Hotfix 16.2: June 17, 2026
This Mid-Season Patch focuses on reducing the power of several prominent end game builds
GENERAL CHANGES
- Slightly reduced the rate of Gold-tier and Diamond-tier items
Farai
- Corrected The Tester’s Package to be 1 XP instead of 2 XP
ITEM CHANGES
Buster
- Now only destroys on its first destroy
Caracal
- Silver-tier
- 10/20/40 damage (from 5/10/20/40)
Crude Tools
Experimental Garage
Gramophone
Hang Glider
- Damage Scaling to 20/40/80 (from 25/50/100)
Ice Swan
- Gold-tier
- Freezes for 2/1 (from 3/2/1)
Instant Noodles
- Reworked to better work with Chopsticks
- CD4
- Burn 2/4/6/8
- Regen 2/4/6/8
- When you use an adjacent Tool, charge this 1s
Portable Shield Generator
Radar Dome
Runic Claymore
- CD 6/5 (from 7/6)
- Damage to 10% Max Health (from 15%)
SKILL CHANGES
Sharp Corners, Defender’s Flames and Toxins
- When you use a Shield item (from When you Shield)
Patch 16.1: Hotfix July 6, 2026
GENERAL
Flying
- Corrected a number of items with self-start/stop flying where they were not correctly flying before applying damage or shield
Reroll Costs
- Corrected the reroll costs on several merchants
ENCOUNTERS
Futura
- Reverted upgrade option back to max of Gold-tier
- While we liked the simplification, this is causing a significant power spike and is basically the only option for most players
- We may re-examine this option again later
Farai
- Various fixes to Packages that spawn at the wrong-tier for different heroes
Mimic
- Corrected an issue where the Bronze tier Mimic got lost and was showing up in end-game encounters
Wishing Fountain
- Costs increased slightly per day
- Corrected an issue where certain items were showing up way too often here (Gumballs and the like)
- Corrected an issue where was showing up in the 3rd slot instead of 2nd
- Corrected an issue where on Days 11+ this would sometimes not spawn all options
- Updated this encounter so that only Mak can get Reagents
ITEMS
Buster
- Corrected an issue where this could sometimes fire multiple times in a certain scenarios
Cake Batter
- Shield scaling to 8/16/24 (from 10/20/30)
Raffle Ticket
- Now triggers an initial value assignment on Buy
- You can still wait for Level Up for a new value
Refrigerator
- Regen 1/2/3/4 (from 2/4/6/8)
- No longer triggers on Freeze
Resistance Bands
- Corrected an issue where this was not giving Max HP properly
- Corrected an issue where an enemy ghost with this item would buff the player’s Max HP
Wallace
Original Patch
Ranking/Rating Changes
- We are making several adjustments to the current ranking system with the following goals:
- Make it harder to achieve Legendary Rating
- Decrease the time to climb to your expected Rating range once you reach Legendary
- Reduce the punishment for not hitting 10 wins at high rating values
- Legendary players now start at 800 Rating
- Rating losses have been significantly reduced, more so at the lower wins end
- Reduced the ranking point changes for Gold and Diamond tier, requiring a higher average wins to achieve the next tier
Economy Changes
- Starting Income 5 (from 7)
- We are trying to shift some stuff around in the economy, so we are lowering the base Income but improving a variety of economy nodes
Tournament Mode Testing
- Tournament Mode has arrived for Public Testing
- As this is a testing environment, please be aware that there may be bugs, interruptions and unannounced downtime/maintenance of this branch
- In order to play Tournament Mode, you must manually switch to the Public Test Realm branch on Steam
- You can do this by right-clicking on the Bazaar in your Steam Library, selecting Properties and finding Game Versions and Betas
- Enter the following Steam Access Code under Private Versions to unlock the Branch:
17IR8wb70MJOxCCh - Once the version is unlocked, you can select PTR in the list
- This will initiate a download
- Note that you will need to use this same menu to return back to the normal version of the game
- After the game updates, you will need to create a new account
- This account will only be usable on this branch and does not interact with your normal Bazaar account
- If the game doesn't load properly, try using Verify Game Files as switching branches like this can often cause issues
- Tournament Mode can be freely shared/streamed by all
SEASON 16 UPDATES
Leaderboard Rewards for Season 15
- Arsonist Champion (Rank 10 and up)
- Arsonist Paragon (Rank 100 and up)
- Arsonist Elite (Rank 1000 and up)
Prize Pass updates
- The Dunes (Carpet)
- Gnash Stash (Stash)
Chests additions
- Daughter Day Jules (Jules Skin)
- Alchemical Rigor Mak (Mak Skin)
- Item Skins for Dooley and Jules
ENCOUNTERS
Annexed Army (Monster)
Aurora Dome (Encounter)
- Diamond-tier
- Days 8+
- Improve your items without a CD
Capital Punisher
Farmer's Market (Encounter)
- Diamond-tier
- Jules Only
- Days 8+
- Improve your Food items
Launch Tower (Encounter)
- Diamond-tier
- Stelle Only
- Days 8+
- Improve your Flying items
Private Pitchfork
- Gold-tier
- Days 6+
- Sells neutral items
Robotics Factory (Encounter)
- Diamond-tier
- Stelle and Dooley
- Days 8+
- Improve your Tech items
Salvage Yard (Encounter)
- Diamond-tier
- Days 4+
- Transform your Stash items into Loot items based on their tags
Stickybeans
- Gold-tier
- Days 6+
- Sells items from other Heroes
Tomb of the Ancients (Encounter)
- Diamond-tier
- Mak Only
- Days 8+
- Improve your Relics
Wishing Fountain (Encounter)
- Gold-tier
- All Days
- Make a wish for random items
ENCOUNTER CHANGES
Free Item Encounters (Right Side Options)
- These now have rarity and give items of that rarity
- These will generally offer, on average, higher rarity than you can get in shops or other nodes on the same day
Apothecary (Encounter)
- Double node now costs 5 gold (from 10)
Borrow
Byg
- He is champion, why is he Silver-tier?
