Hello rabbits!!

It's been a hot minute since I wrote a real dev blog. The last one was in... uhh was it really December...? Gosh, I need to make these things more often.

I've been drawing!
Mostly game assets for the DLC, but some other things as well.

I now have all of the character and enemy animations for the DLC done.
I also have all the playable character abilities and upgrades done; which means I can start putting sneak-peeks of them into these proofs of life dev logs.

But first....


Today is the 1-year anniversary of the game's release!!
It's truly been a wild year.
I won't go into too many personal details, but quite a bit has changed for me in 12 months!
It's all thanks to you guys, and I couldn't overstate how eternally grateful I am.

So again, thank you all so much for playing.
Onto the class preview!

I frequently get character class requests! And I do sometimes listen to them.
By far, the most requested class I got was "Gunner". The second-most-requested is a bit harder to pin down, but "Alchemist" was definitely up there.

So I combined those ideas into one class! Introducing the Grenadier Rabbit: a long-ranged fighter with unparalleled versatility.

The Grenadier Rabbit's base kit is very simple.
First, her Primary: A very quick shot that does a decent amount of damage. By default, her Primary has 6 shots before she needs to reload.
How does she reload? Well, her Secondary!
It's an "attack" that does no damage, and runs your GCD for 2 whole seconds.

Her Special is a thrown "grenade"!
She throws an exploding potion a fixed distance infront of her.

And her Defensive is just a quick duck for cover.
Nothing too special... though, it does have an additional effect of resetting your GCD; so you can use it to reload a little bit faster if you're looking for a little more DPS at the expense of your invulnerability.


Seems like a pretty simple class, right...?
Not quite! What really makes Grenadier Rabbit interesting are her ability upgrades.

Her Primary upgrades all turn her gun into a different "weapon".
For instance, her Sapphire Primary is a bit like a semi-automatic.
Her Garnet Primary is an electro-gun.
Her Emerald Primary is a rocket launcher!

Her Secondary upgrades... don't actually change her Secondary at all!
Instead, they further augment her Primary.
You can mix and match effects to get some wild results!

Her Special and Defensive work together the same way; with her Defensive upgrades affecting her Special, while the Defensive itself stays the same.
By taking upgrades for both, you can create some crazy effects.

All this wackiness was pretty complicated to put together, programming-wise.
But, I think the end result captures the "alchemist" fantasy quite well.
Pick a gun, pick some ammo, mix some potions, and get experimental! (When the DLC comes out, that is)


So to clear up any possible confusion, this is just a preview! I haven't updated the game or anything yet.
My original goal when I first decided to do this DLC was to get it out by the game's first anniversary, but making games certainly does take longer than you think. And, maybe this is all a bit more than I originally thought it was going to be.

But the only thing that could stop this DLC is me literally dying! You guys have truly changed my life and given me all the financial leeway I could ever ask for.
So I've got all the time in the world to make things, if you've got the patience to wait for them.
At my current pace, I'm hoping this all comes together around September or October; December at the absolute latest.

Current progress in detail:

New Stages: Just missing the music!
New Characters: Just missing SFX!
New Enemies: Animations are done, but I still need to make the fights (including their gimmicks)
New Items: I've written down a bunch of ideas, but haven't implemented anything yet
New Trinkets: Haven't started!
New Story: I've written a few things....

That might not look like there's a lot done, but the animations and characters are one of the big tasks, and that's now behind me.
In fact, I've already got it set up so I can "play through" a run of the DLC areas; the bosses just don't do anything yet.

I'm going to tackle the items and trinkets next, and hopefully get them all done by late-June. Then onto boss fights; which I think I can get finished by the end of August. And then there's the story, which I don't think will take too long to put together; I'm planning on it being a bit shorter than the one in the base game.

After that is just transations, testing and touch-ups!

See you all again in the next progress report, in a month and a half or so!

Hello Rabbits!

No proper dev blog this month; sorry!
I've been doing lots of fun things; like going to Magfest, getting very sick from going to Magfest, and also moving house IRL.

I have been making some progress on the DLC though!
All of the background stages are now complete, and all of the design sketches for new enemies and classes are done.

After this post I will enter "art hell"; doing nothing but animating characters for the next month.
It's not quite as hot as the real hell, but it's about as much toil and suffering.

