Upgrades

Every time you finish a stage by reaching the bottom of it and falling down, you will fall to the next stage. However, before you reach the next stage, you may pick one out of several upgrades. By default there are three, but you can increase this to four by picking the 'youth' upgrade. The upgrades are randomly shuffled. There is 20 upgrades in downwellEach individual upgrade is in the below list. If I have missed one out, please notify me.This upgrade resembles a Fetus visually. The effects of ‘Youth’ are to restore one health instantly, and allowing the player to choose from an increased selection of upgrades (one more than normal) upon completing stages in the future.This upgrade visually shows an explosion with what appears to be the upper half of a person sticking out of it. If you get this upgrade it will allow you to shoot the bodies of enemies (some enemies drop them, such as the bat) which will cause an explosionRocket jump visually shows a man flying off with an explosion behind him. This upgrade changes your jump to a much higher rocket jump, which causes an explosion which damages enemies.This upgrade looks like a knife and fork crossed over each other like a coat of arms. It allows you eat the bodies of enemies by standing on them. Eating ten bodies will restore one health, and when this happens it will be indicated by the word ‘omnomnom’.This upgrade resembles a laser pointer. It adds a red line below you, indicating where your bullets will go. It also increases the range on your guns, causing them to shoot all the way to the bottom of the screen.This upgrade looks like a candle. It increases the amount of time in which you are invincible after taking damage.This upgrade resembles a gem with some smaller pieces of gem around it. It causes your ammo to partially refill each time you pick up a gem. I previously thought that this upgrade was one of the less powerful upgrades, but after more use I now believe it to be one of the best, especially for use with the burst weapon for high combos.This upgrade looks like a rectangular card with a picture of a smiling shopkeeper on the front. It causes one shop per stage (three stages per area) to spawn right at the start of the level, and the player will get a 10% discount on the items sold there.The blast module’s image appears to be a foot with an explosion coming from it. It causes downwards facing explosions to happen whenever you jump on a monster, killing other enemies in the radius.The hot casing looks like a bullet shell in a flame. It causes your bullet cartridges (which fall out when you shoot) to do damage. I personally think this is the worst upgrade.The heart balloon looks like a floating balloon shaped like a heart. It causes a balloon to float above the player, and if an enemy touches this balloon it explodes violently, killing everything in its radius. This consumes the balloon, but it will come back again on the next stage.This resembles a Downwell player character curled up into a ball inside a timevoid. It causes a circular timevoid to spawn around the player whenever they take damage, killing enemies and freezing time if they remain inside it.This upgrade resembles a bullet smashing out of a broken gem. It causes a bullet to shoot upwards whenever you collect a gem, killing enemies above you.This upgrade looks like a helicopter blade with a metal body attached to it. It flies around above the player, following you and shooting when you shoot. It works better with faster firing guns, as it will rapid fire if you have a gun like the noppy, but only fire one bullet if you have the laser.This upgrade resembles a bullet smashing out of a broken block. It causes a bullet to shoot upwards whenever you destroy a block, killing enemies above you. If a block releases a bullet, all adjanced blocks will also go off.This upgrade resembles a wrench with light shining outwards from it. It allows you to shoot gun modules once, changing which gun it will give you. This can be useful if you want to avoid picking up a certain gun, but still want to gain the health or charge benefits the gun modules give you.The apple looks like a picture of an apple. It instantly rewards four health. This is useful for getting while at full health, as you can instantly increase your maximum health by one.This upgrade allows you to continue suspending yourself in the air for a short while after you run out of charge. This is useful for comboing.Sucks in nearby gems.Gemhigh lasts for longer duration.