- Now Legendary-tier
Cache of Riches
Farai
- Gold-tier again
- This returns Farai back to normal after the Event
- Corrected an issue where the options Farai spawns if you have a package appears in a random order
Futura
- Upgrade items 1 Tier (instead of to Gold)
Invest in Yourself
- Income 1/2/3 (Days 1/2, Days 3/4, Days 5/6)
Library
Look for Spare Change
- Now spawns 4 Spare Change
Mod Squad (Monster)
- Gained an interesting new item
- Beautiful Friendship is now Silver-tier
Mountain Pass
- Reduced some of the Gold rewards from this Encounter
Strange Mushroom
- Trade it for something now gives a Medium item
The Tester
- Dooley and Stelle
- Day 1+
- Hero items only
Truffle Farming
Wink
COMMON
- Corrected a number of tag and hidden tag inconsistencies with Skills
Creeping Chill, Frostfire, Initial Chill, Paralytic Poison and Stunning Strike (Skills)
- Standardized these to 2/3/4 second(s)
Finesse Shield
- Added to Jules, Stelle and Karnok (from Dooley only)
- The first 4/8 times you Haste, charge a Shield item 1 second
The following items now start at Silver-tier:
- Gorgon Spore, Icicle, Lag-bolt, Magma Core, Spark Plug
Candy Mail
- At the end of a fight with this, adjacent items permanently gain [20/40/60/80] Shield and permanently Destroy this
Dragon Wing
Epicurean Chocolate
- At the end of a fight with this, adjacent items permanently gain [20/40/60/80] Damage and permanently Destroy this
Junkyard Club
- When you sell this, get 2 Loot items (from +Damage)
Junkyard Repairbot
- When you sell this, get 2 Loot items (from +Heal)
Raffle Ticket
- When you Level Up, set this item's value to a number between 0 and [5/10/20/40]
Reroll Token
- Shiny now spawns another Reroll token
Super Syrup
- At the end of a fight with this, adjacent items permanently gain [10/20/30/40]% Crit Chance and permanently Destroy this
Temporary Shelter
- CD 6
- Shield [60/120/240/480]
- When you sell this, get 2 Scrap
- No longer scales Shield
DOOLEY
Ancient Technology (Skill)
- Your leftmost Relic has +1 Multicast
Data Transfer (Skill)
- When you use a tech item, your items gain +[2/4/6] (from adjacent items gain [3/6/9])
Liquid Cooled (Skill)
- [2/4] triggers (from [5/10])
- No longer has a size restriction
Primal Energy (Skill)
- Damage buff to [5/10/20/40]
Well-oiled Machine (Skill)
- When you use a Core, reduce an item's CD by 8% (from 5%)
3D Printer
Angry Balloon Bot
- CD 5 (from [7/6])
- Damage [25/50] (from 10)
Armored Core
Beta Ray
Char Cole
- Burn [2/4/6/8] (from [3/4/5/6])
Critical Core/The Core/Primal Core/Weaponized Core
Crude Tools
- CD [5/4/3] (from [7/6/5])
- Now also charges Relics
- CD reduction removed
Cryosphere
- CD [11/10] (from 10)
- Freeze 2 seconds (from [2/3])
Flint Stones
- Burn [3/6/9/12] (from [4/6/8/10])
Ignition Core
- Burn to [4/8/12] (from 4)
Miss Isles
- Damage scaling [5/10/20] (from [5/10/15])
Nanobot
- Damage per Friend [10/20/40] (from [15/20/25])
Race Carl
- CD 8 (from [9/8/7])
- Damage to [100/200/400] (from 100)
Trojan
- CD to 4 (from 6)
- Poison to [8/16] (from [3/6])
Wallace
- CD 3 (from 6)
- Shield scaling [5/10/20/40] (from [10/20/30/40])
- Now scales Shield before applying Shield
Welding Helmet
- Burn [3/6/9/12] (from [3/5/7/9])
YLW-M4NT1S
JULES
Start of Run
- You can now start with either a Stove or a Cooler
Chef Brolin (Level Up)
