Release Notes for Magicmaker

Patch 1.0.17 (14 April 2021)

If save files become corrupted, the game will now load properly and attempt to repair the save.
Fixed a bug where on windows 10, the mouse cursor would drift on certain resolutions
Miniature Sun will now properly interact with laser (Optic Lens) spells and do the intended amount of damage
Fixed many instances of the music stuttering when a song loops
Fixed a bug where spell and robe names in the spellcrafting menu would change to incorrect colors when renaming them
Fixed a bug where on some resolutions the top row of tiles would not render
Fixed a bug where some buttons would not render if they overlapped the window borders
Arrow keys are now displayed properly in the options menu
Fixed the twitter link button not working
Removed an invisible button on the main menu that linked to the old Steam Greenlight page.

Patch 1.0.16 (17 May 2018)

The alchemy menu’s material description now describes effects based off the shape of your first spell slot (laser or projectile)
Fixed an oversight that would allow the player get permanently stuck in the tutorial by setting their wand to an enchantment and exiting the game before the tutorial was completed
Fixed a graphical issue that would cause the background to flicker on some hardware configurations

Patch 1.0.15b (1 September 2017)

fixes bugs related to New Game+

Patch 1.0.15 (31 August 2017)

GAMEPLAY CHANGES:

Bosses have been adjusted to make fighting them more challenging and interactive. The most noticeable change is significantly reduced idle times inbetween attacks, and an increases in the damage that some bosses' secondary attacks deal. These changes primarily affect New Game+ difficulty, and less so on the first playthrough.

BUG FIXES:

Fixed a bug where the player could escape from the training course without all of the required items
Tweaked one of the finale maps so that the portal doesn't clip through the ceiling
Fixed an issue where a faint colored box appeared around the forest boss seed core
Fixed a freeze caused by lighting wisps on fire
Fixed a bug where cauldrons would not spawn in the castle during goblin revolution
Fixed a bug where fairy enemies may still appear during goblin revolution in the forest
You can no longer pause during the ending sequence
Fixed a bug where the background during the final battle would display incorrectly on wide resolutions
Fixed a bug where goblin wizards with necrom-nomicon didn't spawn minions
Fixed an issue where the quest line in the level portal menu wasn't centering properly
Fixed a bug where enemies would not be properly destroyed in the finale
Fixed a bug where the player wasn't silenced when they entered certain portals
Fixed a bug where activating the boss room of the temple, then going to a shrine and staying there, would result in a bunch of temple boss warning effects going off constantly
Fixed a bug where left over vfx from the previous level would show up on the title screen
Grammatical fixes on a handful of tooltips

Patch 1.0.14 (07 March 2017)

GAMEPLAY CHANGES:

Increased drop rate of alchemy components (essences and stones)
Stones and essences now drop at an even ratio, instead of all alchemy drops having an equal drop rate (causing stones to appear less often)
Training dummies now display your damage per second (DPS) after receiving damage
Added a stone dummy to the training area. It is knockback immune.
Siren's Seafoam projectiles now begin oscillating upwards regardless of the direction they are fired (left vs right)
Siren's Seafoam lasers now undulate in a wave pattern instead of being a static shape
Adjusted tooltips to clarify their effects on spellpower.
Adjusted particle effects on the Pranksgiving Cornucopia artifact
Added some more loading screen tips
Allowed the player to modify their spells if they die to the final boss
Adjusted tutorial text to better explain spellpower and clarify controls

BUG FIXES:

Fixed an issue that caused keys to vanish
Significantly improved the performance of wind gusts in the Forest Zone
Fixed a bug where Crystal Ball-Diamond-Laser spells would only hit once
Fixed a bug that caused Trick Bullet-Turret spells to deal less damage than intended
Fixed an interaction with Trick Bullet and Diamond that would cause projectiles to double hit an enemy
Fixed a bug where very large Diamond Lasers would hit more times than intended on targets very close together
Fixed a bug where Crystal Ball-Diamond-Laser spells would repeatedly hit the same target
Fixed a bug where the turret robe would occasionally not appear or attack
Arrow drops from Quiver spells no longer prevent treasure room portals from opening
Fixed several instances of incompletable levels, especially in the forest
Fixed a rare bug that would cause floating standing stones in the forest
Fixed an issue where fire wisps and salamanders would get stuck in a corner of the desert sandpit trap room
Significantly reduced instances of giant snowball enemies vibrating violently in tiny corridors
Removed a phantom hitbox on the Desert Boss
Fixed several typos.

