Happy Thanksgiving to our American friends! Here's a patch for your day off. For everyone else... hope you're enjoying your day as normal. Crypt of the NecroDancer v3.3.0 is now available!

New features

• Added Discord Rich Presence integration and game invitation support
• Added "Treasure Hunt" game mode to Versus Mode, replacing "Trick or Treat" mode
  • Defeat enemies to collect their gems, or steal them from other players!
  • The top-scoring player wears a shiny crown... which reveals their position to everyone else!
  • Drop 50% of your gems on death, including those collected in previous rounds!
  • After 3 rounds, the player with the most gems wins!
• Added GOG Galaxy cross-play support for Apple Silicon Macs
• Added option to generate floors with more/fewer rooms in the level editor
• Added advanced option to retain custom rules after closing a multiplayer session
• Added advanced option to increase the HUD text size for item stacks (bombs, cookies, etc.)
• Added advanced option to increase the volume of important sound effects (Thief, Trapdoors, miniboss trampling)
• Added Mumble positional audio integration
• Added Integration options menu to configure mod.io/Discord/Mumble integration
• Added back Bolt's original unlock condition ('Complete Zone 4 with Monk') as an alternative to their new unlock method ('Complete All Zones Mode')

Balance changes

• Onyx Weapons: Changed damage boost to activate when hitting shielded enemies (excluding crates)
• Shield of Shove: Increased damage of crush attack from 4 piercing damage to infinite phasing damage
• Karate Gi: Reduced incoming damage penalty from a 2x multiplier to a +0.5 flat increase
• Quartz Armor: Now protects against extremely high-damage hits (>10 hearts)
• Winged Boots: Added the ability to toggle the floating effect via the 'Throw' button
• Ring of Shielding: Now protects any equipped Shields from taking damage or breaking
• Ring of Protection: Now protects against one lethal hit, breaking the ring and leaving the wearer at half a heart
• Ring of Pain: Changed area damage to be parryable by Blademasters
• Courage Shovel: Added protection against Wall Spikes
• Courage Shovel: Added to Monk's and Coda's item pool
• Courage Shovel: Reduced dig strength from Stone to Dirt
• Earth Spell: Changed damage and knockback to affect enemies standing on the exit stairs
• Earth Spell: Greater Earth now knocks back adjacent enemies two tiles instead of unconditionally crushing them
• Freeze Spell: Increased freeze duration from 7 to 8 beats (15 to 16 beats for Greater Freeze)
• Freeze Spell: Increased cooldown from 15 to 20 kills
• Freeze Spell: Increased blood cost from 1 to 1.5 hearts
• Freeze Spell: Greater Freeze on the main level no longer affects enemies in the secret shop, and vice versa
• Shield Spell: Increased blood cost from 1 to 1.5 hearts
• Bomb Spell: Magical bombs no longer inflict damage to players or friendly entities
• Frost Charm: Now casts the normal Freeze Spell when shattered instead of Greater Freeze
• Grenade Charm: No longer spawns, replaced by a "Grenade" action slot item that comes in stacks of 3

• Ogre: Changed behavior to avoid attacking until it has been visible for a full beat
• Death Metal: Changed the shield in phase 1 to be breakable by inflicting 9 or more damage in one hit
• Frankensteinway: Removed the shield's damage reflection
• Crate/Barrel Mimic: Now drops a single Grenade for Eli (or rarely for other characters)

• Chaunter: No longer gets slowed down when digging, using items or casting spells while possessing a slow enemy
• Monk: Increased starting health from 2 hearts to 3 hearts
• Monk: Reduced maximum number of enemies per floor
• Mary: No longer encounters Orcs in Zone 5
• Tempo: Shop Wall Mimics are no longer replaced by other enemies in Zone 5

• Shrine of War: Increased probability of encountering Shrine of War to match other shrines
• Shrine of Sacrifice: Changed rewards to 3 different chest items (red/purple/black), instead of 3 random items
• Shrine of Pain: No longer applies a +1 item tier boost to its reward items
• Shrine of Blood: Now drops Crown of Thorns while inactive, and Ring of Regeneration while active

• Yetis: Added movement speed limit of at least 3 beats per move if health is greater than 1
• Deep Blues: Reduced average movement speed of Pawns (5 to 8 beats per move instead of 1 to 4)
• Deep Blues: Reduced average health of Pawns

• Projection Spell: Now grants brief invincibility upon casting
• Vanish Spell: Now grants brief invincibility upon casting
• Vanish Spell: No longer interrupted when hit while invincible

Other changes

• Changed Heart Transplant to telegraph the end of its effect by showing beat bars
• Changed credits to use higher quality graphics for enemies

Modding features

• Added support for declaring a dependency on the latest version of a mod (use [noparse]"ModName_io_12345": true[/noparse])
• Added single-player chat visibility mode for mods
• Added "embedded client" mode with asynchronous rendering, accessible via the [noparse]MultiInstance[/noparse] module
  • This allows rendering a "picture-in-picture" view of the game from a different perspective
• Added support for joining the same session multiple times via embedded clients

