Changelog/2026/June 10

• Items that give ‘percentage’ healing (% Max HP) have the side-effect of scaling with the Max HP (Health) stat.
  • Healing is needed to recover Health, while Defense decreases damage taken.
  • So Healing power is determined by EHP/s recovery, not just by HP/s.
  • Competing with percentage healing is a vicious cycle - either flat values inflate trying to keep up with a growing number, or the percentage grows.
    • With healing multipliers, sources like Zombie Sword already give >15% Max HP per activation — instantly.
  • With Healing power already being increased by Defense and Healing amount,
  • Max HP scaling percent Healing gets us closer to the glass-cannon spiral.
  • Keeping up with a level of EHP recovery at >15% Max HP instantly for free is the problem.
  • The conclusion is that percentage healing needs to be limited.
  • It can still exist, and will still exist with this update, but in the form of Health Regen (stat) which is controlled to moderate amounts.
• Percent HP (true) damage finishes the loop started by percent healing:
  • Percentage HP Damage can keep damage threatening as EHP and EHP/s increase, seemingly presenting a solution.
  • But look at the incentives percent Damage creates:
  • You take more damage with higher HP, and therefore have to heal more in return. This isn’t fair at all! More stats is… worse???
  • ➜ Percent healing makes less health worse and percent damage makes more health worse.
  • ➜ % Healing must increase to outheal % Damage, fueling the glass-cannon spiral.
  • In conclusion: % Damage and % Healing combine to make combat unenjoyable at any HP.

Zombie Sword

All variants of Zombie Swords now cost 25 Vitality to cast.
The healing provided by Zombie Swords have been adjusted as follows:

• Zombie Sword: 120 + 5% HP ➜ 320 HP
• Ornate Zombie Sword: 144 + 5% HP ➜ 420 HP
• Florid Zombie Sword: 168 + 5% HP ➜ 500 HP

Zombie Swords will now heal for 20% of health gained by you to all allies nearby, as follows:

• Zombie Sword: 40 HP ➜ 64 HP
• Ornate Zombie Sword: 48 HP ➜ 84 HP
• Florid Zombie Sword: 56 HP ➜ 100 HP

Healing Wands

All variants of Healing Wands now cost 25 Vitality to cast.
The healing provided by Healing Wands have been adjusted as follows:

• Wand of Healing: 60 HP/s for 7 seconds ➜ 60 HP/s for 5 seconds
• Wand of Mending: 90 HP/s for 7 seconds ➜ 80 HP/s for 5 seconds
• Wand of Restoration: 120 HP/s for 7 seconds ➜ 100 HP/s for 6 seconds
• Wand of Atonement: 170 HP/s for 7 seconds ➜ 120 HP/s for 6 seconds

Power Orbs Power Orbs retain the 50% of max mana cost to cast and gain an additional cost of 50 Vitality to cast.
The original ‘flat’ HP/s on Power Orbs has been separated into two parts, Health Regen and Flat Healing.
Instead of the original ‘percentage’ heal for x% HP per second, each Power Orb now gives some Health Regen (stat), as follows:

• Radiant Power Orb:⠀⠀⠀⠀25 Health Regen
• Mana Flux Power Orb:⠀⠀50 Health Regen
• Overflux Power Orb:⠀⠀⠀100 Health Regen
• Plasmaflux Power Orb:⠀125 Health Regen

Each Power Orb now gives ‘flat’ HP/s as follows:

• Radiant Power Orb: 25 HP/s
• Mana Flux Power Orb: 30 HP/s
• Overflux Power Orb: 40 HP/s
• Plasmaflux Power Orb: 50 HP/s

There are two more changes to power orbs:

• The HP/s healing provided to teammates is halved.
• Power orbs no longer give Vitality and Mending.

Justification: Separating Power Orb’s healing to Health Regen and Flat Healing allows us to retain limited percentage healing from Power Orbs, while controlling the majority of healing generated by Power Orbs with flat values.

Halving the healing of Power Orbs provided to teammates is necessary, as Power Orbs provide too much healing for the measly cost of 50 Vitality from 1 person. If someone wants to do a healer build, they can stack mending to increase the healing from Power Orbs to their teammates.

The alternative to this is to have power orbs no longer heal teammates outright, else healing in multiplayer content becomes trivial.

The removal of Vitality and Mending off of Power Orbs allows us to design future Power Orbs that center more around those stats (especially Mending).

Power Orbs are currently strong enough for Mana Regeneration alone as is.

Flares Flares retain their respective mana costs and gain an additional cost of 10 Vitality to cast. The activation cost does not increase when you upgrade your flare.

