Blood & Nectar Patch Notes
Patch 0.66Ten Champions Get Their Art
July 30–31, 2026
Finished art for ten champions, a rarity language on the cards that reads at a glance, and champion select promoted from an alternative way to pick a team to the way. Plus a browser bug worth naming: Firefox's image decoder treats an animated gif as a one-frame still, so every VFX in that browser had been a frozen picture.
23
Pushes
12
Hours in
2,341 pushes · 915 h
Total so far
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Ten Champions, One by One
AAmphitriteAdjustedArt
- Finished full card (312×600) and square (176×204) art, dead variants regenerated in both trees.
AAriadneAdjustedArt
- Finished full and square art, dead variants regenerated.
BBellerophonAdjustedArt
- Finished full and square art, dead variants regenerated.
EEchoAdjustedArt
- Finished full and square art, dead variants regenerated.
IIcarusAdjustedArt
- Finished full and square art; his folder is new.
PPerseusAdjustedArt
- Finished full and square art, dead variants regenerated.
MMintheAdjustedArt
- Drop-card art: her full was already drop-ratio.
AArachneAdjustedArt
- Drop-card art from the fresh finale export; her full was already drop-ratio.
MMidasAdjustedArt
- Regenerated from the finale export; drop-card art derived from it.
PProteusAdjustedArt
- Regenerated from the finale export; drop-card art derived from it.
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SYSTEMS
🎨 Ten New Faces
Full and square art for Amphitrite, Ariadne, Bellerophon, Echo, Icarus and Perseus, plus drop-card art for Minthe, Arachne, Midas and Proteus.
🦊 The Firefox Fix
The fallback parses play-through from the bytes, strips the loop extension, and fades out before the end — no restart flash, no last-frame hang.
🎞️ Frames, Not Gifs
Gifs auto-convert to webp frame sequences on first catalog scan, keeping the same ids.
💠 Rarity You Can Read
A coloured 45-degree marker with a gradient and inner outline on full cards; grid squares carry the rarity border alone.
📈 Account Progression v2
A card-levelling account ladder, with the talent unlock reworked onto it.
🏛️ Select Is The Way In
Champion select becomes the default arena pick surface — an adjust/confirm step over Discord deck picking, open challenges and Automaton matches alike.
Full Patch Notes
- Chased the Firefox VFX bug through four fixes: a once-through fallback, parsed play-through duration, a fade before the loop ends, and finally stripping the gif loop extension so a restart flash is impossible.
- Added a tool so gifs become webp frame sequences via ffmpeg on the first catalog scan.
- Regenerated Daedalus, Phoenix, Proteus, Arachne and Midas art from the fresh finale exports.
- Gave the drop renderer the full-card art it had been missing for the six newly-arted champions.
- Moved the rarity signal to frame PNGs on both full cards and grid squares.
- Made champion select an adjust/confirm step on top of Discord deck picking, with a premade-deck dropdown at the top of the ally rail.
- Sanctum Talent Tree and History buttons now pop the existing ANSI boards publicly instead of only linking out.