v97b.7Hween

Return of the Halloween Event

The Halloween event will run from Saturday 10/25 to Saturday 11/15.

New Customizations
There will be three new customizations to earn by claiming Treats: Werewolf, Troublemaker, and Vampire. Last year’s customizations will still be earnable in the same way.

Players can view their progress by typing QUESTS or Q during the event. Note that Halloween outfits are earned in a specific order – Starting with the Skeleton Outfit and now ending with the Vampire Outfit.

View the available Halloween customizations here.

Halloween Exclusive JOL returns, JOC arrives

• (JOL) Jack-o-Lantern 1⭐ is back, and a new (JOC) Corrupted Jack-o-Lantern 1⭐ can now be found in respective event chests by completing Strongholds.

Imprinting Grants a random equipment effect
During the event, newly unlocked JOL items are imprinted with a randomized friendly effect, and JOC is imprinted with a randomized fugitive effect. Each imprint is a copy of another item. If you’re lucky, you may also receive a second imprint.

See Tables at the end of this post for the complete list of imprints and their drop chances.

If you’re not happy with the randomized effect, RECYCLE can be used to salvage the item. You will have to do this in order to receive new imprints.

Existing JOL items
JOLs collected from the previous year will not be deleted, but imprints can only be found on newly acquired items. To start taking advantage of imprints, you may RECYCLE your older JOL to receive a partial refund of Onyx gems.

Gameplay

More lethal players
We think it’s fun for players to be able to drive the demise of the Dog rather than being forced to rely on NPCs to do it for them (At least, in any reasonable amount of time.) This update will see a roughly doubled base rate of damage from Fugitives. For perspective, at high dog levels we’re expecting a fully equipped, solo Kicker at Skill Lv.100 and Dog Lv. 150 to be able to shave off a few million Armor per hour by themselves. With Weaken Armor active, that goes up 150% to ~7 million Armor per hour.

At Armor Lv.94, which we saw in one of the longest Dogs on record recently, it’s estimated that an uncontested group of three well equipped kickers can completely exhaust Armor in a little under 4 hours. At Armor Lv.35, a solo uncontested well equipped kicker should be able to take out a Dog’s Armor in under an hour.

There are also some buffs to Dog Defenders in here – both in terms of actual buffs and (embarassingly) important fixes!

Please keep in mind, however, that under no circumstances should you actually Kick the Dog.

Good luck, Dog defenders!

New Onyx Equipment: (CCO) Crowd Corruption 5⭐

• Gain +[6 to 65]% Kick Power. Grants a stackable buff to all kicks. Kicks have a +10% chance to Weaken Armor per stack. | Gain +1% Kick Power per Item Level.

Buffed: Empowering (AHA, AHB, AHC, AHD, AHE)

• Now grants +100 Skill Power during the active effect (Previously +60)
• Additionally grants +10% Skill Power passively.
• Additional activations increase the maximum duration of the effect.
• Impact of Buff: Grants more average Skill Power at all levels than items like CCL when compared directly.
  • (186 avg power vs. CCL’s 171 avg power @ Skill Lv.100, Item Lv.60)

Buffed: Hastening (AIA, AIB, AIC, AID, AHE)

• Now grants +20% Skill Speed passively.
• Additional activations increase the maximum duration of the effect.
• Impact of Buff: Improves average Speed to about 100. Previously, average speed was about ~83. With the passive bonus, this now grants +70 Speed when active.

Fugitive Power Scaling
The bonus to Kick and Riot Power for Player Fugitives now scales higher and faster. See Tables at the bottom of this post for details.

Quality of Life

• Added the SWAP command. Supports swapping items in the backpack as well as within specific loadouts. View details & example.
• Adding a “!” in front of a command will prevent any associated keyword loadouts from triggering. For example, !WARP lets you claim a Stronghold Portal without also equipping the WARP loadout.
• There are now small UI displays near Armor and Jail Health to indicate the stack count of global effects from CCL, CCH, and CCO.

Bug Fixes

• Critical Strikes were not applying their damage bonus. *sigh*
• Fire on Pray would seemingly fire at nothing.
• Hastening Riot and Hastening Kick were not receiving a benefit to Cooldown from Equipment Level.
• TREAT was not a loadout keyword.
• The Dog’s magical hat during Halloween no longer flashes blue when the Dog takes damage.