Patch 1.0.13 (07 December 2016)

GAMEPLAY CHANGES:

You can now warp between the boss-repelling giant gems in the Temple Zone (allowing you to return to the start of the level)
Crystal Ball spells have again updated behavior for multi-hit effects. If there are no nearby enemies, they will loop back to the same target.
Adjusted Beehives to be slightly more difficult to knock down, especially in New Game+
Agitated bees stay around for less time in New Game+, but deal more damage.
Leaf piles now have health

BUG FIXES:

Poison and Fire status effects no longer do 100x their intended damage on the Super Murderfest challenge
Salamanders now take knockback damage
The title screen now displays on extremely large resolutions
Fixed additional typos and adjusted some quest text. There are now absolutely no spelling errors at all within the entire game. Every single word of every line of text is spelled correctly.

Patch 1.0.12 (26 October 2016)

GAMEPLAY CHANGES:

Target Dummies can now be raised to 100,000 health in New Game+
Crystal Ball spells have updated behavior for multi-hit effects- the projectile will choose a new homing target each time it hits an enemy.
Adjusted how knockback is processed, preventing the rapid accumulation of gravity-related momentum
Adjusted the spread pattern of Illusion Dust projectiles
Necrom-nomicon minion HP and damage is now calculated on projectile expiration instead of on-cast, allowing them to benefit from Chaos Butterfly and Extract of Monday materials properly
You can no longer finish the tutorial on New Game+ mode without collecting all your equipment
Goblin wizards are no longer immune to knockback
Improved clarity of some material tooltips

BUG FIXES:

Illusion Dust no longer stacks into negative damage or spellpower values in New Game+
Fixed a bug where Owlbear Trap/Siren Seafoam/Chaos Butterfly/Tonna Brick spells would have a life of their own and move in illogical ways
Fixed a bug where Illusion Dust robe projectiles could sometimes damage the player
Disabled the = debug key (it made a bunch of numbers appear)
Fixed a bug where goblin wizards would have some materials incorrectly set on the Goblin Revolution challenge
Fixed a bug where the gem ghost could get knocked out of the level bounds in the castle, preventing it from being collectable
Fixed a rare crash in the final battle
Fixed a bug where Fairy Wing/Optic Lens spells would hit an incorrect number of times.
Fixed a typo in the Halloween Quest

Patch 1.0.11b (22 August 2016)

GAMEPLAY CHANGES

Adjusted material tooltips for clarity and consistency
One-Sided Coin's explosion radius now scales with material grade and multiple copies of it.
One-Sided Coin's explosion damage now scales stronger with spellpower
Added options to adjust screen shake
When loading recipes containing an unavailable material grade, the next highest available grade will be slotted
Added secrets

BUG FIXES

Fixed a bug where Explosive Powder laser spells were doing 10x their intended damage
Fixed an issue where the Forest Boss's Pollen Laser would scale into negative values in NG+
Magic Boomerang robe effect will no longer knock back objects that are intended to be knockback immune
Fixed an issue that caused the Final Boss to despawn if knocked off screen
Bazel's Hourglass of Regret no longer warps the player through anti-teleport walls
Fixed a crash caused by charming goblin wizards using Illusion Dust
Fixed a bug where Extract of Monday's robe effect's damage was being multiplied in the Super Murderfest challenge
Fixed a crash on WINE on OS X
Fixed a typo in the Halloween Quest

FEATURES

Added screen shake intensity options
Expanded level seed reporting

Patch 1.0.10 (11 April 2016)

FEATURES:

Added screen shake intensity options
Expanded level seed diagnostic information on pause menu

BUG FIXES:

Fixed an issue with lock keys getting stuck and/or not working in the final level

Patch 1.0.9c (23 December 2015)

Fixed a bug that wiped all progress when attempting to advance to new game plus

Patch 1.0.9b (21 December 2015)

Fixed wrong dll file

Patch 1.0.9 (18 December 2015)