In the meantime, look at this mysterious location!

And these cute enemy sketches!

I'll have a real dev blog showing some of them in action... in a few months, when they have animations and fights and stuff.


With that out of the way, the patch!

This patch is primarily a bug fixing patch, but also focuses on add a few requests from modders. New functions have been added so that achieving certain item effects is a bit easier, and some things are now possible that weren't before.
These additions shouldn't break any existing mods, since it's only adding and fixing things.
But if it did break your mod somehow, please let me know via email or Discord DM!

Hope to get back with a real dev blog in the near future!

- Adjusted the hitbox of "donuts", including Enrage and Color Match
Previously, there was an exploit where, by having items that decreased your hitbox size, you could stand directly in the center of Enrage donuts and not get hit, or move quickly through the expanding donut and dodge it if you had a low framerate
Donut ring hitboxes are now slightly larger, and no longer take buffs from items like Evasive Potion into account

- Adjusted the check for the unlock for the King's Arsenal Soundtrack to be slightly more lenient
Previously, because of the time slow, if you defeated Merran just as it was about to end, it wouldn't count for the unlock; it now gives you more leeway

- Add a new icon to "Mods" in the options menu

- If you try to close the game just after an auto-save, it will wait about a second before closing.
Hopefully this will minimize issues where closing the game during saving sometimes corrupts your save data.

- Added "distance" variable on "ipat_bruiser_3" and "ipat_bruiser_3_emerald"
- Added "s_changeAmount", "s_newAmount", "s_sourceType", "s_sourceHb" to the "onGoldChange" trigger
- Added "s_teamId" and "s_playerId" to the "onSquarePickup" trigger

- Fixed issue where, when editing existing items using Mods, it wouldn't let you add new triggers unless other items were also added in the same mod
- Fixed issue where tset_uservar_darkflame and tset_strmult_backstab would crash the game
- Fixed issue where squareVars other than squareVar0 were unaccessable
- Fixed issue where the following functions didn't accept variables, only numbers (they now correctly accept variable names as well):

• tset_uservar_cond_squarevar_equal
  
• tset_uservar_random
  
• tset_uservar_random_range
  
• tset_uservar_sqvar
  
• tset_uservar_blackhole_charm_calc
  
• tset_strmult_backstab

- Added the following new "set" functions:

• tset_userver_random_range_int
  
• tset_uservar_switch
  
  
• tset_uservar_difficulty
  
• tset_uservar_hallwaycount
  
• tset_uservar_stage
  
  
• tset_uservar_hb_cooldownvar
  
• tset_uservar_hb_hitboxvar
  
• tset_uservar_hb_itemvar
  
• tset_uservar_hb_stat
  
• tset_uservar_player_stat

- The following enums have been added for use with "tset_uservar_difficulty", "tset_uservar_stage" and the "onGoldChange" trigger respectively:

• difficulty.cute
  
• difficulty.normal
  
• difficulty.hard
  
• difficulty.lunar
  
  
• stage.test
  
• stage.outskirts
  
• stage.nest
  
• stage.arsenal
  
• stage.lighthouse
  
• stage.streets
  
• stage.lakeside
  
• stage.keep
  
• stage.pinnacle
  
  
• goldSource.battleRewards
  
• goldSource.store
  
• goldSource.loot
  
• goldSource.debug

- Added new "quickPatterns":

• tpat_player_add_hp
  
• tpat_player_set_hp
  
• tpat_player_add_gold
  
• tpat_player_set_gold
  
• tpat_player_add_level
  
• tpat_player_set_level

- Added new boss patterns:

• bp_erase_bullets
  
• bp_erase_bullets_small

- You can now set items to spawn in with using Mods.
To set an item as something to spawn in with, a flag needs to be set on that item.
Check the API for additional info!

