Join codes for cross-platform play, doubled vault rewards, chest loot rework, and major characteristic balance changes.

Social Features

Join Codes (new)

  • Join codes now available
  • Share a Join Code to invite friends directly into your game
  • Supports seamless cross-play between Steam and Epic players

Visual Features

Tool and Clothing Durability (new)

  • Enabled Wear and Damage on Tools & Clothing
  • Durability percent determines level of Damage, Dirt, and Wear

Map Screen (changed)

  • Updated Map screen to reflect when you’ve completed an encounter

Essence Traders (changed)

  • Updated Essence Traders to reflect the characteristic of the Items offered

Combat

Critical Stabbing (nerfed)

  • Backstabbing and hitting a critical hit no longer double stack crit multiplier but now just doubles damage

Critical Damage (changed)

  • Reduced Crit scaling by 25%
  • Increased Soft Cap from 60% > 80%
  • Increased Hard Cap from 75% > 95%

Rewards

Vault Essence (buffed)

  • Doubled Essence rewards in Vaults

Chest Rewards (changed)

  • Perishable items are no longer available in chests
  • Most raw food items like pumpkin, tomatoes, and mushrooms are now found as seeds
  • Chest Items found in storied realms will generally reflect available items but with some rarer rewards
  • Chest items in Untamed Realms will offer more powerful items and charms
  • Ascended Realm chests now offer rare T5 crafting materials with a bias based on which realm you’re in

Characteristics

Grendel (changed)

  • Renamed ‘Grendel’ Characteristic to ‘Grendel Brute’

Spyrys Obsidian (buffed)

  • Added Magick Damage

Pandora’s Purity (buffed)

  • Added Environmental Resistance

Awenite (buffed)

  • Added Ranged Damage

Losrewn (changed)

  • Removed Ice Resistance
  • Added Max Health
  • Added Miasma Resistance

Titan’s Fingernail (buffed)

  • Increased Magick damage
  • Increased Critical Damage

Noble Hollow (buffed)

  • Increased Magick Damage

Pellucidic (buffed)

  • Increased Injury Resistance
  • Increased Melee Damage
  • Added Fire Resistance

Pearl (buffed)

  • Added Health Max
  • Added Stamina Max

Sapphire (changed)

  • Removed Ice Resistance
  • Added Environmental Resistance

Bandersnatch (buffed)

  • Added Melee Damage

Weald Bear (buffed)

  • Added Max Health

Hexham Mongrel (buffed)

  • Increased Stamina Regeneration

Feorrswine (buffed)

  • Increased Health Regeneration

Galumph (buffed)

  • Added Ranged Damage

Carnute (buffed)

  • Added Health Regen

Fabled Carnute (buffed)

  • Added Stamina Regen

Haddock’s Ox (buffed)

  • Added Durability

Everhart Deer (buffed)

  • Added Move Speed

Elephas (buffed)

  • Added Max Weight

Tiddalik (changed)

  • Added Fishing
  • Added Melee Damage
  • Removed Health regen

Taweret’s Hippo (buffed)

  • Increased Stamina Max

Monarch Locust (buffed)

  • Increased Stamina Max

Pihrat (buffed)

  • Added Magick Damage

Leporidon (changed)

  • Removed Max Health
  • Added Critical Damage

Khepri’s Scarab (buffed)

  • Increased Magick Damage

Selket’s Scorpion (buffed)

  • Added Critical Damage
  • Added Melee Damage

Bawcock’s Fishgoat (buffed)

  • Added Ranged Damage
  • Added Magick Damage

Death Weaver Spider (buffed)

  • Added Critical Damage
  • Added Stamina Regen

Achlis Deer (buffed)

  • Added Magick Damage

Waywolf (buffed)

  • Added Melee Damage

Grendel Brute (buffed)

  • Increased Magick Damage
  • Added Melee Damage

Fabled Grendel (buffed)

  • Increased Magick Damage

Bound Straps (buffed)

  • Added Max Health

Automaton Knight (buffed)

  • Increased Melee Damage
  • Increased Durability

Fabled Automaton Knight (buffed)

  • Increased Melee Damage
  • Added Max Weight

Automaton (buffed)

  • Added Environmental Resistance

Fabled Automaton Pawn (buffed)

  • Added Max Health
  • Added Max Weight

Fabled Automaton Rook (buffed)

  • Added Melee Damage
  • Increase Max Health

Advanced Yew (buffed)

  • Increased Melee Damage
  • Increased Ranged Damage

Dreamscale Perch (nerfed)

  • Reduced Critical Damage

Crafting

Gem Powder (changed)

  • Removed Gem powder crafting requirement

Augments

Augment Wording (changed)

  • Refined Wording on all augments

Danu’s Cauldron (new)

  • Readded Danu’s Cauldron

Blacksmith Augments (changed)

  • Blacksmith augments now apply to all Refinements in Smelters

Carving Augments (changed)

  • Carving augments now apply to all Refinements in Saw Table

Hunting Augments (changed)

  • Hunting Augments now apply to all Refinements on Tanning Stations

Miner Augments (changed)

  • Miner Augments now apply to all refinements on Mortar Station

Source: Steam News