Hello guys, good news!

The Patch 1.8.5.3 for The Land Beneath Us is here!

A brand-new "Blessing & Curse" pack is now available in the Soul Shard Shop, unlocked after completing the main story. This update brings new weapons, relics, chips, and a challenging new quest. We've also added fresh animations, refined balance and status effects, and fixed numerous bugs to improve gameplay across the board. We're also working on a Resume feature, allowing players to leave or exit the game and continue later from where they left off.

New Contents:

Blessing & Curse pack
The soul shard shop unlocks after completing the main story. A new pack, "Blessing & Curse” has now been released! It includes:

Weapons

Blessing Katana

Cost: 20,000 soul shards

Description: Hit an enemy 1 tile away, then move to the tile behind them. When hitting the enemy, 10% chance to receive a random buff for 3 turns. Max Level: Increases to 20% chance.

Blessing Sniper

Cost: 20,000 soul shards

Description: Fire a shot 5 tiles away. Damage depends on the hit range. 10% chance to gain a random buff for 3 turns when hitting an enemy. Max level: Fires a shot 7 tiles away instead.

Curse Sniper

Cost: 20,000 soul shards

Description: Fire a shot 7 tiles away. Damage depends on the hit range and status effect turns. 20% chance to gain a random buff for 2 turns when hitting an enemy. Curse: 20% chance to gain a random debuff for 2 turns when hitting an enemy.

Relics

Red Counting Box

Cost: 20,000 soul shards
Rarity: Epic

Description: You have a +5% critical chance per each type of status effect you have. (Total status effects: x types)(Current: +x% critical chance)(Max: x%)

Enhanced description: You have a +10% critical chance per each type of status effect you have. (Total status effects: x types)(Current: +x% critical chance)(Max: x%)

Yellow Counting Box

Cost: 20,000 soul shards
Rarity: Epic

Description: You have a +2.5% dodge chance per each type of status effect you have. (Total status effects: x types)(Current: +x% dodge chance)(Max: x%)

Enhanced description: You have a +5% dodge chance per each type of status effect you have. (Total status effects: x types)(Current: +x% dodge chance)(Max: x%)

Orange Counting Box

Cost: 20,000 soul shards
Rarity: Epic

Description: You have a +2.5% critical DMG chance per each type of status effect you have. (Total status effects: x types)(Current: +x% critical DMG)(Max: x%)

Enhanced description: You have a +5% critical DMG chance per each type of status effect you have. (Total status effects: x types)(Current: +x% critical DMG)(Max: x%)

Black Counting Box

Cost: 20,000 soul shards
Rarity: Legendary

Description: Increase other Counting Box limit effects by +10%.You have +1 base DMG per each type of status effect you have. (Total status effects: x types)(Current: +x base DMG)

Enhanced description: Increase other Counting Box limit effects by +20%.You have +1 base DMG per each type of status effect you have. (Total status effects: x types)(Current: +x base DMG)

Chips

Random Buff

Cost: 20,000 soul shards
Lv.1 Description: Cast Random Buff. Applies 2 random buffs to self for 2 turns.

Fast Forward

Cost: 20,000 soul shards
Lv.1 Description: Cast Fast Forward. Resets all chips and teleport cooldown immediately.

Consume Wave

Cost: 30,000 soul shards

Lv.1 Description: Cast Consume Wave. Consumes all your buffs and debuffs to randomly deal 11 - 15 DMG per stack to all enemies.

Gloria

Cost: 30,000 soul shards
Lv.1 Description: Cast Gloria to self for 3 turns. Your attacks have a 25% chance to receive 3 Souls or Soul Shards.

A Fierce Warrior King Quest

Unlock: Encounter Nuada
Objective: Kill Nuada
Reward: Unlock "Crimson Burning Blade”

Crimson Burning Blade

Description: Hit an enemy 1 tile away. Apply 1 Burn per 3 Lord souls and gain a 20% chance to consume the enemy's Burn stack to deal 5 DMG per stack. (Current: apply x Burn stacks)

• Added a new status effect: Receive Souls Per Hit Chance Description: Your attacks have a x% chance to receive 3 Souls or Soul Shards.

• Added 2 new Sven animations: Shooting by "Gun” and "Sniper”
  

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue where Zero Sven might not spawn.

• Fixed an issue where Nuada’s image in the Boss Archive was incorrect.