The Vitality from Flares has been adjusted as follows:

• Warning Flare: 10 Vitality ➜ 10 Vitality (NO CHANGE)
• Alert Flare: 20 Vitality ➜ 15 Vitality
• SOS Flare: 30 Vitality ➜ 25 Vitality

The True Defense from Flares has been adjusted as follows:

• Warning Flare: 10 True Defense ➜ 10 True Defense (NO CHANGE)
• Alert Flare: 20 True Defense ➜ 20 True Defense (NO CHANGE)
• SOS Flare: 25 True Defense ➜ 30 True Defense

Flares will now grant a flat amount of HP/s while on the Crimson Isle and Kuudra’s Lair, allowing players to get passive healing without needing to use a Power Orb!

• Warning Flare: 25 HP/s
• Alert Flare: 30 HP/s
• SOS Flare: 40 HP/s

Justification Vitality has been reduced from the Flares to accommodate a passive healing bonus that allows the SOS Flare to compete with Power Orbs for Blaze Slayer. A slight buff to SOS Flare’s True Defense makes the upgrade more worthwhile.

Wither Impact — Wither Shield

• Wither Shield’s absorption is now determined by your catacombs level instead of Crit Damage.
  • The shield’s absorption is calculated as (12 + cata_lvl × 0.32) × 50 = 600 + 16 × cata_lvl
  • (12 + cata_lvl × 0.32) is the “Conversion Rate”.
    • The higher your conversion rate, the more healing you get per Vitality consumed.
    • In this case, the higher your Catacombs level, the more absorption you get out of the shield.

• Activating Wither Shield costs 50 Vitality
  • Not having enough Vitality does not prevent you from casting Wither Impact - it still deals damage, it just doesn’t put up the shield.
• Wither Shield retains 10% damage reduction while the ability is active.
• Wither Shield will no longer heal the player when it expires.
  • Instead of the healing, a Vitality refund is given based on how much of the shield is used - wasting no Vitality.

Wither Cloak Sword

Wither Cloak Sword has been reworked to shield a lesser amount of damage.

• Spawns a layered veil that negates damage, as follows:
  • Lose a layer on hit, consuming 30 Vitality and block up to 1000 damage.
    • The damage blocked scales with your Catacombs Stat Bonus.
  • When the damage exceeds a layer's limit, another layer is consumed, until all damage is accounted for.
  • If you don’t have enough Vitality for another block, consume all remaining Vitality and take slight knockback.
  • You cannot attack or regenerate Vitality while the veil is up.
• Cooldown: UNCHANGED

Healing Enchantments

All enchantments related to Healing are reworked as follows, with values defined from T1 - 7.

• Lifesteal Heal for 2.4/4.8/7.2/9.6/12/14.4/16.8 HP every time you hit a mob.
• Drain Gain 0.1/0.2/0.3/0.4/0.5/0.6/0.7 Vitality every time you hit a mob.
• Vampirism Heal for 7/14/21/28/35/42/49 HP every time you kill a mob.
• Rejuvenate Grants 1/2/3/4/5/6/7 Health Regen.
• Respite Grants 3/6/9/12/15/18/21 Health Regen while out of combat.
• Transylvanian* Grants +3/6/9/12/15/18/21 Max HP per enemy within 10 blocks, up to x*10.
• * Note that the Transylvanian enchantment no longer heals, but instead grants increased Max HP.
• # Note that enchantments may have values defined beyond tiers that are currently accessible.

Refrigerate

• Defense from Refrigerate now increases with the amount of armor pieces.
• Maximum Defense gain is reduced from 1000 to 600 (4 pieces).
• The amount of mana required to sustain the defense boost is higher.

Last Stand

• Last Stand now activates a buff when you reach below 40% Health instead of being active only when staying under the threshold.
• The Defense buff lasts 10 seconds with a 30 second cooldown, meaning the ability has 20s downtime.

Mana Enchantments

• The Mana enchantments (Hardened Mana, Strong Mana, Ferocious Mana, and Vampiric Mana) have been reworked to use Vitality instead.
• The bonuses from the enchantments now proc on your own Vitality consumption.
• The enchantments remain conflicting to one another and can be used on multiple armor pieces at once.

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Mastiff Armor and Pooch Sword

Mastiff Armor has been entirely reworked to not provide a gargantuan HP boost.

• The Defense reduction per Mastiff Armor piece is now -30.
• Health per armor piece has been adjusted, as follows:
  • Helmet: 300
  • Chestplate: 500
  • Leggings: 400
  • Boots: 200
• The existing HP to damage conversion has been removed, and replaced with the following:
  • NEW: Gain +1% HP for every 25 Crit Damage (Max +40% HP)
• The Crit Damage nerf on Mastiff is reduced from 50% to 30%.
• Healing with Mastiff Armor’s set bonus now consumes Vitality.

