warrior Shield: Legendary | 3.5s cooldown | 0 damage | 70 shield | "Whenever you gain shield, deal 45 damage."
• Lifeguard: Rare | 3.1s cooldown | 0 damage | 30 shield | "On trigger: remove 3 burn, 2 poison and 1 bleed."

New feature: The Oak

After a game of Oaken Tower, you can now fight The Oak. The Oak can not die, but it will keep track of how much damage it has taken. This is used to see how much damage your build can reach, before you die to fatigue. New Player avatar: Wooden Log. Unlocked by dealing 300k damage to The Oak.

Balance:

• Cobalt Spear (Legendary): 5.3s cooldown --> 6.2s cooldown
• Wildfire (Common): 6 burn --> 5 burn
• Redemption (Legendary): $65 --> $55
• Trigem (Legendary): 5.9s cooldown --> 5.7s cooldown.
• Novice Blade (Common): 25 damage --> 20 damage | 2.5s cooldown --> 2.6s cooldown.
• Life Essence (Epic): +30 max hp per trigger --> +50 max hp per trigger.
• Crystal Flare (Common): +2 burn on trigger --> +1 burn on trigger | 6.3s cooldown --> 5s cooldown.
• Amber (Epic): 2 bleed --> 0 bleed.
• Jade (Common): 4.9s cooldown --> 4.5s cooldown.
• Lightblade (Rare): "Whenever you heal, gain +3 bonus damage." --> "Whenever you heal, gain +4 bonus damage." | 4.2s cooldown --> 3.9s cooldown.
• Natures Call: Epic --> Legendary.
• Venomstrike (Epic): 5 poison --> 7 poison | Bow --> Bow/Elven | 5.2s cooldown --> 5s cooldown.
• Refined Bow (Epic): $60 --> $40
• How to Grow (Rare): 6.5s cooldown --> 5.5s cooldown.
• Poison Dagger (Rare): 3 poison --> 5 poison. | $35 --> $45. | 2.7s cooldown --> 2.8s cooldown.
• Protector (Legendary): 3s cooldown --> 2.8s cooldown.
• Arcane Mace (Common): 4 burn --> 3 burn.
• Flamy War Axe (Legendary): 5 burn --> 10 burn.
• Hunter's Tome (Rare): 14 damage --> 20 damage. | 3.9s cooldown --> 3.5s cooldown.
• Refined Bow (Epic): 15 damage --> 20 damage.
• Snowflakes (Common): 10 damage --> 8 damage | 2.2s cooldown --> 2.4s cooldown.

Fixes:

• Spikey Mace: The word "Permanently" added to the item text.
• Astral Hammer: Now works as intended if tripled.

Other:

• Natures call now works on Cursed Necklace. This was disabled because it was a pretty op interaction, where Cursed Necklace would get a lot of multicast (each trigger will give itself exponentially scaling multicast in combat). However, since CN has a fairly long cooldown I wanted to enabled it and see how it goes.
• Added an indicator in the shop (underneath level) to see what chest reward you will earn from triples. Hover with mouse to see what levels the reward will upgrade.

As always, the PvP environment will take an hour or two to flush out old/unnerfed player builds from the pool. Early round builds will be flushed quicker. As my exams approach, I will not be doing more updates until early june. //Bocary

[ 2025-05-13 16:10:02 CET ] [ Original post ]

Oaken Tower Patch: v0.1.7

Small balance patch. Balance: Hook: Common --> Rare. Dagger Manual: Rare --> Epic. Sword Techniques: Gives +3 damage to sword below --> Gives +4 damage to sword below. Void Stinger: 2.3s cooldown --> 2.9s cooldown. Nightquill: $40 --> $55. Life Essence: On trigger: +30 max health --> On trigger: +40 max health. Jade: 5.1s cooldown --> 4.9s cooldown. Crystal Flare: 6.1s cooldown --> 6.3s cooldown. Molten Bow: 4.1s cooldown --> 4.2s cooldown | 8 damage --> 5 damage. Ruby Knife: 8 damage --> 5 damage. Amber: 3s cooldown --> 3.3s cooldown. Eclipse: 2.3s cooldown --> 2.7s cooldown. Woodchopping: +3 damage to axes --> +4 damage to axes. | 6.3s cooldown --> 6.1s cooldown. Fixes: Twillight's Edge now matches the cooldown in the shop and when it's bought. Other: Items that are tripled no longer combines the sell value of all 3 items, but only from the 2 that you had in your inventory already. Added some more animations and sound effects. //Bocary

[ 2025-05-07 01:27:01 CET ] [ Original post ]

Oaken Tower Patch: v0.1.6

Greetings, Oaklings

If you enjoy Oaken Tower, please consider leaving a review on the Oaken Tower Demo page. Steam reviews have an ENORMOUS impact on the steam discovery algorithm! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3692220/Oaken_Tower_Demo/ THANK YOU Stat indicators have been added to Oaken Tower! You can now get a nice overview of your items stats at a glance. This setting can be toggled on/off.
New item: Nightquill | Epic | Artifact/Dark | $40 | 0 damage | "Start of combat: Trigger your other items' start of combat effects". This item has great synergy with "Cursed Necklace" (Legendary)!

