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• Patch Notes·18 Dec 2025Official

  Auto-Spellcasting, QoL & New Items (Early Access Update - v0.7)

  Happy holidays! 🎁 🎄🐲 ImprovementsNew! AUTOMATIC COMBAT CONTROLS (Autocast)You can already toggle Auto-Aim and Auto-Fire (Main Weapon) during a run using your hotkeys. The community requested to automate more of the combat, including the active spells.In the settings menu (press Escape / Start in-game), you can now pick one of three control styles to suit your personal play style and accessibility needs:Manual (default) - you cast spells using buttons/keys and have full tactical control.Auto (new!) - spells are cast automatically, you only need to focus on walking/flying, calling your dragon at the right time, and dashing. Spells trigger whenever their cool-down allows.Auto with manual Shield (new!) - spells are cast automatically, but you trigger your Shield spell (if equipped) using any of the spell buttons and keys (Q/E/R on keyboard or X/Y/B on controller). A blend of tactical flexibility and comfort.Other improvements:Improved visibility of hazards, boss attacks and generally any element able to hurt the player. Hazard areas are always on the highest layer and clearly visible.Improved upgrade randomization logic.Improved chest drop randomization logic.Gold chests now preferably drop high value items, only drop common items as last resort.Increased the range of applicable items for some perks, so you should see some more varied choices now.Dragonfire Whirl (passive ability) does not require owning Pentagram spell first, enabling more builds.🎄🧙‍♂️ ContentAdded new high tier items to chests:Ring of BlazingRing of HailRing of SparksRing of VelvetImplemented quests & rewards:Slay an EliteIce Damage Quests I-III are now also on the board, previously only as achievementsUnlock all Elemental Rings🎄🍄 BalancePicking up mana potions does not reset cooldown for all abilities anymore, it is now too OP in the context of higher upgrade stacking opportunities and modified game flow. Might bring it back as a skill tree option.Scarab, Cacodaemon & Golems now also count for the Sl...
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• Patch Notes·7 Dec 2025Official

  Update v0.6.7 - 4 New Items & Bugfixes

  New Stuff ✨Added 4 new items, unlocked by default, that you can grab from loot chests during a run, all are rare or epic tier. They grant some powerful multipliers for your damage output, which you can further scale up by collecting more elemental sigils during your run.New Item: Azure CrownNew Item: Verdant CrownNew Item: Voidbeast HelmetNew Item: Wargoblin HelmetChanges ✒️Map Event Markers had a lifetime after which they disappeared. Now they stay on your map until collected, with a maximum of 7 Map Events being active at a time, to not clutter your HUD too much.Bugfixes 🐛Fixed: Map Event Chests (the ones you unlock with Gold) could sometimes run out of items when banish was used a lot in the early game, when not many items are unlocked. Or if pursued a lot in the early game. This could lead to stalling. I've made the whole system more robust for such edge cases.
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• Patch Notes·5 Dec 2025Official

  Hotfix Patch🔥

  v 0.6.5adjust difficulty / spawn intensity / mob stats for balancingv 0.6.6bugfix: fix broken achievements for gold reroll, shadow damage, lightning damage, first dragonflight after tutorial, mining, ten projectiles on main staff (thanks again to community member "I Am Spam" for the bug report!)tweak: make quest block status on quest board a bit clearer, visually
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• Patch Notes·4 Dec 2025Official

  Content Update & Bullet Heaven Fest

  🎄⚔️ Bullet Heaven Fest Sale! ⚔️🎄First of all, you can get Black Dragon Mage at 33% off for Bullet Heaven Fest 3.0! Be sure to check out the bundles too. :)🎄⚔️ Black Dragon Mage - Content Update ⚔️🎄Finally, it took far longer than anticipated and you have my sincere apologies (several unexpected circumstances this year have led to significant delays) but now I'm proud to present the first update from our content roadmap!Black Dragon Mage is in Early Access and in active development.To better reflect this, I have updated the version number to v0.6.4 and added a label to the title screen - the game is still a work-in-progress, but steadily shaping up to meet the final vision!The past few months have been full of intense development, here's what I can ship to you today:Map EventsDuring your run, small circular icons will appear. These shall lead you to new challenges and rewards.Simply walk towards the marker until you discover one of the new events!Elite Enemies - beefy but slow, they drop Spell Tomes for Evolutions (read below)Paid Chests - purchase a key with gold to unlock powerful Mutator itemsShrines of Blessing - obtain a temporary buff by visitingSpell EvolutionsOne of the new map event types allows you to combat a new elite enemy type (one per map for now) with exciting drops. I wrote more about Spell Evolutions in the last Preview post.The spell tomes dropped by these enemies allow you to change the behaviour of your equipped spells, with three different evolutions per spell to choose from. You can upgrade multiple of your spells this way.Spell evolutions can lead to extremely powerful chain effects, such as sparking additional lightning zaps from every hit enemy, charging your mana (so you can summon your dragon more frequently) and other mutated behaviours.I think they're a lot of fun, make sure not to miss them! Chase the icon with the 🏹 to find them.BugfixesAdded missing translationsFixed: Mineable rocks were disappearing too frequently due to cullingFixed...
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• Patch Notes·1 Oct 2025Official

  Content Patch Preview: Spell Evolutions

  Well met, adventurers! 🐉🧙🏻‍♂️Autumn is upon us and the next content patch is around the corner. Here's a quick preview of what to expect from the next content patch. 🔥 By the way, the game is 23% off for Steam Autumn Sale! 🔥 Preview: Spell Evolutions 📜All of the Active Spells are getting 3 new, distinct Spell Evolutions each (15 total) to bring them to the next level.A quick look at the newly evolved spells:Spell Evos make your active spells more powerful by boosting their stats and tilting the odds in your favour, additionally they can:Adjust how the spell behavesfor instance, it can make your Shield of Frost leave a powerful ice explosive behind when depleted.Your Summoned Flame Swords may drop some handy bombs, or help you collect experience gems.While the Fiery Pentagram area damage becomes an aura, following and protecting you. Some projectiles will cause additional lightning zaps for that sweet, sweet chain damage.Change the scale of the spell's area / orb / projectilefinally a giant Fiery Pentagram, as often requested!Modify the spell's elemental damage type, so that you can slot it into your strategy and synergies.... and more!Adventurers can obtain mythical Spell Tomes during their run and use them to upgrade spells.But how? This takes us to the next part of the content patch: Map Events.Map Events & Random EncountersExploring the maps is more fun when there are interesting resources to be found. While you can already hunt for mining spots, chests and potions, the next update will make things more interesting.Random Map Events will show up as icons on your compass 🧭, indicating where (and how far away) some cool new challenges await.Some of them will drop Spell Tomes 📕so you can evolve your spells, or get a free level-up.Others are Rare and Epic Chests 🏴‍☠️ that come at a price, special Enemy Encounters and some other surprises.Other ImprovementsThe past months have been full of changes and revamps, too many to list at a glance.One that you'll immediately n...
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