- Shop options will now sync correctly between players, even when using modded items
- Now, if you mod "loot" into stores, it will function like potions do; where each player can buy one (instead of only one player being able to buy it)

- Fixed issue where spectating a game would allow you to unlock stages
- Fixed issues where certain abilities and items (such as Assassin's Opal Secondary) could continuously activate over and over between battles
- Fixed issues where certain loot that required standing still (such as Iron Grieves) could activate even when you were KO'd
- Fixed issue where Diamond Shield wouldn't give allies invulnerability
- Fixed issues where Blackstrike, Counter, Tranquility, Flash-STR, Flash-DEX, and Flash-INT wouldn't wear off properly when applied by an ally
- Fixed issue where, if you defeated Tassha just as her clones disappeared, it could result in a softlock
- Fixed issue where, if you were not the lobby host and revived just as the host saw a party wipe, your character would appear alive in the background of the defeat screen (it now just KO's you; if the host says you've lost then you've lost!)

- Fixed a number of typos and text issues in various languages


- You can now set hbColor0 and hbColor1 to "-1" to make an item/ability match the current character's color palette
- Added new pattern functions from October's balance update to the modding API

- Fixed issue where, if you had a mod that changed the effect of an item that already exists in the game, and then joined a lobby without any mods enabled; the item would still function as if it were modded while in that lobby
- Fixed Tassha softlock for real this time
- Fixed issue where trying to make new copies of base game status effects within mods would cause the game to crash

- Fixed typo in Wizard Rabbit's Sapphire Secondary (the description said it was a 30% damage increase, but it's actually 40%)

- Fixed a number of other typos



- Fixed issue where mods that copy status effects wouldn't correctly copy over certain parameters

Hello Rabbits!

The seasons continue to turn, and it is now almost winter in the Northern Hemisphere.
What that means for you depends on where you live. Maybe you're somewhere where all the normal monsters are replaced with slightly stronger ice variants.

As for me, I'm hard at work at Rabbit & Steel's DLC!

For those who've missed me talking about it before; I am, infact, working on a content update to the game.

However, unlike a lot of roguelikes that do a number of small patches that add items, bosses, whatever here and there, I am packing it all into one update! One chunky DLC. I figure it will be easier to convince your friends to come back and play for a large content update, rather than just one new boss or something.

I originally wanted to aim for the game's release anniversary of May, but at current pace that is definitely, definitely not happening. Late Summer 2025 to Fall 2025-ish might be a more accurate estimate. Hopefully not too much later (but who knows, life happens).

Today, a small preview! But first....


Following Heavyblade Rabbit, Tassha the Snowfur Wolf is now also a plushie!

[www.makeship.com]https://www.makeship.com/products/tassha-plush

The perfect Christmas Gift! ....Though, she won't actually arrive at your door until a few months after you order.

She'll be available for the next 3 weeks, so pick her up while you can! It probably wouldn't be a good financial decision to buy 4 of them... but you could.

When I asked around what other characters people wanted turned into plushies, the answers were pretty scattered; but Tassha came up a lot! There seem to be a lot of other ones people would like though... so I'm sure Makeship and I can cook some more up as well. So pick up Tassha while you can, and comment below if there's a Rabbit or other character you want to see a plushie of next!!



If you're one of those who actually played through the base game's story, you know that there were a few unanswered questions.

It's time to find some answers... far below the Moonlit Kingdom.

New areas! The right half of the map is blurred for spoilers.

When you set your destination to a DLC area, you start in "The Crack in the Geode". This place functions like the Kingdom Outskirts, with a few easy enemies and chests to get your run going before reaching the harder areas.

Definitely something odd going on here.

The structure of the game is mostly unchanged; each DLC area will have a shop, enemies, a chest and a boss at the end. Like here, we see the shop....

Oh! Uh, hi Tassha.
I guess Tassha's running the shop now.

Hm, I wonder where Asha is then.
Hopefully she's not somewhere slightly off to the right, preparing for that all-too-tired "fight the shopkeeper" roguelike trope.

When playing through the DLC for the first time, you will be limited to the DLC areas. However, I do plan to add a setting to completely randomize the all the game's areas (base+DLC) once you beat the DLC. This setting won't make any canonical sense (as the DLC takes place after the events of the base game), but it'll be something you can do.

And again, aiming for late Summer 2025-ish for the DLC! Hopefully!

That's all for now, see you next time!

Hello Rabbits!

Steam Award nominations are underway....
Wouldn't it be cool if some game about rabbit girls got one?

..."Game of the Year" might be a bit of a longshot (although people have told me Rabbit & Steel is their GOTY, thank you!)