• Fixed an issue where Chip Mode automatically switched from Manual to Auto when the chip was activated.

• Fixed an issue where the Hidden Dagger relic had no effect on bosses.

• Fixed an issue where the Nuada Ring relic didn’t heal for 5% of total damage.

• Fixed an issue where the Adar Llwch Feather relic incorrectly applied the Bonus Damage status effect on a critical hit.

• Fixed an issue where The Basher incorrectly increased the Bonus Damage status effect on every hit during a single turn.

• Fixed an issue where removing the Provoking Mask did not reset the enemy's damage reduction.

• Fixed an issue where the Thunder chip applied an incorrect amount of stun.

• Fixed an issue where the Explosion chip displayed an incorrect image.

• Fixed an issue where the Additional Flat Damage was calculated multiple times in a single turn.

• Fixed an issue where a permanent status effect could be removed when using the Consume Wave chip.

• Fixed an issue where the Permanent Immunity status effect displayed two icons when the player enhanced the Band of Immunity relic.

• Fixed an issue where some status effect icons displayed incorrect values.

• Fixed an issue where a status effect icon was not disabled after being used.

• Fixed an issue where challenge conditions were not reset when entering another mode.
  

Balancing & Gameplay Changes:

• Adjusted the maximum stack limit of the Shield Absorb status effect to 10.

• Increased base damage of the sword-type weapons by +10%

• Increased the impact damage by +50%

• Increased the Hidden Boss’s HP and damage.
  ○ HP: 900 → 1470

  ○ Damage: 11 → 17

• Increased the Hidden Boss chance in the Purple Moon mode
  ○ Lv. 1: 5% → 10%

  ○ Lv. 2: 5% → 20%

  ○ Lv. 3: 5% → 40%

  ○ Lv. 4: 10% → 60%

  ○ Lv. 5: 20% → 80%

  ○ Lv. 6: 30% → 100%

• Increased the Burn status effect duration

  Relic

  ○ Pyro Reactor (Enhanced): 2 → 3 turns

  Weapons

  ○ Agony Great Sword: 3 → 5 turns

  ○ Agony Raid Rapid: 3 → 5 turns

  ○ Agony Spear: 3 → 5 turns

  ○ The Rage of Brigit: 2 → 3 turns

  ○ Lv. 6: 30% → 100%

  Chips

  ○ Fireball: 2 → 3 turns

  ○ Fire trap: 2 → 3 turns

  ○ Pyromaniac (per levels): 1/1/2/2/3/3/4/4/5/6 → 2/2/3/3/5/5/6/6/7/9 turns
  Trap

  ○ Lava tile effect: 2 → 3 turns
  
  

Localization Updates:

• Fixed an issue where some words are typos in the French language.

• Updated more information for the relics’ descriptions.
  

Relics

• Auto Loot System (Normal): On clearing a room, destroy all breakables in the room. +30% Bonus Gold and Bonus Souls.

• Auto Loot System (Enhanced): On starting a room, destroy all breakables in the room. +50% Bonus Gold and Bonus Souls.

• Guard Up (Enhanced): On starting a room, apply 1 Shield Absorb to yourself.

Status effects

• Burn Inflict Enhance: Your attacks have a x% chance to apply 3 Burns.

• Poison Inflict Enhance: Your attacks have a x% chance to apply 3 Poisons.

• Stun Inflict Enhance: Your attacks have a x% chance to apply 1 Stun.

• Blind Inflict Enhance: Your attacks have a x% chance to apply 1 Blind.

• Disarm Inflict Enhance: Your attacks have a x% chance to apply 1 Disarm.

• Mark Inflict Enhance: Your attacks have a x% chance to apply 3 Marks.

• Shield Absorb: Block DMG 1 time per stack. DMG taken will heal you instead. (Max: 10 stacks)

Known Issues:

• Sven can move onto the same tile as the lava totem in the Caorthannach room.

• The cursed effect of the Cursed Auf's Revolver doesn't cancel when the weapon reaches its maximum level.

• The mini-boss and boss have incorrect HP values.

• The counter equipment doesn't work against moving enemies.

• The Piggy Bank relic icon is missing its current value display.

• The Provoking Mask doesn't update enemy damage data in Inspector Mode.

• The status effect of an enhanced relic is not displayed in the Archive panel.