Item Balance

This is a balance pass on the game, focused on equipment. Small consistency and balance changes for a smoother progression, a bit of QoL.

These changes don't make the game much different, I just a good feeling for a worthy upgrade on next progression step, or to be able to use sets you like for a while longer on incursions...

High-level features:

- Mod mostly loaded on initialization: next to none performance loss. - Changes compatible with all languages.

Equipment balance:

- Pharaoh set is now desert (adjusted stats and armor), requires quartz equipment instead of rune. - Demonic set and Tungsten set are proper sets with stats in equipment. - Adjusted some armor values so there's a clear progression in armor value with each biome. - Nerfed very early equipment a tiny bit (Frost + Dungeon). - Buffed some armors with lower stats than usual, specially summon gear. - Balance pass on many equipment on tier upgrade, with fixes on some armor types. - All the sets with damage over time now get an upgrade in tier progression, and also Sand Knife!

Weapon adjustments

- Now not only true melee weapons, but all weapons will have up to 33% more resilience with tier progression. - Tweaked tooltips for attack speed on Greatswords, Katanas, Shappire revolver, damage on ruby staff to better reflect their speed/damage. - Summon attack speed now affect summons attack rate (before did nothing). - Many buffs and a few small nerfs in weapons so the thing is more leveled. Many tweaks in resilience too, specially on boomerangs. - Mana cost will be more consistent with proper adjustments on tier upgrade and progression.

Food balance and consistency:

- Consistency on almost all (excluding the few speed foods) food buff duration and rarity. - All meal crafts are ordered by rarity on all cooking stations. - Buff effects also in consistent order for each meal. - Tweaked some food buffs to keep food progression a bit more consistent. - The burger dishes use any meat (minced meat could be whatever) and less ingredients.

Monster adjustments

- Some minor adjustments to monsters, specially monster armor progression in pre-deep cave content. - Special monsters like the Evil witches or the Aged Champion now do decent damage. - Buffed damage from plains deep caves enemies, and possession damage over time, to make the area a bit challenging.

Better personality growth stability:

- Ecologist second effect counts up to 15 flower/plants (+25 happiness) - Gardener, Indoorsy & Lumberjack have a cap of 60 stacks (+70 happiness).

Other changes:

- Scrapyard boss will appear in the journal. - Shipping Chests with half spoil rate, like Lunchbox (IE placing a 15h to spoil item becomes 30h). - Added a small chance for Happiness Items to appear in most surface, caves and deep cave chests. - Most Frost Shard, Quartz and Amber crafts cost 50% more ingredients (are 4x cheaper than bars) - Ring of Ascension acceleration from instantaneous to near‑instantaneous (top speed unchanged, just feels less like a debug item). - Many arrows and frost bullets wil show their status effect on hit in their tooltip.

All the changes in detail in the Change Notes