Increased health of mining nodes
Changed master rank color
Fixed rank integer overflow error
Fixed treasure chests not playing an opening animation
Fixed the scoreboard not displaying player names
Fixed displaying master 1 as iron 5
Fixed tooltip error for sapphire gems
Fixed not connecting with other players in hideout
Fixed the issue where treasure chest message boxes could no longer be closed
Fixed that the message "You are being summoned" was no longer removed when the queue was canceled for PvE

Einar's final resting place beneath the volcano is now fit for a king! Decked in gold, the new boss fight arena offers more platforming and routes to evade the swarm as you battle the Mother of Spiders. With the new boss fight HP bar, you can focus on the objective before you're overrun.

We've also streamlined the early stages of the game to help you get through the volcano faster. More routes, better waypoints, rebalanced enemy progression. We will continue improving the early game with a reworked tutorial area soon!

A small taste of what's coming next, we added 2 new missions while streamlining the other 100 story emails already in the game. Tangle with Baba Yaga (again?) in the Forest, then help some Quarkus employees stage a coup in Act 3.


Stay tuned for the next update bringing the Helices megacorp tower.

Full patch notes below!

• Remade Einar's Throne Room (Volcano Boss Arena)
  
• Major navigational improvements to the Volcanyon and Volcano
  
• Added a new shop in the Volcano
  
• Quarkus improvements, including boss attack telegraphing
  
• Overhauled mission waypoint system to be more readable and useful
  
• Added Courier Story Missions (including one to take you to the top of the Volcano)
  
• The first character on an account will now always get a free heal in the Cache
  
• Added two new unique items as rewards for the Quarkus and upcoming Helices fight
  
• Added two new missions between level 25-35
  
• Edited and improved all previous missions
  
• After you complete a mission, the active waypoint will automatically switch to the next active mission
  
• Players now run a lot faster on the Information Superhighways
  
• Heal Over Time items now automatically enable when the player logs in or respawns
  
• Rebalanced hack speed to make it less punishing if you fall behind on icebreaker upgrades
  
• Added Hack Timer calculation in the Full Stats UI
  
• Added Time To Kill calculation in the Full Stats UI
  
• Added a Boss HP bar for dungeon bosses and Lockout enemies
  
• Increased Flat Damage affix scaling at the low end, but also reduced drop rate
  
• Made Lockout GUI and in-game particles easier to see
  
• Lockout enemies now slow the hack down drastically instead of completely stop it
  
• Added a video option to reduce the sky intensity
  
• Reduced sky star size for stars closest to the player
  
• Added a green cooldown indicator for items with charges to show when charges will cd
  
• Fixed terrain hazards like lava doing increased damage in multiplayer
  
• Evading servers no longer appear in the Volcano
  
• Reduced Charge.bat damage
  
• New unique Sprint which applies Frictionless
  
• Items now have full charges when equipped for the first time, and remember both charges and cooldowns when you unequip them, which you can now do at any time.
  
• Many bug fixes, including waypoints, missions, etc.

Stay safe, hackers.

- superdupergc & Nonadecimal

You'll never have to Slay the Spire alone again once you have these adorable, limited edition figures of the Ironclad and the Silent by your side!

Our friends over at Youtooz are bringing you all the first ever official Slay the Spire vinyl figures!! They're available to pre-order NOW, so get yours here before they're gone for good!



And since this is our last announcement of 2023, we want to take this opportunity to wish you all a Mega Crit-mas and a happy new year! It's been a busy year for our team: working on our new game, learning a new engine, migrating said game to said engine, etc. We're happy we've been able to partner with other companies that can bring our fans cool merch like this in the meantime, and we're so excited for you all to see what we here at Mega Crit have been cooking when the time comes!

Until then: slay on, Slayers.

Ho Ho Ho Fighters!

In all it’s glory, we’ll be bringing you some festive cheer with our new Frosty Fest event, Payload Extraction, seasonal leaderboards, profile customization and 2 new weapons hitting the shelves to dabble with!

Let’s have a gander in more detail at what’s coming up:


It’s holiday time! We're unwrapping some tasty treats for SquadBlast with our first game event - FrostyFest!