But, maybe we can nab the "Better With Friends" Award!
If you've had fun with friends playing Rabbit & Steel, maybe consider it!

Hello Rabbits,

Back from vacation with a small update full of fixes.
If your mods aren't perfectly aligned with the lobby you join, you should crash less.
I'm not sure I've fixed every possible issue, but that's hard to know with something as flexible as mods.

- Character skins now have a per-class icon that replaces the palette's face. In addition, instead of showing the replaced palette in character select, a message appears saying that a preview isn't available.
Obviously the ideal solution would be that you could actually see your skin in the character select, but doing that would mean loading in all your skin sprites when you go to the character select, which would make the run start/reset loading screen extremely long for people with a lot of skin mods (or even crash laptops etc.)

- Added "&" "|" "%" to the parser (so you can do stuff like orderBin0 | orderBin1 to add binaries together, or do var0%5 and stuff)
- Added an icon to the top left difficulty display when you are using mods that affect gameplay
- Added a number of pattern variables that you can use for custom patterns (that I'll list separately, I need to make an API page for custom variables anyway)
- Added "Enable All" and "Disable All" buttons to the "Mods" page

- Fixed issue where the color-matching circles in one of Mav, the Seamstress Frog's patterns were the wrong sizes

- Fixed issue where, when the displayed number on loot went over 99, the display would bug out
With this fix, that display number will display correctly up to 999. If you are modding in items, the number itself can go over 999 internally; but the display for the number will cap out at 999.

- Fixed issue where, if a person who planned to roll on loot skipped, the rolling animation would still play
- Fixed issue where, if the only person who chose a character left, everyone in the middle of choosing a character would have their character selection reset

- Fixed issue where, when making a custom animation, the game would crash if you didn't fill in headOffset values for all frames
- Fixed issue where, if you had empty lines in an "AnimationSheetSimple", the game would throw errors
- Fixed issue where the parser would incorrectly count parenthesis when you used them in conjunction with a function call

- Fixed issue where disabling an encounter mod and proceeding in Toybox mode could crash your game
- Fixed issue where, if your game was unmodded, but you joined a lobby with modded items, you would still gain achivements and unlocks

- Fixed issue where tags aren't properly reflected when you refresh info on a downloaded mod (and at times, doing this would crash your game)



- There are now pages on the Toybox encounter menu for when you have enough mods for it to overflow out of the UI
- Fixed issue where moving forward too quickly after a certain cutscene caused the game to crash
- Fixed issue that caused modded patterns with "transformSmall" in them to crash


- ACTUALLY fixed issue that caused modded patterns with "transformSmall" in them to crash

Hello Rabbits!

It's been a hot minute, but it's here! The Steam Workshop Update is now live to all players.
You can make...

(You could technically do this before, but now it's on Steam Workshop!)


To be honest, this took me a lot longer than I thought it would.
Within the game, all of these are just data in spreadsheets, so I thought it would be as easy as letting you add your own spreadsheets.
So I thought I could get it out by mid-September or so...

...But, I have been reminded that nothing is ever as easy as it seems when it comes to game development!

Another note, people have also asked for a way to add custom character classes in the game.
Unfortunately, the way the game is programmed, that would likely be significantly more difficult than Items, Skins and Bosses.
Not impossible! But difficult and time-consuming. So it's not in.
Perhaps I'll see how the game is doing post-DLC, and take it into consideration.

In addition to Steam Workshop support, this patch also comes with some balance changes!
The goal of these was mostly to make the "useless" gems a bit more pick-able.

Without further ado, the patch notes!


- There is now Steam Workshop support! I said that already!

- The game is now available in French! Thank you to Longfr for their translation!

- Toybox now additionally includes "Fight Settings", where you can play modded fights freely, as well as change other settings about Toybox fights

- To have an item available in the Toybox, you now only need to have picked it from a treasure once, instead of winning a run with it.
Especially since people are trying to test their mods out, it's probably time to relax the Toybox requirements.
Note: Modded items will always be unlocked in the Toybox from the start; you don't have to find them in a run first.


