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• Patch Notes·7 Aug 2026Official

  Bossdome 0.10b

  This is one of the most minor updates to Halved ever, so I named it 0.10b rather than 0.11.ChangesFixes The Quagmire Construct not aligning with its telegraphed charges*Reverted Pillarhead's damage reduction to the value before the increase*Recolored "ANTIQUE PLATING" to better fit the hue patterns between the four pre-S.A.N.E.D.:NP Bossdome itemsTiN_kAAn and future lore dropBrought a few important visual updates to the demo*Suggested/brought to my attention by players, thank you!
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• Announcements·3 Aug 2026Official

  Bossdome 0.10

  Grand Dead Paradise Trial - With a never before seen rendition of S.A.N.E.D. and three new songs to go with it - Defeating him in Bossdome will count as a win Other Bossdome changes - A prompt explaining how to select Bossdome as a gamemode will now appear after the first initial HARD victory screen - The Altarator will now appropriately move player projectiles as well as the player during its second phase so that they can actually hit it - Optimized the entirety of the Grand Inventor's Caves Trial* - Rebalanced the damage reduction of all bosses as necessary - Added oil to the Grand Abandoned Oil Mines Trial title theme - Cleaned up the columns in Grand Snowhenge Trial and its prelude - "LYCHEE FRUIT" is now rarer in Bossdome for Alex because he already has so much healing - Christopher's limited range weapons have had their targeting conditions altered slightly to accommodate some Bossdome bosses - Disallowed pausing during a Bossdome death scene Major fixes - Fixed an edge case where healing in the same tick as death would temporarily cheat death, still showing the death screen a few moments later but allowing continued play until then and potentially causing multiple deaths and losses added to the counter - Fixed an edge case where Grey would show up in a Bossdome death cutscene and do nothing forever - Fixed timing of music and spatialization of sound effects Item changes - Improved "THE HUMBLE BRICK" proc performance and balance - "LYCHEE FRUIT" will now show leech particles similar to those of Crystallizers and Alex's Slash when life stealing - "EYE OF THE \" has been eliminated from some cases where it would be useless to obtain - "STAFF OF LEPROSY" will no longer spawn "The \" in a Bossdome prelude (it can still be obtained it just won't spawn him right away) - Buffed "FATHER'S BLESSING" from +5 max HP to +10 max HP - "VIAL OF DROUGHT" now affects all flat time limited player projectiles - Updated some item descriptions for conciseness and punctuation consi...
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• Announcements·2 May 2026Official

  Bossdome 0.9

  Added The Grand Inventor's Caves Trial to Bossdome - Featuring a brand new encounter with souped up Robot's Best Friends plus something else - And the usual new item unlocked by beating it on HARD Other Bossdome changes - The Altarator will now freeze the player in place during its spawn animation to prevent cheap shots caused by the player falling off the platform during the intro scene - Platforms in the Snowhenge Trial and Abandoned Oil Mines Trial levels can now be jumped up through* - Fixed text in control tips detailed mode and slider menus being completely scrambled during a Bossdome run - Made Bossdome Altarator phase 2 more lenient with its damage and platforming* - Rebalanced some other bosses' damage - Fixed Bossdome gates showing hover text during death scenes - Added a new Bossdome exclusive item "FATHER'S BLESSING" to replace the Father's granting extra max HP in between levels in a standard run Item changes - "INNOCENT DIE" has been reworked to give a flat boost rather than a random boost to various damage sources, and weapons have been fixed to properly take it into consideration - "VIAL OF DROUGHT" has been buffed - Bricks beyond 200 currently active will be totally invisible (but still do damage) for performance - Bricks no longer proc themselves - Renamed "REFLECTIVE GLACIALITY" to "ICE LENS" - "ICE LENS" now only increases bounce damage boost, with extra bounces being separated into new item "GIANT BOUNCY BALL" - Separated movement speed from "PILLAR FRAGMENT" to new item "SHOELACES", with "SHOELACES" now being limited in Bossdome instead of "PILLAR FRAGMENT" - Separated jump height from "BOOTS OF THE MONGREL" to new item "HEADSET", with the boots still banned for TiN_kAAn (he's already immune to fall damage) and "HEADSET" being banned in Bossdome instead of the boots - Separated reload cooldown from "BULLET WORM" to new item "ION CHAMBER", buffed both and fixed the availability being restricted to Dawn and Joe only - Added 3 new items (besides t...
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• Announcements·20 Feb 2026Official

  Bossdome 0.8

  Bossdome changes  - Items are now rewarded on a percent of boss health dealt basis  - The Quagmire Construct no longer grants any of its segments shock immunity  - "DEAD MAN'S SHIELD" is no longer restricted  - "BOOTS OF THE MONGREL" is no longer available in Bossdome  - The tops of the pillars in the Snowhenge levels can now be jumped up through  - Changed "Tier" back to "Difficulty" because HARD is actually harder now rather than a sidegrade in some situations UI/textual changes  - Reworked adjusting zoom and volume and reordered the settings menu  - Added scrolling to menus when they exceed screen height  - Reduced scramble coefficient (for glitchy Bossdome text) of menus to a very readable 0.2*  - Fixed the character selection menu to fit better on smaller screens*  - Detailed control tips now display cooldowns with two decimal places  - The Individual play selection menu's entries now have their record times scrunched up to them for distinguishability  - The right and middle mouse buttons now properly display as (M2) and (M3) respectively (previously swapped)  - Shifted slot management interface for clarity Character/weapon changes  - Weapon icon tips will now display hard internal cooldowns Individual play changes  - "THE STALEST PIZZA" and "RAGEWEED" are no longer unavailable due to a glitch Item changes  - The math for rolling with luck no longer makes things with a low base chance overpowered Enemy changes  - Crystalizers no longer bunch up like crazy - The Crystalizer texture has been purged of its ugly black outlining - Crystalizer health has been slightly buffed Misc changes/fixes  - Correctly centered the camera on the main menu  - Polished the loading screen wheel  - Music should correctly continue when unmuted after being muted for a long time*  - Updated Dawn's weapon descriptions to reflect their higher ammo  - Fixed weapon icons displaying the wrong weapons (again...) Gamepad changes  - Updated gamepad navigation to make more sense in terms of dire...
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• Announcements·21 Jan 2026Official

  Bossdome 0.7

  Bossdome changes - Gave the Partial Oasis gate an active visual like the others - Fixed the Abandoned Oil Mines gate not stopping its active visual when the fight ends - Adjusted mixing in "Grand Prelude To The Partial Oasis Trial"Character/weapon changes - Joe's reflectors will now be placed properly centered on himItem changes - Bossdome unlocked items' rarity increased from 2x normal to 5x normalAudio/textual/UI changes - Turned down ambient sound and muted it by default - Corrected some mispellings - Weapon icons can no longer block start buttons* - Added zoom settings**Brought to my attention by players, thank you!
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