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In the Shattered Pixel Dungeon blog for 2026, Evan is talking about an Endless Mode.

I like this idea, but I also think it might be tricky to get it balanced. May I suggest something similar that can (possibly) scratch the same itch for players who wants to challenge themselves:

• A large challenge room, maybe reachable through Imp, sometime during the endgame before Yog. You'll face easy waves of enemies, and every X turns, progressively harder enemies spawn. The more waves you clear, the better reward you can claim at the end.
  • This is an opportunity to see how strong you are, how well you can use the terrain and how quickly you can dispatch new waves without getting overwhelmed when next wave spawns in X turns.
  • Maybe some good visuals that also shows your progress, such as a really large sacrificial room, with sacrificial fires growing brigther. You can claim your reward after just a few waves, but expect poor quality loot if you pick an early reward.
• Assuming you're strong enough to beat a lot of the waves, you probably have good gear already, so if the reward tier is already reaching tier 5 weapons, maybe start to slightly increase the quantity.
• Considering this kind of challenge could carry on for a long time, maybe give a bit of satiety with each kill. It's a sacrificial game after all.
• There are a lot of possibilities that can add more challenges, like getting a random item cursed once you reach a certain threshold, only for the very best players. Perhaps even start to enable some random challenges . A Zero-challenge player could theoretically end up playing this challenge at a full nine-challenge mode. Leaving the challenge room would reset everything back to your original challenge level.

I suggest that transmuted artifacts are added back to the loot table. It will still be technically max one artifact of a kind.

I also suggest that artifacts in crystal chests not looted also gets added back to the loot table, or not generated until chest is opened.

Players who are willing to spend 10-15 transmutation scrolls should get a chance of getting the artifact they want. It also removes the confusion from players getting a ring, thinking it's a bug. It will also create a more consistent drop in line with other transmutations without breaking the uniqueness of artifacts. If however all artifacts are available to the player, such as using Ring of Wealth, then it can become a ring.

Alright, I'm accepting seed requests for ShPD v3.3. Please try limit requests to 2-3 items.

I will post seeds with minimal details not to spoil things too much, other items with spoilers. If you do want more details, let me know in the request.

Who knew that wraiths are rigid creatures, being in same class as DM's, crabs, crystal guardians. As such, they would take extra extra damage from a Duelist's pickaxe.

On the same time, Mimics are not rigid (they're demonic). They're one of the very few demonic creatures that can appear in sewers.

@00_Evan@lemmy.world

Some rare seeds will cause an NPC, in this case Wandmaker, to get stuck in an infinite loop trying to spawn.

I could have perhaps made a fix and do a PR on Github, but as there are several ways to address it, as well as the possibility similar issues might happen with Ghost or Imp, I'm posting here.

Issue:

Game freeze. Wandmaker is stuck in an infinite loop attempting to spawn.

File:

.../core/src/main/java/com/shatteredpixel/shatteredpixeldungeon/actors/mobs/npcs/Wandmaker.java

Method:

spawnWandmaker(...)

Lines:

305-321

Reproducibility:

Game seed RAT-KCA-BLR will attempt to spawn Wandmaker on floor 8 in a 7x7 room (see screenshot), within the middle 3x3 area. All tiles here are considered not valid due to traps, entrance, or non-solid ground, including the bridge.

Suggestions:

• Limit number of spawn attempts (ie. 100). If failed, consider trapped locations to be valid, optionally erasing any trap under the Wandmaker.
• Alternative is to spawn a new room with same width/height after x attempts, overwriting the old room and try again.