- Fairy Spear's damage bonus has been increased from 30% > 40%, and the time it stops you in place has been slightly reduced
- Moon Pendant no longer starts battles on cooldown
- Smoke Shield now starts battles on a 5 second cooldown (previous was a full 24 second cooldown)
- Altair Dagger now only runs your GCD for 3 seconds on failure (previously was 4 seconds)
- Rockdragon Mail now starts battles on a 5 second cooldown (previous was 15 seconds), now has a 45 second cooldown (previous was 60 seconds) and invulnerability duration was reduced to 2 seconds
- Diamond Shield now has a new effect; it will lay down a field of invulnerability that lasts for 3 seconds. It now starts battle on a 5 second cooldown
- Blue Rose will now, in addition to its healing effect, give you 100xp when it procs.
- Lost Pendant's Decay damage has been buffed 20>30, and its duration has been increased 60s>99s
- Blood Vial's Sap duration has been increased 60s>99s
- Tiny Hourglass now has a new effect; it will deal 120 damage to all enemies every 12 seconds, with the amount increasing by 120 every activation. It cannot crit, and doesn't deal random damage.

- Fire Potion's damage increased 800>1000
- Darkness Potion's damage increased 1500>2500, and now hits all enemies.
- Both of those potions can now hit for criitcal damage


- Ruby Secondary > Radius increased 280 > 400; Cooldown decreased 5s > 4s
- Ruby Special > Effect changed; now no longer randomly resets when you use your Primary; resets when you use your Defensive instead


- Garnet Primary > Now gives you 10% boost to luck in general; rather than just boosting Defensive reset chance
- Emerald Primary > Now gains Charge whenever you get a buff (in addition to not breaking Vanish)
- Opal Secondary > Effect changed; now additionally activates whenever you use a cooldown/loot with a cooldown activates (it's previous effect of resetting Defensive at 7 seconds or less has been removed)
- Emerald Secondary > Now hits as quickly as normal knives, instead of slowly

- Base Special and all Special upgrades > Movement slow 0.2x > 0.8x (meaning you are a lot more mobile while using Special now)
- Ruby Special > Has a countdown timer on your ability icon now, damage increased 250 > 300
- Opal Special > Damage increased 300 > 340
- Emerald Special > Backstab bonus increased 1.5x > 1.6x


- Garnet Secondary > Now additionally erases bullets in a small radius and gives you *very* brief invulnerability
- Opal Defensive > No longer slows down your movement on use (which was a bug), cooldown reduced 15s > 10s
- Garnet Defensive > Now makes a visual effect when your character gains Super


- Ruby Primary > Effect changed, now is an oGCD with a cooldown of 4s
- Opal Secondary > Effect changed; now will ALWAYS reset Special if it's Charged
- Garnet Secondary > Now only has a chance to reset Defensive if it's Charged
- Opal Special > Cooldown reduced 4s > 3s, damage increased 350 > 400
- Garnet Special > Damage increased 350 > 400
- Ruby Defensive > Now additionally makes Warcry last longer (5s > 10s)


- Garnet Primary > Effect changed; now has a 50% chance to deal damage to all enemies, and a 25% chance to deal damage to all enemies again (no longer gives Flash-Dex)
- Emerald Primary > Damage increased 180 > 220
- Garnet Special > Now hits ALL enemies, instead of exploding in a radius


- Opal Secondary > Effect changed; Now will deal 80 damage and absorb Darkspell from any enemy you place any debuff on
- Ruby Secondary > Effect changed; now deals 160 damage once, but deals 640 damage if you have 0 Darkspell (and restores 9 Darkspell)
- Sapphire Secondary > Now will hit 4 additional times if you have less than 3 Darkspell, restores 7 Darkspell
- Garnet Secondary > Damage buffed 100x2 > 140x2, Darkspell threshold for resetting Defensive is only 3 now (was previously 2), restores 7 Darkspell
- Emerald Secondary > Cooldown increased 3s > 4s, now restores 9 Darkspell


- Emerald Primary > Damage increased 600 > 750
- Opal Secondary > Debuff damage increased 350 > 400
- Garnet Secondary > Now has a 50% chance of instantly resetting itself
- Ruby Special > Now has a *much* larger radius (now an explosive arrow that explodes like Druid Ruby Special), damage increased 200x2 > 280x2, cooldown increased 10s > 20s
- Emerald Special > Now doesn't slow you down as much, or as for long
- Opal Defensive > Now makes you move faster on use (previously slowed you down), has 2 uses per cooldown, damage increase reduced 30% > 20%
- Emerald Defensive > "Tranquility" has been buffed; see below in "Other Adjustments"