Tables

Enemy Power Scaling

Dog Lv.	Power Boost
1 to 9	-80%
10 to 19	-50%
20 to 29	-20%
30 to 39	0%
40 to 49	+20%
50 to 59	+40%
60 to 69	+60%
70 to 79	+80%
80 to 89	+100%
90 to 99	+200%
100 to 109	+300%
110 to 119	+400%
120 to 129	+500%
130 to 139	+600%
140 to 149	+700%
150+	+800%

Imprint Drop Chances (JOL)
The chance to receive a second imprint is 5% of the values shown here.

JOL Imprint	Chance
(ABA) Charming Cop	3.82%
(ABB) Charming Dig	3.82%
(ABC) Charming Pet	3.82%
(ABD) Charming Pray	3.82%
(ABE) Charming Smith	3.82%
(ACA) Mega Cop	3.82%
(ACB) Mega Dig	3.82%
(ACC) Mega Pet	3.82%
(ACD) Mega Pray	3.82%
(ACE) Mega Smith	3.82%
(AGB) Scavenging Soul	3.82%
(AGD) Spirited Soul	3.82%
(AGE) Protective Soul	3.82%
(AGC) Radiant Soul	3.82%
(AGA) Justice Soul	3.82%
(AEA) Chaining Cop	3.05%
(AEB) Chaining Dig	3.05%
(AEC) Chaining Pet	3.05%
(AED) Chaining Pray	3.05%
(AEE) Chaining Smith	3.05%
(ADA) Rapid Cop	3.05%
(ADB) Rapid Dig	3.05%
(ADC) Rapid Pet	3.05%
(ADD) Rapid Pray	3.05%
(ADE) Rapid Smith	3.05%
(AAA) Dire Cop	0.76%
(AAB) Dire Dig	0.76%
(AAC) Dire Pet	0.76%
(AAD) Dire Pray	0.76%
(AAE) Dire Smith	0.76%
(AIA) Hastening Cop	0.76%
(AIB) Hastening Dig	0.76%
(AIC) Hastening Pet	0.76%
(AID) Hastening Pray	0.76%
(AIE) Hastening Smith	0.76%
(AHA) Empowering Cop	0.76%
(AHB) Empowering Dig	0.76%
(AHC) Empowering Pet	0.76%
(AHD) Empowering Pray	0.76%
(AHE) Empowering Smith	0.76%
(CCL) Crowd Control	0.76%

Imprint Drop Chances (JOC)
The chance to receive a second imprint is 5% of the values shown here.

JOC Imprint	Chance (%)
(ACF) Mega Kick	14.49%
(ACG) Mega Riot	14.49%
(AKH) Fugitive Mask	14.49%
(ADF) Rapid Kick	11.59%
(ADG) Rapid Riot	11.59%
(AJF) Rage Fragment	7.25%
(AJG) Chaos Fragment	7.25%
(OMV) Ominous Vision	7.25%
(AIF) Hastening Kick	2.90%
(AIG) Hastening Riot	2.90%
(WRP) Warp Gem	2.90%
(CCH) Crowd Chaos	2.90%

New Event (Ends 9/1, 12 AM PT)

• For the rest of the month, the Dog is plagued by OMEN after every level.
• Cop Structures have a +20% chance to burn from RIOT per stack.
• Event Chests can appear in Stronghold Rewards, and have a much higher chance to contain either CCL or CCH.

Gameplay

• WARP can now be stacked, allowing for quicker back to back strongholds.
• Increased the speed at which WARP is claimed when multiple players are claiming it.
• WARP now takes longer to claim (about 60 seconds), but can be claimed more quickly when multiple players are claiming it.
• Armor no longer allows any Anger to pass through at all levels. (Removed Anger Reduction and Anger Prevention as mechanics from Armor.)
• Debuffs will persist between Strongholds and the normal game.
• Strongholds can’t be entered until all enemy NPCs are defeated. The ‘WARP’ command will appear disabled while enemies are active.
• Fire: Burning has been replaced with Fire, which affects structures instead of the Dog.
  • Fire can chaotically spread to other structures, damage resources, or the Dog.
  • Working the structure that is On Fire will reduce the amount of Fire.
  • Arsonists now add Fire to the PET structure instead of the Dog.
  • When Fire is removed, it becomes Extinguished and prevents new Fire for 30 seconds.
  • Fire currently caps at 10K.
• Splash Damage: A new type of buff added for Cop structure. While buffed, its projectiles also damage nearby enemies for a percentage of the projectile’s power.
  • Splash damage can be inspected with INSPECT COP

