Din's Champion has now been in early access for over 9 months.

As of this post, we've released 34 patches (5 since the last post) with 1,247 total changes (182 since the last post), which can be read here[www.soldak.com]. This consists of a ton of small fixes and balance changes, but there have been a bunch of larger changes.


Collections: For those that love collecting things, we've added collections so you can track all of the cool, unique things that you've found. These collections include Trophies, Banners, Resources, Weapons, Armor, and Jewelry.

New locations: Adventuring around is now more interesting than ever. We've added several new locations to discover like Jails, Craters, Galleries, Oasis, Mystic Arches, and Monoliths.

Shovel pick-axe: A new type of pick-axe with a wider head has been added that while less precise, hits up to 3 blocks at a time for faster mining.

New blocks: Holy water can be a great boon to find as it is a new liquid that heals if you are touching it. And while not exactly new, platforms can now be sloped to make stairs which makes buildings cooler.


That's it for all of the major new changes, but there are still a lot of changes coming.

As always comments are welcome!

This patch adds sloped platforms, fixes a loading crash, makes legendary items better, rebalances a bunch of things, and fixes many other minor issues.

0.834 change list:

• made sloped platform blocks

• fixed a loading crash (Marshy/ScrObot)

• fixed another way NPCs could spawn at too high level (special rooms related) (Tuidjy/Telkir)

• no longer skip special room spawning if too close to player (normally only happens if too close to starting position)

• legendary items can no longer get a curse for their random modifier (Omnislash)

• legendary items can now randomly get a cursed Mutation magic modifier (exception to no Cursed) (Tuidjy)

• increased staff blocking 34%

• fixed a couple issues with spawning non-valid wandering vendor (hopefully fixes vendors in town with no items)

• now gem gifts between people is 1/4 happiness boost of what it would be to give it directly to npc so now actual choice of gifting directly or between NPCs

• now quests escalate faster if in multiplayer and more than 1 player (40% per extra player)

• fixed dying fom lack of oxygen not showing damage numbers

• now when monsters drop specific loot (like skins & gems) the level range is tighter to their own level (1-7/instead of 3-15)

• now cloth plant/fibers have chance to spawn 3 per plant instead of 2

• increased Targ Weight from 1.5 to 1.75

• fixed most two handed maces not unlocking in collection correctly

• now monsters won't turn off lights until level 10

• now only show you NPC chat icon if the NPC wants to say something to your specific player (only matters in multiplayer)

• increased HappinessChangeDonation from 1.0 to 4.0

• increased SearchForEnemyPriceBase/SearchForEnemyPricePerLevel from 10.0/10.0 to 15.0/15.0

• now show player names on world map

• made effects smaller on imps, zombie parasites, shadows, leprechauns (and zombie versions)

• fixed player basic regen not getting set up correctly if resume a game where player is dead and hasn't resurrected yet

• fixed house basements sometimes getting filled in with foundations

• added stairs to some houses

• now destroying rock objects will drop some kind of stone

• decreased s_volumeMaster from 0.5 to 0.4

• now most fiber plants have a main range and an uncommon range (phase out)

• decreased painting HouseSpawnChance from 0.005 to 0.0025

• fixed trigger quest being able to pick a bad location and not fail the quest

• fixed getting no complete sound when recovering a dead body (quest)

• holy water now casts a pinkish light

• you can now add sockets to tools (desophos/ulyssessword)

• added a new announce sound for uprising quests

• added a new announce sound for unique monster quests

• now alt works showing items even if monsters nearby

• will no longer start more than 1 of the same monster on sight sound at the same time

• now monsters have to go through their senses time when first spawned before they react to things

• now show what percent you have accomplished directly on achievement icons (pie shading)

• added theme music on sound options page so easier to tell what some of the sound volumes do

• now platforms draw behind objects

• fixed some staves not having tags used for swipes

• fixed threat bar and quest history icon overlapping on quest screen

• fixed player names on game screen in multiplayer drawing below health bar outline

• stacked X item to chest no longer goes to log (just center printed)

• salvaged X ore no longer goes to log (just center printed)

• increased switch places with NPC max distance a little (basically another tile width)

• fixed coal block texture

• fixed some rendering issues in editor

• made love potion liquid more pink

• made vials of liquids more colorful so easier to tell them apart

• sped up guardian dying animation

• will no longer spawn non-moving monsters in opening screen game

• now use full gem name when printing gift messages

• fixed found bridge message not printing correctly

• expanded EffectsScale to MonsterArchetype

• fixed MonsterTrapTowerFire and MonsterTrapTowerIce not having names when selected in game

• fixed getting unbreakable blocks in bottom 2 corners of the world (ulyssessword/Faya AOP)

• fixed getting random blocks in top 2 corners of the world (Faya AOP)

• armor shown on create character screen is now more likely the one players actually use

• turned off helmets on create character screen for now

• changed material for teleport stone recharge from Obsidian to Schorl

• now get "Can now choose an additional specialty!" message when level up to level 10 or 20

• fixed Dark Wolf plural spelling

• fixed typo in Brave personality description (Tuidjy)

• fixed issues in drawPie/drawBackwardsPie (issues that weren't seen before because always used with a black texture)