- Emerald Secondary > Effect changed; Is now an auto-activating ability with no GCD and a cooldown; can no longer be Charged, and permanently increases movement speed
- Opal Special > Cooldown reduced 4s > 2s


- Garnet Defensive > Now has a 30% chance to reset itself, damage decreased 250>200
- Opal Defensive > Effect changed; now reduces all other cooldowns (including loot) by 3 seconds when used; can no longer be reset by loot effects


- The amount of HP recovered by Matti when transitioning to Phase 2 of her fight has been decreased from 70% to 65%.


- The "Tranquility" status effect no longer has a duration, and will stay on until you move too far. The amount you're able to move has also increased threefold.


- Fire Potions and Darkness Potions no longer slow you down slightly when thrown.
- A number of translation errors have been fixed across different languages.

- Fixed issue where, if you had an ability or loot item that activated automatically, you could stop it from activating by pausing your game while playing online

- Fixed issue where Heavyblade's Opal Special could randomly reset your Defensive if you had luck items
- Fixed issue where Darkstorm Knife flashed twice every time it proc'd
- Fixed issue where Shinsoku Katana could still run your GCD and make a lucky proc when used with an ability with no GCD

- Fixed issue where AoEs could seem to disappear then re-appear for a moment when bosses like Twili transitioned to their second phase

- Fixed issue where the visual effect for Line Spreads seemed incomplete if you moved all the way to one side of the arena

- Fixed issue where the visual effect for Thorns wouldn't line up correctly between attached characters
- Fixed issue where Thorns could turn red after they resolved if players immediately moved back to being close together

- Fixed issue where, when playing for the first time, your default language wouldn't be properly set for certain languages


- Fixed crash when a custom encounter has enemies spawning at negative coordinates
- Fixed issue where the "ending" hallway option could crash the game
- Fixed issue where Diamond Shield's description was incorrect
- Fixed issue where French item names were incorrect
- Fixed some typos in Chinese


Another few pieces of news to close out the post!

First, Rabbit & Steel will be at MagFest 2025!!

If I have the first stage of the DLC done by the event, I'll have it available to play.
If I don't, then you'll just be able to play the base game with other congoers!
Hope to see you there!

Speaking of the DLC... uh, I still haven't really done much! My hands have been full with the Steam Workshop stuff.
I do have a good idea of everything that will be in it, though.
I'll take a small break after this update, and then get right to work on it. This update has been very programming-heavy, so I'm really looking forward to drawing up new rabbits and bosses.

I'll have another dev blog about it when I have more to show! See you then!

Hello Rabbits,
I've made some progress on Mod Support; and have some other updates!

First, some excellent news!
You can now purchase a Heavyblade Rabbit Plush!
(Assuming you didn't already get one by pledging before).

https://www.makeship.com/products/heavyblade-rabbit-plushie

From the raiding roguelike RABBIT & STEEL comes THE Rabbit with THE Steel! Features ribbons, rabbit ears, an innocent smile, and a giant sword that solves all of her problems.

Available from now until the 20th of August! Be sure to pick one up!

If you pledged during the first campaign, you don't need to do anything further; your plush should already be on it's way. Check your email!


I have been hard at work on mod support!

There have already been a few people in the Discord and elsewhere making mods for the game. Some mods have been simple character skins made by replacing files; others have been more complex affairs that directly change the game's code.

I'm working to make things a bit more simple and flexible, so that people can make certain "easy" modifications to the game, and have those modifications work online where they can.

I've put what I have so far on a public beta branch! It's accessable by right-clicking the game in your Steam listing, going into Properties > Betas, and selecting "modding-beta" from the dropdown.

Note that the "modding-beta" branch can't play with the "default" branch, so if you're playing with others, be on the same branch!

Currently, the beta supports Animation mods and Loot item mods.
...And also currently, there's very little documentation about how it works. It's still very much a "beta".
Let me show off a few things though!

First off, I made a menu that lets you enable and disable things from within the game. This won't work for mods that directly edit the game's code, but it will work for mods that use my systems.

