Patch Notes Page 64

v0.0.873

Added Toxic Dragon variants to dragon encounters.
Milestone Dragon spawns now roll 80% standard fire and 20% toxic poison variants.
Toxic Dragons use their own sprite set and swap flame breath over to poison damage, green damage numbers, and poison damage-over-time.
Updated the Vampire Lord finale escort.
Dragons summoned during the Vampire Lord event now always arrive as Toxic Dragons.

Corrected Vampire Lord and vampire effect presentation.
The Vampire Lord now renders back at his authored 48x48 boss scale instead of the undersized interim pass.
Vampire Lord spell visuals now render 1:1 with their source frames so the boss and his effects match each other on-screen.
Fixed vampire multi-row animation playback.
The large projectile charge-up now animates frame-by-frame from top-left to bottom-right instead of drawing the whole sheet at once.
Vampire Spawn death sheets now play their full 10-frame multi-row sequence correctly.

Refined the Vampire Lord encounter presentation and combat flow.
The Vampire Lord now renders texture-true without the generic boss recolor path and has a much smaller on-screen scale.
Vampire Lord and Vampire Spawn runtime animation selection now ignores the unused Ready / Combat Pose strips and leans on idle, walk, melee, bite, cast, death, teleport, and spell-effect sheets instead.
Expanded vampire bite and spell behavior.
Vampire Thralls now randomly choose between melee and bite, with bite adding a light bleed to heroes and a short self-regeneration buff.
The Vampire Lord now uses distinct melee, bite, teleport, heavy projectile, single-shot spin, multi-projectile volley, and AoE discharge patterns with labeled Aseprite effect exports.

Adjusted standard rain color variation.
Rain now leans slightly bluer overall while still keeping some near-white streaks.
Individual drops can now render in mixed cool-blue shades instead of a single flat tint.

Added seeded and preset-driven weather variation.
Rain and snow patterns now shuffle per run from the match seed instead of repeating the exact same streak layout every time.
Code-side presets now support rain, snow, red rain, green rain, black rain, and black snow overrides for special encounters or biomes.

Refined procedural rain streak sizing.
Rain now renders as much finer streaks instead of oversized white bars.
Default weather tuning in data/lighting.json now uses shorter, thinner, slightly softer drops.

Added configurable procedural rain and snow overlay support.
Outdoor weather can now be enabled from data/lighting.json without textures or particle assets.
The SDL renderer now uses the same tunable column, length, width, speed, slant, and transparency controls planned for the future OpenGL shader path.

Corrected the daytime god-ray direction.
Outdoor sun shafts now angle from the top-left toward the bottom-right instead of mirroring from the wrong side.