Unfortunately no it doesn't. Currently the talent only works with the wand recharging and artifact recharging buffs specifically. Ring of energy is only for wands, artifacts, and hero armor abilities currently.
Hey folks, one more small update about UI improvements before a bigger blog post next week. I'm afraid Shattered Pixel Dungeon v2.5 isn't going to be ready for beta in July, but it's very close!
v2.5 includes a few other UI improvements in addition to all the ones I've shown off: a display for badges in the in-game journal window, a better alchemy UI layout for larger screens, and a full journal UI from the main menu (pictured here)!
(Image Description: An image showing new Journal UI from the main menu. Badges are currently being shown (which is unchanged), but there are new tabs for catalogs, the dungeon guide, and alchemy.)
After getting requests for years, I am finally adding support for custom notes in Shattered Pixel Dungeon!
You can make plain text notes, or attach them to a dungeon floor or item. These are a great way of keeping track of information between play sessions, or deduced properties of unidentified items. Custom note titles will even appear in the descriptions of their items!
(Image Description: An image showing the various UIs for adding custon notes. A selection window for adding them is shown on the left. A cropped window is on the top-right, showing five custom notes in the adventuring notes UI. Another cropped window is in the bottom right, showing a custom note appearing in an item's description.)
I'm also using the new Grid UI to overhaul Shattered Pixel Dungeon's journal notes page! The automatic adventuring notes, which record keys and landmarks, are now presented in a much more compact form! I've also added a few new landmarks, such as special floor types.
You might notice that there are a couple of other new things in this UI as well, more on that next week...
(Image description: An image showing the new 'adventuring notes' UI in the journal on the left. Notes are organized by dungeon floor with icons the player can tap for more info. On the right two example note descriptions are shown)
Continuing the trend of interface improvements coming to Shattered Pixel Dungeon in the next update, I'm adding a new window when you try to upgrade items!
Currently the only way to know how the stats of an item change with upgrading is to actually spend an upgrade scroll, but with this new interface you'll get a helpful little summary first! The window includes almost every stat in the game that scales with item level.
To the surprise of absolutely nobody, I'm closing the comments on this thread.
It's a rainbow colored potion wishing people a happy pride, it is as similarly inoffensive as any of the other holiday items, and will be gone in a few days. Obviously not everyone celebrates such a holiday, and that's fine, but If pride existing in the game offends you but halloween/christmas/chinese new years doesn't, then you should consider why that is.
As mentioned last week, Shattered Pixel Dungeon's catalog is being expanded, but it's getting more than just new items. The catalog now also includes all of the game's enemies (plus plants and traps), and lore documents!
In total this means the new catalog has gone from 101 things to just shy of 500! It'll also keep track of stats such as how many times you've defeated an enemy, and comes with 9 new badges.
Hey folks, since last week I've finished the new catalog UI, so here's a more fulsome screenshot!
For reference, the existing catalog contains 101 items, and this new one now contains a massive 315 of them! Almost every item (and enchant/glyph) in the game is now viewable here, assuming you've found it first.
It looks like there are still 2 more categories though, I wonder what's in them...
With Shattered Pixel Dungeon v2.4.2 out, I'm properly starting work on the next update, which is going to include a bunch of changes to the journal interface.
Here's one of them, a new UI for the game's item catalog, that uses a grid instead of a long list. This makes the catalogs easier to navigate and gives me loads of room to add new things to them too...
Gold and hidden rooms are never contained deep into walls, there's no reason to dig more than 1 or 2 tiles out from a room in search of secrets.
Hey rat punchers, Shattered Pixel Dungeon v2.4.0 is going to be releasing to everyone around the middle of this coming week!
The v2.4.0 beta now contains 11 trinkets total, with 3 recent additions: the mimic tooth, wondrous resin, and eye of newt. I think 11 is a good place to start, but there's lots of room to add more in the future as well!
The horn charges based on exp gain, not based on time, mainly to prevent people using an upgraded horn to stall out hunger forever. The amount of charge you get per hero level scales from ~0.33 rations to ~2.25 rations at +10. Each ration you put into the horn will be recovered after about 5 levels.
the main idea is that artifact levels aren't analogous to levels you spend SoU on at all. I'd honestly rather just change it back to the way it was before, where transmutation simply failed if you rolled all the artifacts.
Ring of wealth does a variety of things, one of which is that gear specifically dropped by it is more likely to be enchanted. You're probably upgrading it more for the gear drops themselves, and I don't plan on adding a trinket that directly adds equipment drops.
One thing that's worth mentioning for item tiers is that they create some strategy for SoU use, as there is a tradeoff between spending SoU sooner to not die immediately, and saving them for later higher tier gear. If weapons and armor scaled up with player level, then experienced players would just dump SoU on literally anything and win the game with it. This was actually a problem with Huntress before her rework in v0.7.1, as prior to that her unique item was directly upgradeable and experienced players could just win the game outright with it alone.
It depends a lot on what items you have. Generally upgrade/reforge/harden are better if you already have good gear, and smith is good if you need to fish for a good weapon or armor. Reforge, harden, and upgrade can each be used a second time, but the second use costs 1000 more favor.
Generally anything that isn't equipment can be used in the alchemy interface, but not all items have a recipe.
I was very happy with RoA when I first thought up the concept for it. I was mulling over adding a new ring but didn't have a great idea, and knew arcana was a winner the moment I thought of it. Enchants and glyphs have always been fun for players to use, so letting them access the power budget afforded to SoU allowed me to really heavily boost them.
It's worth noting that this game has nothing to do with Pixel Dungeon, and seems to just be trying to piggyback on its popularity by stealing its name.