You're also now able to edit animations in the game, to a greater extent than before. Rather than replacing files within the game, you're able to specify what file an animation should use, and which frames are movement, attack, defeat, etc.. So, you don't have to stick rigidly to my sprite sheets anymore.

Though, animation mods will still only work locally; if you want others in your lobby to see your sick custom skin, they'll have to install the same mod.

You can also now make custom items!

These will work online... sort of. Whoever picks up the item has to have the appropriate mod installed for the item to appear and function correctly. And, the game will spawn modded items based only off what the lobby's host has installed.

If one player doesn't have the mod installed, it'll look a bit like this:

On the left, the host has the mod installed, so this item will work for them fine if they pick it up. On the right, a lobby member doesn't have it installed, so they just see a blank item, and picking it up will do nothing.

Theoretically, it should be possible to remake any item that's currently in the game, with a few exceptions (like Book of Cheats or Feathered Overcoat). ...But, again, very little documentation yet. It's a work in progress.

I'll be updating that in the Discord[discord.gg] as I go, so if you want to get a jump-start on using the new stuff, or have any feedback, feel free to hop in.

As for the DLC... I haven't done much yet!
I wrote down all the stuff I want to put in it, and did a few character sketches. That's kind of progress, I guess. Mostly I've just been working on the modding stuff.

Uh, yep, don't have much on that right now.
I'll try to get some sort of preview in the next post like this I make.
...That's all for now, see you next time! Buy a plush!![www.makeship.com]

Hello Rabbits,

Small update with some bug fixes and new languages, courtesy of some people in the Discord!
Rabbit & Steel now has a Korean translation by A1NVERSE, and a Ukrainian translation by Arficord!

Before the patch notes, some development status updates:

Mod Support: I've got a system for modding in Animations (to a greater extent than just replacing sprites) and Loot Items. But, a lot of the framework around it is still unfinished. So, things like a menu to turn mods on and off, and some of the network functionality of it all is still missing. I'll try to get a 'beta' version of it onto a separate branch sometime next week, in case people want to play around with it.

Heavyblade Plush: Soon! Very soon.[www.makeship.com]

DLC: I've written out all the content I want to put into it, but haven't really started it in earnest other than some rough character sketches. I've got a pretty good idea of what it will all be; it'll take a while before it's all complete, though.

With that all out of the way, the patch notes:


-Korean Language added
-Ukrainian Language added

-Added a "Mods" folder to the game's directory (this does nothing for now, but will be useable somewhat soon!)

-Slightly adjusted the visual for "X hearts remaining" after you get hit (to be consistent across languages)
-Very slightly adjusted certain UI elements across the game (to allow for longer strings to be inserted into them in different languages)

-If you hit multiple inputs at the same time, it will now prioritize them in the following order:
Defensive > Special > Secondary > Primary
(Previously, this order was reversed)

-Potions are now affected by any item that changes the damage of Loot.
(Previously, the behavior was inconsistent, where Potions would be affected by some items and not others)

-To prevent weird desyncs, you will not be able to proceed out of the starting area for 2 seconds after a new client has joined your lobby


-Fixed issue where players leaving could occasionally cause player profiles to overlap each other
-Fixed issue where, if you get hit by two Enrage circles in very quick succession, your controller wouldn't stop vibrating until you got hit again
-Fixed issue where names in the chat for players playing in different languages would disappear after a loading screen
-Fixed issue where the onscreen keyboard for changing your name could appear offscreen
-Fixed issue where the onscreen keyboard would linger after a run started
-Fixed issue where the Art Gallery and Music Room sprites would be too small if you had Low Quality Sprites enabled

-Fixed issue where Spark on a Treasuresphere could occasionally crash your game
-Fixed issue where your 4th loot item wouldn't activate if you had the "No Defense" status effect
-Fixed issue where the strength of abilities and loot wouldn't round correctly
-Fixed issue where your health could occasionally look wrong to other players after you get a Max HP increasing item

-Fixed issue where Sniper's Ruby Secondary's effect didn't match its description
-Fixed issue where cooldowns wouldn't display correctly over the internet when affected by abilities like Wizard's Opal Primary

