Crypt of the NecroDancer

Update (07 May 2020)

• added support for macOS 10.15 Catalina

Crypt of the NecroDancer Patch 1.29 (14 September 2017)

• The "change skin" option is now usable in the base game.
• The Danganronpa soundtrack will not play while using the "random soundtrack" option.
• The Shopkeeper will not sing while the Danganronpa soundtrack is used.

Amplified Patch 2.58 (14 September 2017)

• Added graphics to Danganronpa/Shiren skins to work with Amplified DLC content (Quartz Armor, Heavy Glass Armor, glowing outline while on a wire).
• Various localization corrections.

Bug fixes:

• Fixed bug where if you used custom music for King Conga, it affected Nocturna’s final boss fights as well.
• Re-fixed bug where Food Shopkeeper could have more than 1 hp in Randomizer mode and it would crash the game.
• Coda: put enemies back in for King Conga 5.

Amplified Patch 2.55 (21 July 2017)

• Aria Deathless Leaderboard now properly configured
• Zone 5 variants of bosses (ex: Deep Blues, King Conga, etc) added to Level Editor
• Fortissimole added to Level Editor
• Fixed issue where the camera would break if you attacked an Electric Orb projectile while wearing a Crown of Teleportation
• Now able to dig walls generated with Earth Spell with level-0 dig.
• Frankensteinway electric floor tiles no longer ignore iframes, Ring of Courage, Shield Spell, etc.
• Tempo: Enchant Scroll & Telepathy Circlet removed from pool; Gold weapons put back into pool
• Tempo: Timer now resets when he picks up items out of containers (Barrels/Crates) and loose Bombs.
• Hard Mode Sarcophagi are immune to Fear Scroll.
• Nightmare’s shadow no longer affects power meters on the batteries.
• Mary: when standing on top of the Lamb, Fortissimole’s splash damage no longer kills the Lamb.
• Mary: fixed issue where Coral Riff couldn’t hurt the Lamb at all
• Earth Spell can no longer push Frankensteinway's Electric Orbs on top of the switches.
• Mary & Bolt: base spear removed from item pool (so you can no longer find duplicate base spears in chests)
• Mary Phasing mode: Lamb now follows Mary into the wall.
• Mystery Mode: Monocle can no longer be used to see actual items inside of containers, Shrines, etc.
• Randomizer Mode: Food Shopkeeper can’t have more than 1 HP (it was causing crashes)
• Tempo: Uncertainty Shrine removed
• Nocturna’s final boss now has a spawn limit.
• Nocturna’s final boss: fixed extra beat that was happening when the song looped.
• Pulse Spell put back into the game.
• Tempo & Mary: Throwing and picking up their starting weapons no longer breaks Low%
• Cursed Wraiths & Gorgons can no longer bypass Stairs immunity
• Nocturna’s credits video fixed
• Localization tweaks and adjustments.

Amplified Patch 2.53 and Out of GID Release (12 July 2017)

• The AMPLIFIED DLC has been completed and is no longer in development!
• Two new final bosses: Frankensteinway and ??????
• All 6 of Nocturna's final story cutscenes!
• Two new playable characters: Mary and Tempo!
• Three new modes: Phasing mode, Randomizer Mode, Mystery Mode!
• Two new items: Pulse spell, Ring of Uncertainty
• All new achievements for the DLC content!
• A new option to replace the shopkeeper's singing with Nicolas Daoust's vocals!
• New music from Virt for zone 5 and Fortissimole!
• TONS of other fixes and tweaks!

Amplified Patch 2.45 (19 April 2017)

• New items: tomes
• New rare items: magic food
• Eli: add zero-damage knockback attack
• Nerf lucky charm's crate boost to be much weaker than ring of luck's (which stays the same)
• Ring of mana: double cooldown speed
• Make heavy glass armor heavy (like heavy plate and lead boots), so it prevents wind spells, etc.
• Update localization XML
• Fix crash when swapping between backpack and holster
• Fix boss shrine not stacking with hard mode
• Fix uncertainty slot persisting through enchant weapon & some shrine usage
• Fix practice skull spawns to not drop gold
• Don't drop holster for Diamond from bombed uncertainty shrine
• Some localization fixes to Brazilian Portuguese, German, Korean, Russian

Amplified Patch 2.43 (13 March 2017)

New character: Diamond

• Complete zone 5 to unlock
• Use key combos to move diagonally
• Up+down uses bomb
• Left+right uses item

