Ark's Wonder Dungeon — patch notes and updates
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| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
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| Ark's Wonder Dungeon v1.6.3 | 2026-06-17 | General:-To try and prevent game crashes from the game loading/deloading too assets too quickly, rooms 1-10 will have slower loading speed, rooms 11-30 will have very slightly slower loading, and rooms 30+ will have the old loading speed.Balance Changes:ITEMS/SKILLS:-Some item descriptions slightly tweaked. -Gloves' Touch skills no longer effect natural weakness/resists, MP cost lowered to compensate.-Potion Spiral now accounts for Potationals and Potion Trios.-Desperation now removes 25 turns off of Pick Up's cooldown. -Elemental Gloves at full power no longer do direct damage, instead applying a series of status effects on all foes: (Fire: |
| Ark's Wonder Dungeon v1.6.2 | 2025-10-29 | General:-Added additional checks for the Evil Empress DLC.Balance Changes:-Empress' Charm now targets all foes and has a chance to apply intimidate. It can now Irate foes.-Empress' Tri-Slash can now pierce counters. Tri-Slash will now properly apply boss poison.-Empress' Fire Breath is now less effective against enemies with high defense.-Empress' Wing Sprout now has its cooldown not reset between battles.-Clownductor can use Best Medicine more often than Melon Mime.Fixes:-Tark's Magnipedia description.-Wake-up Juice typo in Evil Empress' description.-UFE should no longer heal the enemy.-Orb infuses now properly give 1 spell instead of 2.-Dua |
| AWD v1.6.0 + Evil Empress DLC | 2025-10-24 | Update 1.6 and the Evil Empress DLC are here! After a long time of paying AWD minimal attention, I've decided to come back and give it some worthwhile QoL features along with heaps of NEW content! DISCLAIMER: DO NOT OPEN AN AUTO-SAVE AFTER INSTALLING THIS UPDATE, AS IT COULD CAUSE UNPREDICTABLE ISSUES!EVIL EMPRESS DLCAfter unlocking the Knight, you obtain access to the DLC button on the main menu! By purchasing the Evil Empress DLC, you obtain access to her exclusive content and its 34 associated achievements! Contained in those achievements are 2 unique areas, 10 solo campfire stories, lots of incredibly powerful unlockable items, and new da |
| Upcoming: DLC + 1.6 | 2025-09-30 | Coming in October, AWD will be having two major content updates in a joint release! DLC: EVIL EMPRESSSomebody new will be joining the dungeon's twisting doorways: the Everlasting Empire's one and only Evil Empress!Going through her own solo adventure in the illusionary dungeon, her gameplay focuses on being an utter demon in battle who can shift between two forms for different skills, modifiers, and status immunity! Though potentially difficult to start out as, she has several unlockable upgrades that make her able to contend with the hardest foes of the dungeon single-handedly. It isn't just her, though! Contained within her pack are several |
| Ark's Wonder Dungeon V1.5.2 | 2025-07-05 | -Fixed Book of Wind/Earth's description typo. -Added a failsafe to PURE ARK to prevent her from freezing while shifting forms? -COME VISIT. NEW FOE! NEW ACHIEVEMENT! |
| Ark's Wonder Dungeon V1.5.1 | 2024-12-08 | -Fixed corrupted data sequence happening on fresh game boot. -Fixed specific Neurotic Wyrm attacks. -Fixed some specific things with Ch6 bosses. |
| Ark's Wonder Dungeon V1.5.0 | 2024-12-01 | Hello! This patch is a major update that reworks a few story bosses, tweaked Clown, and adds a unique series of cutscenes to the late game. Other decently big changes included, too. I guess. BOSS BUFFS CHAPTER 6: Like 1.4's patch notes predicted, some Dark Side bosses needed some tweaks (thankfully, not as many as I thought.) -Glutton's agility is upper to 8 from 5. -MOTHER no longer counters. -MOTHER's agility is lowered to 15 from 36. -BROTHER's Elemental Wilt confusion chance is now 5% instead of 30%. -Brother's Elemental Wilt now has an 80% chance of removing Eletection. CHAPTER 8: Evil Empress' first phase has gotten some decently signif |