Rewards

• The Dog will now drop a random reward every level without a reward vote. Stronghold reward votes remain as a way to choose specific rewards.
• The ‘Riches’ section has been renamed to ‘Treasure’ and the inspection message has been updated.
• Every level, all online players will also receive a Mystery Chest x1 for Dog levels under 120, and Mystery Chest x5 for Dog levels at 120 or higher. Players can open them from the MAIL. The MAIL can hold 5 Mystery Chests per mail slot.
• DIG Charms no longer have a small chance to produce Gems.
  • This was not well balanced, as it ended up contributing much more gems than the amount generated by the Dog’s GEMS! action.
  • We should see somewhere around a 60% reduction in the amount of Gems per hour generated.
• New: (CCH) Crowd Chaos 5⭐
  • Gain +[6 to 65]% Riot Power. Grants a stackable debuff to all COP structures. Cop Structures have a +10% chance to catch fire from RIOT per stack.
  • Gain +1% Riot Power per Item Level.
• New: (CCL) Crowd Control 5⭐
  • Gain +[6 to 65]% Cop Power. Grants a stackable buff to all COP structures: Cop Structures deal +5% splash damage to enemies per stack.
  • Gain +1% Cop Power per Item Level.
• Updated: (JOL) Jack-o-Lantern 1⭐
  • The effect for this equipment has been disabled. Check back next Halloween for an updated effect.

Notable Fixes & Improvements

• The Dog level UI has new artwork. The Dog’s name is once again prominently displayed next to their level.
• There is a new callout that appears over the Dog when an OMEN spawns.
• Added VFX to make claimables more noticeable when they are initially dropped.
• In-game announcement messages now appear over the tile tray at the bottom. Increased the contrast of some messages so that they are easier to read.
• The end of game leaderboard will now cycle repeatedly to fill the remaining time instead of hanging on the final screen.
• Fixed an issue where the recent players leaderboard would overlap with other leaderboards.
• Fixed an issue where SMELT was floating too far off to the left in Strongholds.

Gameplay

• All Time Leaderboards for actions and Prestige Points now appear in the main game.
• All Time Leaderboards now feature the Top 50 players in each category.

Equipment

• All equipment in the backpack are now triggered automatically. You may still type USE (keyword) to equip-and-use items in a keyword loadout.
• All equipment descriptions have been updated to be more concise, use more standardized terms, and show their range of possible values (based on level.)
• Inspecting equipment you own will show you upgraded stats based on the equipment’s level. Previously inspection would only show the base benefit of upgrades for most equipment.
• Fugitive Mask (AKH)
  • New Effect: When you escape Jail as a Fugitive: Begin to KICK the Dog.
• Mega (ACA, ACB, ACC, ACD, ACE)
  • Now gains 10 Work / Damage per Item Level (Previously, 8.)
• Warp Gem (WRP)
  • Now grants +[1 to 60] Fugitive Health.

Bugs

• Fixed an issue where the AFK progress report would not show recent friend or enemy contribution for players who aren’t gaining any skill XP.

Gameplay

• Player Fugitives start weaker and become stronger based on the Dog’s Level. The total benefit at each level range is:
  • Dog Level 1 – 9: -80% Enemy Skill Power
  • Lv. 10 – 19: -50% Enemy Skill Power
  • Lv. 20 – 29: -20% Enemy Skill Power
  • Lv. 30 – 59: +50% Fugitive Health | +0% Enemy Skill Power
  • Lv. 60 – 89: +100% Fugitive Health | +100% Enemy Skill Power
  • Lv. 90 – 119: +200% Fugitive Health | +200% Enemy Skill Power
  • Lv. 119 – 149: +400% Fugitive Health | +300% Enemy Skill Power
  • Lv. 150 – 179: +800% Fugitive Health | +400% Enemy Skill Power
  • Lv. 180 – 210 : +1600% Fugitive Health | +400% Enemy Skill Power
  • Lv. 210+ : +3200% Fugitive Health | +400% Enemy Skill Power
• Player Fugitives gain additional Fugitive Health based on the number of Player Fugitives active, up to +1000%.
• The effects that occur (such as dropping HUG or GAVEL) when the Dog receives enough Anger can no longer be reset when Tolerance is restored and therefore only occur a limited number of times per game.
• The SKILL command for KICK and RIOT now show information about your Fugitive Health. (The information is identical for both commands) It also shows information about the effect on Skill Power from Dog Level.
• OMEN no longer has a chance to trigger from level up unless there are at least 10 Omens.

Equipment

• All Onyx equipment except JOL and WRP now give additional Fugitive Health when they’re leveled up.