- Now appears on Level 3 instead of Add Cooler
- Add Stove/Cooler options now gives a matching item of the same type
Cheese Wheel
- CD [7/6/5] (from [8/7/6])
- Shield to 20 (from 5)
Cooler
- Shield 30 (from 15/30/45)
- When you Freeze, this becomes Chilled and gains [15/30/60] Shield (from Chilled for 2 seconds and [15/30/45])
Cornucopia
- CD 3 (from 4)
- Heated effect now charges Chilled and Chilled effect now charges Heated items
Durian
- Starts at Bronze-tier
- Shield [10/20/40/80] (from [20/40/80])
- Heated: Slow [2/3/4/5] items (from [3/4/5])
Dragon Steak
- Burn Equal to this item's Crit Chance (from Burn 10)
- Base Crit Chance: [25/50]%
- Heated: Your other items have +[25/50]% Crit Chance"
Farmer's Market
- No longer gives Max HP on sell
Imu
- Burn [3/6/9] (from [4/6/8])
LauLau
- Chilled: This item's CD is reduced by 2 seconds (from Crit Chance)
Meat Grinder
- Starts at Bronze-tier
- Damage [20/40/80/160]
Refrigerator
- Starts at Bronze-tier
- Shield [10/20/40/80] (from [30/60/90])
- Regen [2/4/6/8] (from [3/6/9])
- When you use a Chilled item or Freeze (from When you Freeze)
Rolling Pin
- Damage Scaling [25/50/100/200] (from [25/50/75/100])
Santoku
- Starts at Silver-tier
- CD 4 (from 5)
- Damage [10/20/40]
Salt
- Starts at Gold-tier
- CD 3 (from 5/4/3)
- Adjacent items gain 10/20% Crit
- When you Crit, Burn 3/6
Sorbet
- When you crit with another item (from When you Crit)
Tea Siphon
- Burn [8/16/24] (from 8/12/16)
Jumbo Wok
Ulu-Knife
- Chilled: Haste this 1 second(s)
KARNOK
Peak Rage (Skill)
- While you are Enraged, your items have +[10/20/30/40]% Crit Chance (from [20/30/40/50])
Battle Axe
- Damage 100 (from [60/120/180/240])
- When you Enrage, this gains [60/120/240/480] Damage (from [60/120/180/240])
Beast Call
- CD 4 (from [6/5/4/3])
- Haste an adjacent Friend [1/2/3/4] second(s)
Fairy Circle
- When you Slow or Freeze one of your items, Charge it [1/1.5] second(s)
Messenger Sparrow
- CD [6/5/4] (from [5/4/3])
Resistance Bands
- Gain +1% Max Health (from 10/20/40)
Steel Bramble
- When your enemy uses an item, gain [2/4] Rage (from [1/2/3])
Wolverine
- CD 8 (from [9/8/7])
- Deal 20 Damage (from [10])
- Damage scaling [10/20/40] (from [10/20/30])
MAK
Frozen Secrets (Skill)
- The first 4/8 times you use a Relic each fight, Charge a Freeze item 1 second
Calcinator
- CD 6 (from 7)
- Burn 8 (from 6)
- No longer costs Gold to generate Chunk of Lead
Chunk of Gold
- Sell Price [2/4/6/8] (from [3/5/7/9])
Orly
- When you Crit, this and another item starts Flying (from When you Crit, an item starts flying)
Quill and Ink
- If this is not adjacent to a Weapon, it has +1 Multicast (from If you have no other Weapons, this has +1 Multicast)
Rainbow Staff
- Burn and Poison [6/12/18] (from [6/9/12])
Retort
- Poison 8 (from 6)
- No longer costs Gold to generate Chunk of Lead
Spider Fern
- Poison [4/8/12] (from [4/6/8])
Test Subject Alpha
- CD 5 (from [6/5])
- Damage 100 (from 50)
- Poison [30/60] (from [30/50])
Thrown Net
Vat of Acid
- Burn and Poison [5/10] (from [6/12])
PYGMALIEN
Industrialist (Skill)
- The CD of your Properties and Vehicles are reduced by [5/10]% (from Properties only)
Prime Real Estate (Skill)
- When you use a Property or Vehicle, adjacent items gain [5/10/15]% Crit Chance (from Properties only)
Reinforced Steel (Skill)