New mode: hard mode

• More enemies in each room
• Most rooms have a sarcophagus that spawns enemies and is immune to weapon damage
• Exit rooms have two minibosses instead of one
• Boss floors have minibosses added
• No trap doors
• Moddable via necrodancer.xml
• Add items: monkey paw, bomb charm
• Update art: cookies, ice familiar
• Update localizations
• Add seeded version of no return mode
• Courage: protect against gorgon & water ball attacks
• Cursed wraith: change to be consistent with monkeys/gorgons/etc (the wraith won't die if its attack fails because of courage iframe, and non-courage iframes don't protect against it)
• Change rat familiar hit direction to point away from the player
• Change's harp's diagonal attacks to use diagonal hit direction
• Modify BasicSeek to correctly chase diagonal movement, leaping boots movement, lunging boots movement
• Enchant weapon scroll on dagger: allow all the special daggers as results (not only jeweled)
• Fortissimole: adjust FM3 & FM5 misc enemy types to be more fair
• Fortissimole: adjust stage position slightly to give one more row of tiles in arena
• Fortissimole: destroying speakers stops spawns from them
• Fortissimole: clear more of the stage when battle ends
• Fortissimole: destroy floor gold when digging
• Fortissimole: enemy spawns have a longer delay before movement
• Make replays work for no return mode, hard mode, and their seeded versions
• Give no return mode & hard mode their own leaderboards
• Fix crash when dead ringer is non-fatally knocked back by earth spell after the player skipped the previous beat
• Fix trap door miniboss not working with shrine of sacrifice
• Fix shopkeep ghost existence changing which shrine is present
• Fix leaderboard select menu to make more sense for story mode, deathless, all chars
• Fortissimole: fix bug where if he is frozen on stage and bombed out, he is invulnerable until unfrozen
• Fix Fortissimole dirt pile showing on wrong tile after being knocked back (such as by ring of war)
• Don't spawn grenade charm for dove & eli
• Fix horizontal jitter of text in lobby
• Revert accidental change to dragon seeking behavior in arenas & Dead Ringer
• Eli: remove bomb charm from his item pool
• Fix frozen Fortissimole burrowing when hit
• Fix shrine of rhythm not skipping trap door penalty box
• Don't use half localization for no return stairs (they require re-localization)

Amplified Patch 2.41 (16 February 2017)

• Fix infinite durability bug in single zone mode (includes heavy glass armor)
• Ring of Courage: revert durability
• Ring of Courage: make slightly less common (similar to other rings)
• Ring of Courage: don't spawn on 1-1
• Ring of Courage: mention invulnerability in item hint
• Ring of Courage: flicker when invulnerable
• Ring of Courage: remove +1 damage
• Ring of Piercing: make slightly less common (similar to other rings)
• Allow weaponless characters to again find shovel of strength
• Put freeze durations back to 8 and 16

Amplified Patch 2.40 (16 February 2017)

• New item: Heavy Glass Armor
• Add all Cutlass materials, with rarities same as bow
• Electric dagger: direct hit damage 2; combo with wire for 2 arc damage
• Make boots of leaping more common in the places it appears (crates, locked shops)
• Reduce dove familiar spawn rates a bit
• Don't spawn dove familiar for Dove (it's too powerful)
• Determine the success/fail outcomes from chance shrine by the run seed
• Luck items: instead of changing general item spawns, improve crate quality
• Ring of mana: remove cooldown bonus; add greater versions of bomb (inf dmg), heal (heal 1), earth (radius 2)
• Cursed wraith: when hitting player, curse all hearts and vanish
• z5 level gen: bias exit stair location within exit room to be far from player
• Allow phasing damage to destroy green gorgon statues (which includes earth spell, metrognome telefrag, etc)
• Give ring of courage 10 durability (still infinite durability in single zone modes)
• Courage takes priority over cutlass parry
• Reduce freeze spell durations to 6 (lesser, was 8 ) and 12 (greater, was 16)
• Shrine of Peace: reduce downside to replacing weapon with dagger; reduce upside to +1 heart (was +2)
• Make weapon throws do piercing damage
• Make Warhammer rarity similar to Bow, because of its high ease of use
• Fix crash when loading Fortissimole boss intro with Spanish & German localizations
• Melody fix: make wire electric arcing work for her lute attack
• Fix Fortissimole visual to actually show the silhouette instead of using the wrong animation frames
• Recover from invalid cloud save by dumping it and starting fresh
• Indicate in the log clearly when game crashes due to missing (or damaged) image file
• More graceful error handling when failing a DirectX image load
• Fix glass shop to only ever spawn a weapon in the 3rd spot, not glass slippers
• Fix boss intro fast-forwarding bug by making the game also pause when losing focus during boss intro
• Fix Blunderbuss showing up from transmutes for invalid characters (Melody, Aria, etc.)
• Dove familiar fix: don't teleport enemies on boss levels (fixes some strange behaviors)
• Scatter trap: don't scatter Melody's lute and Dove's flower
• Bat fix: when some directions are blocked, select randomly from remaining directions without bias
• Fix darkness and peace shrines in bat form: darkness should remove your ring and torch, and peace should preserve your ring of peace
• Transform spell: only 1 copy in co-op; lock into first spell slot for Nocturna (for hotkey stability)
• Remove strength shovel from pool of characters that can't use damage bonuses (such as melody)
• Fix warhammer priority to be the same as broadsword for the far hit
• Electric dagger: make player glow; damage electric zombies
• Fix Dead Ringer gong destruction being blocked by familiar
• Battle shovel doesn't activate from opening doors

