Update · Version 1.15.0

Soul Harvest, Combat Feel and the Featured Command Center

Version 1.15.0 is about how the game feels in your hands. The Ember Crypt becomes a race against the clock, every fight hits harder, your clan's Featured screen tells you what to do next, and most rewards now land the moment you tap.

A critical hit explodes in fire on a skeleton boss at the end of World 3 — A boss fight at the end of World 3

Ember Crypt: Soul Harvest

A Crypt key now buys a timed harvest. The clock starts at 45 seconds and every kill adds time, more for an elite and more again for the Soul Warden. Every fifth wraith is an elite (Shielded, Swift, Mending or Volatile), and the Soul Warden, larger and with its own music, arrives at the 15th and 30th wraith. Two braziers flare during a run: one gives Fury for double damage, the other gives Ward to heal you. Harvest 30 souls to clear the level, 45 to climb two levels and 60 to climb three. If your hero falls, you keep what you harvested.

Combat that hits

Enemies now react to every blow, recoil, fall and burn away, and boss kills land with a short freeze and a punch-in before the victory screen. Stage 10 bosses and stage 20 bosses take turns: Mordren fights from range, Ossric the Unburied up close. Frost Nova, Greed Burst, Meteor, Blade Storm and Shadow Strike have their own effects and sounds, and ability crits get their own colours. Combat audio is mixed instead of piled up, with kill sounds per enemy type.

Lose to the same boss twice in a row and the defeat screen shows the recommended power and one step you can take right now, such as equipping new gear or upgrading your forge. Several campaign bosses in Worlds 2 to 5 have less health.

Clan Featured is a command center

Clan → Featured now opens on a week calendar with two tabs. Your Actions lists what earns Forge Marks right now, led by the best action: a contract to claim, a soul to summon, a finished timer or a dungeon with keys. How to Earn Marks explains every source. You can claim and skip straight from the list, and it updates live while it is open. On the clan home, Your Forge Marks now comes first.

Rewards at the tap

Gem skips, contract claims, dungeon claims, item sales and pet level-ups now show their result the moment you tap, and the server confirms in the background. If the server refuses, the screen goes back to what really happened. Buttons press in on touch, popups open faster, and every claim has a small, medium or large sound and vibration.

Also in 1.15.0

One hammer strike per craft or Auto Forge batch, with a reveal that grows with rarity. Items Auto Keep saved stay on the anvil in their own colours.
When the forge cannot craft, its button says why.
Reduce Motion and Reduce Flashes in Settings.
One-time banners for forge milestones, new worlds and your first item of each top rarity.
A Licenses link in Settings.
Fixes for resuming the game, returning from a dungeon and closing the app mid-action.

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