Echoes from the Dark · Crawling Darkness patch notes 2026.09.16-0201

Gameplay

Bosses drop their loot. Grathmaw and Maligast now always drop three items. Before, they often dropped nothing at all.
Wolves at the Door now sends you up the hill to slay Grathmaw, Alpha of the Ash, instead of collecting pelts.
No more Shift to run. Your hero always strides at full pace, and boots or jewellery with movement speed make you faster.
Grave Brutes swing a huge maul, and their ground slam now hits where its warning circle shows, shaking the ground and throwing up stones.
Spiders face you head-on when they bite.

Click Maud's chest itself to open your stash.
You can now see who you are talking to: the conversation window shows the person, not just a letter.
Highlighted buttons in conversations are fully coloured.

The main menu is cleaner: just the game's name and the way in.
The Codex is open. A bestiary of every creature, boss and Broken Fortress foe: where it lives, how it fights, how strong it is and what it drops.
The map has buttons back to your Inventory, Quests and Skills, so it no longer closes the character window for good.
When comparing items, the item you point at stays by your cursor and your equipped item sits beside it, towards your hero.
The mouse cursor stays smooth even when the game runs slowly.
Your explored map is now saved with your character, separately for the Starting Lands and each depth of the Broken Fortress.
The bug report button stays on screen while the map is open.
Item tooltips are easier to read: a darker background, brighter text and more room between lines.
The camera keeps your hero centred when you zoom in.
Your hero in the character window no longer looks see-through in dark armour.

The way down is fixed. The stair to the next depth no longer has holes around it, is lit and labelled, and carries you down from anywhere on the steps.
The dead stay dead. Monsters in the fortress no longer come back during a visit, so a cleared depth falls silent.
Monsters in the rooms near the heart of each depth now notice you instead of ignoring you.
The armoury lever is a real lever that grinds the portcullis open, and nothing left lying in a doorway can block your way.
Walls the camera cuts away no longer leave a black hole in the floor.

Footprints are subtler and fade within a few seconds.
Loot beams are tall, soft columns of light in the item's rarity colour, fading out as they rise.
Hit sparks no longer hang in the air after an attack.
A chest hidden under the Old Watchtower has been moved where you can reach it.

Heroes are still bald in character creation; hair is on its way.
The hero's walk and run animations are being remade.
The Wolves at the Door conversation still mentions pelts in the spoken lines.
One-handed weapons still swing with the two-handed animation.
The skills page and several materials (town ground, trees, moss, bones) are being redesigned.