Patch 10.0.3 (7th August 2018)

- Explosions
- Free-form ship design where you're not limited to some fixed layout
- Historically authentic heraldry
- Dragon taming
- Giant sky squid that eat your crew
- Grappling hooks
- Giant land-walkers
- An in-game editor for challenge missions
- A combat replay system that lets you re-enter the fight on either side
- Multiplayer map conquest
- Extensive modding support with more than a hundred mods, adding a huge number of extra modules and other things
- Explosions
- From now until release, I'll be concentrating on improving conquest mode and the game tutorial. After, I will of course continue supporting the game with bug fixes, balance patches, and user interface improvements.

Update 15b (07 August 2018)

Vehicle Hijacking
- Certain types of prisoners are now able to hijack trucks on the road. If they are crossing the road and see a truck left idle, they will attempt to get in and drive it off (beating up the poor driver if he happens to be inside at the time). Regular old road gates won't stop a speeding truck.
- Stolen trucks can be stopped either using the new Road Barrier object (a sturdy metal gate that only closes during Lockdown), or by having armed guards nearby to stop any stolen vehicles.

Rope escapes (continued)
- You can now build barbed wire on the top of any external walls. Escaping prisoners will try and avoid barbed wire if they can, but will still climb over it if they really want to escape. It's sharp and painful though, and will harm prisoners who try and climb it. Find it in the objects build list.

Tree escapes
- Prisoners will now climb on fully grown trees to jump over an adjacent wall. They can use this to avoid barbed wire, but can be knocked down off of the tree by a nearby guard as with all other climbing.

Bug Fixes
- 0011627: [Gameplay] Insane temperatures after fire (Icepick)
- 0011586: [Gameplay] Dog Handler does not stop employees when they carry contraband (Icepick)
- 0011610: [Performance] Game crashes when receiving minimum and medium security prisoners (Icepick)
- 0011642: [AI & Behaviour] ZE ROLL CALL!!11!! and dormitories have issues (Icepick)
- 0011624: [Mod System] Crash in DataRegistry::LuaFindDataRegistry, DataRegistry::LuaSetter (John)
- Timelapse video recording refactored, crash on shutdown fixed.
- Script Debugger crash fix.
- Objects with BuiltOnWalls property (e.g. Windows, Barbed Wire) no longer cast shadows.

#### Patch 101 (07 August 2018)

* Announcing our first big update, which we could call ... the Vicars Update!

##### New Environments

* Find refuge in the Church, discover the secrets of the Catacombs, and escape from the Cemetery.
* New Player Class and Special Items
* Reach the Church and unlock the new Vicar class, and get access to unique items and crafting recipes such as The Holy Waterpistol and the The Holy Hand Grenade.
* New 'Horde' Game Mode
* Horde Mode is a completely separate new game mode with local and online global leaderboards.
* Pick a character with a specific loadout, choose a map, and see how long you can survive against ever-hungrier incursions of Basingtoke's finest citizens. Ammo respawns.
* We're continually updating Basingstoke with bug fixes, tweaks, and new content. We've got more environments, character unlocks, items, recipes, monsters, and game modes planned, all for free!

#### Update 1.0 (7 August 2018)

##### Lore

* The lore addition to the game is our first attempt at giving a little more information about the universe to players. You'll now encounter a bunch of random rooms as you explore the world, in them you'll find the inscriptions of former occupants, their corpses or maybe even the odd survivor.

##### Mod support improvement

* We really, really wish to push this forward and make sure you've all the tools you need to make your own take on Dead Cells. As mentioned in a quick news recently, we greatly improved the mod support to give more freedom to our friend modders. However, it also means most of the previous mods won't work anymore.

The new additions include:

* You can now create your own world design. For instance, let's say you think _The Remparts_ should link to _The Clock Tower_ , because it seems more coherent, well, now you can. This also allow you to plug in the current world design any custom level you may have done. Or create your own World Design with only custom levels. Your call! You can now create a custom level based on the parameters of an already existing level or set the parameters from scratch. When building it, you have the option of importing an pre-existing roaster of monsters from another level or make a mix. A new tool, the ScriptTool, will generate a default script with comments and basic exemples to get you going.

##### Twitch Integration

* We've been beta testing with this feature for the past few weeks with the help of a few streamers. It's now live on the main branch for everyone.

* **Captain Chicken** : randomly chosen among willing viewers at the beginning of each level, he is in control of your health potion. When the player hit the heal button, _Captain Chicken_ receives a whisper Twitch asking for a heal, which he can provide by writing _heal_ in the chat. _Noheal_ allow to reject the request of the twitcher.

* By default, _Captain Chicken_ can also heal the player without any request, but it can be disabled. Finally, every words wrote in the general chat by this viewer starting with @[name of the twitcher] will appear in-game as if it was said by the bird.

* If the twitcher sends 3 healing requests without getting any response ( _heal_ or _noheal_ ), the chicken is reset, and another viewer can apply for this role. The viewer can also type resign to leave its role. As a failsafe, you can also manually banish the current _Captain Chicken_ from the menu, in the Twitch Integration settings.

* Twitch Boss: A random viewer selected from those who volunteer will be able to add a bit of challenge during the boss fights by typing specific commands in the chat. Maybe consider disabling it if you're not quite comfortable with the combat yet.

##### Scrolls: Viewers choose between brutality, tactics, and survival.

* Twitch Chest: Only viewers can open the chest, by writing _boom_ , _poke_ or _bing_ , etc. in the chat
* Amulets: Viewers can vote for a permanent upgrade to add to it between each level
* Gameplay modifiers: Between each level, viewers can vote to apply a gameplay modifier for the next level (enemies drop a bomb when dying, health began to drop after a while without killing an enemy, etc.)
* I saw a secret!: Viewers can type secret in the chat to tell the player they spotted a secret thing on screen. Enable only when the player missed a secret.
* Praise/taunts: Viewers can praise or taunt the player on specific events (death, boss battles, timed doors, etc.)
* Do it! or Nope: In specific situations, viewers can encourage (or not) the player to do special things, like opening a Cursed Chest.
* Next level: Viewers can recommend a specific exit in the current level (like sewer or roofs). The player may or may not comply, depending on its equipments and own opinions :)
* New Sub: A new sub always deserves a little celebration!

#### Update 1.1.2 (6th August 2018)

##### New features:

* You can now change the names of your people and automatons
* You can now search for people and automatons by name
* New visual variants of hunter airships
* Diversified looks of Hunter Huts, Gathering Posts, Outposts and Workshops
* Keyboard can now be used to navigate the main menu
* Added Intel NUC Skull Canyon support
* Added Razer Chroma support

##### Smaller changes and balancing:

* Many tweaks dealing with erratic hunter behavior and people getting stuck
* Additional UI tweaks and fixes

##### Fixes:

* Fixed a crash after selecting a group of people approaching the city
* Building and street placement fixes
* Numerous optimization changes
* Fixed required temperature tutorial
* Fixed problems with binding multimedia keys
* Additional FX fixes
* Fixed issue where wrong icons appeared over buildings