The First Big Blitz Update

The first big Blitz update is here!

Added Blitz Beacons Blitz Beacons are unique items that spawn in chest refills. If you’re lucky enough to find one, you can enable an ability for yourself!

Abilities allow a player to influence the game in a variety of ways, from helping you get a surprise attack on someone to wiping the inventories of your enemies. When right clicking a Blitz Beacon, you can view all of the abilities and their descriptions.

There are 10 abilities, each of which can be unlocked by “testing your luck” in the Blitz lobby. Testing your luck costs 50,000 gold and unlocks a random ability.

We’ve unlocked 2 abilities, called Loot Crate and Ninja, for all players by default!

Bug fixes

Books with the same enchant and tier should no longer stack
Players can no longer hit each other after a game draw is determined
Fixed an issue causing the sidebar to flicker
Killing yourself through shooting yourself, fall damage, etc no longer awards coins
Players can no longer trample crops

QOL and balance changes

Added a compass in-game which you can use to teleport to players as a spectator
Added a Play Again item so you no longer have to go to the lobby between games
Games now start with a minimum of 2 players instead of 4
Billionaire cost reduced (100/200/350 -> 33/66/100)
Significantly increased chances of diamond armor, fresh mystic items, and enchant books in chest refills
Closing the anvil GUI now gives back any items that you had inside of it

Patch notes from this stretch

Smaller updates and balance changes that followed, pulled from the announcements channel:

March 6, 2022

Make Sprint Drain only decrease speed level down to 2
Combo: Ladder damage reduction (4/8/12 -> 3/6/9)

March 10, 2022

We spoke to some villagers earlier and found that they were in DESPERATE need of Renown for their…various…activities (they’re very secretive).

Due to a strike of luck, we were able to negotiate some generous deals for those of you who have too much Renown! You can access them now in the Renown Shop.

March 17, 2022

Added 2 new Megastreaks Nightmare: At night, receive special buffs including speed, extra resources, and damage. At day, reduce the amount of time until night with each kill.

Hermit: On kill, earn 1 Bedrock, the hardest material of them all. Receive passive Resistance I, but you can’t use Mirror! All blocks placed by a Hermit last 2x as long before despawning!

Added 5 new Killstreak Perks Some of these are more experimental killstreaks that you’ll be able to incorporate into your playstyle, or use as a team! Some are more complicated than others, so I won’t go over them individually here.
Added Prick Those familiar with The Pit will already know about the Prick enchant. It deals true damage to people that hit you. How prickly!

Balance changes:

Reduced Ring Maker time (10 -> 5 min)
Raised regular bounty limit to $10,000, and Highlander limit to $20,000
Lowered Megastreak contract from 750 to 500
Lowered Bots contract from 50,000 to 40,000

March 29, 2022

A quick follow up patch to the last one with a few general balance and QOL changes added in.

Perk changes:

Saving Grace: Increased from 5% to 10% per tier.
Mammoth: Can now be used with the Pain Focus enchant.
Bodybuilder: Buffed Strength percentage per kill from 0.33/0.66/1% to 0.5/1/1.5%.
Mechanical Apprentice:
- Now adds 0.35/0.7/1 to your Streak per Apprentice kill.
- Apprentices now only hit bots, not players.
Berserker Brew: Damage reduction cap reduced from 40% to 20%.
Arquebruiser: Cap increased from 30% to 40%.

Enchants:

Bullet Time healing reduced (1/1.5 -> 0.5/1)
Shark distance reduced from 12 blocks to 7

Other changes:

Purchases such as perk upgrades will now prioritise Night Shards over Books of Contracting
Prestiging now rewards a Super Uberdrop every 2 prestiges in addition to the Ultimate Uberdrop every 5 prestiges
Coins awarded from any Uberdrop type now count towards your gold requirement
Added clarity to the guild message about guild perks being reset
Ripple now properly awards assists
Increased the participation coins every 10 minutes from 250 to 500
Fixed some issues with guild tags showing incorrectly (e.g. [])
Strongly buffed the value of fish sold at the Fisherman NPC
MVP+ now autoclaims daily rewards for you when available