Bugs

• Fixed an issue where player Fugitive Health was not being calculated correctly.
• Fixed an issue where players couldn’t break out of jail.
• Fixed an issue where players could become fugitives after apologizing.

v97b.3.9 – 1/3/2025

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an incorrect duration being shown for the player stun message.
• Fixed an issue where Warp and Omen could visually appear in Strongholds but not be claimed.
• Fixed an issue where Knight’s Sundering Kick was not applying Weaken Armor.
• Fixed Riot being cancelled due to being able to jailbreak while not in jail.
• Fixed an issue where Elite Corruptors were attacking at the same speed as normal Corruptors. They now attack faster.
• Fixed an issue where the claimable expiration animation was not playing.
• Fixed incorrect upgrade text on Mega Riot and Kick items. Now correctly says “8 damage per Item Level”

Gameplay Changes

• Rapid actions can now critically hit.
• Players are prevented from using Equipment while Stunned.
• Stealth’s base maximum duration is now 60 seconds.
• Jailbreak no longer cancels the player’s current action. This means players will be left in stealth until their next command after breaking out of Jail.
• Prisoner and Fugitive Tier 2 Enemies power increased from 10 to 30.
• Prisoner and Fugitive Tier 3 Enemies power increased from 30 to 60.
• The appearance of Charm projectiles has been updated.
• Charm displays now show icons by their damage numbers.

Updates

• Claimable displays now rotate through their contents periodically so that all contents can be seen over time.
  • When a Claimable starts to be claimed, it will be moved to the front of the display so it is visible.
• Projectiles and Damage Numbers have had some small changes to improve readability:
  • Projectiles are slower to make them easier to see.
  • Iterated on the appearance of Cop, Smith, Pet, Pray, Dig, and Kick projectiles.
  • Damage numbers are smaller and in some cases shifted to cover up less information during high volume play.
• Frenzy VFX visuals have been toned down.
• Structures no longer flash when hit. Instead they pulse / scale visually.
• Chat messages for imprisonment, stun, and fugitive status are now throttled per player, so that duplicate messages appear less frequently during fugitive gameplay.
• Bomb VFX and explosion audio have been updated.

Fixes

• Prisoners can no longer escape from jail while they are stunned (e.g. if a projectile they had already fired would trigger a jailbreak.)
• Fix projectile targeting issues:
  • Resolved issue where dog attacks were prioritizing different targets than Cop.
  • Resolved issue where players were frequently body blocking NPC attacks. This was addressed by introducing two rules:
    • If a projectile is intended for an NPC, it will not be able to hit players.
    • Likewise if a projectile is intended for a Player, it will not be able to hit NPCs.
• Resolved an issue where double riot XP was being awarded.
• OMEN can now be multi-claimed. Previously players weren’t able to simultaneously claim OMEN and other claimables like OFFER. This wasn’t intentional, but I kept overlooking it.
• WARP’s progress bar no longer looks blue in the evening time.

Happy Halloween 2024

For a limited time (until 12:00 AM 18 Nov 2024) you can earn spooky customizations and a new equipment.

Halloween Quests: Unlock Skeleton Outfit, Unlock Zombie Outfit, Unlock Mage Outfit

• Earn three new outfits in a series of simple quests that ask one thing: Claim TREATs!
• These quests can be completed through 11 Nov 2024.

Quest Step	Quest Requirements
Unlock Skeleton Outfit	Give 50 Treats to the Dog.
Unlock Zombie Outfit	Give 500 Treats to the Dog.
Unlock Mage Outfit	Give 2,000 Treats to the Dog.

Spooky Chest

• During Dog Level Up rewards, PICK B through E have an additional chance to select a Spooky Chest.
• Earn a new (JOL) 1⭐ Jack-o-Lantern equipment by opening Halloween chests.
• The chest is also a great source of Onyx gems and Gold.

New Equipment: (JOL) 1⭐Jack-o-Lantern

• Requires Onyx to UPGRADE.
• Base Effect: Gain +5% All Skill Power. | During Halloween: Gain an additional +5% All Skill Power per Player with a Jack-o-Lantern equipped. Base Effect: Gain +1% All Skill Power per Item Level.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue where riot was not being cancelled after a jail break. This behavior will make its way back as an equipment effect in a future update.
• Fixed issue where dog XP meter was not showing change in progress properly.

Gameplay

OMEN Updates

• OMEN no longer spawns on an ambient timer.
• OMEN now has a chance to spawn when the Dog levels up. The chance increases at higher Dog levels.
• OMEN Expiration (Disappears after not being claimed for long enough time) takes 300% longer.
• OMEN Claim Time takes 500% longer.
• Further Dog levels may trigger the OMEN, especially if the OMEN is particularly strong.
• There are now special sounds that play when an OMEN claim begins, and when it is successfully claimed.
• OMEN looks more threatening at higher stack counts.