Amplified Patch 2.38 (16 February 2017)

• Fix infinite durability bug in single zone mode (includes heavy glass armor)
• Ring of Courage: revert durability
• Ring of Courage: make slightly less common (similar to other rings)
• Ring of Courage: don't spawn on 1-1
• Ring of Courage: mention invulnerability in item hint
• Ring of Courage: flicker when invulnerable
• Ring of Courage: remove +1 damage
• Ring of Piercing: make slightly less common (similar to other rings)
• Allow weaponless characters to again find shovel of strength
• Put freeze durations back to 8 and 162017-02-01: 2.38
• New item: Electric Dagger
• New item: Battle Shovel
• Localizations: German, Italian, Spanish
• Minor updates to other localizations
• FamilyJules remasters of original game tracks
• Replace OCR 3-2 cold with a version fixing harmony with shopkeep
• Update example localization XML with tags for recent text changes; tag texts in code
• Earth dragon: update art; 8 health; wall raising changed to behind player, catacomb strength, permanent
• Raise Axe occurrence chances to be similar to that of Rapier
• Make frost dagger a little more likely to find in high level chests, since it's better than in original game
• z5 level gen: extend the wire into the entry room
• Change axe to only dash if player didn't already move (matters for warlocks), for consistency with rapier
• Ring of Wonder: only grant full heart the first time you pick it up
• z5 level gen: omit trapdoors on 5-3 (fixes lack of melody trap door room in nd2 boss); reduce freq of 5-x trapdoors
• Rewrite glass shop spawn logic to not spawn glass jaw & to spawn glass slippers more often than previously
• Fix shop wall mimic showing its teeth when far away
• Fix slight misoffset of the zone 5 beatfiles (50ms each)
• Adjust start times of OCR 5-x tracks to match the fixed beatfiles
• Fix Dove to count one of her hearts as the ring of peace's bonus heart (so ring swap doesn't give extra heart)
• Fix Shovels of Courage & Strength being overwritten by crystal shovel
• Fix: remove ring of phasing from lobby NPCs
• Fix: glass shrine don't change dorian's boots to glass slippers
• Perf: Slightly speed up rendering by reducing allocations and faster sorting

AMPLIFIED Patch v2.37 (3rd February 2017)

New content:

• Localizations: Russian, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, French, Brazilian Portuguese
• Item: Shopkeep Familiar
• Item: Ring of Piercing
• Subtitles for opening cutscene

Tweaks:

• Give rat familiar piercing
• Ice spirit: don't hit enemies that require phasing damage (burrowed moles & fmole, unactivated mimics)
• Blood shrine also grants blood shovel (in addition to the blood weapon) on the ground
• Blood shrine only damages your red hearts, not your cursed hearts
• Reduce frequency of electric zombies in single zone mode
• Zone 5 overlay skip certain categories of enemy: sarcophagi, closets, wraiths
• Nocturna exit bat form also grant 2 ibeats
• Change Zone 5 overlay enemy selection to force more variety of types (reduces excessive skull swarms)
• Monk/Coda: don't spawn wall gold
• Minor updates to Korean localization
• Removed Earth Dragon for now due to a bug; it will return soon!

