AWL Patch Notes

New Challenge: Hell's Barrels
Increase health restored for most healing items
Reduced cost per hitpoint healed for healing items
Prevent collection of health restoration items if the player is at full health
Increase health drops in the Cemetery
Remove treasure drops from farmable monsters (zombies and skeletons)
Increase treasure drops from more difficult monsters
Rename Trickster gear to Deminion gear and make descriptions more informative
Deminion Axe now gains a bounce bonus like other axes
New, more noticable graphics for Arrow Traps
Reduce Arrow Trap and Spike Trap detection radius
Reset Senso-spikes on room enter to prevent cheap damage
Wall traps can no longer be placed in the corners of a room
Muck Monsters no longer prevent doors from opening when inactive
Merchants now provide info on their items for sale
Merchant in town now details which zones still contain blueprints
Fix bug causing players to not receive credit for kills with totems or explosions
Fix crash where the player exits a room shortly after taking damage
Listen for gamepad input on any connected gamepads
Bushes spawn a leaf upon death

Fix crash due to repeated input on the Challenge Mode list
Fix crash due to mouse input after the player has died
Fix crash related to activating mimics and reentering a room
Prevent player from placing totems or using soul powers while dashing (fixes a bug with the player being stuck afterwards)

Improve gamepad analog controls
Improve dash cancellation (only cancel dashing when control direction >= 90 degrees)
Several rendering/performance optimizations
Fix collision bug with player weapons and Warlord Totem
Update Great Owl statue in the museum with new graphic
Remove ability to hide menu via UI toggle
Make UI toggle persist instead of while-held-down
Prevent boss intro from freezing game when UI hidden
Remove blue light from blue candle
Fix bug where complete trickster set can freeze game

Fix bug causing Trickster Axe and Trickster Daggers to not benefit from Trickster armor
Display Raga’s items on Player Select screen

New soul abilities: Soul Shield, Soul Call, Soul Rush, and Soul Warp
New totems: Warlord Totem, Hive Totem, Copycat Totem, Huntotem, Wave Totem, Assassin's Totem
New weapons: Glaive, Owl Slayer, Trickster Daggers, Trickster Axe
New items: Ring of Ultimate Protection, Frozen Banana
New room: Mimic room
New setting to disable particle effects
New setting to disable lighting effects
Items carried when finishing the game are now tracked and displayed in the museum. Try to complete the game with each item!
Items found in chests and shops are de-duped. Players will never see the same item from a chest or shop in a given run.
Revamp boss reward room chests
Revamped puzzle rooms with hints outside the room
Extra characters now start with better equipment
Press select (gamepad) or V (keyboard) to hide game UI
Starting items per character are displayed on the player select screen
Charm counts are now displayed in the inventory
Blueprint shops now sell charms as well
New graphic for Great Owl
Poison Totem now shoots poisonous projectiles
Bugfix: Starting items for extra characters are now tracked immediately
Bugfix: Books and soul items are now displayed in the museum
Bugfix: Fix crashes related to area-of-effect totems such as the Ice Totem
Bugfix: Fix an issue which caused game data not to save correctly

Fixes issues with the Ice Cube: Removed immunity to non-fire damage from Ice Cube and Ice Monsters, expanded room size

Fixed a bug which caused key bindings to reset each restart
Fixed a bug (for real this time) with the wizard's equipment buffs stacking causing very low cooldown and high projectile count

The Wizard's Ring is now equipped to finger instead of feet
Reduced pentacle charge time from 10s to 5s
Reduced delay on Mimic interact->attack (slightly!)
Moved extra boss loot (Health Potion and treasure) to the room containing the Gold Chest (fixes issues with Sewer Hag)
Hostages can no longer be killed
Added a regular shop to Sewer 1 to fix the Merchant count for Merchant Murderer achievement
Removed Soul Orbs from shops
Greatly improved Gambling Shop, removed terrible rewards, increased gold payouts, way more item variety
Removed piercing from Arthur's Lance
Improve town Marketplace layout, items are now sorted by slot (weapon, head, chest, etc)
And a bunch of other small fixes/tweaks!

Buffed Soul Blast in various ways: Increased range, number of projectiles, reduced cooldown, reduced player stun duration
Consolidated various totem stats into Totem Power, which affects all aspects of totems
Buffs/tweaks to most totems, including more benefit per point of Totem Power
Charms can now affect many other stats besides totems, such as max health, weapon damage, and speed
Added a complete set of Dark Iron gear (used to be Lead) and removed speed penalty
Increased the amount of damage gained from attack buff items such as Spiked gear
Many other balance tweaks to various weapons and items
Increased delay when a Mimic is activated until it becomes hazardous to the player
Added option to disable screen shake (screen shake is enabled by default)
Fixed bug causing wizard fireballs to have too low of a cooldown in the Realm of the Dead
Fixed dungeon layout bug in Cemetery 2 causing Slime Key room to be missing
Fixed fullscreen settings bugs
Fixed boomerang cooldown and collision bugs
Fixed incorrect blueprint counts
Fixed bug where player could have < 0 health
Fixed flickering/corrupted text rendering