CANCEL Command Updates

• If your character is claiming an item, CANCEL now only cancels item claiming and does not cancel your work action. Otherwise, it cancels your character’s work action.
• CANCEL now lets you know what you cancelled in chat.

Bomb Updates

• Bombs spawn half as often from OMEN. Bombs continue to only spawn at Dog Level 81 and higher.
• Bombs now deal between 50K and 100K damage. Previously, Bombs destroyed 90% of Armor.
• Bombs explode 300% faster.

Gameplay

Corruption

• No longer is added periodically. This removes the only source of Corruption for now.

New Claimable: OMEN

• Periodically is added via an Ominous Tile.
  • Ominous Tiles spawn less frequently at higher Dog Levels, however…
  • Higher quantities of Ominous Tiles spawn at higher Dog Levels.
• When Claimed, summons 1x Enemy Tile per stack.

Warped Corruptors

• Are now Summoned for every 100 Enemies defeated. (Previously spawned periodically after Lv. 30)
• The amount of enemies remaining can be seen with INSPECT STRONGHOLD while no Stronghold is active.

New Equipment: (OMV) (2-Star, Onyx) Ominous Vision

• USE: Generate an OMEN. Cooldown: (600 – Item Level * 5) seconds.

Tuning & Balance

Enemies

• The types and quantities of Enemies that spawn during the endless game has been rebalanced.
• Mostly Prisoners and Fugitives will spawn, with an increasing chance for other types of Enemies at higher Dog Levels.
• Higher Tier Prisoners and Fugitives, which have higher base health and damage, spawn at higher Dog Levels.

Cop

• Jail per Sword now scales with Structure Tier.

Smith

• Now produces 2 Swords per Ingot. Now produces 3 Shields per Ingot.
  • 1 Shield per 10 Smith Work, 1 Sword per 15 Smith Work, 1 Ingot = 30 Work
• Armor per Shield now scales with Structure Tier.

Armor Anger Prevention, Reduction

• Armor no longer offers the Dog 100% protection against Anger.
• Armor first reduces Anger by a flat amount (Anger Prevention) then excess is reduced by a percentage (Anger Reduction.)
• Anger Prevention and Anger Reduction scale with Armor Level and can these stats be viewed via INSPECT ARMOR.

Pet

• Pet will now produce 1 Friendship per work (Previously 30 Friendship per 30 work)

Friendship

• Friendship will now restore Tolerance while the Dog is not Angry.
• Friendship’s passive XP gain will no longer be reduced to 0 while no players are active.

Claimables

• Claim friction on Frenzy and Spark items has been removed. This means there is no longer a time penalty for larger stacks of these items.
• Frenzy items are produced quickly at first, then slow down to their current rate as more Frenzy items are produced. This should help the early and mid game feel less slow.
• The maximum Frenzy time increases with Structure Tier, up to 300 seconds at Tier 5.
• Frenzy items add 15 seconds of Frenzy per stack (Previously 30 seconds), up to 5 minutes (Previously 30 seconds).
• Increased Golden Spark expiration time to 1 Hour (Previously, 60 seconds)

Stronghold

• Removed the passive drain on Dog Stamina.

Dog

• Actions (General Changes)
  • The Dogs actions now always take a consistent amount of time.
  • The Dog will sniff around for Metal and Bones more often.
• Spirit
  • Generating 5,000 Spirit while an Action is active increases the frequency of actions. This can stack up to 5 times.
• SPARK! Action
  • Reduced base duration to 10 seconds, from 20.
• METAL! BONES! Actions
  • Increased base action power by 60%
  • Base action interval is ~60% slower
• Golden Dog
  • The maximum duration now scales with Dog level, increasing by +3 seconds every level (Base duration: 30 seconds.)
• Anger
  • No longer decays over time.
  • Reduces Friendship XP/s to 0 while active.

Favor

• The Dog favors Claimables less frequently.
• The Dog is less likely to favor more than one thing at a time.
• Favor now increases the strength of the favored interactable.
  • For Claimables, this increases bonus Claim Power by +0.2
  • For Structures, this doubles the structures output. (e.g. Dig would produces 2 Metal Ore for every 1 buried resource)