| Ark's Wonder Dungeon V1.4.0 | 2024-11-19 | Hello! This patch is both a major update to a late game area and adding a save failure recovery system. Steam Cloud has also been enabled(?) SAVE FAILURE RECOVERY SYSTEM Some people have reported minor save file failures in the Discord server. While your in-game achievements wouldn't be wiped, some other progress would seemingly be loaded into a new game state and There is now a special sequence that happens if you boot up the game while Ark has 0 rooms and 0 battles, but you have the achievement of collecting Jeneral Jeorge. This sequence will take a look at many important achievements and set several major variables that handle both progres |
| Ark's Wonder Dungeon V1.3.1 | 2024-11-16 | -Fixed Spell: Clown's description -Fixed the dreaded Rock Dealer "if only door is middle door, softlock the game" curse -Boost I now has a 33% chance of giving resist. -Resist 1 now has a 33% chance of giving Reinforced Wall. -Resist 2 no longer gives the entire party wall. Its cooldown is now 30 turns (down from 50) and its MP Cost is now 35% (down from 50%) CHAPTER 10 + SUPERBOSS CHANGES: -Enraged Oni 3's base agility has been buffed to 3 (from 1) and its HP has been buffed to 3500 (from 2000) -Wyrmling 3, 6, and 7's base agility has been buffed to 3 (from 2). -IMPURITY now has a 50/50 chance of either laughing or casting Vantablack Wipe. |
| Ark's Wonder Dungeon V1.3 | 2024-11-14 | Hello! This patch is a change-up to the game in order to make John B. Castin' a more viable character as an ally rather than only being a desirable party leader. Along with that, there's also some minor touch-ups to Ark's skills. MEDITATE Meditates's downsides were not worth it later in the game, so I've decided to tweak it. -Attack and defense cap of 10 removed; now halves attack and defense. -Meditate spell now has a cooldown of 5 turns. SPELLBOOK Spellbook was okay before, but really only had any practical use when John was the leader and had the time to gather up all that Max MP. In an attempt to make a random John ally more worth it, it' |
| Ark's Wonder Dungeon V1.2.4 | 2024-11-10 | -John's Teach was fixed to properly restore at campfires. -Acid applied by enemies will now chew through any form of Resist alongside both forms of Wall. CHAPTER 10 SPOILERS: -IMPURITY now has an infinite retry mechanic. -Booting your game up after closing it whilst having an IMPURITY save will allow you to instantly challenge him again. -IMPURITY's moves now have specific rarities rather than all being in one pool. -Like, all of his moves have been slightly reworked. Changes too numerable to count. |
| Ark's Wonder Dungeon V1.2.3 | 2024-11-09 | -Fixed Glove of Demise not working if bought from the Merchant's shop. -Fixed glove elemental cleanse spells. again. i hope. i'm praying. -Fixed Withered Rose Crown unlock not functioning. -Merchant portal refill potion now properly refills it instead of stealing it. -Dark bosses will no longer instantly end when Ark is dead, rather their corresponding character. how did this make it to launch. whoever is responsible is going to be fired. (me) -Updated credits. |
| Ark's Wonder Dungeon V1.2.2 | 2024-11-07 | -Fixed a few more typos. -Fixed the Clover Crown achievement... again. -Made BROTHER's element absorb recovery only heal 25% of what it used to. |
| Ark's Wonder Dungeon v1.2.1 | 2024-11-06 | -Lots of small typo fixes. -Attempted to fix the Clover Crown achievement. |
| Ark's Wonder Dungeon v1.2 | 2024-11-04 | Hello! This patch is a change-up to the game's meta in an attempt to create a less dominant (but still applicable) playstyle! IRATE As of V1.1, the most prominent strategy for most of AWD's life has been getting high agility and stunlocking bosses with interrupting skills. This is fun, sure, but it does result in most fights having a similar "winning strategy." This update introduces a new game mechanic related to interrupting enemies: Irate. Every single skill that either fully interrupts or delays a foe's cast now has a 5% chance to inflict them with Irate. Irate will increase the foe's agility by 50% and attack by 10%, lasting for two atta |
| Ark's Wonder Dungeon v1.1.3 | 2024-10-27 | -Fixed certain dark bosses not giving their steam achievements properly. -Fixed Merchant only getting their Manufacture skills back if the supplies costed the lowest amount. |