Balance:

• Natures Call (Epic): 5 damage --> 0 damage.
• Arcane Secrets (Legendary): 8 damage --> 20 damage
• Eclipse (Epic): "Start of combat: Permanently gain +2 damage per dark item." --> "Start of combat: Permanently gain +4 damage per dark item."
• Arcane Bow (Common): 2 bleed --> 1 bleed | 10 damage --> 12 damage.
• Trigem (Legendary): 6.5s cooldown --> 5.9s cooldown | "On trigger: If you have only unique item types, give them all +4 damage permanently."
• Coldshot (Rare) rework: 4 damage | 50% crit | 3s cooldown | "When another frosty item triggers, trigger this." //Dev comment: This gives frosty more playability as it synergizes heavily with Frost Orb and Frostbound.
• Bat Wing (Legendary): 7s cooldown --> 6.7s cooldown | "Start of combat: Permanently gain +2 multicast." --> "Start of combat: Permanently gain +3 multicast."
• Emerald Sword (Legendary): 4s cooldown --> 4.4s cooldown.
• Ruby Knife (Rare): 3.3s cooldown --> 3.8s cooldown.
• Cursed Necklace (Legendary): 9.5s cooldown --> 9s cooldown
• Life Essence (Epic): "On trigger: Permanently gain +25 max health." --> "On trigger: Permanently gain +30 max health."
• Brass Knife (Rare): 3.5s cooldown --> 3.7s cooldown.
• Hook (Common): 3.3s cooldown --> 3.4s cooldown.
• Dagger Manual (Rare): 3.1s cooldown --> 3.4s cooldown.

Fixes:

• Fixed a bug where some (non tripled) items would react if as though they were tripled, if you also had a tripled version in the tower.
• Fixed an issue that made some "Start of Combat" effects not work intended, including High Blade and Spikey Mace, which didn't get the buffing it was supposed to.
• Fixed a bug where Moon Knife (rare) would provide XP to the player if the enemy had it in their tower.

Other:

• The star indicating a tripled item has been moved a bit and centered.
• High Blade (epic) now has an animation and sound when triggering its start of combat effect.
• Healing Word (common) now shows a healing icon on trigger.
• How To Grow (rare) now shows a damage icon on trigger.
• Mace Studies (rare) now shows a damage icon on trigger.
• When items get buffed in-combat, the buff numbers now stay closer to the item they apply to.

The PvP environment might still hold old pre-nerfed items for 1-2 hours. //Bocary

[ 2025-05-06 13:03:12 CET ] [ Original post ]

Oaken Tower Patch: v0.1.5

This was meant to be a hotfix, but I decided to add more balancing, making it a back-to-back balance patch! Since the damage scaling of items is generally outscaling players' health, the medic will now also appear on day 9 to give a +500 HP boost. XP Needed from level one reduced to 52 (instead of 56) Balance: Modern Archery (Rare): 16s cooldown --> 17s cooldown | $40 --> $45 //Dev comment: The Modern Archery spell has insane scale potential, so the investment needs to be very big. Life Essence (Epic): 4.3s cooldown --> 4.1s cooldown. Arcane Bow (Rare): 10% crit --> no crit | 3.5s cooldown --> 3.9s cooldown | $25 --> $30 Molten Bow (Rare): 15 damage --> 8 damage. Cursed Necklace (Legendary): 11s cooldown --> 9.5s cooldown. Icy Axe (Common): 4s cooldown --> 3.8s cooldown | no crit --> 50% crit | 40 damage --> 25 damage. Ice Spear (Common): "On trigger: Gain +5% bonus crit chance per other frosty item." --> "On trigger: Permanently gain +1% crit chance." Hunters Tome (Rare): 4s cooldown --> 3.9s cooldown. Frostbound (Legendary): 40% crit chance --> 60% crit chance. Crystal Flare (Common): 5.5s cooldown --> 6.1s cooldown. Woodchopping (Epic): 8s cooldown --> 6.3s cooldown. Frozen Orb (Epic): 8s cooldown --> 7.4s cooldown. Check out this cool video by SuperAutoGaming! https://youtu.be/Rg3ml-rRSxY?si=nTT8R6-xbuRgMrZx //Bocary