Pooch Sword has also been adjusted to be more in line with other Slayer weapons.

• The Sword’s Base Damage is +160.
• Gain +10 Weapon Damage per Wolf Slayer level.
• Gain +75% Damage against Wolves.
• The above bonuses are doubled while wearing a full set of Mastiff or Pack Armor.
• The Strength bonus from the weapon’s passive has been removed.

Weapons and Pets

• Axe of the Shredded’s Health per Hit:
  • 50 HP/hit ➜ 25 HP/hit.
• Mosquito Bow
  • Nasty Bite ability: Heal for 200 HP for 10 Vitality.
  • Base Damage: 251 ➜ 319, damage multiplier on ability removed.
• Zombie Soldier Cutlass:
  • Heals you for +10 Health when you hit an entity!
  • ➜ added “… while in Dungeons” condition.
• Pigman Sword’s Burning Souls ability:
  • +300 Defense for 5s ➜ +75 Defense for 5s
• Tarantula Pet’s Webbed Cells perk
  • Anti-healing is 30% less effective against you.
  • ➜ UNCHANGED, but noted for future balancing.
• Whale Pet Perk ‘Ingest’
  • Heal 250 HP per potion consumed
  • ➜ Gain 0.05% → 5% Damage Reduction if you have any active Absorption.
• End Stone Sword:
  • The Extreme Focus ability now only works while in The End.

Items

• Gloomlock Grimoire
  • 40% Max HP ➜ 1000 HP for 60 Vitality (No Cooldown)
  • Retains the Soulflow Mana cost as before too.
  • The damage debuff for activating the item has been removed.
• Lesser Orb of Healing
• Healing: 5% Max HP/s ➜ +25 Health Regen
  • Mana Drain: 50 Mana/s ➜ 15 Mana/s
  • Vitality Drain: 1 Vitality/s
  • Now has a duration limit of 60s
• Discrite and Spotlite temporary consumption effects
  • (up to) 300 Health Regen and Rift Time ➜ (up to) 150 Health and Rift Time

Armor and Equipment​

• Ghast Head:
  • 1% Max HP/s ➜ 5 HP/s
• Holy Dragon Armor Set Bonus:
  • 200 Health Regen ➜ 75 Health Regen
• Wand Bonus (Reaper and Revenant Armor):
  • Now requires the armor set to be worn for at least 3s before the bonus activates.
• Double Healing helmet line
  • The helmets no longer double your Vitality and Mending and instead grant flat amounts of Vitality and Mending, as follows:
    • Zombie’s Heart: 30 Vitality, 30 Mending
    • Crystallized Heart: 40 Vitality, 40 Mending
    • Revived Heart: 50 Vitality, 50 Mending
    • Reaper Mask: 60 Vitality, 60 Mending
• Mender line
  • Mender Helmet:
    • Grants 100 Mending while in Dungeons
    • ➜ Grants 50 Mending while in Dungeons
  • Mender Fedora:
    • Grants 100 Mending and Vitality while in Dungeons
    • ➜ Grants 65 Mending and Vitality while in Dungeons
  • Mender Crown:
    • Grants 100 Mending and Vitality while in Dungeons
    • ➜ Grants 80 Mending and Vitality while in Dungeons
• Fragged Spirit Mask Healing Change:
  • Heal for 100 + 3% of your Maximum Health
  • ➜ Heal for 10% of your Max Health over 5 seconds.
  • (Buff to prevent re-dying directly after activation)
• % Max HP/s Cloaks
  • Ghast Cloak: 0.5% Max HP/s ➜ 10 HP/s
  • Vanquished Ghast Cloak: 1% Max HP/s ➜ 20 HP/s
  • Destruction Cloak: 0.5% Max HP/2s ➜ 15 HP/2s
  • Annihilation Cloak: 1% Max HP/2s ➜ 25 HP/2s
• Shadow Assassin Armor:
  • For all of the bonuses on teleport/kill, the 3s cooldown per trigger is kept.
  • 1% HP on teleport → +15 HP on kill. (Leggings)
• Leaflet Armor:
  • 5 HP/s while in Forest Area UNCHANGED
• Miner Armor Full Set Bonus:
  • Regenerates 5% of your max ❤ Health every second if you have been out of combat for the last 8 seconds
  • ➜ Added a Gold Mine and Deep Caverns location restriction
• Mercenary Armor:
  • Earn +5 Coins and heal 20❤ each kill.
  • ➜ Added a 0.5s cooldown to the ability.
• Finwave/Gillsplash Equipment:
  • 1 Health Regen UNCHANGED