Fixes:

• Fix these to not work in bat form: flail knockback, ring of frost, gold weapon gold bonus
• Fix: in bat form, never show weapon glows (for blood & gold weapons)
• Fortissimole: at boss end, enemies don't drop gold except for monk & gold weapons; late spawns don't drop gold even for monk & gold weapons to prevent infinite gold
• Fix kc5/fm5 always being last by generating floor seeds using a better algorithm
• Bat form fixes: new armor shouldn't protect; new torches shouldn't illuminate
• Fix crash when double-tapping beats after boss song has looped
• Fix base game crashes from dlc save data: deprecate diamond dealer attributes, pending spawn attributes
• Fix crash on unexpected default character entry in save xml
• Bump version of default character attribute to fix base game forwards compatibility crash
• Fix gameplay options menu crash when save data default character is invalid
• War shrine don't make tar balls, since tar balls are intentionally disabled
• Fix bug where if Nocturna is default character, player would gain Transform spell when starting ND1 boss
• Fix crash when accessing gameplay options menu while in bat form
• Dorian FM4: replace the blademasters with harpies (as is done in KC4)

Patch 1.27 (19 December 2016)

• Our latest update v1.27 has added 3 new localizations to the game: Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese.
• This update also includes 2 bugfixes:
• Fix banshee deafen effect not ending in 3-4 trap door room
• Fix banshee deafen effect not ending with custom music

Patch 1.24 (02 May 2016)

• Two new playable soundtracks, by Virt and Girlfriend Records
• Added new languages: Brazilian Portuguese and Russian. Other languages coming soon
• Flicker shield spell the beat before it wears off
• Fix bug where default character changed item generation
• Remove diamond counter from modes that don't have diamonds
• Change Yeti animation to more clearly show movement cycle
• Bolt picking up thrown spear doesn't lose low%
• Fix bug where Necrodancer phase 2 music sometimes didn't start
• Play shopkeep ghost sound even when music volume is low
• Call the ring slot "ring" in the HUD
• Fix shield effect being invisible after falling through a trap door with shield active
• Heart transplant now works when used on the first beat of the song
• Don't fade molehill of frozen mole
• Fix frozen animations to show beetle unshelling, skeleton knight dehorsing, skeleton beheading, Death Metal deshielding
• Show armor changes while frozen
• Fix eye color of some skeletons
• Add glow effects to white sarcophagus silhouette
• Aria doesn't regain low% when entering zone 1
• Fix bug where confusion would re-occur when heart transplant wears off
• Finish rendering weapon swipes after player picks up another weapon
• Show throw swipes for both players in co-op
• Make lobby torches look consistent on the minimap
• When player teleports into shop, play shopkeeper song at full volume
• Make shopkeeper singing full volume when bombing into shop
• Set zone 3 volume correctly when banshee dies
• Add red knight swipe
• Fixed early beat bar hit visual when boss song loops
• Make white chest mimic available in level editor
• Fix blue chest mimic becoming red chest mimic in level editor
• Fix misaligned weapon glow sprites
• Bolt practice, level editor kc1 has blue bats instead of red
• Don't apply localization scale to non-localized text
• Fix spacing of scaled localized text
• Hide secret shop speech when NPC is aggroed or dead
• Fix Dove unlocking Story Mode 1-1 exit stairs
• Remove player minimap dot when player in secret shop
• Fix minimap going offscreen with two spells
• Make "always show enemy hearts" not reveal cauldron mimics
• Added Jeweled Dagger to weaponmaster (edit: after picking it up during a run)
• Fix mod menu selection order
• Don't show unlock splashscreens during a replay
• Make monstrous cracked shop wall dark too
• Remove obsolete unlockable second action slot
• Fix large seed parsing so that they are not rounded
• Print large seeds as positive numbers instead of negative
• Don't allow playing seed -1 (change it to seed 0) to avoid strange behavior
• Faster item pool generation for mods
• Mode stairs in char select area now prompt & take diamonds
• Diamond prompt now doesn't cancel the second prompt (where applicable)
• Fix "SONG ENDED!" in Japanese localization, which wasn't displaying
• When game paused, pause sounds of shopkeep ghost, banshee
• Detect audio cheating for Necrodancer 1 phase 2

Patch 1.19 (06 October 2015)

• Added new languages: Japanese, German, French, Spanish, and Italian!
• Fix crash bug caused by player moving while 'submitting scores' is visible
• Fixed bug where sarcophagi in level editor were preventing exits from unlocking in normal mode
• Fixed crash on text inputs with numpad keys
• Prevent hang caused by monstrous shopkeeper in replays
• Fixed bug where localization offsets were being applied repeatedly in some cases
• Added small 'DONE' to localization XML file
• Fixed bug where certain text wouldn't reload after changing languages
• Added xOff and yOff properties to subtitle XML file
• Added scale param to localization file
• Added scale param to subtitles XML file
• Fixed some enemy name localization issues
• Fixed bug where the language text was not offsetting properly in the language GUI