- When you use a Property or Vehicle, your items gain [5/10/15] Damage and Shield (from Properties only)
Abacus
- CD 4 (from [5/4/3])
- Value in combat [10/15/20] (from [5/10/15])
Jabalian Drum
- Starts at Silver-tier
- Haste [1/2/3] second(s)
- Damage Buff [3/6/12]
Ledger
- This is mostly a QOL change to make this item require less shuffling around
- Now gives value to both leftmost and rightmost items
Skyscraper
- Multicast 2 Base (from If you have 5 or less items, +1 Multicast)
Stained Glass Window
- CDR no longer has item count restrictions
VIP Pass
- Haste your highest value item [1/2/3] second(s) (from Property only)
- When you use an adjacent item, it gains [2/4/6] value (from [4/6/8], Properties only)
STELLE
Master Mechanic (Skill)
- Renamed from Repair Mechanic
- Stelle-only (from all Heroes)
- Silver-tier
- Now repairs 1/2/3 items
Balloon Engine
- Burn [3/6/9/12] (from [3/5/7/9])
Bird Cage
- Shield [75/150/300] (from [100/150/200])
Boom Boom Bot
- Tech type
- Damage 80 (from [40/80/120/160])
- Scaling [20/40/80/160] (from [20/40/60/80])
Eject Button
- Shield [10/20/40] (from [10/20/30])
Flame Jet Drone
Grabinator
Hang Glider
- Damage [40/80/160] (from [50/100/200])
In-Flight Meal
- Scaling [50/100/200] (from [50/75/100])
Kite
Molten Ball Blaster
- Burn [10/20/30/40] (from [10/15/20/25])
Ornithopter
- No longer gives Flying items Damage
Oxygen Mask
- When you use another item (from Tool or Vehicle)
Oxygen Tank
- Heal [75/150/300] for each Vehicle (from [75/100/125])
Pilot's Wings
- The current design has limited use and too many restrictions
- When you use a Flying item, Haste it for [1/2/3] seconds
Recycler Bot
Solar Drone
- Shield [5/10/20/40] (from [5/10/15/20])
Steam Washer
- Burn [7/14/21/28] (from [8/12/16/20])
Vortex Cannon
- CD 4 at Gold/Diamond (from [5/4])
Windbreaker
- Shield [25/50/100] (from [25/50/75])
VANESSA
Ice Bullets (Skill)
- The first [4/8] times you use an Ammo each fight, Charge a Freeze item 1 second (from Freeze an item for 1 second, first [1/2] times)
Calico
- Damage [20/40/80/160] (from [15/30/60/120])
Catfish
- Poison scaling [3/6/9/12] (from [2/4/6/8])
Cauterizing Blade
- Burn 6 (from 2)
- Scaling [10/20/40] and [3/6/9] (from [10/20/30] and [2/4/6])
Chum
- Scales Aquatic and Food Crit Chance (from Aquatic only)
Dart Launcher
- Ammo 3
- Remove Damage and Weapon tags
- Remove adjacency requirements from Slow and Poison
Flagship
- [35/70/140] (from [40/80/160])
Grappling Hook
- CD 6 (from 7)
- 2 targets all tiers (from [1/2/3/4] targets)
- Haste [1/2/3/4] second(s) (from Slow [1/2/3/4] second(s))
Ice Pick
- Damage [15/30/60] (from [15/30/45])
Jitte
- Scaling [10/20/40] (from [10/20/30])
Mantis Shrimp
- Damage Scaling [10/20/40/80] (from [10/15/20/25])
- Burn Scaling [2/4/6/8] (from [2/3/4/5])
Mr. Richardson
- Shield Scaling [5/10/20] (from [5/10/15])
Old Saltclaw
- Damage Scaling [5/10/20] (from [5/10/15])
Nesting Doll
- Gains 1 Ammo at day start at all rarities (from [1/2/3] Ammo at day start)
- Shield equal to [5/10/15] times this item's Ammo (from this item's Ammo)
Powder Horn
Ramrod
Seaweed
- Heal scaling [5/10/20/40] (from [5/10/15/20])
Stealth Glider
- You take 25% less damage (from 10% less damage for each non-Glider Flying item)
- Your Flying items have their CDs reduced by 1 second (new)
Torpedo
- Damage scaling [40/80/160] (from [40/80/120])