Accessories

• Campfire Badges
• Gain +1 Health Regen for each tier of Campfire Badge while burning.
  • For Campfire Badges over Tier XX, gain +0.5 Health Regen for each tier of Campfire Badge everywhere.
  • Vampire Dentist Relic: +10 Health Regen ➜ +5 Health Regen
• Healing Talisman: +5 Vitality ➜ +2 Vitality
• Healing Ring: +10 Vitality ➜ +4 Vitality
• Survivor Cube: +5 Vitality ➜ +3 Vitality
• Devour Ring: Heal 5 HP on kill ➜ Heal 10 HP on killing Zombies. (0.5s cd kept)
• Blood Donor Talisman line: UNCHANGED

Accessory Powers

• True Defense’s stat point scaling is reduced from 0.27 to 0.17
• Mending and Vitality stats are excluded from Powers for balancing reasons.
• Crumbly
  • OLD: 0.3 HP, 0.15 INT, 0.1 TD, 0.3 MEND, 0.3 VIT
  • NEW: 0.3 HP, 0.15 INT, 0.4 TD, 0.1 AS, 0.05 CC
• Sanguisuge
  • OLD: 0.5 STR, 0.15 HP, 0.2 CD, 0.15 VIT
  • NEW: 0.6 STR, 0.10 HP, 0.2 CD, 0.10 CC
• Frozen
  • OLD: 0.6 DEF, 0.5 CD, 0.25 STR, -0.15 WS
  • NEW: 0.55 DEF, 0.45 TD

Potions

• Regeneration: Reduced the Health Regen by 50% at all potion tiers.
• Healing: +5 HP/s per potion tier for 5 seconds.
• Wisp: +10 Vitality ➜ +10 Health Regen

Dungeons

REMINDER: ALL ‘FLAT’ Healing in Dungeons is increased by Catacombs boost.

• Health Regen and Vitality stats no longer scale on dungeonized items.
• Healing Bow (Archer Ghost Item): 20% ➜ 10% Max HP
• Berserk Bloodlust Passive: 3% Max HP per hit ➜ 3% Max HP per kill
• Healer’s Healing Circle Healing per second: 2% Max HP ➜ 1% Max HP

Other Changes

• Vitality Attribute:
  • 2 Vitality per Tier ➜ 1 Vitality per Tier
  • 1% of missing health ➜ 10 Health Regen for 5s
• Turtle Pet’s Turtle Shell perk:
  • 20 Vitality ➜ 10 Vitality
  • 25 Vitality ➜ 15 Vitality at Level 100
• Quantum Enchantment:
  • Amount of Vitality halved at each tier
• Unbreaking (Gold Essence Shop Perk):
  • 2 Vitality ➜ 1 Vitality per tier
• Bloodsoaked Reforge Passive:
  • Increases the enchantment effects of Life Steal, Vampirism, and Syphon by 1 level. (Previously 1.15× Healing Bonus)
• Viking Tear
  • No longer adds health per second to potions brewed with this item.
• Pulpous Orange Juice Brew: UNCHANGED
• Blazetekk Ham Radio (+2 Vitality): UNCHANGED

Dragons

The regular damage has not been changed, only the True Damage portions received changes, as follows:

• Rush: 55% HP True Damage ➜ 550 True Damage
• Fireball: 20% HP True Damage ➜ 200 True Damage
• Lightning Strike: 20% HP True Damage ➜ 200 True Damage

Blaze Slayer

• % True Damage is replaced with flat true damage, as follows:

• Fire Pits do triple (3×) Phase-3 damage (instead of 200% hp)
• Colliding with Quazii’s “ROFLcopter” deals 2000 True Damage (instead of 70% hp)
• Stepping into Typhoeus fire trail deals deals 1800 True Damage (instead of 60% hp)

Campfire Challenges

The damage for both Campfire challenges have been re-adjusted. You can view the values here. Trial by Fire now deals 20% True Damage and 80% Regular Damage. The challenges are now perfectly doable without items that negate damage, such as Wither Cloak Sword.

Dungeons

• Stormy Modifier: 10% True Damage ➜ Regular Damage (that scales per floor), as follows:
  • F5: 2,000
  • F6: 2,500
  • F7: 5,000
  • M5: 45,000
  • M6: 60,000
  • M7: 70,000

Other Damage Adjustments

• Magma Glare damage: Nerfed from exponential scaling of 2ⁿ to linear scaling of 2×n, where n is the number of Magma Glares attacking the player.
• Adjusted the health and damage of some early-game mobs, as follows:

Mob Stat Changes