Blood & Nectar Patch Notes
Patch 0.44The Voiceline Wave
June 4–7, 2026
The roster comes alive. A playable demo arena, a champion VFX cascade, a full audio system, and Minthe joins the fight. 100 commits turning portraits into characters that talk back.
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From the notebook · Minthe
More than meets the eye. The forest. Something ending, in a soft voice: in the ground.
— kc
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Detailed Changes
LLyssaNerfHer execute was a guaranteed delete button on anyone below half. Halving the missing-HP scaling keeps the threat without the "you were always dead" feeling.
EConsume
- Damage: 100% of missing HP⇒50% of missing HP
- Now auto-targets the highest-HP enemy.
SSilvanusReworkHis W was doing too many things at once. Pulling it down to a single-cast, ally-only heal-and-debuff-transfer makes the "he takes your pain" fantasy legible.
WBurden
- Cast: multi-charge⇒single-cast, ally-only
- Heals the ally and transfers their debuffs onto himself.
MMintheNewMinthe enters the demo with the Spore kit, in the Thornbloom deck beside Polyphemus and Medusa.
QSpores
- Stacks spores on the target and heals.
WSpread
- Spreads the spores; the spore tick fires at end of round, like Medusa's poison.
EPlants
- Spawns Plants that inherit her exact stats: tank plants use her W, DD plants use her Q. Plants wear a 🌱 prefix in the display.
MMedusaReworkQ/W/E sprite VFX wired off the new per-action trigger, and the W redesigned.
QVenom
- Type: AoE-flavoured⇒single target
WContagion
- Effect: —⇒spread and amplify: an AoE over every enemy
EGorgon's Gaze
- Petrify shriek on cast; all three spells at 0.72 s.
EElectraReworkThe first champion with a full audio set, and the template the manifest-driven system was built from.
WFocus
- The mark detonates on ANY hit to a marked target, Q or E; the W loop plays at full volume on her turn and ducked otherwise, ending on detonation. Her W lets the player pick the target instead of the auto-preview.
EUltimate
- One recorded line instead of dialogue plus impact; VFX timed to the impact in the audio.
AAtalantaAdjustedQVolley
- Her own q1 charge-up plays on her portrait and q2 arrow impacts on each enemy hit, replacing the ranger arrow art; a mini-buff shimmer on cast.
CCecropsAdjustedWGolden Perimeter
- Shields: one neighbour⇒Cecrops and EVERY adjacent ally
VFX
- Q earth slam across all enemies, W on every shielded ally, E on himself; four solid frames on the Q.
SSphinxAdjustedDemo decks
- Leads deck 6 The Web (Sphinx / Arachne / Silvanus) and deck 7 Stone & Venom; bar colours set.
AArachneAdjustedBrought online with bot AI and a deck of her own.
Web stacks
- Confuse attacks, heals AND shields.
EIn For The Kill
- The E button shows the damage Patience has stored, and a reminder is logged at turn end.
AAmphitriteAdjustedEPosition swap
- The diff no longer paints a false DEFEATED on displaced cards; DISPLACED shows on the cards whose slot changed, and a freeze after her E is fixed.
Momentum
- Going-second bonus 15 → 30 and W +15 → +20, so nobody lands on 95.
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SYSTEMS
The Demo Arena
A playable Kickstarter demo at /demo/ — a real server-run duel against the Automaton, reusing the live engine. Plus a Dynamic Pick draft screen at /draft/.
Champion Voice Sets
A manifest-driven voice system with sets wired for Cecrops, Medusa, Minthe, Polyphemus, Silvanus and more, and a legacy fallback.
Audio & Music
An audio settings cog (Music / UI / Dialogue sliders), UI sound effects, and an ambient/arena music system for landing, draft, and the fury of a 1v3.
VFX Cascade & End Screen
Per-champion spell VFX wired to lastAction, a cinematic E zoom (pull back on cast, snap on impact), and a damage/healing tracker on the end screen.
Full Patch Notes
- Launched the playable demo arena and the draft screen.
- Added Minthe (Spore kit), reworked Medusa and Electra, wired voices and VFX across the roster.
- Lyssa's Consume execute halved from 100% to 50% of missing HP; Silvanus's W became a single-cast ally heal and debuff-transfer.
- Built the full audio system: voices, UI sounds, and arena music. Click a portrait, hear the character.