'Tis the season of goodies in SquadBlast! Join in the fun over the next few weeks until the end of January, collect special candies in your regular matches, and splash out on cool stuff from our new special Shop Section. Keep an eye out for the special FrostyFest Case in your battle drops – it's loaded with both weapon and fashion items. Don't miss the festive treats!

We've sprinkled a bit of holiday magic around your favourite locations in SquadBlast. Can you spot all the festive decorations?

Don't forget to check www.squadblast.com every day for the next 7 days, pop open the Frosty Fest Advent Calendar, and scoop up those daily rewards!


New Mode - Payload Extraction

What's better than one Payload mode? You got it – two! Introducing the latest addition to our mode lineup – Payload Extraction. It's like a classic concept with a shiny new twist.

In a nutshell: Two rounds, one goal! Attackers need to haul the payload across the map to the extraction point while defenders attempt to stop 'em. Round two? Teams swap sides, and victory goes to whoever gets that payload moving faster or closer to the extraction point.



New map - Brooklyn Rush

The first mission available to participate in the update takes place not that far from the New York’s Hideouts - just across the river in Brooklyn with views of the iconic bridge. There is something very attractive about this city.



Changes to Matchmaking

We've tweaked the matchmaking rules. Now, when you hit that Battle button, all maps for all modes are 3v3, except for the first match on the Underfoot map. Plus, the party size limit has shrunk to 3 players. so get your trio stacks ready!


We've been cooking up some changes, and now it's time to say hello to Seasonal Leaderboards in SquadBlast!

We hit the reset button on the Leaderboards, and now we've placed them into seasons! Every few weeks, we're shaking up the schedule, resetting the scores, and dishing out rewards like candy based on where you're positioned.

The Leaderboards itself has undergone a facelift. Now, your rewards are clearly displayed on the right side. So you always know what's up for grabs. And the icing on the cake? A snazzy timer to keep you posted on when the season's wrapping up. Plus, information in the archives, check out past seasons, and discover the legends and their epic weapons.

The current Season 1 will continue for a little while after the release of the update, and Season 2 will start soon!


Picture this – you're cruising the new Leaderboards, and those default player icons are a bit meh. Not cool, right? Well now you can pimp your profile with the first batch of vanity items – Profile Pictures and Frames.

You can unlock new swag from Hero Masteries, pick from a bunch of awesome base options, and level up in the game to unlock even more. We've got some special seasonal ones dropping real soon!

Oh, and to make life easier, every profile picture and frame comes with a little note telling you where to grab them.




Gumball

Now, everyone can snag a sweet Level 2 treat from the main Account Progression – the Gumball

It's here to sprinkle some elemental mayhem and give newcomers a taste of what's coming their way. Slow down your opponents, stick 'em to the ground, and seize that advantage!



Labyrinth

This secondary smoke grenade launcher deploys a smokescreen, decreasing visibility, concealing your exact location, whilst turning the map into a tactical playground.

The labyrinth can be a game changer for setting up battles which can work in your favour by creating sneaky plays in both slaying power and objective efficiency.




- You can now equip fashion items right from the Inspection preview screen with a dedicated button
- Label new now disappears from item cards after 1 second of hovering a cursor over it instead of a press


- Pause menu button is now available on screen during the respawn sequence in battle
- If you have any fashion item equipped, dance animation will be different
- Improved haptics for iOS devices in battles to provide a better understanding of what’s happening on the battlefield


- Blackhole sound is back
- Touch controls are not present on the screen when you open the scoreboard anymore

We’ve made quite a lot of new additions and changes this time round! Dish out your thoughts and findings on our Discord. This update should keep you all pretty busy over the Christmas period! Enjoy and see you all next year!

Hello all you busy and hardworking AIs out there!

Here's a small patch before the holidays, that brings some minor polishing and some Quest additions/changes. It also slightly nerfs level 4 (Saitoris), to make the difficulty ramp up less frustrating when reaching the level the first time in a new playthrough.

We again want to thank everyone of you, that played our game, reported bugs, left us feedback and/or even took the time to write a review!

As you may or may not know, we are just 2 friends working on this game in our spare time and we are truly humbled and grateful to have such a kind and lovely community for our first game!

So again, a big thank you! <3

We wish all of you some relaxing holidays and a Happy new year!

