That's intended, there are a few 'sub-items' which aren't included in the catalog mainly because I felt it would be reduntant. Shattered honeypots are another example.
That doesn't happen actually, only levelgen is affected by the dungeon seed, after that things like combat rolls and enemy drops are totally random. I made the choice to handle it that was as normal players would have their RNG diverge almost immediately anyway, and I wanted to prevent strats like 'do this specific sequence of inputs to spawn a thief on floor 4 and have it always drop an artifact'
Shattered has a full privacy policy that you can read through, but a few points:
As far as I'm aware yes, the only pinging Shattered's open source build does is checking for news and updates (this just an HTTPS GET request btw, no data aside from the request metadata is sent) and if you disable those that's it.
In cases where the splash art and game art significantly disagree you should consider the splash art canon atm. I want to eventually improve the in-game art to match.
Yep, that's a change in v2.5.0.
v2.5.2 is legitimate, it's just a small followup patch with a few bug fixes, and so I didn't think it was worth making posts about.
Hey Dungeoneers!
The first patch for Shattered Pixel Dungeon v2.5.0 should now be out on all platforms! v2.5.1 includes an assortment of small fixes, and some balance changes to three of the new trinkets. I expect to make more changes in future patches as well, before moving on to work on v3.0.0.
Check out the changes screen ingame for a full list of changes.
Thanks for the report, surprisingly this hasn't been mentioned to me yet. I'm just releasing v2.5.1, so it'll have to be fixed in the next patch.
That's a good point, I'll consider this for a future patch, thanks!
Yeah unfortunately play store users largely skipped beta-5 and rc-1. Aside from lots of bugfixes and small tweaks, the two most significant gameplay changes were:
Give me another 15 minutes or so and they will.
Shattered Pixel Dungeon's next major update will be going to beta early this coming week.
Here's one more new thing coming in v2.5: new cursed wand effects! I'm adding 16 new effects, ranging from simple bubbles to a rare but extreme supernova explosion! The bubbles are harmless but you really, really want to avoid the explosion.
(Image description: A GIF showing the new supernova explosion effect. A yellow glowing orb keeps growing in size while danger indicators litter the floor. After 10 turns the orb explodes, killing the player)
Hey rat punchers, Shattered Pixel Dungeon v2.5.0 is getting very, very close to being ready for beta. Sorry for the delay, but there's a few additions over what I was originally planning for this update that have made it take a while.
One of those additions is region splash arts during the game's loading screens! After teasing these all the way back in 2023 they're now ready, and will release with v2.5.0!
Hey folks, one more small update about UI improvements before a bigger blog post next week. I'm afraid Shattered Pixel Dungeon v2.5 isn't going to be ready for beta in July, but it's very close!
v2.5 includes a few other UI improvements in addition to all the ones I've shown off: a display for badges in the in-game journal window, a better alchemy UI layout for larger screens, and a full journal UI from the main menu (pictured here)!
(Image Description: An image showing new Journal UI from the main menu. Badges are currently being shown (which is unchanged), but there are new tabs for catalogs, the dungeon guide, and alchemy.)
After getting requests for years, I am finally adding support for custom notes in Shattered Pixel Dungeon!
You can make plain text notes, or attach them to a dungeon floor or item. These are a great way of keeping track of information between play sessions, or deduced properties of unidentified items. Custom note titles will even appear in the descriptions of their items!
(Image Description: An image showing the various UIs for adding custon notes. A selection window for adding them is shown on the left. A cropped window is on the top-right, showing five custom notes in the adventuring notes UI. Another cropped window is in the bottom right, showing a custom note appearing in an item's description.)
I'm also using the new Grid UI to overhaul Shattered Pixel Dungeon's journal notes page! The automatic adventuring notes, which record keys and landmarks, are now presented in a much more compact form! I've also added a few new landmarks, such as special floor types.
You might notice that there are a couple of other new things in this UI as well, more on that next week...
(Image description: An image showing the new 'adventuring notes' UI in the journal on the left. Notes are organized by dungeon floor with icons the player can tap for more info. On the right two example note descriptions are shown)
Continuing the trend of interface improvements coming to Shattered Pixel Dungeon in the next update, I'm adding a new window when you try to upgrade items!
Currently the only way to know how the stats of an item change with upgrading is to actually spend an upgrade scroll, but with this new interface you'll get a helpful little summary first! The window includes almost every stat in the game that scales with item level.
Replaying runs is not that simple I'm afraid. Firstly the RNG must be perfectly deterministic for every single action and reaction in the game (harder from a coding standpoint that you might think), and replays would break any time the game is updated.