| Ark's Wonder Dungeon v1.1.2 | 2024-10-26 | -Fixed Glove of Earth and Glove of Wind description typos. -Fixed certain dark bosses having their fights skipped. |
| Ark's Wonder Dungeon v1.1.1 | 2024-10-07 | -Fixed several items/skills from the revamped 1.1.1's revamped descriptions being broken. -Added more direct instructions to unlock character 4. -Upon every new session, the Merchant will remind the player they can talk to his beloved daughter. Special thanks to HazmatVT for being the first person to stream Ark's Wonder Dungeon! Lots of these small bugs were found thanks to his stream. |
| Ark's Wonder Dungeon v1.1 | 2024-09-03 | Hello! This patch tinkers with several things that both should help with gameplay flow and giving more power to the player while still forcing them to move forward. STEAM OVERLAY Steam Overlay (Shift+Tab) should now work! Take as many screenshots as your heart desires. CLARITY -Almost all equipment and skill descriptions have been modified for clarity, color coding, and icons. Skills that either don't end the turn, are instant, or interrupt are all now color coded, so you don't skip over these important common effects. Status effects that the skill mentions now display their icons instead of writing them out. STATUS REWRITE -Along with this c |
| Ark's Wonder Dungeon v1.0.7 | 2024-08-30 | .6 and .7 got smashed into one build, here's the patch details: -Fixed CofCheChi talking to John in the Tar Pits when the old man wasn't there. -Changed all character's color trivia to be related to unlocking their skins instead of 500 battles to reduce grinding. -Slightly reworked Mini-Mages in a hope of them being less buggy. -Added additional pointers when trying to unlock Merchant. -Fixed several typos in Magnipedia and skill descriptions. -Modified true ending dialogue. |
| Ark's Wonder Dungeon v1.0.5 | 2024-08-28 | Contains both yesterday's v1.0.4 and today's v1.0.5 notes: v1.0.4: -Fixed the merchant having black text at the start of his bell quest. v1.0.5: -Fixed a Merchant Jr hint text typo. -Campfire curses can no longer appear if you have less than 80 rooms entered. This is to balance the primary method of unlocking the Clown. -There's currently a strange bug that wasn't present in beta testing related to the fourth party member fading the screen out when they get their additional party join item. Don't know the cause quite yet (can't replicate it myself), but I tried to implement a hackfix and believe it's caused from trying to leave the room too f |
| Ark's Wonder Dungeon Patch v1.0.3 | 2024-08-27 | "Bigger" patch: -Confusion's Violent Flee skill renamed to Violent Thrash -Tranquilizer typo fixed -Updated Comfy Pillow's description -Fixed Quick Hands description -Updated Chef Frog's dialogue -Stitches status curse now stays for a battle instead of whole run like originally intended -Changed Character: Merchant's description -Merchant Jr's shop text changes for Chapter 1 and Chapter 3 -Characters remain in their hit animation for 3 frames longer |
| Ark's Wonder Dungeon v1.0.2 + Spotify OST | 2024-08-26 | Small patch again! -Messed with enemy mouse selection hitboxes: They should be far pettier now about getting selected with the mouse unlike before where some enemies blocked another. -Removed one image from the game files that was used for marketing. The OST's individual songs are now out on YouTube Music, Spotify, and Amazon Music! (Will be available on iTunes at some point in the near future.) SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/album/4kvoFCeM8kd1PW0eN45WJn?si=06_o3HauQIyPLRmqWlF6uA YOUTUBE MUSIC: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kRznRguKJh56aGjI3M1OOFjCVNY428PdY&si=tR0qSH7pyT9sJVyw AMAZON MUSIC: https://music.amazon.com/albums |
| Ark's Wonder Dungeon v1.0.1 + YouTube OST | 2024-08-25 | Very small patch: -Changed endgame boss from appearing in the Magnipedia by default. -Fixed John B. Castin's description overflowing into another textbox. -Made confirmation battle text for getting an Empty Potion via Potion-Trio. -Changed chapter 3's Merchant Jr text wording for clarification. The full OST is now uploaded onto YouTube! It will be available on music streaming services at some point soon. |