Crypt of the NecroDancer: Supporter Upgrade

Hi folks! This is our last update of 2025, can you believe that? If you've loved Crypt of the NecroDancer, and want to show our team a little extra support in a special way, we've just dropped the Crypt of the NecroDancer: Supporter Upgrade!

In addition to our undying gratitude:

This upgrade lets you rock outfits from Rift of the NecroDancer on your favorite characters and friends

Skinned characters also react to your play, looking excited when doing well, and worried when close to death!

Full patch notes below!

Crypt of the NecroDancer v4.2.1 is now available!

New DLC: Supporter Upgrade

• Introduces 5 new Rift-themed skins
• Includes skins for Cadence, Dove, Nocturna, Reaper and Suzu
• Reactive skins: characters change expressions when achieving a high coin multiplier or dropping to low health
• Skins can be equipped via the 'Change Skin' shrine in the character selection room

Changes the in-game appearance of Hephaestus, Merlin and the Shopkeeper to match their Rift outfits

Adds a special golden badge and name color to the player list and chat in online multiplayer

NPC skins and the player list badge can be disabled via the menu: Options > Misc Options > Supporter Upgrade Options

Changes

• Changed Lead Boots to protect Shovel Knight from Wall Spikes during Shovel Drop

Bugfixes

Gameplay bugfixes

• Fixed Protectorcs not taking damage from Spike Traps unless facing right
• Fixed Crate Gargoyles not dropping items when pushed down trapdoors
• Fixed Shovel Knight getting stuck on the level if the song ends during Shovel Drop
• Fixed Shovel Knight rapidly swapping items picked up during Shovel Drop
• Fixed Shovel Knight not being able to damage Phantoms as the last remaining player on the level
• Fixed Shovel Knight falling through Shopkeeper Ghosts during Shovel Drop
• Fixed Shovel Knight not picking up Shovel Shard if a Glass Shovel breaks during Shovel Drop
• Fixed Ring of Piercing not preventing Blademasters from parrying Shovel Knight's melee attack
• Fixed Courage Shovel not protecting Shovel Knight from Wall Spikes during Shovel Drop

Visual bugfixes

• Fixed Shovel Knight's arm displaying incorrectly when using a custom skin made for another character
• Fixed Shovel Knight's held shovel not being visible in-game without owning the SYNCHRONY DLC
• Fixed Scatter Trap being invisible when joining a multiplayer lobby without owning the AMPLIFIED DLC
• Fixed Pawnbroker sprite not displaying correctly in Mystery Mode

Engine bugfixes

• Fixed gameplay actions not being assignable to the same buttons as certain menu controls
• Fixed 'Mods' menu briefly freezing the game when subscribed to a large number of mods

Modding features

• Added support for passing 4x4 transformation matrices to camera options
• Requires fields lerpTranslation , lerpScale and lerpRotation to be set to 1

Added function Menu.updateDeferred() to schedule a menu update for the next tick

• Subsequent calls to this function during the same tick are ignored, resulting in at most one menu update per tick

Added component Goldman_itemPogoWallSpikeImmunity to grant protection against wall spikes during Shovel Drop

Added component Goldman_itemDamageFlagsAutoPogo to provide special damage flags from Shovel Knight's initial hit

Added component Goldman_characterAutoPogoIncomingDamageFlags to receive special damage flags from Shovel Knight's initial hit

Added component Goldman_characterPogoInhibitFinish to prevent Shovel Drop from ending on top of a non-solid entity

Added component Goldman_pogoDisableStasis to force Shovel Drop to disable stasis of eligible Shovel Drop targets

Added component Goldman_stasisDisableDuringPogo to disable stasis when hit by Shovel Drop