[ 2025-05-04 23:04:54 CET ] [ Original post ]

Oaken Tower Patch: v0.1.4

Leveling up has now become more expensive/risky than previous. New: On day 3, a special encounter will now appear. The plan is to add a few more encounters to the game. General Balance changes: Leveling up now starts at 56 XP required rather than 32 XP required, making leveling up more expensive in general throughout the game. Winning a fight now grants 12 XP at day start, losing grans 8 XP (Rather than a static +4 XP). These two changes makes it harder to level up manually, and makes the process of leveling something that happens more automatically (a mix between Super Auto Pets and Teamfight Tactics). Base starting gold $65 --> $55 Item Balance changes: Cobalt Spear (Legendary): 3.9s cooldown --> 3.5s cooldown. Bat Wing (Legendary): 10 damage --> 15 damage. Decay (Epic): "Start of combat: Deal 200 damage." --> "Start of combat: Deal 250 damage." Lunar Codex (Rare): 2.9s cooldown --> 3.4s cooldown. Chopper (Common): "Start of combat: Give your axes +2 damage permanently." --> "Start of combat: Give your axes +3 damage permanently." Lightblade (Rare): "When you heal, trigger this." --> "When you heal, gain +3 bonus damage" | 5s cooldown --> 4.2s cooldown. //This change is mainly because old lightblade was a coding nightmare :D Arcane Bow (Common): 3.2s cooldown --> 3.5s cooldown. Mordern Archery (Rare): $35 --> $40. General prices for common/rare items lowered: Icy Axe (Common): $30 --> $20. Regular Bow (Common): $25 --> $15. Ruby Knife (Rare): $40 --> $35. Bone Club (Common): $20 --> $15. Paladin's Hammer (Common): $30 --> $25. Ice Spear (Rare): $35 --> $25. Noble Spear (Rare): $30 --> $25. Refined Spear (Common): $25 --> $15. Silver Lance (Common): $30 --> $20. Trident (Rare): $35 --> $30. How To Grow (Rare): $35 --> $30. Hunters Tome (Rare): 12 damage --> 14 damage | 4.2s cooldown --> 4s cooldown. Snowlfakes (Common): $35 --> $25. Novice Blade (Common): $25 --> $15. Twillight Edge (Common): $25 --> $20 | 6s cooldown --> 5.7s cooldown. Darksteel (Common): $35 --> $25. Fixes: * Conjure Spear (Epic) now has a sound effect on trigger. * A triple reward chest no longer stays in your inventory for the next game if you didn't use it in your last one. * Combining goblets into a triple now combines their total sell values as well. * Treasure Chest will now correctly make triple-versions of goblets if it would result in a triple (and give you a triple-chest reward) * High Blade typo fixed. * Losing internet connection will now display "No connection" when trying to fetch a player encounter, rather than putting you against the last fetched encounter. A "Retry" button will later be implemented to try to fetch the encounter again if unsuccessful. * Cobalt Spear (legendary) now correctly steals attack from Nightfall. Small visual improvements. //Bocary

[ 2025-05-04 17:47:10 CET ] [ Original post ]

Oaken Tower Patch: v0.1.3

Yep, the versioning changed to start with 0.

New items:

Treasure Chest (Epic): 0 damage | 7 cooldown | $55 | "When sold: Gain 2 goblets." //Dev comment: This is support for Twinfangs build (see twinfangs change below). Noble Spear (Rare): 50 damage | 3.9s cooldown | $30 | No ability. Cobalt Spear (Legendary): 35 damage | 3.9s cooldown | $50 | "Start of Combat: Permanently steal all attack from adjacent spears." //Dev comment: The 2 new spears give much more use to "Conjure Spear" (Epic) and creates a new cobalt spear build!

Balance changes:

Eclipse (Epic): "Start of combat: Permanently gain +1 damage per other dark item." --> "Start of combat: Permanently gain +2 damage per other dark item." Spikey Mace (Rare): "Has +10 bonus damage per other mace." --> "Start of Combat: Gain +3 damage per mace." | 3s cooldown --> 3.2s cooldown Frostbound (Legendary): "Whenever another item crits, permanently gain +2 damage." --> "Whenever an item crits, permanently gain +2 damage." Trident (Rare): 30 damage --> 15 damage | 4.1 cooldown --> 2.2 cooldown //Dev comment: A shorter cooldown plays much better with the bleed synergy! Mace Study (Rare): 5.8s cooldown --> 7s cooldown | "On trigger: Give mace above +4 damage permanently." --> "On trigger: Give adjacent maces +2 damage permanently." | $30 --> $35 Woodchopping (Epic): 10s cooldown --> 8s cooldown | "On trigger: Give all axes +2 damage permanently." --> "On trigger: Give all axes +3 damage permanently." Moon Knife (Rare): "When obtained: Also gain +12 XP." --> "When obtained: Also gain +16 XP." Crystal Flare (Rare): 5s cooldown --> 5.5s cooldown //Dev comment: See "crystal flare" under fixes. Lapis Lazuli (Epic): "On trigger: Permanently gain a level." --> "On trigger: Trigger moon item to the right of this." | 15.5s cooldown --> 3.4s cooldown | $60 --> $40 //Dev comment: This item has been totally reworked. Life Essence: Rare --> Epic | 5s cooldown --> 4.3s cooldown | $30 --> $35 Dream Catcher: Rare --> Epic | 5.5s cooldown --> 5.2s cooldown | $45 --> $35 Hook (Common): 2.8s cooldown --> 3.3s cooldown Brass Knife (Rare): 3.3s cooldown --> 3.5s cooldown Twinfangs (Legendary): "Permanently gain +8 damage every time you buy an item." --> "Permanently gain +8 damage every time you sell an item." Moonveil (Legendary): 6.9s cooldown --> 7.1s cooldown Wildfire (Common): 7 burn --> 6 burn Elven Shield (Common): 2.6s cooldown --> 3.4s cooldown

Fixes:

* Cursed Necklace (Legendary) now works on Chopper (Common). * Hunters Tome (Rare): Now has a sound effect when triggering. * Crystal Flare (Rare): Only gave +1 to burn items even though it stated +2. This fix is essentially a pretty big buff, which is why the cooldown had to be increased by 0.5s. * Fixed the minimum rating to 500.

Other:

* Now that many players have been playing Oaken Tower, the PvP database of builds has been increased. It now holds 30 different player builds per day. * The game now asks if you are sure you want to *end your run* when clicking the menu button from the pause screen. Check out this awesome video by The Indie Buffet https://youtu.be/0gHgPTH-yFg?si=pa6fp2bz3QJGIhlR //Bocary

[ 2025-05-03 17:28:39 CET ] [ Original post ]

Greetings Oaklings

Thank you for a successful launch of the Oaken Tower Demo! Following the demo launch, there has been a bunch of feedback, so here's a balance patch as well as some fixes!

Balance changes:

Warhorn (Legendary): $60 --> $55 | 12s cooldown --> 10s cooldown Redemption (Legendary): 3.5s cooldown --> 4.2s cooldown Astral Hammer (Legendary): $70 --> $60 Cursed Necklace (Legendary): $75 --> $55 Life Essence (Rare): 4s cooldown --> 5s cooldown Natures Call (Epic): $55 --> $60 Lost Fragment (Legendary): Ability changed to: "On trigger: Give item above +1 bonus multicast (except Lost Fragment)." | 5s cooldown. | $60. Moonveil (Legendary): 5.3s cooldown --> 6.8s cooldown Lapis Lazuli (Epic): $45 --> $60 | 15s cooldown --> 15.5s cooldown Conjure Spear (Epic): 12s cooldown --> 11s cooldown Woodchopping (Epic): 13s cooldown --> 10s cooldown Arcane Secrets (Legendary): "When a magic item triggers, permanently gain +1 damage." --> "When a magic item triggers, permanently gain +2 damage." | 3.2s cooldown --> 3.7s cooldown Redemption (Legendary): 4.2s cooldown --> 4.4s cooldown | 20 damage --> 10 damage Twinfangs (Legendary): "Permanently gain +7 damage every time you buy an item." --> "Permanently gain +8 damage every time you buy an item." Dream Catcher (Rare): 5.3s cooldown --> 5.5s cooldown | $40 --> $45 Decay (Epic): $45 --> $40 | 4.3s cooldown --> 3s cooldown | 35 damage --> 40 damage. High Blade (Epic): Ability changed to: "Start of combat: Permanently recude cooldown by 0.1s per Elven or Moon item." Elvish Orb (Epic): Elven/Artifact --> Artifact.

Fixes:

• Triple Life Essence now correctly gives +50HP instead of 25.
• Life Essence can no longer bring you above the maximum of 10000 HP.
• You can no longer right-click items in fights.
• Elvish Orb now correctly only gives multicast to Elven items (instead of any item).
• Enemy Astral Hammer now correctly checks if enemy is level 8+ instead of the player.

Check out this awesome video by SuperAutoGaming https://youtu.be/m2qnggs-uJI?si=1QspQOjmYJtMAhry //Bocary

[ 2025-05-01 21:35:19 CET ] [ Original post ]