Firefowl Boss Update, Backpack Rework, & More.

New Content

Firefowl Boss

• The Firefowl boss encounter has been significantly refined — improved animation blending, additional animations and attacks, and better fight pacing for all builds.
• Wet zones no longer react with projectiles, closing off the cheese strategy of using them as a free bubble shield during the fight.

Fowlslayer Armor Set

• Added the Fowlslayer armor set, now obtainable from the Firefowl drop table.
• Balanced around flame power, spirit power, and life power with low defensive stats.
• Includes the new Flame Eater perk: restores charge when overlapping fire areas and projectiles.

New Zanor Enemies

• Zanor Mage: Rapidly casts fireballs with their hands. They will seek out fires to ignite themselves for more damage. Avoid leaving them at low health, lest they explode.
• Zizifek’s Burden: An imposing corrupted knight wielding a devastating poleaxe.

Per-Boss First Time Kill Progression

• Killing a boss for the first time now drops a Sacred Sap.
• Sacred Sap can be decomposed to permanently increase your Omni Limit by 1.

Backpack Redesign

• Backpacks no longer occupy a separate section of the inventory — they now add rows directly to your main inventory.
• Backpacks no longer have intrinsic storage; all slots exist within the main inventory grid.
• When a backpack is removed the rows it provided become locked. Items can still be taken out of locked slots, but nothing new can enter them.
• Items in locked slots will attempt to move to empty slots when the inventory is closed; if none are available, they are dropped on the ground.
• Maximum inventory size increased to 42 slots (5 additional rows).
• Backpacks now have a slot tier parameter. Slots correspond roughly to rarity: Brown → 6, White → 12, Green → 18.
• Added the Traveller's Backpack: a green tier pack with 18 slots.
• Old backpack and bank data should migrate correctly.

Combat & Balance

Zizifek

• Fixed fireballs from a specific attack dealing excessive damage when passing through a fire area.
• Zizifek has gained the cursed ability to hypnotize her foes.
• Fire damage reduction from Zanor gear buffed by 1 for chest, legs, and arms.
• Waterfall Vest fire damage reduction reduced — it was significantly overtuned.

Firefowl Staff

• Now only applies Ignite on a critical hit.
• Flame power reduced from 6 → 5.

Sundered Debuff

• The Sundered debuff (applied by Taunt and the Sunderer Necklace) is now consumed when the target takes damage.

Poise

• The bonus poise damage modifier has been reduced by 50%. Overall stagger output is lower, but the emphasis on damage-based poise breaking remains.

Magic

• Water damage spirit scaling increased from 50% → 70%.

Zanor Enemies

• Flinch resistance reduced for all ranged Zanor enemy types.
• Cooldown added to dodging behavior to prevent back to back dodging.
• Perception radius reduced for melee Zanor.
• Base Zanor slash damage reduction reduced from 6 → 3.

Enemies

• Standard enemies now have a baseline 50% block value for blunt, pierce, and slash — enemy blocking now functions meaningfully.

Weapons & Items

• Scrap Glaive buffed to more closely match the DPS of other weapons at its tier, accounting for its slower attack speed.

Loot & Progression

Boss Loot

• Added a +1 All Attributes token to the drop tables of the Inheritor, Enshugoo, Golem, and Firefowl.
• Major boss XP drops rebalanced to align with the updated XP curve.
• Minor MDrive bosses now have a T2 consumable drop table.
• Zizifek: plate arms removed from drop table, Fowlslayer gear and a T2 consumable reward table added.
• Firefowl soft spore drop significantly increased.
• Plate Arms added to the Zanor Acolyte drop table.

Decomposition

• Items now grant a bonus amount of moldmetal on decomposition based on their rarity tier. This does not apply to consumables, ammo, or similar items.

World

Water Temple

• Added a shortcut from the main entrance to the village.
• The pool in the water boss arena has been made very shallow.

Zanor Castle

• Expanded with new spaces and encounters.

Visuals & Audio

Hit Effects

• Unique physical damage effects for robotic vs. organic enemies.
• Updated deflect and block effects.
• Hit effects no longer play if the target dodged the damage.
• XP particles now originate from the killed enemy or pickup actor and glide toward the player.

Camera Shake

• Dealing damage and receiving damage now use distinct shake profiles.
• Received damage shake scales based on how much of your max HP the hit would have dealt before reductions.
• Overall shake intensity increased by default.
• Added a camera shake intensity setting in the options menu.

Audio

• A global sound now plays when new players join a session.
• Additional menu sounds for new characters creation and deletion.
• Audio updates to the Zizifek boss fight.

UI & Quality of Life

• Options menu reorganized: several settings moved to the Controls tab to reduce clutter. Controller vibration intensity setting added.
• Fixed a bug where trigger switches (panels, temple buttons, etc.) would not update their description if they were toggled while a player was focusing them — particularly noticeable in multiplayer.
• Fixed a bug where right-click depositing an item could delete it from the bank.
• Fixed a controller text input regression.
• Player on player damage changed to an option in the settings menu that now defaults to “off”. Band of the Friend will be altered in a future patch due to this.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where blocking damage immediately after being downed could pull the player out of the downed state.
• Fixed an issue where boss HP bar arrays were not being cleared after a fight ended.
• Fixed Mark of the Harvester not triggering correctly — it now checks whether it should fire before the post-death delay, preventing it from missing due to buffs and debuffs being cleared on death.
• Stackable equipment passives now work correctly. Residual Spirits can now stack — carrying both a Water Staff and Rotting Cane grants 2 charge per loop.
• Fixed several incorrect item icons.
• Fixed a visual bug on the Firefowl Slayer gear.