• Added an "active" and "completed" Filter for the Questbook.
  
• Added Unity Terrain and Paths to Level 7, to bring a little bit more grey into the grey.
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• Added Unity Terrain and Paths to Level 8, to hopefully make enemy paths better visible.
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• Automated Aluminium, Steel, Titanium and Silicium Quests now also give 2 Skillpoints.
  
• Automated Tungsten and Silver Quest now give 3 instead of 2 Skillpoints.
  
• Added more automated crafting Quests.

Sand Devourer

• Reduced the total amount in Wave 2 on spawner 1 from 40 to 30.

SandRunner

• Reduced Health from 50 to 40.
  
• Reduced Quick Adaption chance from 5% to 3% and healed amount from 6% to 5%.

• Fixed T3 Towers not showing range when selected.
  
• Fixed a build cost calculation Bug for the Gun Tower, when the Heating Up Skill is used.
  
• Tower Infos of a selected tower now update every 0.2 instead of 0.5 seconds.
  
• Fixed Tower Upgrade Info showing range changes when there are none.
  
• When building a Tower, the Info Panel on the right is now larger and holds more information.
  
• Fixed wrong Quest description for crafting 1 Common Resource Package by hand.

As always hit us up on Discord or in the Steam discussions and let us know what you think or miss!

- Snob Entertainment -

To those who haven’t heard, we have, once again, partnered with Makeship to bring you another pocket-sized version of one of the Foundation’s infamous ‘members’.

For a limited time, you can grab an SCP-173 plushie from Makeship’s website: https://www.makeship.com/products/scp-173

We’re happy to announce that the campaign has been fully funded, meaning we can now guarantee the plushie's entry into the initial stages of production.

Once the campaign ends, the plushies will no longer be available for purchase, so grab one while you still can!

We'd like to thank everyone that has purchased one already — however; it'd be best to keep an eye on it once it arrives…

Hello platformers!

The Steam Winter Sale is now Live. Now is the best time to get Aerial Platforms or gift to a friend and save up to 70% The sale ends Thursday, January 4 at 10am PST (6pm UTC).

Happy Holidays! :)



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Dear BattleJuice Alchemist Community,

As we approach the festive season, I want to take a moment to express my gratitude to each and every one of you who has been following the development of our game. Your support has been the driving force behind our journey, and I can't thank you enough for being a part of the Alchemical Works family.

This year has been particularly special as I worked intensively with a full team for the first time, consisting of Patrick, Jan, Felix, Markus, and Dominik. Working alongside these creative minds has been an incredible experience for me, and together, we're crafting something truly extraordinary with BattleJuice Alchemist.

We also want to extend our appreciation to our fantastic publisher, ESDigital Games, for their unwavering support and collaboration. This year, we met them for the first time in person at Gamescom, which was just great, and we are so glad to have them in our corner. Also, we would not be able to work the way we do without the support of Media Funding RLP and the German Federal Funding.

And, of course, none of this would be possible without the encouragement and enthusiasm of the people patiently waiting for the game and following its development. Your feedback has fueled our determination to create a truly unique RPG.



As we step into 2024, we're thrilled to announce that it's going to be a monumental year for BattleJuice Alchemist and Alchemical Works. We have some major news coming your way very soon, so be sure to stay tuned for updates and exciting reveals!

Wishing you and your loved ones a joyful holiday season and a Happy New Year. Thank you for being a crucial part of our adventure. Here's to an amazing 2024 filled with magic, challenges, and triumphs!

Warm regards,

Alain and the Alchemical Works Team

- A new type of zombies in wave mode
- Some minor changes
- Fix bugs

I have been making considerable progress on the infinite world generation. It is truly infinite. Everything will save and load, and multiplayer is even somewhat functional. I have spent some time refining and improving the generation to be more realistic, featuring things like plains, mountains, rivers, and lakes. I still haven't started on biomes, and some of the cooler elements. There is still lots to do, but I'm confident It will be release ready in the not too distant future! If you want to try it out, you can switch to the infinite-development branch in the betas tab. As a disclaimer, I still need to mention that you should not mix save files from the infinite version and release versions or vise versa unless you want permanent loss of your worlds.