Patch Notes Page 29

v0.21.5

Reworked floating damage numbers to stay readable during heavy cleave and AoE.
Same-source damage bursts now clump into larger 10-hit buckets once more than 10 fresh numbers would appear at once, which cuts late-run number spam and improves readability.
Damage numbers now drift up and away on a short arc, center more cleanly over the impact point, and fade out over their full lifetime instead of marching straight upward.
Critical hits now render larger and add a subtle shake so big spikes stand out without flooding the whole screen.
Added hud.damageNumbers tuning in data/gameplay.json for the clump threshold, clump group size, and batching window.

Reworked Captain patrol pacing and wandering World Boss behavior.
Captain nemeses now only need one patrol checkpoint before they can escape and rank up.
Wandering World Bosses no longer use the nemesis escape/return loop, stay alive until killed, and still do not block wave completion when they are the last enemies alive.
Gunther’s execute ultimate no longer instant-kills wandering World Bosses, and World Boss visual size remains capped at 2x the source enemy.
Loot Goblin flee speed now stays tied to the Warden’s baseline movement preset instead of escalating with late-run move-speed scaling, and Jack gets a slight melee reach increase.

Consumable item level now matters for potions and food.
RPG potions and food now scale their actual restore strength from item level, so higher-ilvl consumables hit harder than low-ilvl versions instead of staying flat forever.
Inventory and character-screen tooltip readouts now show the scaled restore values that will actually be applied when the consumable is used.

Fixed Restart after a failed run skipping the vault deposit.
Co-op wipeouts now route through the standard run-conclusion flow before the death overlay, so earned run gold is banked to Vault Gold before Restart or Quit resets the match.

Fixed trader RPG gear falling behind the new equipped-ilvl drop floor.
Trader RPG equipment now uses the same blended wave-plus-equipped median ilvl scaling as battlefield gear, so shop upgrades stay competitive with organic drops.

Added equipped-ilvl-aware RPG drop scaling.
Dropped RPG gear now blends the current wave item level with the Warden’s equipped median item level so upgrades stay near your current progression instead of falling far behind it.
The new behavior is data-tunable in data/gameplay.json, while trader RPG stock remains tied to wave item level rather than the equipped-gear floor.
Animated chest, loot goblin, and other battlefield RPG equipment drops now inherit the same median-ilvl floor before their existing bonus item-level adjustments apply.

Retuned Infinite-mode copper flow so late endless ability-shop progress does not stall after the standard win band.
Standard difficulties keep their existing wave-1 to wave-40 economy shape, while Infinite now adds extra post-wave-40 copper compensation on top of the existing reward curve.
Endless runs now lean more of that bonus into wave-clear rewards, boss and miniboss copper drops, bounty payouts, and similar chunked copper moments so progress lands in noticeable bursts instead of only tiny per-kill scraps.

Reduced Flame Skull body-light brightness and radius.
The fire_skull archetype now uses much smaller authored light multipliers, so its glow stays visible but no longer reads as strong or wide as a brazier.