Bugfixes

Gameplay bugfixes

• Fixed Trap Walls in Melody's final boss fight sometimes leaving small pockets of floor tiles intact
• Fixed Shrine of Space causing level generator to generate different items in subsequent levels
• Fixed Boss Shrine causing level generator to generate different items in subsequent levels
• Fixed minibosses spawned by the Dice Trap appearing in the next floor's Trapdoor Penalty Box
• Fixed Shrine of Space generating too many catacomb walls in Zone 3
• Fixed Shrine of Space sometimes overriding shop walls in Zone 3
• Fixed Shrine of Space sometimes failing to generate its extra room
• Fixed Shrine of Space sometimes creating inaccessible rooms
• Fixed crate Gargoyles not being affected by Ring of Luck and Lucky Charm
• Fixed extra items being granted when a non-Chaunter character uses the Lantern
• Fixed Chaunter disintegrating the Weaponmaster's lobby training weapons on pickup
• Fixed Tar Monsters not creating tar when spawned by a dice trap
• Fixed Fortissimole's initial facing direction varying when playing the same run in seeded mode
• Fixed items sunken by an angry Pawnbroker reappearing on the next floor
• Fixed Shopkeeper Familiar not collecting gold when deployed
• Fixed Shopkeeper failing to open metal doors when returning to his shop after chasing a player
• Fixed Ogres being able to immediately swing their club when spawned during a boss fight
• Fixed Deep Blues being able to castle after teleporting
• Fixed Bells spawning minibosses adjacent to players in Cadence's penultimate boss
• Fixed Melody's final boss sometimes getting stuck in walls
• Fixed non-Chaunter possessors being vulnerable to floor hazards
• Fixed enemies continuing to target players who died during possession
• Fixed enemies not despawning after falling down trapdoors
• Fixed Ring of Wonder and Crown of Greed doubling the Pawnbroker's sell prices
• Fixed Leprechaun's gold drop being affected by Randomizer Mode
• Fixed spawn caps not correctly handling multiple bosses on one level
• Fixed Berserk Spell not applying its damage boost when struggling against a Monkey

Multiplayer bugfixes

• Fixed peer-to-peer message routing when connected to the same lobby from multiple clients
• Fixed "Logged in from another session" error when trying to play over LAN
• Fixed intro screen getting stuck when accepting lobby invitation
• Fixed accepted lobby invitations not fully interrupting cutscenes
• Fixed leaderboard player count not always updating correctly

Versus Mode bugfixes

• Fixed Vanish Spell being cancelled the same beat it is cast
• Fixed Versus Mode spectator view not working correctly

Menu bugfixes

• Fixed Steam Input not detecting controllers on Apple Silicon Macs
• Fixed Steam Overlay not working on Apple Silicon Macs
• Fixed text display issues in key rebinder on some resolutions
• Fixed keybindings in the controls menu's third column not being removable
• Fixed uncommon crash when exiting the game via the menu

Level editor bugfixes

• Fixed black screen when playing a multi-character custom dungeon
• Fixed editor text tool not preserving uppercase characters
• Fixed editor camera mode persisting when editor UI is open at level start
• Fixed entities dying to lava in level editor

Modding bugfixes

• Fixed settings not using [noparse]treeKey[/noparse] for sorting order
• Fixed [noparse]boss.summonNearby()[/noparse] ignoring [noparse]components[/noparse] if [noparse]caster[/noparse] isn't specified
• Fixed Steam Workshop resource packs not being loadable when Steam is in offline mode
• Fixed errors during level generation not being displayed correctly
• Fixed Synchrony's balance tweaks taking priority over mods
• Fixed "Popular on mod.io" section running out of mods too quickly
• Fixed mod icons not always being loaded correctly from mod.io
• Fixed image/audio preloader not handling modded files if the path contains Unicode characters
• Fixed asset extractor not listing files if a translation mod is loaded
• Fixed debug console only disabling leaderboards for the current run
• Fixed heart HUD graphics not appearing in resource extraction menu

Audio bugfixes

• Fixed missed beats when the Heart Transplant's effect ends
• Fixed 'Random' soundtrack option randomly causing Freddy to stop singing
• Fixed 'Random' soundtrack option sometimes failing to play any music at all when AMPLIFIED DLC is not installed
• Fixed Training song not looping correctly
• Fixed Onyx weapons not playing the correct attack voice line
• Fixed missing sound effects when a non-Chaunter character uses the Lantern

Visual bugfixes

• Fixed cut-off character sprite when equipping Winged Boots while standing in a liquid
• Fixed cutscene videos being cut off vertically on ultrawide display resolutions
• Fixed inconsistent fade-out/darken behavior between floors and walls
• Fixed Extra Mode labels sometimes being obscured by their shrine
• Fixed giant enemies audibly trampling while hovering
• Fixed missing particle effects when a non-Chaunter character uses the Lantern
• Fixed some equipment sprites being stretched when submerged in water