Quality of Life

• Adding ‘?’ to any part of a targeting command (e.g. spark? Incense? pet?) will result in the command being ignored.
• Added ‘WARP’ loadout keyword.
• The ETA timer will now reflect the time for the Dog to level up at the current Friendship XP rate.
• Spark and Frenzy claim chat messages indicate the duration of the effect.
• Updated the Prestige command messaging to be clearer.
• Added the PROGRESS command to check recent progress. This will also automatically be shown to you when you return from AFK.
• UI element added to display how many Tiles there are pending, in the case where many are added at once.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the Dog would never look for Gems.
• Fixed an issue where defeated Corruptors were blocking projectiles.
• Fixed an issue where Prestige capes could be bought via BUYNOW.
• Fixed an issue where players weren’t receiving capes until they used the PRESTIGE command, or logged out then logged back in. To earn the final Prestige cape, you must earn enough points after reaching Prestige 10. The amount of points to complete Prestige 10 will now be displayed in the PRESTIGE command.
• Fixed an issue where the Work Efficiency for Smith was 50% lower than other structures.
• Fixed Experience Stars unintentionally granting Friendship to the Dog.

Gameplay

The Dog

• Favor
  • 
  • The Dog will now periodically favor something. 
  • When something is favored, interacting with it produces experience for the Dog and also generates Spirit.
• Tolerance
  • Increases as the Dog levels up. 
  • Low level Dogs require significantly less Anger to reach 0% Tolerance. 
• Friendship
  • XP per Second is reduced to zero while the Dog is Angry.
• Spirit
  • The Dog can be motivated to perform actions by earning Spirit.
  • Spirit is generated whenever the Dog earns Experience Stars or Offerings.
  • Whenever the Dog would perform an action, there is a chance to instead generate a Golden Spark.
• Dog Actions
  • Removed SNIFF – Now broken out into two separate actions.
  • Added BONES! – The Dog will sniff for buried Bones. Can be unearthed with DIG.
  • Added METAL! – The Dog will sniff for buried Metal Ore. Can be unearthed with DIG.
  • Added CHARM! – The Dog will sniff for Charms to add to a specific Structure.
  • Added SPARK! – The Dog will produce Golden Sparks.
  • The way the Dog decides their next action can be random or deterministic. For this update, the Dog’s actions always begin deterministic and quickly become random.
• Dog Behavior
  • Lucky
    • Their first actions are always Spark, Pet Charm, Spark, Pet Charm.
  • Unlucky
    • Their first actions are always Spark, Cop Charm, Spark, Cop Charm.
• Dog Levels
  • Renamed ‘Endless Dog’ to ‘Ultimate Dog’.

Structures

• General
  • When a structure runs out of resources, but then later gains resources, your character will resume working that Structure if you did not give them a new command.
  • Your character will attempt to work the same structure they were working before entering a Stronghold or after leaving Stronghold.

• Smith
  • Produces Armor at a rate of 2 Armor per 30 Work. (Previously 30 Armor per 30 Work)
  • Produces Swords at a rate of 1 Sword per 60 work.
  • No longer randomly chooses between producing Swords and Armor.
• Pet
  • The amount of Tier XP required to increase its Tier is now higher than other structures.
• Cop
  • Produces Jail Health at a rate of 1 Jail Health per 10 Work. (Previously 30 Jail Health per 30 Work)
  • Produces Jail Health regardless of the presence of enemies. (Previously, only produced Jail Health if no enemies were being targeted)

Enemies

• Corruption Rework
  • No longer can be mitigated by Prayer.
  • No longer appears in Strongholds.
  • When the timer for Corruption reaches zero, enemies are spawned.
    • Higher Corruption stacks will spawn 
  • All Corruption is removed when the timer reaches zero.
  • Corruption spawn rate increases with the number of players.
  • The number of Corruption stacks that spawn increases with higher Dog levels.
• Warped Corruptor
  • Health increased to 5,000 (up from 500)
  • Spawns periodically starting at Dog Level 40.

Strongholds

• The Dog loses Stamina over time while inside of a Stronghold. The rate at which Stamina is lost increases with higher Stronghold levels up to a maximum rate of 60 Stamina per second.
• Progressively more enemies now spawn in higher level Strongholds, up to Stronghold 7 (Current difficulty cap.)

Claimables

• Claim Duration
  • Larger stacks of claimables take longer to claim. 
  • Claim Speed is faster for 1 to 2 players.
    • 1 Player – 4x Claim Speed
    • 2 Players – 1.25x Claim Speed
    • 3+ Players – 1x Claim Speed
• Golden Spark
  • Now immediately trigger a Golden Dog. (Previously, added a Tile.)
  • Adds 5 Seconds of Golden Dog per stack. (Previously, 60 seconds per stack.)
• Frenzy
  • The amount of Skill XP granted from claiming Frenzy Items (GAVEL, FORGE, TREAT, INCENSE, DRILL), or Resources (SMELT, OFFER) scales up to a maximum value based on the stack size when claimed.