GAMEPLAY CHANGES:

Added left-handed mouse options
Giant Cobra miniboss is now completely immune to knockback
Turret Flowers are now affected by knockback
Midnight desert and sunset jungle backgrounds have been added to Temple Zone difficulties 3 and 4 respectively

BUG FIXES:

Re-added Windows XP support
Actually fixed the green crystal chest bug this time
Lightning Rod's robe effect now works properly when walking on walls with Sticky Slime.
Fixed a bug where trying to bind the arrow keys would work, but the keys would be improperly labeled as "INVALID KEYBIND"
Fixed a bug where Fairy Wing laser spells were doing less damage than intended
Fixed a bug where you would have zero ammo available if you picked up a quiver in the plug and play challenge
Tonna bricks + Sticky Slime projectiles now obey gravity until they begin follow walls
Fixed an issue where spell names would become miscolored through renaming
Fixed an issue where the temple vault in the bachelors difficulty mission was unlocked at the start of the mission
Adjusted spacing issues in the UI options menu
Fixed a music loop stutter in the associates difficulty Desert Zone
Fixed a case where you could no longer progress if you enchanted your wand in the tutorial and then quit out
Fixed a bug where the screen would occasionally just go all white during the finale sequence
Fixed a bug where rock lasers would sometimes make the screen go all white

Patch 1.0.8 (gog-11)

GAMEPLAY CHANGES:

Improved the effectiveness of several materials:
Bouncy Ball spells: increased starting bounces by 1
Caustic Ichor spells: adjusted values to scale more strongly with spellpower
Explosive Powder robes: Death delay normalized to 3 seconds at all ranks
Fire Crystal spells: increased burn damage spellpower ratio
Fire Crystal robes: increased burn damage
Harpy Feather spells: wall collision damage increased
Miniature Sun robes: increased burn damage
Quiver spells: increased starting arrows by 1
Philosopher Stone spells: reduced mana cost penalty
Shade Spirit spells: increased control buildup spellpower ratio
Sticky Slime robes: greatly increased wall-walking timer
Tonna Bricks spells: increased spellpower boost effect
Middle-mouse click can now be bound in the keybinds menu
You can now get into the forest treasure room tree with just Jharni's Socks of Jumping (sorry!)
Rune spells now drop mana crystals in larger chunks if the number of crystals exceeds 10

BUG FIXES:

Fixed an issue where New Game+ availability would sometimes not activate
Optic Lens + Extract of Monday now properly combine in spells
Fixed an exploit where Illusion Dust robe clones would cast more spells than intended
Fixed a bug where some reward chests would not unlock despite all level gems being collected
Fixed an issue where the player could get stuck out of bounds
Fixed several typos
Updated loading screen tips

Patch 1.0.7

GAMEPLAY CHANGES:

Explosive Powder's AoE damage now scales based on how close the affected enemy is to the center of the explosion

BUG FIXES:

Fixed several typos
Harpy Feather spells now damage enemies flung into walls properly
Fixed a machine-specific crash on the final boss
Fixed an issue where you could teleport into a quest vault in the temple
The final boss now properly scales into New Game+
Adjusted Magic Boomerang tooltip
Disabled Ninja Sword on Robe's ability to dash during cutscenes
Recipe delete prompt will now inform you which recipe you are removing
Deleting recipes from the recipe list no longer sometimes deletes the wrong recipe
Ice Gargoyles now properly animate on low graphic settings
Keys no longer get stuck deciding between two locks an equal distance from the key
Adjusted buff stacking behavior
Menus now display properly on smaller resolutions
Fixed a crash related to Magic Boomerang's robe effect
Fixed an issue that would cause endless cutscenes in the desert zone
Players can no longer escape the tutorial, seriously, for real this time.
Lasers now properly interact with objects during the final boss fight
Charming ice no longer causes graphical issues
Ghosts and Ice Gargoyles now play nice with stealth effects
Giant Snowball's collision now more accurately reflects its appearence
Treasure chests are now guaranteed to spawn in missions that require them
Lasers now play nice with map illumination and vacuum cleaner spells
Effects that require the player to stand still now work more consistently when standing on one-way platforms

UNDER THE HOOD:

Improved performance of laser and light-affecting spells and effects