A sing-songy BARK from the Dog!
This update rebalances item drops / chests, and brings a new activity: The Dog Wants Pledges! A few items got updated, one got deprecated (Spoiler: [Repair]), and the UI has been updated to better handle a lot of on screen items.
The Dog Wants Pledges
The Dog will occasionally desire Gold in the form of Pledges. Each Pledge costs 1 Gold and grants 1 Friendship.
As a reward for clearing all Pledge stacks, a new chest drops: [Brave Chest]. This chest contains 3 random boost items ([Digging Frenzy], [Friendship Gem], [Bone Piece] etc).
Donation Goal
The Donation Goal has been changed.
- Pledging enough Gold to the Dog will grant you 100,000 Bonus Points.
- This goal can be achieved many times per day, but the Pledge requirement increases by 10 every completion (up to 200 Pledges required)
- You can view your current Goal with the gold command.
Command Changes
pledge
- Clears Pledges at the cost of 1 Gold per Pledge. Each stack cleared grants the Dog 1 Friendship.
- Triggers until you perform another action, run out of Gold, or all Pledges are cleared.
cancel
- Stops the current action. Has no effect on item passives.
sell (previously dismantle)
- Sells the held item for Gold. The amount of Gold received is equal to the items tier.
Activity Balance
- The number of staring Bonus Pets has been increased to 10 per online player. (Previously 5)
- Activities start more frequently.
Digging Balance
Overall
- Chests will not spawn if there are 8 or more items available to claim.
- Dig sites now spawn less frequently.
Chests
- [Small Chest]
- Health decreased to 10 (Previously 15)
- [Good Chest]
- Drops 3 items (Previously 4)
- [Great Chest]
- Drops 6 items (Previously 8)
- [Epic Chest]
- Drops 8 items (Previously 10)
- Health reduced to 80 (Previously 120)
- [Frenzy Chest]
- Now drops 2 [Digging Frenzy] items. (Previously 1)
- Health reduced to 20 (Previously 30)
- [Justice Chest]
- Health increased to 20 (Previously 15)
- [Sinister Chest]
- Health increased to 20 (Previously 15)
Items / Item Balance
The way items are presented has been changed:
- Up to 8 items can be visible at any time. After that, all newly spawned items will appear as ‘Shadows’.
- If the maximum number of visible items is exceeded, visible items will begin to expire.
Item drops have been rebalanced:
- Friendship Gems are more likely to drop out of Chests.
- Equipment is less likely to drop out of Chests.
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The following items have been deprecated and will no longer spawn:
- [Repair]
These item descriptions have been updated:
[Corrupted Pledge] I, II, III, IV
Previously [Demonic Pledge]. Passive effect has been reworked.
- Charges: [10, 20, 30, 50]
- Passive: Your pledges clear 100% more pledge stacks, but also add 1 Corruption. Costs 1 charge per pledge.
[Holy Pledge] I, II, III, IV
- Charges: [10, 20, 30, 50]
- Passive: Your pledge removes 1 Corruption and adds 100% increased Friendship. Costs 1 charge per pledge.
[Friendship Gem V]
- Charges: [1, 1, 1, 1, 1]
- On Pick Up: Immediately adds 100 Friendship to the Dog.
[Greedy Pet] I, II, III, IV
Passive effect has been reworked.
- Charges: [5, 10, 15, 20]
- Passive: Your Pets have a [20, 20, 20, 20]% chance to add 1 Corruption and drop a bonus item. Costs 1 charge per item dropped.
Misc Balance
- Golden Dog now stops spawning Golden Sparks if 3 or more are available (Previously 5).