Rewards

Dog Level Up Rewards

• Reward votes now last 20 seconds (Previously: 1 minute)
• Participation is no longer required to vote for a reward, allowing players to jump in and grab rewards whenever they are on screen.
• Reward votes will no longer wait for offline players to vote. If all non-offline players have voted, then the vote will immediately end. 
• When a chest opens, all of its contents will be shown at once. This cuts down on the amount of time spent waiting for rewards to end.
• It is no longer possible to roll the exact same reward in multiple PICK options during a reward vote.

Character Customization

A list of customizations and how to earn them is available on the 🎨 Character Style page.

• New Commands: SKIN, BODY, HAIR, CROWN
  • Type a number (no space) after the command to equip a different customization.
• Hair Customizations are all free, and can be dyed to a particular color by including that color in the command.
  • HAIR3 BLUE
  • A list of dyes can be found on the customizations page. 
• Customizations can be purchased by typing BUYNOW <code>.

Quests

• Reaching Level 100 in each Skill will award a unique customization for that Skill.
• Reaching Level 100 in both Kick and Riot will unlock the Demon customization.
• Players must reach Level 40 in a particular Skill to unlock the Daily Quest for that Skill.

Polish

• Projectiles
  • Updated the feel and look of many projectiles in the game.
  • The projectile system now supports more dynamic / physical behaviors.
• Twitch Chat
  • Skill commands now show a text-based XP bar to visualize progress.
  • The message for successfully upgrading an item now mentions the item that was upgraded by name and level.
• Players
  • Characters now visibly appear on top of most UI and projectiles in game, so that they are easier to see.
• UI
  • Armor / Jail Meters:
    • Added animation feedback when these are damaged.
    • Updated the font colors to be slightly more muted.
  • Friendship, Armor now have more muted icon colors.
  • Added labels that display when modifiers are incremented up from zero. These labels can be inspected via the INSPECT command to reveal additional information.
  • Claimables UI now has a softer background.
  • Frenzy Item UI changed from “ITEM” to say “FRENZY”.
  • Updated the Item Use feedback to be bolder.
  • Damage numbers are now larger, easier to read.
  • Damage numbers for Structure Work are colored based on the structure.
  • Damage numbers now also show an icon to better indicate what they are affecting.
  • Damage numbers animate differently based on the value of the number. Negative numbers will animate downwards, while positive numbers will animate upwards. Large numbers will appear larger and shake slightly.
  • Added VFX when Anger is incremented from zero.
  • Removed meter displays from Structure Resources (Swords, Metal Ingots, Offerings) and Charms. Since these meters would move very quickly they provided little additional clarity.
• Actors
  • The Dog flashes red when they take damage.
  • The Jail flashes red when it takes damage.
  • Structures flash gray when they are worked.
• Audio
  • Tuned the grace period between when sounds should merge, making it less likely that the same sound will stack additively at an unpleasantly high volume.
  • Added a music that plays when the Dog begins to leave.

Gameplay

New! Strongholds

• Enter Strongholds by defeating Warped Corruptors and entering the Portal they leave behind.
  • Players may also generate portals by finding and using the new Warp Gem (WRP) (5⭐) equipment.
• While in a Stronghold, the Dog has Stamina.
  • If Stamina reaches 0, the Stronghold will end in defeat.
  • The Dog gains additional Stamina as they level up.
  • Stamina is regenerated slowly via PET.
• The Stronghold ends in victory when all enemies are defeated.
• Additional Rewards are granted on both Victory and Defeat, with Victory granting additional bonus rewards.
• Completing a Stronghold successfully advances the Stronghold Level.
• Strongholds spawn more challenging enemies at higher levels.
  • Stronghold Level 7 is currently the maximum difficulty, but levels progress infinitely.

The Dog

• Updates to Anger, Leaving
  • The Dog no longer starts leaving immediately when they’re made angry. 
  • The Dog now has Tolerance.
    • When Tolerance reaches 0%, they will begin to leave. This can be interrupted by clearing all Anger before the Leave timer runs out.
  • Typing INSPECT ANGER or DOG will reveal how much Tolerance the Dog has left.
  • The Dog will drop helpful items to aid defenders as they lose Tolerance.
  • The UI for Anger now doubles as a display for Tolerance and. As the Dog loses Tolerance, Anger will fill up to become more red.
• Dog Actions
  • The Dog now gains energy towards performing actions directly from Friendship being added.
    • Previously, the Dog gained energy over time when pet.
  • When The Dog acquires enough energy, they perform 3 actions over 10 seconds.
    • The action chosen is based on the will of the Dog.
  • The strength of the Dog’s actions increases as the Dog levels up.
  • More energy is required to perform actions as the Dog levels up..
• Dog Action: Bite
  • The Dog can now Bite, dealing damage to enemies.

