Hello Spellmasons!

This update has been a long time coming and I'm super excited to announce...

Unlike the Spellmason who contends with the tradeoff of which spells to devote mana to, the Deathmason uses cards to cast.  This means, if you have a card, you can always cast it (keep that meteor card in your pocket until the perfect moment!), but can only cast whichever cards you have during any given turn.

You redraw cards each turn, up to a maximum amount.
If you want different cards you can discard and redraw 2 for 1.
You can lock cards so they don't get discarded until the end of the level.

Goru is potentially the most difficult to play as but also the most rewarding (In my opinion). Goru uses souls to cast. You must acquire more souls by picking them up from corpses to keep casting. Unlike the Spellmason and Deathmason, you cannot sit back and restore at the beginning of your next turn. You must push on, into danger, to collect the souls of your victims. However, this can result in very powerful and satisfying runs where carefully planned turns can devastate your foes.
If you do not have enough souls to cast, you can spend into "soul debt" but it'll cost you 5% health for every 1 soul debt each time you cast. You must be very careful about spending souls that you don't have as it will become quickly very difficult to survive.
Goru and Deathmason unlock after finishing the tutorial

There's a smattering of new spells to make some less popular builds (such as close range and liquid) more viable, but I wont reveal them here and leave them for you to discover :)

QoL: New cards get automatically added to side toolbars

QoL: Autounlock a rune when it is maxxed out

QoL: Turn off inventory glow once new stat points are seen

QoL: 3 toolbars on each side, all keybindable

QoL: Allow keybinding all hotkeys

QoL: Change mid-game teleport portal color to yellow

 Thanks Weedybird!

QoL: Add checkmark in upper left in-game player list to represent "ready for next turn"

QoL: Protect against accidental end turn when answering UI prompt

QoL: Multiple instances of floating text now share the same instance with a number to show how many times it's occurred

QoL: Explain to player why disconnection occurred

QoL: Update disconnected sprite to be a more obvious "broken internet" symbol

balance: Difficulty scaling doesn't empower ally summons

    (This made necromancer builds OP in multiplayer compared to other builds)

    Thanks Autoquark for bringing this up

balance: Investment cost 30 -> 80

balance: Damage limiter: 30 -> 45 max damage dealt per instance

balance: Health cost from spells dont trigger onDamage events

    (shield can't be spent to use health cost spells)

UI: Add "Are you sure" prompt for "reset tutorial"

    Thanks @Carlos

UI: Fix showing how much it adds to rune when maxxed

    (important for ones that only allow upgrading once like Icy Veins)

    Thanks Nikitasss

UI: Menu button secondary active state is now more obvious than hover state.

fix: Stamina bar not updating while another player is casting

fix: not being able to sell add_bounce and add_pierce spells

    Thanks Martin_Talzor!

fix: overheal rune: Health over maximum (like from sacrifice) doesn't contribute to overheal amount.

    Thanks bbott

fix UI: Allow for clearing out more than one custom keybind

fix UI: update health and mana UI bars on modifier add

    (for example potion barrier, spawning onto a potion showed the damage self warning box)

    and potion pickup

fix: Major bug where deathmason could overdraw cards after discarding

    if he had cards locked.

    Thanks Pizza Lover 2 and Kyonuma

fix: Enemy Goru getting undying back when cloned or split

    Thanks Martin_Talzor!

fix: encyclopedia show-card-large

    Thanks Superbaum

fix deathmason discard desync

    Thanks Pizza Lover 2 and Kyonuma

fix: Back button getting stuck in loop

    Thanks Bogiac
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Happy spellcrafting!

Jordan

Third time's the charm!
I've been trying to implement a new multiplayer backend for the past few months and my first two attempts did not succeed. This time I tried using Steam's Lobby backend to connect players and it worked.

What this means:If you use the new "Steam Lobby" option (still in Beta), you won't be sharing a Community Server with other players which means other players (not in your lobby) can't crash your game and the server is not sharing resources between everyone playing. The "Steam Lobby" option allows players to connect directly to each other. My initial testing looks really promising, however, I'm labeling this "Beta" because if history has taught me anything, no matter how hard I try I can't find all the edge cases that players do :D
Please give the "Steam Lobby" multiplayer option and try and let me know how it works in Discord.

This update is part 1 of a 2 part Major update with the second half planned in Late July. This update is mostly for stability and the second update is a content update that I'm really excited about.

Here's the full changelog:

-Network: Enable Steam Lobbies for improved multiplayer

-Balance: Restore "Undying" to Goru and modify Undying so it brings ressurrects with 50% health

-Quality of Life: F12 now takes Screenshots!

-Language: Pre-reform Russian

    Thanks @nikitasss

-Menu: Redesign menu appearance

-fix: Remove redundant runPredictions which occurs in deselectCard() which is triggered on click

-fix: Prediction forceMoves from bloat (or any onDeath) simlulating on the NEXT call to runPredictions.

-fix: confirm discard hotkey label

-fix: bone shrapnel only select corpses

-fix: Overspend Rune upgrade bug

    that resulted in negative SP

    Thanks @BlackCobra22113 and others

Since I launched Spellmasons, I've released over 50 free updates. If you're enjoying what I'm building, you can help support my work at Patreon[patreon.com] or leave a candid review of the game on Steam!