Blood & Nectar Patch Notes
Patch 0.71The Honesty Pass: Kits, Atlas & Bug Board
August 8–11, 2026
A hundred and one pushes spent, mostly, on making surfaces stop lying. Kits that described things the code never did. An Atlas of seventeen dead ends. A guide that printed its own escape codes. Rosters advertising champions nobody can play. These patch notes had stopped counting on July 13. Alongside the honesty pass: a board for what is broken, a checklist for what still needs eyes, and reporting from inside Discord.
99
Pushes
38
Hours in
2,669 pushes · 1,031 h
Total so far
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Adjusted
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Artifact Adjustments
Detailed Changes
🪲Chrysalis SealRework
Acting while sealed was a tax, not a bargain: the toll floored at 1 HP so nobody could ever die of it.
Effect
- The toll: floors at 1 HP⇒kills; the fatal cast still resolves
- Price: —⇒1/rotation of Max HP a cast, and the damage buff is the same fraction: Ariadne 5 casts at 20% and ×1.20, Perseus 2 at 50% and ×1.50, everyone else 3
- Cataclysm moves off round start onto the third ability LANDED in a turn, exactly on the third, skipping blocked or refunded presses. A 1/3 counter on the portrait.
- A gold rim and a pinkish-red interior: being inside the chrysalis has to look like being inside something. Portrait tooltips work at last, on a phone too.
🍎Apple of DiscordAdjusted
The one artifact every account owns, so it doubles as the worked example for the ACTIVE trigger.
Grant
- Granted once, at tutorial completion, to everyone who finishes. Once per account even under a tutorial replay.
AAriadneNerfHer turn was nine presses because repositioning refunded the thing it spent, which made the Chrysalis pricing impossible.
Budget
- Pools: one Needle, four Reweaves, W hands the Needle back⇒one pool of four shared by Q and W; W no longer hands the Needle back; Shred refunds two
- Q-only banks 40 Momentum a round rather than 50, so Shred lands every third round: a consequence of the pool, not a separate nerf.
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SYSTEMS
🐛 The Bug Board
A board for what is broken and a checklist for what still needs eyes, with reporting from Discord and a thread to argue in.
🗺️ The Atlas, Reopened
Seventeen dead ends become seventeen doors, and its roster becomes the released roster.
📖 One Page, Scrolled
The guide stops printing its own escape codes and becomes one page you scroll, reading like a list rather than a letter.
✍️ Honest Kits
The arena renders the bold its own kit prose is written in, and every surface that shows a kit says the true thing.
🪲 The Chrysalis
A seal with a gold rim, a red interior and a price in blood — one that can actually kill you, on a board that explains itself.
⏰ Real Hours
These counters were measuring commit rhythm rather than work: a 90-minute gap does not end a session, and the first commit of an evening arrives hours into it.
Full Patch Notes
- Built the bug board and the checklist, with Discord reporting and a thread per report.
- Reopened the Atlas — seventeen dead ends became real destinations, and its roster became the released one.
- Rewrote the guide as one scrollable page and stopped it printing raw escape codes.
- Taught the arena to render the bold its kit prose is written in, and made every kit surface agree.
- Gated the Tournament behind the Olympiad Writ, and let the web explain the Writ instead of just refusing.
- Let the web level up and burn cards, not just look at them; took re-roll out of the crafting area.
- Sealed the Lair and the dungeon menu — only the dungeon we actually built.
- Armour stops at +12; the weapon is allowed to run.
- Sent every graduate out of the tutorial holding the Apple.
- Champion select got a stage, victory became a moment, and the plaque gained thickness with keystones carrying their own effects.
- The ring performs the craft, and burning finally works.
- Fixed these notes' own hour maths, and stopped the ramp caption explaining instead of stating.