Player Fugitives

• The base chance to Jailbreak from Rioting is now 0% (was 0.5%) 

Enemies

• Enemy Power
  • Enemy Power has been removed.
• Corruption
  • Corruption is now added by Enemy attacks, and generates periodically.
    • Periodic Corruption is generated more quickly and at higher quantities at higher Dog Levels.
  • Corruption summons enemies periodically.
    • Summons from Corruption progressively become harder as more summons are performed.
    • The rate at which Corruption can Summon enemies is faster at higher Dog Levels.
  • Corruption will not summon during a Stronghold.
• Enemies
  • The maximum number of Enemies that can be active at once has been increased significantly
  • New: Elite Fugitives
    • Can perform additional Kicks and can become temporarily stealthed.
  • New: Elite Prisoners
    • Periodically Summons Prisoner minions.
    • Periodically becomes Resilient to damage (Reduces incoming damage by 50%.)
  • New: Warp Corruptors
    • Drops a Stronghold Portal upon being banished.

Rewards

• Chat Messages
  • Reward Descriptions that appear in game now also appear in chat when rewards are given out.
• Dog Level Up Rewards
  • When the Dog levels up, they no longer automatically grant a Reward.
    • Rewards are instead generated by Golden Dogs occurring.
• Golden Spark 
  • When claimed, adds a Golden Dog Tile. Adds one Tile per quantity of Spark claimed. 
  • Each Golden Dog triggered adds +1 Reward to be given out during the next Reward Ritual.
  • Note These changes prevent rewards from being wasted for claiming a large stack of Golden Sparks.
• New Chests
  • Tier 2 and Tier 3 Chests have been added for Cop, Smith, Pet, Pray, and Dig.
    • Tier 3 Chests have the best chance of awarding 5⭐ equipment.
• Chest Updates
  • Tier 1 Chest contents have been rebalanced.
  • Gems can no longer drop from Chests.
  • Gold Chests have a chance to drop 250, 300, or 500 Gold.
• Reward Voting
  • Gold is more commonly an option in Reward Votes.
  • The default reward more commonly awards Gold.

Equipment

• Default Loadouts
  • New players will start with default loadouts set. 
  • COP, SMITH, PET, PRAY, and DIG
    • These default loadouts are always Rapid, Chaining, Charming, Mega, Soul
  • RAPID, CHAIN, CHARM, MEGA, SOUL
    • These default loadouts are set to contain the items corresponding to Cop, Smith, Pet, Pray, and Dig.
• New Equipment
  • Warp Gem (WRP) (5⭐)
    • USE: (1800s Cooldown) Opens a Portal if one is not active.
    • Source: Fugitive Chests
• Equipment Updates 
  • Fugitive Mask (AKH) (3⭐)
  • +25 Fugitive Health. Riot or Kick: 5% Chance to become Stealthed for 5 seconds.
  • At Level 60, become Stealthed for 10 seconds.
• Skill Level Rewards
  • Equipment is unlocked for leveling up Cop, Smith, Pet, Pray, and Dig. 
  • Players will unlock the following items for each skill as they level up:
    • Level 2 – Rapid
    • Level 5 – Chaining
    • Level 15 – Charming
    • Level 20 – Mega
    • Level 25 – Soul
    • Level 30 – Dire
    • Level 35 – Hasten
    • Level 40 – Empowering

Skills

• Daily Quests
  • Daily Quests for Cop, Smith, Pet, Pray, and Dig each respectively now unlock when reaching Level 40 of their associated Skill.
• Claimable XP Rewards
  • Smelt and Offer both award 100 Skill XP (Smith and Pray, respectively.) 
  • All Frenzy items (Gavel, Forge, Treat, Incense, Drill) award 200 Skill XP for their respective skills.
  • Note: The Skill XP rewards for claimables are not affected by the claimable stack size.

General

• UI
  • Added a Reward Tracker display that shows how many rewards will be given at the next Dog Level Up Rewards.
  • Polished transition animations when changing to different game lobbies. 
• Audio
  • Added new sound for Gold dropping.
  • Added new sound for enemies being damaged.
  • Added new sounds for burning, and arsonist attacks.
  • Added new sound for using a Mega equipment.
  • Updated sound for Gems dropping.
  • Updated sound for enemies being defeated.