A sing-songy BARK from the Dog!

This update rebalances item drops / chests, and brings a new activity: The Dog Wants Pledges! A few items got updated, one got deprecated (Spoiler: [Repair]), and the UI has been updated to better handle a lot of on screen items.

The Dog Wants Pledges

The Dog will occasionally desire Gold in the form of Pledges. Each Pledge costs 1 Gold and grants 1 Friendship.

As a reward for clearing all Pledge stacks, a new chest drops: [Brave Chest]. This chest contains 3 random boost items ([Digging Frenzy], [Friendship Gem], [Bone Piece] etc).

Donation Goal

The Donation Goal has been changed.

Pledging enough Gold to the Dog will grant you 100,000 Bonus Points.

This goal can be achieved many times per day, but the Pledge requirement increases by 10 every completion (up to 200 Pledges required)

You can view your current Goal with the gold command.

Command Changes

pledge

Clears Pledges at the cost of 1 Gold per Pledge. Each stack cleared grants the Dog 1 Friendship.

Triggers until you perform another action, run out of Gold, or all Pledges are cleared.

cancel

Stops the current action. Has no effect on item passives.

sell (previously dismantle)

Sells the held item for Gold. The amount of Gold received is equal to the items tier.

Activity Balance

The number of staring Bonus Pets has been increased to 10 per online player. (Previously 5)

Activities start more frequently.

Digging Balance

Overall

Chests will not spawn if there are 8 or more items available to claim.

Dig sites now spawn less frequently.

Chests

[Small Chest]

Health decreased to 10 (Previously 15)

[Good Chest] Drops 3 items (Previously 4)

[Great Chest] Drops 6 items (Previously 8)

[Epic Chest] Drops 8 items (Previously 10) Health reduced to 80 (Previously 120)

[Frenzy Chest] Now drops 2 [Digging Frenzy] items. (Previously 1) Health reduced to 20 (Previously 30)

[Justice Chest] Health increased to 20 (Previously 15)

[Sinister Chest] Health increased to 20 (Previously 15)



Items / Item Balance

The way items are presented has been changed:

Up to 8 items can be visible at any time. After that, all newly spawned items will appear as ‘Shadows’.

If the maximum number of visible items is exceeded, visible items will begin to expire.

Item drops have been rebalanced:

Friendship Gems are more likely to drop out of Chests.

Equipment is less likely to drop out of Chests.

The following items have been deprecated and will no longer spawn: [Repair]



These item descriptions have been updated:

[Corrupted Pledge] I, II, III, IV Previously [Demonic Pledge]. Passive effect has been reworked. Charges: [10, 20, 30, 50]

[10, 20, 30, 50] Passive: Your pledges clear 100% more pledge stacks, but also add 1 Corruption. Costs 1 charge per pledge. [Holy Pledge] I, II, III, IV Charges: [10, 20, 30, 50]

[10, 20, 30, 50] Passive: Your pledge removes 1 Corruption and adds 100% increased Friendship. Costs 1 charge per pledge. [Friendship Gem V] Charges: [1, 1, 1, 1, 1]

[1, 1, 1, 1, 1] On Pick Up: Immediately adds 100 Friendship to the Dog. [Greedy Pet] I, II, III, IV Passive effect has been reworked. Charges: [5, 10, 15, 20]

[5, 10, 15, 20] Passive: Your Pets have a [20, 20, 20, 20]% chance to add 1 Corruption and drop a bonus item. Costs 1 charge per item dropped.

Misc Balance

Golden Dog now stops spawning Golden Sparks if 3 or more are available (Previously 5).

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