-Fixed issue where status effects would stay in the middle of the screen when Tassha disappeared at the beginning of a fight
-Fixed issue where you could defeat one of Tassha's clones without defeating Tassha
-Fixed issue where the attack Saya does on Hard/Lunar with a really long sideways teleport would have different distances between the host of a lobby and everyone else

-Fixed issue where Range Potion wouldn't have any effect
-Fixed issue where Killing Note would increase damage more than listed in its description
-Fixed issue where Pocketwatch would affect Loot and Defensives without a GCD
-Fixed issue where items like Floral Bow would activate even when your character is KO'd
-Fixed issue where Altair Dagger and Shinsoku Katana could "fail" even when you have Rabbitluck
-Fixed issue where Red Tanzaku could activate twice in one battle
-The effect of Moss Shield will now always happen after the effect of Seashell Shield (previously, it depended on the order you picked them up in)

-Fixed a number of typos and mistakes in dialog and item descriptions
-Fixed and adjusted a LOT of things in the Chinese translation, based on some player feedback



-By popular request, the Pocketwatch now boosts the damage of abilities that don't have a GCD.
-Fixed issue where holding target during the Tassha fight would cause the cursor to be off-center
-Fixed a number of issues in Korean where text overflowed out of item description boxes

Still on psuedo-vacation, but I've gotten quite a few bug reports, and it'd be easier to relax knowing that they aren't issues. Most of the things on here and pretty small, and didn't take much effort to fix.


- To prevent rounding errors, the calcuations for item strength has been very slightly adjusted.

For instance, in the case that an ability did 99 damage, and you had a 10% damage buff, the ability would deal 108.9 damage.
Before, this would be rounded down to 108, but now it is rounded to the nearest integer, making it deal 109 damage.


- How your wins are recorded in your Collection are now based off how the run started, rather than how it ended.

Previously, if you started a run with two players, and then someone left just before the final boss, then you won, the clear time + win statistic would be recorded in your Collection as a "Single Player" run.
Now, it would be recorded as "Multiplayer", because even though you cleared Solo, you started in Multiplayer mode.

- The Art Gallery will now remain unlocked once you have unlocked it, even if you reset your Story progress

- Fixed issue where "Super" could be active while you had "No Defense"
- Fixed issue where Rabbitluck could overwrite the effects of Youkai Bracelet and Kyou no Omikuji

- Fixed issue where the remaining uses for Defender's Special would appear incorrect online at the start of a fight
- Fixed issue where Druid's Sapphire Primary wouldn't reduce her movement speed as much as her other Primary upgrades (a leftover effect from her pre-buff Sapphire Primary I forgot to change)
- Fixed issue where Druid's Emerald Defensive could activate while you had "No Defense"
- Fixed issue where Druid's Emerald Defensive had an animation, despite being an auto-activating ability
- Fixed issue where Bruiser's Secondary could miss if you were too close to your target
- Fixed issue where the calculation for Obisdian Rod would be incorrect on Ancient Rabbit

- Fixed issue where Shadow Bracelet would buff abilities that did no damage
- Fixed issue where Lion Charm would proc off of some other players' loot
- Fixed issue where Seashell Shield would change cooldowns of abilities that were not meant to be changeable
- Fixed issue where the buff from Sacredstone Charm wouldn't be reflected online
- Fixed issue where Boulder Shield would start battles on cooldown, even though its description said it didn't
- Outside of combat, Tidal Greatsword will now reset its size and damage to its initial values if you stop attacking
- Divine Mirror and Golden Chime's counter now counts down to 0 instead of up, to match other items in the game

- Fixed issue where Fieldlimit's effect on players would be slightly different based on your framerate

- Fixed issue where the Treasure Chest after Tassha wouldn't be targettable
- Fixed issue where if you KO'd a training dummy or treasure chest via a status effect right before you moved to the next room, odd things would happen

- Fixed issue where clicking on the "Store" button while spectating would bring up the Inventory instead of the Store
- Fixed issue where buff text and large damage numbers would slowly go off the top of the screen if there were too many happening at once
- Fixed issue where some sprites were too small when using the "Low Quality Sprites" config setting
- Fixed issue where the menu would still take inputs while your were using a textbox (like if you were changing your name)

- Added some new text strings to the files so that they can be localized (previously they were fixed in English)
- Fixed some typos across various languages